Forgive and Thrive

In today’s episode, we talk with Dr Phillis Dewitt, an author and a family nurse practitioner, who has devoted her life to provide medical care to families and to help rescue abused and neglected children all over the world. Phillis has had a very challenging start in life with a brutal childhood, and sexual abuse, but she didn’t let her difficult childhood define her and affect her life. On the c...

In today’s episode, we talk with Wael Saeed, a mental and emotional Jay Shetty certified coach, on what we can do to protect our mental health. With the increasing demands and complexities of modern life, it is essential to prioritise our mental well-being to maintain a healthy and fulfilling life. In this episode, we will explore various strategies for safeguarding our mental health, including se...

Today’s episode marks the end of Year 2 of the Forgive and Thrive podcast. So, we have decided to celebrate this milestone by recalling who we have met, what we discussed about with all our guests, oh yes, all 45 of them, and some of the lessons we learned along the way. We recorded almost 50 hours of truly amazing content that I hope have helped some of you in your own life and with whatever chal...

In today’s episode, we talk with Te’ Youngblood, a Trauma Release Guide, Practical Reiki Master, Author, Speaker, Podcaster, and Blogger, on how to raise healthy boundaries. Raising healthy boundaries is a critical aspect for everyone, but even more so after a sexual trauma. There are strong connections between having traumatic experiences, especially of sexual nature, and our ability to raise hea...

In today’s episode, we talk with Heather Wyatt, a holistic health and weight loss coach, on navigating the wealth of information available on what a healthy lifestyle is. We are bombarded by choices, and advice, which may make the process of stepping into a healthier lifestyle rather daunting. We can find so much information and so many products and services, especially on-line, that navigating th...

In today’s episode, we talk with Yaminah Mitchell, a personal and mindset coach who helps professional women stepping into leadership roles, on what makes it difficult at times for bright and very capable women to progress in their job without sacrificing their personal life. This is even worst when the progression is into leadership. With Yaminah, we’ll discuss the challenges, the pitfalls, but a...

In today’s episode, we talk with Bela Castro, founder and head trainer of B-FIT, on how to stay focussed, intentional and tough to maintain a healthy lifestyle even when we are dealing with the consequences of traumatic experiences. We all know what healthy lifestyle entitles to and the kind of habits we should all have to be and stay healthy, and yet today’s population, particularly, in Western C...

In today’s episode, we talk with Judy Kane, a coach and author, about our subconscious. Despite what many of us may think, most of our daily activities, i.e. things we do when awake, are run by our subconscious rather than our conscious mind, in fact scientific studies show that on average 90% of what we do is driven by our belief system, i.e. is related to our subconscious. With this in mind, Jud...

Today’s episode marks an important milestone for the Forgive and Thrive show. We have reached episode 100. As we celebrate this amazing achievement, I want to dive deep in what makes as persist, and move forward like trains on some fronts, and be slobby, or unreliable, or miss the target when it comes to other situations. Hopefully, the outcome is a list of qualities or needs that anybody can rela...

In today’s episode, we talk with Kim Laughlin, a leadership and team development coach, about improved leadership and how it can help improve the work-life quality of all employees in an organisation. Not only problems and a poor work-life affect us during our working hours, they tend to also impact our personal life and relationships, because no matter how hard we try, it’s really difficult to co...

In today’s episode, we talk with Dr Sugi, a licensed psychotherapist and a certified substance abuse clinician, as well as a TEDx speaker, on the impact that past traumatic experience can have on our day-to-day life, and wellbeing, but most importantly what steps we can take to raise above the hurdles from those experiences and regain ownership of both our present and our future. You can reach Dr....

In today’s episode, we talk with Christopher Maher, a former US Navy SEAL who endured intense physical, mental, and emotional stress both as a Navy SEAL and during his childhood. Christopher helps us understand the impact that unresolved stress can have on our lives, how stress moves from our mind and stores in our body by creating tensions and blockages, but most importantly how we can address it...

In today’s episode, we talk with Alexandra Harbushka, a former corporate America turned entrepreneur, podcaster, youtuber, blogger, advocate and founder of Life With Herpes . With Alexandra, we discuss about Herpes, what types of Herpes exist, how to come to terms with a Herpes diagnosis, and more generally how to live with it, but most importantly we want to debunk some of the misconceptions arou...

In today’s episode, we talk with Robbie Swale, a leadership coach, author, and podcaster, about getting unstuck in as little as 12 minutes. This feeling of unease in living the life we have or some aspects of it, and the deep desire that we were destined for something different, and better than what we have achieved. Despite that strong desire, very often we fail from moving away from where we are...

In today’s episode, we talk with Jennifer Henry about life recovery, and how self-discovery can help us moving from an unfulfilling at best, and possibly dangerous life path into rebuilding your life. Today, Jennifer is an award-winning speaker, lifestyle recovery coach, soon to be author and the owner of a 6-figure business, but it wasn’t always like this. Unhealthy decisions brought her to live...

In today’s episode, we talk with Meg Gluckman, a Certified Life & Business Coach and podcaster, about thriving after a divorce. Divorce is one of the most difficult experiences in life. There are so many areas of one’s life that need attention, mindset, confidence and self-doubts, co-parenting, relationships with those who were part of one’s married life, including the former in-laws, and then...

In today’s episode, we talk with Morey Ostlund, an entrepreneur, health and business coach, and author, about emotional healing. Over time, trauma-led emotions can affect our health, we may also notice that our possibilities to create a better life become correspondingly limited. Starting from her own healing journey from the trauma of abandonment and abuse, narrated in her recently published book...

In today’s episode, we talk with Sheila V, a former corporate finance director turned professional psychic medium and author after a spiritual awakening. With Sheila, we discuss about intuition, what it is, how we can tap into it, what it can do for us and our life, and understand the reason why many major CEOs around the world call intuition their decision making's most critical component. You ca...

In   today’s episode, we talk with Christina Fletcher, a Spiritual Awareness coach, energy worker, author, speaker, and podcaster, about the Law of Attraction. After being released in the 2000s, the movie and later the book “The Secret” took the concept of the Law of Attraction, one of the laws that governs the Universe, to the masses as a mainstream topic of conversation. With Christina...

In today’s episode, as we approach the end of yet another year and prepare to celebrate the arrival of 2023 with rivers of bubbling, we want to reflect on the time   that passes, in fact flies away, and on the fact that very often we postpone living our lives thinking that one day we’ll buy the freedom to do what we always wanted to do. But then, for most of us that “one day” slips away,...

In today’s episode, we reflect on the time of the year we are entering. Christmas time is one of the most magical times of the year, but it can also come with lots of stressful commitments, and engagements that while compromising joyful moments and future memories can also affect our mental wellbeing. What are the   reasons that create that stress and can leave us more depleted than when...

In today’s episode, we talk with Christine Marie Quigless, a Holistic Menstrual Coach, on how women can live in alignment with their internal rhythms rather than fighting against them. For women, the monthly period is at best an inconvenience and often a nuisance, especially during the bleeding phase that can cause pain, suffering and mood swings. And even though it’s one of the most natural thing...

In today’s episode, we talk with Amber Tichenor, a coach and Organizational Change Strategy and Leadership consultant, about women’s rivalry, i.e. the female to female conflict, the behaviours, and actions that one female directs towards another, or that other people, who witness the behaviour, see. With Amber, we discuss how female rivalry shows up and looks like, so we can recognise it, and what...

In today’s episode, we talk with Keisha Greaves, an entrepreneur, motivational speaker, author, podcaster, and the Massachusetts State Ambassador for the Muscular Dystrophy (MD) Association. After being diagnosed with Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy at the age of 24, her life changed, but she didn’t leave this illness to define her. Not only she embraced her illness, she started to celebrate it too...

In today’s episode, we talk with Roy Biancalana, a certified relationship coach and a nationally recognised expert in the field of attraction and conscious relationships, about attracting lasting love. We ask Roy to explain why some of us can attract long-lasting love and others (most of us perhaps) keep attracting the wrong partner, but most importantly what we need to do to make sure our future...