Mindset By Dave Podcast

Rory Brown is one of those peolpe that you only need to spend a few minutes with to realise he is one of the most loveable guys on the planet, yet he spent years unable to love himself.

In this powerful episode Rory shares his story of living with an eating disorder, overcoming body dismorphia and surviving a suicide attempt to go on to become a coach with a difference.

What on earth is a Mental Health Marathon?

Well I got stuck with a thought a little while ago as to why when we do charity events are most of the go-to things centered around PHYSICAL health, PHYSICAL ability, PHYSICAL endurance?

Marathons, triathlons, climbing mountains, circuit training events, dance-athons, 24 hour calorie challenges and so on!

And I decided that I wanted to host an endurance event with a difference. When we are raising money for mental health, why not use a feat of MENTAL endurance?

From this idea the Mental Health Marathon was born! Using the famous 26.2 as a starting point I will be hosting a 26.2 hour mental health conversation, in 2021 on 26/2!

So why am I telling you about this so early? Well to put it simply because this is going to take a LOT of plaaning, a whole host of assistance and frankly because I wanted it out there in the universe so I now have no choice but to do it. (Oh and because the release date of this episode is the day the London Marathon was supposed to be!)

If you think this sounds like a great idea and you would like to be involved in any way then drop me a line through any of my socials. @mindsetbydave everywhere.

It's fantastic to have Paul McGregor back on the podcast. Paul is a mental health activist, campaigner and educator who shifted careers dramatically after losing his dad to suicide.

On this episode we get into Paul's current project including the ambitious "Everymind at Work" a white label mental health support application for the work place.

We also talk about how he is using platforms such as TikTok to reach a younger crowd and encouraging his own son Freddie into following in his footsteps with their mental health instagram lives.

If you haven't heard Paul's previous episode on the podcast I would highly recommend going back for a listen! (It's episode 71)

It was great to catch up with Paul and I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

Sanctus is an organisation I have had a keen eye on for many years now. They were one of the first people to have what I saw as an extremely big ambition of how to change mental health.

We often talk about normalising mental health conversations, well the gym is a normalised place in many people's lives and their vision was to create the mental health gym and have these become just as ubiquitous.

The road to that vision is long, but along the way Sanctus are doing great things helping to improve mental health and wellbeing within the workplace.

In this episode I am joined by their head of marketing - George - to discuss the past, present and future of Sanctus.

Social media has become an integral part of our lives, but rather that it being a tool that we use, it is often a tool that uses us.

In this epissode I talk about using social media deliberately and mindfully and ultimately understanding why we are on it at any given time.

This episode is hugely different from any we have done before and if you want to hear two people with different opinions discuss things in an extremely respectful manner look no further.

Josh Connolly is someone who caught my eye around mid 2019. His primary talking points were around COA - Children of Alcoholics and though having lived through this situation and now choosing a life of sobriety himself he does not demonise alcohol itself.

Since then his content has drawn me in and caused me to think critically about every word in ways that no other creator on the planet has done. So along with the standard interview, in this episode we deconstruct some of that content and in an age of headlines, taglines and click-bait we dive very deep into the concepts within.

Would love some feedback on what your takeaway points were from this episode! Drop a comment or message me through social media.

"Comparison is the thief of joy" - Teddy Roosevelt. It's one of my all time favourite quotes.

In this episode I jump into how comparison is merely a tool and if we use it for the right jobs it becomes perspective.

I also talk about how it feeds into shame and how when used to make us feel "less than" someone else that the tool is backfiring.

Duke Durham is a man with a burning fire inside him that is exposed through his equally fire poetry.

I first came accross him on an online poetry jam from the awesome What's Going On In Your Head and I instantly knew I needed more of this man's talent and insight in my life.

He uses poetry and wordplay to express conplex mental health conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder in lines that create stark visuals and incite strong emotions.

On this episode as well as dropping three of his pieces we also talk around a whole host of mindset and mental health topics, including for the first time on the podcast the mentality of racism.

The #MBDMonthOfMindset is back and with that comes all sorts of additional content on my Insta, Facebook and YouTube.

But one piece in particular I wanted to share with you is what I call "All in gratitude". A meditation where we let gratitude wash over us and fill us up.

Enjoy!

A loving kindness meditation is where you picture a person you love and fill up your heart with all the feeling you wish you could send to them.

You then imagine being able to send them all the love, kindness, happiness, health and prosperity in the world.

As we do this we have to fill ourselves up with these feelings, which brings a part of each of these emotions to us.

We then use the same levels of this emotion to someone who we feel neutral about and then someone who we struggle to like.

For this particular meditation we finish by sending all of that love inwards to ourselves!