Raising £1,000,000 for Mental Health. My Why.


100 of us each raising £10,000 to collectively raise £1,000,000 for Mental Health.

Why?


1st – my Why.

7 years ago I was burnout.

I thought I was invincible.

Turns out I’m not.

This moment actually became my awakening. It became my breakthrough moment.

Knowing all humans have a breaking point is important.
We all have mental health.
We all need to be careful.
We all need to treat ourselves and others with kindness.
I was lost. I was lacking in purpose. What was this all for?

In that time of becoming myself again I got back into #running which helped me loads. I was looking after myself again. It gave me time to think about ideas, the future. It allowed me to be creative. It released Good chemicals. It naturally made me feel Good.

Those thoughts led me to step into being more like my Dad and purposely attract more kindness into my life. This led onto starting my kindness project We Make Good Happen (which was life changing)

It allowed me to think what would make a good dad (we had our son on the way). It got me thinking about what it takes to be a good role model.


For most of my adult life I’ve tried to go running at least once a week. Last year I made a habit of going 3 times a week.

This also leads me 7 years later to being really proud to be a part of #Project1Million for Bigmoose coffee co (superbly run by Jeff & Chloe)

100 people each raising £10,000 to collectively raise £1,000,000.


Yes that’s a MILLION POUNDS.

They will use this money for therapy to help people with their mental health, prevent #suicide and reduce #homelessness

If you need help. Ask.

#MentalHealth

Want to donate? Thank you

Give Kindness A Chance

I’m really honoured that the BBC commissioned my Give Kindness A Chance radio documentary.

“Matt Callanan meets the people whose lives have been changed by kindness, and the surprising science about its benefits for our health and wellbeing.”

It’s going out live on 21st March 7pm on BBC Radio Wales and 6.30pm on 24th March.

It’s followed by a week of kindness across the BBC Radio.

You can listen here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tchf

#GiveKindnessAChance #Kindness #BeKind

#GiveKindnessAChance #Kindness #BeKind #WeMakeGoodHappen #Tenner4Good

Want to start a podcast?

If you or your business want to start a podcast – we can help.

I run courses on podcasting and produce podcasts for people, companies and brands that achieve great results, chart in Apple Podcasts and attract amazing opportunities.

Want to start a Podcast? Join my Podcast Like A Pro Course

Have a podcast already and want to take it to the next level? Sign up to Podcaster Master

Want 121 support or us to produce the podcast for you we’ll take care of it. Email: hello@mattcallanan.co.uk

How To Build Hope, Ideas And Resilience With Matt Prior

Apple:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-build-hope-ideas-resilience-matt-prior-episode/id1477035059?i=1000471108669

Spotify:

At 20 years old he’d signed up to be in the air force until he was 40.

He trained hard and became a qualified fighter jet pilot.

Then his world came crashing down.

Completely unexpectedly, because of cutbacks, he was suddenly made redundant.

What you can learn from a former fighter jet pilot, now turned adventurer, world record holder and commercial pilot Matt Prior, who’s now based out in Hong Kong.

Listen to Matt as speaks from the heart about:

* Going back to basics
* Bartering and collaboration
* Ideas and Opportunities
* What this may mean for the future
* Making sensible decisions
* Identity
* Ego
* Resilience
* From chaos comes order
* Why we’re seeing more acts of kindness
* Is your plan recession proof and future proof
* How Bear Grylls TV show The Island relates to the situation right now

Website:
 https://mattprior.co.uk/

Instagram:
 https://www.instagram.com/mattprioruk/

Twitter:
 https://twitter.com/mattprioruk

Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/mattprioruk

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Today’s podcast is brought to you by:

We Make Film Happen http://wemakefilmhappen.com/

We Make Good Happen 
http://wemakegoodhappen.com/

We Make Podcasts Happen 
https://www.wemakepodcastshappen.com

Podcast Like a Pro: 
https://www.podcastlikeapro.co.uk/

We tap into the minds of people like adventurers, world record holders, entrepreneurs, voice coaches, psychologists, musicians and people making a positive difference around the world.

We want to find out what’s their path to success and what have they learnt along the way.

This is real stories from real people.

Plus we want to find out what success means to them.

The We Make Success Happen podcast is hosted by Matt Callanan, a former international DJ and musician turned filmmaker (with We Make Film Happen) and founder of the kindness project We Make Good Happen.

https://mattcallanan.co.uk/http://wemakesuccesshappen.com

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Want to know how to setup and launch a successful podcast?

Sign up to my course – Podcast Like a Pro: 

https://www.podcastlikeapro.co.uk/

How To Successfully launch a Podcast (in 6 minutes)


I spoke to a couple of hundred people at the sold out PodCon Cymru Wales’ first podcast conference.

I included any many tips on podcasting that I’ve learnt from producing the We Make Success Happen Podcast in 6 minutes.

I tried to go for informative (with a little bit of humour).

Let us know what you think.

If you need help producing a podcast we can help: https://www.wemakepodcastshappen.com/

If you require video production help for your podcast contact us: http://wemakefilmhappen.com/

[EP 002] How Adventure Can Change Your Life With Matt Prior

How adventure can change your life with Matt Prior // We Make Success Happen // EP 002

Matt Prior: Adventurer // Pilot // World Record Holder

 

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Matt Prior talks:

  • Why he considered becoming a monk (yes really!) after his career as a fighter jet pilot
  • How adventure can open up your world
  • What kindness he has seen around the world

 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/535516/1610899-how-adventure-can-change-your-life-with-matt-prior-episode-2.js?player=small

 

Website: https://mattprior.co.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattprioruk/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattprioruk

Today’s podcast brought to you by:

http://wemakefilmhappen.com/

http://wemakegoodhappen.com/

We tap into the minds of people like adventurers, world record holders, entrepreneurs, voice coaches, psychologists, musicians and people making a positive difference around the world.

We want to find out what’s their path to success and what have they learnt along the way.

This is real stories from real people.

Plus we want to find out what success means to them.

The We Make Success Happen podcast is hosted by Matt Callanan, a former international DJ and musician turned filmmaker (with We Make Film Happen) and founder of the kindness project We Make Good Happen.

https://mattcallanan.co.uk/

http://wemakesuccesshappen.com

I’m on the front cover of a (best selling!) book!

Made Beautiful by Scars: Transformation Stories by Veronica Farmer
Was very exciting to open a package this afternoon to see that I’m on the front of my 1st book cover (and it’s an Amazon Best Seller!)

Soon after #Tenner4Good I was approached by Australian author, therapist and amazing human Veronica Farmer who runs Made Beautiful By Scars and asked if I was willing to tell my story.

Across 8 pages I talk about the loss of my dad and friend to cancer, a breakup and taking life for granted.

Made Beautiful by Scars: Transformation Stories by Veronica Farmer

After hiding in a man cave to recover (as many men do) I came out the other side, became a dad and started to look at life a bit differently.

Then there was a few lucky dominoes put my way – which led to the start of #WeMakeGoodHappen

Read my story of how We Make Good Happen (my #kindness project) started and some other incredible stories of brave humans coping with what life throws at them.

There are some incredible stories of humans overcoming what life throws at you. Veronica has an amazing story too!

Big thanks to Veronica for having me in her book

Thanks for reading.

Matt Callanan

You can buy the book here:

Made Beautiful By Scars – Veronica Farmer (Amazon UK)

Made Beautiful By Scars – Veronica Farmer (Wordery UK)

Made Beautiful By Scars – Veronica Farmer (Amazon US)

 

Made Beautiful by Scars: Transformation Stories by Veronica Farmer

#WeMakeGoodHappen #Tenner4Good #MadeBeautifulByScars