Going Conscious

In this special episode we bring you a short channelled singing meditation to help you reconnect with yourself and your channel of consciousness, and to help you release what may be blocking you.   Here, Nikki goes out of her comfort zone and shares her first singing meditation with you. Since she was in the process of childbirth, she has been singing channelled songs, and sometimes feels called t...

Welcome to this special episode to talk about the unexpected, the growth, and the inspiring moments of 2022! I also share my end of year personal review structure with you for you to use.   This year we surpassed 100 episodes, discovered we are rated in the top 2.5% of all podcast shows globally, as measured by listen notes. We are in the top 15% most shared business shows in 2022 on Spotify, and...

In this episode I invite my sister Emma, who has her PhD in contemporary eco-poetry and is a published academic teaching English Literature at Leeds University, to read the opening of The Overstory by Richard Powers. It's one of our favourite novels and has an incredibly powerful start.   In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of acti...

Jayn is the CEO of Weleda UK and the Chairperson of the Sustainable Beauty Coalition. She received No.1 in 2022's 'Who's Who of Natural Beauty', the tenth year that Jayn appeared in the top 25, and her sixth time at No.1, and the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Natural and Organic Products Europe (NOPEX) 2022 Beauty Awards. Jayn has made it her mission to clean up the beauty industry, elimina...

Caireen is the business partner of Mary Portas and the CEO of their business consultancy & creative agency, Portas, which specialises in luxury, fashion, design & placemaking. Together they have advised the government, created Mary's No 1 rated business podcast, published five books, and set up twenty-six Mary's Living & Giving charity shops.   In this episode we talk about how to free up your men...

In this recap episode you will hear the first parts of four Going Conscious episodes with brilliant, world-changing authors. Each has their own topic to inspire us with.    You will hear from Jon Alexander, the entrepreneur and acclaimed author who is currently on a global tour discussing the ideas of his book CITIZENS, where he tells us about the collapse of the Consumer Story and the rise of the...

In this episode I read from the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. She tells us about the 'wild woman', the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power. For centuries, the 'wild woman' has been repressed by a male-orientated value system which trivialises women's emotions. Using a combination of time-honoured stor...

Lynn Yap is the author of The Altruistic Capitalist: How to Lead for Purpose and Profit. She shares stories of leaders who have used business as a force for good and her experience of doing meaningful work with global brands, including adidas and Estee Lauder.   In this episode we talk about how death can spark consciousness, why the flow of money into sustainable companies has more than doubled i...

Lauren is the CEO/Co-Founder of By Sarah London, the natural B corp skincare brand with an inspiring story.   In this episode we talk about how Lauren's journey through leukaemia, led to her sister Sarah saving her life and then her skin. Together they create By Sarah London. We talk about how health is not a fix, this exciting time in beauty for awareness, the power of approachable Founder faces...

Catherine is a serial entrepreneur, business leader and bestselling business author. She focuses on awakening the fire within as Founder of The Awakened Company. Catherine founded BluEra, a Profit 500 executive search firm, top 200 growing company in Canada and best workplace which was then successfully sold. She now helps organisations develop culture strategies.   In this episode we talk about h...

One of my clients, Sonia, is currently listening to one Going Conscious episode a day and has been doing so since the beginning of the show, now on episode 41! She has been finding it very powerful and is enjoying seeing themes emerge. She's inspired me to start doing the same.   In this recap episode you will hear the first parts of four Going Conscious episodes that centre around plant-based liv...

In this special episode we bring you a short guided meditation for forgiveness - to help you forgive another person, or yourself, for something that has happened so that you can release it and move forwards with freedom.   Give yourself these 10 minutes whenever you feel you have something to release.    And to give this little gift to anyone you know who could benefit too.   This meditation is se...

Anieke is a former Venture Capital investor turned startup Founder on a mission to make every child in the world feel special and connected to roots and loved ones. With her company, Peekabond, she helps global families build bonds with young children at a distance.   In this episode we talk about the huge transformation from investor to entrepreneur, wanting to make an uncomfortable move, how to...

Pavita is a polymath whose mission is to spread light, love, learning, and laughter. She is the Executive Director of Girls Health Ed and award-winning international bestselling author of To All the Magic in Me.   People often go through life avoiding negative emotions, forgetting that they are an integral part of the human experience. An authentic depiction of the human spirit informed by the aut...

Joe began his career as an underwriter for Chubb & Son, Inc. and then moved into insurance risk management as an analyst for Lehman Brothers, Inc. He subsequently worked with PepsiCo for nine years. In 2010, Joe fulfilled his desire to have an impact on public policy affecting the country's Department of Social Services, which had an operating budget of $600 million. The first African American ele...

Written by Jon Alexander with Ariane Conrad, Citizens opens up a new way of understanding ourselves and shows us what we must do to survive and thrive as individuals, organisations, and nations.   I spoke with Jon in last week's episode and today read some short sections for you. Discover how when our institutions treat people as creative, empowered creatures rather than consumers, everything chan...

Jon Alexander is the author of CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us, and co-founder of the New Citizenship Project. He spent the first decade of his career winning awards in the advertising industry, then changed direction to use his skills to involve people in the world as Citizens, instead of just selling stuff to Consumers…   Only recently published, his book is already recei...

Celebrating two years of Going Conscious! I've interviewed over 100 guests from all over the world, ages 20s up to 70s, discussing topics from where spirituality intersects with business to finding aligned investors, healing from within and nurturing conscious relationships.   These conversations have led me to spot patterns of how people change their lives and create conscious business success. W...

Harriet is an activist, working at the intersection of advertising, AI and misinformation. Her role at Media Bounty focuses on insight gathering and climate misinformation across a range of groundbreaking clients and projects from electric vehicles to green finance.   She co-founded The Conscious Advertising Network with Jake Dubbins of Media Bounty in 2018 and has since seen it gain international...

Shaun is the Founder of Skandinavisk, with a vision to inspire the world to live more Scandinavian via fragrance stories designed to leave a lighter footprint. He is Chair of the B Corp Beauty Coalition, a collective action initiative of almost 50 B Corps committed to working together to change the beauty industry for good, and he is the receiver of Denmark's inaugural 'ESG Frontrunner' award.   I...

In this episode I read the beginning of this inspiring book which my husband gave to me on my first Mothers' Day.   You will hear about why motherhood is 'the ultimate confrontation with yourself' and how it is an opportunity for your own transformation. You will hear personal stories and an ancient tale of feminine initiation.   The book is a deep dive into the universal archetypes and themes of...

Lisa is a writer and Jungian analyst in private practice in Philadelphia. She is the cohost and creator of the popular podcast This Jungian Life, teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia, and lectures widely on Jungian topics. She is the author of the book Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself and her writings have appeared in publications including Quillette, The Journal of Analytical...

Emma works with creative, sustainably aware, soul-led entrepreneurs to build deep trust in their intuition and blend feminine and masculine energetics in order to manifest more time and build sacred strategy in alignment with their core values. She helps them hit income goals and position themselves as impactful New Earth Leaders.   In this episode we talk about how business can be a spiritual pra...

Welcome to episode 100 of Going Conscious! That's a lot of powerful conversations and brilliant people I have been lucky enough to speak with. This milestone has got me reflecting and noticing how much I myself have evolved over this time. In this episode I share reflections on how I have personally grown over this journey of the first 100 episodes, and what I would like to see in the next 100 epi...

This is one of my favourite books and most talked about on Going Conscious, particularly in earlier episodes, and is a beautifully positive account of lessons we can integrate into our lives now to help transform how we live whilst we still have time.    Bronnie Ware shares the lessons she learned whilst working in palliative care and explains how you can take them on board now and live the life y...