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all inclusive solutionsEmpowering an Inclusive Society with Nasser SiabiOur guest today is Dr Nasser Siabi OBE of Microlink PC.Nasser talks about his early years, growing up in Iran and how his eyesight impacted on his learning, and how he lacked confidence because of this. However, when he came to England and began to study at college, he quickly grew in his confidence when he realised that it was his sight and not a lack of intelligence that had held him back.Importantly for him, his father who didn’t go to school yet had an entrepreneurial mindset encouraged his children to work ha...2025-06-2556 min
all inclusive solutionsBrain Health Solutions with Lindsey ByrneOur guest today is Lindsey Byrne who is a cognitive health coach. Her career path has been varied and during the pandemic her business fell apart and she had no income. Already in a stressful situation, she was also trying to help her parents move into a retirement village. Lindsey had noticed her mum’s memory had started declining a few years earlier, and after the move, Lindsay met someone who told her he had reversed his symptoms of Alzheimer’s through natural processes. Lindsey goes on to explain this process. After spending time talking to him, she l...2025-06-0437 min
all inclusive solutionsAge Inclusive Solutions with Debbie MarshallOur guest today is Debbie Marshall. Debbie is Managing Director of the Silver Marketing Association and also Chair of Trustees of Dementia Adventure.Debbie tells us about her early life and her incredibly successful, varied and interesting career. This has included studying French, generating advertising for Coronation Street, working her way up from a ski rep to CEO of Crystal Travel, establishing an airline company, creating Silver Travel Advisors and now leading Silver Marketing Association. We discuss the importance for every generation to follow their passions. Debbie talks about creating Silver Travel Advisors at the a...2025-04-1735 min
all inclusive solutionsCharitable Fundraising Solutions with Mike WilsonToday’s guest is Mike Wilson, organizer of March of the Day ll in support of the Darby Rimmer MND Foundation an event that starts on the 21st of March.Mike tells us how he became a charity event organiser, after years working in financial services. He describes the company he runs with his brother-in-law, Redwood Events Woody and highlights the transferrable skills which help him raise charitableHe explains how his passion for fundraising events started with his “Mad Auntie Ruth”, and how after her death he was conscripted to be the president of the br...2025-03-1235 min
all inclusive solutionsMaxine Linnell - Dementia SolutionsOur podcast guest today is Maxine Linnell. Maxine first tells us about her fascinating career, including working as psychotherapist for 30 years, alongside many other interesting teaching and facilitating positions. She trained in humanistic and Buddhist psychotherapy, and specialised in working with trauma. In her 60s she fulfilled her childhood dream: her first book was published.Maxine talks about her close friend Kate, who died with Alzheimer’s during lockdown. When she recognised some changes in her own mind, she was determined to get a diagnosis quickly. She describes what happened to prompt this decision. Luckily, she got an...2025-02-1334 min
all inclusive solutionsMichael Verde - Communication SolutionsOur guest today is Michael Verde, from Texas, who from a very early age made the decision that he didn’t want to end up in a small universe and decided reading 100 pages a day would broaden his horizons. Michael is now a writer, and founded Memory Bridge in 2003 after hearing someone on a documentary talk about people with dementia in a disparaging way and meeting someone from the Smithsonian Centre for Folk Life and Cultural Heritage. Memory Bridge exists to end the emotional isolation of people with dementia. They bridge people with and without demen...2025-01-1535 min
all inclusive solutionsSteve Brine - Social Policy and InclusionToday’s guest is Steve Brine, @BrineHealth, former Health Minister and Chair of the Health Select Committee, and co-host of the podcast, Prevention is the New Cure, @PreventionPodc.Steve tells us about his journey into politics. His interest in the environment was sparked as a youngster, and he thought that politics might be the place to go if he wanted to change the world. On his arrival at the House of Commons when asked what he wanted to do, he said he was interested in health. When Theresa May became Prime Minister, he became Public Health Minister.2024-12-1840 min
all inclusive solutionsKeith Wilson - Inclusive Solutions for Parkinson's diseaseKeith Wilson lives near Darlington, and before he retired, he worked in education. His last job was director of higher education at a local college. Five years ago, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.Keith shares that as an active person, he began to notice problems with his movement. Initially he thought it might be a brain tumour or multiple sclerosis, and his diagnosis of Parkinson’s was a slight relief.His diagnosis was confirmed after doing lots of different tests, one of which was a DaTscan. A DaTscan is a brain scan which help...2024-12-0425 min
all inclusive solutionsNicole Smith - Care Home SolutionsOur podcast guest today is Nicole Smith from Australia. She is a nurse and a gerontologist who is extremely passionate about giving people who have dementia their best lives.When you hear the story of Nicole’s upbringing, you will understand why she loves being with older people and why she fights for human rights for our elders. After becoming a registered nurse, she was recruited by a nursing home and quickly given responsibility for a large dementia unit others didn’t want to manage. After many successful years working in this area, she decided there...2024-11-2045 min
all inclusive solutionsCharles Lowe: Digital Inclusion for AllOur guest today is Charles Lowe who is the chief executive of Digital Health and Care Alliance (DACA), he is an expert in telehealth and telecare.Throughout his career he has worked on technologies to support others. He shares with us how he wanted to open people’s eyes to recognise what technology can do to help people and how everybody can become digitally literate.Growing up, Charles did voluntary work with his mother and saw firsthand the challenges faced by a broad range of people, particularly as they got older. From a you...2024-11-0636 min
all inclusive solutionsLouise Thompson - Supporting Your ParentsToday’s guest on our podcast is Louise Thompson, who has set up the app Myfolks.She tells us about growing up in a particularly poor area in the west end of Newcastle, in the North East of England. Louise’s first job was at the Freeman Hospital where she was involved in some cardiovascular research that was published in a medical journal. Through this work she managed to gain admission to Northumbria University, where she graduated with a degree in Law.After gaining an MSc, while working in a senior corporate leadership position in Hamps...2024-10-2334 min
all inclusive solutionsJules Robinson - All Inclusive SafetyToday’s guest is Jules Robinson from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents – ROSPA. Jules is a guest who has an interest and expertise in falls and fall prevention.Previously having worked in social housing, Jules’ background is in health and safety, and now she is the falls engagement lead at ROSPA. They campaign for better design elements with Safer by Design and Safer Stairs. They also want to educate both the public and professionals, which they are doing through their Fall Fighters campaign.Jules talks about how falls are a huge problem for ev...2024-10-0927 min
all inclusive solutionsAdriane Berg - Age Inclusive TravelOur podcast guest today is herself a podcaster – Adriane Berg. Adriane has a fascinating background and has spent much of her life in front of a camera, microphone or in a courtroom as a lawyer; radio presenter, and a tv presenter. She was a pioneer of elder law, worked on US syndicated radio and hosted one of the first money programmes on CNN. Less than a year ago she and her husband of 52 years set up The Ageless Traveler, which is born out of Adriane’s passion for travel and wanting to make lifelong travel easier...2024-09-1833 min
all inclusive solutionsLouise Hunt Skelley PLY - Inclusive SportsOur guest today is Louise Hunt Skelley PLY, a Paralympic wheelchair tennis athlete, who now has developed an exciting portfolio career. She is involved in a range of many different things, including commentary, tournament directing, consultancy, working with young people, and public speaking – all with a focus on disability, inclusion and sport.Recently she has launched a new company, Enable Rise with another friend, Samantha Bullock, also a wheelchair tennis player. Louise talks about how their passion around inclusion in various areas made them realise they could join forces and work towards making everywhere inclusive. Hav...2024-09-0429 min
all inclusive solutionsGavin Neate - An Inclusive WelcoMeToday’s guest, Gavin Neate, joined Guide Dogs for the blind, where he served as a mobility instructor for 18 years. Previously, he had spent 10 years as a military policeman. During his time working as a mobility instructor, where he worked on people’s independent mobility, he became very involved in the entire process of helping clients find ways to interact with society. He recognised the many day to day challenges facing people and he wanted to help find solutions to those issues.We discuss how much of the problem solving should be left to the probl...2024-08-2130 min
all inclusive solutionsAnthony Blackburn - Inclusive GolfOur guest today, Anthony Blackburn has a passion for golf – but not just for playing the game… he has set up Golf in Society.Starting his business six years ago, presently he has 23 venues where golf clubs are put at the heart of local communities. What that means is, they are open for people facing challenges later in life, for many different reasons and they are given a great day out at a local golf club. There are two and a half thousand golf clubs in the UK – imagine if those spaces could be used as national venues...2024-08-0732 min
all inclusive solutionsJane Cooper - Inclusivity for AutismOur guest on today’s podcast is Jane Cooper, the founder and managing director of Access and Inclusion UK. They help businesses and destinations to understand the type of challenges that people with disabilities or accessibility requirements might have, and importantly, give them solutions to overcome them, through training, or whatever solution is required – thus providing accessibility for all.Jane’s passion for her company is based on her own personal experience – of having her eldest child, Megan, born with an extremely rare chromosomal condition, and then also being diagnosed as autistic. After coming to terms with her daug...2024-07-1724 min
all inclusive solutionsDavid and Felicity Brown - Inclusive HolidaysOur guests today are Felicity and David Brown, who own Hoe Grange Holidays in the Peak District and they talk to us about how over the last 17 years they have built an award winning all-inclusive holiday business from scratch on the farm that has been in David’s family since the 1930s.David talks about how his father, in the 70s, had considered having log cabins on his farm to have holiday guests, but the council weren’t interested. Having taken on the farm and needing to diversify, David and Felicity revisited the idea of log cabins, and...2024-07-0336 min
all inclusive solutionsBillal Jamil - Having a VoiceToday’s guest is Billal Jamil, the MD and one of the founders at Public Speaking Academy, who talks to us about the importance of being heard in the context of inclusivity.The main mission for the Public Speaking Academy is to help people from all backgrounds to find their voice, ready to use it in the many spaces where they might have to access a confident, animated self.Billal tells about how he started to find his own voice, after one particular incident when he was promoted to a line manager of 80 people and was pu...2024-06-1937 min
all inclusive solutionsZak Marks - Inclusivity with AllergiesToday’s guest is Zak Marks, co-founder of Kitt Medical. He has lived with a severe allergy to nuts for as long as he can remember. He decided to tackle a problem closest to his heart, which is – why isn’t there an equivalent to defibrillators for allergies? Wherever you go, there is usually access to a defibrillator, but there is no access to epi pens.Zak shares the story of how he found out he was allergic to nuts when he was about 5 years old, and how it’s developed since then. And we also talk about how peop...2024-06-0535 min
all inclusive solutionsEmily Yates - All Inclusive TourismOur guest on today’s podcast is Emily Yates who works for Mima, an inclusive creative design agency. She is a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy and in her job, she heads up the accessibility and inclusive design team for the company.We talk to Emily about the changes that design can make to people’s lives, and how passionate she is about what she’s doing.Her work focuses on physical, social and digital accessibility, and inclusive design for disabled people and those with other protected characteristics. This means that yes, inclusivity is important, but tr...2024-05-1526 min
all inclusive solutionsRory Cellan-Jones - Technology for InclusionThe first guest on our podcast is Rory Cellan-Jones. Rory is a British journalist and former BBC News technology correspondent. He worked for the BBC for 40 years, and left in August 2021. He is also an author of many books, and since leaving the BBC has a newsletter which is very popular, and also runs a podcast called Movers and Shakers, which is about life with Parkinson’s.During our conversation we talk to Rory about travel, both when growing up and then as an adult, and now in his late 60s. Not only has he enjoyed travel, but...2024-05-0132 min
all inclusive solutionsIntroducing Dr Carol Sargent and Dr Tom AdlerCarol's passion is enabling and empowering the dementia community to find freedom and joy to live their best lives. Carol’s first career was as a PhD scientist, working in cardiovascular and respiratory diseases in the pharmaceutical industry in the USA and UK. This culminated in a scientific lead role for a novel drug, tested in clinical studies costing> $700 million. When her Mum and Mother-in-law were diagnosed with dementia she founded a dementia holiday organisation, MindforYou. They proved anybody living at home with dementia can holiday, and presented robust evidence of the health and well-being benefits for both the pers...2024-04-2315 min