Happy Habit Podcast

British adventurer Jasmine Harrison is only 23 but has already rowed the Atlantic solo and swam the entire length of Great Britain. She is also a motivational speaker, having given a Ted talk and is planning on sailing around the world in 2025. In this episode I talk to Jasmine about the mindset that has helped her prevail through the enormous physical and mental obstacles she has faced while she...

Charisma is something we find very attractive in people like George Clooney, Oprah and Martin Luther King, but what defines charisma and can we obtain its characteristics so that we may benefit in our own lives.

We are all so used to the idea that if you want anything you must go after it with all your strength and conviction, alas this leads to frustration and disappointment when things don't go as we had planned. John Purkiss in his book The power of letting go, suggests we take a leaf out of eastern philosophies that value focusing on the present and surrendering outcomes to our intuition and the u...

Sugar and processed foods are having lethal effects on global health. Professor Robert Lustig has for decades led the fight against the impacts of manmade 'food' on us. He is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, at the Division of Endocrinology of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).  He has authored over 125 peer reviewed papers and, he is one of the worlds leading experts on...

Dr. Nate Zinsser is a renowned performance psychology expert who has taught three generations of soldiers, athletes, and executives to master the art of confidence and mental toughness. His new book The Confident Mind details the keys to achieving and maintaining confidence regardless of what arena you are trying to master. The Confident mind : https://www.amazon.com/Confident-Mind-Battle-Tested-U...

We all want to be liked and to get along with people and even have a positive impact on them, Marc Reklau's book How to become a people magnet, gives dozens of tips to help us do exactly this.

Andy Dufresne from the Shawshank Redemption is the embodiment of hope. There's much we can learn from his approach to life and hope given his horrific predicament. In this episode I discuss the key factors that help us harness hope.

There are lots of little things we can do to maximise our happiness and boost our moods, Nick Trenton's book Neuro happiness details lots of routines we can incorporate into our daily lives that will help boost our mood in the moment and over the long term.

All women will experience the menopause. In this episode we demystify what it is, how long it lasts, what the symptoms are and what women can do to minimise the negative impacts of it on their lives. You'll find Dr Aoife at https://instagram.com/doctor.aoife?igshid=MzNlNGNkZWQ4Mg==

Humankind's quest for wellbeing and happiness has occupied us for thousand's of years. What can we learn from the great philosophers about happiness or eudaimonia as Aristotle called it.

Storytelling has been with mankind since the dawn of time, stories of us the oportunity to bond and to learn crucial lessons as they engage our imaginations and employ our intellect and emotions. In this episode, I detail several of my favourite motivational stories.

Mental sharpness often wanes over time, but it doesnt have to be this way, there are a variety of things we can do, from adopting a habit of regular exercise to, learning new skills that can help decrease the chances of us suffering from cognitive impairment as we age.

We have to be willing to pose ourselves some straight questions in an attempt to find answers if we are going to be committed to self growth. In this episode I pose 6 basic questions we should all ask ourselves.

In this podcast episode I talk about some common traits of high achievers like James Dyson, Oprah Winfrey and Michelangelo that we might be able to incorporate into our own lives and boost our levels of success.

In this episode we head to the Netherlands to examine their Niksen method which has helped the Dutch people beco,me one of the happiest on earth. The Niksen method is surprisingly simple and involves doing very little but doin it with purpose.

Ed Sheeran, one of the most successful artists in recent years is on record talking about how society only values success, but not failure. His own relationship with failure in the early days of his career is what laid the groundwork for his monumental success later on. In this episode I talk about the benefits of failure including the damage that a fear of failure causes us.

Nature is healing, more and more research is proving this to be the case. Living in urban environments deprived of green spaces is robbing us of a connnection we evolved with over tens of thousands of years. In this episode I delve into the book which outlines how and why nature is good for us, physically and mentally.

The Scandinavians are often quoted as among the happitest people on the planet so why not examine some of their life philosophies so that we can acquire the skills and life practices to be happier in our own lives. In this episode I examine the Danish philosphy of Hygge and the Swedish philosphy of Lagom.

Happiness doesn't have to be elusive, Prof Cassie Holmes of UCLA is an award winning teacher, and researcher into time and happiness and best selling author of, Happier Hour: How to bear distraction, exp[pand your time and focus on what matters most. You'll find Prof Holme's book and details on her happiness research at : www.cassieholmes.com

Ikigai is a Japanese philosophy that promotes living a life of purpose. In this episode I detail the 10 principles of Ikigai.

I love the saying that, you are the result of the choices you have made. Choices are powerful, but we often make the choice that negatively impacts upon our health and wellbeing. The answer is simple awareness that the responsibility is ours, to live the life we want to live for optimum health and we do this on a daily basis through the simple choices we make.

Nate Nicholson has written a book detailing in lots of ways how we can be happy on a daily basis. It includes, behaviours and beliefs that if we subscribe to them, we can achieve a greater appreciation of what it is to be alive and what constitutes a happy mindset. It is easier than you would think.

Geniuses like Leonardo da Vinci, Einstein and Marie Curie have always fascinated us, what are the traits that they have that make them so unique? In this episode I discuss the book The hidden habits of genius by Craig Wright PhD which delves into 14 traits that many of the greatest geniuses possess, some of which we can emulate ourselves so we can reach a higher level of achievement in our own liv...

in this episode I talk with Prof Dr Eva Peters from the University of Giessen in Germany whose area of research is that of psychosomatic illness and the relationship between the mind, body and stress. We hear about hairloss in young women sitting exams, the effects of childhood trauma on skin, the causes of acne and the role the immune system plays in skin conditions.

Today I am talking with another expert, his name is Prof Ted Dinan, he's Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at University College Cork here in Ireland. For decades he has had a particular interest in the bacteria that live inside us, our microbiome or mictrobiota as its called. In this episode we discover what the microbiota is. We hear about the nervous system in the gut, the vagus nerve and ho...