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This episode with Emma Sinclair, lecturer in early years, is 7th in our series on how to thrive this coming Covid winter. We know winter can be tough at the best of times let alone during a global pandemic, but mindset is everything.

Suzy has rounded up a gaggle of inspirational winter-lovers to help you creatively reframe winter! Emma will get you thinking differently about how winter is a great parenting opportunity with all its offers to build your child's resilience, as well as give them valuable skills while they don't feel like they're learning or, more importantly, being 'taught at'. She'll also help you to get out on those wintry days as you are faced with tearing you child (perhaps) away from a screen.

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This episode with Federica Stefani, newspaper reporter with a specialism in whisky, is 6th in our series on how to thrive this coming Covid winter. We know winter can be tough at the best of times let alone during a global pandemic, but mindset is everything.

Suzy has rounded up a gaggle of inspirational winter-lovers to help you creatively reframe winter! Federica will surprise and delight you with her way of thinking about the traditional winter warming tipple that is whisky. This fun, passionate 27 year old Italian living in (and loving) the highlands will definitely help you think differently.

The way she describes whisky tasting is like a voyage of discovery which is full of sensations and experiences – and there's absolutely no 'rules' when it comes to her way of enjoying it.

You can also find Federica blogging at maltingpotblog.com.

So, this winter, why not go on a winter voyage of discovery into the whisky waters?

For more wintspiration and get to hold of your free poster with handy winter mindset reminders, go to www.bigjuicycreative.co.uk

You can follow host Suzy Bashford and her random acts of creative living on Instagram (@bigjuicycreativeliving) and Facebook (@bigjuicycreativeliving) and LinkedIn (@suzybashford)

This episode with Beachbody & Clubbercize coach, Louize Macklin, is the fifth in our series on how to thrive this coming Covid winter. We know winter can be tough at the best of times let alone during a global pandemic, but mindset is everything.

Suzy has rounded up a gaggle of inspirational winter-lovers and Louize will definitely help you get into a big, juicy exercise routine. She is full of enthusiasm and positive vibes and is a huge inspiration and encouragement to those that are lucky enough to be part of her fitness tribe.

Louize – come rain, shine, snow or sleet – gets up at 5am to work out and walk in nature. Listen to this episode and you may find yourself inspired to set your alarm for that time too as she shares her tips and hacks for getting in the mindset to find, and keep, your morning movement mojo.

This episode with founder of swim adventure company Swim Wild, Alice Goodridge, is the fourth in our series on how to thrive this coming Covid winter. We know winter can be tough at the best of times let alone during a global pandemic, but mindset is everything.

Suzy has rounded up a gaggle of inspirational winter-lovers to help us through. Alice is a formidable force in the wild swimming world; she's completed solo channel swims, set up international winter swimming competitions and other events and regularly appears on TV talking about her passion.

One of the main things Alice loves about wild swimming is how it resets her mindset and shows her she can do hard things - which sets her up for any challenges coming in her day or life ahead. So, a very good sport to take up this tricky winter - not to mention all the other associated health benefits to do with relieving aches and pains and burning calories!

Listen to this episode and you'll be so intrigued that you'll want to jump into your swimming costume and plunge into the coldest body of water you can find! Preferably wielding, as she does, a sledgehammer to break the ice covering it!

But don't worry, as well as lots of inspiration, she also has some safety tips for you, too.

This episode with anaesthetist and hardcore amateur athlete Tash Pirie-Burley is the third in our series on how to thrive this coming Covid winter. We know winter can be tough at the best of times let alone during a global pandemic, but mindset is everything.

Suzy has rounded up a gaggle of inspirational winter-lovers and Tash will definitely help you get into a big, juicy mindset with her endless practical ideas of things to do, but also her inventive creative reframes about how to think differently about winter. Her energy and enthusiasm and grateful perspective on life and how to look at it is infectious; so let's spread and pass this on, this winter!

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This episode with guest Cairngorms National Park ranger & wildlife guide Duncan Macdonald is the second in our series on how to thrive this coming Covid winter. We know winter can be tough at the best of times, let alone during a global pandemic, but mindset is everything.

Suzy has rounded up a gaggle of inspirational winter-lovers and Duncan will definitely help you get into a big, juicy mindset with his poetic descriptions of winter and all the opportunities it holds. He's also full of practical tips for wildlife spotting, and supporting, during these tough winter months, as well as suggestions for how to get the best out of a night walk and - at the same time - using winter to let go of the need to control; something we could all benefit from in these out-of-control Covid times.

This episode with guest Olympian Lesley McKenna kicks off our series on How to Thrive this coming Covid winter. We know winter can be tough at the best of times, let alone during a global pandemic, but mindset is everything. So to give you the best chance of having a big, juicy winter rather than a winter of discontent, Suzy has rounded up a gaggle of inspirational winter-lovers full of tips to ensure you fall into the former camp, not the latter.

The first is the awesome, inspiring Lesley McKenna. She has competed in 3 Winter Olympics for snowboarding and she now coaches the coaches to motivate their teams by getting into a good mindset.

In this episode she'll help you use nature to your advantage at this time of year - whether it's the wind, rain, snow or storms - all of them can be used to build your resilience so you, err, spring into spring! You'll also hear how you can tap into stories to help motivate you and get into a great mindset, too.

If you want to feel better about welcoming winter - even if you are someone who dreads the dark and cold - then definitely listen to Lesley's words of wisdom. You'll be itching to get out into the elements afterwards (just don't forget your neck warmer).

Please share this with anyone you know that may be dreading winter and look out for the daily episodes over the next 2 weeks bringing winter joy into your eardrums. And please subscribe, rate and review so more people can have the chance of a big, juicy winter!

Are you dreading this coming Covid winter? Don't. Big Juicy Creative podcast has your back.

Suzy has created a special mini-podcast series to get you through (at least) the first two weeks of 'misery month' November. All the research shows that your mindset is key to your winter wellbeing, so this episode will help you creatively reframe winter, so you are looking forward to it.

Suzy is surrounded by people in the Cairngorms, in the Scottish Highlands, who love winter and know how to thrive through it.

So she's interviewed them on their area of expertise for this series - there's experts on parenting, Olympic resilience, wildlife, astronomy, rivers, psychology, hypnotherapy, wild swimming, adventure, photography, exercise, whisky...

She created the series to give the nation a collective lift at this tricky time but - happily - through making it has transformed her whole attitude towards winter too. In this episode she sums up some key learnings she's got from making the series and (hopefully) inspires you to download the first episode of the series - an interview with triple Olympian Lesley McKenna - this Sunday 1st November.

Suzy, here, does her very best to persuade you to take time out of your busy schedule to go and have a playdate with yourself. Yes, just yourself. Ditch the dog / husband / kids / friends/day job (OK... you can take the dog!). And she explains why this is so valuable and so good for feeding our creative souls, so we can live bigger and juicier.

She gives you ways to allow yourself permission for these playdates and plenty of ideas for what you could do to enliven your life, and your creativity.

She also gives you the heads-up on the forthcoming 'thrive through winter series' which kicks off on November 1st.

Lucy Sheridan is the world's only comparison coach; she helps people go from 'compare and despair' to comparison free in their life and business. She's also just published a book called the Comparison Cure.

One of those lucky people was me: I worked with her on a freelance journalism piece, on improving self worth, for the brilliant Psychologies magazine. Lucy quickly identified that I'd become overly concerned with other people's opinions – ie crippled by comparisonitis - and in the process lost touch with who I really was.

The key to getting me out of this crippling comparisonitis was expressing myself. This conversation goes in deep on why creativity, and finding your unique voice, is such a powerful way to avoid comparing and despairing when you look at others' lives; which we can't avoid today with social media

Lucy talks about how, instead of letting comparisonitis kill our creativity as it so often can, we can use creativity as a tool to kill comparisonitis and shows us how. If you ever suffer from comparing yourself unfavourably to others, please listen to this as her words are so helpful!

She also made me feel so much better about going into this winter – which is her favourite time.

If you need help looking forward to winter, this episode is for you.

We had such fun recording this and there was much hand waving and belly laughing - huge apologies for the fact that at a couple of (small) parts the sound goes quiet so you'll need to whack it up.

References:

Lucy Sheridan

http://www.proofcoaching.com

The Comparison Cure

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