From Surviving Rape to Finding Her Voice #21
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Find your voice - Episode 21 "From Surviving Rape to Finding Her Voice" - Hannah Power #21
Tagline: "Embracing adversity is the biggest gift you can give yourself" - Hannah Power
Hannah Power shares her story of being tragically raped having been abducted by 3 men whilst on holiday and discusses how the adversity and nightmare she suffered has now given her a new lease of life and purpose. She is now 100% committed to ensuring other rape survivors no longer become victims for the rest of their lives.
Alongside this Hannah Power is also known for her branding expertise as she urges people to find faith and confidence in themselves to really bring out their unique gifts which they can offer to the world. With her assistance she helps people 'find their voice' and it was for this reason we had to get her on the show.
Hannah's mindset is one that we can all take valuable lessons from without hopefully going through the same pain she has been through but it is now her light that shines so brightly we can all benefit from.
I urge you all to follow her journey and support her on making a difference in the world.
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welcome to an episode of find your voice
a movement led by yours truly
Aren do a guy who has overcome
crippling anxiety adversity and
difficulty like so many of you in life
whose main goal now is to help you
combat your excuses take control of your
life write your own story and most
importantly find your voice so now
without further ado I welcome the host
of the show himself mr. Aren do what's
going on people thank you for tuning in
to another episode of find your voice my
name is Aren and as always I am the
host of the show so firstly I just want
to begin by saying this is a very very
sensitive subject and if anyone finds
speaking about this difficult then I do
have to warn you prior to starting this
episode now conscious of not making it a
doom and gloom ii episode despite the
horrific events i've gone on we have
taken a little bit of a spin on it and
rather than speak about the stuff that
hannah has so bravely spoken about to
the papers already we look at more of
the things that she's doing today
because Hannah's an incredible soul
she's somebody who's been through an
unbelievable amount of adversity as you
can see from the title as you probably
know from her story already
she was horrific ly raped by an
individual when three men abducted her
what she was travelling and I mean I
said it before the show started I didn't
have the words or I wasn't confident in
myself of saying the right stuff during
this interview I no actually mentioned
this to Hannah prior to the show started
but we both have the same goal and both
our goals and both our visions and
dreams is to help people out there find
their voice so I also felt it would be
an injustice if I never took on this
story and shared it with the world
because Hannah for one is somebody who
doesn't want people who have gone
through the same situation as her to
suffer for the rest of their lives and
be a victim forever
and again the premise of this show is to
help people find their voice find their
way find whatever it is that sparks them
in life and move forward irrespective
and the cards that you're dealt with in
life so I think without further ado I'm
gonna jump straight to this one I really
really enjoyed this conversation with
Hannah she's an incredible person she's
now doing amazing things working with
entrepreneurs you probably noticed by
the name as well
her mom was on last week as well and she
again is a fantastic individual I'd
certainly recommend if you haven't
checked that episode out please do go
back and check that one out as well and
I think you'll realize then there's
something special about these power
ladies so without further ado let's get
straight into this okay welcome to the
show and firstly I just want to say
thank you to the guests for tuning in
today and more importantly our wonderful
guest Hannah Paula who has agreed to
come on and share her story slow Hannah
how are you doing today I'm great how
are you I'm very well thank you I'm
really eager to sort of get this going
so for their purpose of their listeners
who are here today could you please just
tell us a little bit about yourself
a little bit about your story and I
suppose what brings you to where you are
right now sure so first of all thank you
so much for having me it's a real
pleasure to be here you're very welcome
so where to start so I am 26
I graduated from University with a law
degree in 2014 and started working in a
big corporate consultancy called
Accenture and six months into working at
Accenture I I went on holiday to visit
some friends in France who want a ski
season and while I was over there I was
raped by well three men picked me up in
the car and one of the men raped me and
they dropped me back off back in the
town after and the reason that that
story is important to where I am now and
the reason that I start with it is
because I had you know I've had a very
fortunate upbringing from a lovely
family and had a very sort of
traditional I guess middle-class journey
through school to college through uni
and then into a graduate job and I was
sort of following a relatively similar
path to all of my you know all of my
friends and my colleagues and peers and
stuff and then this huge spanner got
thrown in the work
of my entire life being completely
turned upside down and and entering a
world which is completely new to me and
was which was completely new to me and
completely awful and you know confusion
and complete loneliness and it really
you know it would change the course of
my life because obviously it wasn't
something which I was that I knew how to
deal with and it and it pushed me off a
path into you know a really big struggle
and trying to understand really you know
the world and why bad things happen
because once you've seen the awful side
of the world it's so hard to you know to
unsee it and I was happy in my job but
it wasn't really doing it for me I
wasn't fulfilled and I was living in
London and I was doing the whole
commuting thing and it just didn't you
know on the tube it just wasn't doing it
for me so around the time of sort of
struggling with you know the healing and
trying to get through it all I was also
struggling with you know alcohol and and
struggling with lack of fulfillment at
work I decided to you know quit
everything and move to Bali and I'm to
Bali at the beginning of last year 2018
and I kind of went on this year of I
guess discovery in every single aspect
of it of life of business of healing of
spirituality of everything to basically
recover from what happened to me and to
work how you know what my purpose was in
this world and what impact and you know
what what my going to do with the rest
of my life and you know now I feel
grateful but what happened to me for
giving me that that sort of accelerant
into where I am and yeah it's been a
huge journey but now I'm focused on
supporting others who've been through
something similar and supporting people
more generally to find fulfillment in
their lives and not settle for less and
settle for a rubbish life but to go
after a life that they really love and
are proud of and are excited about I
think that's amazing
I think just before we touch on that
last bit there which is incredible and
that's kind of they I suppose the most I
know about you so I've checked out
website and stuff and it's not just
limited to people who have suffered in a
similar situation to yourself you've
almost found this purpose where you just
want to help as many people as possible
but obviously just before I go into that
I don't want to kind of leave it as the
elephant in the room and I spoke prior
to us speaking about this that it is a
difficult topic because I don't come
from a counseling background nor do I
want this episode to be some level of
counseling but it I think anyone
listening to this it's going to fill him
with a mixed level of emotions I mean
for me myself it makes me sad I feel
embarrassed on behalf of the male
population I think you know there's this
level of anger how one human three human
sorry could do that to another human I
mean I just find how people can just
justify their actions by hurting other
people it really does touches a nerve to
be completely honest with you and that's
probably why I was nervous before this
show but I'm just I suppose I mean in
the very short amount of time that we've
had this conversation obviously we spoke
previously I've learnt so much I suppose
about myself in terms of my own personal
development and trying to change my own
perception because what you've just done
and how you've just explained your
journey and how you sin this darkness
and you've almost found it as you're
actually grateful for it now I think
that I think that's remarkable and I
think in a very short amount of time as
I said just knowing you I'm very very
proud of you for that I'm grateful that
I'm able to have met someone like that
because it teaches me so much and I'm
sure it's gonna teach our listeners as
well so much about once you sin the
darkest parts of the world you're almost
now they're trying to almost line up
everything around you and I think I
think that's beautiful
and I want to take it actually into that
beautiful space if that's ok with you
rather than dwell on that situation
which has made you the person you are
today so you're now in Bali which from
Instagram now are you back in UK ok so
you've kind of found yourself now you've
had this year of discovery this healing
this purpose can we just touch on what
exactly you offer to easy clients your
class amazing yeah yeah so and I I've
always come from a sort of a digital
technology and marketing background and
I've always been very I've always worked
really a lot in personal branding so you
know getting yourself known online in a
you know as a leader or as somebody
who's known for something I think it's
come from my parents have always worked
in the internet and you know they were
one of the first people into this whole
world and what I what I realized by
moving to Bali and sort of building this
life that I love was that the reason I'd
been able to do all of these things was
because of the fact that I'd invested
and grown my personal brand so when I
moved out to Bali
it wasn't that difficult for me to get
work and my first you know my first
remote job and then for me to then start
a business which was an agency and fill
it with clients because I had invested
the time in creating content and being
known online as being somebody who knows
what they're talking about so by having
this personal brand I thought I realized
that oh my god this actually gives you a
huge amount of opportunity then after
that side of things when I decided this
year to to you know go public with my
story and try to create an impact and
help other people again because of the
parity of the internet and because I
built this following and had a sort of
personality online I then was able to
have enormous impact on others so I
decided you know I I think that you know
building a personal brand of being known
online is an integral thing to do if you
want to you know live a life which
fulfills you and have a positive impact
on the world so I you know this is what
I do to my clients now I help them to
really define their message and build
their their brand online I'd establish
them as leaders in their fields you know
and prepare them for having an impact
you know prepare them to have an impact
so that's what I do and I think it's
difficult working in personal branding
because there's a lot of in overlap with
you know there's sort of the negative
connotations that come with being an
influencer but what actor is not about
you know it's not about the influencer
side of things of you know when people
come out of these reality TV shows or
anything like that it's about somebody
saying look this is me this is what I'm
really good at this is I can you know
this is what I love to do and this is
how I
can support other people through it and
and helping those people to become
leaders online because I think the
opportunities that open up from open
doors from doing that are huge and
literally never-ending so that's why I
do what I do and I work with my clients
on a one-to-one basis and at the moment
I'm gonna start building a group program
to support people on that journey that's
fantastic I'll have to get the details
for that and I'll put it in the show
notes afterwards for anyone who's this
now who would love to reach out to you
and I think just under personal branding
so it's something that I'm trying to I'm
more conscious of a suppose and I'm
trying to build my own and I'm sure many
listeners are as well but you also have
an advantage of having the most
fantastic surname ever I think that
certainly house but I'm I just wanted to
touch on something there so try and wear
this the right way so obviously you have
a personal brand now you're Hannah power
and you help people find their way
become leaders online do you ever think
or do you just try to think of the right
ways are you against being known as the
girl who got raped or is that just part
and parcel of that of the story and
something that you're happy to be
accepted for however you have so much
more to give to the world and I think
that I think the reason I'm public about
being raped is because of the fact that
it's such a secret crime Thanks it
causes a lot more harm by keeping things
a secret than it does by talking about
them that's true in every form of mental
illness or anything really that happens
we all know that secrets aren't really a
positive so the reason that I am open
about what happened to me is because I'm
not ashamed of it it wasn't my doing of
quite who I am so it's a part of my
story and it's a part of me so that I
don't want to a keep it a secret because
it is a part of me but secondly I want
to inspire others unfortunately with
rape there are a lot of people that are
raped in their lifetime and it and it's
it's huge it's like it's a secret
epidemic that's going on I mean since
I've shared my story the amount of
people that have reached out to me some
of them that I actually even know quite
well we've been through something
similar is actually unbelievable I mean
I've got friends close friends male 4
whose girlfriends have told me they've
been raped but they haven't even told
their boyfriend's yet because it's such
a misunderstood and confusing messed-up
crime that people don't know how to deal
with it so by me talking about and being
open about it I just want to break the
secret if there's if the secret can go
we can talk about it we can deal with it
we don't have to be ashamed of what
happened to us when it's not something
we cause if I punched you in the face
would you think it was your fault no you
would but with Ray for some reason
because of the fact that we're not able
to cope with it and deal with it in
society we feel that it's on us so do I
want to be known as the girl that was
raped no I would like to be known as
more than that but is it an important
part of my story and am i proud to be
somebody who has got through that and
wants to inspire others absolutely
because once you've got through
something like that there are very few
challenges that the world can throw at
you that you aren't able to handle and
for me that's an incredible power and
strength in every challenge I take on in
my life whether it's a new business or
whatever it might be I am completely in
complete confidence that I can do it
because I always can say to myself well
Hannah you've done worse I love that I
just think like you just said you should
be very very proud of that having
overcome that and I think should be even
more proud that now you've your sole
purpose in life is almost to help other
people and I think you'll do incredible
things and I think sometimes a lot of us
in life we kind of go through life
almost not knowing what we actually put
on this earth for and that's kind of how
I've always seen myself so I was always
an academic at school and I was always
kind of being pushed from Normal School
to do grammar schools to universities
and any and I always felt like this
isn't me that there has to be something
else and we touched on it briefly before
this episode how it took a massive 18
months of adversity my life to really
completely change me and sometimes I
always say I don't want any of my
listeners to go through any an OST for
that for their life to change but
sometimes it's necessary it is I think
the people that have been through pain
if they can use if you can use it
properly and you can do the work I think
it's it opens
opens you up to to finding your meaning
but of course you wouldn't wish on
anybody else but some of the happiest
people I know have actually been through
the worst absolutely and least happy
people I know who struggle with anxiety
and day to day issues have actually had
a real smooth ride and it can take a big
knock to to push you onto the right path
and that's why I feel so fortunate to
have had that happen to me at a young
enough age to be able to go to know that
every day I wake up that you know I'm I
mean I know exactly that I am where I'm
supposed to be and have huge faith and
excitement for my future absolutely I
love it I'm actually just really happy
that you're in such a great place now as
well as I'm sure you and all your family
and friends are as well and and you hit
the nail on the head there I think when
people go through pain or adversity in
life they've almost reached a level of
darkness where you can't see any light
especially in that moment and I think
when you kind of crawl out of that hole
however you want to imagine that then
any sort of light almost brings you
gratitude and happiness
yeah and fulfillment and I'm kind of
like that so the smallest things I will
be grateful for on a daily basis and
hearing stories like like yourself and
from whether guess it really does put
things into perspective of how fortunate
you all are and how limited our time is
so it's amazing that there's people like
you now who are just really trying to
help other people find that papers as
well so I think that's fantastic
and thank you again for sharing that so
what I want to know now is could you
tell us a little bit about your routines
your lifestyle today in terms of how you
manage to maintain this almost solid
mindset and how you manage to keep
persevering through life have you got
any daily habits rituals but meditation
practices and also really good question
actually because yeah I mean I first got
into kind of healthy like I guess living
when I was 22 in terms of being you know
really disciplined with my diet and
exercise I am have got an ovary
condition which causes me to gain weight
really quickly so I have to be really
diligent with my exercise and my site
you know I put on weight quite quickly
and things like that so I've always
since being 22 I've always been
very conscious of the fact that if I put
bad things into my body then I feel
rubbish so I know that if I eat like a
load of chocolate or something it's not
going to make me feel good and so from
it like a diet next size point of view I
guess I'm that sort of pot that's the
sort of natural habit I already have and
so I don't require the discipline of
that anymore but I would say hey you
know to get to a habit stage you have to
start with discipline and I think some
of the things which I sort of had to be
disciplined with in barley were
definitely things around yoga and
meditation and almost just generally
taking time to breathe and just act so I
would say that in terms of a daily
practice I I don't meditate every day I
really want to get to a point that I do
what I do do every day morning and
evening is I like a little candle and I
do which is in front of a sort of it's
not a Buddha it's like a sort of a yogi
figure thing and I do sort of give
gratitude to the universe and and say
you know I give you know I am on a path
and I and I trust you to lead me on it
so I guess some people to call that a
prayer I don't I don't mind I I just
call it sort of a moment of gratitude to
the universe and I do that every morning
and evening so I say that's a daily
routine I definitely plan to be much
more disciplined with my yoga and
meditation every day the other thing
which I would say that has had a
humongous impact in fact it's probably
one of the biggest decisions and
life-changing decisions I've made so far
is um quitting drinking alcohol in July
last year so I would say that without a
shadow of a doubt that is one of the
biggest enablers of the reason that I am
happy positive achieving everything I
want to be achieving supporting people
who I want to support and just generally
my sort of balanced mood I don't really
get you know I don't get those low
anxious moments really anymore I don't
I had the alike was diagnosed with PTSD
soon after the rape and I would say that
they're probably the biggest thing for
me in terms of
when you've asked about sort of daily
habits and sort of lifestyle stuff for
me the biggest thing for me is is the
non the no alcohol
that's fantastic thank you for sharing
that so I think the moment of gratitude
thing that you do is is beautiful I I
don't do it twice I should probably do
it twice I think I do always try and
stay present so the yoga thing again
that's always a trait that or the
meditation bit is always a trait of
successful people so yeah it's really
useful the alcohol once it's an
interesting one because like yourself I
get almost after say for instance a
heavy night of drinking going out on a
social the next day I have this really
weird feeling of almost like anxiety or
regret or just feeling absolutely
depressed I think you got from one
extreme of a high almost is such a low
and then I have these thoughts that for
the next 24 hours I'm really not the
kind of person that I want to be
perceived as so I'll call something I'm
trying to myself pasty knock in the head
obviously another health benefits of it
I'm not a drinker in terms of our drink
every single week but I fully understand
that because I was going to ask you a
question in relation to was the alcohol
linked because you started drinking post
rape or I would say that when I when I
first ever started drinking at parties I
don't know when you're what like 14 15 I
was never particularly good at kind of
managing my alcohol in time so I was
kind of a go hard or go home type crazy
so I think a lot of people are I think I
was a bit insecure when I was young and
I think I used alcohol as a kind of
confidence booster at parties and things
like that when I after the after I was
raped I think I think the thing is
because your mind my mind was just in
this whole crazy world it wasn't even
like it was my mind anymore it was I
become somebody else and the alcohol
being in that sort of drunk state almost
gave me a connection to who I used to be
I know it sounds really weird to say it
like that but it was almost a freedom I
got to leave the mind of this girl who'd
been raped who was in pain who
struggling who was lost and move into
being somebody else and I think it did
give me just like you said it gave me
high high
because it gave me a break and then it
gave me very low loads but actually
those low loads that went off and when
you know you start to do the work so I
would say actually although I would say
I was probably abusing alcohol I
actually wouldn't take it back again
because I think it helped me to kind of
deal with it the reason I ended up
putting a hard stop to it was I ended up
having an accident while I was in Bali
and breaking my shoulder and I ended up
in hospital for six days and I then
ended up for another week after that
dealing with the sort of side effects of
being on a really strong like a morphine
type pill which they sort of give you
willy nilly when you're in a kind of
developing country and I it took me a
while to return to being normal again
because of the the accident the alcohol
and then this drug and what's it called
oxycodone and after that I basically
thought you know what not only am i
potentially going to really harm myself
if I carry on drinking but actually if I
keep losing these days our days of my
life I mean this was two weeks but if
you're losing I was losing and maybe one
or two days of productivity a week to to
being to being tired or being anxious or
being hungover actually I'm not going to
be able to achieve everything that I
want to and know I can in my life I'm
actually not going to be able to do that
I don't have enough time to waste on
this poison there's no spare time and to
waste the day being hungover in the day
after that being anxious and the day
after that getting back on track I
haven't got the time in my life so I
decided that actually I loved myself and
I was more excited for my life more than
I then I needed the alcohol so I made a
decision that I was going to stop and I
listened to an incredible book by a guy
called Alan Carr who's this this this
addiction guru and it's a six and a half
hour audio book I did it in a day the
day before my birthday and I woke up on
my birthday as a non-drinker
and I have never ever touched a drop
drop or wanted to since that's
incredible
could you tell us the name of that book
yeah it's by I'm his name's Paul and the
books
the easy way to stop drinking he's got a
load of books he's got a smoking book
and a sugar book and a gambling book but
the drinking one for me was the one that
I was always really worried that I would
feel a sense of you know you know loss
that I was missing out on things and I
would always sire it and what Alan
Carr's book does is it sort of it
removes the desire so you no longer want
it it would be like me saying to you
what you know 10 o'clock at night would
you like a really strong cup of coffee
you know you just wouldn't want to say
no that's what I want right now and
that's you know I know that it would
make me not sleep and it's you know
whatever to me it just immediately
removed the desire I mean I went from
being a pretty big drinker to literally
even the smell of like a beer made me
feel like a bit sick literally after
reading this book and for me I never
wanted I never preached to people you
know when they say say like a lot
everyone drinks around me I'm not like
not like telling people not to drink but
if people say to me Hannah what's you
know how can I achieve what I want to in
my life and start my own business or
whatever I say well the first thing you
need to do is is drink less because you
know knows that it doesn't do anything
positive to their lifestyle and their
goals absolutely Aarthi I think you've
hit the nail on the head there there was
something you mentioned it turns up
insecurity and anxiety and that's
probably one of the reasons I think I
first started drinking as well as a
teenager I haven't been shy and anxious
it was kind of the only way to get on
the dancefloor the only way to feel
confident around other people so
absolutely and it's conditioned into
what I mean if we just if we didn't have
Apple and we were just forced to push
through those those embarrassing awkward
moments when you're sort of you know you
spotty or whatever because you're 1516
and you kind of you know you're not you
sort of fancy people and they don't
fancy and all that stuff that happens to
us when we're young if we just had to
push through it like we did when we were
kids but what happens is you get told by
somebody usually older than you that
there's this magic potion that takes it
all away the rest of our lives we
associate whenever something goes wrong
with the magic potion when actually the
magic potion tends to be causing a lot
of the stuff that put us there in the
first place so my dad got cancer last
year and he stopped drinking as well and
neither of us drink now and he would say
the same I mean
it's just you know it's it's just he's
your and better because of it and yeah I
mean again I you know I'd never preached
it but for me is definitely one of the
biggest things that I would post what I
would ever attribute any success in
terms of you know financial or just
general in a call happiness is that
that's a fair point I think just before
I carry on and I'm sorry to hear about
your dad as well in relation to the case
I hope everything's fine yeah with him
just quickly then so not to make this
about an alcohol podcast episode but um
have you managed to change your circle
are you still able to associate yourself
having read this book in the same kind
of circle that you were in previously do
you know what it's so funny because I
thought that everyone was going to be
really freaked out by it you know be
like oh my god you're so boring or
whatever and I was so shocked by the
reaction a most people are like oh my
god that's so cool I wish I could do
that be the other thing I realize is
that when I hang out with my friends and
things like that and family they
actually like seeing me because they
know that they don't need to drink when
they're with me so that means that
they're not going to be hungover the
next day or they're gonna feel healthier
so I think coming to see me is like or
spending time with me it's like almost a
break from the pressures of drinking
when actually a lot of people don't
actually want to drink as much as they
do it's a lot of it's just because of
routine and habit and the people that
they're with so I mean I I have a lot of
like non-alcoholic alternatives so I've
got non-alcoholic red wine and Prosecco
and beers and gins and things like that
so if I hang out with a friend you know
often I'll be with even a boy when he's
eight having a beer when he's with me
he's very happy to have like a
non-alcoholic Peroni and just tells me
how much you like I would say that about
11 o'clock at night when people are
getting really drunk I tend to point to
head off just because I like to wake up
early and go to the gym or read or
whatever I'm quite an early riser so I
don't really see the point in staying
out late so I don't see out as late as I
did but and partly cuz also being around
drunk people when they've been drinking
for a few hours becomes a little bit
ring because
start to repeat them separate you tell
you all their secrets they don't really
want you to know when they're messy and
so I mean my cycle is stayed completely
the same and I don't know maybe people
do have a problem with it but I've never
I actually found it a lot easy I thought
I was gonna have to really prepare
people for it it seems to me that
everyone's just fascinated by it and
kind of wants to do it but it's just
sort of like doesn't think that they can
I think I've sort of become you know
amongst some of the people I know this
kind of weird enigma they're kind of
like well one minute Hannah was one of
us and then she moved to Bali and now
she's doing all this and how she talks
about praying and she doesn't drink
alcohol and I think she's kind of I
don't know I think people just sort of
think well I don't know she seems really
happy so maybe we should be doing all
that stuff yeah so no I haven't had to
change my circles to sum up that's
brilliant so you've managed to keep your
circle and still hang out and I agree
completely as well with the whole 11
o'clock thing I think we're both early
rises and up and to find that this is
why I think a lot of people struggle
with Mondays so you hear the whole world
moaning that they're gonna go to work on
Monday yes it's probably the fact
they're in a job that they don't like
but I think the other thing is Friday
Saturday Sunday their sleep patterns are
completely yes and what's happening is
they're almost in a jet like kind of
phase so along with obviously limited
alcohol and health and stuff I always
say sleep should be like a massive
massive priority as well so I like I'm
like a baby like I have to sleep a hell
of a lot I was reading my friend shared
an article the other day that apparently
they're now proving that the kind of
hustle the kind of hustle mentality is
being replaced by being like the most
successful people actually rest a lot
which made me really happy because I
like I don't normally need eight hours
and then like a half an hour nap in the
afternoon because I wake up so early I
start working about 7:00 in the morning
or sometimes yeah about 7:00 so my
brains been pretty and my brain gets
quite tired by about three o'clock in
the afternoon I have to have like a
little 20-minute catnap so it's cool
that sleeping in business it's that
cool to rest now rather than like
hustling your way through to 11 o'clock
at night every night so yeah it's
interesting
just on that Hannah resolve there's a
book called sleep smarter by Sean
Stephenson I'll send you a link to it
afterwards it's inaudible and he's
actually done a lot of extensive
research into sleeping hence why I now
have blackout blinds I'll make sure I
try and sleep at exactly the same time I
turned off my phone
they're 40 minutes before going into bed
yeah have a look honestly it's it's a
fantastic but can you really does open
your eyes because there's links actually
between your productivity of being drunk
and being sleep-deprived and it's almost
the same right yeah so in an office
space you probably see people who have
not drank the night before but not slept
popu you're probably not as productive
so somebody who comes in absolutely
hungover so it being in barley because
barley and the like the Sun comes up at
5:00 and it goes down about half past
6:00 so the whole day's almost starts
two hours before it does in the UK so
not barley like where I was living is
quite buzzing at about 7:00 a.m. and
then by about like 9:30 10 o'clock like
it's pretty quiet apart from like the
holidaymakers so I think I just really
got into this way of living because we
in barley everyone sort of living around
the Sun because people surf early in the
mornings it's better waves so yeah I
mean I think it really works and it
means yeah yeah it's really I mean it is
totally crucial sleeping is crucial I
think it's great I think you've
obviously not just developed your mind
now you start to look at even physically
as well it's gonna obviously benefit you
yeah I think we're getting awareness and
self awareness is almost addictive
though isn't it like it certainly is
yeah because I know that I can fix
something if it and make I can
constantly improve myself like if I
notice something I'm like oh hey what's
that right let's dig into that let's get
that worked out like what do I need to
do there like I was actually looking at
it earlier and I always find around the
25th of the month is when I get quite
like I saw that's when I need really to
have more time off and then when I'm in
the kind of early stages of the month
like the price to the seventh I'm in
total like knowledge mode I just want to
consume content
and then I think that I'm quite creative
in the middle of the month so I'm always
just getting more and more awareness
around myself so that I can you know so
that I can do the B and flow as much as
possible so I guess it's just that
awareness yeah is addictive so I guess
sleep is just falls under that bracket
doesn't it absolutely brilliant okay so
another question I wanted to ask you now
hopefully again this this gives the
listeners a lot of value because other
than your routine and how your practice
in your daily life now which is going to
obviously give them great value going
back to the adversity and not to jump
into it too much in relation to that
horrible event that happened to you in
France what one lesson would you tell
our audience I think for me it's the
importance of having faith in the
universe I really I've never been a
religious person and I've never either
or I also you know I haven't cast myself
as a spiritual person but from reading
everything that I have read and watching
everything I've watched from business
you know business II really hardcore
business books by like people like Grant
Cardone to really kind of hippie woowoo
universe books by people like Gabby
Bernstein the biggest thing that
underlies for me that's underlying these
these books are people that are
successful and happy is that they just
have faith that everything will work out
and it's happening the way that it's
meant to happen and that we're all on a
par and as long as we you know we we
fulfill the things that we should be
fulfilling that really you just have
faith in what's coming towards you you
can't you can't prepare for the things
that happen you can't prevent them from
happening but as long as you always keep
faith that there is light at the end of
the tunnel and that there is that things
happen the way they're meant to happen I
think you can get through pretty much
anything so I think yeah that would be
my my number one lesson and I would say
a really big turning point for me it
sounds a bit nuts actually but I
basically towards the end of last year
got really
obsessed with watching films about World
War two I don't I don't know why I just
think I just that atrocity just I was
just fascinated by I think and the
strength of everyone who came through it
and I watched that film
The Pianist have you seen it I've not
seen that my life was totally changed by
that film and it's because there is this
man who loses his entire family his all
his friends everything he knows his home
and everything like that
and yet he is still fighting to survive
throughout that whole film okay I
haven't given it away because that
happens right like really okay it's
still fighting to survive because he has
faith in whatever whatever their
whatever it is that he is fighting for
exists so we because survival is the
strongest human instinct and that is
faith that is that's what makes you for
perhaps that want to survive in faith
that there is a reason to do it if you
didn't have the reason to do it you
wouldn't do it so for me what got me
through is knowing that you know that
there was there was gonna be positives
in the future I was gonna get through
this so I'd seen people struggle through
awful things and come out the other side
so for me the biggest lesson would be
finding faith if you have you got it you
need to find it whatever it might be
whether it's for me it's just the
universe I think in the way Gabby burns
he talks about it in the way that she in
her in her books and her teachings is
just about having faith in the universe
having faith is something bigger than
yourself and most people do have that
and it's just about then trusting that
that I think is what gets most people
through huge pain and challenge and for
me that was the biggest thing for me is
that faith and I know that it will carry
me through my entire life is having
faith in that path and the world that's
bigger than me I love it I think that's
a that's a brilliant answer and it's
actually something that's brought back a
memory to myself of actually my first
ever episode so I did an episode with my
very very good friend Kevin Dillon he
was blind from a very young kid in one
of his eyes through meningitis and again
he's got brilliant attitude like
yourself he's up he's all about helping
people always a very positive person and
his mindset always got
faith in things are always gonna be
better and he he actually said a quote
and I mean uh this this episode was a
long time ago but I can actually
remember it because he says believe in
God or believe in yourself or believe in
the universe but just believe in
something because if somebody doesn't
believe in anything they'll always be
lost it was really powerful and it
always made sense to me because I
suppose I can't I'm kind of an atheist
if I'm completely honest in terms of I
don't really necessarily believe a
religion or anything like that but I do
have a kind of spiritualist side to me
where I think there's obviously
something out there or at least that's
what bigger than myself and you hit the
nail on the head there he said something
bigger they knew so almost giving faith
and a bit of supposed control to that
thing knowing that maybe that's going to
get us through it I think that believe
that as humans because we're built to
survive and we need something some
reason are supposed to kind of keep us
going well I you know I think at the end
of last year I think I was having I mean
I laugh about it because I was I was
living with a big load of people at bi
and I was living with this one guy
called Joe who's from the UK and oh my
gosh I think about him I think he must
think I'm so nuts because I think I was
having existential crisis for the month
that he was living in the villa with me
and he'd get back from like a day of
like I don't know a day of like surfing
and co-working and he'll be like how was
your day and I'd be like yeah it's good
so what do you think the meaning of life
is because I was like really trying to
understand I was like yeah so I'm
wanting to understand why bad things
happen I was like I've been through this
I would hear more stories it was almost
like I was taking on the whole world's
pain like somebody would talk about like
plastic in the ocean and I was just
crying because I was like the world is
so awful and then it just I just kept
sort of delving into this and I was
watching all these films about the
Holocaust and just I was just literally
like I was literally like hurting myself
with pain because I was so wanting to
understand why it exists and and the
point of it and the point of life if
there is all this pain why do we bother
does it make sense me and then and then
they had this lightbulb moment with the
pianist film and then with reading a lot
of what Gabby Bernstein talks about and
a lot of the kind of yogi teachings and
staff from Eckhart Tolle stuff
of this bigger thing and it's it's not
something you need to put your miss and
you just have to know that it's there
and we do all know that it's there
because whenever I ask someone you know
do you believe that there's you know do
you believe in anything and most people
say I don't they say I'm not I'm not
religious but I do believe that there is
something bigger out there in the
universe pretty much most people do say
that and I think that you know you don't
have to label it as anything you just
have to know that it's there and that it
and it's taking care of you and once you
release your your you'll panic and worry
about the future and where you need to
be and this and that and the past and
everything like that and you accept that
your path is your path and you just
follow it my god it's so freeing I mean
that to me is total freedom I spent a
year trying to find freedom by being in
Bali you know what is freedom is it it's
about being location free as if I'd been
financially free is about being time
free I think it's just about being free
from the crap that's in your head and
just going well it's gonna work out
eventually you know it always does and
that and that is what the journey is of
life and I think the second you can
enjoy that and embrace it you're going
to enjoy your life and find that freedom
that's brilliant I think freeing
yourself from the crap in your head is
what I want to do to be honest and I'm
sure people listening to this can
obviously relate to that because that is
what it's all about and you said some
stuff there that I was almost nodding in
agreement because I'm like oh my god
that's me so the whole why do bad things
happen and trying to understand why
they're happening it almost consumes you
so we touched right before this I I'm an
emotional person and I find myself
that's why I don't even watch the news
or listen to stories because I'm like
I'll just be sitting there crying all
day almost like using all my energy due
to myself for some reason it was it was
a while I was doing this myself for
about three months
I literally just watched anything I
could that I knew was gonna make me cry
and hate the world because I just needed
to understand it otherwise I didn't see
the point I was like what is the point
there has to be a point and then I lost
the penis and I was like well there is
definitely a point because he survived
when he had basically in my opinion
nothing to live for yet he still
survived which means that whatever kept
him alive exists because it literally
defies the point the reason it defies
everything in my opinion the reason he
survived because it doesn't make any
sense anyway it was basically I'm
basically talking about my existential
crisis which I had at the end of last
year and I read books I don't know if
you've read a man's search for meaning
by Viktor Frankl but all of these things
I was just going all in and trying to
just get it I was like I'm a bit of a
fast person so I'm like look if I've got
to get through this I need to go all in
and get it done fast so I think I just
put myself an accelerated path o of
consciousness and understanding and then
came out the other side with this
completely different mindset and I mean
yeah life's you know never looked better
because I think and then you just have
that awareness where you feel yourself
slipping from it like last week when I
was feeling you had these overwhelm
moments where I was thinking oh my
goodness you know there's a lot going on
here and I've you know I've taken a lot
on to just kind of catching and going
well don't worry Hannah you know it's
gonna be fine you know you know just
just up you know do a bit more praying
like a few extra candles whatever it
needs to be have that food and having
that faith and then the second you
return to that faith and and that and
that you know coming back to laughs you
you're fine so yeah I mean I think Gabby
Bernstein stuff is really fantastic
I think she's she's she's well she's
well regarded but I think she should be
like more more regarded like her stuff
is so good I'm also fortunate to know
Jay Shetty I don't know if you follow
him but he's a friend of my dad and we
used to work we work together for a bit
at accenture and I'm fortunate to know
him and obviously he's all about this
this wisdom and so I think I'm lucky
really with the people that I follow and
that I have in my life my cousin has
been my complete spiritual guide over
the last five years who he's just he's
just sent from wherever the greatness
lives that's the most incredible person
in the world and then my direct family
my mom my brothers my dad and friends I
think I'm just I'm just incredible
and that's what I focus on that's how I
you know that's you know I don't think
life's hard you know because I've been
through stuff I think life is incredible
absolutely absolutely
you got you got fantastic knitwear there
actually and obviously in your mum as
well she's she's an amazing lady I was
also just thinking just there as well
when you're talking so I need to
research Gabby Bernstein but Eckhart
Tolle is another one who talks about
this the consciousness and stuff and I
kind of wish he had someone like
yourself to narrate his books because
I'm listening to the audio books in a
funny really difficult relaxing asleep
absolutely I'm driving and I'm like this
is just the hazard his voice is too
relaxing I literally you have to be on
the move on foot you have to like walk
around the garden or something because
otherwise will not last because it's
just do you know when Eckhart Tolle at
check you watch him on YouTube he's
actually like he's actually pretty funny
and he's quite accessible if you watched
him in like short sharp he does these
kind of question answer sessions and
things and you can kind of get his
knowledge in these sort of five-minute
chunks which is obviously much more
accessible you know his books pretty
pretty intense is pretty incredible but
if you just want to grab bits of him or
would just have a question some doesn't
you type in the question you've got he's
got there's a video of somebody else
asking a similar question okay and he's
pretty funny and light which really
surprised me after listening to his book
so much at that I suppose he's probably
made that book maybe not for people who
are just driving and maybe as a sort of
he's kind of encyclopedia of finding I
think it's probably one that should be
read rather than listen to you can be
honest I've got it on my I need to get
it you know I need to get it out and get
a highlighter and all of that kind of
stuff
definitely yeah I can imagine that I'm
sure he's full of like amazing gems
that's brilliant okay so you're in this
place now where I'm very happy that
you're in such a great place then not
just spiritually if you want to call it
that and physically and just everything
in terms of your business business and
moving forward
yeah have you got any fears now I mean
what kind of scares you in this current
moment and okay that it's actually a
really good question I'll tell you what
what scares me is the thought is a
finding like a partner
like her boyfriend or falling in love
okay that's interesting yeah which is a
very operate dancer I didn't if you
expect me to go that honest but may as
well yeah please do can i elaborate yeah
so I think I just not been I guess I
wouldn't say you know unlucky because I
you know as I said I believe that our
path is our path so I think you know
what's happened was meant to happen but
I've not had great luck I guess if you
don't allow us to call it with with
relationships over the last few years I
don't think I'm very good at picking
people that are right for me I think I
struggle to be really open and I guess
it comes a lot of insecurities from when
I was young now things are now my life
is very different in terms of you know I
don't go out drinking so you're less
likely to meet people I live in a you
know I live in a town where I love my
town that I live and I don't want to
live in London but that means that you
know I'm less likely to meet people
you know in my kind of age group I don't
I don't enjoy apps you know I'm not I
don't have I don't have any desire to
spend more time using technology but I
work or you know I work on technology
all day I don't want to sit in front of
the TV and swipe on my phone and talk to
some random person and go whoo I don't
even know if they're interesting or
funny based on a photo and I need funny
so I guess I've also told three boys
that I love them and not had them say it
back so all three of my relationships
have been have been you know unrequited
love and that's quite you know that's
from 16 to 26 so that's actually you
know that's tough so I guess what my
fear would be in something I know I need
to do the work on is around my relation
you know my relationships and my
attitudes to - laughs I guess in terms
of finding a partner to share my life
with you know I want to have that you
know it's not that I you know it's not
like I'm not always because I love being
single I think a better when they're
together I look at my mum and dad who
have the best relationship out of anyone
I know when they bring out the best in
each other and you know they get to
enjoy their lives together and have a
real partner so I guess that would be
you know if you want my honest answer to
that instead of a sort of a
and answer then that would be something
which I guess is a fear thank you for
sharing that it's actually a really
interesting answer and probably one I
will didn't guess if I had 100 guesses
I'm sure obviously as you know as well
it will happen when it's meant to happen
the reason I find it so interesting is
having had such a horrible experience
where you've almost got this incredible
resilience where I suppose nothing's
really going to necessarily scare you
anymore because you've already been hurt
you've already been to the bottom you've
already been in a dark place to have in
that level of insecurity with that
particular subject I just find that
interesting it again I think if you look
at the world I mean love in terms of you
know love for another person a partner
is a you know pretty big thing I mean
you know every song every film you know
most of it pretty much most of life
comes down to you know love of another
person and you know that's why you know
that's why we're on our planet find a
partner and procreate I mean that's how
that's how the evolution survives so
although it sounds you know minor in
comparison to you know huge adversity
and stuff I think it's probably at the
same time one of life's biggest missions
and at the same time can be challenges
to get it right I mean you got to get
I'm not one who's gonna set you know I'm
not a settler so I've got to get it
right it's got to be and especially you
know my parents have an incredible
relationship so my you know my bar is
set really high I you know I want real
proper love that makes that makes us
both better that you know that we we
have the same hopes and dreams and I
think you know I'm an extremely
ambitious person I'm you know I'm very
self-aware I know what I'm about and I
think potentially it's hard to find
other people at that same level I don't
know I don't know what the offer is I
mean it's probably down to the fact that
I may be not not open to it and it's
work that I I've got it on my my mental
note of work to do on myself is to is to
delve into it and and make sure that you
know I'm not you know I'm not limiting
myself in any way yeah absolutely I
think at least you're recognizing that
there is potentially some work there to
that's really important but yeah I mean
your level of self-awareness is
definitely not something that I suppose
is common amongst common people should I
say but life is definitely better years
in terms of if you can find the right
person and obviously you'll never sell
but please do not settle and however
long that takes you can almost have
everything and more Panna we're actually
gonna go to the fun part of the show now
so this is normally where quite fun just
so you know sorry I have actually found
most a bit quite honorable thank you
thank you
you're a great you're a great
interviewer great question so thank you
thank you you really shouldn't worry I
mean you're definitely skilled I mean
I'm sure you're going to be very
successful with this podcast because I
love your very you've got the right
level of empathy and you're really it
sounds to me like you're you're really
listening which actually sounds really
obvious but it's actually a really
important skill that very few people
have so yeah I think you should be
really you know pleased to do with
yourself I'll bless you thank you so
much
you caught me off guard there a little
bit nice fine it's fine
okay so quickfire round this is
basically 60 seconds where I'm gonna ask
you the most random questions so why if
it comes to your mind there's no right
or wrong and said it's just a little bit
of fun for the audience to get to know a
little bit more about you are you ready
yeah okay fantastic we're gonna start in
three two one
what did you eat for breakfast I don't
eat breakfast I'm on intermittent
fasting like eight no problem if you
could really relive one day again which
day would it be any day today I mean I
love every day I love that the ability
to fly or be invisible fly who do you
admire most in the world my mum when
your fame okay your favorite food you
know your proudest moment quitting
alcohol would you rather speak or
languages or be able to speak to animals
animals 100 percent if you could abolish
one thing in the world what would it be
right what song best describes your life
life by Desiree I love that song so good
it's brilliant if you had an extra hour
a day what would you spend it on just
asking my parents questions Netflix or
YouTube
your favorite TV show ever friends would
you rather know how you would die or
when you were dying how if you could sit
with one person in the world for an hour
who would it be
Gary Vaynerchuk I love Gary Vee yeah
your favorite place in the world
Farnum Ansari read minds or predict the
future read minds and the last question
your favorite superhero I love Groot
Groot yeah from guardians of the galaxy
yeah he's a superhero is new yeah I
suppose we can give you that one I love
he's brilliant he's got like the most
easiest lines ever to remember in a film
I think you can communicate with three
words only in your life in the world so
that would make which is basically my
job and everything I love so yeah yeah
absolutely yeah brilliant okay fantastic
so we have just two more questions left
for you Hannah and the next one's about
reflection so knowing exactly what you
know now with all your knowledge and all
everything that you've been through in
life I want you to take yourself back
and I want you to take yourself back to
a young Hannah maybe where you struggled
with it first to you or something didn't
quite go your way in life so knowing all
this information now and going back to
this young Hannah
what would you whisper in her ears such
interesting question because two weeks
ago I did a hole in a child session with
my cousin and I actually did exactly
this so I went back to ten year old
Hannah which I think was a Hannah who
was really starting to know who she was
in the world but because it wasn't the
same as what everybody else was felt
that she had to keep it down and so um I
was at I didn't it wasn't very cool to
be smart and I was pretty smart I that I
didn't care about things that other
people cared about so I felt like I
should so what I would whisper to her
was just it's just to to back yourself
to know that you are a hundred percent
right and feeling what you feel because
that is what you feel which makes it
right
and to to worry less to just be so
excited about the journey ahead and to
find a way no matter what it was to find
in a love it took me until last year to
really love myself and I wish my 10 year
old self could could find that because
she was really great she just wasn't the
same as everybody else
and that made it hard so yeah love
yourself back yourself and be very
excited for the future love yourself
back yourself and be very excited for
the future I think that's brilliant and
I think even as kids probably maybe
before the age of 10 we are kind of
built that way in terms of we're just
very confident and we kind of I suppose
the love ourselves and get excited by
everything and then some way along life
when whether it's teachers or the
community around us we could be kind of
tend to lose that element whether it's
you fail at something or you don't
necessarily do something that's the
normal you don't fit into a certain hole
a suppose so it's interesting I mean
he's just an a quick example but I am I
hit puberty like earlier than a lot of
friends so I sort of got that kind of
curvier body and weighed more than my
friends and I didn't know I didn't think
oh I'm fan at until I rap and he weighed
myself and I think I weighed like seven
stones and I think everyone weighed like
my friends weighed five and that's when
I thought oh I shouldn't weigh more that
must be bad aka I must be fat so it
wasn't I'd actually looked in the mirror
and gone oh I'm fatter than my friends
I'd let you put a metric and then I
decided to judge myself for the rest for
the next 15 years based on that random
metric from a pair of random scales I'd
stood on in my mum's bathroom when I was
like having a bath or something yeah and
that's like a story which stayed with me
and I know it was when I was 10 so I can
remember the moment this eat with me
until I mean I guess now I mean you know
everyone's constantly struggling with
body you know body image and in the
distant age we live it in so and that's
just some stupid story which I picked up
when I was young there oh I'm heavier oh
dear I should weigh less oh no this
means I'm not as good I mean what's that
what is that rubbish story absolutely
and that rubbish story I'm sure every
has their own version of that room story
as well it's weird isn't it because I
suppose we can look back at it now with
our heightened level of thinking I
suppose and self-awareness but as a
child you were almost taken on this
story and making it almost a truth that
you're gonna live with now for the next
15 20 years not realizing the impact
that can potentially have so it's
shocking it's shocking the stuff that
you can pick up when you're you're young
I mean when I have children I'm gonna
read like every parenting book and going
everywhere I'm gonna travel the world
studying parenting my parents weren't
amazing but I mean in terms of things I
picked up in school and stuff so that I
can I don't know just so I can
understand it more because I know I do
really
how much would shaped when we're young I
mean my fantastic I'm not at all saying
it was them but yeah I mean there's
random things that you have no idea that
can have an impact for the you know the
rest of your life no I I hundred percent
agree again my parents absolutely
fantastic I wouldn't change him for the
world but I think this is maybe why we
both like garyvee because some of his
stuff that he talks about in terms of
when anybody talks about parenting and
stuff and just the cold hard truth in
terms of you as a person just finding
your way and not worrying about the
opinion even of your parents for example
and he has quite a few lessons in the
way he talks and I'm always nod to my
wife I'm like this is fantastic
I need to listen to Gary Vee like when
the time comes for us to have a family
for example and similar to yourself
again and another common trait is I
always think I just want to immerse
myself into becoming this ultimate pair
of where it's never gonna happen I mean
we all make mistakes but I just want to
be mindful of those simple words in the
simple sentences about my behavior can
literally change my my child's life
because I believe there's a level of my
anxiety came when I was a child and not
to make this episode about me but I know
kind of when it came and I really went
into myself and I don't ever want my
children to ever yeah I mean I think my
parents were pretty super parents in
terms of like they they had they've got
most of it down I think for me what it
was was was it would be knowing I think
it's about when something happens it's
because a lot of the stuff happens at
school doesn't it when we're young
that's where we we pick up a lot of our
stuff I think in terms of our baggage
that we take through our lives so I
guess for me it's understanding more
about kids other kids rather than
knowing how to pair it and understanding
if my kid comes in this mood well what
might have happened on that day and I
don't know I don't really know it I
don't know if there's really anything a
parent can do to protect a kid from
things they hear in school but things
like body issues and I've always been a
kind of natural leader which is the way
that I would explain myself now as a
natural leader but obviously like like a
lot of strong girls you know you're told
you're bossy and too intense and stuff
for a large proportion of your life now
I see it as you know I'm just a natural
leader which is super cool because I've
changed the story in my head but for a
long time I felt bad for being for
always for being like look I know
instead of you know letting everyone run
around in chaos for putting a bit of
order in there but now you know now I
see that as a positive but back then I
thought oh god I'm such a bossy whatever
again Britta Hansen I think people are
listening to this I just want to take
one of your sentences is you change the
story in your head and however we tell
ourselves this story
we can literally switch it and this is
what I want this podcast to be about in
terms of just switching the
circumstances or the situations that
you've been through in life to favor you
because at the end of the day the
situation is the situation however how
we react to it that's gonna determine
how we live our life and I just think
you're a shining example of using your
adversity and pain practice though I
would say that because I know that
people people say that you know oh you
know it is up to you how you react but
that I used to annoy me when people said
that to me because I was like oh shut up
like let me know it's just shut up it
takes a lot of practice and you just
have to basically for me what it was was
I heard that enough times that I
eventually started believing it so if
you don't feel it now that you don't
feel that you can choose to react to
situations in a positive way or however
you want to react to them if you don't
believe that's possible now just have
the faith that one day you will believe
it's possible and you will naturally do
it
because when it's right it will happen
do you know what I mean don't put the
pressure on yourself because I think a
lot of people present themselves going
oh I should be seen us in a positive way
oh my god I'm rubbish at this oh my god
I'm terrible at being positive why am I
so bad at everything and you get in a
spiral because it doesn't come naturally
whereas have the faith that when it's
ready when you're ready to react to
situations in a different way that's
when it will that's when you will do you
see what I mean
that's a brilliant way of pointing me
actually because I'm guilty of doing
that myself because we read so many
books and always working on personal
development if I don't do something how
I know I shouldn't potentially do it I
beat myself up about it and I think it's
again going back to that faith element
that one day it will click and I'll get
those moments you know we're imperfect
that's what makes us so amazing is we're
part that we'd be robots so nobody wants
robot humans yet although they think
we're going to be able to marry them in
2030 that might be my option perfect I
think yeah I think it's just it's
knowing that you know you're never going
to react to every situation properly
you're always going to sometimes not be
your best self that's what makes us our
best selves is by accepting those those
times that we're not but when it comes
to personal development and all of these
constant improvements that we know we
can make on ourselves I think making the
problem is is that there's so much
knowledge and content and things online
that we can apply to ourselves it's
actually becomes overwhelming that you
end up not doing anything because you
don't know where to start
so I just think look when somebody gives
me a piece of advice there I mean
something I know I should implement I go
well that looks nice when the time is
right I'll do that
and then naturally because I've got that
faith it does happen but I think what we
don't want to do is cause more overwhelm
we literally the amount of stuff that is
there in the world for us to look at
every day and the amount of choices we
have to make is just too much that I
think just backup from the whole thing
and go it will happen when it happens I
will learn these lessons when I need to
learn them you know take it in it you
know and one day you know it goes into
your memory naturally once it's gone
into your point once you've seen it or
read it and then it wait for it to come
back up and and that's fine but don't
put yourself under pressure to start
doing these things straight away just go
you read somewhere that somebody did it
and it worked for them do you know what
I mean absolutely I think that's a
fantastic message because overwhelmed
definitely as you said it causes a kind
of analysis paralysis and everyone I
mean I am helping people in their 60s in
businesses all the way down
supporting my 30 year old cousin with
his revision because I live with him at
the moment I'm helping with his revision
and honestly the main thing which is
coming out of everybody is overwhelmed
whether they're sixty or thirteen and we
have got to do something about the way
that we are living in this state of
overwhelm because it's not it's not we
can always do more and be more we always
know that we can but actually who we are
right now is probably a Dan site of an
improvement of where we are we were last
year so why don't we why don't we
celebrate that while the rather than
going oh god I need to be doing that and
why am I not doing that and I need to do
this we need to break things down and
have the faith that the right you know
the right thing happens when it happens
and we can only do what we can do in
that present moment and as long as we
are always honoring you know honouring
ourselves and making consciously good
decisions well then what more could we
possibly do do you know what I mean it's
just there's too much there's too much
pressure and and and overwhelm you know
it's like it's gone mad and I got a 13
year old cousin I want to just you know
take it all away from him and go look
it's all fine like with his revision
we've broken it into these really
bite-sized chunks it's completely
changed his whole attitude to revision
because he's like suddenly gone from
overwhelm to clarity and clarity is one
of the most important things we can get
in our lives because clarity enables so
much so yeah all of the answer I'm more
importantly good luck to your 13 year
old cousin as well for his exams yeah it
was like yeah I'm doing some revision
days for some of his friends over the
next few weeks we're going I can't bear
seeing them all stress so I said look
give them to me for a day I'm gonna sort
it out let's say well I'm sure he'll be
fine honey that suddenly actually brings
us to the last question and the last
question that I always like to ask my
guess is basically if in 150 years time
science fails to save a sword and all
that exists
is a book and this book is about your
life and in it it's got all the weird
and wonderful things that you've
accomplished all of the dreams and
aspirations that you've you've done and
achieved what would firstly the title of
the book say and secondly what would the
blurb at the back
tell us about Hannah power oh my
goodness I wish I'd prepared ah the
title of the book would be God that is
hard it would be something like
enjoying enjoy the journey it would be
something about yeah something like that
and the back of the book it would say I
guess embracing adversity is the biggest
gift that you can that you can give
yourself and finding your faith is
crucial to your success and finding
confidence in your inner self and
everything that makes you totally unique
that these are all the things which
enable you to then enjoy your journey
your short period of time on earth and I
would like to be seen as somebody who
helped others to do that the question I
should have really thought about that
beforehand really good I love it I think
that's certainly a book that I'd
definitely pick up and I think you
certainly will help so many people and
just on that could you please tell us
where our listeners and audience can get
through to you on your either Instagram
Facebook or wherever you're available
sure so and yeah the easiest way is
probably to go to my website Hanna power
dot code at UK so you can yeah that's
that's where you can contact me through
there if you want to send me an email
it's Hanna Hanna power code at UK or
Instagram is probably my favorite
platform Hanna I power and if you're
interested in joining I've got a
Facebook group to support people who
want to you know build their brands have
an impact create a life of fulfillment
that's called powerful branding that
Facebook groups you can search for that
so I guess it all depends on what what
people you know what they want if they
just want a bit of inspiration Instagram
if they want some help
Facebook group but it's all kind of
culminates on my website Hannah power UK
that's fantastic thank you all
shop with all of that into the show
notes so people can contact you I want
to take this moment once again to thank
you Hannah for your time and sharing
your story and I want to also thank all
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