Men's emotions, health, wellbeing and more .....
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Tom Gold
I'm a Life Coach, Bush craft Instructor and personal trainer and I'm a big believer in using the outdoors to restore ourselves. It's the environment we were built and designed to thrive in which is why it all somehow makes sense when we go back there.
Don't believe me? Why is a room with view so important? Why do we go on holiday to places that look nice - like the seaside or the country? Why is it when you google 'success' and hit images more than half the pictures are of people on mountain tops?
I work with businesses, with front line NHS staff, combat veterans dealing with PTSD and people dealing with a variety of mental health challenges.
I have an ICF accredited Diploma in Transformational Life Coaching, an Honours degree in Psychology and I’m a qualified Bush craft Instructor.
On my show nobody gets cold wet and miserable, nobody gets put under pressure to bare their soul and nobody has to take on any physical challenges or tests.
Fun facts about Tom
I live in Scotland in the Trossachs National Park, sometimes known as the Gateway to the Highlands.
I have two sons. They are the centre of my world.
People often say to me ‘Oh Bushcraft, you mean like Bear Grylls?’ I am nothing like Bear Grylls.
I like action movies and I love true life adventure stories which I find very inspiring.
I worked for a year in a correctional boot camp in Arizona. It was extremely challenging.
I travelled, unsupported from Inverness to Glasgow with a folding kayak to raise money for a school in Gambia. That was quite challenging too.
I am the co-inventor of the little known sport of ‘Wheelie Bin Ball’. An honour I share with members of my Glasgow youth group.
Chapters
1. Keeping this ship afloat (00:00:00)
2. The importance of Father & Son relationship (00:04:00)
3. A role model - You just have to show up (00:09:00)
4. The insights of young African America men (00:12:00)
5. Self regulate - But I was carrying so much anger (00:21:00)
6. The challenges of re-adjusting to life from a different lens (00:25:00)
7. Men can communicate (00:28:00)
8. Men's programming - resilience and confidence (00:33:00)
9. Good health or heroin ? (00:36:00)
10. A vintage car from 1970 (00:39:00)
11. The power of self compassion (00:42:00)
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