From Bridges & Ballet - To Butterflies

In this episode of the Mastering Life Podcast, Paul reads to you From Bridges & Ballet… to Butterflies, which was written by Bill and Jenni Burridge, the owners of New Insights - offering personal development & coaching services in South Africa and in the UK.

There will be two parts that Paul will be reading, so make sure to tune in till the end. Bill and Jenni both share their stories on how their lives were transformed before they even started the company. They go back to when they first met at the University of Cape Town. From then on, their lives transitioned from one place to another and to one milestone to another.

Bill and Jenni claim that there are indifferences between them. But instead, of getting hindered by it, they are joyed by at how it brings new perspectives to the business side of things. Discover these and more when you listen to Paul read this fascinating story from the Burridges!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Bill shares her relationship with his partner, Jenni since he met her.

He first met her in college. He recalled how awkward it was meeting the love of his life dress in drag.
After graduation, Jenni moved to Mauritius. Bill then planned to chase after her and propose. But life can be a paradox. While the whole Mauritius was being wrecked by Typhoon Claudette, their bond became stronger and indestructible.
Jenni accepted, and they got married. The newly-weds moved to South Coast of Kwa Zulu-Natal and lived their normal lives. He worked for a construction team, and she opened up a fitness studio for ladies. At home, they try hard to reconcile their differences – while one opts for form, the other one chooses for function. As time grew, he felt that he could not do this his entire life – moving from one place to another.

Bill, then, decided to be a full-time student for a year to finish an MBA degree. This is after he did introspection and found his inner voice that has long been muted. Jenni, on the other hand, found a job as an aerobics instructor. Years passed, he joined a multinational company in the sales division.
On their 10th anniversary, they finally decided to have a family. Their eldest, Bianca, was born in UK. Then four years later, their sweet boy, Casey, was born.
Bill’s job afterwards focused on distribution, project management, and technology. His position requires a lot of travelling and thus taking his time away from his family. Jenni was at home taking care of the kids. Unfortunately, the dotcom collapse happened, so he lost his job. But as quick as he lost one, he landed on a Senior Management role in IT.
His career has completely u-turned from his passion which is working with people. But opportunities come when you least expect it. Just when he thought he was about to leave; his IT company started a program that needed an internal communications manager to bridge the employees and the executives. It was perfect. He was able to inspire people.  After 3 years, he was handling the internal communications of the entire organisation.
While Bill was busy growing his career, his role as a father and a husband was on the rocks. Their family has stayed in UK for 6 years with him, but it was already time to go home, to South Africa.
Since they were having familial problems, it was time to get a life coach. He enjoyed it a lot and saw improvements in his life. This gave him an idea to bring the life coaching business and its benefits to South Africa. Neil and Sharon helped and guided him about the coaching programme.
New Insights Africa… this is the new company of Bill and Jenni that offers life coaching for everyone.

BEST MOMENTS

“Unlike, opposite poles attract.”
“In wanting to ‘do the right thing’, I had suppressed my inner voice and allowed myself to be guided by peer pressure and the advice of others. Now my inner voice began to speak up. I reflected that whereas my working life had always revolved around things, my heart desired to experience working with something infinitely more challenging and exciting –people.”
“I learnt a salutary lesson. It was finally time to start playing my own ‘game’, doing what I loved rather than what I thought was expected of me.”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Speaking-our-Hearts-Mastering-game/dp/1781332819

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mastering-life/id1421271122?mt=2

https://www.life-coach-training-sa.com/

ABOUT THE HOST

Something that’s never been attached to Paul is the label ‘normal’ – for which he is immensely proud.  He definitely subscribes to being one of those mentioned – in the Steve Jobs quote:

“Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

Paul Lowe is the founder of PaulLoweHEARTS – which has a three-fold purpose. 

Firstly, to help you make the transition from Pain to Purpose; secondly, to get your inspirational messages and stories out into the world and thirdly, to support charitable organisations in their development & fund-raising.

We achieve this by:

Delivering our empowering Mindset For Success programmes
Sharing your true-life inspirational messages and stories through our Mastering Life Podcast and our Speaking From Our HEARTS book series
Utilising our significant charitable knowledge and experience.

Find Your Purpose – Make  A Difference

Paul is totally committed to his HEARTS brand vision (an acronym) of:

‘Helping Everyone Achieve Results Towards Success’.

He has a long and distinguished track-record of raising significant funds for a multitude of good causes; positively changing the lives of many disadvantaged children within the UK and globally – drawing on his colourful and wide-ranging life’s experiences to help others do the same and achieve success in the game of life.

“Remember – Mastering Life Starts, By Embracing Our HEARTS!”

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