British Red Cross special with emergency responder Kate Bedding

The Guilty Feminist

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Comedy, Feminism

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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British Red Cross special

Presented by Deborah Frances-White and special guest emergency responder Kate Bedding.

In this special episode Deborah sits down with the inspirational Kate Bedding, a learning and development manager for the British Red Cross crisis and emergency response team. They chat about the vital work Kate and The British Red Cross do across the country – and the world – when crisis strikes, and what really happens in those high-pressure moments. Thank you to the British Red Cross for making this happen. Together we are the world's emergency responders.

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0:00.0	Hello guilty feminists, this is Deborah. This very special episode is brought to you by
0:24.1	the British Red Cross, who were there for people when a crisis strikes. No matter who or
0:29.6	where they are. Now I find when things go badly wrong, I can keep quite a cool head, but then
0:34.4	something small, like not being able to find my laptop charger, can send me into a total meltdown.
0:39.6	In other words, I'm good in a crisis, but bad in a queue. Our guest is the Learning and Development
0:44.8	Manager for the British Red Cross Crisis and Emergency Response Team, which means she's not
0:49.6	only responsible for the training of over 100 emergency responders and approximately a thousand
0:54.4	volunteers, but she's also an emergency responder and psychosocial volunteer herself. As part
1:00.4	of the wider Red Cross and Red Crescent movement, their teams respond to all kinds of urgent
1:05.8	emergencies from floods to fires and are there to provide whatever's needed. Thank you to the
1:11.5	British Red Cross for making this episode happen, so we can all get a glimpse from our guest
1:16.9	about what it's really like in those high-pressure moments. And now please welcome our guest Kate
1:21.7	Betty. Kate, welcome, welcome, welcome to the guilty feminist. Thanks so much for doing it.
1:26.8	Thank you so much for having me. I am so excited to be here.
1:30.5	Now Kate, I was just saying how I can't always keep a cool head. I'm actually very good when things
1:34.7	are going properly wrong, but suddenly I'll break at the tiniest little thing. Are you always someone
1:42.3	who can keep a cool head? Is that what you need to do the job? You need to be someone who's
1:46.8	just like that. Do you have to learn that? Or do sometimes you have moments like anybody?
1:52.1	Oh, I am never calm when it's a personal crisis at all. When you were talking about the laptop
1:57.4	charger, that is me. I am very much the little things do totally drive me of the edge. I think it's
2:04.4	when it's anything personal, I'm not very good at. When it's when it's somebody else's crisis,
2:09.4	when it's an emergency, I can sort of go into a zone and sort of deal with it quite well, but
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