28 episodes
Big Balance Theory Sarah Cripps
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Big Balance Theory with Sarah Cripps is a podcast that highlights a new sense of balance from lockdown. Whether we refocused, reset, resigned or revisited, it was a transformational time. In conversations with our guests we hear their lockdown stories and ask them to choose 3 words to mark their themes for getting happiness and joy from a more balanced life.
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In conversation with Dr Lizzy Bernthal, Former Lt.Col in the Army and now award-winning confidence and leadership coach, keynote speaker and author
In this episode, No. 28, my conversation is with Dr Lizzy Bernthal. Having served 25 years as a healthcare specialist in the Army, rising through the ranks to Lt Col and completing an MEd and PHD in resilience, Lizzy’s own business mission is to help others by removing toxicity in the workplace through resilient leadership.
Her many insights include:
What is resilience in the boardroom?
Why we should bounce forward not back
How confidence, trust and resilience are interlinked
The importance of #practisingwhatyoupreach
How a toxic environment can lead to a lack of self worth if not dealt with
The importance of failing to our development and growth
Lizzy gives us her 3 words for happiness, success and balance:
GARDENING
SPACE
SPARKLE
Lizzy wraps up with what we should do more and less of to get a happier, balanced life
Instagram: cripps.sarah and bigbalancetheory
Twitter: @sarahcripps7 and @theory_balance
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcrippsand https://www.linkedin.com/company/big-balance-theory/
Linktr.ee/bigbalancetheory
bigbalancetheory@gmail.com
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www.rypotential.co.uk
Producer, Karen Pirie
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Dick Johns, award-winning writer, actor and corporate leadership management facilitator for some of the world’s leading brands on helping people to have better conversations
As an actor, Dick Bradnum worked for 30 years across TV, film and radio, appearing in The Office, High Hopes and My Hero. Under his own name Dick Johns, he has written and performed three successful solo shows at Chapter, Cardiff: Dick Johns - What Midlife Crisis? (2016), Let’s Talk About Death, Baby (2018) and in 2022 a documentary record of The Great Pandemic Sofa Show. Alongside this Dick works in the corporate sector having written, designed and facilitated leadership programmes for clients including Network Rail, Sony Games, Astra Zeneca, the NHS, LinkedIn, Marks and Spencer and hundreds more.
His work contributions have led to many awards being won for his diverse clients and his focus is helping people to have better conversations. He talks optimistically about the next generation and how engaged they are in being inclusive in their conversations, especially around neuro-divergency, and how much more empathy they have.
Dick is definitely more aware of the world around him since the pandemic era and wishes we all had more time for play in the workplace.
He selects his 3 words for a balanced life and explains why he choose them – Sunshine, Poetry and Glamour - and he reveals how a gold tie is sometimes his secret weapon!
Sarah:
Instagram: cripps.sarah and bigbalancetheory
Twitter: @sarahcripps7 and @theory_balance LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcrippsand https://www.linkedin.com/company/big-balance-theory/
Linktr.ee/bigbalancetheory bigbalancetheory@gmail.com
Guest: Dick Johns (2) dick johns | LinkedIn
website Dickjohns.co.uk
Producer, Karen Pirie
Twitter: @karenepirie -
Nicky Applegarth, MD of award-winning global digital marketing agency, Ayima, mountain climber, wife and (nearly) fully trained dog trainer
In this episode my conversation is with Nicky Applegarth, MD of award winning digital marketing agency, Ayima. This agency serves many of the world’s biggest brands with a global team of just over 100. Nicky started her digital career back in 1999 in a small website design and build agency at a time when mobile phones were simply used to make phone calls and send text messages. In 2013 she took a five-month career and life break exploring South America on her own. The experience gave her a new sense of balance but it was shortlived and she was soon on ‘that treadmill’. Lockdown forced her to revisit balance and she shares how.
Nicky gives us her three words for happiness, success and balance:
NO
FIT and
KINDNESS
and our conversation explores the challenges of recruiting a younger generation and how expectations have changed for this generation
Recommended read: Every Dog, A book of over 450 breeds – Nancy Hajeski
Recommended film: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Recommended podcast: Drinking from the Toilet – Hannah Branigan
Sarah:
Instagram: cripps.sarah and bigbalancetheory
Twitter: @sarahcripps7 and @theory_balance
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcrippsand https://www.linkedin.com/company/big-balance-theory/
Linktr.ee/bigbalancetheory
bigbalancetheory@gmail.com
Guest: Nicky Applegarth
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Nicky Applegarth (@nickyapplegarth) • Instagram photos and videos
Producer, Karen Pirie
Twitter: @karenepirie -
Julie Robinson CEO, Aspire Learning (multi-academy) Trust on the impact of covid on the next generation and why employing apprentices in schools is so important
Hear Julie’s honest and heart-searching experience of what it was like being a Principal of a secondary school during lockdown and how, post-pandemic, more specialist staff have been appointed to support students’ social and emotional needs. Past guests have shared at least one benefit from lockdown but for Julie it was the worst period of her career in education with no work-life balance. We talk about the impact to the young and why growing the workforce with apprenticeships is key and we learn the support mechanisms in place to make the apprenticeships’ journey and workplace integration successful.
Sarah:
Instagram: cripps.sarah and bigbalancetheory
Twitter: @sarahcripps7 and @theory_balance LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcrippsand https://www.linkedin.com/company/big-balance-theory/
Linktr.ee/bigbalancetheory bigbalancetheory@gmail.com
Guest: Julie Robinson Linkedin (1) Julie Robinson | LinkedIn
Producer: Karen Pirie
Twitter: @karenepirie -
Libby Langley, Entrepreneur, Author and podcast host; always in pursuit of happiness
Self-affirmed ‘Queen of Business’ Libby shares her entrepreneurial journey from building a sizeable business in 2009 to now being a no-BS (her words) Business Coach helping other entrepreneurs to be happy and successful in their work. Nothing stands in Libby’s way, not even ADHD or Autism. Her interview is inspiring, energetic and down-to-earth and you will definitely get something from this interview on how to get balance in your business
(Recommended reads at the end of the interview)
Sarah:
Instagram: cripps.sarah and bigbalancetheory
Twitter: @sarahcripps7 and @theory_balance
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcrippsand https://www.linkedin.com/company/big-balance-theory/
Linktr.ee/bigbalancetheory
bigbalancetheory@gmail.com
Guest: Libby Langley
Linkedin(5) Libby Langley | LinkedIn
Instagram LIBBY - Business Coach & Strategist (@libbylangley) • Instagram photos and videos
Facebook (6) Facebook
Podcast – Life in Business
Producer:
Twitter: @karenepirie
Instagram: karen.pirie
Recommended reads
Pursuit of Happiness – Ruth Whippman
Delivering Happiness – Tony Hseih
Life in Business – Libby Langley -
Anniversary special - reflections on two years of change since the pandemic
This is our last episode of 2023 snd it’s full of all things work-life balance. In this two-year anniversary pod, producer Karen Pirie and I go over the highlights of the 20 plus guests we have been lucky enough to interview since we launched in November 2021. We reflect on how the world of work has changed, how businesses have innovated and adapted and we have a lengthy discussion on how these changes have impacted the younger generation entering the workplace. There’s also some top tips on how to continue good habits and we share the most popular recommended book and podcast so far.