A New Way of Being

Flow, Fulfilment, and Finding Balance: Dominic Thiem

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why success alone doesn’t bring happiness but truly embracing the now can be transformative. This is a fascinating conversation with one of my favou...

The Essence of Stoic Philosophy: Coping with life's challenges - with Ryan Holiday

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring how stoicism’s practical wisdom can help you respond to anything life throws your way. In this bitesize episode, I sit down with Ryan Holi...

The Positivity Trap: Why closing off to the full spectrum of feelings is a bad idea

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the dangers of forced positivity and the importance of embracing all emotions for genuine connection and well-being. In this episode, ex rug...

Escaping Your Screen: How to Reclaim Your Focus with Professor Cal Newport

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Find out why it’s the time spent on screens, not just the content, that’s affecting your well-being – and how you can start reclaiming your focu...

Mastering Money: Breaking Free from Financial Stress with 'Money Mentor' Anna Brading

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we tackle a subject that affects us all but remains somewhat taboo —money. Anna joins me to share her powerful journey from financi...

Into the Bubble: How Fighter Pilots Stay Focused and Find Flow—And How You Can Too

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fighter pilots are experts at developing the power of focus under pressure. Fighter pilot turned Head of UK Military Flying Training Rob Caine explain...

The Joy of Movement: Adam Richardson’s Journey from Near-Death to Mobility Guru

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"A healthy person has a hundred wishes, but a sick person has only one"Another wise one man once said, 'One day you will look like a soggy tea-bag, if...

Freedom from Thought: Ending the Cycle of Mental Suffering - with Sam Harris

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation 2.0: Discovering the True Nature of Thought. This episode with neuroscientist, author and creator of the Waking Up app Sam Harris explores ...

Reflective Awareness: Embracing Our Shadow Through What We Judge in Others - Dr John Demartini

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This conversation starts with a truly eye-opening insight: our judgments of others often reveal traits in ourselves that we haven’t fully recognised...

Reducing Psychological Suffering Through Reflective Awareness with Dr. John Demartini

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Discover how embracing your shadow and understanding the judgments we place on others can help reduce psychological suffering. What we resist in other...

Real life 'Top Gun' explains how to get into flow by building your 'bubble' boundaries: RAF Fighter Pilot and Head of UK Military Flying training Rob Caine

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The closest most of us will ever get to flying fighter jets is by watching 'Top Gun'. But there is so much anyone can learn from fighter pilot turned ...

How to harness 'vasopressin bonding' for real intimacy - and challenging the 'anxious-avoidant attachment trap'

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What attachment style are you - anxious, avoidant or secure? Our attachment style forms as a result of our relationships with our parents and primary ...

How to stop overthinking - tools, techniques, insights and powerful recognitions: Andrew Sewell

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are you familiar with worrying about the future or dwelling on the past? Then this conversation is for you. It's all about ways to free yourself from ...

How to get freedom from your thoughts - and a powerful practice to bring more presence into your life: Jenna Ashford

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you sometimes feel like your mind is stuck on a treadmill? Does it ever feel like your mind is a prison? If so, there is a way out - and this bites...

How to unwind anxiety - using a paradoxical but powerful approach: Dr Guy Meadows

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

No one likes experiencing uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, like anxiety. However, the more we fight our internal experience, the more likely it is...

How to embrace perspective and be more positive - with the professional rugby player turned walking quadriplegic and now movie star Ed Jackson

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ed Jackson is a bloody inspiration. He was a professional rugby player before his career was cut short when he dived into a swimming pool and broke hi...

Top Neuroscientist: Being sedentary is killing you - here's why you need to embrace consistent low grade exercise like walking THROUGHOUT the day

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Being sedentary is a killer. Our ancestors walked 15 plus miles a day most days of the week. Not for its health benefits, but because it was weaved in...

How sport - with a mindful, compassionate approach - can and IS changing the world: Sam Parfitt (TAP)

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Did you seek the Nike Olympics advert- asking 'Am I a bad person - because I want to win?' It got a few people talking before the Games, but once they...

World-renowned neuroscientist gives his top tips for a good night's sleep - the last one may surprise you!

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Humans are the worst sleepers in the animal kindom. We are also sleeping fewer hours, and less restoratively than our Grandparents and older ancestors...

Five practical exercises to help find happiness beyond thought - Awake #2

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here are five 'practices' I enjoy doing, and recommend, that can help break your identification with thought. I have benefitted from these and continu...

How To Harness The Transformational Power Of Non-duality: Awake #1

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Explore the transformational power of non-duality. I speak about non-duality quite a lot on ANWOB. I want to explain how it has impacted my life - and...

Pain Is Inevitable - Suffering Is Optional: Peter Crone

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Suffering is wishing things were other than they are" - BuddhaSuffering is a part of life for the vast majority of us - but does that really need to ...

How To Become An Olympic Great: Michael Johnson

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to become an Olympic great? Michael Johnson is one of athletics' greatest ever performers. He did the 200m and 400m double at the 19...

How To Use Self-Inquiry For Awakening: Rich Doyle

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

'You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?'. This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind t...

How To Find Awe And Enjoy Its Huge Benefits From Spending Time In Nature

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

'Awe Is The Emotion Of Self-Transcendence' - Jonathan HaidtDacher Keltner has spent over 20 years studying happiness, and he thinks the secret to a go...

How To Adopt The Habits Of A Record Breaking Team GB Olympic Athlete: Duncan Scott MBE

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Duncan Scott became Britain’s most decorated Olympic swimmer ever in Tokyo three years ago when he grabbed a gold and three silvers to add to the t...

What A 10-Day Silent Meditation Retreat Can Teach You About Uncovering The Bliss of Being

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

'All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.' - Blaise PascalWhat are you like at sitting without any distra...

Why Integrity is Underrated and Why Identity May Be Overrated: Brad Stulberg - PART 2

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.”Brad Stulberg...

Why Integrity Matters, How 'Optimization' is Overblown and What To Do Instead: Brad Stulberg - PART 1

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

'Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching'Brad Stulberg is a best-selling author, speaker and coach. He is a man whose social media ...

Why Positive Thinking, High Self-Esteem and Affirmations Are Overrated - and what to do instead: Dr Russ Harris

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Changing 'negative' thoughts to 'positive' thoughts takes up a lot of energy and doesn't always work. But if we can recognise that having 'negative' t...

How To Recover From Trauma and The Healing Potential of MDMA Assisted Therapy: Bessel Van Der Kolk

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A Groundbreaking new study has found that MDMA shows great promise as a mental health treatment.My guest today is a giant in the world of trauma and M...

'Success' Is Overrated - but Flow Isn't: Adrian Chiles

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I just admire people who are happy in their own skin"It can be so easy to put so-called successful people on a pedestal, but the truth is many of the...

How to Uncover True Happiness and Inner Peace: Francis Lucille

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We all want to feel a sense of inner peace and happiness. The problem is we tend to equate happiness with things out there – like success, accumulat...

How To See Things From other People's Point Of View: SUMO

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Most things are not black and white and there is huge value in embracing that.Paul McGee is the best-selling author of SUMO - Shut Up and Move On - wh...

Olympic Champions are NORMAL people, 'Success' does not actually change you in any fundamental way: Eve Muirhead

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

My guest this week is a titan in the world of British sport – Eve Muirhead, who of course won curling gold for Team GB at the last winter Olympics. ...

How To Embrace Rules To Rise Above Destructive Impulses: Former Spy Shane Parrish

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Human beings are animals, and as such we have typical mammalian impulses, like being tribal and territorial. These base impulses can get us in trouble...

Recognising Your Attachment Style - and rethinking the 'Anxious-Avoidant trap': Relationship expert Adam Lane-Smith

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you know what attachment style you are? Whether you are secure, anxious, avoidant or a bit of a mix – your attachment style developed in childhoo...

How To Develop True Resilience By Embracing Being Over Continual Doing: Steve Magness

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“All of humanity's problems, stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - Blaise PascalThis bitesize episode is with Steve Magness...

Finding Calm Amid the Chaos: Jason Fox

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Fox is a former Special Forces soldier, an adventurer, TV personality and author. This is Foxy's second appearance on the show, and in this conv...

How To Develop Your Acceptance Muscle: Jenna Ashford - elite athlete, hardcore meditator and psychologist

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are few skills as important to develop as acceptance. Psychological flexibility – which is described as our ability to make contact with the p...

Why You Need To Embrace Slow Productivity: Professor Cal Newport

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rates of burnout are higher than ever before, and continue to head in the wrong direction. We have more inputs in a week than many people had in a lif...

How To Communicate Clearly: BBC master communicator Ros Atkins

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you want to get along with other people, and therefore be able to get ahead, being able to communicate clearly is a fundamental skill. In this age ...

How To Recognise You are Innately 'Enough', And Its Relationship With Having Enough And Doing Enough: Becky Hall

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Enough is an underrated word. If more people recognised we are all innately 'enough', then the world would likely look very different.Becky Hall is th...

A New Way of Being

01 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A New Way of Being is about recognising that we are all innately enough. Most of us don’t always feel that way, but it’s an illusion largely creat...

Improve Your Emotional Intelligence: Daniel Goleman

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't h...

Letting Go Of Outcomes: Kevin Clifton

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Letting go is one of the most efficacious tools by which to reach spiritual goals." - David HawkinsThis conversation is about the power of letting go...

Confidence Comes From Preparation: Sam Warburton

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." - Arthur AsheSo many of the elite performers I ...

Performance Nutrition: James Collins

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How to ensure you are getting the right nutrition to fuel yourself for performance, health, mood and overall wellbeing. James Collins is recognised as...

The Darker Side of 'High Performance' - Caitlyn Jenner

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You cannot fill an inner void with accomplishments and approval. The reality is, many 'high performers' are driven by a desire to compensate for emoti...

Embracing Continuous Evolution: Ebony Rainford-Brent

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To evolve is to survive. Former England cricketer turned TMS pundit Ebony Rainford-Brent suffered a huge personal tragedy when she was just five, he...

The Key to Happiness: Accept Yourself - with Nigel Owens

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You’re always going to be you, therefore it’s better to accept yourself as you are than to try to be something you’re not.In this episode, which...

Embracing Hard Conversations: Kate & Helen Richardson-Walsh

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It can be so easy to let resentments build and sweep things under the carpet, to avoid having the difficult conversation because you know it will be u...

What the All Blacks Can Teach Us about the Business of Life - James Kerr

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world's most successful sporting team, the legendary All Blacks of New Zealand, to reve...

How To Find Success Without Losing Yourself

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I was fortunate enough to be invited onto the Healing Place podcast recently with MIta Mistry - author, therapist and columnist - to talk about my boo...

JASMIN PARIS SPECIAL - How To Be Superhuman

23 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How to juggle family, career and record breaking ultra running, while remaining utterly down to earth, with ultrarunning legend Jasmin Paris.Jasmin ha...

Don't Focus On The Outcome: Sir Chris Hoy

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's not about the end goal, it's about enjoying the steps along the way. I had the pleasure of catching up with Sir Chris Hoy recently, and it remind...

How To Stop Struggling PART 2: Jenna Ashford

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A radically new approach to dealing with stress and pressure using scientifically proven techniques from ACT. This is part 2 of my conversation all ab...

How To Stop Struggling PART 1: Jenna Ashford

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A radically new approach to dealing with stress and pressure using scientifically proven techniques from ACT. This episode is all about how to stop st...

How To Sit With Difficult Emotions: Clarke Carlisle

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What are you like at sitting with difficult emotions - like fear, sadness or anger? Let's be honest, it's not fun. But our ability to sit with discom...

FLOW - Part 2: Jonny Wilkinson, Damon Hill, Frankie Dettori, Goldie Sayers & Jos Buttler

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny Wilkinson, Damon Hill, Frankie Dettori, Goldie Sayers and Jos Buttler share their experiences of flow. This follows on from the last episode in ...

How To Get More Flow In Your Everyday Life

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Flow is “a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will c...

How Your Perspective Changes Everything: Ryan Holiday

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”. If we can refrain from making negative judgments about our daily life events,...

Embracing Life Long Learning: Nigel Adkins

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Having a positive and empathetic outlook can make a big difference to yourself and those around you. One man who knows this is legendary former Southa...

How To Make A Difference In Life: Dame Commander Heather Rabbatts

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can you make a difference in life, alongside other people? That is a question long pondered by Dame Commander Heather Rabbatts, who has a quite re...

Recognising Our Addictions - And A Way Out: Tony Adams

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Booze, sex, social media - what's your poison? Taking the time to consider when we have an unhealthy relationship with 'people, places, things and sit...

The Non-Duality Podcast - 'Finding Fulfilment and Contentment Where You Are' - with Nic Higham & Simon Mundie

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why fulfilment is about releasing our attachment to becoming and recognising BeingWhen we become a champion, we simultaneously become a 'somebody'. In...

How to use language to influence behaviour: Dave Alred - elite performance coach

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Words can be extremely powerful tools, if used skillfully. Dave Alred, one of the most in-demand performance coaches in the world even goes so far as ...

Conscious Relationships

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery too...

How Humility Fosters Healthy Performance Cultures: James Kerr

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How important is humility in creating a 'winning' culture? Here to explain is James Kerr, author of the fantastic best-selling book Legacy. It is all ...

How To Embrace Self-Acceptance

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I don't mind what happens. This is the essence of inner freedom" - Jiddu KrishnamurtiAcceptance is being in alignment with the present moment. When w...

Embrace Vulnerability For Authentic Connection: Dr Pippa Grange

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Can you connect with people without having to airbrush your flaws?"When we come from a place of fear, we seek to hide our flaws and insecurities, whi...

You are NOT your thoughts - you are AWARE of your thoughts

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You are not your thoughts... you are aware of your thoughts. This is such a valuable and important recognition.Most people identify who they are throu...

How to Stop Living in Fear: Free Solo climber Alex Honnold

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Want to know how to overcome fear? Free solo climbing legend Alex Honnold can explain.Alex Honnold climbed a 3000 foot vertical cliff - El Capitan...

'Success Evangelism' - and a New Way of Being

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Success evangelism - have you had your fill yet? This idea that hustling for success, in the belief that we will finally be content and fulfilled when...

How To Raise Your Self-Worth: Dr Steve Peters

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Think about the people closest to you for a moment. Do you like them for what they achieve, or what they are like? (Hopefully it's the latter)Achievem...

What Is The Real Beauty Of Sport?: Matthew Syed

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is it really about winning and trophies - or something altogether more profound? Matthew Syed is a Times Columnist, author, renowned thinker, consulta...

Success Evangelism: Ronnie O'Sullivan

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Success, addiction - and a new way of being. This bitesize episode is with the one and only Ronnie O'Sullivan. In it he talks about addiction, success...

Champion Thinking: How To Find Success Without Losing Yourself

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Life Lessons special: Goldie Sayers interviews Simon Mundie. His debut book Champion Thinking: How To Find Success Without Losing Yourself is on gener...

'Self-Enquiry' and Exploring Our Fundamental Nature - Piers Thurston

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is our identity before psychology?This episode is about self-enquiry, a process you can do to explore what your fundamental identity is, before p...

Stop Battling 'Negative' Thoughts & Feelings: Dr Russ Harris

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why resisting and battling uncomfortable thoughts and feelings doesn't work, but acceptance and self-compassion does.Dr. Russ Harris is the world's be...

ADHD: Dr Tony Lloyd

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is ADHD? How does it manifest and display in people? Is it time to stop calling it a disorder?Dr Tony Lloyd is chief executive of the ADHD Founda...

How to do Deep Work in 2024: Professor Cal Newport

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How to produce work of value - and improve your mental health at the same time. Professor Cal Newport argues that our ability to do deep work, which i...

Keeping Your Cool: Gary Lineker

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Embracing pressure with the England striker turned broadcasting behemoth Gery LinekerMy debut book - Champion Thinking: How to find success without lo...

BITESIZE: Challenging the 'Success Evangelism' Narrative: Katie Warriner

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Why do you always have to be better than yesterday? If it's because you feel like you're not enough as you are - let's talk about that"In this episod...

Perseverence and Resilience: Dame Katherine Grainger

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Simply refusing to give up - even after crushing disappointments. Dame Katherine Grainger is Britain’s most decorated female Olympian and its greate...

'Training was running away from the issues I had': Caitlyn Jenner

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes a drive for achievement and 'success' can come from disquiet, as Caitlyn Jenner - the 1976 Olympic Decathlon Champion - explained when I vis...

Seeing through FOMO (Fear Of Missing out): Josh Warrington

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Staying committed to your path, even when you feel you are missing out. Josh Warrington is a two-time boxing World Champion, who made history in 2018 ...

The Man Who Exposed Jimmy Savile: Mark Williams-Thomas

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

My debut book - Champion Thinking: How To Find Success Without Losing Yourself - is available for pre-order now. Drawing on some of my favourite inter...

The Power of Understanding & Living Your Values: Jamie Peacock

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your values are the things that you believe are important in the way you live and work.They (should) determine your priorities, and, deep down, they m...

Take Perspective From History: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What can reflecting on history teach us about living well now? In this episode we are talking about learning lessons from history, particularly perspe...

The Myth of Multitasking: Johann Hari

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The huge cognitive cost of constantly checking your phone - and what you can do about it. My guest is Johann Hari - author of Stolen Focus - who expl...

How to be a CEO: David Shelley

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Life Lessons from a top CEO. David Shelley is Group CEO of Hachette UK, the second largest British book publishing group. He's held that position sinc...

What Podcasting Has Taught Me About Connection: Dr Rangan Chatterjee

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We crave connection for a good reason. Research shows us that loneliness is on the rise, and that a lack of human connection can be more harmful to yo...

Harness The Power Of Lucid Dreaming For Psychological Growth: Charlie Morley

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We spend a third of our lives asleep - so why not use some of that time to learn, heal from past traumas and grow psychologically and even physically?...

Why You Should Find A Way To Do What You love: Goldie Sayers

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”People often talk a...

How To Make Good Decisions: former spy Shane Parrish

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How to make sure you are in the right place at the right time - with the former intelligence officer turned entrepreneur, author and Farnham Street fo...

BITESIZE: Success Is Not the Key To Happiness - Caitlyn Jenner

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Success is not synonymous with happiness. So many high performers reach the top of the proverbial Everest only to discover that it did not provide the...

Communicate with Clarity and Confidence: Ros Atkins

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Communicating what we want to say for maximum impact is far from easy. It’s also not something many people work on. But Ros Atkins, creator of the h...

Showing up each day and doing the work: Ryan Holiday

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How you do anything is how you do EVERYTHING. What matters is what you do today. That’s the message Stoic author Ryan Holiday emphasises in this bit...

Breaking Down Barriers Through Skillful Conversation: Neuroscientist Shane O'Mara

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The power of skillful conversation - from the personal to the global level.This week's conversation is with professor Shane O'Mara, a neuroscientist o...