Off Mic: Life After Radio

Off Mic: Life After Radio

A podcast about former radio professionals now thriving in another career. In an environment of uncertainty, we want to show you what your next chapter could look like. May your best years be ahead of you!

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June 11, 2025 21 mins

In this final episode for season 1, some hard-won personal wisdom, then some firings and f--kups.

What do you enjoy more from these episodes - the career insights, or the war stories? Let me know!

00:00 Intro
00:39 Mary-Lou and the corporate restructure
03:05 Geoff Fisher's light-bulb moment
06:31 Matt Schichter's last radio job
07:50 Cecelia Ramsdale on grief at work
10:26 Simon Kenn...

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For this episode, I've collected some bits from our interviews so far - all around a couple of themes.

One is the skills that people in radio pick up that could make them indispensable in other industries. And the other theme is upsizing those skills with continued learning.

What do you enjoy more from these episodes - the career insights, or the war stories? Let me know!

00:00 Introduction
01:10 TRANSFERA...

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Kerryn Marlow is a business owner based in Melbourne, Australia.

In her radio days she was on air in music and talk shows, and was a producer and program director.

These days, she owns and runs a B2B marketing company, and an online SMS platform. 


00:00 introduction

02:28 What got her interested in radio

03:24 First radio job

10:43 Moving to larger markets

14:06 Where Kerryn and Andy worked together

15:42 Being a talkback host

18:12 Le...

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Simon Kennedy is a voice artist, comedian, keynote speaker and author based in Sydney.

After starting as an announcer, he had a very unique position, writing comedy imaging.

These days, you'll hear Simon on promos for ABC-TV throughout Australia.

He's also the President of the Australian Association of Voice Actors (AAVA).

Now we didn't touch on this in our chat, but Simon wrote a book in 2014 about an atrocity that shoo...

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Geoff Fisher is a corporate & government communications coach based in Canberra.

Before that, he was a radio pro, taking the well-worn road from community radio, to small town commercial radio, then moving to larger markets.

After a big light-bulb moment prompted by his young son, he left radio and realised that his skillset was ideal for communications, coaching and change management.

After a brilliant and very unique career, Geo...

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Alex Dalrymple is a video editor, writer, producer and voice artist based in Sydney, Australia.

His radio background includes working on the iconic Andrew Denton breakfast show on Triple M Sydney.

His career dipped in and out of radio, both on and off air. He went to work at two other big breakfast shows, then was part of the video revolution in radio.

These days he enjoys waking up at a sensible hour with a stable job out of radio, a...

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Cecelia Ramsdale is a voice actor based in Melbourne, Australia.

 

Behind the mic, there's not much Cec hasn't done, narrating TV shows, voicing commercials, playing cartoon characters, and reading audiobooks.

 

Cec also has made podcasts of her own, including No Books Book Club and the Wellness Collective - and works on app-based radio station Broad Radio, a station for women by women.

 

The podcast version of Get This is avai...

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Matt Whittemore is a Senior Media Advisor in the New South Wales Government's Department of Customer Service.

These days.

His broadcast media career took him from small town radio to major-market talkback to breakfast television.

In this episode we'll hear about great bosses (and bad ones), the disappointing time he met media icon Glenn Wheatley, and what life looks like for him now.

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Matt Schichter is a filmmaker based in Glasgow, Scotland.

In Canadian radio, he was an announcer and music director, before he took his skills across to the screen - acting, producing and directing.

He's also one of the world's first podcasters, he started in 2003 before the word podcast was invented.

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Mary-Lou Stephens is a best-selling author.

She's written Australian historical fiction novels "The Last of the Apple Blossom" and "The Chocolate Factory" and a memoir "Sex, Drugs and Meditation". All of them have received rave reviews from the media and fellow authors alike, and her latest work, "The Jam Maker" is out now.

But Mary-Lou spent quite a bit of time behind ...

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Stephen Walter-Gerrard is a former announcer, voice artist, creative writer and content director, who is now a Marketing Manager and self-confessed data nerd.

After a bunch of different roles in different radio markets, Stephen took what he learned into the corporate world.

Importantly though, he makes a point of working with companies that do good in the world.

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