Unveiling Health Challenges: The Revamped Watts Involved Podcast
Where the new chapter begins — why the show changed, and what it is now about.
Listen →A podcast by David Watts
Rebuilding a life —
out loud.
Honest conversations about health, mindset and resilience — from a host living with a rare autoimmune disease and thirty years spent studying how people actually change. Science and NLP. Zero woo.
270+
Episodes in the archive
30+
Years studying change
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Unreasonably stubborn host
Your host
David Watts
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Deep Work: The Neuroscience of Real Focus
Deep work isn't a personality trait — it's a trainable capacity, and the modern world is engineered to fragment it. David unpacks the mechanisms behind focus failure: attention residue, the 23-minute ramp, and the dop…
Six ways in
What are you dealing with?
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Mindset & beliefs
The stories you tell yourself decide what you attempt. How belief actually works — and how to change the ones costing you.
Explore mindset 02
Autoimmune & chronic illness
Living with CIDP, honestly told — diagnosis, treatment, setbacks, and what a hard body teaches a determined mind.
Explore autoimmune 03
Resilience
Setbacks, recoveries and comebacks — from people who have been through the worst and found a way forward.
Explore resilience 04
Habits
Why willpower fails and systems win — building routines that survive a bad week, a bad month, a bad diagnosis.
Explore habits 05
Health
Sleep, movement, breathing, stress, treatment — the practical side of looking after a body that needs the help.
Explore health 06
Purpose
Meaning, legacy and direction — the questions that get loud when life reminds you it is finite.
Explore purposeNew to the show?
Start with these four.
270 episodes is a lot of scrolling. These four will tell you exactly what this show is — and whether it's for you.
Chronic Illness Journey: Sharing Stories, Finding Ways to Thrive, and Supporting Each Other
The chronic illness journey in one honest sitting — and how to keep thriving anyway.
Listen →Rich Alderton — Bouncing Back and Bouncing Higher: Adapting to Change with Resilience
Rich Alderton on bouncing back higher — resilience as a skill, not a slogan.
Listen →Living with Chronic Pain
The most recent ground truth — living with chronic pain, no varnish.
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The Sunday Rebuild
One honest, useful email every Sunday — what living with a chronic illness is teaching about health, mindset and resilience, plus one conversation out of the archive worth your time. No fluff, no woo.
Why this show exists
At four years old, a plastic tube tore through my soft palate. The surgeons told my parents I might never speak. My gran disagreed — and coached me, patiently, every single day, until the doctors were wrong. I've been obsessed with what words can rebuild ever since.
The full story →The book
Cracking The Influence Code
Mastering advanced communication and negotiation with NLP, neuroscience and behavioural economics — thirty years of practice in one book.
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Quantum Self Development — The written companion to this podcast — science-backed self development for people who are done with woo.