Right Up My Podcast

We talk to Nic Devlin & Danielle Macleod about how to create a remarkable life, stepping out of warrior and victim mode and instead playing to create a life that brings you joy. Get your pens ready, as this bumper episode is chock-full of top tips, quotes + ideas to up-level your life, get out of your own way and unleash your brilliance.  Nic & Danielle run a project called Remarkable Wome...

Nici Harrison, founder of The Grief Space, chats with us about the lost art of grief tending. We explore how to live with and support those experiencing not just grief due to a bereavement, but the grief that comes with changes in relationships, health and shifting life circumstances.  Nici is a grief tending facilitator, writer and speaker. She founded The Grief Space as a platform to shift the n...

Sara Lazar joins us on Ep.43 to talk about what's actually happening in our brains when we meditate. We're all told it's good for us, but we want to find out why. Sara is Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Associate Researcher in Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research focuses on the neuroscience underlying yoga and meditation. Her wor...

We talk all things Vision Boarding, in this special episode that features insights from not one, not two, but three vision boarding experts.  Artist Di Ford runs vision boarding and mindful collaging workshops in West Wales. In this episode she joins Gwen and Kate in Gwen's kitchen, to help them create their very own vision boards. Artist and writer friends Jodi Jones and Laura Hailstone foun...

Nutritionist and cognitive reframing specialist Nicola Moore chats to us about the relationship between our gut health and our mental health. Nicola shares with us how and why our gut biomes are so directly linked to our emotions, as well as breaking down some common myths surrounding everyday nutrition. She also sets Gwen and Kate a helpful new way to readjust our thinking around what and when we...

We talk to Verity Glasgow from the charity OnePlusOne about how to argue better and manage healthy conflict in our relationships, whether that's with a partner, family member, friend or colleague. Verity also sets Gwen and Kate a listening exercise, to teach better active listening skills, one of the core elements of having a healthy, rather than harmful argument. OnePlusOne specialises in he...

We talk to Maff Potts about the importance of having people and purpose in our lives. Maff is the founder of Camerados, a charity that helps people support each other through tough times. One of the main ways they do this is by setting up Public Living Rooms – places to go to when you need to connect to or just be around other humans, with no agenda, no mission and no fixing. Before setting up Cam...

Cyclical living coach, Leslie Draffin,  talks us through how we can better understand our bodies and get the most out of our lives by tracking the phases we go through. And by tuning in with our own cycles, or those in nature, we can discover the key to better mental and physical health, more energy, happiness and productivity. Leslie also sets Gwen and Kate a daily task to track our patterns, tak...

Therapist Elsie Owen joins us to lift the lid on people pleasing. We learn what people pleasing actually is and why we would all be better off if we just stop doing it. Plus, Elsie gives us a bucket load of practical tips for how we can better prioritise ourselves, maintain healthy boundaries and still be a nice person! Gwen and Kate go on to share their own people pleasing tendencies that have go...

We talk men's mental health with Ben Akers, co-founder of the male mental fitness charity, Talk Club. Talk Club is a talking and listening club for men, offering talking groups, sports groups and therapy, and has been championed recently by the likes of Liam Gallagher and Tyson Fury. We discuss the terrifying statistics around suicide in young men, and why talking (without trying to fix the p...

Anna Anderson, author of the best-selling book From the Inside Out , joins us to talk about what it means to truly nourish our minds and bodies and break free from the outdated rules of diet culture. We look at why we comfort eat, and how pushing ourselves out of our comfort zone and working consistently towards loving ourselves is the best long-term approach to a healthy weight. Anna is a health...

Ellen Mary joins us for a fascinating chat about the physical and mental well-being benefits of getting our fingers in the soil, growing plants and connecting with the natural world. Ellen is an author, broadcaster, speaker, creator, podcaster, columnist & gardener. She's trained in horticulture, social and therapeutic horticulture, cognitive behaviour therapy and wellness coaching, and t...

We talk to Alicia Navarro about the enormous benefits of Deep Work and how to achieve it. She also discusses why it's becoming increasingly hard for people to focus, sharing a number of psychological hacks to avoid distraction and get into a state of deep work and flow. Alicia Navarro is the CEO and founder of FLOWN, an online platform that supports people in accessing deep work, achieve bett...

Artist Vicky Paul joins us to chat about the therapeutic benefits of intuitive painting. Vicky is an abstract artist and energy healer and teaches people to use art as a way to express and process emotions, plus tap into their psychic powers and channel their intuition. She also guides us through how to do our own intuitive energy paintings. It doesn't matter whether you think you're cre...

Behavioural Change Specialist, Shahroo Izadi, joins us to explore how to break those unhelpful habits and form some sparkly new ones. Shahroo is a psychologist whose approach is inspired by her experience of working with people with addictions. She was awarded 'Thought Leader of the Year' Baton Award at the House of Lords, and Women’s Health magazine has called her “Britain’s answer to B...

Mr Motivator (yes, THE Mr Motivator) chats to us about everything from exercise to positivity, future-proofing your health, leading an exercise class before a funeral, the importance of wearing Day-Glo lycra and how he likes to tell his wife he loves her. The Jamaican-born British fitness instructor burst onto our screens in the '90s and quickly became a household name following appearances o...

Anne Therese, founder of The Climate Optimist, chats to us about the relationship between activism and feeling good. Anne is a speaker, educator and long-term environmental activist. She explains how we are more likely to act and make changes in our lives if we feel hopeful about the future, rather than being paralysed by fear and anger. You can find out more about Anne and all the incredible work...

We're talking all things burnout and chronic stress with the founder of The Anti-Burnout Club, Bex Spiller. Bex explains what burnout actually means and how it's not just reserved for city CEOs but can affect all of us juggling busy lives. She shares how to spot the signs (erm screen scrolling & bingeing anyone?) how to deal with burnout and most importantly how to prevent reaching o...

We talk to actor, conscious DJ and breathwork facilitator Luisa Bradshaw-White, live at The Big Retreat Festival. Best known for her roles in This Life, Eastenders, Bad Girls and Holby City, Luisa talks to us about one of her big passions – ecstatic dance, as well as her relationship with her mental health, breathwork and how she finds her happy. Also, don't miss Gwen and Kate reporting back...

We talk to Semra Haksever, AKA Mama Moon, about everyday rituals and spells and how we can all bring a bit of magic into our lives. Semra describes herself as an eclectic witch, intuitive, healer and empath. She shows us how even the simplest act can be a ritual to bring focus into your day, if done with the right intention. She also shares her knowledge of different herbs and how you can use them...

We talk to Emma Mumford about the Law of Attraction and manifesting, exploring how to turn our dreams into reality. Emma is the UK’s leading Law of Attraction expert. She's also an award-winning life coach and best selling author (Spiritual Queen, 2019 No. 1 best-selling book on Amazon). She has her own podcast called ‘Spiritual Queen’s Badass Podcast’ and has been featured on This Morning, B...

We talk to Dr Pamela Kryskow about the research she and her team are doing into the use of psychedelic drugs in the treatment of PTSD, anxiety, depression, addiction and much more. Pamela is a Canadian doctor who specialises in psychedelic medicine, mental health and chronic pain. She is a clinical instructor at the University of British Columbia and a founding board member of the Canadian Psyched...

We talk to journalist Emma Howarth about her book 'A Year of Mystical Thinking' – an account of the year that changed her life, where she explored the power of vision boarding,  sound baths, spirit guides, rituals, mediation, tarot, oracle cards, crystals, astrology & manifestations...to name just a few. Emma shares with us her experiences, and sets us and the listener a challenge to...

Rediscover the lost art of letter writing. But not any old letter... this episode we are exploring the world of smutty letter writing. Why? Because it's FUN! We are joined by Rosy Pendlebaby, who runs smutty letter writing workshops around the country and is on a mission to make us all fall in love with letter writing again. Rosy also sets us, and you the listener, a letter-writing challenge....

Which apps are your weakness? Instagram, WhatsApp, dating apps? ALL of them? If you've ever lost precious time to your smartphone that could been spent doing something better, or even doing nothing at all, then this episode's for you. We talk to cyberpyschology expert, Daria Kuss, about smartphone addiction. We discuss what happens to our brains when we're on our smartphones, why to...