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A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes

Sophie Elwes

Hosted by Sophie Elwes, who knows a thing or two about overcoming difficulties, after sustaining a spinal cord injury in 2011. Each episode Sophie will interview an extraordinary guest who h...

Episodes

20 of 39 episodes

A Life Less Ordinary Host Finale! Sophie Elwes - Surviving despite the odds, carving your own destiny and being grateful for all of the things

For this epsiode Sophie is interviewed by her good friend Sarah Orr (who appeared in series two of A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes)....

57:26Aug 14, 2023

Jambo Truong - Witnessing his sister’s death at a young age, growing up queer and Asian in South Wales and and why trauma is your trajectory

Jambo Truong is a practitioner of integrative medicine with a specialism in complimentary medicine and therapies who has impressive credenti...

66:09Aug 7, 2023

Sophie Dear - How speaking to her inner child transformed her life, how to set boundaries and realise your self-worth

Sophie Dear is a yoga teacher and self-worth coach who struggled with insomnia and undiagnosed anxiety since the age of 15. She appeared to...

61:23Jul 31, 2023

Raquel Siganporia - Becoming a wheelchair user at age 11, top tips to assert yourself, and what she wishes people knew about sex and disability

Raquel Siganporia is the Director of Business Development and Senior Solicitor at Aspire Law and she sustained a spinal cord injury followin...

65:28Jul 24, 2023

Adam Wilder - Authentic intimacy, honouring ourselves and why playfulness is sacred.

Adam is the founder of Togetherness which is a social enterprise whose purpose is to make meaningful connection more accessible in our cultu...

49:17Jul 17, 2023

Lauren Murrell - Getting a cancer diagnosis in her early twenties, manifestation and why main character energy works

Whilst in her last year of law school, in her early twenties, Lauren Murrell was diagnosed with an aggressive form of blood cancer (myeloid...

44:52Jul 10, 2023

Melanie Woods - Becoming paralysed after being hit by a car, finding fun in the darkest of situations and competing at the Paralympics before she expected

Melanie Woods is a former PE teacher and GB Paralympic athlete who sustained a spinal cord injury after being hit by a car whilst riding her...

48:38Jul 3, 2023

Carlos Cervantes - Discovering meditation, cultivating creativity and becoming symptom free from bipolar disorder

This was such a special conversation with Carlos Cervantes who talks about his experiences in his late teens and early 20s of suffering from...

53:53Jun 26, 2023

Bonus episode! Dr Clair Pollard - A psychologist's guide to helping others, breaking her back in Namibia and thinking about the stories we tell ourselves

Working in the NHS for 27 years, Dr Clair Pollard is a Clinical Psychologist and Acting Director for a large psychology mental health trust...

41:25Aug 1, 2022

LGBTQ+ pride month bonus episode! Rosie Wilby - post-traumatic growth after a breakup, reinvestigating monogamy and sex party etiquette

Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian, author and podcaster who has appeared a number of times on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Woman&...

50:21Jun 30, 2022

Bonus episode! Alexandra Adams - Getting gaslit by medical staff, running out of resilience and blowing up on TikTok

Alexandra Adams was the first guest on this podcast, and the inspiration behind starting A Life Less Ordinary. She's also a medical stu...

52:25Jun 6, 2022

Grace Spence Green - Radical acceptance, internalised ableism and how to ‘take up space’

Grace Spence Green is a junior doctor and a wheelchair user. Growing up, she had her heart set on becoming a doctor from the age of eight an...

51:39Mar 14, 2022

Mark Berry - Why training is for everyone, questioning limitations placed upon us and the gift of realising your self-worth

This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Berry who is my friend and personal trainer. We’ve known each other for years and every ti...

44:41Mar 7, 2022

Gail Muller - Coping with chronic pain, hiking the Appalachian Trail and the power of surrender

Gail Muller is an adventurer, educator and author. Growing up in Cornwall, she was sporty and outdoorsy, but at 14 was told she’d need to us...

69:11Feb 28, 2022

Kalim Smith - The healing power of plants, how serious injury brought out the adventurer in him and why listening to his gut paid off

Based partly in Carlsbad, CA and in Keauhou, Hawaii, Kalim Smith and I met a few years back at a ski race in New Hampshire, after which we d...

62:14Feb 21, 2022

James Dashwood - Addiction, coping mechanisms and the quest for connection

Head of Wellbeing at leading employee wellbeing platform, Better Space, James Dashwood is a father, a husband, and a recovering alcoholic. S...

59:40Feb 14, 2022

Andrew Cotton - The power of breathwork, breaking his back surfing a 75ft wave, and using his mindset to overcome fear

Andrew Cotton is a big wave surfer and Red Bull athlete. Growing up in North Devon, he started at 7 and it became his life. He left school a...

38:36Feb 7, 2022

Cathy Reay - Empowering her kids to find their own way, self acceptance and choosing the spaces to exist in

Cathy Reay is a writer, editor, disability consultant and influencer. She is also a single mother of two and her Instagram account provides...

64:40Jan 31, 2022

Gregory David Roberts - Spirituality, finding solace in solitary confinement and life in an Indian slum

Gregory David Roberts is the author of best selling novel, Shantaram and sequel, Mountain Shadow. Selling over 6 million copies, it is partl...

64:35Jan 24, 2022

Mo Gawdat - Engineering happiness, losing his beloved son Ali, and how to take control of your thoughts

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer at Google X (aka the Moonshoot Factory) and before that had a successful career as a stock-tr...

63:11Apr 12, 2021