Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Last episode of Series 11!

How can we get our reproductive organs super-fit as part of a whole life wellbeing approach?

If you’re interested in the prevention of or reversal of chronic conditions or in the support of your reproductive health then listen to my guest this week Liberty Mills an Integrative Nutritionist & Health Coach who herself overcame the Lupus condition and went on to become a mum to her second daughter at the age of 45. 

Liberty shares with us how she overcame her chronic autoimmune disease and became a later mum both by using the power of integrative nutrition & wellbeing practices. 

She shows us that so much of our health lies in our own hands, especially when we have the support and guidance of integrative health professionals.

You can find out more about Liberty’s work on https://www.integrativeliberty.co.uk/ 

And follow her on Instagram @mills.liberty

You can follow Host Lou Hamilton on Instagram @brave_newgirl and on Linkedin @LouHamiltoncreatelab

PS. Lou helps you transform your wellbeing, whether you struggle with your health, time, work/life integration or resilience to face your challenges. LOU'S LIFE LAB SERVICES HERE

Join our Brave New Girls retreats to reset and reconnect with what really matters to you. HERE

Music licensed from Melody Loops.

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Brave New Girls podcast is an Audio Archive Art Project with pioneering, creative & entrepreneurial women at the head of the curve, who are inspiring us on the airwaves, to work towards the health & wellbeing of ourselves and the planet. Brave New Girls podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and No 7 in the "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to, in 2024", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

1. INSPIRATION from courageous, creative women on Brave New Girls podcast working for the benefit of people and the planet. ️
2. SUPPORT with 1:1 creative transformation coaching and our holistic, healthy, creative wellbeing retreats www.bravenewgirlmedia.com/wellbeing-retreat
3. GROWTH blogs to help you THRIVE.


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Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
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How does Naturopathy & Nutrition help strengthen our immune system?

If you are interested in strengthening your immune system for optimal health listen to my guest this week Dr Vidhi Pandya a highly respected and experienced Celebrity Nutritionist, qualified Homeopathic Doctor from India, Detox consultant and a Specialist in private bespoke diet plans based on medical conditions. 

She focuses her practice on women’s health, family medicine, mental health and nutritional health assessment.

Vidhi is known for her honest opinions about right kind of Supplements, Herbs, Essential oils, Homeopathy, Ayurveda with evidence-based approach to all.

She gives giving us the foundations for creating a immune and a healthy life so that we feel stronger in our bodies no matter what challenges comes our way.

Dr Vidhi shows us how to look after ourselves and how to get outside support when we need to.

You can find out more about Vidhi’s work on https://thankyoulife.co.uk/

And follow her on Instagram @smilingvidhi

If you'd like to get a discount code for the Young Living Essential oils that Vidhi mentioned, please email me: Lou@silk-studios.co.uk

You can follow Host Lou Hamilton on Instagram @brave_newgirl and on Linkedin @LouHamiltoncreatelab

PS. Lou helps you transform your wellbeing, whether you struggle with your health, time, work/life integration or resilience to face your challenges. LOU'S LIFE LAB SERVICES HERE

Join our Brave New Girls retreats to reset and reconnect with what really matters to you. HERE

Music licensed from Melody Loops.

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast is an Audio Archive Art Project with pioneering, creative & entrepreneurial women at the head of the curve, who are inspiring us on the airwaves, to work towards the health & wellbeing of ourselves and the planet. Brave New Girls podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and No 7 in the "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to, in 2024", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

1. INSPIRATION from courageous, creative women on Brave New Girls podcast working for the benefit of people and the planet. ️
2. SUPPORT with 1:1 creative transformation coaching and our holistic, healthy, creative wellbeing retreats www.bravenewgirlmedia.com/wellbeing-retreat
3. GROWTH blogs to help you THRIVE.


Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

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Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

Can we prioritise the urgent need to teach young people, especially those from the care system, about consent. And that with the right support and guidance there is hope at the end of the tunnel.

If you are interested in how we can heal even after a traumatic childhood, listen to my guest this week, Hope Daniels, Sunday Times bestselling author who describes in her latest book This isn’t Love, how she went from living with alcoholic parents to a chaotic childhood in care with sexual abuse from an older man, to addiction in adulthood, until she turned it around in therapy and now advocates for young people in care & a safer system for them to grow up in.

Hope shares her experiences and advocates for a better world in which children who are under the care of the state can trust that they will be safe from abuse and sexual exploitation. 

Hope shows us that no matter what we have experienced in the past, when we get the right support we can heal and in turn, go on to stand up for the rights of all.

You can buy Hope’s books in all good bookstores.

And follow her on Linkedin under her real name Dr Jenny Molloy.

Warning- there is swearing and discussion of sexual exploitation in this episode.

 
You can follow Host Lou Hamilton on Instagram @brave_newgirl and on Linkedin @LouHamiltoncreatelab

PS. Lou helps you transform your wellbeing, whether you struggle with your health, time, work/life integration or resilience to face your challenges. LOU'S LIFE LAB SERVICES HERE

Join our Brave New Girls retreats to reset and reconnect with what really matters to you. HERE

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast is an Audio Archive Art Project with pioneering, creative & entrepreneurial women at the head of the curve, who are inspiring us on the airwaves, to work towards the health & wellbeing of ourselves and the planet. Brave New Girls podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and No 7 in the "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to, in 2024", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

1. INSPIRATION from courageous, creative women on Brave New Girls podcast working for the benefit of people and the planet. ️
2. SUPPORT with 1:1 creative transformation coaching and our holistic, healthy, creative wellbeing retreats www.bravenewgirlmedia.com/wellbeing-retreat
3. GROWTH blogs to help you THRIVE.


Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

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Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

Andrea Watts is the author of Collage as a Creative Coaching Tool and creator of The Collage Coaching Technique™ an arts-based approach to coaching that reconnects you to your inner wisdom and is a powerful way to get unstuck as you explore and express the hidden experiences and mindsets that influence how you feel, think, and behave.

From a work perspective, Covid meant she had to take her coaching practice and training online, this caused her to find a creative way to transition the Collage Coaching Technique online. 

It's not surprising she ended up with a creative business. She was a child who enjoyed making things and playing a lot. She was always very curious and wanted to know how things worked. She’s one of 4 children, and the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica. She was brought up in a Christian home and her faith and spirituality remain important to her.

 Motherhood was her biggest adventure in her early adulthood. Teaching and learning from her daughter, playing and being creative with her. She loved it. She stayed at home with her for 2 years before getting employment.

 Her last paid job was where she experienced the biggest challenge, because she was becoming more aware of what she found fulfilling. Being unable to do this affected her wellbeing and identity, so she went to see a careers coach.

Following working with the coach she decided to start her own business, which evolved into coaching with collage. She’s developed this into a 3-stage technique names the Collage Coaching Technique. It's very different from vision barding. Instead of being future focused it looks at where you are stuck now and helping you transition to a better state of wellbeing.

Her vision is to see it being used as a creative coaching tool for releasing people’s potential globally. Her coaching practice positively impacts her clients and helps to create the changes they want to see. She trains other coaches so am making an impact by introducing a new tool to the coaching profession. While not intentionally, she’s aware that her work inspires others and encourages them to use creative approaches in coaching. 

Thanks so much Andrea for sharing this creative collage technique that anyone can use to gain real insights into where they’re stuck and what they really want from life. Thanks also for showing

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Brave New Girls podcast is an Audio Archive Art Project with pioneering, creative & entrepreneurial women at the head of the curve, who are inspiring us on the airwaves, to work towards the health & wellbeing of ourselves and the planet. Brave New Girls podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and No 7 in the "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to, in 2024", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

1. INSPIRATION from courageous, creative women on Brave New Girls podcast working for the benefit of people and the planet. ️
2. SUPPORT with 1:1 creative transformation coaching and our holistic, healthy, creative wellbeing retreats www.bravenewgirlmedia.com/wellbeing-retreat
3. GROWTH blogs to help you THRIVE.


Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

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Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

This week’s guest is Alison Edgar MBE known as the ‘The Entrepreneurs Godmother’ helping businesses and entrepreneurs to grow, including The Apprentice & Dragons Den winners with their businesses. She is also the author of bestselling book SMASH IT! The art of getting what you want.
 

Instead of sitting around during the pandemic, she decided to embrace the lockdown and write her best-selling book ‘SMASH IT! The Art of Getting What YOU Want’, which helped grow the her own business to new levels!

Leaving home at 19, she had a plan to travel the world for 6 months. She loved travelling so much that she moved to Cape town at 21 and before she knew it 6 months had turned into 6 years.

Having her two sons was a game changer for her. Her first birth was very traumatic, and she nearly lost her life. Thankfully, after three months she got better and was discharged from hospital. This made her rethink the direction of her life and made her crave a change.

Leaving her corporate job – and her comfort zone - at 46 years old, she decided it was time for a new direction. She set up her first business ‘Sales Coaching Solutions’ and gave it her all. She realised that she had a passion for helping businesses and entrepreneurs to grow so a few years after this she set up ‘The Entrepreneurs Godmother’ and helped many people including The Apprentice & Dragons Den winners with their businesses.

Fast forward to 2022 and she runs two businesses, ‘SMASH IT! Training’ and ‘Alison Edgar MBE – Keynote Speaker’. Both businesses are designed to help others in different aspects of their lives. SMASH IT! Training helps teams to flourish with contemporary training and coaching. We offer commination training, leadership training, sales training and much more.  Alison Edgar MBE - Keynote Speaker offers motivational speaking at events to help inspire and invigorate audiences of teams or entrepreneurs.

She defines courage as the ability to not be afraid to fail. So many people fear change due to the risk of failing, but in reality, it is our only constant. Change is the only thing that we can guarantee will happen to us throughout our lives, so why live in fear of it? Not fearing change and learning to embrace it is one of the most courageous things that you can do.

Thanks Alison for inspiring entrepreneurs and business

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Brave New Girls podcast is an Audio Archive Art Project with pioneering, creative & entrepreneurial women at the head of the curve, who are inspiring us on the airwaves, to work towards the health & wellbeing of ourselves and the planet. Brave New Girls podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and No 7 in the "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to, in 2024", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

1. INSPIRATION from courageous, creative women on Brave New Girls podcast working for the benefit of people and the planet. ️
2. SUPPORT with 1:1 creative transformation coaching and our holistic, healthy, creative wellbeing retreats www.bravenewgirlmedia.com/wellbeing-retreat
3. GROWTH blogs to help you THRIVE.


Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

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Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

This week’s guest is Portia Asli, a licensed engineer and founder of Optimyzed Brain. She helps entrepreneurs optimize their brains for high-performance using a science-based method that supports people to prioritize their brain health and empower them with actionable ways to increase their mental performance for success in business.   

 Founding Optimyzed Brain Portia  went from a small offline consulting practice to building and launching a global-based business during the pandemic, helping company leaders optimize their brain health for peak mental performance, engineering a step-by-step science-based system that improves sleep, energy levels, concentration, focus, and mental clarity, less work hours and more more quality time.

Portia emigrated at the age of 10 with her family from Iran to Canada. Hard-working immigrant parents role modelled strong work ethics in her  but also being a woman immigrant in North America provided the freedom that didn't exist in Iran and this was the motivation to seize the opportunity to travel, explore and discover how she could create a positive global impact  

She went to a top University and worked hard but burn out and depression during her rigorous engineering studies began a 15-year journey of studying how our lifestyle and behaviour impacts our brain performance. 

Now she helps driven senior leaders to achieve great heights by helping them optimize their brains for peak mental performance through science-based micro behavioural and lifestyle improvements. 

 When striving for success brain health & mental performance can take the back seat.  This can show up as stress, anxiety, overwhelm, brain fog, exhaustion, imposter syndrome, insomnia, procrastination, and low self-confidence. She is helping senior leaders improve their sleep, and nutrition, reduce stress and anxiety, enhance mental clarity and focus in less than five weeks.  

Thanks Portia for sharing how you have developed ways to help people to optimise their own natural abilities so that they can be their most effective, productive and happy. And also for showing us that we can find ways to optimise our brain so we aren’t running on empty but instead, living and working in a balanced and fruitful way.

You can find out more about Portia’s work on

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Brave New Girls podcast is an Audio Archive Art Project with pioneering, creative & entrepreneurial women at the head of the curve, who are inspiring us on the airwaves, to work towards the health & wellbeing of ourselves and the planet. Brave New Girls podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and No 7 in the "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to, in 2024", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

1. INSPIRATION from courageous, creative women on Brave New Girls podcast working for the benefit of people and the planet. ️
2. SUPPORT with 1:1 creative transformation coaching and our holistic, healthy, creative wellbeing retreats www.bravenewgirlmedia.com/wellbeing-retreat
3. GROWTH blogs to help you THRIVE.


Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

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Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

This week’s guest is Lina Chan. She had a stillbirth, a miscarriage & trouble conceiving. The impact it had on her physically and emotionally was tremendous, so she founded Parla, a Femtech Start-Up platform & community by women for women that changes the conversation around fertility. Parla was recently acquired by Holland & Barrett.

Born and raised in Brazil, by Chinese Immigrant parents Lina learned about resilience, hard work and optimism by watching how they thrived through their hardship. She loved to travel,  exploring new cultures, being outdoors & active. She got her education and worked hard through her career.

Then came her baby loss when she was 6 months pregnant. It was devastating, not least because there was no where to turn to, no one she could find to talk to who understood her pain. No community, no women's heath care support. 

Lina's experience informed her next moves. She would create a platform that would provide the support, expertise, and community that she had found missing.

Her mission was to build a better health and wellbeing journey for women around the world.  Her company Parla was born.

So much of women's health is shrouded in taboo which means women systematically have poorer health and wellbeing outcomes.  There is so much we can do to close this gap and it is Lina's determination to do just that.

Now with two daughters she is even more motivated to created a better future for women and their healthcare. She wants them to grow up in a world that they don't have to be ashamed about their periods, infertility, miscarriage or menopause. 

She sees courage as believing that you can do hard things!  Trusting yourself and reducing the self-critical voice that can be ever present.  Knowing that even if things don't go your way, you'll learn from it, you'll become stronger and more resilient! 

Thank you so much Lina for sharing your journey of infertility & loss, and for making other women feel less alone, and helping them to see that from difficult situations you can find strength and purpose. 

And thanks too for showing us that when we are empowered to have access to care & understanding of our bodies we can demand the help we need & we can create a world where there is better healthcare for women, at every stage of life. 

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Brave New Girls podcast is an Audio Archive Art Project with pioneering, creative & entrepreneurial women at the head of the curve, who are inspiring us on the airwaves, to work towards the health & wellbeing of ourselves and the planet. Brave New Girls podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and No 7 in the "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to, in 2024", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

1. INSPIRATION from courageous, creative women on Brave New Girls podcast working for the benefit of people and the planet. ️
2. SUPPORT with 1:1 creative transformation coaching and our holistic, healthy, creative wellbeing retreats www.bravenewgirlmedia.com/wellbeing-retreat
3. GROWTH blogs to help you THRIVE.


Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

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Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

This week’s guest is Janey Lee Grace, bestselling author of Happy Healthy Sober and the Imperfectly Natural series. Formerly a singer and now DJ on Radio 2, Janey is founder of The Sober Club and is a coach and media trainer for those wanting to find clarity and vision and then looking to package it & send it out into the world in a way that will make people listen.

Born in Nottingham, Janey knew she wanted out of the kind of life that was expected for her. She knew she wanted to a singer and as soon as she could she launched into doing nightclubs and singing for a covers band. Her ambitions were higher than that and soon she was working as a backing singer and eventually with a quick turnaround formed a vocal set and got the gig working for Wham!

It was a work hard play hard culture but not so much for Janey. She didn't have the family back-up to let herself lose control and that kept her from doing drugs. However she was still searching for something else and she went down the road of exploring every alternative health option there was out there. Anything but give up the booze. Which characteristically wasn't out of control. It was what was considered 'normal'.

But normal kept not feeling good. And in January 2018 Janey took the plunge and went sober. What she discovered what that once you'd got  through the adjustments, life was a whole lot more fabulous.

She was inspired to help others on their sober journeys and founded The Sober Club. Having a community is vital in navigating a world which heavily revolves around alcohol. But with Janey's help and the community support more people are able to take those courageous steps.

Thanks so much Janey for encouraging and supporting people wherever they are on their sober curious or sober committed journey, and for showing how important and exciting it is to be part of a community who are all headed on a similar path.

And thanks too for showing us that if we choose to go sober, that we don’t have to go it alone.

You can find out more about Janey’s work on https://janeyleegrace.com/ https://www.thesoberclub.com/ and follow her on Linkedin @Janeyleegrace 

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Brave New Girls podcast is an Audio Archive Art Project with pioneering, creative & entrepreneurial women at the head of the curve, who are inspiring us on the airwaves, to work towards the health & wellbeing of ourselves and the planet. Brave New Girls podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and No 7 in the "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to, in 2024", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

1. INSPIRATION from courageous, creative women on Brave New Girls podcast working for the benefit of people and the planet. ️
2. SUPPORT with 1:1 creative transformation coaching and our holistic, healthy, creative wellbeing retreats www.bravenewgirlmedia.com/wellbeing-retreat
3. GROWTH blogs to help you THRIVE.


Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

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Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

This week's guest is Kirsten Wallentin, a certified Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist and author of the book “When Dad Dies”. In 2016 her husband was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease for which life expectancy is 2-3 years. Her husband passed away only 18 months later leaving Kirsten a widow with two young daughters. 
 
In the beginning, her children were frightened as they heard people would die from Covid – and after losing their father, they were worried if she could get sick and die as well. As a family they chose to come & live in UK. It has given them chance to face their grief more fully.

Kirsten had a calm, happy childhood with lots of friends, and felt very carefree and self-reliant. Growing up she traveled, spent a time in advertising before becoming an IT consultant.

In 2016 her husband was diagnosed with MND. They way it showed up for him was more internal so the doctors, Kirsten and the girls weren't aware how bad things were getting for him. After 18 months he died suddenly, leaving his family feeling cheated and grieving their  terrible loss.

Kirsten had struggled to find help and advice from those who were going through the same as her so she decided to write a book and become a grief recovery specialist. Helping others , as well as herself and her girls, has given her a sense of meaning purpose.

Thank you so much Kirsten for the courage you have shown in taking your own experience of grief and turning that into a way of helping children and parents going through grief and into recovery. Thanks also for showing us that when those times of grief come to us, there are ways to help us into recovery and beyond.

You can find out more about Kirsten’s work on  https://griefcoach.uk/ and follow her on Linkedin @kirstenwallentindamgaard

Join Lou on Linkedin, or go to her website for a free podcast guesting masterclass. Her online podcast guesting course is available at www.silk-studios.co.uk/pitch-to-podcasts

Follow her @brave_newgirl on Instagram and get her books Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless, FEAR LESS and her Internationally Bestselling book DARE TO SHARE on Amazon or Waterstones or Barnes & Noble. UK & US versions available.

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Brave New Girls podcast is an Audio Archive Art Project with pioneering, creative & entrepreneurial women at the head of the curve, who are inspiring us on the airwaves, to work towards the health & wellbeing of ourselves and the planet. Brave New Girls podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and No 7 in the "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to, in 2024", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

1. INSPIRATION from courageous, creative women on Brave New Girls podcast working for the benefit of people and the planet. ️
2. SUPPORT with 1:1 creative transformation coaching and our holistic, healthy, creative wellbeing retreats www.bravenewgirlmedia.com/wellbeing-retreat
3. GROWTH blogs to help you THRIVE.


Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

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Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

This week’s guest is Beverley Densham, a Mindfulness Pilates teacher of nearly 24 years, award winning, bestselling Author of I Talk to Angels, founder of the Happy Kids Cards for children & Happy & Calm cards & has been featured in the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Express, YOU Magazine, Woman Magazine, Spirit & Destiny magazine & BBC radio

Beverley's story has led her doing what she does now and it is all the more powerful for the journey that has taken her here.

 During the Pandemic she lost her brother Rich when he died suddenly one night. Grief is tough at the best of times but the pandemic made it even harder. They had been very close as children but Rich suffered with Bipolar Disorder and the fallout from that was that Bev had to keep her distance somewhat, so they had grown apart over time.

But as children with their two other siblings it had been a pretty idyllic, happy, simple life. However despite that Bev found it very hard to communicate, and that only got more difficult, as she grew older and went off to University.

After that though she seemed to get into her stride, as a free spirit travelling and learning Pilates on the beach in Sydney. But her happiness was short-lived. One day while cycling to work she was smashed into by a car and thrown to the tarmac. 

Her physical injuries were bad and the pain was intense but it was the emotional trauma that overshadowed her as she tried to heal.

She suffered suffered post traumatic stress, panic attacks, depression and chronic fatigue. But after a few unsuccessful attempts at therapy she found someone who helped forgive the woman who had crashed into her, and that put her on the road to recovery.

That was when she started her mindful pilates practice, helping people be strong in mind, body and business, and ultimately to be happy and have the tools to empower them everyday.

She believes that courage is an inner determination, a light shining within that you can’t blow out and will help you through anything no matter what. 

Thanks so much Beverley for sharing how you have overcome adversity and created a toolbox for people that they can use as a daily practice to face the challenges of life and embrace the blessings. Thanks also for showing us that by using our bodies, minds and spirituality we can live full lives

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Brave New Girls podcast is an Audio Archive Art Project with pioneering, creative & entrepreneurial women at the head of the curve, who are inspiring us on the airwaves, to work towards the health & wellbeing of ourselves and the planet. Brave New Girls podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and No 7 in the "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to, in 2024", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

1. INSPIRATION from courageous, creative women on Brave New Girls podcast working for the benefit of people and the planet. ️
2. SUPPORT with 1:1 creative transformation coaching and our holistic, healthy, creative wellbeing retreats www.bravenewgirlmedia.com/wellbeing-retreat
3. GROWTH blogs to help you THRIVE.


Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

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Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt