Jun 16, 2026 · 34 min · 10 segments
Join Equiteam's Liz and Lou on this week's podcast to chat about Loneliness Awareness Week and what it has in common with Paddington Bear. The pair chat about why being lonely poses the same health…
Lou GillingsHostAnd I think for me, that's one of the reasons that EquiTeam confidence camps and EquiTeam connected are so powerful because it's the power of connection.
If you only had face-to-face connection, then you wouldn't need online connection.
But I do think that I need both because I don't have enough face-to-face connection.
So I definitely, in between camps and when it's a long, long winter, between our sort of August, September camps and then seeing people again in April, it's a long time.
yeah let's just balance that out because you do see people and i think this is where i'm kind of trying to maybe drill into a bit sorry you would like the subject of my questions without any warning whatsoever you do see people but it's not people that you were obviously aside from your partner in there and your little girl not so little girl but little girl it's it's a different kind of connection, isn't it? Because you see people, you see people at school, you see people in the shops, you see people say hi to and have chit chat, but it's a deeper level of connection, isn't it?
She came around to collect something and we sat having a cup of tea and had a good old chinwag and that was lovely.
It's like you're literally talking to one person and somebody else says something and you're having surface conversations.
Why are the school doing this? Why are the teachers not doing that? It's those kinds of conversations.
And I think for me, that's one of the reasons that EquiTeam confidence camps and EquiTeam connected are so powerful because it's the power of connection.
If you only had face-to-face connection, then you wouldn't need online connection.
But I do think that I need both because I don't have enough face-to-face connection.
So I definitely, in between camps and when it's a long, long winter, between our sort of August, September camps and then seeing people again in April, it's a long time.
yeah let's just balance that out because you do see people and i think this is where i'm kind of trying to maybe drill into a bit sorry you would like the subject of my questions without any warning whatsoever you do see people but it's not people that you were obviously aside from your partner in there and your little girl not so little girl but little girl it's it's a different kind of connection, isn't it? Because you see people, you see people at school, you see people in the shops, you see people say hi to and have chit chat, but it's a deeper level of connection, isn't it?
She came around to collect something and we sat having a cup of tea and had a good old chinwag and that was lovely.
It's like you're literally talking to one person and somebody else says something and you're having surface conversations.
Why are the school doing this? Why are the teachers not doing that? It's those kinds of conversations.
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