Stories of Survival in the Modern Age

In this week’s episode, Neil Blackburn offers us a brief glimpse into what goes on behind the scenes, from ensuring the cars always looks their best to the questions he gets asked most often. Neil also shares what about the job he wishes he'd been better prepared for.

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Drawing on more than two decades of experience, Carl Taylor's caring and considerate nature makes him perfectly suited to his role of Funeral Director, Embalmer and Civil Funeral Celebrant. In this week’s episode he chats about how he got his start in this profession and the true understanding he has of each family he works with, their needs and the needs of their loved ones.

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Eighteen months ago we began having a conversation about the menopause and taking charge of the transition. Agreeing to come back, Victoria Jones revisits that conversation to see what’s changed and how the topic has moved forward – or not.

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Jenny Palmer has lived with anxiety since early childhood and has suffered with chronic pain since her teens. In this episode, listen as Jenny shares her story of dealing with the consequences of both and how she stood by as her husband underwent brain surgery.

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In this week’s episode Danny Matthews tells his story of how a burnout saw him quite literally fall to his knees in central London with no feeling from the waist down. Danny says he was chasing the money and not his dream.

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In 2004, seeking more adventure in her life, Nicky Davies left her well-paying corporate job to follow her dreams of becoming her own boss.

In this episode, Nicky talks about the difficult times and failures she faced…. and how looking back, she believes in moments of what looked like sure defeat, opportunities presented themselves that allowed for quantum leaps in growth both in her business life as well as her own personal development.

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In this episode Donté Richardson talks about how, at age 19, he drove across the United States to California on the promise of “just a job interview”. With little income despite landing the job, Donté was homeless for three months, and today credits his resilience and his drive for getting him through.

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At 22 Samantha Dawson was told she had renal failure, a condition she’d had since birth, and which had gone undiagnosed.

In this episode she shares her journey from diagnosis to dialysis and from receiving a live donor to becoming a published author.

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Thanks Simerjeet for your inspiring reading of this wonderful poem :)

Bronson Sutton tried crack co***ne for the first time when he was just 17 and says he’s been locked up over 30 times that he can document. Clean for the past four years – and sober for almost 18 months – in this week’s episode he chats openly about his journey, his faith and his big dreams.
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In this episode Julie Hartell shares her story of motherhood and entrepreneurship. After the birth of her second child, Julie struggled to understand why she just couldn’t focus and couldn’t concentrate, why she didn’t get on with her husband or her children, and why she thought returning to work would solve her problems.

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Singer, actor and voice over artist, Debbie Bridge was called lazy in school. In this episode she talks openly about being out of the "dyslexia closet", how her brain functions differently and what life is like as a classically trained opera singer when the notes do back flips on the page.

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Guest expert Anne Skinner (Finding the New You) helps explore the concept of living in the moment. In this episode, Anne shares her 'Three Room' concept... a basic notion of the time frames in our lives, past, present and future, and offers tips on how to achieve a healthy relationship between all three.

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For as long as she can remember Deanna Roberts has been passionate about dance and through her own dance journey, she’s discovered a joy for teaching. Currently travelling the Caribbean island of Antigua, in this week’s episode Deanna shares her love of community and her quest to combine her passions.

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Agreeing to come back and chat in season 3, Steve Booth shares some of the personal lessons he learned from his ‘rumble’ with stress, why stress is like the wind and talks us through his balloon analogy.

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