The Curiosity Club Podcast

The 5 steps to really understanding yourself

For the season 3 finale, The Curiosity Club founder and Certified Life Coach Catri Barrett, reflects on why it is important to understand yourself and the negative impacts of when you lack self-awareness. Catri guides you through the 5 steps to unshakeable self-understanding that she uses with her life coaching clients.

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In this episode, Catri talks about:

• The importance of knowing yourself and how to get started: how you feel, what you believe, your strengths, your weaknesses
• What to do when you feel dissatisfied, frustrated or unfulfilled in your work, relationships or other areas of your life

• How a lack of self-awareness can keep you stuck and lead to self-sabotage and how you can recognise this within yourself
• The practical 5 steps that you can move through to get to know yourself
• How to self-coach yourself out of unhelpful patterns of thinking, habits, or feelings
• Knowing and harnessing your strengths whilst accepting and letting go of your limitations and flaws
• 5 ways to get to know who you really are, what you want, feel, think and believe.
• Using self-understanding to improve your relationships
• How to get to know the different versions of yourself at different stages of your life to help you navigate change
• Powerful questions you can ask yourself to discover the beliefs you hold.

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Navigating Change and Emotional Intelligence with Catri Barrett and Beth Ashley

In episode 7 of season 3, journalist and editor, Beth Ashley, is turning the mic on podcast host, founder of The Curiosity Club and Certified Life Coach, Catri Barrett  for the first time to ask her what she wishes she'd learnt in school.

In this episode, Catri and Beth talk about:

 

• The curriculum of life lessons that Catri believes would make the world a better place if we had only been taught it in school and how this prompted her to start The Curiosity Club

• Navigating grief loss and change, and how anxiety caused Catri to have intrusive thoughts about losing the people she loved
• The fear surrounding death in British and Western culture and why it would help us all to change our view on it
• The link between your thoughts and emotions and how to take them less personally
• The negative impacts of shame, how it manifests in people and how Brene Brown’s Ted Talk can help you let go of it
• The impact of childhood trauma on us as adults and the importance of resolving it
• How Catri had an identity crisis as a teenager that triggered a mental health crisis and caused her to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol
• The importance of prevention and not waiting until things are broken to fix them
• Unpacking why emotional intelligence is as import as Mental Intelligence and IQ
• How to stop fixating on things that have happened in the past and let go of anger and resentment
• Learning to better show up for yourself and how that can have a positive impact on the world

 

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Poetry, Payday Loans and Self-discovery with Charlotte Moore

In S3E6, certified Life Coach and founder of The Curiosity Club, Catri Barrett, sits down with Charlotte Moore, a Manchester-based journalist and poet, usually found writing about mental health, sex and LGBTQ+ issues. 

 

In this episode, Catri and Charlotte speak about: 

 

• Using writing as a form of self-discovery and how it all started for her writing fan fiction
• The downfalls of how we’re taught poetry and literature at school and what a more empowering curriculum might look like 
• Charlotte shares her tips for aspiring writers and journalists 
• The failings of sex education, especially for the LGBTQ community
• Personal finance: what would’ve been useful for us to be taught in school, and Charlotte shares her experience of getting into debt with payday loans and the impact this had on her

 

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Routes To Success And Breaking Down Barriers With Ben Pechey

In S3E5, Catri Barrett speaks to writer, speaker, content creator, LGBTQIA advocate, and soon to be author, Ben Pechey about their experience of navigating school in the 00’s and carving out their own route to success; going from an E in english to becoming a (soon-to-be) published author.

In this episode, Catri and Ben talk about:

• What it meant to go to school in the 90’s and 00’s and the lessons they both learnt (some the hard way from bully’s and the ‘frigid test’)
•  Ben’s experience and challenges with feeling forced to fit into the stereotypical boxes of gender and feeling like a failure when they felt like they didn’t fit anywhere. 
• Ben’s struggle with dyslexia and their journey from getting an E in english to getting an A and becoming a writer with a book deal
• How you can find freedom from the pressure of ‘shoulds’ put on you by society 
• How to carve your unique route to success
• The importance of lifelong learning and self-discovery

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Skincare, Fillers and Self-esteem with Dr Anjali Mahto

In S3E4, Catri Barrett speaks with one of the UK’s leading Consultant Dermatologists and author of the bestselling book, The Skincare Bible, Dr Anjali Mahto, about all things skincare, beauty and self-esteem.

 

In this episode, Catri and Anjali explore:

• The link between skin, mental wellbeing, and confidence, and how we form a sense of identity through our skin

 

• Anjali shares her experience with acne and scarring in the past, the effect it had on her mental health, and what she learnt from going to therapy

 

• Aesthetics and injectables like fillers and botox - the pros and the cons, when they’re appropriate and not, how to find the best person for the procedure

 

• The problematic use of Instagram filters

 

• How a dermatologist can help you and ways to support yourself or a loved one who is struggling with a skin condition like acne, eczema or rosacea

 

•  What you can do to start disentangling your self-esteem from aesthetics and your skin

 

• Anjali debunks some of the biggest skincare myths when it comes -  discover what products are worth the money and the 3 necessities that you must have in your skincare routine

 

 

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Your Cycle, Hormones & Contraception Shaming with Le'Nise Brothers

In S3E3, Catri Barrett is in conversation with registered nutritionist, Le’Nise Brothers. Le’Nise specialises in womens health, hormones and the menstrual cycle, she’s also a yoga teacher and hosts the Period Story podcast.

 

Catri and Le'Nise spoke about:

• What we should’ve learned in school about our cycle, hormones and period

• How hormones affect your creativity, energy levels and personality

• Why your cycle shouldn’t be centred around your period

•  Understanding the different phases of the menstrual cycle as seasons, what this means and how to harness the positive effects

• Releasing period shame for future generations

• How Le'Nise helps women with hormonal issues ranging from PMS, PCOS, endometriosis, period issues, perimenopause and more.

 

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Going Beyond Your Looks With Becky Young

In S3 Ep 2, Catri Barrett speaks to Becky Young, founder and director of the Anti Diet Riot Club; a rebel community fighting body shame, fat phobia and diet culture. 

 

Catri and Becky explore:

• Becky’s journey with body image struggles that led her to create the Anti Diet Riot Club

• The problem with finding a sense of identify with the way that you look that is so rewarded in our society

• Diet culture: the historical origins and how it has evolved from the heroine chic to the trends of today

• The problematic purification of food and labelling what you eat as ‘good and bad’

• Changing your mindset: How to separate your sense of self-worth and happiness from your appearance

• The life lessons Becky wishes she'd learnt at school: how to fail, accept mistakes and to challenge the media you consume

 

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Exploring The Fluidity Of Personhood with Tide Adesanya

Founder of The Curiosity Club, Catri Barrett, is kicking off season 3 by speaking to multidisciplinary creative, founder of activist platform @_reeducate, and lead creative at The Restless Network, Tide Adesanya. 

Episode talking points:

• How Tide never felt like she belonged growing up, the impact this had on her confidence and mental wellbeing
• Tide’s journey of self-discovery through fashion, experimentation, and her creative processes

• Tide shares insights she’s learnt about herself that have helped navigate anxiety and mental health challenges, along with the processes that have helped develop her confidence and resilience
• The pinnacle moments that helped Tide become the successful creative she is today
• The importance of joy and how to bring it into your everyday life
• The confidence that can be gained from stepping out of your comfort zone and how to do it more often
• The lessons Tide wishes she had been taught in school:

- The practicalities of being a freelancer; how to network and manage your accounts and finances

- The diverse range of possibilities within the creative industry and how to access them

 

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Mental Self-Care with Catri Barrett

In the season 2 finale, Curiosity Club founder, Life Coach and Mindset Expert Catri Barrett explores mental self-care: All the ways you can support your mental wellbeing and prevent mental health problems from getting worse or, in some cases, even occurring in the first place.

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Catri Explores:

 

• The different types of self-care: Social, physical, mental, emotional, and financial etc.

• Potential barriers of engaging with practices that can protect and enhance your wellbeing

• What is mental self-care?

• Understanding your unique mental health

• How to work on your mental hygiene and habits using:

 

- Thoughtwork: What thoughts nurture your wellbeing and which don’t? Believe them less. Know that just because you think something doesn’t make it true.

- Becoming more future focused instead of stuck ruminating in the past

- Quitting comparison

- Practicing gratitude

- Practice mental flexibility with problem solving and shifting perspectives

 

• How self-care can improve your self-esteem and confidence by affirming your self-worth

• The importance of focusing on your strengths and practicing self-compassion

• How to use journalling to support your mental wellbeing

• Nurturing your community to strengthen your connections by finding people who make you feel most comfortable, most valued, and help you see different perspectives. 

• Emotional self-care: Acknowledge uncomfortable emotions and allow yourself to to express your feelings on a regular basis to develop resilience and coping skills.

• Taking care of your physical healh: Sleep, Regular exercise, Nourishing meals, Gut health etc.

 

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Courage, Vulnerability & Stepping Into Anti-Racism with Allysa Rochelle

In S2E9, Catri Barrett speaks to host of the Vulnerable podcast, Allysa Rochelle. She is also the founder of TING, a consultancy that works to create safe spaces for marginalised people within the workplace and offers personal and professional development programmes to young Black future leaders.

 

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Talking points in this episode:

 

• How courage, vulnerability and anti-racism work intersect and influence one another
• What it means to be courageous and how taking personal responsibility for your life can enable you to heal from anything you’ve experienced
• Way’s you might be spiritually bypassing yourself and how to stop
• The importance of white people releasing shame before stepping into anti-racism work so that you don’t get stuck in guilt
• The problem with refusing to acknowledge race or refer to your own, or others, skin colour and why it’s important to understand and use terminology like white supremacy, privilege and intersectionality
• Releasing shame and mobilising yourself: How to step into anti-racism work and create a better future for your ancestors

 

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