One Wild Life Podcast with Abbie Barnes

Trigger Warning: please note that this episodes contains conversation around mental health and wellbeing, sometimes covering sensitive subjects. We advise you to come back to this episode at another point if you are finding yourself struggling at the moment.

Rani Bora is a holistic psychiatrist, author, international speaker and wellness coach. She also works as a practising consultant psychiatrist in the NHS. Her passion is to transform the lives of people struggling with any form of mental health challenge by empowering them and guiding them to their innate wellbeing and resilience so that they experience inner peace, clarity of mind and find meaning and purpose in their lives.

In partnership with her husband, Dr Suraj Gogoi, Rani is also working to build an online community of like-minded professionals who want to serve at the highest level possible by breaking free from stress and overwhelm into a healthy and full life.

She is the host of the Listening Into Wellbeing Podcast and author of "How To Turn Stress On Its Head".

In this episode we answer the question 'what is mental health?'; explore the idea of individual stress thresholds, and dig into Ranis famous phrase "People may be lost but they are NOT broken".

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Bob Cartwright has backpacked around the world, competed in numerous Original Mountain Marathon events, designed multiple pieces of lightweight adventure kit,and walked the 200 mile Great Outdoor Challenge in Scotland more than a handful of times.

In 2005 Bob established backpackinglight.co.uk with the aim of making lightweight hiking, biking, and riding more accessible, and then went on to launch The Outdoor Station Podcast in 2005. The show has now received well over 14 million downloads, and across the 530-plus episodes Bob has chatted to an impressive array of outdoor fanatics, such as Jenny Tough, Anna Blackwell, Chris Townsend and Keith Fosket. Alongside these conversions, Bob also documents live expos and events, and shares his own hiking experiences through travel diaries and musical journals.

In this episode Bob and I dive into his childhood experiences to rediscover where the foundations for his love of the outdoors were laid. We then travel the world as he shares some of his experiences of backpacking for 18 months on a shoestring. How does one go about doing such a thing? We explore the concepts of fear and perceptions, and how we can often find ourselves walking the thin line between excitement and anxiety.

Bob and I then turn our chat to podcasting and media. What did it look like pioneering the way in the podcast scene, and what have been the peaks and troughs of the 15 year journey? And how can we all take on our own goals and dreams, even when we seemingly don't have anyone to follow who is leading the way?

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Hey everyone, welcome to the One Wild Life Podcast with me, Abbie Barnes!
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We've made it! This podcast has been a long time in the making, but finally we are up and running. I am a hiker come filmmaker come personal trainer come business owner, and now officially the host of The One Wild Life Podcast!
This show is designed to be a show about life and therefore it has no boundaries. I'll be covering a wide range of topics with guests from all around the world, although initially these topics will likely be linked to personal interests of mine, such as the outdoors, hiking, and expeditions, mental health and physical wellbeing, environmental conservation, and spirituality. But as I mentioned above, there are no boundaries, and each guest will bring their own stories and opinions.
No matter the subject though, I really hope that each episode leaves you feeling inspired, empowered, educated, and uplifted, as myself and my guest explore how we can all grow the confidence to live our best lives everyday.
Season One of the podcast will see episodes uploaded every other week, starting on Monday 11th January 2021.
Find out more about the show by visiting Spend More Time In The WILD.
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In this chat Stephen and I dive into his childhood experiences where the foundations of his love for nature were laid at a very young age. He explains why birds were his primary fascination, and how as he grew up and entered the world of work, this broadened into other flying things such as dragonflies and butterflies after meeting the legendary birder, comedian and presenter, Bill Oddie.

Stephen is a former producer at the BBC Natural History Unit with an admirable career spanning three decades. He produced some of the nation's most loved nature series, such as Big Cat Diary, Birding with Bill Oddie, and the BAFTA-winning Springwatch series, which first aired in 2005. We dive into what his role involved and how working in TV is very much a job for those who thrive when working in teams.

‘Why this, why me, why now’. Through much of this conversation Stephen and I talk in depth about travel and nature writing, from putting thoughts to paper, order, structure, and purpose. As someone who is a senior lecturer at Bath Spa University in the topic, he has some very insightful tips for anyone looking to get into writing.

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