Everyday Heroes With Jaz Ampaw-Farr

Jaz Ampaw-Farr

You're only as powerful as the stories you tell and the story you're writing right now will be the story you tell for the rest of your life. Make it a compelling one. Welcome to Everyday Heroes, a podcast celebrating ordinary people doing extraordinary things in their own lives, communities, workplaces, and beyond. In my career as a motivational speaker, author, Z list-reality TV star, I use my own personal story of overcoming adversity and finding success against the odds as inspiration for others and get to meet phenomenal humans who are doing just that. Here are my favourites!

Episodes

  1. 03/13/2023

    Lucy Easthope

    Welcome to Everyday Heroes the show that's all about you. This episode is an interview an all round phenomenal woman and the UK's leading authority on emergency planning, Lucy Easthope, Lucy's way of being is one that allows her to show up as her full-fat self in situations where many of us are reduced to rubble. From her own journey, navigating the devastation of miscarriage to her expertise in disaster planning, Lucy looks into the dark places and shines a torch bringing hope to those wanting a way through and home. Her work has taken her all around the world, advising on chemical spillages, volcanoes, fires, floods, and terrorist attacks. She has lent her expertise to operations around the 2004 tsunami, the 7/7 bombings, the Grenfell fire, and most recently, the British response to Covid-19. With the current invasion of Ukraine, her work has become even more relevant and pressing, as she focuses on the needs of the displaced, the traumatised, and the bereaved. Stop reading now and order her new book, "When the Dust Settles"! It's an incredible read where Lucy shares her candid, unsettling, and sometimes darkly funny account of a life spent planning for and dealing with the aftershocks of catastrophe. Her highly specialised role often takes place behind closed doors, and as she notes, "We are a Cinderella service, sweeping up below stairs." Among her early jobs was preparing for returning bodies from Iraq after the invasion by coalition forces in 2003. She was given the task of building a mortuary that could house thousands of corpses, some of which might be contaminated with chemical weapons. Throughout the episode, Lucy shares her insights and insider perspectives on situations that most of us will only ever experience via news reports. She is excellent on these small yet significant details, providing a window into the drama, surreal twists, and mysteries of the disasters she has encountered. Lucy's work may sound dark but she herself is a refreshing, insightful, funny, compassionate, human-first Everyday Hero! Enjoy hanging out with us in this episode.

    Lucy Easthope

  2. 06/30/2021

    Ann Marie Christian with Jaz Ampaw-Farr

    The Beyonce of safeguarding is in the house!

  3. 06/30/2021

    John Mollura with Jaz Ampaw-Farr

    Part of being a creative entrepreneur is learning how to turn the volume down on imposter syndrome. I was so deep in that particular well that when I was called up on it my response was an incredulous, 'It's not a syndrome if you are actually an imposter!' In this episode I chat with American rocket scientist turned photographer about navigating the journey to standing on the truth about yourself in life and work.

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You're only as powerful as the stories you tell and the story you're writing right now will be the story you tell for the rest of your life. Make it a compelling one. Welcome to Everyday Heroes, a podcast celebrating ordinary people doing extraordinary things in their own lives, communities, workplaces, and beyond. In my career as a motivational speaker, author, Z list-reality TV star, I use my own personal story of overcoming adversity and finding success against the odds as inspiration for others and get to meet phenomenal humans who are doing just that. Here are my favourites!

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