Soul Centred Entrepreneur
70 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow do I live a life that makes me feel happy and fulfilled? Change how I feel and the way I treat myself? Create a life and business that serves me and others? These are just some of the big questions that my guests have asked themselves. Action takers, change makers and entrepreneurs on a mission to make a difference share why they're creating a soul centred, passion driven life and business on their terms.
An interview based podcast focusing on the journey of each of my guests. Sometimes hitting ‘rock bottom’ is the start of a whole new life, career and way of thinking.
Many of my guests have experienced loss, PTSD, illness, depression, poverty, alcohol abuse, drug dependency, difficult childhoods or relationships, trauma or simply a sense of feeling lost or stuck without direction.
It doesn’t matter how humble or difficult a place you’re in right now, how unprepared or lacking in support you feel, now is the right time to start. If you have a dream....a passion to start something or change something and make a difference to your life and others .....and you’re ready to be inspired... this podcast is for you.
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3 Pillars To Emotional Strength In Relationships
April 24, 2019 20:28 - 19 minutes - 16.8 MBSometimes managing relationships can feel like you're walking through a minefield. How do I cope with a family member who's being difficult? How do I ask a member of my family to do something that I know they're not going to want to do? How do I stop feeling responsible for how family members behave? In this mini training I'm sharing the ways that I manage to negotiate and build relationships that make me feel supported and happy.
Rick Sharpe-A Real Man's Guide To Heartbreak
October 11, 2018 22:53 - 25 minutes - 25.1 MBRick Sharpe hit rock bottom when he realised that he didn't know or like the man he saw looking back at him from the mirror. He knew that he'd manifested the demise and painful breakup of a relationship and that history was recurring in some way shape or form. To better understand what had happened and to try to manage his debilitating thoughts and feelings he sat down and started journaling. Now Rick is on a mission to raise awareness about emotional struggle and help others suffering e...
Kenya Sheats - Amazing Ways to Grow Through Writing.
September 28, 2018 03:11 - 28 minutes - 29.2 MBKenya Sheat describes herself a natural born writer and her love of writing was the turning point and therapy she needed to recover her emotional strength when she suffered a breakdown following the death of her much loved Grandma and 2 close friends. It was at the 'rock bottom' moment that Kenya followed the advice of her therapist and turned to her journal. She began recording her thoughts and feelings and this kept her focused on the things she was grateful for and allowed her to expre...
Hanna Marie Bier- Healing and Reconnecting Through The Divine Feminine After An Abusive Childhood
June 28, 2018 21:00 - 20 minutes - 21.3 MBHanna Bier was a drunk 20-something trying to find Spirit in electronic music, parties and alcohol. The abuse she had endured as a child had left her feeling disconnected and lost. She couldn’t know it then, but dancing her heart out for days set her on a path to being a healer. Hanna Bier is a Soulful Success Coach, Energy Healer, Family Constellation Therapist and a Priestess of the Divine Feminine. She runs the podcast 'Mystics On A Mission Show' and currently lives in Amsterdam, Neth...
Johnny Cooper - Turning Bankruptcy Into A New Beginning
June 22, 2018 06:02 - 25 minutes - 24.5 MBBritish entrepreneur, piano player, international racing driver and business coach Jonny Cooper hit rock bottom when in 2007 he was forced to declare himself bankrupt and lost everything. He had sold his thriving 8 figure financial services business on an 'earn out' but the buyer failed to pay up. Never doubting that 'he'd be back' Johnny drew on every ounce of emotional strength and skill he had and started to look for ways to earn money. He fell into online business coaching as a way...
4 Ways To Feel Emotionally Strong With Your Kids After A Stressful Day At Work
June 20, 2018 07:01 - 13 minutes - 14 MBThis week I'm sharing my 4 top tips to feeling emotionally strong when you walk in the door after a busy and stressful day at work and the kids launch themselves at you demanding attention. How it's hard to disconnect and leave the stress at work and the effects this has on your relationship with your children. As one man I spoke to put it " I wanted my children to remember me as a dad who played with them so I knew I had to change" With thanks to http://www.purple-planet.com/ for...
Krysti Turznik - Swopping Chronic Illness For Personal Power
June 14, 2018 23:59 - 18 minutes - 18 MBKrysti Turznik's rock bottom moment came quite unexpectedly one day whilst she was in the shower and she experienced the overwhelming symptoms of dizziness that were associated with a heart condition she had developed in her late teens. She felt an overwhelming sense of sadness and despair at the way that her life had come to that point because she knew that she wasn't going to be able to fulfil the dreams and potential that she had within her. But she decided at that moment that she cou...
How Real Men Nurture Emotional Strength
June 13, 2018 00:00 - 10 minutes - 11.4 MBWhat is emotional strength in a man? A week of conversations with friends about the stress of working in a modern corporate environment prompted me to think about the way that men particularly manage their stress and feelings by being stoic, and just carrying on. Is it true that real men don't cry and they definitely don't ask for help?
Sarah Clark - Healing Chronic Allergies Through Diet And Lifestyle Changes.
June 08, 2018 00:00 - 26 minutes - 25.1 MBSarah Clark plans for the future hit rock bottom when at 28 years old, she received a diagnosis of premature ovarian failure. She accepted the diagnosis and chose to have both her children through in vitro fertilisation using donor eggs. Years later she retrained as a life and health coach with a special interest in diet and lifestyle and realised the root cause of her infertility and allergies was a food intolerance. Now Sarah is the author of Fabulously Fertile - Supercharge your Ferti...
Where Does Emotional Strength Come From?
June 06, 2018 06:33 - 12 minutes - 13.3 MBWhere does emotional strength come from? Is it something you're born with or do you have to nurture and build it just like physical strength? This week I'm sharing some of the ways I've learned to notice and change the things I think and say about and to myself.
Kelli Saginak - Living Happily With Anxiety
June 01, 2018 00:00 - 20 minutes - 21.7 MBKelli Saginak is an expert in heart-pounding palpitations, sweaty palms, and body tremors -- yes, ANXIETY. She suffered with anxiety for years until one day she decided she'd had enough of being 'numbed out' on medication and set about finding another way to manage her feelings. Kelli is a certified life coach, professor, counselor educator, and she knows how to transform anxiety into enthusiasm, eagerness, and motivation. She says it’s not anxiety that blocks our success as much as it ...
What Determines Emotional Strength?
May 30, 2018 06:59 - 11 minutes - 13.4 MBThis week I'm exploring the question 'What determines emotional strength?' Is there a way we can measure it? I take a look back on some of the wise words and opinions shared by my guests on Soul Centred Entrepreneur over the last year and think about how I'm applying that knowledge to the challenge of moving house.
How to develop emotional strength
May 23, 2018 00:00 - 14 minutes - 16 MBThis week I'm diving in to the question how do we develop emotional strength and sharing some of the challenges I've had this week as I open myself up to a new community and stop my fear of not belonging from turning into a limiting belief. With thanks to Purple Planet for the music: http://www.purple-planet.com
Varsha Mathur - Living a Life Unleashed by an Exceptional Existence
May 18, 2018 03:40 - 19 minutes - 19.5 MBVarsha Mathur struggled in an unhappy marriage for many years until in 2012 she separated from her husband and began divorce proceedings. Varsha comes from a South Asian, Indian family and found it extremely difficult to talk to them about not only her marital problems but the fact that she wanted to leave her husband fearing rejection by her family and community. Finally the stress of being in a bad relationship at home, trying to seem happy and function well in her corporate career and...
How to use mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty
May 16, 2018 06:26 - 13 minutes - 14.8 MBIn this 1st episode I'm sharing what I've discovered about mental and emotional strength and how I've learned to tell the difference. With thanks to Purple Planet for the music: http://www.purple-planet.com
Stevii Mills - Taking A Leap of Faith Away From Stress.
May 10, 2018 21:55 - 20 minutes - 20.7 MBStevii Mills hit rock bottom when the stress from working in her 'dream job' made her so sick she was rushed to he hospital twice and lost so much weight she ended up a size zero. At first her doctor thought it must be a hidden illness but quickly Stevii realised that stress was at the core of how she felt and it was time to do things her way. So she quit her big corporate paycheck, took a leap of faith and created her own public relations company. Now Stevii is a public relations coa...
Debra Hill - Life's what you make it.
May 03, 2018 21:00 - 26 minutes - 17.4 MBDebra Hill developed emotional strength as a child. Frustrated by the life threatening condition of chronic asthma she made a decision to take hold of life, make the best of each day and never be a 'victim' of the disease. Thankfully by the age of 14 modern drugs and treatment improved her condition and she was finally free from the shortness of breath and wheezing that had overshadowed her childhood. Her emotional strength was put to the test again some years later when following the de...
Tina Leigh McDonald-Dealing In Futures
April 26, 2018 21:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBTina Leigh McDonald has a chronic pain condition but she managed in her busy corporate job successfully for many years. But when a car accident caused her condition to worsen and forced her to resign she realised that part of her recovery and rehabilitation was going to mean returning to work in a way that she could manage but that still allowed her to support people in the way that she loved. She established her business Avalanche coaching and now she splits her time providing leadership...
Julie Dennis - Hot Flush Freedom
April 09, 2018 05:22 - 17 minutes - 18.5 MBJulie Dennis hit her rock bottom moment when she decided to stop taking HRT and manage her menopause symptoms naturally. She was shocked to learn that HRT had only postponed her menopause and exhausted by the onslaught of symptoms that hit her. Determined to feel better she decided to find out all she could about menopause and find a drug free solution that worked for her. Now Julie is on a mission to make menopause helps busy professional women cool down, calm down and break th...
Tom Mulliez-Adventure Starts Here
April 05, 2018 21:00 - 22 minutes - 21.5 MBTom Mulliez turned his rock bottom moment of being laid off from his corporate job into an opportunity to start building his dream business. Tom created iTrekkers, an outdoor adventure company that allows customers to book guided outdoor adventures online and it's his first entrepreneurial venture after in his words 'Having a number of great ideas that he never took action on.' Tom has always loved the outdoors and his earliest outdoor adventure memory is being on a trail with his fa...
Rebecca Boulton - The Hormone Mentor
March 21, 2018 00:16 - 14 minutes - 14.5 MBRebecca Boulton is a reformed corporate girl, who suffered major burnout after the birth of her first baby. She tried to return to work but was plagued by exhaustion. Tired of being told by her doctor that she should just expect to feel like this being a working new mum she set out to find a way to feel better. Rebecca began researching the effects of food on our hormones and this led to her retraining in Nutrition 7 years ago. Now Rebecca is a Nutritional Therapist and found...
Emma Langton-Love, Trust and Boundaries
March 16, 2018 04:56 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBEmma Langton's life changing journey began when she and her husband decided to adopt two gorgeous girls and she took some time at home to help them overcome their difficult start in life. She began to learn about attachment, trauma, fear, loss and how early life experiences can shape our futures. It was during that time of discovering how to best help her girls that she became interested in psychology and how we respond and react. It made perfect sense to her and she wanted to kno...
Julie Feuerborn - Dream it. Plan it, Do it!
March 06, 2018 08:40 - 25 minutes - 24.5 MBJulie Feuerborn learned as a child the importance of saving and budgeting. In fact saving and investing come naturally to her but she realised that to have a successful relationship with money you also have to enjoy spending it. Julie shared how she's meeting that challenge as she sets off on a world tour as part of a move from her long time home in the UK back to her native USA. Julie is the money coach and she founded her business to empower women to take control of their financial d...
Sarah Banks - Reducing Fertllity Stress
January 29, 2018 22:28 - 18 minutes - 19.3 MBSarah Banks is a fertility coach who knows what it's like to want a baby desperately and to feel the grief every month that she still wasn't pregnant. Sarah and her husband tried for a baby for four years before going down the assisted conception route. She says her life felt like it was on hold and out of her control while others around her were moving forward with theirs. She also understands that beginning fertility treatment can be the start of a whole new set of problems and worries and...
Hannah Williams - The Girl On Money
January 18, 2018 20:00 - 17 minutes - 17.5 MBHannah Williams is a Success Coach and Mindset Mentor who spent 17 years in the corporate financial world as a Wealth Manager. She believed that she should be a super successful high flyer and set out to prove herself in a largely male dominated world. Eventually the long hours and stress resulted in her becoming both physically and emotionally unwell. She was struggling and went through a process of really trying to go back and understand who she was and what she actually wanted. A...
Liz Melville - Rocking work/life balance
January 12, 2018 05:32 - 15 minutes - 15.8 MBLiz Melville is an online launch strategist and a Facebook marketing specialist for women working in the online space. But eight years ago she was in a senior role in a blue chip company and was burned out. She was suffering from nervous exhaustion and battling with serious and rare fertility issues and knew that if she ever wanted to be a mum something had to change fast. So she gave up her big salary her smart suits and the 60 hour weeks in favour of running her own business and puttin...
Dr Debra Campbell - Into the Lovelands
December 22, 2017 07:52 - 19 minutes - 19.5 MBDr Debra Campbell is an author, psychologist and former uni lecturer in relationships. She has worked as a psychologist in private practice for a number of years and also as a couples therapist. Debra started out as an actor making regular appearances as a teenager in Neighbours and other Melbourne TV institutions. But she found herself drawn to personal spirituality and gradually moved away from acting and into yoga and mindfulness teaching. Eventually the desire to continually deepen h...
Airial Dandridge - The Veteran Woman
December 14, 2017 23:52 - 20 minutes - 19.6 MBAirial Dandridge is a US Army veteran who once struggled to find direction during her own transition period. Held back by a lack of direction, limited resources, and personal trauma resulting from domestic violence, sexual harassment & MST, she felt alone trying to find her place in the world. It wasn’t until she stumbled upon her own life coach that she found the direction & personal determination needed to move forward, eventually creating The Veteran Woman, LLC, a company dedicated to s...
Annett Bone - Inspired by Dance
November 30, 2017 04:04 - 27 minutes - 25.9 MBAnnett Bone returned to her passion for dance after giving it up for over 20 years and she's constantly putting herself in uncomfortable situations so that she can grow. She believes that it's never too late to pursue your passions whether it's dance or something else and that you can accomplish great things from where you are and you can start with what you have. Annett is the host and creator of the Dancepreneuring studio podcast where she speaks to people who love to dance whether the...
Karen Ramsay-Smith - Creating Radiant Leaders
November 22, 2017 09:28 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBWhen Karen Ramsey Smith went through a huge emotional upheaval she found herself at a point where she felt really lost. She began to question her work and role in life. Everything she thought she should be doing had no meaning anymore. That was the start of her self development journey. She hired a coach and had a huge outpouring of emotion which made her realise how lost and out of touch with her feelings she had been over the years. But it also brought her to where she is now, coaching and...
Rene Brent-The Happiness Hunter
November 03, 2017 03:34 - 24 minutes - 23.1 MBToday I'm joined by Rene Brent. Rene is a certified clinical hypnotherapist and a number one international best selling author of the book. 'How big is your But?' She's an international speaker and on the faculty for the Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy. Rene has been a registered nurse for over 25 years and has worked in ICU trauma E.R. and the Recovery Room. She helps her clients use the power of the deep inner mind to release blocks and reach personal and professional goals and she'...
Sean Douglas-The Power to Transform
October 20, 2017 01:18 - 24 minutes - 23.6 MBSean Douglas is a US Air force Veteran who enlisted straight after 9/11. He's energetic and passionate about inspiring others to succeed and teaches mental, physical, social and spiritual resilience skills that focus on equipping people to manage change effectively. He's performed a multitude of duties all over the world and as a drill instructor in Air Force training he's developed over 600 young men and women into military leaders. But in 2008 Sean hit rock bottom. His heavy drinking and pa...
Alessia Pandolfi - Breathe, Delegate, Focus
October 12, 2017 09:24 - 22 minutes - 21.4 MBAlessia Pandolfi is a Virtual Assistant or V.A. and she specialises in working remotely serving clients in Europe the U.S. and Asia. Her No.1 mission is to support her clients in growing their businesses by eliminating time consuming tasks that get in the way of their goals. She holds a diploma in Applied Arts and a degree in Russian. She's a native Italian and also speaks English and Spanish fluently. Alessia spent much of corporate working life as a Project Coordinator and also working in ...
Danielle Drozd-Confidence Through Courage
September 29, 2017 05:10 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBDanielle Drozd is a writer, teacher, confidence coach and mentor. After 14-years in the Blue Chip corporate world of supply chain, Danielle decided to change her life in order to achieve the authentic success she felt she was missing She shared Her life changing journey, in her debut book I Have a Dream, She's also published a poetry anthology Voice of the Soul and has just released Confidence through Courage a book based on her experience of growning her own confidence and her work support...
Kristen Harper-Inspiring Perfect Health
September 19, 2017 07:01 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MBKristen Harper is a health and wellness expert. She's passionate about inspiring people to be healthy, happy, and motivated! She styles herself as a role model and motivator with a unique connection with her audience that comes from her own personal journey towards wellness and happiness. For many years Kristen struggled with health issues and a disabling eating disorder. Kristen founded her company Perfect Health Consulting Services, in 2009, with the goal to help people all around the w...
Damion Lupo- Reinvented Life
September 08, 2017 05:32 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBDamion Lupo is a born entrepreneur who started his first business at 11 years old. He reckons this fierce independence and self-reliance has something to do with growing up in Alaska dodging polar bears and surviving 20 degrees below zero temperatures. Damion is the published author of five books on topics ranging from real estate to precious metals. But his favourite one by far is this true story of transformation and personal development, Reinvented Life. He's also the founder of Yokido an ...
Alison Cardy - Authentic Career Happiness
September 06, 2017 03:27 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBAlison Cardy, founder and CEO of Cardy Career Coaching, developed her signature career CLARITY method because she experienced firsthand the pain, frustration, and worry that grows out of being in the wrong career, particularly when you know you have more to offer the world. She is the author of the bestseller: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career. Her insights and writing have been featured on over forty podcasts and prominent blogs. Alison runs an international career coaching team ...
Allen Weinstein -Thinking Outside The Box
August 16, 2017 10:31 - 31 minutes - 29.8 MBMy guest today is an Entrepreneur speaker, author, and a self made multimillionaire. Allen Weinstein had never been given much of a chance to succeed. He couldn’t read until he was thirteen and was labeled and written off by the education system. Failure after failure in school sentenced him to a bleak future. Yet Allen found a way to overcome his learning disabilities and shocked everyone around him by ultimately graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in architecture. He neve...
Sarah Li Cain - Changing Your Money Story
August 02, 2017 10:58 - 20 minutes - 17.6 MBSarah Li Cain is a financial storyteller who weaves practical tips and strategies into her work Her skill is in helping people who are trying to change their money mindset see themselves in the starring role taking responsibility but also feeling empowered by the journey to new wealth. She loves answering reader questions on her blog, sharing resilient money stories, Our conversation focused on the importance of having a strategy and a plan and then sticking to that. The power of taking small...
Jen Hall-Clarity, Confidence and Passion
July 17, 2017 10:43 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBJen Hall, is a Business Clarity Coach for online entrepreneurs. She's on a mission to help her clients feel ‘on fire’ and in pure alignment with their purpose & fully confident to become the high-profile Leader in their field“ For over 10 years Jen felt stuck she always knew she wanted to coach, but felt limited by her own beliefs ’that she was too young, didn't have the right qualifications, or enough life experience to coach!’ At 19 years of age she started an event planning business but sh...
Angela Hair - Finding strength and peace within
June 30, 2017 03:54 - 23 minutes - 20.8 MBAngela and I are colleagues at Bay Wellness a family health and wellness centre in my hometown of Hastings New Zealand. Angela's also the owner and principal homeopath of Concordia Health. She specialises in homeopathy using the Kinesthetic Resonance Method. Angela's also an environmental advocate and she's passionate about raising awareness about the need to protect our environment from chemicals, GMO's and electromagnetic pollution as a former member of Fluoride Free Hastings she's been tir...
JJ Flizanes-The Invisible Fitness formula
June 16, 2017 03:53 - 23 minutes - 30.8 MBJJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist, author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and host of the Fit 2 Love Podcast Show. She's on a mission to transform the meaning of the word "fitness" to include not just the state of a person's physical body, but also the emotional, mental, and spiritual factors which affect a person's overall well being. When she was thirteen, and puberty hit she was one of the only girls in class ...
Maura Sweeney Living Happy Inside Out
May 12, 2017 05:23 - 27 minutes - 24.6 MBMaura Sweeney spent decades on the path to emotional strength and she now and uses her personal stories to help others along their path to freedom and personal happiness. She left law school mid-stream to find her real life. She spent a fulfilling time in corporate management learning to lead others in fun, free and fulfilling ways, But eventually left her corporate paycheck to find her personal "wealth". After overcoming decades of mental baggage about identity and learning how to dance at a...
Ruth Stuettgen - The Book Of Inspiration
April 19, 2017 10:10 - 21 minutes - 20.8 MBRuth Stuettgen was born in South Africa and she now lives in Melbourne, Australia with her 3 children Ruth is an advocate on Family Violence and Women’s Empowerment and her book From Misery to Mastery - Journey to Freedom and Empowerment was written from her own experience and seeks to help women rebuild their lives after adversity. She's also is the founder of Inspired Women TV, Focus on Balance and Lunch & Learn for Women in Business and as a Speaker, Coach and Mentor Ruth works globally wi...
Tarah Long - The Health Alchemist
April 19, 2017 02:54 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBIn her early 20's Tarah Long was diagnosed with Chronic fatigue syndrome and was told by her doctors that there was nothing to be done and she should go home and rest. Unwilling to accept this Tarah set off on a journey to feel better and it changed her life. She now works with people who experience chronic fatigue, and other chronic health challenges to take their power back, heal themselves, and change their world.
Glen Livingston - Never Binge Again
March 23, 2017 01:57 - 27 minutes - 25.8 MBDr Glen Livingston is a psychologist and was the long time CEO of a multi-million dollar consulting firm to Fortune 500 clients in the food industry. His research has been published in major periodicals like The New York Times and he's appeared many times on American national television. He became disillusioned by what traditional psychology had to offer overweight and/or food obsessed individuals, and spent several decades researching the nature of bingeing and overeating via work with his o...
Joe Apfelbaum - Creating personal power
March 08, 2017 07:45 - 18 minutes - 17.9 MBJoe Apfelbaum is, the CEO of Ajax Union, a top digital marketing strategist and communications expert who discovered, quite unexpectedly, that he had a fear of public speaking. He was excited to be asked by Google to become a certified trainer but when he started practicing presenting in front of his staff members he started to freeze up. Joe knew this was a great opportunity to promote and grow his business and so he decided he had to fix this problem and overcome his fear. Joe shares what h...
Beth Lynch-Beyond the blind side
February 24, 2017 05:42 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBBeth Lynch is a breakup support coach. Her mission and passion is to get her clients through the painful aftermath of a breakup or divorce and on the road to recovery as quickly as possible. Just a few years ago she found out over the phone that the man she had planned a life and future with had been seeing someone else. In a matter of seconds life as she knew it was gone. She felt she spent too much time lost asking why, what if and if only desperately trying to find closure and taking respo...
Dr Sharon Livington - Get lost Girlfriend
February 09, 2017 02:24 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBImagine you have a best friend. Someone who gets your jokes and makes you laugh, shares your dreams and supports you. A friend who loves what you love and shares time with you and your family. Your lives revolve around each other. Then one day, out of the blue, they phone you and tell you the relationship is over they don't want to be friends anymore. How would you feel? Hurt? Devastated? Angry? Sharing a conversation with me is Dr Sharon Livingston a top marketing strategist, communications ...
Jason Treu - Building extraordinary relationships
January 27, 2017 20:42 - 30 minutes - 28 MBJoining me for a conversation is Jason Treu. Jason is a top business and executive coach, a sales trainer and an author. His No.1 best selling book, Social Wealth -The how to guide to building personal and professional relationships, has now sold over 45,000 copies and reached No.1 on Amazon in numerous self help and business categories. Jason's a leading expert on human behaviour, daring leadership and relationship building and he helps executives and entrepreneurs to build key business and ...