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Nic Elliott, employment lawyer at Actons talks to HR Directors and People Directors about their journey into HR, gets their insights into current trends in the world of work and takes their advice on the future of HR and how HR professionals can deliver value and progress their careers. Actons is the independent Nottingham law firm. We’re well-known for our open and friendly culture, underpinned by top-quality legal advice. Whilst our origins date back some 200 years, we’re a modern, progres ...
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Welcome to the Career Stories Podcast - a place where you can learn more about real life career stories and careers advice from the field. I'm Penny Strutton your host. A qualified coach, certified business psychologist and organisational development consultant who works with organisations across the private, public and voluntary sector. When choosing a career or switching career, building your knowledge of other careers available is one of the first steps in starting your development journe ...
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What’s better, democracy or monarchy? We discuss societal systems from the past, along with how they have changed into what we know today, as well as some observations once again on voting, and whether it gives you any real choice at all. Speaking on monarchy, what on earth has been going on with the British royals? We dissect some of the crazy, an…
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In this episode, Andrew starts off with an observation about trade offs and how it’s not just the left who doesn’t understand them properly. We then move on to trans ideology where Andrew asks another of his ‘genuine questions’ on how trans beliefs could possibly work in parallel with sexuality. After this, we move on to the bulk of the podcast whe…
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This episode, we talk about a whole bunch of stuff. But, unintentionally almost all of it leads to psychology. Dark psychology. We talk about religion, and how it can incentivise evil. We talk about the spread of good & evil in society and why you should probably expect the same spread at the elite level. Or at the very least, you shouldn’t expect …
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It’s religion again, this time. Although, firstly we feel we have to talk about the recent James Delingpole / David Icke event or, more specifically, the reaction from James afterwards. You can watch it yourself here if you want to, before listening to this podcast: https://delingpole.substack.com/p/david-icke During the event, James accuses David …
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In this episode Vicky Walker, Group Director of People at Westfield Health shares her career journey, including 20+ years at Tesco and working her way up to her current role at Westfield. Vicky shares her thoughts on the profession, ranging from “toilet rolls to disciplinaries” and explains her more strategic role as Director of People. Nic asks Vi…
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Welcome to another special edition of Sounding Board. The last episode was part one of a talk given by Professor Dolores Cahill, last year. This episode is part two. In this one, the second half, Dolores continues to talk about co-ops and the law. As well as telling us a little about her fascinating history. Like the last episode, it is an honour t…
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This episode is a little different from our normal podcasts. Nic and I aren’t chatting in this one. Instead, we present to you a talk that was given last year. A talk, you’ll be pleased to know, that was given by someone other than ourselves. It’s difficult to overstate just how courageous our speaker is, today. Nic and I have been open about how w…
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Andrew revisits the philosophical razors we’ve previously discussed, but rather than a flaming laser sword, comes up with an obsidian scalpel. We put it to the test, which leads us to another of our favourite things – a scale. At Sounding Board we love a good spectrum, so Andrew details his 4 levels of clown show and we inevitably end up going full…
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In this episode Karen Jewell, Director, HR and Organisational Development at Equip UK Technologies Ltd shares her career journey from HR roles in the energy sector, to HR Director at Derby City Council, to leading the people strategy for the Rab and Lowe Alpine outdoor apparel and equipment performance brands. Karen talks about her experience at Eq…
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When you eat a plant are you microdosing poison, or does it really want to be eaten? Andrew has a theory that the most delicious things must surely want to be consumed by man. Nic reveals a startling change in his well being after a birthday present from Andrew – does this mean Nic has been sensitive to EMFs all along? And finally we talk of the ev…
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It’s time for a new razor. One that adequately describes the mantra of the crazy cock up theorists. Andrew takes a new, more mathematical slant on showing how the recent tyranny couldn’t possibly be an accident, which leads us into a discussion of philosophical razors and other laws and observations from across the ages. By the end we have two new …
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Today I had the pleasure of talking to Ani Filipova from Athens. Ani's Career story Ani tells a fascinating story, starting with a degree in banking and finance in Bulgaria, Ani worked her way up to be the COO at Citi Bank in Hong Kong. Just a few years ago Ani took the leap and now has a portfolio career – she’s a board member, founder, change adv…
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In this episode, Pat Woodfield, Executive Group Director, Business Strategy, People & Culture at YMCA Robin Hood Group shares her career journey from executive personal assistant, to HR Manager, to COO and CEO roles, to Executive HR positions. Pat talks about the great work the YMCA is doing, including their new site in Newark, the Malt Cross music…
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Sam Harris is at it again. He’s refining his idiotic arguments to be slightly more coherent idiotic arguments. We play a recent clip then take it apart. We then talk about the covid vaccines before Nic makes a point about privatisation and then, well, you’ll just have to listen… Please visit our website to download or stream all our previous episod…
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Dr Stewart Desson, CEO and founder of Lumina Learning. Stewart talks about how he transitioned from working with numbers to people and how he now combines both interests in his work with psychometrics. The path to Lumina Learning 13 years ago he made the leap and embraced his entrepreneurial ability to launch and grow Lumina Learning, now a global …
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SPOILER ALERT! After Andrew asks a difficult question for conservative voters, Nic reveals the main plot and key twist of Apple TV show Silo in order to explore the methods and motives of those controlling society. Can we find parallels in the real world? Do we ever really know the truth? If you don’t want to hear the spoiler, only listen to the fi…
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Wendy Plumb's career path has taken her from her Customer Experience and Insight role at British Gas to Harlequins Rugby Club to now as the Assistant Director of donor engagement at Samaritans. Wendy's Career Path Wendy shares a fascinating story of working within a variety of industries, finding her purpose and living her values through her work, …
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In this episode, recorded back in March 2023 on International Women’s Day, Charlotte Coore, Head of People & Culture at 200 Degrees Coffee and Zoë Ogden, People Director at Impression share their career journey in HR and experience working in rapidly growing SME businesses. Zoë and Charlotte talk about the differences between working in larger corp…
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This episode, Andrew starts by changing his position on the bible, from what it was a couple of weeks ago, due to our last podcast. Nic and Andrew then begin to reclarify all the things that they have changed their minds on over the past few years, from vaccines to myocarditis to the deep state. Photo by Ross Findon on Unsplash Please visit our web…
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David is the Offshore Director at BrandSafway, an international construction company. David's career journey David spent the first 21 years of his career working as a civil engineer, building bridges in the UK and Portugal. He shares a fantastic insight into transitioning from hands on engineering to leadership. Career Change Tip In every episode I…
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Wouldn’t it be funny if it turned out that there isn’t a spiritual god mentioned in what we know of as the Bible? What if the bad guys calculatingly and deliberately edited text, removed entire books and changed (or outright invented) definitions of words 2000 years ago in order to “create” religion? Well Bible scholar and formal official Vatican t…
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Nic is the Head of Dispute Resolution and Employment Group at Actons Solicitors based in Nottingham. Nics career path and advice Nic gives a great insight into the journey he’s taken from university to becoming a qualified solicitor, specifically in the line of employment law. Nic is also the host of the HRD talks podcast. https://www.actons.co.uk/…
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In this episode Adam Dilks, Group People Director at Nightcap Plc shares his career journey in HR from a training scheme at Tesco, to his current role helping Nightcap achieve its goal of becoming the leading late night bar group. He claims it’s not just about the cocktails! Adam tells Nic about the entrepreneurial approach at Nightcap, led by Sara…
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Chris Orme is the sales director at Travelodge. Chris career path Chris has had a really interesting career, all centering around the travel industry. Chris’s passion for geography took him travelling around the world before he settled into a career of sales. He shines a light on just how important interpersonal skills are with building successful …
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In this episode, Andrew spend some time thinking about Pride, with a capital P, and how the left have embraced the worst of the seven deadly sins. But is that the only one? Or have the left embraced absolutely all of the deadly sins…? Photo by Shalone Cason on Unsplash Please visit our website to download or stream all our previous episodes and to …
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In this episode Ben Horner HR Director, Boots UK & ROI and No7 shares his experience from nearly 20 years at the company. Nic talks to Ben about his transition from the Boots legal team to the role of HR Director and the challenges he faced taking on that role during a global pandemic! Ben shares a variety of initiatives Boots have introduced relat…
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In this episode, Nic starts off with some news about where we’re charting in political podcasts. Or not. In the past, we would have considered this bad news. But now, we consider this good, as it means we’re being recognised as no longer primarily commenting on politics. This reminds Andrew of a scenario he was in recently that is a huge white pill…
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I was encouraged to share my own story and hope you enjoy the twists and turns I’ve taken to achieve my current role. Penny's career journey From television, to the environment to communities and now coaching/business psychology, I have always been inspired to make a difference. 13 years ago I was made redundant. This gave me the kick up the backsi…
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Matt Wilmot is the Group Head of Enterprise IT & Information Security and has been part of Frasers’ journey for the last 2 years. Matt's career journey so far Matt started in Finance, moved into retail and then spent 5 years in PWC where he was National Retail Lead Cyber Security before moving to Frasers. Matt says he stumbled into the world of IT …
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In this episode Maria Hawley, Director of People at Fisher German LLP, shares her journey from selling underwear on a market stall, to a career in nursing, through to building a successful career in human resources, working at law firm Nabarros, the Gangmasters Licensing Authority, and eventually her current role as Director of People. Nic and Mari…
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In this episode, Nic starts off by asking Andrew how he feels about the current war. Which war, you ask? Andrew asks the same thing. We talk about waking up and whether it’s better off to be awake, or whether blissful ignorance would lead to a greater happiness in life. We then talk about dreams, the types of recurring dreams we both have and what …
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This episode Andrew starts with an article about a topic he is genuinely an expert in: volleyball. Recently, a female volleyball player suffered head & neck injuries after being hit with a volleyball that was spiked by a trans woman (a man cosplaying as a woman). We discuss the gulf between men & women in volleyball, in wider sports and what is lik…
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In this episode Andy talks to Nic about his journey from selling TVs in Currys into the People Director roles at some of the UK’s most recognisable brands. Andy shares his views on how the world of work has changed post COVID and how employers must adapt to new ways of attracting, developing and retaining talent. Nic talks to Andy about building su…
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Here at Sounding Board, we take pride in talking about issues that are conspicuous due to their absence in the corporate press and legacy media. So for us, issues often become recurring topics, when you’ll rarely hear about them anywhere else. We begin with one such topic: currency collapse. Specifically, in this case, the petrodollar and what’s cu…
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In this episode Jane shares insights with Nic from her wide experience, having worked at Babcock, in professional services, Awbery Management and Bistrot Pierre. Jane contrasts her experience of working “in-house” as a People Director with a role operating as a consultant supporting a diverse range of clients. Nic and Jane discuss the importance of…
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In this episode Sarah Taylor, People and Culture Director at Staffline plc, shares her experience of working at BAE Systems, Boots, Carlsberg and most recently Staffline, who currently engage approximately 40,000 workers every day across the UK and Ireland. In a comprehensive review of the world of work, Nic and Sarah discuss the importance of lead…
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Have you watched Clarkson’s Farm, yet? If you have, you might be wondering just how realistic it is. In this episode we talk about the realities faced by farmers everywhere, after I spent time with some, asking them questions about all the rules and regulations they have to adhere to. We then check back in with Scott Adams, and discuss whether his …
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Since the first lockdown, back in 2020, there have been different groups of people. Firstly, authoritarians who relished in the new regulations & restrictions. Then there were the lockdown sceptics. Those of us who knew it was a terrible idea. But the sceptics were also firmly split into two camps. Those of us who thought that something sinister is…
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In our recent podcasts, there have been a few recurring themes. One of these themes has been the “cock up or conspiracy” question, as there are still many who believe that everything bad since 2020 has been the result of mistakes, of one well intentioned but ultimately disastrous policy after another. In the last episode, we suggested writing a lis…
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How many types of people have there been during the past three years of insanity? We tend to think of there being two distinct camps, pro covid measures and anti. But is it really that simple? There are many people who were anti lockdown, but pro vaccine. And even the pro vaccine can be separated again. Those who advocated mandates and those who ap…
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Last time around, we talked a lot about two well known commentators, Scott Adams and Sam Harris. Both vaccinated, and boosted up to the eyeballs, they’re now taking different paths. Scott has admitted that the anti vaxxers have won, whilst Sam is doubling down on everything. But who is doing more for the anti covid jab cause? The guy who admits he …
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In this episode, Andrew starts out by relaying some information about his recent visit to our beloved NHS, peace be upon it. Andrew and Nic then discuss a couple of people from the other side, Sam Harris and Scott Adams. Both have been pro vax, but both have appeared recently with completely different outlooks. Finally, Nic speaks about his recent …
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In 2017, the American NGO: Center for Health Security, there’s a scary name, created The SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028. A futuristic scenario for public health communicators. The parallels between SPARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 are uncanny. And not just the virus itself, but the way it’s handled by the cathedral. In this episode, we take a good look at the sc…
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Bear with us on this pod, as even the tangents we take have tangents of their own. A bit of a ramble, in this edition Andrew goes dark early, and we talk about the possibility of everyone dying who’s taken the experimental gene therapies. What about the new evidence on IgG4 antibodies and original antigenic sin? We talk about the FDA and regulation…
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There have been more twitter files releases, both on how the company worked with US intelligence agencies hand in glove, and on Covid related matters, such as suppressing antivaxxers and banning medical doctors. Did they really establish teams of off-shore operators to decide if tweets mentioning myocarditis should be censored or not? We talk about…
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In this episode, we continue to talk about the Twitter Files as 8 more threads have been dropped by independent journalists with data drops from Elon Musk. We also talk a little bit about Matt Hancock’s diaries, Covid tyranny (for a change), Strep A and Kanye West’s recent media appearances. Photo by Souvik Banerjee on Unsplash Please visit our web…
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Time for a special two parter – but only because the recorder got full and we lost the second half. Oops. So tune in next time when we will cover the topics the recorder missed, such as Matt Hancock’s diaries, a look back at our lockdown stance, and a discussion on the artist now known as Ye. For now, delve in to the #twitterfiles where we talk abo…
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Population growth is slowing, but is that evidence of a long campaign to depopulate the earth? Or is it just the continued development of poorer countries? Nic gets tangled up with some creationists which leads to a discussion on purity tests and more examples of Elliotts’ Laws. And who is giving scepticism a bad name? Photo by Tom Radetzki on Unsp…
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PLEASE NOTE: THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS PODCAST DID NOT UPLOAD CORRECTLY. PLEASE DELETE AND DOWNLOAD AGAIN IF NECESSARY. This episode Andrew begins with asking the question: Do we want people to share this podcast? He gives a few reasons why he’s been asking himself this for a couple of weeks now and we chat through why we may not want these podcast…
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This episode, we focus on the positive things that are happening in the world. From sound politicians (in other countries) to crypto currencies to vaccine hesitancy (and a few more, besides). It’s easy to focus on the negatives, but this week we hope to lighten your mood by discussing a multitude of stories that, while some may at first seem negati…
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