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Leeds is the largest city in the largest county on the UK mainland. It is a former imperial textile centre. Now, it is a major UK financial centre. The Working Hours Podcast documents the city’s experiences through COVID and Brexit. It covers creeping technological unemployment. It also explores new and ongoing resource wars, the ongoing removal of the welfare state, and the accelerating ecological emergency.

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Work is Doing It Again – Working Hours

Recorded on 31/10/2025Gill Beadle is an ILM7 certified Executive and leadership Coach with two decades’ experience in Technology and change Leadership roles within Health-Tech and Financial services.She decided to become a Coach after seeing first-hand the impact Coaching had when working with her teams, as well as on her own confidence as a leader.Gill specialises in working with teams and individuals going through periods of change, whether that is stepping into a new role, coming back from parental leave or navigating the uncertainty of organisational change.As well as being a Coach, Gill volunteers as a Mentor for the GoodWork charity. Providing Mentoring for young people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to support them getting corporate employment.You can find Gill at:LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillian-beadle-nee-maidens-64400ba3Her website is http://www.Maidle.co.ukAnd to find out more about Good Work go to https://www.goodwork.org.uk/And if you'd like to buy The Chimp Paradox you can find it here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-chimp-paradox/steve-peters/9780091935580

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Why is Working Hours? Creator and host Simon Treen says:

Working Hours exists for many reasons. Primarily, to create a depository of first-hand knowledge and experience about labour and employment in my home city. This effort will span this pivotal decade in the human story. At this crucial moment for our species, what are we doing here in Leeds? Why are we doing it and what does it mean for our shared biosphere?

I want to demonstrate the breadth and depth of working roles that are available to all of us. Our media has a narrow obsession with only ever showing us cops, spies, factories, shops, and media workers. Whatever people do, someone is getting paid to do that thing. I hope to demonstrate that reality.  

My goal is to record at least an hour of experience and opinion on my guests’ work. I aim to create a total of one thousand interviews with Loiners over this whole decade. My interviews are designed to encourage my guests to think. They reflect on their own work, hopefully in new ways.

It’s not scary, but it is fun. Some of my guests have even described their Working Hours interview experience as “work therapy”.

I’d love to chat about your work and I always need guests. You don’t even have to be employed or paid to be my guest! If you live or work in Leeds, get in touch. You can be the star of the show if you are over 18. You just need to live, work, or have been born in an LS postcode.

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