Episodes
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Patrick M Powers, The Broke Taxi Driver and the Power of Networking Pt2
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
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Welcome to the second part of Patrick M Powers Story
You will get to hear how he build that largest business meetup group in Europe and how he plans to take that project globally.
Patrick's story is one that leads from despair to life-threatening illness to recovery, and beyond.
We touch on how to choose a good network marketing company.
Meditation, presence, NLP and some weird stuff
The problems of Social Media and the growth of Narsisem
The power of networking ( not so easy in a COVID world)
Patrick Powers has a fascinating story I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Connecting with Patrick
Patrick will be delighted to have your join his meetupgroup http://www.meetup.com/Entrepreneursinlondon
You can also connect with Patrick on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmpowers/
https://www.facebook.com/patrickmpowers
https://twitter.com/EntrepreneursIL
there is also the websites at
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
Patrick M Powers, The Broke Taxi Driver and the Power of Networking Pt1
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
The links to Focus Coaching can be found at https://lifepassionandbusiness.com
My guest on this week stared his first job 18 and realised that working for someone was not a sustainable option. It was boring, so Patrick M Powers began his first business at the age of 21 and soon went out of business, losing his home and most of his money.
He had chosen to be a hands-on therapist at a time when the idea was new and pretty radical. Plus he was shy and could not sell himself.
Today Patrick runs one of the largest online business networking organisations in Europe with 27,000 members. He has become and an expert in influence marketing and copywriting.
But of course, there was a story to be told. Like how he went from the shy starving taxi-driver in Copenhagen/Denmark to retiring in style in the Caribbean.
But that would be jumping ahead. The failure of his first business was down to lack of knowledge and confidence for selling. So he started learning the ropes.
By 2003 he had landed himself in a network marketing he hit the big time with a growing company.
Say what you like about network marketing if you use the system and do the work it is possible to be successful. However, being shy was not going to work for Patrick. So he went on to develop his system, and it worked. It worked so well that built a team of 10,000 people.
That was it he was made and set with an income for life until he lost it all. Now stuck in the Dominican Republic and broke, his last cash was sitting in a safe-deposit box in London, he had to borrow money to fly to the UK to get it.
It is a story that leads from despair to life-threatening illness to recovery,
We touch on how to choose a good network marketing company.
Meditation, presence, NLP and some weird stuff
The problems of Social Media and the growth of Narsisem
The power of networking ( not so easy in a COVID world)
Patrick Powers has a fascinating story I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Patrick will be delighted to invite you into his networking organisation http://www.meetup.com/Entrepreneursinlondon
For Direct contact with Patrick you can find him on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmpowers/and on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/patrickmpowers and on Twitter, https://twitter.com/EntrepreneursIL there is also the website at
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Happiness Habits that Work.
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
More thoughts on the happiness question and looking at some good habit that will lead to a good life.
I touch on getting stuff done and some resources that will help you get there.
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Greg Fearon People Management to Project FIT
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
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If You Could Get Something Big Done Within Days,
What Would it be Worth to You?
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Back at the start of the UK lockdown in March. I was inspired to create something and give support to my podcast audience. The idea for a virtual event pulled together a fantastic bunch of people, all willing to give their time and wisdom to the issues and speak.
Greg Fearon and Gillian Davies from the fit and fabulous podcast were eager to take part and delivered a great talk on how to stay fit for life. Once the event was over, I had to bring them onto the podcast.
Gillian was a few weeks back and today is the turn of Greg Fearon. Just like his co-host, he is a women's transformational coach. Over the last five years, he has helped hundreds of women feel better. Get fitter, healthier stronger and enjoy life without looking at the scales.
Greg, like everyone, has a life journey and where he is now could not have been predicted from where he stated. In his words "Growing up, I was the classic fat kid that was rubbish at sport."
Puberty and peer pressure change that and he developed the ability to run and a keen interest in sports. It led him to university and sports science degree.
It was a passion he did not follow, and he chose a career in people management. He worked for some big organisation like the carphone warehouse. After several management roles, he ended up the UK national health service and invited to manage the gynaecology and maternity departments of a hospital.
For Greg, this was a glimpse in the world of women's health. Throughout his management career, he has maintained his connection with fitness. He was always coaching people towards healthier lifestyles, with the NHS role, he had new insights into the needs of professional women.
He saw a need and started Project FIT 6 years ago to pursue a passion for helping Senior Management Professionals, lose weight & get healthy through nutrition and training.
If you would like to get in touch with Greg you can find him on Facebook Linkedin and at the website projectfitharrow.co.uk/ also look out for the fit and fabulous podcast with Gillian Davies
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
What Makes You Happy
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Welcome to the Sunday reflection and today we're talking about happiness
A few days ago I heard a TED talk, The director of a long-term study that started in the 1930s was sharing his reflections. The study was in the USA and started 75 years ago. A 1000 guys in their second year at college and 1000 guys who were in very poor surroundings in Boston and they followed those men every single year for the last 75 years.
So now in their 80s there's there are 60 left but lots of data to draw on about these people and what happened to them throughout their lives.
What was interesting is that some of these 80-year-olds are very content and happy with their lives and it turns out that the happiest had one thing in common.
Happiness is also linked to my last podcast with John Perkins and this idea of contribution and being in the moment.
The next podcast of the on Wednesday the 22nd and that will be with Greg Fearon who is a transformational health coach
Thanks for listening you want any more details about life and business please visit the website at life passion and business.com
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
John Purkiss: Part 2 Mindfulness Completion & letting Go
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
Welcome to the second part of my conversation with John purpose. To bring you up to speed if you have missed the first part. John got to the point in his life where he realised someone else was in control.
We were 40mintes in and only just got to the success model. It was such a rich conversation I did not want to edit so hence the part two.
What is clear is that once he decided to surrender to the process to move forward, everything changed. The results of that was he secured a job that paid £125000 and year. That is 150000 + US Dollars from my American friends. In 1997 in the UK that was a cracking salary and I'm sure it was a pretty good salary in USA.
We go on to talk about meditation, mindfulness and transcendental meditation. Our conversation was boundless in a way explored how his books pour out of him, and that never suffers from writers' block.
There was the discovery of a guru that completely changed his life, by showing him the process of completion. It was this process that to the book the power of letting go.
The point is we are all reacting out of past pain moving beyond that pain is a path of personal release and would change the world.
We explore Johns process and some of the benefits that he has experiences in the process.
Our whole conversation is about enlightenment and letting go. It is a beautiful conclusion to the story of John Purkiss.
Check out the book The Power of Letting go
if you'd like to get in touch with John you can find him at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpurkiss/
https://www.facebook.com/JohnPurkiss
https://twitter.com/johnpurkiss
https://www.instagram.com/JohnPurkiss/
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
John Purkiss Headhunter, mindfulness and letting go (Part 1)
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
My guests on the programme week is John Purkus, a headhunter and a published author, who discovered and taught himself mindfulness from a novel.
John is the co-founder of Purkiss & Company, where he recruits chief executives, finance directors and other board members.
To start at the beginning, John went to a Grammar School Leicester, then on to Cambridge University to study economics. He was the first in his family to get a university education.
From there he when into banking for a bit, but was pulled back into education. Taking an MBA at the INSEAD business school. As someone who was at the top of his game, he won the Henry Ford II Prize.
His was life mapped out, a future in Banking and finance was ready and waiting for him. But instead, he got clinical depression that nearly killed him.
After countless doctors and psychiatrists, drugs were prescribed that had him sleeping 10 hours a day
Johns story is not unlike many with ups and downs, starting with the depression; there have been 3 events that lead have him to the depths of despair.
He says we have three choices when life hits the buffers, kill your self, bare it or step up. John has learnt to step up. On his travels John has lived and worked in France, Belgium and the USA and speaks French, German and Spanish.
It was a wide-ranging conversation, We explore how his depression was a blessing.
Why smart people get ill, His interest in Enntrpeanuer ship and Angel investing. And what it cost to recruit Eric Schmidt, the chairman of google in 2001.
We explore intuition and how the discovery if a guru changed much that he thought was true or real. It is a conversation about oneness and so much more.
Our wide-ranging conversation that takes lots of twists and turns leading up to the publication of letting go. Like all of Johns books, it is an exploration of what worked for him.
I hope you enjoy the conversation with John Purkiss
This show is part 1 and part 2 will be available in 24 hours
if you'd like to get in touch with John you can find him on LinkedIn Facebook and on Twitter and his website is.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpurkiss/
https://www.facebook.com/JohnPurkiss
https://twitter.com/johnpurkiss
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
How is your focus?
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
The plan this Sunday was to talk all about Focus because I've been having a terrible time with Focus myself over the last few weeks I suspect that is and how we get out of this situation it's tolling on me a bit at the moment.
However, Sunday morning came and the sun was blaring in through my windows and it was such a glorious day. If I didn't get out on the bike early I won't go so I went out. I did have a bit of food foraging and I thought I would make my video by the river.
The best-laid plans I did not take any notes with me so I could not do the Justice to the focus conversation. So instead I spoke about being at the river free food and Sunday reflections.
I have included that video on this recording, came home and to work on Focus material for you. You'll find all the details about Focus and some of the things that we need to consider when we're looking to achieve more Focus in Our Lives.
As you will hear on the podcast I am in the process of writing a piece on this subject because there's a lot to be discussed here and I really would like to deliver something of value next few weeks there will be a short ebook of some sort out available and possibly even Workbook associated with it so let's see what happens.
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Alex Joseph Workaholic to Behaviour Change Epi 82
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Alex Joesph Workaholic to Behaviour Change
Could a doughnut-obsession make you thin? Depends..
Alex Joeseph is a former DJ and burned-out finance executive with an appreciation of doughnuts. She kept the doughnut bit but dumped the rest by turning her passion into a profession.
She is a woman with the capacity to commit and focus on a goal, as a high powered business executive with an ability to make stuff happen.
It was all about getting the deal done and if that meant 16 hour days and or finishing that last email while busting for a pee. That is what Alex did.
I have heard it said that man is the only animal that will trade his health to make wealth and then use his wealth to regain his health.
The long hours in banking and constant stress took their toll, and Alex reached the place of burn out. She hit bottom being a workaholic was destroying her body, her health and her relationships.
It was these feelings of helplessness that became the driving force behind her need to change.
Throughout her journey of stress and work addiction and poor health, it was her need to find a workable diet that started the journey. That interest led her to become a qualified nutritionist.
But it was more than just food, we all know what we should eat but often make poor choices. Alex went on to explore the thinking behind food choice and has become a self-confessed neuroscience geek.
Gone is the high power business executive, Alex Jospeh did the terrifying, yet exciting midlife career change.
It is her mission is to help people by showing them how to shift the weight plus see the return to health and sanity. More importantly, its about staying that way for good.
“It is all about making life simple, which is why the words behaviour change, lifestyle change and habits are key to my process.”
Her superpower is the ‘how’ and ‘why and teaching people that real success is in our mind.
I hope you enjoy the conversation with Alex Joseph.
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Are You Present?
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Are you present?
During the week I recognised my own thinking is getting a bit muddy I was getting into that place of Fear and thought and it came out of nowhere I'm not quite sure where it came I think I've had enough of lockdown to be honest.
With so much going on in the world black lives matter, racism and politics. I realise that all of these things and almost everything is about the story. It is all about the stories that we tell ourselves.
As I thought on this was further and it reminded me of a conversation I had I had a podcast guest a couple of weeks ago John Purkis, and his book is called letting go. I will talk more when it goes live in about two weeks.
The point is John he discovered mindfulness by accident 20 years ago before it was a thing. It all comes down to a conflict with the story. We have a story of how life should be, we have a story that either based on something that we were told from the past or something that we believe in the future.
Only when we are present in the now can we be free.
Check my thoughts and I would love to hear yours.
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Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Thoughts on Fear, Change and Money Stories
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
This week's podcast is a little different. I was reviewing some of the older show and found episode 57 with Suzy Beaumont on the subject of fear and change.
I think it is topical as I have been feeling my fear this week. Nothing dramatic but I believe it is related to change and possible money stories
An often forgotten fact: Unless I am staring at a tiger or a man with a gun, I have little reason to be fearful of anything.
Most of my fear is thinking about the past or the future. The show is good enough for a second airing as it is relevant to our current situation. The show touches on money stories we all have them.
So to give you some background, Suzy Beaumont has been a regular guest on the programme. She is a former BBC producer, with 18 years of experience, working in both radio and television.
While outwardly successful, she not dealing with life and personal issues and generally unhappy.
It was the meeting of a life coach and the discovering personal development that changed everything. In 2017 she left the BBC to start Change Your World and up until COVID has been running conferences and events.
She runs the Facebook group, Change Your Worlds Every Day, where members meet 3 weeks out of 4 for morning for coaching sessions.
This show was recorded in April last year on the change your world Facebook page just before the spring conference.