Episodes
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
My guests in this two-part episode are the' far out couple' Alasdair Plumbeck and Julie Roxane Krikorian. Two people who came together through a serendipitous rejection of the lives they had been living.
Alasdair and Julie Rozane are podcasters, entrepreneurs, guides & coaches. In 2016 we both walked away from lives that had made them tired and sick and stepped into the unknown in search of a better way to live.
Julie Roxane and Alasdair met by chance in a chai shop in Rajasthan, India, whilst on a self-discovery journey.It was this chance meeting that changed their lives and set them together on a shared healing path.
In this first part, we hear about the events that led up to their serendipitous meeting in India.
From Julie Rozane about the hidden depression, anxiety, and abuse that characterized her childhood.
The meditation retreat in India, that was the catalyst for a deeper understanding and realization of the impact of events in her childhood.
And finally, how the unravelling of her identity was the beginning of rebuilding her and Alasdair's life together.
You can find out more about Alasdair and Julie- Roxane on their website, The far-out life.
Their podcast, Far-Out - adventures in unconventional living can be found on most podcast channels.
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Episode Credits
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
River Meditation - Audioautix
When I'm gone LiQWYD
Scott Buckley - Life is
Journey Home by Day 7
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
EP 30: Stories from a woman who walks, with Diane Wyzga
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
My guest on episode 30 of Turning the tables storyteller extraordinaire Diane Wyzga. Diane has, as she says, bathed in the garbage of life's adversities, creating compost for the opportunity for a joy-filled, purposeful life.
Having been a US Navy Nurse, Lawyer, Professor, Public Speaker, Litigating consultant, problem solver, wife, and daughter, she has seen life through many glasses.
Diane and I met through Seth Godin's Podcast fellowship, from which Turning the Tables and Diane's brilliant podcast Stories from Women who walk were born.
We talk about the events that have shaped Diane's life The triple adversity of Diane losing her job, her husband, and her mother in the space of 9 monthsHow a 500-mile journey along the Camino de Santigo helped Diane find new direction and fulfillment.And how storytelling has been a companion to help Diane navigate through life.
Diane's podcast Stories of women who walk
You can reach out to Diane through LinkedIn
And her blog can be found here
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Episode Credits
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
River Meditation - Audioautix
When I'm gone LiQWYD
Scott Buckley - Life is
Journey Home by Day 7
Friday Mar 26, 2021
EP 29: How burn out taught me to take control of my life with Imogen Roy
Friday Mar 26, 2021
Friday Mar 26, 2021
A staggering 75% of people in a Gallup survey reported the symptoms of work-related stress.
I would vouch that everyone who listens to this podcast can point to feeling burned out at some point in their working lives.
For many that work-related stress is a rollercoaster that it is hard to get off.
For my guest, Imogen Roy burnout was a dramatic wake-up call. A tri-lingual scot living in Paris, Imogen built her career as a brand and marketing consultant working with startup businesses and traveling worldwide.
But everything came to a juddering halt one day as she was about to stand up and present to a packed conference center of business executives.
That moment was the catalyst for a complete change and reinvention of Imogen's approach to work.
Ten years or so ago, Entrepreneur Tim Ferris's book the 4-hour workweek became a New York Times bestseller extolling the virtues of a digital life focussed on productive work centered around building passive income streams. An attractive concept but not a realistic career model for many people.
Imogen's work philosophy takes a different approach, built around shaping work to your own very personal physical and mental energy.
This has seen Imogen reinvent her role as a strategy coach, reduce and completely change her working hours, increase her prices and increase her effectiveness.Perhaps most importantly, it changed her relationship with and joy of working.
We talk about in this episode:
* The physical and mental impact of burnout
* The way the achiever mindset can be a very destructive force
* How Imogen has rebuilt her life around a new model of work
* How people can reshape work around their personal energy
You can find Imogen at www.imogenroy.com
Listen to Imogen's podcast A year of Magical Living
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Episode Credits
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
River Meditation - Audioautix
When I'm gone LiQWYD
Scott Buckley - Life is
Journey Home by Day 7
Piano strings - Tim White
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
EP 28: The courage to fall - From terrorist attack to disability rights with Will Pike
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Will Pike knows what it takes to overcome adversity.
Will was on holiday in Mumbai in November 2008 with his girlfriend, when Islamic Extremists attacked the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel he was staying in.
News of the attack filled TV screens the world over.
116 innocent people lost their lives.
Then a fit 28-year-old, Will was left paralysed when he fell 60 feet trying to escape.
Now a paraplegic wheelchair-user, Will has had to fight many battles not only to recover but to secure the compensation that would enable him to live the rest of his life.
But For Will, disability was not an ending. He is now a speaker, writer, and disability campaigner. Using his media communication skills he campaigns for disability rights and inclusion and has become an activist for accessibility. Will passionately believes that unless disabled people are given the same opportunities as everyone else, the negative stigma will remain. In 2016, Will produced and starred in a film to highlight accessibility problems on the high street called 'Yes I Can, If'. Will harnessed the film's success to talk about disability in the mainstream media, appearing on programmes such as Good Morning Britain.
In this episode I am also joined by co-host Sharon LLoyd Barnes who shared her story of overcoming stage 3 breast cancer in episode .18..... Check it out if you haven't heard it yet. Sharon got to know Will through her work on diversity and inclusion and introduced us.
We talk with Will about the dramatic events of that night in Mumbai.
How he has had to adapt to his new circumstances and the challenges it presents
And the work he is now doing to raise awareness of the inclusion needs of people with disability
You can find Will at https://www.willpike.co/
And on Twitter @PixilatedPike
Will's disability access film Yes I can, if ..
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Episode Credits
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
River Meditation - Audioautix
When I'm gone LiQWYD
Scott Buckley - Life is
Cygnus - Tim White
Saturday Jan 30, 2021
Saturday Jan 30, 2021
Have you ever felt like an imposter?
Do you sometimes doubt your skills, fearing that, one day, you will be exposed as a "fraud" despite the evidence that you are a talented individual that has achieved a great deal?.
Quote " I know what it is like to feel 2 inches tall and a bit like a failure."
Research suggests that somewhat ironically 1 in 3 high-achieving women, and men suffer from impostor syndrome.
My guest on EP 27 of Turning the Tables is Impact Guru Esther Stanhope. As a former BBC live producer, Esther has spent a career, helping people overcome public speaking fears whether that's on TV or in the boardroom. Her approach to teaching people is refreshingly honest.
"Just be yourself and stop trying to please everybody, speak your truth "
Despite being a confessed chatterbox, extravert, Esther has had to confront her demons. Her father died when she was 5 years old from heart disease, leaving her in survival mode for much for her childhood.
Driven to achieve, Esther overcame her self-doubts, interviewing thousands of celebrities and coaching performances out of people like George Clooney and Boris Johnson and the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
But the past came back to haunt her when she suffered a mild heart attack leading to a reassessment of her life and lifestyle.
In the episode we talk about what was behind Esther's self-doubts?
How a cross-fit class in New York sparked her health scare
And how Esther is helping women entrepreneurs to build confidence and overcome fears of public speaking with her on-line course 'Speak like a She-Boss'
Finally Esther reveals her recipe for overcoming adversity
You can find out more about Esther work at https://www.estherstanhope.com/home
You can find Esther latest book Goodbye to Glossophobia here.
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Episode Credits
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
River Meditation - Audioautix
When I'm gone LiQWYD
Scott Buckley - Life is
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
Chronic illness affects 1 in 3 people around the world. It is a the hidden plague of modern life.
My guest on episode 26 of Turning the Tables, Dan Neuffer has known what it is like to be consumed by the pain and struggle with Chronic illness, to give up hope. But then ultimately to find recovery and new purpose helping others. One of those others I am happy to say was me.
Dan from the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia had suffered from C.F.S (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) for 7 years; he had almost given up hope of recovery. Frustrated and angry with the medical profession's inability to provide a coherent explanation or route to recovery, he took matters into his own hands.
Using his analytical engineering trained mind, he set about finding a coherent explanation for the condition and a route to recovery.
That journey ultimately led to his book, the A.N.S rewire programme (Autonomic Nervous System rewire) and his recovery.
Dan's story and his wisdom and knowledge, provides insight to anyone dealing with the physical or mental effects of adversity.
Dan Neuffer is author of CFS Unravelled. This book and the recovery programme he developed called A.N.S rewire has helped 1000's of people to overcome these debilitating chronic conditions.
Dan's programme was an instrumental part of my recovery from CFS - in many ways, Dan Neuffer saved my life!
In our conversation, we talk about;
The route cause of CFS and many chronic conditions
The mindset shift that is the key to recovery
How Arnold Schwarzenegger taught Dan a vital lesson
What Dan has learned from the multiple recovery stories he has witnessed from people as young as 15 and as old as 90
In the words of Josh Shipp
"You either get bitter, or you get better. It's that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate; it belongs to you."
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Episode Credits
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
River Meditation - Audioautix
Scott Buckley - Life is
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
"That is what happens when you lose somebody really significant, it smashes your world apart"
Dr Lucy Hone is a co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing and Resilience, a published academic researcher and best selling author.
Her Ted Talk on 'The three secrets of resilient people' has been watched by nearly 3 million people,
Lucy has experienced first hand what it is like to face what is the most heart-wrenching adversity. Tragically her 12-year-old daughter Abi was killed in an accident when a car ran through a red light and smashed into the car she was travelling in with Abi's friend Ella and her mother Sally.
Lucy Hone’s story is a powerful weaving of the science of resilience with the practical experience of facing the most challenging form of grief - the loss of a child. Something all of us as parents can only begin to imagine.
Despite this very human tragedy, Lucy Hone continues to dedicate her career to groundbreaking work on resilience and to helping others to build their resilience muscles.
In our discussion, we talk about the 3 strategies that we can use to build resilience in our own lives
The work the Institute is doing in helping to build resilience in communities, the education of children and even in government policy.
And she Lucy shares her own very personal story and insights and advice to any of us facing adversity in our lives based on her own experience and research science.
Lucy's published work includes; Resilient Grieving
Lucy can be contacted through the institute https://nziwr.co.nz
or through LinkedIn
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Episode Credits
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
River Meditation - Audioautix
Aerohead Fragments
When I'm gone LiQWYD
Scott Buckley - Monomyth five the exodus, Life is
Piano strings; AB5, Goldie strings
All additional music written by Tim White ©2020 all rights reserved.
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
In this episode, we hear actor, singing coach and theatrical director Renu Arora's story of a near-death experience and how it changed her life.
The novelist Ernest Hemingway is a famous example of someone who recounted a story of a near-death experience. During World War I, Hemingway was wounded by shrapnel while fighting in Italy on a fateful night in 1918.
Near-death experiences are well-documented phenomena where people describe an out of body experience when faced with impending death often with profound effects on the person's outlook on life.
Renu was trained at the Central School of Acting and Drama had a thriving career in the arts. Renu had faced adversity earlier in her career when she suffered from M.E which she happily recovered from.But it was her near-death experience when she was tragically pulled under a London bus which was to have a profound effect on her life. Not only physically but mentally and spiritually.
We talk about :
How it has affected her creativity, her outlook and the way she lives her life.
How this crisis was a doorway to new strength and growth
The role of her artistic skills played in unleashing new creativity.
What we can learn from Renu's story to help us move through adversity.
Renu Arora Burgundy Book Project
Renu's Facebook. On Twitter
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Episode Credits
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
River Meditation - Audioautix
Scott Buckley -Dreamtofflying, Childhood, Elementary
[Ghostrifter Official] Above The Clouds, Demised To Shield
All additional music written by Tim White ©2020 all rights reserved.
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