Their Lives

This week we spoke to Professor Sukari Pinnock-Fitts who is an Adjunct Professor in the Human Resources Masters Program for the Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies. She is a Coach Assessor for Georgetown’s Leadership Coaching Certificate Program. Believing strongly in an “action-oriented” approach, Pinnock-Fitts works with individuals and organizations to maximize human potential, cultivate talent and enhance group and individual performance. In the two decades spent as an Executive with a mid-sized nonprofit organization, she developed a unique understanding of the need for effectiveness, efficiency and commitment in both mission and profit-driven organizations. Pinnock-Fitts believes that in bringing about small shifts – in awareness, thinking, behavior, intention and action – significant change can emerge to help propel her clients forward. Her coaching style is characterized as “direct” and her coaching approach is designed to support the client’s a...

Moustapha Diouf started his inspiring journey as a militant Trotskyite from Senegal before moving to Paris to study Sociology. This is where his inspiring work began as he continued his career in academia producing groundbreaking research on the beauty of compromise, political diplomacy between African nations and the US culminating in his role today as Associate Professor at the University of Vermont inspiring students from all walks of life. Through his work at the University of Vermont, Moustapha is a dear friend of Bernie Sanders where he pushes a similar agenda of social pacificism and social equality. He cares so much about the improvement of our society and our politics and has shown this through his tenure as President of the Millennium Challenge Account, a £500m fund from the US to nations in Africa as well as being the special advisor to the ex-prime minister of Senegal Aminata Touré. Listen to our podcast on the audio player above or click on the logos a...

This week we spoke to David Busse who taught us a little bit about the value of the community, how to get through adversity and getting through life with comedy to make everybody smile! David has enjoyed a successful career in sales within the engineering and food processing industry. He worked his way up the commercial ladder to Sales Director of a major international company and within a matter of years and progressed ultimately to set up his own business. Following the sale of his business he has combined his passion for the Jewish community, culminating with a successful sales career working for KLBD (KosherLondon Beth Din), promoting WorldWide Kosher certification on food ingredients and raw materials. He has been very blessed to have travelled the World and learnt from many different cultures. In addition as a skilled mimic he has been performing very successful comedy evenings within his communities recalling the famous radio shows of the 50s, 60s and 70s, a...

Listen to our podcast on the audio player below or click on the logos and discuss the episode with us on Twitter  Benji Fisher  and  Benji Hyer  or  Facebook Up and down the country, communities have been coming together to help each other in our greatest time in need, this has been a refreshing sign of collective spirit. A few weeks ago, the Government appealed for 250,000 volunteers to support our National Health Service in the United Kingdom. They received 750,000 applications in a matter of days. Now, more than ever we are learning about the intrinsic value of local cooperation so we thought it would be nice to speak with Joy Wolfe MBE who has dedicated her life to serving her local community and the Jewish community. Born in 1938 and a fanatic Manchester City FC fan; Joy Wolfe MBE has played a part in over 25 different charity, community, educational and political organisations. She is an inspiring lady and can share a lot o...

We had the immense pleasure of sitting down with David Berglas MBE this week to kick start our podcast series exploring the amazing stories and adventures of the elderly citizens in our society. We were so grateful to David being our first guest on the show. At the grand age of 93, David has been a pioneer in psychotherapy and magic throughout his incredible life. He is a mentor and inspiration to some of our generations finest magicians; David Copperfield, Derren Brown and Dynamo to name but a few. It was David who really fused together this idea that psychology and magic have an important corresponding relationship. What we found so interesting besides the incredibly successful career David has had was actually his amazing stoic, go-getter attitude to life. Something that we can clearly see has inspired Derren Brown so much in his writings, performances and material. Please enjoy this episode with David. We’re looking for support in our fundraising efforts fo...

Hello and Welcome to our podcast! Social distancing has now become the norm in our lives and those who are vulnerable and elderly in our society will begin a long period of isolation along with us all; loneliness will inevitably grow. As we change our ways of living in society our focus must shift toward not only protecting the physical health of our seniors but their mental wellbeing too. With this in mind, we have been thinking about how we can play our part. Like many other young people during this crisis, we are volunteering our spare time outside of our day jobs to talking with our elderly population and providing them with a friendly person to speak to. In our podcast "Their Lives" we will listen and speak with our elderly community about their stories through the years and the amazing lessons/teachings from their adventures that can teach the younger generations in this uncertain time. We hope that our podcast will not only become a valuable experience f...