Resilience Unravelled
Duncan Starr-Boltt on Fitness, Identity, Eastern Mind Mastery, and Purpose-Driven Goal Setting
Host Russell Thackeray welcomes Duncan Starr-Boltt, a Cambridge-based Brit who lives in Crete most of the year, and explores his journey from mechanical engineering into personal training, coaching, and running a CrossFit gym. Duncan describes intense fitness challenges (including a wall-ball world ...
Celeste Warren on The Truth About Equity: Myths, Access, and Turning Awareness Into Action
In this Resilience Unravelled episode, Dr Russell Thackeray interviews Celeste Warren, a US-based former chief diversity and inclusion officer who retired after nearly four decades in global corporations and now consults, speaks, and promotes her book The Truth About Equity. Warren explains why equi...
Deborah Santana on Loving the Fire, Choosing Freedom, and Levelling the Playing Field
Dr Russell Thackeray welcomes writer and nonprofit leader Deborah Santana from Los Angeles to discuss her work and memoir, Loving the Fire: Choosing Me, Finding Freedom. Deborah explains her nonprofit Do Little, which supports women and girls in health, education, and happiness, and describes her li...
Oneika Mays on Mindfulness, Loving-Kindness, and Writing âSit With Meâ
Host Dr Russell Thackeray interviews Jersey City-based meditation teacher, yoga teacher, and licensed massage therapist Oneika Mays, discussing her love of reading and music, the value of stories, and how technology, social media, and AI affect attention and thinking. Mays describes being introduced...
Veronica Mason on Identity, Mindset, and Post-Traumatic Growth After a Life-Changing Accident
In this episode of Resilience Unravelled, Dr Russell Thackeray speaks with Veronica Mason, a Sydney-based coach, speaker, and neurotech founder who lives near Bondi Beach and describes the areaâs intentional, health-conscious community. Mason shares her half-Australian, half-Mauritian upbringing and...
The Iron Thread: Why the 2026 World Cup Will Break the Weak
Dr Russell Thackeray discusses the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the USA, Mexico, and Canada and argues it will be a continent-sized resilience test rather than a tactics story, highlighting four pressure points: rapid shifts between microclimates (from Seattle/Vancouver to high-altitude Mexico City to Tex...
Dr Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj on Leadership Transformation, Authenticity, Values, and Evidence-Based DE&I
Dr Russell Thackeray interviews Dr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, an executive advisor, adjunct business school faculty member, and author focused on leadership transformation and human potential. They discuss how introductions differ across Western and other cultures, and how women leaders may adopt âma...
Ryan Vet on the Generational Pendulum, AI Acceleration, and Putting Friction Back into Childhood
Dr Russell Thackeray interviews futurist and former venture capitalist Ryan Vet, who recounts his family nameâs changes after immigrating to the US and his career path from a childhood lemonade stand to a multinational marketing company and 20 years in venture capital, exiting in 2021 to research, w...
From Criminal Solicitor to Performance Psychology Author: Adrian Kelly on Success, Morality, and Transcendence
Russell interviews Adrian Kelly in Northern Ireland about his varied career and ideas on success. Kelly began as a criminal solicitor, then left the profession after the 2009â2010 financial crash and fee cuts, pivoting into a renewable energy wind-turbine business that grew to 30 staff, raised about...
Balance, Not Perfection: Trust, Gut Health, and Practical Recovery from Crohnâs & Colitis with Dane Johnson
Host Dr. Russell welcomes returning guest Dane Johnson to discuss resilience through gut health, Crohnâs and colitis as autoimmune inflammatory bowel diseases, and why cases are rapidly increasing, which Johnson attributes to combined factors like toxins, pathogens, stress, EMF, poor sleep, and ultr...