Exploring the creativity of the human spirit with just five simple questions. Those questions give us a window to explore the journey and life story of people that look like they have it sorted.
Episodes
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
The Energy is building on our forthcoming Reasons & Results Virtual Summit on 24-28 August 2020. Here is the link for more details:
https://reasons-or-results.heysummit.com/
It brings up the question of how we compare ourselves with others. This comes up in many areas of life. It is a topic that is particularly relevant for people on a personal development journey. The question is how do we compare ourselves with others, and is it really like-for-like?
When we look at Social Media profiles, biographies on websites, videos and the like, what we are actually seeing is the success models that are presented to the world in order to give the appearance that everything is perfect and wonderful.
It is important to be aware that all Social Media does is highlight the good bits and rarely shows the rough bits.
So are we really comparing like for like when we measure ourselves against the people we admire. Do we know the journey been on to reach a point where they can showcase their success to the world.
As an Entrepreneur growing a business, it is unrealistic to compare yourself with someone who has reached the top of their game.
Where the issue of comparison does become interesting is when two people meet at the start of a similar journey. Maybe they meet on a workshop or at a conference. Both are heading roughly in the same direction, with similar goals and aspirations. What happens when they reconnect years later.
One may now have reached the desired destination and created a success model that works for them, whereas the other hasn’t. What is the difference?
Often a project starts to fall apart because the person driving it has no clear vision or focus. When problems arise everything starts to crumble and they end up back at the beginning trying to build again from scratch.
The difference is when a person is working in their zone of genius, they have a passion and drive to overcome the things that would otherwise stop them.
Recognizing this is fundamental to success. Finding our purpose and passion for a project will bring it to success, and finding the right people to handle the things we are not so good at, ensures we can stay on track and everyone wins.
That was one of the initial thoughts that I had when I started planning our forthcoming Reasons & Results Virtual Summit on 24-28 August 2020. The event is very much about how we can be in alignment with our goals and looking at what we need to put in place in order to achieve success.
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
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Check out Focus Coaching at life Passion and business.com
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
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
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
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
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.
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
The last question on the podcast is always, What is the meaning of life for you?
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
The guest on the show today is Gillian Davies, and she is a women's transformational coach. Gillian specialises in helping women who are in their mid-late 40's, the early 50s. For these women, it is about giving themselves time and attention after many years of providing their focus to the family, careers or business.
Our conversation is about weight management and exercise and how it is the start of so much more.
Life Goes in Stages
It is hard to appreciate when we are young that life is a series of stages. I know this now but did not understand what that means until recently. To some extent, it is all tied up in the standard plan, the success model.
Thankfully most of us are born into the world with a fanfare of love and appreciation. There is that growing up bit, where everyone is so supportive, and then there is the finding your place in the world, getting a partner and maybe starting the family. Though all of these life stages, there is support and guidance from both family and friends.
But there are bumps in the road for men and women where support is somewhat lacking. For women, the significant shifts can arrive close, Children leaving home, Menopause or and Divorce.
All of these factors cause a revaluation of life, a search for meaning many people start that journey with health and fitness. My guess is it all about feeling better about the self.
Losing a few pounds and having more energy is always a great start and today's guest is there to help.
As will hear Gillian is from Ireland and growing up; she had her challenges with identity self-confidence and food. Physical exercise was always her place of escape; it made her feel better about herself.
In our conversation, she talks candidly about her struggle with alcohol and unhealthy relationships. It was the return to fitness that was the most successful coping mechanism.
The Science Career
She started in biomedical science and went into laboratory work and eventually moved into clinical diagnostics, microbiology and infectious diseases. Had she stayed in the career, her time would have been now working to solve the COVID crisis.
However, in 2016 after 14 years in the industry, the company she was working for changed their values. It no longer aligned with hers, so she leapt to follow her dreams and passions.
She did the big adventures climbing mountains, and stuff then returned home to Ireland with her husband and set up a nutrition and fitness business.
Her current mission is inspiring ladies to realise their abilities, increase their self-confidence and feel stronger both mentally and physically in the process.
I hope you enjoy the conversation with Gillian Davies.
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
The random question is is the 4th question in the podcast and I call it random because of the way it asked. It's about getting the speaker, the guest to give me the one question that I can ask them, something that will open up the conversation to a new area.
It's the question that gives them an opportunity to say what they like but there's a lot more to it than that, this short programme is my thinking around the random question and opportunity for you to come up with one of your own
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Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
My guest on the programme is Ross Macwilliam and he is the man who changed a million lives. Ross is the master, at the mindset and self-belief stuff, and well worth a listen.
Before I tell you about Ross and I'd like to ask if you are a regular podcast listener because I would appreciate some feedback. There is a listener survey on the home page at life passion and business.com.
It is multiple choice and will take less than 5 minutes any thoughts will be appreciated, now on with the show. My guest Ross Macwilliam is a speaker and author, his passion is around mindset, mental health and wellbeing.
Life all of my guests, the journey for Ross was not a straight line. Failing his exams at 16, was a setback but did not let that stop him. It was his desire to proved people wrong that drove him forward; he started what he calls an educational crusade with travel. Along the way, he worked in many roles including a fast food shop and managing a gym
In his early 30s with a masters degree in physical education became a high school teacher and college lecture.
A career change opened the opportunity for public speaking, and by 2012 that he leapt into full time presenting and writing. Following his educational experience and background, he delivers talks to both children and teachers, children's books on mindset followed. The big message for Ross is inner confidence and self-belief.
It has been his mission to spread and shared that message in schools and businesses throughout the world for the last eight years.
During that time he has worked in over 1500 schools and businesses. He and is a regular guest on TV and Radio programmes, talking about mental health wellbeing and stress management.
I hope you enjoy the conversation with Ross McWilliam.
If you would like to get in touch he is on Linkedin Facebook and Twitter. He can also be contacted at https://mindsetpro.co.uk/ and https://www.cuppajourney.com/ which is his children's book website.
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
My guest on today's programme is Richard Fletcher; he is an online business coach who has found the magic marketing sauce. But like many people, it was a journey to get there with lots of different jobs. From a professional gambler to a dating coach.
What is interesting about Richard is that he worked out very early on in life that the success model we were all sold didn't work. He could not see the possibility of working or holding onto a simple job for so many years in order to retire well. It didn't fit there had to be a better solution he spent some time in the corporate world while working on the side hustle.
He did the usual journey through the multi-level marketing systems, drinking their Koolaid and he discovered online marketing however it took many years to make that work as it does for all of us.
The driving force of Richard's desire to make money without working too hard, is sheer laziness plus of a love of interacting with all types of people. Richard loves to spend time with his wife and cats.
This is a little bit of a fireside chat between two marketing guys, the story is good, and Richard has a lovely voice.
I hope you enjoy the conversation with Richard Fletcher
And that was life passion and business with Paul Harvey and my guest Richard Fletcher if you would like to reach out to Richard you can find him on Facebook that's his social channel. Also find that his website https://magicsaucemarketing.com/
I will be back on Sunday when will be covering the next question in the podcast journey the story of success
Wednesday May 27, 2020
Wednesday May 27, 2020
My guest on the programme today is Sarah Griffiths and she is a The trauma and abuse therapists.
We recorded this show just as the lockdown was taking shape across the world. Sarah at that point was stuck in Bali and trying to get back to Australia.
How is very grateful that Sarah found the time to speak to me given that she was in the middle of trying to negotiating a flight home.
Sarah was a successful businesswoman, seeming high functioning and from the outside successful. She had the great job, the husband the house and the children, it all looked fantastic, however, on the inside she was slowly unravelling. Sarah battled her extreme insecurities and lack of self-confidence for many years, she almost committed suicide.
It was that moment of despair that she found the strength to pull herself out of it and start the long journey towards recovery.
The seeds of her trauma started with childhood bullying and culminated at the age of 45, caught in a narcissistic marriage.
Our conversation is the story of her journey towards recovery.
Her journey led to her training as an RTT therapist, specialising in Trauma and Abuse, and developing her signature system and methodology to help people rapidly heal from the debilitating effects of past abuse.
And that was life passion and business with Paul Harvey and my guest Sarah Griffiths.
If you have been affected by trauma in your and would like to catch up with Sarah, you can find on Facebook and LinkedIn or at her website which is Sarahg.com
These links will be available at the website life passion and business.com beneath the podcast player as usual.
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Wednesday May 20, 2020
My guest on today's programme is the Serial Entrepreneur Cheryl Jacobs.
Looking at her life, you could say she is currently at the top of her game but then who said there was a top. We only reach a ceiling in life when we decide we have and cannot see Cheryl choosing to stop any time soon.
For Cheryl, the journey did not start like this, she was born and raised in Ohio, her father worked in a factory, and her mother was a secretary. She was one of three siblings growing up in an impoverished part of town. They played outside most of the time, no internet, no cell phones.
One never asks the age of a lady, but to be growing up before the internet does set a place in time.
At 18 she married her high school sweetheart and by 19 had two beautiful children but now living in poverty. Relying on charity for groceries and hitchhiking to travel to work or school.
Young love either works or it does not, the relationship with her husband did not last, and he became an ex-husband who was an abusive alcoholic.
She has always looked after her appearance. The big break came when a modelling agency discovered her and ended up with two agencies, one in New York City and another Los Angeles.
It was these contracts gave her the resources and security to move on in life. However, the universe was not done, her mother and grandmother died within months of each other.
Now on her own with a young family depression became that ever-present unwelcome friend. It was the words of her mother that pulled her through and kept her going.
"You're smart enough and strong enough to stand on your own two feet."
Somehow she found the resources and motivation to start her first business, a modelling and talent agency.
Today she runs ten successful businesses, which includes a children's party franchise, with 300 character costumes, 70+ employees and pre lockdown they were operating nearly 100 parties a month. Her tenth project is the Elight flying club a private jet hire and pilot service.
She is a firm believer in fitness health; not every grandmother looks like she does, as I said before there is and will be no stopping of Cheryl Jacobs
Her big mission is to help as many people get out of their way to be successful. She has written 5 books and speaks on the subject around the world.
I hope you enjoy the conversation with Cheryl Jacobs
Sunday May 17, 2020
Sunday May 17, 2020
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