Health Professionals Outside the Box Podcast
A podcast featuring interviews with inspiring Healthcare Professionals from various backgrounds who have pursued alternative careers, alternative sources of income and entrepreneurship. They share their experiences, motivations and valuable lessons learnt. We learn how we can use our diverse range of skills to carve out our own path to a life of fulfilment and financial freedom.
Episodes
25 episodes
Episode 15 - Final Episode - Mental Health Practitioner to Managing Director of a home healthcare business.
Jefter Chuma is Managing Director of ICRIT healthcare, an organisation which provides care services to include domiciliary care, live in care and respite care.We discussed;1. How ICRIT came about and the services offered.2. How ...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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43:09
Episode 14 - Nurse, Midwife and Owner of a children's clothing brand.
Bonani Mapundu is a Nurse and Midwife by background and owns a clothing brand called Yanafella. She also undertakes consultancy work for small to medium sized organisations and facilitates workshops and speaking engagements to help aspiring cre...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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42:44
Episode 13 - Physiotherapist to Public Health and Epidemiologist
Mitchel Chatukuta is Physiotherapist by background, currently working as an Epidemiologist, Occasional Editor and Board Member at Disability and Society (Journal).We discussed;1. What led him to purse Public Healt...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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30:15
Episode 12 - Psychologist to Founder of a digital mental health company
Silja Litvin, is a Psychologist, CEO and founder of a digital mental health company called PsycApps. Her company uses gamification and psychology to help people help themselves. She launched an emotional fitness application called eQuoo, which ...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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29:31
Episode 11 - Nurse and founder of a company delivering health and wellness programs
Abigail Morakinyo is a Registered Nurse and Specialist in Public Health . She is also the founder of Health in Check, a company that delivers health and wellbeing programs.In this episode we discussed:How she came up with the conc...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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37:14
Episode 10 - Audiologist's journey to Co-founder of a private clinic.
Dr Gladys Akinseye is an Audiologist and Co-founder and Partner of a private clinic called The Hearing Hub Essex.We discussed: 1. The fears she had prior to setting up her clinic. 2. How she raised capital .3. S...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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30:26
Episode 9 - From Physiotherapist to Head of Operations of a Charity
Natasa Economou is a Physiotherapist by profession and shares her journey of transitioning to working for a charity called Indigo Volunteers. Her current role with the charity is Head of Operations .We discussed:<...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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26:55
Episode 8 - Lewis Khaka - From Social Worker and a Mental Health Nurse to a supported living business.
Lewis Khaka is a Social Worker and a Mental Health Practitioner. He is also a Director of three supported living accommodation facilities for adults and young people. We discuss:1. The difference between ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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44:52
Episode 7 - Sandra Chakara - Psychiatric Nurse and owner of multiple ecommerce stores
Sandra Chakara is a Psychiatric Nurse who also runs an Ecommerce business, selling goods over the internet. We discuss: 1. Why she chose ecommerce as a business model.2. What a print on demand service is.&...
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50:51
Episode 6 - Erica Opare - Pharmacist to digital health and coaching
Erica Opare is a Pharmacist, a Transformation and Mindset coach and Co-founder of a Tech Start up company.In this episode we discuss:1. What health technology entails.2. How her skills as a Pharmacist have been transfe...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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36:09
Episode 5 - Dr Jamil Foridi - Doctor, CEO and co-founder of a healthcare start up
Dr Jamil Foridi is an NHS Doctor and CEO and co-founder of a healthcare start up called, NovaBleep, a company that has developed a pager replacement system used in the NHS. In this episode we discussed:...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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32:38
Episode 4 - Dr Nikki Ramskill - Doctor and founder of a money coaching business
Dr Nikki Ramskill is the founder of The Female Money Doctor. She is the ONLY doctor to be featured in the top 25 feedspot list of Personal Finance Blogs in the UK. She trained to become a money coach and now helps women from a...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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34:57
Episode 3 - Kemi Akinwunmi - Midwife to holistic midwifery business
Kemi Akinwunmi is a Midwife and Specialist in Community Public Health. She is the founder of a company called Professional Aunty, a pregnancy and parenting support service that also provides products for babies and their parents. I...
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Episode 3
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26:17
Episode 2 - Dr Folake Yusuff- a doctor helping people invest in property
Dr Folake Yusuff is a sessional General Practitioner who runs a serviced accommodation (air BnB) business and helps investors acquire passive income from property. In this episode, we discuss:1. Common forms of property ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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43:43
Episode 1 - Teaching fitness classes online and creating a digital marketing course
Claire Mockridge is a Fitness Professional who teaches other Health and Fitness Professionals and Physiotherapists a full body approach to managing pelvic floor dysfunction. She also offers a digital course, teaching Health Professionals ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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Trishna Bharadia - living with Multiple Sclerosis
Trishna Bharadia shares with her experiences of living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Trishna's various roles as an MS Advocate and MS Ambassador for the MS Society UK, has had a profound effect on individuals living with MS. She tal...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:04:21
Episode 8 - Laura Sylvester- living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Laura Sylvester is the founder of the Charity Mind Body EDS. She shares her life changing experience of living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). Laura candidly shares her lowest moments, the steps she has taken to rise above them and how the e...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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50:39
Episode 7 - Ife Thomas and Autism experiences
Ife Thomas is an author, public speaker, autism activist and founder of a company called MIndWorkOut. She talks about her experiences of supporting her Autistic son and her own experiences of living with Asperger's Syndrome. She stresses the po...
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1:15:06
Episode 6 - Annabel Ashalley-Anthony - living with Sickle Cell Disease
Annabel Ashalley-Anthony shares her experiences of living with Sickle Cell Disease, from her interactions with medical professionals, developing autonomy and to revealing some of her lowest moments in her life. Annabel's courage, strength and d...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:07:30
Episode 5 - Oliver Newton, living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Anxiety and Depression.
Oliver Newton shares his experiences of living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), anxiety and depression. OCD is one of the most misunderstood mental health conditions and Oly enlightens us on the many ways it has affected him over the y...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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Episode 4: Wolfgang Kemptner, survivor of childhood sexual abuse
Wolfgang Kemptner is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. He describes the profound effects the abuse had on his life and explains how his abuse created a dissociative identity disorder (DID), when a person develops at least two distinct perso...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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53:52
Episode 3: Philani Kinyabo and living with Bipolar Disorder
Philani Kinyabo shares her experience of being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder in her early 20s and how her faith has been a key factor in helping her cope. She encourages individuals with mental health conditions to never compare themselves to...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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41:09
Episode 2 - Brandon Johnson and his infertility journey
Brandon Johnson is a Social Worker and Therapist. He has taken a stand against the stigma of male infertility, a subject that is often not discussed, despite it causing a significant impact on the emotional, physical and mental wellbeing of tho...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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47:28
Episode 1: Anisha Gangotra, experiences of living with Colitis, PTSD and Depression.
Anisha is an Inclusive Dance and Zumba Instructor and works within the Mental Health sector. She shares her experiences of living with Ulcerative Colitis since 2008 and subsequently developing PTSD, following a traumatic road traffic accident i...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:00:12
Trailer - Introduction to the Wellrestorer Wellness Podcast
A podcast about invisible and visible illnesses and conditions, affecting the emotional, mental and physical wellbeing of individuals from diverse backgroundsIt features interviews with inspiring individuals sharing strategies of how the...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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