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Brilliant Resilient Club Podcast

The Brilliant Resilient Club is a podcast dedicated to people who push past their physical comfort zone to gain mental resilience. Host Bhavani Vadde speaks to some amazing individuals who’re dealing with some big challenges - trauma, loss, illness - but rather than be defeated, challenged themselves something physical and as a result now feel better than ever. She came up with the idea when she took up up cold water swimming after having to stop work as a TV reporter during the pandemic because of an auto-immune condition. And despite hating exercise all her life, this helped her not only cope but thrive during some difficult times. In this podcast, she explores why and how other people take to the physical to deal with what life throws up.

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Ep 4: Louise Stewart: Resilience as a BBC correspondent and how it helped her through breast cancer & job loss

October 21, 2021 • Bhavani Vadde • Season 1 • Episode 4

OK so it's been some time since the last episode of the Brilliant Resilient Club - I've been recuperating from a couple of operations but now thankfully on the mend. And the conversations I've had with my guests on this very podcast about how to cope during tough times really helped !

This episode with Louise Stewart has hopefully worth the wait.

Louise is a former BBC political correspondent who’s now moved into communications.

She’s shown a fair bit of resilience in recent years having faced both career and health crises.

At the start of the pandemic, like many Louise suddenly lost her job and was struggling to even get responses from her many applications despite her experience. That’s a challenge enough but this came after Louise was diagnosed with bi-lateral breast cancer - and had to have a rare double breast operation.

Happily, she’s now celebrating 5 years of being cancer free and is thriving in her career. She is also an ambassador for Cancer Research UK and this month also being Breast Cancer Awareness month - what better time to talk to her about how she got herself through her tough times.