You Matter

This month I'm celebrating the 40th episode of You Matter and my 20th wedding anniversary, so who better to welcome as my special guest but Mr Ian Turner.

Ian has the dubious pleasure of being the husband, son and son-in-law of a physio, so he's well qualified to pass opinion on our qualities, quirks and qualms.

In this episode we talk about why the tennis backhand is better than the forehand, about the frog who went a wooing.....oh and a bit about Tom's writing career.

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I approached Charli when I noticed that, as well as being a clinician, she is also a celebrant. What I didn't know is that she is also a wine expert, a gay, autistic woman with ADHD who is in the middle of a phd looking at the effect of rubber pitch services on injury in male rugby players.
And we cover all of that in this epsiode!

Siobhan Cowling talks to me about what led her to leave Physiotherapy, coping with the transition, what she misses about work, the negatives, 'Who am I?' and the positives, the tips and tricks she's learned along the way.

Siobhan says she still hasn't become comfortable with the R word, but she's found a great alternative and is loving her refirement!

In my ignorance, when Felicity suggested this topic I thought 'that'll be interesting, but I wonder how much being diabetic affects identity.'

As a result of this conversation, I am humbled and now fully educated as to the extent of monitoring, tweaking and managing this condition requires, and also the effect on Felicity's view of herself as a professional.

At one point, in the interests of being human and illustrating that it's okay to have needs as a clinician, Felicity goes off to inject herself with insulin, and I have a wee!

As we embark on a fresh year and the new season of You Matter, who better than my lovely friend Jack to join me in chewing over our respective reflections of 2023 and the things we are looking forward to in 2024.

Never knowingly staying on theme, we cover house moves, kids exams, agony aunts, working with your namesake and many other unrelated topics. Hope you enjoy meandering with us.

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This is the second in a 2-part series with Karli Gibson, a physiotherapist with diagnoses of ADHD and dyslexia. Having described the struggles and the suffering as she puts it, in epsiode 1, this time Karli focuses on the solutions she has found and the evolution this has afforded her both as a person and a physiotherapist.

We also discuss how, as employers and heads of organisations where people with neurodiversity are working (ie all of us) we can help make those environments easier places to navigate for all.

Many of us are probably scared of getting things wrong, or not sure how to get it right. Karli's overriding message is to stay curious.

This is the first of a 2-part series.

Episode 1 - The Struggle and The Suffering

Episode 2 - The Revolution and The Evolution

Karli Gibson is an Occupational Health Physiotherapist.

In this first epsiode, Karli talks to me about…

Feeling thick, but smart.

Learning to cope, and learning to mask.

Getting diagnosed with dyslexia and discovering resources.

Getting diagnosed with ADHD, and finding support, but not so many resources…yet.

You can’t fail to hear Karli’s determination and commitment to finding her own path, not just in Physiotherapy but also in life. This episode is about the struggles as she puts it, but even here, there are hints at the evolution to come.

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Nicola Graham and Helen Preston are both Physiotherapy business owners. They each have their own version of this, having made choices about whether or not to still work as a clinician, and how they wish to be perceived, and how they wish to exert their influence in healthcare.

In this session we discuss, the acquisition of business skills when you've never been taught them, a shift in personal identity and the way others might see you as you take on business ownership, and we have a more philosophical discussion around leadership and who might emerge as the future symbolic leaders in our profession.

Jazz hands videos and monologues of your wisdom triggering unwanted attention from trolls.

If this is your impression of marketing then no wonder you're avoiding it. Invisibility is so much more appealing.

Sara Price has another way.

There's no sugar coating or kidding that you don't need to be visible to grow a business, but she has some wonderful ideas and suggestions to make it a more comfortable experience for you and infinitely more enjoyable for your audience. And to get you seen by the people that really need you.

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