Resilience Rising Podcast
Hosted by Jen Scotney A podcast that gets curious on all things resilience.
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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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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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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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Friday Jul 21, 2023
Friday Jul 21, 2023
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
Twitter: @FellFoodie
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Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Link for the Substack: @jenscotney1
Back next week with Episode 24
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Friday Jul 07, 2023
Friday Jul 07, 2023
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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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Friday Jun 30, 2023
Friday Jun 30, 2023
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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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Friday Jun 23, 2023
Friday Jun 23, 2023
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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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Friday Jun 16, 2023
Friday Jun 16, 2023
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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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
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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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
Find us at:
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