This week’s Thriving Adventures theme, Productivity Joy: Leading with Impact and Joy, explores how sustainable success begins with alignment, between our values, intentions, and daily actions. Simi Rayat, a global business psychologist, executive coach, and author of 'Productivity Joy', brings a refreshing perspective to leadership and wellbeing. With a deep commitment to psychological safety and personal growth, Simi shares how we can redefine productivity, not as constant output, but as purposeful, joyful engagement with our work and life.

In this session, Simi introduces her transformative 5Qs formula, a reflective tool designed to help individuals and teams move from survival mode into intentional, values-driven action. Through practices rooted in emotional intelligence, gratitude, and mindful decision-making, she invites us to lead with clarity, presence, and heart.

With extensive experience supporting organisations, entrepreneurs, and changemakers around the world, Simi reminds us that true impact is created not through hustle, but through conscious alignment. This session is a space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the kind of productivity that nourishes rather than depletes, and to remember that joy is not a reward at the end of hard work, but a vital part of the process.

This week’s Thriving Adventures spotlight features The Happiness Journey on the I Am Thriving Podcast, where Angie Hilton, meditation coach, counsellor, and founder of Destination Happiness, joins Johanna Crichton for a heartfelt exploration of what it truly means to cultivate joy and balance in everyday life.

Angie, whose personal experiences with ADHD and panic attacks inspired her shift from the entertainment industry to mental health advocacy, shares how mindfulness, meditation, and intentional self-care can transform how we navigate stress and create inner calm. Drawing on her work as a meditation coach and her passion for wellbeing, Angie offers practical insights and soulful reflections on how to embrace stillness, find connection, and reconnect with the simple practices that keep us grounded.

In this inspiring conversation, Angie reminds us that happiness isn’t about chasing perfection or constant positivity, it’s about creating space for presence, compassion, and gratitude, even amidst life’s chaos. Whether you’re new to meditation or seeking fresh ways to nurture your emotional wellbeing, this episode offers both guidance and encouragement to embrace your own path to balance and joy.

This week’s Thriving Adventures theme is an invitation to explore the power of gratitude as a grounding force, not just in easy or joyful moments, but in life’s complexity, change, and uncertainty. Through honest conversation and gentle practices, we explore how gratitude can help us reconnect with ourselves and move forward with clarity, calm, and intention.

Our guest is Althea, a spiritual teacher, intuitive healer, and minister, whose journey into gratitude began not from comfort, but through personal challenge. In this session, she shares how cultivating gratitude became a daily practice of resilience, surrender, and soul connection.

Drawing on her experience with spiritual healing, creative expression, and guiding others through emotional transformation, Althea offers a deeply heart-led conversation. She gently encourages us to honour our emotional truth while embracing life’s sacred impermanence, and to make space for the beauty that exists within the grit.

This week’s resources are designed to help you slow down, reconnect with presence, and find your footing through gratitude, even when life feels heavy or uncertain. Whether through journalling, mindfulness, or quiet self-reflection, this is your space to breathe, soften, and return to what truly matters.

Rob Andrew brings nearly 30 years of experience working in the field of domestic violence, supporting men and women to navigate the complexities of behaviour, accountability, and emotional growth in relationships. As a counsellor, group facilitator, and trainer, Rob has led countless individuals and groups through the process of recognising unhealthy patterns and building respectful, safer ways of connecting.

In his Thriving Adventures webinar, The “No” Test for Safe and Healthier Relationships, Rob introduced a powerful tool he developed to help individuals reflect on how they respond when a partner says “no.” More than a concept, The “No” Test is an entry point to deeper conversations around boundaries, control, and mutual respect — and how these small moments reveal the underlying dynamics of a relationship.

Rob’s work is grounded in compassion and honesty. He offers a practical, emotionally intelligent framework that invites us to look inward, take responsibility for our reactions, and create relationships that honour both autonomy and connection.

This week’s Thriving Adventures webinar, Finding Light Through Trauma, explores how we can move through life’s most difficult experiences with grace, honesty, and renewed meaning. Rather than focusing on returning to “normal,” this session invites us to gently uncover what can emerge when we allow ourselves to slow down, reflect, and grow through adversity.

Our guest, Albane Mahaut, brings a deeply personal perspective to this conversation. With a career in sales and marketing and a recent transition into early childhood education, Albane shares how her breast cancer diagnosis earlier this year reshaped her priorities, identity, and relationship with self-care and resilience.

Her story is one of emotional clarity, courage, and reconnection, a reminder that even in the most uncertain chapters of life, there is potential for stillness, self-discovery, and quiet strength. Through her lived experience, Albane offers a powerful reflection on letting go of perfection, embracing presence, and finding light exactly where we are.

In our first Thriving Adventures Webinar, Resilience and Bouncing Forward, reframe how we move through life’s challenges, not by simply returning to how things were, but by adapting, evolving, and growing with greater clarity and self-awareness. It’s about recognising our capacity to thrive through uncertainty, and discovering the steady rhythms and reflective practices that help us stay grounded along the way.

Joining us in this conversation is Nicole Glisson, Head of Positive Psychology and Director of Academic Affairs at The School of Positive Psychology. With over a decade of experience in both educational and corporate wellbeing, Nicole brings a unique blend of science and soul to her work. She holds a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology, is a certified SPARK Resilience trainer, and integrates mindfulness and movement through her qualifications as a yoga and meditation teacher.

Through her lens, resilience becomes more than a buzzword, it becomes a lived experience, shaped by daily choices, compassionate awareness, and the ability to bounce forward into a life aligned with purpose and presence.