Slightly Mental

Rich teaches public speaking and presentation skills to businesses, individuals and charities. I had a chance to talk to Rich about his first steps with public speaking and his experiences as a consultant. Rich shared a lot of great professional tips for those who are looking to improve their public speaking skills.

Sam is an L&D manager, a spiritual person with keen interest in psychology mental health and crystals. I had a chance to discuss her views on mental health, insights discovery, spirituality and recently popular subject of assisted dying for mental health disorders.

Helen is a relationship coach and award winning speaker who talks about people-pleasing, boundaries, confidence and healthy relationship. She helps "people-pleasing women who are ready to reclaim their power, voice and peace of mind without guilt". Helen openly talks about her experience of being in a abusive marriage and the long recovery journey that she was on after leaving. With courage and passion Helen helps other people recover from people-pleasing, help to create healthy boundaries and create healthy relationships in their lives. 

Steve Carr is an award winning Mental Health First Aid and Suicide First Aid instructor. After experiencing a mental health breakdown, substance abuse, multiple suicide attempts and becoming homeless, he decided to walk the whole length of Britain, from Lands' End to John o' Groats His 3 month long challenge was an effort to raise awareness for mental health and homelessness whilst being in recovery and homeless himself. After completing his challenge he wrote a report and walk from his hometown in Swindon to 10 Downing Street to hand-deliver it to David Cameron. 

This time I had a chance to talk to Madeline Lee who is a transformational mindset coach. Madeline’s challenges with mental health started when she was diagnosed with herpes. After dealing with a lot of stigma, physical, and emotional pain herself, she now helps other people get through their challenges in life. She has a “Ride your stigma” podcast, she is a multi-talented life coach, she teaches dancing and twerking, and spreads positive energy wherever she goes.

In this episode I had a chance to speak to my good friend Anna Lampart. She is a life coach and a very inspiring, open-minded person. Our intention was to have a conversation about shame, but we have also managed to cover a few other interesting subjects.

This time my guest was my good friend Natalie Lockyer. We had a conversation about her challenges with mental health and having a meltdown in the middle of an open plan office. Natalie is very experienced in martial arts, holding a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu and having an experience of running 4 fighting gyms. She is a life coach who wants to help organisations improve culture and performance through conscious leadership.

Andy and Tommy who have created the legendary "Man up podcast" have been my guests in this episode. We talked about how they challenge the stereotypes around men's mental health, how they use their podcast and weekly meetings to connect with a group of men who support each other through challenging times.  Andy and Tommy have also shared their personal struggles with mental health and what helped them to find balance in life.