Mantastic! Podcast.

What’s the point, why am I here? That point when I feel like I am tired of existing. This is a question me and our panel have asked ourselves about the lives at regular points on the timeline of our lives. It’s a place of despair, exasperation, and hopelessness. We perpetrate ourselves as human beings, this is a real thing, treat ourselves badly, not all the time of course, but, in tired moments of depression and feeling like all we do is battle for life, where is the middle ground. Our panel goes deep as always in this discussion.

A Homosexual man and Royal Air Force veteran Kevin has first hand experience with having his humanity not seen and his choices not respected.

In his work as a motivational public speaker, trainer and consultant for Inclusion & Diversity, Kevin uses his lived experience of prejudice and discrimination to share teachings that make organisational environments more inclusive

Kevin talks to us about his life experiences with discrimination, having been married and realising he was gay, not fitting in and being on the receiving end of brutal ignorance. 

This is an insightful, informative and inspirational look into what it is like to be othered, what can be done about it moving forward and some of the scars that linger.

If you'd like to get in touch with Kevin to enquire about his work https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-bazeley-at-ideea/

A very relevant topic at the moment and one that is always necessary to be have a discussion around. Suicide at some point can affect everyone directly or indirectly. Financial hardship, Relationship failure, low self worth , life is too hard, abuse, there are all sorts of reasons people get to the point where they are tired of trying at life and feel like they cant, don't want to or won't keep living, either way a common thread in reaching the point of calling it quits in this life seems to be catalyzed by overwhelming feelings of shame. when someone commits suicide families suffer , the ripple effect of suffering is exponential, which is weird when I consider that life is meant to be for joyful living. What to do when someone tells you they want to commit suicide and how to handle it. Our panel today whirls this serious topic around sharing personal stories with a great , revealing round robin on the topic.

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Gurdarvar talks about his lifelong experience with feeling different, his Bipolar diagnosis in 2019 at 52 years of age and how things have been for him since then. He bravely shares with us his personal tragedies and triumphs from being abused as a child, not being able to hold down a job or intimate relationship being disconnected from his children through to getting better every day, restoring balance and beginning to live the kind of life he always knew he could. A great listen!

Thomas shares personal experiences and insights around personal addictions and coping in recovery with Death, Guilt, Rage & Loss.  We remind each other of the benefits of taking care of ourselves and treating ourselves like we deserve good things, and we talk about how to change our state to one of Abundance and Love rather than live in the alternative as we learn to live in the solution. It’s healing to share. #Livemore #Bemore #Inspiremore

Do we actually know what leadership means to us? What is a leader? Who can be a Leader? What is my style of leadership? Do I have one and how many styles is it possible to have? What kind of a leader do I want to be? Believe it or not we manage to fit all this complexity into just over half an hour as we discuss eye opening philosophy about Leadership. If you have ever felt that somehow there must be more to leadership in your organization or life, give this one a listen, we barely scratch the surface.

Our panels discusses. Sounds like an easy task but is it. How do we take it easy on ourselves and give ourselves a break when we live in world that teaches us to be so violently hard on ourselves. Self-Compassion or being kind to ourselves could be the key to a healthier, happier life, what does it mean and how do we get there. Our panel discusses, shares personal experiences and professional insights. Brad offers up the Hawaiian mantra Ho’oponopono , try looking at yourself in the mirror and repeat the mantra I’m Sorry, Please Forgive me , Thank you, I love you. We can only be truly kind to others when we have learnt to be kind to ourselves.

Piers Cross talking to us about his personal experiences of Boarding School, How he got through it and how it impacted his life post boarding school. Piers has a book out on Amazon and is currently recording a documentary as an extension of his work with Boarding School Survivors. He talks to us about the ABCD's of Boarding school Syndrome, Abandonment, Bereavement (Homesickness), Captivity (Not being able to go anywhere) and Dissociation. We talk about hazing or initiation practices in boarding schools and sexual abuse. How has England as a historical Empire been responsible for this and how has going to Boarding School affected our world’s Political Leaders and there empathy and decision making. As usual we share personal stories and philosophies.

Laurence Johns, Development & Outreach Co-Coordinator for MKP UK/I talks to us about what The Mankind Project is, who it’s for and what it does and an outline of how it works. Laurence and I share personal stories and Philosophies. We talk about Men’s work, becoming a more developed and well-rounded man how it is possible to transform from addiction and a life of “Playing the game of life” being feared and afraid to a life of Purpose, Integrity and Accountability. Trust come up as-well.

Our panel bounces this one around today. How do we know when a relationship is toxic. What defines it. Does a relationship need to be obviously bad for it too be toxic or are the effects a lot more subtle than we might realise.

Trauma Bonding is a subtle surreptitious consequence of this.

We talk about how to love yourself first and the different levels of love and we have been conditioned to think love in a relationship is but really isn’t.

Robert talks to us about the energetic and energy healing principles around toxicity and trauma bonding in relationships, Thomas shares his personal experiences and we have a great panel discussion on this topic