We Won't Die Wondering - The Podcast

Every now and again you'll come across someone and/or something that touches you so profoundly, it stops you in your tracks, demands your full attention and helps to make sense of your human experience of life in all its messy, brilliant, maddening glory... Briony Greenhill and 'Thank You For Your Heart' is one such person and song for me. Having her accept my invitation to come play i...

Let's be honest, the topic of this episode got your attention didn't it?! Yeah, the first time I stumbled upon Sam Ntatalika, she got mine! Her Facebook feed is real, funny, touching, interesting and given her profession and area of expertise, she regularly goes 'there' too. Which is precisely what prompted me to ask her on my podcast. How to have mind-blowing sex in midlife... I d...

What if… 'The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.' ~ Robert Henri What if…  The object isn't to find your purpose... The object isn't to win more clients… The object isn't to grow your business… The object isn't to enjoy a better relationship… The object isn't to find your true love… The object isn't to be...

Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is learn to say 'NO'. No matter how good the idea might seem or what other people might think, what's important is how much we're willing to honour ourselves and our truth and what feels right for US. Or to put it another way... 'Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.' In this episode you hear me share two ideas that call into...

Stuck doing a job she didn't particularly enjoy, feeling uninspired by her life circumstance, Fiona Eadie had an urge to follow 'The Artist's Way' (by Julia Cameron - worth a read in itself!) and see what came of it... What came was an emphatic soul's calling to go learn the art of 'storytelling'... Guide by some super helpful, kind, encouraging souls along the way and...

Virtually a year ago to the day, I interviewed the brilliant Claire MacKinnon as she dared to step out from under her executive corporate coaching persona and show up as most unapologetically, unfiltered, brilliant, beautiful, messy, glittery & biscuity self... Once a week, every week in an email newsletter. Just sharing what's really here... No matter how she felt or who might read it. On...

Does the arrow seek the target or does the target draw the arrow? Is it just that you follow your calling or is it that the thing you feel called to do, calls you in? Only as and when it, you, the time and circumstances are aligned? I stumbled on this idea whilst reading 'Greenlights' by Matthew McConaughey. It took a while to land but when it did, it disarmed me so much that I felt called...

I bloody love Claire Mackinnon. Or should I say 'Aphrodite Jones'. Your average everyday girl next door, come divine burlesque dancing goddess! Really, I think she's bloody GREAT! So relatable. So real. So human. So honest. So curious. So playful. And so f**king done with trying to fit herself into nice, neat corporate shapes and spaces... So much more than the 3000-character LinkedIn ma...

Why are we here? What is the point of it all?  To live our best lives? To do our best work? To find happiness?  Where do we find happiness? Happiness according to who? By who's rules? Is that your head or your heart talking?  Is it 'you' or an old narrative you're still trying to uphold? Is that a conceptual idea or reality, in the here and now? Join me as I dive back into another d...

'There is a woman.... and the way she wears her wildness is intoxicating. Luxurious, ferocious. stylish... she is untamed of heart but sophisticated of stance. Beautiful and alluring, daring and accomplished, fierce and free, she is unapologetically herself. She strikes a cut-glass pose between the simple and the sensuous. There is a radical richness and a down-and-dirty decadence that crackles th...

'It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.'. This is the opening line to the extraordinary poem The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer.  A poem introduced to me by Nick Clitheroe, a good friend of mine who I interviewed in my last podcast as he shared his profound wisdom in the face of his own...

For most of us it's not that we're 'dying' wondering but that we're actually 'living' wondering instead! We forget that we still have that choice.  But how might you come to reflect on your life and the choices you've made and meaning of it should you find yourself faced with the very real potential of your imminent departure from this world? Well, that's the reality facing my dear friend Nick Cli...

'Ultimately, all of the stuck places in our life are only solved by going through something... They don't just magically disappear, that is the fantasy of childhood!' ~ OOOFFFTT!  It was way back in early 2017 that someone first handed me a copy of James Hollis' book 'Finding Meaning in the 2nd Half of Life - How to Really, Finally Grow Up' - the inspiration for my own We Won't Die Wondering tagli...

In 2019, 41 year old 'purpose coach', Nick Clitheroe, was diagnosed with bowel cancer. Wallop. Sh*t got real.  Taking advice from his doctors he chose to do the most sensible thing suggested and had surgery, undertook a course of chemotherapy, switched up his diet and took time out to rest and recover. Whilst he considered the process a pretty chastening, humbling experience, all went as well as c...

'As I breathe this moment with a simple breath, the world grows clearer with this new lense and I could smile... As I surrender the worry that I'm not enough, my heart grows wider, wide enough to feel... To feel that we are one, we are 'gold' and we raise up, raise...' When you really listen to the lyrics of the sublime new song 'Gold' by brilliant singer/songwriter, Tallulah Rendall you quickly c...

I don't know about you but learning how to love and accept myself is just about the most elusive lesson I've yet to learn with any sense of mastery. And in the absence of knowing how my inner critic runs amok and can make me feel a fool. Worse still, it can play havoc with my sense of self worth and happiness too. In fact, of all the things I don't wish to die wondering about this is numero uno......

You find me on this episode at another crossroads in my life. Having come so far and yet still feeling like I'm missing the point somewhat. Feeling like I'm still getting wrapped up in how to will things to work and exhausting myself in the process, not really being any the better for it.  Time to double down on my quest to not die wondering. The gloves are off. A line is being drawn in the s...

Tune in as I interview David Hieatt, Mr Howies, Hiut Denim and DO Lectures himself about what it means to be alive, backing yourself and DOing your own thing. As you'll quickly learn, he wasn't a man that necessarily had the means or the qualifications. Instead he just put himself in the right environments to learn from good people before taking the plunge and backing himself to DO his own thing.....

Join me as I take a deep dive into what it really means to say 'F**K IT' in our lives with the author and creator of the books and infamous retreats of the same name and fame, John C. Parkin. An insanely curious, dry witted northern bloke with a healthy and very humorous knack for helping people to let go, relax and get back to all that's really important in life.  The mere presence of this c...

Join me as I take a deeper dive into the life changing magic of saying 'f**k it' and the idea that 'you'll never hold it right if you can't let it go'. In life, your relationships, your work projects, your kids, the ideas you have for yourself, your Instagram 'strategy', how to show up in the world. Repeat after me... 'F**K IT!'. Not so much the things themselves but the ideas you have about them...

Tune in as I get seriously curious with the 'Insanely gifted' Jamie Catto - founding member of Faithless, co-creator of the amazing music collaboration 1 Giant Leap, film maker, creative workshop provider, teacher, coach and all round thoroughly fascinating human being that has spent a lifetime not dying wondering about doing anything he's ever felt excited about doing! We talk about the important...

Don't do this. Don't do that. Be polite. Be appropriate. It's rude to ask. This is not right. That is not right. I am weird to think or feel this or that. But why?  Maybe it's all ok. Maybe our propensity to shame ourselves into or out of anything is the problem. Maybe we should welcome it all into our guesthouse like old friends. The happiness, the sadness, the fear, the love, the hope, the...

' Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you . ' ~ David Whyte Put your feet up and allow yourself to ease into this conversation with m...

In July this year (2020), after spending 20 years coaching other business owners to 'success', James Butler fulfilled his own life ambition and retired early (at 48 years old!) to set about travelling the world for the next 3 years with his wife Bev... In this interview (and very curious conversation!) we explore and unpack how he made his dream a reality and dive deep into some of the nuggets of...

Listen in as I introduce, explore and unpack my understanding of the quite brilliant and illuminating concepts that are the 'drama triangle' and it's counterpart, the 'empowerment dynamic'... Two ideas that transformed my understanding of codependency and my active part in perpetuating my own disempowering downfall for myself and everyone else I come into relationship with including my intimate pa...