Coffee Calm Connection

Hosted by Sarah Myerscough

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Wednesday May 19, 2021

016: Being Me - with Fay Reinhold-Shor

Wednesday May 19, 2021

Have you ever just had a lightbulb moment when you think ‘aha - that’s what that was’, or perhaps you’ve given your inner voice a name? Are you and your alter ego friends?

In this episode, we chat with Fay - a busy professional, working in a fast-paced regional manager role in the insurance industry. With a young son in tow, Fay shares with us the ‘aha’ moments she had when thinking back to how she got to the place of resilience and patience that she’s at today – mainly through recognising her own coping mechanisms, tools and mental stress triggers.

Best Quote

‘’When I was at my very lowest, I remember just thinking to myself one morning, I need to change. I need to make some changes here and just focus on finding a way to be happy every day, like, that's my objective.’’

Resources

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People

Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind by Yuval Noah Harari: https://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens-2/

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Monday May 10, 2021

015: Why didn’t you say so - with Helen O'Neill

Monday May 10, 2021

Have you ever felt resentful, tearful, or stressed as a result of life juggle? Do you know when your body is telling you something isn't right?

Helen is a mum of 7 year old twins, working full time in the insurance industry. Helen chats with us about the role of male and female in a family setting and how she copes with juggling work and Mum life, especially during COVID. 

Best Quotes

‘’…You just cope and get on with things and then you find that you've been coping and getting on with things for I don't know, weeks, and then all of a sudden, a little switch inside you goes ‘I'm not happy - I'm not myself, I'm not right’ and it takes a while to realise that.’’

RESOURCES

You Should’ve Asked, The Mental Load: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KGtUvAuwCo

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Tuesday May 04, 2021

014: Essential Oils & My Life - with Nicole Watling

Tuesday May 04, 2021

Do you use essential oils? Have you ever tried them? I have long been fascinated by the medicine of ye-olde-times and so have teamed up with Nicole Watling to find out a little bit more about how essential oils have helped her life juggle. Nicole is a mum of three who struggled mentally after the birth of her second and third child. Nicole searched for ways in which she could better manage and support her emotions and soon after, became gripped by the essential oil concept… so much so that she teaches classes about them now! An interesting story that helps us to learn a little more about her holistic approach to mental wellbeing.

Best Quotes

‘’We are processing our emotions from the get-go, whether we wake up naturally and it’s a more calming experience, or whether we wake up with our child shouting at us or opening our eyeballs for us – we are processing straightaway.’’

‘’This isn't us saying not to use modern day medicine. I stand strongly that there is place for both and how I view the holistic approach with a modern day medicine is like a riverbank - the essential oils and the holistic approach could be the riverbank or the underlying statistical support and the modern day medicine is the river. They work hand in hand they support each other.’’

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Monday Apr 26, 2021

013: Life Changes You - with Jennifer Broomfield

Monday Apr 26, 2021

Moving counties, leaving friends, and rebuilding yourself takes guts. Isolation is hard. Who you were in your 20's isn't always who you are in your 30's. What challenges have you overcome and how did it change you as a person?

In this episode, we are chatting with Jennifer. Jennifer is a married mum of two, working in insurance for the past 17 years and balancing the balls of life like many of us. Jennifer has recently embarked on a meditation and mindfulness journey and shares with us her experience and why she began in the first place!

Best Quotes

‘’To begin with the thought of ‘just breathe’ and ‘it's all about the breathing’ and all these positive affirmations, it was a bit like, is this really true? Is that really going to happen? Can I really focus that much? But I found that it actually, it really did.’’

‘’I have heard a few people have had that very same experience where all of a sudden, the home dynamic has changed… not just because more people are in the home every day all day because the home is now also the work environment and the home so the separation is not there.’’

‘’I went to the doctors, and they will always anxiety. And I'm like no, no, no, I don't suffer with anxiety. I think that I'm quite strong headed person, I don't think that would affect me in that way. It must be related to my asthma or something like that.’’

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Tuesday Apr 20, 2021

012: Business & Life Partners - with Wesley and Rebecca Haynes

Tuesday Apr 20, 2021

Do you work with your family? Would you? Have you ever had that "aha moment" with someone close to you to find you're both walking the same life journey of discovery at the same time? In this episode, we are chatting with Wes and Bex, a spectacularly amazing couple who run insurance brokerage Glowsure together. They have two children and have felt the pain of running a business, raising a family, and juggling all the life balls simultaneously. Listen to how they manage their time, what mechanisms they have put in place (celery juice anyone?) and challenges they have faced.

Best Quotes:

‘’You've hit the nail on the head there as a society, the way we think and the way we behave and what what's been happening to our sort of mental state, our physiological state our emotional state over COVID has perhaps just highlighted some of the real problems as a society we're dealing with.’’

‘’I remember just having a meltdown one day – I was arranging people's cards and I just felt like why am I the one that has to sort out everybody's birthday cards?... and it's always the same things isn't it that make you break.’’

‘’When I kind of hit the wall, and probably not many people apart from Who would have known about it, because I'm always very good at putting a smile on my face. And for me, I suddenly realized that I was kind of almost going a bit numb to things.’’

‘’When I get really stressed, I get burning sensations in my head, which sounds quite bad, but I know at that point I'm in total overwhelm, and I need to go and do something.’’

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Monday Apr 05, 2021

011: Who am I - with Jayden James

Monday Apr 05, 2021

Did you have a clear idea as a child of who you were going to be when you grew up? Was it a pilot, a ballerina, an astronaut, or a hairdresser? Jayden was joining the army, defying all the medical odds, until life really put its foot down. In this episode, Jayden talks about his rare medical condition, life challenges, mental health battles, and how early life has paved the way for who and where he is now.

Best Quotes:

‘’…the doctor said, you're never going to be able to do that, you're going to have to have a stoma, and I was like, I'm just not having that… everybody's going to see this is not going to be my life.’’

‘’I never got in trouble with the police, I was good in school, so it was a rebellion on my own terms… does that make sense? If it suited me then I would.’’

‘’I think maybe that's what led me to the entrepreneur thing, because it was the ability to control that I can create my own path, so to speak, and I can be as determined as I want.’’

‘’…but I was like, no, this is going to happen. I was just, when I saw something - for me, it was going to happen. I kind of had that visualisation at a young age.’’

‘’If everybody helped each other, we’d all be less messy.’’

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Monday Mar 29, 2021

010: COVID & Single Parenting - with Jemma Coates

Monday Mar 29, 2021

Was homeschooling during lockdown something that affected you? Are you a single parent? Have you been through a bad breakup? Do people in your life know how you really feel or is your mask so firmly in place that no one could even guess? In this episode, we are chatting to Jemma Coates. Jemma is a single mum, working within the financial planning industry and is currently working from home. She talks to us about how the last year has impacted her mentally and how she has coped with the changes she’s endured.

Best Quotes:

‘’I'm not a teacher, so for me to try and teach him something that I do not understand myself was stressful and trying to teach in the way they're teaching, to the way I got taught to do things was just impossible.’’

‘’I actually think the fallout from the burnout of people juggling all these balls over the last year is going to last well into, you know, the future.’’

‘’…that affected mine and Alfie's relationship because I was trying so hard to get him to do schoolwork and things like that. I just forgot to have a little bit of fun with him.’’

‘’The positive that's come out of it is, you've got nobody else to attribute your success to but you - that's got to be a hell of a boost for you.’’

RESOURCES

Alan Watkins: Ted Talks – https://youtu.be/h-rRgpPbR5w

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Monday Mar 22, 2021

009: The dreaded R word: Redundancy - with Ian Elliot

Monday Mar 22, 2021

Redundancy, as many of you will relate, can have a huge impact on life, both in practical terms but also in terms of how you identify and feel about yourself and the relationships around you. Today we are talking to Ian, a remarkable person with an incredible view on life, who has been made redundant not once, not twice but three times over his life. Ian is an insurance professional who has worked in the industry for most of his working life. Ian talks to us today about his experiences of redundancy, how he coped and how this impacted him.

Best Quotes:

‘’I guess back in those early days, not having a means of income for us as a family, when we were just starting out, was really difficult to comprehend.’’

‘’…the poor unfortunate people who work in retail, and all those other businesses that were affected by COVID, I kind of thought, well, my position I'll count myself lucky because I'll probably find something.’’

‘’My wife would love to talk about her job and I just never felt like that. It wasn't because I felt, you know, I use the word inferior, I guess, because I didn't… I didn't feel inferior about it, but I just felt my job was just a job.’’

‘’I think everybody masks to some extent in everyday life and what I've seen before is the mask stays in place permanently and is where maybe some additional worries and anxieties come up.’’

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Monday Mar 15, 2021

008: Grief, Early Years and Coping - with Chloe Smith

Monday Mar 15, 2021

What experience can you look back on as being pivotal in the game of life? How did you feel at the time? How do you feel about it now? Life experience can come in all shapes and sizes - grief, challenge, failed expectations. Coronavirus has changed many people's direction. Chloe has faced many challenges in her 27 years of life including losing two loved ones to COVID-19, becoming a carer for her mother, and holding down a stressful job as a veterinary nurse. Chloe talks with us about her experiences, her coping strategies and how this has impacted her mental wellness.

Best Quotes:

‘’I've always struggled. I think I've always struggled kind of with validation of thoughts like is this right? Am I doing this right? Am I feeling this right? Is somebody going to judge me for this? And I think, at home, we did get judged a lot.’’

‘’I think you maybe mirror it back on yourself to corroborate maybe a belief about yourself that you have that I wouldn't have about you, and I suspect nobody in the whole world would have about you…‘’

‘’The thing I can control is how clean stuff is around me so, it's like a control if my rooms tidy it’s because I've controlled that. All the animals are clean, the cars are clean… it’s because it's something I can control.’’

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