Hardiness with Dr Paul Taylor

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Research hot off the press has shown that focussing on our ideal selves, such character strengths, our values and aspirations is a much more effective approach than focussing on the obstacles. If you are a coach or leader in any capacity, this chat and the research may interest you. Here is the research paper we discuss.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This was one of those podcast interviews that I did not want to end. Thankfully, Mark was very generous with his time, so we have split it into 2 episodes, with part 2 to come next week. We discuss how your brain is an illusionist, a range of subconscious biases that we all suffer from, the neuroscience of learning and the huge importance of social connection for a healthy brain.  Make sure you vi...

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Today I discuss the future of healthcare with someone who is very well positioned to discuss this. In addition to a long career as an award-winning medical TV journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sophie Scott is a professional speaker and educator with expertise in mental health. She has been an invited speaker at the World Congress on Positive Psychology, written two books ( Li...

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Today I sit down for a fascinating chat with Neuroscientist Dr Kaushik Ram, who brings together over a decade of study on the science of the brain and body. His career defining discovery is around how to biologically unlock the moment-to-moment responsiveness of the heart using certain techniques that affect the vagus nerve and that's what we discuss. You can find out more and check out his public...

Today I unpack research around nutrition and why you need to run your own experiments. I'll talk about the different types of fasting and tell you about my own experience with time restricted fasting and why I have chosen to give it a break. Here is the research paper that I mention in the study.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This was a fascinating conversation into the science of happiness and subjective wellbeing with a guy who has done more quality research in this area than almost anyone else on the planet, Professor Lord Richard Layard. What I loved about this conversation was the combination of robust evidence and the list of practical take-homes that we can all implement in our lives. Check out Richard's website...

Here is the research paper on muscle mass and Alzheimer's prevention.  You can find the studies on the drug treatments here and here .   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How do we prepare for the inevitable (metaphorically speaking) slap in the face or the more serious punch in the face? Life is not easy and we should expect it to be. If we expect it, we can prepare for it and just like training for a boxing bout, we need to train for lifes challenges and face them head on. Carly and I chat today about how, in this easy, modern world, we can train to cope better w...

Today is the podcast we all need to hear - why we have habits, how to break old ones and how to create new ones. My guest is Dr Gina Cleo , a Dietitian who, just like me, realised after working with many people on the nutrition goals, that what they really needed was advice on creating and breaking habits - so she dd a PhD in the area. Today we discuss the neuroscience of habits and how you can us...

Today I discuss just some of the research on the benefits of Turmeric and its bioactive compound Curcumin, including some relatively new and pretty stunning research on the benefits for the brain . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, carly and I chat about the Stoic concept of Memento Mori and how useful its been in our lives.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today was one of those conversations that was interesting, funny, enlightening and at times confronting. Antoinette Lattouf is an Australian journalist, author and diversity advocate. She has worked at Network Ten, ABC, SBS and triple j and guest commentated for a range of online and broadcast publications. In 2021, she was awarded a Women’s Agenda Leadership Award and B&T Women in Media Champ...

Today I talk about a conversation I had the other day with a 103 year old lady called Ping, from the hill trines of Northern Vietnam. It was a great conversation and you can see a picture on my instagram of me, Ping and her great, great, great, great Grandson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we chat about all things Mental Fitness and how to move up the continuum. In exciting news, we have just released our Mental Fitness Coaching course for Coaches, Health Professionals, HR professionals, Fitness Professionals and anyone who wants to learn the cutting-edge science and tools on enhancing Mental Fitness - see the website for details. The faculty is comprised of Paul & Carly T...

Hazel Anderson Turner is a business psychologist &  mindset coach who specialises in resilience and leadership. She suffered from burnout herself and used her training as a psychologist to turn her life around using ACT, and now help others to avoid, or recover from, burnout. I absolutely loved this conversation as Hazel has a great ability to translate science into usable actions that we can...

This conversation is all about nutrition from a performance perspective. It doesn't matter whether you're an athlete, business person or busy single parent, if you want to perform at the top of your game, you need to eat like the elite. And this week we have the perfect person to tell us how to do it. Jessica Spendlove is a former athlete, turned performance dietitian, who has spend many years wor...

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This was a fascinating, wide-ranging, amusing and highly useful conversation if you're a human being! Dr Sophie Mort , known as Dr Soph is a UK Sunday Times best selling author of the book " A Manual For Being Human '  and in today's podcast we discuss the topic of her new book ' Unstuck ', which is just brilliant. It's a wide-ranging conversation about habit formation, automations in our life, co...