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Colby Pearce
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  • The Secure Start Podcast Episode 9: Simon Benjamin
    Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. Joining me for this episode is an experienced leader and consultant in the complex care sector.My guest this episode is Simon Benjamin . . . Simon’s BioFor two decades, Simon experienced a wide range of care models in disability, mental health, special education, out-of-home care and Aboriginal childcare services. This included caring for deeply traumatised children in both community-based and state-run residential care homes.More than 10 years of this time was spent immersed in the well-established therapeutic milieu workplaces of The Mulberry Bush School in the United Kingdom, and Lighthouse Foundation in Australia, having been CEO for more than five years at the latter. Simon now draws on this rich career experience, together with the latest research and evidence-based approaches, to empower organisational leaders, teams and frontline workers to better manage their own wellbeing and deliver optimal outcomes.While his work supports a broad range of clients, Simon specialises in Out of Home Care, Mental Health, Homelessness sectors.Simon’s vision is to see people, organisations and the human services sector deliver the care that vulnerable people need to enable them to reach their potential.Simon's Website: https://blueskies.net.au/DisclaimerInformation reported by guests of this podcast is assumed to be accurate as stated. Podcast owner Colby Pearce is not responsible for any error of facts presented by podcast guests. In addition, unless otherwise specified, opinions expressed by guests of this podcast may not reflect those of the podcast owner, Colby Pearce.
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  • The Secure Start Podcast Episode 8: Lynne Peyton
    Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. I am Colby Pearce, and joining me for this episode is a vastly experienced leader and consultant to top teams in the child safeguarding and community services sectors. My guest is Lynne Peyton. BioBorn and educated in Belfast Northern Ireland, Lynne’s spirit for adventure was fostered in the Officers’ Training Corps where she participated in a  wide range of adventure training and leadership activities, including a transfer to the Virginia National Guard during a temporary social work position in a family crisis centre in Richmond in 1980. She also gained her Private Pilot license during that time.A qualified Social Worker, Lynne is a former senior manager in Health and Social Services, having held both operational and strategic management responsibilities for mental health and services for children and families. She was the director of a not-for-profit children’s charity for a number of years. She is also a master practitioner in NLP and neuro strategies, which she believes are essential to building rapport and great communication. Since establishing her consultancy almost 20 years ago, Lynne has been passionate about helping organisations working with vulnerable children to get better results. Her CORE Leadership Programme (Communication, Optimisation; Relationships, Evaluation) simultaneously targets executive teams as well as managers at all levels in organisations to bring about changes in attitude, culture, confidence, performance and outcomes.  In the words of one CEO,  ‘Lynne has an amazing ability tounlock individual potential and bring out the best in people and inorganisations’.Key areas include: Strategic development Building effective top teams Coaching and mentoring senior managersMediationEmpowering  front line team leadersLynne has always had an entrepreneurial spirit and has been investing in real estate since the 1990s, with a portfolio of residential and commercial properties in UK and USA. She bought her first house in an auction in Belfast – so she could get practical experience, as you can only learn so much from theory.She had significant losses in the 2008 recession and she and her husband had to learn some hard lessons and develop new smarter investment strategies, and learn to read the market and anticipate trends.She has recently invested in the housing market in Sydney and is partnering with her son and his colleagues to build a Family Urgent Care Centre in Perth, Australia.Lynne is passionate about growing and contributing and is fortunate that her husband Rodney, a retired trauma surgeon and expert in medical malpractice, feels the same way.  After completing every course offered by Tony Robbins, they were both Senior Leaders with the organisation for 7 years, supporting participants at Robbins’ events in the UK and USA several times each year. They then participated in Success Resources International, where they were  introduced to JT Foxx, who has been called ‘the world’s number one wealth and business coach’. Being mentored by JT has vastly increased their business acumen and exposed them to a fantastic group of likeminded entrepreneurs who are committed to adding value, educating new business owners and giving back.At 72,  Lynne believes life is for living and giving and she has no plans to retire anytime soon.On her podcast,  ‘Success is Never Accidental’  she interviews highly successful people across countries and industries, to share their insights and themes for success.  Lynne's website : https://www.lynnepeyton.com/DisclaimerInformation reported by guests of this podcast is assumed to be accurate as stated. Podcast owner Colby Pearce is not responsible for any error of facts pr
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  • The Secure Start Podcast Episode 7: Graeme Kerridge
    Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. I am Colby Pearce, and joining me for this episode is a highly experienced executive and consultant in international health development who, at the beginning of his professional career, worked in the Cotswold Residential Care Community for deeply troubled young people. My guest this episode is Graeme Kerridge . . . Graeme’s BioGraeme is an international health development consultant who has worked in over 25 countries throughout Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and in the countries of the former Soviet Union. He has particularly focused on assignments supporting grants from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM). In addition to working as a consultant and technical team leader on assignments funded by USAID, AusAID (DFAT), GIZ and other donors, for several years he was a technical manager on a major USAID project based in Washington DC where he managed and oversaw multiple teams of consultants supporting Global Fund grants around the world. Prior to his international development career, Graeme worked for 18 years in health care management in several states of Australia. He started his professional career, however, working for several years in the late 1970s at The Cotswold Community, an experimental therapeutic community for maladjusted children in Wiltshire, UK.  While he did not continue working in that field after returning to Australia, he often reflects on his learnings from that period in pursuing a career in the management of caring organisations.I found Graeme's reflections fascinating. I hope you do too.DisclaimerInformation reported by guests of this podcast is assumed to be accurate as stated. Podcast owner Colby Pearce is not responsible for any error of facts presented by podcast guests. In addition, unless otherwise specified, opinions expressed by guests of this podcast may not reflect those of the podcast owner, Colby Pearce.
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  • The Secure Start Podcast Episode 6: Adela Holmes
    Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. Joining me for this episode is a highly experienced, expert practitioner here in Australia in the childhood trauma and out-of-home care sector.My guest this episode is Adela Holmes.Adela has a career spanning 52-years, during which she has worked in the child protection, child & family welfare & out of home care fields for both the Victorian state government and the non-government sector.  Adela has a well-established track record in designing, developing and delivering complex trauma grounded therapeutic care services for the most complex and challenging children and adolescents, and an expertise for working successfully with and supporting others to work with these children and adolescents. During her career Adela has designed and been involved in the ‘start up’ leadership and management of significant therapeutic service initiatives funded by the Victorian state government. These include the ‘Take Two” Intensive Therapeutic Service and the Victorian government’s successful pilot therapeutic residential care program, Hurstbridge Farm. 12 other pilot programs were developed using the same model and, in 2011, all 13 were evaluated as being highly effective in producing positive life outcomes. Adela has been specialising as a trainer in the utilisation of complex trauma frameworks since 2000 and during this time has consolidated an extensive knowledge base and expertise in trauma & attachment informed therapeutic practice, both as a practitioner and a trainer of these skills. Adela also specialises in the facilitation of Reflective Practice Groups and, in her consultancy work, Adela delivers to such groups as a visiting consultant on a regular basis.In October 2024 Adela was awarded the inaugural Centre for Excellence in Child & Family Welfare Industry Lifetime Achievement Award for Services to Out of Home Care. Adela has no intention of retiring as she loves what she does and still has much energy to provide input into the healing care of children impacted by complex trauma. Adela believes strongly in the capacity of well-designed and well executed models of therapeutic residential care to bring about effective healing care that is grounded in the growth of real relational capacity. In such settings, well trained individuals can bring about the kind of real change required to heal from traumatic early beginnings and trust in the capacity of adults to provide safe, loving, respectful and kind care.DisclaimerInformation reported by guests of this podcast is assumed to be accurate as stated. Podcast owner Colby Pearce is not responsible for any error of facts presented by podcast guests. In addition, unless otherwise specified, opinions expressed by guests of this podcast may not reflect those of the podcast owner, Colby Pearce.
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  • The Secure Start Podcast Episode 5: Lisa Etherson
    In this podcast, my guest and I take a deep dive into shame.Lisa is a qualified psychosexual therapist with over a decade of experience in private practice. Currently, she is also a PhD researcher. Her research focuses on developmental shame, and compulsive sexual behaviour in adult men, leading to the development of her innovative Shame Containment Theory (SCT). Her clinical work and research have cultivated a strong interest in the impact of childhood experiences on adult behaviour. Lisa is the author of Jake and his Shame Armour, a children’s book on shame.You can find our more about Lisa's work here.You can connect with Lisa on LinkedIn here.DisclaimerInformation reported by guests of this podcast is assumed to be accurate as stated. Podcast owner Colby Pearce is not responsible for any error of facts presented by podcast guests. In addition, unless otherwise specified, opinions expressed by guests of this podcast may not reflect those of the podcast owner, Colby Pearce.
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About The Secure Start® Podcast

In the same way that a secure base is the springboard for the growth of the child, knowledge of past endeavours and lessons learnt are the springboard for growth in current and future endeavours.If we do not revisit the lessons of the past we are doomed to relearning them over and over again, with the result that we may never really achieve a greater potential.In keeping with the idea we are encouraged to be the person we wished we knew when we were starting out, it is my vision for the podcast that it is a place where those who work in child protection and out-of-home care can access what is/was already known, spring-boarding them to even greater insights. 
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