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October 25, 2017

What do you want to let go of this year?

It’s that time of year when the leaves are turning and falling, the weather is shifting, the tea is brewing and I’m digging out my cosy socks. Autumn is here, and it’s beautiful. It’s also a wonderful time to reflect on the year gone past, and look ahead to what lies ahead. One of my favourite questions to ask at this time of year is…

What do you want to let go of?

How about you? What do you want to leave behind in 2017, so you can move into 2018 with hope and positivity?
As has now become a...

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Published on October 25, 2017 00:55

October 24, 2017

On healing from trauma (new podcast episode with three times cancer survivor Sam Reynolds)

For any of you who are healing from any kind of trauma, I think you’re going to get a lot from this week’s Freedom Seeker Chronicles podcast. It’s an interview with a wonderful lady called Sam Reynolds, three times cancer survivor and founder of SamSpaces, a network for people finding their way after cancer. Sam is a true inspiration.

After our serendiptious meeting (I share the story on the show!) I was so blown away by Sam’s story that I interviewed her for my book Freedom Seeker and was w...

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Published on October 24, 2017 01:09

October 23, 2017

How to find calm as a busy parent

Prioritising self care can be completely forgotten about – perhaps even laughed at! – when you’re trying to balance work, life and parenting. But if self care is a fundamental part of yours and your family’s happiness – you must be healthy and feel fulfilled to pass on the same for your children – why is it we don’t make it a priority in our day?

Meet Shawn Fink, a woman striving to help mothers find the inner calm, mindful moments in their day. In a world that is so fast paced, when you f...
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Published on October 23, 2017 08:35

October 17, 2017

What to do if you’re facing redundancy {+ new podcast episode with Kerry Roy)

I’ll never forget the day one of my closest friends phoned me at 9am on a Friday, and I knew something was amiss. She worked for an investment bank, NEVER phoned during office hours. It turned out that she had been made redundant with immediate effect, the last of her team to go. She had known it might be coming, but had buried her head in the sand and hoped for the best.

The funny thing is, the best did happen in the end, only not quite in the way she had hoped.

For someone who had been ter...

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Published on October 17, 2017 03:52

October 10, 2017

Whose permission are you waiting for?

How has your week been? With all that is going on in the world, I hope you and your loved ones are well and safe, and that you are finding ways to see beauty in the every day beyond all the difficult news that surrounds us daily.

Over here, this past week I delivered a couple of in-person workshops, and noticed something emerging as a surprisingly common theme with many of the participants. It was the realisation that before you can be a Freedom Seeker, you have to give up the old story of b...

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Published on October 10, 2017 03:42

On making a living from the things you create {New podcast episode with Jess Van Den}

Many creatives dream of turning the items they make into a profitable business that can support their lifestyles so they are free to do work they love from wherever they desire. For one lady, this dream is an ongoing reality and she strives to help other makers profit from their talents and live a life that’s true to them too.

Jess Van Den, my latest guest on The Freedom Seeker Chronicles Podcast, is a silversmith from Australia who makes beautiful jewellery from her solar powered studio nor...

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Published on October 10, 2017 03:30

October 3, 2017

Got an idea for a business? Got too many ideas? This conversation is for you

There are three questions I get asked often by people wanting to create a business around doing what they love:

It’s all so overwhelming. Where should I begin? How do I choose which thing to focus on? Is it really possible with a family to support?

Rather than just share my own views on this, I thought I’d invite the thoughts of someone who is at the coal face, working with start ups day-in-day-out.

Ben Keene is Head of The Escape School and founder of Rebel Book Club, and with a family of...

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Published on October 03, 2017 04:34

September 26, 2017

On living intuitively [+ new podcast episode with tarot reader Theresa Reed]

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When you hear the words ‘living intuitively’, how do you feel? Is it something really familiar to you, or does it sound like something that mystics do? As someone brought up being encouraged to think critically and use data to make decisions, it’s only in recent years that I have come to fully appreciate the power and potency of my own intuition. (And that’s why I was so excited to interview tarot reader Theresa Reed in this week’s new podcast episode).

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As I dived deeper into the topic of i...

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Published on September 26, 2017 06:46

September 19, 2017

On bucket lists, goal setting + listening to your heart

 

What is the smallest thing you can do now to follow your heart? Think about it. Write it down if you like.

This is just one of the many questions of wisdom my very first podcast guest Steph Jagger plants on us in today’s episode. Steph is the author of Unbound, a story of snow and self-discovery and she’s helped women the world over define who it is they want to BE and what they need to DO to get there. Listen in for the next 40 mins of exploration where we talk about everything from battli...

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Published on September 19, 2017 04:40

Join our Founder for a transformational one day workshop

[image error] As we edge closer to the last quarter of 2017, how are you feeling about how the year has turned out? A lot has happened in the world, both difficult and good. I wonder if 2017 has turned out how you hoped, or not?   I get the sense from many of you in our community that 2017 has been a challenging year, and so I have decided to offer some in-person workshops to help make 2018 different.   This workshop is for you if… • You feel like you are at a crossroads and unsure of what to...
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Published on September 19, 2017 01:27