Selling Out! is the podcast celebrating queer business owners doing extraordinary things their own way. Hosted by GoSucceed co-founders Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe, each episode features real conversations with LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives about the highs, the hard lessons and everything in between. No polish. No performance. Just the truth about their experiences in the business world..
Selling Out! — Ep 1: From the Prison Service & the Police to Brighton’s Queer Bar Scene | Georgie Dutton & Mike Gallagher
Season 1 · Episode 1
Friday, March 20, 2026 • Duration 01:07:09
Two careers in uniform. Two lives fully lived. One brilliant conversation.
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Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a life and a career on your own terms — straight jackets not included. 🏳️🌈
For our very first episode, we’re joined by two guests who couldn’t have more in common — or more to say.
Georgie Dutton (she/her) went from waitressing to the Prison Service, and is now a PT and Bar Manager at The Bottom’s Rest in Brighton — one of the city’s most beloved LGBTQIA+ spaces, owned by Brighton Gin.
Mike Gallagher (he/him) spent his career rising through the ranks of the Metropolitan Police Service, reaching Commander in the Specialist Firearms Command, and leading on LGBTQI+ issues for the Police Superintendents Association for England & Wales. He now co-owns two much-loved LGBTQIA+ community bars in Brighton & Hove, Affinity Bar & The Grosvenor.
@AffinityGayBar @TheGrosvenorBarBrighton
Two careers spent in some of Britain’s most traditionally straight-laced institutions. Two people who found a way to live authentically anyway. And two stories that will make you laugh, think, and feel incredibly proud to be part of this community.
What happens when you finally take the straight jacket off? This is what it looks like.
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Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
🎥 Full video episodes available on YouTube: youtube.com/@GoSucceed
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Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
Selling Out! — Ep 2: Queers in Finance | Paula & Bobby Lambkin-Williams
Season 1 · Episode 2
Friday, April 3, 2026 • Duration 52:19
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a life and a career on your own terms — straight jackets not included. 🏳️🌈
Episode 2 is our Finance Special — and it's anything but dry.
Paula (she/her, L) started out trying to be a secretary, lasted about two weeks, and ended up spending seven years at a manufacturing company full of page three calendars and smoke-filled offices — discovering herself along the way. She's now a senior Finance Director at a multinational infrastructure and transport consultancy, leading a team of 25 and championing authentic inclusion from the inside.
Bobby Lambkin-Williams (he/him, G) began his working life as a kitchen porter at a Japanese restaurant in London — a Selling Out! exclusive he'd never told anyone before. He went on to study Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics at the University of Sussex before finding his way into finance and ultimately merging his two great loves — numbers and music — as founder of Atomic Canyon, an accountancy practice specialising in the music industry.
Two people who navigated some of the most traditionally straight environments in British business. Two people who found their way to their most authentic selves anyway.
This episode covers everything from the burden of assumption and coming out at work, to the privilege of presentation, the DEI backlash, and why queerness might just be the ultimate business superpower.
Oh — and why Bobby would be far more worried if someone thought he was straight. 😄
🎧 New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
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This episode is sponsored by: 🏨 Legends Brighton — seafront hotel, entertainment and Brighton's hottest drag shows. Book at legendsresortbrighton.com 🏠 Mortgage Medics — straightforward mortgage advice without the stress. Go to mortgage-medics.com
Selling Out! — Ep 6: Blueprints & Being Seen | Richard Zinzan & Rachael Pigg / Selling Out!
Season 1 · Episode 6
Friday, June 5, 2026 • Duration 01:02:35
Episode 6 is an architecture special — and a quietly brilliant one.
Richard Zinzan (he/him, G) didn't take the straight route into architecture. A failed fine art application led him to the National Art Library at the V&A, where three years in the stacks gave him something a degree couldn't: time to find himself. He came to architecture school at 22, settled in Brighton in 1996, never left, and founded Archangel Architects after the 2008 crash turned redundancy into a practice. He also co-founded Outwardly Creative — the queer networking event that actually lets people talk.
Rachael Pigg (she/her, B/Q) arrived via a civil engineer father, a boyfriend's architect dad, and a lifelong certainty that design is about people, not ego. Her first big project landed in Time Out. Her most lasting legacy might be a bar near Leicester Square where every urinal had a framed portrait watching over you.
Two architects who've quietly queered one of the most stubbornly straight industries going — and built a practice where same-sex couples come not because they're marketed to, but because they feel safe.
This episode goes deep on the construction site as a straight-jacket, being told most of the women will drop out, and why wearing your identity openly on site took decades of confidence to arrive at. There's also a beautiful thread on representation — and a delivery driver who learned a lesson from a female electrician without anyone saying a word.
"Being queer is a superpower. It makes you think in a different way — because the world isn't laid out for you."
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Selling Out! — Ep 5: Shutter Speed and Chosen Family | Nick Ford & Michael Cheatham / Selling Out!
Season 1 · Episode 5
Friday, May 15, 2026 • Duration 01:03:26
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a life and a career on your own terms — straight jackets not included. 🏳️🌈
Episode 5 is warm, funny, and quietly profound — and features one of the most unexpectedly moving answers we've had to our closing question yet.
Nick Ford (he/him, G) was born in Brighton — one of the rare ones who didn't just wash up here. He cold-called his way through his teens as Sharon from Sales (a persona so convincing, men flirted their way into double glazing appointments), photographed passengers on cruise ships around the world, and eventually got his name on a studio door on Oxford Street in Brighton — the one everyone knows but no one can name. He's been shooting professionally for nearly 20 years, has a photography A-level he somehow got through without writing a single essay, and will tell you, with great patience, why your forehead is not as big as you think it is.
Michael Cheatham (he/him, G) studied architecture, started moonlighting as a photographer after Argos, and landed a client early in his career who kept him busy for over 150 events across Mayfair and Victoria. He went solo in 2017, opened Embassy Studios near Brighton station 15 months ago, and runs a creative hub that's home to marketers, social media managers, and a genuine community of like-minded people. His wedding brand, Amity — from the word for friendship — says everything about how he works.
Two people who've built their businesses on patience, craft, and the radical idea that you're not just there to take the picture — you're there to hold the flowers, sew the button back on the dress, and make the whole day feel looked after.
This episode goes deep on the death of film, the rise of AI in creative work, the politics of perceived value, racism in the industry, and why getting a studio with bricks and mortar is sometimes the only way people will take you seriously. It also features a genuinely beautiful answer about chosen family, and what it actually means to find your people.
"My queer friends have had a lot of painful journeys. But as a result of having them around, my life is so much richer."
Selling Out! — Ep 4: Keys, Mortgages & the Gay in the Village | Sam Murphy & Pip Newton-John
Season 1 · Episode 4
Friday, May 1, 2026 • Duration 01:08:14
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a life and a career on your own terms — straight jackets not included. 🏳️🌈
Episode 4 is our Property Special — and it turns out bricks, mortar and mortgages have a lot more to say about queerness than you might think.
Sam Murphy (he/him, G) started out in the world of work by fibbing about his age to get a job in the local fish and chip shop in Horsham, got the sack then was re-hired when he was old enough to batter a sausage. A stint at the Woolwich Building Society led to a career in financial services, and when he spotted a bad boss and a brewing credit crunch in 2007, he and two colleagues jumped ship and built something better. Today he runs *Mortgage Medics*, now eleven strong, alongside *Wilbury Wealth* — a financial planning brand covering mortgages, pensions, investments and holistic wealth planning for clients at every stage of life, including the growing number of same-sex couples and non-traditional families who want someone who actually gets their world.
Pip Newton-John (she/her, L) — yes, that Newton-John, Olivia was her dad's first cousin — came out of a performing arts degree at Winchester, scanned the newspaper for jobs like everyone did in 2005, and ended up falling in love with property. After stints in Winchester and Brighton, she joined her best friend Lucy at *Lawton & Dawe*, the Brighton-based estate agency and lettings firm Lucy founded 16 years ago. Nine women strong, trading standards regulated, and the only agency in East Sussex with that accreditation. Their block management arm, *Property Fusion*, manages blocks from Birmingham to the Isle of Wight to Devon.
Two people who built careers in industries that weren't built for them — and quietly changed the culture from the inside anyway.
This episode covers coming out in the workplace, blue and pink mortgage application forms (yes, really, in 2002), the case for kindness as a genuine business strategy, why small business is a speedboat and a corporation is a tanker, and what it really means to be part of someone's story when they buy or sell a home.
Selling Out! — Ep 3: Labels, Laughs & Loud Marketing | Sarah Archer & Alex Ryan
Season 1 · Episode 3
Friday, April 17, 2026 • Duration 01:11:00
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a life and a career on your own terms straight jackets not included. 🏳️🌈
Episode 3 is a riot and also one of our most honest conversations yet.
Sarah Archer (she/her, G) spent years thinking she was straight, got married, had a daughter, moved to Germany three days before her 21st birthday, climbed to HR Director and then, during pregnancy, everything shifted. She came out into a workplace that gave her a pay rise. She’s since retrained as a stand-up comedian, written two books, toured her own theatre show celebrating forgotten Victorian drag king superstars, and built a speaking business that coaches experts to create talks that sell without anyone feeling pitched to. Her podcast The Speaking Club is in the top 1% globally.
Alex Ryan (he/him, Q) sold torn-out pages from a porn magazine at primary school for 20p a pop. He’s come a long way — via DJing, bar work, a head of marketing role at a £60 million business, and a pandemic side hustle that became Marketing 101, his Brighton-based agency now six years strong. He’s also chair of Gaydio Brighton, spent a decade as voluntary production director of National Student Pride, and recently launched Vermouth, Actually a handcrafted vermouth made at Devil’s Dyke Distillery that sold 50 bottles off a single LinkedIn post.
Two people who’ve had a smoother ride than most but who’ve both channelled that privilege into fighting for the people who haven’t.
This episode goes deep on identity, labels, DEI under fire, and the trans community under attack. It also features a genuinely beautiful argument for why queerness is a superpower and one of the best closing lines we’ve had on the show.
“Queerness is not unique to the human species. But homophobia is.”
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Selling Out! – Ep 9: Scrums, Serpents & Showing Up | Byron Todd & Sam Johnson / Selling Out!
Season 1 · Episode 9
Friday, July 17, 2026 • Duration 01:02:44
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a life and a career on your own terms — straight jackets not included. 🏳️🌈
Episode 9 is a warm one — and a bit of a love letter to the power of just showing up.
Byron Todd (he/him,) spent years believing, as many of us were quietly told, that gay men don't do sport. He proved that wrong via a paper round, a school dining hall, a dating agency, the Millennium Dome, and eventually the King's Cross Steelers — the world's first gay rugby club — where he went from nervous newcomer to team captain to co-founder of something entirely his own. In 2014 he moved to Brighton and did what any sensible person would do: started a rugby club. The Brighton and Hove Sea Serpents just celebrated their 10th anniversary and are now one of the most loved teams in the city.
Sam Johnson (he/him,) grew up in a Midlands village so remote the bus only came if you rang ahead. He survived Burger King, The Simple Life on a Subway manager's laptop, and a chance conversation with a stranger on a bridge that launched a seven-year PR career. A stint in beauty and hairdressing PR followed — during which he was regularly mistaken for a woman, largely because nobody expects a six-foot-five man named Sam to be on the other end of the phone. He joined the Sea Serpents less than a year ago and has already won forward of the match, dick of the day (twice), and a seat on the board.
Two men who found in rugby what a lot of us spend years looking for: a room where nobody judges you for who you are, only for which position you might play.
This episode gets into the real cost of being told sport isn't for you, the quiet heroism of building something from nothing, and why a team that welcomes trans women to touch rugby and fundraises to get lower-income players to Lisbon is doing something that goes well beyond the game.
"I was in the car park texting my friend: I don't think I can do it. I can't get out of the car. Then the messages just stop. Two hours later: oh my God, I loved it."
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Selling Out! – Ep 8: People, Power and Panna Cotta | Adam McHale & Ric Hayden / Selling Out!
Season 1 · Episode 8
Friday, July 3, 2026 • Duration 01:17:58
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a life and a career on your own terms — straight jackets not included. 🏳️🌈
Adam McHale (he/him, G) grew up in a McHale clan that upped sticks from Manchester to Blackpool to run a B&B. He carried toast racks, studied performing arts, gave up acting for people development and never looked back. From Butlins to Classic Collection Holidays, he's built L&D functions from scratch, mentored teams across the country and found his sweet spot at MPB — one of Brighton's most progressive businesses — where roughly one in three colleagues identifies as something other than straight. He once turned down Butlins before Adam got there. (Ric can confirm.)
Ric Hayden (he/him, G/Q) wanted to be a fashion designer, changed his mind at Central Saint Martins, did a master's in psychology, ended up in Sydney launching Vodafone's customer training operation and has been running LearningCog, his independent L&D consultancy, for the past fifteen years. He's delivered leadership programmes across Southeast Asia, stood his ground against homophobic regional directors and once got his entire board to fund a programme they'd just rejected — by walking back in and telling them why he hadn't explained it well enough.
Two people who've spent their careers building the conditions in which other people can be themselves — and who both know first-hand what it costs when those conditions don't exist.
This episode covers the long road from knowing you're different to knowing what to do with it, internalized homophobia in corporate life, why DEI isn't optional (it's on your bottom line), and what happened when a penis-shaped panna cotta arrived at a company offsite. It also features a serious conversation about trans rights, solidarity, and why the letters in LGBTQIA+ exist together for a reason.
"It was the trans people fighting for us at Stonewall. So let's get back and support them."
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Selling Out! - Ep 7: Mincing, Manifesting & The Brighton Box | Dan Taffs & Melanie Blackwell / Selling Out!
Season 1 · Episode 7
Friday, June 19, 2026 • Duration 01:07:11
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a life and a career on your own terms — straight jackets not included. 🏳️🌈
Episode 7 is an artist special, and it's an absolute joy from start to finish — paint, prosecco-adjacent chaos, and two creatives who've turned their queerness into the engine of their work rather than something to edit out.
Dan Taffs (he/him, G) started out mincing meat at a Blackpool butcher's, trained in travel and tourism, and discovered his creative streak sketching buildings on key camp holidays in France. After years in hospitality, cocktail bars, and dental nursing, he's now an established artist with the Brighton Box gallery, known for bold queer typography pieces — including a best-seller that simply says "I fucking love you." His art exists for the people who, like him once, had no one else to tell them they were loved.
Melanie Blackwell (she/her, L/G) trained at Byam Shaw and Central Saint Martins, lived in her studio to make it through art school, and put painting on hold for fifteen years to build a life with her wife — working everything from running a pub to qualifying as an LGBT domestic violence advisor along the way. After losing her grandmother, she returned to the easel, found her place in Brighton's open studios scene, and is now showing large-scale seascapes and skyscapes at the Brighton Box, with a solo exhibition already under her belt and a wild-swimming habit (Channel relay included) fuelling the work.
Two artists who found their way back to the canvas through grief, graft, and a community that, in true Brighton fashion, simply would not let them stay hidden.
This episode covers imposter syndrome, the business of art versus the romance of it, finding your tribe through open houses and creative meet-ups, and why queerness so often shows up as a refusal to accept the rules you were handed. It also features a genuinely lovely riff on art as therapy, and one of the show's better closing mantras yet.
"If you can set your mind to it, your heart will follow."
🎙️ Sponsored by Legends Brighton — legendsresortbrighton.com — and Mortgage Medics — mortgage-medics.com
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Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe. New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
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Season: 1 | Episode: 3
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
Video & Audio by Always Cinematic — alwayscinematic.com
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Season: 1 | Episode: 9
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
LGBTQIA+, queer business, learning and development, people development, DEI, diversity and inclusion, trans rights, corporate culture, representation, Brighton, MPB, LearningCog, leadership, Stonewall, Selling Out, GoSucceed
Season: 1 | Episode: 8
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.
New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.
