Legacy Life Podcast

🎙️ Episode: Anxiety-Based School Avoidance, Listening to What Children Are Telling Us In this thoughtful and deeply compassionate episode of Collective Conversations , Sarah is joined by Heidi , former teacher, home educating parent of four, and long-time advocate for child-led learning and emotional wellbeing. Together, they explore anxiety-based school avoidance (often referred to as ABSA), what...

In this episode of Collective Conversations, Sarah is joined by Laura for an honest, grounded conversation about conscious parenting, home education, and choosing learning paths outside the mainstream system. Rather than offering formulas or rigid answers, this episode shares lived experience. The reality of navigating education choices over time, tuning into your child, and letting decisions evol...

What Women Aren’t Told About Money, Time and Cashflow In this episode of Collective Conversations , I’m joined by Yinka Ewuola , business strategist, cashflow mentor, and founder of Rich & Rested, for a powerful, truth-telling conversation about women, money, time and power. Yinka shares how stepping into her mum’s struggling business while her mum was being treated for breast cancer opened he...

After a little pause, The Legacy Life Podcast is back and it’s returning with a brand-new series: Collective Conversations , where I sit down with inspiring members of the Parent Support Collective to share honest, heart-led talks about parenting, wellbeing, and living in alignment. 🌿 In this first episode, I’m joined by Beckie Shuttleworth , a holistic wellbeing consultant, mentor, and long-time...

So Aine believes that 99% of reflux is successfully treatable without medication. That babies don't grow out of reflux, they simple learn to cope with it, but the underlying problem is still there, long term & affects the rest of their life, when not properly treated. She is passionate about helping parents avoid the hell she experienced. Giving them information so they can make conscious &amp...

Laura is on a mission to disrupt the materialism of life, helping us see that there is more than the physical and the 5 senses we perceive. She talks of interpersonal, nature and anthroposophical connection.  The meaning of having a spiritual connection. Have a listen … Your host, Sarah Parkes , is a mum of 3, a speaker, author & parenting coach. She helps you consciously create your legacy &a...

Welcome to this 3 part series within the Conscious Shift series of the Legacy Life Podcast, where I will be talking with Claire Krost about Autism. Claire is a Mum of two Autistic children and Founder of Waking Up To Autism (a training and support service for parents/carers of Autistic children) and also a CPD Accredited Trainer for Mainstream Schools to provide support and training on embracing N...

Welcome to this 3 part series within the Conscious Shift series of the Legacy Life Podcast, where I will be talking with Claire Krost about Autism. Claire is a Mum of two Autistic children and Founder of Waking Up To Autism (a training and support service for parents/carers of Autistic children) and also a CPD Accredited Trainer for Mainstream Schools to provide support and training on embracing N...

Welcome to this 3 part series within the Conscious Shift series of the Legacy Life Podcast, where I will be talking with Claire Krost about Autism. Claire is a Mum of two Autistic children and Founder of Waking Up To Autism (a training and support service for parents/carers of Autistic children) and also a CPD Accredited Trainer for Mainstream Schools to provide support and training on embracing N...

In this conscious shift episode I talk about what makes the parenting approaches I use different to traditional approaches that use rewards and punishment to control childrens behaviour.  What else can you do other than use rewards charts and naughty steps? Have a listen Your host, Sarah Parkes, is a mum of 3, a speaker, author & legacy life coach. She helps you consciously create your legacy...

Have a listen for some inspiring ideas that can help you to understand how to make reasonable adjustments as a parent, educator, or employer of someone with ADHD. It's a powerful and informative conversation with a funny, charming woman. Hannah was diagnosed with ADHD July 2023 as an adult in her 30s. She shares her experiences as a neurodiverse woman navigating everyday life and employment, t...

Are you a mum like me who doesn't feel you have time for fashion, to pay attention to your style, when there are more important things like feeding the kids & growing your business? Anyway it totally goes against your sustainability values ...  Alexandra talks about why she moved away from the main stream fashion industry to start her business. "It's about helping women feel good...

If you have asked yourself, is my child neurodivergent?  Have a listen to this one! We talk about communicating with your Pre and No verbal child. After watching the Chris Packham documentary “Inside our autistic minds’ we reflect on communication in our society. There are some practical ideas and the most important thing to remember as a parent when working with specialists and experts. You can a...

Seeing your children's bodies change as they move towards puberty can be anxiety-producing. You may know that you want to do things differently than your parents did, but don't know how. You may feel daunted about giving 'the talk' and have memories of feeling totally awkward when you were given 'the talk' or of feeling lost and lonely when there was a book left on your bed...

This is a conversation about Female empowerment. Allowing ourselves space to rest, expand and take up space. So many mums struggle with time, rushing about, we can get into overwhelm. Dani Byars of Lioness Welness helps us come back to ourselves, to a place of choice. "It only really takes a breath" She shares a technique you can use straight away  Dani's purpose is to support and nu...

In this episode Mahnaz Sharif shares some of the things she took into consideration when she changed what she was doing. When she pivoted from a product-based business to a service-based one.   "We are human beings not human doings!" Many mums in my world start their own businesses because they are looking for a better work life balance. Mahnaz is helping people to "work less &...

Welcome to Conscious Shift - Series 4 of the Legacy Life Podcast! In this episode Adele shares how she is helping teaching and school staff to manage difficult behaviour. Why she is doing this? What becomes possible for our children, for teachers and our communities as people like Adele take a stand for our education system to be brought into the 21st Century. I loved this conversation and learnt...

Sarah-Ann shares with us her Mini Kindy, which provides a Waldorf Steiner-inspired, mixed-age kindergarten. She is creating community, a supportive tribe which helps create solid foundations when it comes to having multiple attachment figures that our children can confidently move in the world from. A safe place to help the next generation thrive. “Nourishing young people to believe in themselves,...

You are perfect exactly as you are ... and worthy of all that you desire! This is Beckie's core message for our children & ourselves. She is passionate about making yogic philosophy available for young people, so they can feel confident in who they are in the world. Beckie is a Children’s wellbeing Mentor and Childhood Specialist, her mission is to inspire children to SHINE Brightly and li...

This morning my daughter didn’t want to go to holiday camp. “I don’t want to go” she said. It was a great reminder for me that every parent has to navigate this at some point. So what can we do to help our children to go when they don't want to go but we need them to go! In this episode, I talk about how “When your child gets upset learn how to hold them through it instead of joining them in i...

Support around sleep can be seen as luxury rather than a necessity when our children are born. It can be hard to get the help we need when it's not talked about and there is a sigma for having support. "I like to look at sleep holistically ... child, parents and environment" Gemma Coe aka The Child Sleep Specialist and founder of The Child Sleep Society helps professionals who give a...

In this interview with child psychologist Kathryn Smith we talk about our experiences of working with the How To Talk So Kids Will Listen skills, and the results that parents have got.  "These were parents in CAMHs, whose children were in really challenging situations" (Child and Adolescence Mental Health ) "By the end of the group this dad was able to take his son off the waiting l...

I had the pleasure of interviewing the amazing Rebecca Mottram again. You'll find out about one of the potty training myths which will free you to get started right away, whatever the season. "The solution is often quite simple... the take home that nugget that can change everything" We have put together some brilliant resources for our communities that you can get a sneak peek into...

Exam season has finished now for our teenagers, which is a stressful time of year for all concerned. This weeks podcast guest mentions how she "holds personal development and emotional well being above academic success." Many conscious parents feel this way, do you? If so check out this week's episode. She talks about bridging the gap between the old education system and a new paradi...

There are some basics that we forget to check (particularly when our children get older) which can make a huge difference to how we deal with their upset feelings and behaviours. The Legacy Life Podcast is brought to you by Sarah Parkes, Conscious Parenting Expert Explore her 121 Parent and Business coaching at www.spcoaching.co.uk