Deliberately Better
Deliberately Better
Dr Damon Ashworth
The Deliberately Better Podcast interviews several people about how they have successfully dealt with certain challenges in their lives. Other experts are consulted on how they would recommend overcoming common difficulties. Clinical Psychologist Dr Damon Ashworth and Osteopath Dr James Gillard also set monthly challenges for themselves, where they aim to apply the Deliberately Better ten-step process to improve a specific area or thing in their lives.
Challenge Four: Recap on reading more books and knee habilitation, and goal setting on the Wim Hof method and eating healthier
Clinical Psychologist Dr Damon Ashworth interviews Osteopath Dr James Gillard on their fourth Deliberately Better Challenge. They first recap on how they went with their third monthly challenge about James reading more books, and Damon focusing on his right knee rehabilitation following his ACL injury back in February 2020. They then discuss their fourth challenge of James trying to implement the Wim Hof method daily by practising his breathing and taking daily cold showers and Damon ordering Macros and aiming to eat more healthily. 
Jun 5, 2021
26 min
SMART goals and the importance of tracking progress over time
Clinical Psychologist Dr Damon Ashworth interviews Clinical Psychologist Dr Ben Buchanan on his company NovoPsych, the importance of tracking your client's or your progress over time, and how to best set SMART goals to improve things over time. By setting specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely goals, you are most likely to improve exactly what you want over time. 
Jun 5, 2021
22 min
Strategies to best change habits
Clinical Psychologist Dr Damon Ashworth interviews Clinical Psychologist Dr Erin Todd on her new online course that is helping people to best make behavioural changes in their life. They discuss the differences between her course and other courses on behavioural changes, and how to best make habits stick going forward. 
Jun 5, 2021
22 min
Everything you need to know about blood pressure
Clinical Psychologist Dr Damon Ashworth interviews General Practitioner Dr Martin Fox about blood pressure and his work as the primary GP at Southgate Medical Centre, at 3 Southgate Avenue Southbank, Melbourne. They discuss what blood pressure is, what causes it, and what can be done about it. 
Jun 5, 2021
20 min
Challenge Three: Recap on handstands and lowering blood pressure and goal setting for reading and knee rehabilitation for an ACL injury
Clinical Psychologist Dr Damon Ashworth chats again with Osteopath Dr James Gillard about the ten-step Deliberately Better process. James and Damon discuss how much progress they achieved with improving their handstands and lowering their blood pressure. James then talks about how he wants to read more over the next month, and Damon discusses how he would like to improve his knee rehabilitation following his ACL injury to his right knee back in February 2020. 
Jun 5, 2021
26 min
Working with mental health professionals and developing passive income streams
Clinical Psychologist Dr Damon Ashworth interviews Chaos Coordinator Natasha Ace on how she works with mental health professionals. They discuss the differences between working with psychologists in Melbourne, Australia and the United States of America. Natasha then discusses her work with private practitioners here in Australia, and her new course on helping them to develop passive income streams so that they aren't just reliant on seeing people on an hourly basis for their income. 
Jun 5, 2021
27 min
Autism, ADHD and the NDIS
Clinical Psychologist Dr Damon Ashworth interviews Educational and Developmental Psychologist Dr Allison Haynes about all things to do with Autism, ADHD and the NDIS. They discuss how scary it was to take the step to move into running a private practice business, and using strengths and outside supports to best help someone in their mental health and overall health.
Jun 5, 2021
35 min
How to approach public speaking
Clinical Psychologist Dr Damon Ashworth catches up with the Author and Motivational Speaker Dr Scott Harris about how he has been over the last two years since he has been last interviewed for the podcast. Scott talks about how the book launch was, how his work has been since then, and how he approaches his public speaking work.
Jun 5, 2021
14 min
How to look after yourself during isolation
Clinical Psychologist Dr Damon Ashworth interviews Clinical Neuropsychologist Dr Harvey Jones about the top five things that anyone can do to look after themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. 
Jun 5, 2021
38 min
Challenge Two: Recap on meditation and sleep, as well as goal setting for hand stands and lowering blood pressure
Clinical Psychologist Dr Damon Ashworth interviews Osteopath Dr James Gillard about their first Deliberately Better Challenge on improving their sleep and their meditation practice. After recapping how their first challenge went, Damon and James both discussed their new monthly challenge of trying to get better at doing free handstands (James) and lowering his blood pressure (Damon). 
Jun 5, 2021
27 min
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