Resilience Agenda Radio

When our everyday becomes routine, it's easy to fall into the trap of mindlessness.  We're joined by Harvard's very own "mother of mindfulness", Dr. Ellen Langer who walks us through the different ways we often find ourselves battling with the ability to rightfully differentiate a tragedy or an inconvenience. Listen on as Dr. Langer shares the strategies that we can incorp...

In the first episode for 2022, we wanted to learn more on how to sleep better, focus better, and feel calmer.  What better way to improve on these things than by taking a look at the way we breathe?  Joined by Patrick McKeown, one of the world's leading experts on functional breathing and the author of several books, including Atomic Focus and the Oxygen Advantage as he walks us through how w...

In this episode, we talk to Ted speaker, author, psychologist, resilience and behavioural change expert and fountain of collective wisdom, Kristen Lee, who joins us from Boston.

In today's episode, we speak with psychologist, author, TEDx presenter and mindfulness and compassion expert Shauna Shapiro from Santa Clara University in the US. We talk about how perfectionism makes us unhappy, what we really mean by the present moment, how self-compassion is at the heart of personal growth, and doesn't make us soft, and how we can take a more realistic and helpful app...

In today's episode we speak with Lifeline Central West CEO Steph Robinson who talks us through the unique challenges of mental health in the 'bush' (rural areas), the important work Lifeline does in times of stress and uncertainty for people, and we spend 25 minutes walking through a role-play of how to approach someone we care about, ask them if they are okay, and most importantly,...

In today’s episode with Nir Eyal we discuss how to overcome the challenges of distraction from social media, the news and procrastination.  We talk about Nir’s Wall St Journal best-selling book ‘Indistractable’ and how it’s not our phones that cause us to become distracted, it’s our inability to better manage uncomfortable internal feelings.  Nir shares with us how becoming Indistractable is set t...

In today’s episode with Jocelyn Brewer we discuss how to “untangle” ourselves from the distracting pull of technology.  Jocelyn introduces us to the idea of ‘Digital Calories’ and how time is a finite resource that we don’t want to be wasting. We talk about the controversy with Jean Twenge and her infamous article: “Have Smartphones destroyed a generation” and discover that the answer is no! Jocel...

This week we talk to one of the world's leading happiness, well-being and self-development authors Tal Ben-Shahar. Tal is a former Harvard University psychology professor, best-selling author of several books including Happier, Being Happy & Choose the Life You Want. He is the founder of the Happiness Studies Institute, consults with Fortune 500 companies globally, and joins us from upsta...

In our very first podcast episode we interview global mindfulness expert, leadership consultant, author, entrepreneur and all round nice-guy Michael Bunting to unpack what mindfulness is all about. Often talk about like it's the new kale, mindfulness is instead a simple way of viewing and interpreting the world that helps us become happier, calmer and more focused.