The Lobster Podcast - conversations out of our comfort zone

This is the story about the impact of German charity, Live Love and Learn, in Ethiopia, Malawi and Brazil with their missions to help poor children find hope for a better future. Philipp Bernhard, son of the founding members of this charity, shares with us how it call came together from his African roots, his life in Brazil, his passion for music, his further education in NGO Development and all his current activities to transform thousands of lives. This is an episode that will show you just how much impact you can achieve, when you really combine what is in your heart with concrete and truthful actions. If you want to trust an organisation with almost 97% impact of your donations and transparency of their projects, then this is the right place to contribute. Lobster Coaching does exactly that, whereby 3% of income with each coaching client goes automatically to Live Love and Learn - to safe lives, to give hope and to see more smiles. If you are looking for a professional coach, get in touch with [email protected] and your donation will be included.

For donations to Live, Love and Learn please visit: https://www.liveloveandlearn.org/en

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Every year November is the perfect month to grow a moustache. Why? Discover the Movember Foundation in this podcast episode with Patrick Fähling. Growing a moustache and raising money for this charity supports the mission to increase awareness for men’s health. In this uncomfortable conversation between two men we talk about our physical and mental wellbeing and explore the challenges that we face in taking care of ourselves. Why do men feel so uncomfortable to speak about their body and psychology with each other? What holds men back from visiting their doctor more frequently and regularly to check their health? Mainly it’s a mental aspect, the fear of any cancer and the belief of needing to be strong and unbeatable. It’s also educational in those cases when showing vulnerability and weaknesses was considered to be a lack of confidence.

Donations are good, awareness is better! Find out more and support Movember here https://movember.com

Have you ever heard of the mystery of plastic in our oceans? Research has discovered that globally, every minute, 20 tonnes of plastic waste flow into our seas relentlessly, amounting to 6 billion tonnes since the 1950s. An astonishing figure and so far we have only treated 1 billion tonnes. So where is the rest of it and what’s the journey of plastic waste from land to sea? Most importantly even, what solutions can we learn about today and implement in our daily lives to help make a difference? In this episode with Simon Bernard, CEO and co-founder of Plastic Odyssey, we will discover an adventurous ocean expedition with his team across 30 countries, to fight plastic waste and to implement innovative solutions to turn off the tap of plastic at the source.

To track the vessel of this expedition life out there in the world, simply visit https://plasticodyssey.org

We are nearly 8 billion people on planet Earth and populations keep growing in the face of a climate crisis for humankind, that can jeopardise its existence. Despite some pandemic effects, our lives still evolve in and around cities, that are expanding in size and people density at an increasing velocity, causing harmful air pollution, a lot of stress and bringing mind-blowing challenges with regards to the sustainability of the environment. So how do we build better cities? How do we bring in green solutions? The best person I could talk to was Philipp Rode from the London School of Economics, an expert in sustainable urbanism. Listen in, and discover some hidden truths and uncomfortable challenges, that we will all need to overcome in order to lead better lives and also to provide a better legacy for future generations. As you know, we don’t own the world, we just borrowed it from our children.

What does it really mean to be high performing? What expectations are out there towards us affecting the way that we operate and collaborate with each other? How would it make you feel if you’d be able to perform at sufficient levels instead? This is a mindset shift to try and reframe our understanding of high performance and the meaning of authentic leadership. With my colleague Jackie Elliott, Executive & Team Coach of the Heuristic Group Coaching organisation, we will explore the uncomfortable journey for individuals, teams and organisations to transition to a values-based leadership approach that can enable workplaces to truly thrive. Discover how to get out of your comfort zone, think differently and embrace a sufficient growth mindset, that not only will be healthier for you and make you feel in flow moments, but ultimately also leads to more sustainable performance and wellbeing over time.

Are you experiencing burnout symptoms? Not sure? Discover what the 5 stages of burnout really are with me and Veronika Janeckova, co-founder of Burnout Heroes. Listen to our own burnout stories, hear about the real potential for you in demystifying this experience and learn how to turn such crucial point in life into an empowering and catalysing energy to liberate your true self. We touch on personal experiences, burnout addictions, even considering suicidal phases, the meaning of burnout in our lives, the teachings, the wisdoms. And we also add corporate perspectives and responsibilities into the mix, by reflecting on our opportunity as professional coaches to shift workplace cultures and their environments from occasional, punctual well-being interventions towards “habitual well-being” realities, where we truly care for each other and can really perform more authentically.

Are you ready to become a climate artivist, rather than an activist? Samuela Burzio founds associations and collective spaces to create new imaginaries and new narratives on the ways we live and connect. She travels the world writing books and invites people to a creative exploration of our relationships with nature. With inclusive creativity we all have the opportunity to learn how poetry and photography can be powerful vehicles to connect human beings with any living thing. Listen how we reframe the climate crisis with the rarely mentioned crisis of sensitivity. What we’re seeing outside, is actually a manifestation of what is happening inside. Taking care of climate change won’t happen by fixing the outside from an ego-centric place, it is rather necessary to heal ourselves within first, give ourselves a chance to be humble and have the courage to just be a small and wonderful part of Mother Earth.

Connect with Samuela Burzio on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuela-burzio-24631b38/

With Caroline Assaf, founder of EdTech startup Coco World, you’ll be hearing about her work in enabling teenagers to understand their authentic self and to create more meaningful connections in life. Even as adults, how can we be truly authentic? At the workplace, in society or in our intimate relationships - how do our connections resonate within ourselves? Creating a world with better communities is what we are all thriving for, but that’s only a vision of the end result, the “what”. From there we need to go backwards and figure out “how” we can change the way we connect and communicate with each other. Before we even think about the “how”, there is however another essential step, the “why”. Listen to this episode with me and Caroline, to hear about the benefits of empowering Youth with peer learning, knowledge sharing and crucially by understanding who we really are, what our personal values are and how invaluable it is to create a space for uncomfortable debate and vulnerability.

Tanya Marwaha, is founder of non-profit organisation Championing Youth Minds, is a student at the London School of Economics and is developing an inspiring career despite living with non-visible disabilities. Tanya lives constantly with painful discomfort due to Fibromyalgia and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) - both untreatable and physically painful disabilities. The challenges she faced started at very young age, where these diseases weren’t even recognised, impacting her mental health as well in any of her social circumstances: at school, in uni, and even now as an entrepreneur. She not only learned to manage her physical body, and to cope with numerous competitive disadvantages on multiple levels, she actually found the strength and determination to actually speak up about non-visible disabilities. Today, she’s one of the loudest voices on LinkedIn and definitely an inspiring person to listen to when it comes to raising actionable awareness for diversity and inclusion.