Resilience Unravelled

Living a life of discord and emotional suffering doesn’t need to be the norm. When we unravel the stories that the mind holds on to so tightly and become aware of our patterns and triggers, it can lead us to an awakening of a very different reality filled with ease and grace.

Beth Bell’s soul journey has taken her around the world to live, starting with humble beginnings in North Dakota, to California, New York City, Singapore, India, Bali, and now back in California. She spent 15-plus years in strategic brand management in the pharmaceutical industry, before becoming an entrepreneur and developing inspirational products, including a silver jewelry line for both eCommerce and a retail shop in Bali. 

In this podcast:

• Beth explains the importance of intuitive risk taking
• Why we need to unravel the storylines in our mind
• How psychedelics have helped her to embody intellectual concepts with her spiritual learning.

Nowadays there is a lot of discussion about the impact of childhood trauma but not a lot of time has been given to the relationship between siblings who are part of emotionally abusive families. It can be difficult to realise that you grew up in a home with these dynamics because denial that these things are happening is common. Sometimes this denial lasts to adulthood.

The relationship between siblings is nearly always damaged in some way. The dynamics parents set in motion often sets children against each other in very explosive ways. Children can grow up and have really tough relationships with their siblings or be estranged from them and still not realise that it’s not their fault.

In this podcast:

• How siblings can be treated differently and play 'roles' in emotionally abusive family dynamics
• How many children don't fully realise they have been in emotionally abusive relationships until they reach adulthood
• How its possible to break the cycle of emotionally abusive relationships and move forward. 

Like all high level sport speed skiing is about failure, rectification, incremental gains and constant evolution. It’s an extremely tough sport mentally and physically – you know you'll have crashes but you have to have a long-term vision and know where you’re tying to go.

You have to put goals in place that are incremental – you’re not going to get to your end goal of skiing at 200 kms an hour on your first run but you can set goals to get towards it and look at it with a long term perspective.

In this podcast:

• Jacob explains exactly what speed skiing is
• How he manages the anxiety that comes with skiing at over 100mph
• How his speed skiing and engineering careers overlap

There is a criticism of some awareness approaches. The critical thing is what comes next, of having awareness not for the sake of awareness but of making choices and taking meaningful action. We can’t just pretend to live joyful lives, we can’t just hope and affirm.

Being consciously brave is about being able to know what is needed in any given moment and then doing it. When we have the capacity to be free of all feelings and not judge ourselves we can come into our whole being and say ‘I can do this’. We need to be able to know who we truly are – to know I’m not my situation or defined by my loved ones - I’m defined by my essence which is never changing

In this podcast:

• Why we need compassion when dealing with addicts
• The importance of linking the mind and body
• What conscious bravery is.

Where there is a rupture in a team or where people don't necessarily agree, there is often a desire to get to a place where it is a little less uncomfortable, where it’s ‘nice’. We need to move, not to ‘nice’, but to a place where we can generate fresh ideas, where we can have discussions that move the organisation, team or a group of individuals to a new place, a new solution or a new way of doing things. This is what psychological safety is facilitating. It’s learning within a group environment and how we overcome any change in the world.

In this podcast:

• What psychological safety is and isn’t
• The link between psychological safety and respect
• Why critical feedback is important

Laura Purdy feels telehealth and digital health are the progression and future of healthcare. She sees healthcare as following the way the banking industry has evolved – we do almost everything remotely, rarely go to the bank and when we do its’ an inconvenience. If healthcare follows that trend, as technology is developed and adoption increases, it will get to the point where the first thing we think about in getting care is how do we do it digitally!

After fourteen years as a military physician, Laura comes across circumstances every day where she finds herself reflecting back to people she knew, positions she had, decisions she needed to make, life lessons learned and the values of the military. She feels her military experience has had a tremendous positive impact on everything she does.

In this podcast:

• Laura talks about some of the challenges life in the military can bring
• Making he transition from military physician to telehealth entrepreneur
• The future of telehealth.

This week we thought we'd give you another opportunity to listen to Dr Thackeray's take on Psychological Safety, something he has long been fascinated by. He is particularly interested in how it aligns with Burnout and Resilience and in this podcast he discusses:

What psychological safety is

What it’s all about

What it has to offer us

Some of the different theoretical ideas around psychological safety.

Ryan Larson has been a firefighter in Phoenix, Arizona for twenty-one years. In the emergency services sector people often talk about the physical requirements, the structure, the sense of clarity and knowing your role and what you have to do. But being a firefighter is a lot more than this - it isn’t just about running into a burning building, it’s about knowing your environment, knowing the structure and what you’re going into and then using all your senses - if you go up to a door and its really hot your senses tell you not to go through it, rather you need to change tactics. It helps you develop into someone who is able to use their skills to see the dangers - you’re planning, plotting, analysing and doing major risk management in your head as you walk through a building.

Ryan is also the founder and CEO of FirstLine Financial, LLC where he credits his empathetic leadership approach, sense of purpose and lifelong passion for helping others mitigate risk to the experiences he gained as a firefighter,  

In this podcast:

• Ryan talks about the different skills being a firefighter provides
• Why you can’t just ‘tuck everything under the bed’
• Transitioning from your first career to your second.

Sam LaCrosse hasn't done anything amazing. He's not extraordinary or impressive. He’s just an ordinary guy from Cleveland, Ohio, who now lives an ordinary life in Austin, Texas.

Sam’s approach to living a rich and fulfilling life doesn't involve slogans or self-esteem dogma. He feels the path to a good life lies in discovering and honoring your own core values.

Sam grew up as part of a tight-knit family where a constant was the ethos of values - he didn't understand what they were but he realised they were important. As he got older the idea of values became more interesting and something he investigated further, initially looking at the relationship between value and sacrifice. He then developed this into the relationship between value and identity which then became the basis for his book.

In this podcast:

• Sam explains why he decided to write his book
• How he defines value
• What he thinks truly forms personal identity.

Estelle Giraud is passionate about creating a better healthcare system. She believes that we all have the fundamental right to have agency over our own body, our own health journey and, the privacy that goes with it. The idea that we own and cleanse our own health data means we can show our own data to the people providing our healthcare needs on a global scale. Different countries have different systems so it makes sense for all our health information to come with us as we move through life.

Nowadays health is not just about going to the doctor and having some blood tests, it’s about mental health, diet, stress, sleep and community. These things all impact our health and we no longer have a single family doctor who knows all about us! Today’s medical systems have fragmented with different people and systems. People are now starting to realise that these things need to come together.

In this podcast:

• Why we need to own our own health journey
• How our health data can empower and serve us
• Why our health journey needs to be holistic.