Inspiring Talks Brighton #014

Set to inspire you this month will be:

JESSICA LORIMER: “The Art of Sales - And How It Can Make You A Happier Person”
Jessica Lorimer is a Sales Coach and Leadership Expert who specialises in the psychology of sales and the impact that it makes on your bottom line and the legacy that you leave. She helps business owners skyrocket their profits, monetise their message and become happier business people. Jessica has been featured in Forbes, Channel 5, We Are The City and is the author of #1 Amazon Bestseller, Smart Leaders Sell. With over 12 years of experience, Jessica is finally ready to expose the true side to everyday selling and how it can make you happier.

LEE BRIDGES: “The Transition (do shit, get shit done).
Lee Bridges is a motivational speaker, step-dad, professional musician, college and university lecturer, successful business owner, and amongst many other things, someone who will give you the tools to absolutely own your life and get what you want but previously never believed you could have. Lee has changed the lives of a plethora of people of all ages and walks of life for the better, allowing them to break free from normalcy and absolutely own their lives. Lee’s new book (set for release in Winter of this year) "The Transition: Do Shit Get Shit Done”, details in baby steps how to live and not just exist. Whether you want to start a successful business, start a new hobby, make an existing hobby into a career, or completely wipe out anxiety and low self esteem, Lee will have your back every step of the way and show you what’s possible.

RUTH SMETHURST: “Bringing The Sweetness Back into Life With a Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes.”
You know how every friendship group has the weird / slightly off centre one?! I was overcome with the joyful realisation that I AM THAT ONE FRIEND. From a strict religious upbringing, to street Theatre performance in Eastern Europe, gym rat with a fascination for bodies, to a fetish for Irish men from which the only good thing that ever came was my daughter Niamh and penchant for fiddle music. This gorgeous life I get to live constantly surprises me with learnings and lovings and challenges and chocolate. And the only thing I love more than coffee and my daughter is to live in a world where our collective stories get to wend their way into our hearts connecting, creating and inspiring us to become the amazing human beings we are. But the journey to this place of enjoying my imaginative and often quirky life came from my story or guilt ridden angst, hopeless resignation and almost losing my daughter to a disease that no one really knows until it moves into their home like a dementor from Azkaban. I speak fast, I share joy and most uniquely I spread imagination like chlamdydia in an episode of Skins.

RUSS GROOMS: “Using Music As A Tool To Manage Mental Health Challenges”
As a life-long musician diagnosed with bipolar 10 years ago, I have managed my condition through the creative outlet of music. Through this journey I have come to understand how changes in mood are essential to the creative process and have learnt to embrace my condition as a fundamental part of my artistic practice. This talk will involve some audience participation.

BEN CLENCH: "The Inspirational Memoir of Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor”
I had a horrific accident in 2010 being run over on the pavement in the Dominican Republic which instantly killed my girlfriend who was working in Haiti for the UN on relief work for the Earthquake that happened earlier that year! Surprisingly some doctors were just in front of the car that hit us and on hearing this they reversed to see what had happened. They saw the aftermath of what had happened and picked up my body and drove me straight to hospital, which undoubtedly saved my life. Following this the police knocked on my parent’s door at 1am and notified my family what had happened. There shock disbelief was that my Dad booked flights to get out there as soon as possible with my brother to make sure I got the treatment I needed and repatriate me. Since then I have done everything I can to recover, done another Masters run a half marathon and went back to Glastonbury. During my Masters I was seen by Hammersmith Hospital and they did some brain scans and asked several practitioners what they thought my outcome was and compared it to another patients scan who was in a wheel chair? Surprisingly they all said that I was in a wheel chair and the other guy was fine. He then advised me to write about this to give inspiration to others in similar situations. As such creativity is a wonderful way to overcome challenges in life.

Tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inspiring-talks-brighton-014-tickets-47988303307

Get inspired, learn new things & meet nice people! We look forward to seeing you.

Lots of Love, Your Host

Sally Garozzo

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