The Sizzle Podcast

- What makes a good hug

- "The Tap" and men ending physical intimacy

- The lack of reference points for intimacy as a man

- Intimacy through combat

- The balance between "your truth" and "the truth"

- Navigating information

- How subjectivity can be a barrier to progress

- The merit of trying to find wisdom when you are surrounded by difference

- The Gillette Ad

- Jordan Peterson

- The way "what it means to be a man" has changed over time

- The 'gentleman' and the French Revolution

- The balance between biological and cultural influences on masculinity

- Trump as an opportunity to consider masculinity

- Using Feminism and a framework for thinking about masculinity

Suggested materials from Will:

- Go The Way Your Blood Beats (Michael Amherst)

- Mixed-Race Superman (Will Harris)

- Mixed Race Faces Insta account

Contact:

Find Will: @willdegroot (Twitter)

Find MEND: @MENDworld (Twitter)

Find me: @jgetaylor (Twitter)

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- The "martial art mentality"

- Meditation as a means to staying focussed

- Cycles of productivity

- Grit and inspiration

- Daily routines

- Tracking daily effort and perseverance

- Balancing your passion and perseverance levels

- The merits of meditation as part of productivity

- The importance of prioritisation as part of perseverance

- The difference between "a means" and "an end" in working towards our passion

- The different types of the role model within boxing (e.g. technical, moral)

- Boxing training

- Building a business

- The importance of staying connected to your roots

- How "the will to win" needs to be applied intentionally

- The importance of prioritising your projects

- The psychological processes in boxing training

- How terminology can frame understanding

- How boxing can be viewed as a system, like science

- Coaching phrases which contain knowledge and technique

- Using boxing as an analogy (boxing to understand life and using life to understand boxing)

- The strategy of boxing

- Physical, Technical, Strategic AND Psychological elements to boxing training

- How can boxing gyms prepare fighters psychologically for a fight?

- The importance of thinking across intellectual silos

- Understanding there may be multiple "right answers" to an issue.

- Being "an observer" of your participation in life (and boxing)

- How Tennessee's writing can provide a framework for training boxing



Find Carlos: @mrcarlosmoreno (Insta)

Check out Moreno Boxing: @morenoboxing (Insta)



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- How people get into medicine (and often don't know what they've for themselves into!)

- The difficulty of getting good work experience in caring professions

- The tension around quitting and "falling out of love" with a career

- How immature people's brains are when they make career decisions

- What training to be a medical doctor looks like

- The transition from lecture based learning to experiential learning (hospital placements)

- Progressing from observing to working "with life and death"

- The complexity of people and illness

- Doctor / Patient power dynamics

- Are we using the best processes to teach people to become Doctors?

- Does the training for medicine work in opposition to the practice it requires?

- How GPs are like a multi petal flower

- Shift patterns, circadian rhythms and sleep

- Researching how to make ourselves healthier

- Complimentary medicine

- The difficulty of filtering evidence for validity and efficacy

- Personalised medicine

- The difficulty of explaining the rationale behind treatment options

- The importance of supporting the mental health of medical professionals

- Health as opposed to physical and mental health

- Peer supervision as a way of unsticking

- Collective intelligence

- The Hippocratic oath

- "Is there a doctor on the plane?" and the morality of helping.



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Episode #006 is with Carys Afoko and we talk about the following:



- Reading habits and "syntopic" reading

- Making friends as an adult

- The similarities between Cardi-B and Angela Duckworth

- Why the word "Feminism" is important

- What Feminism is (for Carys)

- How people engage with the idea of feminism

- How feminism can advantage everyone

- The tension between balancing theory and practical change

- The importance of making movements communal

- The opportunity of bringing "academia" and "personal experience" closer together

- Identity and "sticky labels" (big up Yusef and Yusuf).

- How Feminism can help create an inclusive and supportive society.

- Connecting with the "heart" and "head" space

- How fear and power might influence inequality

- The feminist lessons from Pretty Woman

Recommended by Carys:

- Level Up by Sway (song)

- Level Up by Ciara (song)

- The Power by Naomi Alderman (book)



Find Carys at:

@carysafoko



Find out more about WeLevelUp at:

www.welevelup.org

@level_up (insta)

@welevelup (twitter)



Talk to me at:

@jgetaylor (twitter)

drjotaylor.com



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So I really wanted to think about how to deliver psychological services better and Holly said she would help me, using her experience as a user researcher and service designer. We talk about:

- What is user centred design?
- Summarising the different parts of the Educational Psychologist's role
- The different ways to think about users of a service
- The different touch points for users of a psychological service
- How we report back about our psychological work
- Using the "highlighter test" to explore the utility of written feedback
- What is the end point of our involvement as psychologists?
- The balance between intuitive work and evidence informed work
- Zooming in vs zooming out, to understand the best way to change something
- Using soft system methodologies to understand the life cycle of a psychology report
- The difference between what people say they do and actually do
- The importance of not jumping to conclusions with hypotheses
- A teaser for future conversations about this, as I get further in my research / thinking.



Takeaways:
- Compile a list of all the stakeholders for psychological services
- Using the "highlighter test" to ask children, families and teachers to comment on the material in reports
- What are different users doing with psychological reports? (e.g. reading the summary, checking the recommendations, putting it in a draw).
- Create a user journey map by interviewing parents, children, teachers and psychologists to understand common tasks
- Diaries can help us to understand the details of people's experiences working with psychologists

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I am having my first boxing fight on 30th November. I have such conflicting thoughts, feelings and emotions about this and thought, what better way to explore this than with a fellow psychologist? It gets quite deep, but I think it is interesting. We cover:

- The physical and emotional elements of my preparation
- Aggression and trying to win
- Shame and spite
- How I argue and acting from anger
- Exploiting weakness
- Staying in control / controlled aggression
- The possible differences between sparring and fighting
- My worries and fears
- Negative experiences providing rich learnings
- The role of "an opponent"
- My imaginings of the fight
- Visualisation
- The function of intense exercise
- How we can need others to grow
- Immediate pride vs long term pride

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Sizzle Solo Sessions (SSS): no guest, just me talking about thoughts I have had recently. As a format, I'm viewing SSS as shorter episodes where I discuss something on my mind. Which, other people can respond to, leading to some learning for us all.

Today I am talking about:
- Warrior mindset
- Compassionate mindset
- Behaviour experiments as a tool to support positive action
- Societal trends for working hard
- Why productivity does not always equals wellness
- Whether providing young people with a "never say die" mindset is actually doing them a disservice?

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We cover:

- How to pronounce Nike
- Kim's journey from financial services to being the best trainer in London (according to Classpass)
- Food&Lycra
- Representation in the fitness industry and the importance of "seeing people like you"
- The tension between the increased promotion of wellness and increased expectations
- Balancing "shiny" and "authentic" social media posts
- The responsibility of having a social media following
- Who Kim thinks is doing amazing things in the fitness and wellness space
- Personalised training vs generalised training
- Different types of fitness
- Taking the first steps towards improved fitness


@kimmayco
@foodandlycra
www.foodandlycra.com

Contact me:
@jgetaylor
[email protected]

Further reading:
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

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Show Notes:

We cover:
- Kelly's journey to yoga
- So, what is yoga?
- The eight limbs of yoga
#instayoga
- The balance between making yoga accessible and diluting the essence of the philosophy
- The ethics of using yoga as a prescription
- The cultural accessibility of yoga
- The benefits of self care Vs the pressure of unrealistic expectations
- The importance of trust in yoga
- The difference between physical sequences and a yoga practice

Check Kelly out on:
@kellybrooksyoga
www.kellybrooksyoga.com
@klubyoga

Further Reading:
The Tree of Yoga (Iyengar)

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@jgetaylor
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This is not even really the first episode, it's more of a prologue. You know sans intro music and editing.

Think: a blind date, where your best friend has set you up with a mystery hottie. You are excited, but basically want to know what the hell you can expect... So listen on to hear my "what and why for The Sizzle". Also, a great chance to get to know my dulcet tones and Hackney accent.

@jgetaylor
[email protected]

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