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Resilience Rising PodcastEp 74 - Elspeth Wilson - Talking about collective resilience, body doubling, journalling, writing a book as a way to escape‘I am cringe, but I am free’ - words to live by!
In this episode we talk about collective resilience, body doubling, journalling, and writing a book as a way to escape.
I am joined by Elspeth Wilson. Elspeth is a Scottish writer, poet, and creative facilitator whose work explores the body, nature, neurodivergence, and what it means to feel at home - in ourselves and in the world.
Her debut poetry pamphlet, Too Hot to Sleep, is published by Written Off Publishing and was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s 2023 Poetry...
2025-09-121h 06Resilience Rising PodcastEp 74 - Elspeth Wilson - Talking about collective resilience, body doubling, journalling, writing a book as a way to escape‘I am cringe, but I am free’ - words to live by!
In this episode we talk about collective resilience, body doubling, journalling, and writing a book as a way to escape.
I am joined by Elspeth Wilson. Elspeth is a Scottish writer, poet, and creative facilitator whose work explores the body, nature, neurodivergence, and what it means to feel at home - in ourselves and in the world.
Her debut poetry pamphlet, Too Hot to Sleep, is published by Written Off Publishing and was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s 2023 Poetry...
2025-09-121h 06
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 73 - Dee Hankins - From foster care system at two months old, navigating 12 different homes by age eight, to inspirational speaker
- 'Resilience is everything' -
From growing up in foster care to becoming a voice of hope, Dee’s journey is a testament to the power of resilience. Whether you're facing personal struggles or looking for inspiration, this conversation is for you.
When I started this podcast it was because I believe that as humans, each one of us has a tale about resilience, and something they can teach us. And today’s guest, Dee Hankins, is such a great example of that. A nationally acclaimed motivational speaker, Dee has shared his powerful message of resi...
2025-08-311h 10Resilience Rising PodcastEp 73 - Dee Hankins - From foster care system at two months old, navigating 12 different homes by age eight, to inspirational speaker
- 'Resilience is everything' -
From growing up in foster care to becoming a voice of hope, Dee’s journey is a testament to the power of resilience. Whether you're facing personal struggles or looking for inspiration, this conversation is for you.
When I started this podcast it was because I believe that as humans, each one of us has a tale about resilience, and something they can teach us. And today’s guest, Dee Hankins, is such a great example of that. A nationally acclaimed motivational speaker, Dee has shared his powerful message of resi...
2025-08-311h 10
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 72 - Urmi Hossain - Author of Discovering Your Identity: A Rebirth from Interracial Struggle"I always felt like I was misplaced, that I did not belong to any types of groups, especially in my peer groups."
Have you ever felt like you were living a life according to what someone else wanted? How do we develop resilience in the midst of feeling like we don't belong?
Today we speak to Urmi Hossain who shares her story. Urmi is a woman who wears many hats.; Urmi is a self-published author, speaker, blogger, polyglot, mentor, and holder of the CFA ( Chartered Financial Analyst) and CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) designations. She...
2025-06-2742 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 72 - Urmi Hossain - Author of Discovering Your Identity: A Rebirth from Interracial Struggle"I always felt like I was misplaced, that I did not belong to any types of groups, especially in my peer groups."
Have you ever felt like you were living a life according to what someone else wanted? How do we develop resilience in the midst of feeling like we don't belong?
Today we speak to Urmi Hossain who shares her story. Urmi is a woman who wears many hats.; Urmi is a self-published author, speaker, blogger, polyglot, mentor, and holder of the CFA ( Chartered Financial Analyst) and CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) designations. She...
2025-06-2742 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 71 - Meri McCoy-Thompson - Author of he Heart of Resilience: Nurturing Your Inner Strength for a Joyful LifeMeri McCoy-Thompson is the executive director of Dovetail Learning, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering resilience and social-emotional intelligence in adults, youth, and children. In her new book, The Heart of Resilience: Nurturing Your Inner Strength for a Joyful Life, Meri and her colleague Chuck draw on their extensive experience and research to provide readers with a framework for developing resilience skills. Enhanced by more than 100 real-life stories, the book offers practical strategies and exercises for building emotional strength, managing stress, and cultivating more authentic and fulfilling relationships.
A graduate of Stanford University with a master's from...
2025-06-1349 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 71 - Meri McCoy-Thompson - Author of he Heart of Resilience: Nurturing Your Inner Strength for a Joyful LifeMeri McCoy-Thompson is the executive director of Dovetail Learning, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering resilience and social-emotional intelligence in adults, youth, and children. In her new book, The Heart of Resilience: Nurturing Your Inner Strength for a Joyful Life, Meri and her colleague Chuck draw on their extensive experience and research to provide readers with a framework for developing resilience skills. Enhanced by more than 100 real-life stories, the book offers practical strategies and exercises for building emotional strength, managing stress, and cultivating more authentic and fulfilling relationships.
A graduate of Stanford University with a master's from...
2025-06-1349 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 70 - Chris Tamdjidi - Author of 'The Resilient Culture' talks about the skills you need for resilience'Resilience means the ability to regulate your own states independent of the external environment you are in.'
What if we have been thinking about resilience wrong? Chris Tamdjidi offers a fresh approach of how looking at resilience, not as enduring, but as moving between states, can ensure we focus on the skills that will help us.
Chris is the co-founder and Director of Awaris. Chris has spent the last 15 years focusing on Leadership development especially in the fields of resilience, authentic leadership and personal transformation. As a Director of Awaris, Chris leads ov...
2025-03-1453 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 70 - Chris Tamdjidi - Author of 'The Resilient Culture' talks about the skills you need for resilience'Resilience means the ability to regulate your own states independent of the external environment you are in.'
What if we have been thinking about resilience wrong? Chris Tamdjidi offers a fresh approach of how looking at resilience, not as enduring, but as moving between states, can ensure we focus on the skills that will help us.
Chris is the co-founder and Director of Awaris. Chris has spent the last 15 years focusing on Leadership development especially in the fields of resilience, authentic leadership and personal transformation. As a Director of Awaris, Chris leads ov...
2025-03-1453 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 69 - Mark MacNicol - Drama for resilience and how we can find our Inner MentorWhat if creativity could change lives? What if storytelling, drama, and even AI could help people navigate life's struggles, addiction, recovery, and the justice system?
In this episode, I sit down with Mark MacNicol, an award-winning writer, director, and founder of The Creative Change Collective, to explore the power of the arts in fostering resilience. With a Master's in screenwriting, multiple stage and screen productions, and two novels (Coconut Badger & Finn McCool Rises), Mark has spent his career shaping stories. But his most powerful work happens offstage; helping real people transform their lives.
We dive...
2025-02-211h 03Resilience Rising PodcastEp 69 - Mark MacNicol - Drama for resilience and how we can find our Inner MentorWhat if creativity could change lives? What if storytelling, drama, and even AI could help people navigate life's struggles, addiction, recovery, and the justice system?
In this episode, I sit down with Mark MacNicol, an award-winning writer, director, and founder of The Creative Change Collective, to explore the power of the arts in fostering resilience. With a Master's in screenwriting, multiple stage and screen productions, and two novels (Coconut Badger & Finn McCool Rises), Mark has spent his career shaping stories. But his most powerful work happens offstage; helping real people transform their lives.
We dive...
2025-02-211h 03
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 68 - Dr Christopher Cortman - Author and Psychologist explains how we can get over trauma and anxietyHow can we start to get over trauma? In this episode Dr Cortman explains how we can get over the worst thing ever to happen to us and live a better life.
Dr. Chris Cortman is a psychologist based in Florida, with over 40 years of experience in the field. He has facilitated upwards of 85,000 hours of psychotherapy and specializes in treating emotional trauma, anxiety, and depression.
As well as being in private practice he is a well-known author and speaker.
His books include Keep Pain in the Past: Getting Over Trauma, G...
2025-02-151h 04Resilience Rising PodcastEp 68 - Dr Christopher Cortman - Author and Psychologist explains how we can get over trauma and anxietyHow can we start to get over trauma? In this episode Dr Cortman explains how we can get over the worst thing ever to happen to us and live a better life.
Dr. Chris Cortman is a psychologist based in Florida, with over 40 years of experience in the field. He has facilitated upwards of 85,000 hours of psychotherapy and specializes in treating emotional trauma, anxiety, and depression.
As well as being in private practice he is a well-known author and speaker.
His books include Keep Pain in the Past: Getting Over Trauma, G...
2025-02-151h 04
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 67 - Paul Besley - Writer who talks about resilience in a life-changing diagnosisContent warning - this episode contains discussions around suicide and also his diagnosis which may be a spoiler if you haven't read his new book 'The Search'
This episode explores resilience in the face of a life-shortening illness, as well as mountain rescue teams, search dog companion and being a casualty on a mountain too.
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius
Paul Besley is a writer, outdoor enthusiast, and former Mountain Rescue team member whose new book, The Search, is out now wi...
2024-11-291h 50Resilience Rising PodcastEp 67 - Paul Besley - Writer who talks about resilience in a life-changing diagnosisContent warning - this episode contains discussions around suicide and also his diagnosis which may be a spoiler if you haven't read his new book 'The Search'
This episode explores resilience in the face of a life-shortening illness, as well as mountain rescue teams, search dog companion and being a casualty on a mountain too.
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius
Paul Besley is a writer, outdoor enthusiast, and former Mountain Rescue team member whose new book, The Search, is out now wi...
2024-11-291h 50
Running Book Reviews with Alan and LizRunning Through the Dark, by Jen ScotneySend us a textUltrarunner Jen Scotney has achieved podium finishes in some of the UK’s toughest races and now has her sights firmly set on the Pennine Way. In Running Through the Dark, Jen talks about her ambitions, not just to run the 268-mile Pennine Way but to take the record as the fastest woman to do so. But that didn’t happen. Nothing went according to plan. The Jen the world knew was a successful lawyer and running coach – all photoshoots and finish-line smiles – but the truth was much darker. The real Jen Scotney, the one...
2024-11-151h 26
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 66 - Anna Britton - Talks about PTSD and writing"Sitting on my kayak, I felt brave. When filled with fear on a daily basis, feeling brave can be alien."
I first came across Anna Britton when she was in the Guardian feature, A Moment That Changed Me, talking about kayaking and her PTSD. She wrote;
Sitting on my kayak, I felt brave. When filled with fear on a daily basis, feeling brave can be alien. It takes courage to work against our fears, but there is always a little voice inside my head telling me that it can’t really be counted as bravery if...
2024-11-081h 14Resilience Rising PodcastEp 66 - Anna Britton - Talks about PTSD and writing"Sitting on my kayak, I felt brave. When filled with fear on a daily basis, feeling brave can be alien."
I first came across Anna Britton when she was in the Guardian feature, A Moment That Changed Me, talking about kayaking and her PTSD. She wrote;
Sitting on my kayak, I felt brave. When filled with fear on a daily basis, feeling brave can be alien. It takes courage to work against our fears, but there is always a little voice inside my head telling me that it can’t really be counted as bravery if...
2024-11-081h 14
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 65 - Wendy Pratt - Author of The Ghost Lake talks about writing, infertility and bereavementWendy Pratt is a poet, creative non fiction author and editor living on the North Yorkshire coast.
In this episode we talk about navigating the loss of her daughter, infertility, the sense of not belonging, nature and her journey as a working class writer.
Her non fiction nature/landscape memoir The Ghost Lake, was long listed for the Nan Shepherd prize in 2021. The Ghost Lake is inspired by paleolake Flixton, an extinct lake in North Yorkshire.
In the book Wendy brings the reader on a pilgrimage around the ghost lake, to locations that hav...
2024-10-041h 09Resilience Rising PodcastEp 65 - Wendy Pratt - Author of The Ghost Lake talks about writing, infertility and bereavementWendy Pratt is a poet, creative non fiction author and editor living on the North Yorkshire coast.
In this episode we talk about navigating the loss of her daughter, infertility, the sense of not belonging, nature and her journey as a working class writer.
Her non fiction nature/landscape memoir The Ghost Lake, was long listed for the Nan Shepherd prize in 2021. The Ghost Lake is inspired by paleolake Flixton, an extinct lake in North Yorkshire.
In the book Wendy brings the reader on a pilgrimage around the ghost lake, to locations that hav...
2024-10-041h 09
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 64 - Andy Brown - How resilience is the currency in our Emotional OverdraftDo one day you feel like you are on top of the world, and yet one day feel overwhelmed by life and everything you are expected to deal with? Did you know that this when you are overdrawn in your emotional overdraft?
Andy Brown - the author of Amazon Number one bestseller, "The Emotional Overdraft: 10 simple changes for balancing business success and wellbeing” explains all on this not-to-miss episode.
We talk about:
What your emotional overdraft is and how it can deplete your resilience
Guilt as an impact on resilience
...
2024-08-301h 26Resilience Rising PodcastEp 64 - Andy Brown - How resilience is the currency in our Emotional OverdraftDo one day you feel like you are on top of the world, and yet one day feel overwhelmed by life and everything you are expected to deal with? Did you know that this when you are overdrawn in your emotional overdraft?
Andy Brown - the author of Amazon Number one bestseller, "The Emotional Overdraft: 10 simple changes for balancing business success and wellbeing” explains all on this not-to-miss episode.
We talk about:
What your emotional overdraft is and how it can deplete your resilience
Guilt as an impact on resilience
...
2024-08-301h 26
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 63 - Michael O'Brien - How to have your last bad dayListen to find out how to have your last bad day...
Michael O'Brien is a beacon of resilience and mindfulness in today's fast-paced world. As a qualified meditation teacher, executive coach, and endurance athlete, he embodies the transformative power of pausing, breathing, and reflecting.
Michael's journey is marked by a pivotal moment he calls his "Last Bad Day" - a near-death cycling accident that became the catalyst for profound personal growth. This experience, coupled with years of navigating the high-pressure corporate executive world, fueled his passion for helping others manage stress and achieve their goals...
2024-08-161h 09Resilience Rising PodcastEp 63 - Michael O'Brien - How to have your last bad dayListen to find out how to have your last bad day...
Michael O'Brien is a beacon of resilience and mindfulness in today's fast-paced world. As a qualified meditation teacher, executive coach, and endurance athlete, he embodies the transformative power of pausing, breathing, and reflecting.
Michael's journey is marked by a pivotal moment he calls his "Last Bad Day" - a near-death cycling accident that became the catalyst for profound personal growth. This experience, coupled with years of navigating the high-pressure corporate executive world, fueled his passion for helping others manage stress and achieve their goals...
2024-08-161h 09
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 62 - Bindi Shah - Childless not by choice meditation guide and writerThis episode explores resilience surrounding childlessness not by choice.
We discuss disenfranchised grief, the complex emotions of childlessness, as well how to support friends who may be on this journey.
Bindi talks about the importance of community, finding small moments of joy and how she began to process her feelings.
Bindi Shah is a meditation guide and writer. She worked in the corporate sector for several years, but After a visit to an Ayurveda retreat in India, she discovered how good natural health care felt, and it was the start of something new. S...
2024-08-091h 02Resilience Rising PodcastEp 62 - Bindi Shah - Childless not by choice meditation guide and writerThis episode explores resilience surrounding childlessness not by choice.
We discuss disenfranchised grief, the complex emotions of childlessness, as well how to support friends who may be on this journey.
Bindi talks about the importance of community, finding small moments of joy and how she began to process her feelings.
Bindi Shah is a meditation guide and writer. She worked in the corporate sector for several years, but After a visit to an Ayurveda retreat in India, she discovered how good natural health care felt, and it was the start of something new. S...
2024-08-091h 02
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 61 - Sukhvinder Pabial - Author of The Resilience HandbookIf you were creating a practical and actionable guide to resilience what would you write? What would you leave out?
Sukhvinder Pabial has tacked just that with his book 'The Resilience Handbook'.
Sukh is a senior learning and development professional, with a masters degree in occupational psychology. He is a positive psychology practitioner, and speaker on emotional intelligence.
He is also the author of ‘The Resilience Handbook; a practical understanding of resilience’, which is out now.
Sukh believes that we all have the agency for growth and development, and we have plen...
2024-07-261h 30Resilience Rising PodcastEp 61 - Sukhvinder Pabial - Author of The Resilience HandbookIf you were creating a practical and actionable guide to resilience what would you write? What would you leave out?
Sukhvinder Pabial has tacked just that with his book 'The Resilience Handbook'.
Sukh is a senior learning and development professional, with a masters degree in occupational psychology. He is a positive psychology practitioner, and speaker on emotional intelligence.
He is also the author of ‘The Resilience Handbook; a practical understanding of resilience’, which is out now.
Sukh believes that we all have the agency for growth and development, and we have plen...
2024-07-261h 30
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 60 - Dr Robyne Hanley-Dafoe - Author of Calm Within The Storm: A Pathway to Everyday ResiliencyGrab a notebook and pen, and listen to Dr Robyne, the Resiliency Expert talk about what makes a resilient person, how we have to fall apart sometimes, and why stress is good.
Described as one of the most sought-after, engaging, thought-provoking and truly transformative international speakers and scholars in her field, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is a multi-award-winning education and psychology instructor, author, and resiliency expert. She specialises in resiliency, navigating stress and change, personal wellness in the workplace, and optimal performance - both personal and organizational. With nearly two decades of university teaching and research experience and...
2024-06-281h 03Resilience Rising PodcastEp 60 - Dr Robyne Hanley-Dafoe - Author of Calm Within The Storm: A Pathway to Everyday ResiliencyGrab a notebook and pen, and listen to Dr Robyne, the Resiliency Expert talk about what makes a resilient person, how we have to fall apart sometimes, and why stress is good.
Described as one of the most sought-after, engaging, thought-provoking and truly transformative international speakers and scholars in her field, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is a multi-award-winning education and psychology instructor, author, and resiliency expert. She specialises in resiliency, navigating stress and change, personal wellness in the workplace, and optimal performance - both personal and organizational. With nearly two decades of university teaching and research experience and...
2024-06-281h 03
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 59 - Lucy Oakley-Denver - From British Intelligence Agencies to Antidotal Intelligence"I wrote a blog post, a few years ago, called two fingers up narcissistic sociopath. And then I rewrote it a few years later, with a thank you narcissistic sociopaths, because I was like, I wouldn't be here if I hadn't been through those experiences, and I love where I am now."
What does our breath rate have to do with resilience? What does working with our natural energies look like? How do we find peace without justice?
Lucy Oakley-Denver is a writer, speaker and coach who worked for the British Intelligence Agencies until PTSD changed h...
2024-06-211h 44Resilience Rising PodcastEp 59 - Lucy Oakley-Denver - From British Intelligence Agencies to Antidotal Intelligence"I wrote a blog post, a few years ago, called two fingers up narcissistic sociopath. And then I rewrote it a few years later, with a thank you narcissistic sociopaths, because I was like, I wouldn't be here if I hadn't been through those experiences, and I love where I am now."
What does our breath rate have to do with resilience? What does working with our natural energies look like? How do we find peace without justice?
Lucy Oakley-Denver is a writer, speaker and coach who worked for the British Intelligence Agencies until PTSD changed h...
2024-06-211h 44
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 58 - Helen Mort - The power of poetry and activism in times of resilienceWhen we can we use action, and even activism, as resilience?
What are the parallels between Helen's own experiences to the subject of her latest biography, Ethel Haythornthwaite?
Helen Mort is award-winning author based in Sheffield. She has published three poetry collections and the novel Black Car Burning, as well as a short story collection and her new book, Ethel, is out now with Vertebrate Publishing, which is a biography of the countryside pioneer Ethel Haythornthwaite.
Her first full length non-fiction book A Line Above The Sky was featured in the Guardian and E...
2024-05-2438 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 58 - Helen Mort - The power of poetry and activism in times of resilienceWhen we can we use action, and even activism, as resilience?
What are the parallels between Helen's own experiences to the subject of her latest biography, Ethel Haythornthwaite?
Helen Mort is award-winning author based in Sheffield. She has published three poetry collections and the novel Black Car Burning, as well as a short story collection and her new book, Ethel, is out now with Vertebrate Publishing, which is a biography of the countryside pioneer Ethel Haythornthwaite.
Her first full length non-fiction book A Line Above The Sky was featured in the Guardian and E...
2024-05-2438 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 57 - Jo Moseley - Navigating divorce and bereavements to find JOY and become a bestselling author
When we feel at rock bottom, how do we pull ourselves back up?
Jo Moseley, 59, is a single Mum of two grown up sons living on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.
Alongside a lovely day job, Jo is a bestselling author, podcaster and award winning tiny filmmaker.
Jo talks about some of the difficult moments in her life, when she has been forced to be brave, and how she has overcome stereotypes about what women her age should be doing, and how she wrote a bestselling book.
In 2019 Jo became the first woman to SUP (stand up paddleboard) 162 miles coast to...
2024-05-101h 20Resilience Rising PodcastEp 57 - Jo Moseley - Navigating divorce and bereavements to find JOY and become a bestselling author
When we feel at rock bottom, how do we pull ourselves back up?
Jo Moseley, 59, is a single Mum of two grown up sons living on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.
Alongside a lovely day job, Jo is a bestselling author, podcaster and award winning tiny filmmaker.
Jo talks about some of the difficult moments in her life, when she has been forced to be brave, and how she has overcome stereotypes about what women her age should be doing, and how she wrote a bestselling book.
In 2019 Jo became the first woman to SUP (stand up paddleboard) 162 miles coast to...
2024-05-101h 20
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 56 - James Wythe 'Healthy Living James' - From bed bound ME/CFS suffered to food blogger with 1 million followersHow did James Wythe go from years bed bound with ME/CFS to sharing his recipes, to full time food blogger? What has his journey taught him about resilience?
James Wythe, better known as Healthy Living James, is a qualified health coach, cookbook author and full time food blogger with over 1 million followers.
Growing up James was incredibly sporty, and when he was 12, he started to fall in love with golf and wanted to be a professional golfer when he grew up.
But on the 4th December 2010 life took a dramatic turn for...
2024-04-261h 06Resilience Rising PodcastEp 56 - James Wythe 'Healthy Living James' - From bed bound ME/CFS suffered to food blogger with 1 million followersHow did James Wythe go from years bed bound with ME/CFS to sharing his recipes, to full time food blogger? What has his journey taught him about resilience?
James Wythe, better known as Healthy Living James, is a qualified health coach, cookbook author and full time food blogger with over 1 million followers.
Growing up James was incredibly sporty, and when he was 12, he started to fall in love with golf and wanted to be a professional golfer when he grew up.
But on the 4th December 2010 life took a dramatic turn for...
2024-04-261h 06
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 55 - Clare Rutter - Paddler and Brain Injury SurvivorWhen life gives us a traumatic brain injury and cancer diagnosis can we find the positives in it? Clare Rutter believes we can and share's her incredible story.
Clare Rutter is a micro adventurer and explorer, a paddlesports & outdoors enthusiast. Clare was British Canoeing #ShePaddles Ambassador for Canoe Wales and paddles in South Wales & South West England
Clare is a survivor of a life-changing traumatic brain injury. In 2016, she was living her dream life in Gran Canaria when without warning she collapsed. Clare began the uphill task of years of recovery. She remained housebound for...
2024-04-191h 11Resilience Rising PodcastEp 55 - Clare Rutter - Paddler and Brain Injury SurvivorWhen life gives us a traumatic brain injury and cancer diagnosis can we find the positives in it? Clare Rutter believes we can and share's her incredible story.
Clare Rutter is a micro adventurer and explorer, a paddlesports & outdoors enthusiast. Clare was British Canoeing #ShePaddles Ambassador for Canoe Wales and paddles in South Wales & South West England
Clare is a survivor of a life-changing traumatic brain injury. In 2016, she was living her dream life in Gran Canaria when without warning she collapsed. Clare began the uphill task of years of recovery. She remained housebound for...
2024-04-191h 11
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 54 - Leonie Charlton - Writer and Poet talks about griefWarning: just over 30 minutes into the podcast we briefly mention a suicide and miscarriage in passing.
What can we learn from the animal world about resilience? Where do rituals fit in with grief and resilience?
Leonie Charlton is a writer, and is passionate about our relationship as the human animal with the rest of the natural world. She is author of Marram, a travel memoir of a trip riding with Highland Ponies through the Outer Hebrides, and a poetry pamphlet Ten Minutes of Weather Away.
She is currently doing a Ph.D through t...
2024-04-121h 04Resilience Rising PodcastEp 54 - Leonie Charlton - Writer and Poet talks about griefWarning: just over 30 minutes into the podcast we briefly mention a suicide and miscarriage in passing.
What can we learn from the animal world about resilience? Where do rituals fit in with grief and resilience?
Leonie Charlton is a writer, and is passionate about our relationship as the human animal with the rest of the natural world. She is author of Marram, a travel memoir of a trip riding with Highland Ponies through the Outer Hebrides, and a poetry pamphlet Ten Minutes of Weather Away.
She is currently doing a Ph.D through t...
2024-04-121h 04
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 53 - Jen Zwinck - Widow Advocate, Author, and Host of Widow 180: The Podcast,How do you even start to get over the brutal murder of your husband? It seems completely insurmountable... but this is something Jen Zwinck talks us through on this incredible episode.
Jen's advice on how we rebuild our lives after a devastating bereavements is also something we can draw from for getting through any tough times, break ups, or changes such as retirement.
Jen Zwinck will never forget the moment that changed her life. In 2011, her husband was walking home from a bachelor party when he was attacked, robbed, and killed. Jen instantly became a y...
2024-04-051h 12Resilience Rising PodcastEp 53 - Jen Zwinck - Widow Advocate, Author, and Host of Widow 180: The Podcast,How do you even start to get over the brutal murder of your husband? It seems completely insurmountable... but this is something Jen Zwinck talks us through on this incredible episode.
Jen's advice on how we rebuild our lives after a devastating bereavements is also something we can draw from for getting through any tough times, break ups, or changes such as retirement.
Jen Zwinck will never forget the moment that changed her life. In 2011, her husband was walking home from a bachelor party when he was attacked, robbed, and killed. Jen instantly became a y...
2024-04-051h 12
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 52 - Natasha Carthew - Poet and Author who talks about resilience in povertyNatasha Carthew is a working-class writer from Cornwall. We discuss resilience around poverty. How can cultivating positivity and creativity build resilience?
Her book Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience, is out now in hardback, with the paperback out on 11 April 2024. She has written ten books, including poetry, three novels for young adults, and her 2021 book, Born Between Crosses, is a sequence of prose-poetry celebrating the working lives of working-class women
She is known for writing on Socio economic issues and working-class representation in literature for several publications, podcasts and programmes;
...
2024-04-0153 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 52 - Natasha Carthew - Poet and Author who talks about resilience in povertyNatasha Carthew is a working-class writer from Cornwall. We discuss resilience around poverty. How can cultivating positivity and creativity build resilience?
Her book Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience, is out now in hardback, with the paperback out on 11 April 2024. She has written ten books, including poetry, three novels for young adults, and her 2021 book, Born Between Crosses, is a sequence of prose-poetry celebrating the working lives of working-class women
She is known for writing on Socio economic issues and working-class representation in literature for several publications, podcasts and programmes;
...
2024-04-0153 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 51 - Abbie Barnes - Filmmaker, Mental Health Advocate and Founder of Spend More Time In The WILDContent warning: This episode contains discussions around suicide, self harm and eating disorders.
'Resilience is Growth'
Abbie Barnes is an award-winning presenter, filmmaker, and mountain leader with a passion for tying wellbeing to expeditions and adventures. They are also the founder of the organisation Spend More Time In The WILD and host one of the longest-running adventure YouTube Channels under the same name.
Abbie has been making films since the age of 13. They earned international recognition for their work in the field of wildlife and conservation, winning awards hosted by Sir David Attenborough...
2024-03-011h 22
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 50 - Nick Jonsson - From Adversity and Loss to International Bestselling AuthorNick Jonsson's story of overcoming adversity is an inspiration to all.
Nick candidly shares how redundancy, personal health decline, and turning to alcohol led to a divorce and separation from his son, marking his lowest point. This period, along with the tragic loss of a friend who died by suicide, however, was a turning point for Nick, propelling him towards a transformative journey. Motivated by this loss, he authored his first international bestselling book, "Executive Loneliness: The 5 Pathways to Overcoming Isolation, Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in the Modern Business World,"
In this episode we talk...
2024-02-2345 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 49 - Alastair Humphreys - Adventurer and Writer
How does an adventurer deal with not going on adventures anymore? We talk about resilience for expeditions, resilience for the tough times in life we haven't chosen, social media envy, and Alastair's tip for dealing with negative book reviews in a very public manner...
Alastair Humphreys is a British Adventurer and Author of 15 books. He spent over 4 years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and 5 continents.
Alastair has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run six marathons through the Sahara desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, busked through...
2024-02-0957 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 48 - Fabrice Desmarescaux - Using the Art of Retreat for ResilienceHow would you feel if I told you to go and do nothing for a morning? No phones, no distractions, just you?
In the episode Fabrice Desmarescaux tells us the benefits of taking time out, and why stopping can be the key to our resilience.
Fabrice Desmarescaux works with CEOs and their teams to help them reach higher levels of performance and consciousness. A partner at McKinsey & Company, Fabrice has practiced meditation, taught yoga, and led spiritual retreats for two decades.
He is the author of the book ‘The Art of Retreats’. Integrating Easte...
2024-02-021h 00
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 47 - Aziz Musa - An Entrepreneur Navigating Resilience in Crisis ZoneWhat did the youngest public company CEO in the UK learn about resilience? How did he survive when war broke out in the street he was working? How do we develop resilience each day?
Aziz Musa was the youngest public company CEO in the UK, and he had already made significant strides in the corporate world. However, it was his venture into Sudan in 2017 that sets him apart. Amidst a backdrop of political unrest and war, Aziz founded Cush.Digital with the vision of building a digital economy. As challenges mounted, he was forced to relocate to...
2024-01-2648 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 46 - Lunden Souza - NLP Master Practitioner and Podcast Host'Resilience is the willingness to be stretched'
How do we process tough times, how do we embrace being uncomfortable, and where does forgiveness fit into resilience?
Lunden Souza is host of the Self Love & Sweat, former personal trainer turned International Online Life Coach and Master NLP Practitioner. Self Love & Sweat The Podcast is the place where you will get inspired to live YOUR life unapologetically, embrace your perfect imperfections, break down barriers and do what sets your soul on fire. Lunden is passionate about positivity and helping YOU get out of your comfort zone.
2024-01-191h 00
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 45 - John R Spender - created the best-selling book series A Journey Of Riches
How do show resilience in the midst of chaos? How can we rebuild our lives after adversity?
John Spender is a 36-time International Best Selling co-author, who didn't learn how to read and write at a basic level until he was ten-years-old. He has since traveled to more than 65 countries, territories and started many businesses leading him to create the best-selling book series A Journey Of Riches. He is an Award Winning International Speaker and Movie Maker.
John worked as an international NLP trainer and coached thousands of people from various backgrounds through many challenges...
2024-01-121h 01
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 44 - Imogen Furlong - Caving Expedition LeaderImogen Furlong, Imo, has an impressive track record as a cave expedition leader. Imo broke ground leading the first expeditions to the Shan plateau in Myanmar. She's also explored the deepest cave in China, was the first to complete the deepest cave traverse in Mexico, and was part of the team who connected and surveyed the longest cave in India. Her recent cave projects have been to integrate families with young children into expeditions and develop a family expedition methodology.
I sit down to ask her what caving has taught her about resilience, how the death of...
2023-12-221h 05
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 43 - Isaac Kenyon - Mental Health Advocate, Adventurer, and Speaker
CW - we mention suicidal thoughts and ideation in this episode
"Resilience is a reaction" - Isaac Kenyon talks how embracing failure, teamwork and nature have helped him manage his own mental health from a young age.
Isaac Kenyon, is a British geoscientist, eco-adventurer and international keynote speaker, who has undertaken world-record achievements while raising money and awareness for charities, with the teams he assembles. He has rowed 3000 miles unsupported across the Atlantic Ocean, completing a full Ironman with a 15kg weighted vest, and cycled from Orkney Islands to Isles of Scilly through many of th...
2023-12-1558 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 42 - Jenny Tough - Adventurer and WriterCW: We do mention eating disorders on this episode
What do solo adventurers teach us about resilience? Can we practise resilience to get us through the tough days and adversity we don't choose?
Jenny Tough describes herself as an Adventurer, Storyteller, Mountain Lover. In this episode we talk about solo adventures, fear, depression, eating disorders and what resilience means to her.
She is a writer and adventurer, and an enthusiast for all things endurance challenges, particularly in the mountains. Whether it be a race or a solo adventure, her desire to push her...
2023-12-081h 08
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 41 - Karly Arber - Entrepreneur, Female Founder, and CoachContent Warning - We discuss an abusive relationship in this episode.
How do you come back from an abusive relationship, a court case with a famous popstar, and losing all your stock due to a shipping error? Karly has done all this in the last few years and tells us how she did it, and why letting go of shame, embarrassment and a fear of failure was key.
Karly Arber is an entrepreneur, Holistic Health Coach, business coach and trustee of the charity Youth Realities. She is perhaps best known for her business Lenny London...
2023-11-301h 04
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 40 - Joe French - Film maker, Climber, Musician, Barefoot runner, and Author
‘Healing is an ongoing process. That is how to start moving forward. It's not a case of getting a certificate, ticking a box, and saying that I'm healed. It's about accepting what has happened and allowing it to become part of who I am, without it defining who I am, leaving me frozen in time.’ Joe French - Out of Mind
Joe French is a Film maker, Climber, Musician, Barefoot runner, and author.
Combining his love of climbing, mountains and storytelling, Joe taught himself to become a climbing cameraman and started making films on the clif...
2023-11-241h 11
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 39 - Maria Coffey - Author and AdventurerMaria Coffey is an award-winning author and adventurer living in Canada and Spain. Her 13th book is out in November 2023 and called Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life
She’s paddled a kayak all over the world; started the adventure travel company, Hidden Places, with her partner Dag; and co-founded the non-profit Elephant Earth Initiative.
She’s also an award-winning writer. In 1989, seven years after her partner Joe Tasker disappeared while trying to summit Mount Everest, Maria wrote Fragile Edge: A Personal Portrait of Loss on Everest. She followed this up with Where the Mou...
2023-11-171h 16
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 38 - Barbara Jo Jenkins - Walked 3000 miles across AmericaWhat does walking 3000 miles across America teach Barabra about resilience? Can it prepare her for the dark side of fame and the heartbreak to come?
Barbara Jo Jenkins’s three- year, 3,000-mile walk across America with her former husband became one of the most popular stories in National Geographic magazine. Barbara coauthored The Walk West, which became an international bestseller and part of the permanent White House Library. A nonfiction blockbuster, it sold fifteen million copies, became a Reader’s Digest condensed book, and was chosen as one of the most influential bestsellers related to American culture in t...
2023-11-101h 08
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 37 - Daniel Zia Joseph - Military Mental Health and Resilience Author
What can we learn about resilience from the military? What works and what doesn't?
Dan Zia Joseph writes and talks about mental health, resilience and leadership. He left his job as a combat engineer in the military in 2022. A soldier in his platoon surviving his suicide attempt inspired him to write a book to educate incoming leaders on the importance of proactively strengthening mental health & resilience.
His book, "Backpack to Rucksack: Insight Into Leadership and Resilience By Military Experts" shares stories about people dealing with the trauma of combat, as well as drawing on research i...
2023-11-0354 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 36 - Aneace Haddad - Executive coach who doesn’t talk about resilienceDo I need to rename the podcast? Is talking about resilience focusing on reacting when something bad happens and not helpful?
If you want to live a full life as a human being then this is the episode for you. We talk about labels, identity, risk and change.
Aneace Haddad is global nomad and executive coach who has spent over 15 years coaching leaders of multinational companies across various industries. Aneace is a certified Transformational Leadership Facilitator and Professional Certified Coach, with a coaching philosophy that centers around the belief that change, transformation, and reinvention give i...
2023-10-2754 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 35 - John Kelly - Endurance Athlete and Record HolderWhat can pushing our bodies to extremes teach us about resilience? How does John Kelly see failure and define success?
John Kelly has completed some of the most impressive feats and results in endurance running. He became on the 15th finisher of the Barkley Marathons in 2017. Having completed three loops in 2015 and four in 2016.In 2023 he finished the Barkley Marathons for a second time.
He’s won the 268 mile Montane Spine Race, set new record on the Pennine Way, a record of the Wainwrights Round, and the 272 mile Long Trail in Vermon, to name just a f...
2023-10-201h 05
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 34 - Russell Harvey - ’The Resilience Coach’Russell Harvey is "The Resilience Coach". Russell takes us on a whistle stop tour of his extensive knowledge of working in resilience in this episode, including:
What is resilience and why do we need it?
Is change constant and how do we live with change?
The 7 components of the resilience wheel
How does VUCA relate to resilience
How we grow confidence
How we develop optimism
Russell Harvey is a Leadership Coach and Facilitator, Public Speaker, Managing Director, Podcaster, and Radio Host. With over 20 years of experience in Learning, Leadership, and Organizational Development, Russell has specialized in Resilience f...
2023-10-0654 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 33 - Lizzie Pickering - Grief and ResilienceHow do we live with grief?
Lizzie Pickering offers grief guidance and is a speaker, podcaster, author and film maker.
Her book 'When Grief Equals Love' is out now.
She offers guidance to private individuals and companies on the effects of grief, whether through bereavement, divorce, diagnosis or workplace change.
She has 23 years of experience investigating responses to shock, trauma and grief, through her films, podcasts, and the years she spent as a carer to her terminally ill, eldest child, Harry. Subsequently through 12 years working at the children’s hospice where Ha...
2023-09-291h 24
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 32 - Dr Martin Brunet - Doc Martin GPWhat does resilience look like from the view of a GP?
Dr Martin Brunet has worked in practice as a GP for 22 years. He also teaches GPs and other healthcare professionals in primary care about the consultation and how they communicate with their patients, as well as writing a book called The GP Consultation Reimagined, a Tale of Two Houses.
In this episode we talk about patterns of the type of people who are at risk of burnout or depressive illness (it might not be who you think!), the importance of kindness and meaningful relationships i...
2023-09-2254 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 31 - Belinda Kirk - How Adventure Builds ResilienceHow does choosing to challenge ourselves and face adversity in the outdoors help us build resilience?
Belinda Kirk is the leading voice promoting the benefits of adventure on wellbeing and author of the best-selling, award-nominated book Adventure Revolution: The life-changing power of choosing challenge
She also hosts Adventure Mind, a ground-breaking conference series that explores the link between adventure, wellbeing and mental health. Belinda has run Explorers Connect, a non-profit organisation connecting people to adventures for 15 years, encouraging over 30,000 ordinary people to engage in outdoor challenges.
An explorer in her own right, Belinda...
2023-09-151h 13
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 30 - Ruth Kudzi - Transformational Coach and TrainerDo you want to know how to feel better? This is a the title of Ruth Kudzi's new book - purchase here - which gives us the tools to self coach ourselves.
Ruth Kudzi is an entrepreneur and educator: she runs a training business and a coaching business. Her passion is supporting people to feel better and achieve their goals using coaching techniques and Positive Psychology. She is a double best selling author, trainer, teacher, podcaster and speaker.
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You can find out more about Ruth Kudzi
Website: https://ruthkudzi.com
2023-09-0155 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 29 - Lee Craigie - Cyclist and Endurance Athlete
What does success look like to you? How do we learn not to resist pain and discomfort and make friends with it?
Check out Lee Craigie's new book 'Other Ways to Win'
Lee Craigie competed internationally in cross-country mountain biking and represented Great Britain at World Championships and Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In 2016 she became the UK 24-hour MTB champion. After retiring from full-time racing, she went on to set records on several self-supported bikepacking races at home and abroad.
In 2009, Lee founded Cycletherapy, a Scottish Government-supported project that used mountain biking...
2023-08-251h 07
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 28 - Jordan Veiga - From Depression to 2x World Record HolderHow can we turn things around when we feel stuck or in a bad place? Can pushing limits physically help us become more resilient?
Jordan Veiga started his Set The Bar Project at the start of 2023, and it has already earned him two world records for pull-ups. It’s not just about the pull-ups and records though; it's about setting the bar for mental health awareness. He’s a full-time accountant, Taekwondo champ, and all-around go-getter, and Jordan's daily grind of over 1,000 pull-ups is a shout-out to everyone to chase their dreams. He came to talk about resil...
2023-08-1859 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 27 - Victoria Bennet - Writer and Chronically Ill Carer
"Stone by stone, seed by seed, they discover that sometimes life grows, not in spite of what is broken, but because of it." on All My Wild Mothers by Victoria Bennett
On 19 October 2007, Victoria Bennett was looking forward to new motherhood. At seven months pregnant, she was excited about what was to come. But when the telephone rang, the news she received changed everything. Her eldest sister had died in a canoeing accident.
Five years later, struggling with grief, the demands of being a parent-carer for her young son, and the impact of deeper austerity...
2023-08-111h 14
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 26 - Dr Polly Atkin - Poet, Writer, and Disability AdvocateWhat does it feel like to be chronically ill with no hope of improvement? Where does personal resilience end and the system's responsibility begin? How can we support people going through this? These are both the themes of this episode and also of Polly Atkin's new book out now - Some Of Us Just Fall.
Polly Atkin is a poet and nonfiction writer. She grew up in Nottingham then lived in East London for seven years before moving north to Cumbria. Her first poetry collection Basic Nest Architecture (Seren: 2017) is followed by Much With Body (Seren, 2021), a...
2023-08-041h 19
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 25 - Kate Armstrong - Writer and mountaineer talks about griefHow does the idea of resilience being 'bouncing back stronger' fit to experiencing traumatic life events? What can resilience in grief look like?
Kate Armstrong is an avid amateur mountaineer, skier and (sometimes ultra) runner. Over the past twenty years she’s climbed across the UK and Alps, and done two serious expeditions to the Himalaya. She’s a writer – her novel called The Storyteller was published in 2016 and longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses. She’s recently finished a Creative Writing MFA.
She says she used to believe wholeheartedly in motivati...
2023-07-281h 06
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 24 - Harrison Ward - From overweight alcoholic smoker to Fell FoddieHarrison Ward, perhaps better known as Fell Foodie, is an outdoor cook who loves to recreate restaurant style meals on minimal equipment in remote locations. He has a strong following across various social media platforms and has featured regularly in the media inc Countryfile Magazine, Men's Fitness, and Metro. He is a brand advocate for Volvo Car UK, recently featured on the BBC in Dame Mary Berry's latest series ‘Love to Cook’, Channel 5 on ‘Winter on the Farm’ and has been an Ordnance Survey Champion since 2020.
His life was very different just some short years ago. Struggling with a c...
2023-07-211h 05
Resilience Rising PodcastResilience Rising Podcast Summer Break - Find us on Substack
Link for the Substack: @jenscotney1
Back next week with Episode 24
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2023-07-1402 min
Resilience Rising PodcastEp 23 - Rachel J Smith - Life Coach talks about Resilience, Anxiety and PerfectionismHow can we live more resilient lives? When can perfectionism and high functioning anxiety help or hinder us? Do we need a purpose to live a resilient life?
Rachel J Smith is a coach with over 30 years of industry experience in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Coaching, Public Relations, Financial Services, Sales and Education.
She works in coaching, by challenging limiting beliefs, perceptions, and pushing boundaries, but in a safe, confidential and solution focused space
Rachel says she encourages an attitude of resilience, resourcefulness, a healthy sense of humour and the necessary amount of challenge...
2023-07-071h 07Resilience Rising PodcastEp 22 - Lowri Morgan - Adventurer, Athlete, Presenter and AuthorCan we learn resilience though challenging ourselves physically and mentally?
Lowri Morgan is an athlete, adventurer, speaker and presenter. After an injury while playing Rugby, she was told that she would never be able to run properly again. However, Lowri has competed in and won some of the most extreme races in the world.
Lowri is one of the few endurance athletes in the world to complete in the famous 350 miles non-stop 6633 Ultra Arctic footrace. Other achievements include competing in the Jungle Ultra Marathon in the Amazon Forest, the Three Peaks Yacht Race (she made...
2023-06-301h 16Resilience Rising PodcastEp 21 -Zane McCormack - A Resilience Coach talks Burnout and StressAre you stressed? Or is it burnout? When does one become the other? How can we prevent burnout and is it always limited to our professionals lives?
Zane McCormack is a resilience coach, speaker, and founder of The Assured Man. His mission is to help professional men and individuals avoid and beat burnout.
Zane is a former police officer, who was part of a Search and Rescue police team in his area which was dedicated to finding missing people, often people in mental health crisis, when he had a mental health crisis himself. He left t...
2023-06-2354 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 20 - James Reeves - Deep Rest for ResilienceHow would you feel if you were told to stop and do nothing for 5 minutes? 10 minutes? An hour?
Can resting help our resilience? What do we mean by rest?
James Reeves is an Author, Coach, Teacher, and Trainer. He is a world-leading teacher and was the first in Europe to deliver iRest Yoga Nidra teacher training courses, a research-backed programme based on the ancient teachings of Yoga Nidra. James makes the teachings relevant and accessible for modern day living and shows how the healing benefits of the practice can apply to us all.
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2023-06-161h 04Resilience Rising PodcastEp 19 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Ani Barber - Disabled AdventurerWhat can learn about resilience from people who live with a chronic illness?
Ani Barber is a diversity campaigner, the founder of a blog called ‘Outside Our Way’, which features interviews from people who are disabled and chronically ill, and a panellist on the podcast ‘On the Outside’ which offers diverse view on outdoors news. Ani is an outdoors enthusiast, she is a hiker, climber, stand up paddle boarder and swimmer, who is passionate about outdoor spaces being available to all.
She also shares her experience of living with Lupus and other hidden illnesses while getting...
2023-06-0953 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 18 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Lindsey Hall - Intimacy CoachHow can our sense of self lead to resilience? Where does pleasure fit in? How can we be more resilient in relationship breakups?
Lindsey Hall is an Intimacy and Empowerment Coach.
She spent 12 years in the world of corporate accounting where listening to intuition and prioritising pleasure were not exactly encouraged, but now she is passionate about helping women bring more pleasure to their daily lives and peeling back the layers of shame and social conditioning that prevent us from living our fully empowered lives. She says she hates small talk and elephants in the...
2023-06-021h 00Resilience Rising PodcastEp 17 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Becca Harvey - Cold Water SwimmerCan choosing to put ourselves in hard situations, such as getting in cold water, prepare us for the hard uncomfortable situations in life?
Becca Harvey believes so. Becca is an outdoor swim guide based in the North East. She started swimming outdoors one January when she saw a documentary on people using cold water to treat depression. At the time she was dealing with complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and had not found any conventional treatments effective for her. She was desperate to try anything. Getting into the cold water was one thing that helped her...
2023-05-261h 07Resilience Rising PodcastEp 16 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Dr Sue Redmond
Are children resilient? How can we equip young people, and adults, with the tools to live a happy and resilient life? How do we get past traumatic events and childhoods?
Dr Sue Redmond Mindfulness-Based Trauma Informed Coach and Child & Adolescent Development Specialist. She has a keen interest in resilience and has a PhD in Leadership, Resilience and Social Support.
She develops resources and training for professionals particularly social workers, youth workers and teachers to equip them with the skills to change children and young people’s lives for the better. She has over 20 years experience of...
2023-05-191h 11Resilience Rising PodcastEp 15 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Rohan DixitWhat does neuroscience have to inform us about resilience? Can we use biofeedback to increase resilience? What practices does science show can help emotional regulation and increase HRV?
Today we hear from Rohan Dixit who is a neuroscientist, who studied how meditation changes the brain at Harvard and Standford universities. He has also learnt and researched on meditation among monks in the Himalayas
He is the founder of Lief Therapeutics, where he’s developed a wearable device which provides Heart Rate Variability (HRV) biofeedback. He talks to us about using this biofeedback as a powerful to...
2023-05-1244 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 14 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Sarah WilliamsWith over eight years experience of interviewing the world's toughest and successful female adventurers, as well as completing challenges of her own, I thought Sarah Williams would have a lot to teach us about resilience! How do we mentally prepare for the difficult times? What has she learnt from recording 700+ episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast?
Sarah Williams is an adventurer, vlogger and founder of the Tough Girl Podcast, and tough girl challenges and tribe.
The Tough Girl Podcast is an award winning podcast, featuring interviews with inspirational women from around the world, who’ve fa...
2023-05-051h 09Resilience Rising PodcastEp 13 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Tess EliasWhat can we learn about resilience from humans displaced in refugee camps? How do humanitarian aid workers cope with their work? What is resilience programming for communities and does it work?
These are all questions I ask Tess Elias on this episode.
Tess spent the best part of a decade working in humanitarian emergency responses, both in refugee settings and in conflict situations, ranging from Afghanistan to Tanzania to Bangladesh. She started out working in medical logistics, and eventually moved into general management for international charities. She also worked for the EU for a year...
2023-04-281h 00Resilience Rising PodcastEp 12 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Alex Maher
In this episode we delve into the world of online misogyny and the resilience around constant online abuse.
Alex Maher is a doctoral researcher at Loughborough University studying feminism and misogyny on TikTok, in no small part as a result of her own experiences as a creator on the app.
After downloading TikTok as a fact-finding experiment to aid her marketing career, her feminist skits and political hot-takes saw her rise to popularity - and notoriety – with anti-feminists revealing the dark underbelly of an app seen as light entertainment for most.
Her research se...
2023-04-2143 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 11 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Carly TaitAfter being a spectator at London 2012 Paralympics, Carly Tait, was inspired to take up wheelchair racing having previously had no sporting background or inclination to partake in anything remotely ‘active’. After 4 years of hard work, determination and a lot of sacrifice, she made it on to the start line at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, competing alongside many of those whom she had watched in London.
Carly Tait is a Paralympian, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant, and an Advocate speaking up about her menopause and infertility journey.
In 2020 at the age of 34 Carly was diagnosed with premature ovarian insu...
2023-04-141h 24Resilience Rising PodcastEp 10 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Kate Appleby
"I think it's really easy to think we're not resilient because we feel it. And I've learned that resilience isn't not feeling the pain. It's how we process it and how we survive with it."
Kate Appleby is a motivational and public speaker, talking about her adventures in the Lake District, UK and beyond. Kate works across the outdoor industry to ensure inclusivity and diversity are key agenda items for all.
A domestic and sexual abuse survivor, Kate has gone on to share her story; of how her experiences have shaped her, and how the outd...
2023-04-0755 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 9 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Beth Pascall
How do we cope when we can't do the one thing we love? This is a question that really started this podcast and Jen Scotney's journey to delve into resilience.
This week we ask this of Beth Pascall, who is in a very similar position, having to live without running, after an injury in 2021. We talk about how we do or don't cope with not being able to run, what that resilience looks like, and other time's in Beth's life she has been through similar. Thank you to Beth for taking the time to talk about such...
2023-03-3155 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 9 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Beth Pascall
How do we cope when we can't do the one thing we love? This is a question that really started this podcast and Jen Scotney's journey to delve into resilience.
This week we ask this of Beth Pascall, who is in a very similar position, having to live without running, after an injury in 2021. We talk about how we do or don't cope with not being able to run, what that resilience looks like, and other time's in Beth's life she has been through similar. Thank you to Beth for taking the time to talk about such...
2023-03-3155 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 8 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Katy ParrottDescribed as Tinkerbell crossed with Terminator, Katy was a finalist in the 2016 BBC series Special Forces, Ultimate Hell Week. She has since gone on to train as an Army Reserves Combat Medic and has deployed out to Armenia, Georgia, Afghanistan and Norway.
Katy is a Montane Athlete, supported in competing in endurance events and mountain expeditions.
Despite major knee surgery at the end of 2020, she bounced back and completed the Montane Lapland Arctic Ultra (185 Km) only 15 months later.
She is passionate about self-leadership, having a ‘can-do’ mind-set and leading by example to inspire othe...
2023-03-2450 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 7 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Ruth AllenRuth Allen is as a movement-oriented psychotherapist specialising in outdoor practice, a former Geologist, a facilitator and mentor, and an author of 'Grounded'.
We delve into the topic of resilience to look at what it is, as well as whether we can cultivate it to lead an easier life, and how culture can influence our resilience. This is such a wide ranging episode with the threads constantly returning to resilience.
Ruth’s most recent book, called Grounded, shows us how a connection with nature can improve our mental and physical wellbeing.
You can find out mor...
2023-03-171h 08Resilience Rising PodcastEp 6 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Rachel ModestRachel Modest is a solo singer, lead singer of The Bluefoot Project, and gospel choir director. About to give up on a career in the music industry, and at a low point in her life, she agreed to go on Series 11 of the ITV singing competition show, The Voice UK. All four judges turned around and gave her a standing ovation. She chose Sir Tom Jones as her mentor and over the weeks we saw her progress through as far as the semi finals. She was nominated for ‘Best Performance in a TV show’ at the Urban Music Awards and on...
2023-03-1058 minResilience Rising PodcastEp5 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Anna-Marie WatsonWhat does a former Army Officer turned Performance Coach and elite Endurance Athlete have to share with us on resilience? A great deal, we find out! In this very practical analysis of what we can do to protect our resilience, we hear from Anna-Marie Watson, a Performance Coach and Coach Supervisor, who also loves to take her work outside.
Former British Army Officer, she has worked in challenging environments from snowy Arctic tundra to hot and sandy deserts. Alongside her passion for performance and coaching Anna-Marie has a severe ultra-running habit. She loves racing overseas and has...
2023-03-031h 04Resilience Rising PodcastEp 4 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Matt Hill
How do writers deal with constant rejection, feedback and negative reviews? I set out to see what we can learn about resilience from people in these creative industries.
Matt Hill is a fiction writer based and freelance copywriter in Glossop. He’s the author of four novels set in and around a near-future Britain: The Folded Man, Graft (which was a finalist for the 2017 Philip K Dick award), Zero Bomb, and most recently The Breach.
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You can find out more about Matt Hill
Wesbite: https://mthill.co.uk/
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2023-02-2457 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 3 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Ruth Coates
Ruth Coates is a psychotherapist and therapeutic writing guide. She has been working as a therapist for over 12 years but has 20 years experience in the mental health and social justice sectors.
She offers walking therapy, online and in person from The Therapy Hut, and therapeutic writing courses.
She also works with Groundswell Scotland, a surf therapy organisation based in East Lothian.
In this episode we talk about resilience from the therapeutic viewpoint, and how Ruth helps her clients. We also look at collective resilience and whether being resilient means doing it all alone. And what can we do to...
2023-02-1753 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 2 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Damian HallHave you ever felt overwhelmed or paralysed by doom over our climate emergency? Does the more you learn about the impact our lifestyles have on climate, mean the more guilt you feel? Does speaking out about environmental issues feel impossible when you are less than perfect?
These are all topics I wanted to talk about with this week's guest Damian Hall. He has written 'We Can't Run Away From This' which examines the impact of running in our climate and ecological emergency
Damian Hall describes himself accidental activist and he is also a record-breaking ultrarunner who has repre...
2023-02-1055 minResilience Rising PodcastEp 1 - Resilience Rising Podcast - Jamie PeiJamie Pei is a life coach, and PhD trainer and coach, having received her own PhD in 2021 from the University of York. She calls herself 'The Messy Coach' because she's all about working through the messiness of doing doctoral research and of muddling through life, love, relationships, work, and everything in between.
In this episode we talk about whether an outward show of resilience is always resilience and ask can fake it until we make it? We're all invited to Jamie's six-month long pity party to find out how we pull ourselves out of the those moments o...
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