Dr Kyle Elliott is the founder of Caffeinated Kyle a career coaching company focused on the sort of executives that work in places like Silicon Valley..

Kyle offers trauma-informed career coaching, interview coaching, and executive coaching for senior managers, executives, and C-suite leaders in technology companies.

You will find his clients working at Meta, Amazon, Google, and nearly every other tech giant you can imagine. Kyle’s approach helps his clients to find success at work and happiness in life.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Kyle explains to host Michael Millward how his own career trauma led to him reassessing life and work and creating a new way of living and working.

Michael and Kyle discuss what it means to be a workaholic and the impact that state of mind has on every aspect of life.

They also explore different ways to reassert your identity as an individual instead of a job title.

Kyle describes how he uses boundaries to manage the relationship between his work and his life.

Those boundaries include planning rest and recreation time and the activities that will fill that time, which for Kyle includes regular visits to Disneyland.

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Kate Ottavio Kent is a mother, wife and the founder of KOK PR in Connecticut USA. Kate is also a volunteer at Ridgebury Farm.

Ridgebury Farm provides equine based therapy that supports individuals of all backgrounds and abilities in working to become the best version of themselves.

A similar organisation in the UK is Riding for the Disabled. In 1975 the BBC Children’s TV show Blue Peter annual appeal raised funds to provide Riding for the Disabled with a new pony. Viewers voted in a poll to select the name and called the pony Rags.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Kate explains how she planned her work commitments to enable her to volunteer.

Michael and Kate share experiences of learning to horseback riding, and the benefits of spending time with horses.

Kate explains her volunteering role at Ridgebury Farm, and the impact she has helped to create for the people who receive therapeutic services at the farm.

You will leave this episode understanding that the rewards that volunteering provide make the effort required to volunteer well worthwhile.

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Dee Pelisser, also known as Lady Laquelle is a musical parodist and drag performer.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Dee tells host Michael Millward about how they came to accept their gender fluidity discovered their passion for performance and creating parodies of songs they liked like The Banana Boat Song. or somethings loathed like Bubbly.

Dee explains parody referencing parodists like Paul Sherman and Weird Al Yankovic, Dee discusses the history of drag including Shakespear, pantomime, and TV shows like Are You Being Served.

Dee discusses the process of discovering their drag persona including references to drag performers like RuPaul and Paul O’Grady.

Dee reflects on performances at clubs like the Purple Rhino in Sarasota and the support they received from other drag performers like Berry Ayers, AKA Beneva Fruitville

At the time of recording Dee was preparing to move to Cleveland Ohio to further their performing career.

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