Riff Raff & Rory podcast

Les Peacock is the founder for a non for profit suicide prevention called Changing the Game UK. They're fully reliant on donations as they don't receive any government funding. Lets served his time as a mechanical engineer specializing in maintenance, reliability and project management. Recently diagnosed with complex PTSD post traumat express disorder, he talks Canada Lee about his journey, what he's experienced, his battles with depression, suicidal thoughts, alcohol and addiction, sobriety, vulnerability, communication, compassion, empathy, embrace, difference, not having enough, consumerism, PTSD, alcoholism, suicide, external happiness, family support, mental health issues, compassion, Changing the Game UK, kindness, giving, acceptance, recovery, pirates, pausing and helping supporting others, building sustainable Future, Letting Go, Human Nature, Mend Broken Factions, suicide prevention campaign, graffiti art New Today is my first episode in studio in person. Thanks to Collaboration Studios for the support.

Emma Farrell is a health and wellness coach and founder of Habit Change Coaching. Through her training, and own lived experiences, she empowers her clients to take their health – both mental and physical into their own hands.

Emma’s ethos is that small hinges swing big doors and by making the smallest adjustments in daily habits we can change the course of our overall health and wellbeing phenomenally.

Emma believes in 80/20 always and encourages clients not to be too hard on themselves and live a little. So long as we look after ourselves 80% of the time, its okay to go wild with the other 20% - the whole point of life is to chill out and have fun!

Her group programmes include Mind over Matter, Mindset and Motivation overhaul, and the "21 Day Total Body Reset” food elimination diet programme.

She also offers one to one coaching around habits and mindset: a specialised blood pressure reduction diet programme and a type 2 diabetes management programme. Emma is a big believer in nature as therapy and as a recently qualified Personal Trainer, she now incorporates bespoke fitness workouts into her diet and mindset programmes.

You can find Emma at www.habitchange.ieor [email protected]

Patrick spent his early years in sales, selling from cars, gym equipment, rehab equipment and as am medical representative before becoming a qualified physiotherapist and running his own business for a short period.

Eventually, he found his way into training and traiing and hasn't looked back. He has had the opportunity to work in sales enablement, training and development in the tech space from start up to scale up, working in all areas from new hires to leadership. He has a passion for helping and supporting people to be better than they think they can be.

Executive and Life Coach, Sales Enabler, Proud Father & Loving Husband, Fitness Fanatic, Tottenham Hospur & Irish Rugby Fan.

Episode 12 is a very emotional one and Rory delves deeper in his journey with suicide, depression and making it out on the other side. The 2 guests on this episode are both inspirational women who have overcome their own issues and here is some information on the guests:

1, Annette Trevorrow-Gasher multi-faceted woman is a cancer conquerer, spokeswoman, safety expert and public speaker who raises awareness on breast cancer, domestic violence/abuse to mention afew things. She is a 15year cancer survivor with over 17 surgeries since 2005 and founded her own Health & Safety/Wellness agency creating an interactive first aid programme for children and corporations.

2, Annabella Gutman is an Israeli born actress and has played a range of roles in her lifetime. She is an LA based entreprenuer and model who has her own lingerie line with good connections to various people from Angel investors, brands, businesses etc.

Connect with Annette at [email protected] and Annabella at [email protected]

Email me at [email protected] for any enquiries. 

On episode 11, Rory speaks to Jason who in his last year of suffering with depression he started hearing voices and visited Eddie Stone who advocates spiritual healing and inner chatter in his work to release pain and trauma.

This episode centers around connecting with your body to relive the negative feelings you may have.

On episode 10 Rory talks to award-winning social entrepreneur and best-selling author Alex Winstanley. With years of experience as a teacher, carer and SENCo, Alex set up a not-for-profit organisation called Happy Smiles Training CIC which empowers disabled young adults to create positive social change, by delivering awareness training across schools, community groups, businesses.

Alex is currently writing a series of children's books to support young people to understand a range of long-term health conditions, including dementia, depression and cancer. Here is Alex's story

Visit Happy Smiles Training at www.happysmilestraining.co.uk and connect directly with Alex at www.facebook.com/alexwinstanleyauthor 

Episode 9 Rory is joined by musician Blanid. The pair met on social audio platform ClubHouse early 2021. Blanid talks about her journey with music (which she started at a very young age), the expressive nature of song writing, performing live vs online and the power of music in connecting people/human interactions.

She talks about the process of song writing which isn't as straight forward as you'd imagine. Stream her tracks 'Take Me Home' and critically acclaimed new single 'Fool's Gold' on all music streaming platforms.

Contact Blanid directly at https://www.blanid.co.uk/

On this episode Rory speaks to his first US guest: Gordon Corsetti. Gordon is an author, public speaker and advocate for suicide prevention and mental health awareness. After pursuing a journey for permanent recovery from depression and anxiety, Gordon uses the tools he learnt throughout his experience to write about philosophy and the different modes of thoughts that he experiments with to redefine his perspective of life.

On his website mentallyagile.com and through his work, Gordon speaks to the human ability to change our minds with tools on how to achieve this change.

Get in touch with Gordon at www.mentallyagile.com or LinkedIn @GordonCorsetti.

On episode 7 Rory talks to Tom Robinson author of 'Dying To Stay Alive'. After years of battling with the mental illness of depression, Tom has set out to help others who may be in a similar situation or experiencing similar feelings. Tom is a former junior national champion and international event rider and currently a freelance journalist specialising in mental illness education through his own lived experience with type 1 bipolar disorder.

He openly talks to Rory about his struggles with type 1 bipolar disorder which started as a young man and after a 20 year spell of a turbulent relationship with his mind, Tom has survived against the odds and now seeks to help others battling with mental illness through his blog and book 'Dying To Stay Alive'.

Connect with Tom directly at http://www.dyingtostayalive.com/, @Dyin_2stayalive on Twitter.

On episode 6, Rory speaks to Thomas Ryan a very multifaceted man if you will. Thomas works as a Public Relations Officer in mental health sector and also founded the Clonmel Remembrance Walk in 2019 after struggling with being suicidal afew years back. The walk aims to mark and celebrate World Suicide Friendship Day which is on the 10th September. He also launched the Shining Light in the name of mental health and suicide and shares some of the issues lacking in the mental health services in Carmel and Tipperary Ireland. Thomas also offers tips on how he deals with mental wellbeing as an LBTQA man living in Ireland.

Contact Thomas directly on [email protected], Instagram @ryancool007, Twitter ThomasR@88288854