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Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball
Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

57: The Garden Story That Floored Us

January 19, 2026 • 26m

Summary

⏱️ 5 min read

Overview

Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball return for 2026 with heartfelt discussions about managing stress and work-life balance, the importance of small moments of self-care, and gratitude practices. They share updates on fitness goals, respond to listener questions about overwhelming schedules, and receive a deeply moving story from a listener about her mother's final Christmas spent at home surrounded by nature rather than traveling to family.

New Year Reset and Setting Goals

Jo and Zoe discuss their approaches to starting the new year fresh, with Zoe proudly sharing her deep-cleaning accomplishments and Jo talking about signing up for the London Landmarks Half Marathon. They emphasize the importance of small self-care rituals and creating calm spaces at home during the challenging January period. Both hosts acknowledge the difficulty of maintaining motivation while trying to establish new routines.

  • Zoe has been detoxing the house, cleaning the fridge, and creating spa-like spaces with new towels and cleared surfaces
  • Jo officially signed up for the London Landmarks Half Marathon in April, though Cass has already done three runs while she hasn't started
  • Jo is trying a Pilates app at home for 20 minutes to avoid the stress of traveling to classes
  • Jo uses the Calm app for 10-minute daily meditations, sometimes tucking herself into bed during the breakfast show for power naps
" I could hibernate. I seriously have bear-like qualities. I could quite easily come through new year, fill a little burrow with seeds and nuts, chocolates possibly, and a bit of telly and a nest underground and come up in the spring with the bulbs. "

Merch Ideas and Community Engagement

The hosts put out a call to their community for merchandise ideas, asking listeners to suggest products and slogans that would resonate with the Dig It audience. They emphasize wanting creative input on everything from what items would be useful to what phrases should appear on them, while ruling out baseball hats since neither host feels they look good in them.

  • They're looking for merch suggestions including potential items like hats, mugs, T-shirts, sweatshirts, or tea towels
  • They need slogan ideas from the community and emphasize it won't feature pictures of them
  • They're considering including seeds as part of the merch since they're easy to send and grow, perfect for the gardening audience

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