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In this episode we are joined by the wonderful Naomi and Martin from 'Just 1 to 11 it' who are relationship coaches and radio presenters on 'On Your Radio'. They help men and women build and maintain meaningful relationships with themselves and others.
A topic close to our hearts; the connection we have with ourselves. We talk about this and why it is so important for connection with others. We speak about personal experience, things that have helped us over time and what we can be doing to form stronger and healthier relationships throughout our lives.
These conversations are so important to have so we can help our children build strong relationships in our lives.
We discuss;
The mportance of relationship with ourselves and impact it has on relationship with other The importance of communication Freedom in a relationship Commitment in relationships Advice to a younger you who’s just starting a new relationship Please connect with us using the links below.Connect with Naomi and Martin here
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Jo McMeechan, SEN Parent, Founder and Director of not for profit SENstory Group supporting children and young people with additonal needs to access therapy. Jo offers equine therapies, coaching for businesses and inclusion training.
Jo is a speaker and Amazon No.1 Best Seller and we have thoroughly enjoyed this conversation.
Join us in this episode where we speak to Jo McMeechan (aka Jo McChicken) and cover so many great topics;
Barriers of neurodiversity within her family and going through a mental health crisis The school system and the failings to neurodiverse children The difficulty in asking schools to meet the needs of children as the spectrum is so vast Neurodivergence isn't a super power Importance of Self-Awareness Whats your crystonite? The wood fork? haha (listen to find out) The first step is having the conversations Neurodiversity and entrepreneurs Wellbeing in corporate Quick wins on making your business more inclusive; adding descriptors and making your website more accessible Equine therapy; what it is and how it supports people Spirtuality v ScienceConnect with us here;
Jo McMeechan
Follow her on socials, download free resources, check out her website and book some training
Inspire and Connect
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Join Laura and Ali in this episode where they talk about grief and those special occasions.
Grief can happen at any time throughout our lives; the loss of a loved one, divorce or break down of a friendship. The feelings of grief can be heightened during those special occasions, from birthdays to Christmas, it can feel heavy when it should feel happy.
There is no right or wrong way to navigate this but Ali and Laura share their personal experience with you in this episode.
If you need help or support please reach out to Laura and Ali [email protected] or for more urgent support with your mental health or wellbeing please call the Samaritians 028 9066 4422***.
***these details were correct at the time of releasing this episode December 2023.
Please connect with Inspire and Connect below;
https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links
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We are joined by Carol-Ann Reid and I just knew it would be a match made in heaven. I knew before recording that Ali and Carol Anne would get along so well. This episode is Unedited with dogs barking talk haha!
Carol Ann Reid is a life and business coach, podcaster, author, HeartHealer™ and mum to twin boys. This conversation will feed your soul. We talk about HeartHealing™, Awakening, Parent Wounds, Chakras, share experiences of Anxiety, the power of our senses and sooo much more.
We recorded this episode just 4 months after losing my Dad to suicide. After recording I reached out to Carol-Ann and she supported me in processing what I was going through. This is such a beautiful woman inside and out and I can’t wait for you to listen to this episode and connect with her too.
Trigger warning! We discuss Suicide
What is HeartHealing™; Enoughness wound
Parent wounds
Heart Chakra and link between shoulders/relationships
What an awakening is for us?
Power of our senses
Share experiences of anxiety
What Carol-Ann does to support herself as a busy Mum and someone who helps others with their healing
Crystals, oracle cards and essential oils
Get curious; our fear killed curiosity
Feeling safe to explore more about you and your spirituality
Embracing the weird and woo
Connect with usCarol-Ann Reid
https://www.facebook.com/carolann.reid.88
https://www.instagram.com/carolannreidcoach/
https://www.carolannreid.com/
Inspire and Connect
www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links
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Join Ali and Laura in this new series of episodes where they talk all about healing, grief, divorce and suicide.
This weeks episode they discuss;
What healing looks like for them Where they are in their journey now Do we prevent ourselves from healing? Comparing our grief or trauma to others Posting on social media about your experiencePlease share your feedback, rate and review so we can support more people going through the same.
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Sam Squire is an Ignition coach at Inspire to Ignite which is a CIC company helping young people, who are not in education or employment, to set up a business for free.
Sam has engaged with around 10,000 young people in the last 3 years some from the most deprived areas and many care leavers.
Here are some of the topics we discuss in this inspirational episode with Sam;
• The difficulty young people have when they are in housing and start earning
• What Sam wants to do to change policy to a flawed system for those leaving the car system
• Sam’s dream to have entrepreneurship on the curriculum
• The experience employment has given us
• Introducing an Entrepreneurial mindset to young people
• How we support the young people’s mental health
• The importance of connection for young people
• Coaching v Counselling
• Are the digital CV’s replacing the traditional paper CV?
• Great stories about young people smashing the entrepreneurial world!
• Why should we be curious? Does this help us be successful?
Connect with us here;
Sam Squire
https://www.facebook.com/curiousentrepreneursuk
https://www.instagram.com/aspirewithsquire/
Inspire and Connect
https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links
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Leigh Howes is an Executive Coach with over 20 years’ experience in observing, partnering, and advising high performing business leaders and founders. Over this time, she has been trusted to hold space for many wonderful emerging and established leaders from start up to board. She is also the best-selling author of Foundations to Lead From™.
Leigh specialises in supporting these service-based businesses to develop their leadership and business without compromising their priorities and boundaries along the way. She is passionate with empowering greater curiosity, consciousness and communication to uplevel performance and impact.
Leigh is on a mission to spread a ripple of ‘happy’ leaders & next generation CEO’s with more joy, energy, freedom and alignment to their business model. Meaning, there’s more of a focus on ‘happier’ higher levels of performance without working around the clock.
In this episode
• Diagnosis of breast cancer and the impact on her life and business
• The importance of critical illness cover
• How community and connection got Leigh through some of the most difficult times in her life
• How we learn to be more curious
• What questions we can be asking when we meet new people
• The conditioning we are in working 9-5
• The four corner stones of critical thinking
Connect with Leigh here;
https://www.instagram.com/leighahowes/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leighhowes1/
https://www.facebook.com/growwithleigh
Inspire and Connect Ltd
https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links
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Jen Albano, from the Secret Core Club, is passionate about helping people develop the life long, daily habit of a 15-minute exercise routine based on the innovative Hypopressive Breathwork and Movement method. A way of reclaiming your vitality for life and powerfully ticking SO many important health and wellness boxes at once.
After giving birth to her son, closely followed by her twins, Jen started to suffer with her pelvic floor issues, a slipped disc and a cervical prolapse, she knew something needed to change. This is what led her to Hypopressive. This has supported with her pelvic floor, posture, building her core strength and exercise to tick more than one box.
In this episode we talk about;
• Raising awareness about the changes our bodies go through during pregnancy
• What Hypopressive is and the benefits?
• Why we need to be changing habits and being consistent
• The importance of Self-Care and Self-Love
• Why we need to be dropping the punishment and bringing the pleasure
Come and connect with Jen here;
http://secretcoreclub.com
https://www.facebook.com/jen.k.albano
https://www.facebook.com/thesecretcoreclub
https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesecretcoreclubwomenreclaimingtheirvibrancy/?ref=share_group_link
https://instagram.com/thesecretcoreclub?igshid=ZDdkNTZiNTM=
Inspire and Connect
https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links
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Founder of Lejla Please Tell My Story™️ (LPTMS), Lejla Dauti, joins us on today’s podcast to share more about her experience of Domestic Abuse and how she now supports other women through LPTMS.
Lejla has grown her followers to over 21K followers by sharing her story and looking for a community herself. She now hosts a docuseries to share more women’s voices who have been through Domestic Abuse and has some exciting plans coming up to support these women even more.
In this episode we talk about;
• What is Domestic Abuse?
• The power of community and connection when going through Domestic Abuse and after leaving the situation
• Signposts to how to get support
• How YOU can support people going through Domestic Abuse
• Post Separation Abuse
• The work Lejla is doing and what is coming up in her CIC
Connect with Lejla here;
https://www.facebook.com/lejlapleasetellmystory/
https://www.instagram.com/by.layx/?hl=en
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lejla-dauti-06120b227
Inspire and Connect;
https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links
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Anupa Roper, 44, is a mum of two from Leicestershire, UK. She is a bestselling Children’s Author and Positive Body Image Educator. As a former primary school teacher and someone who struggled with her own body image for over two decades, she is now on a mission to empower the young to feel happy in the skin that they are in and to accept others in theirs. In this podcast
Anupa shares her own experiences, we talk all things body positive and Anupa tells us why she is joining us as an Inspire & Connect leader.
Find out more about Anupa's brand new course here. the A-Z of Children's Body Image, covering topics from eating disorders to media literacy. This course is for parents, carers and those that spend time with the young, to arm them with the tools they need to support the young with feeling good in their own skin
https://learning.sparrowlegs.com/childrens-body-image/
Connect with Anupa here;
https://www.sparrowlegs.com
https://www.instagram.com/miss_sparrowlegs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sparrowlegs
Inspire and Connect
https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links
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Join us for a slightly different episode this week where we answer 20 questions. A great chance to connect with the faces behind I&C and understand us a bit better. It is funny, deep and a little bit random.
Come and connect with us on socials on the link below and don't forget to download, subscribe and rate the podcast
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We are joined with the lovely Alex Lynam from Beyond the Binary and are so excited to start opening up this conversation.
It is so important for everyone within I&C to feel included, welcomed and heard. We realise some of our language is not inclusive and we need to do better. We appreciate these conversations are uncomfortable but nothing exciting happens from our comfort zones and we don't learn and grow.
Please join us in being uncomfortable and bringing change for people like Alex. Here are some of the things we covered in this episode;
- What is the difference between Non Binary and Transgender?
- What Alex has had to face in social situations or in relationships
-What is Gender Dysphoria?
-What can we all be doing to make our language more inclusive?
-PLUS so much more
We would really appreciate your love and support. Please make Alex feel welcome and lets start these difficult conversations.
Connect with Alex Lynam from Beyond the Binary here;
https://www.facebook.com/alex.lynam95
https://www.tiktok.com/@beyond_thebinary4
https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebinary4/
Inspire and Connect
https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links
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On this episode we chat to Helen Bartram & Lisa Viccars founders of the HAN Training Academy & The Red Sisterhood Helen and Lisa are two self confessed weirdos with a joint mission to make the world a better place. They believe the world will be a better place when you show up as your authentic self and share your passion and purpose with the world. They do this in two ways -
1. Through delivering accredited training to help individuals develop them self first and then go on to share that with the wider world.
2. Through empowering women to connect to self, their gifts, spirituality and transform their own worlds in safe and encouraging environment.
This is a wonderful chat covering all sorts of woo, human design and the importance of being your true authentic self. I hope you like listening to these 4 weirdos….
Come and connect with Helen and Lisa here;
Www.Facebook.com/Hantrainingacademy
Www.Facebook.com/theredsisterhood
https://www.facebook.com/groups/314353000773484
Inspire and Connect
https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links
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Lisa Williams who is also known as the Vision Board Queen, is a trained vision board facilitator who works with businesswomen creating the blueprints for their dream lives. Not only does Lisa help people create their vision boards she also helps to bring those dreams to reality through her healing work as well as her membership.
Through vision boarding Lisa has achieved several of her visionary dreams, from her dream wedding to her beautiful rainbow baby. Lisa is extremely passionate about Vision boards and the law of attraction. She was once that negative nelly and turned her life around by changing her mindset. Lisa has also landed publications in her Local paper on several occasions with her annual charity work around miscarriages.
In this weeks episode we talk to Lisa about;
- How a vision board has helped her
- How to effectively create a vision board
- What other steps need to take place to manifest your dreams once you've created your vision board
- The power of visualisation
Plus so much more!
We can't wait for you to all start creating your Vision Boards and share them over in our FREE community.
Connect with Lisa here;
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/lisa_williams_visionboardqueen/
Inspire and Connect
https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links
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Recently retired from Specsavers after 29 years, Brad is now focusing fully on his passions to help others achieve their full potential through personal performance mentoring/coaching/training whether it be as individuals, in business or at work, teams and groups or clubs snd membership societies. Brad is an international speaker as well as speaker/communication trainer and coach and during lockdowns became a certified zoo keeper. He is an accomplished and respected leader of business as well as teams and membership organisations.
Brad joins us in this weeks episode to talk about;
Career change Connection and forming a community The connection we have with our families Important discussions with your family about your goals and vision for the future PLUS so much more!Come and connect with Brad here;
Brad Parkes
https://www.makingclubswork.com
http://linkedin.com/in/brad-parkes-2147518
Inspire and Connect Ltd
https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links
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In today’s episode we are joined by the lovely Kat Linsley Hood from Beyond the Bullying who is doing amazing things to support victims of bullying. After her own experiences of bullying in the workplace, at school and witnessing bullying she is now a Bullying Recovery Specialist.
Kat helps those victims of bullying with life after bullying and gives them practical things they can do every day in their lives to feel happier and rebuild their confidence and self-esteem. You will be shocked at the lack of support out there for victims of bullying but the impact on their lives can be live changing. We hope you take some practical tools away yourself to be able to support others, yourself or within your workplace and communities.
So much needs to change for us to build resilience and stop bullying effecting the rest of our lives.
In this episodes we discuss;
• The shocking statistics around bullying; how many people are bullied and the lasting effects of bullying
• What is bullying?
• How we can be doing more, supporting others at home, friends, family, in the workplace or within communities
• Online bullying and the pressure of social media
We want to support Kat in the work she is doing as we know how valuable it is. Please follow, like, share and/or introduce yourself using the links below.
If you run a podcast, community or work in a school or other work places that would be interested in receiving training and support from Kat please get in touch;
Kat Linsley Hood (Beyond the Bullying)
www.beyondthebullying.com
www.instagram.com/beyondthebullying
www.facebook.com/beyondthebullyinguk
www.tiktok.com/beyondthebullying
Inspire and Connect
https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links
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We are really excited to be joined by the lovely Lauren Lavene this week on the podcast as part of black history month. Lauren launches a podcast in 2023 called the Point of Power and we discuss how and why she decided to start a podcast and where she hope this leads her.
As part of black history month we wanted to ask Lauren what BHM meant to her and this bought up some really interesting discussions.
In this episode we speak about;
Truth Elevating peoples voices Giving others hope Being true and authenticWe are so aligned with Lauren’s message which is why we loved recording this so much and really hope you enjoy it.
Connect with Lauren here;
https://www.instagram.com/thelaurenlavene/
Podcast link coming 2023!
Inspire and Connect
https://linktr.ee/inspireandconnect
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Davinia Gordon (fondly known as Dee) lives in Spain, is an Entrepreneur, founder of DG Digital Marketing and co founder of Trailer Bites. . Dee laughs at the thought of being an entrepreneur, she just sees herself as a regular woman carving out a better life for herself.
Yet with 3 businesses now under her belt, all of which she has launched in the past 18 months… and all that are growing at speed, she is most definitely an entrepreneur. She took a leap of faith in myself 18 months ago, to harness her acquired corporate skill over 25 years (none of which are in property or pizzas), but do include Marketing and Social Media Management, she has created multiple streams of income and is now supporting others to do the same.
…and when she isn’t running her businesses she can be found writing her blog ‘Deep Rooted Mahogany’ and sharing her voice to educate EVERYONE about the deep rooted history of black people to change attitudes, break down barriers and make positive change for all communities.
On this special episode for Black History Month Dee shares her experiences growing up as a British Black woman, how she has had to try so much harder to climb the corporate ladders and she talks about the importance of updating the education system and shares her thoughts on how to break down some of the barriers across communities.
Come and connect with Davinia here;
Davinia Gordon
https://www.facebook.com/dgdigimarketing
https://www.instagram.com/dgdigitalmarketinguk/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/deeprootedmahogany
https://www.instagram.com/trailerbites.est2021/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/trailerbites
Inspire and Connect
https://linktr.ee/inspireandconnect
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Gulshan is owner and instructor at Strike Back Self Defence for Women. A women’s only Krav Maga and Self Defence school. She teaches women and girls how to defend themselves and stay safe against street-based violence and attacks. But this isn’t always what she has done! Gulshan's background is very different – she is a qualified Pharmacist and has been for over 20years.
However, following some life changing events, including a terminal cancer diagnosis shortly after her son was born led her to start learning Krav Maga. Now over 8 years later she now owns a school, teaching women and girls the same skills that changed her life.
She is also On Your Radio Presenter for the Health Hut, UK Coordinator for Hopeful Handbags and this year won the Woman Who Award for Health & WellBeing. During this episode Gulshen shares her incredible story and the importance of learning skills to protect your own wellbeing.
Come and connect with Gulshen here;
https://www.facebook.com/strikebackselfdefence
https://www.facebook.com/HopefullHandbags
https://www.instagram.com/strikebackself/
Inspire and Connect
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Jo Jo Smith is a speaker, podcaster and Creativ Business Development and Branding strategist. She helps new and existing business owners identify, develop and promote their unique super power and branding, giving them the courage, confidence and self belief they need to stand out from the crowd and attract their ideal client.
We are so excited to be joined by our very own Fairy Godmother on today’s episode, JoJo Smith, who is the founder of CreativSAS. JoJo is a very special lady to I&C as she is a huge advocate for what we are trying to achieve in building a community for women. We are a HUGE fan of hers as well and in this episode you will see why…
This episode is guaranteed to raise your vibration and here is a little bit about what is covered…
• Talk about the process of bringing our brand to life; it’s all about the process!
• The importance of showing up imperfectly and wearing that wonky crown
• The power of intention setting; Go big! But take ACTION.
• Why it’s important to build your confidence and personal connection to be able to walk into a room?
• The importance of having that sense of belonging
PLUS so much more!
Connect with Jo Jo here;
CreativSAS
Website
https://www.creativsas.co.uk/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/CreativSAS
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/creativsas/
Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rhubarb-custard-the-podcast/id1583260136
Inspire and Connect
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