The Collective Wisdom Podcast with Cat Preston

Hello my wise friends and welcome to Season 3 of The Collective Wisdom Podcast. We're kicking off today with a guest who is just so wise. Alysha Yates is the director of programmes for the charity, You Make It. Alysha’s story of losing her mother when she was only 22 really touched my heart. And I make no apology for the fact that when that happens, my eyes just leak she shares so wisely the idea...

Welcome to the final episode of Season 2 of The Collective Wisdom Podcast. I want to send out a huge thank you to you for joining me, it's a real privilege to know that you're listening and I really do appreciate you all for taking the time to do so. One act of simple kindness I would love is if you could spare the time to either leave a review, wherever you listen to this podcast or if you have a...

Welcome to this episode of The Collective Wisdom Podcast with my lovely friend, Luke Harris, who is not only an amazing coach on the Story Skills Workshop, but he's also just written his first book, How to Sell Without Selling Your Soul. Luke has a rock solid career in sales and business development in the US. And it's also a pastor in his local community in Chicago. We dig into the process of wri...

Hello there, my wise friends and welcome to The Collective Wisdom Podcast. This week's guest has so many great achievements to his name, but the thing that drew my attention to his work is his mission to help everyday people become everyday innovators. Josh Linkner has just released his latest book, Big Little Breakthroughs, how small everyday innovations drive oversized results. Josh has poured a...

Welcome to this episode of The Collective Wisdom Podcast. I have a fabulous guest to share with you this week. Madeleine Wright is currently in her third year at Durham University where she's studying English. And we talked about the work that she's doing, alongside the team with the Durham University charity fashion show, which last year raised an incredible £170,000 in aid of their charitable pa...

Welcome to this week’s episode of The Collective Wisdom Podcast. Last week was world Autism Awareness Week so it's doubly fitting that I have an amazingly courageous guest to share her wisdom with you today. Amy Richards had a late diagnosis of autism at the age of 37, after suffering for many years with bouts of what she now knows to be autistic burnout. She has now taken her challenge and turned...

Welcome to Episode 15 of The Collective Wisdom Podcast. I have a wonderfully inspiring guest today, Mark Dombkins. He and his wife Anna are a remarkable couple, who not only adopted three children whilst they were living and working in Tanzania, but have gone on to create a non-profit organisation that continues to support local agencies in providing access to health care and education. Forever Pr...

Welcome to The Collective Wisdom Podcast, my guest this week is the incredibly wise and wonderful Jessica Huey MBE no less. Jess is a great friend and fellow coach. She is the author of Purpose: Find Your Truth and Embrace Your Calling. Jess is all about the power of words; remembering to say thank you to acknowledge people to help them feel seen. Her coaching takes the form of the Transformationa...

Welcome to The Collective Wisdom Podcast my guest today is from all the way over in Canada. Mark Dyck is a great friend and colleague over at the Akimbo workshops. Mark shares his stories on how his passion for making bread took him from learning through master bakers, building his own brick oven, to eventually opening his own bakery. He also has some great insight to share around fear and how a l...

Welcome to The Collective Wisdom Podcast, to celebrate International Women’s week my guest this week is Simona Barbieri who is a truly international woman and the founder of Hubdot, which connects women from all over the world through the power of storytelling. Simona founded Hubdot eight years ago when she had taken a career break from her banking job, but still wanted to stay connected with like...

Welcome to season two of The Collective Wisdom Podcast. I've got an amazing guest for you this week. Libby Rose is an amazingly talented, beautiful singer songwriter. She's just released a single late last year called Bittersweet Reality, which just blew my mind. Libby shares stories about her song writing process, and how difficult it is to get feedback and know whether something's ready to be sh...

Welcome to the final episode of this first series of The Collective Wisdom Podcast. So, I'll be ending where I began this series with Bernadette Jiwa. She is an amazing friend and mentor, and she was the person whose lovely soft Irish accent you heard interviewing me right there in episode one. We talked about her music choice of U2 and her stories of kindness and wisdom she has learnt around not...

Welcome to episode nine of The Collective Wisdom Podcast. Sharing his stories of kindness, music choices and wisdom on this episode is someone very personal to me. Sim and I have been married for a very long time. So, I feel like I know him almost better than I know anyone. And yet, funnily enough, when you sit down to share stories, you always seem to learn something new. What I did know already...

In this episode of The Collective Wisdom Podcast my incredible guest is Jude Galea. Jude is a medical consultant currently working on the front line in some of London’s busiest hospitals. She's also an absolute powerhouse of a woman with a wisdom far exceeding her years, who's recently been asking herself the question, What if? What if we explored some of those alternative healing modalities, ofte...

In this episode of The Collective Wisdom Podcast I talk to Peter Shepherd, a lovely coach friend of mine, who has so much great advice to share on just that subject and how to find things that spark joy for you. He recommends going for daily swim, but given I live in landlocked Gloucestershire and not 100 metres from the beach and Melbourne, I've had to skip that idea in favour of a walk with a do...

This week Sheila Glass, otherwise known as my mum, challenges the rules by giving 2 songs for the collection. She also tells her stories of kindness and wisdoms learnt. Sheila is an incredibly community spirited person, we talk about the challenge of changing the status quo, and not always accepting the way things are as the only option available. We also talk about how small gestures such as frie...

This week Anne Roche shares her stories, a very topical song selection and wisdom she has learnt along the way. As a life coach Anne Roche partners with her clients to bring out the best in them. She cuts through the bullshit and helps them get out of their own way and reach their goals. There's a sense of fun she brings to everything that she does, and it's so magnetic. In today's episode, we tal...

This week Bhavini Vyas shares her stories, nuggets of wisdom and song choices with The Collective Wisdom Podcast. Bhavini is an amazing singer songwriter who lives and breathes radical empathy. She's taken this concept of helping people and build it into her life and her work. She is the embodiment of how purpose in life isn't something you do, it's a state of being. Listen as Bhavini shares a sho...

Telling her stories to The Collective Wisdom Podcast is Nadine Kelly. Nadine is a fully trained medic, who 10 years ago gave up being occupied with death and disease as a pathologist and started using her incredible talents as a health and wellness coach, focusing instead on a holistic approach to our health and prevention of disease. Nadine and I talked about the many, many celebrations and miles...

Telling his stories to The Collective Wisdom Podcast this week is Nick Phillips. Nick’s stories and the wisdom they contain within them about communication being kinder than not saying anything. Even when, or maybe especially when, it is a profoundly difficult conversation is something that will stay with me for a very long time. We talked about identities we adopt and how difficult it is sometime...

For this first episode of The Collective Wisdom Podcast, Bernadette Jiwa interviews host Cat Preston, who tells some of her own stories and wisdoms learnt along the way.   Story Driven: You don’t need to compete if you know who you are - By Bernadette Jiwa   Song: I’m Not Calling - Hollie Col   The Collective Wisdom Podcast Playlist   Pearl of Wisdom: Trust yourself. You’ve got this.   The finale...

The Collective Wisdom Podcast with Cat Preston, certified Life coach. The podcast that explores how to be a wiser version of yourself.   This is a podcast that helps you to tap into your own inner wisdom and find the answers within you for how to live your best life.