POWER to Live More with Jo Dodds

Karen Williams is one of the leading Book Mentors in the UK. Through her company, Librotas , she helps business experts who want to stand out from the crowd to write a non-fiction book that allows them to grow their business, raise their credibility and get more clients. Karen originally trained as a coach, but after the success of her own book The Secrets of Successful Coaches , and understanding...

Productivity, Networking, Planning, Development and Evernote with Rob Catalano, Co-Founder of Worktango Inc Listen Below and Here’s What We Recommended: Business and Marketing – Learning – Books – Entrepreneurial There’s this really great book that takes about 20 minutes to read. It’s called ‘What Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast’ . It’s something that I read five...

Jack Stafford is a singer-songwriter and podcast host. After living a toyboy lifestyle in Amsterdam running a fashion business, he became a nomadic troubadour visiting 45 countries. Playing house concerts in exchange for a bed for the night, Jack met many incredible people and had many life-altering experiences. He writes songs inspired by his struggles and uses them to help others deal with their...

Gary Gorman is a negotiation specialist and the author of  30 Days Sales Challenge: Get To Love Selling For The Non Sales Person  and  Inside The Entrepreneur’s Mind: What Makes The Real Life Business Owner Want To Risk It All?  With over 30 years’ of experience, he has helped countless organisations around the world improve their negotiation skills, land b...

Jennifer Du Plessis is America’s Mortgage Mastery Mentor and a Lifestyle Business Master. During her career in the mortgage industry, she has been recognized as one of the top 1% loan officers nationwide, an influencer in the industry, and became a mentor to other mortgage officers. She hosts two podcasts, the TV show Tell Me I Can’t, and is a best-selling author. Jen is also the CEO and Fou...

Heather Waring is a walk leader, coach, and the founder of Women Walking: Women Talking , where she aims to help other women ease the pressure of their daily life to avoid burnout and adrenal fatigue. She is a founding member of the Association for Coaching and a regular column writer for Cosmopolitan Magazine and Glamour Magazine. Prior to starting this business, she was the Resident Life Coach a...

Dr. Russell Thackeray works with organisations to achieve enhanced performance and results by aligning culture, leadership, and people and he helps embed change that creates organisational resilience. He draws on his varied professional background – from his time as a professional musician in London’s West End to subsequent iterations as an entrepreneur, corporate CEO, Non-Executive Director...

Chetna Bhatt is a part-time in-house employment lawyer, speaker, executive coach, and the co-founder and CEO of Being Lawyers . Being Lawyers is a coaching company specifically designed to help lawyers enhance their performance by increasing their mental clarity and improving their wellbeing. She strongly believes that for lawyers to reach their greatest potential and achieve the next level of suc...

Amber Christian is the founder of Wonderly Software Solutions and creator of Bella Scena , which helps freelancers and small business owners create a unified view of their work through a calendar, to-do list, and meeting planning application. Amber drew on her experience of running a treasury consulting firm to build a second business devoted to providing a technical solution that addresses the un...

Hazel Addley is dedicated to helping creative professionals and entrepreneurs feeling stuck or bored in their business or career answer the age-old question: “What’s next?”. She helps people find their meaning and their purpose in their life, business, and career, and transform it into a life they love living through her home-based coaching business. Hazel has a background as a freelance arts mana...

Habits, Goal Setting, Self Care, Weight Lifting, Singing and Mindfulness with Faye Watts of FUSE Accountants LLP. What We Recommended: Tools & Apps Salesforce , a CRM and Sales Platform – “In the office we use a thing called Salesforce, which is an on-line platform. All of our software is on-line based, web based, so that we can have access anywhere. That means that it gives me and the rest of...

Eric Partaker is a Peak Performance Coach helping CEOs and founders in the tech industry to fulfill their productivity and leadership potential. Eric began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company and went on to help build Skype before selling it to eBay in 2005. After the success of Skype, Eric wanted to get back to doing something that would fulfill him personally and decided to co...

If you want to write and publish your own book because you have great ideas that can make a difference in the world, then what you need is a book mentor. A book mentor is someone who will help and guide you through the process of writing your own book – from the planning stage, writing, and even publishing and marketing. My guest today is Karen Williams, a book mentor for  Librotas . She cre...

Scott McCarthy is the founder of Moving Forward Leadership , a leadership consulting company and podcast that offers coaching services to business owners, government and nonprofit organisations as well as stay-at-home parents. He is passionate about helping people move forward and become better leaders. In addition to working as a leadership coach, he is also a Senior Canadian Army Officer, comman...

Amanda Davie began her career working in client services with online advertising companies and digital media startups. After sixteen years of helping to build small businesses and honing her customer relations skills, Amanda decided to branch out on her own and use her unique qualifications to help cultivate inclusive and equitable workplaces. She is an executive coach and co-founder of Equal Tale...

Asana, Digital Learning, Templates, Outdoor Pursuits and Sub 20 Hour a Week Businesses with Janine Ogg, Co-Founder of Get It Done Mum. What We Recommended: Tools & Apps “I’m a huge advocate of Asana . With our latest project, which is launching our own podcast, we’ve got all the templates in place now, and it makes it a lot more efficient.” Unroll. Me – to make unsubscribing from n...

Sue Headaux is a Retail and Productivity Professional with broad experience encompassing management, customer experience programme leadership, and operational productivity improvement. She co-founded ReThink Productivity with her husband, Simon Headaux, to help businesses review and refine their operating systems and maximise productivity. Sue is passionate about assisting companies to bring conti...

Rob Moore lives and breathes entrepreneurship. He was a self-made millionaire by the time he turned 30. He is a generalist-specialist who can focus on many things all at once and loves to challenge himself to do bigger and more difficult things. He is the co-founder of Progressive Property, one of his many “babies” and the host of the podcasts Disruptive Entrepreneur and Money, as well...

Personal Development, Mindfulness, Meditation, Mind Mapping, Productivity and Walking with Mark Huggins, MD and Owner of Corporate Drama Listen Below and Here’s What We Recommended: Business and Marketing Marketing – CRM and Email Tools Infusionsoft – “I started with that about a year ago when we decided to really shift our marketing for Corporate Drama up a gear. I really like it, I find it...

Michelle Smith is a deputy headteacher and an International Mountain Leader (IML). An educator for seventeen years, Michelle shares her passion for adventure and the outdoors with her husband, who is also an IML. As a husband-and-wife team, they founded and currently run Adventure, Training & Expeditions where they provide training and expeditions to adults and youth alike. Michelle joins me t...

Penny Pullan, founder of Making Projects Work , is a thought leader in the field of virtual leadership who brings clarity, communication, and commitment to teams and individuals. She provides the support and tools to cut through problems and foster success, along with delivering measurable benefits and boosting participants’ confidence. Penny has run the Virtual Working Summit since 2010 for...

Amanda Holges has over three decades of experience as a serial entrepreneur, having grown her family business into a highly successful international company. She is a  business mentor and mastermind facilitator  who passionately helps entrepreneurs with business development and growth strategies to achieve success through her membership site, virtual mentoring programmes, and group maste...

CapsuleCRM, GarageBand, Female Entrepreneur Association and Hobbies with Susan Heaton-Wright of Executive Voice. What We Recommended: Tools & Apps Google Calendar – Susan uses this to plan out her time and time block for tasks Entrepreneur’s Planner – we didn’t discuss which planner Sue uses (what an omission!) but I recommend the Ultimate Planner that ‘invented’ by podcast guest you haven’t h...

In 2001, Mohammed Elkhamissy found himself a new graduate in the wake of 9/11 and unable to get a job. He had grown up playing soccer competitively and had initially thought he would go on to play professionally. When that didn’t come to fruition and he found himself unemployable as a Middle Eastern American in a post-9/11 world, he began reaching out to connections. He wound up working for a cons...

Ashley Leeds is The 15-Minute Guy, a specialist LinkedIn trainer that helps people make the most of their corporate social network. Starting in hospitality, Ashley learned that excellent customer service is where the real value is in a business. Moving into a successful sales career for over 30 years, he decided to start his own coaching company to help people focus on the right areas and make imp...