#70 Andrea Newton - Having difficult conversations that matter in tough times

Andrea talks to us about having difficult conversations that matter in tough times

Here's what you'll learn:

• Having the courage to walk away from anything that isn't right for you.
• Having the balls to have crucial conversations that could be the difference between life or death.
• And just like we all have dental health, we all have mental health!

With over 25 years as a qualified trainer, combining leadership development skills with real life experience, Andrea helps organisations create and maintain mentally healthy workplaces where people can thrive and perform to a high standard. 

Organisations who recognise that health and safety isn't just hard hat and hi viz, but realise that their duty of care extends to mental health and psychological safety too. Andrea works in a very practical, no nonsense way, helping people feel comfortable with subjects as sensitive as 

suicide. Currently on a mission to help managers create a positive climate where people can flourish and deliver.

Key Resources:

Inspiration North Website - www.inspirationnorth.com

Inspiration North Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inspirationnorth 

Inspiration North Twitter - https://twitter.com/Inspirationorth 

Inspiration North Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inspiration_north/ 

Inspiration North LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspiration-north

Andrea on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-newton-abdcct/

Andrea's Website - https://andreanewton.com/

Andrea on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/abdcct/

Andrea on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NobodyIsImmune/

Andrea on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ABDTraining

#69 Lynsey Walton - Things You Can Learn While Naked 

Lynsey talks to us about the things you can learn while naked.

Here's what you'll learn:

• How there's a niche for everything.
• Getting good at sales after multiple rejections.
• You don't have to please everyone. You get nowhere just being vanilla.

Lynsey is a HR leader and personal growth specialist who uses her unorthodox career path to create connections in unlikely places. 

For over a decade she kept her corporate and strip club personas separate (like an X rated Hannah Montana) but it was when she finally allowed both worlds to collide that the magic really happened. 

Since going it alone in 2015 Lynsey has delivered her own maverick blend of HR support specialising in start ups and small businesses, and worked with individuals to accelerate their own personal growth.  

2020 saw the launch of her passion BARE - a sex positive, all inclusive, anti shame project that cuts through cultural stigma and empowers others through group mentoring and workshops.

Key Resources:

Inspiration North Website - www.inspirationnorth.com

Inspiration North Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inspirationnorth 

Inspiration North Twitter - https://twitter.com/Inspirationorth 

Inspiration North Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inspiration_north/ 

Inspiration North LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspiration-north

Lynsey on Instagram -  https://www.instagram.com/elleobuoys/

Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/WaltonHR1

Website - http://www.walton-hr.co.uk/

Email -  [email protected]  

#68 Naomi Woods - You have to keep evolving and growing

Naomi talks to us about how you have to keep evolving and growing. 

Here's what you'll learn

• The missed opportunity of the apprenticeship levy for leadership development. 
• How food manufacturing is taken for granted. 
• Everyone needs support to grow and develop but they also have to want to.

Naomi has a passion for supporting people to flourish and grow at work, building personal and organisational capability that sticks. Her business, Maoni Consulting Ltd, delivers that purpose primarily through organisational and leadership development. Naomi's experience is varied having done operational roles before stepping into people/organisational development and working in the FMCG, Engineering and education sectors.

Naomi's current focus is on continuing to support organisations to develop and enable their leaders in this time of uncertainty and daily change. Personally she is growing her capability to deliver flexible and virtual people development. The ILM level 3 and 5 apprenticeship programmes are already seeing the benefit of staying connected and learning with the real life challenges that currently exist.

Key Resources:

Inspiration North Website - www.inspirationnorth.com

Inspiration North Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inspirationnorth 

Inspiration North Twitter - https://twitter.com/Inspirationorth 

Inspiration North Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inspiration_north/ 

Inspiration North LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspiration-north

Naomi on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomi-woods-8a31278/

Moani Consulting website - https://www.maoniconsulting.com/

Moani Consulting on LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/company/maoniconsulting/about/

#67 Laura Cook - Start with what you want and then plan how to make that happen

Laura talks to us about how you should start with what you want and then plan to make that happen.

Here's what you'll learn

• How having a strong female leader as a boss opened her eyes as to what is possible.
• No matter what size of business there is always stress around money.
• And how the path of scaling rapidly doesn't suit most businesses. 

Laura Cook is a Business Finance Strategist for business owners who are ready to get serious and bring their CFO hat to the table.

Through her one-to-one strategic intensives, on demand trainings and honest blog posts, she's here to help you set up the strategies and systems you need to simplify the money piece, get the best ROI and calm those mindset monkeys! So you can finally feel financial freedom.

Her customers have called her "refreshing" and "honest," and one woman called her "a total money expert tied up with a ribbon of mindfulness and gentle calm."

When she's not empowering business owners, you can find her limbering up doing yoga, having one too many chai cuppa teas or with a paint brush in hand!

Meet Laura Cook and get ready to be empowered at laura-cook.com.

Key Resources:

Inspiration North Website - www.inspirationnorth.com

Inspiration North Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inspirationnorth 

Inspiration North Twitter - https://twitter.com/Inspirationorth 

Inspiration North Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inspiration_north/ 

Inspiration North LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspiration-north

Laura's website - http://laura-cook.com/

Laura on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/iamLauraCook

Laura on LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/in/lacumming/

Laura on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamlauracook/

#66 John Ryder - Make a career doing something you enjoy

John talks to us about how you should make a career doing something you enjoy

• Starting a business that is full of purpose.
• How much he loves solving problems.
• How the hardest part of building a company is practicing what you preach. 

John Ryder founded Hive (HR) in 2016; creating HR technology to challenge the traditional corporate approach to employee surveys and employee engagement.  

Product and service design has always been John's forte. A Design Marketing graduate, John spent over a decade working in digital marketing, before landing the role as Head of Innovation at Teesside-based eCommerce firm, VisualSoft, where Hive was first conceived.

John's true passions lie in Innovation, Technology and Organisational Culture.

Key Resources:

Inspiration North Website - www.inspirationnorth.com

Inspiration North Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inspirationnorth 

Inspiration North Twitter - https://twitter.com/Inspirationorth 

Inspiration North Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inspiration_north/ 

Inspiration North LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspiration-north

John on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnryder/

Hive's website - https://www.hive.hr/

Hive on Twitter - https://twitter.com/hive_hr

Hive on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/hiveapp

Hive on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hivehr/

Hive on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/hive-hr/

#65 Rob Baker - Job crafting and bringing your whole self to work

Rob talks to us about job crafting and bringing your whole self to work

• How you should focus on doing fun things where you don't know what the outcome will be.
• Crafting his own jobs and working flexibly before it was fashionable.
• And sacking enough people to get his HR hands dirty (unsurprisingly, he didn't enjoy this!).

Rob is a specialist in bringing positive psychology to life within organisations. He is the founder and Chief Positive Deviant of Tailored Thinking, a leading evidence-based positive psychology, wellbeing and HR consultancy.

Rob's work, ideas and research on how people can personalise work and bring their whole and best selves to the workplace have been presented at academic and professional conferences around the globe. He is the author of Personalization at Work published by Kogan Page. 

Rob continues to research and collaborate with academics from the University of Melbourne's Centre of Positive Psychology and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and a Chartered Fellow of the Australian HR Institute. 

An avid runner, Rob has previously competed on the international stage, having represented Great Britain in mountain running and orienteering. These days, Rob runs and cycles purely for fun and reflection and enjoys outdoor (mis)adventures with his family in Durham.

Key Resources:

Inspiration North Website - www.inspirationnorth.com

Inspiration North Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inspirationnorth 

Inspiration North Twitter - https://twitter.com/Inspirationorth 

Inspiration North Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inspiration_north/ 

Inspiration North LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspiration-north

Tailored Thinking website - ​http://tailoredthinking.co.uk/

Personalisation at work website - http://www.personalisationatwork.com/

Rob on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjmbaker/

Rob on Twitter - https://twitter.com/BakerRJM

#64 Jacqueline Carson - Don't listen to what other people have to say: It's your life not theirs!

Jacqueline talks to us about how you shouldn't always listen to what other people have to say: It's your life not theirs.

Here's what you'll learn in this episode: 

• The effect on her health of 25 years of stress, working too many hours, and not looking after herself. 
• How hypnotherapy helped with her cancer treatment. 
• How working for herself is one of the best things she's ever done.

Jacqueline is a qualified Social Worker and has worked in safeguarding (children) for 25 years.  

In 2014, she found she had breast cancer on the first day of a new job. The diagnosis turned everything on its head and forced her to re-evaluate her life including her very stressful job. 

After accessing hypnotherapy during cancer treatment, she decided this was the new career she needed and retrained.  Since qualifying as a Clinical Hypnotherapist in 2016, Jacqueline has also trained in Reiki, EFT, NLP and Havening. 

Jacqueline now runs her Hypnotherapy business full-time and has no regrets.  She's gone on to study meditation and plans to train as a yoga teacher. 

Key Resources:

Inspiration North Website - www.inspirationnorth.com

Inspiration North Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inspirationnorth 

Inspiration North Twitter - https://twitter.com/Inspirationorth 

Inspiration North Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inspiration_north/ 

Inspiration North LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspiration-north

Jacqueline's Website - www.hypnotherapy-darlington.co.uk

Jacqueline on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jacquelinecarsonhypnotherapy

Jacqueline on Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/@hypnodarlington

Jacqueline on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/jacquelinecarson

Jacqueline on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jacquelinecarsonhypnotherapy

#63 Fiona Setch - You don't have to be trapped in something you are unhappy in

Fiona talks to us about how you don't have to be trapped in something you are unhappy in.

Here's what you'll learn in this episode: 

• Her work in an AIDS Hospice.
• How she found a company that wanted to buy her enthusiasm.
• And how she's been going for 18 years without a business plan.

Fiona is a passionate Geordie woman whose motto for life is 'Carpe Diem': Seize your day! 

After a first career in nursing which she loved. Nursing people who were dying made her realise exactly what she wanted to do in her life; so in 1993, she retrained in teaching adults and moved into Learning & Development.

For the past 18 years she has been running her own Training and Coaching Business. She is passionate about helping people enjoy life and especially their working lives.

She does this through coaching, consultancy & designing inspiring training which she enjoys delivering!

Key Resources:

Inspiration North Website - www.inspirationnorth.com

Inspiration North Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inspirationnorth 

Inspiration North Twitter - https://twitter.com/Inspirationorth 

Inspiration North Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inspiration_north/ 

Inspiration North LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspiration-north

Fiona's website - http://www.fionasetch.co.uk/

Life coaching directory - https://www.lifecoach-directory.org.uk/

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-setch

#62 Craig Smith - Being Born an Entrepreneur

Craig talks to us about how some people are born entrepreneurs! 

Here's what you'll learn in this episode: 

• How he realised in school he wasn't like other kids.
• His ability to turn a fiver into a tenner. 
• Taking a call from Coca Cola in his bedroom.

Craig Smith is the Founder and Director of The Printed Bag Shop: one of the UK's Leading suppliers of printed bags and packaging.

Some of his entrepreneurial ventures include raffling 50p mix ups at school, and owning a van and market stall before he could drive. He also served his time as a pipefitter welder and worked in various bars and clubs as a door supervisor. 

In 2007, he started an award winning business selling printed bags and packaging that now turns over in excess of £1.2 million with only 6 employees. 

Key Resources:

Inspiration North Website - www.inspirationnorth.com

Inspiration North Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inspirationnorth 

Inspiration North Twitter - https://twitter.com/Inspirationorth 

Inspiration North Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inspiration_north/ 

Inspiration North LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspiration-north

The Printed Bag Shop Website - www.theprintedbagshop.co.uk

The Printed Bag Shop on Twitter - https://twitter.com/printedbagshop

The Printed Bag Shop on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theprintedbagshop/

The Printed Bag Shop on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theprintedbagshop/

The Printed Bag Shop on Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.co.uk/PrintedBagShop

Craig on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-smith-🛍️-the-printed-bag-shop-🛍️-1b8b9b3/

#61 Rob & Kennedy - A Hypnotist and Mind Reader Started a Software Company

The Great Rob & Kennedy talk to us about how a hypnotist and mind reader started a software company.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode: 

• Using their need to understand people to help others sell.
• The benefits of building email lists driven by surveys.
• And how one of them was heckled by a Macaw!

Rob and Kennedy are the most unlikely entrepreneurs you’ll ever meet.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a hypnotist and a psychological mind reader used their skills for sales and marketing? No? Of course you haven’t. But that’s the unusual recipe for Rob and Kennedy’s success.

Sporting hairstyles that look like comic-book characters and backgrounds in psychology, hypnosis, and show-business – it’s hard to believe they’re serial entrepreneurs with an uncanny knack for building businesses by getting inside of customers’ heads.

Hosts of The Email Marketing Show podcast, founders of the revolutionary survey platform ResponseSuite and two of the most dynamic speakers on email marketing in the world.

Key Resources:

Inspiration North Website - www.inspirationnorth.com

Inspiration North Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/inspirationnorth 

Inspiration North Twitter - https://twitter.com/Inspirationorth 

Inspiration North Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inspiration_north/ 

Inspiration North LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspiration-north

The Email Marketing Show – https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/podcast/ (and on all podcast players)

Survey Software: https://www.responsesuite.com/

Email Marketing Blog – https://www.emailmarketingheroes.com/

Rob & Kennedy on Twitter - https://twitter.com/RobandKennedy

Rob & Kennedy on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/robandkennedy/