In todays prelude to the upcoming episode with Dr Shefali, Jonny explores self-discovery and health and wellbeing and how our devotion to them funds our performance, enriches our relationships and deepens our engagement and experience of life.

Big questions in todays episode:
- How can we recognize that our children are not ours, and why is it important to cultivate our internal environment to provide a safe and blossoming environment for our children?
- What is the concept of the inner child, and how can we reparent our own inner child to let go of past traumas and wounds to open the door to greater clarity and the power to respond to life’s events according to the life we wish to live?
- Why is it unrealistic and, in many ways, unhealthy to try to create the perfect child and deliver on a perfect upbringing?
- What does developing a greater connection with our true selves mean?
- How can we dissolve the fear and beliefs we hold that stand in our way of engaging in and experiencing more of life?

Jonny would love to hear from you! If you have any questions that you’d like answered, please email [email protected] or comment in the reviews section.

Twitter: @JonnyWilkinson
Instagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

Steve Black, known as Blackie, was the larger than life coach at Newcastle Falcons and had roles with The Welsh National rugby team and the British and Irish Lions as well as being a very long-time mentor for Jonny. Blackie was kind enough to guest for the Pilot episode of the I Am podcast and this is what you will hear today. In the episode, Blackie talks to Jonny about his feel-based coaching style, applied across all the teams he worked with ( he also coached football at Newcastle United, and Sunderland as well as many other teams). His message is one of presence, and dedication, and always underpinned by his incredible joyful outlook on life.   

Jonny would love to hear from you! If you have any questions that you’d like answered, please email [email protected] or comment in the reviews section.

Twitter: @JonnyWilkinson
Instagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

Life is to be found in the unknown and so is the now. A willingness to engage with it and be present in it offers us a greater influence over the future.

Today on I Am, Jonny shares the story of his late friend Steve Black, also known as Blackie. Blackie was a born and bred Geordie who had a relentless pursuit of greatness. He was honest, transparent, and completely motivated in all that he did. He was a successful coach in almost every professional sport with pretty much every team you could imagine, coaching individual athletes and succeeding everywhere he went. Jonny speaks to how Blackie always knew how to get his players out of their comfort zones. Blackie was an off-field captain and a motivational genius, bringing everyone to that space of why not? And to the realization that anything is possible. In this episode, Jonny shares the lessons he learned from Blackie and how he has been such an influence and guiding force in his journey.

Big questions in today episode: 

• What are the key ingredients for great performance and constant improvement?
• What if that voice in our minds supported us unconditionally, trusted in us absolutely and guided us to seek uncomfortable new space and to stand tall, embrace and explore it?

Jonny would love to hear from you! If you have any questions that you’d like answered, please email [email protected] or comment in the reviews section.

Twitter: @JonnyWilkinson
Instagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

Learning to manage your mind is crucial to happiness and success - in sport and in life. All of us face challenges, rough patches and struggles in life and challenge is a core pillar of this podcast. Todays guest, bestselling author of the Chimp Paradox,  Professor Steve Peters discusses how we can look at challenge differently and reconstruct ourselves to find the opportunity, growth and engagement in it. He says, the one thing that has stood out to him in his years of supporting people as a Consultant Psychiatrist is that no matter what you may be facing in life, if you have the skills to be in a good place emotionally then you can cope, thrive and present the real you to the world.

Steve has created a structured, practical self-development programme to help you attain psychological health and wellbeing. He talks us through it at length today, using Jonnys experience as examples, and draws from his exciting new book - The Path through the Jungle which transforms complex neuroscience into language and stories you can get your head around.

Jonny would love to hear from you! If you have any questions that you’d like answered, please email [email protected] or comment in the reviews section.

Twitter: @JonnyWilkinson
Instagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

To keep up with Steve:
Instagram: chimpmanagement_ltd
Linkedin: Chimp Management
Twitter: @chimpmanagement
Facebook: Chimp Management Ltd

Other links if you could share would be Steve’s book ‘A Path through the Jungle’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Path-through-Jungle-Psychological-bestselling/

Who we are does not have a mindset. Who we are is a mindset.

Becoming more aware of our experience, our beliefs and opinions and is key because when we go into battle for them we are also fighting to stay as we are, to keep our mindset and preserve all the stress and the fear in us too.

Big Questions in todays episode:
- What are the conditions to change your mindset
- Do we have conscious awareness of the conclusions or beliefs funding this?
- Are we willing to unearth them and take back some responsibility for ourselves?
- Has our idea of who we are become all we are?
- How can we see through this self importance?
- Can we define resilience as exploring deeper than we have ever been?

What we are before and beyond our beliefs is the beginning of our real potential.  Jonny would love to hear from you! If you have any questions that you’d like answered, please email [email protected] or comment in the reviews section.

Twitter: @JonnyWilkinson
Instagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

How does the financial system affect social and ecological sustainability as well as our individual potential? Jennifer Hinton is a systems researcher and activist in the field of sustainable economy. In todays episode, Jennifer uses systems thinking to walk Jonny through her work, which focuses on how societies relate to profit and how this relationship affects global challenges. She explains how key aspects of business and markets drive whole plethora of outcomes. Leading into discussions about the present set up that we operate through, and the realities of what a restructuring could look like, this conversation is a real eye opener!

To keep up with Jennifer grab her on twitter: @Hintojen
How on Earth: Flourishing in a Not For Profit World - https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01398

Jonny would love to hear from you! If you have any questions that you’d like answered, please email [email protected] or comment in the reviews section.

Twitter: @JonnyWilkinson
Instagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

What power do we, as human beings, posses to completely transform ourselves, and our world around us? In today’s prelude to Thursday’s guest interview with systems researcher and ecological economist Jennifer Hinton, Jonny takes a dive into how our beliefs and values impact us, and our systems at large. What would a different future really cost?

Big questions explored today:
- What would it be like if society was all about bringing people together?
- Can we create a more balanced and healthy, and well environment for ourselves and the planet we rely on? If so, how?  
- What would this look like day to day?
- What is enough?

Jonny would love to hear from you! If you have any questions that you’d like answered, please email [email protected] or comment in the reviews section.

Twitter: @JonnyWilkinson
Instagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

This week on I Am, Fearne Cotton, author, presenter, and podcaster, opens up about success and happiness; embracing vulnerability, learning from mistakes and finding balance in every aspect of life. She explains the power of working on ourselves has for our health, well-being and fulfilment and explores this through subject like criticism, imposter syndrome, appreciating others, making peace with where we have been and the journey towards uncovering purpose and passion. For Fearne it is important to find moments to indulge fully in the simple things - like going for a walk - and the profound effect this can have on our state of being. As ever, Fearne is open, funny, and unflinchingly honest about her world and herself and everything else too, and it makes for a brilliant episode.

You can find more details on the upcoming happy place festival here: https://www.happyplaceofficial.co.uk/events/

We grow up believing that we can achieve and accumulate our way to happiness. The mind then becomes the master and keeps us stressed and separated from it.

Today Jonny ponders what it means to follow your heart’s lead. Is it not through our passions that we find ourselves at our most spontaneous, inspired and connected? In order to enhance our sensitivity and express our most creative self, just like sport, dancing and the arts, we have to surrender control and truly trust. And that can be scary.

Some big ideas:
- How to detangle from our limits?
- What happens when our thoughts and unpredictable emotions become our driving force?
- Conceding whom we think we should be or need to be in favour of finding out who we are.
- The power of patience
- The simple joy in opening our minds and devoting ourselves to our highest excitement at any given moment
- Getting out of our own way 

Today on I am we have something a little something different for you to listen to and that’s an episode from former Welsh international Rugby icon Sam Warburton. He’s got a new show out called Captains which gives listeners the inside story of how the most successful teams come together, grow, and ultimately – win. This is a short extract from Sam’s interview with Chris Robshaw about resilience, world cup heartache, and six Nations stand-offs. Listen to the full episode over on the Captains Feed!

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What happens when a World Cup dream comes crashing down around you?

In the very first episode of Captains, Sam Warburton is joined by former England rugby union captain Chris Robshaw to reflect on the difficult period that followed England’s shock exit from the 2015 Rugby World Cup and the important lessons that enabled Chris to return to the highest level.

They relive the titanic battles between Wales and England on the pitch and discuss dealing with the pressure and criticism that comes your way when you wear the armband.

In life, we often learn more from the lows than we do from the highs and Chris’s story is one of resilience.

Get in touch with Sam by emailing [email protected] or by searching for #captainspod. Subscribe to Crowd Sports+ on Apple to join The Huddle and receive bonus content as well as ad-free episodes. You can also listen ad-free on Amazon Music.

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