'The Gift' of Resilience, Calm & Joy

The Gift podcast host, Tim Wotton, who is in the vulnerable category with COVID-19, shares some helpful tricks from Dale Carnegie and Anxiety UK to help you reduce stress, anxiety and worry during these challenging times. He also explains how an APPLE a day can helps us all!

The Gift podcast host, Tim Wotton, reviews a Huffington Post article about easy & free ways to improve your self-care for a calmer & more resilient life, no matter what challenges you are facing.

Tim throws in his own coping mechanisms & testimony coping with the life-limiting illnesses cystic fibrosis and diabetes; while focusing on self-care habits like exercise, being rather than doing, getting outside, reducing social media, journaling, meditation, sleep, compassion for friends, hobbies, importance of deep breaths, cuddling & practicing self-compassion.

This is an invaluable episode if you ever wanted simple ways to look after yourself in good & bad times.

Tim Wotton, the Gift podcast host, enjoys the most engaging & life-affirming chat with Canadian hero Warren Falkenstein. Warren is a true warrior & a walking example of mind over matter. He uses his disability & chronic illness as a means of purpose & a gift from above to be used to uplift humanity through purpose, compassion & service. Warren is a 4x award winning well known inspirational speaker, adversity & mindset based coach, author, spiritual thought leader & teacher, entrepreneur, energy healer practitioner & meditation artist.

This chat is living proof that despite whatever life throws at you, with the right mindset & patience, that it's usually possible to accept one's situation and adapt to live a fulfilling life.

Luke Sutton was a professional cricket player for over 15 years, captaining Derbyshire CCC & also playing for Somerset CCC & Lancashire CCC with the likes of Jimmy Anderson & Freddie Flintoff. Luke is now a successful businessman & agent to sporting stars such as Sam Quek, Nile Wilson & James Taylor, but his life didn’t always look so positive. 

Luke's recent book 'Back from the Edge’ revealed the huge ups & major downs that a professional career in sport can bring – & the mental health & addition difficulties, especially with alcohol, that plagued him along the way. 

During his poignant, amusing & telling chat with The Gift podcast host, Tim Wotton, Luke is brutally but refreshingly honest about the moment he hit rock bottom, how he got there and, importantly, how he found his way out of the biggest hole of his life.

Luke can be found as his name on LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter.

London-based Amber Coster helped take a software company from a $100m valuation through to a $3.7bn acquisition but suffered physical issues & a mental breakdown along the way.

In order to help others avoid the burnout she went through, she has launched her own business Balpro (Balance Project), to assist organisations and their people grow but not at the cost of their employees. 

During a revealing, vulnerable & enlightening chat with The Gift Podcast host Tim Wotton, Amber shared the lows of her work burnout, battling back, her key lessons learned & how she can help improve culture & productivity in companies without breaking their most important asset - the staff. This episode is a must for anyone working hard long hours with concerns for their well-being.

Amber can be found on LinkedIn, @AmberCoster on Twitter & @ Balpro on Instagram.

The Gift podcast host, Tim Wotton, enjoys the most revealing, helpful & unique conversation with the extraordinary GB free diver Helena Bourdillon.  Helena spends as much time underwater as possible without breathing apparatus.

She is also a speaker, telling of her journey to positive mental health from the depths of anxiety, suicide thoughts and depression.

Helena shares her vulnerable story - the lows and how a free dive transformed her life to better mental resilience and all the tricks she has learned since both in and out of the water. She shares insights into turning a negative into a positive situation to claim back one's life.

Helena can be found on Facebook Helena Bourdillon and Instagram @helena_bourdillon.

Tim answers pertinent, vulnerable & provocative questions received from listeners - ranging from the meaning of life, dealing with suffering, finding gratitude, most embarrassing moment, treasured memories, crying in front of someone, greatest accomplishment, perfect days, favourite book and his personal gift.  Tim responds in his usual candid, profound & poignant way bearing his soul while sharing his hard-fought wisdom gained from overcoming adversity on a daily basis.

Welsh Aaron Aby is a professional MMA fighter and coach.  He's also a Cystic Fibrosis (CF) athlete and cancer survivor. The Gift podcast host Tim Wotton has an amazing, thought-provoking and uplifting chat with Aaron about the physical and mental challenges which he's overcome; not just dealing with his life-long CF battles but also dealing with the monster that is cancer. Plus what it feels like to me a professional MMA fighter and fighting for your life inside & outside of the octagon...

Aaron can be contacted on Twitter @aaronabymma

Do you know where your soul is? Do you know amazing ways to find solace when life is too busy or challenging? Have you heard of soulwalking? Tim Wotton, the Gift podcast host, discovers answers to these questions and many more with the effervescent founder of Soulhub, Carmen Rendell. A walking therapist, she takes business teams & individuals on walks to help them understand their lives better and manage stress.

She can be contacted @Carmen Rendell on Facebook and @Carmen Rendell (soulhub) on Twitter.

The Gift podcast host, Tim Wotton, has the most amazing, poignant, heart-felt & rewarding chat with Norwegian heroine Rita Hausken. As well as being a leadership coach, helping women to succeed in male-dominated industries, she has fought valiantly to keep her beloved boy alive against all the odds to cheat death time and time again. Rita shares so many helpful insights of her life challenges, how being mindful & present helps her and how 'Impossible' should be referred to 'I'm possible'.

Rita can be found on LinkedIn & Facebook as Rita Hausken.

Maria, a London-based NLP hypnotherapist, therapeutic coach & trainer has over 20 years' experience of working with clients suffering from anxiety, stress, Insomnia & associated issues. The Gift podcast host, Tim Wotton, should know as Maria has helped him with his sleep issues caused by his illnesses. 

This is a great podcast chat with Maria dispensing super-helpful advice for anyone who battles with stress and/or sleep problems. Everyone deserves to worry less and to sleep better... and you can with the help of Maria. Find out more at www.mariafurtekhypntherapy.com

The Gift podcast host Tim Wotton has the most poignant, emotional, heart-warming and amusing chat with Welsh turned Aussie Kate Vaughan who has battled mental health issues her whole life, to then come up against one of the most unimaginable life situations, the loss of her husband in a skydiving accident. What Kate has endured, learnt and overcome deserves to be heard, understood and emblazoned on our souls. She can be found on Facebook as Kate Vaughan.

Podcast host Tim Wotton shares transformational testimonies with PR & media owner Adam Cox, a serial entrepreneur and Harley Street hypnotherapist, who is also known as 'The Phobia Guy'.

Adam explains how he transformed his life by facing his demons head on and turning his life & career around to the point he is regularly on TV and radio helping the world deal with their life and health challenges. Along the way, he's learnt some invaluable lessons about the power of the mind and being more in the moment. Adam can be contacted @Adam Cox on Facebook or via PhobiaGuru.com

The Gift podcast host, Tim Wotton, has an enlightening and highly amusing chat with 'exercise champion' Alastair Mavor who despite battling the chronic lung condition cystic fibrosis has run 3 marathons, raising over £30,000 for charity. He shares his exercise secrets to endure what cannot be cured as well as what he's learnt about the power of the mind to overcome daily mental challenges.  He can be contacted @alastairmavor

The Gift podcast host has the most fascinating and helpful chat with delightful Ayurvedic practitioner Colette Park. Colette explains how she discovered Ayurveda back in her home country of South Africa & how it's helped her and so many of her clients lead healthier & more mindful lives. As someone who has fought his whole life to survive a chronic illness, I definitely know how important these 'alternative' treatments to one's mind, body & soul. Colette can be contact on Facebook and Instagram @ColetteParkayurveda

The Gift podcast host interviews Londoner David Dean, who after a scruffy childhood, became a born-again optimist at age 21. A global marketeer, he has an amazing take on pretty much everything which leaves his cup more than half full. David can be contacted at onedaviddean@gmail.com

The Gift podcast host, Tim Wotton, enjoys a 'must-listen' chat with American Dawn Richard, who after 27 years of marriage and 3 children, decided to re-define her life by getting divorced. Not only that, the 'awakened' Dawn started a Love, Sex & Relationship coaching business and created a new podcast called 'Wake up to real love'.

She is trying to transform the world with more love, joy and passion by sharing that the most important relationship you'll ever have is the one you have with yourself. Dawn can be contacted on Twitter @DMRichardLove.

The Gift host, Tim Wotton, has a poignant, insightful & humorous chat with remarkable Carly Beale, fellow person with the chronic health condition Cystic Fibrosis (CF). Carly shares how against all odds, she became a wife, mother and campaigner for access to CF life-saving medication. In particular, she breaks down her life transformation approach - MADMOM (Make A Difference, Mind Over Matter) which she has helped hundreds of people around the UK to overcome adversity, achieve their goals and find happiness & success. Carly can be contacted on Twitter @CarlyMADMOM.

What if you lost a loved one in a car accident caused by a drunk driver? What if you were only young at the time and didn't know how to grieve? Would you want to contact the person who caused your deep loss? What would you do to help others so they didn't suffer like you had done? How would you find a career and somehow appreciate the gift of life, while unwrapping the beauty of mindfulness and presence?