Mark helps extraordinary individuals and organisations get better at what they do and is the Mental Health & Wellbeing Manager for The Football Association. Listen in as Mark tells me about:

- feeling well rested

- sleep and recovery time

- a personal wakeup call 

- motivation following action

- breakfast with his dad

- a minimal say/do gap

- moving closer to the hoop

- parking your ego

- making a start

Elliot is a wine importer who will be rowing the Atlantic solo to raise money for the British Heart Foundation after being fitted with a pacemaker in 2020. Listen in as Elliot tells me about:

- feeling unproductive

- juggling work, admin and the campaign

- training alone and losing motivation

- understanding his personality

- going from rugby to rowing

- raising funds for defibrillators 

- consciously consuming alcohol

- controlling an irregular heartbeat

- a circular story

As a former Welsh Government Minister, Jane introduced legislation to help protect future generations and is now Chair of Wales Net Zero 2035.  Listen in as Jane tells me about:

- feeling fed up

- global boiling and melting

- short term thinking

- a just transition to net zero

- hope and young people

- a global community

- individual and collective agency

- what we can do best, first

- a cooperative, collaborative society

Adnan is an athlete and coach who co-hosts the Fail Forward Podcast where guests tell their stories of personal growth through failure. Listen in as Adnan tells me about:

- feeling hopeful 

- small steps in the right direction

- learning from failure

- positive energy

- the importance of family

- having champions in your corner

- a morning routine

- doing hard things consistently

- how everything will pass

Rachel is a Director of Well-Being for a US State Department of Education who also wants to help end illiteracy with her BestTutorFriend YouTube channel. Listen in as Rachel tells me about:

(note this chat discusses suicide)

- feeling scattered

- being kinder to herself

- embracing ageing

- curiosity and life long learning

- asking for help

- becoming comfortable with hard things

- compassion fatigue

- a national mental health emergency

- feeling hopeful for the future

Carlos is Co-founder of The Happy Startup School and community that helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs to balance what they need with what their business needs. Listen in as Carlos tells me about (note this chat contains a little bad language):

- feeling weight and lightness
- a public and private face
- uncertainty and worry
- practicing more acceptance
- cosmic insignificance
- living in a world of convenience
- doing something for the love of it
- not being over invested in a goal
- managing the end of something

Mick is an award winning Broadcast Journalist and Radio Presenter who founded and presents the Mental Health Monday and Football Untold podcasts. Listen in as Mick tells me about:

(note this chat discusses suicidal thoughts)

- a stressful week 

- relating to mental health 

- slowly sinking 

- an image of depression 

- becoming a parent 

- the garden and planting seeds 

- love and learning 

- cheery or dreary 

- self awareness with a small s and a

Lucy has taught mindfulness to over 15000 children and believes that rediscovering a more childlike version of yourself is the secret to a happier, healthier life. Listen in as Lucy tells me about:

- feeling happy, reflective and slightly strange
- working on a book for 3 years
- burning out in her thirties
- finding yoga and mindfulness
- teaching mindfulness to 15000 children
- letting go of ego
- learning to respond not react
- showing love unconditionally
- remembering what you loved doing as a child

Tom helps charities and non-profits to optimise their digital marketing. He also volunteers for the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust and Chairs their board of trustees. Listen in as Tom tells me about:

- a good time of year

- no dig gardening

- sharing an allotment

- a barometer for mental health

- finite and infinite gains

- living and working sustainably

- asking ‘would I do it tomorrow?’ 

- using the Mood app

- friends in particular times and places

Ian is a coach who helps people create change by telling their own stories. He is also the author of ‘365 Ways to Have a Good Day’ based on his own good times list. Listen in as Ian tells me about:

- feeling good

- a poor year financially

- the good times list

- redefining success for yourself

- making choices

- stopping to think

- living by open water 

- a lifechanging dip

- being intentional