Resilience Rising Podcast
Hosted by Jen Scotney A podcast that gets curious on all things resilience.
Episodes
How did James Wythe go from years bed bound with ME/CFS to sharing his recipes, to full time food blogger? What has his journey taught him about resilience?
James Wythe, better known as Healthy Living James, is a qualified health coach, cookbook author and full time food blogger with over 1 million followers.
Growing up James was incredibly sport...
When life gives us a traumatic brain injury and cancer diagnosis can we find the positives in it? Clare Rutter believes we can and share's her incredible story.
Clare Rutter is a micro adventurer and explorer, a paddlesports & outdoors enthusiast. Clare was British Canoeing #ShePaddles Ambassador for Canoe Wales and paddles in South Wales & South West England
Clare i...
Warning: just over 30 minutes into the podcast we briefly mention a suicide and miscarriage in passing.
What can we learn from the animal world about resilience? Where do rituals fit in with grief and resilience?
Leonie Charlton is a writer, and is passionate about our relationship as the human animal with the rest of the natural world. She is author of Marram, a travel memoir of a trip riding with Hig...
How do you even start to get over the brutal murder of your husband? It seems completely insurmountable... but this is something Jen Zwinck talks us through on this incredible episode.
Jen's advice on how we rebuild our lives after a devastating bereavements is also something we can draw from for getting through any tough times, break ups, or changes such as retirement.
Jen Zwinck will never forget the...
Natasha Carthew is a working-class writer from Cornwall. We discuss resilience around poverty. How can cultivating positivity and creativity build resilience?
Her book Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience, is out now in hardback, with the paperback out on 11 April 2024. She has written ten books, including poetry, three novels for young adults, an...
Content warning: This episode contains discussions around suicide, self harm and eating disorders.
'Resilience is Growth'
Abbie Barnes is an award-winning presenter, filmmaker, and mountain leader with a passion for tying wellbeing to expeditions and adventures. They are also the founder of the organisation Spend More Time In The WILD and host one of the longest-running adventure YouTube Channels under ...
Nick Jonsson's story of overcoming adversity is an inspiration to all.
Nick candidly shares how redundancy, personal health decline, and turning to alcohol led to a divorce and separation from his son, marking his lowest point. This period, along with the tragic loss of a friend who died by suicide, however, was a turning point for Nick, propelling him towards a transformati...
How does an adventurer deal with not going on adventures anymore? We talk about resilience for expeditions, resilience for the tough times in life we haven't chosen, social media envy, and Alastair's tip for dealing with negative book reviews in a very public manner...
Alastair Humphreys is a British Adventurer and Author of 15 books. He spent over 4 years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and...
How would you feel if I told you to go and do nothing for a morning? No phones, no distractions, just you?
In the episode Fabrice Desmarescaux tells us the benefits of taking time out, and why stopping can be the key to our resilience.
Fabrice Desmarescaux works with CEOs and their teams to help them reach higher levels of performance and consciousness. A partner at McKinsey & Company, Fabrice has practiced meditation, taught ...
What did the youngest public company CEO in the UK learn about resilience? How did he survive when war broke out in the street he was working? How do we develop resilience each day?
Aziz Musa was the youngest public company CEO in the UK, and he had already made significant strides in the corporate world. However, it was his venture into Sudan in 2017 that sets him apart. Am...
'Resilience is the willingness to be stretched'
How do we process tough times, how do we embrace being uncomfortable, and where does forgiveness fit into resilience?
Lunden Souza is host of the Self Love & Sweat, former personal trainer turned International Online Life Coach and Master NLP Practitioner. Self Love & Sweat The Podcast is the place where you will get inspired to live YOUR life unapologetically, embrace your pe...
How do show resilience in the midst of chaos? How can we rebuild our lives after adversity?
John Spender is a 36-time International Best Selling co-author, who didn't learn how to read and write at a basic level until he was ten-years-old. He has since traveled to more than 65 countries, territories and started many businesses leading him to create the best-selling book series A Journey Of Ric...
Imogen Furlong, Imo, has an impressive track record as a cave expedition leader. Imo broke ground leading the first expeditions to the Shan plateau in Myanmar. She's also explored the deepest cave in China, was the first to complete the deepest cave traverse in Mexico, and was part of the team who connected and surveyed the longest cave in India. Her recent cave projects have been to integrate families ...
CW - we mention suicidal thoughts and ideation in this episode
"Resilience is a reaction" - Isaac Kenyon talks how embracing failure, teamwork and nature have helped him manage his own mental health from a young age.
Isaac Kenyon, is a British geoscientist, eco-adventurer and international keynote speaker, who has undertaken world-record achievements while raising money and awareness for charities, with the teams he assembles. He...
CW: We do mention eating disorders on this episode
What do solo adventurers teach us about resilience? Can we practise resilience to get us through the tough days and adversity we don't choose?
Jenny Tough describes herself as an Adventurer, Storyteller, Mountain Lover. In this episode we talk about solo adventures, fear, depression, eating disorders and what resilience means to her.
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Content Warning - We discuss an abusive relationship in this episode.
How do you come back from an abusive relationship, a court case with a famous popstar, and losing all your stock due to a shipping error? Karly has done all this in the last few years and tells us how she did it, and why letting go of shame, embarrassment and a fear of failure was key.
Karly Arber is an entrepreneur, Holistic Health C...
‘Healing is an ongoing process. That is how to start moving forward. It's not a case of getting a certificate, ticking a box, and saying that I'm healed. It's about accepting what has happened and allowing it to become part of who I am, without it defining who I am, leaving me frozen in time.’ Joe French - Out of Mind
Joe French is a Film maker, Climber, Musician, Barefoot runner, and author.
Combining his love of climbing, moun...
Maria Coffey is an award-winning author and adventurer living in Canada and Spain. Her 13th book is out in November 2023 and called Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life
She’s paddled a kayak all over the world; started the adventure travel company, Hidden Places, with her partner Dag; and co-founded the non-profit Elephant Earth Initiative.
What does walking 3000 miles across America teach Barabra about resilience? Can it prepare her for the dark side of fame and the heartbreak to come?
Barbara Jo Jenkins’s three- year, 3,000-mile walk across America with her former husband became one of the most popular stories in National Geographic magazine. Barbara coauthored The Walk West, which became an international bes...
What can we learn about resilience from the military? What works and what doesn't?
Dan Zia Joseph writes and talks about mental health, resilience and leadership. He left his job as a combat engineer in the military in 2022. A soldier in his platoon surviving his suicide attempt inspired him to write a book to educate incoming leaders on the importance of proactively strengthening mental health & resilience.
His book, "Back...
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