GET YOUR COFFEE, GET YOUR DAY

Good morning and welcome to my podcast 🎙 I’m so happy you landed on my show! I am a mental health advocate, TedX Speaker and pilates teacher. 

I’m here to give you short snippets or inspiration to help you 👉 GET YOUR COFFEE GET YOUR DAY! Today and everyday!

Everything I do and teach is to help people FEEL their best while having some fun in the process! 

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In this episode, I chat to Taylor Camille. Taylor is a writer, producer, fellow creative and podcaster. Check out her podcasts ‘Beyond Ourselves’ and ‘Well + Good’.

At the moment, Taylor is helping people find peace in their busy lives and teaches us how we can all adopt a more present attitude. Taylor finds her peace, through reading, we discuss how it brings her new inspiration and learnings.

What to expect:

💫 Taylor talks about the importance of journaling and how it can transform your morning routine by ditching your phone and picking up your journal.
💫We talk about what it means to be a woman and setting boundaries. How having high standards and to not be accommodating is actually a form of self care.
💫We look back on our college days and discuss the pressures we felt, especially the absence of embracing your individuality when we were younger.
💫Taylor encourages us to all stop and slow down and how this in turn can promote more productivity in our day-to-day lives.
💫The importance of showing up authentically in the online space.

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Britt x

This week I welcome Megan Henderson. Megan is co-anchor on KTLA morning news and so to talk to her about her journey with mental health and how her work has a part to play in that, was truly amazing. I was privileged enough to go live on KTLA news channel a few months back and talk with Megan about my work in the Mental Health space. We really opened up about our ‘go-to’ tools when we are in our grey spaces and I hope you find this episode useful. 

What to expect: 

⚡Megan talks about her journey into discovering meditation, she took a few courses in transcendental meditation and explains how at first she didn’t utilise her new skills but following a bad break up she really picked it back up and it helped her through that difficult time

⚡We discuss the power of gratitude and how it really helps shift perspective and ground you in those moments when you feel lost  

⚡Megan shares her story of working on morning TV and how it affected her mental health when she had the balance wrong between work and personal life. She worked with a coach to build a schedule and she describes the way in which this had a positive impact on her mental health

⚡We talk about saying ‘no’ to social events in order to honour our morning practice as we both identify that our morning practice is the thing that keeps our mental health journey the most in check


Where to find me:

Instagram: @meetbritt @dancinginthegrey

Website: https://meetbritt.com/

TEDx: www.tedxlakemanalapan.com

Join our free Mental Health Peer to Peer Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245540857329341


And if you want to get in touch directly with me you can reach me at [email protected]

I hope you are all GETTING YOUR COFFEE GETTING YOUR DAY!!

B x

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I can’t wait to welcome you all to this episode with Juan Acosta. Juan is an internationally, award-winning recognised LGBTQ+ mental health advocate. He is also a New York Times best selling author with a book called ‘Channel Kindness’, co-authored with Lady Gaga.

We talk about being a mental health advocate and what it’s like contributing into this space and how our lived experiences bought us both down this path. We break down mental health and define what mental health is in a simple way. Juan also tells us about his work with Lady Gaga and Unicef, I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did creating it. 

What to expect:

⚡️We talk about holding space for emotions and the importance of developing self-awareness.

⚡️We discuss the stigma around mental health. Off the back of this, Juan shares his experiences of growing up in Mexico and how he was bought up in a culture where open conversation about emotions did not take place. 

⚡️Juan shares his advice for anyone feeling trapped and unable to vocalise how they are feeling.

⚡️We talk about the link between mental health and sexuality from Juan’s perspective. 

⚡️Juan talks about getting involved in non-profits and volunteer work as a way to help him through his grey spaces.

⚡️We learn what passion means to Juan and how passion has helped him find himself and keep focused.

⚡️I share how my physical body has held on to past mental health pain and the way in which these feelings manifest into physical symptoms.

Where to find me:

Instagram: @meetbritt @dancinginthegrey

Website: https://meetbritt.com/

TEDx: www.tedxlakemanalapan.com

Join our free Mental Health Peer to Peer Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245540857329341

Where to find Juan:

Instagram: @juanacosta_

And if you want to get in touch directly with me you can reach me at [email protected]

I hope you are all GETTING YOUR COFFEE GETTING YOUR DAY!!

B x

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In this episode, I speak with Julia Broglie, founder of BroglieBox who I met through my mentor, friend, and previous podcast guest Kevin Hines. I wanted to put a trigger warning in here to say that Julia talks about how her brother aged 24 died from suicide. After that moment she made it her life mission to learn about suicide and to help other people, including herself with her own mental health journey. 💕

She talks about how she didn’t have the correct language to explain how she was feeling and that it was a really important part of her journey to make sure she understood the tools and words to use to support and comfort someone in her brother’s position but also for herself. ✨

What to expect: 

💫Julia explains how her brother was very open about his depression and suicidal thoughts when he was at high school, but she felt her family and herself had a lack of education around the topic and didn’t know how to help.

💫She talks about how much she was struggling with the situation and the pain she was in living with her own mental health conditions.

💫We talk about therapy and how working with her therapist Julia managed to discover the correct language to use around this topic of mental health. 

💫We learn that asking someone directly if they are considering suicide is the best place to start, even though it feels like a hard thing to do.

💫We talk about anchoring and how to identity what anchors us.

💫And finally we discuss THE question.. is self-care selfish?

I hope you enjoy this episode and make sure to check out the work Julia is doing with her company BroglieBox … it’s #IMPORTANT.

Where to find me:

Instagram: @meetbritt @dancinginthegrey

Website: https://meetbritt.com/

TEDx: www.tedxlakemanalapan.com

Join our free Mental Health Peer to Peer Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245540857329341

Where to find Julia:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebrogliebox/

And if you want to get in touch directly with me you can reach me at [email protected]

I hope you are all GETTING YOUR COFFEE GETTING YOUR DAY!!

B x

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In this episode, I speak with Erin Ryan. Erin is a friend of mine and Executive Director of the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI) Westside in Los Angeles, she is a trailblazer and a true inspiration to me and so many others. I work with Erin at NAMI Westside and also as an ambassador for her “Free for Me” project which addresses the silence and stigma around Mental Health. 

Erin believes that NAMI Westside is for everyone. Education and advocacy are some of the important focuses she uses when supporting the Mental Health agenda. We talk about the fact that Mental Health is just as important as our physical health. 

This is a really special episode to me and I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. 

What to expect: 

💫 Erin maintains that depression is a warning sign that can lead to bad choices. She assures her students that support is out there for them.

💫Education helps students to develop strategies to cope with their mental health issues. Erin suggests the use of a journal or writing a letter to your future self.

💫Erin recommends we 'make sure that we grow our own garden and not wait for others to bring us flowers'.

💫Spirituality, meditation and nutrition are some of the essential ingredients that Erin suggests we use to 'feed' ourselves.

💫She believes 'life is a dressmaker that specializes in alterations' and that we have the power to write our own story.

💫When in crisis sometimes we can not recognize we are in crisis, Erin asks us to reach out if we see someone we think is in need.

NAMI Westside Los Angeles:
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/namiwla/
Website: https://namila.org/


Where to find me:

Instagram: @meetbritt @dancinginthegrey

Website: https://meetbritt.com/

TEDx: www.tedxlakemanalapan.com

Join our free Mental Health Peer to Peer Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245540857329341

And if you want to get in touch directly with me you can reach me at [email protected]

I hope you are all GETTING YOUR COFFEE GETTING YOUR DAY!!

Britt x

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Wellness and fitness goddess Pixie joins me on today’s show. Pixie Acia is an inspiring human who I met at @soulcycle years ago and quickly became my friend. Her class became a safe space for me where I not only moved my physical body but a place where I moved my mind and my soul. 

I loved this conversation because there were so many nuggets of wisdom that she offered in a short amount of time and I highly recommend you give it a listen. (Link in my bio) 

Key Takeaways ✨

✨Pixie talks about the importance of not defining ourselves as any one thing. 

✨Pixie bravely shares with us her time growing up and how she experienced abuse and childhood trauma and how that has affected her life. 

✨Pixie reflects on the time that when she stopped exercising and having physical fitness in her life, it coincided with her experiencing depression. 

✨Pixie talks about fear of abandonment. 

✨Pixie shares the importance of getting grounded in nature and how it positively impacts our #mentalhealth.

 

Where to find Pixie:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/purposefulpixie/
Trainer at FIIT: https://www.instagram.com/fiit/
Master at Soul Cycle: https://www.instagram.com/soulcycle/
Teacher at The Class: https://www.instagram.com/theclass/
Founder at Surf Sweat Serve: https://www.instagram.com/surfsweatserve/

Where to find me:

Instagram: @meetbritt @dancinginthegrey

Website: https://meetbritt.com/

TEDx: www.tedxlakemanalapan.com

Join our free Mental Health Peer to Peer Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245540857329341

And if you want to get in touch directly with me you can reach me at [email protected]

I hope you are all GETTING YOUR COFFEE GETTING YOUR DAY!!

Britt x

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In this episode of 'Dancing in the Grey', I'm joined by Rachael Blumberg, founder of PLATE FIT, an incredible chain of fitness studios throughout LA that transforms the body through the power of vibration.

Rachael is an amazing storyteller. She explains her journey from a young athlete to opening her own fitness studio. Boldly, Rachael joined a male water polo team as a young girl, giving her scholarship opportunities to multiple schools. Identifying that female water polo teams were few and far between, Rachael set up her own team. After graduating college, Rachael found herself in a job she was good at, but felt a lack of passion towards. Finally, she discovered an abandoned vibrating stretching plate in a gym, which sparked a huge idea. 

 
Key points:

-       Trusting the uncertainty of the future to bring clarity and using self-reassurance affirmations to calm anxious feelings.

-       Receiving rejection within business and the resilience that this is needed to withstand these knockbacks.

-       Building an environment which breeds acceptance as a core value with ever-important diversity in fitness.

-       Rachael reflects on the complicated twists and turns of her life which required her to surrender to and to trust the process which ultimately led her to success.

-       Rachael discusses her ‘non-negotiables’ to cope with her depression such as meditation, wellness, supportive peers and diet.

-       How Rachael discovered using her breathwork to move huge amounts of energy to the point that she fell out of her chair, bringing an understanding of the huge possibilities that shifting energy brings.

-       Although Rachael avoids caffeine, I couldn’t let her go without discussing her favourite decaf coffee… of course.

Where to find Rachael:

Instagram: @rachaelblumbergchiprut

Website: https://platefit.co/

Where to find me:

Instagram: @meetbritt @dancinginthegrey

Website: https://meetbritt.com/

TEDx: www.tedxlakemanalapan.com

Join our free Mental Health Peer to Peer Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245540857329341

And if you want to get in touch directly with me you can reach me at [email protected]

I hope you are all GETTING YOUR COFFEE GETTING YOUR DAY!!

Britt x

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In this episode of 'Dancing in the Grey', I'm joined by my dear friend Taylor Camille Smith.

Taylor Camille is an international producer, writer and director whose work spans from narrative to documentary, branded content and podcasting. She tells stories that empower; approaching her work intentionally to capture our diverse expression and inspire global audiences to acknowledge their social responsibility and tap into their power to promote change.

Key points:

Taylor tells us that going through bereavement can teach us something, even though its hard, we can learn something to help us

Taylor explains that self-belief and setting goals is important to achievement

It is very valuable to communicate your needs

Taylor believes that learning how to manage your feelings is necessary for self growth

She reassures us that however 'sticky' things are, they are not forever

She believes that it is important to know what we want and to say 'no' is loving

We must learn to respect and receive 'no' from others

Taylor feels that finding comfort in doing things by yourself is an important step

We must view self-care as an important part of self-awareness

We must empower ourselves and others by our actions 

Where to find Taylor:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tayllure/

Website: taylorcamille.com

Beyond Our Cells Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-our-cells/id1481777550

Well+Good Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-well-good-podcast/id1557769801

Where to find me:

Instagram: @meetbritt @dancinginthegrey

Website: https://meetbritt.com/

TEDx: www.tedxlakemanalapan.com

And if you want to get in touch directly with me you can reach me at [email protected]

I hope you are all GETTING YOUR COFFEE GETTING YOUR DAY!!

Britt x


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In this episode, I am joined by Manoj Dias, meditation teacher and co-founder of Open a social space for meditation and movement. Manoj describes himself as a bold, young father who has transformed his life through mindfulness. Manoj pulls on ancient traditions such as meditation and combines them with modern-day mindful practices.

Key points:

The frightening but grounding experience as a young father that comes with the responsibility of having a dependent child.

Manoj developed an addiction to prescription medication along with an eating disorder during a time where he was experiencing stress. 

Manoj’s mental health journey really developed when he experienced a serious panic attack at work. Feeling like he was going to die, Manoj sought professional help, where he began to address his internal battles.

Manoj eventually found himself at a Buddhist meditation studio and began to recognize his intrusive and self-destructive thoughts. After more practice, Manoj finally got asked to teach.

 We talk a lot about how it can be easy to take anxious feelings personally and how Manoj’s pain intensified through being absorbed in this mentality.

Together, we discuss the transformative nature of meditation, one of my favorite positive coping strategies. Meditation has the ability to assist us to become friends with ourselves, instead of our worst critic, allowing us to address trauma positively. 

And of course… we talk coffee.

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About Open:

Open is a mindfulness studio designing a new way to practice wellbeing, together. We draw upon the best of traditions and technologies, old and new, blending music, sound, breath, movement, and visuals to ground in your senses and bring you to the here and now.

Where to find me:

Instagram: @meetbritt @dancinginthegrey

Website: https://meetbritt.com/

TEDx: www.tedxlakemanalapan.com

And if you want to get in touch directly with me you can reach me at [email protected]

I hope you are all GETTING YOUR COFFEE GETTING YOUR DAY!!

Britt x


Produced by: https://www.oceanaudioproductions.co.uk/