The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is complexity theorist and author Ian Snape. A former research leader and executive at the Australian Antarctic Division, he has led teams on expeditions to both polar regions before focusing on coaching and training CEOs, Olympic athletes, and frontline professionals. We discuss how resilience isn't just the ability to tough it out; it's dependent upon an interconnected set of skills, techniques, creative processes. It's about new understandings of how we think, act, and interact with our environments and each other. We talk: How and why to quiet the Left Brain Clean language for resilience The power of using perspectives Coaching marines for breakthrough performance The one about the abductive turkey Links: Resilience By Design - The Book Frontline Mind   

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Christopher D. Lee, PhD, author and the HR Director at one of the USA's oldest and most prestigious colleges, William & Mary. Christopher has a passion for human performance. There are three things we know about traditional performance appraisals: they are widely used, universally despised, and probably ineffective.   What should leaders do instead? Adopt a coaching mindset and commit to regular, structured performance conversations. Christopher offers a wealth of insight and practical ideas about how to elevate these conversations for deep impact.  We talk: The mentor that changed Christopher's life Why relationships matter Your job is not to evaluate Focus on intent Have people feel good Links: Performance Conversations - The Book The Performance Conversations website

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is psychiatrist, empath and author Judith Orloff. Judith is the bestselling author of "The Power of Surrender", where she advocates for the art of letting go as the secret key to manifesting power and success in all areas of life, including work, relationships, sexuality, radiant aging, and health and healing. We talk: Surrendering to her intuition as a medical professional Let's talk death Tuning in to the quiet voice Integrating ego and intuition Embracing your multitudes Links: The Power of Surrender - The Book

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk, Satish Kumar. As a teenager, Satish trekked from India to America via Russia to deliver ‘peace tea’ to the leaders of, what were then, the four major nuclear powers. He walked 8,000 miles without any money totally depending on the generosity of strangers. Now in his 80s, he has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration, social justice and spiritual fulfilment. We talk: Becoming a monk at 9 years old Cultivating trust Staying committed Introducing The Cosmic Relationships Department Embracing 'enough' Links: Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine  

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is facilitator and author Corena Chase. Corena is co-author of The Five Lost Superpowers: Why We Lose Them and How to Get Them Back. Corena believes that everyone has superpowers when they are a child. While we tend to lose track of them as we grow up, they’re always there, right below the surface, ready for us to reactivate them and fully manifest our human potential. We talk: How her niece taught her the glory of curiosity Presence and resilience Why a jack of all trades might be a master after all Daring to play Smashing corporate taboos  Links: The Five Lost Superpowers - The Book Corena's Website

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is intuitive healer, mentor and life teacher Fiona Arrigo. What I found so compelling about Fiona is her profound belief that we can heal ourselves. With so many of us right now - including me sometimes - seeking external sources for our wellbeing, she's part of a growing movement of people rediscovering their innate healing potential. On this basis, she has developed her healing method The Arrigo Programme, where she offers a multi-layered approach to anything from anxiety and depression to relationship issues, chronic pain, or simply a feeling of losing our way. We talk: What it means to be human Working on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels How surviving a severe car crash became a spiritual awakening How there is no blueprint Owning "I don't know" Links: The Arrigo Programme Fiona's Instagram

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is ecological economist and writer Tim Jackson. Tim's view is that we need to give up our obsession with GDP and focus instead on human progress. He envisions a return to a focus on virtue and a re-prised role for institutions to integrate the desires of individuals with their social obligations.  His book Post Growth is both a manifesto for system change and an invitation to rekindle our connection with what it means to be human. We talk: Progress not economic growth Labour vs work Mugumo trees in Kenya The perils of unconstrained novelty-seeking Finding flow for sustainability Links: Tim's Website Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Marina Efaimoglou. She has an interesting life story, to say the least. Whilst still in her twenties she was running her own investment firm having survived a cancer with 25% survival odds. The scare caused her re-evaluate her life. She later received a second diagnosis. This time, she was able to heal purely through natural methods. Her health quest led her to create the Euphoria Retreat in the Taygetus Mountains near Sparta in Greece. But it’s not all salads and massages, at its core is a spiritual inquiry into why we’re here. We talk: Surviving cancer twice The family crisis that set her free Using the Chinese 5 Elements to understanding healing Staring her own investment firm Leaving banking for her new life Links: Marina's Retreat - Euphoria

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is educator, mental health counsellor, yoga teacher and co-founder of the Center for Trauma and Embodiment (CFTE), Jenn Turner. Trauma is a pervasive aspect of all human experience. Understandably, it's one that no one wants to talk about, and yogis are no exception. Jenn's work is piercing this taboo in the yoga world. She's learning lessons about dealing with the impacts of buried pain that we can all apply in our lives, no matter our walk of life. We talk: The double-think of mainstream yoga Shifting from didact to 'holder of space' Embracing the chaos Why survivors must always be the authors of their healing The essence of trauma-sensitive leadership  Links: Jenn's Website Center for Trauma and Embodiment (CFTE) Embodied Healing - The Book

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/ This week's guest on Being Human is Professor of Economics Steve Keen. Professor Keen has been on a mission to expose the failings of mainstream economic theory and policy. An economics dissident and author of 2001’s Debunking Economics, he warned about the 2008 economic crisis long before it happened. We talk: Why Neoclassical economic models are fantasies How nations manage to keep their ‘zombie economies’ going How economists are not prepared for the looming climate crisis  How those wary of "watermelon" communistic greens have reason to be fearful A realistic model of the economy A new politics to de-zombify our economies Links: Professor Keen's Books Professor Keen's Patreon eCONomics - The Comic