I Am... With Jonny Wilkinson

How does the financial system affect social and ecological sustainability as well as our individual potential? Jennifer Hinton is a systems researcher and activist in the field of sustainable economy. In todays episode, Jennifer uses systems thinking to walk Jonny through her work, which focuses on how societies relate to profit and how this relationship affects global challenges. She explains how...

What power do we, as human beings, posses to completely transform ourselves, and our world around us? In today’s prelude to Thursday’s guest interview with systems researcher and ecological economist Jennifer Hinton, Jonny takes a dive into how our beliefs and values impact us, and our systems at large. What would a different future really cost? Big questions explored today: - What would it be lik...

This week on I Am, Fearne Cotton, author, presenter, and podcaster, opens up about success and happiness; embracing vulnerability, learning from mistakes and finding balance in every aspect of life. She explains the power of working on ourselves has for our health, well-being and fulfilment and explores this through subject like criticism, imposter syndrome, appreciating others, making peace with...

We grow up believing that we can achieve and accumulate our way to happiness. The mind then becomes the master and keeps us stressed and separated from it. Today Jonny ponders what it means to follow your heart’s lead. Is it not through our passions that we find ourselves at our most spontaneous, inspired and connected? In order to enhance our sensitivity and express our most creative self, just l...

Today on I am we have something a little something different for you to listen to and that’s an episode from former Welsh international Rugby icon Sam Warburton. He’s got a new show out called Captains which gives listeners the inside story of how the most successful teams come together, grow, and ultimately – win. This is a short extract from Sam’s interview with Chris Robshaw about resilience, w...

Olympic champion and three-time world champion heptathlete, Jessica Ennis-Hill is one of Great Britain’s most successful athletes. Jess set some high bars for herself and cleared them all. Her Super Saturday gold medal winning show stopper during the 2012 London Olympics will live on in the minds of those whom saw it unfold. It was a moment that transcends sport and became a defining detail in the...

It is never actually about everything going perfectly. It is more to do with shaking loose everything that stands in the way of our self-worth and finding that feeling place. In today’s Tuesday episode Jonny remarks on how we often seem to find it so much easier and more comfortable to focus upon what we do not want to happen than it is to visualise our ideal outcomes. Taking on positive perspecti...

Australian Union rugby player, James O'Connor joins Jonny this week to walk us through his learnings from his phenomenal and at times misunderstood career so far. One of the most talented players of his generation, he gives us an incredible insight into the highs and lows of his career. Having played stints in London, Manchester and Toulon before returning to Australia he has encountered challengi...

Throughout every one of the previous 3 podcast series, we have been pointing to how our power and our potential is not something we possess but it is actually just what we are. It is our source, not our goal. This is why the things we earn and win, that we are so convinced will make everything ok and resolve our deeper sense of insufficiency, never do. Jonny expands on this in today's Tuesday epis...

James Nestor is a journalist and author whose personal quest and discoveries into the world of breath work have the potential to transform our lives. His most recent book ‘Breathe’ looks deeply into this skill that we all possess and has been met with success all around the world. For Jonny, James’ personal quest and discoveries possess the power to change our lives if we are willing to remain ope...

A worthy saying in performance is to focus on the basics and not to get bored of them. After all, it’s generally accepted that the team that has the basics locked down tends to come out on top - and those that skip the basics tend to find themselves coming unstuck and reactive further down the line. At the core of everything in life, according to Jonny, is how we are on the inside - here lies our...

TW - this episode contains personal stories from life on the frontlines that some listeners might be sensitive to. Jason Fox has spent a large part of his life serving in the armed forces. Today, Jason opens up about his journey, and what it was like being involved in matters of life and death everyday. With over 20 years’ experience in the marines and the SAS, his experiences have taken him to so...

It is perhaps the biggest task anyone can take on – to stand and face our own unique challenges rather than go around blaming everything and taking it out on everyone else. Acceptance leads to responsibility, whereas resistance leads to reactivity. This path towards taking greater responsibility for ourselves forms the basis of this episode. Big questions in todays episode: - How can we be fully p...

Julia Samuel MBE is an award-winning psychotherapist and best selling author who devotes her time and energy to helping people find their way in the most unimaginably tough circumstances; losing loved ones of all ages. In today's episode, Julia elaborates upon the grieving process, the importance of it and the forms it can take. She also provides some beautiful pointers for how we can engage with...

Loss, fear of loss, mortality it can hold such power over us, shifting our entire world view and shaping the way we relate to ourselves, our lives and the opportunities presented to us. Big questions in today’s episode include: - Are we just living to die or are we willing to die so that we may truly live? - How do we transcend the physically dominated concept of “life getting harder as we get old...

In the final episode in this third series of the I am podcast, Jonny welcomes award-winning soulful business coach, Liz Roberta. Humble, energising and big on exploring life, Liz is creating an amazing path for herself. She spends her time doing what she loves, making a difference and tuning into her inner intuitive voice for assistance in facing her challenges and trusting in the unknown. Liz exp...

In the final Tuesday episode for this series, Jonny looks back over the breadth and depth of conversations and opportunities that his guests have shared. Inspired by insights from his fabulous guest on Thursday, Liz Roberta, Jonny asks how we can become a better teammate to ourselves in order to help us unlock more joy and engagement in our lives. He considers how we can express our gifts and tale...

Today Jonny and his strength and conditioning coach who is also his brother explore human potential from a health, wellbeing and fitness angle. The episode centres around how to put more years in your life and more life in those years. What could be more important than that! They also delve into life changing concepts of rest and recovery and challenge the massively limiting work life balance idea...

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”   In today’s episode Jonny explores the concept of Life Fitness raised by our guest on Thursday, who happens to be Jonny’s brother, Mark Wilkinson. We can be very functionally fit for certain endeavours but this doesn’t necessarily make us healthy. Life fitness is about how we equip ourselves to embrace ever...

Today an I am we welcome Angie Tiwari, a yoga teacher and breathwork specialist. Through her retreats and many classes – she helps enormous amounts of people to break destructive cycles in their lives. Angie is an exciting example of contemporary spiritual practitioner whom doesn’t just balance a full time job in the tech world with her personal growth but lives it fully as an important part of he...

Are there ways to empower the next generation to cultivate a deeper connection with themselves and expand their awareness, all in the name of their own thriving and also in order to lead the necessary change for the more widespread thriving and future thriving of our species? Jonny dives into this big topic in today’s Tuesday episode.  
If you are interested in the workshops Jonny mentions today,...

Dr. Michael Gervais is a high-performance psychologist, author and one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between the mind and human performance. Over the course of a 20-year career working with world class performers and organisations, Dr. Gervais has developed a framework for the mental skills and practices that allow organisations, teams and individuals to thrive in pressure-pac...

As we get older, there seems to be a leaning towards taking on a more permanent identity, to become a something special or somebody, to stand out. We give the creative freedom we possess in all that we can be away in search of a solidified role in society. Today Jonny explores the importance of uncoupling ourselves and our worth from what it is that we do and some ideas for how to do it. As ever J...

Our guest this week is Dr Joe Cambray, a Psychologist, scientist, author and teacher who has been extensively researching and publishing all kinds of things in this field for decades, particularly around the workings of the mind and the process of psychological intervention. For us on this podcast he lays out the fascinating theory of emergent forms, which states that we possess the capacity to ma...

Today I’m exploring something my guest on thursday Dr Joe Cambray said in our interview:    “Agents interacting in competitive environments can spontaneously self-organise to create emergent forms whose properties transcend the properties of the individuals involved.”   Jonny explains why this resonates with him, and how it helps explain his “in the zone” rugby experiences. It’s a brilliant way of...