Exam Stress
Feeling pressure to work hard can be a useful motivator but when stress levels get too high, it becomes counter productive. And when does your stress also get in the way? In this Pod, we look at the causes of exam stress and highlight useful tips, ideas and strategies for dealing with it.
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Sam’s Summer Picks
Here are a few of my top podcast picks for the summer. If you are looking for some podcast inspiration for your next dog walk or car journey, then hopefully there will be something in this mix to entertain you.
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Flexible Working
Flexibility can benefit everyone, if you do it right. In a flexible working arrangement, an employee has some say over how, where or when they work. Whether this involves working from home, working part-time, job sharing or having another kind of flexitime arrangement. With such a wide range of technologies, new working methods and communication solutions available to employers today, there is no reason why flexible working can’t be a universally advantageous endeavour. In a Forbes study, remote workers were happier, felt more valued and felt more productive. But it also highlighted the importance of management communication, goals setting and focus to avoid any pitfalls.
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen businesses adopt flexible working practices, like remote working, at an unprecedented rate. Will this culture change continue to be embraced after the pandemic?
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Cold Showers
Exhilarating, challenging, energising and addictive? The theory behind the concept, how to introduce cold showers into your daily routine and the benefits to your health, from relaxing the mind, improving the skin and to reducing fats.
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Drive Time Collection
Driving off on your holidays? Grab your headphones and take us with you. Our Drive Time Collection is our version of a mix tape, just with podcasts rather than music!
Book Collection
There are some amazing literary podcasts that you can listen to when you’re not reading. Whether you are looking for lively book club discussions, in depth author interviews, candid book reviews or simply want to discover new gems to read next, there’s something bookish out there for everyone.
We have selected our favourite podcasts that discuss all things books, by book lovers for book lovers.
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Life Stages Collection
From raising teenagers to dealing with ageing parents, empty nest syndrome and the menopause, this collection has podcasts, videos and articles to help inform, inspire and point you in the right direction.
Feel Good Collection
If you are stuck in a style rut, fancy pampering yourself or want to kick start a health drive, this collection is for you.
Self Care Collection
For many people, podcasts can be a surprisingly helpful resource from which to learn self-care coping strategies. If you’re not sure where to start but want to bring more calm into your life, try one of these podcasts. Find interviews and stories to relate to, supportive conversations, tools and actionable techniques to help you take back control.
The ‘Play’ link will take you to their latest podcast episode, in the play window you can scroll down to see their other episodes to find one of particular interest to you, or click the external link to go to their website.
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Mature Makeup Videos
In this Pod, we have decided to concentrate on makeup for the more mature skin. The internet is bombarded with wrinkle free teenagers advocating the use of various products, so we are showcasing videos that celebrate experience over youth!
As long as there have been people, there has been makeup. The Ancient Egyptians would decorate their eyes with dark green, black or blue kohl circles that were supposed to ward off the evil eye and Alexander the Great apparently wore eye makeup for aesthetic and health reasons, as it ‘protected the delicate skin around the eyes and kept off flies’.
During a global crisis, it might feel a bit trivial to pull out your makeup bag and go to town on bronzer. But experts say it can actually make a huge difference in navigating these unpredictable times. It can help separate home and work life, your weekend self from your work self and some studies have shown that, for some, wearing make up can even boost productivity.
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Part of our Life Stages Collection.
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Habit stacking
If you want to develop healthy habits that last, then learn how to habit stack. Whether it’s improving your diet, exercising more or drinking less, the best way of developing a new habit that you will stick to, is to ‘stack it’ on top of another deeply ingrained habit. It doesn’t matter whether the current habit is a good one or a bad one, if it is something you do often, without thinking about it, you can anchor some new habits either side of it, or use it a a trigger to do something else.
The key is to make small changes, one at a time and allow them to get embedded before changing something else. When most of us try and change our habits to be more healthy, we try and do too much at once. Throwing loads of changes together. You stick to them for a while but then it gets too hard and the habits fade. The trick is the build slowly, stack new habits on top of old and then the habits will last.
This Pod includes loads of great advice and ideas for how to habit stack and where to start. Enjoy!
British Comedy
Laughter can often be the best medicine, so take a break and have a good giggle listening to these hilarious podcasts from British comedians. Not everyone has the same sense of humour, we know that comedy can be very subjective, therefore we’ve selected a wide range of podcasts so hopefully something here will hit your funny bone!
If you like any of the series below, you can find more episodes listed underneath the one we chose in the ‘Play’ window.
For more satirical, weekly comedy check out BBC Radio 4’s Comedy of the Week and Friday Night Comedy podcasts, both will brighten your week. The most recent episodes of both can be found on most streaming platforms.
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Healthy Eating Videos
Healthy eating ideas to help you kick start the summer. Many of us will be planning to eat more healthily as we come out of lockdown and these videos will help provide you with ideas and inspiration. This great selection of YouTube channels provide free healthy eating tips for beginners, supermarket shopping ideas, what makes a balanced food plate, meal planning advice and much more. We have selected one video from each channel, to give you an idea of the style of the channel and the advice and recipes on offer.
If you like a particular channel, the click ‘Watch’ then ‘Visit External Site’, to find the full selection of videos.
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Cults
Cults are certainly having a moment but aren’t they always? The word first entered the English language in 1614 but they still fascinate us today. The Sincheong Church is being blamed for the spread of coronavirus in South Korea; Bhagwan Shree Rajneesah, was the subject of hit Netflix series, Wild, Wild Country; Charles Mason was depicted in Hollywood movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and the book Cult X, about the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, was a massive bestseller. We look into the lure of the cult and hear from some of those who have escaped their clutches.
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Audacious Fraudsters
Scams and cons have always been a topic of interest in popular culture but con artist entertainment is certainly having it’s moment. From pyramid schemes to medical fraud, these are stories of charismatic false prophets, money and deception that leave trails of destruction in their wake. We have selected a few of this genre to get you started.
For more on The Theranos/Elizabeth Holmes story, take a look at our Pod The Theranos Scam
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Beyond The Book
Providing a rich set of additional resources to help you really get beneath the skin of the book. Providing book reviews, interviews with the author, location insights, debate questions and much more.
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