LifeWise

Hosted by Tania Cotton, founder of MovementWise.org, LifeWise is an inspirational podcast featuring experts who dedicate their lives to helping people overcome health and performance challenges, to live life in a way that makes them feel truly alive. Topics include motivation and mindset; redefining how you measure success; athletic performance; nutrition; overcoming pain, injury, and disease; building resilience; guided mastery; turning threats into opportunity; posture and movement; how your health and the planet's health are inextricably linked; finding flow states; power of the mind; mental health.

#20: Discover Your True Nature with Robbie Fenlon 01/06/2026

#20: Discover Your True Nature with Robbie Fenlon Meet Robbie Fenlon, a leadership coach and meditation practitioner drawing on more than 30 years of real-world experience from guiding mountaineering expeditions in the Alps and the Himalayas to coaching executives, scientists and athletes. With a deep interest in meditation, neuroscience and human development, Robbie helps people tap into their own intelligence, strength and experience to find practical solutions to their own challenges. KEY THEMES Experiential Learning Spirituality Climbing, Interacting with Nature, Mental Health, Leadership, Coaching, Meditation, Self-Awareness, Redefining Success, Your True Nature BOOKS by Jon Kabat-Zinn, include: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness – The foundational book introducing the MBSR curriculum and philosophy. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life – A practical guide to integrating mindfulness into daily life for reducing stress and increasing awareness. Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness by Rick Hanson, include: Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time Hardwiring Happiness: New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence PODCAST ‘Being Well' with Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson FILMS ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ directed by Sergio Leone. At its core, the film argues that moral labels are slippery. “Good,” “Bad,” and “Ugly” aren’t fixed virtues—they’re roles people play in a brutal world shaped by greed, chance, and survival. Leone strips away romantic heroism and shows a landscape where self-interest rules, alliances are temporary, and outcomes hinge as much on luck as on character. A second, quieter message sits underneath: war is absurd and dehumanising. ‘Free Solo’ with climber Alex Honnold: a great example of how with consistent practice, discipline and mental training we can achieve excellence over time. QUOTE Albert Einstein reflects on the interconnectedness of humanity and the illusion of separateness in a letter to Rabbi Robert S Marcus, 12 February 1950. He wrote: ‘A human being is a part of the whole called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature as beauty.’ CONNECT WITH ROBBIE FENLON At , and on /episode/index/show/movementwise/id/39635930