Episodes
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Henry Fraser's story is truly one of turning around adversity, of humbling grit, determination and wisdom in the face of quite frankly monumental challenges.
Henry was an energetic, gifted sport-loving teenager with his life ahead of him when a life-changing accident crushed his spinal cord, leaving Henry paralysed and needing to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Despite that, Henry has fashioned a thriving career, a relentlessly positive mindset and a passion for helping other people by championing the cause of disability?
Most of all, Henry shows the power of the human spirit, of acceptance and positive belief.
Despite the challenges, Henry faces on a day to day basis he has become a celebrated and accomplished mouth artist, a motivational speaker. And a Sunday Times best selling author.
His first book The Little Big things was published to widespread acclaim and contained a foreword by none other than JK Rowling.
His latest book The Power in you- How to accept the past live in the present and shape a positive future, shares how 11 years on Henry is dealing with the reality of his new life.
You can see Henry's art here https://henryfraserart.com
Henry 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.
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Welcome to episode 22 of Turning the Tables and a different kind of story.
A story about business and in today's terms, the rather an unfashionable story, of building a wholly-owned, global shirt business over the long haul of over 30 years. A story about learning from your failures, a story about belief, focus, determination and commitment.
In an era when society seems to worship the short term, venture capital-backed, Unicorn, entrepreneurship model, my guest, Nick Wheeler's business approach is something of a rarity.
Founded in 1986, over the last 30 years, Nick has steadily built his Charles Tyhritt clothing business to over £200m, operating in countries all over the world and employing 1,300 people.
Nick is also married to Chrissy Rucker founder of the similarly successful White Company, another business that does not have outside investment and has followed a similar business model.
In our conversation we talk about;
How his early failures with a photography and Xmas tree and children's clothes business taught him lessons that paved the way for the development of the CT shirt business
How an entrepreneurial spirit and a hatred for authority, meant even from the early days he was destined to start his own business and be in control of his destiny.
The benefits of a paternalistic business model that values people and culture alongside profit
and finally his advice to young entrepreneurs who are just starting.
In the COVID era when over-leveraged businesses have suffered, the benefits of a longer-term view may now have a resurgence. Only time will tell.
In the era of the quick fix and the rapid transformation, Nick's story makes a compelling case for the tortoise over the hare and the many benefits of just plugging away at it.
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Episode Credit
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
River Meditation - Audioautix
Acoustic Guitar - Audioautix
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
This is the story of how my guest Dr Amy Novotny came through a strict and often repressive upbringing by a controlling single mother later diagnosed with Bipolar to become an innovative, groundbreaking and renowned physical therapist.
How, despite having to tutor her own mother for up to 6 hours a day, Amy still managed to attain a high level of academic achievement which paved the way for a career helping people to overcome chronic pain where traditional medical treatments failed.
And how through all this Amy has built an extraordinary level of physical and emotional resilience
If you struggle with stress or anxiety, if you have any chronic pain or if you want to find a route to a calmer life, you will want to listen to Amy's honest and candid story.
We talk about her early struggles to win the love and affection of her mother and how this ultimately built a robust and resilient mindset.
How she found freedom running and competing in 100-mile ultra marathons, ironman triathlons and the Boston Marathon
How Amy developed a revolutionary approach the 'PABR method' to physical therapy and breathing techniques, which was transforming peoples lives and their performance capabilities and ended up treating the Pulitzer prize-winning business author Guy Kawasaki.
And be sure to listen to till the end when Amy reveals how she built the remarkable resilience and mental strength to deal with the adversity in her life.
You can contact Amy find out more about her therapy practice and the PABR method at her website for the PABR Institute.
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Episode Credit
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
River Meditation - Audioautix
Scott Buckley -Monomyth
Aerohead - Fragments
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
You would think that 'Kindness' was a fundamental part of human connection that is indelibly written into the way we live our lives. However, it seems that only in times of crisis like the current Coronavirus pandemic do we see kindness come to the fore.
Why is this?
My guests on this episode of Turning the Tables are fellow kindness evangelists Amy Giddon CEO of the Daily Haloha app and Jane Murray CEO of Peacebeam.
Both of my guests have worked in the high pressured corporate jobs and both have pivoted to follow their vision to create businesses focussed on facilitating and encouraging small acts of kindness.
In this episode we discuss;
Why kindness is in short supply?
The science behind the positive impact of kindness on both the giver and the receiver.
The stories behind the creation of Amy's Daily Haloha and Jane's, Peacebeam business.
How kindness can have a transformative effect on our wellbeing?
A blueprint for promoting kindness in the world
How kindness can help us balance adversity in our live
Listen and share your stories about the impact of kindness on the Turning the Tables podcast community page on Facebook.
Episode Credit
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
River Meditation - Audioautix
Scott Buckley -Elementary & Growing up
Aerohead - Fragments
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
EP 19 : Managing adversity and change with Julia Samuel MBE
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Julia Samuel MBE is one of Britains most celebrated psychotherapists. Founder patron of Child Bereavement UK, Julia has spent a career working in the NHS and then her private practice helping people to overcome life trauma's and challenges. She has specialised in grief counselling for parents who have lost a child, one of life's most traumatic adversities. Here experience, however, goes much broader dealing with health, family relationships, love and identity. Julia has appeared on TV and radio and several other podcasts including the highly acclaimed 'How to Fail' with Elizabeth Day.Julia has written two books Grief Works and her latest recently published. 'This too shall pass - stories of change, crisis and hopeful beginnings', which is now on the Sunday Times bestseller list.Esther Perel wrote of the book 'A remarkable portrayal of how we need to understand ourselves to truly heal'.Julia has enormous wisdom and insight around life's struggles and how to help people move through to find new enlightenment.Our conversation spanned many issues including;
How she helps people process and manage the tragic loss of a child.
The recipe for a healthy relationship
The difference between a good and a bad argument!
Her eight pillars of strength, for times of change.
Julia also reveals her next project and her hopes for the world as we move forward.
Listen and share your stories about moving through adversity on the Turning the Tables podcast community page on Facebook.
Episode Credit
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
River Meditation - Audioautix
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
EP 18: Imposter syndrome - how cancer saved me, with Sharon Lloyd Barnes
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Have you ever had periods in your life when you've felt that you are not the person you want to be? An imposter, held back by an internal dialogue that was sabotaging your life?
Often it takes a dramatic event -a relationship breakup, the loss of a loved one or a health issue to break the chain and for us to reassess our lives.
When that event is stage 3 cancer, it must shake you to the core. But that is what happened to my guest Sharon Lloyd Barnes.
On the outside, Sharon is one of the most capable, calm and collected, and together people you are ever likely to meet. It just didn't feel that way to her inside.
Brought up as a child in Edinburgh Scotland Sharon's mother left the family when Sharon was a young teenage an event which was to shape her outlook on life subconsciously.
A single mum of two boys, one of whom has autism and learning difficulties, Sharon had spent her life doing the right thing and putting on as she says 'a happy face'.
Yet it was her battle with cancer which, fortunately, she has won, that had a transforming effect on Sharon's life. She even goes to describes it as a gift.
In our conversation we talk about;
* The impact her mother leaving the family when Sharon was 12 yrs old had on her outlook?
* How self-doubt and anxiety drove her decision making
* The role that cancer played in breaking her destructive internal dialogue
* How the adversity of coming through her illness has opened a new and positive chapter in her life.
* Sharon's advice for anyone facing challenges in their life.
It is a tribute to Sharon's resilience and determination that she was able to come through her illness and define it as a positive part of her personal growth.
For anyone struggling with feelings of self-doubt, Sharon's story inspires and gives hope that it is possible to come through serious illness and to find ones' true self.
Listen and share your thoughts and observations about this episode and Sharon's story at the Turning the Tables Community on Facebook.
You can find Sharon on LinkedIn
Episode credits;
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
Scott Buckley - Life is & The closing of summer
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
EP 17 : Human stories and reflections on the Coronavirus pandemic - The people's voice
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
What stories will we tell our children and our grandchildren about the adversity of the coronavirus pandemic?
Episode 17 of Turning the Tables started with a simple question to a group of fellow podcasters and friends for different walks of life and geographies.
What have you learned through this Coronavirus pandemic lockdown?
What followed was a tapestry of human stories and observations about life, priorities, hopes, and fears.
The discovery of a simpler life
The importance of family and friends
The rebasing of priorities
The fragility of life
Collective willpower
Joy
Destruction
Nature
Nurture
Constraint
Connection
Kindness
Chaos
Calm
Little things and big things
The question is, as we move forward out of this coronavirus pandemic, what path will we choose?
What choices will we make, and what stories will we tell our children and our grandchildren about the adversity of the coronavirus pandemic. Will it be a story of how he fractured apart, or will it be about how we came together. Will we have learned or will we have forgotten, only time will tell, it's in our hands.
What is your story?
Listen and share your stories about what you have learned during this pandemic this episode at the Turning the Tables Community on Facebook.
The podcast hosts that have contributed to the episode and links to their podcasts;
1.49 Maria Xenidou - Impact Learning
5.09 Howard M - Seasons of Sobriety
6.06 Richard Brown - Closer to Brands
6.43 Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett - Playful Chinese
7.20 David Chapple
8.19 Mina Fung - 10x Vision
8.40 & 21.08 - Karena de Souza - Tilt the Future
9.45 Linda Chapple
11.10 Peter Algate - Peteralgate.com
13.18 Tania Marien - Talaterra
14.59 Catherine Lynch - Next Level Parenting
15.58 David Reynolds - Lead, Learn, Change
17.00 Cindy Safronoff - Dedication - A Centennial Story
18.50 Leekie Tang - The Mindful Founder
22.39 Diane Wyzga - Stories From Woman that Walk
Episode credits;
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
Scott Buckley - Snowfall
Audionautix -Secondnature
Saturday Jun 06, 2020
Saturday Jun 06, 2020
Marinel de Jesus's story is a journey of discovery. A human struggle to find herself, freedom, and true happiness.
Arriving in Seattle at the age of 13 yrs as part of an immigrant family from the Philippines, in the early years, of Marinel's life was about survival. Pushed on by the expectations of her family and particularly her mother, she struggled with feelings of inadequacy. Despite the significant achievement of becoming a practicing lawyer, deep down Marinel felt empty. She might have had the trappings of success, a home, a career, and money but in her own words, she thought she had 'lost a sense of herself'. There was an emotional turmoil and search for meaning enveloping her that wouldn't shift.
When Marinel's mother died, it was the last day she was a lawyer. Her death was a catalyst for Marinel to embark on a journey to find herself and to "heal."
Mountain trekking provided that healing. She discovered the freedom, love, and true happiness that had been missing from her life.
Nature became Marinel's nurture.
What started as a journey of discovery became a new life as she built her own trekking business and established a social mission to support indigenous women in the trekking industry.
In Marinel's own words;
"My dream didn't start until I looked inside."
Marinel now runs a social enterprise trekking business, Peak Explorations, and leads a trekking community and social mission, based around her Brown Gal Trekker website. Her mission is to empower women and promote their presence in the trekking world.
She is a writer and documentary maker and her new film called; We are Nomads - charts the story of the migration of women in the Altai mountain region of Mongolia.
Listen and share your thoughts and observations about this episode and Marinel's journey at the Turning the Tables Community on Facebook.
You can contact Marinel through Facebook or via the brown gal website.
Episode credits;
Editor and sound engineer: Tim White email: showupnow@gmail.com
Host: Simon Ratcliffe
Music:
Broken Elegance -Unconditionally
Scott Buckley - Snowfall
Audionautix -Act Three
Adversity matters
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