7 Skills For the Future

This week, Emma Sue speaks to Penny Bell. An award-winning podcaster, Penny shares her story learning more about dementia, caring for loved ones, career changes, creating the Discovering Dementia and her experience as a nurse in the NHS. Penny’s mother was diagnosed with mixed dementia (Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia) and Penny wanted to share as much information about what she had learnt and her mothers quality of life. With her passion for media and podcasting she created her own - Discovering Dementia which recently won Best Wellbeing Podcast 2021. In her discussion with Emma Sue, Penny honestly shares her life changing career paths at a later stage and displays a number of the 7 Skills.  

PIVOT: Changing career paths drastically from nurse to podcaster with great success. 

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Keep up with Penny’s journey on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/podcastpenny/ and twitter: https://twitter.com/pennymbell?lang=en

Take a look at the Discovering Dementia podcast here: https://www.discoveringdementia.co.uk and on instagram @discoveringdementia and twitter @dementiapodcast

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This week, Emma Sue speaks to Thomas Kochs. Thomas Kochs is the managing director of The Corinthia Hotel in London. Thomas openly reveals the challenges, highs and lows of navigating the pandemic leading one of the top hotels in England. Thomas is truthful, kind and charming, his way with words is unique. He explores the changes in priorities, passion and his willingness to have open conversations . Emma Sue was fortunate enough to record this episode with Thomas in person, the most elegant guest we’ve had so far!

PIVOT:  COVID-19 forced The Corinthia London to shut its doors, as Managing Director, Thomas Kochs is finding new ways to support the industry and his staff.

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Keep up with Thomas on instagram https://www.instagram.com/thomas.kochs/?hl=en

For information about The Corinthia London, view their website https://www.corinthia.com/london/ and for careers opportunities https://www.corinthia.com/careers/

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This week, Emma Sue speaks to Laura Price.  Laura spent years working as a financial writer until she was diagnosed with cancer.  This made her reassess her happiness and she has changed industry and penned her own novel Single Bald Female.  Laura is a delight to speak to - incredibly motivational, real and open. Laura and Emma Sue explore the challenges of navigating careers vs happiness and making changes at various stages of life.  

PIVOT: Being diagnosed with cancer, quitting her job just before COVID, Laura is releasing a book based on her experiences.

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Keep up with Laura’s journey and work on twitter @laurapricewrite and instagram @laurapricewrites

Single Bald Female is set for release in April 2022

For breast cancer resources and tips on checking your boobs, take a look at CoppaFeel here: https://coppafeel.org/

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This week, Emma Sue speaks to Liam Meyer. His father, David, passed away due to COVID 19 at the start of the pandemic. Over the past 18 months, Liam has accomplished more than most have in a lifetime selflessly. Due to restrictions Liam noted how difficult the grieving process was for those without being able to go to their usual support system. He created the Alone Together Facebook Group as a support system for grieving individuals which grew rapidly and garnered a lot of press attention. From there he became involved with Gareth Malone's Choir, founded another campaign to support men's mental health all whilst working for the NHS. A truly inspirational individual, Liam Meyer displays a strength, resilience and optimism like no other. 

PIVOT: Following the death of his father DAVID, Liam has created support networks across the UK.

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Follow Liam's Journey on twitter: https://twitter.com/liamjmeyer?lang=en, become involved with the Alone Together and find resources here: https://www.alonetogether.com

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This week, Emma Sue speaks to Isobel Perl. After losing her job during the pandemic, Isobel founded a skincare business Perl Cosmetics which is now set to make 6 figures this year. Displaying a number of the 7 Skills (most notably resilience) Isobel and Emma Sue explore the challenges of navigating careers and life during COVID as well as becoming a Tik Tok extraordinaire! Full of career, entrepreneurial and life tips, this is an episode you do not want to miss. 

PIVOT: After losing her job during the pandemic, Isobel founded a 6 figure business. 

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Purchase Perl Cosmetics products here: https://perlcosmetics.com Or follow Isobels journey on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/perlcosmetics/

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7 Skills For The Future Podcast - SERIES 9. This series focuses on the theme PIVOT, Emma Sue has spoken to a number of inspiring individuals about the challenges they have faced in their lives, over the past 18 months and the skills they have developed as a result.  They share their deeply personal stories, offer helpful tips and some funny anecdotes along the way!  Be sure to rate, review and subscribe to hear more from the 7 Skills for the Future Podcast. 

The 7 Skills For The Future Podcast is back! For our first episode of our new series, Emma Sue reveals the challenges and skills she developed over the past 18 months.  She displays resilience, adaptability, optimism (essentially all of the 7 skills!) and teaches us how to use them in our day to day life.

PIVOT:  Emma Sue’s business changed completely overnight yet she successfully launched online and is coming out of the pandemic stronger than ever! 

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Take a look at Emma Sue’s work and develop your 7 Skills here: www.unimenta.com Keep up with Emma Sue’s journey on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/7skillsforthefuture/ and https://www.instagram.com/7skillsjournal/ 

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Anu is an award-winning choir director, a singer-songwriter, worship leader, children’s advocate and public speaker. It was an immense privilege to talk to her about the complete turnaround and pivot she had to create at the start of the pandemic. Like many of us, Anu's work was adversely affected and changed overnight.

Listen to this inspiring interview of how Anu turned her work around and discovered new work that demanded total and complete authenticity, taking risks and trusting herself. Now she is busier than ever and is working on exciting new projects. And yet it is the simple things that support us most:

• the importance of taking one day at a time and really living by this and setting achievable tasks for that day
• building in happy experiences and joy by getting moving, getting outside and how about a little salsa - me time
• keeping communication with people who support you especially if you are alone a lot - having that support network around you

For added inspiration and joy, listen to Anu's new single out now: Back to You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy6f34_-BZA

To find out more about Anu's work visit https://www.anuomideyi.com

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You're a talented and competent actor enormously excited to be in a touring production of one of the longest running plays in London's history - The Mouse Trap. You're successful and your career is taking off. And then boom! It's all whipped away from under your feet. Few of us can truly imagine what that must feel like and how you have to draw on so many skills and emotions to rise up, come through it and find positivity. Some of us may well have experienced something similar and will identify strongly with Francesca too.

Listen to this warming and mesmerising interview with Francesca Peplow. She describes how she responded to overnight unexpected and unwelcome change and how she has truly pivoted in retraining and finding a new niche for herself that still embraces acting and means she will emerge into our changed reality with even more skills in demand.

We, all of us, have to find ways to emerge, thrive and flourish in whatever is coming next, the changes that are already here and the ones to come. To move forward with strength, courage and resilience.

#emerging #adaptability #actor #story #resilience #courage

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Welcome to our Bite-sized episode from our Emerging series! This is a mini episode where I'll be talking about some of the skills and tips that have helped our interviewees from the creative and performing arts. 

Last week I spoke to the lovely actor Emmy Happisburgh about how she has handled having so much taken away from her as a result of the pandemic - not just her work and life's passion but her health too as she struggles with long-COVID. From having a mental health toolkit to dancing and being grateful, Emmy has so much to teach us all about how to become more resilient and strong.

In this mini episode I touch on three strategies she has used which you can use too. If you're feeling a little demotivated, a little meh or just want some inspiration, have a listen. And if you missed last week's interview with Emmy catch up with it here too!

#resilience #mentalhealth #gratitude #actor #performingarts #theshowmustgoon

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Don't miss this inspiring and uplifting interview with the delightful actor Emmy Happisburgh. Emmy talks about the reality of becoming ill with COVID herself, losing all of her work overnight and how she has coped - particularly the importance of having a strong mental health toolkit. I absolutely love this idea - that we create this for ourselves and actively have strategies that we use each and every day.

Hugely resilient, Emmy has continued working and creating and like many actors, has found this to be nurturing and crucial for moving forward positively. She talks of the roaring Twenties and how, as we start to emerge from this pandemic, there will be an outpouring of creative need - both in terms of audiences wanting to experience theatre again (or in my case desperate to!) and in actors and theatres wanting to perform and showcase new media and new pieces.

We can all learn so much from this interview. Homeschooling, for Emmy, second time around has been something she has fully embraced as in the first lockdown she was too ill. But also having to accept that "for this time I am mum and housewife and that's ok" - we find it so hard to accept our current reality but Emmy gives us great examples of how we CAN do that and probably must.

Listen now - or watch on Unimenta YouTube where there are additional fun clips of Emmy and her work.

Emmy Happisburgh trained at The Poor School (Acting), Guildford School of Acting (Musical Theatre) and with Complicite (Physical Theatre) and has been a professional theatre and screen actor for over twenty years. 

Emmy has played leads and supporting roles in numerous theatre productions including the title role in “Harper Regan” last year at the Tabard Theatre in which her performance was “Mesmerising” (Spy in the stalls), “Excellent in this demanding role” (London Pub Theatres) and “A tour de force… leading with elegance and raw energy that scorches throughout” (The Play’s The Thing).

Predominantly a screen actor, Emmy’s roles include Judy in multi-award winning short “The River” and the part of Sylvia in short film "Leaves for the Moon" by Dhruv Bhatnagar for which she won the BEST ACTRESS AWARD at Westminster Film Festival 2019.

TV credits include featured roles in BBC 1 “Casualty”, Netflix “Murder Maps” and feature “Ghost” on Amazon.

Emmy also writes and produces and co-founded theatre company Contentment Productions in 2018.

#resilience #actor #crisis #mentalhealth #wellbeing #adaptability

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