Why the podcast is my favourite thing I do

When I started This is Surveying, I had no idea how it would be received. I knew I’d have to give it at least six months before I could tell. Podcasts are a slow burn, and niche ones even more so. Nobody stumbles across a surveying podcast while looking for true crime.

A year on, it gets over 400 audio downloads and more than 500 YouTube views every week. 95% of listeners are in the UK, and it’s growing week on week!

It’s my favourite thing I do. Not the editing or the scheduling (thats something many people underestimate), but the conversations. I get to speak to some incredible surveyors about the work they do, and that work touches everything around us, from the natural environment to the built one.

The last three episodes

• Tom Bell , Quantem : why people, not technology, decide whether a firm succeeds, and why you’re only ever as good as your last job. Listen to Tom’s episode
• Philippe Weyland , Party Wall PRO: what 30,000 party wall notices tell us, and where software and AI are taking party wall work. Listen to Philippe’s episode
• Annabel Huffer BSc (Hons) MRICS Hon AFUBE , building surveyor and Chair of RICS Matrics: why we need to talk to parents if we want more young people choosing surveying. Listen to Annabel’s episode

Coming up

We’ve got plenty lined up, including a mineral surveyor, an asbestos surveyor, a quantity surveyor who now heads up a leading software company, and an estate agent turned residential surveyor.

Sponsoring the podcast

We’re now offering sponsorship. You can sponsor a full guest episode about your software, product or service, or have a host-read advert of 30 to 60 seconds in the audio episodes. Both stay in the episode permanently, and we only take a small number of sponsors each quarter. Find out more about sponsoring

New episodes go out every Tuesday on Spotify, Apple, YouTube and surveyors-uk.com.

Please keep listening and spread the word. Thank you to all those who have sent me lovely comments over the past year.

Nina