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We All Sit On A Mountain Of Extraordinary Ordinary Everyday Stories

We All Sit On A Mountain Of Extraordinary Ordinary Everyday Stories

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 This episode is with Rachel Maunder, Rachel works with people who want to learn how to craft their stories for speaking, helping them to find and craft their stories for greater engagement, and ultimately, more business. She believes we all have a story that we all sit on a mountain of extraordinary ordinary everyday stories that illustrate a point that you're wanting to make, they are every bit as valuable as those other bigger stories. She shares how she found her authentic self after comparing herself to her sister for many years and some great tips on how she flourishes in life. KEY LEARNS "I was only four years old. Because literally in those days, you started school in the term in which you were going to turn five, and I'm a June baby. So I started after Easter. So I'd only been there two or three weeks. And I was enjoying it, you know, I was the third of three children. So I was more than ready to go to school when it was my turn. But what happened was, I know this doesn't happen in schools now. But our toilet block at the primary school was out in the playground. So if you needed to go from the classroom, you would have to go out of the building on your own to the loo block and make your way back in. And so after I came out of the loo block, I looked around and there was nobody about; not even the caretaker. And I just thought, 'I could go home. Who's going to stop me'. And off I went. And the point that I tell that story to illustrate is that as a four-year-old seeing an opportunity, I didn't give a single thought to the fact that I had four roads to cross. It was a 10-minute walk from the store to my house with four roads to cross. I didn't even think - Would my mum be at home or not, which she wasn't. I didn't think about how worried people would be or that my class teacher may or may not get into trouble for not keeping a close enough eye on me. I didn't give any of that a thought. And my point was that as we get older, particularly as women, I think we start to put all those blocks in of maybe I shouldn't because I might get run over? Or what would I do if my mum's not at home? So yeah, that's the little story that I tell and I tell loads of little things like that. They're inconsequential." "So it's a long time ago, I was living on the outskirts of London, working for one of the Inner-London Boroughs. I loved my job, was living in my own flat that I had recently bought. I had a very busy social life. So on the surface, everything was absolutely fine. And I was really surprised to wake up on a Monday morning, feeling, I can't get out of bed today. And I'm not somebody that's prone to that kind of feeling at all, it really took me by surprise. And I knew that therefore, it was something a bit different, but I didn't quite understand what it was. And I somehow knew intuitively that it wasn't just a day off that I needed. I needed, maybe a week or whatever. So I phoned the office and spoke to my line manager who happened to be a woman, and I don't know what the rules are now. But at the time, you could self-certify for up to eight days. I think it was and she said, Well, what do you think is wrong? I said, Well, I just feel absolutely exhausted. I don't know what it is, I just can't come in. And she was surprised because as I say, that's not something that people expect from me or that I did either. Then she took her line managers hat off for a moment and said, Rachel, I would just advise you, if you are taking time off for something that is essentially emotional or a mental health issue, that you go and see a doctor so that if anything comes back on this, you have been to a doctor and taken it seriously, which was the furthest thing from my thoughts, to be honest. But I thought okay, well, I better take her advice. So I did luckily for me, I think because I saw it as a tick box exercise really to have been to see the doctor because I thought oh, he's probably going to offer me some antidepressants or something which I absolutely do not need or want to take. But actually, what he said was what are you hoping I can do for you? So I was so taken aback by that I said, Well, I was hoping you might be able to refer me for some counseling, which is what happened. You had to wait a little while to get that counseling appointment. I was living in London at the time and working for the London Borough of Southwark, which is where the Maudsley hospital is so in a sense, it was our local hospital, but that kind of freaked me out a little bit because in the south of England, the Maudsley hospital is one of the major psychiatric units. It's literally across the road from King's College Hospital. So it's a big teaching psychiatric hospital, but it kind of freaked me out that that's where I was going for these counseling sessions. But so I went along, went to my first session, and didn't know what to expect. I had never been for anything like that before and just sat there for a while. And there was ...
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