Before the awards. Before the comedy stage. Before the sign language, the podcast, the fearlessness — there was a woman who looked at a child the world had written off and decided to write a different story.

Siobhan Dodd is an award-winning comedian, sign language interpreter, and host of the Following Through Podcast. But in this episode, she's not here to talk about herself. She's here to talk about her mum — the woman who fought to keep her in mainstream school when others wanted to send her elsewhere, who drove her to theatre three nights a week just to watch her daughter come alive, and who quietly pointed her toward her life's work.

What unfolds is a rare and honest reckoning with how much we take our mothers for granted — and what it means to finally stop and count the cost of everything they gave. Siobhan reflects on growing up neurodiverse, finding her voice on stage, and tracing almost every defining chapter of her life back to a woman who never sought the credit.

This one will make you want to pick up the phone.

Follow Siobhan on Instagram at @siobhandoddcomedy and find the Following Through Podcast at @followingthroughpod.

What if a DNA test didn't just reveal a name — it revealed a woman who had already changed the world without you ever knowing she existed?

Five years ago, Dan Albaum received a message that would rewrite his family's story. Through 23andMe, a connection surfaced: Regina Jones, his great-grandfather's daughter, a woman born in wartime South Central LA, raised with little, and driven by something that no circumstance could contain.

Regina married at 15, became a mother of five by 21, and was working the switchboard at the LAPD the night the Watts riots ignited in 1965. Instead of stepping back from that fire, she and her husband Ken ran toward it — and from that crucible, SOUL newspaper was born. The first publication of its kind, SOUL told the stories of Black musicians, entertainers, and artists at a time when no one else would.

At its peak, 127,000 copies were in circulation. When it ended, and her marriage with it, Regina didn't stop. She built a PR agency. She worked alongside icons. She gave back through children's welfare nonprofit Crystal Stairs. And she did it all while raising her family, refusing every ceiling placed above her.

Now, her extraordinary life is the subject of the award-winning documentary Who in the Hell is Regina Jones? Dan joins Jon to celebrate the woman history is finally catching up to.

Nine episodes. Nine guests. Nine brilliant humans who changed a life - and were publicly told so.

Before the next chapter begins, host Jonathan Griffiths pauses to do something simple but important: say thank you out loud, and mean it.

This isn't a full episode - far from it - it's a moment of gratitude for everyone who made Season 2 what it was. For Declan Edwards, Fiona Spargo-Mabbs, Steve Price, Kristen Rider, Simon Cresswell, Tom Barnes, Anna Stewart, Roger Black, and Kriss Akabusi - and for the brilliant humans at the heart of every one of their stories.

But there's a message in here for you, too. Somewhere in your life, there's a person who shifted something in you. A teacher, a parent, a stranger, a friend. Someone who probably has no idea how much they matter to you.

Our ask is straightforward: don't wait. Tell them today.

More episodes are already recorded and coming very soon. In the meantime, subscribe, follow, and if you have a brilliant human you want to celebrate, reach out at brillianthumanspodcast@gmail.com. Because the most powerful thing you can do today might just be two words.