The podcast is back after a couple of months off. It has a new jingle and I am taking a more spontaneous, less scripted approach to the show. Inspired by latest book, The Gentle Rebel the podcast will be dedicated to discussing ideas around introversion a

Stop worrying about what everyone else is doing. Embrace vulnerability because, along with connection it is the foundation of creative living and thought.Tilbury - Northern Comfort, Midas Fall - Your Heart, Your Words, Your Nerves, Dan Price - My Heart is

Christmas adverts furthered the hollywood agenda of ‘the brand’. Normalising us to feel like we’re missing something intangible that we can never quite get. Music from Nola Wren, The Divers, Abbey Gundersen and Lowercase Noises.

Reality is simply our perception, and we experience the world and respond to things that go on around us through our sensory representational systems. Accordingly, we can not know reality itself. It is not reality that limits us or empowers us, but rather

We all get lonely. It's a part of what it means to be human. It can happen for the briefest moment, or it can be terminal. And it can occur even if you are constantly surrounded by people. Music by Olafur Arnalds, Son Lux, Tip of the Hat, and Lowercase No

Not long ago I was asked by a friend of mine, 'what do you have in your bank for a rainy day?' He wasn't talking about money. It was about future wellbeing. Music from Tom Staniford, Star Anna, Mike Cavanaugh, and Lowercase Noises.

Ideas baffle me. They are crazy. The idea that you can have an idea. I love it. You can just look at something and form an idea around it. We come up with solutions to problems, names for things, identities, tools, new (or ingrained) ways of seeing and

Do you think with your head or heart? It's not rational to paint, write, sing, love people, help people who can't help you in return, but it's integral. Heart thinking is not: - Surrendering your behaviour to your emotions - Feeling your way through life

A little bit often, soon goes a long way. We Choose. Over and Over. Little by little our choices add up. Many times each day we can choose to stay still or to move things forward. The decision to use a spare five minutes to send an email, personally re

Privilege and advantage are both relative terms? In order for them to exist they need the opposite to keep them in check. Privilege is a selfish aspiration, unless we see it as a privilege to be where we are right now doing what we're doing, surrounded by