#114: Robbie Swale - The Power to Choose: Calm, Complexity, and the Courage to Be Fully Yourself

About this episode

Robbie Swale discusses his new book and explores themes of choice, mindset, and connection in a complex world.

In this special episode, Alex Whitton and Alex Swallow take the reins to interview Robbie about the release of his new book, The Power to Choose: Finding Calm and Connection in a Complex World . What unfolds is a warm, honest and surprisingly vulnerable exploration of choice, mindset, relationships, and the inner work that helps us meet complexity with more skill and less fear. Across the conversation, Robbie shares the nine-year journey behind the book - from a powerful coaching question asked by Joel Monk in 2016 through to the resistance, the rewrites, and the emotional cost of releasing something deeply personal into the world. Together, the three of them explore themes at the heart of both the book and coaching itself. In this episode they explore: Why in almost every moment, there’s more choice available than we think. The idea of the Higher Self - and why we all have moments where we forget it. How curiosity becomes an antidote to reactivity and contraction. What really happens when we assume others are doing their best. Why connection and calm matter so much in a complex world. How writing a book becomes its own developmental journey. The castle metaphor for working with…

People in this episode

Host: Robbie Swale

Guests: Alex Whitton, Alex Swallow

Topics covered

• choice
• mindset
• relationships
• inner work
• complexity
• writing process

Keywords

• coaching
• calm
• connection
• curiosity
• reactivity
• shadow work
• personal development

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Power to Choose: Finding Calm and Connection in a Complex World

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