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The Element of Play Podcast

Hosted by Jodi Salmond

Play is not a luxury. It's how we come back to life.

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If you're tired of hustle culture, feeling burnt out, or wondering why life feels a little flat, you're in the right place.

Hosted by Jodi Salmond - marine scientist, playful leadership coach, and author of The Element of Play - this podcast explores why play is far more important than most of us have been led to believe.

Through honest conversations, practical tools, research-informed insights, and a healthy dose of curiosity, the show explores how play can help us reconnect with our energy, creativity, courage and sense of aliveness.

If you're ready to feel more connected, more human and a little less beige, follow the show and join us.

Latest Episode

Full Throttle to Empty: Are You Performing at Your Best or Just Pushing Through?
Episode 7

Full Throttle to Empty: Are You Performing at Your Best or Just Pushing Through?

What happens when high performance becomes your normal setting, and rest starts to feel harder than pushing through?

In this episode, Andrew Boniface and I talk about high performance, identity, burnout, rest, human performance, nervous systems, play and what happens when the person behind the performer starts to disappear.

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