Still Panicking: How to Work with a Friend
Nobody Panic
Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Still Panicking: Summer is drawing to a close and a new term is about to begin, so this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top tips for easing back into school/university/work life.
Thinking of starting a hustle with your BFF? Stevie and Tessa have worked together for ages, but also they’ve worked with loads of friends, and so have some good tips on what to do to avoid killing each other. Or just liquidating the business and never speaking again.
This episode was first released on 22 March 2022.
Recorded by Naomi Parnell and edited by Clarissa Maycock for Plosive.
Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to Nobody Panic with me, Stevie, and my friend whom I work with, Tessa. |
| 0:18.9 | I would describe you as a work colleague and nothing more. |
| 0:21.1 | Oh, for God's sake. |
| 0:22.1 | And this is the problem. |
| 0:23.9 | This is it. |
| 0:25.8 | We got a very, very funny DM that just says, |
| 0:29.8 | podcast episode, How to Work with a Friend? |
| 0:31.9 | Three question marks. |
| 0:33.7 | It feels like that's something that's very much going through your life there, Emily. |
| 0:37.1 | What's the time stamp on that? |
| 0:39.3 | 104 a.m. |
| 0:40.4 | Oh. |
| 0:54.6 | So she's just started working. Yeah. It feels like she's in the meeting. The meeting's happening and she's sending that three question marks. How can I work with a friend? Yeah. It's pertinent to us. Very much, very much. And also, like, our jobs, we tend to pretty much always work with people that we are friendly with, and that can cause some problems. Certainly. But it can be great, but it has some similarities with the housemate, how to be a good housemate thing, because there are some friends that are just the best pals in the world. Yeah. And I love them to pieces. And the thought of working with that makes me want to throw myself in the river and same I'm sure that I'm with me because there's certain personalities that just don't meld isn't there so I think it's I've got also friends that just will never work with anyone that they're friends but I'll be like I don't I don't work with friends yeah it's such a thing I'm excited for TV I'm also, Tessa. But what's your adult thing, Tessa? Well, I soft launched an adult thing earlier, which was I got into bed last night and the mattress was a skew. By which I mean, it was completely off the bed frame. How did that happen? Just a bit of fun in the day. No, no, God, I just... Just spinning on your own bed for a bit. Could you get bored? I think it's that the bed frame isn't quite as sturdy as it could be, and the bed head is also just... I haven't attached it yet. I feel you. Anyway, and it was just completely askew and I would just lay down. I was like, that's fine. |
| 2:01.3 | And then... Like diagonally. Honestly. Your head's blotping off this. It wasn't completely a diagonal, but it might as well have been. And I just lay on it. And I was like, yeah. And then I said to myself, have some respect. Get up. Get up and sort your mattress out. And it was extremely easy to do. and I was like, that feels better. |
| 1:58.8 | That feels like just a grown-up. |
| 2:00.5 | Anyway, that feels better. That feels like just a grown-up. Anyway, that feels very poor. So I will tell you that on Sunday, I ran the Brighton Half Marathon. Why didn't you leave? That's amazing. I did another. You know I don't like to tell people because people will ask if I've trained and I'll say no. |
| 2:39.6 | And also, you told me again after you ran the last one to make sure you didn't run anymore. |
| 2:42.1 | No, I said, don't let me run another marathon. |
| 2:44.7 | Half marathon different, you're correct, yes. |
| 2:48.5 | Half marathon, I truly believe the human body can just run a half marathon. The human body cannot run, just run a marathon. Right. A half marathon, |
| 2:53.9 | I do believe to be ugly, but fine. And people say, like, do you like to run? And I say, do I hate to run, |
| 2:59.4 | but I love to race. I love to go to a race. I love the excitement. I love the goody bag. I love the |
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