Your questions answered - What lies Behind the Edge?

Hello everyone and welcome to The Chronic Edge Unleashed - Behind the Edge.

In this episode we are talking through your questions:

What's new?

What are the foundations to workplace wellbeing?

How do I cope with work and multiple conditions?

How to get involved?

And more.

If you have a question that wasn't answered, please send us some fan mail, I am hoping to do more of these in the near future.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Hello everybody and welcome to The Chronic Hedge Unleashed Behind the Edge. In today's episode, we're going to be doing some QA. A number of questions over the period of time and everything that'll be about what the Edge does and things like that. And I thought it'd be a good idea to maybe go through some of those questions that people might have in there. Now, if you have some questions of yourself and you're on YouTube, you know, pop them in the comments. If you're on audio, send us some fan mail. And if you're on LinkedIn or something along this, just send us a message and we can do more of these in the future that'll be more precise to what you want. And then I can name drop as well and things like that and make it more of a community feel. But these are questions I've had over the period of time, and I want to talk a little bit about them and everything. So I am reading off my notes as as per normal. Um and then we're just going to go through these and we'll just see how we get on. So, first question, and that is I work for a company and I have an AI product, and I'd love to tell your audience about it, or I've got a guest that I and this is about this person, and I think they would be great for the show. Would you talk to me about it? Now, first off, I am really flattered about that and everything that you want to come on the show and everything. That is amazing. But because of my health and the focus of the show, I do need to filter a lot of these out. So if we use an example, on the back of the AI and autism episode, I have had over a hundred people contact, a hundred emails contacting about wanting to be on the show. Now most of them are from America, and obviously I'm UK-based. And for each one of them, I do research, I look up the person to who it is, I look up the company, I see whether or not they have uh neurodivergent focus, uh chronic health conditions, things like that. So then I can filter them out. And well, if they're just a this doesn't mean any offense in in this one, if they're a generic product, that you know it's a product that it does X, Y, and Z, but it's not focused in the areas that obviously we are discussing, I'm not interested. It it doesn't, it it just becomes a generic sort of talk show that I'm talking about business, and I'm sorry about anybody on there. I can do we can do that, you can pick that more left, right, and centre. However, if for example we used a platform and the C the person who created it is has ADHD or a chronic illness or something along those lines, now I'm interested because that is again proving that illness is not a burden is taking somebody like myself who has taken the barriers that they've got and their burden that people think and turned it into something amazing to help other people. Now that I am interested in because I want more people like myself to to be out there and to be doing amazing things. So now I'm interested. So from that hundred, um I researched everybody and I I went back out to them all, and even the ones who were on on the ball for for what I wanted. And from that hundred uh from my filtering list, uh two responded uh and came back and said, Yes, um, here's the stuff that you wanted. Um, and either I can't do that, so one of them brilliantly came back and said, Um, unfortunately I've got no chronic conditions, there's nothing in there, but we have family members that have it, is that count? And and part of me is working out whether or not that does count, because I will have a guest on who talks about autism and an AI who isn't, so he technically is breaking my own rules, but I already had that booked in in advance. Um, so I'm I'm swaying um with this particular one, but I'm I haven't decided on it yet. And then there is another one that has come back and has the details for it as well, and um I am interested in that one. I'm looking at a way of creating a new show for that, which I think we've mentioned before is going to be about foundation spotlight, and it'll be about talking about people with conditions or family members with conditions that have used those things to to then go out and and make some amazing things for for people like us, uh, and more on that later. But as I say, you know, I don't want to be just a maker of a channel. So we if I'll use an example. We we had from that hundred um a person reach out to me with over 40,000 uh followers on YouTube. Um I'm not gonna name names at all. Brilliant, lots of success in that and everything, and wanted to talk about workplace well-being uh and um the numbers and everything, which I thought was great. But no chronic illness, no neurodivergence or anything, but really good at what they do. And I thought about it, I thought, well, yeah, great, you know, that would be great boost for both, well, especially for me, you know. Um but if if if somebody came to me who was you know chronically ill, they had um you know LSD loss or something like that, and everything, and they've started something, and it's a good product, it's the same sort of pro same product as the 40,000 person, and it's um and it and but they're starting off. I take them because there are people, there are chronically ill and our neurodivergent people, proving that illness is not a burden by going out and doing something brilliant, and I would take them over the 40,000 uh YouTuber because they're my area, and and they're your area. A lot of people will listen to this, so you want to prove it just showing that illness is not a burden. So that's the type of thing I've got to go with. So I've got to filter out. So what I will be doing is I will be putting on a sheet uh on their sign-up sheet, and it'll have those information on there, and you've got to say yes on there, yes or no, and things, and then I do have a filtering process in there. I do research you, I'll look you up on LinkedIn, I'll look you up on your socials, I check your thing, I do your data checks, I'll check whether or not I think your your channel's legit. So for example, if you've got I don't know, not this not the same person, obviously, but if you've got like 30,000 or 100,000 followers and you're getting five likes per video, and some videos you're getting a hundred thousand likes, then I think something's up with that. That that's that doesn't seem right. If you're you're getting five or six likes on mobs videos, but these big videos you're getting a hundred thousand likes, you've got fifty thousand followers, something doesn't match up right for me. There, I will deep dive into that a little bit more. And if I don't if I feel that it's not organic, shall we say, I'll avoid it. Because we want genuine conversation, we want genuine engagement here. Those are the rule of thumb in there, and my preference is always UK-based. If you're on YouTube and I keep wiping my eye, uh my conjunctivitis has actually kicked in today. Today is one of my recovery days, I'll talk about them later. So I am UK-based, Blackpool Fleetwood area, and I do prefer to do a lot of the interview ones in person. I don't I just if anybody's watched the Living on the Edge series, they are always in person. I do kind of like that a little bit better. It allows more of a rapport. Uh so I do tend to like them in person. Um, but I will I'm not against doing ones in America and things like that. If you want to ship me over and everything else and put me up and everything, that'd be great. But but not I don't mind the odd little one on um on one of our channels like Zoom or or or Riverside, things like that. But I do prefer UK.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

But I'm happy, happy to chat regardless. Question two Why don't I have a website?

SPEAKER_01 7:58

Well well, I did have a website. A really good website, it's really really good design by a really good friend who is uh has big companies done workshops with me as everything else. Brilliant. But it took away a lot of focus. I was constantly updating it, I was constantly finding different things to update it with and maybe changing this and changing that, and it became my focus instead of actually doing the show or or you know, writing guides or writing other things and everything that actually you know does something other than the website. And I felt it was becoming a little bit more corporate. It was like, hey, here's me, buy this product, buy this guide, buy this audit, you know, and rather than this, the education side of it where we talk about the things and everything, I became I I don't like that. I don't I'm not a big seller person, I like to to share, I'm a share, I'm a cup, a contributor, collaborator, that type of thing. Um so I felt that it was cluttering the message as opposed to centraling it. So there's other things that'll be that are coming on, so they've got the I'll talk about the community space later and and um landing pages and things like that and and the channels. So I felt that the website just wasn't wasn't right at the time. It was it was causing more problems than it was gaining. At some point I might put it back on. Um but at the moment I'm I'm happy with it off. It saves a bit of cash as well, so be honest. So it's for hosting and things like that. Not a lot, but um just for focus-wise, I thought it was better to keep it off. Okay, so next question, um, what am I selling? As we've just talked about, I don't like selling, but you know, obviously got to get paid somewhere. What am I selling? So I did struggle with this for quite a period of time and everything. I was like trying to work out whether or not the edge was a side project to my NHS work if I wanted to move up through the NHS or through the council and things like that. Or was it something bigger? Was there an opportunity to turn it into something else? You know, is it is it more than just the audit? You know, and things people are struggling to whether or not they need the audit because it's so focused on the solution rather than the prevention. But so it it it made me think about it for a period of time of like what I actually do I sell, and I've been thinking about that, and I and I have noticed a little bit recently over the barriers to progression in the work that I do uh and and things, it is becoming a little bit more difficult. I don't do workplace well-being for the NHS, I do a lot of um mental health and social work-related stuff and everything, and and well-being and psychosis type stuff. And to uh progress in that, I would need to do another five years worth of training uh from scratch. Um, I've done some of the training already, but I would have to restart to the training again. So it'd be looking at about another four or five years, and I really don't want to do that uh to then just apply for the job that I could technically do tomorrow. Um, whereas I could spend that five years building this and and really breaking down those barriers um rather than working going working against them and trying to try to do it that way. Um so I I and there is a lot of things happening in in the NHS and and with um councils and things like that that it's making more barriers. Uh and I and so I feel that pivoting to this more is probably the way I'm gonna end up going and it needs it. I am finding it more and more that when people are reaching out and saying, you know, you we need more of this, we need more of this, and I am beginning to think that it needs that. So so I need to know what what I can what I can offer. So these are the types of things that I offer.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

Speaking, obviously.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

I'm doing this podcast, I'm obviously speaking. I have done speaking events before, I have been on panels and I have done other things like that, I've been on other shows and things like that. I've got one coming up soon on the Connectives uh perspectives that's on uh any of your audio channels uh where I've been interviewed from them about some of the stuff that I do because I also write for them as well, the Connectivist. So I have two main talks in that. So the first one is obviously neurodiversity and chronic illness in the workplace and why it's important and how people misunderstand it and the myths and things like that. And then the second one is the foundations to workplace well-being and why it's important and how it how it works. And I'll talk more about the foundation a bit later. Then we do customized workshops, so that's where I'll I'll look at what your needs are, and then I will tailor what I can offer around that so we can give you more what you need, as opposed to me just throwing in a generic workshop that might not work for you, but we can we can talk about it and we can move some stuff around. So some of the things I do in there is understanding about how how autism can be perceived and things, how how to date in the life of somebody with chronic illness and things along those lines, and uh and give you that more of that education side and everything, and then obviously the foundation stuff as well. So the we there's lots of the the what the audit is a workshop as well that we can go through. So there's a different customized workshop, and that's for like your workplace culture, your DEI um motivation for um employees like myself and things like that. So the they're the workshops. Uh next up is uh consulting, and that's for accessibility. So I am an accessibility consultant in there, so I can go into your building, I can work out where your requirements are to probably make it a little bit more accessible. If you've got a you know, steps to get into your building and you've got no accessible wheelchair. Well, you know, that one's pretty obvious, but uh you know, things like that, uh, and and and other elements that we can look at for accessibility, you know, workplace well-being, where we can talk about what other things you can put in that will help you with the employees, maybe chatting with them, things like that, and also neurodivergence. We've we've talked about that. So they're the consulted options there, and then last off, I've got the audit or CEDA. Um, anybody who's listened to uh the episodes will understand that I've talked about CEDA quite a bit, and I'll talk a little bit about that in a few moments. So if you're interested in any of them, let's have a chat and uh you know just reach out contacts, say look, I'm interested in X, Y, and Z, uh, and we'll have a talk and we'll we'll negotiate what your needs are before we'll go into it. And I am not stupidly expensive or anything along those lines. I'm very competitive in that respect. I I want to work with you for what your needs are and everything and make it more long-lasting, uh, and then we can work from there as well. I'm happy to work on panels and things like that, and for events and everything, so always always good for that. So we talked about the audit. So, next question is what is the audit? And now I would advise to look at the episode where we talk about the workplace um uh audit in there. There's three episodes on there at the moment, it might be more on by the time you listen to this. And what that talks about is we have a I have a report that created, and it looks at 11 key matrix and benchmarks that companies can use to determine where their hidden likes are, uh likes are sorry, leaks are in terms of their performance, productivity, and retention. So instead of like at the moment where a lot of people are picking solutions up, like yo, well, there's this platform that I can use that'll be that'll track this. It's uh I can go and listen to an inspirational talk about people that have done X, Y, and Z or other initiatives, you know, like Reiki and and things like that, and retreats and people coming into the office. And it's like an all-you-can-eat buffet, you know, there's there's so many things out there that you can pick and go, I'll have that, I'll have that, I'll have that.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

Which is really good, but it can be expensive. Now, what I offer is you know a little bit different in there, is that what the audit does is it helps you understand what you actually need.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

So instead of you going, right, I'm going to I've got I'm you're with your partner, and your partner said, You know what I like, go and get me the food. And you go so you're doing it for both. And you get up to it, and it's the all you can eat or fate, and you're offered absolutely anything you want.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

What does your partner or hell I can't remember?

SPEAKER_01 16:42

I'll get her this, I'll get her that, I'll get her this one, and you take it back, and she goes, I don't want that. Now partly is along the lines, well, why didn't you tell me what you wanted before you get up? But that's the point, because you've just done that, you've just gone to the wellness, um, all you can eat buffet with no idea what you actually wanted or what the company sat at the desk at the table wanted and gone, well, I'll have this, this, and this because it sounds good. And to be honest, you know, they have a lot of their things that can prove that you know why theirs is good, but I don't know. So I'm just gonna have this, this, and this, and you take it back and it's wrong.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

So what you can do is you know help you understand exactly what you need, and then you can pick out those right options, and that's that's what that's what the audit does.

SPEAKER_01 17:38

It looks at the foundation levels of what your requirements are. Now, this can be offered as a white label service. So if you've got a well-being, so if you're a well-being provider, so you say you've got a platform, let's just use the platform, it's an easier one, uh, but the the people don't know why they should have it. You could use this audit to look at their foundation levels and go, right, well, your problem is retention. This is how the platform helps that, and then it helps you sell the platform better because then they understand the return on investment for having that because that's their need, and that's what they need it for, and that's why the platform's great. Again, with other different things that would work as well. Um, and then so that's a white label option. Uh, the other option is then to for me to write one for you, uh, on which I'll go through that, go through all the details of what talks will write down paperwork stuff and everything else, and we'll get you, and I'll individually go through it and then I'll talk you through it. My preference is always to do it as a workshop, to be honest, because if I do it as a workshop and I talk you through everything that you need, then you can customize it to your company's needs and everything, and that gives you more um you know, better work with it and everything else.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

So that that that's the audience a little bit more when I talk about some stuff later.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

Some this question: what makes the chronic edge different to other well-being providers? As I said before, the internet is absolutely full of workplace well-being um initiatives from Reiki to retreats, talks to tailored platforms, and they all come with an absolutely great track record to why they're successful. They'll say, You're all for our clients, this is what our clients have said, this is what the data says, you know, blah blah blah blah. And it all backs it up of why they can sell it to you. However, they don't know your business, and they don't know you, they don't know your employees. Everything is generic based on what they've done, as opposed to what you might need. So they might say, well, this boosts presentedism. But your presented might be really good, but your attention's rubbish.

SPEAKER_00 19:49

But it doesn't help you with your attention. So you've just wasted a load of money. The product is brilliant, but it's not what you need.

SPEAKER_01 19:59

It's like um so I've got uh obviously kidney disease and and and arthritis, and and bananas are are brilliant in potassium for for fibre and things like that, but they're dreadful for chronic kidney disease, so I can't have them. So if I went online and said, right, well, you know, illness thing and everything else, I didn't put in the chronic kidney disease, let's pretend we don't know about the chronic kidney disease. So my friend's looking it up and going, right, Elliot, these are I bought you a bunch of bananas because they're absolutely brilliant for your uh for your for your fibre, your osteoarthritis. I've looked it up, here's all the data, here's all the things. All these other people have used bananas before, they're absolutely brilliant, they'd be perfect for you. And I have to go, well, that's great, but I've got chronic kidney disease, I can't eat them. And they're like, Oh, well, we didn't know I didn't know that. I was like, Well you never asked. And actually I did tell you, but you you've you've you've missed that information out.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

And that's exactly what it's like, is they're absolutely fantastic. Only if they work with what you need.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

And if you've like me, chronic kidney disease and the bananas are useless, I may as well have been handed a hand grenade. I mean, it's gonna be the same same benefit, you know, nothing. So, you know, understanding those needs first and go right, well got your plate of lettuce, you know, it's still like ah, I've got your carrots, you know. It doesn't matter. I've got you something that matches both. Fantastic, that's brilliant. Oh, you're brilliant, you've really understood me and everything else, and that's what your business is in. Oh, you understand me and everything. So you've got it right. So it uh when you're looking at that about measuring overall success and everything, you've got to you've got to understand how your metrics first, anyway. You know, if you're gonna be measuring the success of the Reiki massage, you've got to understand what your numbers are beforehand, and then you've got to understand what your numbers are afterwards, and then from that you'll be able to work out whether or not paying for the reiki. Was worth it. Now that might be a nominal amount of money, but let's use something a bit higher where you're paying a lot like 50 quid per per employee or something per year, per month, whatever, and then you work it out and the actual return on investment is a tenner, and you're paying 50, uh well, you've just wasted 40 pounds per employee per month. Whereas if you would targeted it and understood it, it could be like 800 pounds and then you made 50 quid and then brilliant return on investment. So that's where like the seed of and and the chronic edge is different because we we look at the targeting, the targeting side of it from a foundation perspective. And so the other part as well is you look at it, go right. Well, we're paying£25,000 a year. Um, how does that compare in our sector? Oh well, we're above average in our sector.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

Um but in the town, the town you can go and work for the coffee shop for 28,000. So we're not competitive in the area.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

So maybe we need to be paying more money. So these things like that and all other trackable elements. In addition, the chronic illness and neurodivergence in the workplace is often viewed as an expense or a red flag to maybe not do, but but by using data and education that we talk about this, we can flip that into a profit-driven strategy, and that's how the edge is different. We talk about those things to make it more measurable for you so you're able to get the rest of the best bagging for your book, but also to turn myths into profit-driven strategies, and that's why we do differently. So, do I offer guides and reports, etc.? I've had a few people asking about data reports and everything. So I do have this book. I think we can just plot that there. This book, I will put it in the I will put a link, and anybody who's listening to audio will go in. Well, I can't see anything. But this is this is my book that's out at the moment. This is um burning profits, ten myths, destroying your workforce, real strategies for retention and return on investment. And to give you a bit of information on it, on what it says, it says Burning Profit looks at the 10 misconceptions impacting employees that uh that can destroy a thriving workforce, and how debunking myths and making a few alterizing alterations those same employees could help increase the organisation's productivity and ultimately their profitability. This book discusses the impact of long-term and short-term illness, dissatisfaction in the workplace stigma, workplace culture, and much more. Available on Amazon, you can pick that up. That'll be have a lot of information in there. So we have uh elements of you know, high costs, so we talk about the different conditions in there, talking about mindset, uh, we talk about burden, uh, lots of different elements in there, laziness, age, all of those types of things that'll be brilliant for you as a starting point to why all this is kind of important, and that's there. I will be writing a new one. I'm I've just started on there, uh talking a little bit more about general sort of uh condition stuff and everything else, and and workplace well-being as a um as a data set and tracking and information and things, and that's being worked on at the moment. I'll talk you to talk more about that at a later point. So, in relation to guides and things, and now coming at the end of this month, finally, uh, we'll be our community space. I'll be we'll talk more on that later, and that you'll be able to access exclusive content, guides, templates, links, and a lot more. And our newsletter is also gonna drop at the end of the month as well. And uh that will have each each month will have a little bit of information in there, uh, some data stuff and everything else. And in relation to our data, I get mine from uh Delote, from Gallop, I have reports that are out there and everything, information that is uh accessible across the board. You just gotta work out the calculation sides of stuff for it and everything. There will be things in there, there'll be other other elements in there as well. So the stuff that I put in in when I do the videos and I put in like you know the kidney disease links and things like that, there'll be pages on that as well. So that'll be available soon. That is a paid um space, not too expensive, but you'll be able to access all your stuff there, and that'll be a way that I can uh can get paid to providing all of this information. Uh next question is um, as someone with chronic illness and neurodivergence, how do I cope with day today? Well, as you can see with my eye am I in a nightmare with that today. Today is a bit of a flare day. I I had a proper flare out yesterday, uh very fatigued and everything. Uh, this morning, um, it was incredibly difficult to eat breakfast. I'd made breakfast, I looked at breakfast, but I was too tired uh to actually eat anything. But I I have done, I have done, and obviously I'm up now and I'm I'm doing I'm doing some work. But the days can be a struggle, and that's why it's important about building in strategies. So during the week, for example, Monday to Friday, um I have my supplements, so I I have certain supplements, so I'll have like a multivitamin, I'll have a gram of uh creatine or creatine, depending on how you pronounce it. Um I'll have um uh vitamin B, uh cod liver oil, vitamin D, some cinnamon, uh my yoghurt, no, sorry, cave yogurt, uh uh porridge, oats, and a gut health uh thing from Holland and Barra, just to uh I can't remember what it's called, so it's uh from natural that's it. And I'll use that in the morning every day for five days a week. Later on in the evening, I'll have a magnesium tablet, I'll have uh an EQE10 and a Baswala as well. I'll drink a lot of hot water, maybe have an organic coffee in the morning. I'll do an organic filter coffee in the morning. I don't tend to eat much other things like that. I'll have like a sandwich in the afternoon and things, and then whatever tea we're having together, uh, because I'm married, so we're eating together, obviously. Uh a lot of chicken related stuff, a lot of white feet, a lot of rices, a lot of vegetables. More colourful plate, the better. And so five days a week, that's that. I don't tend to eat chocolate, I don't tend to eat um any do any alcohol, I don't tend to do any of the negative, negative foods, should we say, uh, which because I have got a massive sweet tooth, so that is really difficult. Uh, and then at the weekend I can choose to have anything I want. If I want pizza, I can have a pizza. If I want takeaway, I can do that. But it's so my body has, but I don't take my supplements, it's so it gives my body that time to rest, but it also allows me that I won't binge because I know that I'm not saying I can't have it, I'm just choosing to have it at a different day, so it reduces a lot of binging and things like that. So there's some of the things that I do there. I also do a lot of walking. In my job, I do a lot of walking, not this job, but in my actual job, in my other job that I do a lot of walking in that too. Um, and I do try and get to the gym at least once a week if possible. I do love exercise, but sometimes it's very difficult to go. For various reasons. So they're the types of things that I put in in there. The other parts and bits and things, you know, is uh building rest massively infrared days. So I call them recovery days. So for example, if you were doing them like in a marathon, for example, and you know, you can't do the marathon, then go and go and do another marathon, unless you're like a superhuman, you need to have recovery days to recover from doing it. It's very much the similar with with chronic health. Recovery day is not a lazy day, it's not a pillow day, it is a recovery day, it is a rest day. It is vital for you to do this once a week. If you can do it, you know, where you have like parts of your day where you can have bits of recovery during your parts of the day, that's probably very good too. But if not, you know, trying to have a recovery day is very important. Now, during that period of recovery, it's not a wasted day. You've got to be looking at it of um you know, educating yourself, you know, reading, listening, or even just resting. Sometimes just switching off is is vital in there. And to be honest, most people could do with those sorts of days, it actually massively reduces burnout. So that they're my recovery days, they're vital. Mindset training, I do have so much mindset training. Whenever I'm out and about, people see me with headphones on. Now, usually I'm listening to music, um, obviously, but but a lot of times, depending on how my day's gone, especially if it's been near a flare, that I listen to a lot of mindset training. So I'll listen to things about saying, hey, you know, you're good enough, you know, you're things are good, this is how we keep moving forward, those types of things. And they're really important to have mindset training. I I remember when I first got sick, I did mindset training uh for 10 minutes in the morning and ten minutes at night. So I woke up to positivity and I went to bed on positivity, and that that was vital into getting me back out of bed, back into work. Because when a flare kicks in, it can be incredibly depressive because you're you might not be able to get up the stairs, you might need help to go to the bathroom, you might need you know, you can't take your socks off because it's too painful, you know, all these different things and you feel really bad about yourself, you just and that burden element starts kicking in. So having things like mindset training really helps with that because it keeps your mind focused to be able to look, it's a rest day today, recovery, see how we go tomorrow, see how we go in a few hours, and then and that really massively helps in there. So it's about having these strategies, and finally having a purpose, um, really that can be the strongest driver you've got. They talk about um, you know, it's uh motivation can only get you so far where discipline can keep you going. Think of the discipline as your purpose. So, my purpose, you know, to help a million people understand that illness is not a burden. That's a great driver to keep going, to keep doing this stuff, to keep doing these thoughts, even when I'm having a flare, to keep recording, you know, and things like that, because this could help somebody else, and that's that one more person towards that million people. So if for example, in your even on your recovery, you can do that every day, even on recovery days. So, you know, I can listen to podcasts, I can listen to talks, I can uh find out information, I could rest to go again, I can switch off for a few hours. It's it is is brilliant, you know, in understanding having that purpose as well, because it can keep you driving and understand why you keep doing what you do.

SPEAKER_00 33:13

Because the alternative just isn't worth thinking about. So we're done.

SPEAKER_01 33:21

I did probably have another question that I was thinking about earlier on, but I completely forgot what that question might have been because I didn't write it down. Um it was just I was thinking about it as I was uh as I was writing. But that'll do. I think that'll do for today. I really appreciate your time. We're gonna be back next week with illness is not a burden. Not fully worked out which condition I'm gonna do. Probably maybe fibromyalgia arthritis. See see where we are, see what the layer of the land is looking like, and then we can go from there. So I appreciate time. Uh I hope the Q ⁇ A has helped you understand a little bit more about the Chronic Hedge, uh Chronic Hedge Unleashed, and obviously myself, and things that you can do to be getting involved and and how these are going. I think uh when I think back about some of the episodes that we've done already, um some of them have been really great, and some of them will need more expansion on for definite. Uh do check out uh Connectives, so they're on uh they're online. Connectiverse um perspectives, so it's an online magazine for disability. We're not sponsored by it, I just know them personally. Um and uh they they do a lot with neurodivergence uh in the blackpool file area, and uh so they're on doing talks as well with a lot of people who are neurodiverse talking about what they do, and I'm on on there on one of their newer episodes talking about uh what I do and why I do get quite emotional in that one because I'm an emotional person. This thing is is my life, so of course it's uh gonna be emotional. But uh, if you get a chance, do check that out, and I will set some links on for it as well. We're there again. Maybe I'll get this line right today. You know, I'm always getting it wrong. I've I've I've had to adapt it a few times and everything to try and get it right. And as you know, I don't edit, so I usually just go, oh no, that was wrong. But we're gonna try it again. So now is the time to unleash your edge in your career, in your business, and in your life.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

So remember, illness is not a burden. Hey, got it right.

SPEAKER_01 35:34

Thank you, and I'll see you next week. Bye bye.