always there

with Ingi · 27 min · July 30, 2026
Ingi, guest on the episode always there
"That terrible experience turned into the absolute best thing that had ever happened to me, because it put me so far ahead of everyone on my course."
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What this episode is about

a little bit of SUNshine is a show about the moments that quietly reshape how someone sees their life, told in their own words. In this episode, Ingi talks about being investigated at nineteen over graffiti painted on trains in the UK, his house searched early one morning, five separate court appearances, and a year deferred from art university while he waited to find out what would happen next.

Instead of waiting it out, he spent that year teaching himself code, design, and web development, convinced he would arrive at university hopelessly behind everyone else. He ended up with a fine rather than the sentence he had braced for, and walked into his first class already ahead of classmates who were only just being taught what he had spent a year learning on his own.

It runs 27 minutes, so it's built for a longer commute or a walk. No advice, no framework, just one person's account of how a terrible six months turned into the best thing that ever happened to him.

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