Uncomfortable is OK Podcast

Dr David Keane, Founder and CEO at The 10 Behaviours of Successful People joins us for a conversation around increasing positivity and meaning in our lives.

This conversation was originally recorded in 2020 at the kick off of Covid, so contextually we're having this dicussion with all that was going on at the time, AND the points David discusses with us are as valuable today as they were then.

We talk about

- How we define success for ourselves, and the impact it has on how we live our lives

- Hitting pause to take time to reflect

- Simplifying the complexity of our lives

- Intentionally placing our focus

- Doing an information audit on the information we are exposing ourselves to

"Uncomfortable is OK" is brought to you by Health Mentors - helping change makers dial in their health, and improve their performance in the middle of a chaotic world www.healthmentors.nz

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It's been a little over two years since the last episode of Uncomfortable is OK went to air. Today it's officially back!

Apologies for the abrupt finish. Hopefully this episode helps to clear some of that up for those of you who are still listening.

Today Chris will talk through

- What was going on two years ago

- What's been happening since

- Why Uncomfotable is OK is back

- What it's going to look like going forward

Email Chris with questions or discussion topics for the show

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Thomas Maharaj returns to the podcast for Round two.

We catch up with what Tommie has been up to in the last few years and his exciting new project "I'm in"

We chat through the challenges he is facing, what scares him the most, why he is doing it, and what is the hope that keeps him going.

Tom Ahern returns to the podcast for our annual-ish chat. It doesn't disappoint
We talk through
- Tommy's books
- fatherhood
- self identity
- dealing with overwhelm
- Tools for managing our mental state
- Dogs
- Finding wonder in the world
- self development
- learning
- and getting uncomfortable

JP Tocker joins us on the show today to chat through
- getting started
- going against what others think
- the difficulty of getting over that first hump
- dealing with FOMO
- the power of perspective and mindset
- and of course, getting UNCOMFORTABLE

This one has been on the cards for a while and very happy to get it finally up and going. JP's broadcasting and podcasting skillset comes through at times when he turns the tables and starts asking me questions

Show notes:

• A formative experience
• Getting out of the discomforts
• A new routine to follow
• Coming across the difficulties
• Last and next Uncomfortable situations
• Strategies to approach uncomfortable situations
• Challenge this week

This episode is something a little different. It's the first two episodes of a new show I'm putting out called "Leading through Challenge"

If you want to up your leadership skill levels to better lead your team through adversity then this is the show for you.

Subscribe on

Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/leading-through-challenge/id1508020586?fbclid=iwar0zhxwo0vbs4iqwn7j6sw92gnrphkeu8jcmkkdwvp1e8sa2uu8sfklsk7w
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/0raefZiVW0iJz2niG4otsq
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-797YMIQ-Gg9_Q0ftc3QA?view_as=subscriber

 
I came across Ollie a couple of months ago when he posted on LinkedIn about going bungee jumping, and the fact that he needed to do it because it scared him.

We have a great chat today about what strategic discomfort gives Ollie. How he chooses uncomfortable activities. How he shifts perspective. The duality of life, and much more.

Show notes:

• A formative experience
• The moment of realization that, there is something wrong
• An interesting way of looking at perceptions
• How to stop judging people and arguing
• Identifying things that are positive for him but uncomfortable
• Strategy to approach uncomfortable situations
• Challenge this week

Today I'm chatting with Grant Pritchard, an in-house lawyer, technology enthusiast and workplace mental health advocate at Spark -- New Zealand's leading telecommunications, media, and digital services company.

He leads Spark's thriving workplace mental health community and is working to inspire other Kiwi organizations to take a fresh look at how they do mental health at work.

We chat through mental health, how your workplace plays its part, Grant's path towards passionate advocacy, the duality of discomfort and challenge, and of course getting uncomfortable.

One of my favorites, Cam Calkoen returns to the podcast to chat inspiration, motivation, dreaming big, being hopeful, and dealing with adversity.

We recorded this prior to lockdown, but the messages are ones that we all need to hear at the moment.