The Blooming North Podcast

Welcome to this month’s Blooming North Podcast

Host Lisa welcomes two remarkable bonus dads who share their heartfelt journeys of stepping into parenthood. James Attwater, Regional Agency Lead at Seedtag and committee member of the Bloom North network, is a proud bonus parent to two kids. Keiran Gillam, station manager in the fire service, is a bonus parent to none other than our very own Beth Sutherland, VP of the Bloom North Network.

In this uplifting conversation, James and Keiran open up about the realities of being a bonus parent, from navigating complex family dynamics and building trust, to the joys of watching their stepchildren grow. Whether you're a bonus parent yourself, considering blending a family, or simply curious about modern family life, this episode offers honest insights, practical wisdom, and plenty of heart.

This podcast is sponsored by Pubmatic: Building a better supply chain for the future of digital advertising.  

Host: Lisa Hughes Founder and director of Lisa Hughes Coaching. 

Web: LisaHughesCoaching.com

Socials: @LisaHughesCoaching 

Guest: James Attwater. 

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/jamesattwater

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Welcome to this month’s Blooming North Podcast. 

In our latest episode host Lisa is joined by Hattie Pearson, DJ and Presenter and Sue Benson, founder and CEO of The Behaviour’s Agency to talk all about women misbehaving. 

Lisa, Hattie and Sue dive into the world of rule breaking, abandoning traditional career paths and being labelled “bossy.” 

So if you’re outspoken and proud, un ‘lady like’, or are navigating challenging perceptions in your career or personal life, this episode is for you. 

This podcast is sponsored by Gum Gum, the contextual first ad tech company. Creating the perfect match between brands and consumers.

Host: Lisa Hughes founder and director

of Lisa Hughes Coaching

Web: https://lisahughes.coaching.com

Insta @LisaHughesCoaching

Sue Benson

Web - https://thebehavioursagency.com/ 

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/suebenson-brand-happiness-expert/

Hattie Pearson 

Insta @hattiepearson

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Welcome to this very special episode of the Blooming North Podcast! Joining LIsa today is Danielle Bromley. Danielle is commercial director at

Danielle shares with us all the stuff that goes with cancer that no one really mentions, or understands. Danielle is incredibly candid and very open about her experiences and shares how some of the hidden costs and physical changes can take people by surprise as well as the recovery process and how that impacts relationships, work and all facets of life.

* Please note we will be talking about diagnosis, recovery, relationships

Danielle Bromley.

Commercial director at crossover and cancer survivor.

⁠linkedin.com/in/danielle-bromley⁠

Instagram: danbrommers

Host: Lisa Hughes founder and director of Lisa Hughes Coaching

Web: https://lisahughes.coaching.com

Insta @LisaHughesCoaching

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This Week Dr Sally Alwan joins Lisa to share her inspiring story of building her life from the Ground Up.  She was born in Iraq before her parents gave up their lives to move to the UK to complete their PHDs on a funded program. Due to the gulf war, their funding was pulled, and they went into survival mode. Listen as Sally talks about resilience, growing up as a cultural minority and how she beat the odds of being successful when the odds were stacked against her. Honest, inspiring and eye opening, this is a story of creativity and determination.

This podcast is sponsored

Host: Lisa Hughes founder & director of Lisa Hughes Coachig

Web: https://lisahughescoaching.com

Insta @LisaHughesCoaching

Guest Dr. Sally Alwan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-alwan-89a61b277

https://www.instagram.com/drsally_orthodontics/

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This is a special episode of the Blooming North podcast. Joining Lisa in the studio are some of Manchester's favourite presenters. Until recently they were waking you up, or getting you home on the formidable Capital FM breakfast and drivetime shows.  It’s none other than Rachel Burke-Davis and Wingman!!!  Do you want to know what happens next? 

We all experience change and yes shit happens – but their ‘shit happens’ moment was monumental!! How did they get through it and why are they still smiling? 

Plus there’s a special announcement in this podcast!! If you don’t already know Rob Rach and wingman are up to something and they reveal all in this podcast.

Instagram:Follow the team on what they do next.

@DecommissionedUK

Racheal Burke-Davies. @Rachbduk.

Nige Clucas:  @NigewingmanClucas

This podcast is sponsored by Spotify, your daily companion.

Host: Lisa Hughes, Founder and Direcgtor of Lisa Hughes Coaching.

Web: https://lisahughescoaching.com/

Insta:@LisaHughesCoaching

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In this episode, sponsored by our friends at Spotify, we're talking Resilience. Joining Lisa to discuss this subject is Stacey Copeland, a trailblazer in British sport. Stacey was a professional football player and played in the FA cup final before moving into professional boxing winning silver in the European Championships and gold at

Stacey is the perfect guest for this podcast, not only because boxing is one of the toughest sports there is out there but also outside the boxing ring Lisa discusses with Stacey change, set backs and transitions and finds out how she has cultivated a resilient mindset throughout her career.

This podcast is sponsored by Spotify, your daily companion.

Host: Lisa Hughes founder & direct of Lisa Hughes Coaching

Web: https://lisahughescoaching.com/

Insta: @LisaHughesCoaching

Stacey Copeland

Web: https://stacey-copeland.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/staceycopelandboxer/

https://www.instagram.com/pavethewayuk/

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In this episode, sponsored by our friends at Spotify, we’re talking about modern sobriety. Joining host Lisa are Jack Owens, one of the founders of the Sober Media Network and Jayne Andrew who has worked in the media industry for over 30 years and is now 3 years sober.

They discuss the sobriety movement and both the challenges that still exist and the evolution both Jayne & Jack have witnessed over time in terms of conversations around sobriety. We also explore the unique challenges of sobriety in the media industry.. Jayne talks through her transition from the ultimate party girl to 3 years sober and Jack talks about the launch of the Sober Media Network which has been described as a much needed free networking and social movement for the media industry.

Host: Lisa Hughes founder & director of Lisa Hughes coaching

Web: https://lisahughescoaching.com/

Insta: @LisaHughesCoaching

Jack Owens

https://www.linkedin.com/company/sober-media-network/

Jayne Andrew

@jayneandrew76

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayne-andrew-1732ba141/

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In this episode Lisa talks to the incredibly accomplished Kathryn Smith with a long list of credits to her name including Football Develeopment Manager at Manchester FA, non executive director at Rotherham United Community Trust & Oldham Active, professional footballer and 3W referee and qualified teacher and coach. Under discussion is the topic of making shifts in your career, doiig what you want, going against the grain and generally being a kick ass woman! brave, because in our lives we are going to need to be super brave to change jobs, have a very difficult conversation, do things that people say you can’t do and go against the grain!

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Guests: 

Kathryn Smith

Bio:

Non Executive Director, Trustee & Management Exec, EDI Lead

Kathryn Smith | LinkedIn

Host: Lisa Hughes founder & director of LIsa Hughes Coaching

Web:https://lisahughescoaching.com/

Insta:: @ LIsaHughesCoaching

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Joining Lisa in our latest episode are Kelsie Hughes, Runcorn women's football 6 a side player and Quality Assurance specialist in Pharmaceuticals and Amanda Wah, Gym Owner, Personal Trainer and Gladiators Contender 2025. In honour of International Women’s Day, which is Saturday 8th March, we wanted to delve into our guests business and sporting backgrounds to discuss how we can Accelerate Action. Emphasising the urgency of making faster, more effective strides towards gender equality.

Guests:

Kelsie Hughes - Quality assurance specialist in pharmaceuticals. 

Plays for Runcorns women’s football 6 a side 

@kelsieleighhughes 

Amanda Wah

Gym Owner, Personal Trainer, Gladiators Contendor 2025

 Momentum Collective, Warrington. www.momentumcollective.co.uk

www.amandawah.com

@amandawahfitness

Host @LisaHughesCoaching

This podcast has been sponsored by our friends at Channel Factory.

Produced by Manchester One Media: 

Producers: Nigel Mclucas and Josh woods 

Instagram @mcronemedia

www.Manchesteronemedia.com 

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Joining Lisa this episode is Holly Clark and Carolyn Tipper to share their expertise on how to support better mental health for you and your colleagues, family and friends.

Holly is a Mental Health First Aid & Suicide First Aid Instructor Member from the organisation Blooming Mind. She works with companies to improve the mental health of their teams to end stigma surrounding it and recently ran a workshop for Bloom North supporting parents in creating Mentally Healthy Homes.

Carolyn is an Executive Coach, enabling leaders to overcome organisational and personal challenges through transformational coaching. Mental health affects us all so this is an episode not to be missed.

Holly and Carolyn discuss the evolution of conversations around mental health, how working remotely has increased the importance of having a mentally healthy home environment as well as workplace. With the workplace we discuss how leaders can model good practices and offer support without overstepping boundaries and the balance between productivity goals and mental health wellbeing.

From a personal point of view we discuss how to advocate for yourself or others, some routines and decompression that could support your own mental health, and also recommend resources to find out more about this crucial topic. 

Guests: 

Holly Clark, Mental Health First Aid & Suicide First Aid Instructor, Blooming Mind

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollyclarkbloomingmind/

https://www.bloomingmind.co.uk/

Carolyn Tipper, 

Executive Coach 

https://cthesolution.co.uk/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyntipper/

Host: Lisa Hughes founder & director of Lisa Hughes Coaching

Web: https://lisahughescoaching.com/

Insta: @Lisa Hughescoaching

This podcast has been sponsored by our friends at Channel Factory

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