The Discomfort Practice

Welcome to Season 2 of The Discomfort Practice! Betsy talks about some of her upcoming guests and invites listeners to get in touch to suggest guests - leaders, activists, educators, artists and other extraordinary people whose experience of discomfort has shaped who they are and what they do to make the world a better place. Become a supporter to access bonus episodes and meditations: www.patreon...

Along with hosting this podcast, Betsy is also a meditation teacher. Any time you're feeling overwhelmed or uncomfortable, take 10 minutes to sit, listen, centre yourself & set yourself a bit more free with this meditation. Follow Betsy on IG @thebetsyreed and @betsyreedyoga Music attribution Deep Relaxation Preview by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5726-deep-relaxation-...

2020 felt like both the longest decade & best year of Betsy's life. In this episode, she sits with the discomfort & ponders what's come of it. Look for Season 2, launching January 31st, with special bonus content for Patreon supporters -www. Patreon.com/thediscomfortpractice Lend Betsy your feedback! DM her IG @thebetsyreed or email hello@betsy-reed.com: * What questions do you have about discomfo...

Khandiz is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work ranges from high fashion makeup artist to fine art installations. Originally from South Africa, she's a self-educated, impactful and passionate activist who's focusing her creative talents and knowledge on challenging and ups killing the beauty industry and film and tv industries to have a more positive impact on the environment and the humans who...

Steve Whiteley is a writer, director, producer & comedian whom the British Comedy Guide recently called 'One of the pioneers in the new wave of online comedy.' Betsy & Steve talk about the role of discomfort in comedy & our ability as those in the audience to sit with discomfort, the benefit of mindfulness on creativity & how ego gets in the way. Steve talks about being a beginner with each new pr...

Sophie Anderson is an expert in alignment. She's one of only 15 chiropractors in Europe specialising in upper cervical care, & is a Human Design guide, helping others find and live their personal design through this powerful energetic mapping system.  Betsy & Sophie talk about the impact of discomfort on the nervous system, Human Design and how discomfort can actually get worse as you start to hea...

Bodhi Eira Jones is a flow state expert, binary-breaking revolutionary and the founder of KaiFlow, a practice that's described as 'martial arts for the mind.'    Betsy and Bodhi talk about how breaking up with binary thinking can help to unlock and unleash our deepest, raging creativity, how Bodhi's gender fluidity means getting to reinvent themselves every day and how 2020 has given space for us...

In this solo episode, Betsy talks about 2020 as the massive stirring stick to bring up some deep, dark... STUFF. We're all facing our individual and collective shadow sides - the 'dark side' of the ego. And it's only through healing it that we can move forward.  Become a patron of The Discomfort Practice here: www.patreon.com/TheDiscomfortPractice And follow Betsy on: Instagram @thebetsyreed and @...

Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is an organisational psychologist, prolific author and entrepreneur whose latest book is called 'Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (And what to do about it).'    Betsy and Tomas talk about why society prefers male incompetence to female competence, how most leaders are failing to lead by avoiding discomfort, how cultivating comfortable work cultures get in...

Isa Noyola is a well known and respected translatina activist and trans leader in the US. She talks about her work to end ICE detention of trans migrants, what it's like to come out as trans when you're a first generation Mexican American pastor's kid and how none of us is free until all of us are free.    Betsy & Isa talk about being free to express the feminine in a patriarchal world, the strong...

Kirsty Schneeberger MBE is a distinguished environmental campaigner, leader, and CEO of London-based conservation non-profit Synchronicity Earth.    Betsy and Kirsty talk about the truly uncomfortable facts around species decline, environmental degradation, climate change and political inaction. They end up in paradigm shift and the importance of living with the heart as we collectively face our '...

In this quick solo episode, Betsy talks about being in the unknown - in a pandemic, recording while not knowing the results of the US Presidential Election, unsure of where Brexit negotiations will leave her as a British person resident in Spain. She talks about being in the 'butterfly soup' moment and how sometimes, stepping back from discomfort and nourishing ourselves is the way through discomf...

Dr. Mick Jackson is the Founder of WildHearts, which works with business and channels its profits back into projects that help humankind. His life-changing moment (and the reason he set up WildHearts) came after a harrowing adventure that involved carrying his dying sherpa for four days after his lungs collapsed while climbing Broad Peak and K2.  Betsy and Mick talk about getting comfortable with...

Nick Bridwell is a writer and journalist living in Plano, Texas. The murder of George Floyd by police was the catalyst to prompt him and long-time friend, performer So Sique, to create the Uncomfortable Conversations podcast. It's a place for real conversations about the social issues plaguing modern-day America - conversations people haven't had but need to.  Betsy and Nick talk about Nick's fres...

Lucie Lincoln is a writer, content creator, organisational culture expert and host of the podcast 'Almost Grown… Up,' the podcast 'for Millennials who don't want to grow up but have unfortunately realised they might have to.'  Betsy and Lucie talk about being 'discomfort running buddies' together in Barcelona, how excruciating it can be to put creative projects into the world and explore the idea...

Jonelle Lewis is a yoga teacher, mentor, brand ambassador and respected figure in the London wellness industry (and is currently based in Los Angeles). For years she's pointed out inconsistencies around lack of diversity, sexual harassment, cultural appropriation and privilege in the yoga and wellness world. With the spotlight on #BlackLivesMatter and systemic racism in all areas of society, Jonel...

Welcome to The Discomfort Practice, where this first episode is being re-posted late, due to technical issues posting it. In it, Betsy invites you into her own discomfort practice as she puts it all out there on the Internet, talking about coming from a conservative Christian family, coming out of the spiritual closet and reflecting on the pivotal moment over 17 years ago when she realised her Whi...