Connected

In this episode Gemma talks to former rugby league player Stephen Wild about his fitness and mental wellbeing programmes and how getting healthy is actually causing people to leave their jobs! Stephen shared some tips around improving our fitness: 1. There are no quick fixes. "We want to look at different aspects of life and just try to improve one or two areas so they can kick in and develop over time." 2. Don't focus all your goals around weight or dress size. "If your only goal is to...

In this episode Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach, talks to Dawn Elliott, Founder and CEO of Sew Confident Chorley. Dawn is a contributor to Connected: The 12 Ways of Wellbeing for a Holistically Healthy Life and features in Chapter 14: Transcendental Wellbeing. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

After a break for the summer, we are back with the Connected channel for Season 2. To kick us off, in this episode, Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach for Gemma Louise Coaching, and author of Connected: The 12 Ways of Wellbeing for a Holistically Healthy Life talks to Amanda Englishby, CEO of Amanda Englishby Life Coach. Amanda is an NLP and EFT Practitioner, terms which we hear a lot within wellbeing but often aren't sure what they mean. Here Amanda takes us through the...

In this episode Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach at Gemma Louise Coaching, talks to Julia Riewald, Owner of Julia Riewald, a success and health coaching business. The saying goes that all disease begins in the gut but there is so much more to it than this! Julia explains just how big of an impact our gut health can have on our overall wellbeing and how we can take care of it. Julia appears in our upcoming book, Connected: The 12 Ways of Wellbeing for a Holistically...

In this episode Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach talks to Amy Newton, Director of Cherished Memories Photography about being creative, learning from failure and finding inspiration. Amy features in the Transcendental Wellbeing chapter of our upcoming book Connected: The 12 Ways of Wellbeing for a Holistically Healthy Life where she gives us an insight into just how powerful creativity can be for our health. Getting lost in something is a great way to relax and unwind and...

In this episode Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach talks to John Stephen, Business Development Director for The Forces Transition Group about sleepwalking through the transition from the military and how understanding who you are can help. After his own successful Army career, John found he struggled with transition and now helps others to navigate that period successfully. Highlighting the importance of resilience, taking care of your mental health, and reaching out for...

In this episode Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach talks to Debbie Edwards, Owner and Executive Assistant at The Omnipresent Assistant where Debbie shares all the ways in which her services can support new businesses. Since the beginning of the pandemic an increasing number of people have decided to make the leap into self-employment but it is not an easy road. I read a stat recently that said 80% of coaching businesses fail in the first two years which is a little scary...

In this episode Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach talks to Suzanne Barbour, Life Coach at Barbour Coaching. Here Suzanne talks about how her own experiences of surviving cancer led to provide support for others. Taking care of our physical wellbeing is so important, but some things are beyond our control. Life changing illnesses affect all areas of our wellbeing beyond the physical, and not just while they are taking place but often for a long time afterwards. This is why...

In this episode Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach talks to Kathryn Jeacock, Director of DBKT Coaching about action learning and how teams can effectively collaborate, problem solve and lead in the 21st Century. The team is changing and rumour has it that the need for group coaching will grow by five times its current market in the coming years. Right at the front of this movement is Kathryn and her passion for action learning as a way to bring out the best in the teams...

In this episode Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach talks to Justine Hodgkinson, CEO of Advocacy Focus about being a voice for those in need, the collective grief of COVID and supporting staff wellbeing through the pandemic and beyond. Justine and her team have won awards for their work around mental health and wellbeing both for their internal staff but also for the wider community. Based in the North West Advocacy Focus provides Health and Social Care support for those who...

In this episode Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach talks to The Relationship Guy, John Kenny, about spotting a toxic relationship, being authentic online, and breaking those old and unwanted dating habits. Our personal and intimate relationships have a huge effect on our overall wellbeing; from how and where we spend our time to how and where we spend our money, from how and where we work to the hobbies and activities we engage in. When done right relationships can be...

Here Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach talks to Culture and Relationship Coach Lou Chiu about allyship as a growing movement and how to deal with conflict in our day to day encounters. Conflict is inevitable: we all have unique values, beliefs, backgrounds and experiences; we all have different triggers and motivators; and we all have our own ways of doing things. Handling conflict in a safe and healthy way is key to successful relationships whether that's in the boardroom...

In this episode Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach talks to Owner of The Balance Approach Jackie Robinson about the importance of making memories. We often don't associate memories and memory making with our wellbeing when actually it is not only incredibly useful but often means engaging with other areas of our wellbeing as well such as social, relational, spiritual or environmental wellbeing amongst others. Here Jackie not only talks through the magic of memories but...

In this session Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach welcomes former police officer turned Trauma and Loss Coach Robyn Ramsell. Over the past year we have been made aware, more than ever, the pressures on our frontline, care, uniformed and emergency service staff and the impact that pressure has on individuals. Taking lessons from her own experiences in the police, her personal PTSD journey, and her move into coaching others, Robyn gives us an insight into the importance of...

Gemma Margerison, The Resilience and Recovery Coach, talks to Adam Grayston, The Body Transformation Coach, about a natural, no diet, approach to weight loss. Diet is a huge part of our wellbeing. The choices that we make about what we eat and how we nourish our bodies impacts us in so many different ways including our body confidence and how we see ourselves. Weight is a difficult subject and is often quite painful for people to explore. That is why we invited Adam to be our first guest...