Two Births But No Living Babies

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enMarch 22, 2022

Motherhood & Magpies

In this honest and open account of life with post natal depression, Andrea explains how having her daughter changed her life.

Listen to how she loved her baby unconditionally but developed an irrational fear of dying herself.

Her lived experience led her to leave her career and retrain - she now helps other Mums in the first months after birth.

You can connect with Andrea here:

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Stacey, The Modern Storyteller, is a storytelling expert and host of The Life Chapters Podcast and The P.S. Club Storytelling Membership.

Passionate that every life story deserves to be heard, she teaches female entrepreneurs in the first few years of business where to find their life stories and how to craft them powerfully, alongside practical and technical support.

Connect with Stacey:

I have some coaching spaces available now.

If you'd like to chat more about working with me, please email stacey@themodernstoryteller.co.uk or message me via Instagram or Facebook (links above)

enMarch 15, 2022

post natal depression

baby blues

Not JUST a Mum!

High flying and driven career woman to a mum of 2 - but that wasn't the end of the story!

Join me this week as Melany shares how she found a job - a passion - that fitted around her children and made her more than JUST a Mum!

She shares how each one of us has choices in life and we can choose to make a change - if we are brave enough to do so!

The theme tune to this week's episode is Firework by Katy Perry - list to the end to find out why!

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Stacey, The Modern Storyteller, is a storytelling expert and host of The Life Chapters Podcast and The P.S. Club Storytelling Membership.

Connect with Stacey:

I have some coaching spaces available now.

If you'd like to chat more about working with me, please email stacey@themodernstoryteller.co.uk or message me via Instagram or Facebook (links above)

enMarch 08, 2022

How to be vulnerable without spilling blood all over the internet!

Vulnerability is hugely healing - both to you and to others.

BUT you have to set your boundaries and stick to them!

Sharing personal stories WILL feel a little vulnerable but I hope that by talking about my radical hysterectomy you can see how sharing can also be so very therapeutic too.

Your story is like a lamp to other people's feet.

You are only ever a few steps ahead of somebody.

And by sharing what you have already been through - maybe they are in the middle of it and they need to know that actually there is something further forward.

There is a way through.

There is an answer.

It is not going to stay like this forever.

That is the power of sharing your personal life stories.

I hang my hat on it every day of the week.

I am so passionate that when you open up you get to heal and other people have to opportunity to heal as well.

That is why I do what I do.

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Stacey, The Modern Storyteller, is a storytelling expert and host of The Life Chapters Podcast and The P.S. Club Storytelling Membership.

Connect with Stacey:

I have some coaching spaces available now.

If you'd like to chat more about working with me, please email stacey@themodernstoryteller.co.uk or message me via Instagram or Facebook (links above)

enMarch 01, 2022

Mental Health = Physical Health

Andrea had a child young but she was determined to finish her qualifications. She worked hard and worked her way from being an after school facilitator to a teacher.

But following a breakdown, she was diagnosed with a mental health illness and in this episode, she talks about the impact it had on her personally, her career and her family.

Due to the stigma in her community around mental health, she kept everything to herself.

Then she found weightlifting.

Andrea talks about the importance of asking "how are you?" and waiting for the response.

Talking about mental health with the same ease we speak about physical health is vital! In order to help others smash through the barriers, Andrea has founded F.O.C.U.S.

You can connect with Andrea here:

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Stacey, The Modern Storyteller, is a storytelling expert and host of The Life Chapters Podcast and The P.S. Club Storytelling Membership.

Connect with Stacey:

I have some coaching spaces available now.

If you'd like to chat more about working with me, please email stacey@themodernstoryteller.co.uk or message me via Instagram or Facebook (links above)

enFebruary 22, 2022

My Life Began at 40

A new Mum at 40.

Juggling a full-time job and a young son.

Massive separation anxiety that resulted in tears in the office.

In this week's episode, Nicola shares how she went from just treading water through life to being utterly enthralled in her own story and those of others.

The story starts with her son and a chance encounter in the swimming pool changing rooms.

Nicola J Rowley has more than 25 years’ experience in the media, having trained as a journalist and worked nationally and internationally before embarking on a multi-award-winning career in Communications.

During this time, she worked both in agency and in-house on some of the UK’s most successful PR stunts, campaigns and launches for well-known brands.

In 2019 she launched NJRPR, a Communications Agency helping female entrepreneurs and brands in the entertainment and leisure industries get noticed through strategic PR storytelling.

She was recently Highly Commended in the 2021 national PRCA Awards and was the Silver Award winner in the 2021 CIPR Pride Awards.

Her book, The Power of PR – Effectively Grow and Scale Your Business Through Strategic Storytelling has just been published and became a number one Amazon best-seller in nine categories.

Connect with Nicola on Instagram

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Stacey, The Modern Storyteller, is a storytelling expert and host of The Life Chapters Podcast and The P.S. Club Storytelling Membership.

Connect with Stacey:

I have some coaching spaces available now.

If you'd like to chat more about working with me, please email stacey@themodernstoryteller.co.uk or message me via Instagram or Facebook (links above)

enFebruary 15, 2022

My Second Chance at Love

Life dealt Mary a cruel blow when her husband, her high school sweetheart and beloved father to her 2 boys, died of a sudden heart attack.

She lost per person and also her home.

With many similarities to my own story, I knew that I wanted Mary to join me as a guest and share how she navigated this heartbreaking time in her life.

Leaning on her Mom, her church and a bereaved adults group - she took the baby steps into living and loving again.

You can connect with Mary on Instagram and Facebook.

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Stacey, The Modern Storyteller, is a storytelling expert and host of The Life Chapters Podcast and The P.S. Club Storytelling Membership.

Connect with Stacey:

I have some coaching spaces available now.

If you'd like to chat more about working with me, please email stacey@themodernstoryteller.co.uk or message me via Instagram or Facebook (links above)

enFebruary 08, 2022

high school sweetheart

Boring? Never in a month of Sundays

Everyone has a story to tell - YES - even YOU!

Every week I get told by someone ...

"Oh Stacey, I am just normal and lead a normal life"

"Nothing excited has ever happened to me"

"I'm a real plain Jane and don't have anything to talk about"

I'm here to bust through this MYTH!

Your life story is unique and special and 100% deserves to be shared!

Listen in this week as I share a very boring and normal part of my life.......that has had a huge impact on how I have been able to show up in the world.

I have some coaching spaces available now.

If you'd like to chat more about working with me, please email stacey@themodernstoryteller.co.uk or message me via Instagram or Facebook (links below)

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Stacey, The Modern Storyteller, is a storytelling expert and host of The Life Chapters Podcast and The P.S. Club Storytelling Membership.

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enFebruary 01, 2022

The Passion is in Connections

My guest this week is Hannah Lloyd, Business Development Manager for Scottish Land & Estates.

Hannah grew up wanting to be a primary teacher but after running a children's home and school in South Africa she realised her true passion was not working with children.

After getting a degree in Business Management, Hannah applied for many graduate jobs but just did not seem to be successful in any of the applications.

A job came up at GLM, and she joined as a quiet graduate. It took time for her to work out how her role fit with others in the team. However, the pivotal changing point for Hannah was working with a business coach.

The coach helped build Hannah's confidence, working with her to show to be present and change the story she was telling herself.

It was by changing the story she told herself, that took her from sitting at her desk in Edinburgh to being the face of and running the Inverness Office for GLM.

In 2021 Hannah was named as the Association of Scottish Business Women 'One to Watch' and was a finalist in the Women's Business Club 'Women in Property & Construction' Award – nominations which both reflected a passion for encouraging others, supporting and connecting to facilitate businesses to thrive across Scotland.

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enJanuary 25, 2022

All I ever wanted was to be a Mummy

Tissues needed.

Georgie opens up in this open, honest and raw interview about being 1 in 4. Listen to this no holds barred interview as she talks about the pain and heartbreak of losing 3 longed for babies.

The subject of miscarriage is still taboo, but yet talking about it can be healing and offer hope to others.

But Georgie started talking about it on Instagram, opening up about what she went through and people started messaging her as they were in the same situation. Talking about it out loud was therapy.

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Tommys

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