A New Way of Being
337 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago -It is time to move on from 'success evangelism', and consider a new way of being. One that first recognises our innate worth, and then expresses that in the world.
Previous guests include world-renowned performers including Jonny Wilkinson, Caitlyn Jenner, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Dame Kelly Holmes, and thinkers such as Daniel Goleman, Sam Harris, Michael Pollan, Dr Pippa Grange and non-dual philosopher Rupert Spira.
These conversations, and the bitesize episodes, have the power to change your life. #ANWOB
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BITESIZE: Learning How To Learn: Anders Ericsson
July 14, 2023 02:00 - 10 minutesAt a time when all the knowledge in the world is little more than a mouse click away – the importance of learning how to learn is key. And one person who was a pass master was the late Anders Ericsson – who was best known for his work on deliberate practice and whose research led to the widely misconstrued '10,000 hours' rule popularised by Malcolm Gladwell. So this was Anders – talking all about how to learn, and develop a love of learning – drawing on his own formative experiences. MyTwit...
REWIND: Embracing Risk - Jimmy Chin
July 12, 2023 03:00 - 58 minutes"The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far." - Jimmy Chin Jimmy is a pro climber, skier, photographer and Oscar winning Film director. The theme of this episode is about following your heart and taking risks. Committing to a path and working it out along the way. Jimmy picked up the Academy Award for the incredible Free Solo. His latest film is called The Rescue, and focusses...
How To Keep Moving Forwards: Paul McGee
July 10, 2023 02:00 - 58 minutesSometimes, what you need to survive and thrive in challenging times is age old wisdom. And my guest this week is full of it. Paul McGee – speaker and Sunday Times best selling author –has sold over a quarter of a million books, and spoken in more than 40 countries to date. He’s an expert in things like dealing with change, developing relationships, creating opportunies and performing under pressure. His work has been endorsed by the likes of Sir Clive Woodward – and his clients have included ...
REWIND: Why you can't focus: Johann Hari
July 09, 2023 06:30 - 1 hourSo many of us are struggling to focus and pay attention to what we need to. It can feel like a moral failing – as if there is something wrong with us individually. But Johann Hari argues that is not the case. The problem runs much deeper. Teenagers now focus on one task for only 65 seconds he says, while office workers aren’t much better – managing only three minutes. It won’t surprise you to hear that digital has a significant role to play – after all, how many people don’t have a somewhat d...
BITESIZE: Sir Clive Woodward - Mastering the Basics
July 07, 2023 02:00 - 10 minutesOften people think to achieve what they want in life is about finding a magic bullet, but as World Cup winning coach Sir Clive Woodward explains – frequently it’s just about understanding the basics. Those things you absolutely have to get right to succeed in a particular project or goal. This might sound obvious – but actually it turns out it is incredibly common for people within teams, businesses and organisations not to know the basics of what they are trying to do – and that even applies...
What is 'success'? Tim Henman
July 03, 2023 02:00 - 52 minutesWhat does success mean? Is the 'winner and losers' narrative too simplistic? Tim Henman reached six major tennis semi-finals - four at Wimbledon - and was ranked fourth in the world. And yet, in some quarters, there is a view that somehow Tim didn't deliver. If that were true, then almost all of us are failures. In this episode, we talk about exploring your potential, rather than setting a goal and limiting yourself, and why everyone’s journey and trajectory is different. Hosted on Acast. Se...
BITESIZE: How To Find Time: Jasmine Paris
June 30, 2023 02:00 - 12 minutesEveryone is familiar with the phrase 'there are too few hours in the day' but one of my previous guests proved that emphatically wrong. In 2019 Jasmine Paris won the 268 mile Spine race – unquestionably one of the toughest endurance events in the world. Not only did Jasmine become the first woman to win the race, she smashed the men’s course record by 12 hours. Jasmine juggles her ultra running with being a mum, wife and a qualified vert. She truly has mastered the art of prioritising what is...
Dissolve Barriers to Happiness: Peter Crone
June 26, 2023 02:00 - 1 hourHow to transcend needless suffering & discover true happiness - with 'the Mind Architect' Above everything else, people want to feel happy – and to experience freedom from suffering. It’s not the car, the promotion or the relationship we really want – it’s the happiness we believe we will derive from it. But what if the very act of seeking happiness is exactly what is stopping us from experiencing true happiness? That is the essence of this week’s conversation with Peter Crone. He calls himse...
BITESIZE: Human Being or Human Doing? - Bill Beswick
June 23, 2023 02:00 - 8 minutesAre you a human being – or a human doing? Bill Beswick is one of the world’s most respected sports psychologists, having worked at Manchester United during Sir Alex Ferguson’s dominant reign as manager. Roy Keane and Gary Neville are among those who credited Bill with making a real difference to their ability to perform at the top. I talked to Bill during the covid pandemic – and he spoke about how it was an opportunity to reflect on how we want to live. The question is – have you done that? ...
Ego: Ian Holloway
June 19, 2023 02:00 - 1 hourWhen I was the sports reporter for BBC Radio 1 for 8 years, I spent a lot of time talking to and hearing from an exhaustive list of Premier League managers. One of them stood out above the rest for entertainment value – and that was Ian Holloway when he was in charge of Blackpool FC. Ian Holloway is clearly a naturally funny man – and he also has a depth and emotional sensitivity that you can’t help but warm to. A driving theme of this podcast is ego – and not letting the idea you have about ...
BITESIZE: How to Meditate: Andy Puddicombe - Headspace founder & former Buddhist monk
June 16, 2023 02:00 - 9 minutesThere’s no doubt that meditation is good for body and mind, but a lot of people struggle with it. Perhaps they don’t think they’re doing it right – or just can’t turn it into a habit. But meditation is undoubtedly a hugely valuable habit to develop, and the research on its benefits is vast. And here to talk about the simple 'how-tos' of mindfulness meditation – is Headspace founder and former Buddhist monk – Andy Puddicombe ** MyTwitter: https://twitter.com/simonmundie Instagram: https://ww...
The Power of 'Good Enough': Tom Curran
June 12, 2023 02:00 - 58 minutesPerfectionism is often seen as a desirable trait in modern society. But, the reality is, it leads to procrastination - and mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and burnout. In a world that celebrates the idea of your 'Best Self', and always being better than you were yesterday – this conversation is about considering a healthier approach, one that acknowledges we are fine as we are now, and that we don’t always need to be striving for more and better. My guest is Tom Curran, the acc...
BITESIZE: Dr Dame Katherine Grainger: Reflecting on how far you have come
June 09, 2023 02:00 - 11 minutesHow often do we spend time continually looking to the future – while overlooking how far we have already come? Dr Dame Katherine Grainger is Britain’s most decorated female Olympian. She won rowing gold at London 2012 and silver at four other Olympic Games. We spoke about reflecting back on how far you’ve come – as well as what perseverance is all about ** MyTwitter: https://twitter.com/simonmundie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simonmundie/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon...
Do Hard Things: Steve Magness
June 05, 2023 02:00 - 1 hourAlberto Salazar was once the most revered running coach in the world, leading athletes including Mo Farah to the very top of their game. But, in 2019, Salazar was banned from athletics for violating anti doping rules. This week’s guest, Steve Magness, had worked alongside him at the Nike Oregon Project – and he was the whistleblower whose claims were followed up by a BBC Panorama and Pro Publica investigation, leading, ultimately, to Salazar’s downfall. It’s fascinating to hear Steve explaini...
BITESIZE: Acceptance 2.0 - Owning What Happens
June 02, 2023 02:00 - 9 minutesBrad Smeele was a world champion wakeboarder – until he broke his neck performing a trick in 2014 which left him quadriplegic. Until that point, Brad had been pretty much living the dream, chasing summers around the world while earning money on the side as a model. His identity before the accident was closely bound up with his physicality, and coming to terms with the fact that that was no longer the case was a huge challenge. However – Brad has demonstrated a truly inspiring mentality toward...
Relationships: Will Carling
May 29, 2023 03:00 - 1 hourWhy relationships are the key to success in sport and life, with former England captain Will Carling. Will was appointed captain aged just 22 and led England to their first ever rugby World Cup final in 1991. As well as reaching that World Cup final- England won three Grand Slams in the 90s under Will, and were undoubtedly the northern hemisphere’s best team during that period. The theme of this conversation is relationships, in life and sport, which Will says are more important than 'success...
Empathetic Leadership: Ama Agbeze
May 29, 2023 01:00 - 57 minutesThere’s a lot to be said for truly empathetic leadership, where caring for and taking an interest in the individual comes first. Not only does this create an environment in which people can flourish, it makes winning and success more likely. And my guest this week, Ama Agbeze, undoubtedly proved that to be the case, when she led England to their greatest netball triumph – a historic Commonwealth Games gold medal in 2018. The Commonwealth Games is the pinnacle competition in netball, because c...
BITESIZE: Sir Nick Faldo - Slow Down!
May 26, 2023 02:00 - 11 minutesWould you like to know some tips for succeeding under pressure from someone who was one of the best in the business? Sir Nick Faldo is Britain’s greatest ever golfer – a six times major winner who spent 97 weeks as world number one in his pomp. During our full length conversation – I asked him about one of his strategies for success, which came down to being able to... slow down. ** MyTwitter: https://twitter.com/simonmundie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simonmundie/ Email: info@simo...
The Joy of Awe: Dacher Keltner
May 22, 2023 02:00 - 1 hourWe tend to believe happiness is found when we accumulate money, success and status – but that’s actually wide of the mark. According to one of the pre-eminent happiness scientists in the world, real joy is found by tapping into the transformative power of Awe. Dacher Keltner is a bestselling author and psychology professor at the University of California. Twenty years into teaching people about happiness, he is on a mission to reveal the secrets of the good life. He has found that experiencin...
BITESIZE: Getting ahead in business - Dame Heather Rabbatts
May 19, 2023 02:00 - 11 minutesDame Heather Rabbatts trained as a barrister – but that barely gets her CV started. She’s also been a BBC Governor, the youngest-ever Chief Executive of Merton and Lambeth Councils, Head of Education at Channel 4, a Director of the Bank of England, a Board Member of the UK Film Council, and deputy chair of Millwall FC – and that’s just to name a few. I wanted to ask her about getting ahead in big organisations and businesses – and she gave her take on that before speaking about retaining humi...
How to get in FLOW: Steven Kotler
May 15, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour"Flow is an optimal state of consciousness where we feel and perform our best". As many of you know, the topic of flow and its deeper implications are subjects I have spoken about on many occasions in this podcast – and in today’s episode we dive into what is a fascinating area. Steven Kotler is a New York Times best-selling author and executive director of the Flow Research Collective. Steven has spent decades exploring flow and working out ways for people – from elite athletes and Navy seal...
Finding Happiness by Losing Yourself: Rupert Spira
May 14, 2023 17:09 - 1 hourWhat the experience of flow - particularly in sport - may reveal about the nature of reality. One theme that has arisen time and again while recording this podcast is the experience of flow, and numerous athletes in particular have spoken about the experience of "me" not being there in such moments. But what is that "me" that seems to disappear? That’s a big question and here to help address it is Rupert Spira, a philosopher interested in the nature of reality, the nature of consciousness - a...
Psychological Fear: Dr Pippa Grange
May 14, 2023 17:08 - 56 minutesUnderstanding the cost of fear and how to face and replace it - with the former England football psychologist, who was credited with helping transform the team at the 2018 World Cup. Pippa explains the difference between 'in the moment fear', and 'not good enough fear', and it's the latter that is the focus of this conversation and which is lurking behind many of our self-defeating behaviours. MyTwitter: https://twitter.com/simonmundie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simonmundie/ Linked...
BITESIZE: Wim Hof - Consciously going into stressful situations
May 12, 2023 02:00 - 12 minutesThe ability to hack our health could be right inside us. That’s the view of Wim Hof - aka the iceman. Among other things, he has run marathons barefoot beyond the polar circle as well as climbing through the "death zone" of Mt. Everest in only his shorts. He puts his achievements down to the Wim Hof Method – which has three components, cold exposure, breathing techniques and meditation. Wim speaks about the importance of tapping into your inner pharmacy – and putting ourselves into stressful ...
How to Achieve Big Things: Sir Michael Barber
May 08, 2023 02:00 - 1 hourWould you like a proven pattern to tackle your most ambitious and challenging plans? Whatever it is you would like to do – whether it is starting a business, running a marathon or transforming a school – this episode is for you. My guest in Sir Michael Barber, whose career has straddled the world of elite sport and government. Since joining the government in 1997, he has advised 7 of the last 8 Prime Ministers – the exception being Liz Truss. In the world of sport, Michael has advised Team Sk...
BITESIZE: Learning to Listen to our Bodies - Christie Aschwanden
May 05, 2023 02:00 - 7 minutesAre you someone who has a tracker to keep tabs on things like your sleep and calorie count? We are increasingly obsessed with data and tracking – and we are also increasingly out of touch with the signals of our body. Christie Aschwanden is an award winning journalist, Nordic skier and the author of the fascinating book - Good To Go: What the athlete in us can learn from the strange science of recovery. She emphasises the importance of getting in touch with our bodies and learning to directly...
Psychological Flexibility: Steven Hayes - the founder of ACT
May 01, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 193 MBPsychological flexibility is often described as the ‘super skill’ of resilience, wellbeing and mental health. It is your ability to ‘make contact with experience in the present moment fully and without defence’. Research has found that it is associated with higher quality of life and wellbeing. As regular listeners will often hear me say, we are not our thoughts – we are aware of our thoughts. This is a profound insight that can have a huge impact on your experience of life, and is the corne...
'Psychological Flexibility: Steven Hayes - the founder of ACT
May 01, 2023 02:00 - 1 hourPsychological flexibility is often described as the ‘super skill’ of resilience, wellbeing and mental health. It is your ability to ‘make contact with experience in the present moment fully and without defence’. Research has found that it is associated with higher quality of life and wellbeing. As regular listeners will often hear me say, we are not our thoughts – we are aware of our thoughts. This is a profound insight that can have a huge impact on your experience of life, and is the corner...
BITESIZE: Don't overthink things - Laura Muir
April 28, 2023 02:00 - 8 minutesOlympic 2020 Tokyo 1500 metres silver medalist Laura Muir is one of the finest middle-distance runners Britain has ever seen. But there’s more – she is a trained vet too. Muir graduated from the University of Glasgow’s prestigious vet school in 2018 all while competing at the top level – winning her first senior outdoor gold medal at the European Championships that summer. How did she juggle both things? And what are the key lessons to take from her experiences about not overthinking things, ...
Can Psychedelics Heal? - Michael Pollan
April 24, 2023 02:00 - 1 hourAs research into the potential healing powers of psychedelics gains pace, I am thrilled to be joined by Michael Pollan, the author and journalist described as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. In his book How to change your mind, Michael researches how psychedelics including psylocibin mushrooms are being used to help people suffering from various mental health conditions – including depression, anxiety, PTSD and addiction. Psychedelic research is clearly a...
BITESIZE: Avoid the insomnia trap - Dr. Guy Meadows
April 21, 2023 03:00 - 9 minutesA good night’s sleep can make you feel strong enough to take on the world. A bad nights sleep – well, let’s not go there. This clip is all about how to avoid falling down the insomnia gap. You see, one bad night’s sleep can quickly snowball – so it’s good to know how to stop that from happening and to recognise the signs. This is from my conversation with Dr Guy Meadows – the founder and clinical director of The Sleep School My full length conversation with Dr Guy Meadows is HERE: https://po...
Harnessing Emotion: Lawrence Dallaglio
April 17, 2023 02:00 - 1 hourLawrence Dallaglio is an English sporting icon who understands the power of being driven by a higher purpose. He won 85 international rugby caps and was a crucial player in England's World Cup triumph of 2003. But Dallaglio is not cut from typical rugby playing cloth. It was the tragedy of losing his older sister in the Marchioness boating disaster of 1989 that ended up propelling him to pursue a rugby career. I am grateful to Lawrence for being open and vulnerable about his life and struggle...
Tame your inner critic: Dr Russ Harris
April 14, 2023 02:00 - 10 minutesWho doesn’t want to know how to stop unpleasant and even intrusive thoughts from bothering them? While lots of people talk about positive thinking, and training yourself to turn a negative into something upbeat – the truth is – that takes a lot of effort and doesn’t always work. Dr Russ Harris is one of the world’s leading psychologists. He shares a portable mindfulness technique that can sap the power out of any bothersome thought, at any moment – whenever thoughts are bothering you. This is...
Dismantle resistance NOW to get in Flow: Jonny Wilkinson
April 07, 2023 02:10 - 11 minutesThere’s a saying that I’m confident you will have heard of – but which we can all too quickly forget when the mind starts taking off. And it is – what you resist, persists. One of my guests who has really internalised the wisdom behind that saying is Jonny Wilkinson. We all know his story – he was the darling of English rugby who kicked the World Cup winning drop goal in 2003, and whose mental health suffered in the ensuing years. So Jonny has been on quite the introspective journey – and he’...
Putting A Social Media 'Fracas' Into Perspective: Gary Lineker
March 31, 2023 02:00 - 11 minutesGary Lineker has been in the news recently – more than usual – after a social media fracas that led him to miss a week of presenting match of the Day and which briefly dominated the news headlines. As we now know that situation was soon sorted – and Gary was quickly back alongside his chums on the MOTD sofa, looking as unruffled as ever. Being centre of the media glare as he was didn’t seem to knock Gary off his stride too much – and when you hear about his career playing football, you can un...
BITESIZE: Fame - and what drives people seek the attention? 1996 F1 World Champion Damon Hill
March 24, 2023 03:00 - 11 minutesWe all come into this world with unconditional worth – and then we lose sight of that and spend so much time running around trying to prove that we are enough. It’s part of the human condition – and has been something of a key theme running through this podcast. One of my guests I talked about this with was the 1996 formula one world champion Damon Hill, whose father Graham had also been a world champion – making them the first ever father-son duo to achieve the feat. In this episode: Why co...
BITESIZE: How Can You Have As Many Good Days As Possible?
March 17, 2023 03:00 - 11 minutesHow can you have as many good days as possible? It’s so easy to continually be looking to the future – and pay too high a price in the present as a result. Frances Houghton is a five time Olympian, who won three silver medals, 4 world championship golds and held two world records in rowing. Early on – she set two goals, to compete in as many Olympic games as possible, and to win Olympic Gold. Eventually, that drive and need to win gold led to burnout, and so she realised she needed to redefin...
How Your Parents Shape Your Beliefs & Behaviours & 'Guiding Narratives'
March 10, 2023 03:00 - 10 minutesThis episode is about how much our parental influences shape our outlook on life. While we all come into this world with some innate traits, we are also largely a blank slate to start with, but are hugely conditioned by our upbringing. But I think the really interesting thing is that we invariably pick up a framework of what is right, and how to behave in those early years – and that can then shape our beliefs and behaviour for the rest of our life – unless we start to question the 'guiding n...
What are you like at sitting with difficult emotions? : Jason Fox
March 03, 2023 03:00 - 9 minutesWhat are you like at sitting with emotions? It can be so easy to distract ourselves, or numb ourselves – by reaching for a drink or a device, or even by going up into our heads and getting lost in rumination. One of my guests who told me he had to embrace sitting with emotions was the former UK Special Forces soldier and Royal Marine Commando turned explorer, adventurer, investigative journalist and TV presenter Jason Fox. Foxy has made a remarkable recovery after being discharged from the ar...
Don't wait for things to happen... go out and Make Things Happen!
February 24, 2023 02:10 - 13 minutes“I like things to happen… and if they don’t… I like to make them happen.” - Winston Churchill This episode is all about creating opportunities… rather than waiting for things to fall in your lap. I spoke to the award winning author and journalist Maurice Hamilton, who explained how he got to do the job he loves – in part by taking motivation from the most successful formula one driver of the early 20th century, who overcame immense odds and tragedy to get into motorsport, as Maurice explains....
The Formula To Establish How To Spend Your Time: Ed Jackson and Lucy Gossage
February 17, 2023 06:00 - 12 minutesBurnout and stress is on the rise. Finding work-life balance is increasingly elusive. What's the answer? The issue isn't necessarily too few hours in the day, it's how we use the hours we have - which comes down to our choices and priorities. Ed Jackson, the former pro rugby player turned walking quadriplegic who is now a charity fundraiser and TV presenter, came up with a superb formula for how to work out how to spend your time that helped save him from burnout. That formula was the adopte...
Why You Should Stop Judging others: John McAvoy
February 10, 2023 06:00 - 11 minutesIt can be easy to judge other people for negative actions and decisions, but the truth is we can’t know the circumstances that led to them. We are not nearly as in control of our lives as we like to think. People don’t necessarily like to hear that, but we don’t choose the family we are born into, our genes, our personality traits, the influences we are surrounded by while growing up and so on. Where we are is basically a result of a vast web of interconnected occurrences and events over whic...
How to become an 'overnight success': Joe Wicks
February 03, 2023 06:00 - 8 minutesWhen Joe Wicks came up with the idea that changed his life, and started posting online content in 2014, there was no master plan. He just loved doing it and ploughed on - even as people told him he was barking up the wrong tree - before eventually breaking through. It's a story that is often repeated in seeming 'overnight successes' - that ability to keep on going even when the rewards are not immediately obvious. And that’s the lesson Joe wants to share – the importance of relentless consist...
The risk of not risking enough: Jimmy Chin - Free Solo director & climber
January 27, 2023 06:00 - 11 minutes"Commit to something - then figure it out." Jimmy Chin Jimmy is a pro climber, skier, photographer and Oscar winning Film director. The theme of this episode is about following your heart and taking risks. Committing to a path and working it out along the way. Jimmy picked up the Academy Award for the incredible Free Solo. You can find the episode with Alex Honnold, star of Free Solo, here: https://play.acast.com/s/dont-tell-me-the-score-with-simon-mundie/fear-alexhonnold ** To message me: ...
What drives many 'successful' people? - Caitlyn Jenner
January 20, 2023 06:00 - 8 minutesMany high achievers are driven by a burning desire to compensate for the wounds of childhood trauma. But you can’t fill an inner void with accomplishments and approval. This isn’t to cast judgement on so called "successful" people – it is just to suggest that putting them on a pedestal is overly simplistic, and in many cases they may benefit from empathy rather than envy. This week's bitesize guest is Caitlyn Jenner - who won Olympic Decathlon Gold in 1976 as Bruce Jenner - and whose house in...
BITESIZE: The importance of 'Being' in a world of 'Doing'
January 13, 2023 06:00 - 11 minutesDon't overlook what you have NOW by focusing on what you are working towards in the future. We live in a world of perpetual doing. Thinking about the future, and the past, making plans, and completing tasks. There's nothing inherently wrong with that – BUT - we do risk missing out on the joy of being, appreciating our experiences in this moment This was clearly illustrated to me by one of my previous guests – who left a profound impression on me. Recently I attended an incredibly moving memor...
The power of visualisation - and how to do it
January 06, 2023 06:00 - 11 minutesOver the course of the last 4 and a half years speaking to people for this podcast – the topic of visualisation has come up a lot. Former Wales rugby union captain Sam Warburton spoke about using it to help him recover more quickly from an injury. 6 time major golf winner Nick Faldo would visualise the outcomes he wanted twice a day in his pomp, and “saw” himself as the winner of major championships including The Open – before it happened. So, this is a massive topic among elite performers – ...
Walk Yourself to Wellbeing: Professor Shane O'Mara
December 30, 2022 06:00 - 11 minutes'Marvel at the incredible benefits walking confers on our bodies and minds' Professor Shane O Mara is a leading neuroscientist and author of the fantastic book – In Praise of Walking Getting out walking is so important, especially at this time of year, and particularly for those of us still working at home after the covid pandemic changed working habits so profoundly. It helps with creativity, mood, wellbeing, digestion - and its effects on heart health is remarkable. Increasing the amount we...
Design your Life to Maximise Happiness: Paul Dolan
December 23, 2022 06:00 - 8 minutes"Happiness is about pleasure and purpose. the key is to get that balance right" This bitesize episode is all about setting up our lives for happiness. Paul Dolan - professor of Behavioural Science at LSE and author of the excellent book Happiness by Design - says happiness is about striking a balance between pleasure and purpose. He shares some great examples of how to find both – and talks about how to design your life to help yourself. Our willpower is weak, but our 'design power' is strong...
The Key to Public Speaking: Henry Fraser
December 16, 2022 06:00 - 9 minutesHenry Fraser is a best-selling painter, best-selling author and highly in-demand public speaker. When he was seventeen years old, Henry’s life changed in a moment when he was paralysed from the shoulders down after breaking his neck diving into the sea in Portugal. Before his accident, despite being an academy rugby player for Saracens, Henry described himself as being quite anxiety prone, and someone who hated public speaking. Loads of people hate public speaking, but Henry has some words of...