by Madeleine Black | Jan 28, 2020
January 27th marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and it made me think of my lovely Dad, Leo Geddy (Leopold Gedajlovic) For those of you who don’t know, my dad was a Holocaust Survivor His parents, brothers and sisters were all murdered at Auschwitz...
by Madeleine Black | Dec 30, 2019
Up until last year, I had worked for twelve years as a psychotherapist, but I was getting asked more and more to attend various speaking events to share my story. It got me thinking that maybe I should stop working as a psychotherapist to focus on speaking more but I...
by Madeleine Black | Jul 16, 2019
I’ve had a lot of questions asked since I did my TEDxGlasgow talk a few weeks ago. One of them has been what was I wearing around my neck! Some people thought it was a cross but as they know I’m Jewish, they were confused I was wearing the symbol known as the Zia...
by Madeleine Black | Jun 24, 2019
On Friday June 14th I stood on the famous TEDx red dot and shared my story with an audience of 2000! Here is a transcript for you of my talk : Is there something holding you back? Something that nobody else knows, that you can’t speak about? When I was thirteen, I...
by Madeleine Black | Jun 17, 2019
If anybody told me that one day, I would be standing on the famous TEDx red dot in front of an audience of 2000 people to share my most intimate details of being gang raped as a thirteen-year-old, I would never have believed it But on June 14th, with a talk titled...
by Madeleine Black | Apr 28, 2019
I recently joined the PSA (Professional Speaking Association) last September and attended their convention in October in Nottingham which was great. One lunch I sat with a man named Paul who was from South Africa and he asked me what I spoke about. I explained my...
