Podcast Roundup

In a brand new feature for 2022 we'll be reviewing the latest health and wellbeing podcasts. Focusing on a different subject each quarter, we'll give you an insight into the best podcasts that you should be adding to your list!

This quarter we are focusing on Resolutions to help you get the most out of your year. Whether it's small tweaks or a big change, these episodes will get you on the right track.

Seven Steps to Manifesting Results in 2022: On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Jay Shetty knows how setting a resolution can feel like you are putting yourself under pressure, but tells us that we need to change the approach to our resolutions to make them stick. Understanding our input will ultimately help us with the output. Shetty offers seven steps to help us with our resolutions and they are easy to digest:

  1. Intention - know why you are doing something and deeply connect to it
  2. Monitor - track your results obsessively, don’t just measure the data
  3. Go through the stages of change: Theoretical, Meaningful, Practical, Applicable
  4. Efficiency vs Effectiveness - be effective
  5. Stop overthinking – get the ratio right between thinking and doing
  6. Growth vs Goals – the growing gets you the goals
  7. The three ‘Ls’ – learn something, launch something, love something

The takeaway message? Understanding why we want something is really the most important part.

The Mindset Mentor: Planning Out Your New Year Resolutions

This podcast is designed for anyone who is in need of motivation, a direction or a focus in life by blending neurology, psychology, early childhood development and cognitive behavioural therapy to understand how brain and body work together to succeed. In this episode on resolutions, presenter Rob Dial discusses nine categories to work with when setting yourself New Year resolutions, including career, finances, relationships and adventure. Rob strongly encourages the listener to remove the idea of “being realistic” and “act like a 4 year old, where anything is possible”. For each category, the podcast recommends setting ten goals that you want to achieve, but in order for them to be effective they must be specific. For example avoid a resolution such as earning more money - be clear and write down the salary you want to achieve by the end of the year. It is highly recommended that you have fun with setting resolutions, don’t limit yourself and be prepared to step outside your comfort zone, as Rob Dial concludes this podcast, the greatest investment anyone can make is in themselves.

Russell Kane’s Man Baggage: Do Men Stick to New Year’s Resolutions More Than Women?

In this significantly more adult podcast, the British comedian Russell Kane discusses whether the male and female approach to resolutions is different and the way that the pressure to stick to certain resolutions has changed over time to becoming more of an equal pressure on both genders. Fellow comedian Kojo Anim and food critic Grace Dent talk about whether dating people who stick to their resolutions makes them more attractive, and if people use the new year as a clean break for relationships that aren’t working anymore. The presenters also debate if it’s healthy to create strict rules for yourselves based and if it’s realistic to follow advice from celebrities pushing certain diets who are likely being paid for promotions by supplement companies.