Resilience Rising Podcast
Hosted by Jen Scotney A podcast that gets curious on all things resilience.
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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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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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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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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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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
Sign up for updates on his book: Vertebrate Sign Up
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
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Back next week with Episode 24
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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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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