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The Side Quest with Lex Hearth is a weekly podcast exploring the personal projects, creative pursuits, and quiet ambitions people build alongside other work. Hosted by DJ and broadcaster Lex Hearth, the show features candid conversations with artists, founders, and cultural leaders about the journeys they don’t always share publicly. Each episode explores what it really takes to develop a passion without having it all figured out, from balancing time and energy, to redefining success, staying motivated, and building something meaningful on your own terms. Through honest stories, reflective insight, and practical frameworks, The Side Quest offers listeners a way to pursue ideas that bring purpose, joy, and momentum, even when time is short! This podcast is for anyone looking to develop a project or business, and seeking camaraderie and inspiration.
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Booking probability
29%
Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Side Quest with Lex Hearth is a weekly podcast exploring the personal projects, creative pursuits, and quiet ambitions people build alongside other work. Hosted by DJ and broadcaster Lex Hearth, the show features candid conversations with artists, founders, and cultural leaders about the journeys they don’t always share publicly.
The Side Quest is hosted by Lex Hearth. The show has published 15 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Looking Back on Series One of the Side Quest" (27 May 2026, 16 minutes), "Camiel Daamen: Music, Martial Arts and Forever Learning" (28 April 2026, 32 minutes), and "Nikkitha Bakshani: Writing a Novel, Astrology, and Frameworks" (16 April 2026, 45 minutes).
The Side Quest publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 15 episodes.
Booking probability for The Side Quest is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Side Quest requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Side Quest's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Side Quest are Business & Management Consulting and Artists, Writers & Performers. The Side Quest has a business audience.
Lex Hearth hosts The Side Quest, a business podcast with 15 episodes published.
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Episode #15
Welcome to another episode of The Side Quest, I am Lex Hearth, and this week I'm going solo. Allow me to take this time to look back on the first series of The Side Quest. Over the past few months, the podcast has been...
The Side Quest
Welcome to another episode of The Side Quest, I am Lex Hearth, and this week I’m joined by the very wonderful, Camiel Daamen. Camiel is the founder of Lessons in Live, which is an educational platform teaching students...
Episode #13
This week on The Side Quest I’m joined by a writing pal, Nikkitha Bakshani. Nikkitha has accomplished that fantastic milestone that so many writers look towards - the publishing of a novel, and she has done that and...
Episode #12
This week on The Side Quest, I'm joined by Mayowa Quadri, one of the team behind Versus — a football lifestyle magazine pushing the conversation around what sport can connect to. Mayowa didn't set out for a career in...
Episode #11
This week on The Side Quest , I'm joined by creative entrepreneur Shana G , just as she prepares to launch Fanmail — a new project exploring the fan archives of people who are artists themselves. Shana has built...
Episode #10
This week I’m joined by a music pal, Lewis John. In this episode, we explore the close relationship between Lewis’ day job, as a music producer and engineer, and his side quest as a music producer but with an artist...
Episode #9
This week I’m joined by another special being, Claire Venus. Claire is a Sustack best seller with over 18,000 subscribers regularly consuming and benefitting from her guidance and mentorship. She’s been teaching about...
The Side Quest
She looked at the way female leaders were being represented and decided the image didn't match the reality — so she built her own platform to show what it actually looks like. Frances Odera Matthews is the founder of...
Episode #7
Jess Iszatt is BBC Radio 1 presenter and has been a part of giving talented artists that are now household names, their first big support via her new music show, BBC Introducing. This was how I met Jess myself, after...
Episode #6
She trained as a classical musician, got a masters in International business law, and then did what made perfect sense - became a DJ and event organiser embedding in nightlife and electronic music. Lidia Lo's path is a...
Episode #5
She climbed the corporate ladder in sustainability and operations, but despite the trajectory, Sade Akindele couldn't shake the feeling she was living someone else's definition of success. That realisation didn't just...
Episode #4
This week on The Side Quest, journalist and writer Michaella Parkes. I give her that title but as you'll see it's one that only really came into being in the past couple of years. Before that, she was deep in corporate...
Episode #3
She's the creative force behind House Party and a voice on Select Radio who’s life is a bit of a permanent side quest. From DJing in university to stepping away, then returning years later with her children's...
The Side Quest
She’s a DJ, producer and music promoter embedded in the world of dance music who in her first year of releasing scored a number one trending release on Soundcloud in 10 countries. But, it’s in long distance running that...
Episode #1
She was a marketing professional who experienced a real burnout and made the decision not to go back to full time work and instead, try and make it as a freelancer. What followed was what Vicky describes as personal...
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