The Blooming North Podcast

Joining Lisa this episode is Holly Clark and Carolyn Tipper to share their expertise on how to support better mental health for you and your colleagues, family and friends. Holly is a Mental Health First Aid & Suicide First Aid Instructor Member from the organisation Blooming Mind. She works with companies to improve the mental health of their teams to end stigma surrounding it and recently ran a workshop for Bloom North supporting parents in creating Mentally Healthy Homes. Carolyn is an Executive Coach, enabling leaders to overcome organisational and personal challenges through transformational coaching. Mental health affects us all so this is an episode not to be missed. Holly and Carolyn discuss the evolution of conversations around mental health, how working remotely has increased the importance of having a mentally healthy home environment as well as workplace. With the workplace we discuss how leaders can model good practices and offer support without overstepping boundaries and the balance between productivity goals and mental health wellbeing. From a personal point of view we discuss how to advocate for yourself or others, some routines and decompression that could support your own mental health, and also recommend resources to find out more about this crucial topic.    Guests:  Holly Clark, Mental Health First Aid & Suicide First Aid Instructor, Blooming Mind https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollyclarkbloomingmind/ https://www.bloomingmind.co.uk/   Carolyn Tipper,  Executive Coach  https://cthesolution.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyntipper/   Host: Lisa Hughes founder & director of Lisa Hughes Coaching Web: https://lisahughescoaching.com/ Insta: @Lisa Hughescoaching     This podcast has been sponsored by our friends at Channel Factory     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this special episode of the Blooming North podcast, Lisa is joined by 2024 co-presidents Sarah and Liv, familiar faces and names to the Bloom North Network.  At the end of a successful, busy and sometimes challenging year leading over 60 women and 8 committees we asked Sarah and Liv to share their reflections on the last 12 months. They told us about some of the achievements they are most proud of, why they took on the role and what has been a priority for them over the past year.  They also shared with us what they’ve learnt and share some top advice for our incumbent Bloom North president.      Guests:  Olivia Waite  Sales director at Channel factory – who are also our podcast sponsors.    Sarah Fleming Director of the right and the left marketing consultancy  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-fleming-43b4b71a/ therightandtheleft.co.uk   . Host: Lisa Hughes founder & director of Lisa Hughes Coaching Web: https://lisahughescoaching.com/ Insta: @Lisa Hughescoaching     This podcast has been sponsored by our friends at Channel Factory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We have two special guests joining Lisa on today's episode, the first being Iona Holloway, founder of the personal development brand, Brave Thing. Iona is the best selling-author of Ghost – Why Perfect Women Shrink and is committed to getting more brave women in every room.  Also joining us is Katie Kendall, a name and face familiar to many in the Manchester marketing community. Katie is the founder of Plantfood which helps companies improve employee performance and wellbeing in the workplace.  The conversation covers a range of topics including why juggling becomes such a struggle for some people, healthy coping mechanisms, why some of us are just surviving and the importance of priorities. Katie recently ran a workshop for Bloom North on finance and shares some financial planning strategies that can help with that aspect of juggling that we often all struggle with. This informative and entertaining episode is one not to miss!   Guests:    Katie Kendall  Katie is the founder of Plantfood. Helping companies improve employee performance and wellbeing in the workplace.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-kendall-emcc-64ba0220/ https://www.plantfoodcoaching.com/   Iona Holloway  Iona is the founder of the personal development brand, Brave Thing.  Best-selling author of Ghost - Why Perfect Women Shrink.  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ionaholloway/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ionaholloway Website: https://www.bravething.co/ Hire Iona to speak at an event: https://www.bravething.co/speaking Meet Your Inner Child (Free 7 min breathwork session): https://bravething.co/seven       Host: Lisa Hughes founder & director of Lisa Hughes Coaching Web: https://lisahughescoaching.com/ Insta: @Lisa Hughescoaching     This podcast has been sponsored by our friends at Channel Factory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today we’re joined by Lucy Shutt-Vine, Career Confidence Coach at LSV Coaching and Head of Talent Development at Captify and Dr. Christopher Owen, Inclusivity Development Manager at Manchester Pride, delivering the All Equals Charter, an intersectional LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion programme, listed as one of the top 50 Northern Gamechangers of 2024.  Our host, Lisa Hughes, talks to these fascinating guests about what growth means to them, how having a strong inner circle is key and how you can stay relevant in work environments that are constantly changing and evolving .      Guests:    Lucy Shutt-vine Instagram: @lucyshuttvine_careercoach   www.lucyshuttvine.com      Dr Christopher Owen  https://www.linkedin.com/in/thecjowen/ Host: Lisa Hughes founder & director of Lisa Hughes Coaching Web: https://lisahughescoaching.com/ @LisaHughesCoaching   This podcast has been sponsored by our friends at Channel Factory. Produced by Joel Tudor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to Part 3 In this special series of podcasts, where we are joined by Vicki Robinson, CEO of Bloom North’s 2024 nominated charity The Miscarriage Association to discuss pregnancy loss and help us understand ways in which we can support colleagues, friends or partners and to provide information for those who may have been affected by pregnancy loss. In this episode, Vicki shares advice with us including how to be a supportive manager or friend to someone affected by pregnancy loss and anything that it might be wise to avoid saying. She also offers advice for those who have been affected by pregnancy loss on how they might access support.  Don't forget to listen to our previous two episodes which you can listen to here: Part 1 -  Breaking down the barriers   Part 2 - The Workplace   To reach out or find out more about the Miscarriage Association, you can find them here: Website: https://www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miscarriageassociation/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MiscarriageAssociation Host: Lisa Hughes founder & director of Lisa Hughes Coaching Web: https://lisahughescoaching.com/ @LisaHughesCoaching   This podcast has been sponsored by our friends at Channel Factory. Produced by Joel Tudor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices