Matt Cowdroy is a Productivity Ninja and the owner of Think Productive Australia. Having spent the first 20 years of working life in the corporate world, Matt has first hand knowledge and experience to understand the pressures faced in todays fast-paced environment. Matt's formal qualifications are in Business and Marketing. He is passionate about people - understanding what motivates them, their wants and their needs. He also has qualifications in Yogic Studies and Meditation. This provides a broad perspective when discussing productivity, stress management, mindfulness and working life. Matt's style has been described as "Engaging and present", "Professional yet relaxed", "Confident but not cocky". In 2014 Matt was managing the North Asia region for a market leading Australian Health and Wellness business. At Sydney Airport, enroute to Hong Kong, he bought a copy of "How to Be a Productivity Ninja" by Graham Allcott. In Matt's words, "I found the book insightful, down to earth and relevant to todays intense work pressures. My Inbox is now Zero and I enjoy the workflow approach to achieving more and stressing less." After reading the book and having discussions with Graham, Matt launched Think Productive Australia. Matt's passions are productivity and mindfulness, his family, his dog, yoga, mountain biking and nature. More information on the business can be found at: www.thinkproductive.com.au (Think Productive Australia) www.thinkproductive.com (Think Productive Global)

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Liz Stanley is a Georgetown University professor and the creator of Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)®, referred to as MMFT® for short.

Elizabeth A. Stanley, Ph.D., is a professor of security studies at Georgetown University. She speaks, teaches, and writes about resilience, political psychology civil-military relations, and international security. She is the award-winning author of Paths to Peace (2009), about the domestic politics of war termination, and the international bestseller Widen the Window (2019), about the neurobiology of stress, trauma, and resilience. Earlier in her career, she served as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in Asia, Europe, and on two peacekeeping deployments in the Balkans.

MMFT has been tested through four neuroscience studies with the U.S. military and taught to many thousands in civilian and military high-stress environments, to help people build their resilience. Liz is a longstanding mindfulness practitioner and a certified practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, a body-based trauma therapy.

About Liz's newest book Widen the Window "I don't think I have ever read a book that paints such a complex and accurate landscape of what it is like to live with the legacy of trauma as this book does, while offering a comprehensive approach to healing that is simultaneously based on both on the author's own personal experiences and journey into health, as well as on a thorough scientific understanding of the underlying issues about the ways that mind, brain, and body are affected by traumatic stress."

Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score https://elizabeth-stanley.com/ Music by Tim Moor - https://pixabay.com/users/18879564-18879564/

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ROB BUYEA taught third and fourth graders in Connecticut for six years before moving t Massachusetts, where he taught high school biology for seven years at Northfield Mount Hermon. In addition to teaching, Rob was also a high school wrestling coach. He is best known for his Mr. Terupt series, which has won numerous awards and has been translated into a dozen languages. He is also the author of the very popular Perfect Score series and What Comes Next and coming this summer—The Daredevils. Rob's books continue to reach classrooms near and far and have given him the opportunity to visit with students all over the world—something he loves to do.

You can visit Rob at robbuyea.com.

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KD has been described by the New York Times as "the chant master of American yoga" - Krishna Das is an American vocalist known for his performances of Hindu devotional music known as kirtan. He has released seventeen albums since 1996. He performed at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where his album Live Ananda was nominated for the 2013 Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. He's taken the call-and-response chanting out of yoga centers and into concert halls, is a Grammy-nominee and has become a worldwide icon. He continues to travel and to share online his chanting and stories of his guru Neem Karoli Baba. and the best- selling western chant artist of all time. Krishna Das has released over 15 albums, authored 2 books, has his own podcast and is the subject of the documentary – One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das. More information on KrishnaDas.com Music by Tim Moor - https://pixabay.com/users/18879564-18879564/

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Piotrek Nabielec is a huge fan of human-centered productivity and the founder of the 4 Step Productivity system. For the last 6 years Piotrek has created courses that help people organize chaos, stop procrastinating and find the time for hobbies and dreams. Before this he spent 10 years as a software developer and IT manager. Piotrek loves creativity and is a part time musician. 4stepproductivity.com [email protected] Music by Tim Moor - https://pixabay.com/users/18879564-18879564/

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Matthew received Australia's National Mental Health Advocate award by the Mental Health Foundation of Australia in 2020. Matthew is the Founder/CEO of The Australian Centre for Lived Experience, a peer run centre for lived experience persons seeking alternative peer approaches. They live with Bipolar Affective Disorder and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ( 'as defined' by DSM/Psychiatry), is a sibling caregiver to their younger brother and sister who live with enduring psychosocial diverse abilities, and has lost their mother to suicide, and consequently grandparents due to stigma. Matthew's experiences of distress and service use drive their passion for global social change in mental health. They are a global mental health activist promoting human rights, social justice and lived experience from public health and MAD STUDIES disciplinary basis

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Lisa Jones is the Director of Recovery for Metro North Mental Health. This is a lived experience role that sits within the Metro North Mental Health Executive Leadership Team and provides leadership to the Metro North Mental Health lived experience workforce.

Lisa has experienced acute mental health challenges in her life and now uses her passion for mental health and recovery to ensure the lived experience voice is included at all levels of service planning, development, and improvement.

Lisa is also a passionate holistic health ambassador. This passion has led her to study various complementary modalities, and she is also a practicing yoga teacher. Lisa passionately believes that everyone can lead a meaningful life. Lisa mentions MYROLE in the show: My ROLE stands for My Registry of Lived Experience. If you have a lived experience as either a consumer or carer and would like to be involved in improving services, you can register as a member of My ROLE and get offered paid opportunities to participate in committees, projects or other things that can lead to service improvement. My ROLE is specific to Metro North Mental Health and to date we have involved members in some exciting opportunities. So, if you are passionate about mental health and wanting to improve services contact [email protected] for more information.

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Michelle Mitchell is an award-winning speaker, and bestselling parenting author. She has been termed 'the teenage expert' by the media and is sought after for her compassionate and grounded advice for parenting tweens and teens. Michelle started her career as a teacher, but soon discovered a special interest in wellbeing. She left teaching in 2000 and founded Youth Excel, a 'boutique' health promotion charity which delivered tailor made life skills programs and psychological services to thousands of young people and their families each year. Today she uses her experience to write and speak in schools, community events and through media.

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Christine Runyan, PhD, ABPP

Christine Runyan is a clinical health psychologist, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Co-Founder of Tend Health. After starting her career as a psychologist in the US Air Force, she focused her research, clinical service, and teaching on behavioral science in family medicine as well as promoting models of integrated primary care. Dr. Runyan is also a mindfulness teacher at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness. At the height of the pandemic, recognizing the undeniable need for expert mental health services for healthcare professionals, she launched Tend Health. Tend Health provides specialized, private, and accessible mental health care and education to healthcare professionals and consultation to healthcare organizations willing to invest in their most precious resource.

You can read and hear more about her perspective on COVID and mental health here: ● https://onbeing.org/programs/christine-runyan

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Ralph De La Rosa (he/they) is an internationally published author, trauma-focused psychotherapist, and seasoned meditation teacher. Ralph began practicing meditation in 1996 and has taught since 2008. His new book, Don't Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak Outs (Shambhala Publications) was celebrated as one of the "Top 10 Books of 2020" by Mindful Magazine. https://ralphdelarosa.com/ Music by Tim Moor - https://pixabay.com/users/18879564-18879564/

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