Rachel Burden

The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan

Spiritland Creative

Fitness, Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Personal, Interview, Mentalhealth, Gabbylogan, Menopause, Advice, Journal, Education, Wellbeing, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Journalist, broadcaster, and one half of the 5 Live Breakfast presenting team, Rachel Burden, joins Gabby on the podcast this week. Rachel talks about how years of very early wake up calls have taught her not to get too paranoid about the amount of sleep she gets, instead looking at the bigger picture and the positive effects of being stimulated and nourished by a job you love. As a working mum of four, Rachel also discusses making life decisions as a family unit, striving to have the things you want in life rather than trying to have it all, and how her youngest child’s premature birth proved just how little we can actually control in life. Rachel also talks about the joy of taking up walking football in midlife, and her new project - Cafe Hope - which she’s hoping will provide some relief from the daily news cycle. Dr Danny Penman also joins to speak about his experience using meditation as pain relief after a serious paragliding accident, and how taking time out for meditation can actually save you time in the long run. His new book Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World is available now.

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1:13.2	Hello and welcome to the midpoint with me Gabby Logan. I'm in the studio early today waiting for my guest the journalist and broadcaster Rachel Burden who's coming in hot off her Radio 5 Live breakfast show a program she's hosted for nearly 13 years and I've woken up to pretty much for 13 years and
1:35.0	when Rachel isn't sound tracking people's morning coffees, commutes and school drop-offs
1:38.8	you'll often find her on the BBC breakfast sofa bringing TV audiences the news of the day.
1:44.4	She certainly is a glutton for punishment for an early alarm, isn't she?
1:47.0	And given she's on the cusp of 50 and does all of this as well as raising four children,
1:51.3	we're no doubt going to end up talking about how she
1:53.4	juggles it all and where she gets her energy from. And on the subject of
1:57.1	energy, journalist and meditation teacher, Dr. Danny Penman is going to be
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