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| #170 Sacred Business Book Intuition Meditation by Nikki Trott | 02 Jun 2025 | 00:10:31 | |
How deeply are you connected to your intuition? Where do you feel it in your body? How clearly does it guide you?
In this special episode, delve into your intuition and find deeper connection and guidance with the Intuition Connection Deepening meditation featured in Nikki’s book, Sacred Business. Enjoy this audio again and again as you deepen your practice.
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| #169 Reading from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer | 27 May 2025 | 00:11:32 | |
‘An extraordinary book, showing how the factual, objective approach of science can be enriched by the ancient knowledge of the indigenous people. It is the way she captures beauty that I love the most - the images will stay with you long after you read the last page.’ Jane Goodall.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
In this episode I read a short passage on the Honourable Harvest and discuss its application to business and investment. I hope you will enjoy the wisdom and feel called to read the whole book if you haven’t already.
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| #160 Bonus: Grounding breathing 13 minute meditation with Nikki Trott | 01 Jan 2025 | 00:14:58 | |
In this special episode, we bring you a guided breathing meditation to help you connect deeply with yourself, the Earth and the unique contribution you are here to create. Ground yourself in the steady energy of the Earth, align with your contribution and feel the flow of connection between yourself and the web of life.
This 13 minute meditation was inspired by a breathing meditation I recently wrote to help a cousin who was in a coma and has thankfully now recovered. The meditation invites you to embrace your role as a creator and nurturer, offering your gifts to humanity and the planet. You will reconnect with yourself and the planet, dissolve fears and cultivate alignment and flow.
Listen to this meditation as often as you like to stay grounded, connected and inspired as you create and thrive in harmony with the world around you.
This meditation is set to music using Alpha waves to help you enter a deeper meditative state, bringing you calm, mind-body integration and learning.
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| #70 Celebrating 2021: Reflections and the new meaning of success with Nikki Trott | 29 Dec 2021 | 00:17:08 | |
Welcome to this special episode to review the inspiring, fast-moving, opening and sometimes surprising year of 2021 which we have shared together here on Going Conscious. We’ve enjoyed many wonderful conversations with world-changing people, and are now at 70 episodes of the show!
Let’s reflect on some of the fascinating topics we’ve covered, explore my favourite question and some beautiful answers from our guests, and share some listener shout-outs, a taste of things coming up, and a free Mini Mastermind to fast-track your growth!
The nature of the conversations we have on Going Conscious means that they are never out of date and the episodes keep on giving - we love seeing that many of you listeners go back and discover episodes from the past again and again.
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| #69 From sight to vision: Motivating lives with spoken words with Poetess Jess | 22 Dec 2021 | 00:56:22 | |
Poetess Jess is an award-winning spoken word artist who captures the heart of individuals by the words that she speaks. She has performed at the MOBO awards, black magic awards and been nominated as Best Poet for 2021 by the UK Entertainment Awards, amongst others.
In this episode we talk about Jess’ incredible story of discovering her gift, moving from living day-to-day to purpose, identity, changing one life at a time by using poetry to empower and motivate people, understanding that your why is bigger than yourself, how to define your own self-worth, and why the road to self-discovery gets lonely.
Jess also performs an incredibly powerful poem for us which you won’t want to miss!
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| #68 From niche to mainstream: Building a wellbeing community with Carmella Sternberg and Annabel James | 15 Dec 2021 | 00:49:22 | |
Carmella and Annabel founded Mamma Wellbeing in 2018. After meeting in Thailand, the two of them kept crossing paths in their own healing journeys. Passionate about supporting others in wellbeing and transformation, they dreamt of a business built on friendship, support, and community. Mamma is a worldwide platform, guiding their community toward a life of greater wellbeing, self-love, and balance.
In this episode we talk about making wellbeing mainstream, how to walk your wellbeing talk, how to find spiritual journey guidance, learning to say no, purpose, finding aligned investors for your business and nomad life as an entrepreneur.
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| #67 From separation to oneness: The conscious evolution opportunity with Adam C Hall | 08 Dec 2021 | 00:56:23 | |
Formerly a CEO, serial entrepreneur, and real estate developer, Adam C. Hall is now a committed researcher of the mind and consciousness, trained shaman, speaker, author and teacher of A Course in Miracles. As a founder of the EarthKeeper Alliance, he is dedicated to conserving the planet, its land, and its animals, for our and future generations.
He told us about his incredible personal and business journey in episode #32 and is now back to talk about his new book Divine Genius: The Unlearning Call, the journey of a writer and how to return to the source.
We talk about what it means to live a spiritual life, lucid dreaming, how the climate crisis is a reflection of the consciousness crisis, unlearning the thought-system that keeps us in separation and the extraordinary opportunity of today’s conscious evolution.
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| #66 From crisis to reconnection: The power of scent with Courtney Feider & Ianthe Mauro | 01 Dec 2021 | 00:52:47 | |
Co-Founders of Wild Enneagram Love, Courtney and Ianthe, met on Clubhouse and immediately connected through their mutual concern for global mental health and its rapid decline. They have co-created a movement, a method, and a line of candles and home goods with the mission to help people all over the world to reconnect with themselves and each other.
In this episode we talk about how our experiences on Clubhouse changed all of our years, and lives, and the process of creating something new which feels ancient.
We talk about reconnection through emotional intelligence, why smell is unlike any other sense, petrichor (the smell after rain), discovering the enneagram, why new brands are communities first, and how to help 9 million people become less reactive.
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| #65 From talking to listening: Why good business starts with you with Elaine Cunningham-Walker | 24 Nov 2021 | 00:44:08 | |
Elaine is the Forbes-featured and multi-award-winning CEO of the marketing and media consultancy Good Morning Africa. Her mission is to raise African leaders and women in business, and her company has interests in education, women in tech and business, and investments in African startups.
In this episode we talk about our life-changing events this year, setting very clear boundaries, how to help Africans find their voices, why business starts with you as a person, the importance of great listening, collaboration, Elaine’s health transformation and how you can achieve anything - you just need a system.
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| #64 From values to impact: Why personal growth fuels business growth with Patrick Mazurek | 17 Nov 2021 | 00:48:07 | |
Patrick is a 23 year old student entrepreneur on a mission to globalize positivity. Whether through his business wearewell, a family of conscious consumer brands, or his commitment to discovering and sharing simple secrets of personal growth, Patrick is unstoppably passionate about helping people and businesses become sources of good.
I’m on the Board of his company and am so grateful to have met and worked with Patrick - you will see why from the energy of our conversation!
In this episode we talk about the tremendous medical qualities of CBD, the importance of working with people with aligned values, how the future of business competition is based on the impact they make, changing tiny habits to make a massive change in your life, what really matters to Gen Z, why personal growth fuels business growth, and the inputs over outputs mindset.
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| #63 From advertising to purpose: Solving problems with creativity with Charlotte Cramer | 10 Nov 2021 | 00:51:03 | |
Charlotte is a Strategist, Author, and MSc. neuroscience candidate. She is the Founder of British Strategy Group; leveraging human-centered design and applied neuroscience to design customer experiences that change behaviors to meet business goals. She’s the best-selling author of the award-winning book, The Purpose Myth, and is currently researching the benefits of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD.
In this episode we talk about self-publishing success secrets, the purpose vacuum, letting go of external validation, why we need decentralised social media, and why Charlotte wants more women to engage in crypto.
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| #62 From fear to action: How to tell people’s stories with Elizabeth Healey | 03 Nov 2021 | 00:44:15 | |
Elizabeth is an award-winning actor - appearing in blockbuster movies including Marvel’s Dr Strange and indie gems such as Across The River. She is a television reporter, documentary filmmaker, radio host, interviewer, film director and screenwriter. She is currently making a documentary about the homeless crisis in London during the Covid epidemic, having volunteered and helped to distribute meals, and is joining the A-list cast of The Liar (a film version of Stephen Fry’s best-selling novel). She also has a PhD in neuroscience.
In this episode we talk about how Elizabeth’s diverse portfolio of work and expertise is all driven by telling people’s stories and the importance of being a great listener. We talk about how to create something out of nothing as long as you’re doing it for the right reasons, how to feel fear and do it anyway, the importance of community, how to exist in the now, moments of realisation and how to stay curious and never stop playing.
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| #61 From empty to aligned millionaire: How to open your money door with JV Crum III | 27 Oct 2021 | 00:43:33 | |
JV is a limitless mindset and strategy coach, speaker, futurist, humanitarian, and 34 X #1 International Best-Selling Author. He hosts the Conscious Millionaire Show, heard by millions of listeners in 190 countries. JV is on a mission to help 6 and 7-figure entrepreneurs make millions by making their difference!
As you can tell, we have very aligned missions in the world!
In this episode we talk about getting what you dreamt of and realising something is missing, how to bring conscious and millionaire together and how to embrace the fact that you can be completely limitless. We talk about how your purpose is your real life journey (and not to be missed!), the shared mission of humanity to evolve consciousness, mystical experiences, how to become comfortable with the transition of death, alignment in business and how to open your money door.
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| #159 From fashion to wellbeing fragrance: The olfactory path to your higher self with Hande Sadic | 18 Dec 2024 | 00:53:21 | |
Hande, with 23 years in the product value chain for global luxury brands, is the Founder of Within 51/49, the world’s first wellbeing fragrance brand. They create transformative, sensory experiences with cutting-edge science for self-discovery. She is also the CEO of a Product Development Studio in KSA. Some of the brands she’s worked with previously include Alexander McQueen, Victoria Beckham, Clive Christian and, as a founding member, Pangia.
In this episode we talk about divine alignment in business, finding a path of both professional and spiritual fulfilment, how people can connect to the wisdom they already have in themselves, why scent is believed to be the fastest way to access your higher self, the importance of intention, the love economy and the future of a new kind of luxury.
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| #60 From fame to mindset mastery: How to show up as your best self with Cyia Batten | 20 Oct 2021 | 00:52:02 | |
A spiritual teacher, transformation and mindset mentor, Cyia came to this work after a storied career in entertainment, fashion and wellness - including as an original Pussycat Doll and Hollywood actor. She has now built her reputation upon her words, “we rise together” and recently launched THE 16 DAY RESET: an introductory journey toward mindset mastery and personal empowerment.
In this episode we talk about how to choose to show up as your best self, why we have many purposes, the importance of fantasies, how to change your language and rewrite your story, and divine inspiration.
If you haven’t already, check out episode #25 with Cyia, where we talk about her incredible, inspiring and very personal journey from fame to spiritual awakening.
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| #59 From marketing to vegan business: How to grow your vision with Stephanie Redcross West | 13 Oct 2021 | 01:06:17 | |
As the Founder and Managing Director of Vegan Mainstream since 2009, Stephanie is a trailblazer in the vegan business world. As a result, Vegan Mainstream is known as an invaluable resource for business coaching and marketing strategy for vegan business owners.
In this episode we talk about how to identify who you are here to help and be patient enough to let your vision grow. We talk about how to create goals anchored in time, how to align marketing with purpose, how to get comfortable with your numbers in business and why success means freedom.
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| #58 From near-death to psychedelics: Shifting your reality and business with Marcus Druen | 06 Oct 2021 | 00:58:48 | |
Marcus is a change choreographer for complex change in business. He helps leaders and entrepreneurs be more audacious as their companion and sparring partner. He also hosts the Leading Audacious Change podcast. In this episode we talk about how Marcus discovered psychedelics after a near-death experience, how they helped him realise he needed to do his own thing and his project to create a psychedelic map for change in business. We talk about shifting to collaboration, bridging cutting-edge research with ancient wisdoms, how to change your reality, principles of integration and how to transcend from exploitation to regeneration.
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| #57 From advertising to entrepreneurship: Taking the leap to care and impact with Jessica Barlow | 29 Sep 2021 | 00:41:13 | |
Jessica is a social impact entrepreneur who started two businesses during the pandemic. The first, Sunday Care Therapy, is disrupting the care industry in London. The second, No Agency Method, is teaching DIY PR to startups. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she moved to London to attend art school at Central Saint Martins and worked in Advertising and Tech Marketing for a decade before taking the leap into entrepreneurship.
We worked together in fashion advertising about 10 years ago, and I’ve loved seeing how Jessica’s journey has evolved since.
In this episode we caught up and I got to ask her all about her new business Sunday Care Therapy and what it was like to quit the easy route and make such a big pivot. We talk about how burnout is a gift, why things happen for a reason, using tech for good, surrendering to what you can’t control, and how to realise your own ability.
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| #56 From Beusuch to Beusail: Big business as a force for good with Tamara Loehr | 22 Sep 2021 | 00:55:01 | |
Tamara is an award-winning 8-figure entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Beusail and ethical beauty and wellness Founder. She believes in Business as a Force for Good and is on a mission to:
I’m excited to announce that I have recently joined Beusail as a partner and strategist where we are working together to empower women to make ethical purchasing decisions, take the leap into entrepreneurship and join an aligned, conscious community to deepen their spiritual growth. As you will hear, we have a big vision to impact millions. It's incredible to join forces with founders who lead with values.
In this episode we talk about why there is a lack of females founding $20M+ businesses and how we are working to change this, how to use business for good, why there is no such thing as mistakes - only lessons, why you’re not a success in business if you fail at home, how to claim your power to make ethical purchasing decisions, why people are done with corporate soulless jobs, why you need a community you serve before selling products, and why success is making a difference.
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| #55 From corporate to mission: Humanising health and business with Lee Chambers | 15 Sep 2021 | 00:47:45 | |
Lee Chambers is a British psychologist, coach and founder of Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing. He has been interviewed by Vogue, Newsweek and the BBC. Through a diverse journey, including working in elite sports and corporate finance, running a European videogame business, and losing the ability to walk, he has found clarity in his mission. That mission is to empower others to value their health and live with meaning. He is now on the pathway to positively impact the health and happiness of 1 million adults and children.
In this episode we talk about how losing his ability to walk aided Lee in finding his mission, how to learn to listen, humanising health and business, why health is about compounding decisions, why food is not inherently good or bad, and why Lee must be human himself first to be able to impact 1 million others.
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| #54 Bonus: Pregnancy, birth and beyond 10 minute guided meditation with Nikki Trott | 08 Sep 2021 | 00:16:01 | |
In this special episode we bring you a short guided meditation for pregnancy, birth and beyond to help you to connect with yourself and the baby, and charge your power, confidence and ability to surrender to the change happening.
I invite you to give yourself these 10 minutes each day to intentionally sit with the baby you are growing and nurturing and to charge your strength and inner knowing.
I wrote and recorded this meditation at 6 months pregnant myself, based on what I have learned and the intentions that are helping to underpin my own conscious pregnancy journey so far.
This meditation is set to music using Alpha waves to help you enter a deeper meditative state, bringing you calm, mind-body integration and learning.
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| #53 From plant medicine to conception: Our journeys discovering conscious pregnancy with Marion Bott | 01 Sep 2021 | 00:56:27 | |
Marion is a dear friend of mine who is also pregnant and we have been sharing this unexpected journey together. This episode is special! For two reasons - because it’s our one year anniversary since the very first episode of Going Conscious, and because I welcome Marion back to Going Conscious to talk about our experiences of pregnancy so far. We talk about the lessons we have learned which apply far beyond pregnancy to life in general.
Marion is a French-German writer, actress and dreamcoach. She creates conscious films which reimagine female role models, celebrate diversity and promote a holistic culture of filmmakers. Her prolific writing includes a self-help book called “wild creator”, a feature movie and funded TV series pilots. Marion teaches creative writing at university, her own Wild Writers course (which I can say is brilliant), and is a dreamcoach, harnessing the potential to listen to our soul through dreams.
In this episode we talk about the incredible journeys we both experienced where plant medicine guided both of our conception journeys in ways beyond our rational comprehension. We talk about how we realised we had no idea how to consciously move through pregnancy, surrendering to the body as it creates new life, discovering relationship attachment styles and taking radical action, why conscious pregnancy means facing your own shadows, moving from head to womb and finding out that we are both more ourselves now than we have ever been before (counter to our expectations).
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| #52 From baseball bats to conscious capitalism: Giving yourself permission to change with Sebastian Naum | 25 Aug 2021 | 00:44:49 | |
Sebastian is a multi-faceted bi-lingual and bi-cultural entrepreneur specializing in digital marketing and international business development. He is the Founder of Go Global Agency, a cultural brand adaptation agency that helps international brands grow in America with a focus on branding and performance marketing. On his podcast, “Conscious Profits | Unfiltered”, he interviews intentional leaders and entrepreneurs about his passion for conscious capitalism. Through this content and public speaking, he educates audiences on all things marketing and inspires people to implement purpose into their profit models.
In this episode we talk about the process of building consciousness into your business and life, how Seb got from baseball bats to conscious capitalism, cutting useless actions, how to be truly authentic and professional, how to give yourself permission to change and how to create a financially free life. Discover show notes, Sebastian’s book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.
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| #51 From vet to entrepreneur: Raising female voices in podcasting with Naomi Mellor | 18 Aug 2021 | 01:06:28 | |
Naomi is a multi-faceted podcaster, presenter, entrepreneur and veterinary surgeon. A passionate advocate of raising the voices of women in podcasting, she is the founder of the Skylark Collective and the International Women’s Podcast Awards. Her career as a vet has taken her to the South Pacific, Australia, the USA, Newmarket and beyond. Her first podcast, Smashing The Ceiling, tells the stories of women with unusual and inspiring careers, and Naomi also hosts two other successful veterinary podcasts.
In this episode we talk about Naomi’s dream since she was 3 years old to become a vet, and how when she got there she realised it wasn’t her path for the future. We also talk about Naomi’s passion for raising female voices in podcasting and her new business, the Skylark Collective. We talk about Naomi’s career as a horse specialist working all over the world, human animal relationships, pushing and pulling energetics, creating a space for women to raise each other up in podcasting, how to let go of the version of success you thought you wanted and that others perceive to be success for you, how to accept your need for self development, and how to live with less doing and more being.
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| #158 From TV to field: Following your intuition with George Lamb | 04 Dec 2024 | 00:50:43 | |
George spent the first half of his professional career working in the entertainment industry, including as a TV presenter. Following a revelatory breakthrough in 2012, he has been figuring out how best to use his position and influence to make a positive, meaningful and lasting impact on society. In 2018 he founded GROW - a life skills and education programme that works in schools and communities to promote mental wellbeing, physical health and a more hands-on relationship with nature. In 2019 he helped establish regenerative agriculture and food company Wildfarmed, alongside Edd Lees and Andy Cato.
In this episode we talk about how to trust your intuition as your superpower, why the biggest gift George was given was unconditional love, the moment George realised he was complicit in selling distraction, how Ibiza seemed to change his life (!), why some farmers only have 20-30 harvests left, how to sense the minuscule expression from your solar plexus, and how regenerative agriculture is transforming our food systems.
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| #50 Celebrating 50 episodes: A powerful question and a special gift for you with Nikki Trott | 11 Aug 2021 | 00:15:35 | |
Celebrate the 50th episode of Going Conscious here with Nikki where she shares her reflections and learnings from the incredible conversations she’s had so far with a range of visionary conscious entrepreneurs and academics. She shares what’s coming up next, asks you a powerful question, and announces an exciting free gift for you which you won’t want to miss!
Your free gift today - Join the free Conscious Accelerator Mini Mastermind and learn how to crush the blockers that stand in your way, align with your purpose and set clear strategies so you and your business can thrive together, creating profit with purpose.
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| #49 From business to mission: Championing female artists in music with Harriet JW | 04 Aug 2021 | 00:55:44 | |
Harriet is the founder of the artist network and podcast GIRLS TO THE FRONT - a platform to connect and educate artists that identify as women. She is also the founder and host of music platform Secret Sessions. What started as a YouTube channel has grown into one of the UK’s most well respected live shows and music brands. Harriet has worked with 100s of influential artists and creators from acts including Ed Sheeran, Passenger and Bastille to Kacey Musgraves Mahalia and Freya Ridings.
In this episode we talk about why Harriet decided to champion women, the consciousness of your mission and the first Secret Sessions festival this September. We talk about the experience it takes to know what you deeply care about, diversity issues in the music industry, Harriet’s holistic approach, mental health issues for artists from how social media companies create addiction, the importance of connection, the illusion of time and the lessons we might learn from our children arriving soon.
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| #48 From abuse to fuel: How to choose an unstoppable life with Mike C-Roc | 28 Jul 2021 | 00:43:34 | |
Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco is the Co-Founder of Blooprinted, best-selling author of ROCKET FUEL -Convert Setbacks. Become Unstoppable- and the powerhouse behind the "What Are You Made Of?" podcast. He has been featured by Yahoo! Finance as one of the Top Business Leaders to Follow in 2020 and is driven to inspire others. He measures his success on how he is able to help others achieve greatness.
In this episode we talk about how Mike managed to channel his childhood experiences of abuse and a broken home into realising he is in control of his future and choosing to live an unstoppable life. We talk about how to use gratitude to find opportunities for fuel, how to stick to your guns and take responsibility for your future, what it means to be a spiritual being and how to take action every day.
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| #47 From ghostwriting to vegan publishing: Becoming an active ally with Mitali Deypurkaystha | 21 Jul 2021 | 01:06:34 | |
Ghostwriter turned international bestselling author and vegan book expert, Mitali, aka 'The Authority Creator,' transforms vegan business leaders and entrepreneurs into thought leaders by becoming professionally published authors. Featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox, she’s helped her clients generate over $5 million in additional business revenue. She focuses on serving inspirational vegan leaders to raise their visibility and authority through her publishing company and coaching, Let’s Tell Your Story.
In this episode we talk about the racism that followed a recent England football match, how the BLM movement pushed Mitali to understand that being a good person means actively doing good and not just abstaining from bad, and how this led her to start supporting specifically vegan business leaders. We talk about why Mitali has chosen to work with vegan, ethical entrepreneurs, the relief of finding her purpose, how you can become a published author to give you freedom in your business, her dream of dying in a vegan mainstream world and the importance of being an active ally in whatever it is you believe in.
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| #45 From finance to executive coaching: Tools to combat anxiety with Agi Heale | 07 Jul 2021 | 00:53:16 | |
Agi is a Certified Professional Coach, working as an Executive Coach & Workshop Facilitator at her company Westbourne Associates. She works with rising talent, high-achievers and leaders – and the coaches who support them - to help them stay energized, positive and resilient, elevating their performance and results even in times of high stress and big change. Agi is also the Author of the new book, Generation Panic, sharing simple and empowering techniques to combat anxiety.
In this episode we talk about how Agi progressed quickly in financial services and corporate, but her body started reacting with anxiety and panic attacks. She found that books didn’t have the techniques that she needed, and explored tools that worked for her which she is now sharing with the world in her new book, Generation Panic. We talk about how your body gives you messages and it’s up to you if you listen or not, how much of our panic comes from comparison with others, specific tools for anxiety including how to use breathwork, Agi’s 7-7-7 technique and heartbeat tapping, why children are the best examples for us to learn from, the relationship between your head and heart, the power of gratitude, the highs and lows of writing a book and the privilege of helping people succeed.
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| #44 From sickness to wellness: Empowering humanity to thrive with James Bennett | 30 Jun 2021 | 00:47:57 | |
James is a serial entrepreneur and born leader with a proven track record of success in eCommerce and Event Marketing. Amongst many failures, James has built, scaled, and sold three six-figure businesses and led teams of 50+. He finds happiness in making people and the planet smile. After conquering a long battle with mental illness, James brought together the wearewell team to arm his generation with the tools they need to improve not only their own health, but the health of the planet as well.
In this episode we talk about James’ varied entrepreneurial journey and his consistent red thread of wanting to put a smile on people’s faces. We talk about why making other people happy makes you happy, asking “why?”, trauma and mental illness, discovering that pharmaceuticals don’t bring wellness, James’ wake-up moment where he stepped out of his body, how to focus on your mind, body and soul all at once rather than one at a time, creating a health brand for Gen Z, authenticity, profit with purpose, helping humanity to thrive and the importance of practicing gratitude.
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| #43 From corporate to independent: Rising to passionate sovereignty with Courtney Feider | 23 Jun 2021 | 00:53:52 | |
Courtney is a professional coach and corporate strategist who teaches top performers and innovators to release emotional fragility and rise to a level of passionate sovereignty beyond their wildest dreams. She is also the founder of wild skincare brand Sloane Marley, drawing on deep tradition and the science of fermentation.
In this episode we talk about how to navigate the pain of figuring out your independent path to purpose and how to take a chance on yourself. We talk about the physical toll of not being aligned with your values in work, how to be instinctive and intuition-led, how to trust the process, how to separate your sovereignty from other people’s expectations, emotional fragility, how to let go of identity roles, why we stopped reading the news, and what we learned about ourselves from the enneagram.
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| #42 From tech founder to health: Listening to your body’s intuition with Nimisha Gandhi | 16 Jun 2021 | 00:45:39 | |
Nutritionist, mother, researcher and educator, Nimisha’s life passion is for women’s health. She is a functional medicine nutritionist, Ayurvedic counselor, Yoga Nidra/meditation teacher, and former tech founder. In Nimisha’s private practice, Moon Cycle Nutrition, she specializes in fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum care with an emphasis on the mind, body, and soul. Nimisha combines functional medicine nutrition with ancient Ayurvedic principles. She is also a health and wellness board member and a speaker.
In this episode we talk about how Nimisha was expected to become a medical Doctor but the conventional system didn’t resonate with her and she took her own path to discovering her passion for holistic women’s health. We talk about how Nimisha was one of few female tech founders in gaming 12 years ago, her journey to preventative medicine, combining her expertise to advise fem tech companies, the importance of listening to your body’s intuition, living an alcohol free life, why your period is the 5th vital sign for your health, and how to take care of your cycle.
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| #41 From accessories to conscious production: Waking up with Joey Pringle | 09 Jun 2021 | 00:53:36 | |
Originally from just outside of north London, England, Joey's first break in fashion came in Melbourne, Australia, as an accessories designer for Crumpler. He has since worked as a technical bags developer for MEC and most recently as the accessories lead for tentree, where he worked with factories across Vietnam and China. On a business trip to China in 2018 Joey met with a factory in Guangzhou and the conversation to start a green factory model together developed. Joey is now the Founder & Co-Owner of Veshin Factory in China, where he and his partners are on a mission to move the fashion accessories industry to conscious, sustainable, vegan production.
In this episode we talk about Joey’s strong gut feeling that pulled him to Guangzhou which changed his life, plant-based leather and the circular economy changing fashion and how he is helping his green factory blossom. We talk about Joey’s adventures around the world, how he removed the clouds over his intuition, how to discover the guidance of transcendental meditation (TM) to go back to yourself, veganism as a state of consciousness, how to learn to enjoy the ride and not get frustrated, and how to wake up personally to grow consciousness as a whole.
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| #40 From politics to purpose: Creating your own success with Laura Gassner Otting | 02 Jun 2021 | 00:58:57 | |
LGO (Laura Gassner Otting) is a globally touring professional speaker (from TEDx Boston to The TODAY Show) and the Founder of Limitless Possibility, a niche consulting firm working with entrepreneurs, philanthropists, executives, and thought leaders to get them unstuck and achieving extraordinary results. Previously she was the Founder and CEO of NPAG (executive search firm serving nonprofits, foundations, universities and advocacy organizations) and a Political Appointee at The White House, USA.
In this episode we talk about why purpose doesn’t have to be high or lofty, how we end up with other people’s definitions of purpose and the freedom of having more than one purpose. We talk about why millennials are the first generation who live as the same person at home and at work, brain science behind manifestation, the discomfort of going conscious, how hindsight makes a challenging journey sound easy, faking being an extrovert as a raging introvert, defining and creating your own success and why success means finding your own model of leadership.
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| #157 From exit to investor: Creating community for female entrepreneurs to thrive with Emmie Faust | 20 Nov 2024 | 00:39:08 | |
Emmie is the founder of Female Founders Rise, a free community supporting 7,000 female founders in the UK. She is an exited entrepreneur, micro angel investor in over 30 female-led businesses and a Dragons' Den winner. Female Founders Rise exists to enable financial freedom for women through entrepreneurship.
In this episode we talk about why we need an abundance mindset where collaboration overshadows competition for female entrepreneurs to thrive, what Emmie learned from winning Dragon’s Den (and then the business failing), how to build organically for longevity, and the highs and lows of creating a community with purpose.
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| #39 From corporate to conscious clothing: A holistic approach to sustainability with Deanna Ansara | 26 May 2021 | 00:42:07 | |
Deanna is a sustainability focused entrepreneur and human-centered designer, working intentionally through a lens of mental health, social impact, and intersectionality. She is passionate about humanising the production process and encouraging a collective slowing down in the way we produce and consume. Her clothing brand, Vincetta, focuses on community building and education through storytelling, engaging collective discussions, and generating thought provoking conversation and questions. Previously she worked for brands including J. Crew and Ralph Lauren and spent 3 years as a Venture Fellow at a Sustainability Incubator in Brooklyn, NY.
In this episode we talk about how Deanna loves the creative challenge of working with what is already there, and how she cared about sustainability before she even knew what it was. We talk about how Deanna’s mission to normalise mental health was spurred by losing her Mum, holistic sustainability, how internal work yields external results, breaking down social constructs, collectively slowing down, being more intentional about what we put out in the world, humanising customers and community, body acceptance, the importance of who you surround yourself with, feeling enough without any material item, and creating your own standards.
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| #38 From materialism to panpsychism: Rethinking our view of the universe with Dr Philip Goff | 19 May 2021 | 01:15:06 | |
Dr Philip Goff is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. His research focuses on how to integrate consciousness into our scientific world view. He has authored an academic book with Oxford University Press – Consciousness and Fundamental Reality – and a book aimed at a general audience – Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness. Goff has published 45 academic articles as well as writing extensively for newspapers and magazines, including Scientific American, The Guardian, and the Times Literary Supplement.
In this episode we talk about panpsychism and the “hard problem of consciousness” - understanding that you can’t capture experience with mathematics. We talk about how consciousness is not an abstract intellectual puzzle but core to the human experience, the problem built into the way science was designed, the connection between biological evolution and consciousness, why matter is consciousness, we ask “is there a purpose to everything?”, where philosophers and scientists come together, why consciousness is a taboo topic, why science can be a crutch just like religion, tree intelligence, trusting mystical experiences, why only believing in a narrow view leads to an impoverished human existence and rethinking our picture of the universe.
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Connect with Philip: YouTube channel: Mindchat Twitter: @philip_goff Blog: conscienceandconsciousness.com
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| #37 From banking to healing: Conscious relationships and your inner health with Giap Tongsayor | 12 May 2021 | 00:48:55 | |
Giap was born in Bangkok, where she grew up between her family village and the city. Her childhood was immersed in local culture, food and spirituality with Buddhism at the core.
After moving to London in 1991, she started her career as a professional dancer and then, seeking stability, transitioned into the fast-paced finance sector. She observed how stress taxes one's health and undermines the body's resiliency. Putting herself on the path towards inner peace, she studied various aspects of human behavior through psychotherapy, yoga and spiritual healing which ultimately helped her to create her own proven system to share with others.
In this episode we talk about how Giap transitioned from dancing to banking and then realised she needed to go back to her family’s Buddhist roots. We talk about how Giap went on her own healing journey initially without the intention to make healing into her career, dealing with imposter syndrome, conscious relationships, a very honest conversation about Giap’s current personal relationship situation, the effects of the full moon, surrendering and not having control, how the universe will provide when you focus on serving others and empowering people to go on their own inner health journey.
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| #36 From t-shirts to scaling purpose: Breaking down your internal barriers with Karen Smith | 05 May 2021 | 00:56:28 | |
Karen is a business strategist and course creator who helps six-, seven- and eight-figure entrepreneurs scale their online brands. As part of her Signature Impact mentoring program, she uses techniques that blend neuroscience-based learning and her unique holistic marketing strategies to help coaches, thought-leaders and service providers package their genius into scalable programs. Her mission is to create positive global change by helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs build the impactful businesses they were born to lead.
A natural entrepreneur, Karen started a six-figure fashion company in Trinidad at the age of 16. Three decades later, she’s launched businesses in five different industries, including three multi 7-figure businesses.
In this episode we talk about how Karen found her purpose early and how she helps other people break down their barriers. We talk about how to let go of the belief that you have to achieve to receive, how to stop doing and start being, how when Karen was told she had 6 months to live she said “no”, integrating neuroscience, the holistic science of marketing, the emergence of more conscious leaders, being an enneagram 8 woman (both of us!), how to tune your brain to hear your heart, and why success is what you feel like not what you look like.
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| #35 From hiphop to mindset: Facing your own truth with Abraham Heisler | 28 Apr 2021 | 00:49:10 | |
Abraham is a mindset coach who works with socially conscious entrepreneurs to grow their business and increase their impact. At the start of 2017, Abraham was an overworked and underpaid filmmaker, sleeping on the floor of a yogic monastery. Resolved to change, Abraham quit his job, moved out and began his coaching practice. In less than one year, he built a six-figure business guided by determination and a willingness to face his own truth.
In this episode we talk about how his soul felt lonely when he wasn’t fulfilling his purpose, and how he found his flow state. We talk about money mindset, breaking stories in our subconscious, internal leverage, using motion to change your emotion, breathwork as a hack, maximising your ability to serve, choicefulness and why growth is proportional to the truth you can take about yourself.
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| #34 From corporate to shamanic healer: Bridging spirituality and corporate as a force for good with Casilda Sol | 21 Apr 2021 | 00:39:21 | |
Casilda is a shamanic healer, impact entrepreneur and a former tier one global marketing executive. She serves as a bridge between spirituality and corporate, to help elevate the consciousness of corporate to be a force for social good. She is a pioneer paving the way to lead industry and category transformation, first through deep inner transformation that can help bridge insights and intuition for innovative business advantage. Casilda discovered that she comes from a lineage of shamanic healers and now uses these gifts as a trusted heart-centred transformation mentor for leaders and visionaries through Sol Medicine Immersions. She is also working on her own impact focused eco-conscious lifestyle brand, and is the author of two upcoming books.
In this episode we talk about workaholism and burnout, creating space and opening up to plant medicine to connect the conscious with the subconscious. We talk about why being over-productive depletes our soul, how to trust and surrender, how to strip away external validation, realising the need to love yourself enough to let go, pioneering the new earth consciousness - the birth of something radical, embodying interconnectedness and unlocking what we have to contribute to the planet. Discover show notes, Casilda’s book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.
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| #33 From corporate to ayurvedic medicine: Trusting yourself and taking power over your health with Heather Grzych | 14 Apr 2021 | 00:46:48 | |
Heather is a board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner and a practical leader with a unique blend of experience as a complementary/alternative healthcare provider who has also spent considerable time transforming the way companies and health insurers empower their people. She’s the host of the Wisdom of the Body podcast, the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and on the Board Of Directors at National Ayurvedic Medical Association.
In this episode we talk about Heather’s crisis in her 30s when she realised that financial success wasn’t enough and that she was missing something in her life. We talk about how Heather changed everything at once and left the corporate world for ayurvedic medicine, seeking self healing first, how when she repaired her health her whole life changed, how knowing yourself is the key to tackling your fear of the unknown, Heather’s mantra that everything is to be provided for the work that is to be done, the mystery of women, the wisdom of nature, self-realisation, connecting with the wisdom of your own body, how to trust yourself and take your health into your own power, the interconnection of all of us.
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| #32 From real estate development to undevelopment: Rewilding your life without boundaries with Adam C Hall | 07 Apr 2021 | 00:59:00 | |
Adam has been a CEO and serial entrepreneur for almost 30 years. He is the founder of three successful real estate development companies, with $1.5 billion+ in capital invested. He has spent the last 2 decades as an impact investor dedicated to the quadruple bottom line: People, Planet, Profits with Purpose, dedicated to conscious evolution, business and culture, and as a trained shaman and teacher of A Course in Miracles. Adam is a published author and has spoken for 100+ radio and TV shows, talks and keynotes.
In this episode we talk about the moment that took Adam from a $140 million deal to the jungle, a journey into the unknown and finding purpose greater than yourself. We talk about not taking someone else’s path but creating your own, discovering a more holistic way of being, rewilding your own life, letting go and creating a life without boundaries, evolving from real estate development to un-development and conservation, Adam’s personal bottom line, the arrival of the new woman and the language of light.
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| #31 From psychology to purpose: Mental wellbeing and intentional inclusion with Dr Aparajita (AJ) Jeedigunta | 31 Mar 2021 | 00:48:55 | |
Dr Aparajita (AJ) Jeedigunta helps historically marginalised and underrepresented high performers exponentially increase their leadership skills, presence, income and social impact while eliminating the misery of being overworked and underappreciated. She is the Founder & CEO of AJ RAO, a boutique firm whose values are mental wellbeing, interconnectedness, authenticity and intentional inclusion. AJ RAO works with businesses to create intentionally inclusive and interconnected spaces of wellbeing and belongingness so they can empower their talent to thrive while cutting costs and increasing profits.
In this episode we talk about how Dr AJ found her purpose on her journey from psychology and academia to mental wellbeing advocacy and intentional inclusion. We talk about the stigma around mental health as an immigrant woman from a south asian community, how Dr AJ created her own entity where her power and agency are not beholden to anyone else, why representation matters, why it is because of our intersectionalities that we are interconnected as people, the importance of understanding yourself and unlearning, how to be an intentional ally, and the power of language (examples - replacing the words “guys” and “tribe”).
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| #30 From private banking to speaking: Marrying motherhood and entrepreneurship with Sylvia Farbstein | 24 Mar 2021 | 00:49:04 | |
Sylvia has spent the last 2 decades learning how life presents us with unexpected twists and turns that can shake us to our core, stop us in our tracks or provide a catalyst for exciting change. Her professional world took a leap from the predictable and defined realm of private banking in New York City to one of few answers and no blueprint when her son, 21-year-old Brandon, was diagnosed with a rare form of dwarfism at the age of 2. Their experiences navigating a world not built for somebody like him prompted them to seek out ways to neither be confined nor defined by limitations, perceived or otherwise. This has led to an entrepreneurial career path for both mother and son that has impacted millions of lives. Sylvia is a passionate speaker sharing ways to embrace uncertainty with a sense of curiosity rather than getting stuck in fear.
In this episode we talk about mother’s intuition and discovering that the same thing that throws you off might lead you to your greater purpose. We talk about how to enable your best life possible, staying present so your mind doesn’t limit you, questioning your identity, marrying motherhood and entrepreneurship, letting go of perfection, how to walk alongside those who are different to us, our obligation to share our gifts with the world, dismantling the facade women have had to put up, constant self-reinvention, finding your voice and creating your own reality.
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| #156 From law to environment: Advocating for legal rights for nature with Jessica den Outer | 07 Nov 2024 | 00:44:39 | |
Jessica has a background in environmental law and has been involved in the international movement for Rights of Nature since 2017. In the Netherlands, she advocates for the recognition of the Rights of Nature. In her acclaimed book she tells the stories behind global examples and in 2024, her foundation for the Rights of Nature was launched, further supporting and broadening the national Dutch citizen movement for Rights of Nature. She has won several awards for her commitment and in 2019, Jessica was appointed by the United Nations as one of the youngest experts in this field.
In this episode we discuss the relatively new field of legal rights for nature, how Jessica put her love for nature and environmental law together, the U.N. harmony with nature program, why we need to shift to an eco-centric approach, and we discuss holes in our language around nature which does not express our world-views.
Jessica recommends The Bees, a novel, which I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend too!
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| #29 From conference to community: Changing our world through Impact Economics with Stuart Williams | 17 Mar 2021 | 00:59:46 | |
Stuart is a pioneer and global leader in Impact Investing, Impact Entrepreneurship, and the Leadership and Management strategy known as Profit for Purpose. He is the creator of Impact Economics (Inclusive Capitalism) which is the future of Business, Capitalism, and Resilient and Inclusive Communities. During his career, he has helped create almost $1B in realized shareholder value for the companies he started and sold, and or was an executive at. Stuart is a Founder, CEO, Chairman, Speaker, Author, Mentor, and Board Member.
In this episode we talk about how Stuart pioneered profit for purpose and why the greatest accumulation of financial wealth will be amassed by those who create the environmental and social solutions of the future. We talk about the good things about capitalism and how to use business to create a positive impact. How Stuart has challenged global heads of state and leading CEOs to rethink leadership and management, the research and learnings that inspired him to create Impact Economics and how it can and is already changing our world, why a bottom up approach works better than top down, the power of economic vibrancy, why inclusivity is vital to sustainability and the success of humanity, and the desperately needed arrival of the feminine.
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| #28 From fashion to self-wealth: Demystifying the spiritual aspects of entrepreneurship with Bee Bosnak | 10 Mar 2021 | 00:42:38 | |
Bee left the corporate fashion industry with a giant leap of faith and now mentors women on how to build self-wealth from their wealth of knowledge and wisdom. She demystifies the spiritual aspects of entrepreneurship and looks at business from the lens of energetics, feminine embodiment and the quantum field. She teaches the Heal Yourself Method, combining science and spirituality, through classes, workshops, immersions and retreats all over the globe.
In this episode we talk about Bee’s journey from years in the fashion industry to finding presence with the essence of life and discovering healing from the inside. We talk about how anything is possible when you’re connected to source, shedding and surrender, why the breath is the bridge between the conscious and unconscious, the importance of going inside yourself, vipassana meditation, self-healing and the abundance of the universe.
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| #27 From nurse to fashion: Sustainability and surrender with Trista Smith | 03 Mar 2021 | 00:43:16 | |
Trista was an Acute Care Nurse before founding her sustainable clothing brand Reclamation. She is self-taught in design and business, and is passionate about helping others achieve their dreams and create the life they truly deserve. She can be found gardening, reading and exploring Vancouver Island in her off time.
In this episode we talk about Trista’s journey from struggling young single mother to finding her purpose and founding her company. We talk about becoming an adult learner, overcoming limiting beliefs, learning empathy, surrendering to guidance, greenwashing, aligning with your values, the change coming in fashion, getting over being “too busy” and connecting with plants and nature.
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