The RFS Podcast

Military Spouse to Virgin Leadership: How Kate Cashmore Built a Career That Works

We’ve created this podcast to give YOU maximum success in your career. We’ll talk to experts, specialists, and other spouses, to help your job search success.
What happens when a thriving career collides with the unpredictability of military life? In this episode of The RFS Podcast, Heledd Kendrick speaks with Kate Cashmore, military spouse and now Head of News at Virgin Group. Kate shares the reality of leaving a successful PR career to follow her partner overseas, navigating identity loss, motherhood, frequent relocations and the struggle to find flexible work. Through freelancing, resilience and an unexpected mentoring opportunity, Kate rebuilt her career step by step. Her story is an honest and inspiring look at how military spouses can turn adaptability into a professional advantage and create opportunities where none seem to exist.
To find out more about Recruit for Spouses and the work we do: https://recruitforspouses.co.uk/
The RFS E-Mail: info@recruitforspouses.co.uk

Finding a Community For You : Jodie and James

We’ve created this podcast to give YOU maximum success in your career. We’ll talk to experts, specialists, and other spouses, to help your job search success.
Jodie Rudd works for JP Morgan Chase, they're making an effort to bring other military spouses together, including James Cooper, a male spouse looking to find a community. 
In this episode, Heledd speaks to Jodie and James about finding a community of like-minded people and how important it is for military spouses.
JP Morgan Chase's Website: https://www.jpmorganchase.com/careers
To find out more about Recruit for Spouses and the work we do: https://recruitforspouses.co.uk/
The RFS E-Mail: info@recruitforspouses.co.uk

People From Far and Wide Can Get Help : Foreign and Commonwealth

We’ve created this podcast to give YOU maximum success in your career. We’ll talk to experts, specialists, and other spouses, to help your job search success.
Today Heledd is joined by Cerise, Joselyn and Rusila discussing what it's like moving to England from another country and how the team from RFS can make the leap less daunting.
To find out more about Recruit for Spouses and the work we do: https://recruitforspouses.co.uk/
The RFS Email: info@recruitforspouses.co.uk

Bridging Gaps & Balancing Lives - The importance of Wellbeing : Tracey Jones

We’ve created this podcast to give YOU maximum success in your career. We’ll talk to experts, specialists, and other spouses, to help your job search success.
Tracey Jones started her business (Lotus Bridge Coaching) in 2021, after a successful 28-year career in HR, and L&D.  She's in the perfect position to work with and help many of our clients at RFS, enabling them to find purpose, passion and setting them up for their future career.
Official Lotus Bridge website: https://www.lotusbridge.co.uk/
LinkIn with Tracey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceyjones-lotusbridge
To find out more about Recruit for Spouses and the work we do: https://recruitforspouses.co.uk/
The RFS E-Mail: info@recruitforspouses.co.uk

The Benefits of a Coach in your Career and Life : Louise Baverstock-Price

We’ve created this podcast to give YOU maximum success in your career. We’ll talk to experts, specialists, and other spouses, to help your job search success.
Louise is a voluntary coach for RFS.  She's helped take many clients to the next level in their career (and life in general).  
To find out more about Recruit for Spouses and the work we do: https://recruitforspouses.co.uk/
The RFS E-Mail: info@recruitforspouses.co.uk

Making Yourself Recruitable : The Recruiting Team

We’ve created this podcast to give YOU maximum success in your career. We’ll talk to experts, specialists, and other spouses, to help your job search success.
Cerise, Rob and Rusila are all part of the recruiting team, in this episode, Along with Heledd, they'll be discussing how they recruit people and how they got to where they are today.
During this chat you'll get some great insight on recruiting and how it all plays out.
To find out more about Recruit for Spouses and the work we do: https://recruitforspouses.co.uk/
The RFS E-Mail: info@recruitforspouses.co.uk

Conscious communication is key in job interviews : Lucy Key

We’ve created this podcast to give YOU maximum success in your career. We’ll talk to experts, specialists, and other spouses, to help your job search success. 
Lucy Key is a professional actress and communication coach.  She works alongside her husband Christopher in their business "Performing Perfectly".  Together they coach clients in effective communication. 
During this chat with Heledd you'll get some great tips for communicating with potential employers and much more besides.
The official Performing Perfectly website: https://christopherkeyltd.com/
Lucy's Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lucykey40
To find out more about Recruit for Spouses and the work we do: https://recruitforspouses.co.uk/
 

How to Master your Monkey Mind : Don Macpherson

We’ve created this podcast to give YOU maximum success in your career. We’ll talk to experts, specialists, and other spouses, to help your job search success. 
Don Macpherson is a mind coach known as ‘The Monkey Whisperer’ who uses ancient techniques combined with modern neuroscience, all centred around the notion of ‘The Monkey Mind’. He coaches world famous stars and high achievers who need to be on their a-game. 
During this episode he chats with Heledd about the issues military spouses face, and offers actionable advice to make life more manageable for us.
Don's official site: https://www.donmacpherson.co.uk/
Don's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Master-Your-Monkey-Mind-ebook/dp/B088T7G4MB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1KVJBBK8Q0KQT&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jr8J78xwhOXuv1lX6XIKmyo9Nl3CqY7Rc2GDl-Rj2oypIgX73l8REoGwXzfHoHmoVPav_wTroeELXwQ90AMwmRyzCXOaM5Keqt9NdM-uZLe5hVD5EZL6iLTw3CdPRSXy3zzBw1VXCISUKGqXUGKlYg.83rdKCUk4SnaqwkktnIbFwKTx93RxsR9sa4Tvk1Hipk&dib_tag=se&keywords=don+macpherson&qid=1709901969&sprefix=don+macpherson%2Caps%2C64&sr=8-1
To find out more about Recruit for Spouses and the work we do: https://recruitforspouses.co.uk/
 

Recruit for Spouses - Wendy Shand

On this episode we are talking to the incredible Wendy Stand.Wendy is an award-winning VC/PE backed Business Founder, an Entrepreneur and a Visionary.Following the near loss of her young son in a swimming-pool accident whilst on holiday, she went on to change the face of the international travel industry by creating an entirely new family-friendly product class.Sadly because of Covid, things took a turn for the worse, but Wendy didn’t let that stop her. She is now a specialist People, Product and Culture strategist and is on a mission to lead the Resilient Britain movement.During the podcast we also hear about her husband having to eject from a fighter jet after a complete engine failure. We hope you enjoy this episode.

Recruit for Spouses - Geordan Murphy

In this episode we have the Premiership’s most decorated rugby player... Geordan Murphy!He ended his 16th and final season in a Leicester Tigers shirt in 2012/13 with the eighth Premiership title of his career and announced that he would be moving into coaching at the club.Geordy arrived in Leicester as a teenager with just one senior season at Naas RFC in Ireland behind him, he then made his debut against Rotherham in November 1997.He scored 93 tries and 691 points for the club as well as winning 72 caps for Ireland and making seven appearances (including Tests against Argentina and New Zealand) with the British & Lions.Playing in four Heineken Cup Finals for Tigers, he collected back-to-back winners’ medals in 2001 and 2002. He also starred in a record seven Premiership Finals for the club.He is still Leicester’s leading appearance-holder and tryscorer in the European Cup, and is 17th on the club’s all-time tryscorers’ chart.He started his coaching career by leading Tigers to the Premiership Sevens Final for the first time in August 2013 and also took a lead role in the run to the Anglo-Welsh Cup Final in 2016/17 as Tigers became the first three-time winners of the tournament.He took over as interim head coach when O’Connor departed after the opening game of the 2018/19 season and the appointment was confirmed in December 2018 before moving to the Director of Rugby role with the arrival of Steve Borthwick in July 2020.We’re also incredibly lucky to have Geordy as our Non Executive Director and since joining us 8 months ago he’s already made a huge impact within the Recruit For Spouses team.We hope you enjoy this episode!