Habit change starts in the mind, before any other change can happen. That’s what fat loss coach Joe Robinson discovered for himself, that he now helps others understand.

Joe Robinson is an agent of change, empowering women to take back control of their health and happiness. Through an understanding of human behavior, Joe has created a program that helps people to recognize, analyze, and modify the underlying causes of their behaviors. By guiding clients to make informed decisions, Joe is confident that his program can create lasting changes that will result in a healthier and happier life. Joe is passionate about helping people create the life they want to live and is committed to making a meaningful contribution to the world.

• Connect with Jo on LinkedIn
• Sustain Nutrition’s website
• Sustain Nutrition on Facebook
• Follow @sustain_nutri on Instagram
• This former Google X exec reverse engineered happiness — here’s what he found (Mo Gawdat’s story)
• Viktor Frankl
• What is toxic positivity?

“Whether we are dealing with children's services, domestic violence, nursing, arts and culture, gambling, care services; so often the answer is staring them in the face. But they don't see it, can't see it, have convinced themselves that the answer isn't there and they can't find it.”

When faced with problems, Jim Clifford OBE helps people reframe and reimagine what’s possible. He does this by challenging assumptions, turning obstacles into assets, and harnessing the power of the story.

• A problem is only a problem because of the way we look at it.
• When we can see around the other side of a problem, clarity, insight, and simplicity are available.
• The people suffering from problems are often the ones with the answers – the just don’t know that they have them.
• Simple questions lead to solutions, but listening is the only place where change can happen,

• Connect with Jim on LinkedIn
• Sonnet – Jim’s consultancy

Leadership is a dance. For Darragh and Julietta of SAP, too much leadership advice focuses on the head and not the heart. They created their retreat to help leaders tap into their own source of courage and resilience, even – or especially – when they didn’t think they had any.

Darragh Power and Julietta Stotz have both had moments of realisation that their thoughts were just a movie projection. Along with Julia, they share some of those moments of serenity when – even in the darkest times – they realised that their experience wasn’t shaped by the world, but the reverse.

• We often give power to the circumstances of our lives, when it fact it is us, and those around us, with the power.
• Ego is merely insecure thinking taken seriously.
• Insecure thinking is just thinking. And it can make us stupid.

• Connect with Darragh on LinkedIn
• Connect with Julietta on LinkedIn
• Three Principles
• Invisible Power: Insight Principles at Work, by Dr Ken Manning, Robin Charbit, and Sandra Krot
• Life Lessons: From Sport and Beyond, Simon Mundie’s podcast

We so often think of our minds as capturing reality like a camera, whereas in reality it works much more like a film projector, creating its own reality that we then perceive. That insight helped Belu Water co-CEO Charlotte Harrington step into her role as a generative leader, and remove some of her self-limiting barriers.

Putting that into practice for Charlotte meant saying yes to more opportunities, and using that positive response to gain momentum. But it’s not always an easy process, and we can still fall back to old habits.

Towards the end of this episode, Charlotte explores her feelings around presence when staring down the barrel of a big red record button, feeling that you have to come up with the right answer quickly, rather than giving time to think.

• Our minds can flood us with insecure thoughts.
• Remembering that these thoughts are just images from our mental movie projector can help them clear.

• Connect with Charlotte on LinkedIn
• Follow Belu Water’s story

Be a good team player. Don’t ask questions. Don’t cause trouble. These were the rules professional and Internationally capped Scotland rugby player Grayson Hart told himself he should live by in order to succeed. But this was at odds with his own sense of curiosity about the world.

Today, Grayson is the founder of Puresport, a brand of natural healing products for sportspeople. During his 14-year rugby union career, he began to discover how many athletes were becoming addicted to painkillers, so started work on natural alternatives using mushrooms and CBD. Combined with his growing interest in Buddhism and other spiritual teachings, he continues his mission to disentangle feelings of happiness from attainment and achievement.

• Are we the chatter, or are we the awareness of that chatter?
• Is happiness not within our reach, but already inside of us?
• Where does happiness come from, and what is its nature?

• Connect with Grayson on LinkedIn
• Puresport
• The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle

The mind has an innate ability to bring us answers. It’s this ability to listen for those insights that makes someone a generative leader.

Rena Loizou had a moment of insight while she was trapped underground during the attacks on London of July 7, 2005. This encounter, and the lightbulb moment she experienced in her tube car, catalysed a change in frame of mind from a fixed mindset to a generative one.

• Fear can make us feel stuck, but we can begin to unstick ourselves by being curious about the situation, and giving it a little distance.
• The mind has the capacity to completely reframe a situation, and view it afresh, without the situation having changed at all.

• Connect with Rena on LinkedIn
• Seniors Helping Seniors

When conservationist Sacha Dench was asked to look into the decline of the Bewick’s swan, she faced a problem – how to get engagement from industry, and members of the public? The key Sacha found was storytelling.

Sacha – AKA “the human swan” – is the co-founder and CEO of Conservation Without Borders and a UN ambassador for migratory species. In her discussion with Julia, Sacha sets out the need for environmental NGOs to collaborate more, for people to come to an agreement making one party wrong, and sets out her style of regenerative leadership.

Content warning: This episode contains mentions of contemplating suicide.

• Our minds can provide us with entirely new thinking, and allow us to see a set of circumstances in a totally new way.
• We don’t have all the answers, but we can ask people for help.
• Stories can help us wake up to our own thinking, and change it.

• Conservation Without Borders
• Sacha’s Wikipedia entry
• Flight of the Ospreys – BBC Radio 4

Julia and her guest have both had “aha!” moments, where steering a particular course of action no longer seemed viable in the face of a dramatically changing world.

Lorna Davis is a coach who co-creates spaces with her clients to explore how we’re really made. She shares her experiences of shifting perspectives and moving towards generative thinking, which took her from a global food brand to working one-to-one with people to help them discover their own insights.

• Solving problems can be fun.
• Change comes from insight.

• Connect with Lorna on LinkedIn
• Lorna’s website