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 30, 2020
Saturday Aug 29, 2020
Saturday Aug 29, 2020
Disclosure: This podcast may contain adult content.
This podcast was created and published in June 2018. However as Frankie was one of the speakers at our recent Reasons & Results summit, it felt like a good time to pull it out of the archives and give it a chance to heard again.
Frankie Fihn is a marketing connection that I met through Facebook, and whilst I did not know his full story, there was something in what he was saying that caught my attention. Like many of my connections, he seemed to have the ideal life of travel and exotic locations.
I went straight into this recording without any preconception, and I have to say it may trigger you as it touches on the use of an illegal substance Ayahuasca. Full disclaimer here as this is by no means an advocation of its use. However, it is a fascinating story.
Frankie Fihn is outwardly successful, he is a well-known speaker, entrepreneur and by his description a Master of the Mystical Arts. He operates a coaching and consulting business for lawyers and builds creative marketing systems. He has a laptop lifestyle allowing him to travel and experience the world with his partner.
However, since his exploration of life through Ayahuasca he looks at the world through a different lens. He calls himself a shaman and in his coaching he uses intuition and vibration to work with people on a different level.
The entrepreneurial lifestyle is often held up as a chalice, yet in reality it is difficult. Frankie supports clients to express and release fears, frustration and self-sabotage. He helps them bring more colour, vibrancy and meaningful connections into their lives, all while increasing their business and personal freedom.
It was a great conversation as you will hear Frankie had a real perspective on the big questions of success, passion, and the meaning of life.
I hope you enjoy the conversation with Frankie Fihn
You can Find Frankie here on Facebook
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
This podcast is recorded from a neighbours garden, where I am gathering fruit and vegetables (with permission of course) and I am reflecting on dreams.
What does it look like to live into your dreams?
Most of us have forgotten how to dream or have given up on them and it can feel quite hard to move towards dreams when this happens. Looking back on my father’s life, this appeared to be the way it was for him. In the time I knew him, he didn’t have any aspirations. He just got on with living without any plans to achieve anything new.
If we allow them to, the stresses, strains and challenges of life can get in the way, and it is only when we make a conscious choice to say “I want that” that we can start to build something new.
In reality having a dream, an aspiration or goal to achieve something can be quite easy when we just maintain a steady focus. With this in place we can look back years later and realise we have reached a destination.
16 years ago the dream for my wife and I was moving to Scotland and creating a life full of abundance, with the simple plan being to raise our son in a healthy way. Moving here was really exciting for a while and then we just got on with life. But the focus of having a good life was always there. Looking back I can see we have achieved that dream and life has been abundant for us, not necessarily in a financial way, but that wasn’t our goal.
Now my son is leaving for college and it is time to move towards the next big dream. This has coincided with discovering a passion for creating podcasts and virtual events. I am starting to move more fully into building this dream and having my wife come on board with it, feels really exciting, because now I have my playmate with me.
What are your dreams? Are you living them? Are you exploring new possibilities? Is there a plan?
Life Passion And Business : Reasons & Results Virtual Summit
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Suzy Beaumont of ‘Change Your World’ is a sponsor for our upcoming Reasons & Results virtual event. Today I joined her in a zoom conversation on her Facebook page to promote the event and talk about the reasons for doing this and the results I hope to achieve by creating a platform for change.
Suzy and I have a tendency to bounce of each other, and in this interview we are ‘chewing over the crud’ and discussing the changes people are facing as we emerge from the lock-down and prepare for schools and colleges to re-open.
The event is Free to access and has some amazing deals for the upgrade to the VIP package that includes books and services from many of our speakers.
For more details about the event and to take advantage of Suzy’s 20% discount coupon (expires midnight – UK time – on 20th August 2020) and go direct to the Reasons & Results Event pages.
For more information about Suzy Beaumont and Change Your World visit her WEBSITE or go straight to her FaceBook page where you can also watch the live broadcast
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.
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
We are in Full-On Event mode this week and Gemma Ray is one of our speakers at the 'Reasons & Results' virtual summit.
Details here: https://lifepassionandbusiness.com/reasons-and-results/
Meanwhile, if you want to discover Gemma Ray's New Books the Amazon Link is below
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stop-Procrastinating-Start-Living-Procrastination/dp/B0892HTJNL/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=gemma+ray&qid=1597349336&sr=8-1
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Where the thought goes the energy flows. Where do we put our attention and how do we move forward?
When we focus on what we want – we get it. When we focus on what we don’t want, we get that too! So how do we move through the porridgy bits to get to the good stuff?
I’ve been noticing how the porridgy bits have been affecting me over the past few months, and discussing this with some of the coaches coming into our event at the end of this month, I have been able to move on with ease.
I am looking forward sharing their wisdom with everyone in our Reasons & Results 5 day virtual summit.
Reasons & Results will help you find your Reasons and work through the stumbling blocks the reach the Results you desire. I hope you will join us.
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
This programme was recorded in the outside studio... By my favourite river, so there will be a few wild noises.
Today is the launch of our Virtual Event Reasons and Results, it has been a journey stopped by the curse of perfection.
Why does it all have to be perfect when 80% is good enough.
Check out my thoughts and let me tell you about the new event.
The Link to get more details and claim your free ticket is here.
https://reasons-or-results.heysummit.com/
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
The links for Focus Coaching is at the Bottom of the
home page at https://lifepassionandbusiness.com/
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
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
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.
https://lifepassionandbusiness.com/focus-coaching/
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?
https://lifepassionandbusiness.com/focus-coaching/
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
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
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
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