UA-171643620-1 Debbie Riley Working Hours Interview - Working Hours

Episode 36

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2nd Feb 2025

Work Requires Your Whole Self

CONTENT WARNING: You might not necessarily think discussions of Child Sexual Abuse would be work relevant, you would of course be wrong to think that.

If you are in any doubt about listening to this episode please avoid but, I would highly recommend listening to it if you can. Debbie is a great speaker who is passionate and insightful on her discussion areas.

Debbie Riley recorded on 31/10/2024

Debbie Riley was born and raised in Leeds and has lived all her life in Leeds (apart from a couple of years away at university). She is a Lived Experience Speaker and started her business Talking from Experience to deliver educational talks in three areas in which she has first-hand experience:

1. Eating Disorders - The Reality Behind the Diagnosis

2. The Impact and Reality of Being Sexually Abused as a Child

3. When Exercise Becomes Harmful.

Debbie's talks are tailored to audiences’ and their needs. Debbie has delivered workshops and talks from 20 minute to 4 hours in length and everything in-between. Her talks are always audience appropriate whether that's for a school assembly for 300 Year 7 pupils or a staff group at the Metropolitan Police.

All Debbie's talks are delivered from the perspective of her own lived experience. They provide insight into the recurring and ongoing harm these 3 experience have had on her person and the ongoing personal as well as wider social costs that can and did result.

Debbie uses her own personal experiences to draw attention to these 3 wide spread social harms which effect so many people in Leeds. Her talks are disarmingly honest and refreshingly straight-forward about topics that most of society would simple prefer to minimise, ignore and repress.

Debbie's workshops show us how pretending something isn't there or doesn't exist doesn't make it go away. No matter how much we want it to.

Get Debbie to come and speak at your workplace or organisation: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbiearile

If you'd like to know more about Visible go to:

https://visibleproject.org.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/@VisibleVoicesPodcast

If anything in this podcast has affected you and you live in Leeds please visit the Mindwell Leeds website https://www.mindwell-leeds.org.uk/

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Working Hours
The Story of Work in Leeds in the 2020s
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Western Studios, Leeds presents Working Hours: a podcast series surveying the people of Leeds on their thoughts and feelings on the topic of work. I want to talk to my city about work. Why do we do it? Do we like it? What could we do differently? What will we? How does work change and how does it change us?
Leeds, the largest city in the largest county on the UK mainland, is a former imperial textile centre and is now a major UK financial centre. This series will document the city’s experiences through Lockdown, Brexit, creeping technological unemployment, new and continuing resource wars, the ongoing dismantling of the welfare state and our accelerating ecological emergency.
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