Focus on WHY

Lisa Gill shares how important it is to align your own purpose and mission with that of the company you work with to reach personal fulfilment and job satisfaction. Reminding us also to not underestimate the role which you play within working towards the company's bigger purpose or vision, Lisa shares how her work at Parkinson's UK enables her unique skills and strengths to help unleash the compan...

As Principal Town Planner, Jon McDermott believes planning makes a difference to our landscape acting as the last line of defence to shape places and influence the human world. Always learning and refining his practice, Jon is keen to make an impact and is passionate about educating others to ensure people understand why it is critical that the right site has the right development at the right tim...

Are you heading towards being 50 year old corporate toast? How do you become midlife unstuck? Career satisfaction designer, Lucia Knight explains her ingenious engineering design philosophy to help people find solutions to their midlife problems. Lucia says we all have superpowers within us and if we point them in the right direction we can solve our super problems. However, we also have kryptonit...

After achieving incredible success and becoming very wealthy at a young age, Brian Mayne's life suddenly crashed dramatically overnight aged 29. Just when it seemed like it was the end of the world for him, a personal development trainer explained the science of positive thinking to Brian and that one person changed everything. Learning to read and write at the age of 30, Brian started a new life...

Olga Geidane is a mindset coach and speaker and in this podcast she shares why she is so passionate to help a billion people to transform their personal lives, relationships and businesses simultaneously one step at a time in order to become fulfilling, remarkable and authentic people. With a lifelong interest in personal development, Olga describes how finding a book aged 13 years old changed the...

Karolina Adamczyk believes in never looking back! She is firmly focused on the future and sets her own rules in life. As Chief Visionary Officer, Karolina uses photorealistic visualisation to help people to visualise the end result of a property development specifying every single detail leaving no space for interpretation. She embraces crazy opportunities continually disrupting and reinventing bo...

Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections and observations of these recent podcast episodes:   050 Absolute Focus with Mike Bristow 051 Be Brave! Be Bold! Be Brilliant! with Jeannette Linfoot 052 Reevaluate Everything with Niall Scott 053 A Sense of Community with Matt Baker 054 Real World Resilience with Richard Thorpe 055 Common Sense Investment with Louise Reynolds 056 The Canary Concept with Meliss...

Canaries only sing in good environments and Melissa Curran has created 'The Canary Concept' to improve mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. Having battled with anxiety, depression, burnout and grief herself, Melissa now uses valuable insights of her own life experiences to motivate and inspire change for the better and remove the stigma behind mental health. KEY TAKEAWAY "When I started r...

Building relationships, common sense investment and breaking down barriers to push outside her comfort zone are all daily activities for Louise Reynolds. With a background in marketing and management consultancy, her love of travelling and property enabled her to leave the corporate world behind to build a business around her passions where she has spent years helping others to invest with common...

Richard Thorpe talks about the real world resilience that is needed to survive and thrive in life. He places particular emphasis over why it is so important to have absolute clarity on your 'Why' if you are to achieve your potential in life and has even shaped his own model of WHY after his training in coaching, counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and from his experiences in business and sp...

Family and community have always played a huge part in Matt Baker's life and the desire to build sustainable communities is the foundation on which he has co-founded his businesses. Leaving a musical legacy behind is also fundamental to Matt and you will often hear him introduce himself as the Piano Playing Property Investor. As a developer of Next Level HMOs and Co-living properties, Matt's visio...

Niall Scott never enjoyed working for others. Jumping from job to job, he realised that working for himself was the only solution for him but didn't quite know how to get started. When his father passed away, Niall reevaluated everything and started to think about the bigger picture. First, he invested in himself, in his mindset and then subsequently has invested in property building a portfolio o...

Jeannette Linfoot is on a mission to live the best life and be the best version of herself. Having always been the only woman in the boardroom, she recognises that there is so much untapped talent in this world and she wants to be able to unlock that potential to help people live their best versions of their lives too whilst leaving a lasting impact on this world.   KEY TAKEAWAY "Be brave! Be bold...

WHY is such a powerful question and according to Mike Bristow once you know WHY something works intuitively through experience you should be asking WHY in a different context around the emotional intelligence that drives a far richer viewpoint on life. In this episode, you will discover what Mike's passions are, how important absolute focus is and what his views are on legacy, cricket, property, c...

Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections and observations of these recent podcast episodes:   043 Tipping Point with David Breaker 044 The Possibilist with Gitanjali Trevorrow-Seymour 045 Author Your Future with Richard Hagen 046 Positive Psychology with Frederika Roberts 047 The Gift of a Lifetime with Kerri Layton 048 Start with a Vision with Nick Bradley   KEY TAKEAWAY "Four questions to ponder: Wh...

Nick Bradley shares his journey of personal development and self-discovery after a spectacular burnout and how he now believes that all the best decisions come from the heart. Nick is passionate about personal and professional development, showing up and being the best version of himself every day. His bigger vision is to help bring entrepreneurial skills, experience and mindset to people in devel...

What happens when as an international blues and jazz singer your voice suddenly produces robotic noises instead of talking normally? This is what happened to Kerri Layton as she shares her shocking story of how at the height of her singing career she was rushed straight in for an emergency operation on her vocal chords. Terrified, Kerri went into that hospital theatre not knowing whether she would...

Frederika Roberts is an ordinary person who has experienced extraordinary events. In business, she has learnt at least as much from her mistakes as from the things she got right. Her personal life has been a rollercoaster of emotions, yet Frederika feels exceptionally lucky and describes herself as 'fundamentally happy'. In this podcast, she shares her poignant, emotional and insightful journey an...

Richard Hagen has always lived with purpose and has always asked the question WHY? His biggest challenges in life have been when his personal missions have clashed with the external reality or the external agent that would be the channel that his purpose would be expressed through. Talking about his WHY, Richard shares stories from his life which include 'committing suicide' at the Edinburgh Festi...

Gitanjali Trevorrow-Seymour is a professional possibilist, neuroscience nerd, executive coach, a recovering perfectionist and a catalyst. Her mission is to liberate that 3lbs of flesh inside your head from overthinking, so you don't just start seeing the possibilities but you act on them with curiosity, confidence and courage. In this podcast, Gitanjali shares how she spent decades of her life liv...

David Breaker was told by his GP at a routine doctor's appointment that he would only have five years to live or at most ten if he was lucky. After hearing this news, David had two weeks of nightmares where as a ghost he walked through a graveyard and saw a gravestone with the words: David Breaker. He was here. He played games. David shares his WHY and the emotional journey of how he transformed h...

Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections and observations of these recent podcast episodes:   036 Put Your War Paint On with Danny Gray 037 Real Life 1.0 with Tej Singh 038 Discipline and Regret with Sandro Forte 039 Create Your Ikigai with Héctor García 040 Evolution of Data with Toby Wilde 041 Innocence Project London with Dr Louise Hewitt   KEY TAKEAWAY "We stand on a very fragile line on the right...

Lecturer of the School of Law, Dr Louise Hewitt is also Director of the Innocence Project London which is a pro bono organisation where law and criminology students work alongside Louise and lawyers. They all give their time on a pro bono basis to investigate the cases of alleged wrongful convictions of people who have been convicted but who have exhausted the appeals process and are maintaining t...

Toby Wilde has a vision for the future of real estate which is why he founded Oparo, a Real Estate and Computer Technology (REACT) firm which is algorithm based, people driven and has real estate investment at its heart. Toby shares WHY he works in the PropTech sector and why he is disrupting and redefining both investment and finance methodology in the UK Real Estate market using proprietary tech...

Focus on WHY meets IKIGAI! International bestselling author Héctor García shares why he co-authored Ikigai with Francesc Miralles and how they wrote the book from their hearts. Héctor shares his WHY, his love of Tokyo and the Japanese culture, his interest in existentialism and the importance of community. What do you love doing? What does the world need? What can you be paid for? What are you goo...