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The Working Parent Podcast
by Sharon Charlton-Thomson
An inspiring and uplifting podcast for anyone trying to juggle work and family life. We aim to support and resource you as we tackle today's challenges together.
Episodes
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Ep16: Working Part-Time in a Senior Role with Lee Clements
Today we are talking to Lee Clements who is Head of Sustainable Investment Solutions at FTSE Russell, a part of London Stock Exchange Group. Three years ago Lee reduced his working week to 3 ½ days to have the time to provide help for his daughter, who is severely disabled, and to support his own...
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Ep15: Working Part-Time in a Senior Role with Sara Tate
Today we are talking to Sara Tate who is responsible for delivering sustainable and profitable growth as CEO at creative agency TBWA. Sara was hired into the role on a 4 day week so that she could spend more time with her young family. Under her leadership, the agency is thriving, with media...
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Ep14: Journalling with renowned coach and author Jackee Holder
Jackee Holder is the author of five non-fiction titles: Soul Purpose: Self-Affirming Rituals, Meditations and Creative Exercises to Revive Your Spirit - 1999 Be Your Own Best Life Coach: Take charge and live the life you always wanted - 2008 49 Ways to Write Yourself Well: The Science and Wisdom…
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Ep13: Lessons from Maternity Leave and Beyond with Ruth and Stu Ashby
Ruth Ashby is a Global Talent Partner at Vodafone. She is an Occupational Psychologist who has held senior roles in Media, Consultancy and Financial Services. Stuart served for seven years as a Royal Marine Commando before establishing Fieldworks Gym in Hackney. Stu and Ruth met whilst at...
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Ep12: Being a Great Dad with David Willans
The BeingDads website where you can access past editions of David’s blog and also sign up for a weekly email drop is here: https://www.beingdads.com/ David and Kerri discussed the amount of time it takes to get back into a task that requires focus when we are interrupted or switch tasks. Here is…
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Ep11: How does a Positive Psychologist parent? with Jen Rolfe
And how much time are you providing, arranging, relating or teaching as a parent? In this episode, we speak to the wonderful Jen Rolfe about the highs and lows of her own parenting journey. What are the stand out moments – the highs and the lows, and what has really helped. Often as practitioners...
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Ep10: Getting In Touch With Your Inner Tortoise with Carl Honoré
Carl Honoré is the bestselling author, broadcaster, keynote speaker and leader of the Slow Movement. He firmly believes that living in fast forward significantly damages our health, happiness, relationships and productivity. In this podcast Carl talks about how we might harness the slowness that...
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Ep9: The Benefits of Being Bored with Dr Aric Sigman
In this delightful podcast Dr Aric Sigman explains why boredom needs an image makeover. Boredom is a constructive part of the childhood experience, vital for our children’s mental health, creativity and future success. All too often we feel obliged to ‘cure’ our children’s boredom or make every...
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Ep8: Exploring the True Value of Our Strengths with Sally Bibb
In this episode we look at the powerful, portable and purposeful resource that we all have available in our own pockets - our strengths. I explore the true value of our strengths with strengths guru Sally Bibb. Sally is director of engaging minds, a strengths consultancy, an award winning author...
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Ep7: The Office - Going Back is Just the Beginning plus How Not to Drop the Stone! with Dr Harriett Shortt
There is so much to consider about us returning to our offices. How, when, if, where and why! One things for sure this will be a transition not an event and our lockdown experiences and stories will be such a huge part of transitioning back. Dr Harriett Shortt is a Associate Professor, author,...
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Ep6: Understanding Sleep as a Resource and What Can be Done to Aid Rest with Dr Katharina Lederle
Dr. Katharina Lederle Consultant human sleep and fatigue specialist. If you are struggling with sleep during lockdown then this podcast with our very own Dr Kat is a must. Dr Kat uses evidence-based insight and provides practical knowledge about sleep science, sleep therapy and sleep-related...
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Ep5: How can kids stay connected during lockdown safely? with Paul Thomson
Paul Thomson from Tech4Parents lifts the lid on what we can all do to keep our digitally-native children safe online and help them to build the digital resilience they need to survive our social media-saturated world. Paul expands on his 3 Pillars (Privacy & Security, Physicality, Digital...
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Ep4: Home Schooling - An interview with Ed Richardson
Homeschooling! Loving, struggling or somewhere in between - what seems certain to us is that as working parents, whilst we are all in the same storm we might be in very different boats. According to our time, competencies, our schools and a whole host of other factors that will be unique to each...
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Ep3: Talking about Growth Mindset with Charlie Warshawski
Has there ever been a better time to immerse ourselves in the world of a growth mindset! And understand how we can change our mindset. In this episode, we speak to Charlie Warshawski, growth mindset guru and an executive coach and facilitator at TWPC. Charlie brings mindset theory to life…
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Ep2: Resilience during lockdown and what Killing Eve can teach us! with Dr Nihara Krause
Resilience is such a vast topic In this episode Dr Krause helps us to understand resilience and provides lots of practical tools to help us develop sustainable resilience at this time.
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Ep1: What every parent needs during lockdown with Sharon Charlton-Thomson
How do we best resource ourselves during lockdown? In this episode we explore and share mindfulness and visualisation strategies as a wonderful resource for leadership and parental focus, regulation and nourishment.
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How many episodes does The Working Parent Podcast have?
The Working Parent Podcast currently has 16 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is The Working Parent Podcast about?
An inspiring and uplifting podcast for anyone trying to juggle work and family life. We aim to support and resource you as we tackle today's challenges together.
How often does The Working Parent Podcast release new episodes?
The Working Parent Podcast has 16 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Who hosts The Working Parent Podcast?
The Working Parent Podcast is created and hosted by Sharon Charlton-Thomson.
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