Explore, Challenge and Observe: The Three Pillars of HeadRightOut - Solopisode - 012: Zoe Langley-Wathen
Release Date: 12/29/2021
Trailblazing the Wales Coast Path in 2012 & other adventures - 020: Arry Cain
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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...
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A Donkey, Children & Slow Ways; inspiring human-powered home travel: Hannah Engelkamp - 019
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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...
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Fell Running, Marathons & Mountain Biking; Founder of Element for Active Women - 018: Ruth Pickvance
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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...
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Truffles, Tribes & Tragedy; Healing Through World Foods & Adventures - 017: Sue Plastow
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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...
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A Do or Die Decision on Weight Loss; Discovering a New Life Outdoors - 016: Maria Roberts
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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,...
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Miles, Mountains & Menopause: Getting My Life Back - 015: Jo Bradshaw
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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...
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Van Life, Challenging Ageist Attitudes & Pro-ageing; Retire Adventurously & Positively - 014: Siobhan Daniels
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At 49, Siobhan Daniels travelled the world on a solo backpack. She’s seen herself through burn-out, ageism, and workplace bullying, while dealing with grief and menopause. Siobhan retired from the BBC after a 30-year career and is now living her best life. A fun and powerful chat with a woman who has endured much pain and tragedy. Encouraging us all as we grow older, she lives and travels the UK in her motorhome, championing pro-aging and happier than ever. She says, ‘you are never too old for adventure
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Oceans Seven & 1111km Extreme Ultra-Triathlon; Strength, Meditation and Mindful Music - 013: Abhejali Bernardová
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Abhejali Bernardová is a midlife open-water swimmer, runner and ultra-triathlete. Using her mind to see her through the toughest land and ocean-based endurance events she discusses her deepest reasons for choosing challenge. This conversation is not just about sport, as the powerful methods of self-talk and managing the mind during endurance events are shared. The calm and positive approach to the episode allows you to consider and maybe improve the health, condition and mechanics of your own headspace.
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Explore, Challenge and Observe: The Three Pillars of HeadRightOut - Solopisode - 012: Zoe Langley-Wathen
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Zoe shares in more detail about the three pillars of HeadRightOut, EXPLORE, CHALLENGE, and OBSERVE. She talks about what they mean for her, for the podcast, and HeadRightOut as a business, plus what they mean for YOU. They have, after all been written with you in mind. Zoe knows she’s not alone in the way her brain operates and that there are billions of people, women in particular, who share the same fears and pain points as her. Zoe believes these pillars will speak to you, as they have for her.
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The world needs an Adventure Revolution: and midlife women to organise it! - 011: Belinda Kirk
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With over 26 years of experience in leading expeditions, Belinda Kirk has witnessed the positive impact of undertaking outdoor challenges on mental health and wellbeing. She believes that now, more than ever, adventure should be the go-to for ALL age-groups. She shares the foundations of her ground-breaking book, Adventure Revolution and the importance of having a mindset that includes comfort zone stretching in order to grow in confidence, developing long-lasting self-efficacy, self-esteem and resilience.
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In this Solopisode, Zoe shares in more detail about the three pillars of HeadRightOut, EXPLORE, CHALLENGE, and OBSERVE. She talks about what they mean for her, for the podcast, and HeadRightOut as a business, and ultimately, what they mean for YOU. They have, after all been written with you in mind. Zoe knows she’s not alone in the way her brain operates and that there are billions of people, women in particular, who share the same fears, and the same pain points as her. Zoe believes these pillars will speak to you, as they have spoken to her, and she’s so excited to share them with you.
Why not take some time to EXPLORE what opportunities are open to you in your life? How you can make the CHALLENGES work for you with a little planning and belief in yourself. And with a daily or weekly journal, you could OBSERVE the impact it has on your routine, and open up further doors for you to adapt and grow. E.C.O. = EXPLORE, CHALLENGE and OBSERVE.
Enjoy making magical inroads into your best life, making time and space to feel uncomfortable. Take risks and challenge yourself to HeadRightOut using Zoe’s EXPLORE, CHALLENGE and OBSERVE method. Make it part of your own ECO-system, and before you know it, it'll become habit.
SHOW LINKS:
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https://www.instagram.com/headrightout/
https://twitter.com/HeadRightOut
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-langley-wathen/
Belinda Kirk - Episode 11 on HeadRightOut talking about the benefit of adventure on wellbeing.
Nahla Summers - Episode 9 and Stephie Boon - Episode 7 on HeadRightOut talking about how they avoid planning, preferring to fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants. Nahla talks also about having 'blind optimism'.
Julia Goodfellow-Smith - Episode 2 talking about planning for a bucket list and how to go about achieving these goals in her book, 'Live Your Bucket List'.
Joanna Penn - Author and Creative Entrepreneur :
Joanna Penn can be found on her website The Creative Penn
Joanna also hosts both The Creative Penn Podcast and the Books and Travel Podcast.
SHOW NOTES:
- Zoe introduces the outline and intention of this episode with the main focus being the three pillars of HeadRightOut. [00.23]
- Starting with request to hit 'follow' in your podcast app. Rate, review and share with a friend. Show them how to listen to a podcast if they've never done it before. [02:51]
- Monetisation - considerations for the future of sustaining the show. Feedback received along with unprompted requests to financially support the show and thanks. [03.50]
- Fresh new year approaching. Changes Zoe has made to her routine, including rising super-early and use of Google Calendar. [05:59]
- Potential for more Solopisodes than originally intended, if the listeners want them? Please let Zoe know - message on socials or [email protected]. Can be on a variety of topics including perimenopause, caring for elderly parents, planning or packing for an adventure. [09:01]
- The Three Pillars of HeadRightOut - main focus of today's episode. General introduction to them. [10:40]
- About the first pillar - EXPLORE. The idea stage. Something has to change. You may not know where to start. It's a fallow time, like the autumn/winter time of preparing the land (for you - paving the way). [13.23]
- About the second pillar - CHALLENGE. The hardest stage and often the stage at which many cannot move past. The organisation of the adventure happens in this stage. Trust and self-belief feature heavily in this stage. [20:31]
- About the third and final pillar - OBSERVE. The best bit means experiencing and debriefing yourself. The importance of keeping a journal and/or a video/audio diary. Figuring out what has worked well and where you could improve for next time. Learning to accept that not everything goes to plan. Ask yourself a variety of questions during and after the challenge. You may have experienced Type Two Fun... [30:08]
- Zoe's reflection and summing-up of The Three Pillars of HeadRightOut. EXPLORE, CHALLENGE and OBSERVE. [36:45]