Reach Out For Mental Health Podcast ep46 Special guest: Kirsty Bosley Kirsty says "I'm a Birmingham-based freelance writer and communicator with a heaving portfolio. My body of work includes news brochures, celebrity interviews, property stories, glossy fashion spreads, real life stories, blogs, columns, food pieces, music reviews, emailers, theatre features and more. Loads more. Outside of the traditional office setting, I work with the creative team at WWE NXT UK, helping to make a wrestling TV show! You can often hear my Black Country tones on BT Sport, conducting backstage interviews with beefcakes. Along that same vein, I have a wrestling podcast on the Distraction Pieces Network, interviewing stars and building ace relationships with my listeners. When I’m not tapping away at my keyboard, I can be found waving at dogs in the street, playing guitar (both real and air), watching Sopranos for the 157th time and writing poems with a real pen." TRIGGER WARNING. This episode contains graphic content. For help with suicidal feelings please contact Reach Out for Mental Health (if you live in Essex) otherwise please contact the Samaritans on 116 123. If you don't feel you're able to keep yourself safe please call 111 & select option 2 for the mental health crisis line for urgent help. please feel free to reach out to us ⁠⁠www.reachoutfmh.co.uk⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/ReachOut

Reach Out For Mental Health Podcast ep44 Special guest: John R Miles John is a keynote speaker, author, combat veteran and host of the #1 ranked alternative health podcast, Passion Struck with John R. Miles, which has garnered over 17+million downloads, is listened to in 169 counties and has well over 20,000 5 star reviews.    John's story is a timely and compelling one. In an era where burnout, mental health challenges, and the struggle for purpose are increasingly prevalent, John's journey from the pinnacle of corporate success to profound personal realization offers hope, inspiration, and actionable insights.   John is releasing his new book, Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life (February 6, 2024, Post Hill Press), which combines behavior science research, peak performance strategies, and compelling real-life narratives from industry titans (Oprah, Elon Musk, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Astronaut Wendy Lawrence, General Stanley McChrystal, COO of Lowe's Larry Stone) - many who John has had the privilege to interview and/or work with - to empower you to confront and transcend your limiting beliefs, ultimately paving the way for an existence without boundaries.   Drawing from insights, experiences, andthe very nature of the human spirit, John's work navigates through self-sabotage, doubts, and the ever-burning question: Are you living your life to the fullest?   Endorsed by Seth Godin, Kris Carr, Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Dr. Emily Morse, NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy, Matt Higgins and Dawna Stone, John's decades long research into intentional behavior change, personal growth and mattering has garnered a social following of over 650,000 - an engaged community who John has championed to learn how to break free from the inner confines of personal limits, the barriers that hold us back, and the transformative power of intentionality. Recognized as one of the top thinkers in personal mastery and a Premier 100 Leader,  More information on John can be found at www.JohnRMiles.com and www.PassionStruck.com TRIGGER WARNING. This episode contains graphic content. For help with suicidal feelings please contact Reach Out for Mental Health (if you live in Essex) otherwise please contact the Samaritans on 116 123. If you don't feel you're able to keep yourself safe please call 111 & select option 2 for the mental health crisis line for urgent help. please feel free to reach out to us ⁠⁠⁠www.reachoutfmh.co.uk⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/ReachOut

Reach Out For Mental Health Podcast ep43 Special guest: Jordan Gray Jordan Redford is an English comedian and singer from Essex. After beginning her career as a singer, she released several independent singles and albums. She appeared on the fifth series of The Voice UK, where she was a semi-finalist; having performed a skit during one of the live shows and preferred it to singing, and after a record label deal was not renewed, she became a comedian, where she was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award for her tour Is It a Bird? in 2022. Her 2022 appearance on Friday Night Live, where she performed a song about her experiences as a transgender woman, stripped naked, and played the piano with her penis, attracted praise and controversy. TRIGGER WARNING. This episode contains graphic content. For help with suicidal feelings please contact Reach Out for Mental Health (if you live in Essex) otherwise please contact the Samaritans on 116 123. If you don't feel you're able to keep yourself safe please call 111 & select option 2 for the mental health crisis line for urgent help. please feel free to reach out to us ⁠⁠www.reachoutfmh.co.uk⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/ReachOut

K from The Krackpots was so kind and generous to share his story and if anything spoken about on this episode resonates with your situation, please speak to a friend, colleague, your GP, Reach Out For Mental Health, Samaritans, MIND, Calm, SOBS or just google suicidal feelings THE KRACKPOTS Following 5 long years of tenuous and increasingly unlistenable sausage roll-themed Christmas number ones, puppet band The Krackpots step up to try and give the UK what it needs, a proper Christmas Number 1. Proper Christmas does what it says on the tin, capturing the perfectly imperfect family Christmases of the late 70s and early 80s in an instant sing-a-long radio-friendly Christmas classic like the festive hits of yesteryear, channelling The Krackpots' childhood favourites Chas and Dave, vintage Madness and Slade. The identity of the band behind The Krackpots, a mystery group with several top 10 hits and millions of streams, is a closely guarded secret, and an intriguing mystery, a bit like Banksy. Supported by a hilarious, heartwarming puppet video (coming soon) and a massive social media campaign, Proper Christmas is set to become the surprise hit of Christmas 2023. Proper Christmas is available to Download and Stream on all platforms from 8th December 2023. It is released on Official Kulture records. For details see http://properchristmas.info TRIGGER WARNING. This episode contains graphic content. For help with suicidal feelings please contact Reach Out for Mental Health (if you live in Essex) otherwise please contact the Samaritans on 116 123. If you don't feel you're able to keep yourself safe please call 111 & select option 2 for the mental health crisis line for urgent help. please feel free to reach out to us ⁠www.reachoutfmh.co.uk⁠ ⁠https://www.facebook.com/ReachOutFMH

On this episode podcaster, PR guru and author Rich Leigh talks at length about his turbulent childhood marred by domestic violence, addiction and crime to being named the #1 most influential PR person, his journey has been anything but conventional. At 17, he dropped out of school. At 18, he became a father for the first time, and left the chaos of his family council house, determined to rewrite his story and break the cycle so many understandably struggle to. listen to Rich's Podcast "The Starting Line" here https://open.spotify.com/show/46IufelOtcvvBzdidS4oUl?si=d832e0e8fdfb4333 If you are affected by any of the content of this podcast then please ask for help, We are available at www.reachoutfmh.co.uk

On this episode fire fighter and author Leigh talks at length about the impact his job has on his mental health and the ways and means he uses to try to maintain his wellbeing. If you are affected by any of the content of this podcast then please ask for help, We are available at www.reachoutfmh.co.uk

Reach Out For Mental Health Podcast ep33 Special guest: Gail Porter TRIGGER WARNING. This episode contains graphic content. For help with suicidal feelings please contact Reach Out for Mental Health (if you live in Essex) otherwise please contact the Samaritans on 116 123. If you don't feel you're able to keep yourself safe please call 111 & select option 2 for the mental health crisis line for urgent help. please feel free to reach out to us ⁠www.reachoutfmh.co.uk⁠ ⁠https://www.facebook.com/ReachOut

Reach Out For Mental Health Podcast ep37 Special guest: JP Waldron Mental Health Nurse John-Barry Waldron is our guest on this week's Reach Out PodcastJohn-Barry works in a secure hospital, supporting people experiencing mental illness and helping them return home to their communities.He's also capturing the stories of staff and patients through the On The Ward Podcast which you can also get wherever you get your podcasts.Also in the conversation - We discuss access to mental health services, and how stigma still bring issues for patients and their families. TRIGGER WARNING. This episode contains graphic content. For help with suicidal feelings please contact Reach Out for Mental Health (if you live in Essex) otherwise please contact the Samaritans on 116 123. If you don't feel you're able to keep yourself safe please call 111 & select option 2 for the mental health crisis line for urgent help. please feel free to reach out to us ⁠www.reachoutfmh.co.uk⁠ ⁠https://www.facebook.com/ReachOut

Reach Out For Mental Health Podcast ep36 Special guest: Alastair Campbell Alastair Campbell is a former journalist turned strategist and spokesman for Tony Blair and New Labour. He is now a writer, consultant strategist, podcaster and mental health campaigner. TRIGGER WARNING. This episode contains graphic content. For help with suicidal feelings please contact Reach Out for Mental Health (if you live in Essex) otherwise please contact the Samaritans on 116 123. If you don't feel you're able to keep yourself safe please call 111 & select option 2 for the mental health crisis line for urgent help. please feel free to reach out to us ⁠www.reachoutfmh.co.uk⁠ ⁠https://www.facebook.com/ReachOut

Reach Out For Mental Health Podcast ep36 Special guest: Maff Potts - Founder of Camerados About Maff and Camerados Camerados is a new social movement of people going through tough times who through mutual aid want people to get the two essentials: Connection and Purpose. Maff and his colleagues set up Camerados in 2015 to work with and support people who the existing system have failed. With a global reach from the UK to the USA, Camerados is working in locations as diverse as colleges, prisons, hospitals, libraries, football stadia. Camarados puts people in charge of their own solutions through Mutual Aid – helping people who are not necessarily friends to self-organise to support each other through tough times. The main focus right now for the movement is to see communities set up Public Living rooms – a place to go on a tough day or when you’re lonely to help others and get connection and purpose. Maff has been instrumental in creating culture change in homelessness nationally in variety of roles. He ran the Government's programme to modernise homeless centres, writing the policy and committing £170m. Whilst there he also co-created a social enterprise competition with the Big Issue and PwC which launched 34 new social businesses. Maff has also worked front line and ran the largest homeless services in the country for The Salvation Army as well as being CEO of award winning organization “People Can” which used asset based methods across homelessness, criminal justice, domestic violence and addiction services. Maff’s best story though is setting up a homeless shelter in the World’s biggest building for Christmas, the millennium dome, for charity Crisis. TRIGGER WARNING. This episode contains graphic content. For help with suicidal feelings please contact Reach Out for Mental Health (if you live in Essex) otherwise please contact the Samaritans on 116 123. If you don't feel you're able to keep yourself safe please call 111 & select option 2 for the mental health crisis line for urgent help. please feel free to reach out to us ⁠www.reachoutfmh.co.uk⁠ ⁠https://www.facebook.com/ReachOut