The Slick Pivot Sessions

Liz Ward talks to Joe Sayers about his pivot from a professional cricket into the finance industry. After 14 years in the Yorkshire Cricket team Joe retired from sports before the age of 30, leaving his first passion to fulfil another side of him. Joe is now a senior leader at Royal Bank of Canada. Joe shares what his professional cricket career taught him, the importance of understanding your why when it comes to your work and how he successfully built his reputation in a completely new industry This interview covers loads about focus, setting goals and being confident in your transferable skills.Episode highlights: The journey of a pro-athleteLeadership lessons learnt from sportsDealing with expectations & the pressures of early successTransitioning from sports to financePutting your ego to one side & starting from the bottomUnderstanding your whyGrab a cuppa and tune in.Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned here. ---If you like what you hear, drop us a review and a rating. Reviews really help us grow this podcast, reach more people and bring you fantastic guests...---Looking for coaching support on your pivot, visit www.slickpivot.com---Copyright 2020 Slick Pivot. All rights reserved. 

Liz Ward speaks to writer and podcaster, Emma Gannon about The Multi-Hyphen Book Club that was born at the start of Lockdown. Emma shares how she woke up one morning and decided to create a virtual space where people can connect through a monthly book and be inspired by daily book recommendations during this period of social distancing. The book club now has over 6,000 members.In this Slick Pivot Session, we explore why books genuinely save Emma in a time of need, how this creative project was able to come together so quickly and how connection is so important for us all right now. Emma is the queen of pivoting and is an expert on starting a side project or side hustle. She wrote the best selling book, The Multi-Hyphen Method and has the No1 careers podcast, CTRL ALT DELETE. Emma’s upcoming debut novel, Olive will be published in July 2020. It was a pleasure to have her on the show.Think you'll enjoy this. Grab a cuppa and tune in.---Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned here.  ---If you like what you hear, drop us a review and a rating. Reviews really help us grow this podcast, reach more people and bring you fantastic guests...---Looking for coaching support on your pivot, visit www.slickpivot.com---Copyright 2020 Slick Pivot. All rights reserved. 

Liz Ward speaks to Matt Healy, award winning chef, restaurateur and Masterchef The Professionals runner up.Matt shares his career journey, from training with some inspiring mentors and then how he left a top restaurant in London to be closer to his family and applied to Masterchef for a bit of a laugh. There were twists, turns and lots of points where he could have given up on his career in the kitchen yet Matt kept going. And keeps going. We talk about mentors, self belief and what it's like to be in the public eye.Matt and his team have opened 3 food venues in the last two years, Matt Healy x The Foundry has won loads of awards including Britain’s Best Roast Dinner, Best City Centre Restaurant (in Leeds) and a Michelin plate. His Grön Kafé, his vegetarian and vegan concept now has two sites.Matt is really inspiring and a great guest. As we are currently in the middle of a global pandemic, this interview comes in two parts.Part One (this one) “Matt’s pivot journey from Chef to Restaurateur”, recorded pre-corona lockdown Part Two - “Matt’s Lockdown Pivot”, where we explore what Matt did when the pandemic forced the restaurant to close and how he is spreading joy to the frontline NHS staff with his famous Sunday Roasts. And what he is thinking for the future.I really enjoyed making these two episodes with Matt. I hope you enjoy listening. If you like what you hear, please subscribe, leave a written review and a star rating on Apple podcasts. These actions really help us grow this podcast and keep bringing you amazing guests. Thank you!---Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at https://www.slickpivot.com/podcast-slick-pivot-sessions/008-matt-healy-part-oneDonate to help Matt feed NHS Staff - https://www.gofundme.com/f/feed-250-nhs-staff---If you like what you hear, drop us a review and a rating on wherever you get your pods. Reviews really help us grow this podcast, reach more people and bring you fantastic guests...---Looking for coaching support on your pivot? visit www.slickpivot.com---Copyright 2020 Slick Pivot. All rights reserved.