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05/05/22 • 56 min
Arry Cain set off in March 2012 to run the equivalent of 40 marathons in 40 days along a brand new trail, the Wales Coast Path. She would become the first person to run around the perimeter of Wales, including the Wales Coast Path. and officially launched the opening of the Path in Cardiff Bay, as she ran her last mile of a gruelling 1027 miles on 5th May. Ten years on, Arry shares her determination, her difficulties and more about the doubters that she could even achieve such an immense challenge. The impact of some of those messages left a deep scar that was hard to heal, but here she talks to Zoe about how she feels ready to reconnect with her running mojo. Arry also retells with enthusiasm and an element of terror, some of the experiences of her other adventures, particularly cycling. Arry really knows the meaning of what it is to HeadRightOut.
SHOW LINKS:
Arry Cain -
Website: Website: https://dragonrun1027.wordpress.com/ (This is currently being updated to reflect on the run, upcoming adventures and everything in between!)
Instagram: @arrycain
Twitter: @arrycain
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dragonrun1027
Illustration -
Website: www.arrycainillustration.com
Where to find HeadRightOut and Zoe on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/HeadRightOut/
https://www.instagram.com/headrightout/
https://twitter.com/HeadRightOut
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-langley-wathen/
Music used in this episode:
Intro, outro and transitions - ‘Stay Strong’ by Caffeine Creek Band
SHOW NOTES:
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FULL TRANSCRIPTION:
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The stretch that should be known as 'Arry's Cliff', Llantwit Major (taken in March 2012).2 Listeners
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02/02/22 • 48 min
After the sudden death of her husband, Sue Plastow and her family left their Italian truffle orchard to return to the UK. Less than 12 months later, she is finding her feet again with exciting plans ahead that involves outdoor adventures, good food and a space for women to walk and talk. Her children experienced a wonderfully feral upbringing of travel and freedom. Now it’s Sue’s turn to find adventures to honour her late husband’s memory. Her positivity and zest for life is infectious. While she is aware that she is still grieving, Sue knows that the only way forward is to reach back to old skills, reach out for support, and reach up towards the future.
SHOW LINKS:
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nakedtartufi/
https://www.instagram.com/englishlanguagefoodschool/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/nakedtartufi
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/nakedtartufi/
***PLEASE VOTE FOR HEADRIGHTOUT IN THE SPORTS PODCAST AWARDS:***
In the Best Urban and Adventure Category
https://www.sportspodcastawards.com/categories/18
https://www.facebook.com/HeadRightOut/
https://www.instagram.com/headrightout/
https://twitter.com/HeadRightOut
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-langley-wathen/
You can email Zoe: [email protected]
SHOW NOTES:
- An audio clip from Sue’s conversation [00:00]
- Zoe’s introduction to the guest [00:45]
- Thank you for voting and news about HeadRightOut being a finalist in the Podcasting for Business Awards in the Best Health & Wellbeing category. Request to vote in the Sports Podcast Awards [02:33]
- Sue Plastow’s bio across thirty years of family travelling and living abroad [03:58]
- Sue’s fears and reservations about adventuring with a young family of four children under the age of five [07:37]
- How Sue’s children, now young adults, have benefitted from a childhood of freedom and away from the conventional education system [08:52]
- Children barefoot and feral, roaming anywhere; living in the mountains, and near the Med, snowboarding, skiing and sailing [09:52]
- What her children are doing now and about their healthy emotional wellbeing [11:12]
- Why Sue thinks she’s always been resilient [12:24]
- Sue’s study/travel timeline, into a relationship, marriage and children, normal life attempt and then campervan adventures with the family in Canada [13:09]
- What you learn to live without - living simply on the road [14:36]
- Getting cold in Canada so moving to Dubai, doing desert drumming and sandboarding [15:27]
- Talking through the personal circumstances that’s brought Sue and family back to UK [17:23]
- Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Australia, Malaysia, South of France, Switzerland, Italy and Sue’s husband’s death [17:41]
- Quick thinking prior to travel corridors closing due to the pandemic - rapid move back to UK and how everyone is coping [18:32]
- Not wanting others to think they have to just crack on because Sue did [19:45]
- How Sue and the family have found the things they need to survive and move on; honouring her husband’s life [20:32]
- Sue looking back through her arsenal for skills to draw upon - what could she do? Cookery, social/communication, teaching English, gaining TEFL qualification [21:56]
- The importance of connection with other midlife women [23:57]
- Zoe’s similar experience of grief/loss [24:36]
- A lurching horror vs a transformation - not wanting to be prescriptive about grief [26:44]
- Message to all: You’re not alone and there are glimmers of hope [28:27]
- Zoe’s old saying from someone years ago ‘Out of every adversity...’ [28:42]
- The importance of food and travelling, cookery classes and a bridge between cultures [29:50]
- Travel adventures with food, outside and a podcast about it [30:36]
- New events kitchen - called Naked Tartufi [31:35]
- New concept of outdoor adventure, food and walking along the South West Coast Path - a Moveable Feast [32:23]
- A therapy, communication, tribe, group of women coming full circle from the bonding experiences of bringing up the family tribe [34:38]
- The magic of walking and talking [35:24]
- The impact of travelling so much on Sue and her children. Seeing...
01/19/22 • 71 min
As a business advisor who feared heights, Jo Bradshaw never would have dreamed that just a few years later she would summit Mount Everest and lead expeditions across the world. Having now reached six out of the seven highest peak summits, on each of the seven continents, Jo shares how her biggest challenge found her learning to manage the blended symptoms of grief, menopause and lockdown, and how new adventures have since been born. In her conversation with Zoe, she is so incredibly honest about how severely her perimenopause symptoms affected her and how HRT has been a total gamechanger, giving back her life. While her last mountain is still on hold, Jo talks about her return to physical training: from the endurance walking and cycling events she designed last year, to the miles she needs to cover in her newest challenge, coming up in March 2022; a race in Lapland.
SHOW LINKS:
Jo’s website - www.jobradshaw.co.uk
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_jobradshaw/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jobradshawadventurer
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo-bradshaw-keynotespeaker/
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-langley-wathen/
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Live Your Bucket List: Super Powers and Angry Man on the South West Coast Path - 002: Julia Goodfellow-Smith
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09/17/21 • 54 min
Author, Julia Goodfellow-Smith talks about her need to adventure, and how it was spurred on by a personal health scare and the death of her mother. We chat about why it took her 25 years to realise that there were many things on her bucket list. One in particular that really needed conquering, she discovered she could actually do it. The resilience and positivity of this woman is incredible. Julia shares insights about our superpowers and how we can harness them to use to our advantage.
Zoe Langley-Wathen 00:20
Well, hello lovely people! Welcome to the HeadRightOut podcast. In today's episode, I'm going to be talking to Julia Goodfellow-Smith, and we're going to be talking about her need to adventure, and how it was spurred on by the death of her mother just before retirement, and a personal health scare. And we discuss how it took her 25 years to realise that there were many things on her bucket list. But one thing in particular that she really needed to conquer, and that she could actually do it. My goodness me the resilience of this woman is incredible. And we talk about our superpowers and how we should harness them to use to our advantage. And for me, I could really see a direct link with work ethics and routine and just think about how you operate in your own work life. I'm pretty certain you'll find your superpowers there, lurking somewhere. So Julia recently published a book and we're going to talk about her book as well. So without further ado, I am going to launch into our conversation to HeadRightOut.
Zoe Langley-Wathen 01:37
Well, hello everybody, and welcome to the HeadRightOut podcast. Today is the 7th of July 2021, and I have with me today a very special lady. Her name is Julia Goodfellow-Smith, and she is going to talk to us, all about making your dreams a reality. So there's some very exciting things that she has been up to of late, so I'm going to just read you a little bit about Julia and what she's what she's been doing. So Julia Goodfellow-Smith is an ordinary person who is doing something extraordinary. Living her bucket list, she would like to help others do the same, which is why she has written this book. She has held a variety of management and consultancy roles in a range of sectors, including conservation, volunteering, banking, and construction. She is currently focusing her attention on adventure, writing, and presenting. Julia lives close to the Malvern Hills with her husband, Mike. She spends a lot of time either wandering on the hills or working in their small woodland nearby. She is a member of the Women's Institute and Toastmasters International, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a senator of Junior Chamber International JCI.
Zoe Langley-Wathen 02:53
Wow. That is amazing. So, Julia, thank you. Thank you so much for agreeing to come on the podcast that is quite a list of things that you've been up to there, and that you have attached to your name? Where do we start? I think before I just dip in and allow you to tease out some of that I would just like to start with a quote from your book. And I believe it might even be the first quote. It's on page nine of your book. And this just absolutely resonated with me, because I did get a pre-copy to read for Julia. So it says "life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all". And wow. Was that...? I didn't actually write down who wrote that quote. I think it was... it was a lady.
Julia Goodfellow-Smith 03:44
It was Helen Keller.
Zoe Langley-Wathen 03:45
Helen Keller. Yes, I was. I was about to say Helena Bonham-Carter but I know that's not right!
Julia Goodfellow-Smith 03:50
No that's not quite right.
Zoe Langley-Wathen 03:51
No it's not is it?!
Julia Goodfellow-Smith 03:52
So? Well? Yeah. I mean, that just absolutely sat with me perfectly. Because that's that's what I'm about. So where did this come from this need to adventure and this realisation that if life is about adventure, you've got to just grab it. What was that all about?
Julia Goodfellow-Smith 04:09
Well, there are two things that have happened to me that have had a big impact on my desire to adventure. The first happened quite a long time ago now - twenty years ago, and it was my mum, she died from cancer at a very early age, she was only 59. And I was in my thirties. And I thought to myself, I can't wait for retirement to have adventures, because she died six months before she retired. So that got me really thinking about how I was spending my life and what I was doing for work and things like that. And my life did change radically after that moment, but more recently, I had a bit of a health scare. I know it's a bit of a cliche, but I was told that I had a lung condition. That means that as I get older, I'll be more susceptible to respiratory disease when I found that out, the words that I heard were actually, "i...
A Donkey, Children & Slow Ways; inspiring human-powered home travel: Hannah Engelkamp - 019
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03/23/22 • 68 min
Hannah Engelkamp talks about walking Wales with a spirited donkey, children, adventures and the pandemic. Her current passion is inspiring others to walk Slow Ways routes, a new network of direct paths, from settlement to settlement, across Great Britain.
Hannah is a writer and editor with a background in adventure magazines and websites. In 2013 she travelled waywardly around the circumference of Wales, 1000 miles, with a characterful donkey called Chico as her companion. In 2015 she published ‘Seaside Donkey’, a book and a feature-length film of the same, detailing her unusual adventure.
In this episode, Zoe talks with Hannah about her adventures with her young children, taking on the position of wardens on Bardsey Island for six months with her partner, and her experience of the pandemic, with no garden and two children to occupy. There are surprising similarities between donkey and toddler, Hannah reveals.
More recently, Hannah was appointed as the Culture, Imagination and Story Lead for Slow Ways, a project working towards creating a trusted network of walking routes that connect settlements and encourage people to walk and engage with the land for their everyday routines in addition to leisure walking. There will be a later episode of HeadRightOut in which full attention is given to Seaside Donkey, as Chico would naturally expect...
SHOW LINKS:
Hannah Engelkamp -
Website: www.seasidedonkey.co.uk (http://seasidedonkey.co.uk/shop-2/ for the book and film)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seasidedonkey/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hannahengelkamp
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SeasideDonkey
Slow Ways -
Website: www.slowways.org
Swarm including the link to the Google doc for submitting film clips from your walk.
https://beta.slowways.org/Page/the-swarm-how-far-can-we-walk-in-a-weekend
Map to use for searching for routes needing verification or choosing new walks to pioneer: https://slowways.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/interactivelegend/index.html?appid=7a48a682d41d450b99772f2e25d15d29
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slowwaysuk/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SlowWaysUK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SlowWaysUK
Where to find HeadRightOut and Zoe on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/HeadRightOut/
https://www.instagram.com/headrightout/
https://twitter.com/HeadRightOut
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-langley-wathen/
Music used in this episode:
Intro, outro and transitions - ‘Stay Strong’ by Caffeine Creek Band
SHOW NOTES:
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FULL TRANSCRIPTION:
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A Do or Die Decision on Weight Loss; Discovering a New Life Outdoors - 016: Maria Roberts
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01/26/22 • 63 min
This is a compelling conversation between Zoe and Maria Roberts about transitioning from size 26 to size 10. Self-loathing and lacking in confidence, her family needed her. She knew that she would have to make changes. She had to start moving her body and change her lifestyle, despite attempting many unsuccessful diets from the age of ten. After her amazing 8 stone weight loss in her late forties, Maria has now discovered a new-found love for staying fit, being in the outdoors, cycling, canoeing and particularly going on mountain walks and challenges. Her most recent challenge, Ten-y-Fan was gruelling and took every ounce of determination, as she aimed for ten ascents of the highest peak in the Brecon Beacons, Pen-y-Fan. Maria continues to push her comfort zone limits to keep her fit and healthy, both physically, mentally and emotionally and feels she has finally gained her life, and her family back. SHOW LINKS:
Maria's Instagram
Maria's Twitter
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Fell Running, Marathons & Mountain Biking; Founder of Element for Active Women - 018: Ruth Pickvance
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02/09/22 • 61 min
Ruth shares her passion for the mountains, becoming an international fell running champion, fast marathons and how mountain bike orienteering has captured her interest aged 60. She is the founder of Element, offering active courses for women in Wales.
In 2012, Ruth Pickvance, an adventurous, retired international fell running champion and super-fast marathon runner, left her well-paid head of faculty role at a Sixth Form College, to set up Element. The business offers women the opportunity to find confidence in outdoor pursuits such as Yoga for Runners, Beginning Fell Running and Mountain Biking for Beginners. At sixty years old, Ruth herself has discovered that she enjoys mountain bike orienteering, which marries her love of the outdoors with the joy of moving her body with less impact on her joints than perhaps those marathons of her forties had created.
Living in the beautiful Brecon Beacons, Ruth shares more about her involvement in local environmental projects and conservation, as well as offering some first-hand wisdom regarding facing our fears and stretching those comfort zones.
SHOW LINKS for RUTH PICKVANCE:
Website: https://element-active.co.uk/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elementactive/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RuthPickvance
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elementactiveuk
***PLEASE VOTE FOR HEADRIGHTOUT IN THE SPORTS PODCAST AWARDS:***
In the Best Urban and Adventure Category
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Where to find HeadRightOut and Zoe on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/HeadRightOut/
https://www.instagram.com/headrightout/
https://twitter.com/HeadRightOut
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-langley-wathen/
Music used in this episode:
This Minimal Technology by Coma-Media from Pixabay
Morning Garden - Acoustic Chill by Olexy from Pixabay
The Cradle of Your Soul by lemonmusicstudio from Pixabay -
Simple Piano Melody by ZakharValaha from Pixabay
Intro, outro and transitions - ‘Stay Strong’ by Caffeine Creek Band
SHOW NOTES:
- Welcome to the episode 00:51
- Request for votes in the Sports Podcast Awards - Best Urban and Adventure Category - currently ranked in third place - this is likely to change 01:17
- Different format for episode due to mic problems when recording. Please let me know if you like the format or preferred HeadRightOut’s original style 02:27
- What to expect in our conversation. 03:23
- Where Zoe and Ruth first met and Ruth’s bio: International Mountain Runner, Former British Fell Champion, fast marathon runner, exploring nature and founder of Element 04:06
- How Ruth came into racing, visiting the Lake District one Christmas around 1985 and making a spontaneous decision 06:20
- How quickly Ruth became good at the sport and why it touched a chord with her 08:42
- How old Ruth was when she started racing and where her deep-rooted love of the mountains stemmed from 09:33
- Zoe talks about the Gold Hill 10 race in Shaftesbury, Dorset - the strength needed ru...
01/12/22 • 56 min
Siobhan Daniels inspires young and old alike. As a woman who has endured a variety of pains life had to throw at her, she is now not only living her best life into retirement, she's on a mission to encourage others to do that too, and to promote the enjoyment of growing older. Siobhan retired from the BBC, two years ago, after a thirty-year career working as a reporter, presenter, and producer in local news. Her life's rollercoaster involved being a single mum, taking a gap year from work to backpack solo around the world, suffering burn-out, ageism, and workplace bullying, all whilst dealing with grief, and multiple symptoms associated with peri-menopause. Knowing how much she had learned and grown from her back-packing adventure at forty-nine, after years of planning, Siobhan retired to travel the UK in her motorhome, championing and campaigning for companies, products and the public to see the good in ageing. In her words, ‘you are never too old for an adventure’.
SHOW LINKS:
Siobhan Daniels' website and blog:
https://www.shuvonshuvoff.co.uk/blog
Rachel Peru's podcast:
https://www.rachelperu.co.uk/out-of-the-bubble-podcast
HeadRightOut Moment from Charlotte Boenigk
Personal training links:
www.facebook.com/moreyoufitness
www.instagram.com/moreyoufitness
Free Your Instinct:
www.facebook.com/freeyourinstinct
www.instagram.com/freeyourinstinct
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01/05/22 • 52 min
Only the 10th person in history (the 4th woman and first swimmer from the Czech Republic), Abhejali Bernardová has completed the coveted ‘Oceans Seven’ - a physically gruelling and mentally demanding open-water swim across seven channels around the world. Zoe talks with Abhejali about her more recent challenge; an Extreme Ultra-Triathlon, crossing 1111kms from Dover to Prague.
This conversation is definitely not just about swimming, running and cycling, however, as the deep and powerful methods of self-talk and managing the mind during endurance challenges are shared. With such a positive, thought-provoking and calm approach to this episode, it is an ideal opportunity to consider the condition of your own headspace prior to event preparation.
SHOW LINKS:
https://www.instagram.com/abhejali/
https://www.facebook.com/AbhejaliB
https://twitter.com/abhejali?lang=en-GB
https://abhejali.cz/ (Czech website - English site being built)
SHOW NOTES:
*Please note error in the introduction - the date of editing the show is 2nd January 2022, not 2021 as stated.
- Zoe's introduction to the guest - Abhejali Bernardová [01:39]
- Abhejali's bio: from Czech Republic, 44yrs old, runner, open-water swimmer, extreme ultra-triathlete, member of Sri Chinmoy marathon team. She is the 10th person in history, 4th woman and first swimmer from Czech Republic to complete Oceans Seven. She has completed a 6-day run and is a multiple national champion at 100kms and 24 hours. She was nominated for both 2018 and 2019 world Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year. [02:15]
- Why 1111kms? [04:33]
- What is the Oceans Seven? [05:55]
- Self-transcendence and meditation to assist the mental side of physical challenges. [08.31]
- A choice of choosing challenge in order to learn more about self. [11:05]
- Meditation techniques used. [12:17]
- Dealing with the difficult mind stuff with meditation, mantras and music. [14:20]
- The Oceans Seven criteria. [17:56]
- The support crew on boat and land. [19:14]
- Characterising an ocean - describing its personality. [21:41]
- Witnessing the bioluminescence. [24:42]
- About the training and commitment. [25:48]
- Logistics of organising the Extreme Ultra-Triathlon. [30:17]
- Funding challenges. [32:10]
- What's next? [33:03]
- Abhejali's HeadRightOut Moment. [35:08]
- How Abhejali's life has been changed. [38:17]
- Wrapping up the conversation and her book (to come). [40:41]
- Zoe's reflection on her conversation with Abhejali. [43:56]
- A HeadRightOut Moment from Iain. [45:12]
- Gained weight - up to 16st. Lost weight through walking, running and then cycling- specifically, time-trialling.
- In two years, gained a certificate in the Best British All-Rounder Competition in cycling for averaging 23mph.
- How this moment has changed Iain's life.
- Brief introduction to next week's guest - Siobhan Daniels. Motorhome living, retired, positive and pro-aging campaigner.
- Request for listeners to follow, rate and review HeadRightOut. Ratings can also be left on Spotify now.
- Thanks, good wishes for 2022 and HeadRightOut Hugs.
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11/03/21 • 64 min
Self-described as a ‘blind optimist’, Nahla cycled 3000 miles across America, despite not having owned a bike in twenty years and walked 500 miles the length of England, relying only on the kindness of strangers. In 2020, she made a world record by travelling 5007 miles on an ElliptiGO bike, through every UK city, in the middle of a pandemic. At the same time she was creating the biggest Strava art in England that spelled out the word, ‘KINDNESS’. Nahla's unique selling point is that she completes these challenges, asking for people to pledge an act of kindness for a stranger, rather than sponsoring money to a charity. Founder of the Sunshine People and a Culture of Kindness, Nahla has built up a strong following, inspiring others to use kindness to effect change, worldwide. Her profound experience of kindness during a period of deep grief led her to build her resolve to ensure others, at both a corporate and social level would benefit from kindness too. She has learned how to face fear and difficulties positively, by changing her mindset and encourages everyone to work on their self-belief by telling themselves, ‘I am enough’. Her new book, The Accidental Adventurer launched on November 1st 2021.
Zoe Langley-Wathen 00:14
Hello, and welcome back to HeadRightOut, the podcast that is here to encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and do things that scare you on a regular basis.
Zoe Langley-Wathen 00:26
My name is Zoe Langley-Wathen. I'm a writer, speaker, midlife adventure seeker - ooh, that rhymes. I'm a teacher, an artist, long-distance walker, plus a daughter, a mother and a wife. There are so many things that we all know we are, and there's so many more things that we could be. I wonder how many things you've wanted to do, but have never quite managed to get your head round doing them. Because they all feel a bit daunting or a bit big. Perhaps you think a bit TOO big for you? But believe me... they're not.
Zoe Langley-Wathen 01:08
Today, I have an amazing woman that's come to chat to us. Obviously, this is all about inspiring you to head out of your comfort zone, do something that scares you, and I think that this person is the most ideal person this week to talk to us. Nahla Summers is just an incredible woman that I've been following for years now and we actually had the pleasure of meeting up about eighteen months ago, and we had a great conversation. She is going to talk to us about her adventures that she's been on and what she does.
Zoe Langley-Wathen 01:45
Hello Nahla!
Nahla Summers 01:50
Well what an introduction and oh, I hope I meet the criteria of that. But thank you so much. That's ever so kind of you.
Zoe Langley-Wathen 01:59
I am just delighted that you agreed to come on the pod. So I'm going to read a bio for you Nahla. This is something that I think just encapsulates who you are, what you do in a nutshell, and then we'll kind of dig down into that a little bit more and just tease out some of the things that we both think are going to be of particular interest to our listeners.
Zoe Langley-Wathen 02:19
Nahla Summers is a cultural change consultant, award winner, author, public speaker, podcaster and the driving force behind a culture of kindness and '44 Rays of Sunshine'; it won the most inspirational book in 2017. Her story and how she overcame adversity has been inspiring businesses and people around the world. Nahla is the founder of Sunshine People, the social movement that inspired her to carry out yearly adventures to highlight the power that kindness has to transform societies. She was awarded a Point of Light Award from the Prime Minister for transforming the concept of sponsorship. Nahla cycled 3000 miles across America having not owned a bike in 20 years, she walked 500 miles from South to North England, relying only on the kindness of strangers. And in 2020, she made a world record by going 5007 miles on an ElliptiGO bike through every city in the UK, in the middle of a pandemic whilst also producing the biggest Strava art in England by writing kindness across it. Nahla's unique selling point is that she completes these challenges and asks people to show their support by doing an act of kindness for a stranger, rather than sponsoring money to a charity.
Zoe Langley-Wathen 03:36
As the founder of the CIC, Sunshine People, every year, she takes on a new challenge, and every year, she discovers something new about the power that kindness has on people. As an author of several books, including an award winning book in 2017, Nahla is an inspiring and established speaker. Among the many messages that she delivers, she shares how we can change the chatter in our minds to allow us to achieve anything we dream of how resilience is built, and when the world gives us lemons, how we can in fact, make lemonade. How the actions of one can change the world and therefor...
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FAQ
How many episodes does HeadRightOut have?
HeadRightOut currently has 22 episodes available.
What topics does HeadRightOut cover?
The podcast is about Courage, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Resilience, Alternative Health, Personal Journals, Mentalhealth, Adventure, Podcasts and Menopause.
What is the most popular episode on HeadRightOut?
The episode title 'Trailblazing the Wales Coast Path in 2012 & other adventures - 020: Arry Cain' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on HeadRightOut?
The average episode length on HeadRightOut is 55 minutes.
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Episodes of HeadRightOut are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of HeadRightOut?
The first episode of HeadRightOut was released on Sep 9, 2021.
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@clairewaitebrown
May 13
There are some great adventure stories from inspiring women on this podcast, thanks for sharing them.
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