Resilience Rising Podcast Jen Scotney

When we can we use action, and even activism, as resilience?
What are the parallels between Helen's own experiences to the subject of her latest biography, Ethel Haythornthwaite? 
Helen Mort is award-winning author based in Sheffield. She has published three poetry collections and the novel Black Car Burning, as well as a short story collection and her new book, Ethel, is out now with Vertebrate Publishing, which is a biography of the countryside pioneer Ethel Haythornthwaite.
Her first full length non-fiction book A Line Above The Sky was featured in the Guardian and Evening Standard’s ‘books to watch’ lists. She have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Prize and won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize in 2015.  She appears regularly on BBC Radio and occasionally on TV. She has taught creative writing for over ten years and is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. 
Helen has been a campaigner for a change in the law relating to digitally manipulated images, known as deepfakes, after her own experience of someone using her images, manipulating them, and uploading them to a pornographic site.

You can find out more about Helen Mort here:


Website: https://www.helenmort.com


Instagram: @morty_but_nice


Buy Ethel: Ethel


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When we feel at rock bottom, how do we pull ourselves back up? 
 
Jo Moseley, 59, is a single Mum of two grown up sons living on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. 
 
Alongside a lovely day job, Jo is a bestselling author, podcaster and award winning tiny filmmaker. 
 
Jo talks about some of the difficult moments in her life, when she has been forced to be brave, and how she has overcome stereotypes about what women her age should be doing, and how she wrote a bestselling book. 
 
In 2019 Jo became the first woman to SUP (stand up paddleboard) 162 miles coast to coast from Liverpool to Goole, picking up litter and fundraising. A film about her adventure called Brave Enough - A Journey Home to Joy by award winning filmmaker Frit Tam has been selected for prestigious film festivals such as Kendal Mountain Film Festival & Shextreme plus sell out online screenings. 
 
The lessons learned from the challenge and her podcast The Joy of SUP - the Paddleboarding Sunshine Podcast gave Jo the confidence to pitch her first book in 2020 during lockdown. 
 
In spring 2021 she travelled the country with her board Grace meeeting inspiring paddleboarders, sleeping on the beach as the sun set in Scotland, watching dolphins and huge jellyfish in Wales and enjoying urban paddles in Liverpool, Bristol and London. 
 
As a result, in 2022 her first bestselling book Stand Up Paddleboarding in Great Britain - Beautiful Places to Paddleboard in England, Scotland and Wales was published by award winning Vertebrate Publishing. It is the first and currently only Great Britain wide travel guide dedicated to paddleboarding.
 
After the success of SUP Great Britain, she was invited to write a guide to beautiful places to paddleboard in the Lake District. Her second book Stand Up Paddleboarding in the Lake District will be published in May 2024.  
 
Jo loves sharing the joy of fresh air, hiking, dipping in the sea and lakes as well as beach cleaning. She has a “headstand a day until I’m 60” practice and is learning to skateboard. 
 


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You can find out more about Jo Moseley

Website: www.jomoseley.com
Instagram @jomoseley
Facebook Jo Moseley 

Email thejoyofsuppodcast@gmail.com

 

 


Buy her books: Vertebrate Publishing
 


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How did James Wythe go from years bed bound with ME/CFS to sharing his recipes, to full time food blogger? What has his journey taught him about resilience?
James Wythe, better known as Healthy Living James, is a qualified health coach, cookbook author and full time food blogger with over 1 million followers.
Growing up James was incredibly sporty, and when he was 12, he started to fall in love with golf and wanted to be a professional golfer when he grew up.
But on the 4th December 2010 life took a dramatic turn for James when he fell ill seemingly overnight. It would be an illness that left him bed bound for 2 years and house bound for the next 4 years. He was diagnosed with ME/CFS, and faced debilitating symptoms, including weight loss, extreme sensitivities, and insomnia.
With the help of his family, and a nutritionist, his story is one of recovery, albeit very gradually. During his recovery he taught himself to cook from scratch, and later started sharing his recipes. With his book released in 2022, and his huge following of fans of his simple, dairy and gluten free recipes, this was how Healthy Living James came to be the huge success he is today.

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You can find out more about James:


Website: https://healthylivingjames.co.uk


Instagram: @healthylivingjames


Buy his Book: Healthy Living James
Plate Up App: @plate_up_


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When life gives us a traumatic brain injury and cancer diagnosis can we find the positives in it? Clare Rutter believes we can and share's her incredible story.
Clare Rutter is a micro adventurer and explorer, a paddlesports & outdoors enthusiast. Clare was British Canoeing #ShePaddles Ambassador for Canoe Wales and paddles in South Wales & South West England
Clare is a survivor of a life-changing traumatic brain injury. In 2016, she was living her dream life in Gran Canaria when without warning she collapsed. Clare began the uphill task of years of recovery. She remained housebound for six weeks, ill, confused and in a state of fear of the predicament she found herself in. In her current day guest speaking, Clare talks of ‘the last photo’; a tear jerking emotive moment where she believed she was about to die, alone and scared in a foreign country. 
Whilst still coping with her illness today, known as Post-Concussion Syndrome, Clare is now a full time, qualified Paddlesports Instructor & Leader and regularly supports clients with neurological conditions, mental health issues and a range of disabilities enabling participation, enjoyment and progression in paddlesports utilising the outdoors as therapy and rehabilitation as she did.

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You can follow Clare here:


Website: https://clarerutter.com/


Instagram: @clare_rutter.ba.hons


Twitter: @Clare_Rutter


LinkedIn: Clare Rutter

 

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Warning: just over 30 minutes into the podcast we briefly mention a suicide and miscarriage in passing.
What can we learn from the animal world about resilience? Where do rituals fit in with grief and resilience? 
Leonie Charlton is a writer, and is passionate about our relationship as the human animal with the rest of the natural world. She is author of Marram, a travel memoir of a trip riding with Highland Ponies through the Outer Hebrides, and a poetry pamphlet Ten Minutes of Weather Away.
She is currently doing a Ph.D through the University of the Highlands and Islands looking at Scotland’s ‘deer question’, and aims to give voice, as best she can, to the many parties involved, including the more-than-human, through creative writing.

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You can find out more about Leonie Charlton


Website: http://www.leoniecharlton.co.uk


Instagram: @leonie.charlton


Twitter: @CharltonLeonie


Buy his Book: Marram

 

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Email: theresiliencerisingpodcast@gmail.com

 
 

How do you even start to get over the brutal murder of your husband? It seems completely insurmountable... but this is something Jen Zwinck talks us through on this incredible episode. 
Jen's advice on how we rebuild our lives after a devastating bereavements is also something we can draw from for getting through any tough times, break ups, or changes such as retirement.
Jen Zwinck will never forget the moment that changed her life. In 2011, her husband was walking home from a bachelor party when he was attacked, robbed, and killed. Jen instantly became a young widow, left to raise their two year old daughter alone. Overcome with grief and anxiety over the loss, Jenchose her own unique path to heal. She packed 4 suitcases and moved with her daughter to a tiny island in the Caribbean where she knew no one. The years she spent on the island gave her the time to process the loss and rebuild her own strength and courage to move forward. Jen believes that every widow has the capacity to endure, the power to overcome, and the determination to create a new life with meaning and purpose.
Host of Widow 180: The Podcast, Widow advocate & Author That’s how Widow 180: The Podcast came to be. It’s a show about turning tragedy, loss, and fear into strength, creativity, and a new passion for life. Jen learned through her own experience in widowhood that we are not meant to grieve alone. In 2021, she launched a group coaching course, The Rediscovery Through Writing Program for widows to come together to share, grow, transform, and heal their grief through writing.
Jen’s mission through the podcast, the YouTube Channel, blog posts, courses, coaching and speaking is to arm other widows with powerful stories of transformation and knowledge so that they can navigate life after loss. Her newest online program is The Finding Purpose & Meaning After Loss Program For Widows. She has interviewed over 100 widows and coached hundreds of widows through her courses and online programs. Jen remarried in 2017. She and her husband Doug welcomed a new baby girl, Penelope, in 2018. They are enjoying a fun and crazy life as a family of four in a new house in South Louisiana!
Follow Jen Zwinck here:
Website: https://www.widow180.com/
Widow 180 The Podcast: Widow 180 The Podcast
Instagram: @widow_180
YouTube: @widow180

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