Turning The Tables
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratingsCandid stories from people who have turned adversity into advantage
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EP 39: Michael Crawford - Rewind - The highlights.
December 21, 2021 11:52 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBThis Xmas special episode is a rewind to a new edition of one of my favourite episodes with actor, comedian and singer Michael Crawford. It was an absolute privilege to talk to Michael and particularly poignant as Michael had helped me get through a chronic illness that he had suffered himself some years before. Michael has had an extraordinary career in TV, the theatre and film, working alongside Gene Kelly, Barbara Streisand, Walter Matthau and Andrew Lloyd Webber. He has been descri...
EP 38: Not seen- A woman in the male dominated world of tech start-ups, with Lynsie Campbell
November 29, 2021 09:25 - 38 minutes - 87.7 MB"All I ever wanted was to be heard" Even now as we approach the end of 2021 only 2% of venture capital investment goes to female founders. My guest Lynsie Campbell, Pittsburgh tech czar, single mum, entrepreneur founder of 2 tech startups, and author of a new book, This Better Work - charts her journey through the hyper-masculine world of tech startups. Lynsie's career started in entertainment, working on the Rosie O'Donnell show and in music publishing. Even working with the likes of Dav...
EP 37: Keep it Ginchy - My life with disability- Viola Dwyer
October 27, 2021 13:17 - 39 minutes - 91.2 MBGinchy - meaning cool, groovy, happenin', awesome, kick-ass, rockin' . My guest Viola Dwyer's mission is to bring a greater humanity to the perception of disability. Viola was born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a rare genetic condition that she shared with one of her sisters from birth. The condition has presented enormous challenges for Viola and her family yet Viola has confronted these challenges with strength, determination, insight and no little good humour. One billion people arou...
EP 36 "Just taking some time out the business - be back soon". My mental health story with Michelle Morgan
August 22, 2021 17:00 - 54 minutes - 124 MBThe final episode in the three-part mini-series on mental health features my guest, agency leader, entrepreneur, and now mental health campaigner Michelle Morgan. "I just cried and thought - I can't go on, I cannot go on, I can't do one more thing." As a business leader, what do you do when struggling with your mental health? And how do you deal with the stigma that still exists in the workplace around mental health? "I got this throwaway comment - it's a bit awkward when you talk about ...
EP 35: Learning to be kind to yourself, mood mapping and living with Bipolar - Dr Liz Miller
August 04, 2021 07:13 - 42 minutes - 96.9 MBDr Liz Miller has been at the sharp end of the journey from mental health prejudice to enlightenment. A one-off, Liz Miller was the first woman in neurosurgery in the UK, a physician, campaigner, and writer noted for her outspoken mental health views and someone who has lived with bipolar disorder for much of her life. Liz was sectioned three times but has come through to manage her condition without medication, relying on nutrition and psychological strategies she has developed from her r...
EP34 : Depression, burnout, and self sabotage - my mental health battle with Adam Rubins.
July 15, 2021 10:06 - 45 minutes - 105 MBThis is the first of a 3 part mini-series on mental health, with my guest Adam Rubins. At the age of 12yrs Adam Rubins was set upon and beaten up in his local synagogue. How is it that a chance event in someone's childhood can set up a chain reaction that ultimately leads to a lifetime of battling depression? Despite this childhood trauma, Adam Rubins has operated at a high level of performance and success in the high octane, high-stress world of entertainment and communications. Adam'...
EP 33: Who am I? The struggle of cultural identity with Ozlem Ozkan
June 28, 2021 06:50 - 36 minutes - 67.4 MBOzlem Ozkan was born to Turkish parents but raised in the Netherlands. She also has lived in Istanbul, Turkey and Aarhus, Denmark; and travelled across continents. Ozlem's story is one of the struggles of identity torn between the traditional Turkish parenting approach and values and the more independent egalitarian culture of Dutch society. As a teenager growing up, this created a heady cocktail of anxiety, self-doubt and self-analysis. Despite this, now, as a woman, entrepreneur, autho...
EP32: Is this it? - Finding a better life with Alasdair Plambeck and Julie Roxane Krikorian part 2
May 30, 2021 08:59 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBA successful manager of a start-up yet feeling like an outsider. That was the backdrop to Alasdair Plambeck's healing journey and life transformation with Julie Roxane Krikorian. In this second part episode, we explore how a diagnosis of a chronic illness, Hashimoto's disease and an Ayahuasca Meditation Retreat prompted questions for Alasdair about the direction and meaning of his life. The challenges that the Millenial generation face means the traditional lifestyle models are increasing...
EP 32: Is this it? - Finding a better life with Alasdair Plambeck and Julie Roxane Krikorian part 2
May 30, 2021 08:59 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBA successful manager of a start-up yet feeling like an outsider. That was the backdrop to Alasdair Plambeck's healing journey and life transformation with Julie Roxane Krikorian. In this second part episode, we explore how a diagnosis of a chronic illness, Hashimoto's disease and an Ayahuasca Meditation Retreat prompted questions for Alasdair about the direction and meaning of his life. The challenges that the Millenial generation face means the traditional lifestyle models are increasing...
The Outsider - Finding a better life with Alasdair Plambeck and Julie Roxane Krikorian part 2
May 28, 2021 06:47 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBA successful manager of a start-up yet feeling like an outsider. That was the backdrop to Alasdair Plambeck's healing journey and life transformation with Julie Roxane Krikorian. In this second part episode, we explore how a diagnosis of Hashimoto's disease and an Ayahuasca Meditation Retreat prompted questions for Alasdair about the direction and meaning of his life. The challenges that the Millenial generation face means the traditional lifestyle models are increasingly less motivating ...
EP 31: Finding a better life - with Alasdair Plambeck and Julie Roxane Krikorian - part 1
May 19, 2021 21:30 - 32 minutes - 74.7 MBMy guests in this two-part episode are the' far out couple' Alasdair Plumbeck and Julie Roxane Krikorian. Two people who came together through a serendipitous rejection of the lives they had been living. Alasdair and Julie Rozane are podcasters, entrepreneurs, guides & coaches. In 2016 we both walked away from lives that had made them tired and sick and stepped into the unknown in search of a better way to live. Julie Roxane and Alasdair met by chance in a chai shop in Rajasthan, India, wh...
EP 30: Stories from a woman who walks, with Diane Wyzga
April 23, 2021 06:31 - 43 minutes - 99.5 MBMy guest on episode 30 of Turning the tables storyteller extraordinaire Diane Wyzga. Diane has, as she says, bathed in the garbage of life's adversities, creating compost for the opportunity for a joy-filled, purposeful life. Having been a US Navy Nurse, Lawyer, Professor, Public Speaker, Litigating consultant, problem solver, wife, and daughter, she has seen life through many glasses. Diane and I met through Seth Godin's Podcast fellowship, from which Turning the Tables and Diane's brill...
EP 29: How burn out taught me to take control of my life with Imogen Roy
March 27, 2021 09:09 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MBA staggering 75% of people in a Gallup survey reported the symptoms of work-related stress. I would vouch that everyone who listens to this podcast can point to feeling burned out at some point in their working lives. For many that work-related stress is a rollercoaster that it is hard to get off. For my guest, Imogen Roy burnout was a dramatic wake-up call. A tri-lingual scot living in Paris, Imogen built her career as a brand and marketing consultant working with startup businesses and...
EP 28: The courage to fall - From terrorist attack to disability rights with Will Pike
February 25, 2021 10:55 - 42 minutes - 58.2 MBWill Pike knows what it takes to overcome adversity. Will was on holiday in Mumbai in November 2008 with his girlfriend, when Islamic Extremists attacked the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel he was staying in. News of the attack filled TV screens the world over. 116 innocent people lost their lives. Then a fit 28-year-old, Will was left paralysed when he fell 60 feet trying to escape. Now a paraplegic wheelchair-user, Will has had to fight many battles not only to recover but to secure the compe...
EP 27 : Making oddity your asset - Overcoming imposter syndrome with Esther Stanhope.
January 31, 2021 09:29 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBHave you ever felt like an imposter? Do you sometimes doubt your skills, fearing that, one day, you will be exposed as a "fraud" despite the evidence that you are a talented individual that has achieved a great deal?. Quote " I know what it is like to feel 2 inches tall and a bit like a failure." Research suggests that somewhat ironically 1 in 3 high-achieving women, and men suffer from impostor syndrome. My guest on EP 27 of Turning the Tables is Impact Guru Esther Stanhope. As a former...
EP 26 : What does it take to overcome adversity? - Unravelling Chronic Fatigue with Dan Neuffer
January 14, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes - 56.9 MBChronic illness affects 1 in 3 people around the world. It is a the hidden plague of modern life. My guest on episode 26 of Turning the Tables, Dan Neuffer has known what it is like to be consumed by the pain and struggle with Chronic illness, to give up hope. But then ultimately to find recovery and new purpose helping others. One of those others I am happy to say was me. Dan from the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia had suffered from C.F.S (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) for 7 years; he had a...
EP 25: "Our world was smashed to smithereens" - The heart wrenching reality of losing a child with Dr Lucy Hone
December 16, 2020 10:45 - 44 minutes - 61.3 MB"That is what happens when you lose somebody really significant, it smashes your world apart" Dr Lucy Hone is a co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing and Resilience, a published academic researcher and best selling author. Her Ted Talk on 'The three secrets of resilient people' has been watched by nearly 3 million people, Lucy has experienced first hand what it is like to face what is the most heart-wrenching adversity. Tragically her 12-year-old daughter Abi was killed in...
EP 25: "Our world was smashed to smithereens" - The science and the reality of resilience with Dr Lucy Hone
December 16, 2020 10:45 - 44 minutes - 61.3 MB"That is what happens when you lose somebody really significant, it smashes your world apart" Dr Lucy Hone is a co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing and Resilience, a published academic researcher and best selling author. Her Ted Talk on 'The three secrets of resilient people' has been watched by nearly 3 million people, Lucy has experienced first hand what it is like to face what is the most heart-wrenching adversity. Tragically her 12-year-old daughter Abi was killed in...
EP24: How a N.D.E (near death experience) has changed the way I look at life with Renu Arora.
November 30, 2020 17:17 - 41 minutes - 95.2 MBIn this episode, we hear actor, singing coach and theatrical director Renu Arora's story of a near-death experience and how it changed her life. The novelist Ernest Hemingway is a famous example of someone who recounted a story of a near-death experience. During World War I, Hemingway was wounded by shrapnel while fighting in Italy on a fateful night in 1918. Near-death experiences are well-documented phenomena where people describe an out of body experience when faced with impending dea...
EP23: "We can find it in ourselves" - A remarkable story of resilience, determination and the power of positive thinking with Henry Fraser
October 27, 2020 11:52 - 1 hour - 157 MBHenry Fraser's story is truly one of turning around adversity, of humbling grit, determination and wisdom in the face of quite frankly monumental challenges. Henry was an energetic, gifted sport-loving teenager with his life ahead of him when a life-changing accident crushed his spinal cord, leaving Henry paralysed and needing to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Despite that, Henry has fashioned a thriving career, a relentlessly positive mindset and a passion for helping other pe...
EP22: 'Plugging away at it' - How a failed Christmas tree venture paved the way to building a success business over the long haul, with Nick Wheeler
October 08, 2020 09:46 - 53 minutes - 123 MBWelcome to episode 22 of Turning the Tables and a different kind of story. A story about business and in today's terms, the rather an unfashionable story, of building a wholly-owned, global shirt business over the long haul of over 30 years. A story about learning from your failures, a story about belief, focus, determination and commitment. In an era when society seems to worship the short term, venture capital-backed, Unicorn, entrepreneurship model, my guest, Nick Wheeler's business app...
EP 21EP 21: How an unshakeable, calm resilience and a groundbreaking therapy practice was born through childhood adversity with Dr Amy Novotny
September 23, 2020 10:15 - 55 minutes - 127 MBThis is the story of how my guest Dr Amy Novotny came through a strict and often repressive upbringing by a controlling single mother later diagnosed with Bipolar to become an innovative, groundbreaking and renowned physical therapist. How, despite having to tutor her own mother for up to 6 hours a day, Amy still managed to attain a high level of academic achievement which paved the way for a career helping people to overcome chronic pain where traditional medical treatments failed. And ho...
EP 21: How an unshakeable, calm resilience and a groundbreaking therapy practice was born through childhood adversity with Dr Amy Novotny
September 23, 2020 10:15 - 55 minutes - 127 MBThis is the story of how my guest Dr Amy Novotny came through a strict and often repressive upbringing by a controlling single mother later diagnosed with Bipolar to become an innovative, groundbreaking and renowned physical therapist. How, despite having to tutor her own mother for up to 6 hours a day, Amy still managed to attain a high level of academic achievement which paved the way for a career helping people to overcome chronic pain where traditional medical treatments failed. And ho...
EP20: Kindness - Can it make the world a better place? with Amy Giddon and Jane Murray
August 27, 2020 12:24 - 48 minutes - 112 MBYou would think that 'Kindness' was a fundamental part of human connection that is indelibly written into the way we live our lives. However, it seems that only in times of crisis like the current Coronavirus pandemic do we see kindness come to the fore. Why is this? My guests on this episode of Turning the Tables are fellow kindness evangelists Amy Giddon CEO of the Daily Haloha app and Jane Murray CEO of Peacebeam. Both of my guests have worked in the high pressured corporate jobs and b...
EP 19 : Managing adversity and change with Julia Samuel MBE
August 07, 2020 10:13 - 41 minutes - 96 MBJulia Samuel MBE is one of Britains most celebrated psychotherapists. Founder patron of Child Bereavement UK, Julia has spent a career working in the NHS and then her private practice helping people to overcome life trauma's and challenges. She has specialised in grief counselling for parents who have lost a child, one of life's most traumatic adversities. Here experience, however, goes much broader dealing with health, family relationships, love and identity. Julia has appeared on TV and r...
EP 18: Imposter syndrome - how cancer saved me, with Sharon Lloyd Barnes
July 22, 2020 15:53 - 52 minutes - 120 MBHave you ever had periods in your life when you've felt that you are not the person you want to be? An imposter, held back by an internal dialogue that was sabotaging your life? Often it takes a dramatic event -a relationship breakup, the loss of a loved one or a health issue to break the chain and for us to reassess our lives. When that event is stage 3 cancer, it must shake you to the core. But that is what happened to my guest Sharon Lloyd Barnes. On the outside, Sharon is one of the m...
EP 17 : Human stories and reflections on the Coronavirus pandemic - The people's voice
July 01, 2020 15:50 - 26 minutes - 61.3 MBWhat stories will we tell our children and our grandchildren about the adversity of the coronavirus pandemic? Episode 17 of Turning the Tables started with a simple question to a group of fellow podcasters and friends for different walks of life and geographies. What have you learned through this Coronavirus pandemic lockdown? What followed was a tapestry of human stories and observations about life, priorities, hopes, and fears. The discovery of a simpler life The importance of family...
EP :16 My journey to find healing, love and freedom, with lawyer turned Mountain Nomad - Marinel de Jesus
June 07, 2020 09:25 - 55 minutes - 105 MBMarinel de Jesus's story is a journey of discovery. A human struggle to find herself, freedom, and true happiness. Arriving in Seattle at the age of 13 yrs as part of an immigrant family from the Philippines, in the early years, of Marinel's life was about survival. Pushed on by the expectations of her family and particularly her mother, she struggled with feelings of inadequacy. Despite the significant achievement of becoming a practicing lawyer, deep down Marinel felt empty. She might hav...
EP 15: How a medical nightmare propelled a business dream with Amy Woods
May 13, 2020 16:57 - 43 minutes - 102 MBAmy Woods can safely be described as an achiever. A 13-year career spent working in the high-intensity, high stakes world of management consultancy gave Amy exposure to some of the world's most successful businesses. But two events were to shape Amy's world; starting a family and the terrifying experience of being told she had a life expectancy of 4-6 hours because of an acute medical issue. Fortunately, Amy survived, and this experience propelled her towards her ambition of moving away fr...
EP 14: Rebel with a cause - 'Teenology',parenting and following your own path with Sarah Newton
April 22, 2020 09:56 - 44 minutes - 85 MBSarah Newton in her own words is something of a maverick. A flamboyant and rebellious character, Sarah has spent a career championing the cause of young people and following her own path from working at Disney World in Florida to being a police officer to working with parents and young people to now flying the flag for creativity and self-expression. If you are a parent or someone who works with young people there is much to learn from Sarah's story. A passion for working with and writing ...
EP13 : Overcoming adversity - Coronavirus special - 5 strategies with Simon Ratcliffe
April 07, 2020 08:55 - 32 minutes - 77.3 MBHow to overcome adversity in times of crisis? 'If it's humanly possible, you can do it' – Marcus Aurelius. In times of human crisis, how do we cope? How do we manage the physical and emotional challenges that present themselves? And perhaps most crucially how do we come out the other side better human beings? A strange reality has descended on us. At this time many of us will be at home isolating, some will be part of the army of people who are trying to keep us functioning as nations, a...
EP12 : Inside mental health with Dr Niall Campbell
March 18, 2020 09:28 - 40 minutes - 77.3 MBMental Health is, without a doubt, one of the most significant adversities we have in our society today. Whether you suffer from, live with, or know someone with a mental health condition, it can have a profound effect on your life. At a time when we are under increased physical and emotional stress from the outbreak of Covid-19, mental health is even more in focus. How do we cope? How do we manage our emotions at this difficult time? What does it look like from the other side of the tab...
EP 11: 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' with Felix Riley
February 28, 2020 13:55 - 44 minutes - 108 MBMy guest Felix Riley could be described as something of an enigma. A comedy writer, novelist, and entrepreneur, Felix, by his admission, was "angry from a young age with the injustices in the world". Perhaps influenced by his modest working-class upbringing and an alcoholic, abusive mother who was "booted out" the family home when Felix was aged seven years old, he continues to be driven by a strong desire for fairness in society. Writing for comedians like Rory Bremner might have seemed o...
EP 10: Overcoming adversity, recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - my story with Simon Ratcliffe
February 03, 2020 16:11 - 14 minutes - 19.4 MBWhat do you do when you get to the bottom and can no longer see a way out? This is my first on mic episode where I talk about how I came to create this podcast and my story about how recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome impacted my life. It is often true to say that adversity can be the catalyst for a new beginning and a renewed purpose, and I truly believe that because that is what happened to me. I talk about some of the strategies I used to recover and reflect on the lessons learned ...
EP8: Michael Crawford part 2 - Inexplicable
January 14, 2020 10:02 - 25 minutes - 60.9 MBWelcome to part 2 of my interview with actor, singer and comedian Michael Crawford. In part 1 we talked about Michael’s career, his rise to fame through television in the hit series Some mothers to his award winning performance in The Phantom of the opera on Broadway. In this second episode our conversation moves on to how Michael at the height of his career contracted a mystery illness (later diagnosed as M.E) while performing on the West End stage. M.E or Chronic Fatigue syndrome affec...
EP7: Michael Crawford ; Dedicated, disciplined, dynamic- From "Ooh Betty" to Broadway brilliance (Part 1)
December 17, 2019 10:38 - 40 minutes - 97 MBIt is not often you get the opportunity to interview someone who has been described as ‘one of the greatest performers Britain has produced’ ! So as you might imagine I am incredibly excited to be talking to actor, singer and comedian Michael Crawford for this special 2 part Xmas episode of Turning the Table Michaels career spans over 50 years across TV, film and Stage on Broadway and the west end of London. With humble boyhood beginnings in Bexley Kent, Michael went on to receive internat...
EP6 : From Chaos to Calm with Jane Murray
November 06, 2019 17:00 - 29 minutes - 70.7 MB"It was that sense of loss like an oak tree had just, gone!" What happens when you grow up and work in the shadow of a hugely successful, driven ,figurehead father? And what happens when that person you loved is gone? How does this shape you as a person? And how do you adapt and change your life? In this weeks Episode we delve into the high octane, boom and bust world of big business, venture capital and start ups with my guest Jane Murray. Jane is a trained lawyer, investment fund manag...
EP5 : The great escape - gone fishing with John Bailey
September 25, 2019 12:01 - 43 minutes - 105 MBHave you ever wished you had been able to make a career out of your passion? My guest John Bailey is a writer, broadcaster and conservationist who's life and career has been built around his two passions fishing and teaching. Our conversation spans adventures in Mongolia and Greenland, drunken pilots and plane crashes, his love of nature and the countryside to the emotional challenges of his childhood and how that affected him in his life and what he has learned from it. "I could never re...
EP 4 :Nothing in life is forever with Francine Lawrence
September 04, 2019 11:32 - 39 minutes - 46.2 MBHave you ever been in a situation where you felt that the job you were doing was compromising your values as a person? How did you deal with that? Have you ever felt you were being judged or your ideas rejected, because of peoples perceptions of your age? Was that because you were considered too young or inexperienced for your views to be important or because you were older and the people judging you were all much younger? In episode 4 of Turning the Tables my guest is Francine Lawrence wh...
EP3: The journey to becoming a born again truth teller with Kate Rizzi
July 30, 2019 19:39 - 19 minutes - 37.2 MB“It goes all the way back to my childhood and being really embarrassed and ashamed of my circumstances” In Episode 3 of Turning the Tables I interview Kate Rizzi an educator living in Maryland USA. Having a father who was gay and growing up as a Catholic in the 1960’s was a challenge to say the least for Kate. The realisation of this was only revealed in her early 20’s when her father ,who was dying of cancer, showed her some military papers that revealed that, unbeknown to Kate, he had be...
EP 2:The Re-inventor - How adversity shaped a life and career with Derek Woodgate
July 22, 2019 18:09 - 27 minutes - 63.9 MB"One day we got a train and she left me, and that was it, I never saw her again". By the age of 3 years Derek's father had died and his mother had abandoned him and left him to live with his uncle and aunt. The trauma of those events did not become apparent to him until 40 years later, when it became clear that the scars they left had shaped his life in profound ways some negative but many others very positive and transformative. Now in his 70's Derek still lives a vibrant and full life...
EP 1:Overcoming gender prejudice and upbringing with Linda Hodgson
July 16, 2019 15:15 - 21 minutes - 55.1 MB"So I grew up with a lot of stress, anxiety and anger around me" This first episode of Turning the tables features Linda Hodgson who has had a successful career in advertising and laterly as a strategic planner. But her journey has been far from easy, as she had to battle against the difficulties of a poverty strickened childhood and her mothers depression. 'I decided I was going to lift myself up out of all that and make something of myself" Linda's story is an inspiration for anyone loo...
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June 02, 2019 10:41 - 2 minutes - 5.51 MBTurning the Tables is a podcast about overcoming adversity. The real life reality is that all of us face adversity at different points in our lives. Sometimes it’s adversity that challenges us to our core , other times it might just blow us off course. Turning the Tables is dedicated to helping people to see through to the other side of adversity. To believe that you come come through stronger and more resilient and to turn adversity into advantage and to live a positive life. In each epi...