This Is Powerful With Paul Sculfor
Anyone can be affected by addiction…it does not discriminate. In this series, distinguished British model and mindset coach, Paul Sculfor comes clean about his own sobriety and the journey it took him to get here. Each week, Paul speaks to some incredible people about mindset, mental health, addiction and recovery. Whether you're on your own path of self discovery, recovery or transformation, inspired by human stories of mental resilience or supporting someone who is struggling with addiction, make sure you follow and subscribe to This Is Powerful. Subscribe now so that you don’t miss an episode…and search for This Is Powerful with Paul Sculfor on YouTube to see all of the episodes in video form. This podcast is brought to you by the Stride Foundation.
Episodes
Today we’re joined by Gary the Pipefitter. 45-years old and now nine years sober, Gary was born and raised just outside of London in Harold Hill. Gary grew up convinced he'd never try drugs. Yet once alcohol entered the picture and lowered his inhibitions, he'd ‘try anything’.
In this conversation, we talk about quieting then changing the inner narrative, becoming a person who embraces waking up each morning ...
After five years of dipping in and out of a recovery programme, Neil the Brickie finally got sober when he found himself homeless, drunk and a nuisance to everyone around him while living in Spain 20 years ago.
The youngest of three children all with different dads, Neil is now a brilliant and engaged father of two. Neil’s simple programme that he follows very regularly keeps him in a healthy, successful, sober lifestyle...
Welcome back to the show. This episode kicks off season 6, and for the next six episodes we are focusing on mental fitness in Britain’s construction industry. Historically, these working environments are not conducive to men being able to speak openly about mental health or wellbeing and as stats currently stand, construction workers are nearly four times more likely to die by suicide than the national average.
Our first...
We are about to kick off the sixth season of award-nominated podcast This Is Powerful with Paul Sculfor. If you have been with us before, welcome back! If you are new here, you are very welcome and you have found us at the start of season six, so there are already eighty episodes for you to check out.
For season six, we have something very constructive in store for you. We are focusing on the mental fitness around Britain&rsq...
Over the past year and a half on This is Powerful, we’ve had some brutally honest conversations about addiction, recovery, resilience and about all that comes in between. These kinds of conversations aren’t usually had or heard, but they probably should be.
This is a collection of the most powerful clips from our top ten episodes: voices you’ll recognise, stories you can’t forget, and reflections that l...
Behind the scenes of many addiction treatment support organisations are devoted souls who give their lives and careers in aid of helping families who are struggling with the addiction of a loved one. Today’s guest talks about overcoming shame, setting firm boundaries and the rehab myth within a family setting.
Vivienne Evans is the Chief Executive of Adfam, the national organisation for children and families affected by ...
He knew that what he was doing was wrong but he couldn’t stop until a life-changing incident set his life on a new course.
22-year-old Jack from Dagenham in Essex joins us today. Working in the building maintenance industry, he has over a year's recovery under his belt. Starting with ketamine use from age 16, then moving through other drugs and alcohol, Jack’s story could have ended in tragedy. Thankfully Jac...
Many many young people who have struggled with mental health, disordered eating or addiction have benefited from a guiding hand from our guest today.
Alex Blatch initially trained as a Registered Mental Health Nurse and later as a Bereavement Counsellor working in CAMHS, Eating Disorders, Adult Acute and Addiction Services. Over the past 35 years, Alex has worked in and managed a variety of private mental health settings, incl...
We have an extraordinary young guest today, a real highlight for our youth and addiction series. Isa got sober as a teenager and is now an inspiring example of how you can turn your life around if you really work a recovery programme. Isa can trace the beginnings of her pattern of addictive behaviour back to unhealthy eating when she was just seven years old. Unhealthy eating led to full-blown addiction to drugs and alcohol, ...
Today we welcome Melanie, a young woman working through the stages of recovery after growing up a child of an alcoholic. Melanie always felt different at school and struggled to make friends. After learning as much as she could about alcohol and having had a spiritual awakening, she is now able to speak about her experiences and share her strength and hope for other young people who are living in households where alcoho...
How do you manage to cut through the silence of a disengaged young man, engaging with those who seem the most disenchanted with the people around them?
Today we are pleased to welcome an incredible guy who is doing life-saving work with vulnerable young people, getting them reengaged with school and with the world at large. Tom Paget is the operations lead for Reach Group Community Projects based in Essex, delivering ...
What power does a ten-year-old have in the face of a disease as insidious as alcoholism?
We are so privileged to welcome the extraordinary Amelie and her mother, Lucy. Amelie sadly lost her father after a devastating battle with alcoholism when she was just ten years old. After losing her father, Amelie would write letters to him at night before she went to bed. As a result of writing these letters, Amelie felt compelled to wr...
We have done something a bit different this time around and we are bringing you a really impactful new set of episodes. Our new season focuses on all of the different ways that addiction can affect young people. Joining us on the show will be some admirable guests who work with young people to support them through trauma, mental health challenges and addictive behaviours. We also feature brave guests who have struggled with a...
Today’s guest welcomes the tough times as an opportunity to grow. The tougher, in fact, the better.
Ken Rideout is the fastest marathoner in the world over fifty and a former prison guard, Wall Street trader, and opioid addict. His life story has been chronicled in such publications as The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Outside. Since getting sober more than a decade ago, he has won some of the world's toug...
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So, as we look forward to another year, we thought it would be good fun to put together a bunch of our favorite nuggets of information and gems of experience that our guests have shared over the pas...
With residencies spanning Dubai, Marbella, Hong Kong, and beyond, his energy behind the decks is as infectious as ever but his ...
Whether you’re newly sober, sob...
Christopher White is a 37-year-old podcaster and proud family man who’s been clean for five years through Narcotics Anonymous. With a background in constructi...
Today’s guest Katherine Baldwin is a trauma-informed love, dating and relationship coach, a m...
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