Peter Green is joined for the second episode of this series by Heather Wildman, who is Managing Director of Saviour Associates. Heather did a Nuffield scholarship in 2012 titled ‘’Communication: influencing and motivating change’’ and having been brought up on a sheep and beef farm in the Lake District, she now lives and works in Scotland. 

In this series we are focusing on the topic of resilience. 

Farming Focus is the podcast for farmers in the South West of England, but is relevant for farmers outside of the region or indeed anyone in the wider industry or who has an interest in food and farming. 

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Timestamps

00:01 Cornish Mutual jingle. 

00:06 Intro music.

00:15 Peter Green introduces the series.  

02:03 Heather relates her earliest farming memory.

02:58 Cornish Mutual jingle.

03:11 How often does Heather get down to the south west?

03:44 Heather works all over the country.

05:15 What does resilience mean to Heather? - the art of holding your shape and bouncing back. 

07:16 Perspective - how are people best able to get perspective?

09:29 'Owning' your mistakes and how to do this. 

12:00 Where are you? Where do you want to be? How to get there?

13:26 Write down five things that you have achieved.

15:50 How can you add value? Ignore others and think about what you can do.  What do you want?

16:23 Working with families - why is it important that as farmers we think about mindset in the first place?

18:56 Cornish Mutual jingle.

19:05 To what extent does Heather think that farming as an industry is mentally fit?

21:04 Having time off.

21:20 Thinking about change and dealing with change as a whole. 

23:45 Cornish Mutual jingle.

23:58 Scenario analysis and dealing with figures.

25:35 Sir Tom Hunter says 'don't come to me unless you've failed at least four times'. 

26:38 Making mistakes.

26:54 Cornish Mutual jingle.

27:00 Prince's Countryside Fund course - Peter's memories from this and the importance of learning from your peers

28:45 Heather's Nuffield - take away points. 

29:10 Discussion groups - 'a group without goals is a group that refuses to take responsibility for themselves - information itself does not make things happen - it is the people that make things happen'. 

32:46 Cream tea question...jam first or cream first??

33:24 Cornish Mutual jingle

33:29 What does Heather most enjoy about her job?

33:50 Peter starts to round everything up - taking responsibility for yourself; understanding your own value and learning from your mistakes; how you are away from the business and making space for reflection/taking time off. 

34:56 'Make time for you'.

35:45 Peter starts to round things up. 

37:04 Cornish Mutual jingle.