#063: Being Brave - The Season Four Heartbeats

Caroline Strawson is a multi award winning ICF Accredited Trauma Informed Coach and Therapist and founder of CPD Accredited School of Embodied Trauma Informed Living. She uses a unique integration of brain-body based therapies such as Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Hypnotherapy, breath work and positive psychology and specialises in narcissistic and domestic abuse with the wounds that are unseen.

Having been in a narcissistic marriage culminating in over $100,000 debt and losing her family home, Caroline was diagnosed with complex PTSD, depression, anxiety and self harm. She hit rock bottom and is now driven to support, educate and inspire others to overcome narcissistic abuse after completely turning her own life around.

She is #1 best selling author of Divorce Became My Superpower, host of #1 iTunes podcast with over 1 million downloads, The Narcissistic Trauma Recovery Podcast.

She has appeared on national television, newspapers,Magazines and Radio and supports thousands with her deep nervous system healing programmes to help them step into post traumatic growth.

I’m Jess Baker, a Chartered Business Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and Women’s Leadership Coach (CPsychol AFBPsS).

For the past 20 years I’ve been working in the areas of leadership and wellbeing with individuals and global organisations.

And . . . drum roll please . . . I’ve just written my first book, The Super-Helper Syndrome: A Survival Guide for Compassionate People (hardback, Sept 29th, with Flint Books). It’s already available to pre-order - see the Amazon link below. You can also pre-order from a list of online booksellers, use Book Depository for orders outside the UK, and you can join the FREE Book Club - just click here: https://jessbaker.co.uk/shsbookclub/

I started my career in healthcare before specialising in business psychology. I regularly deliver wellbeing webinars from my loft in Shropshire to global audiences of up to 15,000 people. As well being an award-winning coach for my private 1:1 sessions, I run online programmes. Over a thousand women have been through Tame Your Inner Critic. A course that helps people overcome the inner critic, one of my oldest friends!

You can also find me live on stage speaking at conferences and festivals. You can read my commissioned articles on wellbeing at work in AB global business magazine. And I’m often asked to comment on leadership, psychology at work and mental health for a range of magazines, newspapers as well as live on national radio.

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Vivienne Porritt, OBE, is a leadership consultant supporting school and trust leaders with vision, strategy, professional learning and development, and impact evaluation.

Vivienne is, joyously, one of the Co-founders and Global Strategic Leaders of WomenEd, a community that empowers aspiring and existing women leaders in education. Vivienne is also Vice President of the Chartered College of Teaching, a Non-Exec Board Member of Captiva Learning Ltd and a member of FED Advisory Council and the Eko Trust as well as the Chair of the Strategic Board for the North London Teaching School Hub.

Previously, Vivienne was a secondary headteacher and Director for School Partnerships at UCL Institute of Education. She writes for TES and academic journals and is co-editor of 10% Braver: Inspiring Women to Lead Education (Sage, 2019) and Being 10% Braver (Corwin, 2021).

Often described as one of the most authentic, compassionate, and inspiring people you can meet, Alisoun is on a mission to empower women in their midlife years and beyond to live their best life and make a difference in the world. Alisoun’s talks, training, coaching, mentoring, best-selling books, and podcasts have favorably changed the good fortune of thousands of people worldwide. She’s really proud of the humanitarian work she did with genocide survivors in Rwanda, to be sponsoring the world’s first earthquake-resistant schools built from recycled plastic blocks in Asia, and to have run one of the UK’s first Business for Good Conferences in 2019. She loves travelling and enjoying life by the sea in southeast Scotland.

Dr Emma Yhnell is an award-winning science communicator and senior lecturer based at Cardiff University. Emma is a respected academic who has built a reputation for her ability to untangle the academically technical and translate it into entertaining, relevant and accessible content.

As a first generation academic, she sees it as her aim to change the typical image of academia, to make science more open, honest and fun.

She is a writer and regular contributor to local radio and television as well as a commentator for the Science Media Centre.

Emma is passionate about sharing her knowledge and changing the minds of people who nervously think ‘science isn’t for me.’

Award winning coach Jane Duncan Rogers, was devastated when her husband died in 2011. But after her first book was published, Gifted By Grief, she founded Before I Go Solutions®, which offers training in End of Life Plan Facilitation, helping others to plan ahead for the inevitable, & find relief, reassurance, and peace of mind.

Ali is the Strategic Director for Care and Wellbeing in Cornwall Council and the first public sector leader to join me on the show.

Ali is on a mission to recover and re-set Adult Social Care services in Cornwall, while continuing her overall career mission to overcome the challenges and obstacles that get in the way of delivering for local residents – a daily challenge for public sector leaders in general.