WorkJoy Jam with Beth Stallwood

A special episode to celebrate the launch of Beth Stallwood’s debut book - WorkJoy: a toolkit for a better working life. In this episode Simon Arrowsmith takes the host seat and Beth is in the hot seat!

Ella is the Director of Ellevate Entertainment Ltd, a Thames Valley based entertainment agent that works passionately with event organisers and venues to raise their events to the highest level! Ella is also an NLP Master Practitioner at Head2Health, which supports couples on their journey to fulfilling their dream of having a family. She lives in High Wycombe with her husband, two children and houseful of animals!

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Having worked in football for than 15 years, in 2021 Natalie Doyle took the plunge and set up Sport Sister, a company that supports organisations to grow women’s and girls’ participation in sport. Providing consultancy, project management and training services, as well as developing a programme to support grassroots sports clubs, Sport Sister has supported many large organisations including The FA to get more women and girls active.

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As chartered surveyor with a background in defect and valuation claims, Marion has first-hand experience of why we make mistakes and what we need to do to support ourselves so we can prevent them. A Fellow member of the RICS and qualified customer experience professional Marion is passionate about empowering people. At Love Surveying she provides the support, coaching and networking surveyors and property professionals need to confidently handle career challenges and navigate the business journey that’s right for them.

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Dr Lizzy Bernthal, a resilience specialist, confidence coach, cultural change expert, international speaker and author who designs and delivers globally online and face to face Masterclasses, transformational 121 and group coaching programmes. After 25 years in the Army as a health professional she’s on a mission to remove toxicity in the workplace. This is though supporting female authentic leaders to find the confidence, resilience and awesomeness already within them so that they have their voice in the boardroom as they move from powerful to empowered.

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Harri Helvon-Hardy is a prominent figure in the social care sector, having founded FABRIC, based in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, Wales, in 2015. FABRIC provide loving homes with trauma informed support to young people aged 16+ who are Looked After Children, Care Leavers, Homeless young people or Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children. FABRIC supports their ‘FABRIC Kids’ as they make the biggest step of their life and transition towards independent living. Harri is an award-winning entrepreneur with over ten years’ experience in social care and has won multiple awards for her passion and efforts in changing the trajectory of those in care. As founder and director of FABRIC, Harri established the FABRIC Foundation in 2016, which is a registered charity that aims to improve the emotional and physical wellbeing of all children in care by providing opportunities that greatly enhance their life, as well as achieving equal opportunities for all care leavers. Harri also played a part in campaigning for Council Tax exemption for care leavers, which was successfully put into effect in April 2018. Harri has secured in excess of £1million of funding in the development of the business which trailblazes the need for more to be done for those in care, as well as being a Role Model for Big Ideas Wales (a government funded platform to give advice to young entrepreneurs) and has recently become an alumni of the prestigious Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Programme, which provides high-quality, practical education and business support to leaders of high-growth small businesses and social enterprises across the country. Harri also uses the skills, knowledge and experience she has gained in the social care sector to support other local businesses by offering essential business coaching.  Read more about FABRIC here. Connect with Harri on LinkedIn here Connect with Harri on Instagram here

Priya Velusami is founder of Pri Pri, a collection of upcycled accessories and kidswear using pre loved vintage saris. The concept was born out of Priya's early memories of sewing with her sari clad grandmother, who also taught her the importance of zero waste. All Pri Pri designs are now handmade by a charity in India that helps to upskill and empower underprivileged women with training in tailoring. Priya loves being able to revive beautiful colourful textiles, designing pieces for those that love colour, style and sustainability.

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Dr Gary Crotaz, PhD is something of an expert in career change, having trained as a doctor, worked in science, strategy consulting and senior corporate leadership, and travelled the world as a professional ballroom dancer. These days he’s an executive and mindset coach and has coached clients in more than 15 countries, specialising in activating their unique talents and strengths to achieve ambitious personal and professional goals. The IDEA Mindset is his tried-and-tested blueprint for designing your dream career, developed from what Gary learned on his own fascinating journey to career fulfilment. Gary lives in the UK with his wife, Mildred, and their fluffy dogs, Mochi and Beansprout.

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Illustrator, Jessica Hartshorn is based in Rugby Warwickshire and creates a range of vibrantly and colourful artworks bringing heritage to life. After gaining her degree in Visual Communication, Illustration at Loughborough University in 2001, she worked as a freelance illustrator for 1 year before changing direction, developing a career in the museums and gallery education sector for over a decade. Returning to illustration in 2018, Jessica completed a range of murals for schools, illustrated books and ran workshops, however she has predominately carved out a niche specialising in illustrations for museums and galleries. Using her background in the heritage sector she now creates artwork and content for family trails, maps, interpretation and education resources. Through a fun and colourful flavour, Jessica’s Illustrations focus very much on a playful style and which is incorporated into the story telling of her illustrations. Using a mixture of acrylic, paint pens, work is sketched, and then painted using layers of colour and finally adding detail. To see more of Jessica’s work and to find out more go to:  View Jessica's Website Connect on Instagram 

Donna Reeves is a communications and engagement leader with a 15+ year track record of designing and implementing change communication and engagement strategies in small, medium and large businesses. These experiences include working closely with leaders in family-run businesses and an international, multicultural, multilingual FTSE 50. Donna doesn’t believe that anyone comes to work to do a bad job, but often businesses don’t make it easy to do a great one. She is passionate about connecting the dots between purpose, strategy and the day-to-day reality for colleagues. She spent 16 years at Kingfisher Plc, a global business with 80,000 employees in nine countries; followed by smaller, family-run and venture capital-backed organisations as a consultant. In 2018 she joined Fenwick, a family run, 140-year-old retail business, to support them through their first company-wide transformation and loved it so much she stayed for four years to help embed change and set up an internal comms function.

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