Know Yourself Podcast

Happy Thursday! I have a brand spanking new Podcast episode for you today which comes from all the way across the other side of the world in Perth Australia. I had the pleasure of Talking to a lady called Megan Keen who told me her story with mental health and how it has impacted her daughters life too. . In this episode we talk about Megan’s background being hospitalised as a teenager suffering with mental illness, working in the Air Force, began working as a carer for a close family friend who was coming to the end of her battle with bowel cancer, and as an assistant nurse, physiotherapist and more. Megan has then had 2 children, raising a family whilst battling with her mental health. . It was a real privilege to speak to Megan because I got to hear many perspectives, from Megan’s own perspective of her mental health journey, to hearing the perspective of a parent that has a child struggling with their mental health, and also to hearing an understand of what it is like for Megan’s daughter when she is fe

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Hey! You there! Do you like deep and meaningful conversations? Do you like the sound of two podcasters chopping it up about mental health and life? Are these rhetorical questions getting in your nerves? Well if so GREAT

Happy Monday Instagram! I was lucky enough last week to be able to interview Angela Mercer at her beautiful home in Ombersley out in the countryside

Hey what’s up? Listen, I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing a lady called Frances Hickmott over in London Ontario! This lady has had quite a career as a volunteer manager, Writer, and speaker. It was amazing how wise and reflective Frances has been on her life and the events that have been happened within it. . I think I found a kindred spirit when I read Frances’ blog post “Failure to launch” which focused on the long shadow that hangs over someone when there has been childhood bullying in someone’s life. It resonated with me in a powerful way and I knew that the interview would be great because of that

Hey what’s up? Trials in life, adversity, and hardships can take many forms. Fern was born with a disability where part of her eyes has not formed like it has for the rest us. Let me tell you, that this does not stop this woman. I admire the mission that Fern is on to talk to people, organisations, and companies about what is the same between people with a disability and everyone else. . Fern talks about how people that are blind still want the same things as everyone else in life, they have desires, ambition, and struggle with insecurities too. It took me twice to hear this in the interview until my paradigm in my head was changed. I realised that it’s not about what’s different. It’s about what is the same about us. If that’s not a message worth talking about then I don’t know what is! . We talk on today’s episode of Know Yourself about Vulnerabilities, Fern’s speaking career, Self-awareness, and mental health. I hope that this episode blows your mind like it did for me. Fern has got an easy to listen to v

Happy Monday everyone! I have some wicked news that will perk up your day, and if it doesn’t perk up then I have no doubt hearing this podcast episode will leave you humbled and inspired. . I drove out to Warwickshire to a little Village called Illmington to meet with Chris Young who is an author of a book called “Walk a mile: Tales of a wandering loon”, I was lucky enough to record the episode in his beautiful home surrounded by countryside with Sheep in the back garden. Chris also introduced me to having a cup of tea with 2 tea bags in it! . Chris above all believes that people are fundamentally good, we want to be kind to other people, we want to look out for one another. So with that ethos in mind and a passion for talking to people about his own story with mental health illness Chris set out on an epic journey to travel around the country. He would rely on the kindness of strangers to get from place to place, and met some incredible people with their own stories.

Shaun Smith is an awesome guy that I met on Instagram no more than a couple of months ago. We listened to each others podcast and I was blown away by how similar we were even though our podcasts were about completely different things! After weeks of talking and getting to know each other we decided that a collaboration just had to happen between music and mental health. So Shaun and I made playlists for each other on Spotify and shared it with each other. We decided that we would have a week to listen to the playlists before recording the episode where we wouldn't have an agenda other than to talk about the music and how it spoke to us. I loved the relaxed style of this episode and I hope you love it too. I had such a great time!

Do you like rhetorical questions? Do you like video games? Do you like 2 guys talking about video games? Are you interested in Mental health? In my best game show presenter voice, in that case check out the latest episode of Know Yourself where I interview Ches Hall who runs a podcast called +7intelligence. . Ches understands that the social aspect of gaming, he speaks intellectually on the podcast episode about the benefits of gaming on mental health, and we chop it up about some of our favourite gaming experiences over our lives. Ches raises some mega interesting discussion points through the interview and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know him and having him on the show! . Ches has his own website called plus7intelligence.com where you can check out more content from his podcast and other awesome resources which includes a discord channel

Sam Thomas is quite a remarkable man, he has taught me a lot, left an impression on me, and most of all made me feel as though it doesn't matter which way we start our journey or the path we follow or what we go through but that we strive to educate not only ourselves and other people around us. It's something I believe in massively and something that I think Sam has encapsulated perfectly. . In today's podcast episode where I interview Sam, we chop it up over his battle with his Bulimia, running his charity MGEDT, and being recently diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. Sam day to day runs a Men Get Eating Disorders Too, which is a charity focussed around raising awareness, providing support services, and training to the general public and companies. . Sam is a Huffpost contributor with quite a catalog of articles around mental health and even his most recent diagnosis on BPD. Sam is honest, open, and completely fascinating in his interview and I hope you enjoy it too

Hello there! Yes you! So I talk about lots of things like positivity, mindset, self-worth, and self-awareness. It's all pretty heavy and is great to write a post about but that won't always give you lovely people perspective. Sometimes getting your hands mucky and learning about yourself is the only way to discover these things. . I don't like to talk about stuff unless I have tried it myself or know enough about it to have an intelligent conversation. The picture and hopefully this caption will give you what you need but if not drop me a DM or comment and I will help you out. The aim of the game with this diagram is developing Self-Awareness. . So to complete this exercise/challenge/task grab yourself a pad of paper and a pen, draw out a line and at one end of the line we'll call this your "earliest memory" and and the end we'll call this "Now" as in today. The goal is to document along the top of the timeline positive milestones in your life, things that have really moved you and sta

Ruth Fox is an author, mental health advocate and footballer. In this interview she details out her experience with mental health in college and university whilst also explaining what it was like to be in the system after being admitted to hospital. Ruth explains the inspiration behind her book which comes out later this year and tells a truly compelling story about going from wanting to take her own life, to campaigning for mental health.

It's Monday so I have another smashing podcast interview for you lovely people. Therapy means a lot to me because of the massive value I got from being taught how to develop my self-awareness, battle my demons head on, and being able to talk in a non-judgemental environment. . I was lucky enough yesterday to interview a lady called Kim Mole who is a therapist with what we call an integrative approach in counselling. It means that Kim encompasses a wide range of therapy models to suit a client. We chop it up in this episode about mental health, what therapy is, what type of person becomes a therapist, how to find a great therapist and much more. I think there is a lot of different groups of people that will get a lot out of this episode. . Kim's calm open minded demeanour comes across in this interview as we delve into her origin story of becoming a counsellor, what it is like to have family and friends not understand what you do for a living, and what the training is like to become a

What's good Podcast? Listen I appreciate your attention so I won't waste your time. I have recorded a podcast interview with a lovely guy from Stockton California called Daniel Martinez. Dan has Bipolar Disorder 1. . We chatted about his journey with Bipolar from his first psychotic break, to coping mechanisms, and helpful advice to anyone that is suffering. Dan is very honest about his experiences and it definitely gave me a new perspective on Bipolar and how it impacts people's lives. Dan has really taken ownership of his illness and has come a long way, which shows on his holistic view of life. Dan shares a similar vision to me in that he wants to help others that are struggling with mental health too! . Dan has had ups and downs and it is so great to speak with someone that has come back from homelessness, being hospitalised, and in a bad place to having a wonderful fulfilling life with a great support network around him like his best mate Oswaldo who has helped with other friends

Sometimes you meet people in life and you have a good feeling about them before you have even spoken. It is safe to say that is the case with Jonathan Darling. Through the serendipity of Instagram hashtags I was looking for posts under #makepositivitylouder and the second post I saw was Jon's. . His picture caption read "Took a root wring and jacked my ankle half way through. Really slowed me down but that's part of it". It really spoke to me because of the mental fortitude it takes to carry on sometimes when we hit a bump in the road. We connected on Instagram and I got him on the podcast for what I believe is an all time episode! . We chopped it up about positivity, Empathy, Jon's 24 hike challenge that changed his life, meeting his wife, writing leadership articles, raising children, and many more things. The conversation got me really fired up because of Jon's energy and passion that really spoke to me, we got really deep and spoke about a lot of areas of mental health and persona

I'm sick of hearing online tweets or Instagram posts of "We need to start talking about Mental health." My view is be the change you wish to see in the world and get started! In this episode I will show you how!

This episode is about positivity, my journey over the last 2 months with it and how it can change your life