The Longest Day Podcast

The Longest Day Podcast A weekly podcast featuring candid, unfiltered conversations with leaders about their longest days.

23/10/2025

Real success isn’t about doing more, it’s about knowing yourself better.

reminds us that peace comes when you stop chasing, and start listening to who you really are.

You don’t need to prove you’re busy. You just need to be true.

🎧 Listen to this powerful exchange between and Lucy Easthope on The Longest Day Podcast. Link in bio.

17/07/2025

From dismissal to disruption.

At just 24, Sophia Smith Galer was told her social video data “wasn’t real.”

So she did what innovators do—she built the thing the industry wouldn’t.

In the season finale of The Longest Day Podcast, Sophia reveals how she created Sofiana, an AI storytelling tool now winning journalism awards—and changing how we show up online.

🎧 Tap into her story, episode 18 is now live.

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12/07/2025

A hotel overlooking Lake Windermere.

A plate of lobster and chips.

Two offers on the table.

In the final episode of Season 6 hosted by Leah Brown FRSA, Sophia Smith Galer, award-winning journalist, innovator, and founder of Viralect, opens up about the decisions that shaped her path.

This conversation is a reminder that career-defining moments don’t always happen in offices.

Sometimes, they happen in dining rooms, with champagne in hand and your phone ringing.

🎧 Listen to the season finale wherever you get your podcasts.

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11/07/2025

What does it mean to keep growing when you’re known for innovating?

In our final episode of Season 6 of , Leah Brown FRSA sit down with Sophia Smith Galer, journalist, author, app founder, to talk about the lessons she’s learned from freelancing, risk-taking, and being at the forefront of digital storytelling.

She shares:
• Why she doesn’t believe in regrets
• What she misses most after going independent
• How innovators stay sharp, even when the noise quiets

🎧 Tune into our closing conversation of the season.

⬇️It’s one I’ll be thinking about for a long time⬇️

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10/07/2025

What does it take to leave the newsroom and go independent, on your own terms?

In the final episode of Season 6, Leah Brown FRSA speak with Sophia Smith Galer, multi-award-winning journalist and digital trailblazer.

We talk about:

• The early tension between innovation and gatekeeping
• Building a community of 900k+ followers
• Making the leap from legacy media to full independence

🎧 The season finale is now live, tune in and reflect with us.

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08/07/2025

To close Season 6 of , host Leah Brown FRSA is joined by award-winning journalist and digital innovator Sophia Smith Galer.

At just 23, Sophia was advocating for a future her industry couldn’t yet see:

• pushing for vertical video
• challenging outdated systems
• holding her ground in rooms that questioned her data, her ideas, even her presence.

Today, she's built tools like Sophiana, helping others bring their stories to life through video.

This episode is about clarity, courage, and what it takes to lead when no one else sees the vision, yet.

🎧 The season finale is live now👇🏽👇🏽

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07/07/2025

What does real change-making look like?

For journalist and innovator Sophia Smith Galer, it meant staying the course when her data was dismissed…
..and then launching a tool to help others create the impact she had to fight for.

In this episode, Sophia unpacks what it takes to challenge legacy media, and win.

🎧 Season Finale out now 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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06/07/2025

I couldn’t have asked for a more powerful guest to close out Season 6.

This week on  , I speak with Sophia Smith Galer, journalist, author, creator and pioneer of TikTok journalism in the UK.

We covered everything from:
• Being told her data “wasn’t real” at the BBC
• Finding allies when the support she expected never came
• Building Sophiana, an AI app to help others succeed where she once struggled

Sophia reminds us that innovation is often met with resistance, and that persistence is its own form of leadership.

🎧 Have a listen.

The final episode is now live on your go-to podcast platform.

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05/07/2025

Your inner critic says you can’t.

Your inner champion says: look what you’ve overcome.

Sophie Storm Roberts reveals how to build mental grit and prove yourself to yourself, especially when the going gets brutal.

🎧 It's out now!

🔥 Tap the link below, your mindset upgrade starts here.

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04/07/2025

When fear gets loud, Sophie Storm Roberts gets louder, with action, mindset, and mantras.

In this powerful episode of , host Leah Brown FRSA speaks with Sophie about:

• building resilience
• silencing the inner critic
• what it takes to achieve the extraordinary, even when your brain says, you can’t.

👉🏽 Tune in for real talk on courage, mental fortitude, and world-class performance.

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03/07/2025

What’s stopping you, fear, or the belief that you need to be ready?

Sophie Storm Roberts says most of us don’t need more information.

We need more courage.

In this new episode of  , hosted by Leah Brown FRSA, Sophie unpacks how to build mental fortitude, rewire your inner critic, and take bold action, before you're "ready."

🎧 Episode 17 - OUT now!

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