Pat Divilly - personal development and mindset

03/29/21 • 47 min

Pat Divilly is one of Ireland's leading resilience and wellbeing coaches, a sought after corporate speaker and host of The Pat Divilly podcast. We've been friends for many years and for the last 5 have hosted the annual Momentum New Year kick off alongside Gerry Duffy.

Pat runs meditation, journaling and personal development programs, retreats, mountain expeditions, and puts on hugely popular sell-out events in the personal development space.

He's also in the process of finishing off his 4th book which will be published in December 2021, and we spend a bit of time getting into what it's about in our conversation today.

There's so much I could have spoken to Pat about, but I decided to keep it fairly broad and talk about the subject of personal development. When we've realised that it's possible to work on ourselves, the next obvious question is 'how?'

We explore this question and Pat being the natural teacher that he is, shares some real gems of wisdom right from the start of this podcast.

I highly recommend checking out Pat's website https://www.patdivilly.com, and subscribing to The Pat Divilly Podcast for a weekly dose of inspiration!

I hope that today's episode gives you a bit of a boost!

Pat runs meditation, journaling and personal development programs, retreats, mountain expeditions, and puts on hugely popular sell-out events in the personal development space.

He's also in the process of finishing off his 4th book which will be published in December 2021, and we spend a bit of time getting into what it's about in our conversation today.

We explore this question and Pat being the natural teacher that he is, shares some real gems of wisdom right from the start of this podcast.

I highly recommend checking out Pat's website https://www.patdivilly.com, and subscribing to The Pat Divilly Podcast for a weekly dose of inspiration!

I hope that today's episode gives you a bit of a boost!

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Dan Keeley - When suffering meets meaning

On today's episode I speak to mental health campaigner, adventurer, speaker and coach Dan Keeley. I almost met Dan recently at an event we were both speaking and was intrigued enough by the title of his talk to get in touch with him afterwards. After our initial 'virtual coffee' I knew I wanted to get him on the podcast to share his story, and also ask him a few questions about his work.

Dan had a 5 year battle with bipolar, and I realised that I knew embarrassingly little about this mental health issue, so I figured this was my chance to ask!

We talk about the power of vulnerability, what it was like to run from Rome to London in 63 days, and a shared favourite Viktor Frankl quote that made it into the title of this episode.

I also wanted to get Dan's opinion on HOW to ask for help or talk to somebody when we're not feeling great. We know that we SHOULD talk more, but I wanted to hear about some of the ways we can do this practically without the fear of being invalidated, judged or even worse (for me anyway!), fixed.

This is such an inspiring story and I know that you'll be drawn to Dan's openness and generosity with his answers to my questions.

You can find out more about Dan and the work he does to promote mental health awareness and action through his website https://www.dankeeley.co, or on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram at @iamdankeeley.

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Vikki Barnes - Happiness and gratitude

My intention with this podcast has always been to try and give you a bit of a boost of positivity, or a boost energy, or a boost of motivation. But ultimately what I think we’re all trying to achieve, is to give ourselves a bit of a boost of happiness.

My guest today is Dr Vikki Barnes, a clinical psychologist and specialist in positive psychology and the science of happiness.

Vikki delivers workplace wellbeing programs, she runs retreats, and she’s just finished a book on happiness that will be published soon... and she’s promised to come back on the podcast when it’s released to tell us more about it!

In this conversation Vikki talks about what happiness means to her, why she thinks so many more people are practicing habits like gratitude, and how to do it in case you’re not familiar with this wonderfully simple yet effective happiness habit, and we also get into the prickly subject of what to do about ‘happiness guilt’, where some people have a tendency to deny themselves happiness because there’s so much other bad stuff going on around them.

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