Notes on Vulnerability

By Alex Resilience Coach (Shore Coaching)

What's Notes on Vulnerability about?

Stories of resilience, courage and being human. When we lean into the discomfort of vulnerability that's when we find out who we really are and how incredible life can really be.

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Notes on Vulnerability episodes:

06.18.2024
S3 E13 Swimming With Sharks with Wildlife Filmmaker + Scientist Lizzie Daly
Sharks of the ocean kind, sharks of the human kind - this is a chat about adapting to hostile environments and developing life changing kindness, compassion and resilience. And we're also talking about imposter syndrome, jaguars - and lampreys.. After the...
06.04.2024
S3 E12 Resilience at 40+
Tips on building up resilience if you're 40+ (especially in perimenopause or menopause). The thing we don’t talk enough about is how GOOD 40+ life can really get. It can be full of new beginnings, exciting, empowering, liberating and validating....
05.28.2024
S3 E11 How To Stop Being A People Pleaser with Author, Self-esteem + Relationship Coach Nat Lue
Are you a people pleaser? Do you want to get better at boundaries? Nat Lue is a people pleasing expert, sharing insights, ideas and solutions that you won't have heard before - that will make a real difference to your...
05.15.2024
S3 E10 My Hidden Race with Olympian Anyika Onuora
Everything you didn't know about being a black female athlete in elite British sport. Anyika Onuora is a 3 time Olympian and has stood on the podium at every major championship. In this episode she opens up on everything, from...
05.08.2024
S3 E9 How To Stop Your Inner Critic
If you're really hard on yourself then this is the episode for you. Self-criticism holds us back in a big way - but you don't have to stay stuck in that cycle anymore. Book an intro call for resilience coaching here. Host:...
04.30.2024
S3 E8 - Understanding Love with Relationship Coach Simon Nicolaas
Are we compatible? Is this person "good enough"? How do I stop people pleasing in relationships? And is spark a waste of time? - this episode gives you some real honest truth and answers you can actually use. Book an intro...
04.18.2024
S3 E7 - Do you crave more connection? with Creator Kat Nicholls
From making new friends as an adult, to having (or not having) intimate relationships and navigating family dynamics, connection is key for humans. This episode is about how to have better connections - and to deal with all the challenges...
04.17.2024
S3 E6 How To Stop Taking Things Personally
Do you take things personally? We all do sometimes. But if it's really affecting your life, it's important to stop seeing this as a personal flaw - and view it as a learned behaviour that can be unlearned. In this...
03.18.2024
S3 E5 There Is No Such Thing As An Unmotivated Person
If you feel unmotivated then you just haven't found the right way to motivate yourself yet - or removed the obstacles that are in the way of feeling motivated. In this episode you'll get the secret to both. If you feel...
02.29.2024
S3E4 3 Steps to More Confidence
Anyone can be confident. You are not born with it. It’s not a personality trait. People who are confident learned this when they were young. That’s the only difference between them and you. If you don’t currently have that information...
02.15.2024
S3 E3 Shame lies. And you don't need it in your life anymore.
This episode is about identifying where shame is hurting you - and how to stop living under its influence. Including an example of how financial problems and throw us into shame and how you can start to change this even...
02.07.2024
S3 E2 Is There a Scientific Explanation for Manifestation? (If so, this is it)
Is manifestation real? This episode looks at the possible scientific explanation for manifestation - the Reticular Activating System - and the role it plays in making our dreams happen. If you're curious about confirmation bias, goals, manifestation or how your...
01.30.2024
S3E1 How To Be More Resilient. Bouncing back in hard times.
What really makes us resilient? It's not what you think. Has it become a toxic word in the workplace? This episode unpacks resilience and includes tips for building resilience going forward (from a resilience coach). Find out more about 1:1 resilience...
12.08.2022
S2 EP 16 - Tools for Resilience: Navigating grief, from break-ups to pet loss or the death of a loved one.
[TW: death and loss]. It's time to normalise talking about grief and loss. Grief can be an intensely vulnerable feeling and talking about it, especially getting more information about it, can help navigate that. Grief can be hard in so many...
12.01.2022
S2 Ep15 Tools for Resilience: Intuitive Eating + Finding Ease With Food
[TW: eating disorders]. Here's a public service announcement: diets are not designed to work! So if you haven't been successful with a diet it's not your fault. Food itself is neutral. But our relationship with food can be a revealing symptom...
11.24.2022
S2 EP14 - Tools for Resilience: You're not Too Old and It's Not Too Late
The vulnerability that comes from ageing, the narratives around our worth as we age and the sense of having lost something that was precious can be crushing. But it doesn't have to be. In this episode I'm talking to Lolly Streek,...
11.17.2022
S2 Ep13 - Tools for Resilience: The Benefits of Rejection
Rejection is something that feels universally uncomfortable. But could there be benefits to being rejected? In this episode we're looking at why rejection destabilises some of us more than others, how we project past hurts onto current situations and the...
11.10.2022
S2 Ep 12 - Tools for Resilience: Attachment in Relationships
Attachment styles and how they affect the way we function in relationships, from ghosting to intimacy challenges and trust. In this episode we'll be looking at the different types of attachment style - secure, anxious, avoidant and disorganised, what the signs...
10.28.2022
S2 Ep 11: Tools for Resilience - for Freelancers + Entrepreneurs BONUS EPISODE.
Resilience habits and a resilient mindset can determine whether you just survive - or thrive - as a freelancer. This is a solo episode looking at some of the biggest challenges of freelance life, from scarcity mindset to low self-esteem...
10.27.2022
S2 Ep10 - Tools for Resilience: Compassionate Leadership
Compassionate Leadership. How to energise your workforce, create legacy, improve collaboration and reduce attrition. In this episode we'll be examining compassion as positive action based on understanding - and the huge difference this can make to leadership. The Great Resignation, dissatisfaction,...
10.13.2022
S2 EP9 - Tools for Resilience: Why It's Time to Stop Being So Nice
Niceness vs kindness. What would you choose? Niceness is a safety strategy that many of us have used as a way to stay safe in the world. It trains us to put others' wants, needs and desires ahead of our own....
10.06.2022
S2 Ep 8 Tools for Resilience: Rethinking The Menopause
Did you know some women find menopause the most liberating time of life? Or that the peri-menopause can last for 10 years? The menopause and the peri-menopause still remain a mystery for many of us - and the language often...
09.29.2022
S2 Ep7 - Tools for Resilience: Highly Sensitive People
"You're so sensitive.." As many as 1/3 of us are Highly Sensitive People (HSPs), meaning that we feel things more intensely, have a more in-tune nervous system and can feel easily overstimulated. 50% of men and 50% of women are...
09.22.2022
S2 Ep6 - Tools for Resilience: Overcoming the Inner Cynic
Cynicism keeps us stuck and stops us from showing up in the world as who we really are in case that’s too much for people. Your Inner Cynic is an internalised control system that someone else has used on you...
09.08.2022
S2 Ep 5 - Tools for Resilience: Why We Should Play More
Play keeps your brain young, makes you more confident, productive and better at dealing with uncertainty. So why don't we do more of it? It feels incredibly vulnerable to reveal your playful side - and giving yourself permission and time...
09.01.2022
S2 Ep4 - Tools for Resilience: The Power of Trust
Trust is an intense and powerful human motivator. And it can also be something that feels vulnerable, especially if you have experience of trust being broken. But being resilient requires a leap of faith or two - adjusting how we...
08.18.2022
S2 Ep 3 Tools for Resilience: How to Get Out of Survival Mode
Negativity. People pleasing. Self-sabotage. Over-thinking. Fear of Failure. These are all signs of being in Survival Mode, which is the topic of this episode of Notes on Vulnerability. Survival Mode can be how many of us cope with vulnerability -...
08.04.2022
S2 Ep 2 - Tools for Resilience: Functional Medicine and Gut Health
Want to know more about the gut-brain connection and the solutions it offers for anxiety? How to deal with digestive health issues? Where to start with a diagnosis like Ulcerative Colitis or Crohns? This episode is all about gut health...
07.21.2022
S2 Ep1 Tools for Resilience: Emotional Regulation
Do you ever feel at the mercy of your emotions? This episode is about how the way we handle our emotions has an impact on how we experience life - and how emotional regulation can help. Emotions can be an...
11.30.2021
#14 Jamie Clements - Man Down
It takes a lot of courage to identify and challenge a dominant narrative. And a lot of vulnerability too. “Man Up” is one of those phrases we all got used to using without really thinking about it - but this...
10.26.2021
#13 Mike Guest Dawn Days, The Gift of Dyslexia and... Periods.
An imperfect and vulnerable discussion around mental health, the healing power of the sea and men and menstruation. Mike Guest is a master of film and photography an adventurer, dyslexic, a life long surfer and lover of all things water. After...
09.23.2021
#12 Yewande Adesida - Diversity in Cycling, Emotional Resilience in Sport and 'Sporty' vs 'Creative'
Yewande Adeside is a former competitive rower now a rowing coach, national-level track racer and SRAM ambassador. She has been a vocal advocate on diversity in cycling and spoken frequently about how her own experiences as a black cyclist have...
08.08.2021
#11 Kirsty Gallagher - Lunar Living, soul, trust, magic and a more cyclical approach to life
Did you know that some of your favourite wine might only taste so good because it’s been harvested with the lunar cycles? I thought that might get your attention (it's also true). In this episode of Notes on Vulnerability I’m...
06.24.2021
#10 Hannah Mindful Money - Money Stories, Financial Alignment and Finding Financial Freedom
Money and finances can bring all sorts of challenging feelings to the table. Whether you always feel like you’re struggling to get by or you feel guilty because you have more than others it’s never an easy topic. Most of us...
06.23.2021
#9 Dr Anna Hushlak (Ferly) - Mindful Sex & Pleasure
Mindful sex - how do we have more of it? Dr Anna Hushlak is a sex scientist and pleasure advocate, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at #FemTech company Ferly (@weareferly), an app empowering 50 million women and folx with vulvas to...
04.11.2021
#8 Nick Hounsfield (The Wave) - Blue Health & Exploring a Vulnerability Business Model
Nick Hounsfield (@wavemakernick) is the founder of The Wave (@thewave), Chairman of Surfing England, a stroke survivor at 45 and one of the UK’s most disruptive entrepreneurs - among many other things. In Episode 8 of Notes on Vulnerability we’re...
03.25.2021
#7 Jacko Human Flag (Oxygen Advantage) - Redefining Impossible After A Brain Injury
David 'Jacko' Jackson (@jackohumanflag Insta) is the guest on this episode. A former rugby professional - captain and all time top scorer at Nottingham RFC - he suffered a head injury in 2013 that was so serious that he was...
02.26.2021
#6 Anna Blackwell (Adventurer) - Adventure Is a Mindset
Anna Blackwell is an adventurer, photographer and writer with a soft spot for the Arctic. Currently based in Cornwall she has embarked on solo expeditions in some pretty inhospitable environments with only a tent for shelter. From the power of...
01.26.2021
#5 Sallee Poinsette-Nash (Brandable & Co) Being Human in Business
When did we decide that being professional means not being yourself? In this episode I'm talking to Sallee Poinsette-Nash (@salleespeaks Instagram), human brand builder, official Tall Person, dog fanatic and founder of Brandable & Co (www.brandableandco.com). We're talking about intuition, how...
12.28.2020
#4 Ian Finch (Walk Wild) - Risking Exposure, Embracing The Wild
Ian Finch (Insta: @ianefinch @walkwilduk) is a photographer, expedition guide and poetry-writing former Marine Commando. After a life changing sickness at high altitude he was forced to explore new paths in life and began an adventure into wildness. Today he...
12.05.2020
#3 Wild Swim Girls - Why We Swim Wild
Wim Hof, woolly hats, free the nipple and numb extremities... wild swimming and cold water swimming make up one huge trend right now. But what is it really like to get up at 6am and plunge yourself into the freezing...
10.03.2020
#2 Danny Kearney (Pro Safe) - Is Vulnerability A Weakness or A Strength?
In this podcast we’re talking to Danny Kearney (@solarpoweredbadger), ex-forces and now professional trainer and an ambassador for @operation_waitout and @mentalhealthswims. We’re focusing on vulnerability and how what is sometimes perceived as weakness is actually often a strength. From the...
09.02.2020
#1 Anika Severns - Where Can I See You Naked Online?
In this first episode of Notes on Vulnerability we speak to Anika, an American living in Holland who once made her living as a naked model and, thanks to the Internet, finds that this follows her wherever she goes.

What's Notes on Vulnerability about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Notes on Vulnerability episodes:

S3 E13 Swimming With Sharks with Wildlife Filmmaker + Scientist Lizzie Daly

S3 E12 Resilience at 40+

S3 E11 How To Stop Being A People Pleaser with Author, Self-esteem + Relationship Coach Nat Lue

S3 E10 My Hidden Race with Olympian Anyika Onuora

S3 E9 How To Stop Your Inner Critic

S3 E8 - Understanding Love with Relationship Coach Simon Nicolaas

S3 E7 - Do you crave more connection? with Creator Kat Nicholls

S3 E6 How To Stop Taking Things Personally

S3 E5 There Is No Such Thing As An Unmotivated Person

S3E4 3 Steps to More Confidence

S3 E3 Shame lies. And you don't need it in your life anymore.

S3 E2 Is There a Scientific Explanation for Manifestation? (If so, this is it)

S3E1 How To Be More Resilient. Bouncing back in hard times.

S2 EP 16 - Tools for Resilience: Navigating grief, from break-ups to pet loss or the death of a loved one.

S2 Ep15 Tools for Resilience: Intuitive Eating + Finding Ease With Food

S2 EP14 - Tools for Resilience: You're not Too Old and It's Not Too Late

S2 Ep13 - Tools for Resilience: The Benefits of Rejection

S2 Ep 12 - Tools for Resilience: Attachment in Relationships

S2 Ep 11: Tools for Resilience - for Freelancers + Entrepreneurs BONUS EPISODE.

S2 Ep10 - Tools for Resilience: Compassionate Leadership

S2 EP9 - Tools for Resilience: Why It's Time to Stop Being So Nice

S2 Ep 8 Tools for Resilience: Rethinking The Menopause

S2 Ep7 - Tools for Resilience: Highly Sensitive People

S2 Ep6 - Tools for Resilience: Overcoming the Inner Cynic

S2 Ep 5 - Tools for Resilience: Why We Should Play More

S2 Ep4 - Tools for Resilience: The Power of Trust

S2 Ep 3 Tools for Resilience: How to Get Out of Survival Mode

S2 Ep 2 - Tools for Resilience: Functional Medicine and Gut Health

S2 Ep1 Tools for Resilience: Emotional Regulation

#14 Jamie Clements - Man Down

#13 Mike Guest Dawn Days, The Gift of Dyslexia and... Periods.

#12 Yewande Adesida - Diversity in Cycling, Emotional Resilience in Sport and 'Sporty' vs 'Creative'

#11 Kirsty Gallagher - Lunar Living, soul, trust, magic and a more cyclical approach to life

#10 Hannah Mindful Money - Money Stories, Financial Alignment and Finding Financial Freedom

#9 Dr Anna Hushlak (Ferly) - Mindful Sex & Pleasure

#8 Nick Hounsfield (The Wave) - Blue Health & Exploring a Vulnerability Business Model

#7 Jacko Human Flag (Oxygen Advantage) - Redefining Impossible After A Brain Injury

#6 Anna Blackwell (Adventurer) - Adventure Is a Mindset

#5 Sallee Poinsette-Nash (Brandable & Co) Being Human in Business

#4 Ian Finch (Walk Wild) - Risking Exposure, Embracing The Wild

#3 Wild Swim Girls - Why We Swim Wild

#2 Danny Kearney (Pro Safe) - Is Vulnerability A Weakness or A Strength?

#1 Anika Severns - Where Can I See You Naked Online?

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