Episode Overview

Welcome to Episode 3 of the STOP 2 THINK Podcast.

Just days before the world premiere of Hannah's Story, Dr Ray Sylvester and I take a walk through the streets of London on our way to appear live on ITV's This Morning. It feels like the perfect moment to pause and reflect on a journey that began more than three years earlier with one life changing question:

How do you move forward after losing someone you love?

This episode captures that moment in real time. You'll hear our conversation before we go live on television, the ITV interview itself, and our reflections immediately afterwards.

Together, we explore grief, celebration, acceptance, intention, and one of the most profound lessons Ray ever shared with me:

Celebrate in your suffering.

At first, those words seemed almost impossible to understand. But over time I realised that celebration doesn't deny pain. It allows gratitude, love, and hope to exist alongside it.

That simple shift in perspective changed my life.

• Walking to ITV before appearing on This Morning

• Why Dr Ray encouraged me to celebrate in your suffering

• The connection between intention and celebration

• How Hannah's Story became a vehicle for hope and healing

• Why slowing down changed my perspective on life

• The difference between reacting and responding

• Why trusting life's timing is so important

• Reflections immediately after the ITV interview

• Celebration is a choice.

• Suffering and gratitude can exist together.

• Acceptance is not forgetting. It is learning how to carry love forward.

• We cannot always choose our circumstances, but we can choose our response.

• The most meaningful moments in life often unfold in their own time.

• What in your life deserves celebrating today?

• Where are you reacting instead of responding?

• What would change if you chose gratitude alongside your challenges?

• How often do you pause to appreciate what is already here?

• What could become possible if you trusted the timing of your life?

Today, celebrate one thing you would normally overlook.

It might be a memory.

A friendship.

A conversation.

Or simply the fact that you're here.

Spend a few minutes appreciating what remains instead of focusing only on what has been lost.

"You cannot always choose what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond."

Three years ago, I couldn't have imagined walking into the ITV studios to talk about Hannah's life and everything that followed.

Looking back, I can see that celebration didn't replace grief.

It transformed my relationship with it.

In the next episode, before we travel back three years to our very first conversations together, Dr Ray and I explore the philosophy behind STOP 2 THINK and why stopping may be the first step towards changing your life.

Thank you for listening, and thank you for being part of the STOP 2 THINK journey.

Watch Hannah's Story https://petecohen.com/hannah

Follow Pete on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/petecohen_/

Follow Pete on Linked in here https://www.linkedin.com/in/petecohenbusinessspeaker/

Follow Ray on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/drraysylvester/