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Renew, Reflect, Rise: Embracing Resilience & Reflection for a Transformative New Year
Join me, Martina Witter, as we explore the transformative power of reflection in bolstering emotional resilience. This solo journey into self-awareness isn't just about looking back—it's a strategy to propel us forward. I share insights on how reflecting on both the challenges and victories of the past year can teach us invaluable lessons and fortify our resilience for 2024 and beyond.
I'll encourage you to pinpoint personal milestones and hurdles you've encountered and reflect on how these experiences can shape a more resilient future. By fostering introspection, we uncover the coping mechanisms that work best for us and learn to adapt, allowing us to reframe our mindset and flourish in the face of adversity.
Listen in as I recount some of my own triumphs, including the success of our Rivers to Resilience course and the growth of our incredible team. These personal anecdotes illustrate how reflection can lead to concrete achievements and overall well-being. I challenge you to embrace a reflective practice, both in your personal and professional spheres, to amplify your resilience. As we wrap up, we're thrilled about the year ahead, where we'll introduce you to experts and individuals with compelling stories of perseverance. Keep in touch through our website and social media for continued insights on nurturing resilience.
Thank you for listening to this episode, and I'm excited to support you on your journey to success and peak performance and personal Resilience.
 
Highlights
(00:00) - Building Resilience Through Reflection
(02:45 - 03:57) Reflecting on Challenges and Building Resilience(09:31 - 11:32) Scientific Basis for Reflection and Resilience
(13:18) - Enhancing Personal Resilience
 
Transcript
00:00 This is Rivers to Resilience, the podcast where we educate, inspire, motivate and transform you and your teams on your journey to emotional resilience. We hear stories and advice from leaders and experts allowing you to harness their wisdom with transformational, evidence-based strategies to building emotional resilience. Join a credited cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and author, martina Witter, as she deep dives into all aspects of resilience building, whilst also helping you to crush stress and improve and retain your performance, productivity and profits. That's here on Rivers to Resilience. 
00:52 In today's solo episode, I'll be exploring with you all their role of reflection in resilience and how to enhance your reflection and self-awareness to build your resilience in 2024 and the subsequent years. So reflection what it is all about and how can you enhance your reflection. Well, reflection is the process where you consciously become aware of your mental state, of your thoughts and your feelings, and hiding. That can increase your self-awareness, it can improve your emotional intelligence and that can help you to be more productive and more successful and, essentially, more resilient and to develop a mindset that will help you to thrive and to find advantage in adversity. So reflection it also enables you, enables individuals, enables us to gain insights from our past experiences. So I want you to think about what have you experienced over the past year. You know and reflect on those and by examining those challenges, set back alongside simultaneous other successes, that will provide you with an opportunity to extract valuable lessons from 2023. So reflection is also critical to learning, and being able to learn from previous experiences will help you to grow psychologically, it will help you to grow cognitively, it will help you to grow holistically, and that's what's going to enable you to build your resilience muscles, to build your personal resilience, which will enable you to successfully navigate through various challenges, or just through your career, through your business and through your personal exper

Building Resilience in the Modern Workplace: A Conversation with Dr. Lee William
In today's evolving and demanding work environment, finding the right balance and resilience is paramount for optimal performance. The modern workplace often presents challenges that require us as individuals, teams, and organizations to adapt and thrive in the face of constant pressure, change, and uncertainty.
 
Resilience, a combination of both character and learned skills, is a key asset to success. It enables us to bounce back from setbacks, stay focused in high-stress situations, and maintain our well-being. However, it's crucial to strike a balance between pushing your limits and those of your team to achieve peak performance while preventing burnout.
A healthy work-life balance, emotional awareness, and the development of mental toughness are essential tools for individuals and organizations to navigate the complexities of the contemporary professional landscape while preserving their long-term well-being.
 
Join the conversation with Dr. Lee William as he shares his journey of resilience and strategies for developing personal, team, and organizational resilience for enhanced performance. As the co-founder of the KAYA Wellbeing Index and a mental toughness coach, Dr. Lee is dedicated to improving organizational performance by measuring well-being facilitating the connection between employers and employees while ensuring profitability. With a remarkable 35 years of experience honing his commercial knowledge and skills across various operational functions, industry sectors, and organizations, he stands out as a professional who excels in helping organizations connect the dots with an Outside-In perspective. Having collaborated with exceptional individuals from various business and academic backgrounds, Dr. Lee offers valuable insights into the ever-evolving landscape of well-being, resilience, and business performance.
 
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Key Highlights from the Episode;
[00:01] Episode intro and a quick bio of the guest, Dr. Lee William
[00:23] Dr. Lee's backstory and what he does in the wellbeing space
[04:03] How the world of work is evolving and changing 
[08:03] Dr. Lee's definition and experience with resilience as a soft skill
[11:55] Factors that create and inhibit resilience
[13:47] Cultivating mental toughness and how Dr. Lee is doing it through sport
[17:22] Building resilience through skill without burning out
[22:05] Finding the right balance of role and pressure to perform effectively
[22:02] Negative resilience and how it shows up in our life and work
[29:18] Emotional awareness in cultivating resilience
[36:10] Competitive mindset: Psychological and physiological resilience Vs. mental resilience
[38:22] Developing your resilience and building resilience employees
[40:52] Personal Vs. organization resilience processes
[46:21] Risks to resilience energy and how they can affect performance
[49:06] Keeping your team ahead of the process for optimal performance
[50:35] Dr. Lee's message to his younger self
[52:33] Best ways to reach out and connect with Dr. Lee
Notable Quotes
Resilience is a combination of skill and character, consequential experience, and a learned skill that can be deployed at the moment. [09:48]
Pretending to be somebody else is hard work; you can change your behavior, but it takes a lot of energy to go against your attitude and values. [24:54]
Behaving in a way that you don’t want to behave is resilience, but it’s not positive resilience. [25:18]
When your physiological resilience is gone, the only thing that can save you is your mental resilience. [36:45]
Having resilient employees is good, but it has to be within control and sensibility to avoid burnout or losing great employees. [43:54]
Let’s Connect
Dr. Lee William
👔 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thecustomerchampion/?originalSubdomain=uk
 
 
Connect with Martina Witter:
📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rapha_therapy_servic

Everything is fixable :Resilient Leadership: A Blueprint for Personal and Professional Growth :Carolyn Preston
Resilience is an essential skill that everyone needs to succeed. It’s the art of effectively confronting and triumphing over challenges while safeguarding one's well-being. Rooted in guidance, inner strength, and self-awareness, resilience isn't always innate but often requires the hard-earned currency of effort to forge its foundation. Building your resilience muscle requires tenacity to handle challenges that life throws at you with diligence to refine your confidence and ability to navigate life's uncertainties. Resilience doesn't equal constant toughness but rather the acceptance of life's challenges and the development of adept skills to tackle them. In this episode, Carolyn Preston shares her inspiring journey of resilience as an adept HR and organisational development specialist. She also offers valuable tools for cultivating resilience, adaptability, and a positive mindset within professional and personal spheres and how to leverage them to ignite inspiration and provide unwavering guidance for our teams with a steady hand at the helm.
 
Carolyn Preston is a human resource consultant and practitioner with over 20 years of experience and a proven track record of strategic thinking and implementing people management initiatives. Carolyn has a wide variety of generalist HR experience and in-depth knowledge of employment legislation, having dealt with complex employee relations matters, significant recruitment campaigns, attendance and performance management and all aspects of HR policy and procedures, including redundancies and TUPE in a unionised environment. She is also a qualified leadership coach and has designed and delivered management development training that has positively impacted the success of the organisations she has worked with.
 
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Key Highlights from the Episode;
[00:01] Episode intro and a quick bio of the guest; Carolyn Preston
[01:13] Carolyn’s background and what she does in the HR space
[03:18] What resilience means to Carolyn and how she helps people cultivate it
[06:01] Why resilience is an essential skill for everyone to succeed in life
[08:08] How developing resilience helps build a positive mindset and outlook
[10:05] How Carolyn built her resilience muscle in the workplace and personal life
[14:41] What keeps people employable and the skills you need to develop  
[16:54] The roles organisations have in supporting the delivery of employability skills
[22:02] Why emotional awareness is instrumental in building personal resilience
[26:45] How to build a resilience culture as the leaders in your organisation
[28:31] How stress management goes hand in hand with emotional awareness
[31:52] Carolyn’s message to her younger self
[33:44] Best ways to reach out and connect with Carolyn
[34:38] Wrap up and end of the show
Notable Quotes
Resilience is dealing with and overcoming a challenge without it impacting your well-being; it requires guidance, strength, and awareness, and it doesn’t always come naturally to people. [03:34]
If you want something, you must put in some effort to get it; the hard way equals results, which builds resilience. So, keep going until you achieve something, even though there are challenges along the way. [05:10]
The more challenges you deal with, the more confidence you gain, and the more naturally you build your resilience to deal with whatever comes next. [07:30]
To be resilient, you don’t have to be tough or strong all the time; to be resilient is to accept that life throws challenges at you, accept that there will be difficulties, and just develop the skills to deal with them effectively. [11:34]
As leaders and managers, if we adapt our skills, grow, learn and develop through our daily experiences; a little bit of theory can help us approach things in a more structured way. [22:49]
If leaders in a business demonstrate that they are cal

From Pain to Purpose I Charmaine Connors
 
Resilience is not just a catchy phrase but a crucial skill that requires nurturing and self-awareness. To build resilience, we must adopt a mindset that aligns with our true selves, purpose, and values. This involves facing challenges with positivity, committing to personal growth, and safeguarding our mental well-being. By taking these actions, we construct a strong spirit capable of withstanding the trials of life, like building a shield to protect and empower us. We explore the journey of personal resilience ,navigating through losses and setbacks whilst transitioning from pain to purpose. In this episode, Charmaine joins us to talk more about her story of building resilience and the golden tips to develop yours.
 
Charmaine Connors is an Education and Skills Manager, NPW Future List 2022 recipient, and Board of Trustees member at SICK! Festival. As an Enterprise Advisor at UTC and an advocate for GM4Women2028, she passionately supports careers in the Creative Digital & Tech industries. Charmaine brings a proactive and solution-oriented mindset to her work while also being a captivating speaker. Her dedication to fostering innovation, promoting diversity, and driving positive change makes her a formidable force in the industry.
 
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Key Highlights from the Episode;
[00:01] Episode intro and a quick bio of the guest; Charmaine Connors
[02:35] What resilience is all about, according to Charmaine
[05:30] Why resilience is a soft skill or muscle that is developed over time
[10:11] Why self-awareness is a key component to resilience and emotional intelligence
[16:42] The mindset you need to build resilience
[21:22] People you need to help you build resilience during hard times
[26:56] Learning through the pain, not the good times
[28:30] Golden nuggets on how resilience has played for Charmaine’s success in life
[38:47] Key takeaways from the guest that you can implement today
[39:44] Best ways to reach out and connect with Charmaine
[40:09] Wrap up and ending the show
Notable Quotes
Resilience is a soft skill and a formidable muscle that strengthens and matures with each experience and deliberate practice. [05:30]
Self-awareness is a powerful tool for emotional intelligence, success, and navigating life's challenges. [08:31]
Resilience development requires a new mindset. [16:42]
One of the easiest ways to build resilience is knowing yourself and understanding your values. If you do not know what is important to you, it will have an impact on your decision-making. [19:40]
Stay focused, stay grounded and stay true to your goals and to yourself. Those around you can influence and hijack you. [20:47]
You don’t learn through the good times. You learn through the pain. [27:11]
Let’s Connect
Connect with Charmaine Connors
👔 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charmaineconnors/
 
Connect with us on Social Media and check out some of our videos exploring emotional resilience, wellness, self-care and Mental Health.
 
Book your FREE Organisational Resilience Consultation or complementary therapy consultation at:
https://www.raphatherapyservices.com/contact-us/
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Get your copy of Martina’s book “Resilience in the Workplace: From surviving to thriving in the workplace, in business and as an entrepreneur”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Resilience-Workplace-Surviving-workplace-entrepreneur/dp/1789725836.
 
Connect with Martina Witter:
📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rapha_therapy_service
👔 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martina-motivator-witter-ba884947/ and                https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapha-therapy-services/
📽 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIx331RsTbzTbfmHLgxxvgQ
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From Suicidality to Spirituality and Success
 
In this episode of Rivers to Resilience, host Martina Witter interviews Manoj Sangany, a founding member of Mindfulness Men's Club, the founder of Spiritual Business Mastery, and the head of customer success at Inceptio. They delve into the transformative power of spirituality and daily practices in building emotional resilience. Manoj shares his personal journey and highlights the role spirituality played in saving his life. The conversation explores the connection between spirituality and resilience, emphasizing authenticity, gratitude, nature walks, and journaling as essential practices for resilience. Listeners will gain insights into how daily practices can positively impact personal and professional life and the importance of seeking help and connecting with others during challenging times
 
 
Guest Introduction: Manoj Sangany is a founding member of Mindfulness Men's Club, and the head of customer success at Inceptio. He has a deep understanding of spirituality and its role in building resilience. Manoj shares his personal journey and experiences, offering valuable insights into the transformative power of spirituality and daily practices. Host Introduction: Martina Witter hosts Rivers to Resilience, a podcast dedicated to educating, inspiring, and motivating listeners on their journey to emotional resilience. With her expertise and experience, Martina provides evidence-based strategies for building resilience and overcoming stress.
 
Key Discussion Points:
1. The role of spirituality in saving lives and enhancing resilience
2. The importance of authenticity and showing up as your true self
3. The connection between spirituality and resilience
4. Daily spiritual practices: service to others, gratitude prayers, chanting, and conversations with the universe
5. The transformative power of nature walks and journaling
6. Seeking help and connecting with others during challenging times
 
Notable Quotes: 1. "You have to show up as your own authentic self in whatever you do in life." (01:51)
2. "So what works for you might not work for me and vice versa, but there might be elements for sure that I can pick up from you." (17:56)
3. "Share your story. It's a liberating feeling. We build up so much in our minds, but every single person has a beautiful story to share." (31:46)
4. "I think the quicker people realize that resilience is one of the key, key sort of attributes and...and I guess big saviours to what is going to help you navigate through whatever you get through in life." (Timestamp: 39:31)
 
 
 
Connect with Manoj Sangany 
👔 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manoj-sangany/?originalSubdomain=uk
📲 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/mindfulmensclub/?hl=en
📲 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mindfulmensclub/
 
Connect with Martina:
 
Website: https://www.raphatherapyservices.com/
📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rapha_therapy_service
👔 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martina-motivator-witter-ba884947/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapha-therapy-services/
📽 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIx331RsTbzTbfmHLgxxvgQ
📲 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RaphatherapyservicesLimited
 
The book: Resilience In The Workplace
 
 

Money, Mindset & Mental toughness
The cost of living crisis in the UK is a real problem. The economy has struggled to recover from the recession, and families feel the squeeze. People are feeling the pressure on their wallets, and they're starting to ask questions about how to make ends meet. There are a lot of factors that contribute to this crisis. One factor is inflation, the rising price of goods and services due to increased demand or decreased supply. As the cost of living crisis continues to impact British families, it's important to remember that there are ways to cope and even thrive. One way is through resilience. Resilience is a term used to describe the ability of a community or an individual to survive and adapt to change. The UK's current economic climate has created a greater need for resilience, as individuals and communities must adapt to new financial realities through mindset and mental toughness.
In this episode, Martina Witter, the podcast host, shares her deepest insights on the cost of living in crisis in the UK, how reduced income requires more resilience from individuals, how to build your mental toughness and resilience and locating yourself in terms of resilience. Twitter also sheds more light on mindset in resilience, financial well-being solutions by organisations for employees and how employers can support their employees with the cost of living.
Timestamps
[01:15] Cost of living crisis in the UK
[05:39] How reduced income requires more resilience from individuals
[08:45] How to build your mental toughness and resilience
[09:26] Locating yourself in terms of resilience
[10:56] Mindset in resilience
[14:53] Financial well-being solutions by organisations for employees
[18:03] How employers can support their employees with the cost of living
 
Notable Quotes
(01:56) We are all in the storm, but we are in different boats.
(06:56) The cost of living crisis has led to an increase in anxiety in people.
(10:42) Sometimes you’ve got to do these things which may feel uncomfortable, but you have to make these tough decisions which are going to benefit you.
(10:58) Limiting beliefs and thoughts can prevent you from seeking help.
(11:49) In these changing times, it is important to remember to focus on what you can control that will help you to develop a growth mindset.
(13:03) Things do change. Seasons and chapters do change within your life.
(15:30) We all need to feel secure and in control of our finances.
(20:00) It is important to invest in your team and in your own well-being and mental health.
 
Connect with us:
 
Website: https://www.raphatherapyservices.com/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/martina-motivator-witter-ba884947