SHED TALKS (Jeremy Thomas)

De: Blue Baltic Entertainment Ltd
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  • Shed Talks is a good humoured show about well being, mental health and coping with life – what happens when things go wrong, and what you can do to get better and stay well. Shed Talks is hosted by Jeremy Thomas – a funny guy with experience of serious mental illness, and an advocate of good mental health. Jeremy is going to be in conversation with interesting people drawn from the world of Film, TV, Music, Books, Crime, Gardening, and Business. Interesting people who have achieved something in their lives but who also have had direct or indirect experience of poor mental ill-health. By sharing their inside stories with Jeremy, guests will also reflect on personal survival techniques, demonstrating how they recovered from poor mental health and how they now stay sane. Jeremy Thomas worked in the music business for 22 years during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. He worked with artists such as John Williams, Al Green, Camel, Caravan, U2, The Levellers, James Brown and Rupert Hine to name a few. He wrote his first novel “Taking Leave’ in 2007, a former BBC Radio 5 ‘Book of the Month”, going on to co-produce the Emmy Award-winning BBC documentary ‘Stephen Fry – The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive’ and co-write the popular- A-Z Guide to Good Mental Health with Dr Tony Hughes. His last novel was the crime thriller ‘The Santa Monica Suicide Club’ published in 2016. Jeremy is now a leading speaker to schools and businesses, delivering talks on “How to Stay Sane in an Insane World’’. An authentic, brutally honest, and often humorous talk that draws on his own battle with bipolar disorder and addiction, providing coping skills and strategies based around a mental health tool kit. For more Shed Talks information and mental health support visit our website or contact:- enquiries@jeremythomastalks.co.uk
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  • 22: Simon Woodroffe OBE talks about being bullied and abused at boarding school aged 7. How low self esteem, anger, bravado led to drink, drugs, loneliness. Then recovery via 12 Step Groups. Hope! Stage design for George Michael. Hooray then founds Yo Sushi!
    Aug 29 2024
    Simon Woodroffe. OBE is an original Dragon on Dagon's Den and founder of the Yo Sushi restaurant chain. He believes in people doing things that are outside of their comfort zone. He talks about abandonment, being sent to boarding school aged seven, and being bullied and abused by the the Headmaster. The subsequent fear, low self esteem and anger he experienced into his thirties' were masked by bravado and drink, sex and drugs. The latter resulting in a short spell in prison.. He then took hold of his life , immersed himself in 12 Step Recovery and self help. Acting as stage designer to Rod Stewart. Fleetwood Mac and George Michael took him to another level. TV fame came next with Dragon's Deb. Eventually, founding Yo! Sushi and other successful companies. Generous, courageous, shooting straight from his practical hip...inspirational.
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    47 m
  • 21: SHED CHAT WITH RACHEL JONES, EDITOR OF TOES IN THE WATER, SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHER, TALKS ABOUT THE POWERFUL EFFECTS WILD WATER SWIMMING HAS HAD ON SELF ESTEEM , AUTO IMMUNE DISEASE, RAISING TWO KIDS ON HER OWN.
    Jun 1 2024
    Rachel Jones is the editor of Toes in the Water: Stories of lives changed by wild swimming
    talks about the good and the bad times and how swimming in cold wild water has transformed her and other people's lives for the better. https://bit.ly/4bLFpbn
    She highlights a sense of community, trauma, divorce, self-discipline, self-regulation, resilience, coeliac disease/autoimmune disease, happiness, kindness, autism and ADHD. Discusses being an SEN teacher at King Edward's School Southampton.
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    23 m
  • 20: PAUL UNWIN TALKS TRAUMA,, SURVIVOR'S GUILT, CREATING CASUALTY, GRATITUDE, GRIEF, FEAR, DRUMMING,GRATEFUL DEAD, STEELY DAN, BEDALES EMDR, ARTHUR MILLER, NOT DWELLING ON REGRET.
    May 7 2024
    Paul Unwin is the co-creator of huge hit TV show 'Casualty' with best friend Jeremy Brock, was the artistic director of the Bristol Old Vic, and collaborator and good friend of playwright Arthur Miller, to name a few accolades. He talks about the traumatic turning point of his life at the young age of 19, therapy and later EMDR, survivor's guilt. His ethos is "Don't live with regret, don't live with fear". Paul also talks about his recent West End play 'The Enfield Haunting', as well as his new play, ‘The Promise’, about the birth of the NHS. Paul has two children and a wife called Kate who he thinks of as his ‘very best friend’. Both his parents were in the diplomatic service, his father was an ambassador, his mother, interestingly, was a German Jew who managed to escape to England in 1938 from the Nazis. Paul’s other best friend is his dog, who he refuses to call a pet.
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    1 h y 29 m

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