This week on the podcast I am joined by the brilliant Louise Deverell-Smith. Louise is the founder of flexible recruitment company, Daisy Chain. Her business works to match employers with perspective employees into flexible working positions that benefit both the company and the team. To find out more about Daisy Chain and the work they…
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This week on the podcast I am joined by one of my oldest friends, Andy. As well as being a parent, Andy is a teacher and during our chat he tell us all about how he changed his career from working in sales to moving in to education. Andy also shares what it was like…
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This week on the podcast I am joined by the absolute powerhouse that is Ebony Lyon from Formy Books. Ebony and her partner Curtis set up Formy Books in 2020 to bring to life their passion for own voices children’s books (Ebony explains what own voices books actually means in the episode). They are sharing…
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When I first started my strengths practitioner training about eight years ago, I had a major lightbulb moment. Well, to be honest I had about 164 lightbulb moments but this one would make the top 20. Our strengths (the things that energise us) can go into overdrive. Roughly translated, that means we’re overusing them. Sometimes…
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Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Power of the Parent podcast. I’m Charlotte Speak, the face behind Power of the Parent and I love nothing more than empowering parents at work. I’m a level 7 CMI accredited coach, strengths practitioner, Mental Health First Aider and Talent Consultant. This week on the podcast…
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Welcome to the Power of the Parent podcast, hosted by me, Charlotte Speak. I’m a level 7 CMI accredited coach, strengths practitioner, Mental Health First Aider and Talent Consultant and I’m the face behind Power of the Parent®. I love helping others be at their best and in this podcast, I’ll be speaking to…
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I have definitely described myself as a people pleaser before, have you? When I saw this Ctrl Alt Delete podcast episode it immediately grabbed my attention. Being a people pleaser hasn’t always looked like me saying ‘yes’ to others. So spending some time listening to Emma Reed Turrell talk about this topic was incredible, even…
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Defining boundaries has been a big part of my work (and life) for a while now. They feature in my workshops, they’re a hot topic in coaching sessions and I don’t have to think too hard at how to bring them to social media discussions. I’m well overdue a blog, so what better timing than…
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At the beginning of September I was the guest speaker for the charity, Careers Springboard. I was there to share my thoughts on how to prepare for an interview. Never one to jump straight to tried and tested (yes I know there’s a time and a place!) I adopted a slightly different run of things…
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I’ve used this phrase quite a bit recently probably too freely and almost definitely flippantly BUT I do mean it. We have to live our lives and make our decisions based on what is right for us. I fully appreciate how hard it can be to do it so I definitely don’t share this view…
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