Podcast Interviews with Ngahina Richards
Explore Podcast Conversations with Ngahina Richards
Ngahina has been featured on leading business and publication podcasts sharing how Total Sensory Wellbeing can help you overcome burnout, brain fog, and modern fatigue. Listen in for evidence-backed insights and simple ways to restore your energy, mental clarity and calm.
Basic Bananas Business Podcast
Come to Your Senses-Mastering Sensory Wellbeing for Life & Business With Ngahina Richards
Did you know your brain scans every single room you walk into, often in less than a second? From the colours on the walls to the scent in the air and even the beat of the background music, your senses are constantly influencing how you feel, think, and act.
In this fascinating conversation, we explore the science and art of sensory wellbeing and how subtle tweaks in your environment can boost focus, creativity, and performance, both in life and business.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
✽The role of environmental psychology and how spaces shape our mood, focus, and energy.
✽Why clutter-free doesn’t mean empty and how the right balance of stimuli improves productivity.
✽ How music tempo changes the way customers shop and clients feel.
✽ Why simpler scents are more effective and how they can increase sales and engagement.
✽ Practical tips for creating spaces that energise, calm, and inspire. Give your brain time to breathe, it’s in these moments of free-flow thinking that you’ll find solutions.
If this episode resonates, you’ll love Ngahina Richard’s book, Come to Your Senses, available on Amazon
Here’s to creating ripple effects of brilliance everywhere we go! The Basic Bananas Team.
Hembury Books Podcast
Come to Your Senses-Virtual Book Launch
In this interview, Ngahina reveals why everyday sensory experiences are as important to our sense of wellbeing as any of the issues running through our minds. Ngahina leverages her background in Health Science and her investigation into multidisciplinary research to bring together insights and grounded practical advise to help anyone improve their sense of wellbeing.
Ngahina explains how we can improve our sense of calm, focus and resilience just by making small adjustments in our lifestyles and the spaces around us. Simple shifts can make a significant difference.
In this episode, you’ll gain insight into:
✽ How modern day living creates both sensory overwhelm and underwhelm, and how this influences our behaviour.
✽ How understanding your sensory profile liberates you to consciously curate spaces, wardrobes and lifestyles that improve your sense of wellbeing.
✽How the sensory effects of occupations and lifestyles influence your energy and mood.
And so much more!
You can find all the insights Ngahina Richard’s book, Come to Your Senses, available on Amazon
Full of Words Podcast - Why Ngahina Richards Had to Reframe the Senses
Gain insight into how Ngahina has reframed the senses so that we may rethink them, and see everyday moments as opportunities to feel energised, productive and calm.
In this episode of the Full of Words podcast, Sue and CJ are joined by Ngahina Richards, founder of Nriched Living and creator of the Total Sensory Wellbeing framework. Ngahina shares her expertise on how understanding and working with our senses can help restore clarity, energy, and focus, especially in an overstimulating modern world.
Drawing on her background in Health Science, Ngahina uncovered insights from neuroscience, environmental psychology and many other fields, about the significant role our sensory processes play on our wellbeing, and how our modern-day living has made us loose sight of this.
She discusses how small, practical adjustments to our environment and daily routines can improve our mood, cognitive function, and overall wellbeing.
If you’re navigating the challenges of open-plan offices, digital distractions, or simply seeking more balance and focus in your life, this conversation is for you.
Ngahina Richard’s book, Come to Your Senses, is available on Amazon
Ngahina Richards is the founder of Nriched Living and creator of Total Sensory Wellbeing, a practical framework blending health science and lived experience to help people restore clarity, energy and focus.
With a background in health science and over two decades in pharmaceutical leadership, Ngahina blends research with real-life insight to create solutions that support everyday wellbeing.
Her focus on sensory wellbeing emerged from a period of feeling disconnected and a persistent desire to understand how environments influence mental clarity and energy. After years of feeling ‘tired but wired’, she undertook practitioner training in aromatherapy and explored existing clinical and academic research on light, colour, sound, movement and more. She sought insights from experts across psychology, nutrition, audiology, exercise science and environmental design.
This informed an approach that weaves together science, history, cultural perspectives and lived experience. It became the foundation of Total Sensory Wellbeing.
At its core, her work highlights how our senses deeply influence our energy, focus and resilience.
Born in Canada to a German mother and New Zealand father, Ngahina has lived and worked across the Pacific, Southeast Asia, Australia, Europe and the UK. These experiences gave her a lasting appreciation for the cultural nuances of sensory environments.
Now based in Sydney, Ngahina enjoys hiking and exploring new pockets of the city. She is carving a path in the emerging field of sensory strategy, working with individuals and businesses to improve how people feel and function. Her work is grounded, intelligent, practical and human-centred. It is crafted to help people calm the chaos and move through life with confidence, focus and ease.
