Nobody Panic
Nobody Panic is a podcast that serves as a guidebook to being a fully functioning adult without screaming all the time. Each week, hosts Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates tackle life's big, small, fun, and sometimes scary questions with the help of experts and special guests. The show is produced by Plosive and was formerly known as The Debrief Podcast.
Episodes
How to End a Podcast
After eightish years, one name change, an actual book, countless sold out live shows and millions upon millions of downloads, Tessa and Stevie are doing the ultimate Adult Thing: saying goodbye to Nobody Panic. They started it to help stop themselves crying on buses and end it as wise, all-knowing sages who never cry about anything ever. Okay this is not true, but they are
Coming next week...
After a long hiatus, next week Stevie and Tessa will return for a final episode of Nobody Panic. Out Tuesday 3 February 2026.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Still Panicking: How to Make Dinner For One with Kate Young
Still Panicking: From dining out to eating in, food with friends or dinner alone, this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top mealtime tips.Foodie, chef, author of the Little Library cookbooks, Kate comes on to discuss how to make dinners for one joyful, varied and ultimately EASY. Tessa discovers that her Philadelphia cheese and pasta dish (eaten out of a pan) has merit. Kate's cookbook
Still Panicking: How to Cook 2.0 with MOB Kitchen
Still Panicking: From dining out to eating in, food with friends or dinner alone, this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top mealtime tips.Terrible in the kitchen? MOB Kitchen’s Head of Food Sophie Wyburd teaches Stevie and Tessa how long it takes to cook onions, what kitchen equipment you absolutely do NOT need to waste money on and many more insider cooking tips that’ll blow your wok off.T
Still Panicking: How to Have a Wet Lunch
Still Panicking: From dining out to eating in, food with friends or dinner alone, this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top mealtime tips.Stevie recently went on a wet lunch (WL) and it changed her perspective on friendship, alcohol, time and space. Don’t know what a wet lunch is? Join in and get educated. A week after recording this Stevie Tessa and producer Naomi all enjoyed a communal we
Still Panicking: How to Host a Dinner Party with Monica Heisey
Still Panicking: From dining out to eating in, food with friends or dinner alone, this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top mealtime tips.Author of the Sunday Times bestseller, and frankly brilliant book, 'Really Good Actually', Monica Heisey joins Stevie and Tessa to talk them through her passion for hosting a really good dinner party. Longtime listeners will know we've tackled this one be
Still Panicking: How to Decide What to Have for Breakfast
Still Panicking: From dining out to eating in, food with friends or dinner alone, this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top mealtime tips.Morning! Bored of toast? Stuck in a cereal rut? Constantly getting overwhelmed and eating one single mini egg (this may or may not be Tessa’s experience)? Stevie introduces Tessa to the concept of an egg and to be honest it all just spirals from ther
Still Panicking: How to Have a Massage
Still Panicking: Why not carve out a bit of you time, as this week, we look back on Tessa and Stevie's best self-care How Tos.Stevie got a massage and loved it. Tessa gets them all the time for her stressed body. Together they offer advice if you’re thinking about going for the first time and, quite frankly, get far too worried about how to tell if your masseuse is going to give you a “happy endin
Still Panicking: How to Have a Wax
Still Panicking: Why not carve out a bit of you time, as this week, we look back on Tessa and Stevie's best self-care How Tos.That's it, just pop, pop your butt over here, it's wax time baby! Stevie has recently discovered waxing, is bald as a coot from head to toe and has a lot she would like to discuss.This episode was first released on 30 May 2023.Recorded by Naomi Parnell and edited by Aniya D
Still Panicking: How to Journal
Still Panicking: Why not carve out a bit of you time, as this week, we look back on Tessa and Stevie's best self-care How Tos.Dear Diary, today Stevie and Tessa did an amazing podcast on journalling. It was inspired by a listener suggestion, and the aforementioned listener wrote several detailed questions which they worked through in order and found to be a particularly helpful structure. They dis
Still Panicking: How to Go to the Hairdressers
Still Panicking: Why not carve out a bit of you time, as this week, we look back on Tessa and Stevie's best self-care How Tos.While this is for everyone, Stevie and Tessa have never met a cis man who doesn’t freak out before the hairdressers then leave looking like an embarrassed military general – so this is also very much for you. Here’s how to get a hair cut with the least amount of stress poss
Still Panicking: How to Get a Manicure
Still Panicking: Why not carve out a bit of you time, as this week, we look back on Tessa and Stevie's best self-care How Tos.Oooooh look at these fancy people with their fancy manicures! Oh la de dah! Stevie and Tessa have got into manicures. Sure, this episode gets off to a rocky start when they spend the first twenty minutes Googling 'what is Shellac?' but then they really get into their stride
Still Panicking: How to Deal with Sunday Night Blues
Still Panicking: Summer is drawing to a close and a new term is about to begin, so this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top tips for easing back into school/university/work life.So, panicking at dusk every Sunday? Tessa and Stevie come up with about 17 mnemonics, acronyms and slogans that don’t make sense, but (thankfully) lots of tips that do, to try and help you combat end-of-the-week gl
Still Panicking: How to Work with a Friend
Still Panicking: Summer is drawing to a close and a new term is about to begin, so this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top tips for easing back into school/university/work life.Thinking of starting a hustle with your BFF? Stevie and Tessa have worked together for ages, but also they’ve worked with loads of friends, and so have some good tips on what to do to avoid killing each other. Or j
Still Panicking: How to Write an Email
Still Panicking: Summer is drawing to a close and a new term is about to begin, so this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top tips for easing back into school/university/work life.As per our previous email, please could we circle back on the below, appears to be some crossed wires on account of the OOO and, as far as we're concerned, B2B at this point should be BYOB. Please listen to attache
Still Panicking: How to Go to University
Still Panicking: Summer is drawing to a close and a new term is about to begin, so this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top tips for easing back into school/university/work life.Going to uni and no idea what to expect? Stevie lost her mind during second year so had to defer and Tessa turned up on the first day alone because her parents were on holiday – here’s what they learned. NB while t
Still Panicking: How to Get Up Early
Still Panicking: Summer is drawing to a close and a new term is about to begin, so this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top tips for easing back into school/university/work life.Wish you could jump out of bed moments before the alarm goes off with a spring in your step while singing various songs to various wild birds? Stevie and Tessa are both quite bad at getting up in the morning, and s
Still Panicking: How to Fly Long-Haul
Still Panicking: The summer holidays are finally here! To help you make the most of it, this week we look back at some of Stevie and Tessa's hottest holiday tips.Tessa helps Stevie (and you) cope with an upcoming 27 hour flight. As ever, Tessa's tips feature light criminal activity and heavy role play (spoiler: pretend you're in business class and serve yourself snacks).Recorded by Naomi Parnell a
Still Panicking: How to Staycate
Still Panicking: The summer holidays are finally here! To help you make the most of it, this week we look back at some of Stevie and Tessa's hottest holiday tips.Stevie and Tessa work out how to staycate like a boss (and without draining your whole bank account). Also Tessa takes umbridge with the definition of the word “Staycation”.Recorded by Naomi Parnell and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Still Panicking: How to Travel Alone
Still Panicking: The summer holidays are finally here! To help you make the most of it, this week we look back at some of Stevie and Tessa's hottest holiday tips.Always dreamed of throwing a book and some cheese into a spotted handkerchief but always held back from going on your own? Then let Tessa (seasoned solo traveller) and Stevie (confidently building up to it) push you on to the overnight tr
Still Panicking: How to Go on a Long Drive
Still Panicking: The summer holidays are finally here! To help you make the most of it, this week we look back at some of Stevie and Tessa's hottest holiday tips.Everybody get in the car! We're off! Stevie (can't drive but about to begin lessons in Stevie's Big Autumn) and Tessa (can drive, doesn't care for it) unpack the emotional boot of the long car journey. Snacks? Silence? Shotgun? Services?
Still Panicking: How to Pack for a Holiday
Still Panicking: The summer holidays are finally here! To help you make the most of it, this week we look back at some of Stevie and Tessa's hottest holiday tips.To roll or not to roll? Stevie and Tessa look at how to pack for a holiday, striking that balance between “buying little packing squares” (achievable) and “putting your necklaces in straws” (who does that). Contains some genuinely helpful
Still Panicking: How to Pass your Theory Test
Still Panicking: Stevie has been smashing it in the latest series of Taskmaster. To celebrate, this week we look back at some practical How-Tos to help guide you through tasks of your own.Stevie recently passed and has many thoughts. Tessa passed a couple of decades ago before there was an app. If you’ve been putting off booking your theory test because you’re worried about failing, or have it loo
Still Panicking: How to Make a Bed
Still Panicking: Stevie has been smashing it in the latest series of Taskmaster. To celebrate, this week we look back at some practical How-Tos to help guide you through tasks of your own.Featuring way more cry-laughing than expected, Stevie has read about how to make a hotel-level bed which leads to some frankly mortifying bed-based self discoveries. Mainly about duvets. A surprisingly wild ride
Still Panicking: How to Have a Smear Test
Still Panicking: Stevie has been smashing it in the latest series of Taskmaster. To celebrate, this week we look back at some practical How-Tos to help guide you through tasks of your own.Listen. Nobody likes them, but if you’ve got a cervix you gotta do it. You just gotta. Here’s a whistle-stop journey through a smear, colposcopy and biopsy, no holds barred, telling it like it is, and giving you
Still Panicking: How to Organise the Fridge
Still Panicking: Stevie has been smashing it in the latest series of Taskmaster. To celebrate, this week we look back at some practical How-Tos to help guide you through tasks of your own.Stevie realises she has fundamentally misunderstood the concept of the fridge dial in this rollercoaster of a journey through organising your fridge. She thought this would be quite straightforward but, as ever,
Still Panicking: How to Be Creative
Still Panicking: Stevie has been smashing it in the latest series of Taskmaster. To celebrate, this week we look back at some practical How-Tos to help guide you through tasks of your own.Can’t find your muse? Feeling uninspired? Stevie and Tessa have bags of tips to be your best creative self, whether that’s finally settling on a colour to paint your bedroom or starting that novel. Because everyo
Still Panicking: How to Have a Non-Traditional Christmas
Still Panicking: This week we look back at the best Christmas How Tos, to help guide you through the festive season.Having a different Christmas this year? Stevie and Tessa look at how to celebrate – or not celebrate – the festive season when it’s not going to be your usual knees-up. Spoiler alert: it’s all about perspective and having the confidence to do what you want. And other things too. Look
Still Panicking: How to Get Involved in Christmas Around the World
Still Panicking: This week we look back at the best Christmas How Tos, to help guide you through the festive season.From Krampus to the Crapping Log, journey with us around the world in Christmas traditions. Let Stevie and Tessa offer a canapé board of traditions you can incorporate this year IF YOU WISH. Or just launch these out as facts at the dinner table. Recorded and edited by Naomi Parn
Still Panicking: How to Have a More Ethical Christmas
Still Panicking: This week we look back at the best Christmas How Tos, to help guide you through the festive season.Trying to have a more ethical Christmas this year? TesSanta Claus Coates, and Stevie MarTin Soldier from The Nutcracker, are taking Christmas very seriously/ They discuss making your own wrapping paper, shopping from independent businesses, buying local, and making small go
Still Panicking: How to Deal with Christmas Presents
Still Panicking: This week we look back at the best Christmas How Tos, to help guide you through the festive season.Oh. Yes. Lovely. One of these. Gosh. Yes. Thank you. Stevie and Tessa navigate the minefield of giving and receiving presents, discuss how to react to a terrible gift, what to give when you don't know your Secret Santa at all, and Tessa has an on-air epiphany about the meaning of Chr
Still Panicking: How to Go to the Office Christmas Party
Still Panicking: This week we look back at the best Christmas How Tos, to help guide you through the festive season.Got an office Christmas party coming up? Whether it’s your first one ever, or you’ve been going for twenty years, Stevie and Tessa share some festive thoughts! Merry Christmas one and all! xRecorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobso
Still Panicking: How to Have a Bath
Still Panicking: This week we look back at some of Stevie and Tessa's top tips for getting through the winter months.Can you ever have a dry bath? What is a “bath of the mind”? Why is it that Stevie hates them so much and can she overcome it? Tessa (bath aficionado and creator of the Half Bath) talks Stevie through bath etiquette and, as ever, discovers her aversion isn’t about the bath. It’s abou
Still Panicking: How to Help a Cold
Still Panicking: This week we look back at some of Stevie and Tessa's top tips for getting through the winter months.Stevie has had three colds in a month. Tessa has had some colds in her life. But how can you actually avoid a cold? Can you boost your immune system with those cute tasting gummies? Should you feed a cold, starve a fever? All these questions answered, and more, on this weeks episode
Still Panicking: How to Host a Dinner Party with Monica Heisey
Still Panicking: This week we look back at some of Stevie and Tessa's top tips for getting through the winter months.Author of the Sunday Times bestseller, and frankly brilliant book, 'Really Good Actually', Monica Heisey joins Stevie and Tessa to talk them through her passion for hosting a really good dinner party. Longtime listeners will know we've tackled this one before, but the tips were most
Still Panicking: How to Cope with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Still Panicking: This week we look back at some of Stevie and Tessa's top tips for getting through the winter months.Feeling down when the nights get darker? Tessa realised she has SAD - Seasonal Affective Disorder - a few years ago and, while Stevie doesn’t, they’ve both done a lot of intense googling, so take a look at whether light boxes work, going outside is really the key and how Tessa can s
Still Panicking: How to Survive the Winter
Still Panicking: This week we look back at some of Stevie and Tessa's top tips for getting through the winter months.Now is the Winter of our discontent. Perhaps ‘Winter is your season’ and you love the cold, but if not and you’re miserable the moment it gets dark at 4pm, this one is for you. Stevie (recently embraced Winter) and Tessa (whisp-like child of Summer) attempt to shelter and guide you
Still Panicking: Halloween Special - Urban Legends
Still Panicking: This spooky week we look back on the best Autumnal and Halloween How Tos.Have you heard what happened to our friend’s cousin’s friend’s sister??? Stevie and Tessa look at where Urban Legends come from, what they are and then freak each other out by telling them. Trigger warning: some of the crime ones are scary.Produced by Naomi Parnell for Plosive Productions. Edited by Ben Willi
Still Panicking: How to do a Halloween Costume
Still Panicking: This spooky week we look back on the best Autumnal and Halloween How Tos.Happy All Hallow's Eve! Last minute invite to a Halloween party? Flying solo? In a couple? Going as a team with all your housemates? Tessa and Stevie present a list of frankly excellent suggestions in the hope of getting those creative costume juices flowing and getting you ready for the spooky season.Subscri
Still Panicking: How to Do a Spell
Still Panicking: This spooky week we look back on the best Autumnal and Halloween How Tos.Want to get witchy this Halloween? Don’t want to get witchy but would like to listen to a guided spell as narrated by Stevie, which turns out to be less a guided spell more a chat-thru with much discussion? Grab your sage sticks, light some candles and let’s goooo (you don’t need sage sticks, or anything, it’
Still Panicking: How to Read Tarot (with Caroline O’Donoghue)
Still Panicking: This spooky week we look back on the best Autumnal and Halloween How Tos.To honour the spooky season Stevie and Tessa got friend of the podcast and author of ‘All Our Hidden Gifts’ Caroline O’Donoghue to explain tarot! We learn about how pentacles are all about the admin, how 5s are always a bit of a downer and Stevie is moved to buy another pack because her tarot mainly depicts h
Still Panicking: How to be a Basic Autumn Bitch
Still Panicking: This spooky week we look back on the best Autumnal and Halloween How Tos.The internet sneers at no one quite as hard as they sneer at the autumn basic bitches. BUT! After much thought, Stevie and Tessa have decided to come out to bat for them HARD. It’s decorative gourd season motherfucker, get a yourself a massive cable knit sweater and get involved! Subscribe to the Nobody
How to Let Someone Down
Nobody Panic is going on a brief hiatus and Tessa can't stop crying every time it's discussed, so Stevie and Tessa deep dive into how to let someone down (even if you're not actually letting them down, but you just FEEL like you are). We'll be back soon everyone! In the meantime, why not check out our frankly outrageously extensive back catalogue?Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.co
How to Unlock Your Creativity
Think you're not creative? You are. Every human being is creative in some way! Tessa has been doing The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and Stevie has been doing Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert and they both discuss how to get the creative juices flowing in any field. Metaphysical field, you don't need to be sat in a meadow.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to suppo
How to Organise the Fridge
Stevie realises she has fundamentally misunderstood the concept of the fridge dial in this rollercoaster of a journey through organising your fridge. She thought this would be quite straightforward but, as ever, it turns into an emotional excavation of the Self (and whether you should put ketchup in the cupboard or not).Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to suppor
How to Make Dinner For One with Kate Young
Foodie, chef, author of the Little Library cookbooks and with her debut novel 'Experienced' out in June, Kate comes on to discuss how to make dinners for one joyful, varied and ultimately EASY. Tessa discovers that her Philadelphia cheese and pasta dish (eaten out of a pan) has merit. Kate's debut novel 'Experienced' is out 6 June 2024 and is available to pre-order now.Kate's cookbooks includ
How to Plan a Wedding - Part 1
Tessa's getting married! She's also planning a proper wedding with generators and a marquee, so has lots of advice for anyone about to wade into the admin hell. And also has inadvertently set up an entire company purely to buy plates a tiny bit cheaper. Maybe don't follow that piece of advice. Or do? Who knows.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody P
How to Help a New Mum
Friends having babies? Not sure what to take round when you go to meet the new baby? Stevie put a callout on Instagram and there was a real consistency with the answers. In fact there's essentially only one thing new mums want and let us tell you, it's not an ornate Victorian hot air balloon (this is what Tessa took round to her friend).Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypa
How to Stop Reading a Book
You’d think this was fairly straightforward, so why is it so hard to admit defeat? Why do we use words like “admit defeat” when discussing a book? The book doesn’t know you’re not reading it! Stevie had these epiphanies recently, after pretending to read Crime and Punishment for circa 25 years, and Tessa is eager to learn.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to supp
How to Use the Washing Machine
By request, Stevie and Tessa discover what the triangle symbol means and discuss what the drawers mean. There's also some lively debate around when you put the fabric conditioner in, don't say this podcast doesn't provide you with the most searing of hot content.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://
How to Run a Marathon
If you or anyone you know is running the London marathon (or any marathon) and would like to feel much better about your training: Tessa ran two marathons, one without much training and one without any. She didn’t die, she was quite angry at herself the second time, but this is crucial listening if you’re fed up of high performance sports podcasts and wish to listen to someone who has gone through
How to Decide What to Have for Breakfast
Morning! Bored of toast? Stuck in a cereal rut? Constantly getting overwhelmed and eating one single mini egg (this may or may not be Tessa’s experience)? Stevie introduces Tessa to the concept of an egg and to be honest it all just spirals from there. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://
How to Use an Excel Spreadsheet
Today's episode is brought to you by Stevie, Tessa and the amazing Fi - a 'spacecraft thermal engineer'(!), podcast listener, and Excel champion, who offers her exceptional talents and guidance to two gals terrified of spreadsheets. A beginner's guide to Excel for the chronically afraid. A genuinely helpful episode (we think). Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.c
How to Go Freelance
Wanting to take the plunge? Stevie went freelance and Tessa’s never technically been employed - they look at the pitfalls and difficulties of being your own boss, as well as how you can make the transition from PAYE as pain free as possible (get an accountant).Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://su
How to Have a Massage
Stevie got a massage and loved it. Tessa gets them all the time for her stressed body. Together they offer advice if you’re thinking about going for the first time and, quite frankly, get far too worried about how to tell if your masseuse is going to give you a “happy ending” or not. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-of
How to Organise Your Bedside Table
Stevie brings a lot to the (bedside) table in today's existential crisis/light-hearted advice podcast. What is a bedside table? Is yours three apple crates stacked precariously on top of each other, too shallow to hold a book, and too narrow to balance a lamp? This is the podcast for you.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a on
How to Sort Your Life Out with Birthday Girls (Live at Cheerful Earful Festival)
Tessa flies solo with 2/3 of the brilliant Birthday Girls, Beattie Edmondson and Rose Johnson! Tessa, unsupervised, forgets most of the things she’s supposed to do during a live episode and she and Rose give a good go at sorting Beattie’s life out. It’s a nice one. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https
How to Endure a Long Hospital Stay
Oof. Horrible thing to go through. Whether it’s you or a loved one going through it, Stevie and Tessa have some listener suggestions to make things as bearable as possible. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanicRecorded and edited by Aniya Das for Plosive.Photos by Marc
How to Write a Letter of Complaint with Jonny Sweet
What is an ombudsman? Is “Very Best” a normal sign off? Plus other questions, concerns and musings on how to write the perfect complaint letter/email/tripadvisor review with brilliant special guest Jonny Sweet. Go watch his hot new film Wicked Little Letters (out Feb 23) and also watch/read his hot new book The Kellerby Code (out March 19). Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobo
How to Introduce your Partner to your Friends
As it’s nearly Valentine’s Day, here’s one for the new lovers. Stevie and Tessa navigate the absolute minefield of the Hard Launch. Who meets them first? Should you throw a Partner Reveal Party? What if nobody gets on? What if you must endure the agony of being perceived through the eyes of another? Starts off light, then Tessa has an emotional melt down. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon
How to Understand Shared Ownership with Lola-Rose Maxwell
Stevie and Tessa are joined by improviser and actor Lola-Rose Maxwell who has just bought via shared ownership. Stevie is interested in the possibility and so asks a lot of questions. There is a quiz involving Ryan Gosling that reveals a lot about Tessa's motivations. A lot of helpful advice in this episode for anyone wondering if shared ownership is for them.Lola's improv show 'The Improvised Pla
How to Use Your Phone Notes App
Quite an emotional roller-coaster this one. Couple of handy tips about improving the efficiency of an app quickly become an existential lament for the loss of analog in the digital age. Tessa can't grasp how to use bullet points, Stevie cries about her notebook, we learn almost nothing, an absolute classic Nobody Panic episode. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant t
How to Do Your Tax Return: Live
One of the most chaotic episodes ever recorded in the history of Nobody Panic. Tessa wanted to do a live tax return, Stevie was too tired to say “I dunno maybe we should get an expert in?” and so the result is very very funny. Will you learn anything about tax? No. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https
How to Be Private with Andrew Hunter Murray (Live at the London Podcast Festival)
Best-selling author, critically acclaimed Austentatious improviser, co-host of No Such Thing As A Fish, and all round top egg, Andrew Hunter Murray joins Stevie and Tessa for a special live episode. Coming to you fresh from the London Podcast Festival, the gang discuss how to stay private in a world which increasingly commodifies, celebrates and financially rewards sharing everything you've ever d
How to Pass your Theory Test
Stevie recently passed and has many thoughts. Tessa passed a couple of decades ago before there was an app. If you’ve been putting off booking your theory test because you’re worried about failing, or have it looming in a few weeks, this is the episode for you.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://su
How to Wassail
Can you believe how many episodes we've done and yet we've never discussed the hallowed tradition of Wassailing?! Unbelievable. As Twelfth Night approaches, put on your coat, grab a glass of Wassail, bring your choir, your piece of toast, your pans, your gun, the Wassail Queen, and head out into your orchard! Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Pa
Guided Boxing Day Special
Like a guided run, but for Boxing Day - whether you’re seeing family and wish you could stay in bed, or have woken up with the whole day ahead of you and no idea how to fill it, listen to the soothing sounds of Stevie and Tessa's voices to help you get through this sacred day of Box.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off
How to Deal with Christmas Presents
Oh. Yes. Lovely. One of these. Gosh. Yes. Thank you. Stevie and Tessa navigate the minefield of giving and receiving presents, discuss how to react to a terrible gift, what to give when you don't know your Secret Santa at all, and Tessa has an on-air epiphany about the meaning of Christmas. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a
How to Know What You Want
Stevie has recently had an epiphany involving life goals and aims and would like to share her new thoughts on how to know what you want when it feels like you’ve got no idea. Spoiler: You DO have an idea, you’re probably just either a) scared or b) quite aims-porous and need to have a sit down with yourself.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Pani
How to Meet a Movie Star with Ed Gamble (Live at Soho Theatre)
Tessa recently got tongue tied and starstruck in front of a very famous movie star. Ed Gamble was there and so came on the live show to help explain to Tessa how to be cool when coming face to face with someone who may or may not have been Paul Rudd. Stevie will never forgive herself for missing this interaction. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobod
How to Write a Greetings Card
Dear Listener, crap at writing greetings cards? End up putting something really generic or banging on for ages about nothing? Panic and freeze and end up not giving it to the person because what you’ve written is borderline feral? Stevie and Tessa have some top tips to get you through the blank page fear. Big love, NP x Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to s
How to be Naked
Tessa recently got very nude in Japan and learnt some valuable truths about the concept of being nude. Stevie would like to know how to get nude without feeling self conscious. If you’re a non-nude and would like to free yourself from the confines of cloth then have a listen and let’s all go skinny dipping together. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support No
How to DJ with Alexandra Haddow
Comedian Alexandra Haddow DJs super cool night Indie Amnesty and so pops in to teach Tessa how to put together a fun DJ set for Stevie's wedding party, after Tessa admits she wanted to create a 20 minute long track with record scratch sounds she can “mime to”. Features many top tips on how to become a musical vibe merchant.Alexandra will be on tour with her debut stand-up show 'Not My Finest Hour'
How to Journal
Dear Diary, today Stevie and Tessa did an amazing podcast on journalling. It was inspired by a listener suggestion, and the aforementioned listener wrote several detailed questions which they worked through in order and found to be a particularly helpful structure. They discussed bullet journalling, whether you need a nice notebook, Tessa's fears over being arrested for a murder she did not commit
Bonus Episode - Tessa Coates: Resting Witch Face
As a bonus episode, and as it's Halloween, please enjoy Tessa's Radio 4 stand up special 'Resting Witch Face'. It's all about the rise of witchcraft, and was created, written and recorded during lockdown, so please bear that in mind as it starts off a little unhinged. (But then it gets really good) A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at pa
How to Do a Spell
Want to get witchy this Halloween? Don’t want to get witchy but would like to listen to a guided spell as narrated by Stevie, which turns out to be less a guided spell more a chat-thru with much discussion? Grab your sage sticks, light some candles and let’s goooo (you don’t need sage sticks, or anything, it’s a very chilled spell).Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWa
How to be a Basic Autumn Bitch
The internet sneers at no one quite as hard as they sneer at the autumn basic bitches. BUT! After much thought, Stevie and Tessa have decided to come out to bat for them HARD. It’s decorative gourd season motherfucker, get a yourself a massive cable knit sweater and get involved! Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-o
How to Understand Boundaries
The recent publication of Jonah's Hill text conversations sends Stevie and Tessa into a deep dive into learning what is a boundary? Was Jonah using the term correctly? (Spoiler: no) How can you use them in your own life? Are we doing more harm than good weaponsing therapy-speak? Fascinating stuff if we say so ourselves.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support
How to Lucid Dream with Rose Matafeo (Live at the Roundhouse)
Award-winning superstar and all round fantastic gal, Rose Matafeo, joins Stevie and Tessa for a live episode on Lucid Dreaming. What is it? How do you do it? Can you too become a Oneironaut? A dream sailor? A night-walker? A master of the land where the veil between worlds grows thin? A very fun episode, though fair warning, things turn sexual veeeery quickly.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon
How to Go on a Long Drive
Everybody get in the car! We're off! Stevie (can't drive but about to begin lessons in Stevie's Big Autumn) and Tessa (can drive, doesn't care for it) unpack the emotional boot of the long car journey. Snacks? Silence? Shotgun? Services? Squeeze up, make room, it's all here.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation
