Designer and Host Stephen Saint-Onge urges you to do the things you dreamed of doing or wanted to attempt to do for the new year last New Years.  Even though we have a few months left in the year - you still have time to make change in your life happen.  Stephen shares his ideas on making this happen now!

Follow Stephen on Instagram:

@stephensaintonge

Join Steffen and Dominik as they dive deep into the world of WordPress content synchronization. Discover the best strategies and techniques to seamlessly migrate and synchronize your WordPress database and uploads across various environments, including local, development, staging, and production.

Highlights
00:00 Intro
01:13 Synch #1: to fix bugs
01:52 Synch #2: to launch websites
02:20 Synch #3: to collaborate in development
03:28 WordPress specialty: URLs in the database
07:34 Tools to synch content
10:47 Cloning from the dev server
18:35 Migrating from dev to production
22:26 Replacing URLs in the WP database
28:06 Synching from production to dev
30:43 Anonymizing personal data
33:05 How often we synch content
35:20 Database-less WordPress

Links
WP Migrate DB Pro: https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-migrate-db-pro/
Duplicator: https://duplicator.com/
ManageWP: https://managewp.com/
rsync: https://rsync.samba.org/
WP CLI: https://wp-cli.org/
faker library: https://fakerjs.dev/

More from Bleech
Blog Posts (WordPress Development)
Flynt (WordPress Starter Theme)
VRTs (Visual Tests for WordPress)
Siegfried, deploy! (YouTube Channel)

In this Their Story podcast on ITSPmagazine, Huxley Barbee delves into the world of InfoSec and asset management, discussing the importance of having a full asset inventory and how his company, RunZero, addresses this challenge with a cyber asset management solution.

Founders HG Moore and Chris Kirsch identified the need for better tooling as security teams' scopes expanded beyond managing traditional IT devices to securing IoT and OT devices across various environments. RunZero helps organizations understand gaps in security controls coverage, identify potentially vulnerable devices in the face of zero-day threats, and more.

Huxley Barbee explains that a full asset inventory, including asset details like location within the network, device function, and business context, can assist in determining which vulnerabilities or misconfigurations need immediate attention. Huxley highlights the delicate process of gathering information on devices and the importance of incremental fingerprinting, particularly in OT environments and those with often-unmanaged IoT devices.

The trio also cover the business side, discussing the typical clients for RunZero and the mindset shift required to realize that existing asset discovery tools may not be sufficient. They discuss the collaboration between IT, OT, and security teams, emphasizing that having a full cyber asset inventory beyond the traditional IT asset inventory can help reduce remediation time and improve overall business decision-making.

Tune in to this episode to learn more about RunZero's modern approach to asset management, the crucial role of visibility in addressing security challenges, and how a robust asset inventory by RunZero can help businesses leaders and security practitioners make better decisions.

Note: This story contains promotional content. Learn more: https://www.itspmagazine.com/their-infosec-story

Guest: Huxley Barbee, Security Evangelist at RunZero [@runZeroInc] and lead organizer for BSides NYC [@bsidesnyc]

On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhbarbee/

On Twitter | https://twitter.com/huxley_barbee

On Mastodon | https://infosec.exchange/@huxley

Resources
Learn more about RunZero and their offering: https://itspm.ag/runzervvyh

Catch the video and podcast version of this conversation: https://itspmagazine.com/their-stories/its-difficult-to-secure-the-invisible-reinventing-asset-management-for-modern-challenges-in-it-iot-and-ot-a-runzero-story-with-huxley-barbee

BSides NYC Podcast: https://itsprad.io/event-coverage-1388

Are you interested in telling your story?
https://www.itspmagazine.com/telling-your-story

In this Their Story podcast on ITSPmagazine, Huxley Barbee delves into the world of InfoSec and asset management, discussing the importance of having a full asset inventory and how his company, RunZero, addresses this challenge with a cyber asset management solution.

Founders HG Moore and Chris Kirsch identified the need for better tooling as security teams' scopes expanded beyond managing traditional IT devices to securing IoT and OT devices across various environments. RunZero helps organizations understand gaps in security controls coverage, identify potentially vulnerable devices in the face of zero-day threats, and more.

Huxley Barbee explains that a full asset inventory, including asset details like location within the network, device function, and business context, can assist in determining which vulnerabilities or misconfigurations need immediate attention. Huxley highlights the delicate process of gathering information on devices and the importance of incremental fingerprinting, particularly in OT environments and those with often-unmanaged IoT devices.

The trio also cover the business side, discussing the typical clients for RunZero and the mindset shift required to realize that existing asset discovery tools may not be sufficient. They discuss the collaboration between IT, OT, and security teams, emphasizing that having a full cyber asset inventory beyond the traditional IT asset inventory can help reduce remediation time and improve overall business decision-making.

Tune in to this episode to learn more about RunZero's modern approach to asset management, the crucial role of visibility in addressing security challenges, and how a robust asset inventory by RunZero can help businesses leaders and security practitioners make better decisions.

Note: This story contains promotional content. Learn more: https://www.itspmagazine.com/their-infosec-story

Guest: Huxley Barbee, Security Evangelist at RunZero [@runZeroInc] and lead organizer for BSides NYC [@bsidesnyc]

On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhbarbee/

On Twitter | https://twitter.com/huxley_barbee

On Mastodon | https://infosec.exchange/@huxley

Resources
Learn more about RunZero and their offering: https://itspm.ag/runzervvyh

Catch the video and podcast version of this conversation: https://itspmagazine.com/their-stories/its-difficult-to-secure-the-invisible-reinventing-asset-management-for-modern-challenges-in-it-iot-and-ot-a-runzero-story-with-huxley-barbee

BSides NYC Podcast: https://itsprad.io/event-coverage-1388

Are you interested in telling your story?
https://www.itspmagazine.com/telling-your-story

Guests: 

Andy Clark, Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex [@SussexUni]
The University of Sussex Profile: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p493-andy-clark
On Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clark

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Hosts: 

Marco Ciappelli, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining Society Podcast

On ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/marco-ciappelli
 

Sean Martin, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast [@RedefiningCyber]

On ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/sean-martin

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This Episode’s Sponsors

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Episode Introduction

Welcome to the Audio Signals Podcast; today's episode features an exciting conversation with Andy Clark, a philosopher and cognitive scientist from the University of Sussex. Andy's interests lie in understanding how minds work, and in this episode, we discuss his new book, The Experience Machine. The book delves into how our minds predict and shape reality and how we can control our predictions to a certain extent.

We start by exploring the idea that brains are prediction machines, and everything that our brains do can be understood by thinking of them as in the business of making predictions, not just about the world outside but also about our own bodies and future activities. As we discuss the premise of the book, we ponder over the question of how much control we have over our predictions and how much control others have over them. Andy's response to this is intriguing - we probably have a bit more control than we think, but not as much as we'd like.

We also explore the science and technology that allow Andy and others to bring this theory upfront. Andy shares that we're well beyond the stage of it just being a kind of idea. It's now a well-worked-out computational story about how predictions and sensory evidence are balanced by different bits of our brains. The theory is pretty well dominant, and we're hitting both the bases of having a theory and showing that brains like ours can actually do it.

So, sit back and enjoy this exciting conversation that will change the way you think about your mind, your predictions, and your reality. Don't forget to share and subscribe to the podcast, and invite your friends and family to join in on the fascinating journey of exploration and discovery.

About the Book

Widely acclaimed philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark unpacks this provocative new theory that the brain is a powerful, dynamic prediction engine, mediating our experience of both body and world. From the most mundane experiences to the most sublime, reality as we know it is the complex synthesis of sensory information and expectation. Exploring its fascinating mechanics and remarkable implications for our lives, mental health, and society, Clark nimbly illustrates how the predictive brain sculpts all human experience. Chronic pain and mental illness are shown to involve subtle malfunctions of our unconscious predictions, pointing the way towards more effective, targeted treatments. Under renewed scrutiny, the very boundary between ourselves and the outside world dissolves, showing that we are as entangled with our environments as we are with our onboard memories, thoughts, and feelings. And perception itself is revealed to be something of a controlled hallucination.

Unveiling the extraordinary explanatory power of the predictive brain, The Experience Machine is a mesmerizing window onto one of the most significant developments in our understanding of the mind.

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Resources

The Experience Machine (book): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608016/the-experience-machine-by-andy-clark/

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For more podcast stories from Audio Signals: 
https://www.itspmagazine.com/audio-signals

Watch the video version on-demand on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnYu0psdcllS0aVY7qlwHxX3uiN7tqqsy

Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?
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Guests: 

Andy Clark, Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex [@SussexUni]
The University of Sussex Profile: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p493-andy-clark
On Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clark

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Hosts: 

Marco Ciappelli, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining Society Podcast

On ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/marco-ciappelli
 

Sean Martin, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast [@RedefiningCyber]

On ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/sean-martin

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This Episode’s Sponsors

Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?
👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/sponsor-the-itspmagazine-podcast-network

_____________________________

Episode Introduction

Welcome to the Audio Signals Podcast; today's episode features an exciting conversation with Andy Clark, a philosopher and cognitive scientist from the University of Sussex. Andy's interests lie in understanding how minds work, and in this episode, we discuss his new book, The Experience Machine. The book delves into how our minds predict and shape reality and how we can control our predictions to a certain extent.

We start by exploring the idea that brains are prediction machines, and everything that our brains do can be understood by thinking of them as in the business of making predictions, not just about the world outside but also about our own bodies and future activities. As we discuss the premise of the book, we ponder over the question of how much control we have over our predictions and how much control others have over them. Andy's response to this is intriguing - we probably have a bit more control than we think, but not as much as we'd like.

We also explore the science and technology that allow Andy and others to bring this theory upfront. Andy shares that we're well beyond the stage of it just being a kind of idea. It's now a well-worked-out computational story about how predictions and sensory evidence are balanced by different bits of our brains. The theory is pretty well dominant, and we're hitting both the bases of having a theory and showing that brains like ours can actually do it.

So, sit back and enjoy this exciting conversation that will change the way you think about your mind, your predictions, and your reality. Don't forget to share and subscribe to the podcast, and invite your friends and family to join in on the fascinating journey of exploration and discovery.

About the Book

Widely acclaimed philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark unpacks this provocative new theory that the brain is a powerful, dynamic prediction engine, mediating our experience of both body and world. From the most mundane experiences to the most sublime, reality as we know it is the complex synthesis of sensory information and expectation. Exploring its fascinating mechanics and remarkable implications for our lives, mental health, and society, Clark nimbly illustrates how the predictive brain sculpts all human experience. Chronic pain and mental illness are shown to involve subtle malfunctions of our unconscious predictions, pointing the way towards more effective, targeted treatments. Under renewed scrutiny, the very boundary between ourselves and the outside world dissolves, showing that we are as entangled with our environments as we are with our onboard memories, thoughts, and feelings. And perception itself is revealed to be something of a controlled hallucination.

Unveiling the extraordinary explanatory power of the predictive brain, The Experience Machine is a mesmerizing window onto one of the most significant developments in our understanding of the mind.

_____________________________

Resources

The Experience Machine (book): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608016/the-experience-machine-by-andy-clark/

_____________________________

For more podcast stories from Audio Signals: 
https://www.itspmagazine.com/audio-signals

Watch the video version on-demand on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnYu0psdcllS0aVY7qlwHxX3uiN7tqqsy

Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?
👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/sponsor-the-itspmagazine-podcast-network

IT’S TIME TO SAVE UP ON CLOUD COSTS. 

HOW? BY CUTTING OFF SOME TIME.

Nick and Jason talk about savings in today’s episode. The duo introduces a no-cost, no-commitment, simple yet effective way to save by implementing scheduled instances. Nick and Jason explain and give us context on what schedule instances are and cite examples of how it applies to your cost. Learn more about this in the latest episode of Cloud Cost Optimization.

WORDS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR DAY

NICK: THE SAVINGS YOU GET WITH SCHEDULED INSTANCES

“Just take this simple example of 10 hours a day, five days a week, so I got about 50 hours where there's an activity against that environment that's under 30% utilization. For the given weeks, I've got 70% of the time, I've got resources that are running that are costing me money, compute resources that are costing me money that I don't need to have running. So we're talking about immediately, sort of just round numbers 70% savings without any commitment, and the best savings vehicle I can get from a commitment-based strategy.”

Get to know our hosts in the links below:

• Nick Lumsden | Jason Yaeger

Get a free assessment and optimize your environment in TenacityCloud.com

This week, Paul is joined by Diego Padilla-Phillips, Technical Director and Net-Zero and Decarbonisation Lead for WSP in the UK. Many of you will know WSP, but if you don’t, WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering professional services firms, with 37000 employees across 40 countries.

In this fascinating conversation, Diego explains how skyscrapers are changing, how they will look in the future and why they will become an integral part of the built environment moving forward. 

For anyone in construction, this is a thought-provoking and insightful listen.

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The Own The Build podcast is brought to you by C-Link and is hosted by me, Paul Heming; feel free to connect on LinkedIn and send me a message. 

If you like what we do, I would love to hear from you and to keep in touch. You can also subscribe to stay up to date with our latest articles, videos, and audio production.

As I mentioned on the show, I am a QS and founded C-Link, an app that provides all the tools you need to get subcontract procurement done without the legwork. Head to www.get.c-link.com/podcast to learn more, or just email me at paul@c-link.com. 

Want to connect with Paul?

Paul is on Linkedin here and would love to talk. You can also connect with Paul at paul@c-link.com or through, C-Link.

Watch the Video to learn more; you can book a demo by clicking here.

C-Link is software built by Quantity Surveyors for Main Contractors. We save 600 hours of Quantity Surveying time per project in automation. We can make your QS’ so much more efficient.

ReleaseHub provides on-demand environments for development, staging, and production. Every developer knows that environments can be a bottleneck, so ReleaseHub’s mission is to empower developers to share their ideas with the world more quickly and easily, sidestepping what Tommy calls “the big bottlenecks in development.”

As CTO of TrueCar, Tommy was leading an effort to rebuild that company’s tech stack, but he needed an environment management platform, and nothing on the market fit his needs. The homegrown environment management system he developed with his cofounders would become ReleaseHub.

Tommy joined Y Combinator in 2009.

Connect with Tommy on LinkedIn.

Today we’re shouting out the winner of an Inquisitive Badge: L-Samuels asked a well-received question on 30 separate days and maintained a positive question record.

In our newest episode of “Be Advised,” host Joyal Pavey talks with Lorissa MacAllister, president and founder of Enviah, a health care design firm. She shares how removing barriers can improve staff success and patient satisfaction. Mary Free Bed CEO Kent Riddle joins the podcast to discuss how Enviah assisted Mary Free Bed to address growth.

Lorissa MacAllister, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, is a thought leader in the healthcare and transformative design fields, and she focuses on the way people interact with – and are affected by—the physical environment. With a background in architecture and medical social work, MacAllister has blended her experience to pioneer a unique, evidence-based approach in the health care industry and beyond. 

Kent Riddle is the president and CEO of Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital. Riddle, originally an engineer, realigned his career path after his wife suffered a traumatic brain injury and recovered at Mary Free Bed. He’s been the CEO since 2011 and led the organization through a $66 million dollar expansion and renovation project while helping it grow into one of the nation’s largest rehabilitation systems.

In this episode:

• Introduction to the Elevated Environments app and its capabilities (1:20)
• Introducing episode guests Erin McDannald and Victoria Fields (1:43)
• Erin’s discussion of the history and mission behind Elevated Environments (2:44)
• Victoria’s perspective on the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and the Elevated environments app (4:25)
• How Elevated Environments opens the doors to remote work and accessible work spaces (6:34)
• Erin shares her thoughts on how Environments and Lighting Environments expanded their company footprints in the midst of the pandemic (7:05)
• News of Elevated Environments’ recent “Future Focus” award (9:24)
• Inspiring the metaverse: Environments’ desire to offer virtual metaverse spaces (10:52)
• Building the metaverse: Environments’ plans to offer metaverse spaces to Elevated Environments app customers (13:10)
• Invitation to schedule an Elevated Environments demo (16:30)
• Environments’ desire to use the metaverse as a tool for workplace accessibility and why this is important (16:48)
• Dispelling the myth or fear of being “locked into” the metaverse: how the metaverse is built to connect openly (17:43) 
• Closing remarks and contact information (18:52)

Thank you for listening! Questions, comments, or just want to say hi? Drop us a line at hello@environments.tech, we would love to hear from you. 

Click here to learn more about Environments and Elevated Environments.

Join me for the second in a two-parter we recorded last year - a conversation about Social Identity.  In fact, with the Euros in full swing, this is a great time to revisit the first part (here) as well as Gareth Southgate's recent interview on the High Performance Podcast (here).

Dr. Matt Slater from Staffordshire University and Chris Hartley from the University of Stirling spend a lot of time thinking about groups, identity and leadership.

Dr. Matt Slater is Associate Professor of Sport & Exercise Psychology at Staffordshire University, a chartered Psychologist and an active researcher with interests in the psychology of leadership and team functioning in performance contexts. He is also the Author of the book ‘Togetherness: How to Build a Winning Team’, published in 2019.

Chris Hartley is also a chartered and HCPC registered practitioner in sport and exercise psychology, and a Lecturer in sport psychology at the University of Stirling (Scotland, UK). His PHD research adopted a social identity theory perspective, where he aimed to understand how a social identity and the self-categorisation process underpins the provision and receipt of social support. Chris has also previously worked in performance academies, University Scholarship programmes, and consulted with several sport NGBs and a range of individual clients. He’s helped organise the 2nd International Conference on Social Identity in Sport (ICSIS) which took place in June 2019 in Stirling.

Matt and Chris join me for the SECOND part of the first ever group discussion on Slice of PIE - and we talk about identity, leadership, the transience of groups and the powerful wellness impacts of social groups amongst many other topics.

This is Part 2 of the discussion so make sure to check out Part 1 when you can.

You can find more about Matt and Chris here:

Dr Matt Slater
https://twitter.com/DrMattSlater
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Slater3

Matt's book:
https://www.bennionkearny.com/book/togetherness-how-to-build-a-winning-team-book-ebook-matt-slater/

Chris Hartley
https://twitter.com/DrChrisHartley
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hartley-4981aa102/

The New Psychology of Sport & Exercise:
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-new-psychology-of-sport-and-exercise/book265588#contents

In this episode we speak to someone who has worked, and is currently working in professional football and rugby. Joe Dixon is a fellow graduate of the MSc Sport & Exercise Psychology Masters as Staffordshire University and now performance psychologist at Stoke City Football Club and Bath Rugby. Joe had a career in Occupational Psychology before he pivoted into sport, working in HR and as a consultant. This took him as far away as Western Australia and the buzzing industries circulating around natural resources. As we’ll hear in the interview, the call came one day to pack up the Australian life and move back to the UK to enter the world of professional football....

Sign up for Joe's upcoming webinar:
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/580921885799891214

Joe's website:
josephdixonpsychology.com

Contact Joe:
joseph@josephdixonpsychology.com

Follow Joe on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/DrJosephDixon

Check out the Psychology of Soccer:
https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Soccer/Dixon-Barker-Thelwell-Mitchell/p/book/9780367350284

Our writer Amy is a bit of an adventure girl. She’s been itching to talk to you about the benefits of eco therapy. Don’t worry — you don’t have to move into the wilderness.
In fact you don’t even have to leave your living room.

Links

• Follow us on Instagram @thespace_podcast
• Grounded; How connection with nature can improve our mental and physical wellbeing, by Ruth Allen http://bit.ly/grounded-ruth-allen
• Ruth Allen’s Instagram @whitepeak_ruth

Credits  
Host: Casey Donovan @caseydonovan88
Content: Amy Molloy @amy_molloy
Executive Producer: Elise Cooper
Editor: Will Ryan

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back - it's our second episode!

Patterns and reliability of children's skin temperature prior to and during sleep in the home setting

Susan M McCabe, Catherine Elliott,  Katherine Langdon, Chris R Abbiss

• PMID: 29885918
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.06.005

Abstract

The relationship between patterns of change in skin temperature and sleep is well recognised. In particular, there is a rapid rise in distal skin temperature (Tdistal) and slower rise in proximal skin temperature (Tproximal) prior to sleep onset. The difference between Tdistal and Tproximal is known as the distal-proximal gradient (DPG). 

Rise in DPG is known as a measure of distal vasodilation, which contributes to the drop in core body temperature (Tcore) that is important to sleep onset and maintenance. Patterns of change in skin temperature before and during sleep are reported for neonates, infants, adults and elderly, however they are not known for school aged children. Therefore, the current observational study aimed to determine the patterns and reliability of skin temperatures (Tskin) and DPG in relation to sleep of school aged children in their home settings. 

Participants (22 children, aged 6-12) completed the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire and used Thermochron iButtons and actigraphy for four school nights in their typical sleep settings. There were evident patterns of Tskin change before and during sleep. In particular, Tdistal was lower but rose more rapidly than Tproximal after reported bedtime and prior to sleep onset. This reflected a timely rise in DPG, and shows that distal vasodilation precedes sleep onset in school aged children. 

The measures of Tskin and sleep were practical for children in their home settings, and the observed patterns were consistent across consecutive school nights. Environmental and behavioural strategies that manage skin temperature before and during sleep should be explored for their potential as valuable components of treatment of childhood insomnia.

Keywords: Distal and proximal skin temperatures; Natural environments; School-age children; Sleep onset.

My guest this week is Ismael Pedraza, or 'Isma'.

Isma is a performance psychologist working as a practitioner and researcher in Germany, who has come via Finland, Australia and his home country of Colombia where he played a high standard of football.

He’s currently the performance coach for Rogue, a professional eSports team in Europe that participates in the League of Legends European Championship. He is also on the managing council of ENYSSP, the European Network of Young Specialists in Sport Psychology. ENYSSP is a fantastic network for practitioners young and old, interested in sport and performance psychology and pre-COVID, their conferences were a key staple in the sport psychology calendar, based at stunning locations around Europe. See a link to ENYSSP below.

If like me, you are slightly in the dark about this juggernaut that is eSports, this discussion will be a useful eye opener in to the culture, language and pressures that exist in this environment.

Links to Isma:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isma_pedraza
- Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ismael_Pedraza
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismael-pedraza-06475bbb/
- Website: http://thementalcraft.com/

Weldon Green's 'Mind Games':
- https://www.youtube.com/c/MindgamesGg/

In this episode I speak to Cath Bishop. A speaker, consultant, executive coach and author on developing success in leadership. Cath is also a former diplomat and former elite rower for Great Britain, representing at 3 Olympic games, achieving World Champion status twice as well as an Olympic Silver Medal in partnership with Dame Katherine Grainger in the coxless pair in Athens.

A cursory glance at Cath’s Wikipedia or LinkedIn might give you the impression of one word… SUCCESS. Yet it’s the notion of what is defined as success which sits at the heart of her new book The Long Win. Is success the outcome or the journey towards it? Is it the medals and quarterly targets or the skills and growth you gain along the way? And why is our culture obsessed with winning?

I thoroughly enjoyed interviewing Cath and getting deeper into some of the topics within the book. If you are interested I’ve left a link to the book in the description below, along with a host of other books I've read and have been recommended in the world of psychology, organisation culture, wellbeing and performance.

In our conversation we jump straight into the themes from the book and the implications for building psychologically informed environments. We only lightly touch upon Cath's own Olympic and athletic journey, but if you’d like to find out more I’d invite you to listen to Cath's interviews with Simon Mundie on Don’t Tell Me the Score and Steve Ingham on The Supporting Champions podcast to learn more. Again, see these links below:

The Long Win:
https://cathbishop.com/the-long-win/

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/thecathbishop

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cath-bishop-a0029847/

Recommended books:
https://www.petejackson.co.uk/sport-psychology/books

Cath Bishop on Don't Tell Me The Score:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08k52g6

Cath Bishop on Supporting Champions:
https://supportingchampions.co.uk/post/2020/09/23/072-cath-bishop-on-the-long-win/