Ladder Down

In this episode Kate chats to Lavinia Brown who is a Psychodynamic coach for Mums and an expert in healing our 'inner child'. She believes that mothers should stop striving to emulate an impossible feminine archetype and instead feel confident and courageous enough to reveal their imperfectly perfect selves to the world with pride.

Lavinia recognises that juggling children, career, relationships, can often feel like there just isn’t enough space for you. In addition becoming a parent yourself can stir up past wounds from your own childhood and if you don’t recognise it you can repeat dysfunctional patterns.

Lavinia says that you deserve a life that is calm, happy and fulfilled. Connect with Lavinia on Instagram or via her website https://www.laviniabrown.com/ 

In this episode Kate chats to Graeme Jones, the CEO and clinical director for Nordic Clinic, a group of highly specialist medical clinics throughout the EU using personalised medicine to tackle the chronic healthcare crisis.   

He is based at Nordic Clinic in Stockholm and conducts research with the prestigious Karolinska Institute and Stockholm University. His passion is to help people understand how to prevent disease and help those that suffer with conditions that hugely impact their quality of life. Over the past 15 years, Graeme has accumulated skills and experiences from the medicine, fitness, rehabilitation, nutrition and clinical research. 

Before moving to Sweden, Graeme operated one of the UK’s largest preventive medicine units at Nuffield Hospitals in the UK.  He has worked with some of Europe’s leading specialists in neurology, spinal surgery, pain, psychology and physiotherapy at the Bowskill Clinic and The London General Practice. 

Most of his time is currently split between mentoring the Nordic Group team and other practitioners, as well as consulting with patients and organisations. Find out more at: https://nordicclinic.se/en/graeme-jones/ 

Heather Carter has spent 30 years successfully building her business ‘Prospect Connect’ which helps businesses of all shapes and sizes with sales, lead generation and digital marketing projects.

She helps clients with innovative ways of growing their businesses, reducing costs and increasing revenues. The way she does business is centred around loving what she does and building a talented team around her who are like family.

Heather describes herself as a ‘doer’ and a straight talker! She is an inspiration in how to build a business that fits in with the life you want to create. You can connect with her on Linked in or she is always at the end of the phone and happy to chat to anyone in confidence on 07944 633388.

In this episode Kate chats to Bernie Hollywood OBE, JP (Justice of the Peace). Bernie has been supporting charities and social enterprises around the world for over 39 years helping to raise a staggering 42 million pounds. He is an internationally renowned & critically acclaimed storyteller and speaker having spoken actively on numerous occasions at the highest seats of power including the United Nations, various Governmental Parliaments around the world as well as umpteen, TED talks, Conferences, Universities, High & Primary Schools.   

He is seen as one of the world’s most elite and accomplished endurance adventurers having climbed some of the world's greatest mountains, trekked unsupported to the Geographic Poles, trekked across deserts, ran thousands of miles, cycled across the globe and is also holder of a prestigious Guinness World Record!

What’s remarkable is that Bernie has taken no financial reward whatsoever over the last three decades of his life changing work and he continues to provide his services today on a pro bono basis. Now in his 40th year of giving and supporting hundreds of social enterprises around the world, he is preparing for the world's toughest rowing challenge which is to race 3,000 nautical miles solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 2022. Not only is he rowing for up to 90 days at sea solo unsupported but he will be also be competing in the Talisker Atlantic Challenge Race. Find out more or connect with Bernie at: https://www.berniehollywood.com/

Imagine being able to tell your teenage-self one ‘ladder lesson’, something that you have learned that you wish you’d known when you were younger. Tune in to hear Kate share one of hers.

In this episode Kate chats to Kat Hannon a leading photographer of people and products. Kat leads a small team in digital photography in the marketing and publication industries. She qualified as a fashion stylist in 2003 then followed her intuition and studied black and white photography and printing at Central St. Martins in London. She interned at Arena magazine whilst launching her freelance photography career and quickly became associated with the London music scene shooting artists for labels and PR.  Now her clients are in lifestyle, luxury and business, mostly in fashion, beauty, leisure and luxury goods, and also in property, travel and interior design. She is a visiting lecturer at Chester University at the Fashion Branding and Communications degree and Picture Editor with The Cheshire Magazine. Find out more at: https://kathannon.com/ and connect with her on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathannon/ or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kathannonphotographer/?hl=en  

In this episode Kate chats to an old school friend, Mark Fielden! Mark is the Founder of ‘Chords Crush Cancer’ which he started as a fundraiser for his Mum Margaret back in 2016 when she was sadly diagnosed with cancer.

Mark was so touched by the care she received from the Shropshire charity, The Lingen Davies Cancer fund, that he organised a music event which started as a one-off and has grown into an annual event that has raised over £10,000 in memory of his Mum who sadly passed away in 2017.

Mark has attracted some big names to support the event over the years including Chris Ramsey, Sir Tom Jones, Brian Adams, The PDC, Manchester United to name just a few. He was given an award by the charity for his fundraising efforts and on top of this, he also released a music album in the first lockdown to raise money for the NHS!

He also has a day job as a store manager for one of the UK's favourite shops – Home Bargains. Connect with Mark and find out more at: https://www.facebook.com/chordscrushcancer or on Twitter @ChordsCrush 

Alan Wight is Founder and CEO of Cascade Productions, an Event Producer and Experience Designer helping organisations with the preparation, delivery and measurement of their employee engagement, communications, events and places.

He says that thinking differently is his passion and he has a particular interest in how people experience places. Endlessly curious, Alan is also someone who is active in his local community and has a strong affinity to charity work, having created video and events for numerous charities.

You can connect with Alan on Linked in https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanwight/ Twitter @cascade_alan or via his website: https://www.cascadeproductions.co.uk/ 

In this episode Kate meets Marie Piercy, Founder and Managing Director of Chrysalis People Solutions. Marie is the go-to person for attracting, training and retaining great talent.

Having spent many years in recruitment, she truly understand the challenges when it comes to recruiting and retaining the best people for your business. Having also worked client side, she also understands the frustrations that can come from working with recruiters.

She spotted a gap in the market and saw an opportunity to turn recruitment on its head, doing things differently to the norm whilst offering a level of service that’s second to none. As she says ‘When you wake up each morning from a great night’s sleep knowing you’ve got a great team in place to move your business forward, suddenly life becomes easier.’ 

Connect with Marie on Linkedin or at her website: https://www.chrysalispeoplesolutions.co.uk/ 

In this episode, Kate chats to Kate Blakemore, a trainer, counsellor, speaker, women and girl's mental health advocate and founder of the charity Motherwell Cheshire.

Kate says her passion in life is to support and inspire women and girls of all ages throughout the mothering journey. As a trained counsellor who's needed counselling herself in the past, she talks openly about her own struggles having suffered an ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage. In her experience, women have been repeatedly failed by inadequate and disjointed services so her goal is to ensure that the voices of women will finally be heard in the mental health system.

This is why she set up her charity Motherwell which offers community-based projects for women - giving them access to a support network and bridging the gap in services for women’s wellbeing across Cheshire. It is run by women for women and is open to all women and girls, whatever their stage in life. Kate is a strong believer that information empowers people and works hard to drive forward change so that our voices are heard. Connect with Kate at https://kateblakemore.com/ or find out more about Motherwell at https://motherwellcheshirecio.com/