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How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

Sarah Wright

16 episodes

2 months ago

Send us a text What if storytelling could help you navigate the hardest conversations of your life? In this episode, we're joined by Chris Adriaanse, author of To The Heart of Difficult Conversations - a beautifully poignant anthology co-created with Berwick Literary Festival, Create Berwick, and students at Berwick Academy in Northumberland. Inspired by an ancient border-side plaque commemorating uneasy meetings between English and Scottish monarchs, this remarkable collection blends local h...

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Send us a text What if storytelling could help you navigate the hardest conversations of your life? In this episode, we're joined by Chris Adriaanse, author of To The Heart of Difficult Conversations - a beautifully poignant anthology co-created with Berwick Literary Festival, Create Berwick, and students at Berwick Academy in Northumberland. Inspired by an ancient border-side plaque commemorating uneasy meetings between English and Scottish monarchs, this remarkable collection blends local h...

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Episodes (16/16)

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

How to Have Difficult Conversations: Why We Avoid Them and How to Stop with Storyteller Chris Adriaanse

Send us a text What if storytelling could help you navigate the hardest conversations of your life? In this episode, we're joined by Chris Adriaanse, author of To The Heart of Difficult Conversations - a beautifully poignant anthology co-created with Berwick Literary Festival, Create Berwick, and students at Berwick Academy in Northumberland. Inspired by an ancient border-side plaque commemorating uneasy meetings between English and Scottish monarchs, this remarkable collection blends local h...

3 months ago

50 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

How to Talk to Someone Who Doesn't Look Like You

Send us a text How do you start a conversation with someone from a different race, culture, or background without saying the wrong thing? It's a question that paralyses many of us in our increasingly diverse workplaces, schools, and communities. We're so afraid of offending that we often avoid meaningful connections entirely. In this episode, we're joined by Claudia McKenzie, General Manager of Park's Edge Bar and Kitchen in South London and former PR executive, who brings both personal exper...

4 months ago

58 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

"Sorry for Your Loss": A Grief Coach's Guide to the Conversations That Support Someone Who Is Grieving

Send us a text Death is the one certainty we all share, yet most of us are terrible at talking about it. Whether it's supporting a grieving friend, having end-of-life conversations with family, or processing our own mortality, we stumble through these moments with stock phrases and uncomfortable silences. In this episode, we're joined by Kate Nolan-Burgess, a grief and identity coach who helps people navigate the many forms grief can take - from bereavement to major life transitions. Kate bri...

4 months ago

52 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

What Stand-Up Comedians Can Teach Us About Difficult Conversations

Send us a text Ever wished you could think faster in meetings, recover gracefully after a misstep, or connect more confidently in tough conversations? Turns out, stand-up comedy might be your secret weapon. In this episode, we’re joined by Chris Head – comedy director, author, and speaking coach – to explore what stand-up comedians know about human connection, timing, and bouncing back from awkwardness that the rest of us can use in real life. We dive into powerful tools from the world ...

5 months ago

1 hour 7 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

Conversations That Get You Hired — with Midlife Career Change Coach Josh Peck

Send us a text What do you do when the work that once lit you up now leaves you cold? If you're in midlife or a career cul-de-sac and wondering what next, this episode is for you. Midlife Career Change Coach, Josh Peck, joins us to unpack the real conversations that help people move from stuck to clear, and from disempowered to energised. His methods help bring you and your career back into alignment. In this illuminating conversation, we talk about fear, identity, money, confidence, and how ...

5 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

How to Negotiate Like a Hostage Negotiator - with Scott Walker.

Send us a text What do negotiating with kidnappers and talking to your teenager have in common? Everything! In this episode, we sit down with Scott Walker, one of the world’s most experienced kidnap-for-ransom and crisis negotiators, to explore what high-stakes hostage negotiation can teach us about everyday conversations. With over 300 successful cases under his belt, Scott now trains leaders at Apple, Amazon, the UN, and beyond. Whether you're negotiating a deal, a deadline, or dinner, Scot...

6 months ago

1 hour

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

What to Say When You're Wrong

Send us a text Turn Missteps into Meaningful Conversations with Dr. Victoria Stakelum We all hate being wrong. It feels uncomfortable, sometimes even threatening. But what if being wrong wasn’t something to fear but an opportunity for connection, learning, and deeper conversations? In this episode, Dr. Victoria Stakelum, a psychologist and NLP Master Coach, joins us again to unpack the complexity of wrongness - why it triggers such strong emotions, how societal norms shape our ideas of right ...

6 months ago

1 hour

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

Mind Reading For Beginners

Send us a text How to Read the Room and Communicate Better at Work with Dr. Victoria Stakelum Ever wish you could read minds in meetings or knew what someone else was thinking? While telepathy might be out of reach, understanding emotions, body language, and unspoken cues is a skill you can develop - and it can completely transform your workplace interactions. In this episode, Dr. Victoria Stakelum, a psychologist and subconscious mind specialist, reveals the science of mind reading - or rath...

6 months ago

59 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

The Secret Power of Listening

How Listening Can Transform Your Conversations with Jessica Ball We like to think we’re good listeners—but are we really? Too often, we drift in and out of conversations, half-hearing what’s being said while planning what to say next. So how do we shift from passive hearing to deep, intentional listening - the kind that transforms relationships, builds trust, and even changes lives? In this episode, we’re joined again by Jessica Ball, a meetings facilitator who knows that listening is more th...

7 months ago

54 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

Breaking Free From Groupthink

How to Speak Up and Be Heard in Any Group with Dr. Victoria Stakelum Ever felt silenced in a meeting, outnumbered in a discussion, or too intimidated to challenge the status quo? You’re not alone. Groupthink is a deeply ingrained survival instinct - we’re wired to stick with the herd, even when we disagree. But what if staying silent means the wrong decision gets made? In this episode, Dr. Victoria Stakelum, a psychologist and NLP Master Coach, helps us understand why speaking up feels so har...

7 months ago

57 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

Mastering the Meeting Minefield

How to Have Better Group Conversations with Jessica Ball We’ve all been there—the meeting that starts with good intentions but quickly spirals into chaos. Packed agendas, dominant voices, awkward silences, and a creeping sense that nothing is actually getting done. So how do we fix it? In this episode, we’re joined by Jessica Ball, an expert meetings facilitator who has worked with organizations like the UN and Cambridge University to design meetings that are inclusive, effective, and - dare ...

8 months ago

1 hour 4 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

Saying No Without Burning Bridges

How to Say No at Work (and Keep Your Job!) with Dr. Victoria Stakelum Saying no at work can feel impossible - especially when you want to maintain good relationships and a strong professional reputation. But constantly saying yes can lead to burnout, poor performance, and a lack of recognition for your value. So how do you set boundaries without damaging your career? In this episode, we speak with Dr. Victoria Stakelum, also known as The Success Smith, a leading personal and professiona...

8 months ago

53 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

The Art of Conversation with Averil Leimon

Averil Leimon is a psychologist who works with companies to improve leadership and communication. She uses the work of philosopher Theodore Zeldin on conversations to curate dinner conversations, giving guests a menu of topics that pull them out of small talk and 'work speak' and start having meaningful and memorable connections. We explore with Averil just how life-changing conversations can be. Summary In this episode, Mai, Sarah, and guest psychotherapist, Averil Leimon, discus...

9 months ago

59 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

Do We Need To Talk About This?

Have we forgotten how to talk to each other? We communicate non-stop by email, texts, voice notes, voicemails, social media, and now AI, but when do we talk? I mean, really talk. We default to digital, the more we type the less we speak. But the more we avoid conversation the more difficult talking face to face becomes. We’ve all been there, that moment when you stumble around for what to say, or explode and say something you didn’...

9 months ago

33 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

Getting through Christmas!

It's a tricky time of year for many people thrown together with family, friends, neighbours and co-workers. Some of them welcome, some of them not. So how do we navigate this time of year when there is so much pressure on us. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, this applies equally to any time of celebration when everyone is expected to join in. Psychologist Linda Blair joins us, a regular contributor o...

10 months ago

53 minutes

How to Have a Bloody Good Conversation

Have we forgotten how to talk to each other? We communicate non-stop by email, texts, voice notes, voicemails, social media, and now AI, but when do we talk? I mean, really talk. We default to digital, the more we type the less we speak. But the more we avoid conversation the more difficult talking face to face becomes. We’ve all been there, that moment when you stumble around for what to say, or explode and say something yo...

11 months ago

2 minutes