Mentally Healthy Leaders
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Welcome to Mentally Healthy Leaders. A Platinum Award winning podcast. In this podcast series, I’ll be chatting to senior executives, special forces soldiers, entrepreneurs, world record holders, and other inspirational leaders. Many of which have experienced their own struggle with mental health issues. Our guests are happy to share their story in the hope that it will help others to talk, and encourage business leaders to create more mentally healthy workplaces. Tom Fox. Podcast host, & MD of Thoughtify Ltd www.thoughtify.co.uk
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Episodes
Kate Davies CBE - National Director at NHS England
November 20, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBKate is the national director for healthcare services across England for Armed Forces serving personnel, veterans and their families; Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs); and prisons, immigration removal centres and secure children’s homes and training centres. Her national role is to assure high quality, consistent and sustained services with a strong focus on health inequalities and outcomes for patients and their families. Kate was awarded an OBE in 2009, for services for disadvan...
Tim Munden - CLO & Head of Global Wellbeing at Unilever
October 07, 2020 22:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBToday’s guest is one of the leading voices in Mental Health support in the workplace. Tim Munden, the Global Chief Learning officer at Unilever, has created programmes which aim to inspire people worldwide to look after their health and wellbeing. But it was when he first started developing these programmes, that he realised he had his own demons to tackle. From being injured out of an Army Career before it even started, to having a near death car crash that brought him years of harrowing...
Tim Munden - Global CLO at Unilever
October 07, 2020 22:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBToday’s guest is one of the leading voices in Mental Health support in the workplace. Tim Munden, the Global Chief Learning officer at Unilever, has created programmes which aim to inspire people worldwide to look after their health and wellbeing. But it was when he first started developing these programmes, that he realised he had his own demons to tackle. From being injured out of an Army Career before it even started, to having a near death car crash that brought him years of harrowing...
Simon Blake OBE - CEO of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England
September 16, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBOur guest today is Simon Blake OBE. CEO of Mental Health First Aid England. Mental Health First Aid England has one aim - to improve the mental health of the nation. The organisation wants to see 1 in 10 of the population trained in mental health first aid, and for all of us to start considering mental health as being on a par with our physical health. As a gay man who came out during the HIV epidemic, Simon understands the importance of supporting mental health through every stage of lif...
Kerry Daynes - Forensic Psychologist, Expert Witness, TV Personality, & Author
September 02, 2020 09:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBWe may think of them as police profilers who get deep within the psyche of serial killers and sex abusers, but Kerry Daynes says her profession as a Forensic Psychologist is much more than that. She’s worked with some of the most serious offenders in our society, but she’s also worked with some of the most vulnerable. At times she’s also been on the receiving end of abusive behaviour which has affected her own mental health and taught her lessons about how we are shaped by our experience...
Mark Hodgson - CBO at Cervest
August 19, 2020 02:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBToday’s guest was a Senior Global Director at both Microsoft and Google, but after suffering a severe breakdown he left the corporate world to find personal fulfillment at a Start-Up. Mark Hodgson says his life collapsed around him four years ago, but he now recognises the warning signs were there for years. At his new company - Cervest, he is combining lifelong passions with professional experience and driving the Mental Health Agenda forward to support his colleagues.
Paul Spanner - PwC Consultant & Former Commando Officer
August 04, 2020 17:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBToday’s guest is Paul Spanner. Paul is a former Senior Officer in the Royal Marines, who was medically discharged after a cycling accident in which he suffered a fractured skull, broken back and neck among other injuries. He died twice at the side of the road. For most of us a crash of that scale may keep us off a bike forever, but Paul went on to join the GB Paralympic Cycling programme, and compete at a World Championship. After the accident he spent several years with his mental heal...
Chris Averill - Entrepreneur, Investor & Business Mentor
July 29, 2020 02:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBToday’s guest is Chris Averill. Chris is a successful entrepreneur, who built his tech business from scratch over a 16 year period...before selling it for a multi million pound price tag. He survived two downturns, employed teams in London and New York, worked with Fortune 500 Companies and won a host of awards. After the sale of his company, at a time when he should’ve felt on top of the world and relishing his success and financial freedom, he was struggling with panic attacks, the fea...
Nigel Edginton-Amor. Creative Director at Sky
July 22, 2020 02:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBToday’s guest went 52 years before he got a diagnosis for Bipolar. He says he’d always known he was a bit different, but it wasn’t until the death of his Dad, when his life imploded, that he finally found the help and the diagnosis he’d always needed. But for Nigel Edginton-Amor, or Sky Creative Agency his illness isn’t all bad. Although he suffers extreme highs and severe lows, his condition also aids his creativity. He first spoke out about being bipolar at work, when Sky began training...
Nigel Edginton-Amor - Creative Director at Sky
July 22, 2020 02:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBToday’s guest went 52 years before he got a diagnosis for Bipolar. He says he’d always known he was a bit different, but it wasn’t until the death of his Dad, when his life imploded, that he finally found the help and the diagnosis he’d always needed. But for Nigel Edginton-Amor, or Sky Creative Agency his illness isn’t all bad. Although he suffers extreme highs and severe lows, his condition also aids his creativity. He first spoke out about being bipolar at work, when Sky began training...
Dean Stott - Double World Record Holder & Former Special Forces Soldier
July 15, 2020 02:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBToday’s guest went from being homeless as a child in Manchester’s Moss Side & suffering racial attacks for being one of the only white boy's at his school… to one of Prince Harry’s most trusted friends, and an ambassador for the mental health charity Heads Together. Dean was in the UK Special Forces (Special Boat Service), when a parachuting accident almost ripped off his leg & killed him. He was medically discharged in 2011 but then his mental health started to deteriorate as he lost his s...
Nicky Young - Former Group MD at MullenLowe Salt
July 08, 2020 01:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBFrom living in a YMCA in London to becoming Global MD for a Strategic PR and Communications company - Nicky Young worked hard to make a name and a successful business. But in 2017 she found herself almost paralysed with depression prior to the sale of the firm. The loss of her Father, post natal depression, and the stresses of managing several roles in the business saw her collapse and eventually signed off work for 2 months. Nicky is now a mental health advocate, helping companies to cre...
Mark Neill - Former Bomb Disposal Officer & MD of Landmarc Support Services
July 01, 2020 01:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBFrom the playgrounds of Belfast at the height of the conflict in Northern Ireland, to defusing terrorist bombs around the world, Mark Neill has kept a clear head and a strong focus. But the former Bomb Disposal Officer who is today’s guest, found himself unable to get out of bed for three weeks when his mental health hit rock bottom when he started working in the corporate environment. Mark is now the Managing Director of Landmarc Support Services - which looks after all the training facil...
Trailer Episode with Tom Fox
June 26, 2020 12:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBI’m Tom Fox - and in 2015 I was diagnosed with Complex PTSD. I’d been working in high stress environments in Financial Services and the IT sectors in the City of London. The warning signs had been there for years - but I didn’t recognise them as such - because I didn’t understand Mental health. I coped by throwing myself into my work and never really switched off. Eventually I suffered a breakdown and that led to my diagnosis. You see, before I joined the corporate life I was an infantry s...