Real You, Real Money with Ray Dodd

I’m so excited to have Lizandra Leigertwood on the podcast today to bring some amazing perspective on the relationship between therapy and coaching! Lizandra talks about her experience as a psychotherapist and relationship therapist, and some of the challenges she sees when people are either considering or entering therapy.   We both notice that the amount of people who quickly look for therapy af...

Today I’m talking with Emily Armitage, who is an amazing coach for female founders, creatives and small business owners. Emily talks about her recent pivot from being specifically a money coach, towards expanding to support women in getting unstuck, making shit happen, making more money and living their juiciest, most joyful lives.   Having been a marketing maven, communications extraordinaire, pr...

Today, I’m speaking with the amazing Kerry Tottingham, founder of coaching and design-thinking practice Brilliant Thing. Kerry talks us through her journey from having a background in the arts, to working her way up in the charity sector, to finally building her own business (which she’s absolutely smashing!).   As Kerry was part of my last round of Real You Real Money (called Money Mastery at the...

Over the last 18 months my business has been going through some huge shifts. You may have seen me mention this before – I’ve talked a lot about the exciting bits of it, like new messaging that gets really specific on what I do, the new offers that have come from it like my hybrid program Real You Real Money , a new confidence in saying that a money revolution is exactly what we need right now (yes...

This week I’m speaking with the amazing Ruth Poundwhite! Ruth is a certified coach, NLP practitioner & feminist marketer who supports highly sensitive humans to run businesses they love without sacrificing who they are.   Ruth and I talk about the preparation and inspiration behind her upcoming Soulful Sales Summit, which brings 30+ experts together to talk about finding your sales strategy as a h...

This week, my guest is the wonderful Eli Trier! Eli is a community builder for Quiet Revolutionaries, who helps introverts with big dreams to build thriving, engaged communities around their businesses, so that they can make a massive impact, find their dream clients, and make their corner of the world a better place.   Eli and I talk through why community projects are a thoughtful and active way...

Today I’m talking about different patterns of motivation that I see when coaching… and in my own business! There’s a lot of conversations around the relationship that privilege has to the ability to grow your business. I’ve seen posts floating around - especially recently - that imply, and sometimes all out state, that it will be vastly harder to build a business that earns life changing amounts o...

Over the last month there’s been a huge shift in my work. I have started owning the impact that my work is more than capable of, and as I’ve expanded into this space that I know I’m meant to take up, I am overwhelmed with just how important and urgent it truly is to challenge and change our conditioning around money…   This is a money making revolution, and it needs to happen now!   I felt the abs...

Part of showing up as the real you in your business is embracing the value of your work, which of course shows up in your pricing! I work with a lot of people who are worried about charging more because they are interested in being generous or accessible. They mix that generosity up with charging less for what they do… I’ll admit I can get caught in the same trap!   Lowering or raising your prices...

Today I’m digging into how our desires hold keys to unlock who we are… which means a whole world of things for what you’re capable of doing in your business and in all elements of your life!   But to take one very necessary step back, it can be difficult to access our desires, especially for people who are traditionally left out of money making, who don’t fit the patriarchal mould that society typ...

This week I have a big announcement… I am officially changing the name of this podcast to Real You, Real Money!   The reason behind the change is part of an evolution that has been going on behind the scenes here, which I share all about in this episode! It all started by really zoning in on the transformation that money coaching can do for you and your business, which has led me to a new way to e...

Today I’m speaking with Pippa Parfait about the ins and outs of how to truly do things your way in your business.   Pippa Parfait is the OG Disobedient Business® Coach & Strategist, who helps rebel business owners do things “disobediently”, chuck out the business BS rule book, and make good money doing it! We talk about the ongoing work that comes with truly forging your own path in your business,...

In this episode, I’m speaking with the wonderful Lauren Derrett! Lauren is the founder of Wear 'em Out, a new reusable period pad that’s taking the world by storm. Lauren left school at the age of 14 and has tried her hand at many dead-end jobs alongside motherhood, it wasn't until she launched her brand aged 46 that she finally felt on the right path.   Lauren and I talk through the unique invest...

A lot of times, coaches in the online business space throw out phrases that are yes, useful, but feel really broad in what they actually mean. Phrases like ‘aligned’, ‘multitudes’, ‘the real you’… that last one is going to be the main focus this episode! Being the real you can have a massive effect on how much money you’re earning in your business… it’s just a matter of getting down to what that a...

This week, my guest is the amazing Sasha Glasgow, who describes herself as a ‘professional experimenter and woman figuring it out’. Her workshops are backed by twenty years of journaling, which makes her the perfect person to dive into what it really means to self-reflect in an impactful way.   We chat through the process of connecting through journaling, using it as a space to really hear all ver...

Have you noticed a shift happening? A shift in how people are talking about money, a shift in how we look at our businesses, how we think about our presence online. A shift in how we approach the big questions, like what you want your work to look like, your life to look like, and what type of money you need to get there.   If that seems like a big broad way to start a conversation, you’re right,...

Today’s episode is on a topic that ALWAYS gets a strong reaction when I talk about it… and not always a good one! We’re going to talk about selling, in all its tangly glory. Whether you realise it or not, we all have a load of conditioning around selling and a lot of times it works against us. So many of us show up to our business with the built-in idea that selling is pushy or overbearing… and th...

This week we’re back with another live coaching episode! I’m chatting with makeup artist, beauty educator, and Creative Virtual Assistant Sofaya Hussein about the worry around spending money in our businesses – a big stumbling block that comes up a lot!   Sofaya tells us about feeling resistant and terrified of spending money even when she has the utmost confidence in her ability to make money in...

In this episode, I’m talking through one of the most common questions I’m asked, which is how I built a business that took me from having £7.50 in my bank account to my first £7,500 month within the span of just four months. If you’re signed up to my newsletter, you may have read a bit about me and how I landed on the work I do (and if you’re not, you can sign up here! ). In the first email I shar...

This week I’m talking with the wonderful Vicky Shilling!   Vicky is a Wellness Business Mentor who helps health practitioners turn their expertise into income. We chat through how make the step from training and qualifying in health and wellness into the very practical side of running a business that lets you share that expertise. This can come with a dose of doubts too, which we touch on how to c...

We’re back with another live coaching episode! This week, I’m chatting with Self-belief coach Joeli Kelly about how fears around success, failure, and everything in between can sneak into our businesses.   Joeli takes us back to her time at university, and how her experience there created a make-or-break idea of success that she carries with her to this day. We break down the cycle that happens wh...

This week, I’m speaking with the brilliant Lauren Elizabeth!   Lauren is a Courage Coach and a Feminist Business Mentor. Her mission is to help feminist coaches and creatives deprogram from oppressive patriarchal conditioning so they can make a more massive impact in the world and have a life and a business that lights them the fuck up.   I was so excited to hear Lauren speak about finding pleasur...

This week, we’re back with another live coaching episode!   I’ll be chatting with brand and storytelling strategist Rebecca Mackay Miller. Rebecca founded her company Bloc + Rose to help business owners create fulfilling brands that feel right and do good through feminist strategies and the power of story.   We talk about that very sneaky imposter syndrome, the shift that happens when you go from...

This week, we’re speaking with the incredible Amanda Perry, founder of Soup Agency and digital growth expert.   If you can’t figure out why Instagram just isn’t working for you lately, then this is a must hear. Amanda breaks down the rollercoaster of running an online business between the start of the pandemic to today, and the knock-on effect that every unexpected change has had on our marketing....

This week, I’m speaking with the fantastic Mel Wiggins. Mel is the founder of Assembly, a coaching community for women who want to build courageous, values-led, regenerative businesses. What’s a regenerative business, you might ask? That’s exactly what we’re talking about!   We chat through the three things that are most likely to cause stress in your business - finance, operations/ systems, and e...