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Do you want to know what successful ADHDers are doing right? Dr Tony Lloyd is the CEO of the ADHD Foundation, the largest patient-led ADHD agency in Europe. He has been the driving force in promoting neurodiversity in the UK and campaigned for a neurodiverse paradigm in education, health services, employment and human resource management. He is a co-author of several national reports on ADHD and neurodiversity in the UK and plays an active role in national forums to campaign for changes in policy and the design and delivery of public services. 00:00 Trailer 01:47 What's your mission in regards to ADHD 08:20 How to respond when someone says “Everyone has ADHD these days” 16:42 Tiimo advert 17:54 What are successful ADHDers doing right? 27:56 The psychological effect of being called ‘too sensitive' 31:05 What a "purgatory period" of having no diagnosis does to a Neurodiverse brain 36:12 Masking 44:01 The significance of RSD in the Neurodiverse community 50:55 The ADHD item segment 53:21 The ADHD agony aunt segment 57:01 A letter from the previous guest 59:04 Ned Hallowell Brain Health advert Find Tony on Linkedin
Iain is in for James O'Brien, where he reflects on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch's Christmas messages. He speaks with Political Impressionist and Comedian Rory Bremner, and asks callers what their messages are to political leaders. Nick Molden, Founder of Emissions Analytics, provides an explanation into the shift away from fossil-fuel powered cars to electric alternatives. Robbie Williams plans to resit his GCSE exams, and Iain speaks with ADHD expert Dr Tony Lloyd to discuss how the condition can affect school attainment. Tennis player Jack Draper revealed that he drives a second-hand car - Iain asks whether we are more materialistic than we used to be, and speaks with a Behavioural Economist to understand more.
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Tony Lloyd, CEO of the ADHD Foundation, to dive deep into the world of ADHD. Whether you're newly diagnosed, supporting someone with ADHD, or just curious - ADHD Foundation Dr. Tony Lloyd brings decades of experience, breaking down myths, sharing the latest research, and offering practical advice on living with ADHD.We explore how ADHD intersects with mental health, education, and social change - and we answer your questions too! Join us for an insightful discussion that sheds light on the often misunderstood reality of ADHD.On Autism, Neurodivergent and ADHD Podcast "The Hidden 20%," host Ben Branson chats with neurodivergent [ADHD, Autism, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Tourette's etc.] creatives, entrepreneurs, and experts to see how great minds.. think differently. Brought to you by charity The Hidden 20% #1203348Follow & subscribe… Website: www.hidden20.orgInstagram / TikTok / Youtube / X: @Hidden20podcastBen Branson @seedlip_benIf you'd like to support The Hidden 20%, you can buy a "green dot" badge at https://www.hidden20.org/thegreendot/p/badge. All proceeds go to the charity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode was initiated and funded by Takeda UK Ltd.Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects millions worldwide, yet its presence within the criminal justice system is often misunderstood or overlooked. In this podcast we navigate the complex landscape where ADHD and the criminal justice system intercept; shedding light on the unique challenges and misconceptions faced by people with ADHD in prisons and the opportunities for improved care and support. From late diagnosis to repeated prison sentences, the impact of ADHD can shape outcomes in profound and often unrecognised ways. Host Emma Haslett is joined by Dr Tony Lloyd, the CEO of the ADHD Foundation; Sir Robert Buckland, the former Secretary of State for Justice and MP; Daley Jones, trustee at ADHD Liberty; and Sarah Templeton, an ADHD author and therapist, to explore the stories of those living at this intersection.This podcast was recorded and produced before the 2024 General Election was announced. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
You're in for a treat this week! Dr Tony Lloyd is back in the studio, joining Sam and Katie for the final of our special episodes focusing on specific elements of ADHD. This time they look into hyperfocus. Ever find yourself so absorbed in a task that you completely lose track of time? Or become so obsessed that you shut out the world around you? Dr Tony breaks down what hyperfocus is and the impact it can have on your work and home life. Plus he shares tips on how to channel it effectively and use it to your advantage. To learn more and access valuable resources, head to: The ADHD FoundationGet in touch by sending your questions and stories to ADHDpodcast@global.com
Dr Tony Lloyd from The ADHD Foundation is back in the studio! He joins Sam and Katie for the second of three special episodes focusing on specific elements of ADHD. This week they look at what is probably the most debilitating part of ADHD, inattentiveness. Dr Tony shares the signs to look out for and how to find the right strategies to help improve your working memory, concentration and focus. To learn more and access valuable resources, head to: The ADHD FoundationGet in touch by sending your questions and stories to ADHDpodcast@global.com
Dr Tony Lloyd from The ADHD Foundation joins Sam and Katie for the first of three special episodes focusing on specific elements of ADHD. This week they look at hyperactivity - a core characteristic affecting around 7 in 10 people with ADHD. Dr Tony tells them the signs to look out for and explains why hyperactivity can be particularly challenging for children who have ADHD. Plus they share the coping strategies they use, from breathing techniques to getting outside and going on a walk. Find out more on The ADHD Foundation's website: www.adhdfoundation.org.uk/resourcesGet in touch by sending your questions and stories to ADHDpodcast@global.com
This week on the bonus episode of Who We Are Now with Richard Hammond and Dr Jim Alvarez, Dr Jim gets personal about his own experience of living with ADHD as they unpack this week's main episode with Tony Lloyd and Simon Mundie from the ADHD foundation. They uncover the reasons to some of the backlash online and in real life about the rise of diagnoses across the world and they find out just how essential ADHD and neurodivergence is to human evolution. Listen on Global Player to hear the next episode a whole day earlier than anywhere else. Download it from the app store or go to globalplayer.com. Have a question for the team? Email whowearenow@global.com.
To celebrate Neurodiversity Celebration Week we are excited to welcome two HUGE guests to THE HIDDEN 20%.Introducing the 'slash-slasher' - Footballer, Songwriter, Artist, Television Presenter and Pokemon Enthusiast - Chelcee Grimes. Chelcee is an ADHD megastar who pens hits for Dua Lipa by day, presents for the BBC by day and also holds up the midfield by day. By night, she's curled up in pyjamas looking at her Charizard shiny and refusing to go to networking events - because let's face it, if you had 3+ jobs & a neurodivergent brain you'd do the same too.ADHD Foundation's Dr Tony Lloyd is a megalith in neurodiversity having held the position of CEO in the ADHD Foundation since 2011. The ADHD Foundation is the UK's leading neurodiversity charity, offering a strength-based, lifespan service for the 1 in 5 of us who live with ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, DCD, Dyscalculia, OCD, Tourette's Syndrome and more. Dr. Lloyd is a seasoned Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, with substantial expertise in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and educational environments.Dr Tony Lloyd diagnosed Chelcee Grimes with ADHD himself - their relationship is truly special and we were honoured to have them appear together on THE HIDDEN 20%.WATCH the full episode at www.youtube.com/@hidden20podcast___________ On "The Hidden 20%," host Ben Branson chats with neurodivergent [ADHD, Autism, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Tourette's etc.] creatives, entrepreneurs, and experts to see how great minds.. think differently. Host: Ben BransonProducer: Bella NealeVideo Editor: Chris HydeSocial Media Manager: Charlie YoungMusic: Jackson GreenbergBrought to you by charity Prism ND #1203348___________ Follow & subscribe… Website: www.hidden20.orgInstagram / TikTok / Youtube / X: @Hidden20podcastBen Branson @seedlip_benIf you'd like to support Prism ND, you can buy a "green light" badge at https://www.hidden20.org/thegreendot/p/badge. All proceeds go to the charity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week on Who We Are Now with Richard and Izzy Hammond, they dive deep into ADHD and neurodiversity. After having an assessment himself, Richard's always wondered what exactly it means, and who better to explain than the founder of the ADHD foundation Tony Lloyd and host of the Life Lessons podcast Simon Mundie. Together they unpick exactly what neurodiversity means, they learn the hidden superpowers of an ADHD brain, and find out Richard's own results.Listen on Global Player to hear the next episode a whole day earlier than anywhere else. Download it from the app store or go to globalplayer.com. And remember, Richard and Dr Jim will see you this Friday for Who We Are Now's bonus episode! Have a question for the team? Email whowearenow@global.com.
Emotional dysregulation is an issue that has affected Sam throughout his life. It's what led him to get his ADHD diagnosis - and he's not alone. Many adults with ADHD find it difficult to regulate and manage their emotions. Life can feel really intense and at times, overwhelming. It can affect relationships, work and daily life. So, why is emotional dysregulation so common in ADHD? Dr Tony Lloyd from The ADHD Foundation is back to explain how ADHD affects emotions and he shares strategies to help. For more information, go to The ADHD Foundation's website: www.adhdfoundation.org.uk/resources Get in touch by sending your questions and stories to ADHDpodcast@global.com
Dr Tony Lloyd from the ADHD foundation, the UK's leading neurodiversity charity, is on a mission to advocate for and actively improve the life chances of those living with and impacted by ADHD. Tony talks about the amazing work they do and the impacts of ADHD on daily life. The conversation with Tony is followed by an immersive musical soundscape, composed to help calm your mind. You will be immersed in frequencies proven to bring peace to busy brains. These soundscapes are most effective when listened to on headphones.
What is ADHD? How does it manifest and display in people? Is it time to stop calling it a disorder?Dr Tony Lloyd is chief executive of the ADHD Foundation, which I am delighted and honoured to have become a patron of. I was diagnosed with ADHD last year, and it had a big impact on me. So much of my life, looking back, now makes more sense. And so i wanted to really dig deep into the topic with Tony, who is a fountain of neurodiverse knowledge. In this episode we discuss:ADHD scepticismWhat ADHD is and how it presentsThe key traits of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivityWhy leading organisations like Tesla are actively recruiting neurodiverse people seeking a 21st century advantageWhy the way we educate children needs a similar upgradeADHD and relationshipsRejection Sensitivity DysphoriaADHD comorbidities, including anxiety and autismExecutive functioningSelf-care and managing ADHDADHD and shameThe challenge people can have getting a diagnosisTreating neurodiverse people the same as other diverse groups The ADHD Foundation: https://www.adhdfoundation.org.uk/The Rethinking ADHD podcast: https://podfollow.com/rethinking-adhd Qbtech Objective ADHD tests: https://www.qbtech.com/ My debut book - Champion Thinking: How to find success without losing yourself - is available for pre-order now. Drawing on some of my favourite interviews from this podcast over the last five years, I want to challenge our ideas about 'success', and where peace, joy and fulfilment are truly to be found.Pre-Order Now: https://www.simonmundie.com/bookYouTube: https://tinyurl.com/YouTubeSimonMundieInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/simonmundie/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ADHD can make it difficult for you to get motivated when it comes to tasks or activities you don't like. To be honest, sometimes it's hard to motivate yourself to do things you do like. You just can't make yourself start, however hard you try. It's something Sam and Katie both really struggle with. So, why is it so hard to do things that should be easy? Dr Tony Lloyd from The ADHD Foundation is back to answer Sam and Katie's questions. He explains how ADHD can cause a lack of motivation and provides practical tips on how to get tasks done. For more information, go to The ADHD Foundation's website: www.adhdfoundation.org.uk/resources Get in touch by sending your questions and stories to ADHDpodcast@global.com
We're taking a short break over Christmas to rest and recharge! So, take a breather, enjoy Christmas and we'll be back on 8th January 2024 with a brand-new episode on motivation. Dr Tony Lloyd from The ADHD Foundation is back to tell us why motivation is one of the biggest challenges for people with ADHD and we'll share some of the strategies we use to help us get stuff done. If you are feeling the pressure over the Christmas period, please be kind to yourself and do take a break. The ADHD Foundation and ADHD UK have resources, help and support on their websites for anyone who is struggling. For more information go to: www.adhdfoundation.org.uk/resources or www.adhduk.co.uk Don't forget, you can listen to all episodes of You're Wrong About ADHD on Global Player. Download it from the App Store or go to globalplayer.com.Thank you so much for listening! We hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Katie has always struggled to remember things. It affects every aspect of her daily life. A few years ago, her memory got bad she thought she might have dementia. It was only after getting her ADHD diagnosis that the pieces fell into place. It turns out, ADHD can significantly impact both working and long-term memory. Sam's experience is very different. He's never had a problem with his memory. In fact, he's always been hyper-organised. He believes it's one of the reasons why he wasn't diagnosed with ADHD sooner. So, how does ADHD affect memory? And why is it not the same for everyone? Dr Tony Lloyd from The ADHD Foundation is back to explain the link between ADHD and memory. He shares strategies for improving memory and managing forgetfulness. Find out more on The ADHD Foundation's website: www.adhdfoundation.org.uk/resources Get in touch by sending your questions and stories to ADHDpodcast@global.com
It's thought that 1 in 20 of us has ADHD. But how much do we really know about it? In this episode Dr Tony Lloyd from the ADHD Foundation joins Sam and Katie to answer some essential questions. How does ADHD impact the brain? Why do people with ADHD react differently to others? And what are the different types of ADHD? Tony tells Sam and Katie everything they need to know and debunks common myths and misconceptions. To learn more and access valuable resources, go to www.adhdfoundation.org.uk/resources/
Bill is a Canadian TV Personality and Author with many stories to tell about his career in Canadian broadcast media and it's all in his book 'A Happy Has Been - Exciting Times and Lessons Learned'.Originally from my podcast 'Music Stories with Tony Lloyd' the interview is very relevant here on Human Stories as Bill's story is about his career and other good work he does too.Having spent 35 years in the business he has interviewed so many international stars for TV, (over 5000) - including Ozzy Osbourne and Bill tells me an 'Ozzy Story' in this fascinating interview. He is very well known for presenting the music channel Much Music and Much More Music ( a Canadian MTV type channel) .He is still on air in Canada presenting today.As you can imagine we got on extremely well and it was a delight to interview such an experienced interviewer!Bill's book 'A Happy Has Been - Exciting Times and Lessons Learned' is available on Amazon and elsewhere and is a great read even if you've never heard of him ! You will have done if you have watched TV in Canada.Much more at www.billwelychka.com -----------------------------------------------------------------Podcasting is an increasingly brilliant way to reach your audience as more and more people are listening to podcasts world wide. Promotional Interviews can also be arranged on camera, these give even better publicity. Details at https://www.tonylloydradio.com/backstage-tony Get in touch if you have a story to tell on 'Music Stories'!Email: Hello@tonylloydradio.com
Trying to understand interest rates, credit card changes and mortgage deals is an effort for most of us, so how do you manage if you have a learning disability? Dan Pepper, a former Paralympian joins presenter, Ruth Alexander, to talk about how he manages his money, and what challenges he faces. We'll also be talking about how ADHD and other neuro differences can affect your personal finances. On hand to answer listener questions: Tony Lloyd, CEO of the ADHD Foundation, The Neurodiversity Charity, and Phillipa Gould, Financial Advocacy Manager at Dosh, a not-for-profit organisation. Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producer: Amber Mehmood Editor: Jess Quayle (First broadcast 3pm Wednesday 12th April, 2023)
As we were recording this week's podcast, the Housing Secretary Michael Gove was up in Rochdale for talks with the local housing association that owned the flat where two-year-old Awaab Ishak died after prolonged exposure to mould.Awaab died in December 2020 from a respiratory condition caused by mould in a one-bedroom housing association flat. His parents, Faisal Abdullah and Aisha Amin, who came to the UK from Sudan, repeatedly complained about the mould and they say they weren't listened to because of who they were.Since the full horrendous details of little Awaab's death, Mr Gove has taken personal involvement in making sure housing associations like Rochdale Boroughwide Housing do more to prevent future tragedies.He has blocked the £1 million in funding RBH was due to receive to build new homes and won't give it any more until it proves it is a responsible landlord. The social landlord's chief executive - who earned £170,000 last year - has been kicked out and its directors have promised to do more to up their game.But is that enough? Before he stepped into the Commons for a debate about Awaab's death, local Labour MP, Tony Lloyd, spoke to The Northern Agenda producer Dan McLaughlin. ***And, as we head into Christmas, there's a present coming down the chimney with Santa for anyone who enjoys swingometers, late night results and canvassing for votes in the cold and wet. The next few weeks will see not one, not two but three by-elections for Parliamentary seats in the North of England, putting Westminster watchers on high alert as they try to assess what it all means for the fortunes of the party leaders.On December 15, we'll find out who will be replacing Kate Green in the Greater Manchester seat of Stretford and Urmston, as she leaves to become Andy Burnham's deputy mayor. And sometime in early 2023, there'll be a by-election in West Lancashire, where the incumbent MP Rosie Cooper is resigning to take up the job as Chair of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.But the first by-election grabbing our attention is in Chester, triggered by the resignation of Christian Matheson after complaints of “serious sexual misconduct” against him - which he denies - were upheld by a parliamentary watchdog.What have these three seats all got in common? They're all held by Labour with pretty big majorities, so it'd be a big surprise if they changed hands. But there's still plenty of local angles to be interested in, so to find out what the big issues at play in Chester, Rob Parsons speak to Mark Smith, a Local Democracy Reporter who covers Cheshire West & Chester.***The Northern Agenda is a Laudable production for Reach. It is presented by Rob Parsons, and produced by Daniel J. McLaughlin.You can subscribe to the daily Northern Agenda newsletter here: http://www.thenorthernagenda.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In episode 35, we speak to Dr Tony Lloyd from the ADHD Foundation who are the UK's leading neurodiversity charity, offering a strength-based, lifespan service for the 1 in 5 of us who live with ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia and Tourette's syndrome. We also speak to Jake Nolan from Space by Liquid who have recently located to the Baltic Triangle to provide a managed canvas for photographers, videographers and exhibitions.
Andrew Pierce speaks to Tony Lloyd, Ukraine APPG Vice Chair & Labour MP for Rochdale about the UK's sanctions on Russia, and to the Daily Mail's correspondent in Kyiv, Ian Birrell as Ukraine prepares for war. Plus has the rising cost of living hit pocket money too? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Our guest on the podcast this week is Tony Lloyd, a leadership development expert who empowers aspiring changemakers to rapidly grow a business with a social mission. Tony is a former Fortune 500 executive with companies such as JohnDeere, Medtronic, and Buffalo Wild Wings. Today, Tony is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, business coach, and podcast host. He is the Executive Producer of the podcast Social Entrepreneur where he shares positive stories from underrepresented voices, focusing on solutions that the world needs. You may also have seen Tony on the TED platform as he is a TEDx speaker and the best-selling author of Crazy Good Advice: 10 Lessons Learned from 150 Leading Social Entrepreneurs. In today's episode, Tony shares his journey from corporate CEO to supporting social entrepreneurs in a life of meaningful service. He talks about the turning points in his own life, those moments where the seeds were planted for him to want to make a difference and how he found his path towards a deeper sense of purpose. Listen in as we discuss why social entrepreneurship is the future of business, how leadership is becoming more purpose-driven, and the 10 questions you can ask yourself about life, leadership, and social entrepreneurship to see if you have an idea worth funding. We talked through what it means to make a positive difference in our world from the personal to the professional and beyond. This was a powerful conversation and really interesting to hear what Tony has learned from interviewing and working with so many social entrepreneurs. Will there be challenges? Of course. As Tony says “There be dragons…” and what you do to overcome those obstacles can define your success or if you ignore them, potentially, your ultimate demise. If you are interested in business as a force for good, or you simply want to help make the world a better place, I think you'll enjoy Tony's insights. Key Takeaways How to find the path to your purpose The 10 Questions to ask yourself if you want to make a meaningful difference. The 3 moments that can define a change for you. Why business is important when it comes to changing the world. Tony's final words of wisdom that apply to us all. Memorable Quote “Somehow we have to figure out how to treat each other with kindness, it's a small world, it's a short life, and we might just as well be kind to each other while we're here.” - Tony Lloyd. Episode Resources: https://tonyloyd.com/ (Tony's website) https://tonyloyd.com/show/social-entrepreneur/ (Social Entrepreneur Podcast) https://youtu.be/H29BLCXq-JU (Tony's TED Talk) https://thriveconnectcontribute.com/ (Thrive. Connect. Contribute. Podcast) BOOK: https://amzn.to/3jjwHZC (Crazy Good Advice: 10 Lessons Learned from 150 Leading Social Entrepreneurs) by Tony Lloyd BOOK: https://amzn.to/3dmAGRq (Turning Pro) by Stephen Pressfield http://sacredchangemakers.com/ (SacredChangemakers.com) https://sacredchangemakers.com/community (Our Community) Thank you to our sponsor: A HUGE thank you to our sponsor Coaches Business School who are helping coaches to succeed in business, so they can make a meaningful difference in our world. Go to https://coachesbusinessschool.com (coachesbusinessschool.com) to get the tools, strategies, and frameworks you need to enjoy growing your business in a way that is profitable, predictable, and purpose-driven. A big (thank you/shout out) to all our coaches, because without them this wouldn't be possible. If you would like to support our show: Please rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and other podcast platforms. We would be SO grateful. Sacred Changemakers is a transformation company that believes in change for good. We partner with changemakers (coaches, consultants, speakers, authors, business owners, leaders, conscious humans) who want to become more purpose-driven, create a lasting impact, and inspire a better future for all. Together, we are making a...
Tony Lloyd is a visual artist who's paintings depict the awe inspiring and the strange. Cinematic mountainscapes, scifi references of rockets, ufo's and astronauts, and reflections that don't match their surroundings are all part of Tony's visual language that invite the viewer to contemplate reality as its presented. www.tonylloyd.info @tonylloydart
Join us for the Supporting Leaders in Education Talking it Through Podcast. In this episode we are joined by Sophie Garner, Regional Director of Education for Witherslack Group and Dr Tony Lloyd, CEO of the ADHD Foundation. This month we look at the difficulties schools have faced and the opportunities for pupil learning and development that have presented themselves in the last year.
Well this is definately a first! I interview another Tony Lloyd who is in Ecuador!Tony runs a hostel and is involved in the travel business, he tells me some interesting stories including one about his narrow escape from the mafia!He' a very nice chap (as you would expect!) and well worth a listen.
This is a typical Tony Lloyd interview I'm afraid, and who knew there is so much to know about bell ringing!In this episode I talk to Barbara who expalins all and makes me (and you?) giggle throughout!I did ask if her bells are regularly serviced!Ding Dong ! and Happy Christmas ! x
A discussion between Dr Tony Lloyd, CEO for the ADHD Foundation and Anne-Marie Harrison, Training and Consultancy Director for Ideas Afresh Education.
Neurodiversity At Work; Eliminating Kryptonite, Enabling Superheroes
We talk today about the ADHD foundation, what it does, and why. We also discuss three important current initiatives. *the Petition - Review & fund improved diagnosis and treatment of ADHD *APPG - the all parliamentary group for ADHD (contact jo.platt@adhdfoundation.org.uk ) *the very successful Umbrella Project 2021 Tony also shares some incredible insight into the current state of ADHD.
Dr Tony Lloyd, CEO of the ADHD Foundation and Justine Sims, Exectutive Head Teacher for Queensmead House School in Windsor present a podcast on 'Steering a course through covid' as part of our Supporting Leaders in Education series.
Hayden has finally produced the chat he had with Tony Lloyd from El Cafecito Travel Talks. After being interviewed on Tony’s podcast, Hayden realised that Tony may in fact be one of the most interesting people in the world - listen in to hear a story of truly following your heart. El Cafecito Travel Talks can be found on all podcast providers, including Apple Podcasts Get in touch with Hayden on Instagram: @backpackdigital
There comes a time when everyone can look at their life with some distance and see how it has turned out so far. For some, it's when a significant birthday is on the horizon, when context and objectivity can be separated from emotion and attachment. Tony Lloyd from Shropshire shared a substantial amount of his time to chaperone me through his story of a genetic twist of fate which resulted in him being born with Phocomelia, his stance on opportunity, how golf came into his life and his view of the future. Listen to the story of Tony Lloyd. These profiles are now in the third year and are supported by PING.
Tony Lloyd, host of the El Cafecito Travel Talks, a TCK (Trans-Cultural Kid) who after travelling and living in multiple countries has settled in Cuenca Ecuador where he has a cafe hostel called El Cafecito.Tony shares with us via an interview by Johnny Bliss of the Austrian radio station FM4 what it means for him not to fit into one cultural identity both its disadvantages and advantages. Finally, how one can create a space to call home.Guest: Tony LloydHost: Johnny Bliss https://fm4.orf.at/stories/2858614/Editor: Marshall DonnellyTo donate to our show please click here:https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GB5DB4TUGFANY&source=urlLocation: El Cafecito Hostel Cuenca Ecuador www.cafecito.net Questions or comments: elcafecitotraveltalks@gmail.comPlease take a look at our Facebook stories https://www.facebook.com/pg/CafecitoTravelTalks/notes/?ref=page_internalSoundtrack: So Easy Artist:Jahzzar Album:Traveller's Guide Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GB5DB4TUGFANY&source=url)
In this episode we’re talking about the link between nutrition and brain health, how nutrition can help if you, or your children, have a neurodiverse condition – can food and supplements really make a difference and if so, how? Joining Rachael is Dr Tony Lloyd, CEO of the ADHD Foundation, Amanda Kirby, Professor of Development Disorders at the Faculty of Life Sciences and Education at the University of Wales and Roz Kadir a nutritional therapist with 20 years’ experience including for the England Team on the run up to the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
In this episode joining Rachael in the studio is expert Dr Tony Lloyd who is the Chief Executive of the ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity charity and Mums Jannine and Giselle whose children have ADHD. Hear their stories on diagnosis, living with the challenges and their work-around ways to lead positive lives plus how they approach the addition of other conditions such as Asperger’s and Autism.
In this episode we meet our experts. Dr Tony Lloyd is the Chief Executive of the ADHD Foundation, a neurodiversity charity and Jannine Harris who is an ADHD specialist teacher, coach and runs ADHD Wise UK. They explore everything from signs and symptoms to treatments and diet and dispel some myths along the way. If you or your children have ADHD or neurodevelopmental differences, we hope you’ll find this conversation useful.
Jay: Hello. My name is Jay Walter, and this is rebuilding. Oliver Wendell Holmes said, a mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. So let's stretch our minds, find answers to problems, overcome fears, and rebuild our first kingdom. Welcome to another episode of rebuilding. I'm your host Jay Walter. Today we have a very special guest. His name is Tony Lloyd. Tony Lloyd is a TEDx speaker, podcast host and bestselling author of crazy good advice. 10 lessons learned from 150 leading social entrepreneurs. He is a former fortune 500 executive with extensive experience in strategic planning, talent management and leadership development. Tony is the host of the podcast social entrepreneur where he shares positive stories from under represented voices focused on solutions. Welcome, Tony. I appreciate you spending some time with me today. Tony: Well, thanks for having me on, Jay. I really appreciate you having me. Jay: Oh, it's always nice to have a, another voice and another point of view on things about, uh, rebuilding or, or, uh, taking charge of your life. Yeah, so, exactly. So tell me a little bit about what makes Tony, Tony? Tony: Uh, well, besides the insanity, I guess. Uh, so I, you know, I think in the, in the spirit of rebuilding, um, I, I had a corporate career and I, um, was, uh, you know, vice president in charge of learning and development talent, uh, talent development, uh, all those kinds of things. And I, I kinda came to this point where I thought, you know, it seems that corporations are focusing primarily on shareholder value, uh, in sometimes we as corporate executives, we do that to the exclusion of other important stakeholders like our employees or like the planet we live on. Right? And so, so I, uh, I, I kinda had a little existential crisis. Uh, this was several years ago. And so I made the decision to leave my corporate life and to go out and to do something else. Um, so I, I've had some, some fits and starts in different things that I've tried. Tony: I tried a little consulting work, but honestly, nobody cared because I really wasn't, I wasn't that differentiated from any other consultant that they could've hired. Uh, and I did a few other things, but one of the things I started doing was I started writing a book and while I was writing the book, I started interviewing people. And as I was interviewing people, uh, I came to believe that the, the, the audio files of the interviews would be highly valuable to people. So that's when I started looking into podcasting and I started the podcast and it's really, the podcast is called social entrepreneur, but it's really about, um, you know, how businesses use the power of business to do social good. So that, that was my, uh, you know, my launch of that. And, you know, today we're heard in over 180 countries. We just passed half a million downloads. Tony: Uh, and so, you know, at some level, uh, we've had great success. Right? Yeah. But, but about a year ago, I was really struggling with like the big questions. Right. You know, well, the simple questions, things like, you know, what's the meaning of life, you know, if you've got the answer to that one is a pretty good answer. Right. So, so, um, you know, I, I really had kind of a crisis of the soul in a way where I was just, I was really struggling with what's kind of the point, right? So I, I, I go to sleep, I wake up in the morning, I eat some food to provide calories so I can go out and go for a run and maybe do some work during the day. And whether I do that work or I don't do that work, you know, not a lot of people notice if I, if I produce an episode today or I don't produce an episode today, you know, people, people aren't gonna lose sleep over that. Tony: So, uh, it's surprising to me to know that I am not the center of their universe. So, uh, so, you know, at some point, um, you start kind of thinking, what is the point of all this? You know, that, that I, you know, I take in calories to burn calories to do stuff, to get to bed so I can go to sleep. So I can wake up tomorrow so I can go do that thing again. Right. And, and so that was a, about a year ago, well, it was actually December, 2018 when I really kinda had, um, a pretty strong awakening to that question. Like, what am I here for? What's, what's the purpose of life? Um, you know, why are we here on earth? And so that was a, that was a beginning of this journey that we're going to talk about a little bit, but I'll, I'll just kind of pause there and figure out if you have any questions about that or comments. Jay: Well, my, my question, that thing we talk about most of the time is, uh, when you make big changes like this, there's gotta be some fear of the unknown. And how did you kind of face that or overcome that fear and, and, and start overcoming these obstacles and, and questions in your mind? Tony: Yeah. Um, you know, I, uh, I had, uh, had a breakfast meeting with a friend of mine. His name's Michael. Very, very good guy. I'm going to owe him for the rest of my life. Um, but, um, you know, he asked me how things were going and I just sort of told him I'm kind of struggling with these existential questions. And, and, and what he recognized in me was he recognized anxiety and he recognized depression. And, and, and so he made a recommendation about a book, uh, and the book is called lost connections. It's by a guy named Johann Hari. And I highly recommend this book. Uh, I'll send you some links to that if you want. But, um, Johann Hari, he did a, uh, uh, multi-year investigation into the causes of, uh, depression and anxiety. And when, when my friend Michael said to me, he said, you know, it seems to me that you're depressed. Tony: And I said, you know, I think I am because I'm, you know, any, so why, why do you think that you are depressed? I said, you know, actually it, you know, I have a pretty good life, you know, I mean, really, I live this life of privilege. Uh, so I really don't, I felt guilty for feeling depressed, right? I, I felt like, uh, I almost don't have the right to be depressed. Uh, you know, I have a good family. I have a good, uh, you know, income I have, you know, lots of everything is working in my life. So I kinda felt guilty for feeling depressed. Right. Um, but, um, this Johann Hari he found, Oh, in what I said to Michael, I said to him what I had been said to me many times, which is, well, my brain is low on serotonin and it's a natural cycle thing for me and I probably need just some more sunshine. Tony: And maybe, um, you know, I'm not going to take Prozac right now, but I might take us some st John's worked and you know, maybe get my brain back in balance. And so he said, well, let me, let me just send you this, uh, interview with this guy, Johann Hari. And it was on a podcast by a guy named ritual. Uh, and Johann talked about his book lost connection and he had found nine different causes of anxiety and depression and only two of them had anything to do with your genes or your brain chemistry. So he had found that things like, uh, being disconnected for meaningful work or being disconnected from other people or being disconnected from, um, you know, from status and respect or the natural world. And he found all these different causes for anxiety and depression. Wow. And, and so it was really interesting because the story I thought I understood about anxiety and depression wasn't true. Tony: Um, and that there were these, these other things that contributed to, um, to these feelings. So what I did was I said, okay, look, a lot of these things are within my control that I have agency. I don't have to sit here and continue to live where I'm at. So I made this decision that I was going to live my best year ever in 2019. I just said, that's it. I, I'm just gonna, uh, live a year of personal best. And, um, so, so I, I, that's what I made up my mind to do. That's what I did in the last year in, I'll just pause here and let you ask any questions or, or have any reflections. So w how, how do you deem what your best year is? What, what makes you think that this is your best year? Did you read my notes? Cause I, I, you know, it's like you cued me up exactly for what I wanted to talk about. Tony: Um, so the, you know, I think that was a big, uh, question for me. So if I live my best year ever, what would that look like? And if I did, how would I know? Right, right. How do you measure your best year? Um, and so, um, I, I have every year what I do is I do this, um, self-assessment and it, it's made up of these, um, and it's based on a book by Michael, uh, Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy. And the name of the book is living forward. And, um, and so, uh, Michael Hyatt has this sort of self assessment that goes with that. And I've been doing it every year, uh, 2017 in January, 2018, 2019. Uh, and I did it again at the end of 2019 to say, you know, how am I doing? And so, um, what they have is they have what they call their three circles of life. Tony: So the circle of beam and within the circle of being, it's like, you know, your internal self. And so, um, it, it's your physicality, it's your emotionality, it's your intellectual. Um, it's your spiritual. So you know, physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, those are all about who you are, how you are in the world. Then there's a life circle of relating. That's the second circle relating. And so relating is about marriage, fuel, parental and societal. Okay. And then there is the circle of doing, so that's vocational, avocational and financial. And so they have these three circles. And altogether within those three circles, they have these 10 domains. And so it's like on a scale of, and this is an odd number on a scale of one to 12, where are you? And the reason they go one to 12 is they have four core tiles, right? You know, a 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. Tony: And within each of those they have kind of a high, medium and low. And so you can, you can grade yourself. Um, and it's a self assessment, but you can assess yourself against these, um, these 12 areas. Uh, I'm sorry, these 10 domains within three circles on a scale of one to 12. And so that's what I did. I have done that at the beginning of every year. And it just so happened right after I met with Michael, my friend who talked to me about, you know, depression and anxiety and all that. Um, he, he said, look, you know, um, here's this book by Johann Hari. It's about these different causes of depression. I made the decision that I had some advocacy that some agency that I could do some things about it. And so my measurement to begin all that at the beginning of the year was this, this lifestyle, if you will. Jay: Yeah. Okay. So that, that sounds very similar to our five kingdoms that, uh, I kind of told you about the, the inner-self that, the spiritual connection with deity and then your family and friends and associates, and then the world, how you affect all of those. And so, yeah, that sounds like a, um, an excellent way to, to really judge where you are when you start and where you are when you finish. So at the end of 2019, when you did that assessment, how did it turn out? Tony: Well, it was, it was a, it was really good. Um, so in those 10 areas, I had grown in my self assessment about 10% across all of them. And, um, and so let me just take one of those as an example. So in, uh, 2019 in physical, one of the things that I did was I said, okay, I need to get some sleep. And, um, you know, one of the things about if you, if you say, you know, what am I really trying to do here? I'm really trying to thrive, right? Um, I'm trying to thrive. And so, uh, I love Aryana Huffington's work on thrive and one of her main things like her only thing almost is just, you know, get some sleep, get a good night's sleep. And honestly, I think that I had forgotten, you know, I had, I had this global role in fortune 500 companies and I had flown all over the world and I do these phone calls in the middle of the night, in the middle of the morning and all this. Tony: And it had actually been years since I've really had a string of decent sleep. And just that one thing alone, just making a decision that I'm going to measure how much I sleep each night and I get, I, I got a Garmin watch and I wear to bed and you know, it tells me how much deep sleep I got, REM sleep. I go, Oh, you've got the fit, fit, fit, fit. Yeah. And so, you know, just if you take nothing else and you, you know, for me, if I took nothing else, if I did nothing else physically, that was a huge change maker. Okay. Um, I also, I, I really got serious about running, uh, in 2019, I ran 1,790 miles, which is the equivalent of running from Minneapolis to Miami. Now, um, uh, some people have told me that, you know, they could run that far if a bear was chasing them. Tony: Right. But, uh, but for me, I enjoy running and, and part of the running, you know, if you think about these different things of being connected, being connected to nature is a big part of that. Uh, I run with a group, so I get social connections with that. And, and so there are all these different things. Running is almost like, it's almost like an analogy. It's almost like a metaphor for all these other things that I do in life and it's connected to every other area of my life. Um, and I was, uh, I was using, there's a, uh, an app called Strava, S T R, a, V, a Strava, and it's for people who bike and run and walk and hike and all that. And you can upload your workouts to Strava and it will keep track of it, but it also calculates, for example, your fitness level based on heart rate effort, you know, respiration during exercise, et cetera. Tony: And according to Strava, Strava said that across 2019, my fitness level went up 218%. Wow. Yeah. Um, the other thing, you know, and we're just focused right now on physical, the other thing that I did last year was I started a plant based diet. So I made the decision that I wanted to, uh, eat whole foods and to eat Plains. Um, there's a guy, um, I can't think of his name, right. Nobody wrote a book called in defense of food. And, uh, he said at the beginning of his book, he said, you know, I could have written this entire book on a three by five index card because my advice about food is eat food, not too much. Mostly plants. That's his advice. Yeah. And, and, and he said, but we've forgotten what food is, you know, we, uh, doesn't come in a box. Yeah. Excuse me. Tony: Yes, exactly. Exactly. Pardon me. While I cough here, I'm talking about how well I did physically and on the coffee. Um, but uh, based on, you know, my diet, my exercise and everything, my LDL levels are down 29% for the year. Triglycerides are down 38%, cholesterol is down 40%. And my white was down 16.4 pounds. So, you know, in each of these areas of my life, I spent time saying, how do I really, um, you know, uh, live my best year. And so that's, that's an example on a physical. And so I could take any one of these and sort of talk about what did I do and how did I do it? But really it's about understanding that you have agency that you have choices to make, um, and that you get to make them Jay: well, that's, that's uh, what I like to talk about all the time is that you have choices. You're the one that makes those choices. You're, nobody makes you offended. You choose to be offended. Nobody makes you mad. You choose to be mad. No one makes you fat. You choose to put food in your mouth like I do every day. And you know, that's one of my struggles and one of the things I have issues with, but, but yeah, we all have this agency, this, this ability to choose. That's what makes us, I guess, different from many of the creatures on this, this planet. We choose what we do to the planet and to ourselves and to things around us, our environment. Tony: Yeah. You know, it's, it's interesting Jay. Um, I think that, uh, especially, uh, uh, in our, my dog is trying to get in my lap here. He's be crazy. Give me a bud. Um, alright. So, um, one of the things that I was thinking about when I was thinking about, you know, how do I get started on this, uh, is really kind of this, um, cycle of despair or cycle of positive habits. And so, um, the cycle of despair, the way I think about it is, uh, you know, thoughts lead to choices, lead to behaviors, lead to feelings and those thoughts, they, they impact the choices we make, the choices we make, they impact the behaviors we do. And then when we do certain behaviors, they create feelings. And those feelings reinforce the same thoughts and behaviors, thoughts, choices, and behaviors, right? So we get stuck in these cycles where again, and again, we're just doing the same things over and over again. Tony: Um, and I heard recently, um, uh, there was a guy named Joe, I think his name's Joe Dispenza. He has a, uh, video series called rewired. Um, and, and I don't know that I do or do not recommend that video series, but it was interesting, right? You know, uh, but one of the things he said I thought was really interesting is, uh, the average human thinks between 60 and 70,000 thoughts per day. And about 95% of those thoughts are the exact same thoughts that she or he thought yesterday. So we think about it like, you know, where are my car keys? I'm hungry, you know, uh, where's the dog? What's he doing right now? You know, is it time to go for a walk? Uh, you know, so, so we become habitualized as human beings. And, and part of breaking through part of, uh, of contributing in a bigger way is we, uh, we have to break that thought pattern first, right? Tony: And then that leads to new choices, new behaviors and new feelings. Um, you know, as I, as I circle back kinda to that, you know, the big questions about why are we here on earth? To me it's, we're here to connect and we are here to contribute, right? That Walt Whitman about, you know, you, you have a chance to, to, um, provide a verse, right? Right. You, you, you get to, you get to contribute a verse. That's it. Um, excuse me. And so, um, we're here to connect with one another and we're here to contribute. But to do that, you can't pour from an empty vessel. So self care becomes really vital. And, and the vitality and the, and the wellness and the, um, thriving. That's the thing that allows us to connect in healthy ways. And that's the thing that allows us to contribute in healthy ways, but it kinda begins within. Yeah, yeah, Jay: absolutely. I believe that absolutely. That you cannot give what you don't have. You can't pour from an empty cup and, but every time you refill that cup, it actually grows. So you have mornings give, which is, which is the miracle of what all this is talking about. So very good. Well, let's, let's take a quick break here and uh, have some messages and then we'll be right back. Let's talk about your, your book from there. Speaker 4: Jay: Welcome back to rebuilding. We've had a wonderful discussion so far, so far with Tony Lloyd and, and now I'd like to continue Tony with a little more information or a little what? Tell us about your book, the, uh, um, crazy, good advice. I always love crazy good advice. So, Tony: right, right. Well, uh, there's not a lot of crazy good advice in the book, but, uh, but here's, here's kind of where it started. I, um, you know, I mentioned I have a podcast and the podcast is called social entrepreneur. And I had been interviewing people and at the end of each interview I said, you know, um, w what's one key piece of advice, something that you've learned on your journey that you would pass along to others? Right. And I, um, I, I began to notice that there was a pattern. It's like I kept hearing some of the same pieces of advice again and again, I began to stitch them together mind a little bit. So I took my, um, I'm kind of a spreadsheet kind of guy. So I took my a Google spreadsheet. They had all my guests listed on it and I wrote out the advice in one column beside their name. Tony: And so I went through and I wrote it all out. And then I began, I went back and I started categorizing them and then I sorted the spreadsheet and it turned out that there were like 10 things that kept being repeated again and again. So I thought, Oh, well there's these 10 key pieces of advice that, you know, the first 150 guests that I'd had on my show had given. And so isn't that interesting? So I started trying to write a blog post and this thing was just getting out of hand. Um, and then my wife and I were at an event and I'll try to fast forward through this pretty quickly, but my wife were, uh, and I were at an event and, um, it was a play. And the two ladies sitting behind us were having a conversation. My wife is a very friendly, so she turned around the interview, deuced herself to them. Tony: And at the end of the day, um, you know, we were just sort of chit chatting and they said, one of the ladies said, Oh, I, um, you know, work at a radio station. I said, well, I have a podcast. Isn't that interesting? Maybe we should have coffee sometime. So we exchange business cards. I didn't think anymore about it. Well she took the, the business card and she listened to my podcast and then she went to the president of the radio station and she said, Hey, you should listen to this. So the guy called me up and he said, look, we've got a drive time slot coming open 10 or I'm a seven to 8:00 AM in the morning. And he said, I would love to put you in that slot. Um, could you do that? And I thought, well, okay, I'm going to need a little help if I'm going to do that. Tony: Uh, because uh, you know, the thing about radio, and you probably know this better than I do to think about, you know, broadcast radio is you have to hit your Mark, right? You know, you have to, you have to come in just at the right time and you have to take that commercial break at exactly the right time. And you have to, you know, and mine was an hour long show, so there were two segments. So it was a first hour with a break and there was a second hour of the break. And so it was kind of complicated and I was trying to schedule all these guests and everything. So what I did was I decided to do a crowdfunding campaign and um, and a friend of mine named Tom who, uh, is Australia, he has a crowd funding, you know, like Kickstarter's a crowd funding platform. Tony: Well he has one called start some good and it's really specifically made for people who had social good businesses. And so I thought, well I'll, I'll reach out to Tom and you know, see what he thinks about this. And so Tom told me, he goes, look, your, your friends and family are going to contribute. Just get over it. They're going to contribute, but it's their friends and family that you want to bring in. And the thing they'll come in for is some kind of spiff and that spiff should be something that only you can provide. And I was like, man, what would that be? And I go, well, you know, I've got this blog post that is just like, it's really out of hand. And I was thinking, wouldn't that be an interesting book? And here's what it's about. And Tom, his name's Tom Dawkins, he's from Australia. Tony: He's like, yes, yes, I would buy that book right now. And he was like practically jumped through the phone at me. And so I was like, okay, well I guess we're going to do that. So it, so in order to put on our radio program, which I had never done, I needed to do a crowdfunding program, which I had never done. And in order to do that I needed to, you know, write a book is, so that's what we did. We, uh, my wife illustrated the book. It's really a cool book. It's got all these great illustrations in it and um, and it's really these 10 pieces of advice that we put together from all these guests. But the, but the title, crazy good advice. It comes from this one guy and his name is Looney liberos. So if you're going to get some advice from somebody, you're going to get advice from somebody may loony, right? Tony: Absolutely. So, uh, Looney said is his one key piece of advice was this, and it was a little different than everybody else's. He said, look, when you're going to start something big like a business, he said, your friends and your family and your mom and extended relatives are all going to tell you that you are crazy. And he said, and I'm here to tell you they are right, that if you're going to do something world changing, you have to be a little bit crazy to do this thing. And it is going to be, it is going to be a journey of perils, right? It's going to be the hardest thing you have ever done in your entire life. And so if you're going to be crazy enough to do something like that, you might as well make the biggest impact you can possibly make. And so that's where the title of a book, it's this crazy good advice. You know, like you'd have to be crazy to do this stuff. So we've got these 10 different pieces of advice and we've got stories and it's illustrated. My wife did the illustrations and it is just, you know, it's really funny because when people read the book, I go, what did you think of the book? They go, those illustrations were amazing. Like, did you see any words in the book? Did you happen to notice that? So Jay: it, any of that make any difference to the word thing? Tony: Uh, so the, so the beauty of, uh, of that is, um, you know, the illustrations, the way the book is laid out, and it is the thing that makes the book remark a bowl, right? So it's the thing that people remark on. And, and so that's a, you know, that, that's kind of the story of the book. Oh, and one last thing, we gave the book away for free as a spiff for the crowdfunding. And when the crowdfunding was over, we go, well, we've got a book. What are we going to do with it? Well, I tell you what, let's just put it on Amazon and we put it on Amazon and it turned into a bestseller. It's like, Oh darn, this is crazy. It's like, you know, I'm doing the little, like the little emoji with the exploding brain here. I'm just, yeah, it is. It is just the craziest thing. And so we, you know, we did the crowdfunding, we sold the book and um, and here we are today. So that's kind of the story of the book. Jay: No, that's, that sounds fantastic. That I can imagine people, uh, being drawn to that just for, you know, we're all looking for that advice of, of how to do the things we want to do and if we find some kernel somewhere, um, it's worth the, the effort to find that kernel. So. Absolutely. Um, so your podcast, social entrepreneurs, how, what kind of things do you talk about there? What, what's your, it's a good [inaudible] Tony: it's a good question. You know, you were, uh, you were, uh, in the, uh, intro here, you, you mentioned this, that we, we tell positive stories from underrepresented voices focused on solutions. And so when, one thing we try to do is you could find negative stories almost anywhere. You know, I almost, I cannot turn on the news on my radio in my car anymore. I just can't do it. Yeah. Yeah. I cannot drive and pound on the steering wheel at the same time, you know, so, so we're, we're really trying to find stories of, uh, where something positive happened at. But, you know, when I say positive stories, I don't mean, um, you know, this lady makes a pajamas for goats. And isn't that cute? Right? I, I'm talking about people who really make an impact. And so, uh, from underrepresented voices, we're really trying to find those voices that you aren't hearing everywhere else in the world. Tony: So I have interviewed people that are well known. You know, there's bill Drayton, the head of the Shoko, or, uh, Cheryl Dorsey, who's the head of echoing green. And so these are organizations that are big and global. And you know, lots of people within my circle of influence. Lots of people have heard of them, but I also interview people who, um, you know, the, uh, uh, uh, Maria Costa Cheka, she's, um, she, uh, has a, an organization called, uh, uh, Laboratoria and it's in Peru. And what they do is they train poor women to code so that they can become employed and, you know, have a skillset that will raise them and their family out of poverty. And so that's a, you know, a good example of that. Uh, and so, um, we tell positive stories from underrepresented voices. So often women entrepreneurs, often people of color, often, you know, just other people that you may not just run into every day at the mall. Tony: Right. And, and so, um, and who, um, focused on solutions. So we, we, um, we focus on a thing called solutions journalism and solutions. Journalism is this, it's tell the whole story, right? So solutions journalism is, you start with, um, you know, the story of here's the problem. So let's take, you know, climate change, or let's take, uh, you know, uh, extreme poverty or hunger or, you know, lack of access to clean water or any of these things, right? You start with that problem, but then you present and here's somebody who's working on that and they're making a dent in the universe. So the problem with most of the stories, like, let's take global warming, for example. You know, if you're driving down the road and you listen to a story and somebody is talking about climate change, they're going to talk about rising sea levels and they're going to talk about, you know, um, the coral reef is dying in a good talk about, you know, um, all kinds of crazy things, right? Tony: And, and that's all you're going to hear. You're going to say the world is, any of the world is ending, but what we want to say is, yes. You know, the climate is obviously changing the, you know, we can't deny that, but here are some people who are doing some things that are solutions, you know, um, uh, there's a guy who, uh, who has, uh, uh, a, um, solar panel project on the local, uh, reservation up here and they call it solar bear. And he is employing, um, you know, indigenous people, native Americans to build solar panels. And, you know, not only is he providing employment, but he is providing electricity and, you know, clean energy and all these things, you know, and, and what's interesting to me is I have been, um, speaking about, uh, climate change and about clean energy and these things. And the places I'm getting invited to are, um, and I don't mean for this to be a political statement, but they are surprisingly politically conservative. Tony: Um, that, that I thought that these would be people who would not want to have this conversation, but these are people who want to have a conversation because they know that there are solutions at hand. And, and so, um, you know, I was just in a Chicago County, um, uh, Wisconsin. Uh, they, they, uh, or Chisago County, Minnesota, right on the, uh, uh, Wisconsin border. Uh, they, um, they voted, uh, 65% of them voted for Donald Trump in the last election. Uh, and they were all ears and sitting at the edge of their seat to talk about clean energy solutions and how they could participate in them. And so, you know, it, it's something that goes across political divides. It goes across all these things. So it's really about focusing on solutions. It's not talking about, you know, what are our political arguments? Or how are we going to disagree? You know, that's really the thing that we're trying to do with this social entrepreneur podcast is to, uh, is to bring forth, uh, people with real solutions to real world problems who are really making them Jay: well, that's being an engineer by training. Um, that's this, the fearmongering is what I call it. Every, the world's going to end. Yeah. That doesn't right. Affect me. That it's like, well, yeah, I've, I heard in the 70s we're going to have another ice age. And, and it's like, give me solutions. If you, if you say this is happening, what solution do you want me to work on? I'm an engineer. I can fix things if you tell me what to do or tell me what you would like to see. Yeah. Um, so yeah, that, that's much more effective to me and I am of more of the conservative end of the spectrum and, you know, doesn't matter here, but, but yeah, give me a solution that you want me to or, or if I have a solution, listen to the solution, not just say, well, I don't care what your solution is. I, the world's going Tony: to end. Right. But yeah, I like that. You know, it's been, it's been interesting because people have been coming up with solutions about, um, uh, reducing energy cost in buildings, right? So it's not just about clean energy. Only only 25% of the CO2 that we're producing is produced through energy production. But if you think about, uh, other things, so, uh, you know, buildings is a big, uh, user of energy. And so if you can find ways to be more efficient, and here's what I really like about all that, and we're, you know, we've kinda gone down the climate change, so we might want to climb back out. But, um, one thing I like about it is a lot of, um, energy solutions are also the frugal solutions. And so my wife, we love to save money, right? So, you know, you tell me I can, uh, save money with some led light. I'm gonna listen to you because it doesn't matter what my political affiliation is. I want to know what solutions are good. It doesn't come out of my pocket. So much so. Okay. So, exactly. In your, um, in your greatest year, last year, what were some of the strengths that you discovered in yourself that you maybe didn't know about before? Tony: Wow, that is such a good question. Um, you know, part, part of what I think is I had an opportunity to apply the strengths that I had. Right. You know, it's, I, I have, um, because I was in this sort of, um, talent management, talent development. I had a ton of these sort of self-assessments, you know, disc surveys or, uh, you know, all these strengths finders, all these things. So I think I was, you know, somewhat aware of my strengths. Um, but I, I think I, it gave me an opportunity to apply some of those strengths. Um, but let me, let me think for a second about your question. You know, I, I think really, um, understanding that thing we talked about while ago about how our thoughts lead to our choices lead to our behaviors that create feelings that reinforce thoughts, choices, and behaviors. I think it's kind of like it was there, but I didn't see it, you know, like that thing existed, but I wasn't aware. Tony: It's, it's okay. I'm going to tell you really, I'm gonna tell you two really quick stories. Okay. So, um, a story number one, I, it's, uh, like July or August of 1991. And I am in Maine and I am, uh, driving on a little country road in Washington County, Maine. And so, you know, if you, Washington County is kinda in that South Eastern corner of Maine. And so, you know, you're near new Brunswick, you're near Nova Scotia. And so, you know, you're, you're way up there in the Northeast corner. And, um, and so I'm driving, uh, in this area and I've, you know, I'm scouting out this place. I wanted to go hiking on this trail and it was a trail had around there somewhere, but this, I ended up in this place and they call it the Berets in Maine. And the reason they call it the Barron's is it's kind of the place where the glaciers sort of skidded off the edge of the continental shelf there and went out into the ocean and it left behind sort of this scraped off rubble. Tony: You know, like right now there's snow on the ground up here in the Northern hemisphere and it's going to start melting off. And when it does, it's going to be like this gritty, ugly black who left behind. Right? Well, that's kind of what the ground was like around this area called the barons. And, um, and so nothing really was growing in that area. I mean there was some stands of trees around, but there were a lot of big patches with nothing higher than, let's call it 18 to 24 inches is just these little plants. Right? And so I'm, I'm driving. And what caught my attention while I was driving was I saw this flock of turkeys and they were over here in these little shrubs and these little 18 inch shrubs and they were pecking at them and they look like little Jack hammers over there. Tony: They're just bam, bam. I'm like, what are they pecking at? What is that? And it's a weekend. I don't have anything else to do. So I just stopped my car and I get out, you know, the turkeys go running off and I walk around and I get out there and I'm looking at these little plants and what I didn't know at the time, and I do know now is those are wild blueberry Plains. And so I was standing there and it's like a perfect, almost cold, almost warm day. Like the air is cool, but the sun is warm and I'm standing there and I'm looking at these little plants and I reached down and I pluck this one little wild blueberry off of 'em, you know the branch and I pop into my mouth and it is just like, you know, like sometimes you forget what things are supposed to taste like. Tony: Like you get one of those tomatoes from the grocery store and it's not really a tomato is like, you know, I don't know what those things are, but then you really get a tomato out of your garden. You go, yeah, that's right. Tomatoes, you know? So that's what it was like. It was like that, you know, the sort of sense of wellbeing and nutrition and deliciousness and all that. And so, you know, I, I really, I loved that moment. It was a cool moment. It sort of stuck in my head. This, this stopping the car in the cool air, warm sunshine, eating this wild blueberry. So a few weeks ago I was at an I hop now, I don't often go to IHOPs, but somebody had asked me to meet them there and so I met them there and so I said I owed her some pancakes. And I said, Oh, do you have blueberries? Tony: And the woman said, Oh yes we do. I said, well that's fantastic. I would love to have blueberries in my banking. So you know, she goes back and then you know, we're sitting here talking and pretty soon she brings the order out and here's a stack of pancakes. And on top of it is this purple gelatinous goo of stuffs. We're running down the side of it and there's this sort of like fake whipped cream sort of floating on top of head and it's just sort of dripping off the side. It is the nastiest thing I have ever seen in my life. And it is just, yeah, just yuck. And it really, like I had this picture in my head about blueberry, but this compote stuff that they brought out here, it really wasn't what I was thinking of when I thought blueberry. And I think sometimes it's kind of like that we go through life and we're served a lot of blueberry compote and we think that's what blueberries are until we really, really, really have a blueberry. Tony: Right. And so for me that's the, it was like this invisible thing that, that people all day every day going to IOP and they order pancakes and they asked for blueberries and they get this purple Google thing is on top of their pancakes and they think that's bluegrass. But that's not really blueberries. And so I think there is so much that is like, it's not what we think it is. There's so much unreal that we think is real out in the world. And that's the thing. It was, you know, with this sort of thoughts leading to choices to behaviors that produce feelings that reinforce thoughts, choices, and behaviors. For me it was like I saw the blue bottle, you know? Yeah. That's what it was like for me. That was my lesson learned. It was like, you know, all of a sudden I could see a thing that I hadn't seen before that was there all the time. I just didn't know. Jay: And you knew what it was supposed to taste like. You knew what it was like to what's supposed to be turning that, that knowledge that that's in there into intention, into action, into the feelings, into, into the result that again. Yeah. Wow. Um, yes. Well that was a long story. Just say that's what it was. It was good though. Yeah. So someone came to you and wanted to have the best year of their life, what, what advice would you give them? Yeah. Tony: Well first of all, know what that looks like. Doing the measurement before and the measurement after. Yeah. Yeah. So, so it's really, you know, um, the best year is really are you connecting, are you contributing and are you self care? Are you, uh, participating in self care that, um, and, and so, you know, then how would you measure how am I connecting? How am I contributing and how is my self care? And then, and then make a plan, right? So make a plan for, you know, here, here's on a scale of one to 10, here's how I think I'm doing on self care. In different areas on connecting, on contributing, or if you wanted to go take Michael Hyatts, um, you know, life score or whatever instrument you might use to say, here's where I am right now and then here's why I want to be, and then what steps do I need to take in order to get there? And by the way, in order to take those steps, you may have to think different thoughts in order to make different choices in order to have new behaviors. Right? So, so what do I, what do I have to think differently than I'm thinking right now? Okay. And then how to, so, Jay: well, we're kind of coming up on the end of our time. So, um, first and how do we connect with, how do my listeners connect with you? Um, we talked about a maybe a special offer you might have. Um, yeah, Tony: yeah, yeah, absolutely. So the first thing to know is, my name is Tony Loyd, but my last name is noticed that with one L. O. Y. D. yeah. And so, um, you know, people can find me@tonylloyd.com. Uh, if they want to email me, they can email tony@tonyloyd.com, again, spelled with one L. um, and, and one of the things I want to do to today, Jay, is, and I've never done this before, is I have this book, crazy good advice. Excuse me. And it's a really cool book. Now you can go to Amazon right now and you can buy it for like $14.95, uh, or you can get the Kindle version for nine $9.50. Um, or something like that. I don't know, they'd have to check the price on the website to know exactly what it is. Uh, but if somebody will send me an email and say, I'd like to get a copy of crazy good advice, um, I will for whatever it cost me to ship and handle it. Right. Uh, I will send it to them and um, and just send me an email, we'll work out the details and I'll send you a book as long as you've covered the shipping. Jay: That's a fantastic deal. That's $15 that you're saving right there just, just for the book. So, um, that's, that's a pretty good deal. Again, that my frugal wallets is, that's, that's not a bad thing. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, yeah, make sure you give Tony an email and a workout how you would like to get your, your free book. So, um, any parting thoughts? Anything you'd like to just kinda say in closing? Tony: You know, uh, Jay I, I just wanted to, um, part with this. I mean, it's really about rebuilding, right? So your, your whole mission here is to rebuild and, um, and I think it's something we have to do every day, right? We have to, we have to, it's like bread. It's never quite done. You can't make it and just leave it there and go, there it is. We're done. Right. We have to make it new every day. And so, um, you know, one of the things, and I'll, and I'll kind of close with this as my parting thought. Um, one of the things in, uh, like the 10th chapter of the book, uh, of the crazy good advice book, uh, I talk about that story about how we ended up with, uh, you know, somebody approached me and they liked me and they offered me a radio program and, you know, and, and et cetera, et cetera. Tony: And, and I am like, I'm kinda like Forrest Gump of business, right? Like, you know, I just sort of wander into these really fun things that happen, you know, so I've been very lucky. I'm really blessed to have all these things that have happened in my life. Um, but one of the things that I think from all the advice I have, these 10 different pieces of advice that different people are giving me, if I took it all on, I boil it down to one thing. I would, I would say this, that miracles find you while you're in motion, that it's, it's kind of like we are surrounded by this cloud of miracles, like all these cool little things that are going to happen out there. But if you're sitting on the sofa and you're sitting on your hands and you're sitting still, they can't find you. Tony: And so when you stand up and you get into motion, that's when the miracles occur. That's when the really cool, juicy moments of serendipity, you know, moments of synchronicity, whatever you want to call it, you know, the Wu juice, that's where it really starts happening out there. And, um, and so whatever it is that you've been thinking about, you know, that, that, you know, starting a business or starting a podcast or you know, becoming a speaker or writing a book or, you know, uh, becoming a teacher or becoming a nurse or whatever that thing is, um, you know, start, just start and everything else. Jay: Yeah. That's fantastic I, I had never thought about it that way, but that is absolutely true. Absolutely true. Well, thank you Tony so much for being with me today and, uh, I really appreciate your, your knowledge, your thoughts, your stories. That was, it was a fun time for, uh, for, uh, this hour for rebuilding, so appreciate you being here. Jay: as always. Thank you for listening to rebuilding a hope that you have heard something today that will help you on your path to rebuilding your life. Something resonated. If you felt a call to action, please take that action and rebuild. Let me know what you think of today's show or any of my shows. You can leave comments@rebuildingdotpodbean.com or email@jandjwalter.com I would love to hear from you. Comments, suggestions, and topics that you would like me to cover are always welcome. Remember, a dream written down with a deadline is a goal and a goal achieved. Is a dream come true? Until next time, I am Jay Walter and I am always rebuilding.
We sat down with Dr Tony Lloyd, CEO of the ADHD Foundation at our Regional Special Educational Needs Conference: Supporting Leaders in Education in Manchester. Here Tony gives a snapshot of his presentation on Neurodiversity.
Tony Lloyd steps in to help Dave make sense of Stoke losing, and the booing. There's party cheer in Ryan's question, and Chris Iwelumo goes to the petrol station. Further reading, Tom Thrower on boos: https://wizardsofdrivel.com/2019/02/10/stop-fg-booing/ BEER 52 Stuff: When you support Stoke, you probably feel like a beer. As a Wizards of Drivel listener, you can now get a free case of delicious craft beer sent to your door! We've partnered with beer52, the world's most popular craft beer discovery club. Every month, they source the world's best beers and bring them back for their members. This month's theme is beers from Korea! There's no minimum commitment, you can just take the free case, try the beers and see what you think. If it is not for you – you can pause/cancel anytime. As a Wizards listener - you can get your first case free! Just pay postage. That's 8 beers, Ferment magazine and a snack - just visit www.beer52.com/wizards and join the club. (You'll also be helping out the podcast massively)
Dr Tony Lloyd, CEO of the ADHD Foundation, presented 'Understanding and managing your child's anxiety' at our 2018 North West SEN Conference, held at Pontville School.
01 : EATT Magazine startup Podcast E1 with Research Rockets Blast off with the first podcast from the EATT Magazine startup Podcast and join Paul Ayling from Research rockets. 02 : Podcast for startups with Helen from Busivid Join us and listen to the startup podcast with Cullen from EATT Magazine and Helen from Busivid and get insights into one of the new startup apps at The CONNECT Expo In Melbourne 03 : EATT Magazine Podcast 3 – Retail design with Andy EATT Magazine Podcast 3 – Retail design with Andy and an introduction to this years podcast program.Andy Hennessy takes us through a designers view of retail merchandise and how an understanding of several principals can apply to the effects a design. 04 : EATT Magazine Podcast 4 – Silicon beach with Athula In part 1 of this series of podcasts around silicon beach for startups we join Athula Bogota in this remarkably candid interview on his role as the lead organizer for a silicon beach meetup. 05 : Podcast 5 – Interview with Phillip Ball Join us in this Interview with Phillip Ball sharing his thoughts on his new book Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen. Phillip shares some of his research into his next book he is currently working on and the window he is using capture the philosophy and engineering of this exciting project. 06 : EATT Radio at Carlton Connect with Tony Lloyd EATT Radio interview Part 1 with Tony Lloyd an Australian contemporary artist.Join Cullen the Editor of EATT magazine interviewing Tony Lloyd about his exhibiting works at “Baby it's hot outside!” – a ThoughtLAB-14 event presented by the Carlton Connect Initiative at The University of Melbourne. 07 : EATT Magazine podcast 7 with Pamela Bain Join us for the EATT Magazine podcast 7 with Pamela Bain part 1 of a 2 part podcast series.Pamela Bain is a practicing artist with over ten years exhibiting history. Working with materials and media such as acrylic, watercolour, pastel pencil, ink and collage, Pam is now exploring the application of digital manipulation to her painterly creations. 08 : Col. Chris Hadfield – First Canadian Astronaut to walk in space with Pamela Bain Podcast In Part 2 of this podcast Pam also talks about her life long passion for space travel history – a fascination recharged with each pilgrimage to NASA Houston.Hadfield conveys his interesting insights on art and communication pertinent to the ‘space' experience along with his unique views of earth from the International Space Station. 09 : Virtual Reality podcast with Stefan Pernar the director of Virtual Reality Ventures Podcast In this Virtual Reality podcast Stefan Pernar, president of the Australian Virtual Reality Industry Association and director of Virtual Reality Ventures, shares some of his experience in VR technology. 10 : Artists and Entrepreneurs with Cammy Davis from art on the airwaves.com Join us in this interview with Cammy Davis about Artists and Entrepreneurs. Cammy hosts a show called Art on the Airwaves for KSKQ radio in Ashland Oregon. The show is about art and the business of art, where she interviews a wide variety of guests from artists, to musicians, to magazine editors, to book authors and discusses topics relevant to “artists and entrepreneurs.” 11 : Join Dr Renee Beale at the Carlton Connect initiative podcast Peter Sharp and Dr Renee Beale, High and Low, 2013. Peter Sharp and Renee Beale created a couple of years ago called ‘High and Low' for an Insight Radical show in a gallery in Sydney – it tells a story of Chemistry from its roots in alchemy to more modern tech of today. 12 : An interview with Katie Demar – networker, accountant and photographer volunteering with Melbourne Silicon Beach Katie has previously been involved in volunteering with Melbourne Silicon Beach, has dabbled in trades from all areas and is always keen to get involved in new and exciting opportunities. Currently Katie has taken her love of networking to the web where she is aiming to utilise her skills to create the digital nomad lifestyle for herself and other people. 13 : Tim Sinclair the CEO of Ringr the new app podcast Tim Sinclair the CEO of Ringr the new app joins us from a very special event not yet revealed in this post but inside the interview itself and this is the first time EATT Magazine has used this technology during this call as a live test. Ringer has gained recognition from such companies as: 14 : Melbourne Silicon Beach with Sanjay from Random drinks and Sarthak from Getworm Join Sanjay at Melbourne Silicon Beach talking about his new meetup created by 2 random dudes, having random drinks, looking to meet random people, doing random things at a specific place on a Friday night! If I ask you to describe the relationship between a startup and early users, what would you say? Perhaps producer-consumer? What if I say they are both the same? What if I say they both can be described with “one word” from the dictionary, that is: 15 : DJ Main Event and Josh from AUUG at #SiliconBeachOz Join us with DJ Main Event and Josh from AUUG at #SiliconBeachOz.Main Event is a DJ, music producer, TV show host, songwriter and live MC act. He has performed the world over for concerts and multinational corporations as well as working with the best acts in modern entertainment. 16 : Cullen Pope and Martin Ball, Artist & musician with Cammy Davis Martin Ball is a multi-instrumentalist and composer living in Ashland, Oregon. His music varies through many different musical styles, combining elements of alternative, electronic, reggae, and world sounds into a unique and ever-shifting mix of dramatic and compelling music. His goal is to make music that captures the listener's imagination with beautiful melodies, catchy rhythms, and interesting sounds and instrumentation. 17 : International podcast day .com with Steve Lee #PodcastDay Join Steve Lee the owner of Announce Solutions an IT consulting firm. After retiring from the Air Force he worked as an IT Consultant for such companies as, Computer Sciences Corporation, Modern Technologies Inc., International Consultants and IBM.
http://eattmag.com/eatt-radio-carlton-connect-with-tony-lloyd/ Details of Tonys works ” slow motion” can be found in the Periscope version of EATT Magazine.Join Cullen the Editor of EATT magazine interviewing Tony Lloyd about his exhibiting works at “Baby it's hot outside!” – a ThoughtLAB-14 event presented by the Carlton Connect Initiative at The University of Melbourne.Tony is part of the a guest panel invited to to interact with the audience to collaborate on ideas, analyse evidence and dream alternative futures. The panel are invited to imagine It's the summer of 2050 and after three consecutive days hotter than 47oC, including a new record temperature for Melbourne of 50oC, predictions of even hotter temperatures have thrown citizens into chaos. Your country has turned to you to solve the predicament. With your trusty advisory panel, decide on the best plan of attack and strategies to implement.This event is part of ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2015 a Melbourne-wide festival of art exhibitions, forums and talks seeking to harness the creative power of the Arts to inform, engage and inspire action on climate change.Lloyd's paintings are influenced by cinema, in particular Film Noir and Science Fiction, and the Romantic conception of the sublime. Lloyd's largely monochromatic paintings are realist in style.
Arun and Harry talk about the FIFA controversy, the founder of Silk Road being sentenced to life imprisonment, women being banned from driving at a Jewish school, Tony Lloyd being appointed Manchester Mayor, WWE Pro-wrestler Sheamus in TMNT 2, Tron 3 being cancelled, Nickelodeon opening a London Store, and the Paris love locks being removed from the bridge.
45 minutes from Thameside Radio’s first year with Tony Lloyd and Bob Edwards. Some listeners think that the news feature takes up too much time in the one hour show! There are a numer of converts from other pirate radio stations. Mentions for Thameside Radio listeners including: Tony of Arkley Paul of Gates Hill, Stephen Mulham, Fairlough the Builders, Mike of Mayfair, Nigel Barnes of SW9, Radio Invicta, Dennis Hough (Huff?) of Walton-on-Thames, Alan of Barkimgin, Knoxford FC, Rory from Hayes, Pete Turner of Wanstead.
Part of an extended broadcast from Thameside Radio 90.2 with Sarah taking calls. It’s so busy that we even get to hear Sarah answering the phone on air with a call from Howard for Dave, Ian Lawrence and Bernie.At this point Thameside Radio had installed a permanent transmitter in Trellick Tower and set up a live Band III link so could broadcast as long as they wanted. (Band III used to be home to low quality 405 line TV but there were a lot of clear channels. It’s now used for DAB.)The phone lines are very busy with an awful lot of dedications. Here are just a few Danny and Carrel in Swanley, Carl, Bruce Bill Dave and Anna; Andrew of Brentwood for Adam, Class 4D and Brentwood County High School; Bob Lawrence, The Royal Free Network, CMC motorcyclists, Mick of Carshalton, Carshalton 6th form, Neil Chris Arnold & Kevin. Rookie for his wife Lynne, Jim Jim, Gary, Jane, Christopher. Steve for Alex and Bamber; Alex for Rachel Inge Biddy and Rabbi; Liam Simon the quick brew kid Leon; Bamber for Susan, Alex, Amanda, the Tony Lloyd fan club, Ken of Brentwood for his mum and dad on their 31st anniversary, Claire, Johnny, Stand and the fans, Dave and Mark; Jackie Rosemund and carol; Emily for Hillam and the outdoor cat Alan; John of Beckenham for Dave Dave Barry, Beryl, Kevin Ken; Dave for Steve Bruce Carl, Harrow Motorcycle Club; Nigel Richard Sharon Tracy; Andy Martin Trevor and Alan; Renata for Hilary; Stuart of Chiswick; Steve from Stevenage and wife Sharon; Jerry for Tony and his Revox, Roger and Stuart; Dave Nicholls of North Kensington for ; Jim Clark, Leona Resumworth 5X Elizabeth; Andy Dixon , Mill Hill School Larch Nervous Complaint; Pauline to Dan and Sharon; Chris of Highbury for John Richard and Sheila; Darren to Liam, Robert of Swanely to Jim and Pam; John of Beckenham; Bruce Perkins from Martin of Brentwood; Margaret in Byfleet. That's all the people mentioned in just 45 minutes. Now I remember why I don't include all the people mentioned in the show notes each week!
Following last week’s very extended broadcast Bob Edwards tells us that he is going to the USA next week for an indeterminate period and Tony Lloyd will be taking over DJ duties at Thameside Radio. We also discover that Bjorn Borg has just won Wimbledon! Listener Steve is on the phone and wins the competition – he tells us that he records all the programmes: you wouldn’t still happen to have them would you Steve?There are lots of songs from 1970 on this week's Thameside show.Listeners mentioned include: David Lewis of Pinner, Andrew of Southall, Colin of Bromley and his brother Ross, Len from 60 Burleigh Rd, Lawrence and Bruce from Barnet, Ross Patterson or Bromley, Carol, Michael, Betty and Lesley of Chalfont St Peter, Chris Curtain of W8, David Lewis of Eastcote, Richard in Tulse Hill, Gavin Cryable of Collingham Gardens W5 who is writing a book about flat hunting in inner London, Pat Sandrey of Kings Langley and his brother Michael; and Kings Langley School.
The first extended show from Thameside Radio. Instead of the usual one hour from 7-8pm there is a second show with Tony Lloyd where he plays all the tracks from Rumours by Fleetwood Mac (probably recorded on the other side of the C120 that had the first show) Dave has a jingle about Thameside helping you to escape the BBC. The competition prize is still a packet of Spangles (the answer is “Debbie”, Debbie the phone girl used to take phone calls for Thameside Radio). Mentions for Bernard O’Brian from Ilford, Neal, Kevin, Danny Osbourne from Putney Hill, Jeff and Cindy from Imperial College, Stephen Cruickshank from Croydon, Philip “The Fiddler” Cull of Rickmansworth, Radio Telstar One.
Thameside listener and regular competition winner Rupert Bailey is the special guest on The Intrepid Birdman Show. Rupert also DJs for a while on Bob Edward's show, he even interviews Bob! Boris wins the phone competition. Bob also features Sarah from Kew who reveals that in addition to reading the Thameside Radio news she answers listerners letters too. She tells us that Thameside receive about 30 letters each week but they hope to have 100 letters next week. Thameside listeners mentioned include Bob Lawrence, Jeff Hawkins, The Tony Lloyd Fan Club, The Alsatians, James Warren, Denise (Buzby), the TV production class at Richmond College, Martin Greaves of Wathmstow, Andy Kearns, Peter Young from Capital Radio (who is a regular listener), Mick Kelly , Chris de Souza , Keith Harrison, Pablo Cabello, Micheal Galivn, Charlie Gibbons, Jeremy Voisey, Peter Bailey, Christopher Bailey, Austins the newsagent in Molsey, This is the first half of a 3 hour broadcast. If you have any Thameside recordings please get in touch, you can email, comment or @fmthen al
Tony Lloyd hosts a one hour broadcast from Thameside Radio's first year. I’ve included the run up music because it has a Birdman jingle just before the 7pm start of the show. There are lots of Birdman jingles during the show too and Tony provides a more rocky slant to the music. The competition has the traditional prize of a packet of Spangles. The news includes an item about luminous records and how much the Musicians Union are asking the Marquee Club to pay support acts (£9.50 per band member per show) This recording finishes just before 8pm while the phantom phonebox in Harrow is ringing. Mentions include Nigel, Mark and Vince Barnes from Kennington; Karen Chin; Stephanie from Lowlands Junior College; Radio Invicta; Barry Benson; Martin Crew; Trevor Llewellyn; Philip Sharp; Jeanette Harris of Mill Hill;
Tony Lloyd looks for cars with Thameside stickers, he also reads the news on this early one hour show broadcast during Thameside Radio's first year. There are already a lot of listener letters, Adrian Leaper wins the competiton. Thameside Radio listeners who get a mention include Patrick Sullivan in Streatham. Listeners at John Lyon School. Steve Marshall (from Radio Invicta). Gavin Robson. Kevin Hargreaves of Welwyn. Trevor Ball from Harlesden.
Bob plays a track from Bruce Springsteen’s new album called “The River”. There’s more from Incognito – one of the bands that Thameside championed as well as a Garry Glitter SpeciaL as Gary Glitter is in court for bankruptcy! Tony Lloyd is in Australia. No-one mentions Bob's Triumph Spitfire blowing its big end on the M4. Mentions for: Dave Rowan, Habs (Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School), Julian Cole, St Georges Medical School, Arian from Harrow, John Lyon School, Buzby's Mum, Shari, Martin Gould,
This was the second week that Dave Birdman took over from Tony Lloyd. Also clue 2 for the treasure hunt and part 2 of Norman Normal. There's a jingle explaining how listening to Bob Edwards can cure dandruff.Bob wants to play all of "the Wall" but Dave won't let him. Bob of Camden Town wins the mystery tune competition - he is a DJ at the Royal Free Hospital. Mentions include: Martin Gould. Another letter from Pat Hickey for her family (big fans they were). The heavy rockers at Ealing College. Su Everett. Nick Luxford of Chelsea everyone at Notting Hill nick. Steven Cruickshank. Marcus Gaugales. Hammersmith and West London Collegs. Dave Watson. Andy and Madeleine of Richmond whho are getting married. Tony Alegranza from East Finchley. St Cartwright Gardens. Diana Evans. Derek Card of Shepherds Bush. Ian Oakey of Caterham School. John Turner. Richmond upon Thames College. John Peak from Inperial College. Sadly this is only the first half of the 3 hour broadcast. If you have any recordings of Thameside Radio shows do please get in touch.
Tony Lloyd the Thameside Radio newsreader takes over behind the mic as Bob Edwards has gone on holiday to the USA.
Interviews with members of Victoria Baths and Tony Lloyd MP
Bob finally gets to tell us about the funny things inside matchboxes that listeners have sent in. Dave sent Bob a flashing bit of jewellery - a heart with an LED in it. Bob describes the LED as "one of those modern things". Andrew Shepherd of Poplar sent Jelly Babies. Chris Brown sent a fried egg! John of Maidenhead sent a tape of Bob Edward mistakes. Other entries included the secret of life, money, a pair of gerbils feet, some transmitter components, Debbie Harry's phone number (Mark Bramley from Bromley) and a brain pacemaker. The winner was the gerbils feet embedded in resin. Mark Hawkins of Brentwood wins five singles in the phone competition! Listening to this broadcast shows how the Thameside Radio 90.2 superbeam easily covered the whole of London. The letters include listeners in Maidenhead, Bromley, Brentwood and Boreham Wood. All lie outside what is now the M25. That's a radius of at least 17 miles: A quick bit of O-level maths shows the Thameside transmitter covered an area of over 900 sq miles. Wow. For the engineers out there: The photo shows a Thameside Radio transmitter of the time. The audio and power control circitry is in one of the die-cast boxes, the other box houses the driver board (exciter). On the front panel you can just see the meter which can show the DC voltage or audio levels. Switches on the front control power, meter readings and vox settings. There are more poems for Sarah of Kew and a report on a Genesys concert at the Hammersmith Odeon. One of the new releases is Teen Romance by The Alsatians - who are regular listeners Dave parodies the Hamlet advert. Remember when you saw cigar adverts on the TV? A lot of superquiz answers too as well as a new one. Simon Tindall (who wants to be a sound engineer) writes asking if he can visit the studio. The Tony Lloyd fan club writes in to find out what has happened to him and to sell Dave a Tony Lloyd sweatshirt. Tony does appear briefly. (Where are you now Tony? Do email al@fmthen.com or leave a comment here.) Thameside Radio listeners mentioned include: Jeff (Goeff?) Hawkins for University College. Boris Bartkiw for 6S2 at Latymer Upper School including Steve, Stephen, Petra, Zena of Kenton, Ingrid and everyone else in Kew Gardens. Patricia Hickey for Richard. John Firth of SW7. Anthony Osterwell. John Tenton. Steve Petherich. Markus of NW5. Andy Midsen of Chertsey. John of Boreham Wood, Brian Gording, Marcus Gonzales, Colin Mainu, Warren Stephenson of Chessington, Exeter University. Gary Wilkins of Bromley. Tony Anagranza of East Finchley. Martin Greaves. G S Rocket of Uxbridge. Keith Lang of Petersham. This recording comes from Radio Eric. I was sent cassettes of the show (along with the previous two) which I had started converting to mp3 when I came across this one so I took the easy solution!
First half of a 3 hour show. Last week Tony Lloyd was cut off in his prime during a live broadcast from a listener's house (Julian and Vebecca in Meon Road Acton) where the crew ate spaghetti on air. That was the first of many shows from listeners' homes like Tatty's party a couple of months later. This show has loads of musical jingles by Dave. Elton John, B52s, The Motels, Supertramp, Queen .. what a varied musical selection. Bob calls more listerers with the long running Thameside Radio mystery voice competition. Steve Petherick of Hayes doesn't win tbut thinks the authorties should return the transmitter they nicked. Later we hear from Ruth Leaper of Harrow who also also doesn't win. She has dedications for her brothers Adrian and Clive also cousins David and Jeremy. Ruth supports Chelsea who are in the Second Division! Richard Jones of Hornchurch and Jim Stockwell contribute local news. This show does illustrate that Thameside Radio 90.2 had a lot of listener involvement. No wonder there are so many recordings still around. (do you have one you could contribute?) Bob tells us he is going to play part 2 of the Norman Normal saga and Tony Lloyd will have part 1 of the new LP of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Thameside Radio 90.2 listeners mentioned include: Anthony Osterwell of Wembley Park. Richard Morgan from Bromley. Mr Henry at Latymer Upper School. Mark Bramley of Bromley. Jeff Eagles from the Walthamstow Swimmming Club. Chris Hall. Moat Mount School. Alex and Chris Child of Carshalton. Wilson's School in Wallington. Particia and Paddy Hickory. Richard Jones of Hornchurch. Tim Stockwell.
A 1 hour show from Bob Edwards with a totally over the top intro. Jingles at every opportunity. Music news from Tony Lloyd. This is the Thameside Radio 90.2 that Time Out had featured in its article on pirate radio stations on March 23rd (iss 466, price 35p). where it described Thameside Radio as "Very slick pop/rock with competitions. Highly regarded and consistent, this is the nearest we have to US-FM presentation. All over coverage. Usually from the west." Bob has asked for funny shaped letters - one even came on a rotten banana another others on an elastic band, a record sleeve and some writtten on brushes. A listener requests some pirate radio themes - Bob plays the Radio Dublin theme, The Pirates Lullaby amongst others. Although the Intrepid Birdman Show hasn't yet been introduced Dave has already released the Ron Nasty songs - This week Bob plays "Nobody Loves Me (just 'cause I eat worms)" Thameside Radio 90.2 namechecks include Robert Dudley of Hampton Jeff Fatherin. Rob Allen of SW15. Tim Penache. Julies restaurant. Graham Sanders of Croydon. Barry Kemp from New Malden. Andy Segals of Walthamstow. Martin Greaves. Walthmstow swimming club. Davis Lewis of Uxbridge. Steve Holloway of SW16 for parachutists. PJ O'Connor of SW7. Richard Morgan of Bromley. Chris Miller. Geoff (Jeff) Barton. Bob phones Mark Hawkins who is listening in Brentwood. The superbeam really did get out a long way.
More from 1978 with Bob Edwards and Tony Lloyd. This follows the 4 hour spectacular extended birthday broadcast http://media.libsyn.com/media/fmthen/Thameside_781199a.mp3. Thameside Birthday Cake being offered as a prize. They have a phone out competition. Bob plays a bootleg of Brown Sugar with Eric Clapton on guitar. We all now get our choice of music streamed on the Internet, using Spotify or over DAB this was broadcast just 4 years after the first ever independent FM radio station was launched in the UK. We all still thought that listening to a non-BBC station was pretty exciting - and then along came Thameside Radio 90.2 Actually it was only 8 years after the launch of any radio station in London (BBC Radio London - thanks Wikipedia). So the idea and the technology were still very new.More Thameside Radio listeners: Terry Williams; Ron Calston; Arian Leaper for the John Lyon school; Martin Crew of Se22 from Exeter University; Andy Feely; The Barry Banson Appreciation Society; J D Deam; Dave Williamson of Hendon ; Tim Radford of Uxbridge who found out about Thameside Radio 90.2 when he saw a car sticker; Patrick Kingholm of Winchmore Hill; Bob Tree; Malcolm McIntyre;
Back to April 1978. Thameside Radio 90.2 is only 6 months old and a very young sounding Bob presents a one hour show. Tony Lloyd reads the news. Last week was an extended broadcast with Tony doing the second hour. Debbie is taking calls. (What happened to Debbie the Phone Girl?) Dave from the BBC is in the studio as well as a photographer and listener Simon Wallace. Loads of mentions and dedications. Many of them say that it's the the first time they have tuned in to Thameside Radio 90.2: Here are some that had surnames or additional information so might pop up if they're Googled - there a many more mentions on the recording: Downtown of Romford, Roger Scott from Epsom for his wife Linda and children Tristan and Lucinda, Steve Tarling fron Surrey University, Neal Oldfield of Appleton, Paul searle of Upminster for the 1st Boys Brigade, Steve Pagnall of Greenford, Alan Cooper of Edgware, Bernard O'Brien of Hainault, Kevin Keele, Tony and Kim Chiffey and Stephen Cruikshank.
Tatty's party part 3 9-10pmPart 2 is missing - do you have a copy? The end of this live OB ends with the Tony Lloyd show from the party and then the Interpid Birdman. More dedications for Stephen Cox, Ann and Richard and their daughter Hilary, Burlington Danes School, The Lower Echelons Cricket sixteen from Mr Straker. Horace Gabb
More birthday celebrations with Tony Lloyd and The Intrepid BirdmanThe Birdman hasd made a show around the making of the birthday cake.Tony Lloyd calls more listeners, shares recordings of Bob Edwards fluffing his lines when reading the music news and plays impeccable music ranging from Pink Floyd to Ian Dury. Whatever happened to the Tony Lloyd fan club (TLFC - see picture)? Mentions on the phone for John of Dulwich, Dave / Barry Banson from Alleyns School, GM Roberts of Woolwich, Rory of Hayes, Malcolm Mcintryre from Sidcup, Miller and Mariosa from Earls Court.Technical note: The FM reception wasn't perfect, the cassettes are showing their age and the azimuth isn't quite right, but it's really great to hear the show again.
An early live extended broadcast. Bob Edwards plays music from 1978 and phones listeners who wrote in over the last 12 months live on air.Bob tells us about a guest appearance from the Intrepid Birdman (who later became a regular presenter and a key part of Thameside). Loads of jingles mostly created by the Birdman many of which seem to have disappeared since. Music news from Tony Lloyd. Loads of people mentioning their mum and dad. There is discussion about whether Thameside should extend hours - this 4 hour extravaganza was quite a contrast to the usual 1 hour shows. The team are drinking Light Ale (can you still buy that?)At the end of Bob's show there is a 30 minute retrospective on the first year - Thameside had put out 52 shows uninterrupted and were basking in the glory.Thameside Radio 90.2 listeners mentioned in the phone calls include Dave Williamson from Hendon, Robert of Chelsea, Debbie Wooley, Simon Michelsberg from Barnet, Martin Smith of Pinner, Jim Stockwell, Graham King from Orpington and Richard Sugarman from Stanmore.
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