In this episode of the get clarity podcast, you’re going to hear a keynote speech I gave at the Resilient Young Minds conference recently. The conference was attended by Teachers, school leaders, Youth Workers, Charity workers, Coaches, Parents, Business owners and a number of young people who joined us. The conference set out to demonstrate that young people:
- Are not broken
- Do not need to be 'fixed'
- Have resilience, resourcefulness and wellbeing inbuilt
 
Of course, this doesn't just apply to young people - it applies to all of us. I was joined by many friends and colleagues, and it was really heartening to see how many young people and people who support young people are being moved by this understanding.
 
My team and I believe the most valuable thing a person can discover is the truth of who they really are, so this conference was a great opportunity for us to take a next step towards our vision: to inspire and educate a generation to experience lives of clarity, resilience and wellbeing.
 
In the weeks and months ahead, my team and I are going to be announcing new products and programmes that are fully aligned with this vision.
 
 In the meantime, thank-you for sharing this journey with me, and I hope you enjoy this brief talk.

In this episode of the get clarity podcast, I’m going to be speaking with my friend and colleague, Dr Bill Pettit, so just a couple of things before we get to that.

You may already be aware that my team and I have been clarifying our message about who we are as a company and what we’re doing in the world. This is already having an impact on how we’re spending our time. And one of the things we’ve been looking at is the whole domain of mission, vision and purpose. There’s something my team and I passionately believe to be true, and it’s this:

We believe the most valuable thing a person can discover is the truth of who they really are.
 
We also know that there’s incredible value in understanding how your mind works, and so that’s going to be an integral part of how we make progress towards our vision, which is this:
 
To inspire and educate a generation to experience lives of clarity, resilience and wellbeing. 
 
I’m going to be giving you more of the specifics around this as they emerge, but the conversation you’re about to hear is a step towards that vision, because Dr Pettit has seen first hand in many thousands of cases just what a huge impact this understanding can have in a person’s life, you see: Bill’s a board-certified psychiatrist, and he’s shared the principles behind clarity with people who have very severe clinical diagnoses, often with seemingly miraculous results. So much so, that I went out to my tribe before doing this interview, and got people to submit their question for me to discuss with Bill, so we covered topics as diverse as schizophrenia, depression, panic attacks, stress and anxiety, and even psychedelics. 
 
Our conversation ran for nearly two hours, and this is one you may want to listen to more than once because there’s so much in it.

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In this episode, you’re going to hear a coaching session that’s going to be particularly relevant to a lot of people in light of this week’s mid-term elections in the USA, because the client, Kathleen, is feeling frightened and anxious about the social, economic and political climate. At one point in the conversation, you’ll hear me ask what may strike you as a strange and bizarre question: Are you open to the possibility that your feelings don’t know who’s president?

As you’ll hear when you listen to the session, Kathleen gets insights into where her experience comes from, and who she really is. This session was taken from a Clarity Community call, and this is a session I do once a month where all my clients, past and present, are invited to a group coaching session. Kathleen’s session was at the start of the community call, so in the final 8 minutes of this episode, I check back in with her. She shares her insights and realisations from the coaching session, and as you’ll hear, things have really shifted.