'My body shut down on me and I got a wake up call' with Malakai Watene-Zelezniak
Malakai Watene-Zelezniak is a former rugby league footballer who played for the Penrith Panthers in two separate spells, and the West Tigers in the NRL and also briefly played rugby union for the New South Wales Country Eagles in the National Rugby Championship.
On 21 January 2021, he announced his immediate retirement from rugby league due to acute kidney failure and associated complications.
He is the father of two, watch brand owner & now a fully fledged entrepreneur in the world of business. This is the story of Malakai who got a life changing wake up call when his body literally shut down on him.
We hear all about his story and how he realised that none of us are not invincible and how much we take in life for granted.
We hear about a turning moment for Malakai when he made the ultimate decision to retire from the profession he loved and turn his attention to Entrepreneurship alongside his brother and the lessons he has learned along this new venture.
'When I got diagnosed with ADHD it all suddenly made sense to me' with Paul Danan
From Hollyoaks to Hollywood, Actor and Reality TV Star Paul Danan joins founder Glenn Marsden this episode to delve deep in to sharing his own personal journey discussing his career, opening up about addiction through to recovery and the day he got diagnosed with ADHD to it all suddenly making sense to him in understanding his behavioural patterns in the past.
We also hear how he overcame it to support others by openly sharing his own journey through his own highly acclaimed podcast series, 'The Morning After with Paul Danan'
To find out more information about Paul, simply head to his social platforms @pauldanan and you can find his podcast via all streaming platforms.
Having dealt with Body Dysmorphia with Founder Glenn Marsden
‘In a general sense, it’s depicting yourself or finding a ‘perceived’ flaw on your body or on your face that kind of takes grip of your mind. With myself, it stemmed from living in Sydney, Australia, I was the first person to go to the beach, throw my top off. It was something that never bothered me. I always say, and I can laugh back at it now and go, when your 30 and suppose to be settling down and enjoying that later life and not being bothered about ‘aesthetics’ it kind of got to a point with me where I started comparing myself to these guys with the big aesthetic chest and arms and wondering, I’m in the fitness industry, I’m training equally as hard, I’m eating as much. Why am I not getting this body that so many of these guys are getting? Little to say, & a little bit of naivety as well, not knowing what people were putting in to their body. But what I was putting and feeding into my mind was detrimental. - @_glennmarsden
Founder Glenn Marsden sharing his story and doing a Q&A on the ComingCleanPodcast with Peter Estevez over in San Diego, USA as well as going live to the Rehab911 community to an audience of over 9 million people.
'Born in to this place of 'Your so lucky, you can have the world. But yet there was this deep sadness & loneliness that I had' with Eden Sassoon
As a Beauty & Wellness Entrepreneur, daughter of legendary beauty icon Vidal Sassoon, a well known TV Personality and Philanthropist, Eden Sassoon has truly made her mark in the world. A full service salon, EDEN by Eden Sassoon, two luxury Pilates studios in Los Angeles and her nonprofit organization Beauty Gives Back.
But that’s only one side of her, & getting to know and listen to Eden through this episode, we learn to always go deeper with people as there is so much more to a person than people think they know.
During the episode, founder Glenn Marsden and Eden discuss an upbringing surrounded by love and happiness, but also a self sense and feeling of loneliness and sadness she felt. We hear of her sobriety and advocacy towards Mental Health and using her voice and platform to make sure that voice is heard for change.
To find out more information about Eden, simply head to her socials at: @edensassoon
twitter: https://twitter.com/edensassoon?lang=en To find out more about the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign, our Global Efforts, and how you can get involved simply head to our official website at: imperfectlyperfectcampaign.org
You can also find the ImperfectlyPerfect Podcast via all major podcast platforms inc ITunes.
Big thank you as always to our voice-over: Mike christens (voice monkey.com)
Disrupting Social Media's "Highlight Reels"
What started a as one photographers aims to change the face of mental health one shot at a time has quickly risen to an initiative that has gained the hearts and minds of people globally.
But what did it take founder @_glennmarsden to bring it all together.
With a strong emphasis on always drawing attention to the behind the scenes, he explains on a recent chat with @nickandfemi on their podcast show what it really took him and the lessons he endured, learned and grew from.
To listen to the whole episode simply head to Nick&Femi’s show via their socials.
To find out about the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign, our Global Efforts & how you and your organisations can get involved, simply click the link in our bio today.
The UK's Paul Danan Speaks Out on The Imperfectly Perfect Campaign
‘I’ve got scars and wounds. It’s ok to be imperfectly perfect. Even though I’m imperfect and I’m imperfect in lots of ways. But, it’s what makes me, me. I think that’s the ultimate goal is to be alright with myself. That self worth. You are human you know. There’s a lot of help out there right now. Pride and Ego can kill and I just think it’s so important to ask for help’ - @paul_danan_official
From Hollyoaks to Hollywood, Uk Actor Paul Danon is no stranger to the public eye and openly speaks about his past through his platform and podcast ‘The Morning After with Paul Danon’ to share his own experiences through addiction to recovery and more to help countless people in the world who may be going through or have dealt with the same things.
This week founder Glenn Marsden caught up with Paul for an upcoming episode on the ImperfectlyPerfect Podcast and we are so grateful for him sharing and being so open and using his advocacy to help so many people.
To make sure you don’t miss this episode, simply head to the link in our bio today and subscribe to our Podcast to be notified.
'My life could've been very different, had I chosen a darker path' with Ricky Whittle
Ricky Whittle made his acting debut in 2002, playing Ryan Naysmith of fictional football club Harchester United in Dream Team. What followed was a four-year stint as Calvin Valentine in the Uk's hit show, Hollyoaks. A successful stint on Strictly Come Dancing duly followed all whilst making an incredible impact in the UK with his career, Ricky harboured bigger ambitions and wanted to give Hollywood a go and in 2009, he boarded a plane to go after his dreams. Success came with his casting in the popular show The 100, with Ricky becoming a popular character, and then came the lead role in one of Hollywoods biggest shows 'American Gods' with Ricky being cast as the lead 'Shadow Moon' During this incredible episode, Founder Glenn Marsden chats with Ricky about his start into entertainment, through an undeniably incredible career in the UK through to taking a leap into the unknown that is Hollywood, to have some amazing success then cast as the lead in one of the US’s biggest shows.
Not only do we hear all about his amazing work, we also get to know all about the man behind the profession, his upbringing, how he navigated his whole mental wellbeing through his younger years and how things may have been completely different had he not internally chosen himself and changed his mindset on how he looked at life.
To find out more information and to keep up to date with Ricky, simply head to his socials @rickywhittle or his IMDB at: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1340638/
To find out more information on the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign, our global efforts and how you can get involved, simply head to our official website at imperfectlyperfectcampaign.org
Be sure to head to the ImperfectlyPerfect Podcast via all major podcast platforms including iTunes & Spotify
A big thank you to our voice-over: Mike Christenson (voicemonkey.com)
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Jeremy Jackson is an American actor and singer. Best known for his role as Hobie Buchannon on the world wide television show Baywatch.
He exploded onto the commercial scene starring in dozens of national network ad campaigns including television and print and
has continued to star in several daytime television series and films. He excelled in the music industry releasing two full-length albums with two top ten hits and several singles that launched him into a full European Tour and was honoured at the World Music Hall of Fame, as well as inducted into the Young Hollywood Hall of Fame.
In this episode, Jeremy takes us back to the beginning of a career that saw him step into the spotlight at the age of six years of age. He walks us through being catipulted into the heights of fame like no other when Baywatch became a world wide phenomenon, and all eyes were on him all the time whilst trying to navigate growing up.
He openly shares his dark periods with addiction and where it drove him to, to getting the help he needed and going through recovery which ultimately saw him change his life around to now using his platform to empower and help others around the world that have or are going through addiction.
To find out more information about Jeremy and to keep up to date with all of his projects, simply head to his socials @jeremyjacksonfitness
Vice President of Customer & Market Insights at SalesForce Karen Mangia gets Behind the Global Efforts of the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign
‘Imperfectly Perfect to me means being able to show up as yourself unapologetically. It also means just calling it out loud. Speaking it into the room. When you are feeling that you are not yourself or something is out of alignment. What happens and I learnt this in a very real way. When I got to the end of that medical journey that I had mentioned that I was telling you about earlier in the podcast, I decided for the first time in my life that I was going to take holiday for two weeks and do no work. The unintended benefit and the lesson I learnt from that is when I returned to work, I’ll never forget a comment from one woman on my team. She said, ‘I’m so glad you finally trusted us enough to leave us here in charge and to take a break’ and I though Oh My Goodness, in trying to show up as perfect and do it all, I had unintentionally set a very damaging expectation with my team, that they needed to be perfect to. I started showing up differently with that team. We got to break through results that would not have been possible because for me it was like, they know I’m not perfect and they know I need a break, because we are human.’
Karen is not only an incredible advocate with whom we are truly grateful for her getting behind the IPC & sharing her story, but an internationally-recognized thought leader whose TEDx appearance, keynotes, blogs and books reach hundreds of thousands of business leaders each year. She is the author of Working from Home: Making the New Normal Work for You, Listen UP! How to Tune Into Customers and Turn Down the Noise and also Success With Less.
A prolific blogger and sought-after media interview, she has been featured in Forbes and regularly contributes to Thrive Global and ZDNet.
As Vice President of Customer and Market Insights at Salesforce, she engages current and future customers around the world. She serves on the company’s Work from Home Taskforce, where she is helping the company’s 50,000+ worldwide employees to better adapt to a work-from-home environment.
Passionate about diversity and inclusion, she also serves on the company’s Racial Equality and Justice Taskforce.
Global Mental Health Summit Featured in Forbes.
Founder @_glennmarsden recently asked to be a part of an International Panel of Speakers for the latest social media application ‘Clubhouse’ for its first of a kind online Mental Health Global Summits.
Featuring over 50 speakers over a 4 day period, it was an inspirational summit drawing in the hundreds of people daily and featured in Forbes.
'In those Unbearable Moments, we have to know that there is greater, as hard as it may seem' with Brittney Harper
Brittney Harper is a multidimensional woman,making her mark in Ministry as an Author, Entrepreneur, TV personality, spirit-led teacher of God’s Word and Prophetic Intercessor. As a much-in-demand speaker and teacher of the gospel and prophetic voice to many, she continues to travel both nationally and inter-nationally to fulfill her mandated mission: to transform lives, heal hearts, encourage others to find and live in purpose, teach deeper truths and show others the way to live abundantly through Christ.
For those who have never felt or understood spirituality, make sure to give the episode a listen. If there is a commonality between so many people that we have interviewed, through those dark periods of adversity they have come out the other side believing in something far bigger than themselves. We feel very fortunate that the IPC has attracted incredible experts within the medical field, Clinical Professionals, Holistic Therapists, those who teach Spirituality and truly feel blessed that we get to interview and learn so much to be able to get help to so many.
To find out more information and to keep up to date with Brittney, simply head to her official website at www.britnney-harper.org/ or you can follow her through her socials @glory_n_honr
To find out more information on the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign and our global efforts, simply head to our official website at imperfectlyperfectcampaign.org
Voice-Over - Mike Christenson (thevoicemonkey.com)
Balancing The Grind with Glenn Marsden
A great start to the year and a big thank you to Balance The Grind Publication for the interview on our founder; Glenn Marsden discussing work life balance whilst holding down a full time job whilst building the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign and taking his efforts globally to make a difference.
To check out the whole interview, simply head to the link below;
https://lnkd.in/dvxhmUB
British Recording Artist Jamelia gets behind the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign's Global Efforts.
‘I think being Imperfectly Perfect is beautiful. Allowing everyone around you to be honest. We are all weird. We are all a bit quirky and that’s beautiful. Let’s celebrate that. Go out into the world and be exactly who you are. Dr Seuss said; ‘Those who matter, don’t mind and those who mind, don’t matter’and that’s exactly how I want my children and myself. The best thing we can do now is to pass these messages or these lessons on to our children and from the jump, you be exactly who you are. Are you honest? Are you allowing yourself to be honest? - Jamelia
A huge thank you to Britian’s very own singer-songwriter Jamelia for getting behind the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign’s Global Efforts in changing the culture and narrative around Mental Health.
Jamelia is not only an incredible advocate for people speaking up but somebody who has sold millions of albums and scored number one’s all over the world. She has won multiple awards including 4 Mobo’s a Q award and an Ivor Novello. She’s appeared on programmes on every major UK TV channel and hit the screens on countless movies both in front and her music as soundtracks and tv screens.
So we are truly grateful for her taking the time out of her schedule to get behind our efforts and share her story on the ImperfectlyPerfect Podcast.
Releasing this week, be sure to head to Spotify or IHeartRadio to subscribe and keep notified when the episode drops.
Michelle Heaton & Hugh Hanley Share their story on the ImperfectlyPerfect Podcast.
Michelle Heaton & Husband Hugh Hanley get behind the @imperfectlyperfectcampaign global efforts and next week see’s an incredible chat with them both sharing their story on the ImperfectlyPerfect Podcast with founder Glenn Marsden and Rachael Newsham around Michelle’s battle having had to face some serious health challenges over the past few years, including undergoing a double mastectomy, breast reconstruction a hysterectomy and heart problems, and how she has managed to get through everything with the support of Hugh and her family. We find out how it affected Hugh being a partner watching his loved one struggle and how it impacted him also.
We are truly grateful for Michelle and Hugh getting behind our global efforts in changing the narrative around mental health and sharing their story which will help so many others out there that may be going through similar things.
A quick snippet of the chat with Michelle and Hugh telling us what it means being Imperfectly Perfect to them.
‘To me you have to allow ourselves not to be perfect. Because I always wanted to be perfect, to be the best I can be, and I still do want to be the best I can be and do and the best mum. But I’m never going to be right. Because no-one is right. Nobody is perfect and the more that we understand that and give ourselves a break the better we will be.’ - @wonderwomanshel
‘For me, it is around trying to be the perfect husband. Help Michelle and be her strength because, like she said she has an awful lot of health issues going on there and she’s been through for the last 10 years so much health struggles like hysterectomy, mastectomy, heart surgery, a pancreas issue. That’s a lot to take in, in 10 years for one person plus giving birth to two children. So for me personally, it’s trying to be a perfect husband, a good husband.’ @hughhanley
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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6l9FggtCraoblwzP2Y1jwc?si=x5iSkw2hSD6QDygIJKls-g
I'm Alessandra Torresani and I am Bi-Polar, who wants to talk?
Alessandra Torresani an American actress known for her portrayal of Zoe Graystone in the SF television series "Caprica" She has starred in The Big Bang Theory, ER, Even Stevens, JAG, The War at Home, Malcolm In The Middle, Arrested Development, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation amongst many more. Diagnosed with Bipolar I, Alessandra shares her incredible journey of being diagnosed later in her adult life, we chat about an amazing career, her advocacy to bring more awareness around mental health, and we ask the most important question as we do with all of our guests. What does it mean to be ‘imperfectly perfect’
To find out more information on Alessandra, you can find her on her socials @alessandratorresani IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003779/ Or you can check out the 'EmotionAL Support Podcast' via all podcast platforms.
One Photographers Vision to Change The Face Of Mental Health.
Glenn Marsden is the founder of the International campaign ‘Imperfectly Perfect’ He is the humble success that brought the @imperfectlyperfectcampaign together which has gone on to gain International recognition within 12 months and has seen over 250 of the worlds most influential public figures get on board his mission.
Losing a friend to suicide and going through adversity himself, his incredible journey of taking a mission to impact the world saw a sheer determination like no other. The @imperfectlyperfectcampaign didn’t come from an organisation with a team behind the scenes, a publicist to get all the publicity, or a team to approach and ask so many of the amazing advocates and faces of the campaign if they would get on board.
This came from a passion, one man, our founder who worked tirelessly reaching out to people to get on board, picking up the phone, learning how to write press releases and ask for help on things he didn’t know, he approached networks with the help of a couple of the advocates on the campaign, then publications that would listen to get the efforts out.
He worked around the clock simultaneously with a young family and a full time job. He worked whilst nobody was watching putting in the blood, sweat and tears and he worked because he cares. He surrounded himself with like minded people who have gone on to help support and build an amazing international team around him these days. ( I am so honoured to be a part of this important legacy alongside Glenn, Eden, Kim, Rob, Jackie, Jeremy, Rob, Rachael, Ryan and Mike )
He turned his own adversity into something pretty special to help countless others around the world and brought so many people together solely who care for making a much needed change with the narrative around mental health. So we ask you guys, get behind Glenn, get behind our global efforts.
One that is fuelled by love for wanting to make a change in this world. Share our message, and help us reach more people who continue to suffer in silence.
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So many amazing influential public figures across all sectors around the world getting behind the @imperfectlyperfectcampaign global efforts.
One commonality between everyone - they all have a story!
They are all huge advocates towards changing the conversation around mental health and letting people know it’s ok to reach out for help.
You can find the ImperfectlyPerfect Podcast via @spotify. Simply subscribe to keep up to date on all the latest episodes and to see who is coming up.
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A huge thank you as we reach our second year anniversary.
Today see’s us reach our second year anniversary of the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign.
*a few words from Founder; Glenn Marsden.
’It has far surpassed what I set out as a passion project. Gaining international attention within 12 months, amassing worldwide influential public figures getting behind my efforts, a highly acclaimed podcast, got the chance to showcase through incredible advocates helping the efforts to the Mental Health Commissioners Chambers at Parliament House, had meetings in the USA at Paramount Pictures, gained international press coverage and network coverage inc being a guest alongside my good friend and team mate @jeremyjacksonfitness on the Global Talkshows Digital Series going out live to 9 million people, being a guest with the campaign on Amazon Prime show Gown & Out in Beverley Hls and NOW we have our global efforts continuing with more incredible initiatives and the International Workshop Series.
Today we looked at our total combined reach and then across our international exposure from all of our platforms and coverage and are sincerely blown away that we have surpassed 10 million and watching our reach and exposure grow by the day.
From the bottom of my heart, I thank each and every person who has believed in my ‘passion’ project to make a change towards mental health and continuing to get behind the campaigns initiatives to merely get more awareness and help in front of people so that they know they are not alone.’ - Glenn Marsden.
If you would like to know more about the campaigns global efforts and how you can get involved, simply head to our official website at imperfectyperfectcampaign.org or email us at info@imperfectyperfectcampaign.org
The Imperfectly Perfect Campaign is a privately run awareness campaign. We are not a registered charity nor a service for professional advice. Should you need help, please refer to your nearest crisis numbers.
The Imperfectly Perfect Campaign's Global Community.
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To find out more about the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign and how you can get involved simply head to imperfectlyperfectcampaign.org
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