Uncomfortable is OK Podcast

Kerene Strochnetter is the Managing Director of Mindful at Work, a business hell-bent on making the M-words cool in the workplace - mindfulness and meditation.

She’s also a sort after public speaker with a clear message is - if busy is the new stupid, then mindful is the new smart!
Kerene wants to get the message out: that mindfulness isn’t just limited to meditating but includes a set of robust well-researched practices, which when implemented, powerfully impact people’s lives and positively change workplace culture.

Her new book ‘Crazy Busy’ targets people suffering from the relentless pace of modern life - people who struggle to switch off and are looking for effective strategies to help to reconnect with what really matters - their lives, their work and the people close to them.

We chat mindfulness, wearing a busy badge of honor, the different paths we walk down. slowing down, focusing, and of course, dealing with discomfort.

Show notes:

• Nursing experiences (9.30)
• The motivation (11.30)
• The tipping point and mindfulness (14.50)
• The start of meditating and benefits (20.00)
• Writing her book (31.40)
• How to stay with good things (39.00)
• Strategy to approach uncomfortable situations (44.00)

Jase Te Patu returns to the podcast. Jase is an award-winning facilitator with more than 25 years of experience in the health and wellness sector. He is co-owner of Awhi Yoga and Wellbeing, a teacher trainer, facilitator, keynote speaker and creator of M3. Jase’s students include the All Blacks, the Hurricanes, the Pulse, the NZ School of Dance contemporary students and many more high-performance athletes.

This conversation covers challenges, self-awareness, and identity, human potential, mindfulness, training to ask for help, and of course, getting UNCOMFORTABLE

Make sure to support Jase in the next phase of his project

https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/6479-m3-mindfulness-for-children-ltd-early-childhood-videos

Show notes:

• The concept
• The differences between kids
• The mindset and the challenges
• Lessons he has learned
• Challange this week

Today I'm joined by Annaliese Arnold. Mum, business owner, mindfulness teacher, who is aiming to live a kick-ass life and help others to do the same

We chat about starting something hard, being mindful, following your curiosity, keeping going when things get tough, and of course getting UNCOMFORTABLE

Lisa Tamati is an ultra runner who has pushed her body and mind to its limits. She has run ultra races in all corners of the world and has raced over 70,000 km.

She returns to the Uncomfortable is OK podcast to talk about mental toughness, and to tell us about the toughest challenge she has faced so far.

Links:
lisatamati.com

Two recent podcast favorites, Gareth Edwards and Paul Watkins return to record an episode together.

These two dudes push the boundaries regularly and consistently get uncomfortable. Today we explore the idea of what it looks like when we decide to take the uncomfortable path and what we didn't realise we were missing out on until we did.

What are you choosing to adapt to?

In a society where comfort is the norm - choose hardship

I'm joined by Maya Nova who is all about self-awareness, resilience, agile mindsets, and mindful leadership.
Maya has spent over 25 years practicing mindfulness meditation, including a stint as a Buddhist nun. For over the last decade she has been distilling and teaching the practice of applying these skills to our day to day and work lives.

Show notes:

• Values to her heart (3.36)
• Self-awareness to herself (10.20)
• When did the curiosity strike (14.28)
• Areas to approach first (21.00)
• Identifying the important habits (31.10)
• Challenge this week (46.00)

Gareth Edwards joins me on the podcast today. Together with his mate Tom, he holds the unofficial Tyre flipping world record for 24 hours.

Coming soon Gareth is going to be flipping a Tyre by himself for 60 hours. He is doing this to raise awareness of the 60 men who lose their lives to suicide every hour globally.

It's a frank conversation about the challenge, going to dark places, human potential, mental wellbeing, and of course getting UNCOMFORTABLE

Make sure to follow along with Gareth

Failure is a dirty word in our society. It's something to be avoided at all costs.

BUT failure is inevitable. It happens to everyone at some point even if we're actively avoiding trying things because we're scared to fail.

This conversation turns the tables. It's a recording from the Augmented learning podcast where Carl Condliffe interviews me on how we can get better at failing.