Crisis What Crisis?

By: Andy Coulson
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  • Crisis What Crisis? provides authentic, judgement-free and useful storytelling from those who have been at the brutal, sometimes life threatening, sharp end of crisis and who survived and thrived in the process. Host Andy Coulson’s own background as a newspaper editor, Downing Street Communications Director, one-time inmate of HMP Belmarsh and now sought-after adviser to CEOs, allows him to bring a unique perspective to these conversations.
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  • 101. Harry Potter stuntman David Holmes on finding purpose - and positivity - beyond paralysis

    101. Harry Potter stuntman David Holmes on finding purpose - and positivity - beyond paralysis
    Nov 11 2024
    On January 28th, 2009, a rehearsed stunt on set of Harry Potter went horrifically wrong. David, who for a decade was the lead stunt double for his friend Daniel Radcliffe, was left paralysed from the chest down.
    A number of long and dangerous operations followed, many of them lifesaving. David survived but his condition is degenerative - each year bringing yet more challenge for him.
    From being an elite gymnast and professional stunt double for the most famous boy in the world at the time… as someone who was defined by their physicality … David’s accident stripped of his identity.
    His story – told brilliantly in the moving documentary David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived and now in his autobiography - is more than one of survival. It is the story of someone who decided to reject bitterness about his old life to pursue a new one full of meaning and purpose.
    As David puts it: “I’m having a unique journey on this planet, and I am going to own it.”
    David is now a podcaster, producer, author … and an inspiration to all that meet him. He is speaking at Creative Folkestone Festival on 21st November. Secure your tickets now: https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/david-holmes-harry-potterandrsquos-double/?book=566337
    Thank you David for sharing your remarkable perspective, positivity and wisdom.

    Links   
    David’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidholmes83/?hl=en

    Book
    The Boy Who Lived: https://amzn.eu/d/auagBtq

    Documentary David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived:
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B0CN4X1Q8B/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

    Charities
    The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital: https://www.rnohcharity.org/

    Stream/buy ‘Allies’ by Some Velvet Morning: https://ampl.ink/qp6bm   
    Some Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk     
    Your Daily Practice: Sleep by Myndstream: https://open.spotify.com/track/5OX9XgJufFz9g63o2Dv2i5?si=b2f9397c92084682   

    This podcast is brought to you by Crisis What Crisis? Productions and Coulson Partners

    Host – Andy Coulson  
    CWC team: Jane Sankey, Louise Difford, Mabel Pickering
    With special thanks to Ioana Barbu and the brilliant people at Global   

    For all PR and guest approaches please contact – podcast@coulsonpartners.com  
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    57 mins
  • Lindsay Nicholson's Crisis Comforts

    Lindsay Nicholson's Crisis Comforts
    Nov 4 2024
    On the face of it, magazine guru Lindsay Nicholson has had a brilliant, glamorous and high-powered career. Yet she achieved all this whilst her own life has been marked with crisis, with drama and the most unimaginable grief.
    Here are her three crisis comforts which helped and continue to help her survive and thrive through the most extreme and painful experiences.

    Full episode
    https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/series/series-7/

    Links   
    Lindsay’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindsayannenicholson/
    Lindsay’s X: https://x.com/linsnicholson

    Book
    Perfect Bound: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Bound-memoir-trauma-heartbreak/dp/0008685274

    Charities:
    Riding for the Disabled: https://rda.org.uk/

    Stream/buy ‘Allies’ by Some Velvet Morning: https://ampl.ink/qp6bm   
    Some Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk     
    Your Daily Practice: Sleep by Myndstream: https://open.spotify.com/track/5OX9XgJufFz9g63o2Dv2i5?si=b2f9397c92084682   

    This podcast is brought to you by Crisis What Crisis? Productions and Coulson Partners
    Host – Andy Coulson  
    CWC team: Jane Sankey, Louise Difford, Mabel Pickering
    With special thanks to Ioana Barbu and the brilliant people at Global   
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    4 mins
  • 100. Magazine megastar Lindsay Nicholson’s astonishing lessons on how to cope when life unravels … again and again and again

    100. Magazine megastar Lindsay Nicholson’s astonishing lessons on how to cope when life unravels … again and again and again
    Oct 28 2024
    Lindsay Nicholson transformed some of our best-known magazine titles including Cosmopolitan, Prima and, most famously, Good Housekeeping. On the face of it a brilliant, glamorous and high-powered career for which she was awarded an MBE in 2018.
    But Lindsay achieved all this whilst her own life was marked with crisis, with drama and the most unimaginable grief. In 1992 Lindsay lost her first husband, the journalist John Merritt, when she was pregnant with their second child, Hope. Five years later, their nine-year-old daughter Ellie died from the same rare form of leukaemia.
    Lindsay then faced her own ten-year battle with breast cancer.
    She came through but then, in 2016, in a series of events following a near death car crash, her life unravelled. The result? The end of her second marriage, a lost home, a lost job and – for a while – a damaged reputation. A set of circumstances that truly took her to the brink.
    Lindsay’s brilliant new memoir – Perfect Bound is not only a compelling read it’s in many ways a field guide on how to cope when faced with real difficulty. In this episode she shares her astonishing story and the invaluable lessons of how to survive and thrive through the most extreme and painful experiences.

    Links   
    Lindsay’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindsayannenicholson/
    Lindsay’s X: https://x.com/linsnicholson

    Book
    Perfect Bound: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Bound-memoir-trauma-heartbreak/dp/0008685274

    Charities
    Riding for the Disabled: https://rda.org.uk/

    Stream/buy ‘Allies’ by Some Velvet Morning: https://ampl.ink/qp6bm   
    Some Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk     
    Your Daily Practice: Sleep by Myndstream: https://open.spotify.com/track/5OX9XgJufFz9g63o2Dv2i5?si=b2f9397c92084682   

    This podcast is brought to you by Crisis What Crisis? Productions and Coulson Partners
    Host – Andy Coulson  
    CWC team: Jane Sankey, Louise Difford, Mabel Pickering
    With special thanks to Ioana Barbu and the brilliant people at Global   

    For all PR and guest approaches please contact – podcast@coulsonpartners.com  
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    1 hr

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