John talks with special guest, Mike Chudley about personal development and self-growth. Delving into ideas of why people do or don't chose to focus on their own development and asking why so many people have never really thought about their own personal growth. John and Mike share their own journeys and lessons they've learnt about how to develop themselves.

Mike Chudley is a 23 year old content creator based in Essex. He's amassed huge followings on YouTube and TikTok since launching his career as a 14 year old.

John talks with special guest, Bex Pyrah, about the negative voice that exists within our heads. They share openly and honestly about their own negative thoughts and the way in which these have affected them over the years. Talking through how they have learnt to notice the negative voice in their head, whilst also revealing the ways they have learnt to handle these thoughts and move into a place where the negative thoughts no longer have as much impact.

Bex Pyrah is an activity teacher and CAS co-ordinator and mother of two, based near Oxford. She's been working on her negative thinking for years and has great insight into how to find ways to move beyond it.

John talks with special guest, Elijah Gumise about privilege, prejudice and unconscious bias. Sharing their ideas on how we get to the roots of our own issues, John and Elijah tackle this emotive subject head on. These two great friends, who grew up in very different worlds, not only reveal their own experiences and thoughts, but set the challenge of how to look inwardly at our own prejudice and bias.

Elijah Gumise is a mental health nurse working in the NHS, who left his native Zimbabwe as a teenager and has lived in the UK for over 20 years.

John talks with special guest, Jonathan Oatridge, about why death is still such a taboo in society, how we make peace with our own mortality and what might be the good parts of death. They share their ideas and thoughts on death, how they've handled facing their own mortality and what the fragility of life has brought to them. Tackling this subject head on they express their fears, hopes and experiences of death in and around their own lives, and talk through how to find the balance in our thoughts of our own mortality.

Jonathan Oatridge is a church minister, former civil engineer, coach, husband and father of two.

Identity, Ego and True Self

Welcome to episode 12 of The John Borland Podcast.

John talks with special guest, Phil Scaife, about identity, ego and finding our true self. Chatting through how lockdown and recent events have shaped their thinking on these matters. They share their ideas on their own and others' struggles to know who we really are, step away from our ego-driven culture and reconnect with our true self.

Phil Scaife is a multiple business owner, coach, podcaster, husband and father of three.

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John talks with special guest, Jayne Moran, about what it means to be truly authentic, how it impacts on our lives and whether is ever fully achievable. John and Jayne share their own struggles in being authentic, the realisations they have come to over the years, and how they have aligned their own lives to fit with who they really are. Revealing the power that finding our own authenticity can have and all the benefits it brings to our lives.

Dr Jayne Moran is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who specialises in working with people with autism through her roles within Careplus and The Faraway CIC, a not-for-profit organisation.

John talks with special guest, Mark Smith, about what life is like being the father of a son with cerebral palsy. They talk through Mark's experiences of the challenges and joys that raising Charlie brings. Discussing the highs and the lows of Charlie's life living with disability and all the impact that has upon family, friendships and education. John and Mark give a raw and real insight into what being a dad looks and feels like for them both.

Mark Smith is an NHS Paediatric Audiologist, husband to Louise and an amazing dad to Charlie and Poppy.

John talks with his 12-year-old son, Jaxon, about unconditional love. Revealing their own thoughts on love and whether unconditional love is even possible. They share their thoughts on the different levels of love that they have for each other and discuss their ideas on falling in love, staying in love, and making relationships work. They give an intriguing insight into what takes place between a father and son when they begin to discuss the deeper aspects of life.

John talks with his special guest Andy Hutton about how to cope with losing things in our life. We are always losing things in life and yet losing can still be really difficult for us to handle. When lockdown happened all of us lost something in someway, but why do some people seem to handle loss well and others really struggle.

John and Andy discuss their own experiences of what they have recently lost and how they have navigated their way through. Sharing their perspectives, emotions and thoughts on how they have dealt with the loss they have experienced over the last few months.

Andy is a multiple business owner, coach, husband and dad based in Lincolnshire.

John talks with his special guest and close friend, Mark Oliver, about why men don't have friends and what gets in the way of men forming deep bonds with each other.

We can so often witness the men around us only able to form shallow friendships and therefore, miss out on the value that deep relationships create. John and Mark discuss their own successes and struggles in creating close friendships. They talk through the things that help and hinder in the process, whilst also discussing the conditioning and role-modelling that has affected them along the way.

Mark Oliver is a Sports Development Consultant based in the North East of England.