In this episode, Elizabeth speaks with Carl Hammington, Academic Director at HealthFit Collective in Aotearoa New Zealand. Carl has over 20 years experience as an athlete, health presenter, podcast host, and fitness expert.
Carl shares learnings from high performance sport and how they apply to disaster response. They chat about resilience and how a training mindset can help us prepare for life’s challenges. Carl shares useful tips and simple physical tools for managing stress, like breathing techniques, and how having a growth mindset relates to positivity.
This is a relentlessly hopeful episode about how tackling hard things makes us stronger — something that our world needs right now! Enjoy.
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