Episode 1

Lockdown, digital and mental health

We talk to Simon Blake, CEO of Mental Health First Aid England

This week Zoe and Paul are joined by Simon Blake, CEO of Mental Health First Aid England who they spoke to at the beginning of May at the height of the Lockdown from his partner’s dental surgery!

The conversation covers Simon’s take on the shift that all of us have experienced under lockdown - the new ways that he and his team have had to approach work and the new digital skills he has had to develop as a leader. Simon also talks passionately about mental health and how this pandemic is affecting us all now and into the future. 

Notes and links - 

Simon’s blog post - https://mhfaengland.org/mhfa-centre/ceo-blog/ten-things-coronavirus-lockdown-simon-blake/

If ‘Black Lives Matter’ to brands, where are your black board members? - https://www.marketingweek.com/mark-ritson-black-lives-matter-brands/

(Please bear with us - the shift to online recording means that there will be variations in sound quality on this episode)

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Editing by Paul Thomas and production from Alexey Sibikin

Music by Joseph McDade https://josephmcdade.com/music