The Never Settle Podcast

Laurence is a super ambitious and personable accountant and now has quite a following on Linkedin which he thanks Covid for.  A super shy kid he was encouraged age 10 to sit an entrance exam for a private school in london. He was one of only 2 chosen and quickly realised he had to man up. He was a typical teenage boy, had a lot of fun and refused to listen to advice, which meant his A-Levels...

Nick Narbutovskih is an AirForce pilot with a difference. Not only did he know he wanted to be one from the age of 4 years old, but he chose this career over being a professional skier and is now also an author and public speaker. Born to a Russian descent mom who was a successful Geo Physicist , she gifted Nick a colourful unfiltered upbringing including allowing him to read adult science fiction...

New Zealand born Fiona Christie is an author and coach, and hosts her own podcast.  As a newborn Fiona was sick and put into intensive care for 6 weeks, at the same time as her mother was moved to another hospital for cervical cancer. Fiona believes this lack of early connection lead her to never quite feeling like she belonged anywhere until much later in life.  Suffering with learning...

Katie Morgan, now a qualified coach, hypnotherapist and RTT practitioner apportions her lack of belonging and boredom as a child to her mothers post natal depression and parents spending all their time building a business. There is no blame, just reasons why she struggled with certain things through her life. A budding fashion designer, her course at University left her feeling flat and not as cre...

Sylvia Baldock hosts the Becoming Significant Podcast, and is an author, consultant, coach, speaker, and business woman. From the age of 13, from a strict Baptiste family, she ran a youth club with her brothers in Glasgow for disadvantaged teenagers.  It wasn't long before Sylvia felt left out at school because of her strict upbringing and eventually started to rebel. She was allowed to go th...

We hear from 4 very inspirational women in todays podcast. I asked them all the same question: 'What was the pivotal moment in your life when you realised you were settling for second best?' For Sylvia it was when she realised on her honeymoon at 19 years of age that she had made a mistake. The next 10 years of having her light dimmed, being emotionally abused, and suffering serious health issues,...

Born from a Greek family who moved to S.Africa and then the UK with no money was very inspiring for Dino as he saw his parents go from Zero to successful, whilst still being well cared for. This inspired Dino to want to give back in some way. As a young adult he wanted to be a rockstar and entertain, but his real heart was from a charity perspective to earn lots of money and give it back to others...

Sophie is a very tenacious and driven business owner, coach and mum to 3 young children.  Having done the usual travelling after University, Sophie came back to Austrailia engaged with her fiance and joined the corporate world in digital advertising and marketing.  8 years later and with child number 2 on the way she took redundancy as the job could not be flexible to her being a mother....

Today's chat is with Megan Gibson who has already been featured on this podcast before. Megan is a friend and coach of mine and works in the same facilitation program as myself called Ultimate Contribution Uncovered. This program allows facilitators like us to reflect peoples values back to them allowing them to fully realise their Vision for themselves and the world, and how they can make that a...

Dr Jaz is of course a doctor but also a BTL investor, marketing enthusiast, and coach and teacher.  As a British born Sikh Punjabi there are expectation's to prosper academically either as a Lawyer, Doctor, Pharmacist etc. Age 23 Jaz had graduated as doctor. He had a big sense of completion and felt like the king. No more learning, and happiness will be inevitable.  But actually wor...

Todays episode is a share of a fabulous webinar I was priviledged to be asked to attend and participate in.  The Game of Values is an introduction into the role our core values play in life. How they allow us to create our vision for ourselves and the world, and we can achieve this.  There are different ways we obtain core values. Some from our parents and authorities growing up, some from our pee...

Cordelia is a shining example of a woman that does not want to settle.  She met her 'to be' husband at the age of 15, had 3 children, but after 12 years in that relationship it became clear to Cordelia that she needed to change her life.  As a student nurse and pregant with child number three Cordelia decided they needed to start an online business they could do together to light her hus...

Although Amanda did settle for a lot of her life and was scared to move out of her comfort zone one day it all changed. Raised in a turbulent background and having moved house 15 times the Universe seriously played its part in beginning Amanda's yoga teaching journey.  Whilst working in a bed department in a retail store, a thought plagued her one day. Am I content?  When leaving work Am...

In today's episode Alex tells her story of being completely burned out after years of working in TV production and how that led to many twists and turns and the Universe seriously having her back! After standing up a friend on a night out for the umpteenth time because of work commitments, her friend called her out and told her to quit. Not something she had even considered before, but this conver...

In today's episode Dan tells his story of being unfilfilled in corporate sales which led to him starting his online business and travelling the world.  Knowing he wasn't happy where he was, online marketing seemed to be the easiest way for Dan to quit the day job and go travelling,  Giving himself a timeline before running out of money Dan made a success of his affiliate marketing busine...

In today's episode Alex Eastman tells his story of driving fast cars and playing semi professional football to having an awakening and living a more simple, joyful and purposeful life.  Growing up Alex was extremely competitive and wanted to be the best at everything, but evolving through life taught him that simply did not pave the way to happiness.  The start of that pathway was being...

In today's episode Amy Taylor gives us an insight into how she moved into the online entreprenuerial space. Former jobs included PA, travel sales specialist, cruise ships and private yachts, all in the name of having it all in terms of work and life balance.  That mindset changed when she received news that her father figure uncle had been diagnosed with cancer and dropped everything to retur...

In today's episode Sean Beaty chats about how hitting 50 with older children, lead to him looking for more out of life.  Having been in construction project management all his life, Sean has a good salary and has lived all over the world. But when his 2 boys started to need his attention less, he started looking online for opportunities.  Sean has always had a keen interest in self devel...

It was such a pleasure for me in today's episode to speak with my Acupuncturist and friend Clair Taylor Powell. Previously in the RAF, Clair realised at the grand old age of 42 that she was deeply unhappy and after 3 years in the wilderness began to head for home and changed her life completely.  Clair talks about our spiritualty and humaness being like a coin, and depending on which side the...

In today's episode I loved chatting with Grantly Clapham. A previous officer in the Navy, property entrepreneur and now coach, Grantley has found himself searching out the real truth's in life.   Similarly to me Grantley hasn't watched the mainstream news in years, as its so one sided and all awful.  This mindset has lead him more recently to searching alternative news, the sort that for...

In today's episode of the The 'Never Settle' Podcast, I loved chatting with Isabella Lambauer who shares how she went from Office Manager in an engineering firm to owner of her own business, life coach, and oh yeah back to helping the engineering company out on a part time basis. Isabella couldn't stand her boss anymore and a forced argument saw her quit her managerial role in an engineering compa...

In today's episode of the The 'Never Settle' Podcast, it was wonderful to spend time with Megan (Megs) Gibson who shares how after settling for 25 years both in a marriage and career, enough was enough. Megs decided to follow a career in hairdressing to get herself out of high school and very quickly met the man she would marry, and go on to have 3 wonderful children.  Being the kind of perso...

In today's episode of the The 'Never Settle' Podcast, it was wonderful to spend time with my  friend Mary Arevalo who shares why she settled in her marriage and finances for far too long. Mary married very young at the age of 19, and was very much a product of the era she was brought up in. She spent a lot of years putting her families needs and feelings before her own.  Over the years s...

In today's episode of the The 'Never Settle' Podcast, you get to hear from me, Mel Clarke, about never settling for second best.  I always knew I was different from friends and other people from a young age, and I guess a large part of my younger life was trying to fit in and dim my light. From wanting to be a psychologist at Uni to falling into a career in sales for over 20 years, to now pur...

In today's episode of the The 'Never Settle' Podcast, I was my honour to sit down with my great friend and spiritual coach Andy Wilson who shares why only changing your circumstances will not bring you long lasting fulfillment. After Andy had reinvented himself more times than he cares to remember in his career to achieve a greater state of happiness and fulfilment he finally had the awareness tha...