Leading 4 Life "Stories"

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Much to my amazement, it's now been 3 years since I started Leading 4 Life "Stories" and I've loved to see the progression of the show over that time.
In this short episode, I reflect on the journey so far and look a little bit into the future.  I don't shy away from the challenges and I seek to enlist your help to ensure the future of the podcast is as good as it can be.
This is the shortest episode I've ever done but, at the same time, it's also one of the most important.  
I need your help to ensure the long term viability of the show and that means either financial support through Patreon (see the support the show link below), if you have the means to help, or non-financial support through social media comments and wider publicity of the episodes as they come out.  
If you are able to help in either of those ways, I would be enormously grateful to you.
Regardless of everything else, I just want to thank you for watching or listening to the show over the past 3 years - self-evidently, there wouldn't be a show without you and I am extremely grateful!
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If you want to unlock some of the mysteries of blockchain, learn more about AI and get a great perspective from a serious expert in financial services, then this episode is one for you!
Katharine Wooller has worked in financial services for more than 25 years and has an absolute wealth of experience.  Currently the Chief Strategist for Banking and Financial Services at Softcat, she speaks regularly on the media and in other fora, including on the TedX stage.  
Her main area of expertise is AI, blockchain and cyber, and it really shows during our conversation.  Katharine has the gift of being able to explain complex concepts in a simple way and that made this a hugely helpful discussion, not least from the point of view of educating me!!
Amongst her roles, Katharine is the Chair of the Association for AI in Financial Services and Banking and, given her presentational and speaking skills, it is really easy to see how this would be a role in which she would excel.
I thought this was a fascinating conversation and I really hope you enjoy it as well.  As ever, please do let me have your feedback when you have a moment.
You can find Katherine on LinkedIn at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharinewooller/
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Thank you for listening!  If you value the content I produce, please consider supporting the show financially by becoming a member at https://www.patreon.com/leading4life/ or clicking the "Support the Show" link above.

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Website: https://leading4life.co.uk/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Leading4Life

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Born in Hungary, Andrea Reger now lives in Ireland with her family and her life story is absolutely fascinating.  From working as cabin crew with Ryan Air, despite a fear of flying and claustrophobia (!!), she moved up through a series of increasingly senior corporate recruitment roles before suffering from severe burn out as a result of a combination of personal and professional events.
Andrea literally then reinvented herself to find her way out, and invested heavily in terms of time and money to retrain in the delivery a range of homeopathic treatments, which she now uses to help others to overcome similar challenges in their lives.  It is a fascinating story of resilience and drive in the face of what must of seemed overwhelming odds at times, and I have enormous respect for everything that Andrea has done and is continuing to do with her life.
It's a great episode and I really hope you enjoy it; please let me know what you think, and if you want to contact Andrea directly, all her details are below:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/regerand/
Website: https://www.andreareger.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archcacao/
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Thank you for listening!  If you value the content I produce, please consider supporting the show financially by becoming a member at https://www.patreon.com/leading4life/ or clicking the "Support the Show" link above.

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You can find more about me here:

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Website: https://leading4life.co.uk/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Leading4Life

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Jon Parker has had an incredible career, progressing through military flying, then airline flying, to now being the founder and CEO of his own company, Flyby Technology.  Massively experienced in the aviation world, Jon has a wealth of fascinating stories.  He served on the Royal Air Force front line, flying both the Buccaneer and the Tornado,  prior to moving over to the instructional world on the Hawk.  From there he made the jump to single seat and completed two tours of embarked aircraft carrier operations flying the Royal Navy's Sea Harrier.  

Electing to leave the RAF when his children were born, Jon then went into civil aviation, rising to be a senior training captain with Tui Airlines, but suffering a very signficant medical issue during that journey that definitely threatened the end of his flying career.

Recognising that he needed to have an alternative income stream, Jon then founded Flyby Technology, with an initial focus on drone pilot training.  He has subsequently diversified that business into drone production and the company is now at the cutting edge of future warfare with the work they are doing on highly capable large, armed drones, of the type that are certainly going to form part of future military capability for the UK's Armed Forces.

We cover all these areas of Jon's career in some depth and this was a really interesting and fun conversation.  I hope you enjoy it as well - please do let me know what you think.
You can find Jon here:
LinkedIn: 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-parker-fraes-241384103/
Websites:
https://www.flybytechnology.com/
https://www.flybydronetraining.co.uk/
The video highlighted in the YouTube version of the podcast can be seen here:
https://vimeo.com/833271662
An overview video of Flyby Technology can be seen here:
https://vimeo.com/1057183715
Support the show
Thank you for listening!  If you value the content I produce, please consider supporting the show financially by becoming a member at https://www.patreon.com/leading4life/ or clicking the "Support the Show" link above.

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You can find more about me here:

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Website: https://leading4life.co.uk/
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Marianne Withers has had an extremely varied career and her story is a fascinating one.  She has made a great success of turning contract consulting roles into full time positions and, subsequently, she has also been extremely successful at starting and running several businesses.  

Her support and work for Atombit and subsequent transition away from the company provides some good food for thought for leaders, as do many of the other interesting facets of her career story, including Marianne's unusual role as the "Entrepreneur in Residence" at Portsmouth University.

I really hope you enjoy the episode; please let me have your feedback as ever - I always read it and, where I can, I act on your suggestions too! 
Support the show
Thank you for listening!  If you value the content I produce, please consider supporting the show financially by becoming a member at https://www.patreon.com/leading4life/ or clicking the "Support the Show" link above.

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You can find more about me here:

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Website: https://leading4life.co.uk/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Leading4Life