Prince's Trust Awards Special

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Fearne is a Goodwill Ambassador for Mental Health and Wellbeing for The Prince’s Trust, a brilliant charity that helps people who have faced disadvantage and adversity to get their lives on track, supporting them into education, training, and jobs.

In this special episode, Fearne chats to Emma-May about the role The Prince’s Trust has played in helping her grow in confidence, both practically and emotionally. Emma-May has been a carer for her parents since she was eleven-years-old, and struggled with her mental health after many years of personal challenges at school that left her with severe anxiety and low self-confidence. Now, she’s studying for a law degree and is much more comfortable in larger groups of people.

As well as catching up on Emma-May’s progress, Fearne has a very special surprise for her at the end of the episode...

The Prince’s Trust Awards in association with TK Maxx & Homesense will be on TV on Thursday 26th May at 8.30pm on ITV.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and today I've got an incredibly special
0:08.0	episode for you. I'm chatting with a young woman who's had to overcome a lot in her
0:13.5	life. She's called MMA. I think I think it was just known that people weren't as cruel
0:20.0	because obviously like challenges in school and like I finally came to realise that not
0:25.1	everyone is out to judge me or hurt me. It's not understanding to myself that I'm okay.
0:32.1	Like no one's gonna hurt me. MMA is from Full Kirk. She's a carer for her parents and
0:38.2	struggled with her own mental health after years of personal challenges at school. At a
0:43.7	point where her anxiety and low self-esteem meant she didn't want to leave the house. She
0:48.8	saw an advert for the Princess Trust on Facebook. The Princess Trust is a wonderful charity. I'm
0:54.7	a goodwill ambassador for mental health and well-being for them. They help people who face
0:59.8	disadvantage and adversity to get their lives on track supporting them into education,
1:06.2	training and jobs. And that's exactly what they did for Emma. She applied for and completed
1:12.5	the Explore programme which as you'll hear did an amazing job working on her confidence
1:19.2	and her group work skills. So much so that she's now studying for a law degree.
1:25.6	Today what it was such a privilege to be able to have this chat with Emma May. I felt
1:30.4	very lucky that she felt safe enough to open up to me and I really enjoyed learning all
1:36.0	about Emma May's life and her experiences that have taken her to the place she's at today.
1:43.4	It was just a really, really joyful afternoon and you're going to want to stick around right
1:55.0	until the end because oh my gosh there is a very special surprise in store and I cry.
2:03.7	This episode of Happy Place is brought to you by Dyson and their special edition of
2:08.5	Vincoblue and Rose Hair Care Technology. Available this gifting season. I style my hair like
2:16.9	the changing of the wind every day I wake up with a different idea as to how I want
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