On this episode I'm joined by Fiona Murden - Psychologist and award winning author & Declan O'Connell - Performance Consultant. Series 5 is a short collection of interviews recorded during lockdown. There's an emphasis on; - attention - intention - distraction As well as a fascinating challenge at the end of each interview for my guests! Enjoy

On this episode I'm joined by Rebecca Jones - founder of Stretchy Thinking & Winston Ben Clements - host of the podcast Born2win. Series 5 is a short collection of interviews recorded during lockdown. There's an emphasis on; - attention - intention - distraction As well as a fascinating challenge at the end of each interview for my guests! Enjoy

On this episode I'm joined by Cody Royle - author of Tough Stuff and host of Where others won't podcast & Mark Metry - author of Screw being shy and host of the podcast Humans 2.0 Series 5 is a short collection of interviews recorded during lockdown. There's an emphasis on; - attention - intention - distraction As well as a fascinating challenge at the end of each interview for my guests! Enjoy

On this episode I'm joined by Karen Lee - The sensitive foodie & Richmond Stace - The pain physio Series 5 is a short collection of interviews recorded during lockdown. There's an emphasis on; - attention - intention - distraction As well as a fascinating challenge at the end of each interview for my guests! Enjoy

On this episode I'm joined by Kirsty Mac & Jim McNeish - Co-hosts of the podcast: Leaders, what now? Series 5 is a short collection of interviews recorded during lockdown. There's an emphasis on; - attention - intention - distraction As well as a fascinating challenge at the end of each interview for my guests! Enjoy

On this episode I'm joined by Aimee Bateman - Founder of Careercake and Tim Roberts - Emotional Intelligence Coach & Facilitator. Series 5 is a short collection of interviews recorded during lockdown. There's an emphasis on; - attention - intention - distraction As well as a fascinating challenge at the end of each interview for my guests! Enjoy

On this episode I'm joined by Scott Leiper - Creator extroadinaire and Chris Lovett - The minimalist. Series 5 is a short collection of interviews recorded during lockdown. There's an emphasis on;  - attention - intention  - distraction  As well as a fascinating challenge at the end of each interview for my guests! Enjoy 

On this episode I share my interview with Chris Lovett; life coach, speaker and career mentor who most recently has channelled his energy towards making a different choice. Chris does a few things. There's a theme developing where Chris finds himself supporting others through a passion. He's currently a leadership coach having arrived there via music, DJ'ing, radio host and podcast host; developing others along the way. He's also a minimalist. On work-life balance; It feels like I've been talking about this for a while. I used to strive for whatever the work-life balance was. But I don't think that aiming for balance should be the goal. We may have intermittent moments of balance but life is too chaotic. Like a modern relationship, balance as changed and we have to do more than the perceived 50/50 split. It's a constant fluid approach, changing as we go. Minimalism When I found minimalism I had to make some choices about what added value to my life. I'd started to fall out of love with music and had to make a choice. Chris decided to cut 'live' events (which he was running fortnightly) and a few other commitments. If unsigned artists want some feedback he will still make himself available to do this. Not wanting all of his music experience to go to waste Chris is very passionate about supporting others. Being self aware Chris found himself in a comfort zone. Making a different choice He had always wanted to go travelling. He was caught up being busy and put up barriers to prevent him from doing this. The realisation that stuff was adding to more stuff and being stored in stuff brought home the need to make some changes. Chris began to sell some of his stuff and initially struggled to let go because of his emotional attachment to his stuff. Selling stuff however, allowed him to pay off his debt (something else he'd collected). Building on this he took a career break, his partner quit her job and they sold the house. At this point there wasn't a lot of stuff left! The biggest result; Realising that he could live and be happier in life with less. What can you (and I) do? The physical act of removing something from your environment is pretty straightforward. The attachment to the stuff you've got is hard. Ask yourself, does this thing; bring joy to your life? add value to my life? serve a purpose? You and I can apply this apps on our phones or email that you are subscribed to. Taking it a stage further you may want to look at some of the relationships in your life. Find out more Finally if you would like to start a conversation with Chris, you can find him on; Twitter Twitter LinkedIn Alternatively, find out more about Chris by reading the latest Ignite blog; Being a Minimalist More details can be found on their website. If you enjoyed this episode you can leave the show a rating and review on iTunes or the platform that you use to listen to podcasts.

On this episode I share my interview with Nina Grunfeld, founder and creator of Life Clubs and a woman of many other talents who's been helping people with 'living happier lives' for over 15 years. Nina founded Life Clubs in 2004 and they host workshops that help people really feel as positive as they can and get more fun out of life. On work-life balance; I'm a bit of an obsessive worker and absolutely love it. I don't think I see it as work-life balance, I see it as life balance. It's not just work and life as that sounds to me like they have equal weight on the scales. Within Life Clubs and the work we do, we have a wheel which encompasses 10 areas including work, relationships, family etc. This allows for lots of different things in our lives and it's alright to want to have a balance of only work sometimes. Balance is important for all of us. But maybe it's the balance that 'you want' rather than what you think you ought to have. Where it all began I read an article in 2002/3 about 30 year old's being the most depressed sector of society. Looking back on my own 30's I remember they were quite tricky. Lots of big decisions are made during this period of our lives and Nina wondered how she could help those 30 year old's. Someone walked in talking about Weight Watchers and that sparked the idea. Forever the optimist, Nina set out with the idea of running these all over the country! Today they run a number of Life Clubs as well as taking the approach into corporate businesses, helping others with living happier lives. Prior to...Life Clubs From graphic designer with a link to Star Wars to writing her first book on 'stain removal' there is more to Nina than you might expect. Her first book sold over 1 million copies! More writing and books followed, yet Nina's hobby remained the same; helping her friends to find what they'd really love to do. Trained as a Life Coach and using her intuition, the rest is there for us all to see. One of my favourite quotes from Nina is; I'm a bit like Richard Branson without the massive success. I'm always in danger of spreading myself too thinly. What's next? The tools learned by Nina over the years are so useful that she's turning towards charities and other sectors that haven't always experienced the benefit of this knowledge and approach. Stubborn, dogged and determined it will be interesting to see what happens next with Nina's latest plans. Find out more Finally if you would like to start a conversation with Nina, you can find her on; Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Alternatively, find out more about Nina by reading the latest Ignite blog; Being part of a club More details can be found about Life Clubs on their website. If you enjoyed this episode you can leave the show a rating and review on iTunes or the platform that you use to listen to podcasts.

On this episode I share my interview with Bronwen Thornton, Chief Executive Officer of Walk21 an international charity dedicated to ensuring the right to walk...everybody does it, nobody thinks about it. Bronwen and Jim (as you'll hear on this podcast) often smile when asked what it is they do. In short the answer is they promote walking. People want to work with Bronwen and Walk21 because they fundamentally believe in it and people pick up on her passion. On work-life balance; We (Jim and I) work from one list. We don't have separate lists for work and life. We work together and we work from home. We juggle it together. Sometimes you might work hard for a couple of weeks and then you have to re-balance that. Where it all began It sounds a little cheesy, but I can only tell it how it was. I had an epiphany. I was in Australia, working in the transport sector and a friend of mine mentioned the Walk21 conference that was coming to Perth in 2001. Bronwen was initially surprised that there was a conference about walking but through talking more about decided that she really wanted to go. So they went together. Sat in the conference for 2 days, Bron felt that she had finally found her path. In her words, she'd always admired people who had a singular passion. This was more than transport; This was about who we are as people and the spaces and places that we build within which to be and live our every day lives. Key decisions Following on from Bron's epiphany she made 2 key decisions at that point; That it was all about walking and she had to start working in walking To move to the UK in order to make that happen Nobody was doing anything about walking in Australia at the time and so Bron looked at where walking was already established and happening. People were working on projects and ideas about it in London. It's worth noting that the UK was leading this arena at the time as well. Walking is something you may have taken for granted The thing about walking is that it is for all of us. Bron says; It's greatest strength is also it's greatest weakness. It's greatest strength is that it's intensely inclusive and it's all of us. It's greatest weakness is that everybody does it, nobody thinks about it. Ultimately it's enabling people to be part of their communities. Find out more Finally if you would like to start a conversation with Bronwen, you can find her on; Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Alternatively, find out more about Bronwen by reading the latest Ignite blog; Leading the walking movement More details can be found about Walk21 on their website. If you enjoyed this episode you can leave the show a rating and review on iTunes or the platform that you use to listen to podcasts.