Shows
Movement Is My Constant: Real conversations on movement, mindfulness, and making meaningful change - for creatives, caregivers, and mission-driven humansFlow Over Force with Anthony Trahair: A Playful Take on Mental Health and Creative RecoveryIn a world that glorifies urgency and endless productivity, what if the key to clarity, focus, and meaning lies in something as simple—and radical—as play? In this episode, Anthony Trahair shares his journey from chemistry student to circus performer to wellness coach, offering deep reflections on the role of movement and creativity in mental wellbeing.Whether you're feeling burnt out, overstimulated, or just disconnected from your creative edge, this conversation offers practical tools and fresh insights into how we might live, move, and work with more intention.Episode HighlightsWhy urgency makes us f...
2025-06-2656 min
Wildspire#80 Leap Into the Liberation of PlayHow to live a more fulfilling life with the transformative power of play, a conversation with Anthony Trahair, life coach and playfulness catalyst. Connect with Anthony: https://anthonytrahair.com Subscribe for new podcast updates: https://www.theawakenedbusiness.com/wildspire
2024-04-1248 min
The Relatable Voice PodcastMEETING LIFE, Lessons from a Young JUGGLER with Anthony TrahairHello dear listeners, Welcome to the fourth season of "The Relatable Voice" podcast! Today, the RV is headed to Italy to speak with Anthony Trahair. Anthony is a juggler, speaker, life coach and writer. His latest book MEETING LIFE, Lessons from a Young Juggler is coming out now. IG: ThePlayfulnessCatalyst
2023-01-1632 min
Conversation PitWhat is playfulness? (with Anthony Trahair)In today's episode in the Conversation Pit, Max & Mo have an interesting chat about Anthony's time as a juggler, spending time in India and overcoming shyness- all while learning to be playful with oneself.
Conversation Pit socials:
Max: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxfritzhand
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/conversation-pit
Book a time: calendly.com/conversationpit
Anthony is a life coach, author juggler, yoga enthusiast and runs events to inspire people to get in touch with the playful side so that they can live a more fulfilling life.Straig...
2022-11-071h 00
We‘ve Got a ProblemThe Spirit of Play w/Anthony TrahairAnthony Trahair, a life-coach and yogi from the UK who now lives an off-grid lifestyle in Italy, joins the podcast this week to tell his fascinating story. Listen in as he recounts the time he left the UK in 1996 with only 50 pounds and ended up spending 4 months traveling through Southern Europe as a street performer, soaking up culture, and permanently changing the way he interacted with the world.
Listen & follow We've Got a Problem wherever you get your podcasts— https://link.chtbl.com/problempodcast
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tGVw92vo6Mc
Learn more about Anthony: www.fa...
2022-10-2428 min
Creative Status: Live Your REAL Life#3: Anthony Trahair: Play, Risk, & HumanityCreative Status is a podcast about using creativity as a vehicle for improving your life by deconstructing ego, integrating the shadow self, and designing and manifesting a real life. Every episode explores how the creative process can help you GROW REAL by moving towards wholeness in yourself by making the unconscious conscious.
Anthony Trahair is an author, life coach, and juggler who specialises in helping people and communities to reconnect to their humanity via playfulness. He runs workshops and events designed to help people get out of their heads, into their bodies, and back into life by...
2022-10-2455 min
Repossiblere242: “You Are What You Do With Your Time” with Anthony Trahair
Here’s that cool poster on LinkedIn.
Here’s the book Anthony mentioned: PLAYDHD by Kirsten Millikin.
[ https://youtu.be/eFydx4tx5uI ]
2022-09-2019 min
The PlayfuLife PodcastBring Play back into Elite SportsCathy Salit on Play, Sports and Life.
Bring Play Back into Elite Sports Podcast Show Notes [55mins]
This podcast is absolute gold!
Learn how to reach your goals through play and fun. We are all performers suggests Cathy. It’s great to have directions to do something new.
Cathy Salit is a performance activist, social entrepreneur, jazz singer, speaker, executive coach, and theatrical improviser. She’s been a community organizer and radical educator since she was 13 years old, when she dropped out of school and star...
2021-11-0855 min
The PlayfuLife PodcastWriting PlayfullyWriting Playfully with Bradley Charbonneau [36mins]
Very happy to have Bradley Charbonneau on the show today!
Bradley is author of 31 books, is a writing coach and author of many programs for authors such as Write Your Worst Book Ever! I met Bradley at the Playful Creative Summit and liked his approach so much I joined in with his program!
It was lots of fun and I also wrote a new book, more on that another time.
Bradley tells us how his...
2021-08-0936 min
The PlayfuLife PodcastThe Science of Humour and LaughterThe Science of Humour and Laughter
Today’s guest is Stephanie Davies, founder and CEO of Laughology based in the UK.
Stephanie is one of the UK’s leading voices in the psychology of laughter and humour.
She has applied her work in a wide variety of settings, from dealing with complex public and mental health issues to building teams in high profile organisations. She is a stand-up comedian and has worked with Patch Adams exploring the relationship between health, humour, community and the arts. Stephanie is author of the book “Laughology” that we talk mor...
2021-06-2344 min
The PlayfuLife PodcastWhat Play Persona are You?What Play Persona are you?
Inspiring Philosophical Conversation on Play with Ben Ross.
Ben Ross writes novels, coaches and helps adults to play, guided by his spirit animal, the flying raccoon. He lives beside a forest on the edge of London.
Ben’s definition of Play:
“An attitude of Serious Attention applied to something that others consider trivial or nonsensical”.
In this episode he unpacks this for us.
We all have a unique way of playing. We all play in our own way.
Something may be fun for you th...
2021-04-2050 min
The PlayfuLife PodcastPlayful DesignPlayful Design with Alyea Sandovar
Dr. Alyea Sandovar is a gamification and play consultant at Tint Hue. She helps established business owners create deeper engagement for their online programs and turn clients into raving fans through gamification. She is also the co-founder of the Playful Creative Summit. A free summit dedicated to adding more play and creativity to the world which launches every year in April. She has a PhD is in Game Production, a Masters in Psychology, a Masters in Human Organizational Systems, and a Bachelor’s in Public Relations and Communication. She has experience with ac...
2021-02-2452 min
The PlayfuLife PodcastLila and the spark guyVery happy to Have Leif Hansen on the podcast.
Leif is a playful soul. He knows the transformative power of play and has found a clear way of expressing this to a more general public. (That, as we know, puts play to the end of the day if at all) Leif is a playful facilitator, has held “Lila retreats” that help people choose a better way of playing out their lives, he is now helping businesses bring out the best of themselves to work from a place of Joy.
The aspect of Lilà was something I was...
2021-02-0948 min
The PlayfuLife PodcastThe Playful Engineering ProfessorToday let’s meet AnnMarie Thomas, who I’ve called The Playful Engineering Professor!
AnnMarie has been doing some brilliant work with The Playful Learning Lab at The University of St. Thomas Minnesota, USA.
The Quest: How to make Learning more Engaging?
Dr. AnnMarie Thomas is the director of the Playful Learning Lab at the University of St. Thomas, where she is a professor of Engineering and Business. She is passionate about bringing the worlds of art and education together to create engaging education experiences.
Even though AnnMarie has a PhD in R...
2021-01-2654 min
SeeArts Podcast 🌟 Building the co-creative Bridge between Arts & Business 🎭🚀The SeeArts Podcast #15 🚀🎭 Fighting gravity 💫 with Manuel Mitasch from Jonglissimo 🤹🏼🎪Today, I am welcoming juggling artist Manuel Mitasch at the SeeArts Podcast – together with his brother Christoph, he started Jonglissimo a top-notch juggling compagnie from Austria that has won several world records and international prizes. We would have had the pleasure to finally collaborate in a corporate show with DUNDU in Amsterdam but then Corona hit got us as well. After Viktor Kee and Anthony Trahair, it is the 3rd juggling interview partner and I am excited how this new generation approaches juggling, turning points on the journey and their creative routines and visions for this uncertain future in th...
2021-01-1347 min
The PlayfuLife PodcastLaughter is THE BEST MedicineLaughter is… The Best Medicine
and this is the name of the project that Katie Rose White is fully engaged in right now.
Katie went to Art school and got a BA with a dissertation about “moments of play and how it informs creativity in performance art”.
How to spread moments of rapturous joy and laughter? How to design moments and create installations and performances that invite people into memorable play?
How to find ways to light peoples spirit?
Katie was holding laughter workshops and one day she tried her own medicine out on herself and fo...
2020-12-2845 min
The PlayfuLife PodcastSocial Circus and A Case for PlayPeter Duncan, one of the founders of Circus Eruption in 1992, Peter is a playful soul, works all sorts and particularly loves working with 5 year olds and over 65 bringing fun and joy through Circus activities and games. He is now trainer of social circus trainers and makes a case for play.
Peter noticed that summer activities were all about freedom and looked for something that had a similar flavour for the winter and discovered (social) circus.
Circus activities are INCLUSIVE and PLAYFUL – there is a place for EVERYONE.
His motto “There are NO rules for...
2020-12-1836 min
The PlayfuLife PodcastClown-o-therapyBeautiful conversation with Holly Stoppit from Bristol, UK (34’32”) Clown-o-therapy
Holly Stoppit is a facilitator, clowning and fooling teacher, theatre director and dramatherapist, specialising in live, interactive, improvised and devised performance. At the heart of all of Holly’s work is a desire to promote creative discovery and connection through play.
Holly Stoppit was a weird kid from a circus family. She found acceptance through comedy.
Find out a lot more in this podcast about, Play and Risk, Vulnerability as Strength, What is it to be a female clown, connecting online, the importance of silliness...
2020-12-0934 min
SeeArts Podcast 🌟 Building the co-creative Bridge between Arts & Business 🎭🚀The SeeArts Podcast #9 🎭🚀 The Need for Playfulness 👉 with Anthony Trahair 🌈🤹♂️Anthony takes us on his journey of becoming: Landing in Grenoble at the European Juggling Convention opened his horizon and he couldn't return to the UK where he had graduated in Chemistry but travelled and found then his creative home base in Rome. From there he started blending together different performing and movement disciplines, attended the Dimitri School in Ascona and until today he performs in a unique way and teaches a very holistic approach of performance and art in one of a kind retreats. With his both theatrical and philosophical views, he is contributing to an ever evolving...
2020-07-241h 33
Aussie Hoopla NBL & NBA PodcastMatt Shanahan (17 year NBL pro) on being a role player in the NBL Matthew 'Bubble' Shanahan played 17 seasons in the NBL, playing for eight NBL teams, which is the second most in NBL history behind Ben Knight who played for nine teams. At 6 foot 5 inches tall, Shanahan was a versatile player who could play any perimeter position, he also led the NBL in three-point percentage in 1999. Topics include; Entering the NBL and winning two championships in his first two seasons (2:00) A stint at the AIS, playing with Sam MacKinnon, Aaron Trahair, Simon Dwight and the strength of Victorian basketball in the early 1990s (9:00) How missing out...
2020-07-1956 min
Podcast ist echt nicht einfach!Folge 13 Podcast ist echt nicht einfach (#Piene) als Gast Anthony Trahair Autor - Pearls of JugglingPearls of Juggling - german edition , Spielfreude und das Lernen zu lernen
It´s was a great pleasure and honor to have this inspiring conversation !
Anthony Trahair ist Jongleur, Artist und Philosoph der Spielfreude. Zudem ist er der Autor des wunderschönen Buches The Pearls of Juggling. Dieses soll bald auf Deutsch erscheinen. Hier im -Podcast ist echt nicht einfach- stellt er sein Fundraising Projekt, sowie sein Playfulness Festival 2020 vor. Und ich sag auch ab und zu mal was mässig schlaues.
-- Guestbox Anthony Trahair --
zum Buch:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pearls-Juggling-Anthony-Trahair/dp/192796749X
zum Fundraising:
https://de...
2020-06-0548 min