Julia Davis has been described as mad as a box of frogs (in a good way) by The Curious Creative Club. She definitely embraces everything that life can throw at you with a curiosity and lust for life that is infectious, but it's her sense of community and desire to share that is overwhelmingly apparent when you meet her.Julia started The Unity Yard when she started selling plants from the yard (attached to the large warehouse space that was once a fabric mill in Holmfirth) during covid when sh...
Back in November 2021 we made an episode of The Change Troubleshooter called, A Solar Farm at What Cost? The episode was about a campaign against the construction of a proposed solar farm in the eastern Algarve area of Portugal. In theory, a solar farm sounded like a great idea which was in line with our global necessity to switch to renewable energy solutions, and help the slowdown of catastrophic climate change. Sometimes though, what sounds like the right thing to do can actually have unin...
Christine Lee has made conscious decisions in her life that allow her to look back at them as different stages, chapters if you like, that are all quite different.In those conscious decisions, her health and wellbeing have been prominent drivers, along with decisions over money, particulary when to take her pension.Her lust to live life to the full has not been dampened or thrown off course by the early loss of her parents, cancer or continuing health challenges she now faces.In fact, i...
Welcome to a brand new season of the Change Troubleshooter! Amazingly, this is the 6th season of this podcast that started back in 2020. We have now had over 2 and a half thousand downloads from no less than 535 cities in 47 countries spanning 6 continents! Thanks to you all for remaining interested.Season 6 is called "Hang on, what happened and why?" This is a common moment that Nina has with people. She loves the "stop, and take me back" moment this creates and is curiously hungr...
Welcome to Season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter:Channel Your Inner Cheeky MonkeyThis is episode 4, Smarta Resilience. Today Nina talks about resilience with Rachel Robinson, founder of Smarta Group in Tavira, Portugal. Rachel tells her story of how she went from corporate retail in the UK to building a house, business and life in Portugal. It's a story of facing up to big issues, huge changes and her need to pull on her resilience on a daily basis. Together with Nina they discuss what ...
Welcome to Boxing Clever, the 3rd episode in the Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey season where we focus on strength.Today Nina talks to Ben Williams, a boxing coach, but Ben's not just any boxing coach, he has been Nina's boxing coach for the last 2 years. Today they talk about how strength in all its forms, personal, mental and physical are put to the test in a boxing environment.
Hola y bienvenido a la temporada 5 de The Change Troubleshooter: ¡Canaliza tu mono descarado interior! (Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey!)Este es el episodio 2, Casa Colibri.Colibri representa la transformación que ha atravesado Isabel Alebrt mientras canalizaba su mono descarado interior y visualizaba la vida futura que quería para ella y su familia. Chris e Isabel hablan sobre esta transformación de Casa Colibri, la casa de 300 años de antigüedad en medio del pueblo de Cast...
Hello and welcome to season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter - Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey!This is episode 2, Casa Colibri.Colibri is spanish for hummingbird, and represents the transformation that Isabel Albert has been through as she channeled her inner cheeky monkey and visualised the future life she wanted for herself and her family. Nina and Isabel discuss this transformation from Casa Colibri, the 300 year old house in the middle of the village of Castaño del Robledo that Isabel...
Welcome to Season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter. This season we hope to inspire you to Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey! A state of fun, playfulness and happiness that we can sometimes forget needs to remain a core part of our lives.In this 1st episode, Ninety Years of Lifting people Up, Nina talks to the amazing Shirley Hughes about her early life as a child performer and her wonderful outlook on life that continues into her 91st year. *This version contans clips of Shirley's friends ...
Welcome to Season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter. This season we hope to inspire you to Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey! A state of fun, playfulness and happiness that we can sometimes forget needs to remain a core part of our lives.In this 1st episode, Ninety Years of Lifting people Up, Nina talks to the amazing Shirley Hughes about her early life as a child performer and her wonderful outlook on life that continues into her 91st year.
Hello and welcome to episode 9 of the Changing Mindsets season of The Change Troubleshooter, this episode is called Changing Mindsets on Sustainable Leadership.Today Nina talks to Brad Peirce, Chief Transformation Officer at Sustainability Mindshift and Principal and Founder of SEED Strategies. Brad has over 25 years experience in helping organisations create more sustainable and regenerative futures.
The Change Troubleshooter Season 4 Changing MindsetsEpisode 8Hello and welcome to episode 8 of the Changing Mindsets season of The Change Troubleshooter, this episode is called Changing Mindsets on Being a Changemaker. Today Nina speaks to Susana Paiva, a mechanical engineer, mother, wife, author of several internationally published articles on climate change, an artist, poet and of course, a changemaker. Susana lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. During Covid Susana didn't sit around waiti...
The Change Troubleshooter Season 4 Changing MindsetsEpisode 7Hello and welcome to episode 7 of the Changing Mindsets season of the Change Troubleshooter. this episode is called Changing mindsets on it's never too late.Today Nina is joined by Evelyn Kortum, also known, artistically as E Wasserhase. Evelyn recently went through a massive life change - Last year, after 30 years of living and working in Geneva, switzerland, and a successful career at the World Health Organization, she and her hus...
Welcome to season 4 of The Change Troubleshooter. This is episode 6, Can You Change a Mindset?Today Nina is joined once again by Patrick Hillberg, a college professor in Oakland, Michigan. If you're a regular listener, you may remember that Patrick was Nina's guest in the last episode and the conversation was so thought provoking that they felt it should be continued. However, today, in a role reversal, it is Patrick putting the difficult questions to Nina!
Welcome to season 4 of The Change Troubleshooter, This is episode 5, Changing mindsets on an Industrial Model.In todays fascinating conversation Nina is joined by Professor Patrick Hillberg, a college professor in Oakland, Michigan. Patrick has decades of industry experience in designing, developing and leading teams in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Digital Manufacturing, Process Planning, Robotics and Machine Vision applications in Aerospace, Shipbuilding, Automotive, Construction, Pac...
Welcome to season 4 of the Change Troubleshooter, this is episode 4, Changing mindsets on leadership, patience, persistence and courage.Today Nina talks to Susanna Mäentausta, a seasoned professional change leader in the chemicals industry. They discuss some of the many pitfalls that can be encountered when trying to deliver change in large organisations and how a little patience, persistence and courage from business leaders can make a huge difference to delivering change.
Welcome to Season 4 of The Change Troubleshooter.This is episode 3, Changing Mindets on Being Data Driven. Today Nina is joined by Jos Voskuil, a PLM coach, blogger, lecturer and a passionate advocate for a digital and sustainable future. His blog is called The Virtual Dutchman After hearing episode one in this season, Changing Mindsets on Data, Jos was moved enough to contact Nina to have his say on the issue of data, so this is really a response to Oleg Shilovitsky who featured in...
Welcome to Season 4 of the Change Troubleshooter. Changing Mindsets. This is episode 2, Changing Mindsets on our attitude to learning. In this episode, we find Nina in conversation with another Neena in another country - Neena Arakal Mathew is a Facilitator of Consciousness in Living and Learning, based in New Delhi, India. She is the founder of Mind and Me, a revolutionary learning centre where the teaching methodology is very different from tradtional methods.
Hello and welcome to Season 4 of The Change Troubleshoter - This season is called Changing Mindsets. The idea here is that Nina and her guest can change people's mindsets on a given subject, the challenge is to do this in just 15 minutes to 20 minutes!In episode one, Changing Mindsets on Data, Nina is joined by Oleg Shilovitsky, founder of Open Bom, a SAAS network based global collaborative platform, and they talk about data and how we should think about it differently, how it is collect...
Welcome to season 3 of the change troubleshooterThis is episode 5, Are we learning for the 22nd Century?David Hollands has been an entrepreneur since he was a schoolboy. He has had a whole host of businesses. Around 20 years ago he observed that people were losing their connection with community based living and nature. He built a whole village in Bulgaria and hopes that will lead to a new form of community. He challenges that the teachings of universities are becoming irrelevant and be...