Welcome to episode 12 if the podcast. I continue on the theme of sleep, eat and move.  This week, it's 'Eat,' in which i definitely DO NOT share a diet or any six pack secrets.  What I do share are three things that i feel are important when seeking to create a foundation of health. I also share how this approach has particularly helped me in the last year to create a more solid foundation for me and to start to consistently and steadily drop some pounds.

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Welcome to episode 11. I build on from last week where I spoke about the importance of getting back to basics - Sleep, Move and Eat.  This week, I share my tips, based on the latest research, on improving your sleep.

I share with you my 'Three Zzzed's to getting better sleep.'  I also share a link to two free short courses to help you really get to grips with improving your sleep.

And don't forget to visit mansprouts.com to find all the links, show notes, sign up to receive the podcast every week or subscribe via Itunes, spotify, stitcher.

Welcome to Episode 10 of the Man Sprouts Podcast.  This week I . introduce a new format - shorter, bite-sized food for thought on improving your wellbeing, coping more positively and getting more out of life.

In today's episode, I take you back to basics and share with you three key areas, that I believe form a vital foundation to any success you might be striving for in life.  

I encourage you to reflect on these this week and over the next three weeks I will dive deeper into each area and encourage you to identify some key actions to improve and create some lasting habits.

Welcome to Episode 9 of the Man Sprouts Podcast.  This episode I share an interview with Antoinette Dale-Henderson, author of the book, 'Leading with Gravitas.'  As someone who tends towards the introvert and, in the past had my challenges with shyness and lack of confidence, I have had to learn techniques to help me project myself more confidently.  That's why, when I heard Antoinette speak at our local Professional Speakers Association North East event last year, I asked if she would be willing to share her insights into developing gravitas.

Antoinette has conducted some great research into what make up the key elements of this thing called 'gravitas' and in the interview we explore some elements of her model and pick up some useful tools and tips to develop our own gravitas.

Welcome to Episode 8 of the Man Sprouts Podcast.  This episode I share an interview with Dr Simon Raybould, author of 'Presentation Genius' in which he shares insights from science on how to create and deliver better presentations.  In this interview Simon shares his tools and strategies to help us cope more positively with those high stress moments.  We all have moments where we end up losing it, saying or doing something we regret or not standing up for ourselves or someone else.  That old 'fight, flight or freeze' mechanism can be overpowering.  

Listen to the interview as Simon shares some tips on how to deal with that sense of overwhelm and thus enable you to respond more positively and appropriately in those moments. 

Buy Simon's book 'Presentation Genius' here http://tinyurl.com/yd6y2ogl

Welcome to Episode 7 in which I explore the importance of working on feeling better about yourself - and the consequences of not.  As a police officer I have seen what I feel are numerous examples of harm done because of internal pain - whether to oneself or others.  And I encourage you to identify ways in which you can work to improve your sense of ease with yourself and how to pass it on...

In an interview with Professor Brian Wansink (author of 'Mindless Eating' and Slim by Design', we explore how using our tendency to mindlessly eat can be turned to our advantage in eating less.  Professor Wansink is a researcher in eating behaviour and has a wealth of research to back his tools, and strategies contained in his books.  We explore several angles in the interview (apologies for the sound quality - Skype kept breaking up.  I am hoping to get Prof Wansink back on for an update in his work and answer some of your questions.

Brian Wansink is an American professorCornell University where he is director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab.  He is the author of two books (see below) aimed at helping us to eat less by changing small habits and environmental cues in our day to day life.

In this week's show, I feature a great interview with Paul McGee, the SUMO Guy, in which we explore 'How not to worry.'  Paul is a speaker and author of 10+plus books and I particularly love his books - 'SUMO' and 'How Not to Worry.' So, dive in and enjoy.  Show notes below as well as an opportunity to connect with me and give feedback, subscribe to the show and join the 'The Man Sprouts Movement.'

In this episode I run through each element of the MAN SPROUTS MAN-IFESTO and encourage you to reflect on the importance of speaking up about our emotional and psychological wellbeing as men.

It is vital that we shift our perspective and attitudes surrounding mental health and more specifically, male mental health.  Men can feel so much pressure to conform to stereotypical norms and i is hard to break free from them at the best of times, so when we are really struggling with our mental health it can be an even bigger challenge.  

In today's episode i lay out the basis for my Man Sprouts Man-ifesto - a statement of how we need to start approaching men's mental health and supporting each other.

Welcome to episode 3 of the man sprouts podcast. 

In this episode I explore the issue of being judgmental when it comes to mental health as it relates to us blokes. I introduce the 'N' of the MAN SPROUTS MAN-IFESTO and share an interview with Dave Minchella who works with male offenders in supporting them with mental health issues.

The interview might be a little challenging for you in terms of your judgment muscles but worth listening to and reflecting on.