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The Happy WorkLife PodcastRoann GhoshOn this episode of the WorkL Happiness Podcast we spoke to Roann Ghosh, Founder of Epiphany & Host of the Self Centred podcast.Tune in for an insightful talk on his journey through different careers from working in finance to broadcasting and more. With a particular focus on mental health and finding a suitable work life balance this podcast is not one to miss!
2021-09-0953 min
Self Centred with Roann026 John Vincent MBE: Right Life, Right NowChief exec/co-founder of Leon, author of Winning not Fighting
My guest in this final episode is like no-one in business I’ve ever come across before.
As co-founder of the sustainable and naturally fast-food chain Leon, John Vincent MBE has been at the forefront of a movement to change the way we think about our food and where it comes from. In addition, he’s been part of a campaign to get schoolchildren eating better food, and more recently helped to feed a million front line NHS workers during the pandemic.
But it's his book Winning not fighting: why you...
2021-03-2555 min
Self Centred with Roann025 Michelle Ogundehin: Everyone Needs a Room of Their OwnMagazine editor, author, TV presenter
Speaking to Michelle Ogundehin this week was a real joy. Currently on our screens every week as a judge on the addictive Interior Design Masters series, Ogundehin’s calm, informed and direct style has always been a real pleasure to watch.
But for me, it is in her recent book - Happy Inside - where she shares her most insightful wisdom. In Happy Inside, Michelle lays out a manifesto of how we can all live better by doing the small things well. She shows us how the everyday things we mi...
2021-02-2359 min
Self Centred with Roann024 Design a Life to Thrive: How to Zoom BetterIn this short episode, I follow on with another of the daily habits that have made a real difference to my life.
In the past year of the pandemic, one feature of all our lives have been virtual meetings.
We often find our working day filled up with a series of back-to-back Zoom meetings, sitting at home, fighting wi-fi speeds, family interruptions and face freezes. It can be hard to find time to pause, let alone feel present at each meeting.
I used to feel the same about meetings, but...
2021-02-0405 min
Self Centred with Roann023 Dale Vince OBE: Changing the RulesFounder, Ecotricity
Dale Vince’s story is amazing. The British green energy industrialist and passionate vegan is the owner of Ecotricity and a former New Age traveller, and has been the man behind the renewable energy revolution that we’ve seen over the last 30 years
In his quest to stop climate change and remove fossil fuels entirely, he has taken on the established energy companies and The National Grid - and convinced them that there was another way to do things.
And he did this all from absolutely nothing. He left school at 15 and...
2021-02-0240 min
Real Agenda RadioSelf Centred with Roann: Putting compassion into politicsMatt Hawkins. co-director of Compassion in Politics talks to Roann Ghosh about how human change is igniting political change, and about individual responsibility, what each of us can do to make a difference. We consider how change starts with us - both as individuals, but also in how we continue to push the idea that purpose, passion, love and compassion, rather than career, wealth and status are at the heart of what actually makes us thrive. Self Centred with Roann series which seeks to help you find your true purpose to live your most meaningful and authentic life. The...
2021-01-2350 min
Self Centred with Roann022 Design a Life to Thrive: Creating Portfolio DaysHumans thrive with variety - you feel this when you go to a new place, rearrange your furniture, change your route to work. These changes light you up, refresh your routine, offer a new perspective.
And, now, with us largely confined to our homes, this concept is more relevant than ever. Introducing change into each day can be a real tonic, and it’s something that’s helped me in my life recently, both before and during lockdown.
The concept of Portfolio Days is simple. Rather than seeing your day as a block - a...
2021-01-2105 min
Self Centred with Roann021 Matt Hawkins: Putting compassion into politicsCampaigner and co-founder at Compassion in Politics
Matt Hawkins is a social and environmental justice campaigner and the co-director of Compassion in Politics - a cross-party organisation working to put compassion, inclusion, and cooperation at the heart of politics.
Set up in 2018, the organisation has the support of 50 Uk parliamentarians from six parties and academics and activists including Noam Chomsky Charisse Matthews Helen Pankhurst and Ruby Wax. The Guardian described them as ‘the movement to be hopeful about’.
In a political climate as charged as the one we’re seeing now - from Trump’...
2021-01-1950 min
Self Centred with Roann020 Design a Life to Thrive: Addresing Anxiety in a PandemicThis week, I want to share some of the strategies I've developed to help support me with a lifetime of working through anxiety.
In a pandemic, at the time of another national lockdown, we are facing more worry than we would normally. Anxiety is something that I’ve struggled with for a while now and the pandemic clearly isn’t helping.
But I have found that by reframing it, things have become a little easier to deal with on a daily basis and this is what I want to share with you toda...
2021-01-1406 min
Self Centred with Roann019 Nick Compton: When being world-class is not enoughEngland cricketer and photographer
My guest this week is Nick Compton. One of the top cricketers of his generation, having made centuries for England and played in the ashes, he is sporting royalty and the grandson of Arsenal footballer and legendary cricketer Denis Compton.
And yet Nick is no ordinary sportsman. Since retiring from the game in 2016, and taking up photography, he’s done an enormous amount of soul searching, and speaks with remarkable honesty about his experiences in cricket and what these later years of reflection and travelling have taught him. Nick has travelled to...
2021-01-1250 min
Self Centred with Roann018 Design A Life To Thrive: A Daily Routine For A New Year's LockdownIn this special episode to welcome in the new year, and the start of Season 3, I share some of the routines and habits that have really helped me during the past year.
As our lives become centred more around our homes and families, the lifestyle tweaks and changes that we’ve been putting off can now be put into place.
And while I suggest simple things, such as waking well and mindful breathing to journaling and 15 minutes of exercise a day, my overall message is actually about doing just enough that it feels manageable. As lo...
2021-01-0706 min
Self Centred with Roann017 Design A Life to Thrive at Christmas: Family & NatureWishing you a very happy Christmas, and a gentle reminder to give the gift of presence this holiday season.
In this mini-episode, Roann considers our connection to both nature and family. How important it is to protect these relationships, but how they are also so often the things we sacrifice for work and productivity.
Family is the bedrock of a happy society, and our very existence relies on our relationship with nature.
Christmas is a time to remind us of these things, to lock our phones away, turn to loved...
2020-12-2206 min
Self Centred with Roann016 Gelong Thubten: Meditating with the UNBuddhist monk, meditation teacher and author of A Monk’s Guide to Happiness.
Thubten is not your normal monk. Super-sharp, super-smart, super-capable, he went to Oxford University and then to New York to become an actor. He was living the dream, and yet he describes it as hell. “It was really hard, because I was so unhappy. And so everything I was doing was just to escape the unhappiness - and it wasn't working.”
Facing burnout and breakdown, he retreated to his parent’s house, before deciding to join a Buddhist monastery, which he thought would he...
2020-12-1053 min
Self Centred with Roann015 James Thornton: We Need To Save CivilisationFounding lawyer, Client Earth.
Essentially acting as lawyers for our planet, Client Earth has spent 15 years making sure that countries, companies and politicians consider the environment with their actions. And they actively pursue in court those who don’t.
As founder James Thornton said me to in this week’s episode; “We've been stopping a whole generation of coal-fired power stations in Europe. You can't build one anywhere in Europe - we’ll stop you.”
James and his ever-growing team of environmental lawyers are defending the oceans, protecting the forests and giving a voice to t...
2020-12-0300 min
Self Centred with Roann014 Matt Rudd: Reframing SuccessAward-winning Sunday Times columnist and author of Man Down: Why Men are Unhappy and What We Can do About It
“Whether or not I will be a more ‘successful person’ is up for debate - but who cares, quite frankly.”
It’s fantastic to have Matt Rudd on the podcast today. Matt’s book, Man Down looks at reframing toxic masculinity and how it doesn't serve any anyone - a really urgent subject, given the rising cases of male suicide and depression.
In our discussion, we talk about what success looks like - the misconce...
2020-11-2700 min
Self Centred with Roann013 Eve Kalinik: Nourishing the Whole SelfI’m delighted to be talking to Eve Kalinik today, author of Happy Gut, Happy Mind, and champion of promoting nutritional wellbeing as a way of supporting your mental wellbeing.
She says: “If we truly want to have an authentic life-long attitude towards nourishing ourselves - which by the way food is only one part - then quick fixes, fads, detoxes and diets are not going to cut the proverbial mustard.”
As for Eve herself, she had a successful career in fashion PR, which she says was anything but “healthy” - long hours, fast food, skipping m...
2020-11-0500 min
Self Centred with Roann012 Design a Life to Thrive: Values over EgoWelcome to the third in my series of Designing a Life to Thrive.
We have a big opportunity to re-appraise our lives thanks to Covid. To put our focus on things like connection, nature, family, personal fulfilment and purpose. A new narrative for our time.
As a society, we can start to develop new systems that serve us and our planet more.
The first principle in this series was to slow down and make time for the self; the second principle was to be as one, thinking of ourselves as global...
2020-11-0300 min
Self Centred with Roann011 David Price: People-Powered Innovation“To what extent are we going to let these things be someone else’s problem, the next generation’s problem? Or are we actually going to say, let’s re-evaluate the economic wealth disparities around the world?"
This episode I’m speaking to David Price OBE. He’s had an incredible portfolio career, first as a musician, then working in education during the 80s and 90s, before founding UK culture change consultancy We Do Things Differently. He is the author of Open: How We'll Work, Live and Learn In The Future and this year published his most recent book...
2020-10-2900 min
Self Centred with Roann010 Saasha Celestial-One: Find that one thing that feels achievable“Purpose is that feeling you get in the morning when you wake up and you know that what you’re working on, what you have planned, is precisely what you should be doing.”
It was a privilege this week to talk to Saasha Celestial-One about feeling fulfilled in her work every single day. The founder of Olio - the revolutionary food-sharing app - explained how her work to reduce food waste has given her a true sense of purpose, something she describes as ‘the absence of regret, and a lightness of knowing what you’re doing.”
Born in Am...
2020-10-2200 min
Self Centred with Roann008 Aaron McHugh: Time to get out of your own way“From the outside, my life looks pretty much the same. I still work a full-time corporate career. I’m still married to the same woman. I still live in the same neighbourhood. The only difference is me. I’m no longer fragmented. I’m whole.”
If you feel unhappy in your job, the solution isn’t always to change your job, but to change yourself.
In this week’s episode with coach, author and public speaker Aaron McHugh, we talk about how important it is to get out of your own way. And about how his new book...
2020-10-1500 min
Self Centred with Roann006 Emma Slade: The Capacity for Kindness is in All of Us“Here I am about to die and I’ve done nothing. Nothing that’s been really joyful, nothing which has been really kind, nothing which has been full of love, nothing which has actually made any difference at all. Other than that I know a lot of facts and I’ve looked at a lot of spreadsheets, and I haven’t really fully come alive, and I’m about to die. I really don’t want it to end before I get a chance to get on with what I’m actually meant to do.”
This week, I talk to Buddhist...
2020-10-0800 min
Self Centred with Roann007: Design A Life To Thrive #2Follow your passion and it will lead you to purpose... In conversations with purpose-driven individuals, there are consistent themes that come up. There are patterns of daily habits, routines and that are mentioned and repeated again and again.
In this series of quick talks, Roann Ghosh looks to find where these practices originate so that we can gain a better understanding of why they have been so enduring. He's found five central universal principles that are central to us thriving as humans beings. Five principles that are not taught in schools. And yet five principles that...
2020-06-1212 min
Self Centred with Roann006: Paul Conroy: Face Your FearsWhat drives a man to walk into a war zone again and again? What keeps a man going after surviving death not once, not twice but five times?Purpose.
This conversation is with Paul Conroy the esteemed war photographer: to say he went places that others feared to tread is an understatement.
He and his partner Marie Colvin went to some of the most dangerous war zones to tell the stories that others couldn't or wouldn't, often focusing on the human stories - the suffering of the women and children, the kind of stories that...
2020-06-1239 min
Self Centred with Roann005: Alison Darcy: Turning Ideas Into Reality"I don’t have to be a YouTube entrepreneur. I just need to lean into the fact that this is a problem that needs to be fixed, we will do our best to try and contribute to fixing it."
Alison Darcy is the founder of Woebot, an app that offers cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
She says: 'We're on a mission to make mental health radically accessible' which is important as more than half of the world’s population still doesn’t have access to basic health care, let alone mental health care.
She sa...
2020-05-111h 01
Self Centred with Roann004: Design A Life To Thrive #1Follow your passion and it will lead you to purpose.
In my conversations with purpose-driven individuals, there are consistent themes that come up. There are patterns of daily habits, routines and that are mentioned and repeated again and again.
In this series of quick lectures, I have looked to find where these practices originate so that we can gain a better understanding of why they have been so enduring.
I have found five central universal principles that are central to us thriving as humans being.
Five principles that are not taught...
2020-05-1108 min
Self Centred with Roann003: Andy Ramage: Using Passion To Fuel Your Purpose“There is that calling that comes to us at some point - is this it? Some of us go with it and others get stuck. It’s never too late to act on it”.
This conversation is with Andy Ramage, the founder of the wellness platforms One Year No Beer and Seneca Performance.
Andy is a retired footballer, a successful oil trader and now an author and entrepreneur helping people to live fuller, energised and more authentic lives.
A lot of things can get in the way of us following our passions. A lot...
2020-05-1144 min
Self Centred with Roann002: What This Series Will DoWhy Passion And Purpose Matter
Let me give you permission. The permission to question. The permission to turn off your autopilot and examine exactly who you are, what you do and most importantly, why you do it.
Identifying and aligning your version of success, with the way you think, live and work means acting from an authentic place of purpose.
By sharing my own experiences and speaking to others that have been brave enough to follow their passions, I hope to be able to give you the skills, tactics and permission you need...
2020-05-1110 min
Self Centred with Roann001: Introducing the Self Centred PodcastRoann is challenging us all to live by our true passion and purpose. Here's why...
2020-04-0904 min
Wheel Suckers PodcastLIVE PANEL: Let's talk about cycling and mental healthListen to a LIVE recording of the panel: Let's talk about cycling and mental health held at Look mum no hands! 49 Old St. on Tuesday 7th November. You can also watch a Facebook Live video here: https://www.facebook.com/1ookmumnohands/videos/2187124084647164/ It's a topic that has featured in previous panels and talks we've held at Lmnh! Working with Sarah Strong https://twitter.com/Opiumia - cyclist, mental health charity worker, researcher/writer and ex-archivist - we curated an evening to focus on discussing the two. ~ Chair ~ Rebecca Charlton - TV presenter, journalist and author. www.rebeccacharlton.com https://twitter...
2017-11-081h 30