"A gift to be swift, follow the leader, the rhyme’ll go Def with the record that was mixed a long time ago" A show about records we love. SOCIALS: @deafwiththerecord
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The Disability Sport Info podcast discusses academic insights on different topics to do with disability sport. This show is perfect if you want to hear from expert academics researching disability sport.
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The Podcast of Jeremiah Wheelersburg (J.N.Wheels) where he reads his book, "The Minister, The Ministry & Me" and shares inspiring words from old dead guys (ODG's)– Christian leaders, authors and theologians from the past, as well as hosting various guests and discussing everything from Theology to Ministry and anything else in life from a biblical worldview.
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Welcome to Becoming More Human - stories worth sharing.Becoming More Human is created by thought-leaders, creators, curators, spiritual luminaries and health and wellness experts, to share their stories to inspire, delight and support people around the world on their journey to getting closer to answering life’s biggest question; WHO AM I? Join me, Francesca Donnellan, from London UK, as I interview guests from around the world about their personal stories and how they've edged closer to fin ...
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This podcast is a follow-up to my book. I am here to bring messages to the deaf and visions to the blind. We have lost sense of who we are as human beings and frequently misunderstand this experience because of how society has poised us to be unaware of the very thing we live in. In our struggles to find our ways past the traumas that likely began in childhood, we’ve developed a disconnect as we aged that we call by many names – such as, anxiety, depression, and fear. But, it’s simply mental ...
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Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: LEXI classification system
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In this special episode, I speak to Giles Long, founder of the LEXI classification system. LEXI (https://lexi.global/) communicates the Parasport classification system in a clear and simple manner. During our chat I discover why and how LEXI was invented, what makes LEXI unique, and the best ways of communicating the Parasport classification system…
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Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: What is disability?
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In this episode, the first of a special series on the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, I explore what disability is. Professor Tom Shakespeare, a renowned Disability Studies scholar, discusses the meaning of disability for the individual and how disability is perceived within society. This episode is perfect if you want to learn about disability to sup…
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In this short episode, I announce an exciting new YouTube series for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. Exclusive content will be hosted on the @DisabilitySportInfo YouTube channel before and during the event. I'll show you how the Paralympics became the event it is today, how success is achieved, and consider the legacy of the Paralympics, and much …
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Connect With E Here! This one may be too harsh for some of you, but the caring and wise beauty of my passion for humanity to do better for themselves that you know and love in this podcast is weaved in. No one is expecting people to divulge their entire lives to random people or even strangers, but if a friend asks you how you’re doing, be mf’n hon…
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Connect With E Here! This is an excerpt from my book, "How to Not Give a Shit, and Not Be a Dumb Ass in the Process: The Ultimate Guidebook on Being a Better Human." Check it out if you enjoyed these couple of minutes. Amazon link below in the sign-off. Try out our new text messaging feature directly above the episode descriptions if you have some …
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Addiction: Being a Junkie isn't #LifeGoals
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Connect With E Here! Self-explanatory, but I always have to explain. Souls born from the uterus of a junkie, my generation used to call crackhead babies. These are the ones with the innate propensity to follow the ashy apple tree they fell from. This is a medical circumstance. This episode talks about people not of this beginning but make it their …
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Let’s Love Each Other then Fight These Peeholes Together: They are the Reason Our Lives are a Sloppy, Wet Mess.
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Connect With E Here! There’s a giant web of collusion. If people are eating unhealthy food, they’ll eventually fall into the healthcare arena. Then, we have to deal with more assfuckery. We already know insurance companies will deny life-saving drugs and treatments. We know that doctors will only see you if they can bill insurance, so they’ll let y…
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Labour win an election landslide: what does it mean for disability sport?
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In this emergency podcast, I react to Labour winning a landslide in the UK General Election. I consider what the new Labour government means for disability sport, specifically at the grassroots sport level. Please get in touch with your thoughts on the episode Thanks for listening to the Disability Sport Info show!…
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Mind the gap - a live recording about disability sport participation
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In this episode, the UK's Get Active (2023) strategy for physical activity and sport participation is considered. An expert panel consider the details of the strategy and its implication for disabled people's sport participation and physical activity. Specifically, we consider the UK government's pledge to get 700,000 more disabled people active by…
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Faith in Self (The Feminine Energy of Just Being)
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Connect With E Here! While this episode was in the spirit of closing out another women's month, there was more on my heart to share. There is yin and yang to everything. Duality and balance in all. Faith is the energy of believing in the integrity of this truth. We can have faith in many external things, but they mean nothing if we don’t have faith…
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Connect With E Here! For millennia, the Catholic church has had its hand in everyone’s life, including those who are not of their grain. This hand has infiltrated our homes, politics, and many societies’ norms. However, not in any good way. Religion should never be something abusive and vicious. It is what people cling to for understanding life and…
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Connect With E Here! This episode is about going back to basics – like, elementary basics. Things don’t seem to sink in until the nexus of the thought is made as plainly as possible for people to get it. Nothing in adulthood makes sense, so we need to view it from untainted eyes and minds. As I like to say, “life is an ouroboros.” Sometimes, we nee…
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Connect With E Here! Another recording from 2021, as we are watching and experiencing out of control wildfires; earthquakes in places that are not normally busy with seismic activity; volcanoes waking up from their million- or billion-year slumbers; and water raising from everywhere in tsunamis; numerous and out of control storms; and the global se…
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Connect With E Here! The same stories seemingly cross many major cultures of the world, further showing us we are all made from the same inaugural thread weaved. The Ark of the Covenant is very similar to a purportedly older Egyptian technological device called, the Osiris Device, which was said to have the same function of communicating with God/t…
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In this episode, I'm joined by Josef Baines, Insight Manager at London Sport, to discuss the physical activity and sport participation of disabled Londoners. We consider the current sport and physical activity of disabled Londoners, including projects London Sport are supporting. We discuss the impact and influence of the cost of living crisis on d…
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Connect With E Here! This episode was recorded in 2021. I have to laugh because, as I'm highly intuitive, I brought this shit to light in my book and on this episode just to be watching it unfold two years later. Everything I say is truth. The Golden Rule applies to anyone and every business. You can't treat your stakeholders like shit then expect …
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Connect With E Here! This episode was recorded just over a year after my mother’s transcendence in 2021. People kept asking me if I was grieving and getting through everything. I questioned whether I was grieving because people kept asking, but these were other people’s questions. I grieved when I saw her soul leave in a dream then again at other t…
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Uncle Kevin & I: Breaking habits and setting yourself free! The spiritual lessons we learned from Conducta's interview
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This week Uncke Kevin & Fran deep dive into the spiritual side of Conducta's interview from Tuesday’s episode. The poster boy for Becoming More Human, Conducta's story is inspiring so please go and listen back! The last episode before our summer break so please enjoy! This is Conducta's book recommendation, Atomic Habits by James Clear. Start break…
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Conducta on breaking the mould and changing the record to his life
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This week Francesca is joined by Conducta, a British producer of UK garage music and head of Kiwi Records label. Coducta produced the biggest-selling UK Garage record in history, AJ Tracey’s "Ladbroke Grove". Conducta was riding high, traveling the world when life started to run him, after a number of years he found himself hitting rock bottom. Aft…
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Uncle Kevin & I: What part of you have you not recognised yet? The spiritual lessons we learned from Samantha's interview
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This week Uncke Kevin & Fran deep dive into the spiritual side of Samantha's interview from Tuesday’s episode. What part of you have you not recognised, that may need help but you just keep avoiding it? We have an assumption that 'normal' is very definable, and well quite frankly it isn't, but somehow part of us still feels we have to try to become…
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Samantha Baines on Living with Hearing Loss & Deafness
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This week Francesca is joined by Samantha Baines, a comedian, author, actress, and presenter, she openly talks about her journey to finding out she was deaf at 16 years old. Samantha is one of the most honest people we have interviewed on the podcast, she owns her story and tells it with humour and warmth. She will challenge you on what you think y…
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Uncle Kevin & I: Where are you on your journey to Becoming More Human? The spiritual lessons we learned from Jo's interview
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This week Uncke Kevin & Fran deep dive into the spiritual side of Jo Elvin's interview from Tuesday’s episode. We are asking you this week, where are you in your current journey to Becoming More Human? What is your evolution? Which chapter are you in? Dive into this episode and get your pen and paper ready! Follow us https://www.instagram.com/becom…
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Jo Elvin on resilience, honesty, and entering a new chapter of her life
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This week Francesca is joined by Jo Elvin, she talks openly about the evolution of her life and the new chapter she is opening. Jo has experienced major ups and downs in her career life, and she has faced it head-on with grace and honesty. She is a refreshingly open person who talks about her own personal battles with the stories she has told herse…
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Uncle Kevin & I: What benefit is it if you gain the whole world but lose yourself? The spiritual lessons we learned from Sadie's interview
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This week Uncke Kevin & Fran deep dive into the spiritual side of Sadie's interview from Tuesday’s episode. We touch on some key points from Sadie's interview including the power of the 12 step-programme, we would love to see this being taught in schools - you'll have to listen as to why. Our stories are often caught up in a direction that no longe…
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Sadie Frost a British icon, on the evolution of personal growth and taking back control
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This week Francesca is joined by Sadie Frost, a British icon, known to fill the page of the British media, so you think you might know her as you've read about her in the press, but as always it's easy to on look and never really know the real human behind the story. Sadie has really lived an incredible life, she's someone who has never stood still…
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Uncle Kevin & I: Have you found your story? The spiritual lessons we learned from Vicky's interview
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This week Uncke Kevin & Fran deep dive into the spiritual side of Vicky's interview from Tuesday’s episode. This is all about creativity, and finding your story. So often we wrap up the facts with stories, rather than figuring out who we are, we end up moving further away from what is real. We tell ourselves stories our minds make up and people aro…
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Vikki Stone on the creative process & the personal value of connecting to the arts
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This week Francesca is joined by Vikki Stone, an award-winning writer, composer, comedian and musician. She recently won an Olivier Award for Hey Duggee Live and she made history as the first on-screen female musical director of a primetime entertainment show in the UK when she was musical director, pianist and band leader of the ITV Saturday night…
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Uncle Kevin & I: What's your real truth behind your relationship with money? The spiritual lessons we learned from Bola's interview
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This week Uncke Kevin & Fran deep dive into the spiritual side of Bola's interview from Tuesday’s episode. What is your relationship like with money? Are you standing in your truth? Are you being authentic and honest? Money can rule our lives and relationships, it's time to get real with yourself in order to set yourself free. Follow us https://www…
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Bola Sol on financial wellness and changing your budgets in accordance with the seasons
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This week Francesca is joined by Bola Sol, a financial wellness expert. This episode is a hard and fast deep dive into financial wellness, this includes hints, tips, and sound advice to get saving and how to make your money work for you. To be more fully human we have to be real about life right in this very moment, and money forms a huge part of o…
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Uncle Kevin & I: Personal branding is the new way to talk about identity but is the image we strive for ourselves a healthy one?
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This week Uncke Kevin & Fran deep dive into the spiritual side of Alexandra's interview from Tuesday’s episode. Have you considered if you're creating a personal brand? How does that reflect your identity? What perception are you creating of who you are? Are you telling the truth effectively or are you living a lie? The line between the two is very…
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High-Performance Sport: Athlete transitions and retirement out of elite sport
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In this episode, I'm joined by Dr Andrea Bundon to discuss the transition and retirement experiences of Parasport athletes. We consider the current support and experiences of athletes who are exiting the sport. We discuss the impact of being declassified, an issue unique to Parasport, and how this impacts the athlete. Finally, we appraise how post-…
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Alexandra Lunn on personal branding and the personal dangers surrounding what we've created
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This week Francesca is joined by Alexandra Lunn, a Founder of her named sake branding studio based in London. We are all now defining ourselves as brands, even if we're not fully conscious of it, it's happened as social media became part of our daily lives. But as we define ourselves, are we becoming disconnected from who we really are? Are we port…
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High-Performance Sport: Technology in Parasport
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In this episode, I speak with Dr Bryce Dyer to understand the role technology plays in Parasport performance. We consider how technology has developed from crude pieces of technology to sophisticated, state of the art equipment. The disparity in technology between richer and poorer nations is appraised, including how this impacts their Paralympic p…
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Uncle Kevin & I: Are you looking for a new beginning? The spiritual lessons we learned from Marcelina's interview
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This week Uncke Kevin & Fran deep dive into the spiritual side of Marcelina's interview from Tuesday’s episode. This is all about new beginnings, and getting back to your true self, it's a life choice and not an easy one but the pay off is worth it. Follow us https://www.instagram.com/becoming_more_human/ #StoriesWorthSharing For exclusive episodes…
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Marcelina Adamczyk on new beginnings and not ignoring the core of who you are
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This week Francesca is joined by Marcelina Adamczyk, she is a movement expert focusing on the mind-body connection. She quit her 9-5 and decided to focus on her inner workings and found linking movement to breath as a powerful journey. This episode will inspire you to get out of your own head and to get moving, whatever is going on in your life, si…
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Uncle Kevin & I: To play or not to play? The spiritual lessons we learnt from Claire's interview
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In this week's special episode with Uncle Kevin and Fran, they go into a spiritual discussion off the back of Claire's interview on creativity. Do you have time to play? Do you know your story? Maybe you think you're too old to play? This is your sign to get out and play, get creative, and unleash your true self... we dare you! Follow us https://ww…
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In this episode, I speak with elite Deaf athletes, Claire Stancliffe and Nathan Young, about their sporting careers. Claire is a GB & England Deaf Women's footballer, while Nathan is a GB & England Deaf Swimmer. In the episode, we consider Claire and Nathan's careers, the (lack of) funding and recognition of Deaf sport, and how the UK sport system …
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Claire Koryczan on the Creative Economy and why you must find time to play.
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This week's special episode is with Claire Koryczan Founder & Director of Imagine Beyond, we discuss the creative economy, yes that's right, the creative economy is something are living through right now. Do you consider yourself creative? Most people as they get older don't think about being creative, as we're usually 'too busy', but this episode …
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In this episode, I discuss the support provided to Parasport athletes. I speak with Dr Mike Hutchinson of the British Paralympic Association to consider this in more detail. On the show, we discuss the nature and extent of support provided to athletes, the influence and role of classification, and how the BPA are supporting athletes in the lead-up …
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Special Episode: Humanitarian aid on the front line in Africa, what can we learn?
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This special episode Francesca recorded in the studio in the iconic Somerset House in London with the CEO of Doctors with Africa CUAMM UK, Andrea Atzori. Andrea shares stories from the ground in Africa, real inspirational stories from people living in Africa, and he goes into detail about how Doctors with Africa CUAMM UK plays an integral role in s…
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In this episode, I speak with Dr Rob Townsend to consider high-performance Parasport coaching. We consider the current state of play, the scope and quality of coach education in Parasport, as well as examples of best practice. Below are links to papers referenced in the episode. Link to Rob's PhD thesis: https://bit.ly/43mveXd Link to paper discuss…
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The evolution to becoming you true authentic self: In conversation with Allegra Haines, an entrepreneur, and trans rights advocate for International Women's Day
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This week's special episode is with entrepreneur and trans rights advocate Allegra Haines, recorded at Soho House, White City, London for International Women's Day powered by Porsche. This inspiring talk will help you learn about what it means to be a transgender woman and provide space for personal thought about the vision we hold for ourselves to…
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Uncle Kevin & I: Are you living a fairytale life and are you even aware of it? The spiritual lessons we learnt from Katinka's interview
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This week Uncke Kevin & Fran deep dive into the spiritual side of Katinka's interview from Tuesday’s episode. Have you heard of Cinderella Syndrome? We all want a fairy tale ending, don't we? Fran and Uncle Kevin discuss 'our story' in context to the narrative we create for ourselves, often a fairytale, which could very well find us in trouble late…
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In this episode, I speak with Adam Blaze, CEO of Activity Alliance, the leading voice for disabled people in sport and activity in England. We discuss the role of the Activity Alliance in supporting disabled people to be active. We consider the policy challenges and opportunities facing the Activity Alliance. We then assess disabled people's curren…
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Katinka Blackford Newman on the pill that nearly took her life
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This week Francesca is joined by Katinka Blackford Newman, she is an award-winning documentary film director and writer with countless hours of high-end broadcast TV to her name. She has worked in television for over 25 years and has made films for major international broadcasters and streamers including Discovery, National Geographic, HBO Max, BBC…
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Uncle Kevin & I: Follow a dream or give up? The spiritual lessons we learnt from Shelli's interview
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This week Uncke Kevin & Fran deep dive into the spiritual side of Shelli's interview from Tuesday’s episode. Have you given up on a dream? Or maybe you don't dare to dream? There is only a thin line separating a dream and a fantasy, where are you on this scale? Shelli's story was so inspiring it got Fran and Uncle Kevin thinking about the dreams th…
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Shelli Epstein on perseverance, life in the circus and fulfilling a dream
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Francesca is joined by Shelli Epstein, she began her career as a gymnast before becoming a star performer with the world-renowned Cirque du Soleil. After Covid and an injury abruptly ended Shelli’s ability to perform, she dedicated herself to becoming a fitness and performance coach, and now works with athletes and fitness enthusiasts, teaching the…
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Uncle Kevin & I: How to transform your life in the face of adversity. The spiritual lessons we learned from Rachael Welford
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This week Uncke Kevin & Fran deep dive into the spiritual side of Rachael's interview from Tuesday’s episode. After facing huge personal challenges in life, it can sometimes feel impossible to see the wood through the trees, we reflect on Rachael's episode and her strength and teachings that came from such a tough place. This is a reminder that the…
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International Women's Day Special: A panel discussion around can women have it all?
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This special episode is sponsored by Gaucho and M restaurants based in the UK, they provided the backdrop for the International Women's Day talk. We take a whistle-stop tour of the many challenges women face when striving forward in the modern world. So many pearls of wisdom in this episode, jump straight in, and don't forget to share it with anyon…
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Rachael Welford on the power of healing from within
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On this week's episode, Francesca is joined by Rachael Welford. Rachael focuses on empowering women to heal so they can live in a place of inner power and happiness. Sharing her incredible story of overcoming burnout, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and suicide attempts to be voted one of London’s best alternative therapists by Time Out. This is an epis…
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