Resilience Rising Podcast
Hosted by Jen Scotney A podcast that gets curious on all things resilience.
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Friday Oct 06, 2023
Friday Oct 06, 2023
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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You can find out more about Russell and his work
Website: https://www.theresiliencecoach.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theresiliencecoach/
Twitter: @therescoach
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
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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You can find out more about Lizzie Pickering and her work
Website: https://lizziepickering.com
Instagram: @lizzie.pickering
Twitter: @PickeringLizzie
Buy her Book: When Grief Equals Love
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Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
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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You can find out more about Dr Martin Brunet and his work
Instagram: @doc_martin_gp
Twitter: @docmartin68
Website and Buy his Book: https://www.twohousesgp.com
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 15, 2023
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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You can find out more about Belinda Kirk and her work:
Website: http://www.belindakirk.com
Instagram: @explorerbelinda
Twitter: @ExplorerBelinda
Buy her Book: Adventure Revolution
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
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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You can find out more about Ruth Kudzi
Website: https://ruthkudzi.com
Optimus Coach Academy: https://optimuscoachacademy.com
Instagram: @ruthkudzi
Twitter: @ruthkudzicoach
Buy her Book: How to Feel Better
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
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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You can find out more about Lee Craigie
Instagram: @leecraigie_
Twitter: @leecraigie_
Buy her Book: Other Ways To Win
The Adventure Syndicate: http://theadventuresyndicate.com
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Website: www.jenscotney.com
Twitter: @ResilienceRPod
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Email: theresiliencerisingpodcast@gmail.com
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
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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You can follow Jordan Veiga
YouTube: @setthebarproject
Instagram: @jveiga4 and @setthebarproject
Fundraising page: https://gofund.me/71b148ee
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Instagram: @resiliencerisingpodcast
Website: www.jenscotney.com
Twitter: @ResilienceRPod
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Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
"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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You can find out more about Victoria Bennett and her work here:
Website: http://victoriabennett.me
Substack: https://wildwomanlife.substack.com
Instagram: @beewyld
Twitter: @vikbeewyld
Buy her Book: All My Wild Mothers
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
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
Buy her Book: Some Of Us Just Fall
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Website: www.jenscotney.com
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Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
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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You can follow Kate here and find out more about her upcoming memoir
Website: https://katejarmstrong.wordpress.com
Instagram: @katejarmstrong
Twitter: @katejarmstrong
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Instagram: @resiliencerisingpodcast
Website: www.jenscotney.com
Twitter: @ResilienceRPod
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