You Care, I Care

I have been very honoured to be able to have Baroness Lister of Burtersett on my my podcast You Care, I Care, discussing the issues around child poverty and the issues faced by families today.

Having written and worked on many books and articles about poverty, social security and women's citizenship, it was absolutely fascinating and a real learning curve for me to be able to discuss so many issues that are often brushed under the c...

Sophie has been involved in the care sector from a very young age when her mother started providing care to people in her own home.

From there Sophie continued working in care and is a Director of Manor Community Care.

Sophie's passion for providing care and support across all sectors is very evident and her work with Coproduce Care ensuring up to date topics are discussed and information is available, along with working with the Car...

Calin Istrate having qualified as a nurse and moved to the UK decided to set up Homecare Ipswich providing domiciliary care and complex care in Suffolk.

Calin decided to work in the care sector and qualify as a nurse after his mother fell ill.  He could have remained working in the construction sector but knew that he really wanted to help support people.

He is one of the few agencies in the Ipswich area who is able to take on T...

I had the pleasure to speak with Nina Parry of Nina's Law about her life, her campaign and her plans for change.

Nina was in Thaliand when the Tsunami happened, and she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis less than a year later.  

Having had to adapt her daily routine, life plans and family around the ever increasing complexity of living with MS, Nina started  the campaign for Nina's Law which would enable people who have...

My guest today is David ‘Budge’ Price, talking about the trials and tribulations that have been ongoing with care for Gina.

This is the 4th podcast where Budge talked to me about Gina’s story. The first time was in October, 24, then December 2024 lastly, November 25. (If you haven’t heard Budge’s previous interviews, you may like to listen before hearing this one.)

The summer of ‘25 has been diffic...

My guest today is Kevin Griffiths of The Care Show in Swindon. He explains how he got involved in The Care Show, after a friend messaged him while he was on holiday and then told him exactly what she’d done, and how he, as someone who has great hospitality experience, could help.

Kevin goes on to talk about why he was so keen to join his friend in this venture, which they took over in August. Swindon as an area has a huge numb...

My podcast guest today is Clare Hodges who works at Blenheim House, part of Berkley Care Group, where she is manager of the 85 bed home.

She has been with Berkley for almost seven years, and talks about how she had a break from Blenheim to oversee another care home within the group, Leicester House in Warwick. As much as she enjoyed seeing another Berkley home, she is glad to be back in Blenheim House.

Blenheim is the biggest home in...

On today's episode of You Care, I Care, I'm talking to Paul Turner who is a lawyer from FT Chronic Pain Solicitors. We haven't known each other long at all but as soon as we realised what each other does we knew there was a synergy. 

Paul explains what he does and explains that although they're personal injury lawyers, they support people to put their lives back together after life-altering injuries. 

He sur...

On today's podcast, I'm joined by David Robson of Mark Bates Ltd who are the UK's largest disability insurance broker. David shares that approximately 250,000 people trust Mark Bates Ltd with their insurance, whether it be from a home employment matter, when a customer needs employment liability or public liability, all the way through to home insurance where there are high levels and high value pieces of equipment to help the clie...

I’m delighted to welcome back for a third time, David Price, aka Budge.  

It's been a while since we last spoke on the podcast, and unfortunately life still hasn’t settled down.

Budge, Gina and Sam were moving into a bungalow owned by the council. They received the house keys on 18th December, but on the 19th, Gina had to return to hospital. After having a procedure in August, it had failed, and she had a little hole...

My guest today is Guy Olson from The Equity Release Partnership who talks about why he set up his business and the importance of understanding what it means.

Having worked in financial services and advising on equity release for about 20 years, with Aviva, and The Age Partnership, at a time when equity release was in its infancy, he eventually set up his own brokerage around two years ago.

Equity release is a growing market place, wh...

My guest today is someone I met around six months ago – Benson Miyoba, whose business is TWO SEVEN SEVEN.

Benson himself says he’s packed a lot into his 46 years, and the passion for what he is doing now is clear.

After going through a difficult period in his own life and unable to accept help from people, he isolated himself. But, as you’ll hear, Benson likes to solve problems himself – because he is determin...

My guest today is Joe Tompkinson of MyMarketr and he’s opening up about his three children and the incredible journey that each one has been on. Joe and his wife, Claire, have George, Eloise and Henry and are based in Swindon.

When you see them on social media, you realised that it would be hard to find a happier family who enjoy spending as much time together as possible going on daytrips and holidays or just sitting at home ...

Today I’m so happy to share that my guest is a friend, a networking buddy and one of the most human coaches I’ve ever come across!

John Lewis and I met at a PR Day run by fellow business friend Fiona Scott almost three years ago now and have stayed in contact ever since. We’re now chair and vice chair of Businesswise Swindon and our friendship is one of respect, admiration and playful digs!

John runs JL Mindset Perf...

My guest today is Stella, of Keko Personnel Limited, who has had a huge amount of experience in the care sector in many different ways.

Stella talks about how, while living in Korea and working in an office, she was introduced to the care industry by one of her friends. She started working part time in a care job and full time in the office. Stella had always had au pairs looking after her children, but she started having problems w...

For today’s podcast, I don't have a guest, but wanted to share what I have been doing during the last few months, and talk about the exciting things to come in the future.

One of the things I talk about is the fact that all of us are quite likely to have a health scare at some point in our lives. We tend to go along in life, assuming everything’s okay, until it isn’t. My own health issue was dealt with after some s...