Welcome to the grand finale of Season 3 on The Unbroken Podcast! Throughout this season, we've delved deep into the realm of character virtues and strengths, exploring the stories of inspiring individuals who embody these qualities. Today, we wrap it all up by introducing the concept of "magnificence." Magnificence, derived from the Latin "magnum facere," meaning "to do something great," is our beacon. It represents the pursuit of greatness, not in a grandiose or self-centred way, but in a manne...
Oct 04, 2023•14 min•Season 3Ep. 10
In this episode of The Unbroken Podcast, we embark on a journey of self-discovery and healing with a very special guest, Sophia. As a play therapist and founder of Clear Sky Children's Charity, Sophia has dedicated her life to helping others, especially children, navigate the complexities of trauma. However, she soon realises that her own narrative, shaped by the loss of her mother at a young age, needs a profound transformation. Sophia's story is a testament to the power of resilience and self-...
Oct 04, 2023•57 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Get ready for an out-of-this-world journey in this episode of "The Unbroken Podcast"! We're diving deep into the cosmos and the concept of transcendence. What's transcendence, you ask? It's all about finding beauty, feeling awe, being grateful, staying optimistic, and yes, even finding humour in life's curveballs. It's about realising our special spot in the grand cosmic picture. Our cosmic guide for this episode is none other than Dave Woods, a starstruck astronomer and engineering wizard. He's...
Oct 04, 2023•56 min•Season 3Ep. 8
In this thought-provoking episode of the Unbroken podcast, join host Rachel as she engages in a candid conversation with Dr. Jennifer Smith, a seasoned microbiologist and epidemiologist. Together, they explore the multifaceted concept of wisdom, touching on creativity, curiosity, judgement, love of learning, and considering various perspectives. Dr. Smith's expertise in viruses and public health offers unique insights into the challenges faced during the pandemic. They discuss the importance of ...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Tired of all the fear and division in today's world? Charles, Dr Rachel’s awesome guest for this episode of The Unbroken Podcast, shares his journey of breaking free from the media's fear-mongering and how it changed his life. In this chat, they get into the nitty-gritty of forgiveness and empathy. Charles urges us to drop those grudges, ditch the need to force our opinions on others, and find common ground. It's time to heal those divides! But what about self-control, especially with tech addic...
Oct 04, 2023•41 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Welcome to another authentic and unfiltered episode of The Unbroken Podcast, where real conversations happen without scripts or edits. In episode five of season three, we're diving deep into the exciting world of discovering your strengths! We get it, folks. Life can sometimes feel like a barrage of negativity. Illness, pandemics, you name it. But in this episode, Dr Rachel is shifting the focus to something brighter—our strengths. Those are the qualities, skills, and talents that make each of u...
Oct 04, 2023•14 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Dive into an eye-opening podcast episode where Dr. Rachel and her guest, Sephira, get real about leadership, justice, and fairness. This isn't your typical talk—it's a passionate exploration of what it truly means to be a leader committed to making the world a fairer place, even when the odds seem stacked against you. Sephira, on a mission to create positive change, spills the beans on the highs and lows of leadership. From feeling like a lone wolf to summoning the motivation to drive change, th...
Oct 04, 2023•43 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Get ready for an enlightening and heartfelt episode of the Unbroken Podcast! We're diving deep into the world of childbirth, empathy, and the power of love. Dr. Rachel Taylor chats candidly with Ninette, a devoted midwife, about nurturing mothers during childbirth. You'll discover the significance of nurturing environments and why trust and empathy are the secret ingredients to a positive birthing experience. We'll also shine a light on how medicalisation has impacted childbirth, eroding trust i...
Oct 04, 2023•42 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Get ready to soar through the skies in our latest podcast episode, "Courage in the Skies: The Life of a Pilot," hosted by the amazing Dr. Rachel Taylor on the Unbroken Podcast. We're taking you on a thrilling journey into the world of aviation, and trust us, you won't want to miss this! Ever dreamt of becoming a pilot and experiencing the thrill of flying? Well, you're not alone! Many of us have been captivated by the idea of taking to the skies. But let's be real; the road to becoming a pilot i...
Oct 04, 2023•49 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In the first episode of Season Three of the "Unbroken Podcast," Dr Rachel embarks on a quest to explore the positive aspects of humanity in a world often overshadowed by negativity. This season promises to celebrate the goodness and greatness within us all. Dr Rachel draws inspiration from the field of positive psychology and emphasises the importance of appreciating oneself as a foundation for gratitude and self-improvement. The episode delves into various topics, including the power of neuropl...
Oct 04, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Welcome to The Unbroken Podcast Season 3! We're back with more authentic, one-take conversations between Dr Rachel Taylor and her guests for the season. In this season, we're diving deep into the bright side of humanity. Amidst all the doom and gloom in the world, we're here to showcase the best of us. The focus? Positivity, pure and simple. We're bringing you incredible interviews and insights from people who do extraordinary things every day. Humanity has its moments, both good and bad, but we...
Oct 04, 2023•3 min
The UnBroken Podcast is a call to action to create a different direction, dialogue, and narrative for your life. In this episode, Dr Rachel Taylor discusses how we can control greed in our society and combat the cost of living crisis, sponsored by A Podcast Company. Greed in itself is not just a negative behaviour, it is something that has developed from a time when resources that we needed to survive were scarce. This episode looks at why it is important to balance greed and how we can do that....
Oct 03, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 11
The UnBroken Podcast is a call to action to create a different direction, dialogue, and narrative for your life. Dr Rachel Taylor discusses what our children need in order to thrive and how to combat the mental health pandemic in children in this episode, sponsored by A Podcast Company. It’s not difficult to give children what they need, as long as the adults who care for the children have the capacity to meet these needs in the right way. This episode looks at whether we are empowering parents ...
Sep 26, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 10
The UnBroken Podcast is a call to action to create a different direction, dialogue, and narrative for your life. Dr Rachel Taylor discusses neuroarchitecture, and how manipulating our environment helps us build better brains. That’s coming up in this episode, sponsored by A Podcast Company. Neuroarchitecture combines neuroscience and architecture, and deals with how the built environment either supports or detracts from a person’s experience. The environment can either stimulate the brain and ma...
Sep 19, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 9
The UnBroken Podcast is a call to action to create a different direction, dialogue, and narrative for your life. Dr Rachel Taylor explores the power of storytelling and the importance of controlling your narrative in this episode, sponsored by A Podcast Company. We use stories to construct realities and illusions, convey meanings, and help ourselves make sense of what’s going on in our lives. We also use them to gain a sense of belonging, Dr Rachel shares. From a neuroscientific lens, when we id...
Sep 12, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 8
The UnBroken Podcast is a call to action to create a different direction, dialogue, and narrative for your life. Dr Rachel Taylor discusses childhood adversity and how the ways children adapt to adversity follow them to adulthood. That’s coming up in this episode, sponsored by A Podcast Company. Childhood adversity is defined as any negative experience that requires the average child to adapt significantly. Although adversity can be good for us in many ways, a child should not have to learn how ...
Sep 05, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 7
The UnBroken Podcast is a call to action to create a different direction, dialogue, and narrative for your life. Dr Rachel Taylor explains willpower, why we have it, and how to get more in this episode, sponsored by A Podcast Company. Psychologically speaking, willpower is the ability to delay gratification, which is a challenge in this present-day society that encourages us to do the opposite. Willpower allows you to override unwanted thoughts, feelings, and impulses - it is the constant effort...
Aug 29, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Dr Rachel Taylor explores the topics of self-responsibility, self-accountability, and self-ownership, in this episode sponsored by A Podcast Company. Our behaviors can be broken down into five pillars, according to Dr Rachel: fairness, honesty, courage, respect, and responsibility. How do you fare in each area? How do you feel about the need for equitable collaborations? Do you like seeing the truth? Do you have heart? What do you do when you feel disrespected? What are you responsible for? Buil...
Aug 22, 2022•42 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Dr Rachel Taylor discusses how to manage anxiety, in this episode, sponsored by A Podcast Company. Pre-pandemic, anxiety was the second most commonly reported mental health condition in the world, with over 20% of people globally reporting that it had a significant effect in their lives. Now, that number has risen to 29%. Contrary to popular belief, anxiety is not a mental disorder or illness, Dr Rachel claims - it is an evolutionary benefit that serves as an alarm system to potential threats in...
Aug 15, 2022•23 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Dr Rachel Taylor shares sleep tips for living your best life, in this episode, sponsored by A Podcast Company. Though we all have different needs and preferences when it comes to how much sleep we need and the best times to go to bed, there are general golden rules we should consider to get good sleep. One such rule is that the body gets its most optimal rest when we go to sleep between the hours of 10 PM and 2 AM. This happens because the sleep time is aligned with the body’s natural hormone se...
Aug 08, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Dr Rachel Taylor explores the functions of the prefrontal cortex, in this episode, sponsored by A Podcast Company. The neocortex is the most recent addition to the human brain, being the last part of it to evolve. It is what differentiates us from other animals, and gives us the ability to use logic and not just react. Understanding the functions of the prefrontal cortex, which is a part of the neocortex, can help us unlearn conditioned emotional responses. Emotional regulation is a necessary to...
Aug 01, 2022•32 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Dr. Rachel debunks misconceptions about anxiety, and discusses why you should view it as a friend, in this episode sponsored by A Podcast Company. The anxiety that everyone has is an evolutionary benefit, warning us of potential threats within our environment. It is a future-focused feeling that we need to keep ourselves safe. When we are in an environment that constantly reminds us it can harm us, our anxiety levels naturally rise. Rather than a mental health condition, anxiety is a nervous sys...
Jul 25, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 1
The UnBroken Podcast is about building the UnBroken Tribe - a whole community that celebrates its humanness, its humanity and its authenticity, to help us understand why we are the way we are and how we can become who we really want to be. This season Dr Rachel is doing something slightly different. Dr Rachel has been encouraging everybody on her mailing list to submit questions they've got on their mind about something that is bothering them, something that they've always wanted to know or some...
Jul 18, 2022•4 min
Summary: Enlightenment comes from examining with the benefit of hindsight. A celebration of who we all are and where we all come from. Why choosing to be seen not to be hidden is an act of courage and conviction. Recollections may vary; however the body never lies. In this candid final episode of season 1, Dr Rachel speaks about her greatest fears, why it is important to voice them, how we can all empower ourselves through fear, and why ‘Stuart: A Life Backwards’ is probably one of the most thou...
Jan 11, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Why smiles, joy and laughter are the best medicine, role models and exemplars in life. In this episode Dr Rachel does a Q & A with Hanna, where they talk about how finding joy is an antidote to fear and Scotland evokes the greatest imagery of how nature heals. This episode provides a great reminder of the importance of smiling and the mirror neuron system, and how we can change our brain structure by spending time with certain people. We all need the joyful in our lives and this episode expl...
Jan 04, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Give peace a chance - still and more relevant in 2022. How seeking peace can be the foundation of huge shifts in wellness and wellbeing. An absolutely, appropriately glamorous look at how we produce, why we produce and what could be possible if we all peacefully produced. A fabulous conversation between Dr. Rachel and Andrew which is made even more amazing because of its very real and very descriptive language. A viewpoint of authenticity and why we all are still hooked onto formulaic plastic fr...
Dec 28, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Dr Rachel talks about her observations on why the environment is encouraging a lack of critical thought and encouraging more stupidity. In this episode, listen to a considered argument on why there is a pandemic of stupid right now, why many are full of fear and anxiety for the wrong reason and what everyone really should be fearful of. A trip around fear, uncertainty and doubt plus why we all need to realise what is a marketing campaign and what is the truth. Key Insights From This Episode: I s...
Dec 21, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 8
It is not ok to not be ok. Remember that. Mental Health recovery is a lifelong endeavour and the moment we think it ok to not be ok then we are not focusing on what matters in mental health. This episode celebrates mental health recovery and has a truly awesome insight. Join Dr Rachel for this Q&A to discover why recovery in mental health matters. This episode gives some truly awesome moments of insight into what works in mental health recovery, as well as claiming ownership and intellectual...
Dec 14, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Join us for an entertaining and enlightening tour of what has been the most enlightening parts of the process for those amazing people striving to be (UN)Broken, living their lives authentically, magnificently and totally unapologetically. Starting with some tips of what collectively have helped the (UN)Broken tribe members the most in their unique, individual and bespoke journeys of awareness, acceptance and amazement. It is a common trait when feeling broken to feel that we are not as human as...
Dec 07, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 6
This episode is dedicated to all the ‘differents’ in life, wherever they may be. The world needs different for innovation and creation, discover what has worked for one man who discovered is difference makes a huge difference. This episode features a Q and A exploring all things wonderful and neurodiverse with Kofi Ayivor. Being different is hard enough but being neurodiverse in a neurotypical world is another level of difficulty. Listen to how you can find what works for Kofi and could be usefu...
Nov 30, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 5
