Courage and Spice for Coaches: build your Self-belief and Business in under 30mins a week

Ali Shapiro is academically, practically, and empathetically aware of how the medical system, diet culture and body positivity movements all have their own flavour of crazy. Ali is the founder of Truce with Food®, host of the top-ranked podcast Insatiable, and her work is a mashup of her skills as a holistic nutritionist, integrated health coach and a natural rebellion that is completely infectiou...

Self-doubt can often feel like an amorphous cloud of doom, holding all our worst fears, worries and insecurities, just waiting to rain down on us. But what if Self-doubt had a pattern? What if there were themes and characteristics that make self-doubt understandable, quantifiable, perhaps even predictable? I’ve spent most of this year play with these questions and in this first episode of season t...

Visibility is a key trigger of self-doubt. Taking up space - sharing our opinions, preference and beliefs can feel incredibly vulnerable and exposing. Many of us hide or wait until we feel ready, we lurk in various circles and groups, hoping to fly under the radar. For anyone with an online business, there can be a huge tension between needing to market and sell our work, and the need to protect o...

Kate O'Sullivan is a writer and photographer. She recently published a story about her experiences of healing from complex post-traumatic stress after leaving an abusive and controlling relationship. The reaction to Kate’s article led us to this conversation. Many women who leave abusive relationships are still recovering years and often decades later. Many haven't accessed specialist he...

Bari Tessler is a Financial Therapist, and Founder of The Art of Money. She has guided thousands of people to new, empowered, and refreshingly honest relationships with money through her nurturing, body-centered approach. Bari earned a Masters in Somatic Psychology from Naropa University and worked in body-centered therapy for over a decade before unexpectedly falling in love with bookkeeping syst...

Renee Magnusson is the creator of Adorn Sessions where she helps women to claim their very personal sense of style. This is SO much more than just what we choose to wear and in our conversation we talk about the power of talismanic pieces of clothing, how to channel your muses, why the 80s was the best decade for hair, and the 70s the best for silk kimonos. If getting dressed in the morning is tra...

Mara Glatzel is an intuitive coach and writer who teaches women how to reclaim and celebrate their innate power and brilliance. Her work is so rich and deep and we have collaborated for years. Mara guides women home to themselves, and believes that each and every one of us is the expert to our own experience of being a human on this planet – including how to become the vibrant, well nourished, LIT...

Kyla Roma is a business strategist, mama of one tiny human, two dogs and a hedgehog called Ramona. Kyla has worked behind the scenes in hundreds of businesses, from six-figure brands to one woman shops and she was named by HuffPost in 2017 as one of 50 must-follow entrepreneurs. We talk about how Kyla has kept evolving over the last decade of self-employment, how she has set up her business to sup...

Marianne Elliott is an attorney, human rights advocate and author. Her work has included developing human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste and she served as a United Nations peacekeeper in Afghanistan with a focus on human rights and gender issues.  She also helped establish one of the best restaurants in Wellington, ran a thriving online yoga practice and wrote...

Isabel Losada's latest book is Sensation an account of a year spent exploring the subject of sex, but especially pleasure for women in monogamous relationships. The book, part memoir and part manifesto in the cause for better relationships between men and women, has been praised for its honesty and humour. This is a brave, funny and often vulnerable quest to find out how we can make our sex l...

More than 1 in 10 people are likely to have a ‘disabling anxiety disorder’ at some stage in their life. There are many internal and external factors that contribute to anxiety and many approaches to living with it. I think talking about the day to day reality of living with anxiety is incredibly helpful. So if this is something you experience, this episode is just for you. I’m speaking with Hannah...

Comparion is known as the 'thief of joy' but I wanted to know more about what comparison actually is, if it has a purpose, what we can learn from it, and how we can get ourselves out of the ICK it creates. So I read loads of original research about comparison and came up with a roadmap for escaping the comparison trap. Enjoy!   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this...

Jackee Holder is a coach, supervisor, published author and interfaith minister. Her passion for creative writing extends to a masters degree and her wildly popular online programmes and writers retreats. She is also the author of three books. We talk about how Jackee has made sense of and meaning from her chaotic, traumatic and loving childhood through reading and journalling. Jackee shares how ke...

The Self-esteem Team is the UK’s leading mental health school-based programme. Founded in 2013 by Nadia Mendoza and Grace Barrett, the team have since worked with tens of thousands of young people, written a book approved by doctors, and continue to tirelessly tour the UK’s schools in their bid to equip young people with tools to navigate their mental health and build self-esteem. Co-founder Grace...

Gemma David is a Chinese Medicine practitioner, Mindfulness teacher and is trained in mental health care. She owns The Quiet Heart, in the rocking city of Bristol. Gemma's ethos is about living in balance, within the body, and with the seasons. We talked about how living in alignment with our bodies, the seasons, our planet and our values are the raw ingredients for cultivating self-belief. P...

Randi Buckley is a coach and teacher who helps women facing big life decisions. Her programme Healthy Boundaries for Kind People is revolutionary work. Randi has spent decades coaching Fortune 5 companies, she worked at the Chopra Centre and once acted as a stand-in for Penelope Cruz. She is also the Assistant Dean at the Concordia Language Villages, a residential language- immersion program for y...

Rachael Lucas self-published her first book aged 40 and it went on to sell over 130,000 copies. She is now a best-selling novelist working on her fifth book and has just been nominated for a Carnegie Medal for her YA novel, The State of Grace .  Rachael is also a certified coach, mindfulness and meditation teacher, and a Reiki master teacher. She also happens to be a fabulous human and we connecte...

Self-doubt has a rather surprising kryptonite and it feels like a bit of a game changer. I first became aware of this when I was coding my research interviews for my Master's dissertation about Self-doubt a few years ago, but I am now feeling ready to nail my flag to this mast! And because I am a huge fan of information that can be applied, I’ve taken this learning and turned it into an actua...

Rachael Maddox is a trauma resolution educator, coach and guide who’s helped hundreds of women and men resolve their sexual trauma and reclaim their pleasure, power and wholeness. In her first book, ' Secret Bad Girl ' Rachael tells the story of her return to wildness, sensuality, health and embodied safety after a decade living under the trauma spell. Her next book, Sex After Trauma , p...

The first year for any heart-centred business is a huge source of self-doubt: taking our creations and services out into the world with no guarantee of success is a cape-worthy endeavour!  Up until recently, Kate Ferris was a marketing manager working with global brands. Now she runs her own business from her home in Snowdonia helping creative people find clarity and direction with marketing strat...

Kevin Braddock is the founder of Torchlight, a project that is all about how to ask for help. Kevin has over 20 years experience in print media as writer and editor and has worked for GQ, Esquire, The Face and The Guardian. Kevin’s story is both a personal account and a wake-up call about men's experience of mental health. This episode is one of incredible resilience, tenacity and compassion...

Allison Sadler is a creative entrepreneur, lifestyle blogger, designer, maker, stylist and mentor. With Her partner in all-things Mr C, she co-owns the award-winning People Shop in Birmingham. And she might just be the most fun person on the internet. Allison recently started a hashtag project called #freeupyourinsta all about embracing imperfection and how to have fun and be yourself online. We d...

If you work in a traditionally male-dominated industry, and you've ever felt undermined or overlooked at work, this episode is for you. There is a worldwide shortage of graduates in the STEM sector (this includes Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). Women, black and ethnic minorities are under-represented, under-recruited and under-promoted in STEM roles. The reasons for this are both...

Sara Tasker is a gifted photographer and writer and she mentors other creatives through her ecourses and podcast: Hashtag Authentic. She now has 'The Official Blue Ticks of Validation' on both Instagram and Twitter! In our conversation, Sara shares generously and openly about the realities of 'success' and what she is learning about both her self-doubt and her self-belief. This...

If you’ve ever walked into a meeting, or a networking event, or even a neighbour’s BBQ and felt the belly churning dread that at some point everyone here is going to find out who you really are, this episode is just for you. We are talking about the secrets and lies of feeling like an imposter. This is one of the more insidious aspects of self-doubt - this sense that underneath everything you are...