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Uplifted Under the Bonnet
Uplifted under the bonnet is about bringing your authentic self to life and living. This shines a spotlight on human flourishing, the kindness, compassion, hope and empathy. Our stream of consciousness considers, where we are trying to get to in our journey through life. We reflect on what needs we are trying to satisfy. The reality is that most of us are trying to satisfy very simple needs such as living a peaceful life with our families and going about our daily live in a calm, focused, intentional and meaningful manner.
Conflict often arises from unmet needs and expectations. When we enhance our conversational capacity and our compassionate embrace to accept ourselves and others, we can be more focused and better able to handle challenging and difficult situations. Healthy relationships are built through individual and collective efforts.
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Nov 8, 2023
Inspiration - Live, Lead, Leave
Taking the time is like slowing down to speed up is the right answer. It is about the legacy we live, lead and leave.
Inspiration can be found in how Stephen Sidebottom tells his story. Finding happiness in the place you are, is the thing that matters the most.
You have a choice, which is what's your next step, and you have a choice of, am I going to be happy, or do I choose not to be? Success recognises where value is created and takes the time to think and to shape. Everything is a question of the steps you take and what you make of it. I've never been someone who has some regrets about things. I quite like nostalgia; I like thinking back about things. I grew up in with a lot of exposure to travel and spending time in other countries, and that gave me a real perspective on different values and the joy of new ideas about how the world could be and how life could be.
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Oct 27, 2023
From Adversity To Triumph
Adversity can lead to triumphing in the face of challenges and suffering. Deshauna Barber is doing good in the world from a place of knowing what it's like to serve. She is doing her story, being her story, telling her story. Pretty Ugly Lessons: empowering strategies to transform adversity into triumph by a former Miss USA and Army veteran is a treasure trove. Highlighted is the importance of getting balance in life through strategies for investing our energies and overcoming our fears.
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Oct 20, 2023
Adversity - From Knock Down to Triumph
Adversity is hard, painful, challenging and unsettling. Confronting crisis, chaotic situations and developments can be overwhelming. One woman, Juliet Lamin used her personal tragedy to find her purpose and passion. From Knock Down to Comeback is her personal story of the steps she took to come back from the ashes of despair. The road is towards triumph. The journey is by no means an easy one.
On 5th February 2013 Juliet received the most devastating news any mother could receive. She heard that her adorable and gifted Philip had collapsed while playing football. He was rushed to hospital. When Julie Lamin got there, she beheld the lifeless body of her son. Philip who was 16 years old had no previously diagnosed heart conditions died tragically through sudden cardiac arrest (SCA)
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Sep 28, 2023
Road Trip
“It is a road trip; I feel that I'm at my peak. I'm at my peak because I've had so much experience and now, I can take all this experience from my professional and personal things that I've done and really step it into a higher gear in things that I can do. I feel very optimistic for the direction that a lot of things are taking in the professional corporate aspect”. Max Ekesi describes himself as super excited about a lot of things, and one of those is the opportunity to serve on his "Agile Austin Community" where he's been an active member since 2009 and has proudly served on the board as the vice president and now president. He is presently an IT manager at PayPal. Celebrating life brings energy to him. This year he felt particularly special on his birthday - more poignant because people could not come together during Covid 19. He still pinches himself to wake up from all the excitement about the fact that now we can be around people, be around big crowds and embrace people we care about.
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Aug 23, 2023
Rays of Hope
Rays of hope focuses on how emotions and perspectives can affect our whole being and can go into a physical injury in the body. Self-love and a sense of belonging from blended communities can be healing and restorative.
“I thought that I knew who I was as a mother and as a therapist and everything, and I wrote the book and I thought, God, who am I? Cause I didn't really know who I am. I've discovered self-worth, and that's key. If you've got self-worth, you can ask these questions” says Olukemi Ogunyemi.”
Writing Brown Girl in the Ring, a story of discovery, paved the way for Olukemi to put down on paper the pain that she didn't realise she still held. Now, she is better able to understand the reason why people would behave in the way that they behaved.
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Aug 3, 2023
Coloring Life
Inspirational speaker Dr. Alise Cortez spoke with us about “How Loss Invites Us To Live More Vibrant Lives”. Loss gives such a beautiful bountiful connection in ways that ignites purpose, passion, forgiveness and love. The achingly beautiful colour of life does not fade as adversity leads a way towards purpose. We realise we don't get forever, and we don't know when the exit ramp is coming. “With that insight comes an increased urgency around purpose.” We move forward with renewed value and appreciation for life and the love we share with others.
Death is a great teacher. We can be inspired to treasure people we love, honour or have relationships with and also to expand our consciousness and live more fully. Increased awareness and a stronger urgency enables us to fulfil our wishes, our own dreams and to be of service to the world, the way that we burn and ache for.
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Jun 7, 2023
Gifts in Pain
Ray Martin, author of Life without a Tie, also known as the Daily Explorer brought a "Ray" of Sunshine into the studio,. He's an interpreter and an award-winning business leader, a coach, a mentor, a facilitator, a speaker " In life without a Tie a random unforeseen series of events helped Ray strengthen his inner guidance, deepen his humanity and forge a new authentic path. He shares the highs and lows, the tears and laughter and the pricniples which guided him. Ray·s reminder is stark, ·There are always gifts in pain·. The best gifts don·t come wrapped nicely. Sometimes the gifts reside in tough, chaotic and messy situations.
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May 25, 2023
Amazing Coach Max Ekesi
Today we celebrate an amazing coach – Max Ekesi. “I put myself in other people's shoes” recounts Max. Empathy is speaking to courage and boldness and forgiveness and the capacity to be agile and to diversify. I learned to navigate those different cultures.” He connects multi-generationally across the generational gaps.. Max fosters an understanding and a respect for older people. His approach has helped him in taking a more positive and optimistic approach. In tough times he invites us to ask” how can you create an opportunity out of the situation? By helping others it's incredible how much you help yourself.” There is nothing he loves more than getting involved with people outside of his professional work and helping to solve problems.
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May 25, 2023
A Treasure Trove and Fragrance
Erin Randall is indeed a treasure trove and fragrance. When asked how she would like people to notice about her, Erin answers humbly “I want to be noticed as the coach who will be with you and stay with you. The coach who reflects back your loveliness so that you can work with that. “Ever the skilled and compassionate coach, Erin reminds us of the work of Caitlin Walker PhD, Director of Clean Learning and the Developer of Systemic Modelling. Dr Caitlin uses clean language, asking clean questions and encouraging clean work. The impact of this approach is to ask move towards curiosity without judgement, creating safe spaces for systems to respond. Erin espouses the value of reflective spaces and creating opportunities for off line processing that are unique and special . All parts of the system are different and special. I will definitely be watching Bird Cage the movie through a more thoughtful and considered lens.
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Apr 12, 2023
My Story, My Treasures and My Gifts
Jane Duncan-Rogers shares with us her story of grief and how it’s become her treasures and gifts to others. “My husband was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2010. It stops you in your tracks. He got treatment, we hoped for the best, but actually the worst happened and I ended up being a widow.” This was the beginning of Jane’s grief journey. Jane’s greatest fear had come true. She was on her own at age 54.
How could she be gifted by this terrible loss? Louise L Hay, author of "You Can Heal Your Life" comforting words "what you feel you can heal" helped Jane get through pretty difficult feelings. A willingness to face grief and to face one’s own mortality can be helpful. Having an open heart and not letting fear stop you from doing what you want to do can help navigate loss. This often requires vulnerability, openness and being joyful in the face of sadness. Philip, Jane’s first husband used to say, “In vulnerability lies your strength.”
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Mar 2, 2023
Finding My Way - Dealing With Burnout
Lisa Hammett talks about how she dealt with burnout and found a way out.
“My mother, was bipolar, diagnosed late in life. It was chronic anxiety related. There were periods in my life growing up where she wouldn't talk to me for like a week. If I did something to really upset her, she would just completely shut me out. I developed people pleasing tendencies and hyper achieving tendencies. I was always pushing myself really hard to get good grades and doing everything to please her.”
For my mom I would tell myself she's doing the best she can and give her some grace”. “My experience, reaching burnout has really led me to where I can serve my clients to the best of my ability now”.
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Feb 2, 2023
Celebrating Max Ekesi
Podcasters united cross three countries, United Kingdom, United States and Nigeria. Paula Okonneh, Tesse Akpeki and Sade Marriot joined podcast guest Max Ekesi, President / CEO of the Agile Ausitn Organisation and IT Senior Manager at Paypal. Max has been leading Agile Transformations since 2007 in large enterprises specifically leveraging Agile & Kaizen principles.
Max’s 47th Birthday visiting Disneyland California was special. He spent quality time with his family. Turning to work, Max shares how the agile mindset that focuses on value, being fluid, adaptable, purposeful, nimble and committed to making a difference has given so much value to his life. “You are either adapting or being disrupted as you are choosing to be proactive or reactive. Creating high performing teams in Bangalore, Singapore and Lagos and doing these together meet the hopes and dream of people in developing countries. “ “Clarity of expectations and a focus on potential underpins agility.
ChatGPT which…
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Jan 5, 2023
Sara Comes Dancing
The choreography of life leads to a growing realisation that dancing in leadership is more relevant as ever. Dance like no one's watching, Sara Ramsey’s love of dancing led her to dance in the world amateur championships at the Royal Albert Hall.
During the Covid lockdown she reconnected with her love of dance. Bragging rights? She did her fair share of Fox trotting with Anton Du Beke pre his fame. While people baked sourdough bread, she studied the psychology of dance and has developed a course for teams. “Dancing is really good for connecting people. People dance in sync with each other, build trust and connect with others” says Sara.”
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Nov 30, 2022
Thriving on Vulnerability
“I just kind of stopped having shame. I thrive on vulnerability. I get to just be me , I get to make mistakes, and I get to learn from people who have a lot more experience. I think any particular wisdom that I might have at this point in my life just comes from being willing to talk about all the things with people, and hear what they have to say” (Trust, leadership and ethics speaker Dallin Cooper, author of Get On The Bull Answers to meeting our goals in life probably depend on trust. We model what we see and reciprocate. Vulnerability is the other side of trust. Vulnerability extends trust. Trusting calls for vulnerability. We need to trust others first. We are trusting them not to hurt us. Scarily, there are no guarantees! We have to put ourselves in a spot where we run the risk of getting hurt. Ironically, to build trust, we have to give others the chance to become trustworthy.
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Oct 26, 2022
Selfless Caring
“Emotionally it's very difficult to start seeing the person that you love slip away. This is my second round of caregiving. My heart goes out to all carers of patients with dementia. It's hard for the carers. Really, really hard. It's hard for the person being cared for too. I can't, you can't take care of someone else unless you take care of yourself. I've been out five times in the evening in the last two years without my husband. That's not much. As Frank’s ability to do things has decreased, my need to spend a little more time away to go to the theatre or whatever has increased.” Carol’s honesty is heart-warming. Something most people will relate to is her Covid experience. “I'm a very social person, and so being at home alone has really been difficult. And I wasn't alone, I was with my husband. But having been on the road for 28 years and doing a hundred to 150 cities a year, this was really just like the door slamming in your face. And I'm sure a lot of people experienc…
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Sep 21, 2022
The Accidental Doctor
Dr Mick Rogers or “the accidental doctor “as he describes himself says "It's all about the people, not just process”. Anywhere people are part of the process, they're the most important part of the process. The soft aspects of people are the tricky stuff, the stuff that you can't apply a model for, or you can't work out on the spread. It requires engagement and trust and risk and exposure with people. This is where story telling matters. Stories are so important because it's how we relate to each other. “We still create stories that help us explain what's going on around us. And it's the engagement in those stories, I think which is important and exceptional “stresses Mick. Rich discussion can start us thinking and talking differently about what good looks like and what progress look like. Our considerations can rest on how we like to be with the other people in the organisations we find ourselves in. Accidentally Mick stumbled into being accepted for a doctorate course. “I…
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Aug 10, 2022
A Home Away Fom Home
A home away from home describes Marta Maretich. Marta was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. “I thought it was the best thing ever. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.”
“We had a different background. I always felt different - like we knew about a bigger world. When you spoke to people in Bakersfield, you were met often with incomprehension. They really didn't get it. There is something about being someone like me, where none of it is obvious. If we don't have a conversation, you'd never know. So you have to know me.” “I feel I spend a lot of my work trying to explain my life and get people to pay attention to its details. You can look at my life in a superficial way which is the tip of the iceberg. You can say, oh, she's just this girl from California, went to Berkeley, it's all fine.
But when you start picking it apart, nobody's life is really like that.” The Possibility of Lions”. It is a story about loss, love and the difficulty of finding a home in a changing wor…
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Jul 2, 2022
Carole Levy - Skits, Cartoons, and Trust
Carole Levy is an avid cartoonist with a unique combination of wit and depth. She loves analyzing the tricks of the human ego on her popular blog. And she's published a humorous illustrated book called "The Bumpy Road To Collaboration" (paperback, Kindle, iBook) She is a culture change partner and a senior executive coach and facilitator. She shares her life map.
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Jun 10, 2022
From Acting to Facilitation
As an actor, I watched amazing people struggle with life. I was interested in helping people see each other through the experience of each other and hope that they are going to now together do really important work in the world. Sharon talks about DEI which stands for "Diversity Equity and Inclusion". “During the pandemic, my heart broke and changed shape. It had more capacity for courage. I had lots of conversations with my courage in 2020. And I invested in the education. I wanted to have bravery and to have a voice, and to take up space, and to know how to stand much stronger in my dignity. And I did that with deep support, from many sources and many people and other leaders who have gone before me.”
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May 12, 2022
Renee Reisch - my personal story
Renee Reisch’s personal story is honest and vulnerable. Thoughts about care, compassion, and kindness soak through Renee’s voice. “Showing kindness, compassion and caring to yourself is not selfish, it's selfless. It is not possible to pour from an empty cup. You need to you fill your own cup for and then pour from the overflow. Sometimes we need to go within, rather than searching outside of ourselves. The journey is not just about the losses, it's the total picture - what we find along the journey of our life.” says Renee. “ I lost my voice. My voice was a metaphor for what I needed to find in my own life.” “ I didn't know what the new normal would be for me, with no voice interacting with people. I had learn a new way to communicate from all the years of just speaking my own voice but never speaking my true voice. And then losing it was to be able to find the true voice that was always within.” The Wizard of Oz, an American musical fantasy produced by Metro-Goldwyn-M…
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Apr 13, 2022
Loving Better - The Power of Conscious Thinking
“ Everybody's life is precious, if we can come from that place to give ourselves a chance to remember that sometimes. Be really generous and kind with ourselves when we don't remember it. “ Becoming human is the phrase that really resonates. Becoming, evolving and developing is something that never stops. Deborah has lived in rural Sussex most of her life. She had her son at 27, and then another two children at the time she was 33. “I've always really valued the family life, and friends, and making meaning.” She has been driven by wanting to make a difference. When I encountered the arts, it helped her find an important way of making sense and understanding the world.” She was the first person in her immediate and extended family to go to university. That was a real gift, It took a lot of courage to go, because there wasn’t any history of anyone having had any academic achievement and she experienced a lot of imposter syndrome. She absolutely loved it and she loved the lear…
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Mar 29, 2022
My Balancing Act
Andy Temte’s take on second chances. Most of us are out of balance, and most of us need that kind of heavy introspection at times, and really need to look inside and ask ourselves questions about who we are, who we want to be, and the impact that we're having on others. “If somebody that's placed me in a box actually spent the time to really understand what makes me tick, they would find a much, much more complicated story. I've only been married to one woman, but I've been married to her twice “Andy opens up. “In my late thirties, my very early forties I had a lot of success and was wildly successful by most people's metrics. Money, family, cars, boats, all the usual societal metrics that people use. But something was really missing from my life, I was all work all the time, not as present as I should have been in my family. And my wife and I split up and it was a real wakeup call, the process of divorce. You don't know what you've got until it's gone. I realised I really had…
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Feb 23, 2022
Professor Kandola Live and Uncut
As part of an inclusive environment, how can we start? How can we, how can I create an environment that is inclusive, that is generous, that is caring, that is kind and nourishing and also produce the goods?
Professor Binna Kandola admits “This is a process of learning and learning, being self-reflective, getting feedback and actually trying to do better is the most important thing. “I had to educate myself when I was writing the book Racism at Work; the Danger of Indifference. I am learning myself. There's lots of other things that I don't know about. I am learning about myself! Sometimes I just need to listen. When somebody tells me something, I need to pay attention. Obviously its up to me to make up my own mind. That's the big, biggest thing I've learned”.
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Feb 16, 2022
Why Relationships Matter
Relationships matter to Desire Anderson because as a young recruit Desiree was exposed to fantastic pieces of work where she helped with diversity and equity programmes and leadership development. She was inspired by Nelson Mandela who having been released took the whole quality of forgiveness, collaboration and diversity to a different level. She mirrored this devotion by implementing practices not only in society as a whole, but in organisations. . Forging new relationships and connections with people became part of her DNA, and part of her superpower.
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Jan 19, 2022
If you can dream it, you can be it
“Everybody has something to give and you don't have to be a Beyonce or, you know, a Rhianna or someone huge to be able to give, just give what is within, what you have to offer, what you can afford to offer, no matter how small it is, it's still valuable What you think is really small might actually be really huge to someone else. We hear success stories, what we don't know; the story behind these success stories. Often success does not come overnight. There are struggles” says Tomide Awe.
Tomide has been raised to find ways to be persistent and to be creative – keeping her eye on the price. When she was in school, especially in high school, she failed a lot of exams, especially in junior school. Her parents were great, ensuring that the opportunities that she did not have materialised. Her mum did not let her give up and would sit her down, and work with her to find out what she was good at, whilst continuing to improve in areas she was not so good at.
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Nov 10, 2021
Resilience through Adversity
The story of Robert McCrea - a successful producer and actor, reads like something out of a Hollywood movie. His personal journey screams “resilience through adversity .”
Rob’s father managed to escape from the prison camp. He was a refugee from Burma at the end of the second world war whose reference for fathering was the Japanese prisoner of war camp which wasn’t much fun. His grandfather was executed in front of his father. Rob’s grandmother managed to escape from the women's prison camp with two of her daughters. They managed to collect Rob’s father and his slightly older brother from the men's prison camp.
With all of the guns, they actually had to cross the battle plane to get to the other side. The two week walk through the jungle, from a place called Michiana in Burma through the jungle to Lido road, which is where the allied forces were based could only take place at night time. Unfortunately, they didn't all make it on that journey. This environment that Rob was…
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Nov 2, 2021
Switched On with Compassion Accountability
During the pandemic, a new meaning came to Dr Nate with compassion mixed with accountability. This is even more valuable, and the work with clients is more important at that time, when compassion needs to be reconciled with accountability. Every day with Covid -19 opens a different chapter. The need for balance has never been more important as every day it takes on a new meaning.
Dr Nate admits that his personality is not naturally compassionate or naturally empathetic. “I'm self-centered. I want to work on things. I prefer to work on tasks than be with people by nature. So I'm a pretty selfish task-oriented person by nature, by personality. So it's a constant journey of constant struggle. But I grew up around a family that had amazing values and showed me these things.” How he treats people depends on whether his compassionate switches are on or off.
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Oct 27, 2021
Poetry in Motion
Life can be Poetry in Motion as Kate Hammer invokes the call of Madonna ( as mother ) “not about performance or conformance, the invitation is to walk, step in, or step out with compassion, care, soothing and empathy. “
Inside the rings that Kate and her husband exchanged were the letters WWO the number 2 and the letter B, which stands for where we ought to be from a Quaker song based on the tune of an old Anglican hymn called "simple gifts". “I can turn and turn and come down just right. If I am lucky and find where I ought to be.”
We can suffer losses or face the horror to a loss that is impending. There's a different kind of horror to a loss that's totally unexpected. Trauma kicks. A dream turns into the nightmare that you were not expecting. The heartbreak opens a window of grief. For Kate this happened when her mother died unexpectedly. Kate promised herself to bear that responsibility with grace. Quite strangely she realised that she had become the mother. She had alway…
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Sep 22, 2021
Self Love Matters
Self love matters! Nancy White tells us why. It not only empowers us, it also helps us to be able to love and empower other people. We're all unique and different. If we can't love ourselves first and foremost, we can not love anybody else. Part of self-love is those things that are not only in our physical and financial arena, but in the spiritual and emotional arena. Whether it's setting goals, going through healing processes, making these things a priority in this season in life, self-love is the fuel that enriches our lives. Sometimes poor self image gets in the way. It is so important for us to have around us people we know, like and trust.
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Sep 8, 2021
Esua Goldsmith and Being An Only
Award winning author, Esua Goldsmith grew up “being an only “ in a white working class neighborhood in the 1950s in south London. She was the mixed race daughter of a white single mom and a Ghanaian father who she never knew as a child. Often being “an only one”, Esua describes the feeling of being “an alien dropped from outer space”.
This pervasive emotion ran like a thread throughout her life. She did not see herself, in books she read , or on the television, or in stories told or anywhere else.
Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith (Esua) was the first and only woman of colour elected as President of Leicester University Students Union in the 1970s. She talks about her first book called "The Space Between Black and White", which was published by Jacaranda#2020.
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Aug 11, 2021
In Search of Meaning
In search of meaning, looking for new experiences, moving to new place, having fun, learning new languages led Chinese born Melody Song, co founder of Do Good Here to Canada and then to Berlin, Germany. Her mum, a translator for cultural ministries took her to ballet as a child which gave her access to ballet shows. She lived in Canada for 20 years, 15 of those years she served as a fundraiser at Alberta ballet. To Melody names matter ‘You’re given a name for a reason. Learning how to pronounce someone’s name correctly I think is the first step of empathy, - the act of trying to understand and connect with someone can start here. Our names have interesting stories and unique meanings’ she told TesseLeads.
Providing meaning and purpose has become paramount for Melody who finds she cannot live without purpose. She worked for an oil and gas company but found that was not rewarding enough. Her fun job was working for a zoo as a fundraiser, where she felt she had made a difference…
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Jul 27, 2021
When It’s Make or Break
For Sade Marriott, Podcast Host at Banana Island Living it was either make or break
It was either break down and cry. I was the only Black woman in my village. It was lonely. I had a little baby, so I volunteered, I reached out, I made connections and I cared for other people. I genuinely felt most people were positive because I am determined to find positivity wherever. I became part of my village community. Providing solutions rather than problems is key. If there's anything I've learned is humility.
When I did my PGCE my mentor who was younger than me, marked me down for interaction with the other staff. My daughter who was home from school at that time saw I was really having a hard time said, “mommy you're too well dressed. Honestly you're going to this school and you're dressed like this? You have to fit in.”
Once I took my mentor on board, I began making her cups of tea, I began rolling in baggy pants. I became sloppy and her new best friend. It worked. I did what I neede…
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Jun 29, 2021
Nadine Robson-Mum’s Inspiration Lives
Nadine Robson’s mum’s inspiration lives and is the theme of her conversation today. At heart Nadine’s mum was all about love and just being a mum. That was what she really wanted to be.
She went through her own experiences of mental illness.
Unfortunately, through some of those experiences, she made some decisions that were really difficult, and she made some poor judgment calls.
The side effect of that was that Nadine was taken into care when she was 11 years old and taken out of the family home. This meant she didn't grow up with her brothers from that age. That was really tough. It was not easy to go through that experience.
Nadine Robson and Darren founded the MOE Foundation, an empowering coaching community that screams love and care.
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Jun 10, 2021
My Delicate, Balancing Act-Sarah Giles
Sarah Giles’ delicate, balancing act is the constant juggling of motherhood, career and everything else. After a 15 year plus career in HR she quit in the lockdown, resigning from her head of HR position.
“Looking from the outside, I probably looked like I had it all together, but inside I didn't. I have to set clear boundaries, focus on being a mum and have time for myself as well. “When you are so busy looking after other people it’s very easy to lose yourself in the process. We put our own self-care off I’ve learnt so much about myself. A lot of that is through my own coaching journey. I think it's things that I might not have ever done before.” remarks Sarah.
Sarah constantly asks herself the question “Who am I? “ She finds she is constantly evolving. As soon as she gets to a place where she thinks she is the person she wants to be, she discovers that she is growing again.
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May 26, 2021
Changing The World With Wellness
We all want to change the world with wellness, but it helps to remember that “Resilience helps us to stay grounded no matter what happens to us” - Resmaa Menakem “My Grandmother’s Hands.
We close our expectation gaps by actually acknowledging each other, acknowledging ourselves. We acknowledge what we do well and learn what we do not do so well. Rather than see failure as something that is bad, we see failure as something that helps us to do even better. In fact, some people say of failure that it's the first attempt in learning. Agility is using this time as experimental space to fail forward, to succeed more, and to sustain success through purpose, intention, commitment, and impact.
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May 13, 2021
Bonnie Marcus - Not Done Yet
Bonnie Marcus, author of Not Done Yet recalls her first big job “I had no qualifications what so ever for that job. I was barely managing my own check book, let alone running a business with 30 doctors.
I somehow did really well in the interview, convincing them that I was the right person; or let me say that I was smart enough to learn. And they hired me. And a year and a half I ran eleven centers up and down the East coast in the U S for that company. And that was the beginning of my business career.
So I often say I've always learned business on the job. And I had mastered how to show up confidently and own the value that I could bring. Not faking it by the way, because I couldn't”
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Apr 28, 2021
People’s Precious Lives Matter
“People’s Precious Lives Matter” says Steve Morris, Vicar of St Cuthbert’s, North Wembley.
“I made a decision when I became a Vicar that I actually would not cover up the fact that I've had problems in the past, sometimes with depression and anxiety, I just wasn't.
I was going to be honest about it, cause I didn't want people thinking that I was some kind of superhero and I found it one of the most useful parts of my ministry is just to say, if you're feeling bad, talk to me about it, tell me what's happening says the gifted Steve Morris.”
His sharing with TesseLeads takes us through the highs and lows of life, his father, his wife and himself. Yet these struggles have served to strengthen his resolve and to cast a light on what really matters to him.
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Apr 14, 2021
When It’s Ok Not To Be Ok
20 year old Presence Plumb inspired Tesse and Paula as she talked about when " it is ok not to be ok." Presence Plumb launched her podcast “It Starts with Action” in a spirit of curiosity and an intention to bring about change.
Presence charts her journey from the United Kingdom where she was born to Hong Kong. What was meant to be a short stay turned into a seven year stint, with young Presence being bullied for poor grades.
She become obsessed with fitting in and with becoming excellent. She was criticised for ‘being fat’. It was no surprise that in the face of such criticism, Presence became anorexic at 14 years and had a 3 months stay in hospital.
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Mar 25, 2021
The Magic of Thinking and Transformation
Our guest today is David Taylor-Klaus and we will be talking about Experiencing the Magic of Thinking and Transformation.
David Taylor-Klaus (DTK) in a spirit of vulnerability, authenticity and high level of self-awareness, shares with #TesseLeads his relationship with depression, suicidal thoughts, low self-esteem, high levels of anxiety, limiting self-belief, workaholism and inappropriate diet.
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Mar 10, 2021
Lisa Richards - Resilience Finding Hope
Lisa Richards talks about Resilience. As a grief specialist, Lisa enables business people to thrive rather than to be weighed down by the pain of loss following any life change.
Lisa shares stories of loss and courage to give comfort to those who mourn. May those who have loved and lost be comforted.
We all suffer loss and experience grief in different ways. Life happens as we lose people through death. Covid-19 has snatched people from us.
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Feb 24, 2021
TesseLeads Launches
TesseLeads was inspired by Tony Akpeki , the late brother of Tesse Akpeki. It is a safe, sensitive, supportive place and space to share, hear and tell your stories and experiences.
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