Lobster Brain

Ana Ivanovic can show you how to cope with the pressure that comes with success.  

Ana is a former world champion tennis player.  She was world number one and champion at the French Open aged only 20, so she reached top lobster status at an incredibly young age.  She had the eyes of her world on her when she was only just out of her teenage years.  

Lisa and Danny discover from Ana how a brain can be rewired to achieve balance between your public and private persona; how to become resilient in the face of judgement and why flow is so important to winn

Alastair Campbell is an author, political strategist and hit podcaster. 

He’s a top lobster who’s had a prolific and varied career.  He was Director of Communications for Tony Blair; he’s written numerous books and he regularly tops the podcast charts with “The Rest Is Politics”. He’s also well known for talking frankly and openly about his struggles with depression.  

Alastair demonstrates the brain’s incredible ability to endure.  

Lisa and Danny discover how Alastair has managed to rewire this brain to thrive, as well as survive.  They also discuss the nature of leadership and the key traits that many winners seem to share.  

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David Moyes can show you how to stay motivated when the going gets tough.

David is the current West Ham manager and has had an illustrious career in Premier League football.  As a football manager David knows how people spend their time discussing publicly whether you should be sacked or not.  So, how do you cope with that kind of criticism in your day to day work? 

Lisa and Danny discover how a brain can be rewired to cope with criticism.  

They also discover that keeping your eye on the prize is a key motivation to moving forward, even at the toughest of times. 

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Danny Donachie is a Tavistock trained Performance Coach and Founder of Embodyism. He has worked with World Cup winners, World Champion boxers, Grand Slam winners and many leading entrepreneurs. His unique approach unites East and West, facilitating both collective and individual change. 

Lisa Morton started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

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Dr Lisa Miller can show you how spirituality can help you as a leader and in your life. She's a Columbia Professor, whose work merges science with spirituality. She's also a clinical psychologist and the best selling author of "The Awakened Brain".

Danny and Lisa discover why developing an awakened brain can help you in business, in sport and in life. They also investigate vulnerability and how it is possible to run a business or a sports team with an open heart.

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Danny Donachie is a Tavistock trained Performance Coach and Founder of Embodyism. He has worked with World Cup winners, World Champion boxers, Grand Slam winners and many leading entrepreneurs. His unique approach unites East and West, facilitating both collective and individual change. 

Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

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Mo Gawdat was the Chief Business Officer for Google X, the innovation lab that works on robots and self-driving cars. 

After the tragic death of his son, Ali, Mo now dedicates himself to his mission of helping one billion people learn how to be happy.  

His international bestseller “Solve for Happy” introduces you to the idea that there is a happiness equation that you can follow, to help you find greater happiness.  

In this wide ranging and inspiring conversation, Mo tells Danny Donachie and Lisa Morton how his son inspired him to take a different path, away from a role you might traditionally associate with a ‘top lobster’.  Mo discusses the fact that we currently know more about using our mobile phones, than about using their own brains.  He also has some advice on why we’re wired to think negatively and what you can do about that, to achieve happiness.  

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Danny Donachie is a Tavistock trained Performance Coach and Founder of Embodyism. He has worked with World Cup winners, World Champion boxers, Grand Slam winners and many leading entrepreneurs. His unique approach unites East and West, facilitating both collective and individual change. 

Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

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Lisa Morton and Danny Donachie discover how you manifest success with fighter Tony Bellew.  

‘I’ve been punching people in the face for 20 years”

Tony Bellew is a British boxing legend. One of his most famous fights was at his beloved Goodison Park, when he won the WBC cruiserweight title in 2016.  Tony’s a huge Everton fan, so that fight was a defining moment in his career.  Before that moment, Tony had dedicated his life to both training and studying boxing, living his motto of ‘Fail to Prepare, Prepare to Fail”.  

From devastating personal loss, dealing with naysayers and growing up in an area with little opportunity, Tony has gone on to achieve monumental success. 

Lisa and Danny discuss the setbacks he faced, what effect this had on Tony’s approach to life, and how he's managed to come out on top.

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Danny Donachie is a Tavistock trained Performance Coach and Founder of Embodyism. He has worked with World Cup winners, World Champion boxers, Grand Slam winners and many leading entrepreneurs. His unique approach unites East and West, facilitating both collective and individual change. 

Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

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Lobster Brain is all about how lobsters rewire their brains, and how you can too.

Lobsters fight to find out who’s going to be top lobster. Every time a lobster wins or loses a fight, their brain chemistry changes. It's called neuroplasticity – our brain’s ability to change itself throughout our lives.

If you can rewire your brain - when you lose one fight, it doesn’t have to be that way forever. With the right support, you can still become top lobster, even if you’ve had more knocks than other people.

In this first episode you’ll meet hosts Lisa Morton and Danny Donachie, as they discuss what drew both of them to the topic of neuroplasticity; the life lessons they’ve learnt from each other and the podcast guests that have left an impact on them.

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Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

Danny Donachie is a Tavistock trained Performance Coach and Founder of Embodyism. He has worked with World Cup winners, World Champion boxers, Grand Slam winners and many leading entrepreneurs. His unique approach unites East and West, facilitating both collective and individual change. 

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Did you know your brain has the ability to change itself throughout your life? It's called neuroplasticity.

Studies on Lobsters have found that they fight to find out who’s going to be top lobster. Every time a lobster wins or loses a fight, their brain chemistry changes. This is neuroplasticity – our brain’s ability to change itself throughout our lives.

If you can rewire your brain - when you lose one fight, it doesn’t have to be that way forever. With the right support, you can still become top lobster, even if you’ve had more knocks than other people.

So Lisa Morton and Danny Donachie want to explore this concept in conversations with highly successful people from sport, business and culture. Hear how their brains have wired and rewired the challenges they’ve overcome; the successes and what advice can they offer.

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Danny Donachie is a Tavistock trained Performance Coach and Founder of Embodyism. He has worked with World Cup winners, World Champion boxers, Grand Slam winners and many leading entrepreneurs. His unique approach unites East and West, facilitating both collective and individual change. 

Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

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