It’s All About You!

Listen to this hugely inspiring story with Pancreatic Cancer Action Charity founder and cancer survivor Ali Stunt. A story of incredible resilience and drive. But, unfortunately, pancreatic cancer is silent and is often caught too late. Ali sets out 10 signs that you need to look out for in no uncertain terms and the action you must take.

We also discuss a huge controversy created by the charity, and right to the very end, it is an episode packed full of great information.

A deep dive of a conversation to kick off our Season 3.

Returning to chat with Evie Nutrition about her weight loss programme. I put my hand up to join the programme and report back. Quite the journey ensued and I might have wished I hadn’t suggested I would come back to talk about it!! If you’ve been through a cancer diagnosis or chronic illness you may recognise some of my plight! Even without either of those things, this is for you if you are trying to lose weight or weight loss those lockdown pounds from COVID-19.

2020 Stephen received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire award for his contribution to Dance. His outstanding career and support for the arts and musical theatre, in particular, he has had a positive impact inspiring many. He received an Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreography in 2010 Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Production of Hello Dolly! His biography so long it could be made into a book. Here is a snippet of some of his recent work.

Funny GirlDirector and Choreographer (Theatre Marigny, Paris 2019)

Little Shop of Horrors Director and Choreographer (Storyhouse Chester 2019)

Guys and Dolls Director and Choreographer (Theatre Marigny, Paris 2019)

White Christmas (The Curve Theatre 2018 / Dominion Theatre 2019)

Guys and dolls Director and Choreographer (The Royal Albert Hall 2018)

Chess (ENO, Coliseum Theatre 2018)

Scrooge the Musical (The Curve Theatre 2017)

Guys and dolls (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre 2017)

Top Hat Director and Choreographer (Kilworth House Theatre 2017)

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Movement Director (Donmar Warehouse 2017)

42nd Street Director and Choreographer (Theatre Du Chatelet, Paris 2016)

Deborah Fielding and Rachael Naylor chat about the mental aspect of COVID-19 and the similarities with a chronic illness diagnosis. They also confront depression and how that shows up in your life, along with some stepping stones to raise yourself out of it. Rachael was mowed down by chronic illness while running a very successful voiceover business. She tells us her story, how she is rebuilding her life and many of the lessons that she has understood along the way... 

A chat with Hayley Plummer who is a health and fitness coach specialising in helping women develop healthy relationships with food and their bodies while getting them to their fitness goals.

Hayley’s mission is to cut the confusion and stress out of getting the body you want and empower you with the knowledge and the mindset you need to keep those results for life.

As a self-confessed foodie who loves cake, chocolate and sticky toffee pudding, Hayley is strongly against restrictive dieting and believes in enjoying food rather than avoiding it. Combining this with a training program focused on improving your body’s strength and capabilities (rather than just flogging it to burn calories) means she can help you achieve awesome results AND enjoy the process along the way.

Here we talk about COVID-19 or Coronavirus and balanced eating to keep you in a good space during tough times.

Listen as Victoria Mann and Deborah Fielding chat about keeping yourself in optimum health during COVID-19 and other huge times in our lives.

 Victoria graduated from King’s College London in 2011 with a Masters degree in Dietetics and practiced as a Registered Dietitian within the NHS from 2011-2018. Victoria started her career as a Dietitian at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. Here she gained a vast array of experience in the medical nutritional therapy of various diseases including heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes. She spent time working in the Weight Management & Bariatric surgery team working with both groups and individuals aiming to lose weight and improve their health.

In 2013 Victoria moved back to her home city of Oxford and joined Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This was a split role spending half her week seeing patients who wanted to lose weight for health reasons and half her week working with patients who had been diagnosed with cancer. She then moved into a senior role as a Macmillan Advanced Dietitian. Providing specialist care for people diagnosed with cancer. 

In 2018 she left the NHS to follow her passion for health promotion. She qualified as a Personal Trainer and now offers a private Dietetic service in Oxford as well as working as a Personal Trainer.

Victoria is now in a unique position to be able to offer professional dietary advice alongside exercise advice to a wide variety of clients both online and in person.

A chat with Hayley Plummer who is a health and fitness coach specialising in helping women develop healthy relationships with food and their bodies while getting them to their fitness goals.

Hayley’s mission is to cut the confusion and stress out of getting the body you want and empower you with the knowledge and the mindset you need to keep those results for life.

As a self-confessed foodie who loves cake, chocolate and sticky toffee pudding, Hayley is strongly against restrictive dieting and believes in enjoying food rather than avoiding it. Combining this with a training program focused on improving your body’s strength and capabilities (rather than just flogging it to burn calories) means she can help you achieve awesome results AND enjoy the process along the way.

Jo and her husband Robin have 3 children. Her middle son has a hypoglycemic brain injury. Many symptoms are similar to autism. They say he is severely autistic; it saves explaining to people. Jo chats about their journey through, and how they found out by accident, rather than being informed, that it was hospital negligence. She talks about the mental struggle and the battle that followed to get justice for her son, Ben.

English dancer Gary Avis MBE is Senior Ballet Master and a Principal Character Artist of The Royal Ballet. He joined the Company in 1989 and was promoted to Soloist in 1995 and to Principal Character Artist in 2005. He was made Assistant Ballet Master in 2007 and Ballet Master during the 2009/10 Season, promoted to Senior Ballet Master in 2019. His many roles with the Company include almost all the male Principal Character roles, including Drosselmeyer (The Nutcracker), Von Rothbart (Swan Lake) and Step-Sister (Cinderella). He has created many roles for The Royal Ballet. Gary is a giver with a big heart and it was a pleasure to sit and chat with him in the Ampi-theatre at the Royal Opera House.

In this soundbite, Nutritionist Jen McDiarmid and I sit around the kitchen table chatting about gut health and learn more than we bargained for!

Sitting round the kitchen table giving out the sugar life hacks with Jen McDiarmid. This topic is covered in greater depth in www.365daysofnutrition.com taking you to a healthier space in your life.

If you are going through or recovering from chronic illness, hitting menopause, wishing your energy levels were better or would simply love to feel really well, then this podcast is worth a listen to. 

I was able to go back to the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, and speak to Carol Scott about her exceptional team in the Radiotherapy Department. It was incredible the level of service that I and many others have received there. I was keen to know how that was built and where it comes from. There were many messages in there that big businesses could learn from too.

When Christine Bruce was plunged into an accident that the police likened to driving into a wall at 70mph, she had a lot of processing and mental work to do to pull herself through. Listen in to see how she did that and what it has given her since.

Jody Raynsford. Successful writer. Crazy Ultrarunner. Creative marketer. Co-host of the phenomenon that is The Bad Boy Running Podcast. I loved recording this podcast with Jody. Digging into mental health matters and listening to his crazy stunts (in my mind!) in the running world. He has endured both mental and physical challenges and shares his insights with us here.

After half a dozen careers and a full on skirmish with Cancer, Mike Dicks has reinvented himself as an illustrator, designer and humourist, working from his Brighton studios with guidance and advice from his dog, Scrabble. Not letting his treatment and diagnosis hold him back from doing what he loves Mike is a great example of pulling yourself into a greater space... despite it all.

Olympic Champion Greg Searle and his wife Jenny sit in their kitchen and chat to me about support and family values. A strong message of unity for anyone undertaking a big step in their life or wanting to pull themselves through a tough time. Life isn't always straight forward but it's what you make of the curves that brings you the day to day happiness.

In conversation with myself! A snippet of what we can expect in Season 2 and TV Presenter Mark Chase interviews Deborah Fielding about her last year and the new changes and developments that has brought.

Mary's role as one of the three cancer support specialists at Maggie’s in Oxford is to meet visitors to the Centre, make sure that each person receives a warm welcome and has the opportunity to talk about their needs and concerns. Currently she is Acting Centre Head and took time out to talk to me about this remarkable sanctuary. Everything at Maggie's is driven by the needs of the people who use the Centre where it’s a privilege to be able to offer time and space for people affected by cancer to work through the things that are important to them and give them the stepping stones they need. You may need to crank the volume up a little... 

A chat with the business owner and a wonderful member of the community Chloe Liebowitz. Chloe is an award-winning life coach and recently launched 'We Are Tabono', supporting other business owners. She is curious and asks questions of herself and the people around her which result in leading you into a better space. Chloe works on 'progress, not perfection'. Take a listen now...

For as long as Jen McDiarmid can remember, nutrition has been a part of her life growing up with a mum who was a food technology teacher and who was always cooking and experimenting in the kitchen. She specialises in people that have been through a chronic illness. She has her own private practise as well as guest speaking at events and Maggie's Cancer Centre in Oxford.

Chatting to Marlow United Football Coach Lin Wilson about the part the youngsters club plays in the community and how that is vital to their wellbeing and mental health.