“Underneath the individual I there lies the Universal I.” Throughout the podcast over the last few series, we have heard many beautiful voices talking about the power of getting out of our own way so that we may remember what is already here, what we already are. In our Thursday main episode Jonny meets Mooji, a spiritual guru who shows him what this really means. In today’s little episode Jonny reflects on this intense experience and his realisation that accepting and letting go are not just cl...
May 23, 2023•15 min•Season 4Ep. 27
In this week's episode of the I Am Podcast, host Jonny speaks with Rachael Hall, an elite ballet dancer from the Royal Ballet School who left the stage to pursue her own path of self-discovery. Rachael shares her journey of exploring Buddhism, Pilates, and the Franklin method, which she now specialises in and uses to help others. Through her deep connection with her body, Rachael has found greater sensitivity, connection, beauty, grace and power in her life, leading to better relationships, grow...
May 18, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Today Jonny digs deeper into the concept of embodiment proposed and practised by Rachael Hall, an elite ballet dancer who left the stage to explore Buddhism, Pilates and the Franklin method. Rachel guests on the main episode this Thursday. This episode though is all about balance and the power of releasing ourselves from the mind and rooting back in the body. Jonny investigates the impending conflict to come from letting the mind lead us when going after our goals. As well as this, Jonny draws o...
May 16, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 25
The adventure continues this week with Chris Dorje Walker, a mentor, a qualified western psychology practitioner, eastern chi gong, buddhist and meditation specialist and spiritual guide too. Joining Jonny today, Chris shares vital skills for surviving modern living and anecdotes from his personal 5 year journey living in a Buddhist monastery as well as his deep travels into remote parts of India and Bhutan. He has had his own challenges and I am sure that this along with his humility and his gi...
May 11, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 4Ep. 24
When we are fully present we will never experience consequence, only opportunity and adventure. Today Jonny explores and expands on some of the core ideas raised by qualified western psychology practitioner, eastern chi gong mast, buddhist and meditation specialist and guest this Thursday Chris Dorje Walker. Big questions explored in today's episode: - What is the concept of presence, and how does it relate to living in the present moment? - What are the benefits of being present, and how does i...
May 09, 2023•18 min•Season 4Ep. 23
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May 04, 2023•26 min•Season 4Ep. 23
Ananta Kranti, our guest this week, has dedicated her life to deepening her connection to her true self and transmitting her wisdom to thousands of students and seekers. She does this in the form of personalised “pointing out” instructions that directly reveal the nature of the mind, its illusions, karmic entanglements and the path to ultimate freedom. Ananta speaks a lot about awakening and how it's possible for everyone, but also about how it requires a willingness to break free from our curre...
May 04, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 22
Today on I Am… Jonny explores how sustainability starts from within and how we must first be sustainable before we can create a sustainable world. If we want to do more and better than we are now we may need to upgrade ourselves first. Otherwise all we create will be more stress, fatigue and suffering. Big questions in todays episode: - How can transformation be possible for everyone and what is required for it to occur? - What is the importance of sustainability and how can we achieve it on a p...
May 02, 2023•20 min•Season 4Ep. 21
Today on I Am Jonny is chatting to the amazing Dr Shefali Tsabary, New York Times best-selling author and a clinical psychologist specialising in the integration of Western psychology and Eastern philosophy. She is an expert in family dynamics and personal development, teaching courses all around the globe. She emphasises the importance of recognising that children are not possessions and are separate individuals with their own expressions of life and intelligence. She encourages parents to focu...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 20
In todays prelude to the upcoming episode with Dr Shefali, Jonny explores self-discovery and health and wellbeing and how our devotion to them funds our performance, enriches our relationships and deepens our engagement and experience of life. Big questions in todays episode: - How can we recognize that our children are not ours, and why is it important to cultivate our internal environment to provide a safe and blossoming environment for our children? - What is the concept of the inner child, a...
Apr 25, 2023•21 min•Season 4Ep. 19
Steve Black, known as Blackie, was the larger than life coach at Newcastle Falcons and had roles with The Welsh National rugby team and the British and Irish Lions as well as being a very long-time mentor for Jonny. Blackie was kind enough to guest for the Pilot episode of the I Am podcast and this is what you will hear today. In the episode, Blackie talks to Jonny about his feel-based coaching style, applied across all the teams he worked with ( he also coached football at Newcastle United, and...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Life is to be found in the unknown and so is the now. A willingness to engage with it and be present in it offers us a greater influence over the future. Today on I Am, Jonny shares the story of his late friend Steve Black, also known as Blackie. Blackie was a born and bred Geordie who had a relentless pursuit of greatness. He was honest, transparent, and completely motivated in all that he did. He was a successful coach in almost every professional sport with pretty much every team you could im...
Apr 17, 2023•19 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Learning to manage your mind is crucial to happiness and success - in sport and in life. All of us face challenges, rough patches and struggles in life and challenge is a core pillar of this podcast. Todays guest, bestselling author of the Chimp Paradox, Professor Steve Peters discusses how we can look at challenge differently and reconstruct ourselves to find the opportunity, growth and engagement in it. He says, the one thing that has stood out to him in his years of supporting people as a Con...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Who we are does not have a mindset. Who we are is a mindset. Becoming more aware of our experience, our beliefs and opinions and is key because when we go into battle for them we are also fighting to stay as we are, to keep our mindset and preserve all the stress and the fear in us too. Big Questions in todays episode: - What are the conditions to change your mindset - Do we have conscious awareness of the conclusions or beliefs funding this? - Are we willing to unearth them and take back some r...
Apr 11, 2023•19 min•Season 4Ep. 15
How does the financial system affect social and ecological sustainability as well as our individual potential? Jennifer Hinton is a systems researcher and activist in the field of sustainable economy. In todays episode, Jennifer uses systems thinking to walk Jonny through her work, which focuses on how societies relate to profit and how this relationship affects global challenges. She explains how key aspects of business and markets drive whole plethora of outcomes. Leading into discussions abou...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 14
What power do we, as human beings, posses to completely transform ourselves, and our world around us? In today’s prelude to Thursday’s guest interview with systems researcher and ecological economist Jennifer Hinton, Jonny takes a dive into how our beliefs and values impact us, and our systems at large. What would a different future really cost? Big questions explored today: - What would it be like if society was all about bringing people together? - Can we create a more balanced and healthy, an...
Apr 04, 2023•17 min•Season 4Ep. 13
This week on I Am, Fearne Cotton, author, presenter, and podcaster, opens up about success and happiness; embracing vulnerability, learning from mistakes and finding balance in every aspect of life. She explains the power of working on ourselves has for our health, well-being and fulfilment and explores this through subject like criticism, imposter syndrome, appreciating others, making peace with where we have been and the journey towards uncovering purpose and passion. For Fearne it is importan...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 12
We grow up believing that we can achieve and accumulate our way to happiness. The mind then becomes the master and keeps us stressed and separated from it. Today Jonny ponders what it means to follow your heart’s lead. Is it not through our passions that we find ourselves at our most spontaneous, inspired and connected? In order to enhance our sensitivity and express our most creative self, just like sport, dancing and the arts, we have to surrender control and truly trust. And that can be scary...
Mar 28, 2023•18 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Today on I am we have something a little something different for you to listen to and that’s an episode from former Welsh international Rugby icon Sam Warburton. He’s got a new show out called Captains which gives listeners the inside story of how the most successful teams come together, grow, and ultimately – win. This is a short extract from Sam’s interview with Chris Robshaw about resilience, world cup heartache, and six Nations stand-offs. Listen to the full episode over on the Captains Feed...
Mar 27, 2023•10 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Olympic champion and three-time world champion heptathlete, Jessica Ennis-Hill is one of Great Britain’s most successful athletes. Jess set some high bars for herself and cleared them all. Her Super Saturday gold medal winning show stopper during the 2012 London Olympics will live on in the minds of those whom saw it unfold. It was a moment that transcends sport and became a defining detail in the story of this immensely gifted heptathlete. But there is so much more to her and her success and I ...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 10
It is never actually about everything going perfectly. It is more to do with shaking loose everything that stands in the way of our self-worth and finding that feeling place. In today’s Tuesday episode Jonny remarks on how we often seem to find it so much easier and more comfortable to focus upon what we do not want to happen than it is to visualise our ideal outcomes. Taking on positive perspectives has almost become a means of distracting ourselves from the more justifiable, conventionally agr...
Mar 21, 2023•13 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Australian Union rugby player, James O'Connor joins Jonny this week to walk us through his learnings from his phenomenal and at times misunderstood career so far. One of the most talented players of his generation, he gives us an incredible insight into the highs and lows of his career. Having played stints in London, Manchester and Toulon before returning to Australia he has encountered challenging moments on and off the pitch to go with the amazing ones and is happy to open up about them. Jame...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Throughout every one of the previous 3 podcast series, we have been pointing to how our power and our potential is not something we possess but it is actually just what we are. It is our source, not our goal. This is why the things we earn and win, that we are so convinced will make everything ok and resolve our deeper sense of insufficiency, never do. Jonny expands on this in today's Tuesday episode and what this looked like in his own life. Big Questions explored by Jonny today: - Can we find ...
Mar 14, 2023•15 min•Season 4Ep. 7
James Nestor is a journalist and author whose personal quest and discoveries into the world of breath work have the potential to transform our lives. His most recent book ‘Breathe’ looks deeply into this skill that we all possess and has been met with success all around the world. For Jonny, James’ personal quest and discoveries possess the power to change our lives if we are willing to remain open-minded about who we are and champion an indefatigable curiosity about life.
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 6
A worthy saying in performance is to focus on the basics and not to get bored of them. After all, it’s generally accepted that the team that has the basics locked down tends to come out on top - and those that skip the basics tend to find themselves coming unstuck and reactive further down the line. At the core of everything in life, according to Jonny, is how we are on the inside - here lies our worth, our gift and our potential. Without connecting to this source and consciously grounding ourse...
Mar 07, 2023•18 min•Season 4Ep. 5
TW - this episode contains personal stories from life on the frontlines that some listeners might be sensitive to. Jason Fox has spent a large part of his life serving in the armed forces. Today, Jason opens up about his journey, and what it was like being involved in matters of life and death everyday. With over 20 years’ experience in the marines and the SAS, his experiences have taken him to some of the most challenging conditions imaginable - and you may recognise him from the hit television...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 4Ep. 4
It is perhaps the biggest task anyone can take on – to stand and face our own unique challenges rather than go around blaming everything and taking it out on everyone else. Acceptance leads to responsibility, whereas resistance leads to reactivity. This path towards taking greater responsibility for ourselves forms the basis of this episode. Big questions in todays episode: - How can we be fully present and embrace the now? - What does it take to see through our knee jerk reactions and overcome ...
Feb 28, 2023•21 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Julia Samuel MBE is an award-winning psychotherapist and best selling author who devotes her time and energy to helping people find their way in the most unimaginably tough circumstances; losing loved ones of all ages. In today's episode, Julia elaborates upon the grieving process, the importance of it and the forms it can take. She also provides some beautiful pointers for how we can engage with it and harness the life-affirming force of it for our performance and growth. Together, Jonny and Ju...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Loss, fear of loss, mortality it can hold such power over us, shifting our entire world view and shaping the way we relate to ourselves, our lives and the opportunities presented to us. Big questions in today’s episode include: - Are we just living to die or are we willing to die so that we may truly live? - How do we transcend the physically dominated concept of “life getting harder as we get older” and our glory days being behind us? - Are we really products of our environment or do we hold ou...
Feb 21, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 1
In the final episode in this third series of the I am podcast, Jonny welcomes award-winning soulful business coach, Liz Roberta. Humble, energising and big on exploring life, Liz is creating an amazing path for herself. She spends her time doing what she loves, making a difference and tuning into her inner intuitive voice for assistance in facing her challenges and trusting in the unknown. Liz explains all about this during her conversation with Jonny. She has a powerful presence, emanates spont...
Dec 08, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 16
