The Brain Dojo Podcast
Description
The Brain Dojo podcast is designed for everyone looking for different ways to think and exercise their mind. Why do we think the things that we think, and can we change the ways we think? Hosts Richard and Maisie are life long Martial Artists who have vast experience in helping people achieve their very best. They consider their passions to be helping others, whether this be physically or mentally. The Brain Dojo podcast tackles topics such as being productive, managing time, creating good habits, setting goals, thinking positively, nutrition and more.
Details
Language:
en-gb
Release Date:
04/13/2021 00:30:10
Authors:
Brain Dojo
Genres:
education
Episodes
Special Guest: Chris Hammond
Release Date: 4/25/2021
Duration: 48 Mins
Description: Richard and Maisie catch up with Chris Hammond, a Mental Health Professional with many years of experience. We discuss personality, mental health and things you can do to look after your own mental health.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Special Guest: Dan Coleman
Release Date: 4/18/2021
Duration: 75 Mins
Description: In this episode, we chat to Dan (a teacher of English as an additional language) and discuss his interesting teaching career and general philosophy on sharing knowledge.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
The Power of Questions
Release Date: 4/11/2021
Duration: 40 Mins
Description: We all know that the language we use when talking to others can make or break a relationship. But what about the language we use when talking to ourselves? Positive communication is everything!
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Personalities
Release Date: 4/4/2021
Duration: 40 Mins
Description: Personality types - there are many! But do you know which one you are? Does it fit with the type of person that you'd like to be? Lots of us don't even consider discovering which personality type we have, but we think it's a very useful thing to do on your personal development journey.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Loyalty
Release Date: 3/28/2021
Duration: 32 Mins
Description: In this episode, we talk about loyalty and how we can develop it. How its perceived differently by different people and much more.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Passion
Release Date: 3/21/2021
Duration: 40 Mins
Description: When you're passionate about something, you connect with it on a different level. In this episode, we discuss being passionate about a subject and how it can influence our focus and where we want to put our attention.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Paying Attention
Release Date: 3/14/2021
Duration: 40 Mins
Description: "Pay attention!" We'v all heard it at some point in our lives and we all understand the importance of paying attention. But, paying attention is often more rewarding for the person paying the attention, rather than the person who has demanded the action.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Being Polite
Release Date: 3/7/2021
Duration: 38 Mins
Description: Being aware of and respecting the views and feelings of others is important. It's equally important for you to have and build strong relationships with others - which is going to be very difficult for you if you have poor manners. Let's talk politeness!
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Creativity
Release Date: 2/28/2021
Duration: 40 Mins
Description: We all know that one person who's ultra creative. Great, but can being creative benefit everyone? Even those who claim they're not creative at all?After all, being creative doesn't just mean you can paint and draw...
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Bullying
Release Date: 2/21/2021
Duration: 50 Mins
Description: Most of us, at some point in our lives, will experience some form of bullying. 'Bullying' doesn't always have to take place at school when you're young, it can take place at any point in your life. Can we avoid bullying? Is it possible to prepare ourselves to stop bullying from happening to us?
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Internal vs External Validation
Release Date: 2/14/2021
Duration: 44 Mins
Description: Are you someone who looks to others for validation of your own feelings? This can be in a variety of ways such as likes on social media, reassurance from others and even compliments. Internal validation is the validation of your OWN feelings by you.Neither is correct or incorrect, but internal validation can be a very powerful tool on your journey to happiness and self-fulfilment.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
All Successes Count
Release Date: 2/7/2021
Duration: 47 Mins
Description: It's great to be back for season 2!Success can come in many different formats, but it's so easy to ignore the smaller day to day successes we experience in favour of only acknowledging milestone successes in our lives. Sporting and academic successes are fantastic, but they're usually less frequent than other, smaller things still worth celebrating.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Don't Take it Personally
Release Date: 12/30/2020
Duration: 33 Mins
Description: Taking things personally can be a habit and it's not an easy habit to break.If you're someone who thinks that bad things always happen to you and that your life is surrounded by negative things, it's possible that you're taking things personally.Learning to accept things as they are and understanding that bad things happen to everyone, can help you enormously!
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Reward vs Value
Release Date: 12/23/2020
Duration: 31 Mins
Description: We've all been guilty of rewarding ourselves with a sweet treat for something that didn't necessarily warrant a reward.Taking time to think about long time value over short term satisfaction can be very beneficial to not only your mental health, but your physical health too!
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Let Go of the Things You Can't Control
Release Date: 12/16/2020
Duration: 36 Mins
Description: Sometimes it's much easier said than done, but we all understand there is a limit to the things that we can control. Learning to let go of the things we can't control and accept them for what they are can be a very liberating skill!
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Living Your Own Life
Release Date: 12/9/2020
Duration: 37 Mins
Description: Nothing affects a child's life more than a parent's un-lived life.Ever noticed those parent's who try to live their life through their children? Just how detrimental can that be? Are they doing it for negative reasons? Let's discuss.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Instinct
Release Date: 12/2/2020
Duration: 37 Mins
Description: Do we, as a species, still go with our instinct or our 'gut feeling'? Instinct is something that's been in place since the first humans existed, but should we still listen to our instinct today in the twenty first century?
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Your Happiness Account
Release Date: 11/25/2020
Duration: 34 Mins
Description: Most of us will have some kind of savings account which we add to when we're able to save money for something unexpected or something big.But what if we were to set aside some 'happy thoughts' and 'grateful thoughts' and store them in an account which we could access at a later time when we needed them?
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Perception
Release Date: 11/18/2020
Duration: 40 Mins
Description: We can be more at peace with day to day interactions and experiences if we choose the best way to understand things for us. Sometimes, not everything is as it seems so it's important to try to think of our 'inner peace' before jumping to a default reaction.Richard and Maisie discuss perception in this episode of The Brain Dojo Podcast.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Delayed Gratification
Release Date: 11/11/2020
Duration: 38 Mins
Description: We've all heard that saying - "save the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves". But it is possible that delaying gratification can bring you more than just a financial reward.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Special Guest: Ben Curran (Part 2)
Release Date: 11/4/2020
Duration: 66 Mins
Description: This is the second part of our chat with Ben Curran from The Museum of Drugs in which we discuss further the ideas of drugs, addiction and rehabilitation.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Special Guest: Ben Curran (Part 1)
Release Date: 10/28/2020
Duration: 36 Mins
Description: Richard and Maisie chat with Ben Curran from The Museum of Drugs - a registered charity and leading authority on the history of substance use.Ben, who for many years worked in drug rehabilitation, very kindly shares lots of his knowledge on the history of many different kinds of drugs and discusses why people fall victim to drugs.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
What's in Your 'Coffee Cup'?
Release Date: 10/21/2020
Duration: 32 Mins
Description: Of course it's metaphorical, but what you fill your 'coffee cup' or 'vessel' with can have a dramatic impact on your day to day life. Will you fill it with positivity or negativity? Do those around you influence the contents of your cup?
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Choosing Kindess
Release Date: 10/14/2020
Duration: 42 Mins
Description: We're great believers in always choosing to be kind, even when it might not be the easiest thing to do or be.But why is being kind important? Choosing to be kind in a situation can be very liberating and up lifting. It also says so much about you and your character!Richard and Maisie discuss their ideas around choosing to be kind in all types of situations.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Special Guest: Jamie White (Part 2)
Release Date: 10/7/2020
Duration: 40 Mins
Description: In last week's episode we caught up with Headteacher Jamie White and were inspired by his fantastic leadership qualities. In this episode, Jamie discusses his ideas of 'winning' in any setting and how he encourages the children at his school to be the best version of themselves that they can be.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Special Guest: Jamie White
Release Date: 9/30/2020
Duration: 35 Mins
Description: What's it like to be a Headteacher?Jamie White is Headteacher of a Primary School in Suffolk. He is passionate, enthusiastic and produces outstanding results with the children and staff at his school. Richard and Maisie share 'teaching similarities' with Jamie (they're fortunate enough to teach Karate to Jamie's children) and discuss the crossovers between being a teacher in a school and a Martial Arts instructor. How can we apply principles from teaching (academically and sporting) to our lives?Let's discuss.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Enjoying the Process
Release Date: 9/23/2020
Duration: 36 Mins
Description: We've probably all been told at some point to 'enjoy the process', but just how easy is that to do? Can we enjoy processes in every day life, even if events are seemingly uneventful?Let's discuss.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Being Alone
Release Date: 9/16/2020
Duration: 33 Mins
Description: Most of us, throughout our day to day life, will find ourselves on our own. Not to be confused with being 'lonely', being alone is when we are by ourselves with no one else to interact with. How can being alone affect us? What can we do with the time we have when we are on our own and is it something that we can learn to enjoy?
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Be Your Own 'First Responder'
Release Date: 9/9/2020
Duration: 36 Mins
Description: A 'first responder' is usually someone who is first on the scene at an emergency.But did you know, that it's possible to be your own 'first responder'?We can all take the time to prepare ourselves for situations in life although, admittedly, it's impossible to know of every situation that may or may not happen to us. But what we can do, is develop a plan of action for a variety of situations that can help us to remain calm, together and panic free when something happens to us.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
What is Brain Dojo?
Release Date: 8/31/2020
Duration: 29 Mins
Description: Welcome to Brain Dojo - the online platform for training your mind and body.Each week we will discuss different topics ranging from health and wellbeing, to nutrition and Martial Arts.Hosts Richard and Maisie explain exactly what Brain Dojo is and what you can expect from it.
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