The Curiosity Club Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The podcast re-schooling you in the things that matter.
Certified Life Coach and founder of The Curiosity Club, Catri Barrett, is joined by special guests to have the conversations needed to remove the shame, stigma and feel less alone in the experiences that we all have in common.
Catri asks the awkward and important questions so you don’t have to around topics like mental health, sex, relationships, work, money and a whole lot more.
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For the season 3 finale, The Curiosity Club founder and Certified Life Coach Catri Barrett, reflects on why it is important to understand yourself and the negative impacts of when you lack self-awareness. Catri guides you through the 5 steps to unshakeable self-understanding that she uses with her life coaching clients.
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In this episode, Catri talks about:
- The importance of knowing yourself and how to get started: how you feel, what you believe, your strengths, your weaknesses
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What to do when you feel dissatisfied, frustrated or unfulfilled in your work, relationships or other areas of your life
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How a lack of self-awareness can keep you stuck and lead to self-sabotage and how you can recognise this within yourself
- The practical 5 steps that you can move through to get to know yourself
- How to self-coach yourself out of unhelpful patterns of thinking, habits, or feelings
- Knowing and harnessing your strengths whilst accepting and letting go of your limitations and flaws
- 5 ways to get to know who you really are, what you want, feel, think and believe.
- Using self-understanding to improve your relationships
- How to get to know the different versions of yourself at different stages of your life to help you navigate change
- Powerful questions you can ask yourself to discover the beliefs you hold.
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In episode 7 of season 3, journalist and editor, Beth Ashley, is turning the mic on podcast host, founder of The Curiosity Club and Certified Life Coach, Catri Barrett for the first time to ask her what she wishes she'd learnt in school.
In this episode, Catri and Beth talk about:
• The curriculum of life lessons that Catri believes would make the world a better place if we had only been taught it in school and how this prompted her to start The Curiosity Club
- Navigating grief loss and change, and how anxiety caused Catri to have intrusive thoughts about losing the people she loved
- The fear surrounding death in British and Western culture and why it would help us all to change our view on it
- The link between your thoughts and emotions and how to take them less personally
- The negative impacts of shame, how it manifests in people and how Brene Brown’s Ted Talk can help you let go of it
- The impact of childhood trauma on us as adults and the importance of resolving it
- How Catri had an identity crisis as a teenager that triggered a mental health crisis and caused her to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol
- The importance of prevention and not waiting until things are broken to fix them
- Unpacking why emotional intelligence is as import as Mental Intelligence and IQ
- How to stop fixating on things that have happened in the past and let go of anger and resentment
- Learning to better show up for yourself and how that can have a positive impact on the world
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In S3E6, certified Life Coach and founder of The Curiosity Club, Catri Barrett, sits down with Charlotte Moore, a Manchester-based journalist and poet, usually found writing about mental health, sex and LGBTQ+ issues.
In this episode, Catri and Charlotte speak about:
- Using writing as a form of self-discovery and how it all started for her writing fan fiction
- The downfalls of how we’re taught poetry and literature at school and what a more empowering curriculum might look like
- Charlotte shares her tips for aspiring writers and journalists
- The failings of sex education, especially for the LGBTQ community
- Personal finance: what would’ve been useful for us to be taught in school, and Charlotte shares her experience of getting into debt with payday loans and the impact this had on her
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In S3E5, Catri Barrett speaks to writer, speaker, content creator, LGBTQIA advocate, and soon to be author, Ben Pechey about their experience of navigating school in the 00’s and carving out their own route to success; going from an E in english to becoming a (soon-to-be) published author.
In this episode, Catri and Ben talk about:
- What it meant to go to school in the 90’s and 00’s and the lessons they both learnt (some the hard way from bully’s and the ‘frigid test’)
- Ben’s experience and challenges with feeling forced to fit into the stereotypical boxes of gender and feeling like a failure when they felt like they didn’t fit anywhere.
- Ben’s struggle with dyslexia and their journey from getting an E in english to getting an A and becoming a writer with a book deal
- How you can find freedom from the pressure of ‘shoulds’ put on you by society
- How to carve your unique route to success
- The importance of lifelong learning and self-discovery
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In S3E4, Catri Barrett speaks with one of the UK’s leading Consultant Dermatologists and author of the bestselling book, The Skincare Bible, Dr Anjali Mahto, about all things skincare, beauty and self-esteem.
In this episode, Catri and Anjali explore:
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The link between skin, mental wellbeing, and confidence, and how we form a sense of identity through our skin
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Anjali shares her experience with acne and scarring in the past, the effect it had on her mental health, and what she learnt from going to therapy
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Aesthetics and injectables like fillers and botox - the pros and the cons, when they’re appropriate and not, how to find the best person for the procedure
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The problematic use of Instagram filters
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How a dermatologist can help you and ways to support yourself or a loved one who is struggling with a skin condition like acne, eczema or rosacea
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What you can do to start disentangling your self-esteem from aesthetics and your skin
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Anjali debunks some of the biggest skincare myths when it comes - discover what products are worth the money and the 3 necessities that you must have in your skincare routine
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In S3E3, Catri Barrett is in conversation with registered nutritionist, Le’Nise Brothers. Le’Nise specialises in womens health, hormones and the menstrual cycle, she’s also a yoga teacher and hosts the Period Story podcast.
Catri and Le'Nise spoke about:
• What we should’ve learned in school about our cycle, hormones and period
• How hormones affect your creativity, energy levels and personality
• Why your cycle shouldn’t be centred around your period
• Understanding the different phases of the menstrual cycle as seasons, what this means and how to harness the positive effects
• Releasing period shame for future generations
• How Le'Nise helps women with hormonal issues ranging from PMS, PCOS, endometriosis, period issues, perimenopause and more.
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In S3 Ep 2, Catri Barrett speaks to Becky Young, founder and director of the Anti Diet Riot Club; a rebel community fighting body shame, fat phobia and diet culture.
Catri and Becky explore:
• Becky’s journey with body image struggles that led her to create the Anti Diet Riot Club
• The problem with finding a sense of identify with the way that you look that is so rewarded in our society
• Diet culture: the historical origins and how it has evolved from the heroine chic to the trends of today
• The problematic purification of food and labelling what you eat as ‘good and bad’
• Changing your mindset: How to separate your sense of self-worth and happiness from your appearance
• The life lessons Becky wishes she'd learnt at school: how to fail, accept mistakes and to challenge the media you consume
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Founder of The Curiosity Club, Catri Barrett, is kicking off season 3 by speaking to multidisciplinary creative, founder of activist platform @_reeducate, and lead creative at The Restless Network, Tide Adesanya.
Episode talking points:
- How Tide never felt like she belonged growing up, the impact this had on her confidence and mental wellbeing
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Tide’s journey of self-discovery through fashion, experimentation, and her creative processes
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Tide shares insights she’s learnt about herself that have helped navigate anxiety and mental health challenges, along with the processes that have helped develop her confidence and resilience
- The pinnacle moments that helped Tide become the successful creative she is today
- The importance of joy and how to bring it into your everyday life
- The confidence that can be gained from stepping out of your comfort zone and how to do it more often
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The lessons Tide wishes she had been taught in school:
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The practicalities of being a freelancer; how to network and manage your accounts and finances
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The diverse range of possibilities within the creative industry and how to access them
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In the season 2 finale, Curiosity Club founder, Life Coach and Mindset Expert Catri Barrett explores mental self-care: All the ways you can support your mental wellbeing and prevent mental health problems from getting worse or, in some cases, even occurring in the first place.
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Catri Explores:
• The different types of self-care: Social, physical, mental, emotional, and financial etc.
• Potential barriers of engaging with practices that can protect and enhance your wellbeing
• What is mental self-care?
• Understanding your unique mental health
• How to work on your mental hygiene and habits using:
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Thoughtwork: What thoughts nurture your wellbeing and which don’t? Believe them less. Know that just because you think something doesn’t make it true.
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Becoming more future focused instead of stuck ruminating in the past
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Quitting comparison
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Practicing gratitude
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Practice mental flexibility with problem solving and shifting perspectives
• How self-care can improve your self-esteem and confidence by affirming your self-worth
• The importance of focusing on your strengths and practicing self-compassion
• How to use journalling to support your mental wellbeing
• Nurturing your community to strengthen your connections by finding people who make you feel most comfortable, most valued, and help you see different perspectives.
• Emotional self-care: Acknowledge uncomfortable emotions and allow yourself to to express your feelings on a regular basis to develop resilience and coping skills.
• Taking care of your physical healh: Sleep, Regular exercise, Nourishing meals, Gut health etc.
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In S2E9, Catri Barrett speaks to host of the Vulnerable podcast, Allysa Rochelle. She is also the founder of TING, a consultancy that works to create safe spaces for marginalised people within the workplace and offers personal and professional development programmes to young Black future leaders.
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Talking points in this episode:
- How courage, vulnerability and anti-racism work intersect and influence one another
- What it means to be courageous and how taking personal responsibility for your life can enable you to heal from anything you’ve experienced
- Way’s you might be spiritually bypassing yourself and how to stop
- The importance of white people releasing shame before stepping into anti-racism work so that you don’t get stuck in guilt
- The problem with refusing to acknowledge race or refer to your own, or others, skin colour and why it’s important to understand and use terminology like white supremacy, privilege and intersectionality
- Releasing shame and mobilising yourself: How to step into anti-racism work and create a better future for your ancestors
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In S2E8, Catri Barrett speaks to Nutritional Therapist and Author of 'Be Good To Your Gut' and Happy Gut, Happy Mind', Eve Kalinik.
Eve draws on the science and research around the gut-brain connection alongside her clinical experience to give insight into how this bi-directional relationship works, and the diet and lifestyle steps that can support this connection. She writes her regular column PSYCHOLOGIES magazine called HAPPY GUT, and hosts masterclasses with THE GUARDIAN.
In this episode Catri and Eve explore:
• Functional Medicine: Addressing underlying courses and triggers for an individual instead of just the symptoms
• The relationship between gut health and the other systems of our body
• How our gut health can affect our overall health and wellbeing
• The role our gut health has in our immune system, managing inflammation and in producing neurotransmitters
• The function of the vagus nerve and why it's important
• What is the gut/brain connection, why it's important and how our gut communicates with our brain
• Psychobiotics and how new studies are exploring the ways gut microbiome and the types of neurotransmitters they produce could have a role in supporting some types of therapy for people with mood disorders
• What can challenge our gut health: our lifestyles, quality in our soil, overuse in medications - antibiotics and anti-inflammatories - stress, digital stimulation switching our minds on constantly, sleep etc.
• How you can use your daily 'movements' and no.2's to check-in on your gut health
• Way's to support your gut health for a happy gut, happy mind.
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In S2E7, Catri Barrett speaks to self-harm expert and educator, Satveer Nijjar. Satveer is the founder of Attention Seekers, which offers bespoke self-harm awareness training to schools, workplaces and institutions.
In this open, raw and educational episode, Catri and Satveer explore...
- The different definitions of self-harm and what it means to self-injure and self-poison
- Triggers of self-harm: emotional distress and struggling
- Risk taking behaviours: how sexual and criminal risk taking and sabotaging relationships can be intentionally harmful to oneself.
- Spotting potential early signs
- How to best support and speak to someone who is self-harming even if you don’t understand
- Ways to remove the stigma and taboo that is fed by fear and a lack of understanding
- Potential barriers that prevent someone from engaging with support and treatment ways to overcome this
- Unhelpful language and phrases that should be avoided when talk to someone, or about, self-harm and better alternatives.
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If you’re struggling, there are many resources, apps and websites that you can reach out to for support…
- Hub of Hope App
- Campaign Against Living Miserably
- NHS / PHE One You
- Text Crisis messenger service SHOUT.
- CALM HARM App
- Stay Alive app
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In S2E6, Catri Barrett speaks to co-dependancy expert Jo Westwood. Jo is a life coach who specialises in helping women to escape the soul destroying cycle of codependency, reclaim their lives with confidence and live Lovingly Fierce. She is an author, speaker and creator of the online codependency recovery course, also called Lovingly Fierce.
In this episode Catri and Jo explore...
• What it means to be co-dependant and how you can recognised the signs and symptoms in your romantic, professional and family relationships
• The impact that co-dependancy can have on your mental health and emotional wellbeing
• Co-dependant behaviours and the need for external validation
• Dysfunctional relationships and why they are often co-dependant
• Co-dependancy as an addiction, the recovery process and attending co-dependant anonymous meetings
• The impact lockdown has had on co-dependants
• Manipulating kindness: what it means to give without expectations of anything in return
• How you can recover from co-dependancy and Jo’s process to building healthier, happier relationships with yourself and others.
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In S2E5 Catri Barrett speaks to Behavioural Change Specialist, speaker and author, Shahroo Izadi. Shahroo's experience working in the addiction treatment field led her to dedicate her work to highlighting what those in long-term recovery from substance misuse can teach the general population about motivation, self-compassion and self-awareness. She has written two books, The Kindness Method and The Last Diet.
In this episode Catri and Shahroo explore...
• Why it can be so hard to change our habits and behaviours, what we need to know and how we can actually maintain motivation to make long term, positive progress.
• Lessons from addiction: How we need to change our perceptions of addiction, managing everyday addictions like shopping, gaming and social media, and what each of us can learn from the recovery process.
• Self-Kindness and practical ways of being more compassionate to yourself
• How to navigate lapses and relapses when we’re trying to make a change to our life
• Myths and misconceptions around habits and making changes
• Coping strategies and what to do when they are taken away, such as in during lockdown.
• Self-talk and the impact this can have on whether we effectively change our behaviours or not
• The importance of motivation and how to find it for yourself
• The steps to changing your habits and behaviours long-term. In particular, changing habits around food, eating, and binge drinking and alcohol.
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In S2E4 Catri Barrett speaks to climate activist and founder of Force of Nature, Clover Hogan, and Climate Psychologist and counsellor Caroline Hickman about how we can navigate eco-anxiety and turn our fear and despair into radical hope to become more resilient in the face of the climate crisis.
Clover is a 21yo climate activist, researcher on eco-anxiety, and the founder of Force of Nature - a youth-led organisation empowering her generation to step up, rather than shut down, in the face of our planet’s messiest problems.
Caroline is a psychologist, counsellor and researcher specialising in climate psychology. Through her research at the University of Bath and her work with the Climate Psychology Alliance, Caroline brings a psychotherapeutic understanding to the climate and biodiversity emergency. Caroline also hosts the Climate Crisis Conversations podcast series entitled ‘Catastrophe or transformation’.
They spoke about...
• What lessons can we draw from the Coronavirus pandemic when facing the climate crisis.
• What is eco-anxiety and how you can help yourself if you're struggling. How to process and navigate feelings of fear, anger, despair, hopelessness and grief when it comes to the climate emergency and the future of our planet.
• What we need to understand about ourselves as flawed individuals and as humans in order to be more compassionate and better show up to the planet and others.
• How we can become more robust and resilient to the uncertainty and challenges of the future.
• What it means to become an internal and external activist.
• How you can shift your relationship with fear and anxiety and channel it into agency and positive action.
• What we can do in order to remain radically hopeful in the face of the climate crisis and during difficult times.
•Recognising the unconscious patterns and broken systems that have caused us to get to this point within society and what are better alternatives moving forward.
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S2E3: In this episode, Catri Barrett speaks with Confidence Coach and founder of Confident and Killing It, Tiwalola Ogunlesi. Tiwa specialises in using Positive Psychology to help wake women up to their worth so they can be confident, unstoppable and dare to live the life they truly desire.
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The connection between confidence and mental/emotional health.
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What is positive psychology and how to practice it to help nurture your strengths and happiness enabling you to become more satisfied and fulfilled in life.
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Ways you can wake up to your own self-worth and start taking action towards your dream.
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Catri shares her journey of improving the debilitating lack of confidence that used to feed her anxiety, procrastination and unhealthy relationships.
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Imposter syndrome and how you can overcome self-doubt at work, in your relationships and all areas of your life.
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S2E2: Catri Barrett speaks to psychotherapist and author, Julia Samuel MBE. As one of the UK’s leading psychotherapists, Julia helped launch and establish the charity Child Bereavement UK and was awarded an MBE in recognition of her services to bereaved children, as well as an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University.
In this episode, we speak about...
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Healthy grieving and what you can do if you're struggling right now after the loss of a loved one or experiencing a crisis or change.
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Living loss: How we can all experience grief during times of change at any point in life such as losing a job, moving house, becoming a parent, aging or during a pandemic.
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How the pandemic has bought up the reality of our mortality a lot more up close and personal and what this means for us all moving forward.
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Julia shares her 8 pillars to help you feel more steady and become more resilient and better adapt to and navigate change.
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Julia unpacks the biggest misconceptions that surround grief around 'getting over it', healing with time, forgetting and moving on.
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The importance of talking about death and loss. How the Victorians did grief well but sex badly in comparison to nowadays where we talk about sex a lot but are very bad at talking about death.
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To kick off season two of the Curiosity Club podcast Catri Barrett is talking with Sima Kumar, the CEO of diversity and inclusion company The Other Box, a consultant, coach and certified yoga therapist.
This episode is called 'truth talks' for a reason; it’s all about the importance of confronting the hidden, darker areas of ourselves if we want to improve our emotional and mental wellbeing.
We spoke about...
• What it really means to be human right now during the pandemic and all that’s been going on with the black lives matter movement recently
• Practising anti-racism
• How important it is that we all examine the conditioning and patterns within us all and the negative impact it can have on us and future generations if we don’t
• Why Sima deviated from mainstream yoga
• The impacts that spiritual bypassing and gaslighting ourselves, and others, can have
• How you can stop caring so much about what other people think of you
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In episode 56 Catri explores what it means to give your power away through your work, relationships and circumstances. Along with what it truly means to be powerful, and how you can start cultivating it for yourself by processing your emotions, managing your mind, setting boundaries and asking yourself these important questions.
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Do you find yourself feeling like you aren't where you'd like to be in your career? Feeling discontent, numb or just indifferent about your future prospepcts? Perhaps you feel trapped in a relationship that doesn't make you feel excited?
In episode 55 Catri shares with you 7 ways that you can feel less 'stuck' and how you can begin to transform your mindset and change your life to feel happy and fulfilled.
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In episode 54 Catri talks about how re-learning about breathing helped her overcome panic attacks. She shows you how you can begin to use your breath to help you feel more energised, reduce anxiety, the symptoms of stress, and a whole lot more.
She guides you through an exercise so that you can start recognising when you have bad breathing habits and how you can start breathing more consciously to really experience the transformative benefits from inhaling and exhaling.
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In episode 53, Catri is looking back over the most downloaded episodes of the Curiosity Club over the last year - the highlight reel if you will.
The fact that tens of thousands of you have listened to episodes talking about boosting your confidence, mental health, stress and poor body image just goes to show that if you're struggling with any of these things YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
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Listen to the full episodes covered below:
How to build your confidence
Okay is fine with Emma Hoareau
Overcoming mental illness and poor body image: my story
Learn how to relax and let go of tension
How to control your emotions
It's the Curiosity Clubs first birthday and Catri's opening up about her journey to starting the podcast and how she overcame self-sabotage and fear of being vulnerable. She asks you some powerful questions to help make sure you aren't holding yourself back from starting the things that will take you closer to your goals.
To celebrate this milestone Catri would like to say a HUGE thank you for being such a wonderful community and is offering all members of the club a FREE mini online coaching session with her Tuesday 28th Jan 2020. Places are limited and are on a first come first serve basis - book your spot by reaching out here.
In episode 51 Catri sits down with the UK’s leading certified sex, pleasure and intimacy coach Sarah Rose Bright.
In their conversation, they dive into what it means to ignite your pleasure, what goal-oriented sex means and a better alternative to it, and how you too can use your sexuality to help you tap into your full potential. We also talk about confidence in the bedroom, fear and comparison, and Sarah debunks some of the biggest myths that lots of us have been misled by for much too long around sex and pleasure.
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In episode 50 Catri is in conversation with artist Lydia Reeves talking about all things vulvas. They explore everything we should’ve learned in school when it comes to the female form, body confidence and women’s empowerment.
Lydia shares her personal journey of learning to love her vulva after booking in for plastic surgery as a teenager, and why she start the Vulva Diversity project that has helped thousands of women do the same. There’s also some bumhole and pube talk FYI, because quite frankly these things need to be talked about more often.
A must-listen for all women. Share with your girlfriends, sisters, aunts, daughters, and nieces. Follow Lydia and the Vulva diversity project here.
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Happy New Decade Curiosity Clubbers! In episode 49 Catri is talking all about goals and intentions: what they are and how you can set yourself up for success and make the most out of your 2020. She guides you through her proven method for reaching your full potential and overcoming any hurdles that might stand in your way.
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Merry Christmas Curiosity Clubbers! Episode 48 is your opportunity to take some time to replenish yourself after the festivities. Catri guides you through a short relaxation exercise to help you let go of any board game arguments, food comas, and family disputes, and recharge during, and after, Christmas.
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In episode 47 Catri is in conversation with Intuitive Living Coach, author and speaker Pandora Paloma. The founder of Rooted Living dives deep into intuitive eating - how you can find a peaceful relationship with food, intuitive living - how you can live with purpose and be magnetic, and intuitive business - how to work authentically. Pandora also shares her expert tips for making the most of the upcoming new year, and decade.
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In episode 46 Catri shares with you her end of year review. We are about to head into 2020 and with it come a whole new decade! Catri talks you through a reflection and intention exercise that will help you let go of what is no longer serving you and set yourself up for the best possible start to the new year.
Download your free End Of Year Review worksheet HERE and book your free discover coaching call with Catri HERE.
In episode 45 Catri is in conversation with founder of The Styling Storey, Loulou Storey. Loulou helps women all over the world reclaim their confidence and identity by transforming the way they dress. She shares how she overcame postnatal depression, why she believes our personal development and our personal style are intrinsically linked, and how you can start styling your confidence. As well as her top tips for looking after the environment and being sustainable while doing so.
In episode 44 Catri explores why some people find it harder to make decisions than others, how indecisiveness can be a symptom for other things going on and offers you actionable tips so that you can confidently make choices from now on.
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In episode 43 Catri explores how tapping into the state of curiosity can help you find more happiness and joy within your everyday life, and guides you through a meditation to awaken the five senses that will enable you to enjoy the benefits of the five qualities of curiosity.
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Meditation music – Self-Care by Lee Rosever
In episode 42 Catri talks to the modern Career coach, Sophie Clyde Smith, about how you can find a fulfilling career, the best way to transition when you know you want to make a change, along with her top tips for working in a way that supports mental health and wellbeing.
The conversation dive deep into all aspects of modern careers, what makes them, what breaks them, and how you can go about building a way of working that fills you up, and where you can be yourself, rather than one that depletes you, and where you’re having to constantly pretend to be somebody you’re not.
Enjoy this episode and be sure to share it with a friend who could do with a little career inspiration at the moment.
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In episode 41, Catri explores why having a lack of purpose and meaning in your life can cause you to feel lost in your career, relationships, and all areas of your life. She guides you through a process that will help you define your meaning and purpose that will make you feel more fulfilled, inspired and connected.
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In episode 40, Catri is exploring the potentially life-threatening health epidemic of the 21st century that is burnout. Learn how to recognise the symptoms, and ways you can actively prevent yourself from sliding down the slippery slope of stress becoming burnout before it's too late.
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In episode 39 Catri sits down with author and campaigner Alice-May Purkiss to talk about what it’s like to have both a mental health and cancer diagnoses in your twenties, navigating survivors guilt, and ways to stop comparing yourself to other people. Alice shares her insights of how she’s worked through some extremely challenging times, both physically and mentally, and what she does to look after herself. She also tells us how she has made some lemonade from the lemons, and how we can all do the same.
You can read Alice's blog here, find her on Instagram here, and buy her book ‘Life, Lemons & Lemons’ on Amazon.
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In episode 38 Catri answers the listeners questions - explaining what exactly a life coach is, the difference between coaching and therapy, what to do when you feel 'frozen' by stress, how to stop fearing failure, and powerful questions that you can ask yourself to help you gain clarity on what you want out of your life, career and relationships.
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Episode 37 is all about checking yourself before you wreck yourself. Catri explains the process of doing a Life audit and how you can assess how far you've come, where you want to go and whats stopping you to gain the clarity necessery to prevent self-sabotage and self-actualise. Are you ready to admit your dreams and design your life?
Download your life audit worksheet here that details Catris process from the episode. Ask Catri a question or for advice here.
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In episode 36 Catri explores how you can make the most out of your hours in the day. She teaches you practical strategies you can start implementing today to help you stop feeling so busy and like you don't have enough time to do the things you want to.
Let Catri know your questions, or ask for coaching advice on something going on in your life for the Q&A episode here.
In episode 35 Catri sits down with womens life coach, and host of the Put Yourself First podcast, Kat Horrocks. Kat shares her story of becoming a life coach and how she side stepped careers by tapping into her gut instinct and intuition. She explores how to recognise the symptoms of a lack of boundaries and how you can go about setting them for yourself. Listen to find out what would happen if you put yourself first.
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In episode 34 Catri dives into practical ways to maintain equilibrium through the seasonal shifts of Autumn and the importance of working with natures transitions and discovering your own inners seasons.
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In episode 33 Catri looks at how you can recognise emotional trauma within yourself and overcome the feelings of helplessness, broken sense of security and endangerment that it brings so that it doesn't have longlasting effects on you.
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In episode 32 Catri explores one of the most fundemental compnents to personal development: managing your mind. She looks at how you can start noticing the stories coming from your inner dialogue that are keeping you stuck and guides you through a cognitive behavioural approach that will help you instantly make positive shifts to your thinking.
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In episode 31 Catri explores what motivates you and her proven strategies to finding that inspiration and drive when you need it most. This episode is for you if you're someone who has loads of great ideas but never quite seems to get the ball rolling with them, who gives up when the going gets tough, or get's off to a good start with their goals but feigns a few months in. Learn how to create your own motivation strategy to help fuel your enthusiasm and suceed better.
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In episode 30 Catri gives you an insight into her process as a transformational mentor. She explains her 3 pillar method of transformation that she uses with her 1:1 clients to help them make positive shifts within their minds, and their bodies, that enables them to live a life without limits. Along with what inspired her to create the Curiosity Club podcast.
WIN A FREE 90 MINUTE MENTORING SESSION WITH CATRI To celebrate the 30th epidose of the Curiosity Club Catri is giving away a 90 minute online mentoring session. To enter, sign up to the Curiosity mailing list here. Competition closes on 21st of August 2019 and winner announced the week after.
In episode 29 Catri is talking to you about boundaries. She explores what they actually are, what happens when you don’t have boundaries and how you can go about defining and setting them for youself.
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Download your free values worksheet sheet here to help set some boundaries for yourself.
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In episode 28 Catri explores the 3 pillars of body intelligence and how they impact your overall mental and physical health. In the second half of the podcast Catri guides you through a short meditation that will help you start developing your body intelligence today.
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Background music in the meditation is 'Self-Care' by Lee Rosevere
In episode 27 Catri explores one of the most common things to hold women back, low-confidence. She dives into 10 different ways you can start overcoming your sense of lacking, self-doubt, and fear and begin boosting your confidence with actionable steps towards becoming the most bold bright and brilliant version of yourself.
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In episode 26 Catri explores the most important component of your success. Your mindset. If believing that you 'can't' do things, that success doesn't happen for people 'like me' or that you aren't capabale of something then this episode is for you. Catri looks at growth and fixed mindsets and how they influence the different areas of your life. How a fixed mindset will prevent you from reaching your personal goals, having satisfying relationships, building a successful career and from earning the money that you want to.
Be sure to subsribe and share this episode with someone who needs to believe in the capabilities more!
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In episode 25 Catri explores how you can harness your imagination and use visualisation to feel relaxed and calm. She guides you through a visualisation meditation that transports you to a beach to help with any summer holiday FOMO and that gives you a dose of the kind of relaxation you usually only get from being in a tropical paradise. Expect to find serenity.
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WARNING: Do not listen to episode whilst driving or operatig any heavy machinery
Background music during meditation is 'Self-care' by Lee Rosevere.
In episode 24 Catri explores her top tips for finding calm and clarity when you're feeling frazzled and hectic during times of stress. Whether it's a long 'to-do' list that's getting to you, self-doubt feeding your worries, or a work deadline, Catri gives you a lot of practible tips that you can start putting into action TODAY.
Learn more about the Change Course here: Catri's 6 week online course to hep you become 'unstuck' and create a life you're excited to wake up to. Are you ready to stop letting your emotions control you? Perhaps it's time you figured out what it was you wanted to do with your life? Or maybe you're tired of going round in circles with your goal of spending less money online shopping and drinking wine? The change course is for YOU. Sign up today.
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In episode 23 Catri talks to you about the F word we're all afraid of - Failure. She explores the reasons why you should start loving failure, what you can learn from things going wrong and how to stop letting the fear of failure get in the way of your dream job, relationship or life.
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In episode 22 transformational mentor, Catri Barrett, explores how you can stop hating on your body and start making friends with it.
If you’re someone who constantly thinks about their weight, feels stressed around food, dreads bikini season and constantly compares your body to other peoples, then this episode is for you. Catri explains the concept of body neutrality, how using gratitude can shift your perspective, speaking to your body in the third person, mindful movement, and removing triggers.
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In episode 21 Catri explores how a better understanding and relationship with your emotional inner family can help you find freedom from certain feelings that might be keeping you stuck in patterns of procrastination, feeling unfullfilled or just generally affecting your overall happiness.
Download Catri's list of emotions here so that you can start labelling your emotions today.
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Recorded al fresco in Epping Forest, in episode 20 Catri is joined with UK's leading leading Energy Coach India Majury. In this open and honest conversation India talks about what energy work actually is, overcoming escapism behaviours such as taking drugs and overdrinking, how to listen to the unsiverse, and the joy of finding lessons in road rage.
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In episode 19 Catri explores 'SOS' moments and shares her SOS technique to help you find freedom from stress and become unstuck once and for all.
An SOS moment is when an event, real or imagined, has triggered the stress response in your body which then leads you to feel so overwhelmed that you either can’t make a decision, you procrastinate about starting a task or you doubt you ability to be able to do something, which leads you to become 'stuck' in a task, your career, or life in general.
Catri guides you through her very own method to transforming these SOS moments using breathwork, visualisation and meditation. Her SOS technique takes you through a 3 step process: Stop, Overide, and Soften.
You can download the full version of the SOS technique for free here.
In episode 18 Catri’s joined on the curiosity couch with plant based chef and entrepreneur Lauren Lovatt. Catri speaks to Lauren about the challenges she’s overcome in setting up her own ‘Plant Academy’ in East London, her journey of overcoming anorexia and PTSD and how it fuelled her passion of inspiring others through plant based food, and what advice she’d give to her younger self.
Be sure to follow Lauren's delicious plant based creations and ventures on Instagram and find out more about her incredible courses and events at the Plant Academy here.
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It’s mental health awareness week and in episode 17 Catri shares her journey of overcoming anxiety, depression, and eating disorders and she is a big supporter of the body neutrality movement.
She tells the powerful story about her spiral into mental illness after she contracted Meningitis aged 13 and nearly died whilst in a coma. She talks about her issues around body image and how we can all improve it with body image.
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In episode 16 I am joined on the curiosity couch by photographer and skinfluencer Emma Hoareau. Emma and I explore how she maintains balance between her online life and IRL, how much talking therapy has helped her mental health, what she deems her biggest failures and lessons learnt from them, and why feeling ‘okay’ is fine.
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Following on from last weeks episode Catri guides you through a short meditation so you can liberate yourself from a person or past event that has hurt you.
Learn how to truly forgive someone and in doing so remind yourself that you deserve happiness, allow yourself room to grow, and give yourself the freedom to move forward with your life.
In episode 14 Catri explores how you can forgive, the difference between half forgiveness and true forgiveness, and how to let go of the connection that binds you to those that have wronged you.
Learn how to find freedom from a past event, or a person, and make the promise to yourself that your happiness won't be dictated by the actions of others.
TED talk - 'The real risk of forgiveness' with Sarah Montana
How ready are you change? In episode 13 Catri explores the different stages of change and how our Human need for autonomy can either keep us stuck in a rut or propel us towards making long term improvements to our lives. Find out why you keep on failing to stick to your New Years resolutions and how you can permanently replace unhelpful behaviours with more positive ones.
In episode 12 Catri explores the scientific logic behind our intuition, the difference between our subconscious and conscious minds, and how you too can develop the natural intelligence of your instinct to help you make better decisions that leave you feeling more fullfilled in life.
Do you hold your stress in your body? Maybe you're someone who get's tension headaches, stomach or neckache? In episode 11 Catri teaches you one of her favourite techniques for letting go of tension in the body caused by stress and anxiety - progressive muscle relaxation. Prepare to feel mega chilled out!
PLEASE NOTE DON'T LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE WHILST DRIVING OR OPERATING HEAVY MACHINERY
In the tenth episode of The Curiosity Club podcast Catri is exploring the 5 elements of emotional intelligence and gives you insight on how you can become more emotionally intelligent.
COMPETITION To celebrate the tenth episode Catri is giving her listeners the chance to win a free 90minute online coaching session with her. To enter you must complete the following three things:
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Follow @catribarrett on Instagram
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Tag 3 friends in Catri's IGTV videogram post of this weeks episode where she mentions the competition
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Competition closes 8pm GMT time 1st April 2019. Winner announced 2nd April 2019 on Catri's insta stories.
In episode 9 Catri shares her personal story with overcoming anxiety. She explores how you too can turn your anxiety into something positive and choose not to listen to the fearful, unhelpful voice in your head with awareness, thought management and self-compassion.
Have you ever made a snap judgement of another Women only to later realise you had got it wrong? Perhaps she's now one of your good friends.
Episode 8 of The Curiosity Club is from Catri's talk 'The power of sisterhood' that she gave for Lululemon in celebration of international Women's day.
Catri explores the potential for empowerment and the unstoppable force that is females who stand together in solidarity. Along with how you can start seeing other Women as your allies not your competition, and how our negative responses to our Female peers can hold clues of limiting beliefs we might be holding about ourselves.
What is success? What does it mean to you and how can we you feel more successful?
Catri answers all these questions in episode eight by exploring how your mindset could be preventing you from feeling successful, the importance of re-framing failure to learn from your mistakes, and how you can get to the root of any limiting beliefs that might be holding you back.
Learn how you can harness you EQ (emotional intelligience), create better habits and set more achievable goals.
With 15.4million working days lost in 2017/18 in the UK to stress, anxiety, and depression, it's clear that more needs to be done to build better wellbeing awareness and stress management.
In today's episode Catri talks to you about what stress actually is, it's affects, how it can be managed at work, and how it's not always a bad thing. If you find yourself dreading work every morning, feeling overwhelmed by your workload and frustrated at difficult colleauges then this is the episode for you. Catri tells you how you can prevent burnout and the importance of setting boundaries for yourself and those around you.
In episode 5 Catri explores how a better understanding of your brains malleability can change your habits and improve your success, health and wellbeing.
She looks at how our brains flexibility can answer the following questions: How you can go from a glass half empty person to a glass half full? Why learning new things is so important and what we can do to give ourselves the best chance of being compos mentis when we become elderly?
The answer is in re-wiring the brain by forming new pathways and weakening old ones. A process called Neuroplasticity. Catri shows you how you can forget about 'practice making perfect' and focus on 'practice making change' so you too can daily micro actions that contribute to self-directed neuroplasticity.
If you're looking to replace bad habits with new ones then this episode is for you!
We'd all like to have more influnce on those around us and and the key to this depends on which level we're listening. Catri explores the awkward truth that most of us are only cosmetically listening and how this can create barriers to our success in both our work and personal lives.
When we are actively listening we not only hear what people are saying but we are able to pick up on the vital cues that tell us what they aren't saying, which can give us a much deeper understanding of the speaker. By moving deeper than the superficial levels of listening we are able to pick up on more than just the words that are coming out of someones mouth. This not only helps build stronger and deeper connections with others, but also puts us in a better position to gather information that might benefit help us move towards our own goals, whatever they may be.
Are you a cosmetic or and active listener? You'll have to 'listen' to this weeks episode to find out.
In this episode Catri is exploring what the Mind-Body-Self connection actually is. Without all the 'fluff' that often surrounds the subject Catri explains how we have three bodies that make up our whole being, what each of these are and how their interaction with one another can impact our overalll health and wellbeing.
Have you ever heard of the Vagus Nerve? Well, this episode will leave you feeling inspired to tone yours up and tell you how to do so.
In episode 2 Catri explores the different components that make up your confidence. She refers to these pillars of confidence as The Selfies; self-awareness, self-beliefs and self-esteem and explains how you too can stop letting fear and self-doubt hold you back from doing the things you want to in life.
Confidence is an attribute that all of us would like to possess. However, most people aren’t doing anything to actively work towards improving self-confidence for themselves. Let this episode be the to start of your journey to being courageously confident!
In the first ever episode of The Curiosity Club podcast Catri explores what happens when we aren’t curious about ourselves and the world around us and it what it achieves when we are.
She shares her own story about how becoming more curious transformed her life after ten years suffering from anxiety and depression.
Could a lack of curiosity be holding you back? Listen to find out!