Things I Forgot Were Good For Me

Bobby Seagull is a school maths teacher and Cambridge University Doctorate student. Before moving into education, he was an investment banking trader at Lehman Brothers & Nomura, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant from PwC. He's an ambassador for the charity National Numeracy, a presenter for an Open University course on personal finance for young adults, a regular contributor to Radio Four’s Puzzle For Today and a columnist for the Financial Times.
Bobby is the author of The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers (which reached #50 Amazon UK best sellers over Christmas 2018) and co-presenter of the podcast Maths Appeal. With my University Challenge friend. He co-wrote The Monkman & Seagull Quiz and co-presented a BBC TV series Monkman & Seagull’s Genius Guide to Britain. Outside of maths.

In this episode of Things I Forgot Were Good For Me, he talks all about growth mindset and how we can tap into that place where we can find our passion and purpose in life. 

Dr Radha and Giles take a look back at the first two seasons of Things I Forgot Were Good For Me to discuss what they've learned and what's coming up in season 3!

Joe is a Features Writer at GamesRadar+ and has written for a number of gaming, sport and entertainment publications including PC Gamer, Edge, Play and FourFourTwo. Joe is also a mental health advocate and has written a book about video games, mental health and their complex intersections. He is a regular expert contributor on both subjects for BBC radio. 

In this episode, he chats to us about how video games can help to heal our mental health through entering digital worlds and how the perceptions of video games as creating isolation for the users are false, that they are actually a springboard for connection and community. 

In this episode we talk to Miranda Keeling is a writer and performer. She writes plays, screenplays, short stories, articles, and poems. Inspired by her popular Twitter account, her book The Year I Stopped to Notice brings together her observations of the magic, humour, and strangeness of ordinary life. We discuss the power of simple observation for our mental & emotional wellbeing and how it can improve our ability to imagine, to be creative, to be empathetic, and to connect to others. 

In this episode, we chat with Darina Garland who is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of the global outdoor pizza oven brand Ooni. Darina is passionate about developing people, community, growing world-class teams, and authentic partnerships. She champions Ooni’s aim of encouraging everybody, everywhere to make pizza. We talk about the power of food and cooking to connect people together, about creativity and food, teamwork and leadership, and, of course, pizza!

In this episode we chat to Madeleine Black - an author, speaker, sexual violence
activist, former psychotherapist and who hosts her own podcast show called
“Unbroken: Healing Through Storytelling. After decades of silence, Madeleine
decided to share her own story publicly online in September 2014 and she
completely underestimated what the response would be. She is passionate about
speaking out to end the shame, stigma, and silence surrounding sexual violence and
to help others find their courage and voice too. We talk to her about her journey,
finding her voice, and the power of her work to support others to do the same. 

This episode contains a discussion of sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised.

This week, Sarah Stein Lubrano, Content Lead at The School of Life, chats to us
about their book, ‘On Failure – How To Succeed at Defeat’. Sarah holds a bachelor’s
degree from Harvard College and an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual
History from Cambridge University. She is currently reading for a DPhil in Political
Theory at Oxford University. We chat about why we as a society are afraid of failure,
how to deal with mistakes, how to deal with other’s opinions when we fail and how to
find perspective, and why it is helpful for us to expect and get used to failing.

In this episode, we talk to Pauline Cox who has a deep passion for health and
nutrition.  Her day-to-day work involves translating complex science into simple,
easy to follow steps to make health information increasingly accessible.  She is the
author of the award-winning book, Primal Living in a Modern World, co-founder of
high street and online low-carb and keto specialists Sow & Arrow and co-founder of online health membership, My Health Mastery, we discuss how our relationship with
food is tied so closely with our well-being, both physical, mental, and emotional and
how we can tune in more to what our body needs.

In this episode, we talk to Roo Irvine who is a regular TV expert and main presenter
on shows such as BBC Bargain Hunt, BBC Antiques Roadtrip, and Celebrity Antiques
Roadtrip. Roo also owns and operates Kilcreggan Antiques in Argyll & Bute. We chat
about how we can discover more about ourselves by connecting with the past
through antiques, how antiques can create a mindful strategy for living as well as
creating perspective on our own challenges and her career journey.

Lyndsey Uglow is the author of ‘Leo & Friends - the extraordinary dogs with the
healing touch; and a volunteer who developed the Animal Assisted Intervention team
at Southampton's Children's Hospital. In this episode, she talks about her very
personal journey into this area of volunteering through her own family experience
and the benefits it can bring to children and young people.
She shares her reflections about what fleeting connections can do for our wellbeing,
why we might have forgotten its importance, and why sometimes it can do more for
us than long-term connection.

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