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Polly's Vague Theories
by Polly McGee
The podcast with a lot of nerve.
Episodes
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Polly's Vague Theories S3 All Brains Welcome Ep10 ft Katy Cooper
Always wanted to meet a furturist? Here's your moment. The final episode in this exploration of leadership and neurodiversity features Katy Cooper, futurist, strategist, leadership unicorn and all round compassionate being who I am now very happy (with the magic of linear time since recording…
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Polly's Vague Theories S3 All Brains Welcome Ep9 ft Dr Sam Perkins
In the penultimate episode of All Brains Welcome we chat with Dr Sam Perkins, an AuADHDer, Buddhist and petrol head who's career has spanned aeronautical engineering to cellular agriculture. I asked him how being neurodivergent impacted his leadership journey through life, and what organisations...
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Polly's Vague Theories Series 3 All Brains Welcome Ep8 ft Reed Everingham
On Episode 8 of All Brains Welcome, meet my friend, colleague and LGBTIQA+ leader Reed Everingham. Like many of the people who have appeared on this series, his diagnosis came late in life, and the evolution of self happened because of, and in spite of, the experience of neurodivergence and how…
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Polly's Vague Theories S3 All Brains Welcome Ep7 ft Jeremy Nagel from Focus Bear
On Ep7 of the poddy, meet Jeremy Nagel, a neurospicy software developer turned startup founder who is slightly obsessed with habits. He likes to start each day with a 2hr morning routine and sometimes surprises colleagues by riding his elliptical trainer during meetings to keep the energy high....
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Polly's Vague Theories S3 All Brains Welcome Episode 6 ft Bianca Welsh
On this episode of All Brains Welcome the incredible Bianca Welsh - read her bio below to see what I mean. Bianca has a multifaceted insight into neurodiversity as an employer of many young people in her restaurants, as a partner and through her mental health business From Experience. I love...
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Polly's Vague Theories S3 All Brains Welcome Ep5 ft Jocelyn Brewer
The education system is the entry point for many people where their neurodivergence is noticed and begins to come up against some of the hard baked neurotypical barriers that continue into the systems of work. On this episode we meet Jocelyn Brewer, a Sydney-based psychologist with a special...
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Polly's Vague Theories S3 All Brains Welcome Ep4 ft Joe Robinson
Season Three of Polly's Vague Theories explores neurodiversity, leadership and inclusion through the stories of lived experience. How do people with neurodivergent brains navigate the complexity of contemporary leadership? How can cultures better accommodate people to lead from authenticity,...
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Polly's Vague Theories S3 - All Brains Welcome Ep2 ft Zoe Wyllie
Season Three of Polly's Vague Theories explores neurodiversity, leadership and inclusion through the stories of lived experience. How do people with neurodivergent brains navigate the complexity of contemporary leadership? How can cultures better accommodate people to lead from authenticity,...
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Polly's Vague Theories S3 - All Brains Welcome Ep3 ft Bree Gorman
Season Three of Polly's Vague Theories explores neurodiversity, leadership and inclusion through the stories of lived experience. How do people with neurodivergent brains navigate the complexity of contemporary leadership? How can cultures better accommodate people to lead from authenticity,...
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Polly's Vague Theories S3 - All Brains Welcome ft Polly McGee (that's me!)
Season Three of Polly's Vague Theories explores neurodiversity, leadership, and inclusion through the stories of lived experience. How do people with neurodivergent brains navigate the complexity of contemporary leadership? How can cultures better accommodate people to lead from authenticity,...
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Episode Six, Season Two: All you need to know about attachment theory and interpersonal trauma (but were afraid to ask incase your relationship was ruptured).
Attachment theory sits at the beating heart of how we can best understand interpersonal trauma. The t word still puts people off, but when you understand how you developed the parts of your brain and nervous system that register safety and danger, and what that looks like pre-natally to newborn…
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Episode Eleven: Systems of a Down - Lawyers, trauma and psychological injury.
On this episode of the podcast i'm joined by Simon Gates. I recently was featured on the Law Society of Tasmania's podcast where we talked about trauma and wellbeing of lawyers, and it really peaked my interest in how do lawyers and the sector more broadly deal with the vicarious and frontline...
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Episode Five, Season Two: When Dave Met Breathwork
Sometimes in all my IFS therapy work, I forget just how powerful a breathwork journey can be. That is until I hold space for a group and watch everyone go through their process. After a journey, there is always an integration to share stories and make sense of what happens, this is my favorite...
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Episode Four Season Two - Line in the Sand: Dean Yates talks war zones, PTSD, recovery and moral injury.
Dean Yates was head of mental health and wellbeing strategy at Reuters, the world's largest news provider, for nearly three years until January 2020. Before that he was a journalist, bureau chief and senior editor at Reuters for more than 22 years. Dean was the ideal war zone correspondent:...
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Episode Three, Season Two: Polly's Vague Answers
Tucked up on the top right-hand side of my website is a little button that I always ask listeners to hit me up through with any questions they might want answered on the podcast. This episode is dedicated to responding to those anonymous correspondents with a mix of thoughts, feels, opinions and…
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Episode Two, Season Two: The Co-Regulated Classroom with Master Teacher, Justin Moon
Teachers are at the coalface of classroom co-regulation, but who is regulating them, and how are they staying in their grounded confidence and Self energy when managing a collective of nervous systems? This episiode is DEDICATED to teachers, and we explore some of the challenges and strategies…
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Episode One, Season Two - The Dangers of Female Provocation with author Zoë Coyle
Zoë Coyle's second novel, The Dangers of Female Provocation, is first and foremost a story that is compelling, shocking, saucy, wild and compelling as a study of people, relationships, female rage and how very good people can do some very questionable things in the name of love and revenge. On…
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Episode Eleven: The Viking Talks
The fabulous Bjarne Kragh from Southside Physio in Canberra and I made a podcast last year about all things pain, polyvagal theory, breathwork and more. He's kindly shared the audio with me so we can both hook our people into our superfun rap. Bjarne is such a cool man, enjoy my classic ramblings...
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Episode Ten: Intuition and the ANS
Is intuition some special sauce of psychics and charletons or is it our very own ANS GPS? I think we all know what my answer is going to be - lets explore!
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Episode Nine: Sum of the parts
In this episode we have a look at Internal Family Systems, how does it work, what is parts work, and have a little exercise at the end to meet a part. Hello there!
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Episode Eight: The Perfect Self
It's time to go in to bat for perfect - and shine a light on some of the linguistic issues with the binaries inherent in our language. Perfection and imperfection are not our only two choices, especially when we bring in the superhero that is the big S Self, pay attention to our needs, and stay…
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Episode Seven: How do you say 'trauma' in your language?
Imagine you are on a street corner, trying to work out where you are, no language, no clue, and no one to help. Been there? If so, you might have had an embodied experience of what it is to be literally without the capacity to communicate your needs. Scary? Sure. Frustrating. Absolutely. The link...
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Episode Six: Where the light gets in featuring Zoë Coyle
Zoë Coyle's debut novel 'Where the Light Gets In' is a beautiful narrative of love, death, grief, loss, heartbreak and recovery - basically a story about the nervous system. In this episode of the podcast, Zoe joins me to talk about what it is to be a sensitive creative and experience the real…
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Episode Five - The MONSTER Q and A sesh.
What to do when a webinar has so many juicy questions you can't get to them all? Turn them into a podcast episode of course! This one is chock a block with all the tea on vulnerability, trauma, leadership, values and how to stay grounded and real no matter what is coming at you.
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Episode Four: Two all vagal patties, special sauce, trauma, nature, ayurveda on a sesame seed bun.
Would you record an episode of your podcast when you were fasting that was all about food? Yes GAWD. Well it seemed like a good idea at the time, to explore the relationship between the ancient medicine of ayurveda, trauma and the rungs of the polyvagal theory ladder. Did it get a little messy,...
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Episode Three: Say My Name, Say My Name
It's a story of a random Tedx talk, and a prosodsic rabbit hole of executive vocal realness. Polly unravels the quest to educate people on how to say their names so folx listening thought they have the leadership qualities needed to be memorable to a tale of two ladder rungs of the Autonomic...
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Episode Two: Co-regulating COVID
Pretty much anywhere you are in the world right now, you've exprerienced a COVID induced lockdown. If you're into your fifth lockdown in 18 months, you might be finding that this time is the worst time, and that 'we're all in it together' resilience is more FTW. The pandemic is a perfect storm…
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Trailer: Polly's Vague Theories
Not ready to commit? Nervous system too elevated? I got you. This trailer is a bite size to digest of the Polly's Vague Theories podcast, where I wander around in the mind-blowing world of the vagus nerve, trauma and the low brow, non-sciency interpretations of how trauma and our nervous system...
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Episode One: Snakes and ladders.
Polyvagal theory and that meandering vagus nerve is seriously complex, except when you break it down to its three component parts and then play a game of snakes and ladders! This is the ep for your background deets on all things Polly and polyvagal, nerds for nerves will be elevated to the high...
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The podcast with a lot of nerve.
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Polly's Vague Theories is created and hosted by Polly McGee.
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