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How can we build authentic, satisfying and strong connections with our partners? What are the main ‘invisible’ connectors in our relationships? What is a ‘survival dance’ and how can it sabotage romantic success? Why will you fall in love with someone you are incompatible with? Why won’t compromise work? My guest this week is internationally- renowned relationship builder and motivational speaker...

Have you ever wondered what a spiritual retreat entails and think you may like to do something similar to accelerate your healing and self-development work? This was hands down THE best work I have ever done in this space and I’m sharing some of the insights, wisdom gained, lessons learned on the topics of healing, joy, vulnerability, jealousy, letting go/surrender and defence mechanisms.  I encou...

What is consciousness and why does it matter? Could it be a gateway to individual and collective happiness? What is success and what place do financial metrics occupy within that? What values should we espouse in our society, our companies and our own personal lives? These are some of the questions I explore with my guest, my partner in love and life, David Perroud. David holds a Masters of Busine...

Do you want to spice up your sex life? Do you actually know what needs you hope to satisfy through sex? Have you considered having a threesome but not sure whether you really want to or what parameters to place if you do? Have you got any fantasies you haven’t  shared with your partner and maybe want to? Do you want a new sex toy recommendation? Do you have some questions about desire and libido?...

You should DEFINITELY  swipe left on these people! (Even if there is a temptation to swipe right). These are the types of people who should come with a warning sign: high conflict personalities - narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths, borderlines, histrionics, paranoids… They often present with an abundance of charm in the early days… but those ‘high highs’ usually lead to ‘low lows’.  In this epis...

Courage: The most important of all virtues according to Maya Angelou, Aristotle and countless others. In this bitesize episode (yes, I’ve got you busy folks in mind!) I share my reflections on courage: what it is, why it matters and what we can do to have a bit more of it in our lives. Listen for some quick food-for-thought and inspiration to bravely dare to conquer your fears and live a freer and...

While Dr Heather Abernethy’s main day job as an anesthesiologist is to numb people’s pain, her own journey with PTSD after an unhealthy relationship forced her to confront her own, at a time she too wished she could be out cold, numb, asleep… Through her own healing journey she is now passionate about discussing and destigmatising trauma and shame, as well as equipping her clients with the tools t...

Belgian economist Guibert del Marmol was young, bright, ambitious and on track to become highly successful in the economic world until he was sidelined by a devastating diagnosis: a brain tumour which doctors said would likely take his life within three months. This was 1994 and he is here with us today to tell his starting over story. Instead of killing him, this ordeal marked the beginning of a...

Did you make a New Year's Resolution this year and feel a little off track? Well if so, you’d perhaps be relieved to know that you’d be among the other 80% who are feeling this way at the end of January… Today’s guest, productivity coach Kierra Asnauskas, says that most failure is rooted in the lack of intention and strong ‘why’. And that in order to achieve lasting success, we all need  “ a...

“We all desire to do good for ourselves, our people and our planet, but it all starts with feeling good” says Madeleine Wisecup, today’s guest, who shares her starting over story of being diagnosed with a potentially cancerous auto-immune condition and suffering a miscarriage which led to a significant personal transformation. One in which she radically changed her life: her profession, her city o...

Crying episodes, sweaty palms, nervous breakdowns, increasing cynicism towards her job… Christine Reffo had all the warning signs that she was burning out. But she ignored them. Until she could no longer deny that her lucrative, prestigious and fast-paced lifestyle working for a global Swiss bank was harming her health and wellbeing. Christine says: “ I was used to pushing and overriding my physic...

Have you ever paused to consider how much of your life is driven by fear? Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. Fear of not being good enough… But what if you could step through this fear and vulnerability in the knowledge that love and joy will be awaiting you when you do?  Today’s guest is Dr Mary Quinlivan, who shares her starting over story: from the “wake up calls” of  severe insomnia, depre...

Life, for all its wonders and joys, brings bumps and bruises, progressions, regressions and uncomfortable transitions and ‘middle bits’, those ruts that are so god-damned hard to get out of some times, anyone feel me?  Starting over with Shannon is a place where we talk about the hard stuff in life, in order to find more of the good! We discuss fresh starts, new chapters, and of course life's...