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The LagomMind podcast is a MOJO nominated show looking at mental health from a wide range of perspectives. Guests have included MPs, Olympians, best-selling authors and world leading psychologists and psychiatrists.

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#15 Kira Newman, Managing Editor at the Greater Good Science Center

In this episode, we spoke to Kira Newman the Managing Editor of Greater Good Science Center. Greater Good provides science-based insights to provide people with tools to build a more meaningful life. Kira's role in the organisation is to write research briefs, feature articles, book reviews, and essays; and edit articles by staff, freelance journalists, and researchers.Our conversation touched on a number of issues including her work at Greater Good and Kira setting up the Happy Cafe and The Yea...

Mar 13, 2019•29 min

#14 Diana Winston, Director of Mindfulness Education

This week our guest on the podcast was Diana Winston, the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA Semel Institute’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. Diana is the co-author of Fully Present, the Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness and has taught mindfulness since 1999 in a variety of settings including hospitals, universities, corporations, non-profits, and schools in the US and Asia. Diana’s work is really interesting and our conversation touched on a number of issues including being a...

Feb 19, 2019•34 min

#13 Dr Marvin Belzer, Teaching Mindfulness for Credit

This episode we spoke to Dr Marvin Belzer, who has over twenty years experience teaching mindfulness meditation. He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. Before this, he taught a semester-long meditation course in the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green St. University, where he was an Associate Professor of Philosophy. To find out more about Marvin:Twitter-https://twitter.com/uclamarcWebsite- https://www.uclahealth.org/mar...

Feb 05, 2019•31 min

#12 Dr Julieta Galante, Meditation Research and Student Mental Health

This episode we spoke to Dr Julieta Galante of Cambridge University. Julieta is a qualified medical doctor whose research now lies in mental health promotion and the effects of lifestyle on health. In particular Julieta looks at the effects of meditation on mental health and has piloted mindfulness courses for students at Cambridge. Our conversation looked at what the field of research on meditation looks like and where it can improve as well as talking about student mental health more generally...

Jan 22, 2019•39 min

#11 Yoni Ashar, Pain, The Brain and Compassion

This episode we spoke to Yoni Ashar, a Graduate Student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Yoni's work looks at using brain measurement (especially fMRI) to better understand how placebo treatments for depression work and to better understand how factors of the patient-provider relationship can lead to healing. In our conversation we spoke about another of his research interests in chronic pain and whether it can be learnt. Our chat also touched upon compassion and Yon...

Jan 09, 2019•39 min

#10 Rachel Hall, Higher Education Editor at the Guardian

This week our guest is Rachel Hall- Higher Education Editor at the Guardian. In this role, and through her previous experiences engaging with universities she has seen an increased dialogue around student mental health and has written numerous articles on it.We really enjoyed chatting to Rachel and look forward to reading more of her work. If you enjoy listening to Rachel as well please give us a rating and review wherever you get your podcasts!Find more about Rachel's work here:Twitter: https:/...

Oct 08, 2018•21 min

#9 Hope Virgo, Mental Health Campaigner, Author and Ambassador

In this weeks episode of the Mental Health Pod we spoke to Hope Virgo. Hope is a mental health campaigner and author of Stand Tall Little Girl- which details her journey with Anorexia. More recently, Hope’s efforts have been devoted to her Dump The Scales Petition- which calls for the government to review the eating disorder guidance delivered by clinicians.We loved chatting to Hope and learning about her inspirational story.If you enjoy listening please drop us a review and rating and recommend...

Sep 19, 2018•30 min

#8 Prof Chuck Raison, Novel Mechanisms in Treating Depression

In this weeks episode of the Mental Health Pod I was joined by Dr. Chuck Raison of Wisconsin Madison University. Chuck is an internationally recognized psychiatrist researching novel mechanisms involved in the development and treatment of major depression and other stress-related emotional and physical conditions. Outside of his academic work, Chuck acts as the mental health expert for CNN.com. Our chat encompasses a huge range of topics from the use of saunas, antidepressants, and psychedelics ...

Sep 06, 2018•57 min

#7 Leon Taylor, Olympic Medalist and Mentor

This week we chatted to Leon Taylor, three-time GB Olympian who won silver in Athens 2004. Post-retirement Leon has explored and written a book on mentoring called "MENTOR - The most important role you were never trained for" and recently gave a brilliant TEDx talk on movement and mental health. We touched on all of this in our chat and also explored the fine line between winning and athlete welfare. Apologies for the sound quality we had a little difficulty with our mic. This said Leon's fascin...

Aug 22, 2018•32 min

#6 Nicky Ball, Residences Welfare and Conduct Manager at King's College London

In this episode we spoke to Nicky Ball, Residences Welfare and Conduct Manager at King's College London. Alongside this Nicky is a Mental Health First Aid Instructor.It was really great to speak to Nicky and see how her, Mental Health First Aid England and King's College London residences are improving students experiences and mental health care.If you enjoy this podcast please subscribe, rate us and give us some feedback on iTunes!You can find more about Nicky, King's residences and Mental Heal...

Aug 10, 2018•24 min

#5 Dr Danny Penman, Bestselling Author of Finding Peace in a Frantic World

This week we spoke to Dr Danny Penman. For Harry, this was quite a poignant interview as in his first session with his pschologist he was given a book called Finding peace in a Frantic World by Danny, which he credits as helping change his life and alter ingrained negative habits. Since then he has also read Mindfulness for Health and the Art of Breathing which are equally fascinating and helpful- with Mindfulness for health receiving recognition as the best book in popular medicine by the Briti...

Jul 26, 2018•37 min

#4 Helen Undy, Money and Mental Health

In this weeks episode of the Mental Health Pod we spoke to Helen Undy from the Money and Mental Health Policy Institution. As Helen explains there is an often overlooked impact of those with mental health issues struggling with their finances and vica versa with research suggesting people with Mental Health issues being 3x as likely to have money problems. The Money and Mental Health Policy Institution was set up to break this link between financial difficulty and mental health problems. They ac...

Jun 27, 2018•27 min

#3 Jaimal Yogis, Surfer, Author and Meditation Teacher

Jaimal Yogis is a longtime surfer, meditation teacher and author of 'Saltwater Buddha' and a new book 'All Our Waves Are Water'. We spoke about a whole range of stuff including running away to Maui at 16, joining a monastery and almost ordaining as a Zen monk, and the power of water and sports for mental health.To find more about Jaimal:Visit his website - http://www.jaimalyogis.com/Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/jaimal.yogisTwitter- https://twitter.com/jaimalyogisInstagram- https://www.inst...

Jun 20, 2018•45 min

#2 Johnny Mercer MP, Talking Mental Health in Parliament and Veterans

"There is a reason why the World Health Organisation still ranks OCD as the fifth most debilitating illness in the world"Amazing to share this podcast episode which features Johnny Mercer MP. Johnny is an MP for Plymouth Moor View and a former Captain in the British Army. He has also suffered from OCD and witnessed the struggles of army veterans. Therefore, on retirement from the army Johnny campaigned to become an MP and was elected in 2015. In his maiden speech in the House of Commons he descr...

Jun 05, 2018•23 min

#1: Josh Blackburn, Using Male Grooming to Create a Mental Health Community

Josh Blackburn is co-founder of the male grooming company Regal Gentleman. Here he discusses how they are creating a community of men and using this community to encourage discussion around mental health. We also spoke about his own issues and how he combats them. More about Josh:https://regalgentleman.comhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx_Couu5K05uXzUOTw3hLIghttps://twitter.com/RegalGentlemanhttps://www.instagram.com/regalgentleman/?hl=undefinedhttps://www.facebook.com/regalgentleman/Thanks to...

May 25, 2018•27 min

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