In this new episode of the Pearls of Wisdom Podcast we speak to three wonderful people.

Debbie Hickman, Pete Thomas and Joe Thomas

Please listen and share this episode far and wide. Joe is running 100 miles to raise money for the MDS charity UK. His father Pete has recently been diagnosed with MDS. Donate to Joe's Just giving page here https://www.justgiving.com/page/joe-thomas-ndw100

You can find details of all the guests below:

Pete Thomas

Pete is a former  Civil Servant who led operational teams and more recently headed up a number of HR Teams in the Treasury, Home Office and the former Department of International Trade. He retired after 43 years service following his MDS diagnosis.   He now is a volunteer at MDS UK. He spends his free time, staying fit in the gym, travelling, learning spanish, climbing boulders and attempting to play golf.

Joe Thomas

I am a leveraged finance banker who works for Mizuho Financial Group in London. Outside of work, I spend time with my Dad when he's not staying fit in the gym, travelling, learning spanish, climbing boulders and attempting to play golf. You can give to he's Just Giving page that is raising funds for the MDS charity UK here https://www.justgiving.com/page/joe-thomas-ndw100

Debbie Hickman

Debbie Hickman is currently Acting CEO of MDS UK.  

After nearly four decades as a business manager and entrepreneur, mostly in the bookselling and artisan food sectors, I sold the family businesses and embarked on a creative writing degree in 2018.  Halfway through, and just a few weeks before lockdown, my husband Neil was diagnosed with intermediate-level MDS.  Thankfully I discovered the charity, which proved to be a lifeline for us during the pandemic, especially as I was unable to accompany Neil to clinic appointments or visit him in hospital whilst he recovered from three separate bouts of neutropenic sepsis.

Strangely for such a rare disease, my mum had also been diagnosed with low-risk MDS a few years before, but Neil’s was considerably more complex.  Tragically, we lost them both on the same day in August 2021.  Raising awareness of MDS, promoting stem cell donation and optimising the care and support of those affected by blood cancers, are causes very close to the hearts of my family and friends.  You can read more of our story at https://mdspatientsupport.org.uk/mds-stories/mds-awareness-day-2021-our-story-by-debbie-hickman/

This was a phenomenal episode to record. The connection Kerrie and I have is so special and it comes through in this episode. Our passion, knowledge and understanding shines throughout

As promised all the details about Kerrie and the topics she discussed can be found below

Kerrie Hoffman works with exceptional executives to understand and apply new digital ways of working, so they thrive at the accelerated pace of 21st Century business. She is passionate about business transformation and getting as many companies as possible on their journey to The Next Age™.

Kerrie is a #1 Bestselling Business Author and CEO of HoffmanDigital, an ecosystem of companies “Igniting the Human Experience at Work”. This includes Certified Executive Coachat FocalPoint Business Coaching and Co-founder and Principalat Get Digital Velocity. In addition, she is a Keynote Speaker at Industry venues.

Book, “Brilliant Breakthroughs for the Small Business Owner: Fresh Perspectives on Profitability, People, Productivity and Finding Peach in Your Business – Vol 5”: getbook.at/BrilliantBizBook5

The Book App: http://onelink.to/brilliantbizbook

My Website: https://www.hoffmandigital.com/

Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) https://noetic.org/

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Jason Tracey, founder of Roar Consulting, is a Difference maker that speaks with sheer energy, humor, raw emotion, while drawing from his real life experiences. Subscribed to an “Eat Faces” mentality he has survived and thrived his own personal jungle, and shares with his audience the keys to Uncaging the Lion inside.

Over the course of a 20 year career in sales & leadership, serving small businesses, Jason developed a system of Being the Difference that has transformed the lives & careers of entrepreneurs and sales teams around the world.

Listen to the Pearls of Wisdom that Jason had to share

This was a great interview so many important topics were covered   I hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making this episode

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This is a phenomenal interview with Sanjiv Chopra MD, the Pearls of Wisdom shared are off the chart.  I sense this will be an episode that is revisited regularly as the knowledge Sanjiv shares is fantastic.

Below you will find Sanjiv's bio with his publications listed I know I'll be any any of these that are not already in my library.

Sanjiv Chopra, M.D., MACP 

Sanjiv Chopra, MD, is Professor of Medicine and served as Faculty Dean for Continu­ing Medical Education at Harvard Medical School for 12 years. He serves as a Marshall Wolf Master Clinician Educator Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Dr. Chopra has more than 150 publications and nine books to his credit. Dr. Chopra is Editor-in-Chief of the Hepatology Section of UpToDate, the most widely used electronic textbook in the world subscribed to by more than 1.2 million physicians in 195 countries.

He is a sought after inspirational speaker across the United States and abroad, addressing diverse audiences on topics related to medicine, leadership, happiness, and living with purpose.

He has received numerous rewards, including:

• In 2003, The American Gastroenterological Association Distinguished Educator Award. was bestowed upon him. 
• In 2009 he was elected as a Master of the American College of Physicians, a sin­gular honor bestowed to only a select few individuals for being “citizen physicians, educational innovators, scientific thinkers and humanists who inspire those around him or her and sets the standards for quality in medicine.”

He has written nine books including:

1. Dr. Chopra Says Medical Facts and Myths Everyone Should Know (With Allan Lotvin, MD)
2. Live Better, Live Longer. The New Studies That Reveal What’s Really Good and Bad for Your Health. 
3. Leadership by Example: The Ten Key Principles of all Great Leaders 
4. His brother Deepak and he wrote a double memoir: “Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny and the American Dream,” published May 21, 2013. It is a National Best Seller.
5.  The Big 5 Five Simple Things You Can Do to Live a Longer, Healthier Life.
6. The Two Most Important Days…by Sanjiv Chopra and Gina Vild was published by St. Martin’s Press in December 2017. It has received singular advanced praise.

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This episode is a game changer not to be missed.  The Pearls of Wisdom that Sarah shares are not to be missed they are phenomenal. 

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