POWER to Live More with Jo Dodds

Phil Wilson is a professional drummer, drum teacher, and the owner of  Medway Drum Studio . A motivational speaker, he turns ordinary events into an extraordinary experience as a facilitator for  Inspirational Rhythms . Phil has come a long way — from being a lifelong stammerer, he has spoken and performed at numerous venues across the UK and abroad. He was even part of the opening of the 2012 Lon...

Sarah-Ann Lucas, also known as Bird by her friends, is a writer, speaker, coach, and entrepreneur who owns Bird on a Bike . Her business is about helping busy successful women cope with the stress of doing it all. Bird joins me today to talk about how women can be their children’s inspiration while building the body of their business and the foundation of who they are. She has three, now grown up,...

Pam Burrows helps organisations create cultures of positivity by helping teams stress less and perform better. She has been awarded a European Health and Safety award for reducing stress in the workplace. Pam is a qualified Nursery Nurse, Social Worker, and a Master Practitioner in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), all of which help her to deliver a holistic programme of self-care strategies to h...

Marnie Nir is an Executive Life Coach and the Chief Creative Officer at Handel Group. Marnie graduated from UCLA with a degree in Russian Literature and spent several years travelling, working in music and, most notably, working for the Moscow circus. After settling down in Connecticut with her husband, Marnie found herself in need of purpose and direction. Her sister, Lauren Handel Zander, introd...

Naketa Thigpen is the Founder and CEO of ThigPro Balance and Relationship Management Institute , a global personal development company on a mission to inspire, equip, and empower ambitious female professionals (and a few brave men) to thrive in life, love, and business. She is the host of the Balance Boldly podcast and is highly regarded as the Number 1 Balance and Relationship Advisor in the worl...

Jenny Flintoft (now Ainsworth) is a leadership and business consultant and public speaker who specialises in helping leaders to encourage people to take affirmative, meaningful action in their lives and businesses. She founded her consultancy business in 2001 after leaving her managerial role at Disney. She loves to connect with people and runs development programmes, corporate seminars, and confe...

Journaling, Books, Films, Notebooks and Paper Based Planning with Paula Gardner, PR Consultant and Marketing Coach at Paula Gardner PR. Listen to the Show Below and Here’s What We Recommended: Apps Insight Meditation – a meditation app (really!) Zazen Meditation – another mediation app that Paula recommends Monefy.me  – an app to enable you to manage your money via your smartphone Duolingo – an ap...

Louise Goss is an Award-winning Journalist and Founder of The Homeworker. Louise had a varied career in media – working in radio, TV, digital and print, as well as newsrooms for over a decade. In 2019 she founded The Homeworker, a healthy mind, body, and business resource for people working from home. It’s all about supporting and inspiring people to help them make positive changes to improve thei...

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, ...

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 opportun...

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 market...

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 conside...

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...

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...

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 the...

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...

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 th...

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...

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 increas...

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 o...

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 a...

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 suc...

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 un...

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 mana...

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...