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What if you gave a little more attention to what you want, and a little less to everything that could go wrong? For writer and editor Dionne McCulloch, a surfing lesson in her late forties offered a thought that reached...
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A Thought I Kept
Hosted by Claire Fitzsimmons · education · EN-GB
About this Podcast:
A Thought I Kept is a podcast about the ideas that stay with us, long after we’ve forgotten the rest. In each episode, a guest shares the one thought that shaped their life — the one they couldn’t let go of, and maybe you won’t either.
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What is A Thought I Kept about?
A Thought I Kept is a podcast about the ideas that stay with us, long after we’ve forgotten the rest. In each episode, a guest shares the one thought that shaped their life, the one they couldn’t let go of, and maybe you won’t either.
Who hosts A Thought I Kept?
A Thought I Kept is hosted by Claire Fitzsimmons. The show has published 62 episodes to date.
What has A Thought I Kept covered recently?
Recent episodes include "“Don’t Look Down at the Drop, Look Along the Wave”, Dionne McCulloch" (26 October 2026, 49 minutes), ""You Are Allowed to Be a Mess and a Masterpiece at the Same Time", Genelle Aldred" (19 October 2026, 63 minutes), and "“Should is the Killer of Joy.”, Liz Mosley" (12 October 2026, 56 minutes).
How often does A Thought I Kept publish?
A Thought I Kept publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 55 minutes across 62 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on A Thought I Kept?
Booking probability for A Thought I Kept is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. A Thought I Kept requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. A Thought I Kept's contact route on record: public web form.
About the host
Claire Fitzsimmons hosts A Thought I Kept, an education podcast with 62 episodes published.
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Oct 19, 20261h 3mS2Do you ever come away from a conversation replaying what you said, wondering whether you were too much, too emotional, or somehow not enough? What if being confident didn’t mean getting every interaction right? This...
Episode #39
“Should is the Killer of Joy.” — Liz Mosley
Oct 12, 202656 minS2How often do you find yourself thinking about what you should be doing? How you should run your business, show up at work, be more creative, become more successful or even enjoy your life? What if all those shoulds are...
Sep 28, 202658 minS2What if you could worry and still live your life? When survivor activist and author Sophie Olson joins me on A Thought I Kept, she brings something incredibly personal: a poem about worry, handwritten in her...
Sep 21, 20261h 5mS2How much of your life are you putting off until you feel ready? Until you’re more confident. More qualified. More certain. Until the doubts have gone, the timing is better, or you finally feel like the kind of person...
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Sep 14, 202655 minS2Can a poem really change how you feel? My guest this week is Deborah Alma, poet, editor and founder of The Poetry Pharmacy, where poems are prescribed for the emotional ailments of everyday life. Deborah’s thought kept...
Episode #34
“Choose Which Bits You Hear” — Hannah Wilson
Sep 7, 202645 minS2How do you deal with criticism without letting it change how you see yourself? And what happens when becoming more visible means becoming more open to other people’s opinions of you? This week on A Thought I Kept , I’m...
Episode #33
"This Should Be Fun" — Anne Ditmeyer
Aug 31, 202656 minS2What if fun wasn’t something we earned after we’d done the difficult, serious or important things but part of how we found our way through them? My guest this week is Anne Ditmeyer , an American writer, creative coach...
Aug 24, 202652 minS2What if the problem isn’t that you haven’t found the right way to live, work or be but that there isn’t one? My guest this week is Alice Thompson-Boyd , therapeutic coach, podcaster, psychotherapist-in-training and...
Aug 17, 202653 minS2What happens when you spend so much of your life helping, caring for and making a difference to other people that you forget to include yourself? My guest this week is Nicky Marshall — speaker, mentor, publisher...
Aug 10, 202657 minS2Are you burnt out, exhausted by work, or wondering whether the life you’ve worked so hard to build is actually making you happy? This week on A Thought I Kept , I’m talking to career and life design coach Selina Barker...
Jul 20, 202651 minS2<p><b>What if confidence isn't where we begin? What if courage comes first?</b></p><p>This week on A Thought I Kept, I'm joined by women's leadership and career development coach <b>Sadia Ghazanfar</b>, founder of Slay...
- Jul 20, 202651 minS2
What if confidence isn't where we begin? What if courage comes first? This week on A Thought I Kept , I'm joined by women's leadership and career development coach Sadia Ghazanfar , founder of Slay Your Dragons, to...
Episode #28
How We Learn to Matter Too with Lois Jackson
Jul 13, 202646 minS2<p>What happens when you spend so long supporting everyone else that you begin to lose sight of yourself?</p><p>In this episode of A Thought I Kept, I talk to coach and charity co-founder Lois Jackson about caregiving...
Episode #28
How We Learn to Matter Too with Lois Jackson
Jul 13, 202646 minS2What happens when you spend so long supporting everyone else that you begin to lose sight of yourself? In this episode of A Thought I Kept, I talk to coach and charity co-founder Lois Jackson about caregiving, identity...
Jul 6, 20261h 8mS2<p>Motherhood is often talked about as something instinctive, natural, or inevitable. But what if the stories we've inherited about mothering tell only part of the story?</p><p>In this episode of A Thought I Kept, I sit...
- Jul 6, 20261h 8mS2
Motherhood is often talked about as something instinctive, natural, or inevitable. But what if the stories we've inherited about mothering tell only part of the story? In this episode of A Thought I Kept, I sit down...
Jun 29, 202653 minS2What happens when movement stops being something we measure, earn, optimise or squeeze into a busy day, and becomes something much simpler? In this episode, I’m talking to Wendy Welpton about the idea that everyday...
- Jun 29, 202653 minS2
<p>What happens when movement stops being something we measure, earn, optimise or squeeze into a busy day, and becomes something much simpler?</p><p>In this episode, I’m talking to Wendy Welpton about the idea that...
Jun 22, 20261h 3mS2There are times in life when trying to be a good person can become exhausting. A good daughter. A good mother. A good friend. A good employee. A good partner. A good citizen. So much of our lives can be shaped by trying...
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