Resilience Rising Podcast
Hosted by Jen Scotney A podcast that gets curious on all things resilience.
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Friday Apr 19, 2024
Friday Apr 19, 2024
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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You can follow Clare here:
Website: https://clarerutter.com/
Instagram: @clare_rutter.ba.hons
Twitter: @Clare_Rutter
LinkedIn: Clare Rutter
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Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
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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Friday Apr 05, 2024
Friday Apr 05, 2024
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!
Follow Jen Zwinck here:
Website: https://www.widow180.com/
Widow 180 The Podcast: Widow 180 The Podcast
Instagram: @widow_180
YouTube: @widow180
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Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
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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Friday Mar 01, 2024
Friday Mar 01, 2024
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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Friday Feb 23, 2024
Friday Feb 23, 2024
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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Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 09, 2024
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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You can find out more about Alastair Humphreys
Website: https://alastairhumphreys.com
Instagram: @al_humphreys
Buy his Book: Local
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
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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Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
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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Friday Jan 19, 2024
Friday Jan 19, 2024
'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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