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Crisis What Crisis?
Andy Coulson
Frequency: 1 episode/11d. Total Eps: 170
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Bonus Episode: Tom Hayes’ Crisis Comforts
Season 7 · Episode 141
mardi 11 février 2025 • Duration 05:20
Who better to explore the road to resilience than someone who has endured one of the most dramatic falls from grace?
Tom Hayes was once a high-flying city trader, living a life of wealth and status— until the notorious LIBOR scandal in 2015 changed everything. Convicted and imprisoned, he lost his fortune, his luxury cars and his home - all while maintaining that his conviction was unjust. His trial also brought an unexpected revelation— his Asperger’s diagnosis, which he argues played a crucial role in his actions and the case against him. Here are Tom Hayes’ three crisis comforts.
Full episode: https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/libor-scandal-trader-tom-hayes-on-prison-anger-and-aspergers/
This podcast is brought to you by Crisis What Crisis? Productions and Coulson Partners
Host: Andy Coulson
CWC team: Jane Sankey, Hana Walker-Brown and Bill Griffin
With special thanks to Ioana Barbu and the brilliant people at Global
For all PR and guest approaches please contact – podcast@coulsonpartners.com
SPECIAL EPISODE – Wrongly convicted Libor trader Tom Hayes tells his incredible story of resilience.
Season 7 · Episode 140
mercredi 23 juillet 2025 • Duration 58:49
Tom Hayes is the city trader who spent five years in prison and who lost his wealth, reputation and home thanks to an appalling miscarriage of justice. Since his conviction in 2014, Tom has always maintained his innocence and the Supreme Court has now officially confirmed that he was, in fact, innocent.
In this emotional episode Tom explains how managed the anger and bitterness that came with the near total unravelling of his life. He also talks about how the trial brought an unexpected revelation – his Asperger’s diagnosis , which he argues played a crucial role in his actions and the case against him.
And Tom – who was initially sentenced to 14years, later reduced to 11 - talks at length about his experiences inside some of Britain’s toughest prisons and his 10year fight for justice.
This episode was first released in February.
Five Lessons You'll Learn:
Denial delays the pain but doubles the damage.
Your story’s not over unless you quit.
You lose control, you lose yourself.
Rock bottom builds harder fighters.
You can lose everything and still rebuild.
This podcast is brought to you by Crisis What Crisis? Productions and Coulson Partners
Host: Andy Coulson
CWC team: Jane Sankey, Hana Walker-Brown, Rex Fisher and 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
100th guest special - Singer Katie Melua on teenage fame, a psychotic breakdown and how she found her way back
Season 7 · Episode 131
lundi 25 novembre 2024 • Duration 01:01:26
Selling 11 million albums, more than a million concert tickets and picking up 56 platinum awards along the way, Katie Melua is one of Britain’s most successful singer songwriters.
In this episode, she takes us on a very candid and emotional journey - from Georgia to Belfast to London and to fame at just 19 years old where she was thrown immediately onto the treadmill of recording, tours and promotion. But the impact of her sudden stardom took a heavy toll on Katie’s mental health.
In 2010 she suffered an acute psychotic breakdown. In frankly frightening detail, Katie tells us what happened but also shares the actionable, practical tools and insights that helped her find a way back to herself.
Katie’s is a story of epic success but also of trauma and of recovery … all of it in the public gaze. An amazing conversation with our 100th guest.
Links
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katiemeluaofficial/
Website: https://katiemelua.com/
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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, Linus Difford
With special thanks to Ioana Barbu and the brilliant people at Global
For all PR and guest approaches please contact – podcast@coulsonpartners.com
41. Ukraine Special Episode – Jeremy Bowen speaks to Andy Coulson from Kyiv
Season 5
vendredi 1 avril 2022 • Duration 55:35
Jeremy’s dramatic dispatches, with his trademark focus on the moving, at times frankly horrific, human stories of loss and despair, have revealed the appalling impact of Russia’s invasion.
This is a truly frontline crisis conversation with a man who felt compelled to put himself in danger once more to tell what he describes as the most important story of his 38year career in news.
A love for, and perhaps even an addiction to, the story is what led him to join the BBC team in Ukraine. As Jeremy played down the risks of his assignment, our pod was interrupted by a tannoy message from the hotel suggesting to guests that they should use the bomb shelter below to stay safe through the night. Jeremy, of course, was having none of it.
In this conversation he gives us his brilliant analysis of how we got here and where this war might take us. But Jeremy also is able to give us a powerful, first-person account of how the people of Ukraine have dealt with an existential crisis for them, their families and for their country. “They are surviving because they are stoic,” says Jeremy.
So, this is a unique episode packed with real-time crisis insight. I hope you enjoy it and we’ll be back with a new series of Crisis What Crisis? soon.
Jeremy and I would ask that that if you find this episode useful please donate to:
https://donation.dec.org.uk/ukraine-humanitarian-appeal
Host – Andy Coulson
Producer – Louise Difford
Full transcript available at: https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/ukraine-special-episode-jeremy-bowen-speaks-to-andy-coulson-from-kyiv/
40. Nick Robinson on political crisis, cancer and the long-tail of grief
Season 5
vendredi 4 février 2022 • Duration 01:08:38
Since 2015 Nick has also, of course, fronted Radio 4’s Today Programme, a role in which his piercing interview style has made him respected and feared by our politicians in equal measure.
But Nick is also someone who has faced down a personal crisis of the most dramatic and tragic nature. Aged just 18 whilst on holiday in France, he was involved in a head on car crash which instantly claimed the lives of his two friends James Nelson and Will Redhead. Nick was left trapped in the back seat as the car exploded into flames. How he escaped is still a mystery to him. How he came to terms with such an appalling trauma is one of the issues we discuss in depth here.
Another is the desperate moment in February 2015 when Nick was told by his doctor that he had lung cancer. He underwent emergency surgery and chemotherapy. Thankfully the tumour was removed but in the process the nerves leading to Nick’s vocal chords were damaged. He feared that he’d lost his voice forever – and with it the career he had worked so hard to build.
So, although this is a fascinating and revealing podcast about what Nick has seen and learnt about political crisis, it’s more usefully, I think, a conversation about his approach to those challenges much closer to home. The Nick Robinson Crisis Formula is stoic and no-nonsense. But it’s also respectful to the ever-present danger … that long tail of crisis that can suddenly whip around and hit you when you least expect it. Something Nick has experienced himself very recently.
My thanks to Nick for such a valuable conversation – and for giving us such a great end to Series 5.
Nick's Crisis Cures:
1. A hot bath - gets you relaxed, opens your mind to recovery.
2. Fresh Air - it’s a cliché but a walk round the park. Put the phone away, breathe and everything seems clearer.
3. Communication – if your crisis is caused by others, try to work out what’s going on in their head. See it from their perspective.
Links:
Election Notebook – https://amzn.to/3xlLOaY
Live From Downing Street – https://amzn.to/3BflrET
Host – Andy Coulson
Producer – Louise Difford
Full transcript available here: https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/nick-robinson-on-political-crisis-cancer-and-the-long-tail-of-grief/
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Some Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk
Full transcript available here: https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/nick-robinson-on-political-crisis-cancer-and-the-long-tail-of-grief/
39. Ellis Watson on the search for his Mum, success from crisis and how to spot a bad billionaire
Season 5
vendredi 28 janvier 2022 • Duration 57:30
Ellis has worked at the sharp end of corporate crisis – heading a national newspaper business, turning around The Greyhound bus operation in the US and as Global CEO of Simon Cowell’s Syco Corporation, before taking charge of UK media group DC Thomson.
But behind his professional success is a personal story of resilience and hope. Ellis was given up for adoption as a baby and his teenage search for his birth parents ended with a truly astonishing revelation.
This is a story told with humour and passion but without a scintilla of self-pity. He speaks with incredible candour about the extreme ups and downs of a career spent in the company of billionaires, one of whom was Rupert Murdoch – the boss he walked out on in a scene worthy of Succession. Ellis also reflects on the mountain top drama that almost cost him his life.
Known as one of the most inspiring and entertaining keynote speakers in the country, Ellis is one of the few people to have been invited back to deliver a second TEDx talk. In this conversation he provides brilliant insights for anyone interested in how crisis can fuel and drive growth and deliver life-changing perspective.
Ellis’ Crisis Cures:
1. Exercise – I hate the thought of doing it but afterwards it gives a sense of calm and perspective. In crisis it makes you feel like you’ve achieved something, no matter how modest. It makes you feel like you can take control and overcome adversity and difficulty.
2. Sleep – Crisis causes you to have interrupted or poor sleep and of course when you have poor sleep you’re much, much worse at handling crisis. As vicious circles go, it’s about as destructive a thing as you can get.
3. Dogs – I get excellent counsel and feedback from a chat with my dogs. Mine think I’m pretty clever and agree with me – especially just before they’re about to get fed.
Host – Andy Coulson
Producer – Louise Difford
Full transcript available here: https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/ellis-watson-on-the-search-for-his-mum-success-from-crisis-and-how-to-spot-a-bad-billionaire/
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Some Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk
38. SHORTCUTS - Roopa Farooki on grief, betrayal and Boris
Season 5
vendredi 21 janvier 2022 • Duration 19:14
In February 2020, Roopa - who is the daughter of the celebrated Pakistani novelist, Nasim Ahmed Farooki - lost her sister Kiron to breast cancer. Then weeks later she found herself struggling to cope in an overstretched and under-resourced ITU department, caring for the critically ill Covid-19 patients who were arriving daily at an alarming rate.
Her powerful memoir Everything is True, acclaimed by the Guardian as a 2022 must read, is a story of bravery at a time of personal grief and professional crisis - written in snatched moments between 13-hour shifts. It’s both moving and at times shocking with its brutally honest account of life on the NHS frontline.
Roopa is not a woman to hold back about the challenges she and her colleagues faced, not least for her and others in the higher risk BAME demographic, but also of the betrayal she and others have felt following the No10 party revelations.
As she says: “It still makes me angry, that while we were giving up an ITU bed for our Prime Minister they were not even personally following the rules that they put in place for the population, rules which were robbing relatives of their last moments with their families.”
This is an immensely revealing and timely Crisis Shortcut episode providing a powerful perspective on the Covid crisis.
Roopa's Crisis Cures:
1 - Routine. I think stick to what creates comfort in your routine. I always do half an hour of exercise and that includes a bit of yoga and I always feel better for doing it.
2 – Writing. I write a bit every day to try make some sense of what’s happening in my life. As opposed to reading or doom-scrolling through what everyone else has thought, I think sometimes collect your own thoughts and to put them down. I think that’s really, really helpful for me.
3 - Believe in what you’re passionate about. For me I’ve always been passionate about looking after my patients and providing care. There is nothing else that I would rather do than do what I do every day.
Links:
Everything is True: A junior doctor’s story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic – https://amzn.to/3U6Kfrp
Host – Andy Coulson
Producer – Louise Difford
Full transcript available here: https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/shortcuts-roopa-farooki-on-grief-betrayal-and-boris/
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Some Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk
37. Professor Steve Peters on how to train your brain for crisis
Season 5
vendredi 14 janvier 2022 • Duration 01:03:22
Steve’s landmark book has become a bible for anyone looking to cope with crisis or break down the barriers that can prevent us from living a fuller, happier life. During an illustrious career Steve has worked with people facing life threatening challenges to athletes looking to improve performance - most famously the British cycling team.
The Chimp Paradox, which gave Steve rock star status as a psychiatrist, sets out a mind management system based on the premise that there are three forces at play in our brains. The emotional and primal ‘inner chimp’ - who thinks and acts for us without our permission, the ‘inner human’ who is the real person – rational and humane - and our memory bank, the ‘computer’.
For me it’s been a powerful and entirely logical toolkit for handling stress and those moments of difficulty in my life. In our chat Steve talks about how the chimp system applies itself to crisis and how it can help anyone, to navigate their way through a world increasingly influenced by those black and white judgements of social media. His new book – ‘A Path Through the Jungle’ (link below) sits neatly alongside The Chimp Paradox as a ‘Hayne’s Manual’ for the brain.
This episode is a fascinating analysis of what crisis actually is and how our minds work when we’re in the midst of significant trouble. Full of gems I guarantee you’ll want to make a note of.
Steve's Crisis Cures:
1 – My values – I get myself on my own and ask myself, ‘Have I done the right thing? Have you got integrity, honesty? Are you working with compassion? If I know that to be true, I can’t stop the world thinking what it thinks. Therefore, whatever the crisis is, that stops me being thrown around.
2 – Acceptance – I find this as soon as I can so I can work forward in the situation, rather than fighting the injustice or crisis.
3 – Perspective. At the end of the day, we have very short lives. Now I’m older, perspective is really important to maintaining the status quo in my mind.
Links:
https://chimpmanagement.com/
https://profstevepeters.com/
A Path Through the Jungle – https://amzn.to/3eRPhYo
The Chimp Paradox – Book - https://amzn.to/3DsJWBd
Host – Andy Coulson
Producer – Louise Difford
Full transcript available here: https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/prof-steve-peters-on-how-to-train-your-brain-for-crisis/
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Some Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk
36. SHORTCUTS - Peter Owen Jones on adoption, authenticity, and unanswered questions
Season 5
vendredi 24 décembre 2021 • Duration 14:49
Known to many as the ‘vicar in the hat’, and seen often on TV, Peter is an unconventional priest – whose views and approach are often at odds with classic Church of England doctrine.
Given up for adoption at six weeks old, he says this void left him feeling as though he had a space inside himself, full of unanswered questions. So, when he himself became a father, he set out to find his birth mother. Six months later they met for the first time on a train platform in Scotland.
During our conversation Peter discusses the power of embracing vulnerability and putting it to work. As we all reach the end of another difficult year, there are some useful lessons here which can be put to good use, regardless of your faith. A perfect Crisis Shortcut for Christmas.
Peter's Crisis Cures:
1 – Lie down. When you are feeling overwhelmed, when you’re feeling deeply distraught and the full force of crisis hits – lie down.
2 – Pray. To open yourself to feel the full force of the pain you are experiencing and invite healing into that place.
3 – Walk. St Francis of Assisi said “Solvitur ambulando – it can be solved by walking.”
Host – Andy Coulson
Producer – Louise Difford
Full transcript available here: https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/36-shortcuts-peter-owen-jones-on-adoption-authenticity-and-unanswered-questions/
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Some Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk
35. Pauline Stonehouse on injustice, scandal and survival
Season 5
vendredi 17 décembre 2021 • Duration 01:08:32
This is an appalling story of an entirely unnecessary crisis, driven by a misguided, institutional belief that hundreds upon hundreds of sub post masters were not pillars of their communities but instead that they were all, individually and quite independently – sophisticated criminals. In Pauline’s case, the post office decided to trust a machine over a mum and an employee who was both respected and experienced. And then they set out to ruin her life, with her husband and two daughters as collateral damage.
This was a very British scandal, uncovered with thanks to journalists like the brilliant Nick Wallis and those victims are now set to get compensation.
Pauline handled the unravelling of her happy life with incredible strength, without a hint of self-pity and as you’ll hear, with a heavy reliance on her sense of humour – a much undervalued crisis tool.
This is the story of an ordinary woman thrown into the centre of a truly extraordinary crisis and it’s packed with lessons for anyone who has lost or fears they might lose control of their lives.
Pauline’s Crisis Cures:
1 – Sense of humour
2 – Reading – I love the sense of escaping into another world. I read anything and everything on my kindle. I download books constantly. Whatever spikes my fancy. From love stories to thrillers, to historical.. whatever floats my boat at the time
3 – Jigsaw puzzles – I love them. A big 2000 piece on my dining table! I’ve been doing them since before my daughter was born. It’s another form of methodical escapism. It occupies your mind in a different way.
Links:
Justice For Sub postmasters Alliance https://www.jfsa.org.uk/
Pauline Stonehouse twitter https://twitter.com/PaulineStoneho2/status/1466494526655283207
Nick Wallis’ book – https://amzn.to/3U9sCqP
Horizon Scandal Fund - https://www.horizonscandalfund.org/
Host – Andy Coulson
Producer – Louise Difford
Full transcript available here: https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/pauline-stonehouse-on-injustice-scandal-and-survival/
Stream/Buy ‘Allies’ by Some Velvet Morning: https://ampl.ink/qp6bm
Some Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk
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