Inspired&Active in a Changing World
27 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -With a focus on outdoor activity and adventure, I will include inspiring interviews, advice and stories to let you grow your business by connecting and attracting more customers through the use of innovative digital engagement.I am passionate about motivating as many people you to be active outdoors and as an experienced outdoor leader, coach and Digital change expert based in Scotland, I will lead discussions, conduct interviews with inspiring guests to inform, inspire and engage everyone. I will help you make a difference and will grow a global community of like-minded people.
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The importance of encouraging a growth mindset in young people today
June 12, 2022 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MB025 In today's podcast, we chat with Julie Delucca-Collins on the importance of mindset in young people and the three recommendations to help you improve it as parents or leaders. We discuss the importance of realising the mindset someone has and how it can impact their motivations and overall wellness. Realise that young people have to push themselves and not be afraid of failing. You need to recognise your beliefs and push through the fear and build confidence and try not to pass them on...
Why your email list is pure gold for your business
May 16, 2022 13:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBYour email list in your business is one of the essential assets you have contributing to your business growth. If you are not actively collecting the email addresses of your current and prospective customers, then you are missing out on a solid approach to developing and extending your reach and your business In this podcast, I discuss why you should have a list and the three focus areas of Collection, Storing and Connecting your email addresses. It is breaking regulatory rules to send ...
How Digital change will accelerate your business
May 03, 2022 06:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBIn this podcast, I discuss the opportunity and the reasons for your business to take on digital change. Over the last couple of years, people have been forced to take on new digital processes in their everyday life for shopping, booking, entertainment and connecting with their friends and family. This has resulted in increased confidence in using digital methods and raised expectations of what is an excellent digital experience and what is a poor one. You as an organisation need to co...
Six steps to getting started in your activity business
March 25, 2022 06:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBGreat to be back after some time out due skiing accident and today I answer a question that I am asked regularly - how do I get started in my business, especially an outdoor activity-based business? In this podcast, I introduce six steps I always use when starting a business and I help and coach new and experienced business owners to start or grow their businesses. Helping to encourage and give more people opportunities to be active outdoors is my goal and helping businesses grow and ser...
Plan your year and be a player in your game
January 21, 2022 08:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBIt is an excellent time for everybody to start reflecting and looking at what's ahead of you in your business. There is an essential process that I would advise, reflecting over years of running companies, that you have to set down in January and I strongly suggest you have these in place. You need to go into the first quarter of the year with the focus. I'm going to discuss six steps that I would advise from my experience. All are worth doing when you start a new year. 1. Reflect 2. S...
An Introduction to BioHacking to help your fitness with Jeff McMahon
January 05, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MB018 BioHacking is a term used today and can mean different things and in this podcast, we introduce the concept of BioHacking and discuss what it means and how we can use BioHacking to improve our general health and wellbeing. Jeff McMahon is an experienced fitness trainer and coach joins me to discuss BioHacking and how we can through some simple practices improve our daily health with long terms gains. Since his mid-twenties, Jeff has worked with thousands of people to help them trans...
Understand and adopt Full-System-Fitness to be the best you can be.
December 21, 2020 07:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MB#017 Your Full System Fitness is essential for all of us to consider and practice but especially in our children and young people. We often consider fitness is about how far we can run or how long we can cycle before we fell tired. This is an indicator but it is important we start to consider the whole system which includes our body, mind and everyday environment to really make sure we are the best we can be. I discuss in the podcast Full-System-Fitness which includes: Physical fitness ...
Understand and adopt Full-System-Fitness to be the best you can be.
December 21, 2020 07:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MB#017 Your Full System Fitness is essential for all of us to consider and practice but especially in our children and young people. We often consider fitness is about how far we can run or how long we can cycle before we fell tired. This is an indicator but it is important we start to consider the whole system which includes our body, mind and everyday environment to really make sure we are the best we can be. I discuss in the podcast Full-System-Fitness which includes: Physical fitness ...
What are the best Nature apps to use when out on your walks?
December 06, 2020 19:00 - 13 minutes - 9.66 MB#016 Do you find when you are out on walks that you see or hear something and you're not sure what it is? It happens to me all the time. I have used many mobile apps to help inform and help identify the plant, tree or bird call. In today's podcast, I discuss the 4 best apps I use after using many. I share why they are worth using, and I recommend you give them a try next time you are out. In the podcast, I review: PlantSnap iNaturalist iBird Sky Safari with a secondary mention ...
My review of three Adventure Trail Apps
November 14, 2020 13:00 - 13 minutes - 9.48 MB#015 In today's podcast, I discuss Adventure navigation based trail apps we can download to help us on or planning an adventure. In future podcasts, I will review other apps we can download and use when we are on a walk or cycle. There are mainly three types of app for using on a trek or adventure. 1) navigation helping in you create a route and navigating the trail. 2) game-based apps to be used when on the trail.l 3) educational apps to keep informed and to learn as you go. We wil...
Motivating others is sometimes a challenge:a discussion with Sean Scott
November 01, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MB014 Motivating your family, friends and colleagues to take part in a sport, activity or hobby is something we all have to do. None more so than parents with older children, teenagers, who are in their development phase and simply not as motivated to get out and possibly push themselves. Sean Scott is an experienced sports coach, very successful athlete and has spent over twenty years previously in the armed forces leading and directing teams in all forms of activities and excursions. To...
Improve your confidence- five steps to help
October 22, 2020 21:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MB013 Having confidence is essential in your own and everyone's health and general wellbeing. Having self-confidence will help in many areas of your life, making you feel better both mentally and physically and let you be more able to meet day to day activity and increase our enjoyment of the outdoors. In this podcast, we consider how we can build and improve your self-confidence, and I suggest five areas and practical steps you can take to help. 1. Trust in your ability 2. Become a positiv...
Improve your confidence- five steps to help
October 22, 2020 21:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MB013 Having confidence is essential in your own and everyone's health and general wellbeing. Having self-confidence will help in many areas of your life, making you feel better both mentally and physically and let you be more able to meet day to day activity and increase our enjoyment of the outdoors. In this podcast, we consider how we can build and improve your self-confidence, and I suggest five areas and practical steps you can take to help. 1. Trust in your ability 2. Become a positiv...
Creating your own Adventure: four aspects to consider
October 14, 2020 06:00 - 13 minutes - 9.13 MB012: Going on an adventure means different things to different people. It could be a trek into the countryside for others it is a high adrenalin downhill mountain bike ride. But for everyone, it is important to have adventures in our lives and the use of adventure to get outdoors, be more active and to connect with your family and friends. In this podcast, I discuss 4 simple aspects to consider when organising an adventure to help make it land well, especially with your older kids. 1. Cr...
Aim to be a coach and not a teacher: three key goals to remember
October 06, 2020 17:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MB011 We should be aiming to coach our older children and not come across as a teacher. Our kids will react better and learn more from our coaching approach than to a direct teaching method. In this podcast I discuss how we should be coaching our kids and focusing on three key goals: 1. Encourage our children to learn by example and not be afraid to fail 2. Help them grow their identity and build the vision of their best self 3. Install self-belief in, them developing the confidence to suc...
Open your eyes and develop curiosity to inspire our kids to enjoy the outdoors
September 26, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB010 Today in the podcast, I welcome Mark Hatton, an outdoor lover and self-taught historian, to share his years of experience in developing a real interest in the layers of history we can find in countryside all around us. Mark advises us to open our eyes and peel back the layers, and we can find a richness of information which can inspire and engage both ourselves and our kids to want to get out and find out more. Although reference to Scotland in the mapping, the approach and advice s...
Know your Natural Balance to help ensure healthy kids living a balanced life.
June 28, 2020 19:00 - 11 minutes - 8.17 MB009 Do you get frustrated, worried and stressed, as a parent, with your children's screentime and watching their inactivity impact their general health and as a result your family wellbeing. Today on the short podcast John Campbell introduces the concept of our Natural Balance and considers past learnings and introduces three essential areas to explore in the Inspired&Active framework helping to form our children's natural balance 1) Curiosity 2) Creativity 3) Connectivity. These will be ...
Enter our children's world, discussion on the health impact of excessive screentime with Sue Watson
May 23, 2020 18:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MB008 We continue our discussion around the health impact of extended screentime our children. In this podcast, Sue Watson chats about the science behind screen time and how it affects our children. Sue Watson is a physiotherapist specialing in Craniosacral therapy and focusing on the balance of the nervous systems. Sue considers how we use devices and how the intensity in gaming impacts the nervous system balance. Sue discusses how not all screen time is bad for the children, and it is about ...
The ScreenTime challenge - your sofa is the modern playground
May 17, 2020 17:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MB007 Today I, John Campbell, discusses the topic of digital balance and the challenge we are all facing concerning the time our children are spending on their screens. I have worked with Digital technology and related projects for over 25 years and I am currently a Digital Transformation Director for the Scottish Government. I have a passion for the effective and appropriate use of Digital to improve all our lives. What we are going through is extreme and the resulting change on our use of d...
Inspiring our children to run across the country with Alan Matthews
May 10, 2020 08:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MB#006 In today's episode, I discuss with a good friend and experienced trail runner, Alan Matthews how important it is to motivate and inspire our children to be active. Throughout our children's younger years, we need to help them engage in outdoor activity and sports to ensure that by the time they are in their late teens they are self-motivated and keeping very health and active lifestyle. Several key takeaways from this discussion for me were: 1) that we should not keep our children from...
How are you making your walks interesting in this time of restrictions?
May 01, 2020 14:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MB005: How can we make our walks entertaining for our family? Are you finding that you are finding you are doing the same walks over and over again and your children are getting frustrated and less interested? In this podcast, John & Jon spend a few minutes discussing some ideas around adding games and fun to the time outside. Try and make your walks different and try something new. We would love to hear your ideas and thoughts in the Inspired&Active Facebook group, join us there.
How are you making your walks interesting in this time of restrictions?
May 01, 2020 14:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MB005: How can we make our walks entertaining for our family? Are you finding that you are finding you are doing the same walks over and over again and your children are getting frustrated and less interested? In this podcast, John & Jon spend a few minutes discussing some ideas around adding games and fun to the time outside. Try and make your walks different and try something new. We would love to hear your ideas and thoughts in the Inspired&Active Facebook group, join us there.
Nature Deficit Disorder: A real concern in today's society
March 19, 2020 21:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MB004: Today, in the third podcast in the series of challenges our children are facing, we have a conversation around one of the consequences of our children no longer being active in the outdoors. A term created by Richard Louv is now a proven disorder impacting our children's health, wellbeing and mental strength. We need to become aware of it and then try and find the opportunity to encourage and help tackle the reasons for the disorder in our local area, schools and groups starting with ...
John & Jon discuss one of today's biggest challenges and share six tips to help get our children to be more active.
February 07, 2020 15:00 - 18 minutes - 13.1 MB003 John & Jon discuss one of the biggest challenges facing us all today - the increasing trend over the last few years of adults and children across the world becoming overweight and obese. Many pages, blog articles and documentaries have been given to this subject. A key objective and goals of our Inspired & Active community are to help address this issue, encouraging more activity specifically outdoors. We give 6 of our tips to help get our children more active and engaged.
Why we need to be concerned about our children's future.
January 31, 2020 20:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MB#002 In this podcast, John & Jon discuss why it is essential that we all consider the current position and impact of us all but especially our children being less active and appreciative of nature and the outdoors. We want to grow an Inspired&Active community and will suggest, inspire and motivate everyone to make change happen. This podcast is the first episode of a series looking at this problem, and we set the scene in this podcast.
Why we need to be concerned about our children's future.
January 31, 2020 20:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MB#002 In this podcast, John & Jon discuss why it is essential that we all consider the current position and impact of us all but especially our children being less active and appreciative of nature and the outdoors. We want to grow an Inspired&Active community and will suggest, inspire and motivate everyone to make change happen. This podcast is the first episode of a series looking at this problem, and we set the scene in this podcast.
Welcome to the Inspired & Active Community
January 24, 2020 16:00 - 6 minutes - 4.62 MB#001- John & Jon are passionate about motivating and inspiring everyone to be more active and to enjoy the outdoors. We introduce ourselves and our purpose in this short introduction podcast. We will be publishing regular podcasts with inspiring interviews, useful advice and action to take to help you, family, friends or groups to get out and enjoy the outdoors while increasing your own fitness and activity. For more information about the Inspired & Active Community, look at our website at:...