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If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love to hear from you! What do you do with the parts of your career you find difficult to explain? The job you took for the income. The profession you trained for but never enjoyed. The move that seemed to take you away from your plans. In this bonus episode, Jul…

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If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love to hear from you! In this episode of The Secrets of Learning and Development, Julia Bend and Valerie Merrill are joined by inclusion and psychological safety specialist Sarah Burrell for an honest conversation about disability, communication and what it real…
If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love to hear from you! A one-way ticket. Very little money. No certainty about what would happen next. Just an unshakeable belief that he would find a way.When Rajesh Agrawal arrived in London from India in his early twenties, he could not have known that his jou…
If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love to hear from you! For years, people have described themselves as visual, auditory or kinaesthetic learners. The idea shaped workshops, training programmes and even educational policy. But what if matching learning to a preferred style does not actually impro…
If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Some experiences do not simply change the direction of your life. They change the person you are.For wellbeing practitioner, retreat host and author Jo Tocher, the loss of her first baby was one of those experiences. In this deeply personal…
If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Competence earns trust, responsibility and respect. It can also create the impression that you never need support. In this bonus episode, Julia and Valerie explore what happens when being known as the capable one means carrying more of the …
If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love to hear from you! For much of her life, Sally Chapman felt she was playing catch-up — reaching for the milestones others seemed to have already achieved and working harder whenever something didn’t feel right.Her career has been anything but conventional. Fr…
If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love to hear from you! In this bonus episode of The Secrets of Learning and Development, Valerie and I explore the shift from employee to personal brand and what it really means to become “You Ltd”. For many capable professionals, being good at the work has alway…
If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love to hear from you! What happens when one dismissive comment becomes the catalyst for more than two decades of change?In this episode, Julia and Valerie are joined by Lynne Parker, founder of Funny Women, the award-winning platform that has championed female p…
If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love to hear from you! What if the part of your career that made the least sense taught you the most?In this bonus episode, Julia and Valerie explore the qualifications, roles and unexpected changes in direction that rarely fit the polished version of a career st…
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