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Paul & Emily Hughes met in 2003 as trainee teachers assigned to the same school. It took a few years until they finally bonded over divorces and Emily’s motorcycle leathers (long but obvious story), and the rest, as they say, is history. 
They’ve been happily married for almost 15 years, and now that they’ve both escaped teaching (their words, not mine), they run the Parent Guide to GCSE (and Post-16), supporting parents whose children are in Years 10-13. 
Emily has a Masters from Cambridge in Maths with Education, while Paul has a Masters in Information Management and Computing from University of Sheffield, which will probably tell you what they each taught for 15 years. 
Emily also runs a Pop Choir in her spare time, as she says she still needs to be able to boss people around having left teaching. 
Paul says he thinks that’s already covered at home...

Parent Guide to GCSEwww.parentguidetogcse.comParent Guide to Post-16https://parentguidetopost16.com/
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Leadership and Personal Growth Coach
Laura Noel is an Executive Business and Personal Development Consultant who works with organizations and individuals to help streamline business processes while maximizing profits. She helps clients stretch their thinking in a way that opens them up to new possibilities. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur and
CEO of her own company, Laura studied and taught personal growth, change management, and leadership for over 27 years while serving in the United States Air Force. She has helped solidify goals and improve corporate culture within government agencies, the Department of Defense, and construction, technical, insurance, and sales organizations.
She is proud to serve as a transformational coach helping clients bridge the gap between feeling stuck and finding fulfillment in life and career. Laura knows how to get results as she guides clients in overcoming the mindset blocks that keep them from realizing their true potential, purpose, life-long dreams, and legacy.
Laura helps her clients gain a new level of self-confidence and become the leader others will want to follow. Implementing a mix of science and psychology, she helps individuals and teams advance their current projects and careers and prepares them to successfully transition on to greater opportunities.
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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.
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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 emma@habitchange.ie

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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.

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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 asafetynet101@gmail.com and Annabella at Annabellegutman11@gmail.com
Email me at rorythetigeru2@gmail.com for any enquiries. 

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