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Today I am joined by the absolutely brilliant Ruairidh Alexander! Ruairidh is currently undertaking an MRes at Napier University, and works part time as a tutor. However, they also find the time to volunteer for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. Ruairidh and I discuss how we can balance having a full time job and being invested and engaged in conservation!Useful LinksDon't forget to subscribe to the podcast and follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! We are @PangolinPodcast

For the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast Ali spoke to musician and writer Katy Lironi to talk all about her memoir Matilda In The Middle, which is available now, published with Into Books.Katy gives an overview of the book, talks about the title, breaks down the subtitle of 'family, music and mayhem' and how those three aspects work together to tell the full story. She also makes it clear that while this is a memoir about family, this is the story as she sees it.She then talks about SandFest, Choir 21, her work with Down's Syndrome Scotland, and the forthcoming event on the 21st March at The Book Nook in Stewarton which is part of World Down's Syndrome Day (details on the SWH! website).She also sets out the vital role music has played throughout her life, including the early years in East Kilbride, studying at Napier University and becoming part of the Edinburgh indie music scene as lead singer in The Fizzbombs, just what that time and place was like, the musical differences between East and West, returning home, and what happened next.The two then discuss the importance music continues to play for Katy, her husband Douglas, and their family (with Matilda In The Middle) be that making, performing, promoting, and releasing other people's, and what the future holds.Matilda In The Middle is a book which can be read in a number of ways, revealing something new each time, and it was fascinating to be able to talk to Katy all about it.Full details, including all the ways to listen, are over at scotswhayhae.com

Caio é roteirista e diretor cinematográfico, formado no Curso de Cinema da FAAP e Mestre em Roteiro (MFA) pela Napier University, em Edimburgo. É co-fundador do centro cultural Marieta e sócio-diretor da Irmãos Guerra Filmes. Além de ministrar o curso livre de roteiro intensivo “A Jornada do Roteirista”, coordenou um Grupo de Desenvolvimento de Roteiro … Continue lendo "Primeiro Tratamento – Caio Guerra – # 275"

Mike Welch is a truly inspiring leader.Dr Michael Welch OBE founded Blackcircles.com, the world's first click-to-fit online tyre retailer in 2002, selling the business to Michelin in 2015. Prior to Blackcircles.com, Michael started his career in the tyre business aged 15 in Liverpool, England, as a tyre installer with a local independent tyre dealer. He started his first online tyre business two years later, in 1995, after being made redundant. He subsequently sold that business to UK fast-fit chain Kwik Fit, where he was hired as the group's first head of e-commerce in the lead-up to Ford's £1 billion acquisition in 1999. In this role, he spent a few years between the UK and the US assisting the Ford group with their e-commerce execution.In 2016, during a brief period out of the tyre industry, he founded and chaired fashion retail startup Atterley.com, a global network of fashion boutiques. In 2019, Michael turned his attention to the US tyre market with his new venture, Tirescanner.com. The website serves as a platform for brick-and-mortar tyre retailers who are looking to compete with pure players for a share of the US online market. With an initial launch in Florida in 2019, Tirescanner.com has gone on to build a national network showcasing the very best of brick-and-mortar retail stores and mobile installation vans across the United States. The US tyre replacement market was valued at $42bn (USD) in 2019.In 2021, Tirescanner merged with Tirebuyer.com to create one of America's largest online tyre retailers, with over 11,000 installers across the USA. Bringing Tirescanner's strategy and expertise together with TireBuyer's scale, the aim of the merger is to create the country's leading online tyre experience.Michael established The Welch Trust in 2015 focusing on supporting children and young people in need of adoption and fostering, as a fostered and adopted person himself, as well as kids with critical and terminal illnesses. The Trust recently built its first ‘The Welch Learning Centre', a school computer and library service for children in Bali, Indonesia. In May 2021, The Welch Trust partnered with the Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity and NHS Lothian to bring MRI-guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT) to Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Children and Young People (RHCYP). This was the first time this laser technology was made available in Scotland. Michael also sits on the board and is a Patron of The Prince's Trust, the principal charity of HM the King. Michael was awarded an OBE (Officer of the British Empire) by the HM Queen Elizabeth ll in 2016 for services to business and charity. He also received an honorary doctorate in Enterprise from Edinburgh's Napier University.——————————————About TirebuyerAt Tirebuyer our aim is to deliver the world's best tire buying experience, underpinned by world class customer support. We've created an easy to navigate marketplace, coupled with an end-to-end concierge service, for the installation of your new tires. Tirebuyer simplifies tire shopping, provides quick and convenient tire installation with our local or mobile installation partners, offers fast and free shipping, and removes the guesswork on cost through guaranteed upfront payment. In 2021, Tirescanner merged with Tirebuyer to create an even better website with incredible customer support. We have a nationwide network of 11,000 mobile and in-store installation partners, all pre-qualified by our team. Your tires can be delivered fast and free to one of these tire shops – in some cases the same day you order. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the PhD-Edition! Corin Anderson and Clara Isabelle Soto Rodriguez, two synesthetes from different parts of the world decided to study synesthesia and to dedicated their PhD to it. We hear both their stories of having synesthesia and what their theses are about: Corin Anderson is Scottish and a PhD student at the Edinburgh Napier University in the UK. His researched topic is called "A compositional exploration of Auditory-Visual-Synaesthesia". On instagram you can find him under @musiccoriander. AND he's also the clever brain behind the sounds used in this podcast. Thank you so much for the collaboration, Corin! Clara Isabelle Soto Rodriguez is Mexican and a PhD student at the Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico. Her thesis is a "comparative analysis similarities in colored auditions: case study as a reference towards an understanding of musical synesthesia and the neural mechanisms of human multisensory perception" . You can find Clara on instagram under @claraisabellee. Expert-Information by Dr Duncan Carmichael, Psychology lecturer at Napier University, Edinburgh Connect with Maike: Instagram/TikTok: @synesthes_a Website: synesthesia.at E-Mail: synesthes_a@outlook.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maike-preissing/message

 In this episode, host Danielle Radojcin travels to East London to meet Hannah Starkey, the British photographer. Since she first came to prominence in the 90s, Starkey has built up an impressive body of work focusing on women and how they are represented. Born in Belfast in 1971, she studied photography and film at Edinburgh's Napier University in the 90s and went on to study photography at the Royal College of Art in London. Today, her work can be found in major collections including the Tate and the Victoria & Albert Museum and In 2019 she was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.From autumn 2022 until the end of April 2023, the Hepworth Wakefield gallery in West Yorkshire presents the first major survey exhibition of Starkey's work. In this episode, Radojcin and Starkey discuss Starkey's process and how she works with her subjects;  what she calls “the consumer gaze” and the tyranny of social media, porn and the fashion and beauty industries on young women; and the power of photography as a tool for communication. Episode photo: Jeff Moore

Highlands Rewilding purpose is to enable nature recovery and community prosperity through rewilding, as a mass ownership company. By doing this, they aim to become one of the most impactful accelerators of nature-based solutions in the world by 2026. Daniel's Bio Daniel's career in conservation and forestry began with an Honours degree in Environmental Biology from Napier University where his thesis focused on the freshwater fishes of Sulawesi. This was followed by a Masters in Conservation Biology with a focus on the use of riparian habitats by large mammals. Since then he has worked on a wide variety of research projects including a year supporting ecologists in the Ecuadorian Amazon and a year spent monitoring the behavior and activity patterns of Pine Martens in the Highlands of Scotland. Daniel has also worked on the front line of habitat restoration for many years, having planted close to one million native trees across the Highland area and removed acres of invasive species. Daniel has a strong interest in regenerative agriculture and in particular, agroforestry practices. He has established his own 2 acres food forest in the Highlands experimenting with over 200 species of edible and useful plants and trees suitable for this climate. He is also a keen wood carver and sculptor crafting unique pieces of art and bespoke yurts.

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Today Jo Wood & Zoe Whitman will be joined by FreeAgents, Gem Malek and Theresa Quin. Gem Malek, Regional Account Manager - FreeAgent (award-winning accounting software) Gem works closely with accountants and bookkeepers at FreeAgent to ensure they're getting the most out of the software. She helps practices and their small business clients prepare for Making Tax Digital (MTD) through her one-to-one consultations, providing tailored action plans. Gem is from St Andrews and moved to Edinburgh seven years ago to attend Napier University. In her spare time, Gem loves to bake bread, listen to true crime podcasts and catch up on binge-worthy Netflix shows. Theresa Quin, Sales Development Representative - FreeAgent (award-winning accounting software) Theresa supports accountants and bookkeepers at the very beginning of their FreeAgent journey - guiding them through the Partner Program and helping them to grow along the way. This involves learning all about their practices, helping them get to grips with the software and supporting them with positioning FreeAgent to their small businesses clients. Outside of work, Theresa is studying Seasonal Yoga and loves getting out on her bike and taking in the wonderful Scottish scenery. They will be talking about MTD deadlines, their upcoming MTD week and they will touch on various topics relating to MTD that bookkeepers need to be aware of.

Nigel Paine is an ex-Head of Training and Development at BBC. He joins me to talk about secrets of exceptional TV presenting, interviewing quirks, journalism in his career, and teleprompter techniques. Highlights: How Nigel got into journalism Training BBC staff via newer courses and better tech in 2005, 2006 You need natural ability to be truly great in your medium Reading from a teleprompter like a soulless robot: how to do better Interviewing people is nothing like a real world conversation Good presenter vs great presenter: what's the difference (not just your personality) Nigel's books, what they are about, key punchlines About Nigel Nigel Paine is a change-focused leader with a worldwide reputation and a unique grasp of media, learning and development in the public, private and academic sectors. He has extensive experience in leadership and consultancy with public service broadcasters, SMEs, global industry players, government and education institutions. Nigel focuses on the use of learning technologies, organisational development, leadership and creativity with a spotlight on maximising human potential, innovation and performance in the workplace. Nigel is a strategic thinker, able to motivate, lead and drive organisations forward to deliver business and training objectives. Nigel has been involved in corporate learning for over twenty years. In the past, he has produced learning software, CD Roms and multimedia materials, and more recently, offered development and support to companies large and small in over 30 countries around the world. He was appointed in April 2002 to head up the BBC's Learning and Development operation. Under his leadership, the team developed a brand-new on-boarding experience, a comprehensive leadership development programme for over 6,000 staff, an award-winning intranet, and state of the art informal learning and knowledge sharing networks. He left the BBC in September 2006 to start his own company that is focused on building great workplaces by promoting creativity, innovation, values based-leadership and learning and the link between them. He speaks regularly at conferences around the world, and teaches on a doctoral programme at the University of Pennsylvania and for Chicago Booth Business School. His first book for Kogan Page is called, The Learning Challenge: Dealing with Technology, Innovation and Change in Learning and Development. It was published in September 2014. His new book, for the same publisher, on Building Leadership Development Programmes That Work was published in November 2016. He is currently working on a new book re-examining learning organisations and learning culture. He recently co-authored an eBook introduction to Neuroscience for Learning. He has a Professorship from Napier University in Edinburgh, and is a Fellow of the CIPD, LPI, the RSA and a Masie Learning Fellow in the USA. He presents a monthly TV programme (Learning Now TV), shares a weekly podcast (with Martin Couzins) called From Scratch, and regularly writes articles for magazines and journals about development, technology and leadership. Nigel has written articles and white papers published on subjects as diverse as ‘Creativity in the Workplace', ‘Building Corporate Heroes' and ‘The Future of E-Learning'. Find out more at https://sergey-ross-podcast.pinecast.co

James and Jane are joined by good friend of the show, Dr. Oli Mival, a user experience, Director of User  Research at Skyscanner and Principal Research Fellow at the Center for Interaction Design at Napier University. The conversation explores how organizations use research, some of the challenges of leading research in organizations and what makes "good" research.

D. V. Bishop is the author of the Cesare Aldo mysteries set in Renaissance Florence, and published by Pan Macmillan. Before his debut as an author, David had a varied career, from journalism to editing some of the UK's biggest comics at Judge Dredd The Megazine and 2000AD, before becoming an award-winning screenwriter and TV dramatist. City of Vengeance won the Pitch Perfect competition at the Bloody Scotland crime fiction festival in 2018, and he was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship by the Scottish Book Trust while writing the novel. We had great fun learning about David's journey, hearing about how he landed the editor job at 2000AD, and talk in detail about why has wanted to write City of Vengeance for twenty years. As David is also the head of Creative Writing at Napier University, we also get some great tips on writing (use all five senses!), talk about plotting vs pantsing, and much more!Links:Buy City of Vengeance now!Visit David's websiteFollow him on TwitterWatch our video panel Page One Sessions as we discuss writing with great authors: https://youtu.be/gmE6iCDYn-sThe Page One Podcast is brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Learn more and order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/page-oneFollow us on Twitter: @write_gearFollow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WriteGearUK/Follow us on Instagram: write_gear_uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What is a learning culture and how is a learning culture fostered, supported and enabled?  In this podcast, Robin is exploring these questions with author and podcaster, Nigel Paine. Nigel's latest book is called Workplace Learning: How to build a culture of continuous employee development.  This podcast builds upon and discusses themes from the book. About Nigel PaineNigel Paine is a change-focused leader with a worldwide reputation and a unique grasp of media, learning and development in the public, private and academic sectors.Nigel focuses on the use of learning technologies, organisational development, leadership and creativity with a spotlight on maximising human potential, innovation and performance in the workplace. Nigel is a strategic thinker, able to motivate, lead and drive organisations forward to deliver business and training objectives.Nigel has been involved in corporate learning for over twenty years.  He has a Professorship from Napier University in Edinburgh and is a Fellow of the CIPD, LPI, the RSA and a Masie Learning Fellow in the USA. He presents a monthly TV programme (Learning Now TV), shares a weekly podcast (with Martin Couzins) called From Scratch, and regularly writes articles for magazines and journals about development, technology and leadership.Links from the podcastFind out more about Nigel PaineConnect with Nigel PaineRead Workplace Learning: How to build a culture of continuous employee developmentWatch Learning Now TV

Welcome to everyone - This is our first podcast. This week we introduce ourselves, what the podcast is about, and start with an in-depth interview with one of the co-hosts Shockers.  We hear about how Napier University's Rugby League side came to being, Scotland Rugby League. Twitter - @LadsTalking FaceBook - Big Lads Talking Email - BigLadsTalkingStraight@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigladstalkingstraight/message

Susan Gnadou Zebo is currently a UFM Missionary in Paris working with international students.Born in Scotland, Susan spent most of her childhood in the South of France with her missionary parents who worked for GLO (Gospel Literature Outreach) and Echoes International before moving back to Scotland were her family in 2009.Susan studied Languages and Business at Napier University before moving back to Paris to work with GBU, the Christian Union equivalent in France.  Presented by David Meredithwww.generation-mission.orgTitle Music and Production: Simon Kennedy

< 22:26 > TALKING POINTS Google's Project Oxygen was an evidence-based approach focusing on changing manager behaviour by identifying the 8 good behaviours of a manager. More recently another 2 behaviours have been identified by Google, to make 10 good behaviours. ‘The Big Reset Playbook: What's Working Now' published August 2020, by Josh Bersin Academy describes the React – Respond – Return – Transform cycle. Build back better. Make it a better world, better for your employees, more productive, more customer-focused. It's a pathway to transformation. Presenteeism leads to people just doing the minimum. People in organisations won't want to be told when COVID is over to just come back to work. People want flexibility and have their needs listened to and met. The rise of trust and support; working from home has forced managers to trust and be supportive of their employees. The launch of Sanofi University in March was accompanied by a company-wide challenge to achieve one million hours of learning by June. Amid COVID, some organizations are tightening the purse strings and won't do any learning until they know for certain what's happening. They see learning as a cost. Are they the ones not to thrive when recovery happens? We need to learn new things. We need to try new approaches. We need to innovate. We need to reframe, and how you can do those things without learning? When a manager says, ‘Don't think, just do', that's a recipe for disaster. It's going to require an innovative, adaptive approach moving forward into the future. Organisations are reassembling themselves as they're going along. Some organisations have turned on a pinhead.  There is a difference between individuals in organisations learning and organisational learning.  Works Cited Paine, Nigel, 'Workplace Learning', Kogan Page, www.KoganPage.com, January 2020. Use code - FRIENDSOFNIGEL - for discount. 'Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?' by David A. Garvin, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld, Liz Kind, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, April 2013. ‘The Big Reset Playbook: What's Working Now', Josh Bersin Academy, August 2020 https://joshbersin.com/2020/08/the-big-reset-playbook-whats-working-now/ ABOUT NIGEL PAINE: As former Head of BBC Television's Learning and Development operation, Nigel Paine's team developed a comprehensive leadership development program for over 6,000 staff, an award-winning intranet, and state of the art informal learning and knowledge sharing networks. With a Professorship from Napier University in Edinburgh, Nigel Paine is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Learning and Performance Institute (LPI), the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and a Masie Learning Fellow in the USA.  Speaking regularly at conferences around the world, Nigel teaches on a doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania and for Chicago Booth Business School.  He presents a monthly TV program (Learning Now TV) and shares a weekly podcast (with Martin Couzins), 'From Scratch'. BOOK DISCOUNT COUPON CODE His most recent book, 'Workplace Learning', published January 2020, focuses on Learning Organisations and Learning Culture. Available from Kogan Page - www.koganpage.com - use code FRIENDSOFNIGEL for 20% discount and free postage and packing in the UK and USA. About Nina Sunday CSP In the Manage Self, Lead Others podcast, Nina Sunday speaks with key experts from across the globe who share their insights in self-leadership and leading others, highlighting emerging trends since COVID. A Certified Virtual Presenter, Nina Sunday present virtually internationally on workplace culture, productivity and communication. Her book, ‘Workplace Wisdom for 9 to thrive; proven tactics and hacks to get ahead in today's workplace' is a selection of the C-Suite Book Club.  For more information visit https://ninasunday.com or follow Nina Sunday on LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before training as a CA, I sold TVs, drove a van, sold life assurance, worked for a housing association, was a retail entrepreneur, lectured at Napier University and played guitar in a lot of bands! I now provide clear commercial advice to forward thinking businesses owners who want to grow, acquire, sell or retire. I’ve been a partner in independent, mid-tier and Big4 accountancy firms. I’m the chair for the IoD Highlands & Islands, a non-executive director of a forestry and natural resources company and chair of a national Scottish charity I believe in networking, personal development and collaboration. I enjoy business development and having worked it at for a long time, now realize it is simpler than I thought! Outside the day job I still enjoy playing guitar, learning piano, keeping fit, reading and working outdoors. To learn more about Donald Forsyth, visit: Website: www.saffery.com Social Media handle(s): https://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldforsyth/ Contact number(s): 07469 035 880

  Luke interviewed eight colleagues from the team at Oxleas Music Therapy Service about their experiences of adapting practice during lockdown. This has inevitably included a wide range of experiences, some very positive, some frustrating, but all of them demonstrating the ability of music therapists to adapt and improvise in a crisis, keeping the children and young people they are working with at the centre of their practice. You can also find a shorter edit of this project (with a musical bonus) on the service website. Here are their biogs in order of appearance: Sarah Hadley is the manager of Oxleas Music Therapy Service. You can see a more extensive biog for Sarah in the notes for her own episode of Music Therapy Conversations (Episode 36 from March 2020). Oonagh Jones is Principal Music Therapist at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust where she is Caseload Manager and Lead for the Under 5s service.  Oonagh works in mainstream, special schools and children's centres; with a particular interest in working with children and young people who have experienced trauma. Anthony Voelcker has worked in secondary schools since graduating from Roehampton in 2013, specialising in working with young people with learning disabilities. He currently working in two South London SEN schools, leading the music therapy team at Charlton Park Academy and working as the music therapist at Greenvale School. Nicky O'Neill is one of the Principal music therapists. She is the Contracts Manager for the Service, with a career-long interest and specialism in children with complex needs -ASD as well as health needs.   Jimmy Lyons' musical background is in live performance, songwriting and recording. After completing a Master’s degree in music technology in his native Ireland, Jimmy moved to the UK and trained at Nordoff Robbins in London where he qualified in 2013. He currently runs a private music therapy practice (Right Note Therapeutic Services), studies Family & Systemic Psychotherapy studies at The Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and works for the Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust music therapy service. Hannah Smith has worked for Oxleas NHS since 2014, initially alongside other Music Therapy posts in acute mental health, forensic mental health and as a self-employed therapist, but moving to full time from 2017. Hannah's clinical work encompasses mainstream and special education, children's centres and the core NHS service, as well as co-ordinating student placements and the service audit of clients accessing Music Therapy and the outcome measures relating to their provision. Since qualifying as a music therapist at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Gillian O’Dempsey has worked for the NHS Borders CAMHS service and the Cheyne Child Development Service at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, she currently works for NHS Oxleas with children in mainstream primary schools and special schools.  Gillian taught the Introduction to Music Therapy module at Napier University, Edinburgh and now teaches on the Interactive Music-Maker training course run by Music as Therapy International.  Before music therapy training, Gillian worked in education in a variety of teaching roles.​ Richard Murison has worked in this team with children, young people and adults, since qualifying from Roehampton in 2008. He is a guitarist and singer-songwriter. Richard has led on several research projects for the service, including a qualitative investigation of transitions from childrens to adult services, which was awarded the poster prize at the BAMT 2016 Glasgow conference.

Everyone who knows me - knows that I am all about sharing the wealth, especially given that we don’t know know what we don’t know. Did YOU know that my returning guest, Gordon Montgomery is a PODCASTER? Gordon will be interviewing me on Living Fearlessly with Lisa McDonald so as to provide my loyal listeners and Podcast Subscribers insight into the flavour of Gordon’s interviewing style and thought processes! A NOT-TO-BE-MISSED SHOW on my C-Suite Radio / C-Suite Network!! Wellbeing Coach. Evolutionary Executive Coach. Chief Experience Officer. Management Consultant. Innovation Strategist. Experience Designer. Author. Irish. Ultra trail runner. Martial Artist. Father. Polymath. Linguist. Reverend. Healer. Indigo. Alien. Vegan. Geek … Gordon Montgomery works with visionary leaders to EVOLVE wildest dreams into stark reality. Gordon guides visionary leaders, through an energetic process of rapid evolutionary upgrades, rooted in fairness, flowing from the highest version of their mission to design a wholly new experience. His typical client is often the type of leader who has always had “a knowing” that they see things “differently”, especially in the light of the coming technological and cultural challenges which we are calling #wave21. The outcome of this work is: – an evolved, soulful vision and mission _ pragmatic reality for the client, team and organization, ultimately – allowing access to actions for the most joyful possible experience. Phases: 1. Detoxification 2. Focus 3. Mastery 4. Emergence. Born in the revolutionary, war-torn, year of 1968; proud of his native Northern Irish home; Gordon had already emigrated and returned from Australia in the 1970s. He completed his early schooling at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen. As a young man he traveled first to Southampton University, England to attain his BA degree in Linguistics, became fluent in French and modern languages before deepening his love affair with the enabling power of digital technology in people’s lives. He consulted in London, starting at Arthur Andersen. His work took him to enterprises in continental Europe before completing his Masters in Software Engineering at Napier University, Scotland, finishing top in Human Computer Interaction. His re-location in the late 1990s to the USA enabled him to continue to catch the business & technology management consulting wave, where he served and built businesses for 20 years, designing optimal experiences with the world’s top corporate and academic institutions. Following a definitive life wake-up call in 2008, catalyzed by the birth of his son Ronan, and subsequent divorce, he transitioned to becoming an futurist Evolutionary Executive Coach in 2010, an ordained minister and received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity. He now serves as a holistic Wellbeing Coach, currently based in Austin, Texas. Coach training: Gordon has been trained and affiliated with the ICF & IAC coaching bodies, with Landmark Education and Vanto Group leadership development, with the Neuroscience Coaching Institute and www.nlp.com and continues to expand his learning daily. Gordon received master coach training and now partners with Carolina Aramburo‘s incredible international team of radical results coaches. He is an energetic speaker at a broad range of business and technology events. Uplifting you to fear less and to live more!  #Grateful #Radio #Podcasts #CSuiteRadio #CSuiteNetwork #CTRN #HaltonHonda #Forever #AHAthat #VRRMediaProductions #CrackingTheRichCode #BrittVentures #JimBritt #KevinHarrington #GoldsmithStakeholderCenteredCoaching #Entrepreneurs #LivingFearlessly https://livingfearlesslywithlisa.com/event/you-dont-know-what-you-dont-know-with-gordon-montgomery/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I first sat down with my guest in this episode, Pacific Rim College faculty member and herbalist Peter Conway, to record for my other podcast, Pacific Rim College Radio. However, I knew once the interview was over that I also needed to publish it here as, among other assets, Peter is freakishly intelligent and deeply committed to his purpose. He has lived in a van and a teepee, has fought for the preservation and dissemination of herbal medicine knowledge, and generally follows in life a punk rocker ethos. Listening to him talk about plant-spirit medicine is like listening to a living mystic – I actually think Peter is a living mystic – and his knowledge extends vastly beyond the bounds of herbal medicine. We touch base with myriad topics including chaos theory, inner reflection during Covid, punk rock, spirituality, and nature. Here are some more commonly known bits about Peter. He graduated from the College of Phytotherapy in the UK in 1995. Prior to joining Pacific Rim College in 2015, Peter taught for many institutions and co-wrote the BSc Degree course in Herbal Medicine at Napier University in. He served as president of the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy for 12 years and is a former director of the European Herbal and Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association. Peter is the author of “The Consultation in Phytotherapy” textbook that he is now revising for its second edition. Peter currently lives in Victoria, is one of 9 distinguished faculty members of Pacific Rim College Online's renowned Home Herbalist and Community Herbalist programs, and is working on an online project that will address “deep herbalism". Speaking of deep…that's Peter. This guy has so much wisdom that you might want to listen to this episode more than once. Episode Links: https://twitter.com/conwayherbalist School of Western Herbal Medicine at Pacific Rim College Online Community Herbalist Program at Pacific Rim College Online Online Home Herbalist Program at Pacific Rim College Online Touch the Earth by TC McLuhan The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable by Juliette de Bairacli Levy Green Pharmacy by Barbara Griggs Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy by Simon Mills and Kerry Bone Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram Thus Spoke the Plant by Monica Gagliano Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botanyby Matthew Hall Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life by Michael Marder The Enchantment of Western Herbal Medicine by Guy Waddell

As an Evolutionary Coach, (amongst many other prestigious roles, titles, positions) Gordon Montgomery works with visionary leaders to EVOLVE wildest dreams into stark reality! Clients of his have included: Harvard, Microsoft, Arthur Anderson, DELL, Lehman Bro’s, The State of Florida, Texaco, and a plethora of others! This man’s repertoire, accolades, and zany brilliance is beyond off the hook! A Not-To-Be-Missed Show on C-Suite Radio / C-Suite Network !!! Wellbeing Coach. Evolutionary Executive Coach. Chief Experience Officer. Management Consultant. Innovation Strategist. Experience Designer. Author. Irish. Ultra trail runner. Martial Artist. Father. Polymath. Linguist. Reverend. Healer. Indigo. Alien. Vegan. Geek … Gordon Montgomery works with visionary leaders to EVOLVE wildest dreams into stark reality. Gordon guides visionary leaders, through an energetic process of rapid evolutionary upgrades, rooted in fairness, flowing from the highest version of their mission to design a wholly new experience. His typical client is often the type of leader who has always had “a knowing” that they see things “differently”, especially in the light of the coming technological and cultural challenges which we are calling #wave21. The outcome of this work is: – an evolved, soulful vision and mission _ pragmatic reality for the client, team and organization, ultimately – allowing access to actions for the most joyful possible experience. Phases: 1. Detoxification 2. Focus 3. Mastery 4. Emergence. Born in the revolutionary, war-torn, year of 1968; proud of his native Northern Irish home; Gordon had already emigrated and returned from Australia in the 1970s. He completed his early schooling at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen. As a young man he traveled first to Southampton University, England to attain his BA degree in Linguistics, became fluent in French and modern languages before deepening his love affair with the enabling power of digital technology in people’s lives. He consulted in London, starting at Arthur Andersen. His work took him to enterprises in continental Europe before completing his Masters in Software Engineering at Napier University, Scotland, finishing top in Human Computer Interaction. His re-location in the late 1990s to the USA enabled him to continue to catch the business & technology management consulting wave, where he served and built businesses for 20 years, designing optimal experiences with the world’s top corporate and academic institutions. Following a definitive life wake-up call in 2008, catalyzed by the birth of his son Ronan, and subsequent divorce, he transitioned to becoming an futurist Evolutionary Executive Coach in 2010, an ordained minister and received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity. He now serves as a holistic Wellbeing Coach, currently based in Austin, Texas. Coach training: Gordon has been trained and affiliated with the ICF & IAC coaching bodies, with Landmark Education and Vanto Group leadership development, with the Neuroscience Coaching Institute and www.nlp.com and continues to expand his learning daily. Gordon received master coach training and now partners with Carolina Aramburo‘s incredible international team of radical results coaches. He is an energetic speaker at a broad range of business and technology events. He has been invited to lecture and/or teach at the University of Texas (Masters level) and University of San Francisco (online course), has been a speaker at SxSW (Design and Social Responsibility), and is a recipient of a SxSW Interactive, Dewey Winburne Award for Community Service. Uplifting you to fear less and to live more!  #Grateful #Radio #Podcasts #CSuiteRadio #CSuiteNetwork #CTRN #HaltonHonda #Forever #AHAthat #VRRMediaProductions #CrackingTheRichCode #BrittVentures #JimBritt #KevinHarrington #GoldsmithStakeholderCenteredCoaching #Entrepreneurs #LivingFearlessly https://livingfearlesslywithlisa.com/event/how-are-you-really-feeling-with-gordon-montgomery/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest in this episode, PRC faculty member and herbalist Peter Conway, has lived in a van and a teepee, has fought for the preservation and dissemination of herbal medicine knowledge, and generally follows in life a punk rocker ethos. I assure you that Peter is a freak, and that is one of his many endearing qualities. Listening to him talk about plant-spirit medicine is like listening to a living mystic. And yet much of his mystery is wrapped up in what he calls the mundane: the common and ordinary world of herbal medicine that we are all rooted in, even though most have perhaps never been conscious of those roots. From the distillation of alcohols and the production of colas to candies and perfumes, all were once forms of herbal medicine. Peter graduated from the College of Phytotherapy in the UK in 1995. Prior to joining Pacific Rim College in 2015, Peter taught for many institutions. He co-wrote the BSc Degree course in Herbal Medicine at Napier University in Edinburgh and co-wrote the “National Professional Standards in Herbal Medicine” for the UK Government. He served as president of the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy for 12 years and is a former director of the European Herbal and Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association. Peter is the author of “The Consultation in Phytotherapy” textbook that he is now revising for its second edition. Peter currently lives in Victoria, is one of 9 distinguished faculty members of Pacific Rim College Online's renowned Home Herbalist and Community Herbalist programs, and is working on an online project that will address “deep herbalism". Episode Links: https://twitter.com/conwayherbalist School of Western Herbal Medicine at Pacific Rim College Online Community Herbalist Program at Pacific Rim College Online Online Home Herbalist Program at Pacific Rim College Online Touch the Earth by TC McLuhan The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable by Juliette de Bairacli Levy Green Pharmacy by Barbara Griggs Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy by Simon Mills and Kerry Bone Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram Thus Spoke the Plant by Monica Gagliano Plants as Persons by Matthew Hall Plant-Thinking by Michael Marder The Enchantment of Western Herbal Medicine by Guy Waddell Pacific Rim College Radio: Peter Conway's colleagues in online herbalism programs: Episode 14 David Caudwell and Episode 4 Robert Rogers

Lola Hernández Juzgado lleva más de una década de experiencia en el mundo de las empresas, sobre todo en la parte de Responsabilidad Social Corporativa. Licenciada en Humanidades, la vida termina por llevar a Lola a Escocia donde hará un máster en Napier University en Edinburgh en Corporate Strategy and Finance. Ha sido profesora de dirección estratégica y estrategias competitivas en la escuela de negocios EALDE y hace dos años comenzó su propia andadura como socia en Vegetalmente. Como ella misma se define en su perfil profesional de LINKEDIN, “Con toda mi pasión y mis ganas ayudo a profesionales de la hostelería a cocinar vegano”.  Con ella hablamos de su proyecto, Vegetalmente, y cómo surge esa necesidad de enseñarle al sector de la hostelería en qué consiste el veganismo y como éste puede ser una oportunidad de negocio muy rentable. También nos cuenta la visión que tiene para su empresa y para esta etapa tan distinta que estamos viviendo por culpa del coronavirus. Por supuesto, comentamos su faceta de profesora de Dirección Estratégica y le preguntamos cuáles son para ella las mejores enseñanzas con las que nos tenemos que quedar cuando abrimos un negocio. Y, sí, Lola también nos da su mejor consejo financiero y nos explica en qué consiste para ella la comunicación, como el resto de Ingobernables de esta tercera temporada que han pasado por el podcast.

Laura Lam is a sci fi and fantasy author whose latest book is Goldilocks, a bold, thought-provoking and high concept feminist dystopian thriller, best described as a cross between The Martian and The Handmaid's Tale. We've been lucky enough to read it, and it is a good one!We loved hearing from Laura about all the research she put into Goldilocks to make sure it rang true, and also had a great discussion about her teaching on the creative writing Masters course at Napier University in Edinburgh. We also hear about her upcoming novel, Seven Devils, which she co-wrote with Elizabeth May, as well as hearing why Laura thinks we should all watch Batman & Robin again (EDIT - we shouldn't).Links:Buy Goldilocks nowLearn about the MA in Creative Writing at NapierThe Page One Podcast is brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Learn more and order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/page-oneFollow us on Twitter: @write_gearFollow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WriteGearUK/Follow us on Instagram: write_gear_uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this weeks episode I have a wonderful conversation with Wendy Dooner of the Dundee Herbal Clinic (she is also my sister). We have both had interesting journeys and I thought my listeners would be inspired by Wendy's journey. How she navigated a few difficult life transitions. And how she found her spiritual heart with Shamanism…. Eventually! The topics we cover: >> Wendy’s life in Australia (pre shamanism) and how she found what I do a little bit strange... >>> How shamanism saved Wendy's marriage. >>> What we both love about Shamanism and how it’s so relevant on our lives. >>> How after finding Shamanism, Wendy now works with Plant Medicine in a completely new way. Links mentioned in this episode: Register for our FREE live online Introduction to Shamanism workshop here. It's on 20th February 2020 @ 8.pm GMT. If you can't make it live, register anyway as i'll be sending out a replay.  Registering for this workshop also gets you access to our pop up Facebook community where I'll be on hand before and after the workshop to guide you through the whole process and answer any questions you may have. If you're interested in Shamanism but don't know where to start, then you don't want to miss this workshop. If you’re interested in working with Wendy, pop over to her website. Like the Dundee Herbal Clinic on Facebook  you can join Wendy’s new Facebook group here. A wee word from Wendy: "I have spent the last 17 years in the natural medicine industry and have gathered comprehensive clinical and human experience. I have had the privilege of working with many patients, providing insight and answers to their health problems. Graduating from Napier University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Herbal Medicine I’ve also undertaken extensive post-graduate professional development so I stay at the forefront of the latest research and developments in health and wellness. Being a wife and mum, I understand how difficult it can be to juggle your health with demanding careers, families, exercise, socialising and life in general. Whether you are after a complete transformation or just looking to take things one step at a time, I will work with you to create a program that is achievable, practical and sustainable."

Introducing David Bain Today's guest is a man who is at the forefront of digital marketing in the UK and has been since way back in the early 2000's Starting his career by gaining an MBA in business from Napier University, he worked for a series of digital marketing agencies specialising in SEO, PPC and Social. He then moved away from the UK to Sydney Australia when offered the chance to head up the growth of the SEO department for MEC Australia. These were all the fledgling steps into the world of entrepreneurship, helping marketers to stay up-to-date with the latest tools, tactics and technologies through his books, podcasts and digital services, helping them to cut through the noise and focus on what shifts the needle. Nowadays you can be working for someone on a Monday and change your title on Linkedin To Expert on a Tuesday, but our guest has done his time getting to where he is. A digital marketing pioneer, podcast host and producer, he started his first online business back in the year 2000 and his first podcast in 2006. Since then he's worked with several global organisations including Google, Nespresso, PA Consulting and Farfetch, delivered dozens of digital marketing training sessions and hosted hundreds of podcasts, webinars and online summits. David, his wife and son are based in London, UK. So today the world is screaming "Buy from me, look at me, grab my course and book" but certainly not when he started, so why the interest back then? And where does he see the mistakes that people make when entering into the world of online work with such eagerness today. Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr. David Bain. Show Highlights During today's show we discussed such weighty subjects with David Bain Why blending the offline and online world to get your customers attention, is such a powerful way to really boost the effectiveness of your content. David shares why we have such little time to make an informed decision that getting noticed has become a big issue. We discuss the process of getting a book from the content of a podcast to the real thing, and the effort involved.  and lastly....... Why its so important to focus on servicing people who are closely linked to you and your passions. Become your own avatar.

Celine is a French born mum of 4. She is a senior Lecturer at Napier University and has co-created ili Laptop stand using her education in sustainability for the product to aline with her morals. Celine lives a very sustainable life and explains the pillars of sustainability. We discuss parenthood and she also discusses how it has been raising her a step son over the years. 

As a young single mother juggling a degree at Napier University with a full-time job, Hannah Taylor took the bold decision to launch a magazine. She Is Fierce was launched on a tiny budget yet the creativity, intelligence and distinctive voice of the project turned many heads. Remarkably, against all odds, Hannah has since turned She Is Fierce into a full-time job, has an investor on board and big plans for the future. Listen in for an inspiring triumph of imagination and creativity. Interviewed by Fraser Allen of White Light Media at Hannah's home in Edinburgh.

In this episode I talk with Neil Munro. Neil is our first participant to hail from Ulva. We recorded this episode in the study of Ulva house. Ulva, which is now, I’m delighted to say, a community owned island. The ground floor of Ulva house has a beautiful wooden floor, which you’ll hear throughout the course of the episode, as my dogs clatter around on it quite a bit. For which I apologise. Both of my dogs make an appearance at different points in the episode, so keep your ears peeled for their snoring and clickity-clackity noises. Neil talks about his childhood on Ulva, his studies, travels and working life. We talk about his current work with Isle of Mull Cheese and former employment at the Tobermory Distillery towards the end of the episode. This episode features Mark Summers’ interpretation of the WWDITW theme tune in the middle and then end, which I'm over the moon with. Recorded at his home in Orkney, it’s great to make island conections across the seas! Thank you Mark! Thank you again to www.islandbakery.co.uk for the lemon melts that each participant receives when they take part. Thank you for listening! Episode links: Ulva https://www.ulva.scot/ Gartocharn www.gartocharn.org Glengorm http://www.glengormcastle.co.uk/ Napier University https://www.napier.ac.uk/ Queen Scallops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_scallop Scottish Salmon Company https://www.scottishsalmon.com/ Mallaig https://www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/mallaig-p236601 Knoydart https://www.visitknoydart.co.uk/ The old forge pub http://www.theoldforge.co.uk/ MacGochans Tobermory https://macgochans-tobermory.co.uk/ The University of Dallas https://udallas.edu/ Calgary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary,_Mull Community buyout of Ulva http://nwmullwoodland.co.uk/ulva/ Isle of Mull Cheese www.isleofmullcheese.co.uk/ Tobermory Distillery tobermorydistillery.com/ Bringing Our Island Community Back to Life - Ulva https://vimeo.com/322192808 More episodes can be found at whatwedointhewinter.com

Quietly contemplative yet intensely evocative, Hannah Starkey's photographs explore the physical and psychological connections between the individual and her everyday urban surroundings. Since the beginning of her career, the artist has worked predominantly with women as her subjects, collaborating closely with actresses as well as anonymous acquaintances she meets on-site to develop intricately textured scenes. Stark architectural backdrops and strong associations of color and imagery heighten the sensation of her compositions on both a formal and associative level, triggering personal interpretations and a deeper mediation on the experience of the visual world at large. Born in Belfast in 1971, Hannah currently lives and works in London. She received a B.A. in Photography and Film from Napier University in Edinburgh in 1995 and an M.A. in Photography from Royal College of Art in London in 1997. She has received numerous awards and honors throughout her career, which include the Vogue Condé Nast Award (1997), the 3rd International Tokyo Photo Biennale’s Award for Excellence (1999), and the St. James Group Ltd Photography Prize (2002). In 2000, she presented her first major solo exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Other important solo presentations include Twenty-Nine Pictures at the Mead Gallery at Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry, UK (2011) and Church of Light Altarpiece, a site-specific commission for St. Catherine’s Church in Frankfurt (2010). Her work has also been exhibited as part of important group presentations at Tate Liverpool, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam, Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, France, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, and the National Portrait Gallery in London, among other museums worldwide. Hannah’s photographs are in the collections of the Tate in London, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam, Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Italy, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Centraal Museum in Utrecht. In episode 102, Hannah discusses, among other things: The influence of cinema Not wanting to be highbrow Using a breadth of disciplines technique and languages Breaking down the barriers to different types of photography How her process usually works The commodification of women in advertising photography The influence of her mother and her upringing during The Troubles Some of her hopes for her own daughters Referenced: Hackney Flashers Gallery/Dealer “I think if I can bring images out into the world that depict this energy, and - empowerment’s a tricky word but - this power that’s coming from this next generation, in one image, then that’s kinda my drive, that’s my motivation.”

Haftor Medboe is a highly regarded Scottish based composer, guitarist and educator. In this podcast interview, Ged Brockie of GMI discusses these areas of his work but also finds out about his new music label, Copperfly. Wonderfully evocative image of Haftor in performance Anyone who has had any dealings with the Scottish jazz scene will no doubt have come across Haftor Medboe. Haftor has been at the forefront of many new musical ventures over the years, not least his work with Napier universities yearly jazz summer school. What Haftor is now embarking on is a new music label. Creating a record label in the current digital world may sound fanciful, however, there is a twist. In this interview, Ged Brockie discusses Haftor's new plans as well as exploring his musical background, vision and direction. DO YOU HAVE ALEXA? ASK ALEXA TO PLAY THE GMI PODCAST Simply say “Alexa, open G. M. I. Guitar Music Institute” or “Alexa, start G. M. I. Guitar Music Institute" and you'll immediately be taken to the GMI podcast. You can find out all about the other commands by following the link from GMI - Guitar & Music Institute on ALEXA. If you enjoy the GMI podcasts then please leave a five star on our GoVocal link. GET 15% OF ALL GMI PRODUCTS AT OUR ONLINE STORE As a listener of our podcast we offer you 15% of any and all of our products found on the GMI Guitar Store. Visit our store by clicking the link, choose the products you wish and on checkout look for the COUPON CODE area. Add this code "GMI01" (no parenthesis!) and you will receive 15% of the total price of your entire order. Podcast Ep 37 – Table Of Contents 1.55 What is an "associate professor"?.3.12 Life and times.5.34 Discussing the old trope around Scandinavian musicians. 15.08 The backing of Norwegian arts by their government.20.12 Latest recording and work.23.54 Copperfly, a new record label.37.45 The Scottish Jazz Archive.46.25 The Napier Jazz Summer School. Video Material A selection of Haftor's music from Youtube Links To Haftor's Various Projects To find out more about Haftor's musical projects click on the following links. The Haftor Medboe website at Haftor Medboe. A detailed biography about Haftor can be found at the Napier University website. The new Copperfly label website is currently in beta. The Scottish Jazz Archive. Thanks for listening to our latest podcast, we have another lined up and it will be appearing soon. If you enjoyed this podcast, then please check out all our other GMI - Guitar and Music Institute podcasts.

Topic: In this episode, your hosts, AntlerBoy an JP, start by lamenting the software industry and their almost arrogant – sometimes not almost arrogant – disregard for the customer and the user experience.  Not that software companies will ever change, but rather a resignation that we have to endure.  But the episode gets productive, or rather reproductive, with the introduction of Andy Dobson and his story of how he was a member of a small team at a company called Chartex that introduced the female condom ; where they started by making hundreds of samples per day by hand, ramping up to a production capacity or 50-million units per year within 18 months.  The rest of this episode is chock-o-block full of stories of Andy’s adventures and experiences in a variety of business. Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant. Guests: Andy Dobson More about Andy on LinkedIn Company: Lean 4 Business About Andy: Andy Dobson has worked in several industry sectors as a change agent with an emphasis on helping organizations work leaner and meaner – but meaner with a level of empathy.  He has driven value to companies like Nokia, Tata Steel, GSK, Baxter, and Lamborghini – before starting his own consultancy practice, Lean 4 Business in 2009 where he works with companies across Europe and beyond in the Operations, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain space delivering game-changing performance increases using Lean, Six-Sigma and Theory of Constraints.  In addition to having been on a small team which brought the Female Condom into volume manufacture in the early 90’s, Andy a passion for helping high-tech, high-value UK Manufacturing and Supply Chains. Andy graduated from Napier University with a BSc in Technology with Industrial Studies.

Welcome to The Mental Breakdown and Psychreg Podcast! Today, Dr. Berney and Dr. Marshall interview Dr. Neil Gibson, a senior lecturer and course leader for the BA (Hons) Social Work degree programme at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. Neil studied Communication at Napier University in the mid 90's and had a "varied" career path before entering the world of social work including working in a bank, working on a sheep farm, presenting a travel programme for Channel 4, driving backpacking tour buses, and managing a youth hostel. Neil studied the PG Social Work course at Robert Gordon University in 2003. Whilst studying he worked in a children's home, and a residential home for people with learning disabilities. Upon qualifying, Neil went to work in the social work team based at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. After two years he went to work for the Criminal Justice Addictions Team, then got a senior practitioners position within Aberdeenshire's Adult Protection Team, before taking up a senior position at Aberdeen City Council within their Adult Protection Unit. Neil joined the teaching team at RGU in 2011. Since qualifying he has also completed post graduate courses in Practice Teaching, Addictions and Adult Protection through RGU, Glasgow University and, St Andrews University. He has been researching the therapeutic benefits of photography in social work since 2013 and has recently obtained his PhD in this area. You can contact Neil through his university webpage here. Pick up Neil's book, Therapeutic Photography, from Jessica Kingsley Publishers or at Amazon. Learn more about the 1st Mental Health Bloggers Conference here. You can now follow Dr. Marshall on twitter, as well! Dr. Berney and Dr. Marshall are happy to announce the release of their new parenting e-book, Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child Part 2: Attention. You can get your copy from Amazon here. We hope that you will join us each morning so that we can help you make your day the best it can be! See you tomorrow. Become a patron and support our work at http://www.Patreon.com/thementalbreakdown. Visit Psychreg for blog posts covering a variety of topics within the fields of mental health and psychology. The Parenting Your ADHD Child course is now on YouTube! Check it out at the Paedeia YouTube Channel. The Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Health Child Part 1: Behavior Management is now available on kindle! Get your copy today! The Elimination Diet Manual is now available on kindle and nook! Get your copy today! Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube Channels, Paedeia and The Mental Breakdown. Please leave us a review on iTunes so that others might find our podcast and join in on the conversation!

Why We Need A Blockchain Bill The answer is simple: We want to lead the world, not fall behind.   Once we put the same legal weight behind blockchain technology we long ago did behind paper and 'wet signatures' we can help lead the world  ...replace many of our digital (banking, payments and other) slow toll-roads with far faster highways shrinking times from days to seconds (3 to 30 days through a bank network to 3 seconds on the Ripple network – that’s between 86,400 & 864,000 times faster, so let call it a round 100k times). With a similar reduction in costs, because there are no people involved once the network’s running. This doesn’t just make things a hundred thousand times faster and cheaper, removal of friction on this level makes possible all sorts of things that were completely non-starters before. On top of all that it makes possible a whole list of things proven impossible (at any scale) before. From micropayments to fractionalisation of assets, decoupling ownership from use of an asset (including houses, cars, art, goods in transit... to name a few) releasing trillions in value currently locked away. Which is why nimbler jurisdictions, Zug Switzerland, Singapore and Malta spring to mind, are leapfrogging the UK. Its why Liechtenstein have a Blockchain Act. This really matters Professor Bill Buchanan OBE, of Edinburgh’s Napier University explained to me - and why he’s launched a petition to parliament saying so. It matters because it means jobs and future prosperity. As well as losing our place in the world versus helping lead it. This is why you should sign the petition. Britain needs a Blockchain enabling bill. Please search for and sign UK petition 230869!

Special Guest: Michael Hughes, Orbit Engagement and Scottish Regional Ambassador for Engage for Success Join us as we discuss the forthcoming Engage for Success Scottish Conference. Michael is Regional Ambassador for Engage for Success, promoting the benefits of employee engagement to all sectors of Scottish Business community, private, public, charity, third sector, most recently working with City of Glasgow college, and Napier University. Also Founder of Orbit Engagement. For the last twenty years they have helped a wide variety of diverse businesses throughout the UK become better places to work, from producers of Petrol pumps, mass spectrometers, accountants to universities and further education colleges. Host: Jo Moffatt

Chemotherapy. Radiotherapy. Surgery. Drugs. That's probably what you expect to be prescribed when you've got cancer - but what if your doctor was to suggest exercise as well? On this week's Personal Best, Gillian Russell looks at whether prescribing exercise is a realistic step... Angela Roberts talks about her experience of exercising during and after chemotherapy for breast cancer. Dr Anna Campbell from Napier University explains how exercise can benefit a cancer patient, what type of exercise and how often might it be useful ... and how much of an impact it can have on our mental health. Plus is there any evidence it might help to prevent recurrence? Personal Trainer Kristeen Pollock describes how her mum's cancer diagnosis led her to start working with cancer patients. Dr Juliet McGrattan explains why her passion for fitness has led her to quit her job as a GP to concentrate on encouraging others to become more active, believing she can have more of an impact on people's health that way than writing prescriptions for tablets. Chris Thompson from Living Streets, the charity behind National Walking Month, talks about this year's #Try20 Campaign, aimed at getting us all to walk more every day and ideally reach the national guidelines of 150 minutes of exercise per week. Richard Forbes joins the Step It Up Highland walking group to find out how much of an impact regular walking is having on their physical and mental health.

In this episode, David is joined by Dr. Stephen Patterson.   Stephen joined St Marys University, Twickenham in 2009 and is a Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology. He graduated with a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science from Napier University, Edinburgh (2005) before completing an MSc in Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise from Strathclyde University in Glasgow (2006). He then moved to Loughborough University where he completed his PhD specialising on the responses and adaptations to exercise with blood flow restriction.   Stephens’s research fits into two main themes of Health and Sports Performance with significant overlap between the two. His main research focuses on the following: Blood flow restriction training for rehabilitation and performance Ischemic Preconditioning Physiology of team sport   In this episode David & Stephen discuss:   Topic 1: Blood Flow Restriction Training   Q1. What is the theory behind blood flow restriction training?    Q2. Is there a standardised / optimal "tightness" we should use/aim for when using occlusion training?   Q3. What are the underlying mechanisms that seem to explain the adaptations attributed to blood flow restriction training?   Q 4. What are the practical applications of BFR, who, how, and when should we potentially use BFR?   Topic 2: Ischemic Preconditioning   Q5. What is Ischemic Preconditioning?   Q6. What are the proposed benefits and underlying mechanisms?   Q7. How are the potential practical applications?   Full Shownotes at: www.hpascience.com/episode44  

A podcast about tattooing made for the Sound Theory Module within the Sound Design course at Napier University. Edinburgh.  Tattooing is getting really popular, but it has been around for over thousand years, from religious rituals to slavery markings, throughout the history they have been used for different reasons, what do tattoos mean for people?

A timely survey is included in this podcast. Do me a favor and help out some graphic design students at Napier University in Scotland. They want you to answer a few questions about pipe smoking. Take a listen and send in your answers asap. Survey ends Oct. 6, 2013 so hurry!

Abstract: The title of this lecture is explained by Richard Murphy Architects' location between two different points pf view. There is little in our work that might be called avant-garde. The office does not subscribe to the high-octane world of the international 'starchitects' depositing iconic buildings in different cultures around the world, which whilst having some superficial photo-journalistic value, rarely repay close inspection. The other position is represented by the society in which we work, Edinburgh in particular, but also elsewhere in the UK. This is a city in which many citizens wish that the modern era had never occurred. Modern architecture, it seems to be universally agreed, has spoilt the view. However it is essential for the health of our culture that we make buildings that are recognisably of today so that in the future there will be some history of this era to preserve. Rooting recognisably new buildings into old places or particular landscapes; contributing towards rather than damaging, their location; continuing rather than fossilising, the history of a place: these are our objectives. We call it architecture of its time and place. Biography: Richard Murphy was educated at Newcastle and Edinburgh Universities. Before founding Richard Murphy Architects he worked for MacCormac Jamieson and Pritchard Architects in London, and directed the edinburgh office of Alsop Lyall & Stormer Architects. He has taught at Edinburgh University, Robert Gordon University, Edinburgh College of Art, Strathclyde University, The Technical University of Braunschweig, the University of Virginia and Syracruse University, New York State. Richard's publications include Carlo Scarpa and the Castelvecchio (Butterworths Architecture, 1991), Querini Stampalia Foundation, Carlo Scarpa (Phaidon Press, 1983) and An Architects' Appreciation of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Bellew Publishing, 1990). He is an Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an Honorary Fellow of Napier University. His practice has won 21 RIBA and RIAI awards in as many years.