Calmer You Podcast: Anxiety & Confidence
By Chloe Brotheridge
Quiet the inner critic, calm your mind and move forwards with confidence. With Chloe Brotheridge, expert hypnotherapist, coach and author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. Check out my membership, The Calmer You Collective www.calmer-you.com/collective
Calmer You Podcast: Anxiety & ConfidenceSep 24, 2018
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Ep 134. Overwhelm
Today is a solo episode where I'm sharing 5 ways to handle overwhelm.
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Jan 11, 202113:03
Ep 133. Intuition with Amisha Ghadiali
Amisha is an intuitive therapist, yoga & meditation teacher, leadership mentor, and is author of 'Intuition.'
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We discuss:
-What is intuition?
-How can we tell the difference between intuition and fear?
-Simple ways we can tune into our intuition more
-How to stop the inner critic from getting in the way
Jan 04, 202149:04
Episode 132. What I've learned from my big move
In this solo episode I share:
-How to overcome your fears of what people will think of your dreams
-The uncomfortable way that I'm growing my confidence right now
-How to let an experience change you
-Why you must listen to yourself and do what's right for you
-How I'm getting over being a 'good girl' and a fear of failure.
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Dec 07, 202022:06
Ep 131. Food, routines and sleep with Toral Shah
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Toral Shah is a Nutritional Scientist (MSc Nutr Med), Functional Medicine Practitioner, Food and Health writer and Consultant, as well as the Founder of The Urban Kitchen.
We discuss:
-Toral shares her experience of overcoming breast cancer twice
-The importance of sleep, for like, everything (how Covid could be messing with your sleep cycle)
-The power of food for our health and the science of food and cancer
Nov 29, 202046:50
Ep 130. Train Happy with Tally Rye
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This week's guest is Tally Rye, personal trainer and author of Train Happy. We dig into:
- What is intuitive movement?
- How can we motivate ourselves to exercise (esp if our mood is low?)
- Diet culture and how it's changing
- Plus Tally shares why you don't need to hit rock bottom before getting therapy.
Thanks so much for listening!
Nov 20, 202047:30
Ep 129. Who Cares Wins with Lily Cole
In this episode of The Calmer You Podcast I speak to Lily Cole; Model, actress and entrepreneur and author of the new book 'Who Cares Wins'.
We discuss:
-Why we don’t need to be perfect when it comes to the planet
-How to tackle climate guilt
-Reasons to be optimistic about the future
-Eco-anxiety and how Lily handles it herself.
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Nov 09, 202053:10
Ep 128. Burnout, overwhelm and winter moods with Dr Radha Modgil
This week, I speak with Dr Radha Modgil, GP, broadcaster and author.
We discuss:
-How to tackle overwhelm
-Managing emotional burnout
-Coping with the winter months
-Talking to young children about emotions.
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Nov 02, 202042:07
Ep 127. Overcoming Perfectionism with Amanda Byram
Today I speak with TV presenter and author of The Switch Amanda Byram.
We discuss:
How Amanda made 'The Switch’ in her own life
How to end the battle with the voice in your head
How her relationship with caffeine and alcohol has changed (and yours can too!)
Getting off the perfection treadmill
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Oct 26, 202051:09
Ep 126. Conscious make up and beauty with Sjaniel Turrell
I'm joined by Sjaniel Turrell, holistic beauty expert and makeup artist.
What makes something a conscious beauty product?
How to deal with our used beauty packaging
Can natural beauty products be as good (or better?) as the bigger high tech brands
Sjaniel shares her favourite (inexpensive!) beauty ritual
Oct 19, 202056:20
Ep 125. Anxiety, depression and Confidence with Katie Thistleton
Katie Thistleton is the author of 'Dear Katie; real advice on real life problems', training to be a counsellor, CBBC presenter and she presents Life Hacks on Radio 1.
We discuss:
Her own journey with anxiety and depression and what helps her
What it was like being on TV every day for 6 years
Katie's experience on anti-depressants
How to feel more confident and be yourself in front of others
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Oct 12, 202040:08
Ep 124. Self-Care for Life in the City with Francesca Blechner
In this episode, I speak to author, holistic lifestyle coach and transformational breathwork facilitator Francesca Blechner.
We discuss:
-Why getting clear on what'self-cares Important to us is key when it comes to self care
-Fran’s favourite self-care practices (even for the super busy)
-How to define success for ourselves.
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Oct 05, 202035:55
Ep 123 Autumn Anxiety
I'm talking about my top tips for managing anxiety and feeling good this autumn.
Sep 28, 202024:58
Ep 122. Advice from a monk with Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
On the podcast today I have Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, Buddhist Monk and author of 'From a Mountain In Tibet: A Monk’s Journey'
We discuss:
-His story of how we escaped Tibet
-Why we rely too much on ‘plans'
-How we can let go of our problems forever
-His advice for people who find meditation difficult
Sep 22, 202029:18
Ep 121. How to be hopeful with Bernadette Russell
<ul>
<li>Acts of kindness and how it transformed Bernadette's life</li>
<li>How to be hopefully in today's world </li>
<li>The importance of our support network </li>
<li>Positivity bias and how we can cultivate it</li>
</ul>
<li>Acts of kindness and how it transformed Bernadette's life</li>
<li>How to be hopefully in today's world </li>
<li>The importance of our support network </li>
<li>Positivity bias and how we can cultivate it</li>
</ul>
Sep 07, 202045:26
Ep 120. Knowing you're enough
In this episode I'm talking about:
-The thing that makes me saddest about our lack of confidence
-Why everyone benefits when you're your most confident self
-How to know that you're enough
-Shift your mindset to beat fear of failure and give things a try
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Sep 03, 202020:02
Ep 119. Asking for help + why happiness is an inside job with Emma Gunavardhana
- Her feel good habits (and the deeper self work she’s doing that makes the biggest difference)
- The story of how she finally got help for her anxiety and depression
- Getting out of victim mode and learning that you CAN change
- Why confidence is not always what it seems
Aug 17, 202044:15
Ep 118. FOMO, failure and doing it right with Pandora Sykes
Journalist, writer and podcaster, The High Low, and her new series to support the book 'Doing it right’-How do we know we’re doing it right?
- FOMO and the need to be productive all the time
- Is self-care still valid or it's another industry profiting from our misery!
- Why so many of us feel like a failure
Aug 10, 202042:23
Ep 117 Break free from overworking
In this solo episode I speak about:
<ul>
<li>Why you don’t have to earn your time off</li>
<li>Where our addiction to busyness comes from</li>
<li>How to make the most of your time working</li>
<li>Why the 9-5 way of working is outdated and just plain wrong</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Why you don’t have to earn your time off</li>
<li>Where our addiction to busyness comes from</li>
<li>How to make the most of your time working</li>
<li>Why the 9-5 way of working is outdated and just plain wrong</li>
</ul>
Aug 03, 202019:22
Ep. 116 The Mind Medic with Dr. Sarah Vohra
The Mind Medic with Sarah Vohra
- Dealing with comparison
- A powerful technique to deal with worries
- Using the senses to calm anxiety
- How to say 'no' more
Jul 27, 202039:37
Ep 115. Wellness, anxiety and dealing with criticism with Ella Mills - Deliciously Ella
We chat about: -
- What wellness means to her and why it gets a bad rap
- Her experiences of anxiety around her business and motherhood
- Dealing with criticism
- Ella’s advice for those thinking of starting a business
Jul 20, 202042:01
Ep 114. Making new friends as an adult
- Why there’s nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to wanting more friend
- My favourite strategy for talking to anyone
- How to deal with ‘rejection’ or worrying that you’re ‘boring’
- Plus - I share experiences from friends on how they made friends as an adult
Jul 13, 202021:56
Ep 113 Find Happiness at Work (or leave it!) with Samantha Clarke
Happiness coach and author of Love It or Leave it, Samantha Clarke, joins me on the Calmer You podcast.
We get into topics such as:
- Leaving your work and trying something new;
- How to figure out what you want to do and what you're good at;
- The job market and moving jobs in a time of COVID-19;
- How to handle the inner critic
Jul 06, 202037:41
Ep 112. Can our diet make us happier? With Dr Rupy Aujla The Doctor's Kitchen
We chat about: The controversial aspects of talking about diet and illness (and one topic that makes Rupy angry!); Can what we eat really make us happier?; Rupy shares how he looks after his mental health and what he’s struggling with right now
Jun 29, 202052:36
Ep 111. Ayurveda and Wellbeing with Jasmine Hemsley
On today's episode we chat about: How to make Ayurveda work for you and your mental wellbeing; Jasmine shares about her intriguing and mysterious tongue tingler; Why the time of day that you do things is so important
Jun 22, 202049:21
Ep 110. Self-love, Imposter Syndrome, Therapy and the F word (failure!) with Dr. Sophie Mort
Clinical Psychologist and Yoga Teacher Dr. Sophie Mort joins me on the podcast this week. Taking psychology out of the therapy room, she wants to help you overcome your insecurities, experience self-love and live the life you deserve. She's a registered Clinical Psychologist and Yoga Teacher.
We discuss:
- One of the most helpful approaches to self-love I’ve ever heard
- The incredibly common struggles that you probably believe only affect you
- Imposter syndrome and how to stop it from holding you back
- Creating distance from negative self-talk
Jun 15, 202039:01
Ep 109 Anxiety and food and self-kindness with Shahroo Izadi
We chat about:
- An amazing technique for shifting your attention from what your body looks like to what it allows you to do;
- The links between how we eat and anxiety;
- Shahroo shares about how she handles anxiety and takes care of her mental health; and
- Why we find it so hard to be kind to ourselves and how we can remember to do it.
Jun 08, 202046:52
Ep 108. Procrastination (don't listen to this later!)
In this solo episode, I’m sharing about a topic very close to my heart.
I discuss:
-Why we procrastinate (hint: it’s not because you’re lazy)
-My own procrastination struggle
-My most powerful tips for getting stuff done
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Jun 03, 202018:03
Ep 107. Mindfulness, inner wisdom and success anxiety with Ali Roff Farrar
In this week's podcast we chat about: Ali shares her experience of anxiety and panic attacks and how she handles it; Why mindfulness is so much more than just ‘being in the moment’; How we’re replacing our inner wisdom (and how to get it back)
Ali Roff Farrar has written and spoken about mindfulness and inner wisdom and is Wellness Director at Psychologies magazine, where she has interviewed world-renowned spiritual gurus, psychologists, doctors, and wise women and men including Deepak Chopra, Gabrielle Bernstein, Byron Katie, Jon Kabat Zinn and Mastin Kipp.
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Jun 01, 202050:27
Ep. 106 How to handle the inner critic
This week on the podcast I’m talking about the number one issue I see in my clients. The inner critic.
It’s big. Huge.
It’s that fault finding, nit-picking, brain-niggling, mean-ass inner critic.
AKA ‘The shitty committee’.
The inner mean girl (or boy).
Judgey McJudgerson.
You get the picture.
It’s the internal monologue that’s pissing on your parade.
Present every time you speak up in your family, try something new with your hair or attempt to write your bio on a dating app. There every time you fire up Zoom for a work meeting and have to stare at your own face for 50 minutes.
And when things aren’t going to plan, the inner critic can get louder and arsier than ever.
When you get iffy feedback from the work project you gave your all to.
When you hear crickets after an audition or interview.
Or when you miss your pre-paid yoga class because you hit snooze once too many.
Queue an internal rant of Biblical proportions. Not even your ex who cheated on you got this much heat.
Can you relate?
Wouldn’t it be better to just try your best without all the internal chatter holding you back.
In this solo episode of The Calmer You Podcast I’m sharing my top tips for handling the inner critic and moving forwards with more confidence in life.
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May 27, 202011:23
Ep 105. Meditation, Community and The Quiet Life with Micheal James Wong
Michael is a leading voice in the global movement for modern mindfulness, a community activist, yoga and meditation teacher, speaker and author.
We discuss:- How to overcome the challenges we have with meditation
- The importance of community
- Men and mental health
- Practical things you can do at home to help your mental health
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May 25, 202037:43
Ep 104. Bend, don’t break (how to be more resilient)
Are we all snowflakes? Or is life just more complex and pressurised? In this episode I’m giving advice for feeling calmer and in control, handling challenges and feeling more resourceful. How to bend, don’t break and be more resilient.
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May 20, 202013:57
Ep 103. Kindness, self-love and healing the body with the mind with David Hamilton PhD
David has a PhD in organic chemistry and spent 4 years in the pharmaceutical industry, developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer. Inspired by the placebo effect, he left the industry to write books (my favourite’s about kindness and self-love) and educate people in how they can harness their mind and emotions to improve their health.
He is now author of 10 books, including, ‘The Little Book of Kindness’, ‘How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body’, ‘I Heart Me’ and the Amazon bestseller, ‘The Five Side Effects of Kindness’.
We chat about:- How the mind can heal the body
- The power of beliefs
- David shares his journey from low self-esteem to more to self love
- Why kindness is so powerful (hint: it has powerful effects beyond just making us feel good)
- How kindness is contagious
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May 18, 202043:53
Ep 102. When you feel like you’re never doing enough
Today is a solo episode where I’m sharing about when you feel like you’re never doing enough.
Whether you procrastinate, beat yourself up or just never feel good enough, I’m sharing how to unhook yourself from FOMO, comparison and giving yourself a hard time, and instead get into flow, appreciate all that you do and feel happier and more satisfied with yourself each day.
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May 13, 202020:13
Ep 101. Stress and anxiety at work with Dr Ellie Cannon
It was such a pleasure to have a GP on the Podcast talking about stress and anxiety at work. Dr. Ellie Cannon joined me for such an informative conversation.
We chat about:
* Just how common it is for GP’s to see patients with stress and anxiety * At what point you should see your GP if you’re struggling mentally * Taking medication for anxiety * How to talk to your manager about how you’re feeling* Medication for anxiety and depression
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Transcript
Ep 101. Stress and Anxiety at Work with Dr Ellie Cannon
Chloe Brotheridge 00:01: Hello and welcome to the Calmer You podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I’m a coach, a hypnotherapist, and I’m the author of the Anxiety Solution and Brave New girl. This podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest happiest and most confident self.
If you are interested in working with me 1-2-1
I just want to let you know that I see a select number of one on one clients at the moment and have a few slots available online using a programme called zoom. It works incredibly well. It’s a powerful combination of hypnotherapy and coaching. If you want to check it out, you can head to my website, Calmer-you.com/workwithme.
Free resources
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Meet Dr. Ellie
Today on the Calmer You podcast, I’m talking to Dr. Ellie Cannon. We met on a panel we did together and I loved everything that she was sharing. She’s not only a GP, she’s also an author. Her latest book is all about work, health and the effects that our jobs can have on our mental health. It’s called, Is Your Job Making you Ill?
She’s also columnist for The Mail on Sunday. I love her Twitter feed and approach. She’s very no-nonsense and calls all sorts of things out. I’m not a doctor so I love taking this opportunity to speak with a GP. There are lots of things that I really wanted to get her perspective on.
In this episode
We talked about how common it is for GPS to see patients with stress and anxiety. Hint, it’s an incredibly high number.
We talked about at what point we should go and see our GP if we’re struggling mentally. This has to be one of the most common questions that I get asked. People ask me, what is a normal amount of everyday worries and stress? Also,
May 11, 202044:55
Ep 100. Ayahuasca and the jungle
I’m welcoming you to the hundredth episode of this podcast! In this episode, I finally get around to talking about my experience that I had a few months ago, where I went on two different retreats to experience Ayahuasca medicine in South America.
I can’t quite believe I’ve carried on for so long. It’s been an amazing experience for me to do this podcast. I started this podcast because it was actually a bit of a mission for me to overcome those last little bits of social anxiety and fears about speaking to people. Especially people I really look up to.
I share about:
* Why I went to the Amazon jungle and what it was like (spoiler: it was intense!)* What I learned from the plant medicine and what you can learn from it too* The risks involved and how I overcame my fears
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Transcript
Hello, and welcome to the Calmer You podcast. This is Chloe Brotheridge your host. I’m a coach, hypnotherapist and author of the Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And I’m welcoming you to the hundredth episode of this podcast. I can’t quite believe I’ve carried on for so long. It’s been an amazing experience for me to do this podcast. I started this podcast because it was actually a bit of a mission for me to overcome those last little bits of social anxiety and fears about speaking to people. Especially people I really look up to.
What it’s meant doing this podcast
It’s been such a great learning experience for that. Not only do I get to speak to people that I really admire and look up to, but, I’m also growing my own confidence by putting myself out there. It’s been really valuable on so many levels. Thank you so much.
Whether you’re joining and listening to my podcast for the first time, or whether you’ve listened since day one, thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate all of your messages and all the times that you let me know that you’re listening that it’s that it’s helped you. It really makes a difference to me. So thank you for that.
Yes, it was a powerful experience
So in this episode, I’m finally getting around to talking about my experience that I had back in December and January of 2019/20. Where I went on two different retreats to experience Ayahuasca medicine from South America.
I have to say I’ve been putting this conversation off. I am feeling a certain amount of trepidation to even be talking about it because of the fact that it is not legal in the UK. It is legal in a lot of South American countries. There is definitely an aspect to it, which is pretty scary, a bit dangerous. And yet, it was such a powerful experience for me, and really did help me in lots of interesting ways.
What you can expect from this episode
I’m going to describe a lot of things about the experience from why I decided to do it, what it was like being in the jungle, the things that I was afraid of, and the insights that I gained.
Disclaimer
I also want to share a disclaimer that I’m not suggesting that anyone else go out and have this experience. There are risks involved. If you’re considering this, please do a lot of research. You hear horror stories about people who go to Peru and find so...
May 04, 202043:45
Ep 99. Knowing you’re enough with Zoe Blaskey
Zoe Blaskey of Motherkind joins me on the Calmer You podcast. Her message: knowing you’re enough.
We chat about:
* Not feeling good enough – why it happens and how we can overcome it* Zoe’s experience of perfectionism and how she’s not letting it hold her back anymore * Healing intergenerational trauma – healing the past for ourselves and our kids
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Transcript
Chloe Brotheridge 0:01
Hello and welcome to the Calmer You podcast.
This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I’m a coach, a hypnotherapist, and I’m the author of the Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest, happies and most confident self.
Have a load of free resources on my website to help you to become your Calmest self. Head on over to Calmer-you.com/free to grab those freebies
Now, today’s guest is the wonderful Zoe Blaskey who is the founder of Motherkind. She is a host of the Motherkind Podcast. It’s for coaches and mothers of all backgrounds, from global CEOs to full-time moms on how to navigate the huge challenges of modern motherhood.
Who’s this episode for – everyone
This episode is for you if you are a parent and 100% applies to anyone else who doesn’t have kids yet or doesn’t want kids.
Her work has helped me a lot. These themes are so universal. We get into all sorts of topics. We talk about not feeling good enough. I can relate personally to so much of what Zoe shares in her story and her experiences. I feel like we’ve been on quite a similar path in many ways.
We talk about perfectionism, and Zoe shares about how she’s not letting that hold her back anymore.
I asked her this question, how are you really and she’s really open and honest about that. We even get into the incredibly juicy topic of healing intergenerational trauma, which I am just fascinated by this whole topic.
We learn about how not to pass on our stuff to our kids, but also ensuring that we can be the happiest and best versions of ourselves. I hope you love this episode.
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Apr 27, 202050:02
Ep.98 Flow, money and how to be electric with Jody Shield
Jody Shield is a performance coach, author of best-selling self-help book “Self-Care For The Soul”, inspirational speaker, TEDx speaker and host of the “Be Electric” podcast.
I hope you can be inspired by Jody’s infectious positivity and confidence.
We chat about:
* What it means to be ‘in flow’* Why we’re so scared to talk about money and how to face your money demons * Consciousness hacking (this is fascinating!)* Jody’s experience of plant medicine
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Transcript
Intro: Hello, and welcome to the calmer you podcast. This is your host Chloe Brotheridge, I’m a coach, a hypnotherapist and I’m the author of The Anxiety Solution, and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest, happiest, and most confident self. In this episode, I am so excited to get to speak to Jody Shield. She is a performance coach, she’s the author of the best selling self-help book “Self-care for the soul,” she’s an inspirational speaker on Ted x speaker and she’s the host of the “Be Electric podcast.” And I hope you will be as inspired as I was by Jody’s infectious positivity and confidence. And we get into interesting topics such as what it means to be in flow.
Being in flow
And maybe you’ve heard of this term you know “being in flow,” it’s
really the state of mind that we want to be in. And we talk about how to
cultivate this more and more in our lives, we get into the topic of money which
still in 2020 is such a taboo topic, but it’s a real passion of Jody’s to speak
about this and to help us to face our money demons and cultivate more abundance
in our lives, and so we get into that topic. We also talk about consciousness
hacking, and this is completely fascinating to me, I think you’re going to be
so intrigued by this topic, I’ll leave it to Jody to explain what that is but
it’s something we can all do. She’s sharing the ways that she’s consciousness
hacking, and things that we can all do ourselves. And finally Jody shares her
experience, a very transformational experience of that of plant medicine.
So if you want more tools and resources to become your calmest happiest
and most confident self, I’ve got less a freebies on my website, you can head
over to calmeryou.com/free, enter your e-mail address there and I will send you
right away worksheets, audio downloads and podcast updates. So head over to
calmeryou.com/free to get that. So let’s get into the interview with Jody Shield.
Chloe: Alright, let’s do it.
Jody: Let’s do it.
Chloe: Welcome Jody, thanks so much for joining me. How are you?
Jody: Thank you so much, I am feeling really good today actually and I was… yeah it’s Valentine’s Day and self-love day I suppose. So yeah I’ve booked a lovely rose quartz crystal for the alter.
Apr 20, 202001:04:46
Ep 97. How to be the change you want to see in the world with Nova Reid
Nova Reid is an advocate for equality and was recently nominated as a Positive Role Model for race equality at the National Diversity Awards for the third year running.
She is a certified NLP Life Coach, with an extensive professional background in mental well-being and is a frequent mentor at the Women of the World Festival London. She is regularly invited to provide expert media commentary for BBC and Sky News on race and diversity matters.
I am taking her Anti-racism course and I highly recommend it.
We chat about:
* Being the change you want to see in the world * Her anti-racism work * What are micro-aggressions* How our unconscious biases can cause harm, Nova Reid gets the courage to do the work she does and to be an ally
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Transcript
Intro: Hello,
and welcome to the Calmer-You podcast. This is your host Chloe Brotheridge, I’m
a coach, a hypnotherapist and the author of “the anxiety solution, and brave
new girl.” And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest,
happiest, and most confident self. So in today’s episode, I am speaking to Nova
Reid, she is an inspirational speaker, a diversity campaigner, and mentor.
She’s an advocate for equality, I was recently nominated as a positive role
model for race equality at the National diversity awards for the 3rd year
running. She’s also a certified n.l.p. life coach, she has an extensive
professional background in mental wellbeing, and she’s a frequent mentor at the
women of the World Festival in London.
She’s also regularly invited to speak on BBC and Sky News on race and diversity matters, I have been learning so much from Nova, I am taking her anti-racism course, and I highly recommend that you check that out if you are inspired by this episode and want to learn more. I think she’s doing incredible work in the world and we can see topics such as how we can be the change that we want to see in the world.
We talk about her anti-racism work, and we get into what micro aggressions are, and why they can be so harmful. We talk about our own unconscious biases which we all have by the way and how we need to start to examine them so that we can overcome them.
And I ask Nova how she gets the courage to do the work that she does
because she really is putting herself out there, doing incredibly brave work. We
also get into how to be an ally and what exactly that is. So if you want to get
some free resources to help you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident
self, you can head over to my website, Calmeryou.com/free, into your e-mail
address in there and I’ll send those resources straight away,
Apr 13, 202046:55
Ep 96. Creating a Natural Lifestyle with Tony Riddle
Tony Riddle, otherwise known as the natural lifestylist, joined me on the Calmer You Podcast for a very in-depth and inspiring conversation. I think you are going to really find this episode quite fascinating and mind-blowing.
We chat about:
* The link between being disconnected from nature and depression and anxiety.* Re-wilding ourselves – what can we do at work, home and on daily life to re-wild. * Practical tips on everything from the plants to have in your house to clean the air to how to sleep better.
Tony Riddle offers Natural Lifestyle Coaching – find out more here.
* Tunes: https://apple.co/2mhhwoG* Spotify:https://spoti.fi/2nIETYt* Website: https://bit.ly/2HuaZAk
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Transcript
Hello and
welcome to the Calmer You Podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I’m a
coach, a hypnotherapist, and I’m the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave
New Girl. And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest,
happiest and most confident self.
Chloe Brotheridge: Today, I’m speaking to the incredibly interesting Tony Riddell, a.k.a. The Naturallife Stylist. Tony is a natural lifestyle coach and he’s spent the last 18 years developing and refining a robust way of life based on the principles of a natural lifestyle. Central to his continuing exploration is the question, “What makes the human animal successful in the modern world?”
We have a really interesting discussion all about the links between our disconnection from nature and the levels of depression and anxiety that we experience.
Tony
teaches us how we can re-wild ourselves, what we can do at work, at home and in
our daily lives to connect back to nature and gain all the health and mental
well-being benefits of doing that.
In this episode
And
he shares loads of practical tips on everything from the plants that you need
to have in your house to clean the air, to how to sleep better, to how to squat
better and so much more.
I think you are going to really find this episode quite fascinating and mind-blowing. So, let’s get into the interview with Tony Riddle.
I’d love to invite you to check out
my new app, The Calmer You App. We are so proud of this app. It’s been about
two years in the making. It’s a great app, I have to say. It’s not a crappy app
that was made in a rush with bad design. It works incredibly well.
There are so many tools in their
meditations,
Apr 06, 202001:17:05
Ep 95. Busting myths and calming anxiety around COVID-19 with Dr. Frankie Jackson-Spence
In this episode I am joined by Dr. Frankie Jackson-Spence, we discuss:
* Why social distancing is so important * Dr. Frankie Jackson-Spence shares her COVID-19 anxiety tips * Busting some myths * The good things that can come out of this crisis
Listen at:
* iTunes: https://apple.co/2mhhwoG* Spotify:https://spoti.fi/2nIETYt* Website: https://bit.ly/2HuaZAk
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Transcript
Hello and welcome to the Calmer You Podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I’m a coach, a hypnotherapist, and I’m the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self.
Chloe Brotheridge: So, welcome to this episode. This is a COVID-19 themed episode. Today, after this week, I’m going to be going back to my pre-recorded episodes that I planned, obviously, before this whole situation kicked off. So, perhaps that will be a bit of distraction, a bit more normality to get back to. So, hopefully I’ll look forward to that.
But this week, I’m talking to the wonderful Dr. Frankie Jackson-Spence, who is a GP, and she has been sharing a lot about the facts around COVID-19, and busting a lot of myths and helping people to feel calmer and less anxious by spreading helpful information. So, I really wanted to speak to her about this topic.
So, she shares about how she’s handling it, how her job has changed as a result of this crisis. We talk about the importance of physical distancing. She busts some of the most common myths that she hears and she shares her tips for feeling calm in the face of the situation.
I also want to let you know that I’ve created a new tool kit which is designed to help you to feel calm and resilient in uncertain times. You can check out on my website at calmer-you.com/benddontbreak. So, that’s calmer-you.com/benddontbreak. So, let’s get into the interview with Dr. Frankie.
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Mar 30, 202034:55
Ep 94. Working from Home in a time of Corona Virus with Toni Jones
Anxious about working from home? Partner driving you to despair because you’re together 24/7? In this episode of The Calmer You Podcast I chat with journalist and Shelf Help Bookclub founder Toni Jones about how to handle coronanxiety and thrive at home in a time of Covid-19.
We discuss:
* WFH tips for introverts and extroverts * How to still be social (but also not overwhelm yourself with video calls and WhatsApp messages)* The importance of routine* Working at home with your partner or kids * WFH tips for introverts and extroverts * How to still be social (but also not overwhelm yourself with video calls and WhatsApp messages)
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Transcript
Hello and
welcome to the Calmer You Podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I’m a
coach, a hypnotherapist, and I’m the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave
New Girl. And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest,
happiest and most confident self.
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Brotheridge: Thank you so much for listening today. Obviously, I’m so
aware of what an anxious time this is for so many of you. I’ve been having tons
of messages and questions coming through about how to deal with the uncertainty
about coronavirus and all the things that we have to deal with from redundancy
is to not be able to leave the house to lack of social interaction to fear
about our health and the health of our loved ones. There are so many things to
consider right now.
And so, what I normally do is record
podcasts quite a few weeks in advance and I’ve decided to push back the ones I
had scheduled and actually have in place some podcasts that are dealing with
the issues that we’re struggling with today.
So, obviously, I know what an anxious
time they says and I’m going to be planning some online workshops to help you
to feel more resilient and feel more positive in what is, for many people, a
really challenging time.
If you want to hear about that and also download some of the freebies I have on my website, you can go to calmer-you.com/free. I’ve got hypnotherapy mp3 on there, affirmations, worksheets; all designed to help me to be a calmer you. And I’ll also let you know about any events or live workshops I’m doing online.
So, I am chatting on the podcast today to my friend, Toni Jones. She was a guest, maybe a year ago now, on the podcast. She’s the founder of the self-help book club, Shelf Help. And I definitely recommend you check them out. There’s tons for you to get involved in. Even though the in-person meetups aren’t happening for now, she’s doing loads of stuffs online. Definitely check out Shelf Help Club on Facebook and on her website and on Instagram.
I got in touch with Toni because she’d written
a fascinating blog post, all about working from home and the challenges that
can come up for us when it comes to working from home; from being productive to
spending more time with our partners,
Mar 23, 202033:28
Ep 93. Dial-Up Your Self Worth with Becki Rabin
This week on the Calmer You Podcast I speak with Becki Rabin. She is THE business coach, brand consultant, speaker, presenter and entrepreneur. Wow!
We chat about:
* How can we shine more brightly without fears of what people think* Becki shares her own story of transformation * Practical tools for dialing-up your self-worth * How to move outside of your comfort zone
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Transcript
Intro: Hello, and welcome to the Calmer You podcast, this is your host Chloe Brotheridge, I’m a coach, a hypnotherapist and I’m the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl.” And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest, happiest, and most confident self. So in the podcast today I get to speak about Becki Rabin, she’s a friend of mine, she is a wonderful business coach, she’s a brand consultant, a speaker, an entrepreneur and she’s all about helping people to get lit. She explains exactly what that means in this episode. She has so many useful ideas on helping us to master our mindset and feel better about who we are and dial-up our self-worth, how we can build a life of our dreams, how to become the happiest version of ourselves and really unlocking our fullest potential.
I think this really comes through in this episode with Becki. She shares a lot about her own transformation and the journey that she’s been on to really shifting her mindset and changing her life in quite dramatic ways. We get into this topic of being lit, being lit up, you know turning a light on, this is something that Becki is really focused on helping people with and why for so many of us we can hold ourselves back from really shining brightly and being confident because we are so scared of what other people are going to think. And so she shares a lot about this and how we can overcome those barriers, so that we can just be our most confident selves. We also talk about anxiety.
Becki shares some of practical tools that she helps her own clients with, and we also get the topic of social media and that pressure, and how we can try to not allow social media to take over our lives.
So I would love to send you some free resources to help you become your calmest and happiest, the most confident self, you can head over the calmeryou.com/free, enter your e-mail address there, then I’m going to send you those free resources, mp3s, worksheets, lots of practical tools, and updates about the podcast, and you can get that calmeryou.com/free. So let’s get into the interview with Becki Rabin.
Chloe: Hey Becki.
Becki Rabin: Hello.
Chloe: Welcome, thank you very much, thank you for being here.
Mar 16, 202055:04
Ep 92. Healing Trauma with Nicky Clinch
Nicky Clinch is a Maturation Coach & Facilitator. Maturation is a process of growing out of who you thought you were into who you were born to be.
Her mission in life is for you to break free of the confines of your past traumas, self-defeating patterns and suffering so that you can realise and come home to who you truly are.
We chat about:
* Nicky shares her tag on anxiety (it’s not your usual perspective and I love it)* How we can heal trauma* Nicky shares her powerful story of transformation through plant medicines* Why she scrapped 50,000 words of her book to start from scratch
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Transcript
Introduction
Chloe: Hello, and welcome to the Calmer You podcast. This is your host Chloe Brotheridge, I’m a coach, a hypnotherapist, and I’m the author of “the anxiety solution and brave new girl,” and this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self. In this episode, I’m talking to the wonderful Nicky Clinch, and Nicky is such a special person, she came over to my house to recall this episode, we actually live quite close to one another in London, in Hackney, East London. And we sat together on the sofa, and I honestly felt like this conversation was so healing for me, and it really came at the right time for me personally and I really hope it helps here as well.
Nicky is a transformational leader and facilitator, she has studied
integrative counseling and macrobiotics, she is also a spiritual mentor and
it’s her mission in life to help all of us to break free from the confines of
our past traumas, ourselves defeating patterns, and our suffering. So that we
can realize and come home to who we are. So Nicky and I get into lots different
topics, we start off by talking about trauma and how it can be the root of so
many of our issues and how we can start to overcome the traumas that held us
back. Nicky gives us her take on anxiety and where that comes from and what we
can do to start to manage our own anxiety.
And Nicky advice definitely isn’t the standard 3 tips to curing anxiety something that you might read day-to-day, it really does go very very deep and it’s very very powerful. She shares some really moving personal stories about how she’s healed her own trauma, how own experience of plant medicines, her own transformation and how she helps other people to transform. She also shares the incredible story about how she was 50000 words into writing her book, she had publishing deal with Hey house and how she actually scrapped the whole 50000 words and went on a different path and this is incredible for me, as someone who has written a book to let go of 50000 words, that’s just terrifying to me.
So I love this story with Nicky, it was incredibly inspiring. So I would
love to send some free resources to help you grow your confidence, boost your
self-esteem and calm your anxiety, if you want these freebies you can head over
to my website; calmeryou.com/free, put your email address in there and I’ll
send you those freebies right away. So let’s get into the interview with Nicky
clinch.
Nicky Clinch: So we’re rolling.
Mar 09, 202051:57
Ep 91 Find your voice and get out of your head with Caroline Goyder
This week on the Calmer You podcast I speak with voice coach and author of Find Your Voice, Caroline Goyder. She knows a thing or two about how to find your voice and get out of your head.
We chat about:
* What is confidence?* Why nerves are good* How to overcome blushing or shaking when you’re speaking* How to improve your confidence when it comes to speaking* Phone phobia * And lots more!
Transcript
Introduction
Chloe: Hello and welcome to the Calmer You Podcast. This is your host Chloe Brotheridge, I’m a coach, a hypnotherapist and I’m the author of “the anxiety solution, and brave new girl” and this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest happiest and most confident self. Today on the podcast, I have the pleasure of speaking to Caroline Goyder who is a voice coach, and she’s the author of the new book “Find your voice.” She is also a Ted x. Speaker and her Ted Talk has had 7 and a half million views which is really incredible. In this episode we’re talking all about confidence, particularly confidence when it comes to speaking, whether that’s speaking on a stage, speaking up in a meeting or speaking on the phone.
And this is I hope such a reassuring chat because both Caroline and I
have struggled in this area before, we both admitted to having blushed in the
past. And so it’s really coming from a place of her having experienced the
nervousness and the fear that comes along with speaking, and having learned a
lot about herself, made a lot of progress and she actually gets to help other
people with that as well. So we talk about Caroline’s definition of confidence,
and I think this is really interesting, not what you might be expecting. We
talk about why nerves are actually a good thing and why there’s nothing to be
ashamed about if you do experience nerves before speaking, it’s actually
completely normal and I hope this conversation helped to normalize even more
and how to know there’s nothing to be ashamed of.
We talk about how to overcome the specific things that can hold us back
from speaking like blushing or shaking or speaking to the fast and Caroline
shares lots of tips on growing your confidence in general, when it comes to
speaking, phone phobia and people who experience this will know what I’m
talking about if you’re scared of being on the phone in front of the people in
the office for example or if you’re someone that maybe doesn’t like to answer
the phone when people call, if it’s an unknown number for example, I’m one of
these people by the way.
And we just got into loads of helpful ideas around the topic of speaking confidence, and finding your voice. So if you want to get some free resources from me on growing your confidence, boosting your self-esteem, calming anxiety, I’ve got loads of freebies on my website for you, if you had over to calmeryou.com/free and to enter your email address there, I’m going to send you mp3’s, worksheet, podcast updates and loads more. So head over to Calmeryou.com/free, so let’s get into the interview with Caroline Goyder.
Chloe: So welcome Caroline, thank you so much for joining me, how are you?
Caroline Goyder: I’m good, pleasure to be here.
Chloe: Please can you tell us what it is you do and how you came to do that you
today?
What is a Voice Coach?
Mar 02, 202035:01
Ep. 90 This Too Shall Pass with Julia Samuel
This week on the Calmer You Podcast I speak with Julia Samuel, Author of Grief Works and her new book This Too Shall Pass.
We chat about:
* What is the ‘fertile void’?* How busyness stops us from healing * How to handle changes in your life * What to say to someone who is grieving* The particular struggles that millennials face
Transcript
Chloe: Hello, and welcome to the Calmer You Podcast. This is your host Chloe Brotheridge. Welcome. I am a coach, a hypnotherapist, and I’m the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl.
On today’s Podcast
And today, on the podcast, I’ve got the wonderful Julia Samuel, MBE, who is a psychotherapist, and she’s also the author of two books; Grief Works, and her latest book, This Too Shall Pass, which is all about how to navigate changes. And you know, we’re so scared of change, aren’t we? On one hand, we really want change, we want transformation. And on the other hand, how many of us can get stuck keeping things the same because change just feels too scary, and it feels safer to stick with what we know even though it’s uncomfortable.
So, we
talked about this whole topic of change. We discussed what’s known as the
fertile void, and I love how Julia explains this and how we can cultivate this
in our lives, and it can help us to handle changes in our lives. We talked
about how business stops us from healing and what we need to do instead. We
also get into the topic of grief and what to say to someone who’s grieving and
how to handle that yourself about something that’s affecting you at the moment.
We also touch on the particular struggles that millennials and those of a
similar generation face. So, I want to let you know that I have some free
resources for confidence, self-esteem, and anxiety. If you want to grab those
freebies, head over to my website, CalmerYou.com/Free, and I’ll send you lots of resources, worksheets,
downloads, updates about the podcast. Head over to CalmerYou.com/Free. So, let’s get into the interview with Julia Samuel.
Welcome, Julia. Thank you so much for joining me. How are you today?
Julia:
Really well. Lovely to meet you, Chloe.
Chloe: Could
you please share with us what it is that you do and how you came to do the work
that you do today?
More about Julia Samuel
Julia: So, I’m a psychotherapist and I’ve been a psychotherapist for 30 years. 25 years I worked in the NHS at a big NHS hospital supporting families when babies died and children died. So, I was the counselor for pediatrics and maternity.
From there, I helped started or established and launched a charity called Child Bereavement UK, which was supporting families when a child died or when a child’s bereaved. From there, I sort of taught a lot and lectured a lot. I’ve gone into private practice in the last few years, about the last five years. And I wrote another book before and this is my second book. So, I’m a seasoned therapist and a new author. So, one is kind of an old hat and the other feels exciting and scary. And I’m not even sure I can call myself an author.
Chloe:
Amazing. And I can’t imagine work more, I don’t know, intense than working with
people that have lost a child. I think that’s incredible that you’ve done that
work. What was that like?
Feb 24, 202048:09
Ep 89. Owning It with Caroline Foran
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Caroline Foran is the number 1 bestselling author of Owning It and The Confidence Kit. She is currently working on her third title. She’s the host of the ‘Owning it’ anxiety podcast. <br />
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* Her experience with anxiety* Why so many of us are anxious* Practical ways to deal with anxiety* How to support a friend or ask for support from others<br />
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Feb 17, 202044:56
Ep 88. Being Mentally Fit with Shona Vertue
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This week I speak to personal trainer and yoga teacher Shona Vertue. <br />
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Mentally fit with Shona Vertue<br />
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Chloe Brotheridge: Hello and welcome to the ‘Calmer<br />
You’ podcast. This is your host Chloe Brotheridge. I am a coach, a<br />
hypnotherapist and I’m the author of the ‘Anxiety Solution’ and ‘Brave New Girl’.<br />
Thank you so much for listening today. I have an amazing guest this week Shona Vertue.<br />
Shona is known for being a fitness instructor and yoga teacher. But for some<br />
reason, this conversation isn’t actually that much about fitness. We get into<br />
such a varied number of topics. She has had her career so far in the fitness<br />
industry, but she is now studying psychology and so this is a real passion of<br />
hers.<br />
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So, we get into topics like her experience of therapy, why it’s totally<br />
okay to have therapy and we talk about things like how to find a therapist. We<br />
talk about something called ‘Attachment Theory’ and you might have heard this<br />
before. Some of us might be anxiously attached for example and it has to do<br />
with things that happened in our childhood. We really get into why there’s<br />
nothing to be ashamed about if you’re somebody that is perhaps needy or<br />
codependent in relationships because it’s not your fault and it can often go<br />
back to these things in childhood. So, we chat about that.<br />
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We get into the pressures and boundaries of social media and I also ask her my favorite question to ask people which is. How are you really? I love Shona’s answer this, she’s really honest and open and talks about something that I think a lot of us can relate to particularly at this time of year. So, I think gonna love this episode. I felt like I was chatting to an old friend where I met show know even though we just met ten minutes before. <br />
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Also, I want to let you know that my confidence challenge is coming up on the 24th of February 2020. You can sign up at Calmeryou.com/confidence.<br />
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It’s going to be 5 days of community, fun challenges, helping you to<br />
think differently and take some action. So, that you can take a few steps<br />
towards living the life that you want to live, being the person that you want<br />
to be, accepting and loving yourself more, building your own self as and just<br />
feeling better about being you overall. Last time I ran, it was really really<br />
amazing to see how people made profound changes over just five days and made<br />
new friends and expanded their idea of what’s possible for them. So, I’d love<br />
for you to join us as well. You need to sign up and register to get all the<br />
downloads and workbooks and access the community. You can do that on my website<br />
calmeryou.com/confidence.<br />
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So, let’s get into the episode, with Shona. Welcome Shona, thank you so<br />
much for joining me. How are you?<br />
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Shona Vertue: I am good. Thank you for<br />
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Chloe Brotheridge: I would love to know a bit<br />
about, what it is that you do people that don’t know.<br />
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Chloe Brotheridge: And how you got to where you<br />
are today? Can you share a bit about that?<br />
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Mentally fit with Shona Vertue<br />
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Chloe Brotheridge: Hello and welcome to the ‘Calmer<br />
You’ podcast. This is your host Chloe Brotheridge. I am a coach, a<br />
hypnotherapist and I’m the author of the ‘Anxiety Solution’ and ‘Brave New Girl’.<br />
Thank you so much for listening today. I have an amazing guest this week Shona Vertue.<br />
Shona is known for being a fitness instructor and yoga teacher. But for some<br />
reason, this conversation isn’t actually that much about fitness. We get into<br />
such a varied number of topics. She has had her career so far in the fitness<br />
industry, but she is now studying psychology and so this is a real passion of<br />
hers.<br />
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So, we get into topics like her experience of therapy, why it’s totally<br />
okay to have therapy and we talk about things like how to find a therapist. We<br />
talk about something called ‘Attachment Theory’ and you might have heard this<br />
before. Some of us might be anxiously attached for example and it has to do<br />
with things that happened in our childhood. We really get into why there’s<br />
nothing to be ashamed about if you’re somebody that is perhaps needy or<br />
codependent in relationships because it’s not your fault and it can often go<br />
back to these things in childhood. So, we chat about that.<br />
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We get into the pressures and boundaries of social media and I also ask her my favorite question to ask people which is. How are you really? I love Shona’s answer this, she’s really honest and open and talks about something that I think a lot of us can relate to particularly at this time of year. So, I think gonna love this episode. I felt like I was chatting to an old friend where I met show know even though we just met ten minutes before. <br />
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Also, I want to let you know that my confidence challenge is coming up on the 24th of February 2020. You can sign up at Calmeryou.com/confidence.<br />
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It’s going to be 5 days of community, fun challenges, helping you to<br />
think differently and take some action. So, that you can take a few steps<br />
towards living the life that you want to live, being the person that you want<br />
to be, accepting and loving yourself more, building your own self as and just<br />
feeling better about being you overall. Last time I ran, it was really really<br />
amazing to see how people made profound changes over just five days and made<br />
new friends and expanded their idea of what’s possible for them. So, I’d love<br />
for you to join us as well. You need to sign up and register to get all the<br />
downloads and workbooks and access the community. You can do that on my website<br />
calmeryou.com/confidence.<br />
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So, let’s get into the episode, with Shona. Welcome Shona, thank you so<br />
much for joining me. How are you?<br />
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Shona Vertue: I am good. Thank you for<br />
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Chloe Brotheridge: I would love to know a bit<br />
about, what it is that you do people that don’t know.<br />
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Chloe Brotheridge: And how you got to where you<br />
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Ep 87. Ice cream for Breakfast, mental health and play with Laura Jane Williams
In this episode I speak to author Laura Jane Williams. We chat about:
* The ups and downs of work* Her experiences with anxiety and mental health * Giving yourself the recognition you deserve * When your life is “amazing” on the outside but inside you’re struggling* The complexities of adulthood
Transcript
Chloe: Hello, and welcome to the comedy podcast. This is your host Chloe Brotheridge. I am a coach. I’m a therapist and the author of the Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. I welcome you to this podcast. Thank you so much for listening. Thanks for being here. I’m talking to the wonderful, brilliant Laura Jane Williams. Laura Jane Williams is an author. She has written several books. The latest of which is called Our Stop. If you’ve read her books or you follow her online, she is just one of these people who has an amazing way of putting words to things that so many of us experience but find it hard to express.
She’s got an incredibly
magnetic personality, an amazing way with words and she talks a lot about
mental health. We get into discussions about the ups and downs of work and this
thing that can happen so often when our life seems really amazing from the
outside. Maybe people are congratulating us on how well things are going and
yet inside, we’re really struggling. This can happen to so many of us and we
chat about this.
We talk about her
experiences of her journey with her mental health and anxiety. We talk about
why it’s so hard to give yourself recognition for things. She shares a practice
and an example of the experiences she’s had where she’s really been able to
give herself that recognition. I think in having this discussion, it also gives
us, the listeners, the permission to give ourselves recognition as well. We
talk about the complexities of adulthood and just get into that whole topic,
which I think all of us will be able to relate to.
I love this conversation
with Laura. I think you’re going to love it as well and get loads from it. So,
I just want to let you know that my amazing, if I do say so myself, confidence
challenge is coming up at the end of February 2020. I would love you to join us.
It’s completely free. It’s a five-day challenge. I am confident that if you
join us, you will notice a change in your life and how you feel.
Here’s what Michelle said,
someone who joined the last on that around there. She said, “This challenge
gave me the courage to go out of my comfort zone and try something new. It also
gave me the nudge I needed to reach out to some old friends and reconnect. More
importantly, it’s made me realize I’m not alone. I now understand it’s okay to
be open, honest and vulnerable.” So many people have said this from this free
challenge that I run, they met new friends. They took action that they wouldn’t
have taken before. They learned things about themselves.
They took a step outside of their comfort zone and I would love all of these things for you and more. You can sign up for free if you head to my website calmer-you.com/confidence. Pop your email address in there and I’ll send you all the details about the challenge. That’s calmer-you.com/confidence and I hope to see you there. Let’s get into the interview with Laura Jane Williams. Welcome, Laura, thank you so much for joining me. How are you today?
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Ep 86. More Confidence in 8 Steps
In this solo episode, I discuss:
* The thing I teach all my 1 on 1 clients about confidence* The most important belief you must develop in order to transform * How to get to the root of your issues with confidence in order to change it* Simple steps to boost your confidence and self-esteem
My confidence challenge is coming up at the end of Feb:
5 days to become more confident, connect with others on the same path and have fun. It’s one of my favourite offers and totally free. Join at www.calmeryou.com/confidence
A special offer from our sponsor
This podcast is sponsored by Blinkist. Get a 7-day free trial and 25% off when you head to www.blinkist.com/calmeryou
Transcript
Hello, and welcome to the Calmer You Podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I’m a coach and a hypnotherapist and the author of two books, The Anxiety Solution, and Brave New Girl, which is all about how to grow your confidence. So, today I’m going to be sharing with you a number of steps that I think if you follow them, will help you to be calm and your most confident self, to tap into the innate courage that is within you, and start to feel better about doing the things that you want to do, being you in the world, and going outside of your comfort zone.
Journey to becomming a more confident person
And so this is really an area that I’m passionate about talking about having to struggle with my own issues around confidence and self-esteem for so so long and going on a journey to become a more confident person. And I’m not saying that it’s the case that we will just one day emerge like a butterfly out of the chrysalis a new person. But the reality is that it’s a journey. It’s a process. And little by little, we can start to make changes and we can grow. And we can discover more about what’s possible for us and expand what is possible for us. So, I’m going to share with you eight steps for becoming your most confident self.
Believe that you can change
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number one is to believe that you can change. And I can’t tell you how
important this step is. It sounds so simple, but actually is an incredibly
powerful shift that so many of us actually need to make before we can start to
make a change. Because when we are in a bad place, when we struggled with
something for a long time, when we feel that we’ve tried a lot of things and
they haven’t worked, it can be so easy to tell ourselves, that we are just not
confident people and we are going to be stuck, feeling this way forever and
there’s not much we can do about it. And yet, and yet, the reality is that
change is always possible. We are always changing your brain is always
changing. Depending on what you do, depending on what you think, what you focus
on, those neurons are being created, old patterns of thinking, old neural
pathways are degrading as you use them less and less. And so [??? 02:18]
neurological level it is possible to change. And there’s that old classic quote
from Henry Ford, “You believe you can or you believe you can’t. And either way,
you’re right.” And this really encapsulates, even though it’s quite a cheesy
quote, by now, it will encapsulate this truth, that when we believe we can
change, it makes it easier to change. And so even if you are just experimenting
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Ep 85. Help Me! (Like a virtual hug) with Marianne Power
On today’s Calmer You Podcast I speak with Marianne Power the Author of Help Me!
We chat about:
* Facing your fears (Marianne has done some incredible things!)* How Marianne upgraded her identity to be a more confident person * The things that Marianne has found most (and least) helpful on her self help journey * How to overcome a fear of public speaking * Powerful and Reassuring advice for those with anxiety and depression.
My confidence challenge is coming up at the end of Feb:
5 days to become more confident, connect with others of the same path and have fun. It’s one of my favourite offers and totally free. Join at www.calmeryou.com/confidence
A special offer from our sponsor
This podcast is sponsored by Blinkist. Get a 7-day free trial and 25% off when you head to www.blinkist.com/calmeryou
Transcript
Chloe:
Hello, and welcome to the Calmer You Podcast. This is the place to be to become
your calmest, happiest, and most confident self. And this is your host, Chloe
Brotheridge. I am a coach and a hypnotherapist. I’m the author of The Anxiety
Solution and Brave New Girl. Today, I’m so lucky to get to speak the Marianne
Power, who is the author of the brilliant book, Help Me, which is her
experience of reading a different self-help book every day for a year, and
putting things into practice, and seeing what the results were for her. And
this book is firstly, very, very funny, and secondly, very helpful, comforting,
inspiring, reassuring. There are practical assets in there as well. I really
think you’re gonna love it. And so myself and Marianne talked about facing your
fears, and Marianne really has faced a lot of fears and she shares some of the
incredible things that she’s done through the course of writing this book, and
I think it’s quite amazing. I’m very, very in awe of her.
We
talked about the things that Marianne has found the most, and also the least
helpful from all the things that she’s tried on her self-help journey. We also
get into how to handle her fear of public speaking. So, many of us struggle
with this, and Marianne shares really beautifully about her experience of that
and what she’s doing is overcome it. And she just gives some really reassuring,
lovely, comforting words of advice to people who are struggling with anxiety
and depression. And this podcast, I hope is going to feel like a big hug and a
reassuring message that you are actually okay. And you’re not as bad as you
think you are basically. In fact, you’re wonderful. So, I really hope you’re
going to enjoy this episode. If you’re looking to become a more confident
version of yourself in 2020, then I want to invite you to come on over to see
my website and join me in the upcoming confidence challenge where every day
I’ll be sending you free resources and invites to connect with our community to
grow your confidence in five days in very, very simple, simple and fun steps
and with simple fun exercises. So, you can join us, we’re going to be starting
soon over at CalmerYou.com/Confidence. So, let’s get into the interview with Marianne Power.
Welcome, Marianne,
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