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Welcome to Mentally Healthy Leaders. A Platinum Award winning podcast. In this podcast series, I’ll be chatting to senior executives, special forces soldiers, entrepreneurs, world record holders, and other inspirational leaders. Many of which have experienced their own struggle with mental health issues. Our guests are happy to share their story in the hope that it will help others to talk, and encourage business leaders to create more mentally healthy workplaces. Tom Fox. Podcast host, & MD ...
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Kate Davies CBE - National Director at NHS England
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Send us a Text Message. Kate is the national director for healthcare services across England for Armed Forces serving personnel, veterans and their families; Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs); and prisons, immigration removal centres and secure children’s homes and training centres. Her national role is to assure high quality, consistent and …
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Tim Munden - CLO & Head of Global Wellbeing at Unilever
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s guest is one of the leading voices in Mental Health support in the workplace. Tim Munden, the Global Chief Learning officer at Unilever, has created programmes which aim to inspire people worldwide to look after their health and wellbeing. But it was when he first started developing these programmes, that he realised…
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Simon Blake OBE - CEO of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England
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Send us a Text Message. Our guest today is Simon Blake OBE. CEO of Mental Health First Aid England. Mental Health First Aid England has one aim - to improve the mental health of the nation. The organisation wants to see 1 in 10 of the population trained in mental health first aid, and for all of us to start considering mental health as being on a p…
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Kerry Daynes - Forensic Psychologist, Expert Witness, TV Personality, & Author
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Send us a Text Message. We may think of them as police profilers who get deep within the psyche of serial killers and sex abusers, but Kerry Daynes says her profession as a Forensic Psychologist is much more than that. She’s worked with some of the most serious offenders in our society, but she’s also worked with some of the most vulnerable. At tim…
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s guest was a Senior Global Director at both Microsoft and Google, but after suffering a severe breakdown he left the corporate world to find personal fulfillment at a Start-Up. Mark Hodgson says his life collapsed around him four years ago, but he now recognises the warning signs were there for years. At his new compa…
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Paul Spanner - PwC Consultant & Former Commando Officer
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s guest is Paul Spanner. Paul is a former Senior Officer in the Royal Marines, who was medically discharged after a cycling accident in which he suffered a fractured skull, broken back and neck among other injuries. He died twice at the side of the road. For most of us a crash of that scale may keep us off a bike forev…
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Chris Averill - Entrepreneur, Investor & Business Mentor
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s guest is Chris Averill. Chris is a successful entrepreneur, who built his tech business from scratch over a 16 year period...before selling it for a multi million pound price tag. He survived two downturns, employed teams in London and New York, worked with Fortune 500 Companies and won a host of awards. After the sa…
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Nigel Edginton-Amor - Creative Director at Sky
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s guest went 52 years before he got a diagnosis for Bipolar. He says he’d always known he was a bit different, but it wasn’t until the death of his Dad, when his life imploded, that he finally found the help and the diagnosis he’d always needed. But for Nigel Edginton-Amor, or Sky Creative Agency his illness isn’t all …
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Dean Stott - Double World Record Holder & Former Special Forces Soldier
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s guest went from being homeless as a child in Manchester’s Moss Side & suffering racial attacks for being one of the only white boy's at his school… to one of Prince Harry’s most trusted friends, and an ambassador for the mental health charity Heads Together. Dean was in the UK Special Forces (Special Boat Service), w…
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Nicky Young - Former Group MD at MullenLowe Salt
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Send us a Text Message. From living in a YMCA in London to becoming Global MD for a Strategic PR and Communications company - Nicky Young worked hard to make a name and a successful business. But in 2017 she found herself almost paralysed with depression prior to the sale of the firm. The loss of her Father, post natal depression, and the stresses …
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Mark Neill - Former Bomb Disposal Officer & MD of Landmarc Support Services
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Send us a Text Message. From the playgrounds of Belfast at the height of the conflict in Northern Ireland, to defusing terrorist bombs around the world, Mark Neill has kept a clear head and a strong focus. But the former Bomb Disposal Officer who is today’s guest, found himself unable to get out of bed for three weeks when his mental health hit roc…
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Send us a Text Message. I’m Tom Fox - and in 2015 I was diagnosed with Complex PTSD. I’d been working in high stress environments in Financial Services and the IT sectors in the City of London. The warning signs had been there for years - but I didn’t recognise them as such - because I didn’t understand Mental health. I coped by throwing myself int…
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