A big thank you to Prof Paul 💙RN MA OStJ Prof of Practice for capturing this moment. This is where the three of us all thought the award was coming our way but weren’t quite ready to prematurely celebrate. Such a tense few seconds that seemed to drag on forever!

Welcome to the world Isabella Sofija Cottrell. Born today at 7:13 am. Weighing in at 6lb 8oz. Mother and baby doing fantastic. Father already truly in love. 🥰🥰🥰

Arrived down in New Forest to deliver one of our business talks with Mindset By Dave A long drive but it was filled with great conversations about where we want to take Change Talks. Looking forward to what’s to come! #ChangeTalks

I woke up like this… (This = looking like Tim Curry!)

Congratulations fam! We made it out of January!!!

Anyone ever wanted to work with me or the Change Talks team? We are finally expanding!!!

Your mind is only like a sponge for a small amount of time. Be careful what you absorb with it!

Losing today’s battle. Winning tomorrow’s war. #parenting #parenthood #lifelesson Sorry no captions as I have my hands full! Auto captions on insta version.

The story of you making it through today could be the reason someone else gets through tomorrow. Keep fighting. 💝

Binging Chess Journeys and Perpetual Chess podcasts over the past few months has given me the courage to finally start chatting in the chess community here! So hi! I’m Dave, I’m an adult improver stuck between 1300 and 1395 and I’d love to meet some other players. #chesspunks

I’m really good at starting things. Not so good at finishing them! Over the past 2 years I’ve bought a ton of chess books and gone cover to cover on zero… Now I’m only a few pages away from finishing Logical Chess Move By Move by Chernev. Changing the habit!

I finished it!!!! How many chess books do I own? Probably around 20… How many have I finished? Including this one… errr… one!

Another chess habit coming in strong. 100 day streak of tactics training on Chessable!

If you’ve got someone down to just their king in chess and you have a rook and 6 pawns. Who’s the worst sportsperson… The person down material who doesn’t resign. Or the attacker promoting several queens when a rook and king would suffice? #chesspunks

I broke 1400 on chess dot com!!!! Been working at this for forever!!! #chess #chesspunks

Just watched @Kabadayichess ‘s video on taming knights in chess and have never felt more prepared for those endgames! How am I only just hearing about knight check shadow and Karpov distance??? Thank you Dr Can!!!

The next 12 months has so much in store for Change Talks. Bigger team. More talks. And a super secret hush hush project that I can’t talk about until Bossman Sam gives the green light. 🤭

Big event speaking at Lancashire Teaching Hospital for Sam Tyrer alongside Sophie.Massey We are teaching on Neurodiversity, stress, anxiety and depression. You might ask “how do you prepare for such a talk?” … well now you know!

What a day this was yesterday! 💝

A great day. 5 sessions on Stress and Coping Strategies for around 150 students.