The Gentle Rebel Podcast

Can Artificial Intelligence help us embrace, explore, and celebrate our human creativity and sensory sensitivity even MORE deeply?

In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, I speak with Marc Winn …

If you’re a freelancer or solo practitioner, you likely need to wear many different hats to keep your business going. It can be tiring and confusing at times. An understandable trend in the age of al…

Adam Grant explores how our practice can lead to boreout in Hidden Potential. In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, I dive into this idea and reflect on the role of playfulness in maintaining …

Humour is a VERY important sense. Without it, we risk taking ourselves so seriously that we lose all perspective. Our sense of humour is a core part of gentleness (firm back, soft front) because it a…

Life coaching can be shrouded in confusion.

In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, I chat with Megan Malone, delving into the joys and challenges of coaching. Together, we dissect why some view…

After experiencing challenges with panic attacks, Aaron Espe figured out how to build a career that works for him. Aaron is currently a full-time songwriter based in Nashville Tennessee.

In this epi…

I’m always slightly wary about the use of “superpower” to describe high sensitivity.

In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, Scott Barry Kaufman and I discuss research around high sensitivity an…

In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, I sit down with artist Ben Cowan who kindly invited me into his kitchen for a chat about “Art That Makes You Think”. Through his visual satire, Ben adds d…

After turning a building due for demolition into a creative community space in the centre of Coventry, Alan Denyer had an epiphany. People aren’t actually all that boring. He’s a changed man. And a d…

How do you respond when things don’t turn out as you hoped they would?

It was lovely to pause for a chat with my friend, Cameron Airen recently. It had been a while since our previous recorded conver…

In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dorcas Cheng-Tozun about her book Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul. We explored how highly sensitive people (HSPs…

Do you ever feel overwhelmed and confused by the unending conveyor belt of new labels, healing methods, and training programmes, all professing to be the missing piece in the puzzle of your life? Is …

When navigating a season or environment of change, we need things we can trust.

But what does it mean to trust someone or something? Where does it come from?

The word derives from the root “Deru” (f…

What is your biggest momentum killer when it comes to making a change, launching a project, or embarking on a meaningful pursuit?

If you’re anything like me, it might be…a lack of celebration.

In thi…

A recent Photoyoga exercise sparked a fascinating Haven discussion about taking up space in the world and how uncomfortable some of us find it at times.

If you ever feel bad about “being a burden”, “…

There is a time to pause and a time to act.

We explored this distinction in last month’s Kota.

In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, I share some of the ideas that came out of our conversatio…

“If we are going to understand and appreciate each other’s differences, then we need to be able to trust the space between us.”

Charlie Jones & Brigid Russell (From Trust in the Spaces Between Us)

Co…

What do the photographs you take and choose to share say about you? What might your photos be saying TO you?

I wonder if you’ve ever thought about those questions before?

Photoyoga For Your Mind star…

Would you say you’re an ambitious person?

What does ambition mean to you?

After rediscovering an old review for the Atlum Schema LP, I was reflecting on this word. It celebrated its fourteenth anniv…

In The Disappearance of Rituals, Byung-Chul Han writes, “Rituals are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable.”

In a restless, noisy, rushing world, rituals are symbolic actions th…