How do you feel today?

Nick is a Blue Health advocate who is founder of The Wave and One Blue World and made a full recovery following a lifechanging stroke in 2020. Listen in as Nick tells me about: - feeling excited - surf trips to Cornwall & the Gower - bringing the ocean to Bristol - the healing power of water - taking responsibility for our health - a new perspective following his stroke - a love of music &...

Anna Marie is a wellbeing coach and mental health advocate who encourages people to embrace prevention over cure. Listen in as Anna Marie tells me about: - feeling good after a sluggish start - starting an online community - learning to use her breath - becoming comfortable on social media - when to avoid stressing your body - realising she was a people pleaser - reading 'The top five regrets...

Josh is an author and speaker who helps people build resilience through a proactive approach to wellbeing. Listen in as Josh tells me about: - feeling aligned and connected - joy and light at the Do Lectures - noticing, riding & waiting for waves - creating anchor points in life - living one day at a time - holding more than one truth - family, football and a love of shirts - delivering a talk...

86) Richie Jones Richie is a surfer and mountain biker who helps likeminded brands to connect with their customers. Listen in as Richie tells me about: - feeling good in the sun - how surfing changed his life - taking time away from screens - North Devon World Surfing Reserve - the things that keep him well - The Wave Project surf therapy at The Wave - One Question and mental health - the ethics a...

Nick is a writer who writes for brands and businesses as well as himself. Listen in as Nick tells me about (note this chat contains bad language). - feeling unusually calm and present - being a lifelong anxious person - becoming aware of anxiety - counselling after a traumatic experience - the things that help - a love of personal Kanban - making scaffold plank furniture - the possibilities for hi...

Pete is a filmmaker and photographer who recently gave his first public talk at The Do Lectures after working with them since 2013. Listen in as Pete tells me about (note this chat talks about mental and physical abuse and contains bad language): - feeling good after some big transitions - returning to photography - what’s really going on in his head - enjoying physical work - Adventures Of The Na...

Cath AKA The Merthyr Mermaid is an ice/winter swimmer who achieved a Guinness World Record as the first woman to swim a mile inside the Arctic Circle. Listen in as Cath tells me about: - feeling good after a busy week - moving to Tredegar - freediving with Louise Minchin - learning to be a mermaid - needing a challenge - sponsorship and the Arctic - HRT and feeling like herself again - living a he...

Rob helps people to have conversations they don’t normally have and has just published Do Conversation, his third book for the Do Book Co. Listen in as Rob tells me about: - feeling agitated after a mountain drive - the setting for a conversation - improvisation, change and uncertainty - becoming comfortably uncomfortable - learning to pause and slow down - taking his own medicine - notice, let go...

Fergal is a big wave surfer who gave up professional surfing to set up a 100 acre mixed regenerative farm on the West coast of Ireland. Listen in as Fergal tells me about: - feeling good cleaning eggs - building soil through regenerative farming - small steps to making change - being connected to a bigger picture - trying to live a balanced life - a different attitude to surfing - discipline and h...

Siôn recently became the vicar of Canton and Pontcanna after 30 years of working in a variety of senior public roles. Listen in as Siôn tells me about: - feeling pretty good after a day off - a new way of making a difference - enjoying a varied career - his wife Cath being crushed by a car - overcoming her life changing injuries - an earlier period of depression - learnings from difficult times -...

Carmen is the owner of a specialist yarn shop that was inspired by her love of knitting and the welcoming community that came with it. Listen in as we talk about: - feeling positive and overwhelmed - rediscovering her love of knitting - ending an athletic scholarship - the reasons people knit - living and working in Bath - how she looks after herself - knitting and mental health - connecting with...

Claire is the founder of the charity Frontline19 which provides free psychological support to people working on the frontline. Listen in as we talk about (note this chat mentions suicide and contains a little bad language): - feeling tired but good - helping nearly a million people - healing after a breakdown - support for frontline workers - the things that keep her well - checking in each day wi...

- feeling not too bad - exercise & maintaining an ability to run - realising the need to look after herself - living with structure & routine - inspiring action & positive change - from Wales to Devon to London - sewing seeds at the Do Lectures - changing your inputs - having a go at writing stuff down Links: thedobook.co instagram.com/dobookco linkedin.com/in/miranda-west-6aa0b231 twi...

Bobette is an author, film writer and producer who helps people and companies to uncover and tell their own stories for themselves. Listen in as we talk about: - feeling great after the rain - growing up in Kentucky - a childhood forecast for her life - hummingbird Top Gun - choosing not to live in negative states - slowing down with a lemon tree - 10,000 stories & a path through fear - when t...

Anne is an illustrator and artist who manages an art gallery in West Wales after previously running a Bed and Breakfast for 10 years. Listen in as we talk about: - feeling really good - a sense of community - becoming a fine artist & moving West - from B+B owner to gallery manager - learning to look after herself - losing her mother and pericarditis - coaching a girls football team - a Welsh s...

74) Charles Ross Charles is a specialist in performance sportswear design and sustainability who works with products that aim to do good as opposed to being less bad. Listen in as we talk about (note this chat mentions suicide): - feeling better than he did last week - working with contradictions - from less bad to doing good - getting taken out by a car - highlighting a problem to make change - 3...

Barry is a comedian, writer, producer and actor who recently returned to stand up comedy after producing his first feature film ‘Reawakening’. Listen in as Barry tells me about: - feeling not too bad - a sense of time running out - the joy of impending parenthood - being busy, priorities and mood - producing his first feature film - the realities of stand up - circumstantial ups & downs - maki...

72) Kate Nicholls Kate created the Wylder app to help connect people to nature after it helped her recover from a life changing bicycle accident. Listen in as we talk about: - feeling ok after a walk - a life changing bicycle accident - not knowing how to recover - craving birds and trees - Wylder app’s wider ambition - 12 Birds To Save Your Life - mindfulness through nature - being in it not watc...

Chris is a comedy improviser and corporate coach who started his podcast The Good Listening To Show in response to the pandemic. Listen in as Chris tells me about (note this chat contains a little bad language): - feeling exhilarated and frazzled - The Good Listening To Show - distraction & comedy improvisation - belonging in Bristol - the depressed clown & Depresh Mode - losing his sister...

Tasha is a nurse, mental health advocate and integral part of the Surf Soul Searchers sea dipping group in Porthcawl. Listen in as Tasha tells me about (note this chat mentions self-harming and suicide): - feeling good after some time off - social media and mental health - line dancing with her nan - dog walking, reading and the sofa - loving where she works - remembering with tattoos - losing her...

Kevin is a brand strategist and mindfulness teacher who co-founded a social enterprise with his partner Bronwyn to improve the wellbeing of their local community. Listen in as Kevin tells me about: - feeling tired putting in the extra hours - running a social enterprise - his journey into mindfulness - a 10 day Vipassana silent retreat - teaching a mindfulness course - marketing for like-minded br...

Victoria is a landscape architect who runs a RHS gold medal winning practice in partnership with her husband Joe. Listen in as Vic tells me about: - feeling good as Spring approaches - buying and saving seeds - a nursery, orchard, menagerie - working back from a vison - a community garden in Blaenavon - winning a RHS gold medal - looking after themselves - saunas by the sea in Swansea - embracing...

David is a marketeer and brand strategist who champions neurodiversity through his work as chairman of the charity Neurodiversity in Business. Listen in as David tells me about: - feeling good on a Monday - working with an old friend - recognising a mix of skills - how we’re all built differently - Neurodiversity in Business - cross parliamentary support - a new way to search online - the things t...

Joey is a natural medicine practitioner and four time UK Fitness Champion who helps people realise that the best can be yet to come. Listen in as Joey tells me about: - a good start to the day - the importance of movement - bad sleep and the brain - enhancing mood - freestyling on the BBC - the best is yet to come - trauma, stress and anxiety - losing a child at birth - her sister’s response to a...

Mike is a graphic designer and milliner who designs, makes and sells hand crafted, original, modern headwear through his brand The Long Shot Exp. Listen in as Mike tells me about: - feeling good after finishing a hat - a vehicle for graphic design - reaching out when feeling strong - neighbours with style - physical algorithms - skateboarding and hip hop - Gleaming the Cube - it’s never too late -...