Episode 10

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Published on:

17th Apr 2026

Quick Spoon: When grief stops you

Grief can stop us in our tracks — but it can also shape what we do next.

In this Quick Spoon, Jill Stoddard shares a deeply human moment about loss, connection, and continuing forward.

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Transcript

When grief stops you

Jill: [:

Speaker 4: Hi there, and welcome to People Soup, Quick Spoon, real conversations about work leadership and being human grounded in behavioral science. With practical ideas you can actually use. I'm Ross McIntosh and here's your Quick spoon.

Ross: Jill, I wanted to just give a bit of space to the dedication in the book as well.

Jill: Well, this, like, instantly makes me start crying. The minute you said dedication, like, all of the emotions came right up to the surface. So, the book is dedicated to Leanne Harris, who is a colleague of ours from ACBS and she was an absolutely incredible human who did So many different things.

And one of the things that she was learning to do was to become a book coach.

son that I learned you don't [:

and through working with Leanne, an author accelerator, I got a pretty decent advance that I never in a million years thought would happen. And that was all because of Leigh Anne. And horribly, tragically, unexpectedly, She passed away. She was, I think, 46? Mid to late 40s.

g and living the messages in [:

Speaker 4: And that's your Quick spoon. We don't have to do this alone. Support can change everything. If this meant something to you, share it with someone in your corner.

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People Soup
Real conversations about work, leadership and being human
A podcast exploring work, leadership, and being human through real conversations — grounded in behavioural science and full of practical ideas you can apply straight away.

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Ross McIntosh

I'm a work psychologist. I want to help you navigate the daily challenges of work by sharing behavioural science in a way that's accessible, useful and fun.
I'm originally from Northumberland in the UK and I now live near Seville in Spain with my husband.