Love Life, Live Well

In the seventh episode of our new mini series of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Kubair Shirazee. 

This series was recorded at CHS Leeds, a tradeshow for the Meeting and Events industry.

Episode highlights:

• What Kubair loves about life and what he does to live well.
• Kubair’s definition of the agile workforce
• Ways to make our work more fulfilling
• Being our authentic selves both at home and in the workplace
• Aligning our personal values at work
• Finding out what motivates your workforce
• The importance of trust in the workplace
• Advice Kubair would give people who do not feel aligned within their organisation or role
• Getting buy in from employees on the organisations mission and values
• The importance of open communication within the workplace, irrelevant of seniority
• Viewing leadership as a privilege

Key Takeaways:

• The key thing is finding a space where we can be our authentic selves. - Kubair
• You have this policy, but what does that mean in terms of your values? Why do you have it? What does that mean for me day to day? - Kubair
• It's important that we feel that sense of connectedness, that sense of trust and belonging. - Kubair
• Someone said to me; not all problems need to be solved. Some of them just need to be heard. - Emma
• I don't want to have a company where everybody hates their jobs or everyone's looking for another job because then they're not going to be focused. - Emma
• Having that vision articulated in a way that everyone can relate to is even more important because we need people to buy into our vision. - Kubair
• I should be 100% accessible to my teammates, to my customers, to my stakeholders, to my competitors, because it's all about conversation. - Kubair

Resources:

• Elon Musk
• Clive Woodward

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 In the sixth episode of our new mini series of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by some of the Exhibitors and Partners from the event: Neil Thompson, Founder & MD of The Delegate Wranglers, Jan Denning, Owner of Hospitality Partnership, Leo Lloyd, MD of Leopold Marketing and Theresa Steven C&I Market Manager at VisitScotland

This series was recorded at CHS Leeds, a tradeshow for the Meeting and Events industry.

Episode highlights:

• What Neil loves about life and what he does to live well
• The importance of ensuring that we take care of ourselves
• How Neil manages the work life balance
• Neil’s email equation
• The importance of routine and being structured with your day and work
• Dealing with anxiety and lack of confidence
• The importance of trying new things
• How to make the distinction between work life and home life
• What Leo enjoys about the CHS event
• The importance of having dedicated working space if working from home
• How to switch off from work

Key Takeaways:

• You don't know where your work day starts and ends and you can continue working all day and all night. - Neil
• The more emails you send, the more you get. - Neil
• I try to segment what I'm doing into blocks and focus on those things in that block. Otherwise, you end up getting little bits of everything, but nothing gets done - Neil
• I love being happy and smiling really. - Jan
• You always do that little bit more because you don't want to let anybody down. - Jan
• When you work well, you live well, and when you live well, you work well. - Leo
• During Covid, we were working together at home in Birmingham, and all of those boundaries were completely blurred. - Leo.
• It’s managing your time and making sure you're not in that email checking mode all the time. - Theresa

Resources:

• Deep Work

In the fifth episode of our new mini series of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Ise Murphy-Morris, Co-Founder at Meliorem Events and Nyomi Rose, a Social Media Consultant, Digital Events Professional and Data Management Consultant.

This series was recorded at CHS Leeds, a tradeshow for the Meeting and Events industry.

Connect with Nyomi on Twitter

Episode highlights:

• What Ise and Nyomi love about life
• What they do to live well
• How to set boundaries
• Boundaries and empowerment
• Inclusivity within the events industry
• The importance of having an open dialogue within the workplace

Key Takeaways:

• The endless joy that is possible through exploring and learning new things.  -Ise
• Living well to me is listening to what my body tells me. - Ise
• I love the variety of life. I love that not everyday's the same. - Nyomi
• What I've learned when we have absolutely no power it’s because we're giving our power away by not honouring our boundaries. - Ise
• We've got to make every decision inclusive and bring people into the conversation. - Nyomi

Resources:

• Nyomi Rose at CHS Leeds
• Ise Murphy-Morris at CHS Leeds

In the fourth episode of our new mini series of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Amy Cowan, Event Director at Amy Cowan Events

This series was recorded at CHS Leeds, a tradeshow for the Meeting and Events industry.

Episode highlights:

• What Amy loves about life
• What she does to live well
• Learning to embrace the unexpected
• How to deal with failure
• How we define failure
• Learning to try new things despite the fear of failure
• Looking at something that may seem scary as an experience

Key Takeaways:

• I love looking for joy every single day.  - Amy
• I love it when it goes a bit wrong or a surprise comes up. - Amy
• You have got to give it a go and try and embrace the times that it doesn't work. - Amy
• Is it failure or is it just learning how not to do something? - Amy
• No one is talking about those failures. They're only talking about the success. - Amy

Resources:

• Amy Cowan at CHS Leeds
• Solo Travel Podcast

In the third episode of our new mini series of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Aarron McGurk, Operations Manager at Chorus.

This series was recorded at CHS Leeds, a tradeshow for the Meeting and Events industry.

Episode highlights:

• What Aarron loves about life
• What Aarron does to live well
• How the work / life balance needs to be viewed as a whole, rather than separate
• The different peak times for energy throughout the day and how flexible working can feed into this
• How the increased focus on mental health has changed working patterns
• How Gen Z are carving out what the work /life balance will look like in the future
• The importance of flexible working on staff retention

Key Takeaways:

• Opportunities have hidden challenges in them, and enable you to create a deeper understanding of yourself. - Aarron
• It kind of alludes to this idea that work and life are two separate and distinct entities, but in reality, they're not separate. - Aaarron
• People are waking up and recognising that being constantly plugged in and working long hours can take a huge toll on mental health and relationships. - Aarron
• It just shows that people are prioritising that flexibility and autonomy with their work lives. - Aarron
• Gen Z are actually saying, no, I have one title and one title only, and that's the only job that I'm going to be doing. - Aarron

Resources:

• Aarron McGurk at CHS Leeds

In the second episode of our new mini series of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Amy Russell, an award winning VA at Crescent Business Support

This series was recorded at CHS Leeds, a tradeshow for the Meeting and Events industry.

Episode highlights:

• Tips for separating home life and work life
• Switch off points when you work from home
• The importance of having a proper home working set up
• Having clear parameters for what is work time when working from home
• How to switch off at the end of the day
• Have we forgotten how to be bored?
• Importance of setting boundaries with work for yourself and to support others
• Dealing with difficult conversations when working remotely

Key Takeaways:

• We've got to get away from this feeling that it's selfish to have time on your own. - Emma
• I'm a big advocate of not having tech in your bedroom. - Amy
• You need to have that same mindset when you are at home, that when you've turned that laptop off, you have finished work. - Amy
• it's a skill having that sort of separation and maintaining that separation. - Amy
• It often isn't appreciated because it becomes the norm. - Amy
• As the employer or the manager, you've got that  gift to maintain those boundaries for your team. - Amy
• You've got to adapt to the individual that you are working with. -Amy

Resources:

• Amy Russell at CHS Leeds

In the first episode of our new mini series of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Sian Sayward, who is Director of People, Partnerships & Strategic Projects at Inntel Ltd.

Sian is also Chair at Beam (formerly HBAA), who work on setting the standard for the business events, accommodation, and meetings sector.

This series was recorded at CHS Leeds, a tradeshow for the Meeting and Events industry.

Connect with Sian on Twitter

Episode highlights:

• What Sian loves about life
• The importance of being surrounded by people that support you
• What Sian does to live well
• How to create time for yourself and the things you enjoy
• The importance of quality time over quantity
• Being OK with asking for help
• The role of trust within hiring and staff retention at Inntel 
• How Inntel deal with mistakes that may be made
• How Inntel work to educate and guide their new starters

Key Takeaways:

• It's quite therapeutic to go, it's alright to ask for help. - Sian
• That 20 minutes of reset just makes all the difference. - Sian
• So when someone comes to work for you, your philosophy is, we will trust them 100%. And it's theirs to lose - Emma
• Changing people's mindsets to say you have to trust this person from day one is not easy, because inherently, we don't like to trust anyone. - Sian

Resources:

• Sian Sayward at CHS Leeds

Episode Summary: In the tenth episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, the tables are turned on our host Emma Cartmell and she is the in the host seat talking about her top tips when preparing for and travelling alone.

Episode highlights:

• How a self care trip after the pandemic resulted in a change of location full time
• What Emma loves about travel 
• Why she thinks solo travelling can be a form of self care
• How being alone can give you time to self reflect and sometimes make big decisions
• Taking the opportunity to travel when you can, irrespective of whether you have someone to go with you
• How getting lost can lead to an amazing adventure
• Safety tips for travelling
• The best countries for solo travel
• Making friends and meeting people when travelling
• Emma’s top tips when travelling

Key Takeaways:

• I love it for a number of different reasons. One, you definitely get to discover things about yourself in terms of your resilience and your independence and what you love. - Emma
  
  
• I guess being on your own schedule, you are not being dictated to by anybody else. - Emma
  
  
• Sometimes I just go off to places because I fancy it and other times there's a reason behind it. - Emma
  
  
• It worries me that people might almost kind of be laying on the deathbed and going, oh, I wish I'd gone to Peru or something. - Emma
  
  
• So you definitely do your research around just the culture of the place and where's good and what to do and that kind of thing is my number one tip. - Emma

Resources:

• Gran Tourismo
• Lonely Planet