A woman reflects humorously and insightfully on the coping strategies that helped her deal with the challenges of working in a male-dominated environment.

Southern debutantes like Lauren Lusby Fernandez are not supposed to want a career in law enforcement, nevertheless she joined the US Secret Service.

In her book Talkback Barbie Lauren describes the lessons others can learn from her experience.

In this episode of Rest and Recreation, the work life balance podcast from Abeceder Lauren and host Michael Millward discuss

· The experiences that inspired the book

· The lessons others can learn from her experience

· How the desire to serve led Lauren to launch giving circle.

· The challenges of setting- up and running a not-for-profit

This episode of Rest and Recreation will inspire you to think about how you might contribute to your community.

You can find more information about both Lauren and Michael at ABECEDER.co.uk

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Visit York Test and use this discount code REST25.

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Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Rest and Recreation, please contact Abeceder.

Matchmaker.fm introduce many guests to Rest and Recreation. Matchmaker.fm is where great hosts and even greater guests are matched, and fantastic podcasts are hatched. Use code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

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Dog owners need to learn how to speak dog if they want to live happily with their dog.

Drew Brashier is a professional dog trainer with Paw and Order in South Carolina USA.

In this episode of Rest and Recreation, the work life balance podcast from Abeceder Drew explains to host Michael Millward how any dog owner can have a successful relationship with their dog and live happily together.

Drew and Michael discuss the common challenges that dog owners face and some straight forward solutions.

These include

• Breed selection
• Establishing the right rules for a relationship with your dog
• Communicating with your dog
• Understanding what your dog is telling you
• The right sort of attention
• Learning how to be a good dog owner

You can find more information about both Drew and Michael at ABECEDER.co.uk

Audience Offers

Rest and Recreation is made on Zencastr, because creating podcasts on Zencastr is so easy, you can as well by visiting Zencastr and using our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel – Holidays can play an important part in preventing burn out. So take a break at trade prices to anywhere in the world on trains, flights, hotels, and holidays as members of The Ultimate Travel Club.

Health – York Test provides an Annual Health Test. An experienced phlebotomist will complete a full blood draw at your home or workplace. Hospital standard tests covering 39 different health markers are carried out in a UKAS-accredited and CQC-compliant laboratory.

Visit York Test and use this discount code REST25.

Tech Problems? – Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote our referral code WPFNUQHU.

If you have liked this episode of Rest and Recreation, please give it a like and download it. To make sure you do not miss future editions please subscribe.

Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Rest and Recreation, please contact Abeceder.

Matchmaker.fm introduce many guests to Rest and Recreation. Matchmaker.fm is where great hosts and even greater guests are matched, and fantastic podcasts are hatched. Use code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

Thank you to you for listening.

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Living the American dream led to burn out for Serban Mare, who then learnt how to recover from burn out.

Serban Mare believes that achieving high performance at work should not result in someone losing their health or sacrificing their happiness.

Serban was born in Romania and emigrated to the USA when he was 23 years old. Over the following ten years he lived the American dream until he stopped living that dream and realised, he had reached the point of burn out.

In this episode of Rest and Recreation, the work life balance podcast from Abeceder Serban explains to host Michael Millward what burn out looks and feels like for the person who is living through it.

Michael and Serban discuss the lead-up to the point at which Serban realised he had reached burn out and the warning signs as he approached that point that he did no know about.

They explore all the things that ambitious people can do to prevent themselves reaching burn out, and how Serban brought himself back from burn out to now running a successful business helping organisations to support their employees to be successful with risking burnout.

At some point in this episode, you will undoubtedly feel that you have heard Serban and Michael talking about you.

Listen now and learn how to protect yourself from burn out.

You can find more information about both Serban and Michael at ABECEDER.co.uk

Audience Offers

Rest and Recreation is made on Zencastr, because creating podcasts on Zencastr is so easy, you can as well by visiting Zencastr and using our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel – Holidays can play an important part in preventing burn out. So take a break at trade prices to anywhere in the world on trains, flights, hotels, and holidays as members of The Ultimate Travel Club.

Health – York Test provides an Annual Health Test. An experienced phlebotomist will complete a full blood draw at your home or workplace. Hospital standard tests covering 39 different health markers are carried out in a UKAS-accredited and CQC-compliant laboratory.

Visit York Test and use this discount code REST25.

Tech Problems? – Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote our referral code WPFNUQHU.

If you have liked this episode of Rest and Recreation, please give it a like and download it. To make sure you do not miss future editions please subscribe.

Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Rest and Recreation, please contact Abeceder.

Matchmaker.fm introduce many guests to Rest and Recreation. Matchmaker.fm is where great hosts and even greater guests are matched, and fantastic podcasts are hatched. Use code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

Thank you to you for listening.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscription.

Sharon Critchlow sold her share in the business she had helped to build. She could afford to stop working. This is what Sharon does now.

Sharon Critchlow is an entrepreneur who sold her share of the business she had helped to grow.

That sale meant that Sharon could have enjoyed a comfortable life, but sitting back is not Sharon’s style.

In this episode of Rest and Recreation, the work life balance podcast from Abeceder Sharon explains to host Michael Millward how she reinvented her life so that she could spend most of her time doing the things she loves.

Sharon left school with serious problems with reading and writing, so she was not expected to have a career as an accountant or to be a partner in a successful accountancy firm.

When she was asked to write a chapter in a book, she discovered a passion and decided to change how she lived.

In this engaging episode Sharon explains how she created a new lifestyle.

You can find more information about both Sharon and Michael at ABECEDER.co.uk

Audience Offers

Rest and Recreation is made on Zencastr, because creating podcasts on Zencastr is so easy, you can as well by visiting Zencastr and using our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel – at trade prices to anywhere in the world at trade prices on trains, flights, hotels, and holidays as members of The Ultimate Travel Club.

Health – York Test provides an Annual Health Test. An experienced phlebotomist will complete a full blood draw at your home or workplace. Hospital standard tests covering 39 different health markers are carried out in a UKAS-accredited and CQC-compliant laboratory.

Visit York Test and use this discount code REST25.

Tech Problems? – Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote our referral code WPFNUQHU.

If you have liked this episode of Rest and Recreation, please give it a like and download it. To make sure you do not miss future editions please subscribe.

Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Rest and Recreation, please contact Abeceder.

Matchmaker.fm introduce many guests to Rest and Recreation. Matchmaker.fm is where great hosts and even greater guests are matched, and fantastic podcasts are hatched. Use code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

Thank you to you for listening.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscription.

Focus on understanding and achieving the end goal

Stephen Shortt is a career talent strategist who has developed the Happy Work Life Map.

Stephen is on a mission to make the world a better place, with happy people in fulfilling, rewarding careers! An important part of having a happy career is being happy across every aspect of life.

Stephen explains why he defines happiness in life as being making progress towards purpose – whatever your purpose is for you…

Michael and Stephen explore how happiness is not a single destination or thing – it is a journey that unfolds through key areas in our lives: celebrating achievements, embracing gratitude, building skills and habits, nurturing meaningful connections, and contributing to the world around us.

Stephen explains how he uses the Happy Work Life Map to help people to explore these elements for themselves and what resonates with them.

How we define happiness is as unique as we are. Stephen provides insights into how we can all define what makes us happy.

You will leave this episode feeling empowered to cultivate joy, purpose, and a life that feels both balanced as well as deeply fulfilling and rewarding.

Audience Offers

Rest and Recreation is made on Zencastr, because creating podcasts on Zencastr is so easy, you can as well by visiting Zencastr and using our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel – at trade prices to Pakistan or anywhere in the world at trade prices on trains, flights, hotels, and holidays as members of The Ultimate Travel Club.

Health – York Test provides an Annual Health Test. An experienced phlebotomist will complete a full blood draw at your home or workplace. Hospital standard tests covering 39 different health markers are carried out in a UKAS-accredited and CQC-compliant laboratory.

Visit York Test and use this discount code REST25.

Tech Problems? – Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote our referral code WPFNUQHU.

If you have liked this episode of Rest and Recreation, please give it a like and download it. To make sure you do not miss future editions please subscribe.

Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Rest and Recreation, please contact Abeceder.

Matchmaker.fm introduce many guests to Rest and Recreation. Matchmaker.fm is where great hosts and even greater guests are matched, and fantastic podcasts are hatched. Use code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

Thank you to you for listening.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscription.

God will never make you poor, if you give to the poor

Dr Matee Rajput is the Surgical Director at KSL Clinic, and one of the leading hair transplant surgeons in the UK.

Dr Matee is also, with his four brothers a founder of the SAMR Trust. a charity that was inspired by the way his father lived his life.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Dr Matee explains to Michael Millward how his father instilled in his children the importance of helping people who are less fortunate than yourself.

Dr Matee tells the family story about how his father’s experience led him to adopting a life devoted to helping others, and the commitment he and his brothers made when they became doctors to following his example.

Building a hospital in the village that he grew up in was a dream for his father. Following his death his sons decided to make the dream a reality.

Dr Matee describes the experience of building the hospital in Pakistan and why and how it is developing.

The episode will inspire you to make your dreams a reality.

Audience Offers

Rest and Recreation is made on Zencastr, because creating podcasts on Zencastr is so easy, you can as well by visiting Zencastr and using our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel – at trade prices to Pakistan or anywhere in the world at trade prices on trains, flights, hotels, and holidays as members of The Ultimate Travel Club.

Health – York Test provides an Annual Health Test. An experienced phlebotomist will complete a full blood draw at your home or workplace. Hospital standard tests covering 39 different health markers are carried out in a UKAS-accredited and CQC-compliant laboratory.

Visit York Test and use this discount code REST25.

Tech Problems? – Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote our referral code WPFNUQHU.

If you have liked this episode of Rest and Recreation, please give it a like and download it. To make sure you do not miss future editions please subscribe.

Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Rest and Recreation, please contact Abeceder.

Matchmaker.fm introduce many guests to Rest and Recreation. Matchmaker.fm is where great hosts and even greater guests are matched, and fantastic podcasts are hatched. Use code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

Thank you to you for listening.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscription.

Swapping Online Virtual Networks for Authentic Real World Connections

Bradley Glantz is the founder of The Mighty Tribe, a community designed to help men understand masculinity and create the best version of themselves.

At age 13 Bradley was diagnosed with depression. Over the following three years he sank into video games addiction.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Bradley explains to Michael Millward how he recovered from that addiction and turned the lessons from his recovery into a community for men.

Bradley describes how addiction dominated his teenage years, and how he realised he was addicted, but at the same time powerless. He explains the education process he embarked on which led to him being able to build a new lifestyle free from addiction.

He explains the lessons he learnt and how he used that knowledge to help all men build lives based on purposeful and positive masculinity.

During their conversation Bradley and Michael discuss the societal norms that force men into lifestyles that involve constant comparison and competition but lack purpose.

Audience Offers

Rest and Recreation is made on Zencastr, because creating podcasts on Zencastr is so easy, you can as well by visiting Zencastr and using our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel – at trade prices anywhere in the world at trade prices on trains, flights, hotels, and holidays as members of The Ultimate Travel Club.

Health – York Test provides an Annual Health Test. An experienced phlebotomist will complete a full blood draw at your home or workplace. Hospital standard tests covering 39 different health markers are carried out in a UKAS-accredited and CQC-compliant laboratory.

A Personal Wellness Hub gives access your easy-to-understand results and guidance to help you make effective lifestyle changes anytime via your secure, personal Wellness Hub account.

Visit York Test and use this discount code REST25.

Tech Problems? – Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote our referral code WPFNUQHU.

If you have liked this episode of Rest and Recreation, please give it a like and download it. To make sure you do not miss future editions please subscribe.

Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Rest and Recreation, please contact Abeceder.

Matchmaker.fm introduce many guests to Rest and Recreation. Matchmaker.fm is where great hosts and even greater guests are matched, and fantastic podcasts are hatched. Use code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

Thank you to you for listening.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscription.

Joe Deppe works in the automobile industry in Michigan USA. But spends his rest and recreation time with trains. Not a model railway, but exploring the rail system and recording the historical railroad infrastructure in the area that he lives in.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Joe and host Michael Millward discuss what Americans call rail fanning, which is called train spotting in the UK.

Their discussion covers everything from the role played by Thomas the Tank Engine in fuelling Joe’s passion for trains, to the dynamics of the train fanning community.

Joe explains his passion for compiling a record of the old infrastructure of the railroad before it is all digitalised.

Michael covers some of the railway folklore of the village in Yorkshire where he lives.

In their discussion Joe and Michael discuss why cars fail to attract the same level of interest as trains.

You will leave this episode understanding more about an often misunderstood hobby of train spotting.

Rest and Recreation is made on Zencastr, because creating podcasts on Zencastr is so easy, you can as well by visiting Zencastr and using our offer code ABECEDER.

Travel – at trade prices anywhere in the world at trade prices on trains, flights, hotels, and holidays as members of The Ultimate Travel Club.

Health – York Test provides an Annual Health Test. An experienced phlebotomist will complete a full blood draw at your home or workplace. Hospital standard tests covering 39 different health markers are carried out in a UKAS-accredited and CQC-compliant laboratory.

A Personal Wellness Hub gives access your easy-to-understand results and guidance to help you make effective lifestyle changes anytime via your secure, personal Wellness Hub account.

Visit York Test and use this discount code REST25.

Tech Problems? – Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote our referral code WPFNUQHU.

If you have liked this episode of Rest and Recreation, please give it a like and download it. To make sure you do not miss future editions please subscribe.

Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Rest and Recreation, please contact Abeceder.

Matchmaker.fmintroduce many guests to Rest and Recreation. Matchmaker.fm is where great hosts and even greater guests are matched, and fantastic podcasts are hatched. Use code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

Thank you to you for listening.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscription.