Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking

Walking local streets this lunchtime with your daily prompt to get out into nature for just 10 minutes. Inspiration is an ‘ebb and flow’ says Hils. What does inspiration mean to you? https://walkthepod.com

Walking my local streets and enjoying the breaths of fresh air that I’m now able to enjoy after my recent treatment. Series 54 is all about inspiration. Why not send me a voice note about what inspiration means to you via walkthepod.com!

Walking in Old St in north London this lunchtime, tempting you away from your desk for the last time this series. Plus a creative reminder from recently departed David Lynch to keep your eye on the donut, not the hole.

Considering everything we’ve explored this series on our stillness theme, plus a short story from Nick in Worcester.

Walking my local streets this lunchtime, keeping an eye out for my neighbour’s cat.

The glorious Desiderata by Max Ehrmann (1927) accompanies us on our walk around the park, this lunchtime.

Walking around the park thinking about stillness and sleep paralysis this lunchtime. Plus a voicenote from Cindy in Nebraska.

Walking in the woods this lunchtime thinking about Ryan Holiday’s book, Stillness is the Key and the question of whether we should be a hammer or an anvil. There is a German phrase: 'Lieber Hammer als Amboss', which means, 'Better Hammer than Anvil'. This means better to be a proactive hammer that 'makes things happen' than a passive anvil. However, George Orwell observed that “It is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about.” Interesting food for thought for our 'Stillness' series.

Thinking about taking the long view this lunchtime whilst walking behind the hospital, into the park and around the corner to Tooting Leisure Centre.

Walking in the woods this lunchtime, enjoying the naked tree trunks displaying fungus and holes bored by woodpeckers.

Enjoying Ryan Holiday’s ‘Enough’ chapter from his brilliant book: Stillness is the key this lunchtime whilst dodging a leaf blower around the park.

Hello and welcome to a brand new series of Walk the Pod! In this episode, William Gladstone’s tree cutting habit, finding green space, and how stillness can be in the mind whilst the body is busy.

Walking around my local streets, excited to be wrapping up Series 52 on awe, but sad to say toodle pip for 2024! I’ll be back in 2025 with a brand new series in January. Thank you for walking with me!

Walking around my local streets this lunchtime rounding up the episodes from series 52 so far, plus a voice note from Sam 💞

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and contemplating a quite from Rachel Carson: “Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”

Walking my local streets and considering the overview effect: how seeing the Earth from space makes us feel.

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and considering the vanishing self. Plus, a voicenote from Cindy in Nebraska.

Walking around the park behind the hospital rounding off the walking week with our fifth Awe episode!

Walking around the park behind the hospital thinking about awe and what it’s trying to tell us.

Walking around an autumnal Northampton Square this lunchtime, wondering whether awe can be conceptualised as a trinary of power, wonder, and fear.

Walking my local streets and bringing you a landmark paper on awe by Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt.

Thinking about awe as I’m walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime.

Your final episode of Series 51 is here as we wrap up our friendship discussion on Walk the Pod. Take care of your beautiful mind, and I’ll be back with Series 52 in November.

Walking my local streets thinking about the skill of active listening this lunchtime.

Walking around Northampton Square in North London this lunchtime, through piles of crispy leaves.

Walking my local streets, thinking about Anna Machin’s work on friendship, and the benefits of a large (150 according to Dunbar) social network.

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime with a radical prompt to keep in touch with your friends.

Walking around the park behind the hospital thinking about everything we’ve learned in this first week of friendship themed podcasts. Thank you for walking with me! Excited to announce that we will be walking for the Wildlife Trusts from Monday, raising money for their mission to save 30% of land and sea by 2030.

Walking around the park behind the hospital, thinking about the different types of friendship that make a full and happy life.

Walking my local streets this lunchtime, considering whether friendship could be a ‘behavioural vaccine’.

Reflecting on the words of Andrew Sullivan, this lunchtime, that friendship is a critical social institution but one which gets overlooked in favour of the nuclear family. Plus a voicenote from Cindy in Nebraska

Walking around the park behind the hospital in the rain this lunchtime thinking about friends vs nuclear family.

Walking my local streets this lunchtime in relentless rain, thinking about eeverything we’ve learned this series. I’lll be back in late October with Series 51. I wonder what we’ll be discussing then.

My radical promot today, dear friends, is that most creative genius is not an act, but a habit. Walking my local streets, paying attention to what’s directly in front of me as we approach the end of the series.

Walking my local streets, thinking about how society doesn’t value creative gifts enough. What hope of structures for creative folk to develop their gifts? Plus a walking report from Cindy in Nebraska.

Walking my local streets this lunchtime considering thoughts mistakenly attributed to Albert Einstein: “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Walking around the park behind the hospital, thinking about how gifts exist within both the market exonomy and the gift economy.

Walking in Clapham this morning, wrapping up Week 1, Series 50 of Walk the Pod on the topic of ‘Gifts’. What have we learned so far? Check out https://www.walkthepod.com to join the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club or leave a voicenote.

Walking in the woods near home and thinking about how all stories can be framed in terms of a person developing a gift. With a walking report from Cindy in Nebraska.

Walking my local streets this lunchtime thinking about gifts, art, and the artist. Do we have an obligation to develop and use our gifts? Does society have a responsibility to give artists the time to develop their talents?

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and considering whether there is something unique about gifts. Do they carry within them a responsibility to pass them on, could they, as some peoples believe, have a soul?

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and recalling a folk tale from my childhood reimagined as an allegory about gifts and what we need to do to realise them.

A trailer for Series 50 of Walk the Pod on ‘Gifts’ which starts tomorrow, Monday 16 September. Each 10 minute episode tempts you away from your desk to walk in nature for just 10 minutes. I look forward to kicking off the new series tomorrow lunchtime and thank you for walking with me. https://walkthepod.com

A walking report from Whitstable! Series 49 will be for susbscribers to the Walk the Pod walking club and starts on Monday 19 August. A full series for everyone will follow in September.

Wrapping up the series with a big thank you to members of the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club. We’ll be walking again on Monday 19 August with a subscriber only mini series. Join the club via https://www.walkthepod.com

Walking my local streets in blazing sunshine this lunchtime and wrapping up our second week of creativity episodes. Want more from Walk the Pod? Join the club: https://patron.podbean.com/walkthepod

Walking my local streets exploring something Keats once said about ‘negative capability.’

In today’s daily walking episode, Rob’s voicenote references Hugh McLeod and the Blue Microsoft Monster, ‘Change the world or go home.’ Temple Grandin’s brain is creatively worlds apart from my own - how does yours work?

Walking around the park behind the hospital demystifying creativity. Could creativity just be connecting things? Could our limitations be our creative strengths?

Walking around the park behind the hospital, rounding up our first week of creativity episodes with voicenotes from Mum and Robin in New Zealand.