Space to Think

Sarah Philp
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In this podcast I create space to think through conversations with guests exploring their knowledge, insights and stories. Each conversation holds the potential for ideas to grow wild.

  1. Wild Fragment #5 — Stay curious a little longer

    2 APR

    Wild Fragment #5 — Stay curious a little longer

    Curiosity creates space. This final Wild Fragment draws on a simple but powerful invitation from Michael Bungay Stanier to Stay curious a little longer. As a closing reflection for the season, this episode gathers the threads of the previous fragments - understanding, listening, tending, slowing - and offers curiosity as a kinder stance in leadership and life. Not as indecision, but as openness. A question to consider: What might happen if you stayed curious a little longer? Listen to the original episode here.

    3 min
  2. Wild Fragment #4 — Changing our relationship with time

    19 MAR

    Wild Fragment #4 — Changing our relationship with time

    What if time isn’t something to manage, but something to relate to? This episode revisits my conversation with Sarah Stewart and the suggestion that We can’t control time… but we can change our relationship with it. This reflection explores how our experience of time is shaped by attention, presence, and meaning and not just schedules and productivity. It invites you to notice the quality of your time and to consider what might shift if time were approached with curiosity rather than control. A question to consider: What is your relationship with time right now? Listen to the original episode here.

    4 min
  3. Wild Fragment #3 — Healing in the warmth

    5 MAR

    Wild Fragment #3 — Healing in the warmth

    In this episode, I return a very popular conversation with Cara Redpath about wild, wood-fired saunas in the context of wellbeing and recovery as Cara shares that Sauna has become an essential tool to healing in her toolbox. I reflect on wellbeing and healing as a lived practice - a gathering of small, supportive tools over time. It explores warmth not just as temperature, but as safety, ritual and care, especially in the darker months of the year. A question to consider: What are the tools in your own healing toolbox — and which ones do you need more of in this phase or season of life? Listen to the original episode here.

    4 min
  4. Wild Fragment #2 - Enough

    19 FEB

    Wild Fragment #2 - Enough

    Burnout rarely arrives all at once. This Wild Fragment revisits the conversation with Hazel Anderson-Turner and the reminder that there’s only so long you can keep pushing before your body or your mind says, ‘enough’. This episode reflects on burnout as a slow accumulation rather than a sudden collapse, exploring the word enough not as failure or weakness, but as a boundary and a signal. With reference to Thomas Curran’s work on perfectionism, we also name the wider systemic context, particularly in education, where wellbeing is too often framed as an individual responsibility. A question to consider: What might your “enough” be trying to tell you? Listen to the original episode here.

    5 min
  5. Wild Fragment #1 - A problem isn’t something to be solved

    5 FEB

    Wild Fragment #1 - A problem isn’t something to be solved

    What if the real work doesn’t begin with fixing? In this first Wild Fragment, I return to a conversation with Professor Viviane Robinson and the idea that a problem isn’t something to be solved; it’s something to be understood. This short reflection explores the pressure to act quickly in leadership and education and the quieter, braver work of curiosity before action. This episode invites you to slow the rush to fix and consider what becomes possible when we seek understanding first. A question to consider: Where might you still be trying to fix… instead of understand?

    3 min
  6. E33. Feeling Alive: Values, Courage and a 100-Day Uplevel with Hannah Buchan

    04/12/2025

    E33. Feeling Alive: Values, Courage and a 100-Day Uplevel with Hannah Buchan

    In this episode, I speak with Hannah Buchan, The Live More Coach, who is currently 71 days into a 100-day uplevel of her life and business. We explore: Hannah’s core value of “feeling alive” and how it shapes everything from big decisions to the smallest daily tweaks. What sparked the 100-day challenge during a period of illness, and her realisation she had been playing it very safe. The role of ‘cringe’ and life-giving fear, and why the things that make us shrink back are often the very things that move us forward. The surprising truth that she never feels like taking action, and the tools she uses to move through resistance anyway. A wonderfully eclectic list of her uplevels so far: new photos and videos, updating her website, saying yes to a big speaking engagement, starting ceramics, planting garden beds, adopting kittens, cleaning her car, wearing clothes that make her feel good, networking, and defining her Live More Method. How small, incremental upgrades change the texture of everyday life far more than grand, sweeping overhauls. Why rest, sleep and recovery have become foundational to sustaining the challenge, especially at this stage of life. And the question of Day 101: What happens when the challenge ends? Go dark? Extend to a full year? Something in between? Where to Find Hannah: Instagram: @thelivemorecoach Website: https://www.hannahbuchancoaching.com/ Podcast: The Live More Experiment

    35 min
  7. E32. The Sauna Way: Heat, Healing and Human Connection with Cara Redpath

    20/11/2025

    E32. The Sauna Way: Heat, Healing and Human Connection with Cara Redpath

    In this episode, I’m joined by Cara Redpath, nutritional therapist, women’s health specialist and self-confessed sauna enthusiast. Today we’re stepping into the heat with Cara Redpath, a nutritional therapist whose love of sauna has become both a personal practice and a professional calling. Cara shares the evidence behind sauna’s powerful effects on our nervous system and cardiovascular health, and the quiet revolution of wild, wood-fired saunas popping up across Scotland. What began as curiosity has become essential, a grounding practice that restored her nervous system, reshaped her work and connects her with community and the elements. Together we explore: The difference between gym saunas and wild, wood-fired saunas and why it matters. The science of heat shock proteins and how sauna supports cardiovascular, mental and cellular health. The interplay of heat and cold, and why women’s bodies respond differently. The power of community and conversation inside the sauna — a rare space without phones or roles, where everyone is simply human. How sauna culture across Scotland is offering warmth, rest and connection in the darker months. Cara also shares why she sees sauna as part of a preventative wellbeing toolkit — not a luxury, but a non-negotiable for living well. If you’re curious to explore this growing culture yourself, I’ve linked a few of the Scottish saunas Cara mentions from Wild Bathing in Oban to West Coast Wellness and Wild Ember Bothy at Loch Tay, each a small pocket of warmth in the dark months.

    53 min
  8. E31. Ferocious Warmth: The Dance Between Head and Heart with Tracey Ezard

    06/11/2025

    E31. Ferocious Warmth: The Dance Between Head and Heart with Tracey Ezard

    In this episode, I revisit a conversation with Tracey Ezard, author of Ferocious Warmth. Tracey describes ferocious warmth as the dance between head and heart - the balance of high expectations and high support, courage and care. We talk about what happens when strengths turn to shadows, why psychological safety is the foundation of real learning and how to build cultures that hold both love and accountability. Along the way, we explore: The daily dance between empathy and challenge Why emotional intelligence is so important  How self-awareness keeps us from slipping into fear or over-involvement The role of trust and vulnerability in creating genuine collaboration Why wellbeing isn’t an add-on, but a leadership behaviour It’s a conversation about doing the human work of leadership, about having the right conversations, not just the easy ones. Mentioned: Ferocious Warmth by Tracey Ezard Timothy Clark’s The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

    42 min
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In this podcast I create space to think through conversations with guests exploring their knowledge, insights and stories. Each conversation holds the potential for ideas to grow wild.

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  • Creator
    Sarah Philp
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    38
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Sarah Philp
  • Show Website
    Space to Think