Career & Spirituality Conversations

For this episode, I interviewed Tazeen Dhunna, ex-stock broker and financial journalist whose journey through becoming a mother had a profound impact on her career and spiritual understanding of Life itself. Some of the highlights of our conversation are: Spiritual path: "un-learning" towards Sufism Career journey & lessons from Trauma  From Corporate to Business: no mental gymnastic...

For this episode, I interviewed recruiter turned coach Aisling Melia . Aisling is an ICF credentialled personal and professional life coach, a wife and a mother to her three children. Her training is rooted in neuroscience and she uses tools and techniques based on this research. Before becoming a coach she worked in HR and teaching. As a coach, she feels her role is to hold a space where her clie...

For this episode I interviewed fellow coach and life long traveler Simone Anzböck . Simone Anzböck coaches international professionals who navigate the trade-offs in pursuing a non-linear life and career in a cross-cultural context. She coaches individuals to find clarity, professional alignment, and purpose via bespoke 1:1 coaching and corporate training. Simone has lived and worked in 15+ countr...

For this episode I interviewed adventurous original thinker Corrina Rider. Corrina is a healing visionary, a mystic rebel, an advocate for the inclusion of our Environment in the Mind/Body/Soul equation, and a guide to others in their awakening and wellness journeys. Her decades of experience in scenic, retail and landscape design are the foundation of her healing and creative work, which uses you...

For this episode, I interviewed wisdom seeker and social scientist Thomas Legrand. Thomas is a wisdom’s seeker, a social scientist and a sustainability practitioner. Holding a Ph. D. in Economics, he works on forest conservation, climate change, sustainable finance, and leadership with UN organizations, NGOs and companies. He is currently the Lead Technical Advisor for the UNDP-convened Conscious...

For this episode, I interviewed a very dear friend of mine, amazingly gifted reader of energy, Liz Svensson. Liz is a Systematic Kinesiologist, a Natural Lifestyle promoter and Wholehearted Health Coach. She works with your whole Being to reach your goals, in health and beyond.  Her perspective is that when we experience inner balance, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, our body na...

For this episode I edited together the perspectives of 3 amazing speakers on Intuition. You'll hear from: Gina Schatz , who was the guest of Ep 10, The Subconscious Dynamics of Health and Career. Inga Joseph , who was the guest of Ep 17, Spiritual Leadership in Action. Laura Tynan, who was the guest of Ep 16, Witches Wealth and Woo. Three amazingly insightful Ladies whose career built upon their i...

For this episode, I interviewed beautiful and heart centred career coach Petra Blume. Petra considers herself a "people-passioneer" and love to empower women to thrive and succeed in their career transition by building on their mental fitness. She has reinvented herself twice over the years, and after a long career within the IT industry, she felt that it was time to listen to her inner voice and...

For this episode, I interviewed real life Yogi ⁠Sumit Sharma. Sumit comes from India, a land filled with yogis who saw that, the only way to make life successful was to be a yogi. For a yogi is oneness personified. And when you live like a yogi, you are in the universe and the universe is in you. Both intertwined make for a life full of cosmic wonders! And that's who Sumit truly is, a yogi.   Fun...

For this episode, I interviewed high profile Finance executive and a dear friend of mine Manish Sundariya In his words, "just a normal Guy trying to make the best of this journey called Life", but incidentally the Global Program Manager of one of the biggest banks, Manis is in charge of teams spanning across 56 countries, so he got a rich experience managing people. We talked a lot about his appro...

For this episode, I gathered perspectives about money from three of our previous speakers: Laura Tynan , Katie McManus and Sebastian Koellner. Laura was the guest of Ep 16 "Witches, Wealth and Woo" Katie was the guest if Ep 14 "Ingredients for a Unique Career Recipe" Sebastian was one of my firest guests, in Ep 2 "Work for Impact, not for Insights" They all had interesting perspectives about money...

For this episode, I interviewed natural born Storyteller James Moffat. Ever since a small boy he has entertained his friends with fantasy stories. Harnessing and perfecting this gift, he now helps businesses, typically startups, solo-preneurs and International SMEs, to articulate their value proposition in story form to gain the best possible results. Also, his passion and purpose in life is to he...

For this episode I interviewed artist Tina Frey. Tina is the Founder and Creative Director of TF Design, the homewares, furniture, lighting, and accessories company that she founded 16 years ago in San Francisco, California. She has started her career in Finance, following an "expected path". Then, even though appreciating the financial stability her work offered, and to put it in her ow...

For this episode I had a conversation with conscious leader, innovator, and entrepreneur Alex de Carvalho. Alex is someone who is committed to conscious leadership, who fosters change through innovative projects, transformative events, and coaching, and actively cultivates professional communities: he is the founder of large regional developer and marketing associations, and the driving force behi...

For this episode I interviewed "natural born body worker" Gina Schatz. Gina is a board certified integrated bodywork therapist and trains movement and manual practitioners in her clinically researched method, The Schatz Method TM. Along her 30 year career path, several junctures led her to lean heavily on her spiritual path that changed the course and saved the course for her. I met Gina...

This week I interviewed vibrant soul Laura Tynan , founder of The Witch of Wall Street and champion of female financial empowerment. Laura has built upon a successful career in Finance and a strong intuition that guided her towards Bob Proctor, to find her purpose and mission of supporting women to improve their finances and upgrade their money mindset. She fulfills this mission by combining strat...

This week I had a conversation with Jochen Frey . Jochen is an executive coach based in San Francisco, California. He's working with CEOs, co founders, executives of tech companies, supporting them in creating both successful companies and successful lives. In other words, supporting them to succeed in the quest to 'Having it all' , hence the title of our conversation. Before becoming...

For this episode I had a fun-tastic conversation with Business strategist and money mindset coach Katie 🌭 McManus . Katie is also the host of Weeniecast, a podcast dedicated to business strategy for ADHD entrepreneurs. Her motto is "stop being a weenie", and she believes that bravery is the key to getting what you want. Katie is super fun to talk to, and I believe equally fun to listen...

For this episode I interviewed Iskra Petrova . Iskra is a clarity and confidence coach, and self-empowerment mentor. She works with heart-led leaders and expert facilitators of change (coaches, educators, therapists) to step into their power, purpose and light, and thrive in life with self-trust and joy as their authentic selves. I met Iskra on LInkedin, I knew I wanted to interview her when I rea...

This episode is not an interview, but the recording of a workshop I gave on the Internations platform, while we were all sitting at home during the pandemic. Disclaimer: the sound is unfortunately a bit messed up, and the presentation will probably not work so well in audio only, as I'm sharing powerpoint slides to illustrate my point. This is what I cover in this session: What to check and fi...

This episode was edited from Episode 4 - "Happy Workplaces, an Unstoppable Movement" with Stephen Dargan. It summarises all the inspiring book recommendation Stephen made during the original episode. Consider it as a bonus! To contact Stephen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-dargan-happywork/ And to access all the most recent episodes (up to episode 30) of Career & Spirituality C...

This week, I had a conversation at great distance, all the way to Australia with Inga Joseph . Inga is a naturopath, energy healer, and mentor, as well as the founder of Paradise Holistic Health. Her mission is to empower individuals and create a community that understands how physical, mental, and spiritual health are interrelated and cannot exist without each other. We talked about energy and in...

This week, I had a Heart to Heart conversation with author and podcaster with a mission Mark C. Crowley . Mark is the author of "Lead from the Heart: Transformation Leadership for the 21st Century", and his mission is to fundamentally change how we lead people in workplaces around the globe. Before writing his book, Mark spent over 20 years in the dog-eat-dog world of financial services....

This week I had a fun and insightful conversation with my colleague, and friend, Cathy Brooks . Cathy is a seasoned communications strategist whose personal journey to consciousness inspired her vision of transforming how people communicate. She coaches communication and leadership through her coaching company, Unleashed Leadership; She also serves as Co-Founder of Paris-based start-up OpenBubble,...

This week, I had a "Living Breathing Conversation" with Deva Naidu . Deva has been many things in many places. His talent has always been... "talent". He helps people and companies in the talent ecosystem to find their mission, identify their strengths and then to dial it up for exponential growth, via coaching and his boutique investment bank (Partners+). When he's not wor...