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Loretta Breuning founded the Inner Mammal Institute with the aim of guiding people in naturally rewiring their brain chemistry. She has also penned a number of books that have brought her knowledge and expertise of the subject to the public consciousness, including the best-selling Habits of a Happy Brain. She has been featured in numerous media outlets and online publications, such as Forbes, NPR, Fox, The Wall Street Journal, NBC, Psychology Today, Cosmopolitan, Inc, Men’s Health, Fast Company, and Dr. Oz. Loretta joins me today to discuss her research and published work with regard to how b
After graduating from university with a degree in business management, Linda Harris knew that she wanted to do work she felt passionate about. She had done a fair bit of travelling during her university years and ended up taking a job in travel. When COVID started, Linda found herself furloughed and eventually made redundant. Instead of seeing her unemployment as a setback, Linda took the opportunity to reevaluate her priorities, discover her strengths, and look to move into an industry that would challenge her and allow her to give back. After months of reading, reflection and fine-tuning her
Michael Greenberg is the founder of Gentleman Of Technology LLC, a consultancy company that focuses on venture creation and growth consulting in the business-to-business arena. They specialise in advising serial entrepreneurs and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers. In 2017, Michael launched his independent venture, Call For Content, which is a full-service podcasting agency for content marketing, audience growth, and monetisation strategies. Michael is now excited to launch his most recent venture, South Africa Talent, which is devoted to helping small businesses outsource to professionals
Dr. Grace Lee is a neuroscience expert, career mentor, speaker, and educator who relishes in helping career-driven women joyfully be more, love more and have more in their professional and personal lives. She is location-independent by choice and her movement Career Revision focuses on redefining modern education, unlocking vocational confidence and mastering professional destiny. With her considerable experience in helping professionals advance their careers, Grace has deep empathy for those navigating change and loves to share her knowledge on her YouTube Channel and her Career Revisionist P
Sam Redman is an Executive Coach and Change Consultant at Sam Redman Consulting for those committed to being successful in senior executive roles, where she focuses on organisational culture change initiatives and bespoke development solutions for senior leaders. After ten years at Pret a Manger leading the global agenda on Culture, Leadership, and Talent, Sam decided to start her own business to feed her passion for helping individuals achieve their true potential and explore their authentic career and personal aspirations. Sam is also a Group Director at the prestigious, industry-leading OSS
Laura West, the founder of Joyful Business, is a business coach, author of several books and a sought-after speaker who is passionate about creativity in business. Laura has helped thousands of entrepreneurs embrace creative marketing strategies and develop signature products and programmes to successfully share their story with a broader audience. She is also a visual graphic facilitator, using hand-drawn visual mural and info-doodles in webinars and keynote speeches to educate and inspire. Laura joins me today to discuss why she left her prestigious corporate role in marketing to become an e
Michelle Lynne is the owner of ML Interiors Group, a successful design firm based for over ten years. She started her business in 2008, alongside working in a corporate role, getting married, and buying a home. She is also the owner and founder of Designed for the Creative Mind, where she teaches fellow interior designers how to manage the day to day operations of their company while leaving them with more time for the creative design process. Michelle currently works from home in Dallas, Texas, where she lives with her toddler daughter and her husband. Michelle joins me today to share her jou
Karen Williams is one of the leading Book Mentors in the UK. Through her company, Librotas, she helps business experts who want to stand out from the crowd to write a non-fiction book that allows them to grow their business, raise their credibility and get more clients. Karen originally trained as a coach, but after the success of her own book The Secrets of Successful Coaches, and understanding the impact a book can have on a business, she began to mentor others through the process. Karen is a Member of the Association for Coaching (MAC), and her company is a Partner Member of The Alliance of
Productivity, Networking, Planning, Development and Evernote with Rob Catalano, Co-Founder of Worktango Inc Listen Below and Here’s What We Recommended: Business and Marketing – Learning – Books – Entrepreneurial There’s this really great book that takes about 20 minutes to read. It’s called ‘What Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast’. It’s something that I read five or six years ago and thought it was something I wanted to add into my routine. I’m reading a book called ‘The Organized Mind’ by Daniel Levitson. It’s all about the digital onslaught now with everything being 300 miles an ho
Jack Stafford is a singer-songwriter and podcast host. After living a toyboy lifestyle in Amsterdam running a fashion business, he became a nomadic troubadour visiting 45 countries. Playing house concerts in exchange for a bed for the night, Jack met many incredible people and had many life-altering experiences. He writes songs inspired by his struggles and uses them to help others deal with their life issues. Through his Podcast Podsongs, he interviews activists, professors, campaigners, and other inspirational people and creates a song for each guest inspired by their work and story. When no
Gary Gorman is a negotiation specialist and the author of 30 Days Sales Challenge: Get To Love Selling For The Non Sales Person and Inside The Entrepreneur’s Mind: What Makes The Real Life Business Owner Want To Risk It All? With over 30 years’ of experience, he has helped countless organisations around the world improve their negotiation skills, land better projects and contracts, and increase their profits, including DHL Logistics, Siemens, Advanced Electronics, and Volkswagen. When he’s not training teams in the art of deal-making, he enjoys a quiet life in Grantham, Lincolnshire, where he
Jennifer Du Plessis is America’s Mortgage Mastery Mentor and a Lifestyle Business Master. During her career in the mortgage industry, she has been recognized as one of the top 1% loan officers nationwide, an influencer in the industry, and became a mentor to other mortgage officers. She hosts two podcasts, the TV show Tell Me I Can’t, and is a best-selling author. Jen is also the CEO and Founder of Kinetic Spark Consulting LLC and Cracking the Top Producer Code Coaching. Her passion is to empower business owners through her Masterminds to multiply their results and still have a commanding pers
Heather Waring is a walk leader, coach, and the founder of Women Walking: Women Talking, where she aims to help other women ease the pressure of their daily life to avoid burnout and adrenal fatigue. She is a founding member of the Association for Coaching and a regular column writer for Cosmopolitan Magazine and Glamour Magazine. Prior to starting this business, she was the Resident Life Coach at Fish4Jobs and had the privilege to be the career expert on ‘Britain’s Worst Boss’ on channel 5. Heather joins me today to share how she rediscovered herself and how walking has helped her keep her sa
Dr. Russell Thackeray works with organisations to achieve enhanced performance and results by aligning culture, leadership, and people and he helps embed change that creates organisational resilience. He draws on his varied professional background – from his time as a professional musician in London’s West End to subsequent iterations as an entrepreneur, corporate CEO, Non-Executive Director, Operations Manager, therapist and coach to deliver strategies and skills to improve performance and facilitate change. Russell is also the host of the popular Resilience Unravelled podcast that gathers gu
Chetna Bhatt is a part-time in-house employment lawyer, speaker, executive coach, and the co-founder and CEO of Being Lawyers. Being Lawyers is a coaching company specifically designed to help lawyers enhance their performance by increasing their mental clarity and improving their wellbeing. She strongly believes that for lawyers to reach their greatest potential and achieve the next level of success in their careers, the secret lies in establishing a solid foundation in their emotional and mental wellbeing. Chetna joins me today to share her journey of overcoming a chronic illness and how it
Amber Christian is the founder of Wonderly Software Solutions and creator of Bella Scena, which helps freelancers and small business owners create a unified view of their work through a calendar, to-do list, and meeting planning application. Amber drew on her experience of running a treasury consulting firm to build a second business devoted to providing a technical solution that addresses the unique productivity and collaboration challenges faced by freelancers and small companies. Amber is a regular author and public speaker on a variety of technology topics and is currently the Chair of the
Hazel Addley is dedicated to helping creative professionals and entrepreneurs feeling stuck or bored in their business or career answer the age-old question: “What’s next?”. She helps people find their meaning and their purpose in their life, business, and career, and transform it into a life they love living through her home-based coaching business. Hazel has a background as a freelance arts manager and a has diploma in Personal Performance Coaching from The Coaching Academy. She is also one of the first EAM (Energy Alignment Method) Mentors in the world. She draws from her personal experienc
Habits, Goal Setting, Self Care, Weight Lifting, Singing and Mindfulness with Faye Watts of FUSE Accountants LLP. What We Recommended: Tools & Apps Salesforce, a CRM and Sales Platform – “In the office we use a thing called Salesforce, which is an on-line platform. All of our software is on-line based, web based, so that we can have access anywhere. That means that it gives me and the rest of the staff the opportunity to work from home or elsewhere at any time with instant access.” Rightmove – for inspiration “is my other favourite app because that gives me the inspiration. I love property and
Eric Partaker is a Peak Performance Coach helping CEOs and founders in the tech industry to fulfill their productivity and leadership potential. Eric began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company and went on to help build Skype before selling it to eBay in 2005. After the success of Skype, Eric wanted to get back to doing something that would fulfill him personally and decided to combine his love of restaurants and Mexican culture to start a Mexican restaurant chain. Although they seem varied, Eric’s career choices have always been influenced by his desire to be challenged and inspi
If you want to write and publish your own book because you have great ideas that can make a difference in the world, then what you need is a book mentor. A book mentor is someone who will help and guide you through the process of writing your own book – from the planning stage, writing, and even publishing and marketing. My guest today is Karen Williams, a book mentor for Librotas. She creates structure, comes up with strategic plans, and sees things from a different perspective. These skills allow her to mentor and work with clients from all over the world. Karen joins me to share how to find
Scott McCarthy is the founder of Moving Forward Leadership, a leadership consulting company and podcast that offers coaching services to business owners, government and nonprofit organisations as well as stay-at-home parents. He is passionate about helping people move forward and become better leaders. In addition to working as a leadership coach, he is also a Senior Canadian Army Officer, commanding a logistics squadron of 200 soldiers. Scott joins me today to share the power of delegation as he wears different hats throughout the day. He discusses how he empowers others to level up their lea
Amanda Davie began her career working in client services with online advertising companies and digital media startups. After sixteen years of helping to build small businesses and honing her customer relations skills, Amanda decided to branch out on her own and use her unique qualifications to help cultivate inclusive and equitable workplaces. She is an executive coach and co-founder of Equal Talent, a company that provides group coaching to encourage a more balanced and high-performing work culture. She is also the co-founder of She Has No Limits, which supports and uplifts women through coac
Asana, Digital Learning, Templates, Outdoor Pursuits and Sub 20 Hour a Week Businesses with Janine Ogg, Co-Founder of Get It Done Mum. What We Recommended: Tools & Apps “I’m a huge advocate of Asana. With our latest project, which is launching our own podcast, we’ve got all the templates in place now, and it makes it a lot more efficient.” Unroll.Me – to make unsubscribing from newsletters quick and easy SaneBox – I recommend this for managing and triaging your email Canned Responses in Gmail, which is a template tool. “I’ve got a bunch of templates saved in there now, and that saves me hours
Sue Headaux is a Retail and Productivity Professional with broad experience encompassing management, customer experience programme leadership, and operational productivity improvement. She co-founded ReThink Productivity with her husband, Simon Headaux, to help businesses review and refine their operating systems and maximise productivity. Sue is passionate about assisting companies to bring continuous improvement to their operations and customers’ experiences by working with them to optimise their processes and lower costs. Sue joins me today to share her experience of the transition from wor
Rob Moore lives and breathes entrepreneurship. He was a self-made millionaire by the time he turned 30. He is a generalist-specialist who can focus on many things all at once and loves to challenge himself to do bigger and more difficult things. He is the co-founder of Progressive Property, one of his many “babies” and the host of the podcasts Disruptive Entrepreneur and Money, as well as the author of 15 books that have been translated into many different languages. He is an in-demand speaker, one of the UK’s top influencers, and a world record-breaker on public speaking as an international k
