Nik & Eva Speakman

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Nik & Eva Speakman
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Nik and Eva Speakman in November 2021
BornNik Speakman
(1961-12-07) 7 December 1961 (age 62)
England
Eva Speakman
(1969-04-30) 30 April 1969 (age 55)
England
OccupationSchema conditioning therapists [1]
Children2
Website www.speakman.tv

Nik Speakman (born 7 December 1961) [2] [3] [4] and Eva Speakman (born 30 April 1969), [3] [4] known collectively as The Speakmans, are British writers, therapists, life coaches and TV presenters known for their regular contributions on ITV's This Morning .

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Career

Nik Speakman started a finance company, Personal Money Management, aged 17. In 2001, the pair participated as contestants on an episode of Channel 5's Fort Boyard , titling themselves as Lord Nik and Lady Eva. [5] He was working as a success coach at the time of his and Eva's 2005 appearance in That's Rich, a Granada Television series focusing on entrepreneurs in the north-west of England. [6] [7] Eva Speakman ran the Heavenly Bodies gym in Oldham at the time of the show. [6] The Speakmans were subsequently hosts of a Living TV show, A Life Coach Less Ordinary, and in 2007 published a book titled You Can Be Fantastic, Too!. [7]

The couple are regular contributors on ITV's This Morning, hosting a segment about issues and anxiety disorders ranging from obsessive–compulsive disorder to fears, phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder. [8] [9] In 2014, the pair briefly hosted a spin-off daytime ITV show of their own entitled The Speakmans. [10] The couple also took part in series five of Celebrity Hunted in 2023. [11]

The Speakmans have diplomas in an unspecified subject from Newcastle University, but have stated these are not related to their work. [4] The Speakmans use a technique known as Visual Schema Displacement Therapy (VSDT). A non-clinical study into the technique found that in the short-term it was more effective than an abbreviated version of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. [12]

Personal life

The Speakmans have lived in Littleborough near Rochdale in Greater Manchester since 2000. [13]

Awards

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  4. 1 2 3 Sarah Dempster (7 January 2006). "Gurus on the rise". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 July 2014.
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  6. 1 2 "TV shares tales of life on millionaires' row". Manchester Evening News. 25 April 2005. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  7. 1 2 Nik Speakman (1 November 2007). Your Life Can Be Fantastic Too!. Goldwing Publishing Limited. ISBN   978-0-9793965-0-2.
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