Find Tell Share is a new podcast co-hosted in Sheffield by Chris Sissons, Market Together and Jemma Rosenthal, Find Your Voice. It’s the storyteller’s podcast, featuring everything storytelling, especially if you use stories to promote your business or charity (and you should!). We plan to produce an edition once a month with a special guest.
This month’s guest is Roger Cheetham, Transformational Resilience. His story is about how walking his dog transformed his life forever. In addition we discuss sleeping in Sheffield’s Peace Gardens, character development in anime, how hard is it to tell a lockdown story and Brendon Burchard’s debt to Roald Dahl.
Roger Cheetham
This episode’s guest, Roger Cheetham is lucky to be alive. He faced a horrific life-threatening ordeal in June 2013 and in his own words has gone from victim, to survivor to “thriver”, as he now describes himself.
Roger used his own resilient journey of overcoming trauma to help develop the resilience “muscle” in individuals and organisations from classrooms to boardrooms. Moving forward Roger envisages he will be spending a lot of time in front of classrooms and assemblies, as he plays his part in the UK government’s “Catch Up” in Education initiative, as Roger believes with more resilient minds and hearts and the tools to achieve them, our next generation will achieve so much more, so much sooner. Find out all about Roger’s story and how he’s gone on to inspire thousands of others, worldwide, in this inaugural episode of our “Find, Tell Share” podcast.
Roger’s Links
EMAIL: roger@rogercheetham.com
WEBSITE: www.rogercheetham.com
ONLINE WORKSHOP: River of Resilience 26 July 2020
Roger mentions Brendon Burchard during the Podcast. https://brendon.com/
And Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Available in all good bookshops!
Chris Sissons
Co-host Chris Sissons has always loved stories and these days strides the streets of Sheffield on the lookout for new stories. He was a Community Development Worker for 30 years and consequently is sceptical about almost everything!
Chris has been self-employed for the last 7 years and enjoyed every minute. He started because he fancied the lifestyle and he’s still working out what he’s supposed to be doing! “I’m a marketing coach who uses stories. Stories open up business development in surprising ways. I believe the distinction between real work and paid work is really important. Many people are unhappy because they cannot find time for their real work – as we unravel the lockdown, we’re all challenged to step up and offer the world are own unique insights. They won’t always work but how else do we find the ones that do?”
Chris’ Links
Find out more about Market Together here: https://storiesinbusiness.org.uk/ My contact details are on this site.
I run Telling Stories: Making Business, online storytelling for business owners, on second and fourth Thursdays. It’s an opportunity to hear a business owner’s story and to offer feedback. We improve our own storytelling when we help others. Find the programme here: https://markettogether.co.uk/telling-stories-making-business/ . This page is regularly updated. Click on link in right hand column to register for your Zoom link.
Find me on Facebook: Market Together: Storytelling in Marketing – https://www.facebook.com/groups/342739372935507/
The blog post I mention, Roles: Crossing the Line – is here: https://storiesinbusiness.org.uk/roles-crossing-the-line/
Toradora! has a complicated history, it began as a Japanese light novel series by Yuyuko Takemiya. There have been several incarnations of the story over the years but presumably she is the person who first developed the characters. Anime allows for a lot of space to develop a well-plotted story – this one is 25 24 minute episodes! Find it on anime sites such as Crunchyroll or Funimation – you may have to put up with adverts or it’s on Amazon Prime and possibly other streaming services.
Jemma Rosenthal
Co-host Jemma Rosenthal is a Singer-Songwriter, Choreographer/Dancer, Poet, Speaker, Actor, Life Coach and Teacher. She specialises in Confidence and Creative Expression, as well as improving Self-Worth and Healing through Creativity. She gives private and group coaching in Performance Skills as well as Life coaching and Mindfullness.
In 2019 she created her own brand called Find Your Voice and has given workshops and performances in various venues in Sheffield including collaborations with Blend Kitchen, Connection Cafe and Sisters with One Voice (SWOV). She has also done extensive voice and dance workshops with children and Youth theatres around Sheffield, including Hype Dance Academy and her original song featured in Fusion Youth Theatres original production. Jemma’s aim is to improve awareness of how we can find our voices, be it through song, dance, writing, speaking or otherwise and release our authentic and unique expression to the world as well as sharing our own creative gifts in collaboration with others.
Jemma’s Links
find Jemma on Instagram Jemma Rosenthal https://www.instagram.com/jemmarosenthal/
and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jemma.rosenthal
I sang a tiny bit from Crazy Ex Girlfriend, which is on Netflix the song was, I’m The Villian in my own Story,
I also mentioned the film Peaceful Warrior
Then I also sang from Charlie and the chocolate factory, that was one of Roger’s films.
Jemma’s poem
The Peace Gardens
A Garden of Peace
Meet us Here.
Where I lay, gently resting my worn out head,
Come meet us here..
Rest your tired hearts, and lay in the gentle stillness and smell the soft cut grass, let it soothe your mind, as your heart beats to the rhythms of trust.
A Garden of Peace, found in the present, in sweet surrender, for it has no other time,
So come, lay your head next to mine,
In the Garden of Peace.
Jemma Rosenthal
Finally, contact Chris or Jemma if you have comments or questions. Questions may be featured on the podcast. If you appreciate it, please like and share. Thank you.