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On Becoming the Change PodcastWhat it’s really like to be a sustainability professional - reflections on our research - with Katherine Ellsworth-KrebsIn this episode of On Becoming the Change, I speak to Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs, a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Strathclyde focusing on sustainable design and a coach for sustainability professionals. For the past year, Katherine and I have collaborated on a research project to explore the realities of working in a sustainability role within an organisation. We surveyed 92, and interviewed 28, sustainability professionals to find out what the main challenges were and what skills and support they needed. In this conversation, we share insights from our research, stories we heard from sustainability professionals, our personal experiences with eco-anxiety an...2024-12-191h 04
Transforming TomorrowWho'd Be A Sustainability Manager?Jan’s considering a new career – should she become a sustainability officer?
Chief Sustainability Officers are among the fastest growing jobs in the UK – but who are these people, what do they do, and does anyone actually listen to them?
Dr Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs, from the University of Strathclyde, brings gifts from her allotment to the studio as well as an avid interest in all things sustainability that started in childhood in Washington state, USA – where she was surprised to learn not all other youngsters had the same obsession. She also comes with a healthy dose of cynic...2024-11-1837 min
The Good PodElsbeth: Season 2, Episode 5 - Elsbeth Flips the BirdJoin us as we dive into Season 2, Episode 5 of Ellsworth! We'll discuss the trials and tribulations of Chef Aviv, compare the episode to popular culinary dramas, and breakdown the dynamic between Elsbeth and Detective Edwards. Plus, find out what happens at Wagner's poker party, and get the latest updates on Elsbeth's mysterious subplot involving True Rose. Don't miss our analysis and insights!
00:00 Introduction and Greetings
00:41 Episode Overview and Initial Thoughts
02:11 Listener Reviews and Engagement
04:40 Special Message from Katherine
06:22 Diving into the Episode's Plot
08:43 Chef Veev's Character Study
11:47 The Crime Unfolds
15:02 Investigation Begins
21:22 The Avocado Cartel
27:50 Undercover at the Market
30:37...2024-11-161h 03
As The Money BurnsCollapsibleAs Tennis Week ends, the real competition is over the three best finale parties, with one hostess playing with all her might.August 1933, Jakey Astor and Doris Duke return to Newport for the end of Tennis Week with plenty of romantic and marital speculation. Henrietta Hartford hosts the biggest finale party with a special technological innovation.Other people and subjects include: Nanaline Duke, Barbara Hutton, Daisy Van Alen, James “Henry” Van Alen aka Jimmy, Huntington Hartford, Henrietta Harford, Mary Lee Epling Hartford, Frank Shields, Rebecca “Billie” Tenney Shields, Vincent Astor, Prince Serge Mdivani, Princess Mary McCormic...2024-10-3121 min
Behavior Analysis in Practice- The PodcastS7E4: Updated Recommendations for Reinforcement Schedule Thinning Following Functional Communication Training with Michael Kranak & Katherine BrownMichael Kranak & Katherine Brown join us to talk about their paper, Updated Recommendations for Reinforcement Schedule Thinning Following Functional Communication Training
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Host and Executive Producer: Cody Morris, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA
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Beyond the Uniform with The LT's Daughter14. Active Officer Interview: Mental health on and off the job & leaving a legacy for his children with Mike P.Today’s episode features an active police officer who wants to share about the importance of family and mental health, as a police officer. Mike has been a cop for about 8 years. He is married with two young daughters.He was also recently featured on Abby Ellsworth’s Podcast - On Being a Police Officer.Balancing work, life, mental health, and family can be tough but is so important and I really enjoyed listening to Mike’s perspective on things as again, he is an active officer and is raising a young family of his own. H...2024-04-021h 09
On Being a Police OfficerEp. 53 Officer Mike, seven years on, juggling the job and a young familyEp. 53 Officer Mike from a mid-sized agency in the Mid-Atlantic has been in law enforcement for seven years. He wrote to me saying, “I want to discuss the mental health aspect of the job and juggling it with family life. I've been married for about five years. We have two daughters who are four and almost two. I've gone through times when I see things at work that hit me in a way that I can't keep bottled up. Calls with children are what hit home the most. I tend to be pretty open with my family about what I...2024-02-0250 min
Joyful Climate WritingVeganuary LectureFor Veganuary I delivered this lecture to 100 Civil Servants that are part of the Department for Education Vegan Network on the best way to lower your carbon footprint.
The talk starts with a quiz created by Van der Linden, S. (2022) on What’s the Best Way to Shrink Your Carbon Footprint? New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/15/opinion/how-reduce-carbon-footprint-climate-change.html
If you're a nerd like me, you may be interested in the meta-study that the quiz is based on: Ivanova, D., Barrett, J., Wiedenhofer, D., Macura, B., Callaghan, M., & Creutzig, F. (2020). Quantifying the po...2023-11-2845 minJoyful Climate Writing43. What is the purpose of coaching: individual and systemic changeDoes coaching sometimes sound like a pyramid scheme? Or like it is just one more failing by you if you can't manage your mind enough to transform your work culture to not be about overwork?
In this episode I talk about what I'm learning in the course the Politics of Trauma about the connection between individual and systemic change. This week we had an interview with the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza, and it reminded me that coaching is about learning to be a super-hero, to self-regulate, so that you can keep...2023-10-2215 minJoyful Climate WritingBONUS. A trippy tranceWelcome to this special episode - find somewhere quiet and comfy that you won't be disturbed and open yourself to an expansive experience: going on a trip without any drugs, just the magic of your unconscious mind :)
If you don't want to listen to my speel about why I am addicted to hypnosis you can jump straight into the start of the trance at the 9 minute mark.
Enjoy!
If you want a little sunshine of inspiration and actionable tips to improve your climate change work every single week, sign up to my email l...2023-07-1923 minOn Being a Police OfficerEp. 46 The LT’s Daughter – Katherine Boyle tapping her own experience to help LE make family connectionsEp. 46 The LT’s Daughter Katherine Boyle joins me to talk about her mission to help police officers who want more connection with their families. Katherine is the first law enforcement family member I’ve interviewed on this podcast. It’s important to me to do so as I have learned law enforcement is a family job, one that requires sacrifice and commitment from all. Katherine’s story is unusual in that her childhood was not unusual. She shares all the ways in which her father partnered with her mother to keep the job from negatively affecting their fami...2023-07-0550 minJoyful Climate Writing42. Flying less and feeling groundedLupins are popping up all over my allotment and flowering in their first year! When I first started growing lupins I was too frustrated to wait a year for blooms.. but I tried (although the lupin seedlings in the story I read were eaten by bunnies) and now my favourite flowers are reminding me of my passion to stay grounded.
To make sense of trying to fly less, I wrote a few pieces last year about my relationship to flying, and in this episode I read one of those published short stories 'Staying Grounded' as well as...2023-06-2607 minJoyful Climate Writing41. SolidarityIt's a short and sweet message this week about solidarity and remembering how united the environmental movement is with other initiatives. I also recommend a quick little read about exactly this topic - Feminism for the 99% a manifesto.
2023-06-1907 minJoyful Climate Writing40. Book Review: Forest MageI'm seeing a lot of my friends are feeling very aware of the climate crisis. I have friends in North America, whose homes smell like campfires. And it's hard to ignore the climate crisis when that's right on your doorstep.
So the book review this week is a little escapism that also packs a powerful message: Robin Hobb's trilogy Soldier Son. This taught me more about body shaming and what it's like being overweight than any other book I've ever read and it's in an entertaining and engaging fantasy package.2023-06-1212 minJoyful Climate Writing39. Climate Joy ChallengeWelcome to a special episode this week as I let you in on a little summer challenge!
The Climate Joy Challenge is an opportunity to rewire your brain and the emotions you feel when you think about climate change and climate activism.
Tune in this week as I share with you how to carry out the Climate Joy Challenge and why this will help you find more purpose, satisfaction and comfort in advocating for climate interventions or making changes in your own life. It's easier and simpler than you might think!
And if...2023-06-0516 minJoyful Climate Writing38. When you're feeling too small, too uninformed, or too joyful to take climate actionThis- is a very special episode as I let you in a chat I had with three fantastic climate coaches and friends of mine from the Best F***ing Coaching Course. In this episode, I share how we confront and befriend some typical climate gremlins - those inner critic voices that stop you from taking action and being as involved as you'd like!
- Is it a fast-talking bully voice that tells you the wicked challenges of climate change are too big, and you're too small?
- Is it the intellectual gatekeeper that asks, 'who...2023-05-2923 minJoyful Climate Writing37. What do I coach on?I've been getting asked what I coach on - it feels a little like, what haven't I coached on? I'm open to anything, we can use the same techniques - to self regulate, clarify what you want, and process your emotions - when it comes to relationships with your parents, boss, employees, or partner! Listen on to find out more.
If you want a little sunshine of inspiration and actionable tips to improve your climate change work every single week, sign up to my email list. If you want to dive deeper and find su...2023-05-2216 minJoyful Climate Writing36. Getting over feeling like an imposter in the Ivory TowerFor those outside the Ivory Tower, you may be surprised that Imposter Syndrome is also rampant within the Academy. It breaks my heart when I hear hard-working, brilliant colleagues and friends that are still (even after years and years of experience) feeling like they're 'not enough' and that they don't belong in academia.
In this episode I walk through some of the common reasons I see my clients identify with Imposter Syndrome and then a few ways to turn those thoughts around. If you've suffered from what I call the PhD Hangover - because three years of...2023-05-1320 minJoyful Climate Writing35. I'm an Imperfect VeganThis week I received an email saying "I've just read your Imperfect Vegan piece and I absolutely loved it. I'd meant to have a quick look then get on with some work and read it later, but all the gorgeous sensory description just drew me right through it until I found I'd read the whole thing!"
Not only did this warm me up like my breakfast cuppa, it made me pause what I was doing and dust off my first short story published in Literary Veganism. I read it out loud to myself and enjoyed reconnecting with...2023-05-1117 minJoyful Climate Writing34. Book Review: The Artist's WayThis book The Artist's Way: A course in Discovering and Recovering your Creative Self by Julia Cameron is probably up there as my favourite book of all time (in the self-help genre, it's too difficult to actually choose one favourite... there are too many magical books out there).
Essentially, it's a 12 week course that helps you lean into your own creativity. It's a masterclass in self-care and letting go of self-censorship too.
If you can stick with it - it's was a 7-10 hour weekly commitment for me, although she has adapted ones for parents...2023-05-0827 minJoyful Climate Writing33. Letting Go of Chronic PainThis epsiode is about chronic pain and pain management.
I recently hired a chronic pain specialist and 1:1 coach, and although I didn't think I was going to have much to report on after only a few days - it turns out I do! I've had a leg injury for 8 years that has never totally healed and for the first time in a long long time, if not since before the accident I've been having moments of shock that the pain is gone.
I hope this technique, that Anna calls 'the Pain Buster' works for you...2023-05-0412 minJoyful Climate Writing32. Certification with the Ethical Coaching CollectiveI have finished my coaching certification!
I am now certified with the ethical coaching collective! And I want to explain what the ethical standards we were taught and are expected to uphold :)
https://bestfuckingcoachingcourse.com/ethical-coaching-collective/
If you want a little sunshine of inspiration and actionable tips to improve your climate change work every single week, sign up to my email list. If you want to dive deeper and find support to become a climate leader and catalyst in your community, I would love to invite you to...2023-05-0127 minJoyful Climate Writing31. Earth Day BluesWhat did you do for Earth Day this year? Did it leave you lighter, buzzing, ready to take on the world?
No? Me neither. I thought being surrounded by others that are worried about the climate crisis and wanting to see changes would be energising, but this time it wasn't. This isn't an uplifting episode... it's hard to feel like 'enough' is ever happening. Short of governments starting to enact 'radical' degrowth policies, I'm not sure what would be.
If you were also disappointed that tens of thousands attended...2023-04-2509 minJoyful Climate Writing30. Your Permission Slip to Have More FunI was speaking to one of my clients recently who told me they wondered, 'how do you do it all.'
I think they meant it as a compliment, but it did worry me a little that I give off a sense of working all the time and wanted to offer this little reminder that a lot of what people 'see' in terms of me having a podcast, a newsletter, coaching clients and writing outputs from my research, I have intentionally spent years at finding ways to do them that energise me.
If you too...2023-04-2314 minJoyful Climate Writing29. Book Review: Do LessAnother one of my favourite productivity books, Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms by Kate Northup.
It's for more than moms and its a book I keep coming back to over and over because of Kate's step by step practical guide as well as the mindset shift.
The book offers some big steps to learning to ask for help, prioritise yourself and communicate better about your needs and supporting others.🥚 wisdom is also a fav concepts: letting things come to you, rather than chasing aft...2023-04-1727 minJoyful Climate Writing28. When you're telling yourself it's too difficultIf you ever find yourself repeating that 'it's too difficult' one of the best antidotes I've found is asking 'is that true?' and 'is that thought serving me?'
Telling ourselves that something is impossible or too challenging, may feel true, but you may be letting it get in the way of doing something that you really do want to believe is possible for you!
When you notice yourself repeating 'it's too difficult' or 'I don't think I can do that,' check in and ask yourself, 'is...2023-04-1124 minJoyful Climate Writing27. Book Review: Four Thousand Weeks
I highly recommend Four Thousand Weeks: Time management for mortals by Oliver Burkeman.
This my favourite book on productivity. It helped me let go of the age old existential crisis question of ‘what is the meaning of life.’
This quote in particular captures some of the essence of that, stop worrying so much about having an impact and what you should do and ask yourself what you really enjoy doing:
“Perhaps your particular contribution to a world facing multiple crises isn’t primarily to spend your time pursuing activism, or seeking electoral office, but on c...2023-04-0413 minJoyful Climate Writing26. Peat hags and despairing about the climate emergencyWelcome to a special episode this week as I let you in on some of my 'climate triggers' - the things I see that can send me into rage and despair about the climate emergency- and then a way to process these emotions - by mapping across sub-modalities in your brain, it's really fun - to reframe these feelings and thoughts into more useful action.
Whether it's peat hags or rising sea levels or people not recycling, I'd love to hear what your climate triggers are and how you've reframed moments of fear and frustration into positive...2023-03-2717 minJoyful Climate Writing25. How to get over thinking affirmations are BSI used to not 'get' affirmations, I thought they were a bit bullshit until week 1 of the Artist's Way. In this episode, I share tips and tricks on how to use affirmations effectively.
If you don't catch the gremlins they can bring up or gaslight yourself into overly ambitious statements, sure they're bullshit.
But if used with care, affirmations can be a powerful, shorthand to get you in a resource state.
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2023-03-2211 minJoyful Climate Writing24. When you're spinning too many platesYou get to choose how you feel in any moment. You don't have to just react or go into fight or flight.
In this episode I share how you can recreate good feelings to get the results you want and also how you can disassociate from rumination and let go of thoughts that make you stressed and anxious with
Put on your dancing shoes for the metaphoric two-step :)
If you're looking for a brilliant writing and productivity coach check out Laura Premack: https://laurapremackcoaching.com/about-laura/about/
2023-03-0417 minJoyful Climate Writing23. Surrounding yourself with people you adoreThis week I take inspiration from two of my current mentors to talk about relationships.
Simone Grace Seol - "Repeat after me. 'I accept NOTHING LESS than the company of people who do not merely tolerate me, accept me, or like me with some conditions and provisions attached, but ADORE my face, and DELIGHT in all my weird quirks, eccentricities and contradictions, and TREASURE the very strange things that make ME.'"
John Overdurf - "The way you see any individual in your mind is the best they can ever be in your presence"...2023-03-0115 minJoyful Climate Writing22. 5 Steps to Feel Great Before Any MeetingI love this prep for meetings, it helps you set intentions, let go of judgments about yourself and others, and most importantly, find a sense of sufficiency in your body.
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2023-02-2214 minJoyful Climate Writing21. Getting yourself into a resourced state, because that's where you want to make decisions fromI had a little realisation that the most important piece to getting you to take action, to make decisions from a 'good place' is to learn how to get yourself into a Resource state.
By that I mean, be able to self-regulate your nervous system so you're not in fight, flight or fawn mode. Be able to get yourself feeling calm, safe and confident even. That's the Resource state and that's where we want to make decisions from. Not from a place of lack and fear.
So coaching and a lot of my self-coaching is ab...2023-02-1512 minJoyful Climate Writing20. Rewriting any memoryI've started to get certified in the Best Fucking Coaching Course and I want to share with some of the wild stuff I've learned so far: like how to work with your memories to imprint them with new emotions. It's wild stuff.
Welcome to the Meta Pattern.
Resources:
Melissa Tiers - https://www.melissatiers.com/
Simone Grace Seol - https://www.simonegraceseol.com/
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Or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in...2023-02-0811 minJoyful Climate Writing19. Some small steps to stop people pleasingI'm doing it.. I'm finally talking about the importance of taking action from a place of abundance instead of lack. I know those are overdone words but bear with me as I give multiple examples of how people pleasing comes from a place of not enoughness and instead offer some ways to reframe, sometimes the same action, out of accepting yourself and trusting people will like you when you show up in a genuine and confident way.
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Follow me on...2023-02-0415 minJoyful Climate Writing18. Being the villain part 2In this episode I talk about the difference between rationalising an idea or way of being to actually feeling that in your body. This is one of the biggest benefits of coaching in my opinion: being able to process your emotions through your body so you're not trying to convince yourself to do things just through your head.
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I started a new job this month and at times I've felt overwhelmed by all the opportunities and activities I can be involved in. I learned from my first coach the value of asking yourself, 'If I say yes to this, what am I saying no to?' because work presents many invitations, it doesn't mean that you have to (or can) do them all.
But my current coach helped me push this critique of...2023-01-2115 minJoyful Climate Writing16. All paths lead to joyOn this episode, I cover a favourite new 'thought' I've been practicing. Instead of worrying if I made the 'right' decision and beating myself up for all the ways the other option would have worked out better, I welcome the idea that both options would be 'right,' both lead to 'joy.' What have you got to loose by trusting this idea? I hope it opens some new thought patterns for you too!
Interested in going deeper on your own thought models? Book a free consult for coaching here - https://calendly.com...2023-01-1305 minJoyful Climate Writing15. Rooting out 'not enough' thought patternsThis episode relates to the idea of being enough and also recognising that these thought patterns can repeat in different parts of our lives. Enjoy!
Wishing you lots of courage to stop and feel your feelings, explore moving out of inaction and hyperactivity into mindsets and spaces of happiness and productivity in 2023.
Resources:
David R. Hawkins - Letting Go
The Emotion Scale I refer to: https://carolmacrae.com/the-hawkins-scale-of-consciousness/
Interested in going deeper on your own thought models? Book a free...2023-01-0310 minJoyful Climate Writing14. Letting go of the idea that work has to be hardHave you found yourself unable to celebrate an accomplishment because it came to you too easily?
If so, you're definitely not alone and it's a sneaky thought connected to a common idea in our society that success requires suffering, 'no pain, no gain.' In this episode I want to crack open the door and invite you to reflect on whether letting go of the idea that you 'need to work hard to succeed' might not serve. Just consider it.
Work can feel fun and easy. You can be more productive with less 'nose to the...2022-12-2711 minJoyful Climate Writing13. Shift your self-belief first and the 'how' answers itselfThis is one of my favourite coaching concepts, known in shorthand as 'who before how.' It's simple to grasp and often slow to put into practice. Once you get it, it's like a hot air balloon that let's you see the terrain and float over obstacles that when you're on the ground are daunting.
Who before how, means identifying who you want to be in future, say three years time - fixing your focus on your VISION and your WHY - and not getting bogged down in the details of 'how' you could possibly get there. 2022-12-2317 minJoyful Climate Writing12. Letting go of indecision and getting startedI used to say 'I don't know' a lot. And I've started to ban that statement from my vocabulary because it often stops me from moving forward and trusting myself.
In this episode, I talk about how to let go of all the energy and time wrapped up in indecision and the value of getting started, trusting yourself, trusting there is not one right path, and cultivating a mindset of experimentation and learning.
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Book a consult for 1 to 1 coaching here: h...2022-12-2020 minJoyful Climate Writing11. Self-validationWe don't need external validation. It's obvious when I think of what I'm confident about, what I'm sure of. Like how bloody brilliant women are, and to not feel diminished by a misogynistic comment. Yet when I'm less sure, I preen at others' approval. Or ruminate on what I perceive to be a slight.
In this episode, I talk about one of the most important thought patterns that gets us into a state of self-validation. I seem to have to learn this one over and over: that I can decide that people want to hear my opinion, th...2022-12-1310 minJoyful Climate Writing10. Climate AnxietyDo you ever get into a pit of despair and overwhelm when you see flooding and famine and fires in the news?
I've got two new thoughts for you to try on in relation to climate anxiety and reading the news that will get you back into action and doing more of what you love to make the world a better place.
RESOURCES:
Rutger Bregman - Humankind: A hopeful history
Oliver Burkeman - Four thousand weeks: the smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will change your life
Han...2022-12-1022 minJoyful Climate Writing9. Embracing FailureFailing is so good for us.
It can feel terrible TO BE a failure.
But it's possible to find so much fun in the act of failing.
If you aren't willing to show up as a newbie, to embrace being really really terrible, then how are you going to learn?
In this episode, I want to talk about how to reframe failure as a good thing and as an opportunity for growth. Fast failure = fast learning.
RESOURCES:
Will Storr - The Science of Storytelling
...2022-12-0412 min