Richard and Maisie catch up with Chris Hammond, a Mental Health Professional with many years of experience. We discuss personality, mental health and things you can do to look after your own mental health.

In this episode, we chat to Dan (a teacher of English as an additional language) and discuss his interesting teaching career and general philosophy on sharing knowledge.

We all know that the language we use when talking to others can make or break a relationship. But what about the language we use when talking to ourselves? Positive communication is everything!

Personality types - there are many! But do you know which one you are? Does it fit with the type of person that you'd like to be? Lots of us don't even consider discovering which personality type we have, but we think it's a very useful thing to do on your personal development journey.

In this episode, we talk about loyalty and how we can develop it. How its perceived differently by different people and much more.

When you're passionate about something, you connect with it on a different level. In this episode, we discuss being passionate about a subject and how it can influence our focus and where we want to put our attention.

"Pay attention!" We'v all heard it at some point in our lives and we all understand the importance of paying attention. But, paying attention is often more rewarding for the person paying the attention, rather than the person who has demanded the action.

Being aware of and respecting the views and feelings of others is important. It's equally important for you to have and build strong relationships with others - which is going to be very difficult for you if you have poor manners. Let's talk politeness!

We all know that one person who's ultra creative. Great, but can being creative benefit everyone? Even those who claim they're not creative at all? After all, being creative doesn't just mean you can paint and draw...

Most of us, at some point in our lives, will experience some form of bullying. 'Bullying' doesn't always have to take place at school when you're young, it can take place at any point in your life. Can we avoid bullying? Is it possible to prepare ourselves to stop bullying from happening to us?

Are you someone who looks to others for validation of your own feelings? This can be in a variety of ways such as likes on social media, reassurance from others and even compliments. Internal validation is the validation of your OWN feelings by you. Neither is correct or incorrect, but internal validation can be a very powerful tool on your journey to happiness and self-fulfilment.

It's great to be back for season 2! Success can come in many different formats, but it's so easy to ignore the smaller day to day successes we experience in favour of only acknowledging milestone successes in our lives. Sporting and academic successes are fantastic, but they're usually less frequent than other, smaller things still worth celebrating.

Taking things personally can be a habit and it's not an easy habit to break. If you're someone who thinks that bad things always happen to you and that your life is surrounded by negative things, it's possible that you're taking things personally. Learning to accept things as they are and understanding that bad things happen to everyone, can help you enormously!

We've all been guilty of rewarding ourselves with a sweet treat for something that didn't necessarily warrant a reward. Taking time to think about long time value over short term satisfaction can be very beneficial to not only your mental health, but your physical health too!

Sometimes it's much easier said than done, but we all understand there is a limit to the things that we can control. Learning to let go of the things we can't control and accept them for what they are can be a very liberating skill!

Nothing affects a child's life more than a parent's un-lived life. Ever noticed those parent's who try to live their life through their children? Just how detrimental can that be? Are they doing it for negative reasons? Let's discuss.

Do we, as a species, still go with our instinct or our 'gut feeling'? Instinct is something that's been in place since the first humans existed, but should we still listen to our instinct today in the twenty first century?

Most of us will have some kind of savings account which we add to when we're able to save money for something unexpected or something big. But what if we were to set aside some 'happy thoughts' and 'grateful thoughts' and store them in an account which we could access at a later time when we needed them?

We can be more at peace with day to day interactions and experiences if we choose the best way to understand things for us. Sometimes, not everything is as it seems so it's important to try to think of our 'inner peace' before jumping to a default reaction. Richard and Maisie discuss perception in this episode of The Brain Dojo Podcast.

We've all heard that saying - "save the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves". But it is possible that delaying gratification can bring you more than just a financial reward.