Clare Balding (NC 1990) was joined on her Good Morning Sunday BBC Radio 2 programme by two other Newnhamites – a nun and a life coach.
Clare McGregor (NC 1991), Managing Director, Coaching Inside and Out, is a Newnham Associate who studied Classics at Newnham before working in the voluntary sector, initially as a fundraiser.
She has spent twenty five years developing services for people in crisis and has worked with various government departments.
Five years ago she set up the charity Coaching Inside and Out (CIAO) which helps offenders transform their lives through life coaching.
CIAO has worked with more than 500 people in prison and the community to help them decide what they want to change and how to make it happen.
Sister Gemma Simmonds (NC 1977), a sister of the Congregation of Jesus, is a senior lecturer in pastoral theology at Heythrop College in the University of London, she teaches Ignatian spirituality and is a director of the Religious Life Institute. She is also a volunteer prison chaplain and a Newnham Associate.
Listen to Sister Simmonds from 38 minutes, she discusses everything from the timing of Easter, her love of chocolate and the origins of Mothering Sunday.
Listen to Clare McGregor from 1 hour 14 minutes, she talks Clare Balding, an Honorary Fellow of Newnham, through why one of the first questions she asks the people she is coaching is: “How do you want to make the most of your time on this planet?”
The trio weren’t the only Newnhamites to appear on the airwaves over the past seven days; Professor Mary Beard (NC 1973), Newnham Fellow, presented Glad to Be Grey on BBC Radio 4 on March 4, Heather Self (NC 1977), Newnham Associate and a Director in Pinsent Masons’ Tax team, talked about tax avoidance on The Bottom Line on BBC Radio 4, and Canon Sarah Rowland Jones (NC 1977) gave the Prayer for the Day on BBC Radio 4 on March 4.
Read more about Coaching Inside and Out.
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Caption: From left to right, Sister Gemma Simmonds with Clare McGregor and Clare Balding.