Let’s Check In Podcast Suzie McErvale

Marc Gascoigne runs a successful 150-hectare, 450-cow dairy farm in central Waikato, South of Cambridge in the upper North Island of New Zealand.
 
Seven years ago, Marc had a panic attack that jolted him into realising he needed help. After overcoming his own mental health struggles, he has gone on to become a facilitator with the Rural Support Trust and is a key ambassador for the organisation Farmstrong - advocating for better mental health and self care for farmers.
In this episode you’ll learn:
 
How finding the courage to speak truthfully builds authentic connection
How embracing vulnerability can improve overall happiness
Key preventative measures to manage personal wellbeing
How to manage uncertainty
 
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Learn more about work with Farmstrong and Rural Support Trust.

Do you have a loved one who’s faced IVF? Or maybe you have struggled with trying to conceive yourself. 
 
How fortunate we are to have exceptional specialists like A/Professor Kate Stern providing and leading world class health care to people who so importantly need her expertise. 
 
In this episode you’ll learn:
 
How to work through the challenges of the IVF rollercoaster
How to best support loved ones on their fertility journey
How patients with disease navigate their fertility future
How to create agency in a time of uncertainty 
Where to start with processing an emotionally taxing and demanding job
 
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Learn more about Kate’s work here on Instagram. 

Balancing our wellbeing can be tricky at times as we manage the various demands and responsibilities that we have in everyday life. Shutting down our computers, putting down our phones and getting out into nature can help us process the world around us, restore our minds and mitigate our stress.
 
Josephine Jones, OAM understands the value that nature provides to ground ourselves and advocates for helping people change the way we treat our coastlines. 
 
In this episode you’ll learn:
How to ground yourself in nature
How to increase positive psychological capital
The role nature can play in healing 
How to respect our land
Why we all have a responsibility to care
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Learn more about Josie’s by following her on Instagram.

When we lack self-esteem, boundaries can get blurry and difficult to navigate. 
Setting boundaries helps us make sense of what is and what isn’t okay. Without them, our mental health and wellbeing can be put at risk. 
 
Josephine Jones, OAM, Environmental Advocate and 2020 Australian of the Year is not your average environmental advocate and neither is her story. 
 
On this episode of the Let’s Check In Podcast, your host, Suzie McErvale, finds out about how Josie learnt to set boundaries and build self-esteem after traumatic life events and why she commits to helping people change the way people treat our coastlines. 
 
In this episode you’ll learn:
How adversity can overcome traumatic life events
About the link between boundaries and self-esteem  
How to make real changes in behaviour towards littering on our coastline
How to find happiness in nature

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Do you suffer from pain or know someone who lives with chronic discomfort? What steps can we take to trick our brain into not fearing the toll of pain?   
 
How fortunate we are to have experts like Dr Hayley Leake, pain research Fellow, physiotherapist and winner of Survivor Australia, Season 6, who can help us unravel what pain is and how we overcome fearing its impact.
 
In this episode you’ll learn:
 
What happens when we feel pain
How our thoughts and feelings impact the pain we feel 
How Hayley’s pain research helped her become the last standing Australia, Season 6 Survivor 
How to trick your brain into not fearing pain
 
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How are our kids really coping at school? And what changes need to happen in the education systems to better meet their needs?  
 
Thank goodness we have experts like Dr Bern Nicholls, an experienced teacher, school leader, and international research lead, who can teach us to open up our minds to what’s possible.
 
On this episode of the Let’s Check In Podcast, your host, Suzie McErvale, finds out about how we create the right conditions for teachers and students to flourish in education, not burn out. 
 
In this episode you’ll learn:
 
How to foster curiosity and become a lifelong learner
What changes need to happen in our education systems to help young people in today’s environment
Where parents and teachers start with helping students who might be struggling with their mental health
How to process the impact of COVID lockdowns on learning
 
Want to find out more?
 
You can head to the Let’s Check In Podcast website.
 
You can also check in with Suzie and the Let’s Check In Podcast team on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.