Hello and welcome back to the Get Your Globe at podcast. Today we are talking all things habit and behaviour change with expert Dr Heather McKee.

Heather is a behaviour change psychology specialist and habit coach who has spent over 10 years in academia researching how to help support people

to make their habits stick. On today's episode, we spoke all about how we can use evidence-based

techniques to help build the skills, knowledge and confidence to create long-lasting habits.

I am personally so fascinated by this topic and Heather shed a lot of

light on so many of the reasons we find it hard to make sustainable changes. I really hope you

enjoy listening to this episode. Let's bring on the wonderful Heather. Welcome Heather to the podcast. Thanks for having me. I'm very excited to talk to you

today because I'm going to be talking all about behaviour change, which I know is something a lot of

people have probably tried and potentially not always stuck with. And I think it's a really

interesting thing to discuss. And I know you first study behaviour

change in relation to weight loss, which is probably something that a lot of people have tried.

And I think there are just so many fad diets out there. I just love to know why are they so

popular and why do they not work?

Oh, great question.

A big one to start with.

I love it.

So I suppose it's because we're kind of in a society where we're always kind of

looking for that quick fix.

And they're popularised by the media and they're also popularised by celebrities.

And we're all kind of searching for that

silver bullet. But the unfortunate thing is that the research evidence, so, you know, in my 10, 15 years

looking at behaviour change research and in the five years I spent specifically looking at

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