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From October, Sadie’s Loud Women will air on during Friday lunchtimes. You can
tune into her broadcasts every weekday lunchtime. You can listen by tuning into BBC
Essex. To find out more, listen from outside Essex or later than the programme time,
visit www.bbc.co.uk to use iPlayer
instincts and know what’s good... it’s harder to take. me. When someone says that c word to you, you
But that’s a good thing. I always want to do the best
I always want
think ‘Ooooo, how am I going to handle it?’ but
that I can. At least I can look myself in the mirror.”
to do the best
four years down the line I’m just as likely as anyone
To help get over it faster, Sadie doesn’t let herself else – my risk is reduced – to stay healthy. It’s
wallow. “I find an excuse. I tell myself it was about
that I can
taught me, ‘this is your one day’. This is how I try
something I can’t change, like ‘I’m too tall’. As long as to live.
you know you’ve done your best, find an excuse and let it go. Otherwise Her biggest highlight has been equally personal. Sadie got married
it’s Rejection City out there. It gives you the confidence to carry on.” a few years ago and says, “It was the best day of my life. The biggest
Sadie says it’s not like the times when you get there and think you decision I ever made. I never thought I would (I don’t like commitment,
wish you’d worn or done something different. “If you’ve done your best contracts or being told what to do).”
and you’ve turned out well, accept it. I tell myself ‘That wasn’t for me’. While winning awards is great, Sadie’s favourite moments have been,
I truly believe that as every door closes, another opens and it’s just up to “taking those final bows in West End musicals.”
you to find it. If you’re not in the right place, you’ll be bumped from it.
So I might tell myself, ‘I was in the wrong place. I’m spiritual. I definitely
believe in God and in the power of the Universe. If you give out negative
Visualisation for Auditory and Kinaesthetic People
energy you’ll get negative energy back. If you keep thinking, ‘I’ll never
Being a singer and radio presenter, Sadie’s auditory “visualisation” meant
get a job’ you never will.” hearing her boss tell her on the phone rather than seeing him come over
I met Sadie as a panellist on one of the shows she presents, or what she might have been looking at. By going with her natural auditory
Loud Women. Sadie and her guests talk about the week’s news and
preference, it enabled her to really get into the moment she wanted to create.
controversies as well as whatever listeners feel like phoning in about.
Often, for people who aren’t predominantly visual, NLP instructions can seem
Having a panel of women (though male callers are always welcome) is unlikely to work. But don’t worry if you can’t “see” what you want to happen.
still very unusual and we always have a lot of fun doing it.
Take some time to think about what you’ll be able to hear when your hoped
Sadie believes in visualisation and credits it for her Gillard Award gold
for moment happens. Will it be hearing the news on the phone like Sadie?
win in 2008. “We’d done an amazing show and I felt we deserved it. For
Might it be hearing yourself being told (at an interview or by phone when you
a long time, I visualised my name coming out, hearing my boss say to me, get home) that you got the job or landed that contract? Will it be hearing your
‘Sadie, you’re up for a Gillard’. I could really imagine it all happening.” family and friends surrounding you with their congratulatory sounds? The
Loud Women was also nominated for a Listener Participation Sony
sound of champagne flutes clinking in a toast?
Award this year. The Sony Radio Academy Awards are the radio Maybe you’re predominantly kinaesthetic and need to feel the moment. What
equivalent of the Oscars. This time, Sadie says, “I visualised hearing sensations will you be aware of as you get the news? Your heart swelling
about the nomination and got it. But I couldn’t see myself actually
with happiness and pride? Tingling hands and feet? The urge to get moving
getting onto the stage to collect it so when we didn’t win, I wasn’t
and do a Happy Dance?
completely devastated. And I was one of only three women in the whole Tune into the sensations – visual, kinaesthetic or auditory – that will help you
country to be nominated.” imagine your moment down to every last detail.
While broadcasting, acting and singing have their highs and lows,
Sadie keeps things in perspective. Her biggest challenge has been her
health. “Facing the c word,” says Sadie. “Breast cancer. Keeping the
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positivity going. My family being worried was the worst. That worried
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