Megan - a working mum in broadcast with Rheumatoid Arthritis

08/07/20 • 37 min

Megan has been working in the broadcast industry for the last 8 years. She now works for Sky, is a mum to a toddler and has lived with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) since childhood. Megan talks really openly about the impacts of RA on her emotional wellbeing, owning her own truths and the constant drive to improve using ‘exposure therapy’ (a rather fantastic phrase coined by Megan herself!)

Intro and outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

I’m on social if you’re interested...primarily on Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme

Intro and outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

I’m on social if you’re interested...primarily on Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme

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Christiana - an award winning black female director

Over the last 20 years Christiana has directed many hours of the highest rated drama series on British network television, including Holby City, Doctors, Eastenders, Hollyoaks and Emmerdale. More recently she has directed prime time TV hits such as Grantchester, Call the Midwife and Father Brown. Her short film, Some Sweet Oblivious Antidote, starring amongst others, Sir Lenny Henry, Wunmi Mosaku, Colin Salmon and Fatima Koroma, was long listed for Best Short at the 2018 BAFTA Awards. Christiana’s ways of ‘Keeping It Real’ are around wanting a career that epitomised joy, how she felt when she realised that her chosen career wasn’t free from ‘politics’ and her career hopes for the future. In this episode, we refer to the Black British Culture Special in The Guardian that Christiana featured in, which can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jun/25/christiana-ebohon-green-meets-wunmi-mosaku-its-exhausting-being-the-non-threatening-black-woman

Website: christianaebohon.com

Agent: https://www.independenttalent.com/

Intro and outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

I’m on social if you’re interested...primarily on Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme

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Uschi - my counsellor

Counselling can help clear your mind and set you on a course for positive change - if you’re ready. Uschi shares the top three ways that we as a society can live by the ethos of 'Keeping It Real’: 1) welcome the day, 2) practice gratitude, 3) to live with acceptance.

Uschi used to be my counsellor. She shared tools and frameworks that I use and remember continually and they have led me to living MY BEST LIFE! I want this episode to breakdown the taboo over counselling and give everyone the reassurance that having counselling is OK... actually it’s more than OK. I’d say it’s a ‘must’ for EVERYONE because we all have our own unique levels of 💩to deal with.

We also discuss one of the frameworks that Uschi talked me through during my counselling which helped me grasp a better understanding of relationships with all people: The Drama Triangle and flipping that so it becomes The Empower Dynamic. This link contains a visual graphic of both frameworks: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drama-Triangle-The-Empowerment-Dynamic.jpg

You find out more about Uschi here: http://uschirigbycounselling.co.uk/

Intro and outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

I’m on social if you’re interested...primarily on Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme

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