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Video version: Chunya Munga is an ex student of Jez's and now plays professional Rugby for London Irish as a 2nd row. Listen to their discussion on Chunya's values, motivations, goals, mindset and more!

Chunya Munga is an ex student of Jez's and now plays professional Rugby for London Irish as a 2nd row. Listen to their discussion on Chunya's values, motivations, goals, mindset and more!

Jez speaks to creator of 'The Viking Method' and successful Personal Trainer, Svava Sigbertsdottir about her core values from her life in Iceland, how she gained success working with celebrities in the UK, her views on modern culture, mental and physical health and much more!

BELIEF. ENJOYMENT. CONSISTENCY

Jez chats to former England Cricketer Chris Tremlett. Learn about what makes him tick, his values, his career as a young player and what motivates him now. How did the great Shane Warne influence him, his career and his personal development? What tips can he offer budding young athletes and what has motivated him to add 25kg of pure muscle since retiring from the game?

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In our latest episode we speak to Jason Broderick from Discovery Bay international school, in Hong Kong.  Jason is a qualified psychologist and heads up wellbeing at the school.  He gives incredible insight into the groundbreaking wellbeing strategies the school have introduced in the past 4 years.  The school now teaches wellness and wellbeing though every subject with standard PSHE style lessons being dropped from next year (excluding sex ed).

He also describes how all teachers at the school have been trained in wellbeing and explains how he has created wellbeing workshops tailored for parents.

In this episode we speak with Elena Dundjerovic, Assistant headteacher from the Beaumont school.  Elena gives great insight into the strategies she has used and will be using this term to support whole school wellbeing.  She talks about how the school learnt lessons from the first lockdown and have pro-actively implemented new strategies to help support student and staff wellbeing.

She also describes priorities for this term and how the school plans to bring back activities which will facilitate the feeling of belonging among students.  In the final section of the podcast Jon poses the question to Elena about the school plans to balance student wellbeing with the pressures of catching up academically.

In this episode we speak with Heather Nolte from the Colegio Americano de Torreón in Mexico.  She gives a great insight into how schools are coping in Mexico with the pandemic and also gives some interesting strategies for keeping pupils wellbeing in check. 

Series 3 features teachers from around the world who teach in the fields of safeguarding, wellbeing and PSHE. They offer their stories and advice on the strategies which have helped them support wellbeing and personal development at their schools during the pandemic.  

In this episode Jon catches up with Leo to find out how he is coping with remote learning and any tips he might have for any parents or children to stay focused. 

1. Keep to your routine
2. Find a room where you don't get distracted
3. Plan time to connect with friends
4. Set some mini goals each week 

With the latest news of pay freezes for teachers we thought it really important to touch on financial wellbeing.  We know finances can impact our wellbeing so in our latest podcast we speak to Ryan Briggs, Client Relationship Manager at Wronski Wealth Management and accredited specialist in financial education and wellbeing.

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In this episode Dr bear and Jon discuss wellbeing strategies to help teachers through the ongoing pandemic.  From strategies on how to cope with uncertainty and anxiety, to skills which can help you create boundaries for your own self care.  Dr Bear and Jon also discuss the steps you can go through when you maybe having a wobble - from finding some you trust to talk to or going to you GP.  However bad you may feel the most important thing is to talk to someone.  Dr Bear recommends the following steps if you are in a bit of pickle and feel stuck;

1.  Find someone you trust and talk to them about how you are feeling - you don't have to tell them everything, just test them with a  small amount of information first and see how it goes.  
2. If you don't feel you have anyone to talk to or it hasn't helped, then talk to your GP or seek private help through a qualified health professional.

If you need help right now you can also call the below numbers who can offer you support.

Mind - Call 0300 123 3393  or https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/helplines/

Samaritans - Call 116 123 or visit https://www.samaritans.org/

Young minds - 0808 802 5544 or visit https://youngminds.org.uk/

Or visit the NHS website below who have a whole host of helpful charities.

NHS  - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines/

In this episode Jon speaks to a leading military pilot.  He talks about his 20+ year career in the military, from working as paratrooper in NI and Iraq, to his pilot training and time flying Apache helicopters in the Afghan war.  He gives his own views on how to best to cope with moments of hardship and adversity and tips for any young person looking for career in the army. 

In this episode Jon speaks with Mike Glanville, the co-founder of MyConcern, the leader in safeguarding software for schools.  Mike talks about his extensive experience working on the front line of safeguarding while working in CID, in the police.   He gives advice to schools and teachers on how to keep their safeguarding processes in check during this challenging time.  For more information about MyConcern and Mike please visit their website https://www.myconcern.co.uk.

With schools fully open in the UK, teachers are now facing more day to day challenges, from keeping children safe, offering blended learning and getting children back to speed after 6 months off.  It's not therefore surprising that teacher wellbeing could be being affected, which is why we thought it time to get some wellbeing advice specific for teachers and staff.

Samuel Hart is the co-founder of Teach strong - a teacher specific wellbeing company.  He offers 5 simple tips to help teachers look after their own wellbeing and also offers advice to schools on how they can approach the supervision of their staff.

In this episode we talk to Greig Trout.  Greig is a double cancer survivor and the man behind www.whenyousurvive.com and www.52-lives.org.  His story resonates with us here at life on time because he puts much of his recovery and his new found happiness down to strategies like goal setting.  Take a listen to find out more....

In our final episode of the series, the team talk leadership.  Jez discusses how he now teaches leadership skills as part of PE, the team introduce their creative Director Martin Harling Coward and Dr Bear gives insight in to how things have turned more normal in his day to day treatment of his patients.

In this episode the team discuss confidence and have a very special guest, in premier league sport psychologist Dr Karl Steptoe who is the lead sport psychologist at Loughborough University,  Karl gives some really helpful insights on how to build confidence in young people.

The Black lives matter movement after the death of George Floyd has created a lot of media attention and will have created a lot of emotions with lots of communities around the UK.  In this episode Jon has an open conversation with his friend and business consultant, Dr Wayne Wright as he tries to get a better understanding of the movement and why the events in the US have transferred over to the UK.

In this episode the team discuss childcare and homeschooling during lockdown.  On the episode we have special guest Arnold Kaloki from a company called Brightteach a specialist home tutoring company.  Arnold has some really great tips on how to keep children engaged with their home education during the pandemic.

In episode 8 the team discuss teacher's wellbeing.  Dr Bear is back to give some really useful tips on how to look after yourself and cope with the uncertainty of going back to school. 

In this episode Jez and Jon discuss how important sport and physical activity is to our wellbeing.  Jez has one of his high performer sport students on to find out how she organizes her day...

In this episode Jez, Dr bear and Jon discuss resilience.  Resilience is a key skill at anytime but espeically in time sof crisis so we thought in apt time ot get talking about it.  Dr Bear gives some insight on how he uses resilience and what skills in involves.  We also have special guest Ian Rennie from PTCS - who specialise in coaching government officials on building resilience.

Dr Bear and the team discuss PSHE in episode 5.  They discuss what it is, but also why it should in their opinion become the major focus for schools post lockdown.  We also have special guest Jayne Wright who is a PSHE expert who gives schools and teachers some great tips for when lockdown ends.

What is PSHE? If you’re a teacher or a student you will no doubt know the answer, but for some parents it may mean nothing other some random assortment of letters. Jez, Dr bear and myself - all in our late 30’s don’t recall the subject being taught at all. So what is it? PSHE curriculum stands for Personal, Social, Health and economic. It’s the subject that covers teaching of personal development, social skills, sex education, health education, wellbeing and knowledge about the wider world, along with much more.

In this episode the trio discuss sleep, the importance of it and also how much teenagers inparticular need to stay fit and healthy.  There is also a special guest Mandy Gurney from Millpond sleep clinic who is a child sleep expert.  She gives a great insight into the sleep patterns of teenagers and how they should be approaching sleep during lockdown and how they should be aware of what a change of routine could mean when we come out of lockdown.

Welcome to Life on time’s Become Inspired podcast. We hope you enjoy being here and go away with something that can help you and your students performance and wellbeing. Our become inspired blog aims to

- give helpful advice on wellbeing and personal development for students, teachers and parents

- be fun, but serious with the advice it gives. 

- Enable listeners to go away with useful tools you can implement immediately and make improvements to you and your students. Our content will be based on Life on times key principles below

· Values · Goal setting · Mind Body connection – main sub areas Nutrition/Sleep/Physical Activity/Meditation, Mindfulness and ACT · Attitude · Confidence · Leadership