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My guest this week is someone I had on episode 59 when we talked about her career as a trailblazer in the tough industry of advertising and her personal journey with IVF which also led to her instrumental role in shaping Singapore’s policy on IVF. She’s none other than Linda Locke. Linda is a highly awarded creative with over 300 awards to her name including a string of accolades from local, regio...

This week I speak with Snehal Ponde, Life & Career Coach and a certified NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) practitioner. What makes Snehal’s journey from an HR professional to a Coach special, is how she decided to pursue her passion for Coaching while battling Stage 4 breast cancer. Snehal and her husband moved to Singapore from Mumbai in 2019. In April 2020, the couple welcomed a healthy ba...

This week, I spoke with Dr Deborah Ward about the consequences of basing our self-worth on financial success. I was interested in this topic because I wanted to understand why some people place so much importance on financial success compared with others. I learned from Dr Ward that it’s because some people derive their sense of self-worth from how financially successful they are. We also discusse...

This week’s episode is with Ashleigh Rennie. Ashleigh is a conversion copywriter and copy strategist. She works with high-performing business women all over the world, who are looking to increase their impact, expand their audience, and connect with their communities in the most authentic and human way imaginable. It was Siobhain Danaher, one of my previous guests, who introduced me to Ashleigh be...

This episode explains why I decided to rebrand The Financially Free Woman Podcast into The Two Point Zero Podcast and what you can expect from the show in 2022 and beyond. You can listen to these interviews on https://twopointzero.me/podcast Don’t forget to sign up to my newsletter to be updated whenever new episodes are ready. You can sign up at https://twopointzero.me/newsletter If my guests hel...

This week’s episode is a continuation of where we left off from Episode 052 with Lagom Kids.  When I asked co-founder of Lagom Kids, Anna if she had any final advice at the end of the episode for you listeners, she suggested for women to ‘freeze your eggs!’.  Well that intrigued me and we had a brief chat about it after the interview and I found out a little more about her personal journey with IV...

This week’s podcast is an epic one! I talked to Linda Locke, accomplished leader in the advertising industry, IVF warrior, children’s book author and great grandniece of Agnes Joaquim, the brilliant woman who created the first hybrid orchid and Singapore’s national flower, the Vanda Miss Joaquim orchid in 1893. We talked about her advancement as graphic designer to senior leadership in the tough i...

When I embarked on my journey to find out how I could live a financially free life where I could break free from the tyranny of being worried and stressed out about not having enough money for the lifestyle I wanted for me and our kids, I never thought I'd find it in MINDFULNESS. As I delved deeper into mindfulness, I discovered that practising mindfulness is exactly the thing that brought th...

This week’s episode is a fun one with Anna & Toni who run Lagom Kids, the first homegrown kids retail and activity brand to use comfort, exploration and experience to inspire play to learn and discover this beautiful world of ours.  Lagom is a Swedish word that means “just right” and Anna & Toni share how they are using the theme of Goldilocks & The Three Bears to bring children on a j...

This week’s guest is Gretta Scholten, a certified life and time management coach. She helps women overcome overwhelm, procrastination, analysis paralysis so they can create habits and routines they love and feel productive and fulfilled every single day.  What I love about Gretta and her story is her resilience and tenacity around money which comes through so clearly when you talk to her. As a bre...

This week’s guest is Kelsey Kerslake, CEO, Creative Director, and Business Coach at Pinegate Road and the Aligned Business Academy. Over the last decade Kelsey has helped hundreds of online business owners build their brands and online presences. She believes deeply that everyone has the potential to make their dreams a reality and has a passion for supporting online service providers, coaches, an...

‘Don’t give up!’ ‘Winners don’t quit! Quitters don’t win!’ Don’t you ever sometimes feel so sick of hearing so much ‘ra-ra’ motivational talk? Especially when you’ve been giving your all, pressing on, never giving up...until now. You feel like you’ve had enough, and you just want to throw in the towel. Well, that might actually be a very good idea! What?  Yes, in this week’s episode, I talk about...

This week, I talked to Kate Kordsmeier, writer, educator, and creative entrepreneur. For nearly a decade, Kate was a full-time, freelance journalist for over 125 magazines, newspapers and websites, including USA Today, EatingWell, Cooking Light, Travel + Leisure, The Washington Post, Forbes, Esquire, Women’s Health, Clean Eating, Wine Enthusiast, SELF and Real Simple. She’s also the author of the...

What would you do if your job was costing you your health? How would you transition into the next phase of your professional and personal life? This is what we discussed in this episode with Cara Chace, former Special Agent, Metalhead, and a Pinterest Expert and most recently, helping business owners find balance between their business and their personal life. Cara helps online entrepreneurs tripl...

Amber Bruseke is a Registered Nurse, Personal Trainer, Crossfit Level 1 Coach, the founder of MACROS 101 and the host of the Top 15 nutrition podcast: Biceps After Babies Radio. Amber is also a wife and a mom to 4 kids. Amber works with women who need to jump start their fitness goals, from losing fat, gaining muscle, or simply developing a better relationship with food. We talked about how Amber...

In this episode, I speak with Natalie Sisson. Natalie is a New Zealand entrepreneur, three times bestselling author, speaker, host of the ‘Untapped’ podcast and handstand lover.  After ditching a successful corporate career and co-founding a technology company, Natalie decided to monetise her humble, 6-month old blog, The Suitcase Entrepreneur, into a multiple-six figure online education platform...

Kate Saffle is a life coach for moms, host of the Streamlined Motherhood Podcast, and a mama of 3. She coaches moms on how to use mindset and brass tacks strategy to create a happier and more purposeful life for themselves and their families.  We talk about how Kate went from feeling stuck, disconnected, and disillusioned as a mom to creating and living her dream life today. Today, Kate runs her b...

What would it be like if you no longer have to worry about your weight? You could eat whatever you want, whenever you want, and be healthy. How freeing would that be for you? This is exactly what my guest today, Beth Smeeton, Intuitive Eating Coach helps you with. We talk about the similarities between the disordered behaviours so many women have with food and money that’s defined by deprivation,...

This week’s episode is with Elizabeth Lee, or Liz as she is known. Liz left her corporate job as Head of Consumer Planning with Diageo right before the pandemic, to start her coaching business which she had been doing for the past 8 years as a side hustle. Liz offers coaching services to professional women who are looking to find their passion and purpose in life. She offers 2 signature programs,...

Monica Louie is a Facebook and Instagram Ads strategist and helps ambitious online entrepreneurs increase their impact with high-converting ads. Facebook and Instagram Ads wasn’t where Monica first started though. Monica made the switch from corporate employee in financial services to entrepreneur because of her desire to spend more time with her kids while making money so that she could continue...

Katie Kimball, the national voice of healthy kids cooking, is a blogger, former teacher, and mom of 4 kids who founded the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse , recommended by The Wall Street Journal in 2020 as the best online cooking class for kids. Her blog, Kitchen Stewardship helps families stay healthy without going crazy, and she’s on a mission to connect families around healthy food and teach every...

Money goes beyond just the dollars and cents.  We kinda know this in our heads, but do we live and apply this knowledge in our everyday lives? Especially when we’re pressed a little bit financially? As someone whose instinctive knee-jerk reaction to any kind of news that seemed to threaten my financial well-being was fear, worry and anxiety, I can tell you that unless you make a conscious effort t...

It’s easy to confuse the way to wealth and well-being as more ‘doing’ and ‘action’ alone, when actually, it’s when we’re able to do the inner soul work that everything else falls into place. That doesn’t mean all you have to do is close your eyes and think about riches for it to land your lap. What it means is to find the balance between achievement externally that’s aligned to achievement interna...

Do you grapple with reconciling your rational, logical mind and your intuitive, inner wisdom? I know I have! Those of us raised in Western education have been trained to use our rational, logical minds much more than using our inner, intuitive, ‘sixth sense’.  Dr Shirin was such a joy to talk to because she has combined her training in dentistry to do healing, energy work with her clients to help...

Today’s episode is all about what to do when things don’t go as planned. I recorded this solo episode in real time as I was dealing with something with this podcast not going as planned at the very last minute this very episode was supposed to go live.  It wasn’t even supposed to be this episode, but I wanted to show you exactly how I deal with things that don’t go as planned in real time.  Key Ta...