Resilience Rising Podcast

Harrison Ward, perhaps better known as Fell Foodie, is an outdoor cook who loves to recreate restaurant style meals on minimal equipment in remote locations. He has a strong following across various social media platforms and has featured regularly in the media inc Countryfile Magazine, Men's Fitness, and Metro. He is a brand advocate for Volvo Car UK, recently featured on the BBC in Dame Mary Ber...

Link for the Substack:  @jenscotney1 Back next week with Episode 24 --- Resilience Rising Podcast is hosted by Jen Scotney  @jenscotney Find us at: Substack:  @jenscotney1 Instagram:  @resiliencerisingpodcast Website:  www.jenscotney.com Twitter:  @ResilienceRPod Facebook:  Resilience Rising Podcast Email:  theresiliencerisingpodcast@gmail.com

How can we live more resilient lives? When can perfectionism and high functioning anxiety help or hinder us? Do we need a purpose to live a resilient life? Rachel J Smith is a coach with over 30 years of industry experience in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Coaching, Public Relations, Financial Services, Sales and Education. She works in coaching, by challenging limiting beliefs, perceptions,...

Can we learn resilience though challenging ourselves physically and mentally? Lowri Morgan is an athlete, adventurer, speaker and presenter. After an injury while playing Rugby, she was told that she would never be able to run properly again. However, Lowri has competed in and won some of the most extreme races in the world. Lowri is one of the few endurance athletes in the world to complete in th...

Are you stressed? Or is it burnout? When does one become the other? How can we prevent burnout and is it always limited to our professionals lives?  Zane McCormack is a resilience coach, speaker, and founder of The Assured Man. His mission is to help professional men and individuals avoid and beat burnout. Zane is a former police officer, who was part of a Search and Rescue police team in his area...

How would you feel if you were told to stop and do nothing for 5 minutes? 10 minutes? An hour? Can resting help our resilience? What do we mean by rest? James Reeves is an Author, Coach, Teacher, and Trainer. He is a world-leading teacher and was the first in Europe to deliver iRest Yoga Nidra teacher training courses, a research-backed programme based on the ancient teachings of Yoga Nidra. James...

What can learn about resilience from people who live with a chronic illness? Ani Barber is a diversity campaigner, the founder of a blog called ‘Outside Our Way’, which features interviews from people who are disabled and chronically ill, and a panellist on the podcast ‘On the Outside’ which offers diverse view on outdoors news. Ani is an outdoors enthusiast, she is a hiker, climber, stand up padd...

How can our sense of self lead to resilience? Where does pleasure fit in? How can we be more resilient in relationship breakups? Lindsey Hall is an Intimacy and Empowerment Coach. She spent 12 years in the world of corporate accounting where listening to intuition and prioritising pleasure were not exactly encouraged, but now she is passionate about helping women bring more pleasure to their daily...

Can choosing to put ourselves in hard situations, such as getting in cold water, prepare us for the hard uncomfortable situations in life? Becca Harvey believes so. Becca is an outdoor swim guide based in the North East. She started swimming outdoors one January when she saw a documentary on people using cold water to treat depression. At the time she was dealing with complex Post Traumatic Stress...

Are children resilient? How can we equip young people, and adults, with the tools to live a happy and resilient life? How do we get past traumatic events and childhoods? Dr Sue Redmond Mindfulness-Based Trauma Informed Coach and Child & Adolescent Development Specialist. She has a keen interest in resilience and has a PhD in Leadership, Resilience and Social Support.  She develops resources and tr...

What does neuroscience have to inform us about resilience? Can we use biofeedback to increase resilience? What practices does science show can help emotional regulation and increase HRV? Today we hear from Rohan Dixit who is a neuroscientist, who studied how meditation changes the brain at Harvard and Standford universities. He has also learnt and researched on meditation among monks in the Himala...

With over eight years experience of interviewing the world's toughest and successful female adventurers, as well as completing challenges of her own, I thought Sarah Williams would have a lot to teach us about resilience! How do we mentally prepare for the difficult times? What has she learnt from recording 700+ episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast? Sarah Williams is an adventurer, vlogger and found...

What can we learn about resilience from humans displaced in refugee camps? How do humanitarian aid workers cope with their work? What is resilience programming for communities and does it work? These are all questions I ask Tess Elias on this episode. Tess spent the best part of a decade working in humanitarian emergency responses, both in refugee settings and in conflict situations, ranging from...

In this episode we delve into the world of online misogyny and the resilience around constant online abuse. Alex Maher is a doctoral researcher at Loughborough University studying feminism and misogyny on TikTok, in no small part as a result of her own experiences as a creator on the app. After downloading TikTok as a fact-finding experiment to aid her marketing career, her feminist skits and poli...

After being a spectator at London 2012 Paralympics, Carly Tait, was inspired to take up wheelchair racing having previously had no sporting background or inclination to partake in anything remotely ‘active’. After 4 years of hard work, determination and a lot of sacrifice, she made it on to the start line at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, competing alongside many of those whom she had watched in London...

"I think it's really easy to think we're not resilient because we feel it. And I've learned that resilience isn't not feeling the pain. It's how we process it and how we survive with it." Kate Appleby is a motivational and public speaker, talking about her adventures in the Lake District, UK and beyond. Kate works across the outdoor industry to ensure inclusivity and diversity are key agenda items...

How do we cope when we can't do the one thing we love? This is a question that really started this podcast and Jen Scotney's journey to delve into resilience. This week we ask this of Beth Pascall, who is in a very similar position, having to live without running, after an injury in 2021. We talk about how we do or don't cope with not being able to run, what that resilience looks like, and other t...

Described as Tinkerbell crossed with Terminator, Katy was a finalist in the 2016 BBC series Special Forces, Ultimate Hell Week. She has since gone on to train as an Army Reserves Combat Medic and has deployed out to Armenia, Georgia, Afghanistan and Norway. Katy is a Montane Athlete, supported in competing in endurance events and mountain expeditions. Despite major knee surgery at the end of 2020,...

Ruth Allen is as a movement-oriented psychotherapist specialising in outdoor practice, a former Geologist, a facilitator and mentor, and an author of 'Grounded'. We delve into the topic of resilience to look at what it is, as well as whether we can cultivate it to lead an easier life, and how culture can influence our resilience. This is such a wide ranging episode with the threads constantly retu...

Rachel Modest is a solo singer, lead singer of The Bluefoot Project, and gospel choir director. About to give up on a career in the music industry, and at a low point in her life, she agreed to go on Series 11 of the ITV singing competition show, The Voice UK. All four judges turned around and gave her a standing ovation. She chose Sir Tom Jones as her mentor and over the weeks we saw her progress...

What does a former Army Officer turned Performance Coach and elite Endurance Athlete have to share with us on resilience? A great deal, we find out! In this very practical analysis of what we can do to protect our resilience, we hear from Anna-Marie Watson, a Performance Coach and Coach Supervisor, who also loves to take her work outside. Former British Army Officer, she has worked in challenging...

How do writers deal with constant rejection, feedback and negative reviews? I set out to see what we can learn about resilience from people in these creative industries. Matt Hill is a fiction writer based and freelance copywriter in Glossop. He’s the author of four novels set in and around a near-future Britain: The Folded Man, Graft (which was a finalist for the 2017 Philip K Dick award), Zero B...

Ruth Coates is a psychotherapist and therapeutic writing guide. She has been working as a therapist for over 12 years but has 20 years experience in the mental health and social justice sectors.   She offers walking therapy, online and in person from The Therapy Hut, and therapeutic writing courses.    She also works with Groundswell Scotland, a surf therapy organisation based in East Lothian.   ...

Have you ever felt overwhelmed or paralysed by doom over our climate emergency? Does the more you learn about the impact our lifestyles have on climate, mean the more guilt you feel? Does speaking out about environmental issues feel impossible when you are less than perfect?    These are all topics I wanted to talk about with this week's guest Damian Hall. He has written  'We Can't Run Away From T...

Jamie Pei is a life coach, and PhD trainer and coach, having received her own PhD in 2021 from the University of York. She calls herself 'The Messy Coach' because she's all about working through the messiness of doing doctoral research and of muddling through life, love, relationships, work, and everything in between.  In this episode we talk about whether an outward show of resilience is always r...