Episodes
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In this week's episode, join Lynsey as she sits down with Trademark Attorney Rachel Wilkinson-Duffy.
Rachel shares her journey from aspiring ballerina during homeschooling days to her current role as a Partner at Baker McKenzie.
Through insightful conversation, she provides a glimpse into the diverse responsibilities of a Trademark Attorney, from courtroom representation for brands to witnessing the fruition of her work in marketing campaigns.
Tune in to hear Rachel's passion and enthusiasm for her profession as she sheds light on the dynamic world of trademark law and brand protection.
You can find out more about your host here:
http://linkedin.com/in/lynsey-hyslop
You can find out more about Rachel and Baker McKenzie here:
https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/people/w/wilkinsonduffy-rachel
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In this weeks episode Lynsey is joined by Emma Kernan-Staines, an award-winning Executive Assistant renowned for her exceptional support of leaders in the world of sports.
With a career trajectory that defies convention, Emma has carved out a unique niche as the power behind the throne, providing invaluable support and guidance to top sport executives.
If you've ever wondered how to step into the pivotal role of a personal or executive assistant within the dynamic field of sports leadership, join us to hear Emma's journey. From her humble beginnings starting work in the banking sector to navigating retail training programs and PR, Emma shares invaluable insights into her diverse career path.Emma openly shares her experiences and lessons learned along the way, offering invaluable advice for aspiring professionals seeking to carve their own path in the world of PA.
This episode is filled with inspiration and practical wisdom, with some great behind the scenes info too.
You can connect with your host here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn
You can find out more about Emma hereEmma (Kernan) Kernan-Staines | LinkedIn
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In this week's episode Lynsey is in conversation with Lisa Curran, owner of Currans Homes. If you've ever browsed Right Move, bought or sold a house, or even just dreamed of your ideal home, this episode is for you.
Join Lynsey as she uncovers the behind-the-scenes workings of the estate agency industry and learn how Lisa prioritises relationships with vendors and exceptional service for her clients. Discover Lisa's journey from corporate banking to taking over her sister's estate agency and transforming it into the successful business it is today.
You can connect with your host here Lynsey Hyslop | Messaging | LinkedIn
You can find out more about Currans here Estate agents in and around Chester - Currans Homes, Chester
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When Lynsey met Jane Hanson at the Women of the Year Awards lunch and learned that Jane was a qualified teacher, an educational consultant and wellbeing practitioner, a writer, a broadcaster, inspirational project leader, a soprano in the London Philharmonic choir, the Founder and Director of a global project; One Day One Choir, a former senior researcher in nuclear physics as well as being part of the Women of the Year management team, she knew she wanted to record an episode with her.
In this weeks episode you will hear a rich career history full of interesting stories and life lessons and some incredible advice to take away.
You can connect with your host Lynsey Hyslop hereLynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn
You can find out more about Jane and her global peace project here One Day One Choir Home | onedayonechoir.org
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Have you ever wondered what it's like to have a job youdon't even have to apply for? This week Lynsey sits down with Dr. Helen Fry and she explains what it means to be a Historian and they dive deep into how one becomes a Historian, the intriguing journey Dr Helen Fry took to discover her passion, and the fascinating world ofhistorical specialisation.
Dr Helen Fry is a Historian, biographer and author of morethan 20 books on intelligence, prisoners of war and the social history of the Second World War. Her ground breaking research has shed the light on one of thegreatest intelligence deceptions of the war; the bugging of Hitler's Generals at Trent park in North London and thousands of prisoners of war at Latimer House and Wilton park in Buckinghamshire. Her current book is Women in Intelligence, the hidden history of two World Wars.
You can connect with your host Lynsey Hyslop here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn
You can find out more about Dr Helen Fry, her research, expertise and books here Helen Fry (helen-fry.com)
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Lynsey is joined today by Sally Orange who is an endurance runner and adventure athlete who has completed a marathon in every continent dressed as a piece of fruit. Sally is also a physiotherapist with over 20 years in the military, a mental health campaigner, has run more than 80 marathons raising money for charity and has recently been awarded her MBE.
Sally treats Lynsey to a really honest conversation explaining how an accident which resulted in a broken leg was the starting point to her career.
In this episode, Sally opens up about the ups and downs, the challenges, the unexpected surprises, and the paths she navigated in her career journey. Her passion for running as a mental health game-changer is contagious and her conviction that running can truly change lives, especially when it comes to mental health, is inspiring!
You can connect with your host Lynsey Hyslop here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn
You can find out more about Sally Orange here Sally Orange | Adventurer and connect with her here Sally Orange MBE | LinkedIn
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Have you ever wondered what you would get if you crossed a Lawyer, a Scientist and a business person? In this weeks' episode Andrea Brewster explains how this mix would make a great Patent Attorney.
After earning her Chemistry degree and discovering that her true passion did not align with laboratory work, Andrea's career took a different path when she consulted a careers advisor familiar with the Intellectual Property sector. This advisor introduced her to the role of a Patent Attorney, leading Andrea to shift her trajectory towards the legal profession.This enlightening discussion not only delves into Andrea's efforts in assisting inventors in bringing their ideas and products to market but also explores the various supporting roles crucial to her career in the Intellectual Property industry.You can connect with your host hereLynsey Hyslop | LinkedInDiscover additional information about Andrea Brewster and access valuable links related to the industry below
IP Inclusive - Promote, improve equality, diversity and inclusionCITMA - HomepageThe Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys | CIPAHomepage - Careers in Ideas
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Have you ever wondered how to become a Head Coach at Elite level? In this episode, Lynsey talks to Jess Thirlby former England netball international and now England Netball Head Coach about her career journey from player to coach and everything in between.
From representing England at the Commonwealth Games in 2002 to last year coaching the first England team other than Australia and New Zealand to play in the World Cup Final since 1995, Lynsey gains an insight in to life as England Netball Head Coach, hears what drives Jess to strive for success and learns what Jess hopes for the future of The Roses.
You can connect with the host here
Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedInYou can find out more about England Netball here
England Netball | Home
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Lynsey Hyslop explains the exciting reason why she has been quiet lately; being in training camp with the England Women's rugby team The Red Roses, however she reassures listeners that there will be some exciting episodes being released in the next few weeks.
You can connect with your host here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn
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What job could you do if you enjoy working outdoors, you want to educate all ages about their part in habitat conservation as well as having the requirement of being able to use a chainsaw to maintain the countryside (sensibly, with a licence I might add!). In this week’s episode Lynsey learns all about the varied role of a Countryside Ranger from Jean Cheadle who has been in her role for 20 years. Jean explains how her career journey started with her studying visual art and geography at university, mainly to avoid making the decision of what career she wanted to go in to, however, this was in fact the first step to her longstanding love for the countryside. It was the door that opened her up to some valuable volunteering opportunities and to a job where she can have a tangible positive impact in protecting the natural world around her.
You can connect with your host Lynsey Hyslop here https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynsey-hyslop/
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Some people may be more familiar with this role being referred to as 'Ground Staff' and with the industry being reportedly made up by only 2% of women, some may refer to it with the job title of 'Groundsman', however in conversation with Lynsey, Meg Lay explains how she wants to use her role as Sports Turf Professional at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club to help ignite some interest in the industry by other women. Meg doesn't do things by half either, as one way to promote the role and raise the awareness of it as a career choice was when she, early this year, made history by spearheading an all female ground staff team to become the first female to curate an international wicket. How this came about and what was involved was a highlight of the episode for your host Lynsey.
Meg talks about how being part of a team, spending your days outside doing a physical job, having the opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the best athletes in the sport are just some of the many positives of the job. Meg talks with passion about her job and the industry and how the fire in her belly turned out to be from working in Cricket, not as a firefighter which she initially considered as a career choice.
You can connect with the host here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedInYou can connect with Meg Lay here Meg Lay | LinkedInYou can find more information about the industry here
Grounds Management Association (thegma.org.uk)
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Have you ever wondered how you can become a qualified Pilot and work for a global airline flying all around the world and get to call that your job? In this episode, Lynsey has a open and honest conversation with Laura Azancot who does just that. After starting her academic career in psychology at University where she initially wanted to train as a Clinical Psychologist, Laura talks about how after not quite getting the grades needed to be accepted on to a Masters she decided she wanted to travel the world and so became cabin crew which was the first step in to her flying career and love of aviation. Fast forward a couple of years (and a lot of training and tears!) Laura became a qualified Pilot, went back to being cabin crew after the credit crunch, piloted private jets in Africa for 4 years to then become a Pilot for British Airways...yes, a really interesting career journey.
Laura gives a genuine account of her time as a Cadet training to become a pilot as well as the hard decisions she has had to make during her career to enable her to do the job she loves whilst also having a family, all of this she has done without ever even being interested in aviation until she was in her 20's!
You can find out more about careers in aviation here Careers at Civil Aviation Authority (caa.co.uk)You can connect with the host hereLynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn
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Lynsey was treated to an in depth exploration of Floss Andrews' career which spans 20 years in Football working for the likes of The Premier League at clubs such as Chelsea, QPR and Norwich. Although the thrill and excitement of being pitch side at every home game in her role of Match Manager or the variety of work she experienced when working with huge brands such as Barclays, Nike, Budweiser and Lucozade Sport in her commercial partnership and sponsorship roles were hard ones to give up, Floss gives a great insight in to her career journey and her career choices along the way.
You will hear clear explanations of Floss's career choices, descriptions of the skills and experience that she learned along the way and you will find out how the connections she created with each and every role that she had enabled her to have the courage to retrain as a Mindset Coach and start her own business, specialising in football, with the little help of a Life Coach.
Floss now works with people in a range of roles within the football industry helping them create balance to help extend their time in football by avoiding burnout.
You can connect with the host here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedInYou can connect with Floss Andrews on LinkedIn here and you can contact her via her website hereFloss (Flora) Andrews | LinkedIn
Mindset Five | Personal Coaching with Flora Andrews
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Kirsty qualified as a Solicitor 14 years ago and is now a Principal Associate and Solicitor specialising in Real Estate at Shoosmiths - a leading national law firm. In this episode Lynsey has a really honest conversation with Kirsty about the competitive nature of gaining a place on a training contract, how work experience is vital when trying to get in to Law and that by being nice to colleagues, clients and work acquaintances, can lead to job opportunities. As a fellow working Mum, Lynsey talks to Kirsty about how she has managed her career and her career progression around her family and how balance is not only a priority of hers, but of the firm that she works for too.
You can connect with the host Lynsey Hyslop here;
Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn
And you can learn more about Shoosmiths and connect with Kirsty Day here
Kirsty Day | LinkedIn
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Not everyone associates sport, physical education and wellbeing as being a job that they could do in a prison, but Charlotte does just that as a Physical Education Instructor, or PEI for short, in a male prison. Lynsey has a good conversation with Charlotte about how she has autonomy over her role to react to interests or needs of prisoners and staff to create courses, classes and initiatives to help support mental and physical wellbeing, whilst always being mindful that she may be needed to react to an incident at a moments notice within a potentially hugely hostile environment.
Charlotte gets to participate in sport and physical activity as part of her day to day job as well as racking up the qualifications she holds that can add to her experience as her career progresses - either within or outside of the prison service. Charlotte teaches to an audience that may not be the easiest but if you like a challenge, like Charlotte does, this role may be a good fit for you.
You can find out more about the host Lynsey Hyslop here
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In Tullia's role she represents a range of publishers and publications such as GQ, Vanity Fair and Vogue and works with luxury brands to advertise products and campaigns via print and digital media. Tullia has worked with brands such as Burberry, Dior and Stella McCartney and in this episode, she talks to Lynsey about not only how she got to work in the luxury brand sales and advertising industry, but also how she manages business relationships when working with brands on behalf of publishers.
Tullia provides some great advice to those interested in this area including how travelling can be a learning tool that assists you throughout your career, and how handwriting Thank You and Christmas cards might just get you a job at Vogue US in the Paris office!
Hear how Tullia started an internship at the beginning of her career working under Anna Wintour (AKA Devil wears Prada) and how staying true to your values and morals really can help you in your career.
You can connect with the host here
Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn
You can find out more and connect with Tullia here
Tullia Vitturi di Este-Lochra | LinkedIn
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A Corporate Illustrator is a great example of the type of job that this podcast was created for. Lynsey has a great, lengthy conversation with Alana Patchett who is a Director at Purple Monster. Her main role there, since joining in 2010, has been creating animations, online virtual environments, pictures, process maps, doing real time scribing and generally bringing the artistic visual eye to Purple Monster. She helped start and grow the art department of Purple Monster where they use a vast array of creative tools, techniques, skills and experience to ensure a businesses message lands effectively and with impact.
Alana is a visual person who always enjoyed sketching and drawing when she was younger and in this episode, she explains how this has led her to working with international corporate clients sketching meetings and conferences (as well as many other things) bringing their words to life. And to think her art teacher said that she wouldn't get a job within art!
You can connect with the host here
Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn
You can find out more about Alana and Purple Monster here
Virtual Monster - Purple Monster
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Have you ever wondered how you get to be the person who works with high performance teams, Olympic athletes or managing a group of highly talented Sport Psychologist practitioners? This week, Lynsey has a great in depth conversation with Dr Kate Hays, Head of Women's Psychology at The FA, where one of her main priorities is working with and supporting the Senior Lionesses.
Dr Kate Hays’ experience is extensive and she treats us to a fantastic conversation where she walks us through her career journey in extensive detail and fantastic descriptive reasoning behind all decisions that have helped lead her through her career to where she is now. She also explains how, even if you don't have a final destination in mind, being curious, saying Yes and taking opportunities even if they scare you, can lead to an extremely exciting and fulfilling career…. and by embracing your interests, it can help even the most reluctant academic to complete a Masters, PhD and be highly respected in their field.
You can connect with the host Lynsey Hyslop here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn
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Have you ever thought about what's involved to get milk from cow to coffee? This week Lynsey talks to Mary Selby (formerly Mary Ankers) who took over her family's dairy farm after her Dad actively encouraged her not to. After University Mary became a qualified Rural Surveyor and started out a career in supporting other farmers in helping them build, grow and sustain their farms. This gave her an insight in to how it could be done and so she decided to take this learning back to her family farm with plans for increasing profitability as well as helping others in the industry. Mary has now featured in The Times, The Guardian and other farming publications, sharing her expertise in the area.
Mary shares her career journey and explains that although she calls her self a Dairy Farmer, she is in fact much more than that.
You can connect with the host, Lynsey Hyslop here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn
You can read more about Mary here
The good old ways: can we still farm like our grandparents? | Farming | The GuardianA Life in the Day: the dairy farmer Mary Ankers on why she never misses her old office job (thetimes.co.uk)Best of British (co-operativefood.co.uk)
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Have you ever wondered how realistic TV drama's with characters as Firearm Police Officer's are?
Have you ever wondered if working with children in a previous career could provide you with skills that you will fall back on when working in Firearms?!
This week Lynsey talks to Sarah who dreamt of being a police officer as a child and is now working in her dream job. With adrenaline coursing through her body day and night; as not only is she a Firearms officer, she is also a rugby player within the Premier 15's Women's Rugby Premiership, Sarah talks us through the intensive training required to get in to Firearms, what unknown challenges and different environments she can come up against on any given day at work and how saying Yes to opportunities and taking advantage of career choices can lead you in to some amazing opportunities.
From having to use quick decision making skills both in work and on the rugby pitch, how skills and knowledge that she has gained from general life experience has helped her in her career to how she has to compartmentalise some of the sights that she is exposed to in order to help her switch off from work at the end of her shift, Sarah gives Lynsey an insight in to her career journey.
You can contact Lynsey here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn
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