It’s Friday, and the weekend is just around the corner. That means it is time to kick up your feet and relax with some quick fire questions. This ‘Time Out’ features Lindsay Green, Yorkshire-based programme director at Soroptimist International Great Britain & Ireland, whose superpower, it turns out, would be super-advocacy.
What is the first thing you do to get the weekend started?
After a busy week in the day job (as a health visitor) and supporting Soroptimists as programme director, I’m drawn towards a takeaway pizza so I don’t have to cook and can have a well-deserved rest!
What is your hobby?
My role as a Soroptimist originally spanned from a hobby, but now that’s grown into so much more than that. So, instead, I’d say my hobbies include wet felting, card making and sewing.
What is your favourite movie?
“Calamity Jane” with Doris Day and Howard Keel – you can’t beat it for the music and the story, one which, surprisingly for the time it’s set in, also challenges gender norms.
If you hadn’t been successful at what you do, what would you be doing instead as a career?
I’m very lucky that I enjoy my day job as a health visitor AND that I get to volunteer in a dream role doing voluntary work as a Soroptimist – I get to oversee incredible projects our clubs are championing – supporting women and girls, and I get to travel.
I’ve visited India, Bangladesh and Nepal, and more recently some Caribbean countries as programme director. I also have been lucky enough to represent our organisation at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York over the last three years. So, if I wasn’t already getting the chance to do that, that’s what I’d want to do – and maybe more charity work involving families too.
If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
What a fun question, if I could have anything, I’d want a power that allowed me to support the world in being more kind and more peaceful. Can my superpower be super-advocacy?
What is your secret talent?
I’m more creative than perhaps my roles would suggest, and I love being able to come up with new ideas – even if I’m not always the talent that needs to put it together!
What is your favourite genre of music?
Anything with a beat in it that can be danced to. I listen to soul and funk in my car, and I am a 70-80s girl at heart. People always put on Dancing Queen for me as I do love a good bop.
If you could travel to any moment in time, where would you go?
The start of my morning, any morning. Each day I sit with my husband, Andy, as we drink a coffee together. It sets me up well ahead of supporting people, either in the day job and or as programme director for the Soroptimists – so to be able to travel to that whenever I need a bit of a reset would be lovely.
