New intro, old favourite episode! Back in Season 5 we talked to Maff Potts about the importance of having people and purpose in our lives. Maff is the founder of Camerados, a charity that helps people support each other through tough times. One of the main ways they do this is by setting up Public Living Rooms – places to go to when you need to connect to or just be around other humans, with no agenda, no mission and no fixing.

Before setting up Camerados, Maff spent 20 years working in the homelessness sector, where he ran the largest homeless services in the country for The Salvation Army, as well as being CEO of the award-winning organisation 'People Can', which worked with homelessness, criminal justice, domestic violence and addiction services. Maff ran the Government's programme to modernise homeless centres and even set up a shelter one Christmas in the Millennium Dome, for the charity Crisis!

To find out more about the Camerados and Public Living Rooms, head to camerados.org

If you're interested in setting up a Public Living Room in your community, then email Yvonne for a chat at [email protected]

We chat about coffee drinking advice on insta from @charlottefauregreennutrition

We also mention the following Right Up My Podcast episode, about mental health in Men: https://rightupmy.buzzsprout.com/1337593/12021616-ep-36-men-talk

Find out more!

For all RUMP info in one place: visit our linkt.ree

Get a shout-out:
Want a mention on the next RUMPette? Tell us your feedback or what you do to make yourself feel good: [email protected]

Support RUMP:
If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe, share with your friends and leave a review. It takes less than 60 seconds and really makes a difference in helping people discover the podcast. Thank you!

Join the RUMP Club! Support the team and access exclusive content from as little as £3 p/month at: Right Up My Podcast | Patreon

Or, if you'd like to make a one-off donation, you can buy us a virtual coffee from Buy Me a Coffee!

Be social with us:
Instagram Facebook TikTok

Thank you to our team:
Music – Andrew Grimes
Artwork – Erica Frances George
Social Media – Kate Balls
RUMPette Voiceover – Dave Jones

In this week's mini-sode, we dive into rubbish DIY, new skills we’d like but will probably never master, and ask: when is a drag queen not a drag queen? We chat about what makes a house a home, the Guardian’s 15th-ever zero-star review (now on Disney!), and why lying down in a dark room might just save the neuro-spicy among us.

We play an episode bonus from: Ep.70 – Ayurveda: how to bring this ancient wisdom into our modern lives | John Douillard

To take the Dosha quiz yourself, go to What's your Ayurvedic Body Type.

Find out more!

For all RUMP info in one place: visit our linkt.ree

Get a shout-out:
Want a mention on the next RUMPette? Tell us your feedback or what you do to make yourself feel good: [email protected]

Support RUMP:
If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe, share with your friends and leave a review. It takes less than 60 seconds and really makes a difference in helping people discover the podcast. Thank you!

Join the RUMP Club! Support the team and access exclusive content from as little as £3 p/month at: Right Up My Podcast | Patreon

Or, if you'd like to make a one-off donation, you can buy us a virtual coffee from Buy Me a Coffee!

Be social with us:
Instagram Facebook TikTok

Thank you to our team:
Music – Andrew Grimes
Artwork – Erica Frances George
Social Media – Kate Balls
RUMPette Voiceover – Dave Jones

We chat to Dr John Douillard all about Ayurveda, looking at how we can use this ancient wisdom to help with our physical health and emotional wellbeing.

He explains how small, practical changes can make a big difference to our everyday health, from nutrition to breathwork.

Dr. John Douillard is a globally recognized leader in the fields of natural health, Ayurveda, and sports medicine. He is the creator of LifeSpa.com, where ancient Ayurvedic wisdom meets modern science.

Extra, extra! Don't miss John explaining the three Ayurvedic body types (or Doshas!) and how understanding yours can help you live with more balance, energy, and longevity. Listen on our Patreon Page for free.

To find out more about Ayurveda and the work that John does, head to LifeSpa.

To take the Dosha quiz yourself, go to What's your Ayurvedic Body Type.

Find out more!

For all RUMP info in one place: visit our linkt.ree

Get a shout-out:
Want a mention on the next RUMPette? Tell us your feedback or what you do to make yourself feel good: [email protected]

Support RUMP:
If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe, share with your friends and leave a review. It takes less than 60 seconds and really makes a difference in helping people discover the podcast. Thank you!

Join the RUMP Club! Support the team and access exclusive content from as little as £3 p/month at: Right Up My Podcast | Patreon

Or, if you'd like to make a one-off donation, you can buy us a virtual coffee from Buy Me a Coffee!

Be social with us:
Instagram Facebook TikTok

Thank you to our team:
Music – Andrew Grimes
Artwork – Erica Frances George
Social Media – Kate Balls
RUMPette Voiceover – Dave Jones

We're heading back to Season 7 to explore the power of kindness. What does it really mean to be kind? Why does it matter – and can kindness ever backfire?

We chatted with psychology professor Robin Banerjee from the University of Sussex – home to the Centre for Research on Kindness. Robin led The Kindness Test, the world’s largest-ever study of kindness, in partnership with the BBC.

Plus, Gwen and Kate take on Robin’s kindness challenge and discover it’s not quite as easy as it sounds…

Find out more about The Centre for Research on Kindness.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00154cp

Find out more!

For all RUMP info in one place: visit our linkt.ree

Get a shout-out:
Want a mention on the next RUMPette? Tell us your feedback or what you do to make yourself feel good: [email protected]

Support RUMP:
If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe, share with your friends and leave a review. It takes less than 60 seconds and really makes a difference in helping people discover the podcast. Thank you!

Join the RUMP Club! Support the team and access exclusive content from as little as £3 p/month at: Right Up My Podcast | Patreon

Or, if you'd like to make a one-off donation, you can buy us a virtual coffee from Buy Me a Coffee!

Be social with us:
Instagram Facebook TikTok

Thank you to our team:
Music – Andrew Grimes
Artwork – Erica Frances George
Social Media – Kate Balls
RUMPette Voiceover – Dave Jones

Celebrity Traitors, moving house, and when a chocolate bar is no longer a chocolate bar… The RUMPette is back!

Gwen & Kate catch up and realise that the question “what have you NOT been doing to make yourself feel good?” might be the real topic of the week. They also dive into the idea that you are what you do when no one is watching — and how every little choice we make quietly shapes who we are and how we show up in the world.

Oh, and if all chocolate bars were about to disappear, which three would you save?

Find out more!

For all RUMP info in one place: visit our linkt.ree

Get a shout-out:
Want a mention on the next RUMPette? Tell us your feedback or what you do to make yourself feel good: [email protected]

Support RUMP:
If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe, share with your friends and leave a review. It takes less than 60 seconds and really makes a difference in helping people discover the podcast. Thank you!

Join the RUMP Club! Support the team and access exclusive content from as little as £3 p/month at: Right Up My Podcast | Patreon

Or, if you'd like to make a one-off donation, you can buy us a virtual coffee from Buy Me a Coffee!

Be social with us:
Instagram Facebook TikTok

Thank you to our team:
Music – Andrew Grimes
Artwork – Erica Frances George
Social Media – Kate Balls
RUMPette Voiceover – Dave Jones

Here's a sneaky re-peak at an old favourite. Have you ever failed at something? Of course you have, we all have! So in this episode we celebrate all things to do with failure. We speak to coach and mentor, Rebecca Hartnell, about how to work with failure, rather than be paralysed by it or by the fear of it. This leads us on to a wider chat about trusting our inner voice, grasping gratitudes and retraining our brains to find the gold in things that didn't go right the first time.

Head to our Patreon page for a reminder of the questions that Rebecca suggests we ask ourselves when faced with failure. Plus, the resilience-building challenge that she set us

If you'd like to find out more about Rebecca and her coaching work.

Find out more!

For all RUMP info in one place: visit our linkt.ree

Get a shout-out:
Want a mention on the next RUMPette? Tell us your feedback or what you do to make yourself feel good: [email protected]

Support RUMP:
If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe, share with your friends and leave a review. It takes less than 60 seconds and really makes a difference in helping people discover the podcast. Thank you!

Join the RUMP Club! Support the team and access exclusive content from as little as £3 p/month at: Right Up My Podcast | Patreon

Or, if you'd like to make a one-off donation, you can buy us a virtual coffee from Buy Me a Coffee!

Be social with us:
Instagram Facebook TikTok

Thank you to our team:
Music – Andrew Grimes
Artwork – Erica Frances George
Social Media – Kate Balls
RUMPette Voiceover – Dave Jones

Mindset expert, Karen Allen, explains how our thoughts can rewire our brains, with life changing results. 

She shares with us a series of mental exercises that we can all do, to help us move away from a fixed, rigid mindset that focuses more on what we don't have than what we do, instead rewiring our brains towards a growth mindset that will change the way we experience the world around us. And it is seriously powerful stuff!

Karen is a coach, author and TEDx speaker, specilaising in mental strength training, resilience and mindset. She works with both individuals and organisations. You can find out more about her work here. 

She is the author of Stop & Shift: The Mindset Rest Thats Changes Everything

Find out more!

For all RUMP info in one place: visit our linkt.ree

Get a shout-out:
Want a mention on the next RUMPette? Tell us your feedback or what you do to make yourself feel good: [email protected]

Support RUMP:
If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe, share with your friends and leave a review. It takes less than 60 seconds and really makes a difference in helping people discover the podcast. Thank you!

Join the RUMP Club! Support the team and access exclusive content from as little as £3 p/month at: Right Up My Podcast | Patreon

Or, if you'd like to make a one-off donation, you can buy us a virtual coffee from Buy Me a Coffee!

Be social with us:
Instagram Facebook TikTok

Thank you to our team:
Music – Andrew Grimes
Artwork – Erica Frances George
Social Media – Kate Balls
RUMPette Voiceover – Dave Jones

Gwen turns 50... and Kate was there too! Bath with us in the warm glow of Gwen's alternative 'feel good' weekend. Think Gays n Gurls circle, gong baths, hot tubs, saunas and a silent disco. We discuss birthday expectations, quantum magnetic people, and the ULTIMATE way to make yourself feel good on a milestone birthday. 

Episodes discussed: 

Ep.61 - Quantum-Touch Energy Healing: Bringing together breathwork and awareness | Karina Grant

Ep.8 - Tantric Massage: The philosophy and positive impact of tantric massage | Keone

Ep.11 - Sound Therapy: Using therapeutic sound to reduce anxiety, lower blood pressure and boost your mood | Farzana Ali

Find out more!

For all RUMP info in one place: visit our linkt.ree

Get a shout-out:
Want a mention on the next RUMPette? Tell us your feedback or what you do to make yourself feel good: [email protected]

Support RUMP:
If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe, share with your friends and leave a review. It takes less than 60 seconds and really makes a difference in helping people discover the podcast. Thank you!

Join the RUMP Club! Support the team and access exclusive content from as little as £3 p/month at: Right Up My Podcast | Patreon

Or, if you'd like to make a one-off donation, you can buy us a virtual coffee from Buy Me a Coffee!

Be social with us:
Instagram Facebook TikTok

Thank you to our team:
Music – Andrew Grimes
Artwork – Erica Frances George
Social Media – Kate Balls
RUMPette Voiceover – Dave Jones

It's time to turn back time! All the way back to 2021. We kicked off Series 3 with a shot of adrenaline, looking at why adventure is so important to our well-being. And luckily for us, we’re not (only) talking about climbing Everest here, but rather shaking things up, breaking our routines, pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones and expanding what we see as possible for ourselves.

We’re joined by explorer and author of the book Adventure Revolution, Belinda Kirk, who has spent the last 20 years researching the powerful impact of bringing a bit more adventure into our lives, what it does to our brains and how it positively impacts us in so many ways.

You can find out more about Belinda, her book 'Adventure Revolution' and the work she does at https://www.belindakirk.com/

Find out more!

For all RUMP info in one place: visit our linkt.ree

Get a shout-out:
Want a mention on the next RUMPette? Tell us your feedback or what you do to make yourself feel good: [email protected]

Support RUMP:
If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe, share with your friends and leave a review. It takes less than 60 seconds and really makes a difference in helping people discover the podcast. Thank you!

Join the RUMP Club! Support the team and access exclusive content from as little as £3 p/month at: Right Up My Podcast | Patreon

Or, if you'd like to make a one-off donation, you can buy us a virtual coffee from Buy Me a Coffee!

Be social with us:
Instagram Facebook TikTok

Thank you to our team:
Music – Andrew Grimes
Artwork – Erica Frances George
Social Media – Kate Balls
RUMPette Voiceover – Dave Jones

In this pocket-sized episode, Gwen and Kate talk about the current buzz about the power of green tea for our brain health, and Kate guides Gwen through a full-body Energy Bath (which you can join in too). Gwen also shares her top tips as she goes down a rabbit hole of Channel 4's award winning documentaries about juries, which leads to a uncharacteristically high-brow discussion on the flaws in the UK's legal system and the beauty of true crime podcasts. Enjoy!

Find out more!

For all RUMP info in one place: visit our linkt.ree

Get a shout-out:
Want a mention on the next RUMPette? Tell us your feedback or what you do to make yourself feel good: [email protected]

Support RUMP:
If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe, share with your friends and leave a review. It takes less than 60 seconds and really makes a difference in helping people discover the podcast. Thank you!

Join the RUMP Club! Support the team and access exclusive content from as little as £3 p/month at: Right Up My Podcast | Patreon

Or, if you'd like to make a one-off donation, you can buy us a virtual coffee from Buy Me a Coffee!

Be social with us:
Instagram Facebook TikTok

Thank you to our team:
Music – Andrew Grimes
Artwork – Erica Frances George
Social Media – Kate Balls
RUMPette Voiceover – Dave Jones