Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter

Be the passionate you. Welcome to The ChangeTroubleshooter podcast This is seaon 8 Your Move - The Human Reset where Nina talks to people about the steps in her book that resonated with them. In this 5th episode, Be The Passionate You, Nina talks to Rob Ferrone who chose step 27; No one Wins Alone and step 72; Choices, Decisions and Consequences. Nina added step 12; Be The Passionate You, into the...

Welcome to Season 8 of The Change Troubleshooter. This is Episode 4: Why Letting Go Changes Everything Today Nina is joined by Alan Wilson, Director of People and Operations at OnSecurity, a company that helps organisations stay secure in an increasingly complex digital world. Alan recently read Your Move: The Human Reset and, out of 100 steps, two stood out for him: Step 97 – The Art of Letting G...

In this episode, Personal Rewirement , Nina is joined by Elpie Banister, who brings a  thoughtful and refreshingly human perspective to change, creativity and personal growth, exploring the small shifts that create meaningful transformation - in how we think, how we work, and how we live. Together, they explore four powerful coaching moments from Your Move: The Human Reset that speak directly to t...

Welcome back to The Change Troubleshooter Podcast. In Season 8 we’re inviting brilliant guests to pick their favourite steps from my new book Your Move: The Human Reset — and explore why they matter in the real world. Today’s guest brings a completely different lens to change. In this episode - The Nature of Change Lydia Stevens is a Nature and Biodiversity Coach, helping people reconnect with the...

Season 8 of The Change Troubleshooter Podcast is here, and this time, we’re doing things a little differently. In this series, each guest chooses the steps from Nina's book Your Move: The Human Reset that resonated most with them, and we explore why those moments mattered, what they’ve applied in the real world, and what they’ve learned along the way. My first guest is Nick Owens , founder of...

Welcome to episode 5 of season 7 of the Change Troubleshooter. This episode is called The Internet Buddha - How an internet star found inner peace. Matthijs Warner is a father, brother & son. He is a practising buddhist. He is an artist, and his work has been shown in several galleries throughout the Netherlands, and Paris, as well as him being an arist in residence in Tavira, Portugal where h...

Welcome to season 7 of the Change Trouleshooter podcast. This is episode 4, Grid Hollow, A Fable of Glitches, Guts and Good Old Grit. Are you prepared for what would happen if the internet went down, everywhere? Would you know what to do or where to begin the process of adapting to a new life where there was no online to get all the answers to the billions of questions asked every day. Is anyone p...

Welcome to episode 3 of this new season of The Change Troubleshooter! This episode is called Balance in a Bonkers World,  Once again Nina is interviewed by her producer. In this episode Nina is asked how  she and her business cope in an increasingly bonkers world. 

Welcome to Cheeky Philosophy, episode 2 of season 7 of The Change Troubleshooter. In this episode, Nina once more becomes the interviewee and talks about the philosophy behind her company, Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions and why she believes that having role models in her life was so important to her. 

Hello and welcome to season 7, a brand new season of The Change Troubleshooter podcast.  This season is called 20 years of Monkey Business and celebrates Nina's 20 years of heading up Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions.  In this 1st episode the tables are turned as Nina becomes the interviewee as her podcast producer asks her about her journey over the last 20 years as she conceived and shaped...

Julia Davis has been described as mad as a box of frogs (in a good way) by The Curious Creative Club. She definitely embraces everything that life can throw at you with a curiosity and lust for life that is infectious, but it's her sense of community and desire to share that is overwhelmingly apparent when you meet her. Julia started The Unity Yard when she started selling plants from the yar...

Back in November 2021 we made an episode of The Change Troubleshooter called, A Solar Farm at What Cost? The episode was about a campaign against the construction of a proposed solar farm in the eastern Algarve area of Portugal. In theory, a solar farm sounded like a great idea which was in line with our global necessity to switch to renewable energy solutions, and help the slowdown of catastrophi...

Christine Lee has made conscious decisions in her life that allow her to look back at them as different stages, chapters if you like, that are all quite different. In those conscious decisions, her health and wellbeing have been  prominent drivers, along with decisions over money, particulary when to take her pension. Her lust to live life to the full has not been dampened or thrown off course by...

Welcome to a brand new season of the Change Troubleshooter!  Amazingly, this is the 6th season of this podcast that started back in 2020. We have now had over 2 and a half thousand downloads from no less than 535 cities in 47 countries spanning 6 continents! Thanks to you all for remaining interested. Season 6 is called "Hang on, what happened and why?" This is a common moment that Nina...

Welcome to Season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter: Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey This is episode 4, Smarta Resilience. Today Nina talks about resilience with Rachel Robinson, founder of Smarta Group in Tavira, Portugal. Rachel tells her story of how she went from corporate retail in the UK to building a house, business and life in Portugal. It's a story of facing up to big issues, huge chan...

Welcome to Boxing Clever, the 3rd episode in the Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey season where we focus on strength. Today Nina talks to Ben Williams, a boxing coach, but Ben's not just any boxing coach, he has been Nina's boxing coach for the last 2 years.  Today they talk about how strength in all its forms, personal, mental and physical are put to the test in a boxing environment.

Hello and welcome to season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter - Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey! This is episode 2, Casa Colibri. Colibri is spanish for hummingbird, and represents the transformation that Isabel Albert has been through as she channeled her inner cheeky monkey and visualised the future life she wanted for herself and her family.   Nina and Isabel discuss this transformation from Casa...

Hola y bienvenido a la temporada 5 de The Change Troubleshooter: ¡Canaliza tu mono descarado interior! (Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey!) Este es el episodio 2, Casa Colibri. Colibri  representa la transformación que ha atravesado Isabel Alebrt mientras canalizaba su mono descarado interior y visualizaba la vida futura que quería para ella y su familia.   Chris  e Isabel hablan sobre esta transfo...

Welcome to Season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter. This season we hope to inspire you to Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey! A state of fun, playfulness and happiness that we can sometimes forget needs to remain a core part of our lives. In this 1st episode, Ninety Years of Lifting people Up, Nina talks to the amazing Shirley Hughes about her early life as a child performer and her wonderful outlook...

Welcome to Season 5 of The Change Troubleshooter. This season we hope to inspire you to Channel Your Inner Cheeky Monkey! A state of fun, playfulness and happiness that we can sometimes forget needs to remain a core part of our lives. In this 1st episode, Ninety Years of Lifting people Up, Nina talks to the amazing Shirley Hughes about her early life as a child performer and her wonderful outlook...

Hello and welcome to episode 9 of the Changing Mindsets season of The Change Troubleshooter, this episode is called Changing Mindsets on Sustainable Leadership. Today Nina talks to Brad Peirce, Chief Transformation Officer at Sustainability Mindshift and Principal and Founder of SEED Strategies. Brad has over 25 years experience in helping organisations create more sustainable and regenerative fut...

The Change Troubleshooter Season 4 Changing Mindsets Episode 8 Hello and welcome to episode 8 of the Changing Mindsets season of The Change Troubleshooter, this episode is called Changing Mindsets on Being a Changemaker.  Today Nina speaks to Susana Paiva, a mechanical engineer, mother, wife, author of several internationally published articles on climate change, an artist, poet and of course, a c...

The Change Troubleshooter Season 4 Changing Mindsets Episode 7 Hello and welcome to episode 7 of the Changing Mindsets season of the Change Troubleshooter. this episode is called Changing mindsets on it's never too late. Today Nina is joined by Evelyn Kortum, also known, artistically as E Wasserhase. Evelyn recently went through a massive life change - Last year, after 30 years of living and...

Welcome to season 4 of The Change Troubleshooter. This is episode 6, Can You Change a Mindset? Today Nina is joined once again by Patrick Hillberg, a college professor in Oakland, Michigan. If you're a regular listener, you may remember that Patrick was Nina's guest in the last episode and the conversation was so thought provoking that they felt it should be continued. However, today, in...

Welcome to season 4 of The Change Troubleshooter, This is episode 5, Changing mindsets on an Industrial Model. In todays fascinating conversation Nina is joined by Professor Patrick Hillberg, a college professor in Oakland, Michigan. Patrick has decades of industry experience in designing, developing and leading teams in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Digital Manufacturing, Process Planning,...