<p>🟡In this episode of The Spots of Time podcast, host Angela Kanwar interviews Carol Railton, a top-ranked global business body language expert who travelled to 47 countries and worked with major companies before 2020. </p><p>🟡After developing a worsening cough during the pandemic, Carol was hospitalized with COVID, pneumonia and blood clots, later discovering severe heart damage leading to heart failure and a pacemaker, plus repeated fainting and a critical time in resuscitation. </p><p>🟡Living alone with no phone or belongings in hospital, she relied on kindness from a local coffee shop waitress, then faced major limitations at home, carers, and relearning how to breathe and speak. </p><p>🟡Carol pragmatically sold her house, moved into a rented riverside flat, and slowly regained function, resumed a first work talk after three years, started support work for women with pacemakers, and built community through feeding swans and organising a monthly pub quiz.</p><p>00:00 Welcome to Spots of Time</p><p>00:32 Carol Before the Pandemic</p><p>02:10 COVID Collapse and Hospital</p><p>04:04 Life After Discharge</p><p>06:23 Fainting and Pacemaker</p><p>12:31 Facing Death in Resus</p><p>14:12 Downsizing and Fresh Start</p><p>16:50 First Work After Illness</p><p>18:07 New Tools and Charity</p><p>22:32 Swans and New Friends</p><p>27:03 Living With Restrictions</p><p>29:21 Final Thanks and Outro</p><p><br></p><p>#SpotsOfTime #podcast #bodylanguageexpert #covidrecovery #covidsurvivor #pacemaker #inspiring #resilience #longcovidawareness #longcovid</p><p><br></p><p>Find social media links for Spots of Time at:✳️ https://linktr.ee/SpotsofTime✳️</p><p><br></p><p>Please like, subscribe, follow and comment</p>