26. My acceptance speech for CBE, Lemon Class 2020, award

Wild Card - Whose Shoes?

Yesterday, my good friend Florence Wilcock, creator of the wonderful 'The Obs Pod' podcast series which follows her life and work as an obstetrician, published a fascinating episode called 'Awards', mainly talking about the growing culture of awards in the NHS. It is thought-provoking and real - I thoroughly recommend it.
Without wanting to give too much of a 'spoiler', it includes a story that has hitherto been 'secret' - my CBE, Lemon Class 2020, award. By far, my best award ever - albeit, a little unusual.
Flo’s podcast sparked a whole mix of thoughts and reflections, from all sorts of stages of my life, so I thought I’d try and make some kind of sense of them here.
So here is my own 'Awards' podcast. And my own roll of honour of some of the people who have supported my 'Whose Shoes' journey and are very special to me.
Whether you are keen to know the nickname I had from my teacher at primary school or why I had three hands in a photo in the newspaper, I hope this episode will provide something for you.
I’m talking about awards – and specifically (clears throat) giving my acceptance speech for my CBE, Lemon Class 2020, for ‘challenging the status quo’.
Thank you, thank you.
Mentioned in the podcast
The Obs Pod: Episode 97 Awards (buzzsprout.com)
Wild Card: Episode 13: Yvonne Newbold - Newbold Hope
Wild Card: Episode 18: Nadia Leake and Rachel Collum - Family Integrated Care
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