Sep 11, 2018
Spending much of her teens wiped out with Chronic Fatigue meant when Felicity Morse DID get better she wanted to get out and travel, first working on super yachts in the South of France - from which time she has the craziest of stories. From sailing with the world’s richest, to travelling solo and finding discovering a surprising Native American heritage Felicity is all about the human connection. We talk travel, mental health and her book Give a F**K – on how to care without burning out.
On this episode we cover:
Her book ‘Give a F**k’
How self-help books start conversations
Sex addiction versus recovering from trauma
How everyone has experienced something traumatic
How being ‘woke’ is not all its cracked up to be
How stuff will surface eventually
Fear of abandonment and complex PTSD
How being triggered is the most traumatic thing in the world
Does sleep training damage children
Clearing off the top layer of our conditioning
How we need to listen to anxiety and depression
Peer support instead of therapy
Being disillusioned with news – feeding people’s fear and judgment
Anxiety being used to sell us things
Trusting in whatever will happen whilst creating a safety net
Acknowledging we are not in control
How to care without burning out
Not being an ‘anxiety junkie or fear junkie’
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as a 13 year old
Training as a life-coach
How to say things so people can hear them
Preferring coaching over therapy
How being ill made her dream of travel
The importance of a good sick-bed window
Getting a job on super yachts
Cleaning, cooking and ironing the biggest silk pants in the world
The level of money of the super yacht set
Cannes, St Tropez and the Cote D’Azure
Kicking the prostitutes out when the girlfriends arrive
200 red roses
The sad death of super yacht stewardess Sinead McNamara
Training to run into burning buildings
Living in a crew house in Antibes
Being attacked in a mixed-sex hostel dormitory
Feeling the full weight of obvious sexism
Finding a high status boyfriend
The bigger the boat the more important the boyfriend
Life on board the super yacht
Cleaning up hairy floors and condoms
The super rich money hierarchy
Yachting with Beyonce and Jay Z (who ate friend chicken and played video games)
The very high profile US celebrity who was not very nice at all
The stages of rich – fun, power and philanthropy
How she made real life friends on the comments section of the Daily Mail
A tea party for the lonely
Knocking on doors at the Quakers, the Baptists and other random churches
June Sarpong and her book Diversify
Being vulnerable enough to connect with people
Brene Brown’s Ted Talk on vulnerability
How travelling on her own forces her out of her comfort zone
How to connect when travelling on your own
Why going to Ibiza and Formentara was a mistake
How everyone feels like an outsider
Fear of rejection
The best way to approach people when travelling along
Social media’s social hits
Breakfast is the best way to speak to people!
Living in Genoa
How port cities can have an increased level of crime
The beauty of the south of france
Her family in South Dakota
Her Native American great grandmother
Native American forced adoption
Death in child birth
Her grandma’s move from Leeds to South Dakota
Locals strangling chickens
How the British and new world settlers did some terrible things
Lack of tribal DNA due to the massacres
Loving California and the pacific coast light
Thinking about cities in terms of light and dark
Have people are influenced by landscape
Corfu and bags full of lemons
Cheap flights on Norwegian Airlines
How Lily Allen's 22 reminds of her the laundry