withinu Presents The Narrow Road Podcast

Job titles - something I've never been bothered about and something I've never really understood. At what point do you become a CEO etc?

LinkedIn is full of guff. People write a load of crap and have hundreds of comments on there agreeing and congratulating them on a 'great post!' I have come to the conclusion that it must be me that different from the rest, as to me the majority of it is a load of tosh.

Showing up is hard and I understand why most people do not do it.

Martin Roberts A Walk in My Shoes: One Step at a Time Monday 14th November 2022 6.30pm - 7.30pm  This episode is a recording of a webinar from The Football Mental Health Alliance, delivered by Martin Roberts. Martin Roberts is one of the UK's leading experts in the lived mental health experience. A teenage survivor of the Hillsborough disaster, Martin shares his vulnerability by speaking...

You wouldn't ask your mate to set up a Tinder account in your name, ask them to swipe for you and send them on the first six dates, would you? Why then are a lot of professional sports clubs outsourcing their commercial activities? Danny talks about what he has seen on the sports marketing industry and how outsourcing your sales process doesn't work.

Executive Coach, Graham Summerscales has been coaching successfully across the globe for 14 years. At 53, he was diagnosed with ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. His initial reaction was that of concern and how this might negatively affect him, how others would view him, and how this might damage his professional career. However, after further research, into the life-long condition t...

Zorack Shahzad Aziz is a qualified integrative counsellor and psychotherapist. He's a registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) - this means he meets their standards of proficiency and abides by their code of ethics and practice. Zorack holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy (level 7) and has 20 years experience of working in edu...

Charlotte Lawrence is a qualified counsellor with over 13 years of experience. She offers a professional counselling service in a supportive non-judgemental environment where you can safely and confidentially explore your concerns. In addition to her counselling work, Charlotte is a qualified Reiki Master and practitioner (a non-invasive gentle form of healing) holding a foundation qualificat...

The Narrow Road welcomes Beth Madeley from Beth Madeley Counselling. Beth is a qualified Relational and Integrative Counsellor. Beth believes that your thoughts, behaviours and emotions are all interconnected. Beth discusses Mindfulness and explains what she feels Mindfulness is and how it will work for you! She covers techniques to practise Mindfulness and discusses the benefits of creating small...

Stef Thomas is widely regarded as the UK's foremost voice on Business Networking. His achievements in the business world would usually mean that he would appear on The Narrow Road, talking about his entrepreneurial journey, discussing how he has got to where he is now. Where he is now in the business world includes being the author of three best-selling books on business networking, international...

In the first episode of Season 2 of The Narrow Road, Danny welcomes Tasha Walsh, of Seen and Heard Therapy. Season 2 of The Narrow Road focuses on the many aspects of Mental Health. This episode is released in time with Neurodiversity Celebration Week (March 15-21, 2021) and Tasha talks about neurodiversity and how neurodiverse people are 'superheroes' and often responsible for some of the world's...

Julian Kynaston is quite simply a Business Icon. No introduction is needed for this guy. The episode begins with Julian speaking about his days in the world of football hooliganism which translated into his understanding of the power of branding and led to him printing bootleg branded t-shirts to supplement his need for expensive, non-bootleg branded clothing. The hooligan element of Julian's life...

Part 4 concludes this fantastic episode with David explaining how he has learned to trust as well as discussing his coaching role and how he gets the best from his clients - going from being 'ferocious' with them in the past to now adopting a more 'gentler' model. David's closing words.... "I'm very, very present. That's how I feel and that's how I am."

Part 3 continues with David explaining the 4 hours of unimaginable pain, due to the decision he made in Part 2 to save his father's life. "I'm just dying.... I'm confused, but I'm definitely dying..... I felt I had taken my last breath." After the event, the other people in David's group explained to him that they did actually think he was dying and how they were screaming at the Shaymen to interv...

We continue as David discusses his take on being sick and crying and then move onto his first night at Rythmia ( https://www.rythmia.com/ ) as the Ayahuasca kicks in..... Mother Ayahuasca takes him back to his childhood home where she shows David his 7 year old self watching his dad crawling around the living room floor, suffering intense pain. She then reveals the reason why he is in agony which...

In this Podcast we welcome back Huddersfield based Entrepreneur David Cooper. David was the inaugural guest on The Narrow Road. We discussed his entrepreneurial journey but ended up hearing about some serious revelations when he took a trip to Costa Rica to undertake an Ayahuasca Ceremony. Ayahuasca — also known as the tea, the vine, and la purga — is a brew made from the leaves of the  Psych...

In Part 2 we pick up where Jackson showed Nicky all was well on his 21st by leading her to a meeting with a celebrity in the Beverly Hills Hotel in L.A. We cover what led to the breakdown of her marriage which left Nicky £250,000 in debt, resulting in her losing her home, her business and most of her inheritance. "I was depressed, without any question. And in absolute terror....." Nicky's story is...

Nicky Pattison hails from Holmfirth in Yorkshire (you'll hear the accent), England. She's a powerhouse of a woman who has experienced devastating loss and turned it into amazing success. No words I write on here can express what has happened to her. As well as being an internationally renowned business speaker, Nicky works with massive retail brands like Tesco, Halfords and Illamasqua as well as l...

Part three talks about the dotcom bust and how although this affected the share price of Freeserve, it didn't affect the success of the product as more and more people were wanting to get on the internet. This led to Dixons wanting to cash in on Freeserve, selling the product for £1.5bn after it only being in existence for three years...... After the sale of Freeserve Ajaz left the company and sol...

"Disruption always comes from those outside of the industry. The incumbents never disrupt." In this second part, we discuss how Freeserve became responsible for kicking off the Dot Com boom in the UK and how at launch, AOL dismissed them. It took only three months for Freeserve to become the UK's largest ISP and Ajaz explains how nobody, including him, thought it would grow so big, so quickly. Aja...

"I want to be able to look back on my life and say I've made a difference." In this first part of a two part Podcast, Danny speaks with Internet Pioneer Ajaz Ahmed. Huddersfield based Ajaz is a company advisor, a business speaker and he writes a column for a national business magazine. He helps small and medium sized companies and is also an experienced Exec Officer, Non-Exec and Chairman of FTSE...

"True freedom is getting up each day and deciding what you want to do." In this second part, we discuss how David learned to be humble, patient and value his time. We cover the sale of Cooper's Coffee and how David describes the selling of a business being like a game of poker. David explains how he felt 'bullied' by the buyers and why at the 11th hour, he told them to f**k off. From here, we expl...

Part 1 of 2 Parts. In this first episode of The Narrow Road, Danny interviews David Cooper, who along with his wife Jacqui founded the eponymous Cooper's Coffee. In its pomp, Cooper's Coffee was one the UK's premier trade suppliers of fine coffees and espresso machines with a national distribution to over 1300 clients. Cooper's was subsequently sold for high seven figures and in this first part of...

Host Danny Matharu introduces this new brand new Podcast, The Narrow Road, aimed at anyone interested in personal development, from a Business and Sport perspective. Straight talking and to the point, Danny explains what this Podcast is all about and why he has started it.