Wanderful - Inspiration On The Go

Sarah Ellis had a glittering corporate career; working in marketing, strategy and corporate leadership for a number of FTSE100 brands including: Sainsbury’s and Barclays, until she stepped off the ‘straight and narrow’ and co-founded ‘Amazing If’ with Helen Tupper, exploring the ‘squiggly’ career, a business with a mission to make work better for everyone. Together they co-host the very successful podcast ‘Squiggly Careers’ and have written ‘The Squiggly Career’, published by Penguin books. Sarah talks to David about how ‘squiggly’ came into her life; she talks about curiosity as a life skill and a business opportunity; introversion as a super-power in a room full of extroverts and how to navigate our own squiggly lives and careers. You can follow Sarah on Facebook and Instagram @amazingif and Twitter @amazing_if amazingif.com Follow David on Twitter @DavidPearlhere & Instagram @davidpearl_here Wanderful is produced and edited by Andrew Paine @ItPainesMe

Pink haired author and sex educator Ruby Rare has an amazingly positive attitude towards the body: and 71k Instagram followers tune in daily to see her frank and funny posts on the subject. In this episode of Wanderful, we managed to pull Ruby away from her writing and talk to her about her work and mission in life to educate all of us on the importance of body positivity. She discusses pleasure, broadens our perceptions of beauty, describes the joy in living a multi-coloured and opulent lifestyle (mostly naked, but fully accessorised) and how to remain ‘authentic’ as a public figure. Ruby’s book Sex Ed: A Guide For Adults is available at major bookstores and you can find her on Instagram @rubyrare  Follow David on Twitter @DavidPearlhere & Instagram @davidpearl_here Wanderful is produced and edited by Andrew Paine @ItPainesMe

What happens when life throws the unforeseen at us? How do we cope and how can we thrive? Where might the power in improvising through life, be of service to us?  To help guide us through the mysteries of improvisation, David spoke to author, improviser and performer, the brilliant, funny and talented, Pippa Evans. Pippa is co-founder of Sunday Assembly, the church for people who don’t believe in god, a core member of Olivier award winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical and frequently appears on Radio 4 panel shows. In this episode of Wanderful, Pippa explains how the lessons of improvisation can bridge across to the everyday world and improve your life, by simply ‘following your obvious’, listening to your instincts, the importance of being curious and trusting your imagination. Pippa’s book Improv Your Life: An Improviser’s Guide To Embracing Whatever Life Throws At You is available at major bookstores and you can find her on Twitter @IAmPippaEvans   Follow David on Twitter @DavidPearlhere & Instagram @davidpearl_here   Wanderful is produced and edited by Andrew Paine @ItPainesMe

Wanderful – Inspiration On The Go  'Wanderful' is a podcast created and hosted by David Pearl to help you bring a bit of wonder to your walking. Inspired by David’s not-profit social movement Street Wisdom that brings free guided in-person and online walking workshops to city streets in 67 countries and counting. Each 30 min episode takes an entertaining and light- hearted look at an aspect of life we all secretly struggle with or want to get better at: Boredom, grumpiness, reading, feeling lost, seeking love, wealth, direction… you get the idea. We’ll start the walks by exploring the everyday challenge in the company of an entertaining and refreshingly, imperfectly human, guest. Then, following simple instructions provided by David, the walk becomes a way to get clarity, insight and learn new skills you can use every day to help you find answers to your life questions. All you need is some headphones and a phone so you can get outside and walk whilst listening, but if you are tuning in at home then walking (slowly) inside your house, also works well too. You can dig deeper into the power of wandering and getting off the beaten track in David’s latest book Wanderful: Human Navigation for a Complex World available at leading bookstores. Follow @streetwisdom_ @davidpearlhere for more ideas and inspiration on leading a Wanderful life davidpearl.net   Wanderful - Inspiration On The Go is produced and engineered by Andrew Paine