Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking

Join Rachel Wheeley for Walk the Pod. Built with a dedicated walking community, each episode provides thoughtful walking tips and reflection to keep putting one foot in front of the other, no matter what steps you’re taking in life. Don’t miss new episodes released daily that invite listeners to step away from their desk to walk in nature for just 10 minutes.

S52E10 Awe: thank you for listening

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!

11-29
08:10

S52E9 Awe, significance, and insignificance

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

11-28
11:06

S52E8 Awe and the mysteries of the earth

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.”

11-27
10:12

S52E7 Awe and the Overview effect

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

11-26
10:24

S52E6 Awe: the vanishing self

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

11-25
09:50

S52E5 Awe could be forever

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

11-22
10:14

S52E4 What is awe trying to tell us?

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

11-21
08:18

S52E3 Awe: power, wonder, and fear

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

11-20
10:08

S52E2 The Science of Awe

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

11-19
11:49

S52E1 Quick boil vs slow simmer awe

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

11-18
09:51

S51E10 Friendship round up

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.

10-25
11:50

S51E9 Friendship and active listening

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

10-24
13:29

S51E8 Friendship and boundaries

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

10-23
11:47

S51E7 Friendship, the key to a long and happy life

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

10-22
11:44

S51E6 Friendship: Keeping in touch

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

10-21
10:09

S51E5 Friendship week 1 round up

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.

10-18
11:21

S51E4 Different types of friendship

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

10-17
10:48

S51E3 Friendship: a ‘behavioural vaccine’?

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

10-16
11:13

S51E2 Friendship: a ‘critical social institution’

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

10-15
10:11

S51E1 Friendship vs the nuclear family

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

10-14
12:59

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