The Mindful Business

Liz is a commercial interior designer with over 17 years experience working globally with some of the world's most successful and well known brands. She set up Biddis Lifestyle Design in 2018 with a mission to improve people's lives through good quality gorgeous designs. Liz believes that when we create environments that people enjoy being in, we're making a positive contribution to society as a w...

My chats with Gillian started around branding and quickly moved into the power of communication in motivating and engaging staff to drive customer experience. Through her years of experience in industry. Gillian has seen first hand the impact internal communication has on staff – their passion, motivation, loyalty, well-being and how they deliver. This episode explores the link between marketing,...

Dr. Marcia Goddard is unique in combining a background in academia with practical business behaviour. She's an experienced neuroscientist who left an assistant professor position in academia to focus on building bridges between science and business. Her specific expertise is work floor behaviour: how do you build a culture that allows people to thrive? I'm delighted to have her insights and experi...

You're doing enough, you are enough and your best is good enough! This is the mantra for this episode, where I had the pleasure of welcoming the brilliant Jemma Andrew-Adiamah to the show. Jemma is a holistic Empowerment Coach and mum of 2 that helps unfulfilled mums to put themselves first without the guilt. She help mums feel fabulous, achieve the mental clarity they need to reconnect with thems...

This episode has been a long time coming - I've been wanting to cover this subject and understand the conversation better myself for many months so I'm thrilled to have Ashanti Bentil - Dhue on the podcast talking all about creating diverse workplaces where the honest conversations go deep! Ashanti is Founder and CEO at EventMind, a market leader in the virtual meetings and events sector. EventMin...

Carina has had a successful 20 year career in the hospitality and tourism industry, working for luxury brands and 5 star properties around the world. She launched her business Benessere to support businesses to create organisational wealth.  What does that look like? Her remarkable breath of experience combined with an approachable leadership style and genuine willingness to help businesses thrive...

The podcast is back! After a short hiatus where I focused on my energy and prioritised my work, I'm back with a solo episode all about my experiences with burnout and how we can master our energy for the long haul to weather any storm. In this episode I'm sharing with you: - Why I believe we're experiencing a new kind of burnout - How burnout doesn't always mean working 100 hours a week - The impa...

In this episode I get to chat stress and well-being with my partner in crime Laura Capell-Abra. We work together on various projects and programmes and met through a shared background and love for the events industry. Laura wears many hats as you'll hear in this chat…she is a business and career coach, NLP Practitioner, Mental Health First Aid Instructor and Visiting Lecturer. Laura set up the cre...

Laura is one of my favourite people in the work well-being world – she credits mindfulness as the catalyst for changing the way she manages her digital well-being, she's an absolute joy to chat to and she tells it like it is in the most hilarious, candid way. In this episode we put the well-being world to rights and talk about: - Our love affair with technology and what happens when it turns sour....

How does someone whose work focuses on understanding community well-being, manage their own well-being in a pandemic? When Covid-19 hit I remembered conversations I'd shared with Lucy Donoughue from Happiful magazine about what people's priorities were around wellness and mental health. This was in February 2020 (which seems like a lifetime ago!) just before Corona appeared in our world. I was cur...

In 2019 after running a hugely stressful event and seeing the negative impact on her event team, Amy Miller booked her team on my signature 8-week mindfulness programme.   Amy is Group Portfolio Director of the Oil & Gas division at Clarion Events and she and her team run complex, global events. Her aim was both selfish - in wanting the team to be less stressed and perform at their best for the bu...

Have you accepted that you'll never have a great night's sleep? Do you think resting during the day is a guilty pleasure you don't have time to indulge in? Do you think good sleep has no place in the workplace? If so, then you need to listen in to this episode! I talk about the power of good sleep with my good friend Risa Gabrielle. Risa is a certified sleep therapist, clarity coach and yoga teach...

How are you feeling with everything going on? If you're struggling to stay positive and feeling like you've lost your way, this episode is here to show you how to shift your perspective. Listen in as I share the secret to mastering your mindset and how to know what you need in this very moment - to feel lighter, brighter and clearer. Check out Stress Matters for support schemes and a help-line aim...

In this episode I get to interview the brilliant business leader John Martinez, founder of Shocklogic. John has been working in the events industry for the past 30 years, as a Professional Congress Organiser and technology specialist. In 1997, he founded his company, Shocklogic, where he leads an international team to deliver event management technology. With the knowledge that Event Management ha...

In this episode of The Mindful Business I had the honour of welcoming the founder of Live Well London Sam Willoughby onto the show – to talk about making well-being accessible and what living well means to each and everyone of us. I was introduced Sam - through my event network and it turns out we share a similar story - both spending many years working on global exhibitions only to discover a pas...

In this episode I chat to Sally Lovett, Founder and Director of Stretching the City - a national corporate well-being company supporting businesses to work well. You'll hear: - Where Sally's passion for wellness comes from and how she founded StC. - The shift in trends she's seen in corporate well-being over the years. - Why she believes well-being is fundamental to business success and how it sit...

This first episode is dedicated to the Mindful Business concept and I talk about why it is a project that comes from my heart. In this episode... - I introduce you to the idea of running a conscious, awake business where people are at the heart of financial success.  - You'll hear why I want to bring real life experiences to my wellbeing community - stories of what works in well-being from real li...