Podcasts 2022
Jacqueline or Jack Perez runs a digital platform dedicated to normalising ageing for women through highly curated content and women driven brands. Jack feels that ageism is the last ism left and it's the one we do mostly to ourselves. When we start to look in the mirror at a certain age and don't particularly like what is reflected back to us, then we start to feel ‘less than’ and less valuable. In this podcast:
Jack explains how women can feel ‘less than’ as they get older
The dangers of loneliness and isolation
Why the menopause can be a time of reassessment
Dr Jeff Foote is an acclaimed clinical psychologist, co-founder of the Center for Motivation and Change, and Co-Executive Director of CMC: Foundation for Change with three decades of experience in the addiction treatment field. In his latest book, co-authored with Carrie Wilkens and Ken Carpenter PhD he explains that the most effective way to treat addiction is one of the least utilised: support, kindness, and compassion.JIn this podcast:
Jeff explains the role families can have when helping their loved ones with substance issues
How the ‘Invitation to Change’ programme works
Why Science and Kindness can help people change
Nanci A. Smith, Esq., is an attorney licensed to practice in Vermont and New York. She is the chair of the Collaborative Divorce section of the Vermont Bar Association, a leader in her collaborative divorce practice group, and a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. Nanci frequently writes and talks about divorce, family law, ethics, and collaborative divorce practices and believes that a good divorce is possible when you show up for it with humility, compassion, and the correct support. In this podcast:
Nanci explains how the collaborative divorce process works
Why we need to reposition, reconfigure and take feedback
How to use divorce for personal growth and transformational change.
Dr Dawson Church, PhD, is an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit. He has conducted dozens of clinical trials and founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare to study and implement promising evidence-based psychological and medical techniques. Its largest program, the Veterans Stress Project, has offered free treatment to over 20,000 veterans with PTSD over the past decade. In this podcast:
Dawson explains how temporary states can become traits
The three most effective things you can do to achieve brain remodeling
How meditation can deactivate the default mode network
Martha Aviles is a marketing executive based in Austin, Texas. Her parents were Nicaraguan immigrants who arrived in Miami, Florida in the 1970s. Martha was born and grew up in Miami before moving to southern California and then Austin, Texas in the early 90s where she became involved in high-tech marketing, the career she has pursued for the last twenty years. As the daughter of immigrants and an oldest child, Martha the pressure was on her to blaze a trail for the family in the US! In this podcast:
Martha talks about some of the pressures of being the eldest child in an immigrant family
How what seemed a negative as a child is now a ‘superpower’
What she would tell her ten year old self.
Beth Bell’s soul journey has taken her around the world, from North Dakota to California, New York City, Singapore, India, Bali, and now back in California. She spent over 15 years in strategic brand management in the pharmaceutical industry before becoming an entrepreneur but was willing to look past her hopeful marriage, lovingly restored vintage home and jet setting career to listen to the calling of her soul. In this podcast:
Beth explains the importance of intuitive risk taking
Why we need to unravel the storylines in our mind
How psychedelics have helped her to embody intellectual concepts with her spiritual learning.
Ronni Tichenor has a PhD in sociology, specialising in family studies and her sister Jennie Weaver is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with over 25 years of experience in family practice and mental health. As well as being sisters, they are also survivors who have found a way to emerge from a tragic cycle of intergenerational trauma and abuse and now share their inspiring and hopeful story of healing from their painful upbringing. In this podcast:
How siblings can be treated differently and play 'roles' in emotionally abusive family dynamics
How many children don't fully realise they have been in emotionally abusive relationships until they reach adulthood
How its possible to break the cycle of emotionally abusive relationships and move forward
Jacob Perkins is a 28-year-old speed skier who recently placed in the 2022 FIS World Cup. He relies heavily on his background in manufacturing and engineering for innovation in the sport of speed skiing where not only the athlete, but equipment can be a deciding factor of winning. Every move is calculated and each wreck (which are typically at 100mph, if not faster) proves a learning experience.In this podcast:
Jacob explains exactly what speed skiing is
How he manages the anxiety that comes with skiing at over 100mph
How his speed skiing and engineering careers overlap
Pamela Brinker is a psychotherapist who's been in private practice, more than thirty years, helping those who have loved ones struggling with additions - she understands this first hand as she has family members who are addicts. Pamela can explain that there’s no one size fits all, for recovery, that every situation is different but that love and kindness is needed for all addiction situations. In this podcast:
Why we need compassion when dealing with addicts
The importance of linking the mind and body
What conscious bravery is.
Stephan Wiedner is a psychological safety expert whose career has focused on developing sustainable high performance leaders, teams, and organisations. Stephen’s interest in psychological safety spans twenty years and is based around his interest in psychology, technology and how to bring them together to help people live fulfilling lives and make teams and organisations more sustainable and effective over time. In this podcast:
What psychological safety is and isn’t
The link between psychological safety and respect
Why critical feedback is important
Laura Purdy M.D. is a family medicine physician who served in the United States Army for 14 years across the spectrum of clinical settings where she developed a love for telehealth. Laura believes that virtual care is the future of medicine and her goal is to use her experience and expertise to continue to advocate for the growth and permanence of the telehealth industry, to improve the lives and quality of healthcare for doctors and patients alike. In this podcast:
Laura talks about some of the challenges life in the military can bring
Making he transition from military physician to telehealth entrepreneur
The future of telehealth.
Dr Russell Thackeray has long been fascinated by the subject of Psychological Safety and is particularly interested in how it aligns with Burnout and Resilience. In this podcast originally released in November 2021:
Dr Thackeray discusses what psychological safety is
What it’s all about
What it has to offer us
Some of the different theoretical ideas around psychological safety.
Ryan Larson has been a firefighter in Phoenix, Arizona for twenty-one years. He had some issues when he was growing up but joined the fire explorer programme when he left high school. He feels his experiences as a firefighter helped him to develop a sense of purpose and the skills to become a good leader and advocate and voice for his clients in his second career, the financial services sector, where he also uses his lifelong passion for helping others mitigate risk in the financial services sector. In this podcast:
Ryan talks about the different skills being a firefighter provides
Why you can’t just ‘tuck everything under the bed’
Transitioning from your first career to your second.
Sam LaCrosse is just an ordinary guy from Cleveland, Ohio, who now lives an ordinary life in Austin, Texas. Sam’s approach to living a rich and fulfilling life does not involve slogans or self-esteem dogma. He feels the path to a good life lies in discovering and honoring your own core values. Sam grew up in a family where a constant was the ethos of values and the relationship between value and identity became something he investigated further as he got older. In this podcast:
Sam explains why he decided to write his book
How he defines value
What he thinks truly forms personal identity.
Estelle Giraud is a PhD scientist (population genetics) turned commercial operator and leader in biotech and frontier medicine. Also a mother and woman founder, Estelle has had to navigate the change and challenges that come with this journey. She is deeply excited and scared by the rise of big data in healthcare and wellness and believes people don’t neatly fit in single boxes, and some of the most interesting insights about people and the world come from the unplanned intersections. In this podcast:
Why we need to own our own health journey
How our health data can empower and serve us
Why our health journey needs to be holistic.
David Richman is an author, public speaker, philanthropist, and endurance athlete whose mission is to form more meaningful human connections through storytelling. A former sedentary, over-weight, smoker, David knew that he needed to focus not on what others wanted out of him, but on what he wanted out of life. Through lessons learned in business and sport, he introduces the concept of the “middle of the pack” and discusses how to get more out of ourselves than ever imagined. In this podcast:
David talks about the importance of living on purpose
How making one change can provide focus and purpose in other areas of life
Why sometimes its enough just to be ourselves.
Dr Ronald A. Alexander, PhD, is a psychotherapist, a mindfulness trainer and a creativity, business and leadership coach. He has a private psychotherapy and executive coaching practice and is the executive director of the OpenMind® Training Program that offers personal and professional training programs in mindfulness-based mind-body therapies, transformational leadership and meditation. In this podcast:
Dr Alexander explains what Core Creativity is and how we can access it.
Why mindfulness is important to accessing creativity
How core creativity and intuitive wisdom and knowledge can be accessed in an open mind state.
Lori Saitz is the CEO of Zen Rabbit, an award-winning writer, speaker, and broadcaster, and a nationally recognised expert in using gratitude and meditation to manifest goals faster. The most difficult thing she’s ever done is leave a 22-year marriage and that experience inspired her transformation. She’s now on a mission to guide Gen-Xers to a place of unprecedented passion, clarity, peace, and to rediscover their purpose so they can get back to a place of liking themselves and their lives again. In this podcast:
Lori explains how meditation helps you become more focused and productive so can ‘buy’ yourself time.
Why meditation enhances creativity and emotional intelligence
How gratitude can reprogramme your brain by strengthening your neural pathways.
Jennifer Fraser returns for a second podcast to delve further into The Bullied Brain. Bullying and abuse is so seeped in our culture that we’ve come to normalise this behaviour and Jennifer talks about not only how to survive bullying, but how to push back against the entrenched role it plays in society. In this podcast:
Jennifer talks about neuroscience surrounding bullying
How to deal with ‘mind bullies’
Why we need to ‘unlearn and rewire’
Carrington Smith spent a lifetime trying to be someone else - to fit in, to be loved, to keep the peace, and to make others happy. Finally though she discovered that her own path to happiness wasn’t based on fitting in but on standing out - celebrating her uniqueness and owning her past. On her journey to self-acceptance, she learned the power of perspective and began to thrive when she changed her mindset. In this podcast:
Carrington talks about not being defined by past events
Changing the focus from what’s lost to whats gained
Why a lack of authenticity and vulnerability can be a red flag.
Machiel Klerk is a licensed therapist and expert on dreams . He says that although everyone dreams, most people don’t know that their dreams can be used for personal development. He provides practical information on how to create the life you want by cultivating a relationship with your own dreams - by taking the guidance you receive from your subconscious. They key is to ask the right question, keep your mind open and your dream will provide the answer. In this podcast:
Machiel explains what a dream is
How dreams can offer creative solutions
Why we need to engage with recurring dreams.
Revanti “Rani” Puranik is co-owner, EVP and Global CFO of Houston-based Worldwide Oilfield Machine (WOM) and has been named one of the “Top 25 Most Influential Women in Energy 2022” by Oil and Gas Investor and Hart Energy. Currently, she also serves as the chairwoman of the Puranik Foundation located in Pune, India, a nonprofit that provides educational opportunities for under-resourced children in India and operates as a private residential school called the Vision International Learning Center. In this podcast:
Rani explains the ‘earn and return’ philosophy of her family
How you can wrap meaning into work and achieve financial goals whilst having a purpose
Rani’s 4 stages of leadership.
Jim Blake is the CEO of Unity World Headquarters, a spiritual nonprofit founded in 1889 in Kansas City, Missouri. It helps people of all faiths and cultures apply positive spiritual principles in their daily lives. Jim has more than 20 years of executive leadership experience with some of the fastest growing and most innovative companies in North America, including information technology, operations, and product development in the legal, financial, nonprofit, utility, and manufacturing industries. In this podcast:
Jim explains why and how we need to bring our whole self to work
How we can combine our spiritual and work lives
Why company values should be part of the performance management system.
Jennifer Villamil is an advertising executive by trade and a published author and podcast host by passion. She wrote her first book, "What a Year, a COVID Journal" as a way to document moving her wedding multiple times and reevaluating her life during the pandemic. This inspired the launch of the My Almost Midlife Crisis Podcast ias a way to come to terms with approaching middle age and all the emotions that come with it. In this podcast:
Jennifer explains why a midlife crisis can be a time for positive change that is exciting and interesting
How the pandemic caused many people to have a midlife crisis
Why its essential to take the time to self-reflect and understand the need for change.
Lauren Walker has taught yoga and meditation since 1997 and created Energy Medicine Yoga which she now teaches across the US and internationally. (EMYoga) is a combination of energy work and yoga and draws on two powers everyone has - energy and the mind. Along with easy to replicate yoga poses and simple breathing practices, EMYoga offers a tool based on Chinese medicine’s Five Element Theory which acts as a compass for calming any of the five main difficult emotional responses event - fear, anger, anxiety, worry and grief. In this podcast:
Lauren explains what Energy Medicine and Energy Medicine Yoga is
How Energy Medicine Yoga helps with stress and trauma
Why our energy needs to be in balance.
Craig Archibald is an acting coach in California who works with actors at all levels in their careers. He got involved in the theatre when he was 11 years old and became a professional actor when he was 15. He worked at the Royal National Theatre in London and New York’s Neighbourhood Playhouse studying the Stanislavski method of acting and then had a twenty-year acting career before realising he also had another set of skills, those of writing, producing and coaching. In his mid 40s he moved from Manhattan to Malibu and set up a west coast version of his New York coaching operation where over the last 12 -15 years he has worked with young artists to get their careers on the road as well as working with people higher in the industry. In this podcast:
Craig explains why perfection is not needed - 95% is good enough
How actors create roles and ‘live truthfully under imaginary circumstances’
Why actors need resilience, integrity and authenticity.
Amy Eliza Wong is a certified executive coach who has devoted more than 20 years to the study and practice of helping others live and lead on purpose and the study and practice of transformation. As a certified Executive Coach using expertise in transpersonal psychology, design thinking, interpersonal neurobiology, and conversational intelligence, Amy has provided thousands of transformative experiences for individuals, executives, teams, and organisations. In this podcast:
Amy talks about the link between resilience and growth
Why we need to ‘feel it out’ rather than ‘figure it out’
How to make the choice that truly serves us.
Robert Verhelst has established himself as an inspiring voice for following and defining your passion, then putting it to action. His own life experiences range from performing 8 days of search and recovery after the September 11th attacks to being a 15 year career firefighter in Madison, Wisconsin to having served in the United States Air Force. In 2015, he became the Guinness World Record Holder for Most Ironman 70.3 Triathlons in one year, while inspiring tens of thousands by doing each run portion in his fire gear. He is known as a dynamic storyteller with an inspirational voice, on the courage to lead your life. In this podcast:
Rob talks about what doing search and recovery at 9/11 taught him
Why we all need a mental health toolbox
How the challenges of Ironman impacted on him.
Jennifer Fraser best-selling author and award-winning educator, has a PhD in Comparative Literature. Her online courses and workshops provide dynamic lessons in the impact neuroscience has on personal development and culture change. Bullying and abuse is so seeped in our culture that we’ve come to normalise this behavior. Jennifer shares not only how to survive bullying, but how to push back against the entrenched role it plays in society. In this podcast:
Jennifer talks about the role culture plays in bullying
Why we don’t pay attention to our brain
How we can retrain our brain to move on from childhood beliefs
Sam Syed is co-founder, CFO and COO at Capsll App. After almost two decades of experience in the financial industry he is excited to be making a difference in people’s lives by utilising the Capsll App and helping them preserve memories of their legacy. In joining the Capsll team, Sam is “coming home” and excited to be working for the purpose-driven company, a place where users can gather their once-scattered memories into digital time capsules that can be shared privately with full user control. In this podcast:
Sam talks about how the problems he faced as a child helped him build his resilience.
The challenge of building a successful financial career in Dubai and New York
How he combined his passion for history and philosophy with the lessons from his childhood in the Capsll App.
Matthew Fox is a spiritual theologian, an Episcopal priest and an activist for gender, racial and eco- justice. As founder of the University of Creation Spirituality in California and The Cosmic Mass, he conducts dozens of workshops each year and is a visiting scholar at the Academy for the Love of Learning. He is the recipient of many awards including: The Abbey Courage of Conscience Peace Award. In this podcast:
Matthew explains the difference between religion and spirtuality
How Justice, Joy and Compassion are the ultimate drivers for our journey
Why we need a massive investment of talent and discipline in our inner lives.
DDS Dobson-Smith is a licensed therapist, author, executive coach, speaker on leadership and growth, Reiki master nd Founder and CEO of SoulTrained, an executive coaching and leadership growth consultancy. Providing valuable insights and data, they can address what inclusive policies, practices and behaviors within the organisational infrastructure lead to a culture of belonging and how the key takeaways from the psychology of belonging inform how to impact workplace performance. In this podcast:
DDS discusses how diversity and inclusion create belonging
Why Attachment Theory provides the basis for our work relationships
The role of belonging in the Great Resignation.
The first Africa Family Business Summit (AFBS) will be held on Friday June 24th 2022, at the Kempinski Hotel, Gold Coast City, Accra with Dr Russell Thackeray being one of the speakers. The aim of the AFBS is to bring together family business practioners and help them to build a network that will allow them to share information and insights amongst themselves. The audience will be made up of family business owners and senior management, the next generations of their families and other key stakeholders in family businesses.
The AFBS is a hybrid conference with virtual and face to face attendance.
Michelle Kuei is a certified confidence and leadership coach who works with negative self-talkers to discover inner strength and beauty by overcoming the fear of judgments. Michelle was permanently disabled as a result of a hit and run car accident when she was 11 years old. Growing up in a society and culture where beauty is weighted heavily on appearance, the stories that she was telling herself were harsh, brutal, and cruel. Her story is one of courage, determination, and vulnerability but more importantly, it is about having the confidence to face fear in everyday life. In this podcast:
Michelle explains how she reached self-acceptance and validation
Redefining perfection
The process of becoming and unbecoming
Dr Stephen Sideroff is an internationally recognised psychologist, executive and medical consultant and expert in resilience, optimal performance, addiction, neurofeedback, and leadership. He has published pioneering research and is a professor at UCLA in the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and the Department of Rheumatology. He has also helped establish innovative training and treatment approaches in optimal functioning, mind/body medicine and attention deficit disorder in the US, China, and Europe and conducted cutting edge research in brain and behavior. In this podcast:
Dr Sideroff explains how challenge fuels resilience
What his nine pillars of resilience are
The factors that interfere with our adaptability
Sallie Wagner is a speaker, author, lawyer, real estate broker and instructor, and life coach. Sallie’s signature coaching program is REBOOT Your Thinking: How to Install and Uninstall Mind Apps. This comprehensive program guides you to achieve life-altering, mind-bending results, as you identify and get rid of Mind Apps (paradigms) so you can move forward with the life you choose and create for yourself! In this podcast:
Sallie explains the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
How resilience can help us to move on from the ‘what ifs’ and the ‘if only’.
Why we need a process to create success
Rob Swymer has gone through his share of adversity in life - the unexpected death of a beloved partner, substance abuse, depression and other family challenges - but Rob can demonstrate that whatever adversities we may encounter, they don’t have to be permanent setbacks. Rob is also a seasoned sales executive of over 40 years who embodies a servant leadership mindset. He applies the lessons learned from his adversity to help others build resilience and thrive, not only in business, but in their personal lives as well. In this podcast:
Rob talks about how our internal voice influences our thoughts, beliefs and actions
How he applied the lessons he learned from his adversity
The link between authenticity, vulnerability and adversity
Jane Shaw is a highly skilled Learning and Development consultant with real business and management experience, a qualified trainer and executive coach committed to increasing organisational capability and improving performance. One of the things she looks at in detail is time management and the idea that to manage time effectively, you have to better understand yourself and place the focus on the psyche of the individual rather than the tasks themselves. In this podcast:
Jane talks about time management post-pandemic
How we manage ourselves
Why being busy could be the new norm.
Michele Capots suffered from clinical depression in her 20s, and later, a bipolar I diagnosis, caused her to lose all self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth. She felt defined by her illness and worried what it meant for the rest of her life. But what she found through the use of practical mental wellness tools is that the experience didn't define her at all, but instead empowered her to work with others so that they can regain their self-confidence and discover the power of resilience, despite the obstacles holding them back. In this podcast
Michele explains the difference between mental health and mental wellness
Why ‘running towards the cannon’ helped her with self-acceptance
Dealing with the problem of self-stigma.
Kevin Roth began to play the dulcimer at the age of thirteen and at sixteen recorded his first album which launched him into international fame. Between 1974 and 1984 he recorded ten albums and established himself as a prominent folk singer and dulcimer player. His career took him around the world, to festivals, radio, television shows, and two appearances at the White House. Then a sudden diagnosis of Melanoma changed his life and he discovered how to not just survive but to become truly happy and thrive. In this podcast:
Kevin explains how we create stories every day
How music teaches resilience
How when we change the way we look at things the things we look at change
Lara Sabanosh for a time, lived overseas in Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), where she was an education service facilitator at the Fleet and Family Support Center. Her husband Christopher Tur, a civilian worker at Guantanamo Bay’s Naval Base, went missing and, when his body was found, Lara was left to deal with the aftermath of what took place and the events leading up to it which forced her to examine more than twenty years of abuse and the denial and deceits that occur in all households subjected to domestic violence. In this podcast:
Lara talks about how the stronger the ties to her husband became, the more she lost herself
Why she stayed in an abusive relationship
Why domestic violence is not a new issue in the military
Rob Dubin was an award winning filmaker who by his mid twenties owned his own film production company making travel and adventure flms for television networks and Fortune 500 companies. After a survival experience that made international news Rob decided to change direction. At age 42 he and his wife sold their home and moved aboard a 40’ sailboat. Their goal was simply to be happy. What followed was a 25 year long research project on human happiness and fulfllment. In this podcast:
The two post pandemic paradigm shifts
Why we should LIVE HAPPY
Why happiness is a state and a skill
Paola Knecht is a certified leadership, transformational, and self-development coach with insight from 15 years of work in leading-edge global corporations, including Viatris and Syngenta. She is dedicated to helping people transform their professional and personal lives and feels many of us are rushing through the years and living a life we didn’t consciously design but that we each have the power to “hit reset,” shift our mindset, and create a meaningful life that’s right for us, not others. In this podcast:
Paola talks about how success looks for different people
Why we need to have a vision for ourselves
How to grow resilience by stopping ‘people pleasing’
Clint Davis is an entrepreneur with a passion for storytelling and preserving the past. A cancer survivor who lost two siblings at a young age, Clint has always had a keen awareness of the importance of remembering the past, while also making the most of the present moment. He now empowers others to save their histories and pass on their legacies. In this podcast:
Clint talks about how moving gives you the opportunity to reinvent yourself
Why failure needs to be factored in
Why holding on to your past is important.
Rosie Mankes is a life coach, motivational speaker, and author of Find Your Joy and Run With It, a memoir about overcoming her second battle with cancer, the transitioning of her mother into an assisted living facility, and the unexpected loss of her brother, all within one year. Rosie talks about how her identity as a secret comedian helped her come out of adversity happier and stronger and how humour was one of the healthiest coping mechanisms for her. In this podcast:
Rosie explains how she managed to find joy in everyday living again
How making a number a small changes can work better than ‘big picture’ thinking
Why you need to define what makes you happy
Karen Liebenguth is an accredited mindfulness teacher, certified coach, mentor and facilitator. She is also the founder of Green Space Coaching and a life and executive coach, eco-therapist and mindfulness trainer. She was one of the first people in the UK to start coaching while walking in nature after finding that both she and her clients get far better results outside rather than sitting indoors. In this podcast:
Karen explains why she became interested in coaching in nature
The benefits of being in nature
Why we need to experience mindfulness for ourselves
Dr Alex Hershaft was just 5 years old when the Nazis invaded his homeland of Poland. He and his family were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto but he survived and after escaping Nazi persecution and immigrating to the USA, he worked as an environmental consultant. In 1972, a routine inventory of a Midwest slaughterhouse changed the course of his life. He is now the President and founder of Farm Animals Right Movement (FARM), an international nonprofit working to end the use of animals for food. In this podcast:
Alex talks about existing and surviving in the Warsaw Ghetto
How his experiences shaped his empathy towards animals
How the vegetarian and vegan movement is developing.
Lisa Broderick has worked with entrepreneurs and established companies to create lives of presence and purpose for four decades. Her approach of integrating science with metaphysics and her own personal experiences to help others with little or no scientific or spiritual training master their innate abilities with practices designed to improve their lives, their relationships, and how the world sees them. In this podcast:
Lisa talks about how it’s possible to slow down time
The science behind ‘All the time in the world’
Controlling the perception of time
Arman Vestad spent a lot of his time on the run. Through a series of poor life choices and unfortunate circumstances, he found himself dealing drugs and engaging in other criminal activity. After leaving prison for the 10th time, it wasn’t long until Arman found himself under arrest once again. This time, however, a policeman on the case sat down with him and asked what he could do to help. He showed that he cared, and those few moments changed the course of Arman’s life forever. In this podcast:
Arman talks about the importance of young people having boundaries and limits
The power of community
How one person can turn someones life around
Veronica Valli struggled with alcoholism through most of her twenties. A binge drinker, she was aware for some time that something was wrong but was unable to define what it was however a chance meeting led to her finally getting help and turning her life around. At the height of her addiction, Veronica was unable to go to work without the aid of a drink and her life and confidence were in tatters. She got sober in 2000 at the age of twenty-seven and now uses this experience to help and inspire others. In this podcast:
Veronica talks about the signs that someone might be struggling with alcohol
How alcohol affects the genders differently
The importance of connection and community.
Jonathan Joseph has overcome an array of obstacles. From abandonment as a baby on the doorstep of a Colombian orphanage in the 80’s. Dealing with Ataxic Cerebral Palsy and ADHD and then the loss of his mother to a decades long battle with breast cancer when he was just 19. He turned his pain into his passions and has dedicated his life to leaving this world a little better than he found it. In this podcast:
Jonathan explains how his Cerebral Palsy started his interest in fashion
Why there needs to be a healthy relationship between fashion and children
The empowerment that fashion can bring
Kathryn Ford has been practicing psychotherapy for over 20 years She received her M.D. from Brown University Medical School and did her psychiatry residency at The Stanford School of Medicine. She now specialises in work with couples and other relationships and guides them in staying in the present moment which, she feels is the key to a successful relationship. In this podcast:
Kathryn explains why learning is essential to relationships
How relationships have different phases and can grow and change
Why the type of conversation we have is important.
Dr Russell Thackeray muses on the recent arrival of 2022 and suggests some ideas to make the most of the year. He focuses some thoughts on the nature of resolutions as opposed to goals and challenges us to think more creatively about where and why we are aiming, as people often understate their long term ambitions. In this podcast:
Dr Thackeray puts forward his thoughts around choices and the nature of willpower
Considers whether willpower depletes along the lines of decision fatigue, or whether it’s more of a belief system
Asks whether we should think choices rather than rules