Hello and welcome to Ben Kumba Radio I still don't know what number of episode this is but it is another show with Tom and I will be interviewing another ex-BTN student so we've got the lovely Emily Rayna here today. She has been with BTN for probably what around 20 months now I think it works at us something like that.

So she's completed the Foundation Academy, the Practical Academy, and I just thought it would be quite

interested to get Emily on because Emily actually has quite an interesting job.

So Emily, would you like to tell us please who you are what you do and how can you hear?

Yeah cool and so my current job at the moment is a young people's drug and alcohol support worker for a charity.

It kind of involves a lot of one-to-one work, but I work with young offenders and young people in care, kind of

of predominantly working around change, which is very interesting and quite similar to the work that we do with the nutrition stuff as well.

Yeah.

Yeah, I always thought it was a really interesting and cool job because I guess I suppose you're in a position whereby you can you can impact

young people to like a massive degree that a lot of people don't get the opportunity

to do. Yeah totally I feel like every day is very different. Each day, like you go and you don't really know what kind of young people you're going to be working with, so you're just quite adaptable. But I feel like I get the opportunity to make a difference before it kind of

perhaps goes wrong a bit later on, so a bit more like an early intervention with young people and just even if it's just like a bit of drip

feeding of information I think it kind of sorts them out for

later on and just like gives them food for thought really and as they go on to the

adults or young adults.

Yeah that's awesome that's awesome so I mean what sort of drove you to from that which is obviously like one huge side of health I suppose into more the nutritional side of things what interested you initially and because you're a coach now right you've

started taking the banks.

So how did that transition come about?

So it's a bit of a kind of crazy journey really, but I found that with kind of my job, I found that mentally I wasn't able to switch off and I'd go home worrying about the young people that I was working with and not really been able to sort of have

the work-life balance.

So I started getting involved in exercise.

I wasn't like into fitness or health at all when I first started that job and in fact it was kind of the opposite of that like quite heavy smoker and quite overweight but the job kind of made me kind of get into the health and fitness world in that way because I just kind of needed a bit of an outlet.

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