Welcome to this season of the Raise Podcast with Carol Barwick. This time it's more like a season of mini episodes. They are less than 10-15 minutes with the idea you can have a listen while you drink your cuppa. Be that your first coffee of the day or maybe a cuppa before bed. Boil the kettle, make your drink and have a listen.

In this episode, Carol talks about imagination, how it affects her dreams and how it's given her an escape when she needed one. But also how it's enabled her along the way with Raise Songs and other Raise related things.

If you've enjoyed having a cuppa with Carol, then you can buy me a coffee... let's have a cuppa again soon. ⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/carolbarwick⁠

---Welcome to the Raise Podcast with Carol Barwick. We're here to raise your confidence and inspire your creativity. Each episode, we will have a different guess who will be discussing our Raise Word. The Raise Word is a word that will encourage you or empower you and at times inspire you to explore the word a little more for yourself.

Welcome to this season of the Raise Podcast with Carol Barwick. This time it's more like a season of mini episodes. They are less than 10-15 minutes with the idea you can have a listen while you drink your cuppa. Be that your first coffee of the day or maybe a cuppa before bed. Boil the kettle, make your drink and have a listen.

In this episode, Carol talks about Soloman, her mum and wisdom.

If you've enjoyed having a cuppa with Carol, then you can buy me a coffee... let's have a cuppa again soon. ⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/carolbarwick⁠⁠

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Welcome to the Raise Podcast with Carol Barwick. We're here to raise your confidence and inspire your creativity. Each episode, we will have a different guess who will be discussing our Raise Word. The Raise Word is a word that will encourage you or empower you and at times inspire you to explore the word a little more for yourself.

Welcome to this season of the Raise Podcast with Carol Barwick. This time it's more like a season of mini episodes. They are less than 10-15 minutes with the idea you can have a listen while you drink your cuppa. Be that your first coffee of the day or maybe a cuppa before bed. Boil the kettle, make your drink and have a listen.

In this episode, Carol talks about discomfort, how some times life doesn't go to plan and we have to sit in that discomfort to find the way forward.

If you've enjoyed having a cuppa with Carol, then you can buy me a coffee... let's have a cuppa again soon. https://buymeacoffee.com/carolbarwick

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Welcome to the Raise Podcast with Carol Barwick. We're here to raise your confidence and inspire your creativity. Each episode, we will have a different guest who will be discussing our Raise Word. The Raise Word is a word that will encourage you or empower you and at times inspire you to explore the word a little more for yourself.

Welcome to this season of the Raise Podcast with Carol Barwick. This time it's more like a season of mini episodes. They are less than 10-15 minutes with the idea you can have a listen while you drink your cuppa. Be that your first coffee of the day or maybe a cuppa before bed. Boil the kettle, make your drink and have a listen.

In this episode, Carol talks about perseverance, the need for support when persevering and the Generation Game...

If you've enjoyed having a cuppa with Carol, then you can buy me a coffee... let's have a cuppa again soon. ⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/carolbarwick⁠

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Welcome to the Raise Podcast with Carol Barwick. We're here to raise your confidence and inspire your creativity. Each episode, we will have a different guess who will be discussing our Raise Word. The Raise Word is a word that will encourage you or empower you and at times inspire you to explore the word a little more for yourself.

In this week's episode and the first of 2025, Carol speaks to Richard Saloka. Richard is the founder and master game designer for By Your Words.

You can find out more about ByYourWords on their website here: https://byyourwords.co.uk/. You can also find them on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/_byyourwords/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Byyourwords).

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Welcome to the Raise Podcast with Carol Barwick. We're here to raise your confidence and inspire your creativity. Each episode, we will have a different guess who will be discussing our Raise Word. The Raise Word is a word that will encourage you or empower you and at times inspire you to explore the word a little more for yourself.

In this week's special Christmas episode, Carol speaks to Lizzy Price, CEO of women's organisation Adore UK.

Adore UK is a Christian organisation working with girls and women from across the UK and beyond. Her desire is for girls and women to discover how they are fearfully wonderfully made by a Father who loves them.
Lizzy's latest book is Created In God's Image: How He Loves Us. When Lizzy is not working, she loves being with family and friends, going to on dog walks with her Golden Retriever, Ernie, and eating out.

You can find out more information about Adore and the work they do on their website here: www.adore-uk.com. They are also on Facebook here and Instagram here.

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Welcome to the Raise Podcast with Carol Barwick. We're here to raise your confidence and inspire your creativity. Each episode, we will have a different guess who will be discussing our Raise Word. The Raise Word is a word that will encourage you or empower you and at times inspire you to explore the word a little more for yourself.

Whether it's Scandinavian Nisse, those cheeky Elves on the Shelf or maybe just some Christmas gremlins - we had a few blips while recording this but we still wanted to bring it to you just in time for Christmas. Enjoy!

In this week's episode, Carol speaks to Pav. Pav is the host and producer of The Top Temn of Anything Podcast.

You can find his podcast here.

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Welcome to the Raise Podcast with Carol Barwick. We're here to raise your confidence and inspire your creativity. Each episode, we will have a different guess who will be discussing our Raise Word. The Raise Word is a word that will encourage you or empower you and at times inspire you to explore the word a little more for yourself.

In this week's episode, Carol speaks to Godfrey Rust, poet and musician. He's had all sorts of day jobs from journalist to pop chart manager and data modelling consultant.

He lives in West London with wife Tessa, three married children and two grandchildren various places. His poems are used round the world especially at Christmas and Easter services. A dozen years in the 80s/90s played concerts and recorded three albums with Geoff Shattock (as Shattock and Rust). Became less comfortable with a narrow evangelical theology as reality, love and God seemed much bigger than that. For 20 was years was involved in the eclectic Cafe Church community at St Johns in Ealing, as "chief musician" and co-ordinator in the last five. Stepped away last year at 70 as he wanted to focus on a few specific things in the creative years left to him including writing a book about how he believes creation, science and the resurrection some together in a bigger way than either Christianity or science suggest and producing another album which he is now in the middle of recording with a wonderful set of musicians. It's being produced by his son Adam who is a producer/music director/multi-instrumentalist - it helps to have one in the family!

I was diagnosed three months ago with gastro-oesophagal cancer so having treatment at present. Its not operable so I'm not at all sure how long I may be around for (how many of us are anyway?!) but so far treatment is going well and I'm not afraid of dying, only sad that we all have to leave loved ones behind to grieve.

You can find Godfrey's poems and albums on his website: www.wordsout.co.uk.