Chris Marshall – How to De-Stress with the Pause, Play, Move Method

Chris Marshall is a transformative voice in leadership, resilience, and business strategy. With an aim to prepare individuals and teams for a disruptive tomorrow. Chris draws from his diverse experiences in behavioural science, professional foresight, and global macro strategy. Through his talks, he offers insights that are not just profound but also actionable, paving the way for a future-ready mindset.Chris has a varied background, from being a youth athlete to being high functioning autistic with a divergent mindset in a neurotypical world, to setting up an international award-winning distillery as a side hustle. He has many stories of vrooming and veering in his life including: burnout, divorce, being the head of global strategy for a fund manager, becoming a breathwork coach to ongoing research as a professional futurist and behavioural scientist specialising in decision-making in fast-paced complex environments. He is also the author of the book Decoding Change, a book that seeks to help people better the rapid changes we're seeing all around us.

Chris Marshall Vroom Vroom Veer Stories

Grew up in Snowdonia in Whales in the UK in the Moutains (don't say hills!) which is a rich, lush, green mountain wonderland with hundreds of castles

Fell in love with skiing at the age of 7 and was a competive ski racer in his teens; worked with a famous sport pychologist to work on his mental game, visualizations and reducing anxiety

His burnout came around when he was working on Pause, Play, Move method--he ended up in the hospital; he had to learn how to really pause and play to releive the stress

The pause in PPM is about just giving yourself a break to rest and reset and bring down your stress level; breath work, diet, getting enough sleep all contribute to that calm joyful state

Playfulness is a state that doesn't concern itself with outcomes; bay leaf in Gin? Sure let's try it…tastes like medicine so NO..but that's ok, now you know that it doesn't work

Move almost takes care of itself if you are able to Pause and find that comfortable, calm, joyful state, and after you played with your problems your are already moving

Wanted to start a brewery but found out that he had a gluten intolerence (I think I said Lactose…opps! That's ok, I was playing) so Chris create a distillery instead

After discovering amazing gin in Bruges, Belgium wanted to make a gin from Whales where the best water and botanicals exist on the planet

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