Turning The Tables
Episodes
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
EP5 : The great escape - gone fishing with John Bailey
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Have you ever wished you had been able to make a career out of your passion?
My guest John Bailey is a writer, broadcaster and conservationist who's life and career has been built around his two passions fishing and teaching.
Our conversation spans adventures in Mongolia and Greenland, drunken pilots and plane crashes, his love of nature and the countryside to the emotional challenges of his childhood and how that affected him in his life and what he has learned from it.
"I could never really relax because I was waiting for any moments of calm or happiness to be snatched away"
Even if you have never fished or ever planned to there is much to learn from John's life experiences, his teaching and guiding having brought him great insight into people and the world we live in.
Of course if you are into fishing there is much to listen to including his pioneering trips to remote fishing destinations, growing up as a fisherman alongside John Wilson his views on the environmental challenges our rivers and lakes face and his latest project working with Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer on the BAFTA nominated BBC2 series Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing.
We talk about the companionship and friendship which is at the heart of fishing and is the central theme of the TV series and how it can be a great antidote to the stresses of modern life and John reflects how this kind of therapy is often underestimated in its powerful effect on wellbeing.
As John says "We only have one precious life, wasting it is not an option"
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You can contact John at info@baileyandfishing.com for more information on his guiding and fishing experiences
Episode credits;
Editor and sound engineer : Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Music : Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
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Music: River Meditation Audioautix
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Wednesday Sep 04, 2019
EP 4 :Nothing in life is forever with Francine Lawrence
Wednesday Sep 04, 2019
Wednesday Sep 04, 2019
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt that the job you were doing was compromising your values as a person? How did you deal with that?
Have you ever felt you were being judged or your ideas rejected, because of peoples perceptions of your age? Was that because you were considered too young or inexperienced for your views to be important or because you were older and the people judging you were all much younger?
In episode 4 of Turning the Tables my guest is Francine Lawrence who’s career has seen her be editor of one of Britain’s top magazines, a journalistic portrait photographer, illustrator ,Book Publishing Editor and now running her own Art Teaching company.
My conversation with Francine spans the glamour of publishing in the 1980’s “At the height of my career I was flown by Concord to Barbados” to the struggle to fight ageism in the work environment.
“I just felt that I was having to battle against the perception that anyone over 50 wasn’t in touch with the modern world – it really hurt going from being at the top of the game to having my ideas dismissed as too old fashioned”
Francine goes on to talk about the influence of her mother and her childhood on the choices she made in life and how it instilled a fierce need to be independent and led her to not having children and not marrying until later in life.
We discuss how at the height of her career as a magazine editor she felt her values were being compromised which led to her taking a complete break from work and going for 3 months into the jungle in Borneo to work on a charitable project. An event which had a profound effect on her outlook and prioritises in life.
Francine now runs with a friend, an Art teaching company that helps ‘people who don’t think they can draw’ to realise they can, opening up new fulfilment in their students lives.
As she says “ I’ve never felt happier with the work I’m doing “
And of course Francine shares her learnings from these challenges in life and I draw some insights for people who might be facing similar adversity in their life.
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Contact: Francine Lawrence's art teaching 'for people who don't think they can draw' can be found here Art Splash London
Episode credits;
Editor and sound engineer : Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Music : Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
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Broken Elegance – Just want to see your smile
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