Adulting advice with excellent chaos.
Nobody Panic treats small decisions as worthy of full comic investigation: breakfast, dinner for one, massages, tarot, wet lunches, weddings. The result is part advice show, part chaotic kitchen-table debrief, with useful details sneaking through the laughter.
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Nobody Panic is built around the little adult-life problems that somehow become enormous once they are happening to a real person. Breakfast is not just breakfast. It is eggs, toast, stomach logistics, shopping habits, and the fear of becoming "the egg man." Cooking is not just technique. It is cinnamon sticks in milk, dried herbs in pasta sauce, bulk cabbage in the fridge, and the deep relief of realizing dinner can be assembled from bits. The show moves quickly, with Stevie and Tessa batting ideas back and forth while guests are absorbed into the rhythm rather than placed on a pedestal. That matters. Practical advice stays conversational, not instructional. Kate Young turns dinner for one into a permission slip for pickles, toast, rice, eggs, and small prepared things that make a meal feel intentional. Sophie Wybird brings Mob Kitchen clarity to spices, porridge, herbs, and the confidence gap between knowing food and actually making it. Monica Heisey's dinner-party episode treats hosting as a social performance full of timing, chicness, coffee offers, and quiet panic. Caroline O'Donoghue brings tarot in with a playful Halloween charge, full of cards, superstition, and curiosity rather than solemn mysticism. Other episodes push into weddings, wet lunches, massages, and the strange ceremonies people invent around being normal. The comedy comes from escalation. A simple question becomes a confession, then a rule, then a joke about the rule. The show is warm without being soft. It can be blunt about gendered wedding pressure, social mess, food confusion, and bodily awkwardness, but it keeps the atmosphere affectionate. Nobody Panic works best when it treats embarrassment as useful evidence. There is always a point underneath the chaos. It just prefers to arrive sideways, laughing, and holding a cabbage.
Made for: For listeners who like practical life advice delivered through British comic banter, domestic detail, and quick conversational detours. It especially suits people who find ordinary tasks weirdly high-stakes.
What sets it apart: The show's edge is its refusal to separate usefulness from mess. Guests bring real know-how, but the advice keeps the rhythm of two friends interrupting, correcting, and laughing their way toward the point.
(The podcast formerly known as The Debrief Podcast) Your guidebook to being a fully functioning adult without screaming all the time. Each week, Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates tackle life's big, small, fun and sometimes scary questions with the help of experts and special guests because we're all in this together, guys. So nobody panic. Produced by Plosive. Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates turn everyday uncertainty into practical, funny conversations about habits, social pressure and adult self-knowledge.
Nobody Panic turns ordinary adult tasks into lively conversations about the embarrassment, pressure and self-judgment attached to them. Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates move between practical guidance and candid personal stories, finding material in making dinner for one, choosing…
This is where scrambled eggs and a suspicious massage become your practical survival kit.
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A funny, unruly goodbye that turns wedding advice into a sharp look at who gets to set the rules.
The final Nobody Panic episode frames its farewell as something pleasingly unceremonious: a goodbye that quickly becomes a funny, bristling conversation about weddings, unwanted advice, and the pressure placed on brides to perform the day correctly.
Dinner for one becomes a fridge full of small decisions that add up to an actual meal.
Dinner for one becomes a practical case for treating solo meals as worth making, not something to skip. Stevie and Tessa admit they struggle with it, and their author-chef guest offers a more forgiving way in: keep useful bits in the fridge, make toast and peanut butter feel…
Sophie Wybird calmly untangles Stevie and Tessa's overcomplicated questions about everyday cooking.
Stevie and Tessa turn everyday cooking doubts into an easy, useful conversation with Sophie Wybird, head of food at Mob Kitchen. They ask whether dried herbs can be made less gritty, how cinnamon should reach a bowl of porridge, and when a pestle and mortar earns its place.
A breakfast routine takes shape through scrambled eggs, regular shopping and fear of becoming "the egg man."
Breakfast indecision gets a practical answer: settle on a dependable default and keep the ingredients stocked. For these hosts, that means scrambled eggs with toast, salt and pepper, plus optional cheese and air-fried vegan bacon bits.
A massage mix-up turns into a funny, rueful look at stress, symptoms, and paying attention.
A bad back takes the speaker from a walk through Soho into a Chinese massage and herbal remedies shop, then downstairs to a room where repeated questions about whether she wants "just" a massage begin to add up.
A funny, grounded ADHD conversation that turns moving chaos into relief from self-blame.
The episode makes a messy house move the way into a sharper conversation about ADHD and the shame that can cling to everyday tasks. Packing slips to the day before, washing spreads across five racks, and boxed-up belongings become hard to track once they are out of sight.
A funny, candid waxing conversation about hair, shame, and the impossible fantasy of smoothness.
A routine waxing appointment opens into a sharp, funny conversation about the way public images can train people to misunderstand their own bodies.
Northwest banter with the brakes cut.
Loose comic dispatches from Nick Flanagan's room.
Wrestling talk with the filter kicked loose.
Crabby stories, fandom scars, perfect tangents.
Tessa Coates hosts a live episode of Nobody Panic solo, joined by guests Rose Johnson and BD Edmondson from the Birthday Girls.
Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates explore the topic of waxing, sharing personal experiences and societal pressures.
Comedians Stevie and Tessa, joined by guest Jonny Sweet, humorously explore how to write a letter of complaint.
A podcast episode where hosts Stevie and Tessa interview Lola-Rose Maxwell about understanding shared ownership as a path to buying a house.
Nobody Panic frames “How to End a Podcast” as its last episode, with Alison Spittel and Fern Brady revisiting the show’s old adulting-and-how-to format while calling it a “full compendium.” Stevie describes a day with stylist Britt Taylor on Regent Street, where a black cashmere smock made her feel like a friar and showed how much her clothes choices had changed.
Kate Young joins Nobody Panic to talk about dinner for one, turning the idea into “bulk bits” like braised celery, courgette pickle, and shredded pickled cabbage.
Sophie Wybird from Mob Kitchen joins Alison Spittel, Fern Brady, Stevie, and Tessa to explain how Mob Kitchen makes affordable, simple recipes for students and young professionals.
Two podcasters discuss the concept of a 'wet lunch' (drinking alcohol at lunchtime) and their excitement about participating in one.
Comedians Allison Spittle and Fern Brady interview Monica Heisey about how to host a dinner party.
Alison Spittel and Fern Brady spend most of Nobody Panic on breakfast decisions, with eggs, sourdough, and gluten-free bread taking over the conversation.
Alison Spittel describes a Brazilian Pantalas Massage at Tatiana Carolina's Kensington spa, where wooden pads called "Pantalas" were used on her thighs, stomach, buttocks, and feet over her socks.
Alison Spittle and Fern Brady introduce a new podcast and then dive into a Halloween-themed episode on how to read tarot with guest Caroline O'Donoghue.
Kate Young discusses her debut novel 'Experienced' and offers tips on cooking for one.
A podcast episode about how to stop reading a book, featuring chaotic banter and a tangential discussion about wildfires.