James Davis

The Midlife Mentor, podcaster and expert in male midlife wellbeing

James Davis is a coaching psychologist and one half of the husband-and-wife team behind multi-award-winning coaching and fitness company 38 Degrees North and The Midlife Mentors.

 The couple are highly regarded as leading experts in midlife health and happiness.

Claire & James - AKA The Midlife Mentors - are also co-authors of a bestselling book, public speakers and feature regularly in national press.

The couple have hosted a highly successful wellness podcast The Midlife Mentors since 2019 which is now in the top 1.5% of podcasts globally. The aim of the podcast is to lift the lid on their no-nonsense approach to thriving over 40 - in body, mind and soul.

Their science-based approach leverages their experience in psychology, NLP, stress management, personal training, nutrition and life/business coaching. They’re also hormone specialists and Level One certified by the International Menopause Society.

Over a career spanning a decade James has trained thousands of clients and is incredibly passionate about offering an anti-fad approach to the health and wellness narrative. No fancy diets or pseudo-science. Just authentic, balanced information based on a wealth of professional and personal experience.

James also works with corporates including KPMG, CitiBank, Google, Cisco and more, providing coaching and wellness programmes for individuals and teams. Championing the andropause and empowering midlife men with the knowledge and tools to make meaningful changes to their lives is a particular passion for James.

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Speaker Topics

 

What We Believe, We Become

 

Aim: A look at how our personal belief systems influence our experience of life - especially with regards to achieving our goals. Whether we succeed is not down to what we ‘do’, but more about what we think.

To create awareness around where personal beliefs are helpful and where they’re holding you back, so you can break through limitations and thrive in all aspects of your life.

Take-aways: Simple tools to positively reprogramme the mind for better belief systems that align with your goals. Offer empowering lifestyle strategies that support optimum performance - physically, mentally and emotionally.

 

The Keys To Healthy Relationships At Work & Home

Aim: Creating awareness of personal relationship styles in and out of the working environment. An in depth look at projection, expectations, self-identity and communication.

*This can also be menopause and andropause focused, looking at the impact hormones and lifestyle factors has on how we show up in relation to others.

Take-aways: Offering key tools and strategies that positively shift our relationship with others - from how we look after our own mental and physical well-being to how we communicate and manage expectations.

 

The Role Of Testosterone For Optimal Health & Performance

Aim: A look at the role of testosterone in male physiology and psychology, the impact of lifestyle choices, and the power of optimising your hormone health to achieve more in and outside of the workplace.

Take-aways: An understanding of testosterone and it’s role, how we could be negatively impacting levels and how to optimise our levels using lifestyle factors, such as exercise, nutrition, stress management and positive psychology tools.

 

Building Resilience To Stress

Aim: To de-stigmatise stress and burnout and help people distinguish key differences between the two. Dive into symptoms and triggers, as well as what constitutes healthy and unhealthy responses to stress and how our hormones are effected, which has a knock on effect on physical, psychological and emotional wellbeing.

Take-aways: Creating self-awareness of our own personal causes and responses to stress and a practical guide on how to build resilience via simple lifestyle tools.

 

Hormones: Taking Back Control

Aim: An easy to understand look into what’s happening with our hormones and neurotransmitters (for both men and women) at midlife - with a particular emphasis on the menopause and andropause.The aim is to bring awareness to (and normalise) why so many of us feel burnt out, unhealthy, lacking in energy, anxious and depressed and also how it impacts our performance at work and our home life.

Take aways: Share tools and mind and body lifestyle strategies to support managing this hormonal transition with greater ease, positivity and inner and outer wellbeing.

 

Over 40 In The Workplace

Aim: A look into how organisations can support staff over 40 years old - as they not only go through hormonal changes, but also experience a very unique set of life experiences (empty nesters, ageing parents, financial concerns, divorce). Also how they might encourage the utilisation of their skills and knowledge and prepare them for retirement and moving into a new transitional phase of their life.

*studies reveal that ageism is a bigger problem than racism and sexism in the workplace and so the aim is to change the negative narrative into a more positive one

Take aways: Empower people with a deeper understanding of why they feel the way they do, and encourage them to open up. Offer lifestyle mind and body strategies to support themselves as they go through this life transition and provide tools to encourage not just a long life, but a healthy, happy one too.