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  • Where would we be without musical creativity?

    Without it there would be no Beatles, no Mozart, no country music, no rock ‘n’ roll, no concerts, no church choirs.

    The ability to be creative is a big part of what has set us humans apart from machines.

    But does the dawn of AI - where we can ask a computer to compose a song in seconds - mean the end of musical creativity as we know it?

    Who better to speak to than singer/songwriter Jack Savoretti. Jack talks to me about how he found musical and poetic creativity during difficult times as a teenager. We chat about his creative process, how he can’t and never wants to read music and I ask him what he thinks the impact of AI will have on the music industry, creativity, and artists today.

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    This podcast is sponsored by:

    www.bambooclothing.co.uk – Sustainable, fully traceable, technical activewear made from natural and recycled fabrics

    www.thisworks.com – clean, targeted skincare and wellness solutions that work with your body clock

    DISCLAIMER: The content of this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider and never disregard professional medical advice.

  • Our modern world is disrupting our bodies’ natural circadian rhythms – our phones ping throughout the night, we don’t get enough daylight and we never allow ourselves to switch off.

    But did you know that smooth running of our circadian rhythms is vital to protect us from disease?

    Or that disruption of our sleep can drastically lower our immune system?

    According to Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford University around 70% of individuals with Alzheimers are reported to have disrupted and fragmented circadian rhythms.

    In this podcast we are going to discuss why we need to respect our body’s natural rhythms to improve brain health, our metabolism and even our life expectancy and how today’s modern world is pushing us out of sync.

    Russell also busts a few myths when it comes to light blocking glasses, whether melatonin pills work and whether I can become a ‘Lark’ instead of an ‘Owl.’

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    Follow me on Instagram ⁠⁠@susannahtaylor_⁠⁠

    Contact me: ⁠[email protected]

    Sign up to my newsletter The Glow Gazette at ⁠www.susannahtaylor.com

    This podcast is sponsored by:

    www.hellolingo.com – your personal metabolic coach. A glucose monitor that teaches you to understand your metabolism and wellbeing

    www.ancientandbrave.earth – award winning blends and supplements for whole body health that use sustainable pure ingredients

    DISCLAIMER: The content of this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider and never disregard professional medical advice.

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  • Nature underpins our very existence. Our forests, rivers, oceans and soils provide us with the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we need for our crops to grow. We have existed within nature since the beginning of time and yet in today’s highly technical, impeccably designed world we are quite divorced from it.

    But we are beginning to realise the vital importance of incorporating nature into our lives.

    In 2019 a study was published of 20,000 people by the University of Exeter where they found that people that spent two hours a week in green spaces were substantially more likely to report good health and psychological wellbeing than those that didn’t.

    One person that fully appreciates the wonders of nature is florist and author Willow Crossley. In this podcast Willow chats to me about:

    The restorative powers of nature, and how it helped her recover from postnatal depression

    The importance of using our hands and getting offline (Willow talks about why walks twice a day are a non-negotiable for her)

    Willow’s experience of burnout and how we can stop ourselves getting to that space

    How to incorporate nature into our lives even if we live in a city

    Why she and I can’t cope with too much tech - spreadsheets, reading on screens and phones

    Find me

    Follow me on Instagram ⁠⁠@susannahtaylor_⁠⁠

    Contact me: ⁠[email protected]

    Sign up to my newsletter The Glow Gazette at www.susannahtaylor.com

    This podcast is sponsored by:

    www.thisworks.com – clean, targeted skincare and wellness solutions that work with your body clock

    www.bambooclothing.co.uk – Sustainable, fully traceable, technical activewear made from natural and recycled fabrics

    DISCLAIMER: The content of this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider and never disregard professional medical advice.

  • Ultra processed foods are making us ill. Author and healthy chef Melissa Hemsley is on a mission to make healthy cooking from scratch easy and enjoyable for all of us.

    In the UK we have the record for consuming the highest amount of ultra processed foods (UPF’s) in Europe. In fact in the UK, on average, 56% of our diets are UPF heavy. For the under 14 age bracket that rises to 67%.

    Packed with chemicals our bodies don’t recognise, there is now concrete and rapidly growing evidence that ultra processed foods are making us very sick indeed. A recent review in the British Medical Journal showed that diets high in UPF’s are directly associated with poor mental, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and metabolic health.

    In this podcast I’m chatting to the brilliant chef and author Melissa Hemsley whose new cookbook Real Healthy tackles the timely message of how to un-process our diets.

    Her wonderful book is crammed with advice and tips and hundreds of recipes for making healthy, delicious foods easily, whilst we also tackle the topic of the major changes we ALL need to make in the way we eat today.

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    Follow me on Instagram ⁠⁠@susannahtaylor_⁠⁠

    Contact me: ⁠[email protected]

    Sign up to my newsletter The Glow Gazette at ⁠www.susannahtaylor.com

    This podcast is sponsored by

    www.ancientandbrave.earth – award winning blends and supplements for whole body health that use sustainable pure ingredients

    www.hellolingo.com – your personal metabolic coach. A glucose monitor that teaches you to understand your metabolism and wellbeing.

    DISCLAIMER: The content of this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider and never disregard professional medical advice.

  • Why Vedic meditation can boost your mood, reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and help you live longerDid you know the average person spends 82 hours per week consuming information?

    Or that we take in almost 90 times more information today than we did in 1940?

    We are currently living through a mental health crisis and it is vital we find a way to switch off from all the noise, andrelease stress. In this first episode of Ways to Feel More Human, I speak to Jillian Lavender who runs the London Meditation Centre and the New York Meditation Centre with her husband, Michael.

    Jillian has been teaching meditation for 21 years and in this conversation I speak to her about her own journey into Vedic meditation and how it changed her life when she was working in a very stressful publishing job. Jillian speaks about what Vedic meditation is, how it differentiates from other types of meditation, why and how it works, the effects it has not just on the mind but the body too, and how it can help increase longevity. Jillian also talks about why meditation is not mindfulness. Find out more aboutJillian’s courses www.londonmeditationcentre.comThank you to my very brilliant sponsors for this episode:⁠⁠www.bambooclothing.co.uk⁠– Sustainable, fully traceable, technical activewear made from natural and recycled fabrics

    www.thisworks.com– clean, targeted skincare and wellness solutions that work with your body clock Follow me on Instagram ⁠@susannahtaylor_⁠Contact me: ⁠[email protected]⁠ Sign up to my newsletter ⁠The Glow Gazette⁠ DISCLAIMER: The content of this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider and never disregard professional medical advice.

  • WAYS TO FEEL MORE HUMAN, is a new podcast about returning to the wonder of you.I’m Susannah Taylor and I have been a wellbeing writer of over 20 years and what is most obvious to me is that we are no longer living in alignment with who we are.Over the last 10 years the wellness world has exploded. If the latest figures are anything to go by it is worth £2.8 trillion worldwide. Yet we are not getting healthier. In fact, the opposite appears to be happening.Obesity, anxiety, depression and chronic disease are at an all-time high and escalating fast and it seems we have completely deviated off our human path: we spend less and less time in nature; we eat highly processed foods, we communicate through screens, we barely move and we are lonelier than ever before.In a world dominated by tech and now AI, we are at a pivotal point in the history of humankind where we must stop and re-evaluate how we live. The good news is that everything we need to thrive today is already here, right now, inside of us - neither the phone, Instagram, or a high speed laptop have come close to the wonder of us. And so I am embarking on a podcast journey into discovering what really makes us, as human beings, thrive, both physically, mentally, creatively, socially and spiritually, and how we can do more of it and weave it into our busy lives. I’ll be speaking to some of the world’s most knowledgeable and inspiring thought leaders to discuss everything we need to thrive from wellbeing to creativity, lifestyle to spirituality, self-care to nature therapy and human connection. There’ll be experts in everything from breathwork to brain health, movement to mindfulness, nutrition to neuroscience.It is, essentially, a celebration of being human.

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  • Welcome to WAYS TO FEEL MORE HUMAN, a new podcast about how to thrive in a frazzled world by Susannah Taylor.

    I have been a wellbeing writer of over 20 years and it is glaringly obvious to me that we are no longer living in alignment with who we are.

    Obesity, anxiety, depression and chronic disease are at an all time high and it is clear to me that we have completely deviated off our human path. We spend less and less time in nature; we eat unnatural, highly processed food; we work 24/7 staring at screens; we sit down all day hunched over laptops; we are lonelier than ever; we barely move; we rarely use our hands, and we don’t allow the sun to warm our skin.

    Amidst an overwhelm of digital and the dawn of AI, we are at a pivotal point in the history of mankind where we must stop and re-evaluate how we are living our lives.

    It is my mission to help us reconnect with what our bodies and minds do best and to honour this unbelievable feat of engineering called the human body.

    I will be speaking to some of the world’s most knowledgeable and inspiring thought leaders from anthropologists to neuroscientists, doctors to evolutionary biologists, Buddhists to priests, yogis to psychologists, creatives to wellness coaches (some names you will know, others you won’t.)

    My aim? To help us rethink the way we currently live, to reconnect our natural wiring and to stop us fromlosing the plot amidst the tech jungle that’s currently frying our brains.

    This podcast will convince you that you are way more important than any AI robot, smartphone or screen could ever be.

    It is, essentially, a celebration of being human.

    Follow me on Instagram @susannahtaylor_

    Contact me: [email protected]

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