Meet the Team
Jo Richings - CEO, Genius in Charge and Chief Pot and Bottle Washer
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Bristol based Business Coach, Social Entrepreneur, Author and Motivational Speaker, Jo Richings, is passionate about helping people achieve their full potential.
Jo’s unique “say it as it” style of Positive Psychology Coaching inspires her clients not only to want to be the best they can be, but more importantly, she gives them the tools, action plan and accountability needed to actually “be” the best they can be. Jo loves putting fun and happiness back into a client’s life. Jo trained as a coach with ActionCoach, the largest Business & Executive coaching franchise in the world. She held her licence as an ActionCoach for 8 years, until May 2016, when she decided to exit the franchise so she could follow her passion - making a difference to the local community. Besides being a certified Business Coach, Jo is an EFT practitioner and holds Diplomas in CBT, NLP, Mindfulness, Stress Management and Life Coaching. Jo is also a certified Resilience Practitioner and has spent over 30 years studying personal development. |
Abby Pickles - Director, Chief Awesome Officer, Lead CYP Coach, Therapist & HappiTapping (EFT) Practitioner
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Abby supports children and young people all over Bristol and BANES by offering 1:1 coaching & therapy sessions in her lovely home office. She also supports children in schools.
With a number of diplomas & qualifications under her belt, ranging from Educational Psychology to Understanding Dyslexia, Abby, who is currently studying to become a Person-Centred Counsellor, is equipped to help young people with all kinds of different needs. Transition & Confidence Coaching helps children who struggle with their confidence, making friends, anxiety & depression, mental health, bullying & past traumas. Her knowledge of EFT (as a qualified practitioner), along with the many different tools she can share with clients to help deal with these issues, makes her the one person you need to help children and young people to be the best they can be! She works with children from 6 years old up to young adults of 25. As Chief Awesome Officer, we think she is pretty awesome! |
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The Rest of Our Amazing Team
Mitch Sharp
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We also work with a fantastic team of partners, including Life and Career Coaches, Mindfulness and Meditation Practitioners, Hypnotherapists, Counsellors, CBT Practitioners and NLP Practitioners.
I have had such a wonderful, and life-changing experience with Aly. When I was at my darkest place Aly lifted me from it with her vast knowledge and helped me heal myself and learn how to control my emotions. Not only have I come away being able to handle my emotions, control my anxiety and learn to love myself, I have also grown a great friendship with Alison and know that I can trust her and that she will always be there if I should need to. Thank you, Alison, for showing me the sweetness of life Sophie
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Mary Cook
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Bailey
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John Crawford
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The HappiMe Story So Far...
HappiMe started as a dream. A dream to make a difference. A dream to help rid children, young people and adults of worry, anxiety and unhappiness. Then along came the fantastic Abby Pickles, Amy Friend and a whole heap of wonderful people who wanted to help make that dream come true. Hundreds and hundreds of people have supported the HappiMe project so far with their money, their time, their expertise, their skills and their support.
Lovely people have volunteered to build us a website, record all the audios for the app, write us a song, help with social media, raise funds for us, proofread our books, test our apps, design the HappiMe characters and support our fundraising talks and workshops - just because they can.
We are truly blessed to be surrounded by such wonderful people.
Please click here to see our Gratitude List of HappiMe Supporters
Lovely people have volunteered to build us a website, record all the audios for the app, write us a song, help with social media, raise funds for us, proofread our books, test our apps, design the HappiMe characters and support our fundraising talks and workshops - just because they can.
We are truly blessed to be surrounded by such wonderful people.
Please click here to see our Gratitude List of HappiMe Supporters
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HappiMe is a Community Interest Company set up to help spread the HappiMe Message. In 2012, Jo had breast cancer, lost her mum and found out her husband was having an affair. These events changed her life in so many incredible ways - it was the wake up call she needed. She decided to get fit and healthy (she lost over 8.5 stones), reduce the stress in her life (dumped the husband and started meditating), downsized her other business and starting doing the things that made her heart sing - creating stuff to empower children, young people, adults and businesses to be the best (and happiest) they can be! The idea for HappiMe came whilst Jo was going through her cancer treatment. It started as a simple mobile app and quickly grew into a much bigger project with books, blogs and personal development programmes for children and adults. HappiMe seemed to grow it's own legs and knew where it wanted to go! Everyone that has worked on the project so far, including myself and HappiMe co-director, Abby, have volunteered their time, skills and expertise completely free of charge to get HappiMe off of the ground. The team raised the £6000 to create the apps via a GoFundMe Campaign and have been absolutely overwhelmed by the help and support received (see our Gratitude List for our Supporters here) to make HappiMe happen. To raise the much needed funds for HappiMe, Jo decided to use her skills as a business coach to run low cost coaching groups for small businesses and sole traders in Bristol. Whilst this was great for a while, she soon ran out of business owners to market the workshops to! So... in September 2018, she set up a Facebook group called The Bristol Small Business Network with the commitment to post a business tip, resource or quote that would motivate a small business owner, every day for a year. Yes 365 blogs and tips over 365 days! (I know, what was she thinking?!). But it worked. Gradually people joined and started to engage and the group now has a busy, very engaged, lovely group of over 3,000 small businesses owners in the group with over 20,000 engagements per month (posts, comments and likes). Keep it here to find out what Jo's next project will be. |
Our Vision
Our vision is simply to make a positive impact on mental health of people in Bristol & beyond.
To really make a difference.
And to inspire others to want to make a difference too.
Our Mission
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To improve the mental health of people in Bristol and beyond.
To give children, young people and adults the tools they need to develop strong emotional intelligence and resilience skills. To increase self-esteem, self-confidence and happiness levels. To help reduce anxiety, depression and self harming. To help individuals to accept and love themselves exactly as they are. |
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Our Values
Positivity
We can choose our attitude every minute of every hour of every day.
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Gratitude
The secret to having it all is knowing you already do.
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Personal Accountability
If its meant to be, then it's up to me!
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Passion
If a job is worth doing, then it's worth doing brilliantly.
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Constant Improvement
We strive to innovate. We find ways to be better.
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Fun & Laughter
Sometimes we pretend to be normal, but that gets boring.
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