Resilience Rising Podcast
Hosted by Jen Scotney A podcast that gets curious on all things resilience.
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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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Twitter: @ResilienceRPod
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Email: theresiliencerisingpodcast@gmail.com
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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Instagram: @resiliencerisingpodcast
Website: www.jenscotney.com
Twitter: @ResilienceRPod
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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
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Friday Jun 02, 2023
Friday Jun 02, 2023
How can our sense of self lead to resilience? Where does pleasure fit in? How can we be more resilient in relationship breakups?
Lindsey Hall is an Intimacy and Empowerment Coach.
She spent 12 years in the world of corporate accounting where listening to intuition and prioritising pleasure were not exactly encouraged, but now she is passionate about helping women bring more pleasure to their daily lives and peeling back the layers of shame and social conditioning that prevent us from living our fully empowered lives. She says she hates small talk and elephants in the room and much prefers to dive in deep talking about the things that are maybe-scary but ultimately so important and healing to talk about.
After going through her own divorce during lockdown with two young children, she also specialises in supporting women emotionally through the divorce process and beyond, including dating and co-parenting
She says her mission is to help women to deepen in their intimacy with their self & others, own their power & their pleasure, and live a joyful life they love.
You can find out more about Lindsey Hall and her coaching
Website: www.lindseyhallcoaches.com
Instagram: @lindseyhallcoaches
Facebook: facebook.com/lindseyhallcoaches
YouTube: youtube.com/@lindseyhallcoaches
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Friday May 26, 2023
Friday May 26, 2023
Can choosing to put ourselves in hard situations, such as getting in cold water, prepare us for the hard uncomfortable situations in life?
Becca Harvey believes so. Becca is an outdoor swim guide based in the North East. She started swimming outdoors one January when she saw a documentary on people using cold water to treat depression. At the time she was dealing with complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and had not found any conventional treatments effective for her. She was desperate to try anything. Getting into the cold water was one thing that helped her, and both changed and saved her life.
Becca features in the film, The Ice Mile, which is recently available to purchase on Vimeo here, with a portion of the proceeds going towards the charity Beach Access North East. The film, directed and shot by filmmaker Rachel Sarah, follows Becca’s journey as she trains for her Ice Mile. An Ice Mile is a challenge to swim a mile in water 5 degrees or cooler, with just a swimsuit, hat and googles. It’s something only a few hundred people have ever done. Even fewer people have joined Becca in completing an extreme ice mile, which means being in the water longer than 45 minutes to complete the swim. The film is beautifully shot, and tells the journey of training and completing such an extreme event as well as touching on some of the difficulties Becca has faced in her life.
Follow Becca here: @becca.harvs
Watch The Ice Mile film here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theicemile
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
Find us at:
Instagram: @resiliencerisingpodcast
Website: www.jenscotney.com
Twitter: @ResilienceRPod
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Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
Are children resilient? How can we equip young people, and adults, with the tools to live a happy and resilient life? How do we get past traumatic events and childhoods?Dr Sue Redmond Mindfulness-Based Trauma Informed Coach and Child & Adolescent Development Specialist. She has a keen interest in resilience and has a PhD in Leadership, Resilience and Social Support.
She develops resources and training for professionals particularly social workers, youth workers and teachers to equip them with the skills to change children and young people’s lives for the better. She has over 20 years experience of working with children, adolescents and professionals, with a particular focus on wellbeing, mental health, sexual health and leadership.
Sue has developed over 25 resources and training that professionals use daily across Ireland and some at an international level.
These include:
The Irish Junior Cert Cycle (equivalent to the UK GCSE’s) curriculum on Wellbeing, Mental health and Sexual health.
The Manuela Programme – a Sexual Violence Prevention programme funded at the European level being rolled out nationally
Child & Youth Participation Strategy, Toolkit and Training for Ireland Social Work, Child and Family Agency’s Tusla’s 4000 staff
Gender-Based Violence Prevention Programme for Youth Work Ireland
University of Galway’s - Foundation in Youth Leadership & Community Action,
A Just Transition to Climate Change Programme for Youth Work Ireland
Youth Offending Behaviour, Health & Wellbeing, Youth Leadership, Youth Entrepreneurship for Foroige
Leadership Programme’s in the USA and Qatar
Sports & Arts programmes and Leadership programmes in Zambia
As well as research and strategy development for organisations.
She has a 20-year of practice in meditation (specifically vipassana), she is a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher, Yoga teacher and incorporates Somatic Experiencing and Trauma-informed processes into her work.
Sue works with individuals and groups around anxiety, depression, sexual health, mental health and sense of meaning, purpose/direction in life to help people heal their past and create their future while living joyfully in the present. She also works at an organisational level around team development, leadership and conflict management.
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You can find out more about Dr Sue Redmond and her work
Website: https://www.sueredmond.com/
Instagram: @sueredmondphd
Twitter: @verymessyjamie
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Email: theresiliencerisingpodcast@gmail.com
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
What does neuroscience have to inform us about resilience? Can we use biofeedback to increase resilience? What practices does science show can help emotional regulation and increase HRV?
Today we hear from Rohan Dixit who is a neuroscientist, who studied how meditation changes the brain at Harvard and Standford universities. He has also learnt and researched on meditation among monks in the Himalayas
He is the founder of Lief Therapeutics, where he’s developed a wearable device which provides Heart Rate Variability (HRV) biofeedback. He talks to us about using this biofeedback as a powerful tool for improving emotional regulation skills and increasing self-awareness, and increasing resilience.
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You can find out more about Rohan Dixit and Lief Therapeutics
Website: https://getlief.com
Instagram: @getlief
Twitter: @getlief
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
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Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
With over eight years experience of interviewing the world's toughest and successful female adventurers, as well as completing challenges of her own, I thought Sarah Williams would have a lot to teach us about resilience! How do we mentally prepare for the difficult times? What has she learnt from recording 700+ episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast?
Sarah Williams is an adventurer, vlogger and founder of the Tough Girl Podcast, and tough girl challenges and tribe.
The Tough Girl Podcast is an award winning podcast, featuring interviews with inspirational women from around the world, who’ve faced and overcome difficult challenges and situations. In Sarah’s capable hands, they share their story, their knowledge and provide advice and inspiration.
Sarah started this in 2014, after leaving a career in banking, and it has grown to be the award winning podcast it is today, with the number of episodes into the hundreds, and downloads into the millions and . She says her mission is to increase the amount of female role models in the media, especially in relation to adventures and big physical challenges.
She has completed her own challenges, including running the Marathon des Sables, thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail solo, cycled down the Pacific Coast Highway on a second hand bike, as well as numerous other long distance paths in the UK and beyond.
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You can find out more about Sarah Williams and the Tough Girl Podcast
Website: https://www.toughgirlchallenges.com/
Itunes podcast link: tough-girl-podcast
YouTube:@toughgirlchallenges
Instagram: @toughgirlchallenges
Twitter: @_TOUGH_GIRL
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
Find us at:
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Twitter: @ResilienceRPod
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Email: theresiliencerisingpodcast@gmail.com
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
What can we learn about resilience from humans displaced in refugee camps? How do humanitarian aid workers cope with their work? What is resilience programming for communities and does it work?
These are all questions I ask Tess Elias on this episode.
Tess spent the best part of a decade working in humanitarian emergency responses, both in refugee settings and in conflict situations, ranging from Afghanistan to Tanzania to Bangladesh. She started out working in medical logistics, and eventually moved into general management for international charities. She also worked for the EU for a year, but realised that even when working for an organisation that controls the purse strings, the system designed to help people in crisis is fundamentally flawed, and there just wasn’t the scope to do what was needed. So she moved back home to the UK, started to deal with the burnout she’d experienced, and now lives in North Wales with her dog, working part time consulting for various humanitarian NGOs, running a lot of mountain miles, and trying to figure out how to spend more time outdoors and less in front of a computer.
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You can find out more about Tess Elias
Instagram: @tessoutdoors_
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Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney @jenscotney
Find us at:
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Twitter: @ResilienceRPod
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