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Rivers to Resilience will Inspire, motivate and transform you in building and leveraging resilience. Martina will interview Stellar guests including Leaders regarding their personal journey of emotional resilience whilst sharing how resilience can be leveraged in the workplace and in our personal life. Rivers to Resilience will explore transformational, evidence based strategies to build emotional resilience in the workplace and in your personal life. Martina will discuss scientifically proven strategies that lead to neuroplasticity and sustained change in the nervous system. Rivers to Resilience is guaranteed to revive, restore and refocus you
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Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
In this episode, Martina Witter, podcast host, shares some insights on building mindful leadership to increase your organisation's performance, productivity and Resilience. She talks about building mindfulness and performance, stress management, investing in employees' well-being and mental health, and the challenges of leading teams remotely. Martina also sheds some light on the different ways to apply mindfulness. Mindful eating, Mindfulness of emotions and mindful breathing exercises are introduced through guided meditation. Martina highlights how these practical exercises and tools can help build your resilience. Tune in to learn more on this and other exciting topics!
Timestamps
[00:59] How you are performing as a manager
[04:08] Building mindfulness and your performance
[06:19] Stress management for managers
[08:39] Investing in employee well being and mental health
[10:42] Mindful leadership
[11:48] The challenges of leading a team remotely
[13:17] The mindful eating exercise
[21:05] The purpose of the exercise
[26:46] The mindful breathing exercise
[35:22] How to apply these exercises as a leader
[38:19] How the Mindfulness exercises can help build resilience
[39:42] The difference between winning and losing
[42:40] The Rivers to Resilience Training Program and Coaching sessions
Quotes
- (01:13) Mindful leadership is all about increasing your performance, resilience, productivity and that of your team.
- (07:27) It is essential that you know who you are managing because some people can come in with a smile, but they are actually cracking inside.
- (11:31) As a leader, mindfulness will give you more focus, clarity, improve your decision making and your performance.
- (19:52) Being in a different environment and taking in your surroundings and noticing what you don’t usually notice, can help you be a lot calmer and present.
- (33:54) The mindfulness of emotions is about noticing your emotions. It helps build emotional intelligence and resilience.
Resources
Website: https://www.raphatherapyservices.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapha-therapy-services-limited
The book: Resilience In The Workplace
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
In this episode of Rivers to Resilience podcast, Martina Witter (podcast host ) talks with Dr Pelumi Akintade, a Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician and Health Coach. They discuss the strategies that help navigate life challenges, factors that can facilitate resilience including building emotional awareness and the importance of gratitude.
Tune in to listen to Dr Pelumi Akintade sharing insights on the meaning of resilience, affirmation and how it is key to building our resilience, factors that help build his resilience, coaching patients with chronic diseases through their transformation and exploring stress management. Dr Pelumi talks about his experience as a front line Doctor during the pandemic and the importance of sleep.
Timestamps
[01:34] Dr Pelumi Akintade’s journey to building resilience
[11:25] Beliefs and strategies that Dr Pelumi fostered to navigate through his life challenges
[22:41] How religion helped to build Dr Pelumi’s resilience
[25:43] Building emotional awareness and having gratitude
[29:54] Dr Pelumi Akintade’s experience in being a front line doctor during the pandemic
[33:44] Coaching patients with chronic diseases like diabetes and HIV through their transformational journey
[36:28] How good sleep helps to manage stress
[41:45] What would Dr Pelumi Ankitade say to his younger self?
Quotes
- (15:29) It is essential that we affirm the direction we are going in life.
- (15:50) Affirmation is the key to building our resilience and ensuring that our mindset is focused on the path we are going to take.
- (18:08) Sometimes in life, we just see the end of someone’s journey. We don’t see the beginning.
- (26:44) Sometimes we feel that we have to rely on ourselves, and that can be challenging.
- (35:01) A change is possible. As you put in the work consistency over a while. You are going to see that transformation.
- (44:46) Seek out and connect with people who you can learn from and benefit from them.
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Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
In this episode of Rivers to Resilience podcast, Martina Witter, podcast host, talks with Simon Haigh, CEO of GCM Consulting Limited and Simonhaigh.com. They discuss the four elements of growth, coping with life, the essence of hope in our darkest moments, and the importance of resilience, gratitude, self-awareness, and motivation in business leadership development.
Tune in to listen to Simon Haigh sharing insights on the meaning of resilience, how to build upon your resilience, self-awareness, and how it builds leadership, situational awareness, how leaders can leverage resilience, and how organisation leaders can unlock, build and, sustain business leadership growth. Simon also explains how resilience helped him navigate through immense pressure and responsibility as a leader.
Timestamps
[03:36] About Simon Haigh
[ 04:36] The four elements of growth
[05:34] How travelling across the globe impacted Simon’s resilience, transition and change
[06:51] The meaning of resilience
[07:13] The three elements of coping with life
[08:28] How to build upon your personal resilience
[12:48] Self-awareness and how it builds leadership
[14:36] What is situational awareness?
[20:14] The essence of hope in people’s darkest moments
[24:44] Leadership and how to leverage resilience
[27:53] The role of resilience in high performing leaders and how to help organisations and leaders to unlock, build and sustain business leadership growth and mindset
[32:25] How resilience helped Simon Haigh to navigate through immense pressure and responsibility as a leader
[36:50] What would Simon Haigh say about his younger self?
[40:35] Simon Haighs final thoughts
Quotes
- It is important to be you because if you are you, the best will follow.
- How you manage your emotional behaviours determines your level of resilience.
- Every human being has a shadow, but some people have gone deeper in the forest than others, and it takes longer to come out.
- In our darkest moments, all we need is one little grain of salt to save our lives.
- We are not on this planet for ourselves. We are here for each other.
- There is no shortcut to recovery or growth. It is hard work.
- Passion, hard work, awareness and hope are important in business leadership growth.
- To excel in life, we need to align with the true version of ourselves.
About Simon Haigh- The Growth strategist
Through his Ireland, UK and Australia based company GCM Advisory, and operating as simonhaigh.com, Simon helps organisations and leaders unlock, build and sustain business, leadership, brand and mindset growth through coaching, consulting, training, publications, speaking and e-learning programs. Simon’s clients include high performing leaders, companies, business schools such as Trinity College- Ireland, Smurfit, UCD -Ireland, Southampton- UK, professional organisations & Government bodies globally. His work is endorsed by world no. 1 leadership thinker, Marshall Goldsmith, nominated by PeopleHum Top #200 Influential Thought Leaders 2021, Thinkers 360 # 4 Sales, #9 Entrepreneurship, #10 Legal & IP, #13 Health & Wellness, #33 Mental Health, & #37 Management, and featured in the PeopleHum Top 100 Thought Leader series for Mindful Negotiation. He has also been featured on the BBC, Australia’s ABC television and numerous radio and podcast channels, including his radio show on UK’s first wellbeing channel, Serenity Radio.
Simon started as a tri-qualified (England & Wales, Australia, Ireland) commercial lawyer who, also as an entrepreneur, has built and sold out of technology, luxury items and travel companies. He has also been a C-suite (NANA Development Corporation, Dell, BHP, Xilinx) executive and has sat on five boards across different industries, four continents over 27 years. He is also co-founder and partner of InclusionInLeadership.com.
Simon’s work and two of his three Amazon 5 Star books – How to be a Better Dealcloser and Dealmaking for Corporate Growth are endorsed by Marshall Goldsmith. He is an associate member of the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching Organisation.
Simon is an acclaimed Keynote Speaker, including in Australia, US, UK/Ireland, Canada & China: including World Forums; Ireland TechConnect 2019; Northern Ireland Small Business Conference 2019; Brand Forum London 2019; Start-Up, Scale-up Summit - UK 2020; Bogu Investment Summit - China, 2021.
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Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
On this episode of Rivers to Resilience, Martina discusses Resilient Leadership in times of Uncertainty (COVID). Martina outlines the key characteristics of a Resilient Leader and why its critical to lead with resilience to position your organization for recovery and to reimagine the future post covid.
REACT ✅
RESPOND ✅
REIMAGINE ✅
RECOVERY ✅
We explore the journey of your Resilient Leadership and give you space to explore where you are.
Line Managers play a critical role in Wellbeing programmes but require training - (Health & Wellbeing at work Report - CIPD 2021)
and a Lack of Managerial Support increases Stress amongst employees.
Organizational Planning Post-Covid is critical and Resilient leaders facilitate shifts in organizational mindsets, navigate uncertainties, and invest in building trust in order to develop a recovery playbook that serves as a solid foundation for the post-COVID future.( Deloitte Insights March 2021)
Stress related absence has increased during Covid highlighting the need for resilience to serve as a protective factor.
Martina shares proven strategies to boost resilience including the Rivers to Resilience method ( https://www.raphatherapyservices.com/rivers-to-resilience/ ) which guarantees sustained long term change in your organisation.
What stage is your organisation at?
React, respond, reimagine or recovery?
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Saturday Jan 02, 2021
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
On this episode of Rivers to Resilience, Martina chats with Dr. Catherine Muyeba. Martina and Catherine discuss what roles resilience plays in different aspects of life such as professional life and addiction, as well talking about Catherine’s own journey with resilience including moving to the UK from Zambia.
0:00 – Intro
2:44 – Catherine explains what resilience is in her own words
4:45 – Martina asks are their different factors within resilience, as Catherine explains that adversities help us grow our resilience
10:23 – Catherine gives her tips on how we can connect to build our resilience
14:20 – When you’re intentional with yourself sometimes it’s easy not do something if it feels uncomfortable
18:10 – Catherine shares her own story about what has built her resilience in her life
25:07 – There are times when, like 2020, it’s not just one thing, it’s a long drawn out process and you need all of your resilience
28:10 – Martina asks what role has resilience played in Catherine’s professional life
33:41 – It’s really good to have a wide range of experiences, as Catherine shares about her volunteers
35:47 – Catherine explains what role resilience has in addictions
39:26 – Catherine talks about how rewarding it is seeing people recovering is
41:07 – Resilience can be built and people can bounce back, and there’s even evidence to suggest the people who bounce back have more resilience than others
43:17 – Resilience is like a bank account, we save some for a rainy day
45:07 – Catherine shares with us a life planning tool kit she uses to be able to reflect on the good and bad things in her life called R.E.A.P
50:05 – Catherine’s social media’s:
51:00 – We’d love to hear from you and tell us how you are building your resilience
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Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
On this episode of Rivers to Resilience, Martina discusses the upcoming lockdown. Martina explains what you can do to build ’lockdown love’ resilience during this restrictive time whilst sharing what she did to help herself during the last lockdown.
0:00 – Intro
0:58 – Martina is in the north of England where the R rate is very high
1:45 – Is it lockdown love or hate? Where would you put yourself on this scale?
2:42 – Martina feels quite neutral about the lockdown, and she was actually shielding during the first lockdown
4:43 – It’s important for leaders to realise their employees are all in the same boat
5:23 – There have been many relationships ending and a rise of abuse and mental health issues, but you can build resilience during this time
7:07 – The more we resist something, the more adverse the effect it has on us
7:35 – what did you establish during the lockdown?
8:13 – record 3 things that worked during the last lockdown, as Martina shares with us what she wrote herself
13:00 – Martina encourages you to reintroduce those top 3 things you did
13:27 – Another way to embrace the lockdown is to focus on what we can control
15:16 – Another way of embracing the lockdown is building a sense of community
17:13 – Martina is grateful that she’s alive and things could be much worse
17:52 – Martina wants to hear your feedback
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Sunday Oct 25, 2020
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
On this episode of Rivers to Resilience, Martina chats with international DJ China Lone. China owns an Award Winning Female DJ Agency solely dedicated to giving women DJ’s an opportunity in a male dominated industry. China talks to Martina about some of the struggles she’s faced including stammering and dyslexia whilst also exploring how her resilience has created advantage and opportunity.
0:00 – Intro, China’s background and how she began as a DJ
4:56 – China says she isn’t proud of having dyslexia, but she does accept that without it she may not be who she is now
7:11 – China doesn’t want people to feel bad for her because of her stammering and dyslexia
8:25 – For China it’s about knowing yourself
9:12 – People say you have to stay positive but you also have to be realistic
10:10 – China’s faith kept her going through all of the challenges in her life
11:12 – China tries to understand people as much as she can
12:17 – China has good people around her
12:55 – China is a health freak
14:02 – Growing up, China’s mother faced mental health issues
15:48 – China has recently started mindfulness which is helping her, as well as Adult Mindful colouring
19:34 – You have to have a tough skin to be a female DJ in a male dominated industry
23:56 – Everyday, China gets emails asking to join her agency
25:00 – It’s about being able to educate yourself and knowing how to deal with people
26:20 – When China started the agency, no one told her it would be easy
27:40 – China does employ men, but not male DJ’s
30:00 – China talks about when she moved to the UK when she was 13
31:02 – Growing up in Sierra Leone, China has a different way of thinking from people in the UK
33:30 – Since 2001, China has felt her calling was to help people
34:25 – You need to come ready when you join an agency
36:20 – When someone’s at chapter 20 and you’re at chapter 1, you start judging them
37:28 – “Who I am is more important than what I do”
38:54 – China regularly gets told they followed her because she has an interesting character
41:27 – China is aiming for excellence, and has achieved an award for Excellence in April 2020
43:27 – China talks about what her greatest challenge was
47:40 – China has been working on her resilience for a long time, so when something happens, she can handle it
48:57 – Whatever happens, China feels she has done what she’s wanted in life
52:01 – It’s about embracing that one day at a time
53:13 – Every day before bed, China writes 5 things she’s grateful for and 5 acts of kindness she does every day
54:53 – China leaves the listeners with some tips of how to get through this storm
57:22 – You can follow what China L'One on Instagram , Twitter , Facebook and Linkedin.
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Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
On this episode of Rivers to Resilience, Martina talks to British Actress, Creative , Author and Ambassador for Bipolar UK, Natasha Naomi Rea . Natasha gives us insight into how she lives her life with Bi-Polar disorder and provides us with some tips about what has helped her overcome and bounce back from setbacks and challenges in her life.
0:00 – Intro
1:07 – Natasha gives us a background of herself and explains what Bi-Polar Disorder
3:16 – Natasha’s episodes got worse after she had her son
4:09 – Sometimes Natasha questions herself on whether she’s having anxiety or whether she’s being over sensitive due to her spirituality
4:51 – A friend of Natasha encouraged her to turn her journals into a book
4:57 – In 2018, Natasha had a traumatic experience, leading her to take an overdose
5:35 – Natasha hasn’t had a great experience with the mental health system so she wanted to get to know her condition and get to know herself
6:22 – The book was a saviour for Natasha and it has helped her understand who she is and understand the illness more
9:03 – You can’t sugar-coat Bi-Polar Disorder
10:23 – A few years ago, Natasha wouldn’t have wanted to share her vulnerability
11:43 – Jess Phillips said “tell the world what you care about because that will make the world care too”, a line that really resonated with Natasha
13:00 – People talk about panic attacks and anxiety, yet they’re so different to each other
15:08 – Power lifting brought out mental strength in Natasha
16:18 – You have to get angry with your condition when the fear creeps in, telling it no
19:19 – It’s difficult not to want to curl up and hide away after an episode, so you need someone to give you some tough love sometimes
21:17 – A support network is crucial
22:35 – Natasha would rather collapse in the gym that tell her trainer she’s not coming in
23:16 – Given the choice, Natasha wouldn’t turn her Bi-Polar Disorder off
23:35 – Natasha’s son has made her want to live, not only survive
24:37 – Usually it gets to crisis level before something gets done to help Natasha
25:09 – Natasha gets anxiety when she’s successful
25:39 – Acceptance and wanting to be a normal mum are the biggest obstacles in Natasha’s life she has had to overcome
28:40 – “Find something that gives you a little bit of light no matter how much dark you’re in”
31:37 – When Natasha can be fully focused with her son, those are the moments she holds on to
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Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
On this episode of Rivers to Resilience, Martina speaks to Jose Lugo of We Are All One Story. Jose travels the US listening to the stories of many people and on this episode he gives us his story and how he overcame some difficult years involving prison, depression and abuse.
0:00 – Intro
1:13 – Jose travels the US and hopefully the world after COVID, listening to peoples stories
2:16 – Each story is unique and captivating
4:23 – To embrace who you are is to embrace your story, as a lot of times you feel like you lose your uniqueness
5:26 – Sharing your story isn’t the answer or the fix, but it’s a step in the right direction
6:16 – Jose had rough upbringing, from being abused by his family, joining a gang, going to prison and then having to integrate back into society
7:09 – Jose then fell into a suicidal depression
7:41 – “All the things that help us survive in the moment, are the things that will bring us down in the long run”
8:29 – Resilience is defined as the capacity to recover quickly but for Jose, it took most of his life, but he had a bounce-back attitude in his youth
9:27 – Jose’s biggest battle in life was his battle with depression
10:32 – Jose had heavy anxiety, leading him to want to take his own life
11:40 – “Whatever you go through, life will always have value”
12:48 – Jose made it through his battle by surrendering and accepting himself as he is
14:38 – Humans have a natural instinct to survive, but it’s what you let yourself become when you’re in prison
15:26 – The thoughts of “trust no one” in prison might work in prison but it doesn’t work in life
16:11 – Jose was just working through the days in survival mode
16:27 – Jose also felt a level of peace because of all the violence that was around him
16:51 – You have no control in prison and all you have to worry about is protecting yourself
17:37 – if you focus on the few things that matter within you, all the other things will fall into place
19:47 – The lesson is right in front of you
21:04 – Some days are good, some days are bad but you need to embrace the challenge
21:41 – We can use this time to self-reflect and boost our respect for our fellow people
24:34 – Jose mother and his family are his role models, as they’ve stuck by him, especially his brother, who is a double amputee
27:06 – Jose can feed off his mother’s strength, which builds his resilience
28:14 – If you have a goal and a sober mind, at some stage stuff will break your way
30:09 – Jose never had a long-term goal when he was younger, as his goal was to make it through the day. Today Jose has many goals
32:00 – You have to have some faith, and when work and faith work together, that’s when the magic happens
32:33 – Jose’s biggest hurdle was overcoming depression, and at the time he had no idea what mental health was
34:37 – Jose feels like his depression was caused by hiding behind a mask and he had never processed the happenings of his childhood
36:45 – Jose’s mother was in a cycle and Jose carried on that cycle, and Jose felt a responsibility to educate his mother on mental health
37:51 – Jose still had a lot of resentment for his father and he had to get over that
38:46 – Jose also had to forgive himself
42:19 – Jose has to remind himself it’s a constant journey
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Monday Sep 14, 2020
Monday Sep 14, 2020
On this episode of Rivers to Resilience, Martina speaks to us about policing our thoughts and how beneficial that can be on our road to becoming more resilient. Martina gives us some fantastic coping methods for unwanted thoughts and how to uncover and understand the three levels of thought
0:00 – Intro
2:11 – What are our thoughts?
3:36 – Sometimes we don’t realise the power of our thoughts, they have an impact on our emotions and actions
4:35 – If you think you can do a thing, or, you think you can’t do a thing, you’re right (Henry Ford)
5:26 – Henry Ford went broke 5 times before he founded the Ford Motor Company
6:22 – Resilience can be built
8:33 – There are three different levels of thought, the first level being automatic thought, meaning they are thoughts that tend to be situation specific, which pop into your head when experiencing stress or distress
10:14 – Ask yourself what was going through your mind when you were experiencing these thoughts
10:27 – Automatic thoughts could be triggered by internal or external events
11:43 – The reason why it’s so critical to understand yourself and to police your thoughts is because we talk more about our emotions than our thoughts
13:00 – The second level of thought is underlying assumptions or rules for living, which are rules which guide your behaviour and set standards for your life
15:37– Rules for living are often viewed as should or must statements
16:13 – These underlying assumptions can be developed early in life and they’re rigid and inflexible
18:29 – The third level of thought is core beliefs and these are the deepest level of thought, which are over-generalised and unconditional
19:14 – When the core beliefs are activated, that can lead to a distortion of information
21:08 – Journaling is a powerful way of policing your thoughts, because it helps you to process those thoughts
23:16 – Journaling can facilitate a cathartic experience as you let go of negative thoughts and there are many different ways to do it
24:00 – Daylio is an app which can be used which allows you to rate thoughts which is very important
25:28 – Quantifying goals is very useful for monitoring how people are doing
26:10 – The first way to police thoughts is to acknowledge the thoughts
27:43 – Using the downward arrow technique can help uncover unwanted thoughts
28:51 – Some questions to ask while using the downward arrow technique are “what was going through your mind?”, “were there any pictures or thoughts going through your mind?”, “I wonder what seems so bad about that?” and “can you describe the worst thing that could happen, and "if that were true, then what?”
31:09 – You wouldn’t expect the beliefs some CEO’s have
31:47 – Set time aside, just to
32:32 – Mindfulness is another way to become aware of your thoughts
33:06 – Martina takes you through a mindfulness exercise
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