Unveiling Health Challenges: The Revamped Watts Involved Podcast
Where the new chapter begins — why the show changed, and what it is now about.
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Your voice.
Nothing stopped mine.
Nothing should stop yours.
Conversations with entrepreneurs, authors and interesting people about the moments that tried to silence them, and how they found their voice anyway. Alongside the interviews, David draws on 30 years of communication, NLP and neuroscience, his book, and his own life with an autoimmune illness, to give you one tool you can use.
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From the Archive: Matt Brown on Systems, Imposter Syndrome and Killing What You Love (Episode 163)
Looking back at Episode 163 of Watts Involved with Matt Brown — founder and CEO of Digital Kung Fu and Black Swan Technology Holdings — and his 36-month roadmap to a hundred-million-dollar valuation. David unpacks the…
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Business & entrepreneurship
Building something of your own — what it costs, what it teaches, and what nobody tells you before you start.
Explore business 02
Marketing & selling
Getting found, and getting chosen — what actually brings customers in, from people who have had to make it work.
Explore marketing 03
Money & investing
Retirement, investing, wills and the rest of it — the conversations most of us put off having.
Explore money 04
Interesting people
Authors, artists, investigators and adventurers — people whose work is worth an hour of anyone's time.
Explore people 05
Mindset & beliefs
The stories you tell yourself decide what you attempt. How belief actually works — and how to change the ones costing you.
Explore mindset 06
Autoimmune & chronic illness
Living with CIDP, honestly told — diagnosis, treatment, setbacks, and what a hard body teaches a determined mind.
Explore autoimmune 07
Resilience
Setbacks, recoveries and comebacks — from people who have been through the worst and found a way forward.
Explore resilience 08
Health
Sleep, movement, breathing, stress, treatment — the practical side of looking after a body that needs the help.
Explore health 09
Purpose
Meaning, legacy and direction — the questions that get loud when life reminds you it is finite.
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286 episodes is a lot of scrolling. These four will tell you exactly what this show is — and whether it's for you.
Chronic Illness Journey: Sharing Stories, Finding Ways to Thrive, and Supporting Each Other
The chronic illness journey in one honest sitting — and how to keep thriving anyway.
Listen →Rich Alderton — Bouncing Back and Bouncing Higher: Adapting to Change with Resilience
Rich Alderton on bouncing back higher — resilience as a skill, not a slogan.
Listen →Living with Chronic Pain
The most recent ground truth — living with chronic pain, no varnish.
Listen → Every Sunday email
The Sunday Rebuild
One honest, useful email every Sunday — what living with a chronic illness is teaching about health, mindset and resilience, plus one conversation out of the archive worth your time. No fluff, no woo.
Why this show exists
At four years old, a plastic tube tore through my soft palate. The surgeons told my parents I might never speak. My gran disagreed — and coached me, patiently, every single day, until the doctors were wrong. I've been obsessed with what words can rebuild ever since.
The full story →The book
Cracking The Influence Code
Mastering advanced communication and negotiation with NLP, neuroscience and behavioural economics — thirty years of practice in one book.
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Quantum Self Development — The written companion to this podcast — science-backed self development for people who are done with woo.