If you feel lonely more often than you feel connected to people, this episode of Rest and Recreation is for you.

Surviving childhood abuse made Sharon Rolph crave invisibility. Later in life she realised that invisibility didn’t really suit her.

In retirement Sharon Rolph discovered passions that led to her becoming a coach helping retired people enjoy a useful, seen and relevant life.

In this episode of Rest and Recreation, the work life balance podcast from Abeceder Sharon describes to host Michael Millward the abuse she endured as a pre-school child, and how this gave her a lifelong desire to be invisible.

Being invisible is, Sharon realised a lonely experience. Retirement gave Sharon the opportunity and the desire to overcome the need to be invisible and to live her authentic life.

In a frank conversation Sharon describes her on-going journey.

You can find more information about both Sharon and Michael at ABECEDER.co.uk

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Books by Sharon Rolph available from Amazon

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Being a Guest

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Understanding how to sleep in a healthily

Bart Henderson was set on a legal career, until he started looking at how he was contributing to society. The ensuing thought process resulted in him setting up the Agora Guild, a community for men that is built on kindness, strength and chivalry.

In this episode of Rest and Recreation, the work life balance podcast from Abeceder Bart and host Michael Millward discuss the role of sleep in a healthy lifestyle, and healthy sleep habits.

Their discussion covers

• The negative impact of negative people
• The role of sleep
• Features of a healthy sleep routine
• The impact of a healthy diet on healthy sleep

You can find more information about both Bart and Michael at ABECEDER.co.uk

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Books mentioned by Bart

Buy Relentless- by Tim Grover from Amazon or Bookshop.org

Why We Sleep - by Matthew Walker

Travel – Holidays can play an important part in preventing burn out. So take a break to anywhere in the world and pay trade prices on trains, flights, hotels, and holidays as members of The Ultimate Travel Club.

Health – York Test provides an Annual Health Test. An experienced phlebotomist will complete a full blood draw at your home or workplace. Hospital standard tests covering 39 different health markers are carried out in a UKAS-accredited and CQC-compliant laboratory.

Bart mentioned that some men worry about their testosterone levels. York Test provide a straight forward testosterone test.

Visit York Test and use this discount code REST25.

Rest and Recreation is made on Zencastr, because creating podcasts on Zencastr is so easy, you can as well by visiting Zencastr and using our offer code ABECEDER.

Tech Problems? – Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote our referral code WPFNUQHU.

If you have liked this episode of Rest and Recreation, please give it a like and download it. To make sure you do not miss future editions please subscribe.

Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Rest and Recreation, please contact Abeceder.

Matchmaker.fm introduce many guests to Rest and Recreation. Matchmaker.fm is where great hosts and even greater guests are matched, and fantastic podcasts are hatched. Use code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

We recommend potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

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Sometime digital nomad Wendy Sellers reminisces about her travels in the USA and beyond. Find out how she did it.

Where Wendy Sellers grew up, people weren’t really expected to travel. You went to school, you got a job, had a family and then the next generation repeated.

All that changed when Wendy was working as an independent HR consultant and a friend invited her to go travelling.

Now Wendy is an avid traveller. She has visited all fifty US states and also travelled internationally as well.

In this episode of Rest and Recreation, the work life balance podcast from Abeceder Wendy explains to host Michael Millward

• Why she wanted to travel
• How she fits work into her passion for travel
• How travel has enriched her life
• How she travelled and how she prefers to travel now
• Where she would revisit.

This episode will inspire you to embark on your own travel adventure

You can find more information about both Wendy and Michael at ABECEDER.co.uk

Audience Offers – listings include links that may create a small commission for Rest and Recreation

Travel – Holidays can play an important part in preventing burn out. So take a break at trade prices to anywhere in the world on trains, flights, hotels, and holidays as members of The Ultimate Travel Club.

Wendy is the author of

• Suck It Up Buttercup
• The Asshole Whisperer

Health – York Test provides an Annual Health Test. An experienced phlebotomist will complete a full blood draw at your home or workplace. Hospital standard tests covering 39 different health markers are carried out in a UKAS-accredited and CQC-compliant laboratory.

Visit York Test and use this discount code REST25.

Rest and Recreation is made on Zencastr, because creating podcasts on Zencastr is so easy, you can as well by visiting Zencastr and using our offer code ABECEDER.

Tech Problems? – Visit Three for information about business and personal telecom solutions from Three, and the special offers available when you quote our referral code WPFNUQHU.

If you have liked this episode of Rest and Recreation, please give it a like and download it. To make sure you do not miss future editions please subscribe.

Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abeceder is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think!

Being a Guest

If you would like to be a guest on Rest and Recreation, please contact Abeceder.

Matchmaker.fm introduce many guests to Rest and Recreation. Matchmaker.fm is where great hosts and even greater guests are matched, and fantastic podcasts are hatched. Use code MILW10 for a discount on membership.

We recommend that potential guests take one of the podcasting guest training programmes available from Work Place Learning Centre.

Thank you to you for listening.

We appreciate every like, download, and subscription.