by PurpleSpace
<p>Introducing the Confident Conversations Podcast Series</p><p>Series One of our Confident Conversations podcasts is now available, sponsored and produced by LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) and powered by the Futurists.</p><p>Hosted by PurpleSpace founder, Kate Nash, these interviews are brought to you with thanks to remarkable people choosing to share their learning about developing inner confidence so that others can learn faster.</p><p>Sara Weller Non-Executive Director for BT Group, Virgin Money and Chair of Money and Pensions Service </p><p>Damian Riley CEO of Capita Army Recruiting </p><p>Leanne Cahill CEO of Bravissimo Toby Burton CFO at Fastmarkets </p><p>Michelle Irving Founder and CEO of Career and Chronic Illness International </p><p>Samantha Renke PGCE Presenter, Disability Consultant and Author </p><p>Belinda May Partner and Co-Chair of Dentons' Disability/Accessibility Inclusion Group </p><p>Emma Olivier GAICD Founder of Twenty Percent Disability Inclusion Advisory </p><p>Once you have listened, we ask one thing from you: send the link to the film to five others who you think might be able to pass on the messages to five others. </p><p>The PurpleSpace Confident Conversations Toolkit supports our mission to cascade a universal definition of inner confidence as a strong expectation of a positive outcome and to share the practical things we can do to navigate our working worlds while managing disability. </p><p>Notice the fundamentals. Remember the hurdles. Take individual action.</p>
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August 27, 2024
<p>Samantha is an actress, broadcaster, writer, disability rights campaigner, diversity and inclusion consultant and keynote speaker. And her story starts when she is born with a rare genetic condition Osteogenesis Imperfecta - commonly known as Brittle Bones condition.</p><p></p><p>Having started her career as a teacher Samantha is now a regular face on our TV screens and skilfully uses her own lived experience of disability to drive systemic change in the places that matter. She is also an Ambassador for Scope.</p><p></p><p>During lockdown, Samantha wrote her first book ‘You Are The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread’, published by Ebury Spotlight in 2022 and one of many lines that chimed with me was ‘we must be unapologetically imperfect’.</p><p></p><p>She uses, what I call, her ‘obstinacity’ (a mash up of obstinance and tenacity) during moments where she doubts her ability to succeed.</p><p></p><p>In our conversation, you'll hear how Samantha initially rejected the idea of networking with other disabled people, before later discovering the wonderful benefits of being able to learn from the experiences of others.</p><p></p><p>She talks about ‘putting in the graft’ to find career stability and the journey of developing her inner confidence. She has found ways to be consistent in asking for what she needs in terms of workplace adjustments or accommodations while building a brand that truly supports others to be who they are, and ask for what they need.</p><p></p><p>I am sure you will enjoy her fun, her resolve, her unapologetic way of being her authentic self.</p><p></p><p>These interviews are brought to you with thanks to remarkable people choosing to share their learning about developing inner confidence so that others can learn faster.</p><p></p><p>Once you have listened, we ask one thing from you: send the link to the film to five others who you think might be able to pass on the messages to five others.</p><p></p><p>We are on a mission at PurpleSpace to cascade a universal definition of inner confidence, a strong expectation of a positive outcome, and to share the practical things we can do to navigate our working worlds while managing disability.</p><p></p><p>Enjoy this episode.</p>
August 27, 2024
<p>In this conversation you will meet Leanne Cahill, the Chief Executive of Bravissimo. I could have spent all day talking to her. She is ‘real’ and she sits confidently in her leadership space and the opportunity and responsibility she has as the custodian of their business culture.</p><p></p><p>Leanne was born with one hand and shares with us the challenges that she experienced as a child growing up while being a bit different. Her story is captivating. It’s the story of being human and wanting the best for yourself. And it’s the story of someone for whom their career success mattered to them from the get-go. </p><p></p><p>Her brand is characterised by navigating awkward moments and finding work-arounds to barriers. She doesn’t let the tough stuff eat her up. She learns, she is practical as she applies learning in all phases of her career. And her career is impressive.</p><p></p><p>Leanne starts her career at 16 with a part-time job in McDonald’s. It is customer-facing and fast paced. And it requires her to handle a lot of equipment. It does not enter her head that there may be any challenges. </p><p></p><p>In our conversation we talk about her career and her path through university, a junior management placement with M&S, how she specialised in finance and moved down to London to start her accountancy exams. We discuss how she went up the ranks in retail and professional services firms and then found her way to Bravissimo.</p><p></p><p>Leanne tells us how she makes conscious choices about how to meet and greet others and remove the awkwardness from situations. She does this in a way that does not diminish her brand but enhances it. She used humour and stories and she shares her vulnerability to build trust in her relationships and within the organisations that she leads.</p><p></p><p>We discuss the positive consequences that come from being a leader with visible limb difference which could well be one of the reasons why the disability metrics at Bravissimo are better than the average.</p><p></p><p>These interviews are brought to you with thanks to remarkable people choosing to share their learning about developing inner confidence so that others can learn faster. The first tranche of six films is brought to you with thanks to LSEG who are working to build a culture of belonging for everybody and accessibility is a key part of that. Once you have listened, we ask one thing from you: send the link to the film to five others who you think might be able to pass on the messages to five others. </p><p></p><p>We are on a mission at PurpleSpace to cascade a universal definition of inner confidence as a strong expectation of a positive outcome and to share the practical things we can do to navigate our working worlds while managing disability.</p><p></p><p>Enjoy this episode.</p>
August 27, 2024
<p>Toby Burton’s story is going to blow your mind. He conveys with such clarity that while so many of our barriers to career success are caused by external forces, ultimately we have to dig deep and strengthen our reserves of resilience and confidence to push back against those things. </p><p></p><p>Toby is currently Chief Financial Officer of Fastmarkets. Their annual revenue exceeds 100 million. He began his career at Unilever and became a qualified accountant while there. He then found his way to The Economist and sat at the very heart of news, politics and finance and eventually became CFO to the Economist Group’s publishing business responsible for 300 million of revenues. </p><p></p><p>Toby was born profoundly deaf and has never used speech. He shares a story about being undermined as a 9-year old boy by one of his teachers. I would imagine everyone who has navigated work while living with disability will have experienced a similar moment when maybe a colleague has been blatant in their view that you cannot do something and you reach a crossroads of choice about what you do with that view. Toby decided to prove his teacher wrong and his career is testament to what you have to do to build inner confidence. </p><p></p><p>His story of flunking a really important board presentation about stock cubes because of not being able to get the right interpreters is a powerful one. Does he blame the lack of interpreters? No. Does he believe his poor performance is not fixable? No. Does he blame his colleagues for not noticing he had interpreters who were unfamiliar to finance? No.</p><p></p><p>As you listen to the film, you will hear his powerful truth that no matter how good your organisation is in relation to its own track record of getting it right, there is no way they will know your own unique adjustment needs. So relying on others to set something up for you is never going to work. </p><p></p><p>He leads. He takes control of his story, his brand, his adjustment needs, his career trajectory. His lessons are powerful and I learnt so much, as I expect you will too. </p><p></p><p> These interviews are brought to you with thanks to remarkable people choosing to share their learning about developing inner confidence so that others can learn faster. </p><p></p><p>The first tranche of six podcasts is brought to you with thanks to LSEG who are working to build a culture of belonging for everybody and accessibility is a key part of that. </p><p></p><p>Once you have listened, we ask one thing from you: send the link to the film to five others who you think might be able to pass on the messages to five others. </p><p></p><p>We are on a mission at PurpleSpace to cascade a universal definition of inner confidence as a strong expectation of a positive outcome and to share the practical things we can do to navigate our working worlds while managing disability.</p><p></p><p>Enjoy this episode.</p>
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