Today we're joined by the team from Happier Souls, Isa and Gurupma as they talk about going about making the world a happier place. 

Happier Souls is a project creating a community who want to be happier and more fulfilled; they're doing this by blogging and sharing personal stories. By answering provoking questions like 'What connects happy people?' and 'What does individual happiness mean?'. 

Join us as we discuss what inspired them to set up the project, how we can cultivate our own happiness in COVID-19 lockdown and much more. 

Catch Isa and G at the Happier Souls website here: https://www.happiersouls.com/

or connect with them on Instagram here: @happiersouls_ 

A random question for these random times. But is someone that successful, that admired and financially well off happy? Josh saw a clip asking this exact question and it provoked us to chat about it. What factor does money have? Can someone with such large-scale ambitions be happy now?

Super interesting chat on happiness, mindset and perspective. We hope you'll join us :) 

Stay safe, R&J x

We could say that Darcy is a Philosophy and Theology student at Oxford but is she is so much more. We could say that she's Head of People at Prospect100, a youth movement by Future Labs. We could say that she's a founding member of Black Head Students' Network connecting Black Head of Schools across the UK but, again, we'd only be scratching the surface. 

In this ep, we talk discipline, hard work, leadership, inspiring others, managing lots of passions and much more. An awesome chat you don't want to miss. Stay Home and Stay Safe everyone.

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Dean has been in retail for 5 years from working in a coffee shop to New Look and then onto Dunelm where he has secured a grad role. He shares his story of falling in love with serving customers and how he forced himself to become more commercially aware from his time in New Look at 17. 

We talk about doing more than your job description to be noticed and how to chase opportunities down.  

James is a 19 year old student and a director at The Warwick Incubator, Warwick Uni's start up incubator. We chat about what it's like running it, hear about his time representing his university over in Canada on a Consulting Competition and hear about his the many different internships he's done including KPMG and Rolls Royce; giving his advice on how to scout and take advantage of opportunities!

This episode is a debate around cancel culture. We discuss the attitude we have to celebrity and how we are often quick to 'cancel' people. But then do people have a right to be forgiven? Do we underestimate the trolling that happens online and the effect that can have on the individual? 

We discuss. Let us know where you stand!

Hey hey and welcome to our first main episode of season 4 as we are joined by Varun Balsara. 

Varun is a student over at Warwick University and runs ConnectUs - a student programme to bring people together over shared interests. He is also co-host of The Human Entrepreneur Podcast which takes a look under the lid of entrepreneurship like nothing else, focusing on the vulnerable, human side and uncovering the stories you don't see in the news. 

We find out what being a busy student founder is like whilst studying at a top uni, hear the stories behind his podcast and discuss some topical news, of course with the word association game in the middle. Also hear what Varun had to say on Ben Hughes' question from last time!

Well hello stranger, it's been a while! Josh and Ryan here, we're back on the pod game after being away for the mic for a while with our final year coursework and exams. Hear about the pressures of exam season, what personal projects we've been up to and what we have in store for Season 4!

How exactly can we thrive in our daily lives? That's what the 2% mindset is all about. How can we accept and move towards the challenges we face? How can we have better conversations with ourselves to achieve what we want to and sustain that? All this and more in today's session as we talk to Ben Hughes. Ben is passionate about mental health, especially in sport, and studys all things sports, coaching, performance and psychology for his Masters at Loughborough. 

As part of his course, Ben has written a blog and mentions everything we talk about there - if you'd like a read.>>

Read Ben's detailed blog on thriving, sustaining performance and looking after your mental health here: https://benhughessportpsychology.wordpress.com/2019/12/24/__trashed/

Plus check out his cool infographic if you don't fancy a read: https://create.piktochart.com/output/43351151-elite-athletes-thriving-in-mental-health-and-performance

Hey hey, Josh and Ryan here, welcome to the second half of our chat with Gavin Evans, CEO of Future Youth Zone. We dive straight in with the word association game and go on to talk about the life of a CEO and wearing lots of hats at one. We then talk about the wider perceptions of young people, the good and bad, and the importance of mental health in youth work. 

We hope you enjoy the episode! 

R+J