Wendy 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 have acted as journey markers in her own life. While traversing forests and fenland, she reflects on the process of finding belonging in nature as a woman who exists in a series of liminal spaces – as a working-class writer, an infertile woman in a fertile world and a bereaved mother in a society focused on children.

Link to purchase the Ghost Lake here: THE GHOST LAKE

Wendy is the author of six poetry collections including When I Think of My Body as a Horse. Her next collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk will be published by Nine Arches Press in 2024.

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You can find out more about Wendy Pratt and her work

Website: https://wendyprattauthor.com

Instagram: @wendycat1978

Twitter: @wondykitten

Buy her Book: The Ghost Lake

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Do 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

Change your resilience by changing habits - but don't worry, there are no 5am gym and journalling sessions here

How we can measure and spot habits in our emotional spending...

Why the Lone Ranger needed to delegate and sort out those systems..

Andy is also a podcast host, leadership coach and award-winning advisor with over 30 years’ experience.

Andy wrote his book after hundreds of conversations with leaders, entrepreneurs and founders – all of which pointed to the fact that every single one of them was – to some extent or another - subsidising their success at the cost of their own physical or mental wellbeing, what he calls their ‘emotional overdraft’. Andy believes the currency of an emotional overdraft is resilience. The longer and deeper you are overdrawn, the less resilient you become, which leads to stress, overwhelm and burnout. 

Andy is here to help us get out of our overdraft and stay out of it more often!

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You can find out more about Andy Brown and his work

Website with resources we discuss in show: https://emotionaloverdraft.com

Instagram: @andybrownauthor

LinkedIn: Andy Brown

Buy his Book: The Emotional Overdraft

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When 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 six weeks, ill, confused and in a state of fear of the predicament she found herself in. In her current day guest speaking, Clare talks of ‘the last photo’; a tear jerking emotive moment where she believed she was about to die, alone and scared in a foreign country. 

Whilst still coping with her illness today, known as Post-Concussion Syndrome, Clare is now a full time, qualified Paddlesports Instructor & Leader and regularly supports clients with neurological conditions, mental health issues and a range of disabilities enabling participation, enjoyment and progression in paddlesports utilising the outdoors as therapy and rehabilitation as she did.

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Instagram: @clare_rutter.ba.hons

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Warning: 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 the University of the Highlands and Islands looking at Scotland’s ‘deer question’, and aims to give voice, as best she can, to the many parties involved, including the more-than-human, through creative writing.

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You can find out more about Leonie Charlton

Website: http://www.leoniecharlton.co.uk

Instagram: @leonie.charlton

Twitter: @CharltonLeonie

Buy his Book: Marram

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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 young widow, left to raise their two year old daughter alone. Overcome with grief and anxiety over the loss, Jenchose her own unique path to heal. She packed 4 suitcases and moved with her daughter to a tiny island in the Caribbean where she knew no one. The years she spent on the island gave her the time to process the loss and rebuild her own strength and courage to move forward. Jen believes that every widow has the capacity to endure, the power to overcome, and the determination to create a new life with meaning and purpose.

Host of Widow 180: The Podcast, Widow advocate & Author That’s how Widow 180: The Podcast came to be. It’s a show about turning tragedy, loss, and fear into strength, creativity, and a new passion for life. Jen learned through her own experience in widowhood that we are not meant to grieve alone. In 2021, she launched a group coaching course, The Rediscovery Through Writing Program for widows to come together to share, grow, transform, and heal their grief through writing.

Jen’s mission through the podcast, the YouTube Channel, blog posts, courses, coaching and speaking is to arm other widows with powerful stories of transformation and knowledge so that they can navigate life after loss. Her newest online program is The Finding Purpose & Meaning After Loss Program For Widows. She has interviewed over 100 widows and coached hundreds of widows through her courses and online programs. Jen remarried in 2017. She and her husband Doug welcomed a new baby girl, Penelope, in 2018. They are enjoying a fun and crazy life as a family of four in a new house in South Louisiana!

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Widow 180 The Podcast: Widow 180 The Podcast

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YouTube: @widow180

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Natasha 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;

Natasha is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Working Class Writers Festival and The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers. She guest edited the working-class edition of The Bookseller in 2022 and is recipient of The Bookseller Rising Star Award in the same year. 

You can find out more about Natasha Carthew

Instagram: @natashacarthewofficial

Twitter: @natashacarthew

Buy her Book: Undercurrent

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Content 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 and speaking in the European Parliament, all before the age of 16. Since then Abbie has worked as a personal trainer, instructor, and walk leader, and has undertaken an impressive list of solo long-distance walks in remote places, and mountaineering challenges, all shared on their YouTube Channel which has over 10 million viewers. Abbie also vulnerably shares about their mental health and chronic pain challenges and uses nature as a metaphor in order to inspire us all to work through life's obstacles and thrive in life.

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You can find out more about Abbie Barnes and their work

Website: https://www.spendmoretimeinthewild.co.uk

Instagram: @abbiebarneswild

YouTube: Abbie Barnes | Spend More Time In The WILD

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Nick 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 about

• 5 clear steps we can all use to take us towards a thriving life
• how we can all be leaders in vulnerability
• resilience in the face of adversity.
• Importance of health and sport

Nick Jonsson is a global thought leader on the subject of well-being, and is passionate on his mission of helping to remove the stigma that surrounds mental health in workplaces worldwide. Nick is the Co-founder of EGN (Executives’ Global Network) which is Asia's number one Executive Peer Network, he is a best-selling author, and was Singapore's top 100 Entrepreneur 2021 Winner.

Nick is the author of Amazon’s Number 1 International Bestselling book in Mental Health, titled Executive Loneliness, and has been featured in many national newspapers, magazines, and on international television and radio stations.

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You can find out more about Nick Jonsson and his work

Website: https://www.nickjonsson.com

LinkedIn: nick-jonsson

Buy his Book: Executive Loneliness: Overcoming Isolation Depression

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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 Spain and participated in an expedition in the Arctic, close to the magnetic North Pole. He was named as one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the year for 2012.

However, Alastair can often be found closer to home now. He trekked 120 miles round the M25 – one of his pioneering microadventures, and in his new book, Local, he spends a year investigating the small map around his own home. Could a single map provide a lifetime of exploration? Alastair says he discovers more about the natural world in this project than in all his years in remote environments.

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Website: https://alastairhumphreys.com

Instagram: @al_humphreys

Buy his Book: Local

How 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 Eastern spiritual traditions with Western modern management and psychology, Fabrice raises his clients to new heights of clarity and productivity by focusing on what makes us fundamentally human: the desire to be happy, to connect with others, and to be true to our purpose.

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You can find out more about Fabrice and his work

Website: https://www.desmarescaux.com

LinkedIn: Fabrice Desmarescaux

Buy his Book: The Art of Retreats

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What 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 Egypt, and today, it stands as North Africa's premier digital marketing agency.

But Aziz's impact extends beyond business success. In a bid to transform Sudan's digital landscape, he trained over 4,000 individuals in digital marketing, entirely pro bono. This initiative catalyzed the birth of hundreds of startups, essentially laying the foundation for Sudan's burgeoning digital economy.

Aziz's story is a testament to the power of vision, resilience, and innovation.

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You can find out more about Aziz Musa and his work

Website: https://cush.digital

Instagram: @azizmusa

Twitter: @azizmusa

LinkedIn: Aziz Musa

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'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.

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You can find out more about Lunden Souza and her work

Website: www.lifelikelunden.com

Instagram: @lifelikelunden

Twitter: @LifeLikeLunden

Listen to: Self Love and Sweat The Podcast

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Listen 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 through mindfulness.

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You can find out more about Michael O'Brien and his work

Website: https://www.michaelobrienshift.com

Instagram: @pausebreathereflect

LinkedIn: Michael O'Brien Pelotoncoaching

Buy his Book: My Last Bad Day: Shift

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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. From the borderline homeless to wealthy individuals, he has helped many people connect with their truth to create a life on their terms. John’s search for answers to living a fulfilling life has taken him all over the world from the Hills of San Diego, to the forests of Madagascar, swimming with humpback whales in Tonga, exploring the Okavango Delta of Botswana and climbing the Great Wall of China. 

John also co-wrote and produced the movie documentary Adversity.

He is now a writing coach, having worked with over 400 authors from 40 countries for the A Journey of Riches series and his publishing house, Motion Media International, has published 32 non-fiction titles to date.

Follow John

Instagram: @ajourneyofriches

Youtube: ajourneyofriches

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/john.rspender

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Imogen 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 her mother when she was 18 years old affected her life, and why she is working on 'food resilience' from her Scottish home.

“Caving and exploration has been a big part of my life, but it was the bereavement, through losing my mum at 18,  that opened that pathway up to cave exploration in the first place. It shaped my life considerably, and accepting death is inevitable is key to everything thereafter.”

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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 the 15 UK national parks.

With a Geoscience masters degree, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and trustee of Mind mental health charity he connects the planet and well-being.

Issac lost male friend to suicide during his time at university, an event that profoundly impacted him and fuelled his commitment to mental health advocacy. He has also faced his own anxiety and panic disorder, even experiencing suicidal thoughts.

Isaac's states his purpose is clear: creating a positive impact. He founded 'Climate Explorers,' a B Corporation uniting adventure, well-being, and sustainability leadership. As a speaker, he transforms organisations into high-performing, sustainable powerhouses, valuing mental well-being for extraordinary results.

Follow Isaac here:

Instagram: @isaac_kenyon

Website: https://www.isaackenyon.com/

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CW: 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 limits has led her to numerous corners of the world.

In 2021 she completed a global challenge to run, solo and unsupported, across a mountain range on every continent, including three world-first traverses. She’s also competed in long-distance bike packing races, including becoming the two-time first woman in the Silk Road Mountain Race and first woman in the inaugural Atlas Mountain Race – considered two of the toughest off-road bike races.

Outside of her personal pursuits, she has worked to get more people outside and challenging their own comfort zones, particularly women and girls, which she has championed by launching a book in 2020 called Tough Women: Adventure Stories.

Her book Solo, out now, is her account of her mountain range project. In it she says “Did I solve all of life’s big questions on this project? No. Did I figure out a few? Actually, yes. Every adventure teaches me something. That’s the value of adventure.”

Follow Jenny Tough here: @jennytough

Buy her book here: Solo by Jenny Tough

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Content 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, a successful luxury activewear brand. With the success comes a story of resilience and empowerment. Karly endured a physically abusive relationship for 3.5 years and as a result suffered with severe health issues such as depression, anxiety, PTSD and CFS. She ended up bed-bound and hit rock bottom.

Eventually she was able to leave the relationship and embarked on the most life-changing journey, rebuilding her entire life. 

In an extra story of resilience, she then had to deal with a court case with one of Britain's most famous popstars, the loss of around £30k worth of her products, and an ongoing fight with her shipping company.

She’s come to talk about her journey, what she has learned, and what resilience means to her.

You can follow and work with Karly here:

Coaching: @karlyarbercoach

Instagram: @karlyarber

Lenny London: www.lennylondon.com

Charity: www.youthrealities.co.uk

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‘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 cliffs of Ben Nevis and beyond. This started a successful career in TV and Joe was soon working as a self-shooting Producer/Director on high profile productions, including recreating Sir Ernest Shackleton’s epic journey of survival in Antarctica.

But Joe has experienced a great deal of trauma and tragedy whilst filming in the mountains. He has been lucky to survive on several occasions. In 2015, he was about to fulfil a dream of a lifetime – to climb Everest and film it, when tragedy struck and Joe found himself at the epicentre of an earthquake which killed nearly 9,000 people. Only a few years previously, his team of Sherpas had been killed in another avalanche, and soon after that, Julie, his wife, was diagnosed with cancer. His experience of Post-Traumatic Stress and the subsequent journeys of healing is the subject of his book Out of Mind, which is out now via Sandstone Press/Vertebrate Publishing.

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Maria 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 Mountain Casts its Shadow, exploring what happens to the people left behind when tragedies on mountains happen. It won a 2004 National Outdoor Book Award.

Her latest book, Instead is her memoir about opting for adventure instead of motherhood, and the lifelong outcomes of that choice. After two traumatic experiences during her twenties including a near-drowning in Morocco – Maria determines to seize every day and explore the world. Mixed with her desire for freedom is a new fear of loss, which convinces her against parenthood. She falls in love with Dag, who shares her dreams, and they begin creating a life of adventure.

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What 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 the last 100 years.

Barbara Jenkins' new book, So Long As It’s Wild , is her untold and long-awaited story, revealing how she experienced the famous walk across America. From her impoverished upbringing to her high adventures, followed by the crushing aftermath of the walk and her struggle toward newfound courage and strength, So Long As It’s Wild is her story.

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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 in this area and Dan’s master in Organisational Psychology qualification.

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Do 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 individuals the opportunity to grow and expand the definition of who they are.

Aneace is passionate about Mindful and resilience Leadership, culture change, personal transformation, self-improvement, and team performance.

Aneace is also the author of the business fable, The Eagle that Drank Hummingbird Nectar. The book takes readers on a journey with a CEO as he unlocks his full potential in both business and life amidst a rollercoaster of serendipitous turns and unexpected revelations. With a captivating plot and relatable characters, The Eagle That Drank Hummingbird Nectar will have you questioning your own assumptions about success, and leave you eager to unleash your own potential.

You can find out more about Aneace Haddad and his work

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Buy his Book: The Eagle That Drank the Hummingbird Nectar

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This 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. She traveled back to India to study traditional Ayurveda techniques and ancient scriptures, along meditation, astrology, and yoga… Her life coaching has taken her to a centre for vulnerable young adults, guiding them in coping strategies and meditation.

In recent years, Bindi, as a result of her own childlessness, offers meditation classes and community for those who are involuntary childless. She is a People’s Champion for World Childless Week, and takes part in podcasts, and events including Storyhouse Childless in Chester.

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Instagram: @letterstomysoul

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What 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 few.

In August 2020, John became the first to complete the Grand Round. His feat involved running the Paddy Buckey, Bob Graham and Ramsey round, cycling in between.

He is a father of four and works as a data scientist. 

How does he define resilience and view his own resilience?

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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 for the past 18 years.

Russell's areas of specialization include how we cope in our modern world of uncertainty and ambiguity, executive coaching and leadership development, talent management and career coaching. He has worked with a wide range of clients, including NHS, BT, The Co-operative Group and many more.

Russell runs a Resilience Programme which he states will allow you to re-charge and recuperate in order that you can face into your challenges.

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How 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 Harry died, she worked closely with the bereavement team on peer-to-peer support and had the privilege of hearing the stories of many bereaved parents and siblings.

When Harry died in 2000, she set out on a journey to understand how she could survive her grief and learn to live with it. In her book, out now, When Grief Equals Love, she details the lessons she’s learned from her own experiences and those of others, who share their thoughts in this moving and powerful book.

Lizzie opens her diaries, written in the early years after Harry’s death, revealing her observations on the grief of his siblings and family, what helped and what hurt. Revisiting those diaries, she reflects on time passing, and what has changed for her and her family since.

Lizzie looks at the myth of closure, survivor’s energy and cumulative grief – when life experiences pile up and become too much to bear.

In the book, she writes ‘it took a long time and much investigation into how to survive my own grief, and that is work in progress, but I hope that some of what I have learned so far might resonate’.

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What 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 in building resilience and strategies for a sustainable stress life.

His Instagram account has over 70k followers, and on social media, as Doc Martin GP, he aims to educate us all on our mental health where he demystifies and explains concepts to us in a way that makes sense and is memorable. 

He is currently writing his second book about Anxiety and Fear.

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How 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 has walked across Nicaragua, searched for camels in China's Desert of Death, discovered ancient rock paintings in Lesotho, pioneered inclusive expeditions for people with disabilities, lead dozens of youth development expeditions around the world and gained a Guinness World Record for rowing unsupported around Britain.  Belinda has managed remote trips for, amongst others, Bear Grylls, Ray Mears & Chris Ryan and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and British Exploring Society. She is also an Ambassador for The Youth Adventure Trust.

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Do 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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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 to engage marginalised young people in the Scottish Highlands. In 2016, she launched The Adventure Syndicate to offer an alternative female sporting role model. She has also worked as Scotland’s Active Nation Commissioner, working independently of government to ensure the provision of fair, accessible spaces where everyone in Scotland can benefit from being active.

Her new book, Other Ways To Win, is out now with Vertebrate Publishing and is a memoir that reflects on success and the highs and lows in cycling and her life.

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The Adventure Syndicate: http://theadventuresyndicate.com

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How 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 resilience and how his own struggles with his mental health led to this record breaking project

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"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, life feels very different to the future she had imagined.

A move to a new social housing estate in rural Cumbria offers Victoria and her family a chance to rebuild their lives. Constructed over an industrial site, at first the barren ground seems an unlikely place to sow the seeds of a new life. 

She and her son set about transforming the rubble around them into a wild apothecary garden. Daisy, for resilience. Dandelion, for strength against adversity. Red campion, to ward off loneliness. Sow thistle, to lift melancholy. Borage, to bring hope in dark and difficult times.

Stone by stone, seed by seed, they discover that sometimes life grows, not in spite of what is broken, but because of it.

Victoria Bennett is a poet and author, her writing has previously received a Northern Debut Award, a Northern Promise Award, the Andrew Waterhouse Award, and has been longlisted for the Penguin WriteNow programme and the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize for under-represented voices. She founded Wild Women Press in 1999 to support rural women writers in her community, and since 2018 has curated the global Wild Woman Web project, an inclusive online space focusing on nature, connection, and creativity.

When not juggling writing, full-time care, and genetic illness, she can be found where the wild weeds grow.

All My Wild Mothers is her debut memoir. 

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Instagram: @beewyld

Twitter: @vikbeewyld

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What 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 PBS Winter 2021 recommendation and Laurel Prize 2022 longlistee. She has also published three pamphlets: bone song (Aussteiger, 2008), Shadow Dispatches (Seren, 2013) and With Invisible Rain (New Walk: 2018).

Her biography Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (Saraband, 2021), is the first to focus on Dorothy’s later life and illness. Her memoir exploring place, belonging and disability, Some Of Us Just Fall was published by Sceptre in summer 2023.

She has taught English and Creative Writing at QMUL, Lancaster University, and the Universities of Strathclyde and Cumbria. In 2019 she co-founded the Open Mountain initiative at Kendal Mountain Festival, which seeks to recentre voices currently at the margins of outdoor, mountain and nature writing. In 2022 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She works as a freelancer from her home in Grasmere, in the English Lake District.

You can find out more about Dr Polly Atkin and her work

Website: https://pollyatkin.com

Instagram: @pollyrowena

Twitter: @pollyrowena

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If 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 plenty of research and evidence to guide our thoughts.

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How 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 motivational sayings like ‘if you try hard enough you can achieve anything’. Through a series of devastating personal experiences, including the death her partner Matthew after a climbing accident, she’s says she has now changed her mind – and so I wanted to talk to her to ask her what her sense of resilience is. 

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Website: https://katejarmstrong.wordpress.com

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Harrison 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 clinical depression first appearing in his adolescence, Harrison's life spiralled out of control. At its worst he was consuming in excess of 20 pints daily, was a full time smoker and had ballooned in weight to over 22 stone. The end of a relationship and a personal breakdown led to a major life change. Harrison is now over 6 years sober, has thrown himself into fitness and hiking and merged his passion for food into his new routine. He takes modern practices back to their primal roots and shows what can be cooked in the mountains as well as sharing the importance of time outdoors for physical and mental wellbeing. He now regularly delivers talks at festivals, on podcasts, workplaces and as a keynote speaker about his personal battle with depression, suicidal thoughts and journey from an overweight, alcoholic, smoker to the fit, fell loving foodie he is today.

His book will be out with Vertebrate Publishing in Autumn 2023

You can find out more about Harrison Ward

Website: https://www.fellfoodie.co.uk

Instagram: @fellfoodie

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How 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 and creativity to inspire action, so individuals and organisations become outstanding. "I love connecting with people, seeing them learn and develop and live fulfilling lives!"

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You can find out more about Rachel J Smith  and her work

Website: https://www.deeprest.com

LinkedIn: @rachel-j-smith

Facebook: @racheljsmithlifecoaching

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Can 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 history by being  part of the first all-female team to win the race), Dragons Back Race and also in 2016, Lowri became the first person to run from North to South Wales via the country’s highest Peaks and mountains in 60 hours.

Lowri is an adventurer known for her skydiving, mountain skiing and dangerous waters scuba-diving and is one of a small number of people who have dived to view the Titanic wreck.

She has been awarded the National Adventurer of the Year, Honorary Fellowship at Swansea University and was an Ambassador for the 2016 Welsh Government’s Year of Adventure Campaign along with Bear Grylls.

Working in TV, Lowri has worked on a number of productions and is a Bafta and multi-award winning presenter.

She is also the author of the book ‘Beyond Limits’ which is the story of how she has come to do these extraordinary achievements.

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You can find out more about Lowri Morgan

Website: http://lowrimorgan.co.uk

Instagram: @_lowrimorgan

Twitter: @_LowriMorgan

Buy his Book: Beyond Limits

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Are 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 the police after 16 years due to this burnout from stress. He has used his experiences to help others by starting his own coaching practice around resilience.

You can find out more about Zane McCormack and his work

Website: https://theassuredman.com

Instagram: @the_assured_man

Twitter: @ZaneMcCormack_

LinkedIn: Zane McCormack Resilience Coach

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How 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.

As a coach, James offers a course called The Awakened Leader which is a Deep Rest & Resilience Program for Leaders, CEO’s, Executives and Entrepreneurs. He also offers mentoring, 1:1 coaching and deep rest sessions.

James is the co-author of the Book of Rest, published by Harper Collins. The book tells invites us to ‘find calm in a chaotic world’. It describes rest as ‘a doorway to your internal anchor – one that can always be found and remains accessible regardless of external events.'

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You can find out more about James Reeves and his work

Website: https://www.deeprest.com

Instagram: @jamesreevesresting

Twitter: @deeprest_james

Buy his Book: The Book of Rest

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What 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 outside.

Ani has recently been featured in a film called ‘Walking Towards Pain’, by filmmaker Frit Tam. The film shows Ani preparing and completing a walk up Helvellyn in the Lake District. The film opens up to the viewer to Ani’s world of pain, fatigue and other symptoms, both before, during and after the day, which are so often hidden.

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You can find out more about Ani Barber and filmmaker Frit Tam here:

Ani's Instagram: @ani_went_outside

Frit's Instagram: @frit_tam  and @fritfilms

Outside Our Way - Instagram and website

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How 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 room and much prefers to dive in deep talking about the things that are maybe-scary but ultimately so important and healing to talk about.

After going through her own divorce during lockdown with two young children, she also specialises in supporting women emotionally through the divorce process and beyond, including dating and co-parenting

She says her mission is to help women to deepen in their intimacy with their self & others, own their power & their pleasure, and live a joyful life they love.

You can find out more about Lindsey Hall and her coaching 

Website: www.lindseyhallcoaches.com 

Instagram: @lindseyhallcoaches

Facebook: facebook.com/lindseyhallcoaches

YouTube: youtube.com/@lindseyhallcoaches

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Can 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, and both changed and saved her life.

Becca features in the film, The Ice Mile, which is recently available to purchase on Vimeo here, with a portion of the proceeds going towards the charity Beach Access North East.  The film, directed and shot by filmmaker Rachel Sarah, follows Becca’s journey as she trains for her Ice Mile. An Ice Mile is a challenge to swim a mile in water 5 degrees or cooler, with just a swimsuit, hat and googles. It’s something only a few hundred people have ever done. Even fewer people have joined Becca in completing an extreme ice mile, which means being in the water longer than 45 minutes to complete the swim. The film is beautifully shot, and tells the journey of training and completing such an extreme event as well as touching on some of the difficulties Becca has faced in her life.

Follow Becca here: @becca.harvs

Watch The Ice Mile film here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theicemile

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Grab 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 as a two-time TEDx speaker, Dr. Robyne continues to create accessible and relatable materials while offering practical strategies that are realistic and sustainable.

Dr. Robyne and her team have developed innovative programming and open educational resources that are readily shared across a multitude of industries. While working alongside some of the most influential organizations across the world, she has delivered nearly 1,000 keynotes and workshops since just March 2020. Dr. Robyne expands upon this work in her online community Anchor Labs, where leaders can learn strategies for resilience. Dr. Robyne also co-hosts a weekly podcast with Juno-nominated singer and songwriter Peter Katz titled In Time, where the scientist meets the artist to explore big areas around showing up in every aspect of your life.

Dr. Robyne was named a 2022 Nautilus Award recipient with her debut book, Calm Within The Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resiliency. Her second book, Stress Wisely: How to Be Well in an Unwell World was released June 20, 2023.

Website: https://drrobyne.ca/

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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 working with children, adolescents and professionals, with a particular focus on wellbeing, mental health, sexual health and leadership.  

Sue has developed over 25 resources and training that professionals use daily across Ireland and some at an international level.

These include: 

• The Irish Junior Cert Cycle (equivalent to the UK GCSE’s) curriculum on Wellbeing, Mental health and Sexual health. 
• The Manuela Programme – a Sexual Violence Prevention programme funded at the European level being rolled out nationally 
• Child & Youth Participation Strategy, Toolkit and Training for Ireland Social Work, Child and Family Agency’s Tusla’s 4000 staff 
• Gender-Based Violence Prevention Programme for Youth Work Ireland  
• University of Galway’s - Foundation in Youth Leadership & Community Action,  
• A Just Transition to Climate Change Programme for Youth Work Ireland 
• Youth Offending Behaviour, Health & Wellbeing, Youth Leadership, Youth Entrepreneurship for Foroige 
• Leadership Programme’s in the USA and Qatar 
• Sports & Arts programmes and Leadership programmes in Zambia 
• As well as research and strategy development for organisations.

She has a 20-year of practice in meditation (specifically vipassana), she is a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher, Yoga teacher and incorporates Somatic Experiencing and Trauma-informed processes into her work. 

Sue works with individuals and groups around anxiety, depression, sexual health, mental health and sense of meaning, purpose/direction in life to help people heal their past and create their future while living joyfully in the present. She also works at an organisational level around team development, leadership and conflict management. 

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Website: https://www.sueredmond.com/

Instagram: @sueredmondphd

Twitter: @verymessyjamie

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What 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 tool for improving emotional regulation skills and increasing self-awareness, and increasing resilience.

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You can find out more about Rohan Dixit and Lief Therapeutics 

Website: https://getlief.com

Instagram: @getlief

Twitter: @getlief

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With 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 faced and overcome difficult challenges and situations. In Sarah’s capable hands, they share their story, their knowledge and provide advice and inspiration.

Sarah started this in 2014, after leaving a career in banking, and it has grown to be the award winning podcast it is today, with the number of episodes into the hundreds, and downloads into the millions and . She says her mission is to increase the amount of female role models in the media, especially in relation to adventures and big physical challenges. 

​She has completed her own challenges, including running the Marathon des Sables, thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail solo, cycled down the Pacific Coast Highway on a second hand bike, as well as numerous other long distance paths in the UK and beyond.

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You can find out more about Sarah Williams and the Tough Girl Podcast

Website: https://www.toughgirlchallenges.com/

Itunes podcast link: tough-girl-podcast

YouTube:@toughgirlchallenges

Instagram: @toughgirlchallenges

Twitter: @_TOUGH_GIRL

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What 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, but realised that even when working for an organisation that controls the purse strings, the system designed to help people in crisis is fundamentally flawed, and there just wasn’t the scope to do what was needed. So she moved back home to the UK, started to deal with the burnout she’d experienced, and now lives in North Wales with her dog, working part time consulting for various humanitarian NGOs, running a lot of mountain miles, and trying to figure out how to spend more time outdoors and less in front of a computer.

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You can find out more about Tess Elias

Instagram: @tessoutdoors_

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