Welcome to the WorkJoy Jam, the podcast where we explore the intersection of joy and work. I'm your host, Beth Stallwood, and in this engaging episode, we dive into "The Power of Play" with the vibrant Em Stroud, a corporate clown coach who's turned joyful play into a business revolution. As adults, we often find ourselves shackled by societal expectations that suggest play is solely the realm of children. But what if embracing play could unlock creativity, productivity, and genuine...

Welcome to another inspiring episode of the WorkJoy Jam! I'm your host, Beth Stallwood, and today we are diving deep into an episode that's all about understanding our needs and nurturing joy throughout our professional journey. Joining me is the multifaceted Alice Sheldon, whose career has spanned from schoolteacher, to barrister, to CEO, and whose passion for psychology and neuroscience has fuelled her work in personal development.. In this episode we explore how Alice's career choices...

Welcome back to the WorkJoy Jam, the podcast that delves deep into the heart of what brings joy and fulfillment at work. I'm your host, Beth Stallwood, and I'm absolutely thrilled for the conversation we have lined up for you today. Today's episode is a real treat and we will be exploring the intricate dance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace with the insightful Catherine Garrod, founder of Compelling Culture and a true pioneer in creating workplaces where everyone can thrive. With...

Welcome to another engaging episode of the WorkJoy Jam. I'm your host, Beth Stallwood, and joining me today is Ruth Richards, a communication consultant who has made a significant transition from marketing in the charity sector to helping individuals and teams collaborate more effectively.  In this episode titled "What's happened to work best friends?", we're delving into the dynamic world of workplace relationships and how they've been impacted by hybrid work and the recent challenges posed...

Welcome back to the WorkJoy Jam, the podcast where we explore the joy, challenges, and the unexpected adventures of the modern workplace. I'm your host, Beth Stallwood, and in this episode I’m joined by Lauren Neal - a trailblazer who wears multiple hats as a chartered engineer, project professional, and author.  With a career that began amidst the Lego bricks of her childhood and propelled her into the male-dominated world of engineering, Lauren has faced and overcome discrimination while...

Welcome back to another invigorating episode of the WorkJoy Jam! Today, we are thrilled to have Rachel Philpotts with us - a nutritionist, functional medicine practitioner, and burnout conqueror who took her personal struggle with burnout and turned it into a guidebook for others - "The Burnout Bible." In this episode, we unpack the journey from chronic work stress to rejuvenation and joy. Together, we'll delve into why humans can't simply shake off stress like our canine friends and the...

Welcome to the WorkJoy Jam, the podcast where we weave more joy into your work life. I am your host, Beth Stallwood, and today we have the incredible Claire Winter joining us to dive into a refreshing blend of creativity, walking, and nature.  Claire Winter is a creativity and writing coach, and award-winning podcaster.  A former journalist turned Nordic walking instructor, Claire sheds light on the simple pleasures of reconnecting with nature and how it reignites our innate creative...

Welcome back to our inaugural episode of Season 8 of the WorkJoy Jam Podcast!  I’m your host, Beth Stallwood and I am joined by the insightful Kathryn Bishop, who combines teaching at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, with the practical experience of leadership roles in the private, public and voluntary sectors. As we sit down with Kathryn,  we will be navigating the vast landscape of career success and how to redraw your career map. We talk about redefining what success looks like at various...

Lesley Woods is a senior Royal Air Force Reserve Media Officer and she shared some wonderful stories and unique perspectives with me about the challenges of working in the military, but also about how you can remove your ego in a situation to allow you to work together to achieve the outcome and impact you’re looking for. Throughout this conversation what we found is that, even though these examples are from the military and from some pretty hairy situations that Lesley has been in herself,...

Dr Rina Bajaj is a counselling psychologist with loads of experience across many different forms of helping people with what’s going on in their minds. What I particularly loved about this conversation with Rina, is how practical some of her suggestions are – from how we can understand what is going on in our heads, to how we can understand the red and green flags and have a more balanced perspective of what has happened. We talked about where and how we are triggered and our fear responses...

Sarah Browning is the founder of the Time for Kindness programme and a kindness cheerleader and communicator. Sarah helps organisations, especially in the not-for-profit world, find ways to communicate their kindness stories. I think this subject is so important when we think about work joy; the idea of noticing and sharing acts of kindness when we see them and thinking of the kindest possible way of doing something even when those things might be really, really...

Sam Flynn is a social media trainer and digital wellbeing expert. In this episode, we talk all about the relationship we have with social media and our phones and how easy it is to become lost in the scroll and stuck in these zones. We find ourselves investing our precious time in things that perhaps aren’t making us feel great and contributing to the things we really, really want to be doing! https://samflynn.co.uk/

Felicity Dwyer has been working with organisations and specifically managers, for the last 20 years or so. She is a coach, facilitator and author of Crafting Connection which is out now! In this conversation we talk about different levels of connection – not just the conversations and communications we have with others – but also the connection we have with ourselves, understanding our own values, preferences, styles and the things that are important to us and that are a starting point for...

Catherine Stothart has a varied and long career working with some great organisations and helping them as coach and facilitator. She is also an author and leadership development expert. I really enjoyed chatting with her in this episode around how we get on with people at work and how we can avoid some of the conflict that stops us bringing out the best in ourselves or other people We also talked about motivation – what motivates us and other people and how we ensure a sense of purpose in...

Felicity Cowie is a former journalist and now consultant in the area of communications, helping organisations work effectively with the media to get their messaging right. Throughout her career history, Felicity has worked in high speed and high energy environments likes newsrooms and on newspapers as a journalist, honing her ability to work quickly and accurately. We touched upon the atmosphere in these fast-paced working environments, the challenges, the highs and lows and what some of...

Eleanor Tweddell is a coach, mentor, author of ‘Why losing your job could be the best thing that ever happens to you’ and founder of Another Door where you are encouraged to rethink work and see change as opportunity. During our chat we talk about redundancy and enforced change at work and we discuss how we can use these moments as an opportunity to take ownership, reconnect with ourselves and embrace the change to make us more joyful. https://www.eleanortweddell.com/another-door

Zoe Hill is the Operations Director of coffee organisation, Paddy Ann Scott’s, and in this episode we talk about her career, some of the challenges she’s been through, both personally and professionally, and how she is now really focused on the culture of the organisation and its people. We talk about how she is getting her work joy right now through some purpose-led activities.  https://paddyandscotts.shop/

Simon Alexander Ong is a coach, speaker and best-selling author and in this episode we talk about his career, how he really focused on his own development by really asking himself what success looked like for him and how he worked towards it over a number of years. Simon and I also talk about the thinking behind energy and how we can use energy management rather than time management to be able to progress, to get what we want to be able to live the life we want, living life with that...

Dr. Deb Mashek, PhD is an experienced business advisor, professor, higher education Administrator, and national nonprofit executive. Previously Full Professor of Social Psychology at Harvey Mudd College, she is the author of Collabor(h)ate: How to build incredible collaborative relationships at work (even if you’d rather work alone). Named one of the Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, she has been featured in media outlets including ]The New York Times,...

Liam sits on the boards of a number of purpose driven businesses including The Conduit and Togetherall and mentor to leaders and entrepreneurs in the UK and USA. He lives near London with Maggie. [email protected]  LinkedIn Twitter- @LiamABlack

Joanna Gaudoin helps bright, knowledgeable people with great technical skills and experience improve their non-technical skills so they can progress their careers and boost their company’s performance. During her former corporate career in marketing and consultancy, Joanna realised that being successful involved skills that weren’t being developed or talked about. These ‘other’ professional skills involve knowing how to manage your own Personal Impact and how to effectively build...

Sam Warburton is an Illustrator, Author & Content Creator with a specialism in sketch notes. Alongside her Content Creator role at Ad Esse Consulting, Sam is a skilled freelance sketch note artist. She has created visual summaries for the National Sales Conference, a range of business leaders, and was featured in Liz + Mollie’s newsletter as illustration of the month. Sam is a self-taught illustrator with a Publishing & English degree from Loughborough University and a Diploma in...

Gary Hosey's journey started with being emotionally dysfunctional!  His family didn't practice self-awareness around feelings, moods, emotions, and their impact on us and how we relate to other people, the skills we now understand as the game-changer of emotional intelligence.In 1999 he embarked on an EQ adventure in his personal and professional life, and in 2003 became EQ-i 2.0 certified. He has worked as a coach and trainer with over 7000 leaders from over 100 global organisations. ...

Philippa is the Founder and CEO of The International Exchange (TIE). She is driven by the belief that when professionals fully engage with their humanity, ingenuity and purpose, good things start to happen. TIE is a CPD accredited leadership development programme that creates conscious leaders who are shaping the future of their industries and companies. Through the simple means of disrupting comfort zones, TIE exposes people to global challenges, and creates the space for them to find their...