This episode contains discussion around addiction, cancer, grief and loss, and bullying.

🎧 Join us for an incredibly moving and inspirational conversation with businesswoman and mindset coach Nina Stephenson-Camps as she shares her profound journey through addiction recovery, devastating loss, and the resilience required to rebuild life in the worst possible circumstances.

This open, emotional and wide-ranging discussion explores how Nina transformed her life twice - first overcoming addiction whilst building a successful PR career, and then facing the ultimate test when her husband was diagnosed with late-stage cancer, leaving her to raise two young daughters alone.

Hosted by:

Michaela McCarthy (Founder of The Awareness Centre, The Awareness Centre Training School, and Creator and Host of A Bunch of Therapists Podcast. Senior BACP Accredited Psychotherapist and Influential Leader) and Dipti Solanki (Therapist, Coach & Consultant, Mental Health Trainer and Founder of Grief Matters 4 All CIC).

In this compelling episode, Nina openly shares:

• Recognising that addiction issues had taken control despite career success in PR

• The pivotal moment of seeking help from a life coach

• Making the brave decision to quit her job and travel the world for a year

• Getting clean and sober and the role therapy played in her recovery

• Pivoting from high-pressure corporate PR to freelance mindset coaching

• Her husband's devastating late-stage cancer diagnosis

• Exhausting all treatment options and facing the reality of terminal illness

• Supporting her husband through his final months at home

• The unimaginable challenge of single parenting two young daughters through grief

• Rebuilding life and finding hope after the worst possible loss

This essential conversation offers profound insights into resilience, hope, and the human capacity to survive and thrive after life's most devastating challenges.

🔍 Key Topics Discussed:

• Recognising and addressing addiction whilst maintaining professional success

• The role of life coaching in early recovery

• Using travel and new experiences as part of healing

• Transitioning from corporate life to meaningful work

• Supporting a partner through terminal illness

• Helping children understand and process bereavement

• Single parenting whilst processing your own grief

• Finding strength you didn't know you had

• Building a new life from the ground up

• The importance of professional support during crisis

Chapters: 

00:00 Intro 

1:25 Why Nina Went into Therapy

06:10 Being Promoted While Working in PR & Having a Breakdown

07:37 Nina's Solo Travelling & Stopping Drinking 

10:20 Nina's Dynamics with Female Bosses

13:00 Nina's Transition to Freelancing & Using Meditation Techniques

15:28 Not Being Concerned By Others Perception 

17:28 How Nina Works with Teams & Organisations

19:20 Developing Compassion in a Corporate Space

20:20 Nina's Husband's Diagnosis 

26:50 Nina and her Families Conversations About Death

29:50 Nina's Husbands Death

30:50 Nina's Experience of Grief & Navigating Other Peoples' Projections

33:00 Watching Her Daughters' Go Through The Grief of Losing Their Dad

38:55 Nina's New Capacity Levels for Work 

40:00 The First Year of Grief Isn't the Hardest

41:05 Nina's Advice for Listeners

42:40 Outro

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