The Self Development Podcast

In this episode, I had the pleasure of chatting with the incredible Pat Divilly. 

Pat has been involved in the wellness industry for over fifteen years, starting with the fitness sector and later transitioning into mental, emotional, and relational wellness. 

He is the host of the renowned podcast "The Pat Divilly Podcast" and the author of the bestselling book "Fit Mind." 

Pat frequently conducts workshops, online programs, and retreats to assist individuals in healing emotionally, forming connections, and living authentically.

Highlights:

👉 The difference between mental and emotional health  

👉 The importance of being honest with yourself

👉 Men's mental health

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During this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Kamran Bedi, the author of The Anxiety Antidote: How Awareness and Action Can Lead to Self-control and Inner Peace. 

Kamran is a life coach and specialises in anxiety and PTSD. He also trains and certifies other coaches. Kamran's toolbox includes Neuro-linguistic programming, Hypnosis, and Integral Eye Movement Therapy, and he will be sharing some of his wisdom with us today.

Highlights:

👉 How to learn from unhelpful experiences 

👉 What makes change difficult 

👉 Managing anxiety

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In this episode, I have the privilege of speaking with renowned dating and relationship coach and three-time author Persia Lawson. Growing up, Persia’s parents struggled with drug addiction. To escape the challenging emotions, she focused on becoming an overachiever, and as part of her subconscious coping mechanism, she found herself leaning into an addiction to sex and love. She became well-practised at sabotaging any chance of a happy relationship – either by cheating on the nice boyfriends or going out with dysfunctional ‘bad boys’.

Persia’s rock bottom moment came in her mid-twenties when she became the victim of sexual assault. Following this incident, she put on two stone in weight which prompted her concerned dad to take her away to a health retreat in Thailand. Whilst there, he gave Persia some advice that changed the entire trajectory of her life. These words were the launch pad she needed to leverage all her overachiever energy towards healing the real root of all her romantic dilemmas. Today Persia will be gracious enough to share her incredible story and offer the wisdom of what she has learned.

Highlights:

👉 How relationships are modelled for us

👉 Relationship Advice

👉 Self-sabotage 

👉 Drivers behind cheating on a partner

👉 Respect in a relationship

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In this episode, I'll be speaking with Amira Mansour, a Communication Expert who guides individuals and companies on effective communication with themselves and others. Effective communication is essential for building strong relationships that make us feel understood and content. Although we communicate all the time, few of us can do it well.

With more than 12 years of experience in the corporate world, Amira has worked with a diverse range of people and gained valuable insights through her own experiences. She can help you understand the power of your internal dialogue and how it affects your personal and professional life. This knowledge will empower you to get the promotion you want, the career you've been dreaming of, become the business leader you desire, the partner you've always envisioned, and live life on your terms.

Amira provides a combination of monthly masterclasses, podcasts, and personalised 1:1 coaching to help you understand your values, motivations, and shadow self. This will enable you to communicate authentically and confidently, resolve conflicts, and set boundaries. You could learn how to master the hard conversations so that you can break out of negative self-talk and live a more fulfilling life while communicating with confidence and ease in every area of your life!

Highlights:

👉 Defining communication

👉 Where communication breaks down

👉 Anxiety and communication

👉 Being assertive

👉 Understanding your shadow self

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In this episode, I had the pleasure of chatting with Matt Young, a life and mindset coach based in London. Matt has spent the past 15 years studying top performers in physical and mental fields and has had the privilege of receiving coaching from some of the world's best coaches.

Matt has a diverse background, having been a professional footballer for eight years and playing alongside full England internationals, Premier League stars, and international managers. Additionally, he has completed 15 ultra marathons and 16 marathons. 

In his quest for knowledge, Matt has earned numerous qualifications and certifications in human psychology and behaviour. His ultimate goal is to inspire and coach others to live their best lives, and he hopes to empower millions to unleash their true potential.

Highlights:

👉 Mental and emotional health

👉 How to change

👉 Changing your mindset to change

👉 Creating change

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n this episode, I’ll chat with the former TV actress, Ted X speaker, Life Coach, and founder of The Happy Me Project, Holly Matthews.

Holly has established a solid social media following of over 40,000 followers across her platforms and over 3 million views on her award-winning YouTube Channel. She is the author of the 1# best-selling book The Happy Me Project. In 2017, Holly’s husband Ross died of brain cancer, and she vlogged about her experience. The lead-up to his death and aftermath were featured extensively in the UK media both in print, radio and television, opening a brand new audience to Holly.

Holly launched her flagship brand, The Happy Me Project, in 2017, just months after the death of her husband, and has watched hundreds go through its virtual doors and many more to the in-person workshops of the same name. Holly is a Mum to two daughters, Brooke (nine) and Texas (seven), who worked with her on The Happy Me Project KIDS online visualisations course and in-person workshop.

On this podcast, I aim to speak to people who have specialised in personal development or have experienced something life-changing and have managed to extract some form of learning or understanding. Today we get both.

Highlights:

👉 Resilence

👉 Self-confidence

👉 Grief

👉 Authenticity 

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In this episode, I am joined by Adeyemi Adeyosoye, a spiritual and executive coach who is also known as the energy guy. According to Adeyemi, attracting your dream life doesn't necessarily require new plans or strategies. Instead, he believes that it is essential to discover and commit to your soul's purpose and become skilled at channelling energy. 

Adeyemi's journey has been remarkable: he started by cleaning toilets but eventually landed jobs at some of the best tech companies in Europe. He attributes this success to his ability to harness the power of energetics. 

His passion for energetics is so intense that he now works as a coach and helps others unlock their full potential. 

Highlights:

👉 What is energetics?

👉 Purpose and well-being

👉 Energetics and wealth

👉 Using the past to create shifts in the future

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In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with the chartered psychologist, social scientist, author and broadcaster, Dr Meg Arroll.

Meg started her career in academia, focusing on medically unexplained conditions that leave people feeling lost, neglected and at sea in a world of symptoms, stigma and pain.

This passion for finding answers to questions that no doctors seem able to treat came from her own experience – which gave her that rare combination of subjective personal experience and objective professional skills. 

Dr Arroll aims to guide people through their journeys so that they have the confidence to move forward independently.

Meg is also the author of the book The Shinkology Solution and her latest book, Tiny Traumas which I hope to hear more about today.

Highlights:

👉 What are tiny traumas?

👉 The impact of tiny traumas

👉 How to accept

👉 The meaning behind our emotions

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In this episode, I’m chatting with the author, psychotherapist and military mental resilience coach, James Elliott.

James has over 6 years of coaching experience from National League Rugby teams to Paralympic rowers, from Special Forces Operators to vulnerable veterans. He has a wealth of knowledge in designing, developing and delivering mental resilience training programs, both group training and one-to-one therapy.

James is the author of the book ‘Think Yourself Resilient. His book will teach you how to harness your emotions so that you can build confidence and transform your life, and, I’m excited to be discussing his book and his methods with him today.

Highlights:

👉 What is mental resilience?

👉 Emotional intelligence

👉 Finding purpose

👉 Self-trust

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In this episode, I’m chatting with Katie McNicol. Katie is an ex-party girl binge drinker who stopped drinking three and a half years ago at just 24 years old. 

She’s passionate about sobriety, has fallen in love with self-development, and uses social media influence to spread a message of encouragement, motivation, and a can-do mindset. 

Katie has now decided to evolve her passion and has begun training to be a coach.

Highlights:

👉 Self-development

👉 Self-perception

👉 Self-compassion

👉 Living authentically

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On this episode, I’m chatting with breathwork coach and founder of The Breath Space, Jamie Clements.

Having discovered breathwork four years ago, the practice had a profound impact on him. Jamie found that significantly improved his physical and mental well-being, and helped him move through severe anxiety and panic attacks. 

He truly believes that breathwork is the most universal, powerful and accessible tool to change our bodies and minds and live healthier, happier lives. Having now trained in different modalities of breathwork, he believes in teaching across the full spectrum; including functional breathing, performance breathing, nervous system regulation and deep healing modalities of breath. 

Jamie started The Breath Space as an accessible way for anyone to experience this blossoming area of healing and personal growth and his goal is to provide you with the tools to work it into your daily life, as well as create an environment to go deeper and understand new elements of yourself.

Highlights:

👉 What is breath work?

👉 Breathwork and self-awareness

👉 Nervous system regulation

👉 Managing challenging emotions

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In this episode, I’ll be chatting with the founder of MotherKind, Zoe Blaskey. Zoe’s been on a path of self-enquiry and transformation following an anxious, depressive breakdown in her early 20s. She’s spent the last 15 years diving into all things personal development, sitting in cold church halls in 12-step meetings, meditating with monks at sunrise, and dancing all dressed in white on an island in Sweden. 

She has reached the depths of despair and risen stronger than ever before and is obsessed with helping mothers realise their potential and awaken to how much personal power they have. Zoe recognised the pressure she was putting on herself, her perfectionism, her fear of getting it wrong, how she was silencing herself to keep the peace, and how she was losing her sense of self to what others wanted her to do. 

Zoe remembers that feeling of being lost, broken and alone and now helps other mums overcome this. She’s also the host of the massively successful ‘The Motherkind Podcast’ and today we're going deep on how to help some of society's most important people… its mothers.

Highlights:

👉 The motherhood mindset

👉 Why you’re not broken

👉 Mum guilt

👉 Nurturing self compassion and self trust

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On this episode, I’m excited to be speaking with Tj Power. Tj is a neuroscientist, international neuroscience speaker and online mental health content creator who has delivered mental health training to over 10,000 people and is the co-founder of Neurify.

He delivers highly engaging, gamified mental health training experiences and has built a new formula for mental health called DOSE. DOSE stands for Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin and Endorphins (the 4 leading mental health brain chemicals) and teaches employees and students to understand their mental health.

Tj’s Instagram account has almost 80k followers and he provides neuroscience-based mental health guidance every day.

Highlights:

👉 What is neuroscience?

👉 How the nervous system and the brain impact our mental and emotional health

👉 What are Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins, and why are they important?

👉 What can people do to improve their quality of sleep?

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On this episode, I have the pleasure of chatting with an incredible musician best known as the live bass guitarist for Gorillaz, Seye Adelekan.

For 15 years, Nigerian-born Seye has worked as a musician, writer, producer and film scorer and he’s also performed, recorded and written with artists such as Paloma Faith, Ellie Goulding, Birdy, Mumford and Sons, KT Tunstall, Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn, and many more.

His journey in life has taken some twists and turns and has had highs and lows and today we’ll be discussing the learning he’s taken from it all.

Highlights:

👉 Music for emotional expression

👉 Seye’s addiction journey

👉 Your authentic self vs your conditioned self

👉 Being a people pleaser

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In this episode, I'm chatting with author, meditation and energy healer, and anxiety specialist, Vicki Witherick. Vicki spent many years of her life in a very dark place battling her own mental health, but it was there that she discovered a natural way to heal and I began her well-being journey.

For over a decade, Vicki has been working on her own self-healing journey and has studied and practised a variety of holistic, energetic and alternative therapies. She immersed herself in areas of science, psychology, counselling, CBT, EFT, herbalism and cannabis for health, meditation and mindfulness practice, and sound therapy and gained qualifications in each. She even found time to become a Reiki master.

Vicki is now a specialist in anxiety support, mindset training, introducing well-being in the workplace and creating a meditation and self-care practice.

Highlights:

👉 What’s meant by energetic therapies, energy healing and the concept of our energy?

👉 Long-term and short-term approaches towards overcoming anxiety

👉 What are reiki and EFT and what are their benefits?

👉 Herbal and cannabis remedies enhance a person's health and well-being

👉 Improve your emotional and mental well-being

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In this episode, I’ll be speaking to the founder of iCare, iMove and the menopause muse movement, a lady that’s often referred to as the Wellness Anarchist, Helen Tite. It’s commonly said that until you are in her presence and watching her energy and passion unravel, no words seem to describe the positivity that comes with her.

Entrepreneur Helen has been delivering excellence in health and well-being for over 20 years. Whether training trainers around the globe in fitness and exercise or speaking at conventions, this award-winning radical facilitator, thought leader and health coach, has been an asset to many forward-thinking companies, taking wellness seriously.

Most of all, she’s a dear friend and her knowledge and experience on menopause have been life-changing for many women.

Highlights:

👉 What happens during menopause

👉 What are the main symptoms and is there anything you can do to prepare

👉 Are there any specific foods or supplements that can aid or support

👉 Can how women are affected by menopause be genetic

👉 And, much, much more knowledge surrounding menopause

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In this episode, I’ll be chatting with the inspiring Shaun Flores. Shaun is an OCD advocate, a model, an actor and has performed two TEDx talks entitled, ‘The failures of multiculturalism’ and ‘The straitjacket of masculinity’.

He’s also the host of the Flower Hour podcast and today’s intention is to take on the challenging and often uncomfortable conversations around black culture and education, learning to identify and regulate your emotions as a man and how depression can be anger turned inwards.

Highlights:

👉 The value of education

👉 Emotional regulation

👉 Your relationship with anger and rage

👉 Living with OCD

👉 Post-Traumatic Growth

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In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Sharon Lawton. Sharon is a certified ICF Coach and Head of Training and Business Development for The Coaching Academy.

She’s an award-winning Coach, NLP Practitioner, and DISC Behaviour Profiling Specialist.

Sharon is responsible for ensuring that The Coaching Academy continues to produce high-level coaching education that produces high-level, professional coaches.

With a 14-year background in learning and development, delivering conflict management, mental fitness and a wide portfolio of personal development, emotional well-being & resilience programmes, Sharon has developed a passion for motivation, empowerment and growth and has a focused interest in inspiring people to achieve their full potential.

Highlights:

👉 The search for happiness

👉 The importance of our environment

👉 Self-sabotage

👉 Nurturing resilience

👉 Having accountability

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In this episode, I’ll be speaking with the fabulous Penny Jarrett. Penny works in the mental health and wellness space and uses her ADHD and CPTSD to help people overcome their complex mental health challenges.

She’s a writer, a mentor and a speaker, more recently performing a TedX talk called ‘How I learnt to fix my

‘broken brain’ by healing my broken heart.

This talk focuses on her ADHD and unresolved trauma experience and has gone on to help many people understand and heal themselves.

Penny offers courses and a community that guides you towards healing and wholeness.

Highlights:

👉 What is the impact of ADHD?

👉 What is the impact of CPTSD?

👉 What is emotional dysregulation?

👉 The importance of working through past trauma.

👉 How to work through diagnoses and look forward.

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In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Kute Blackson. Kute is an inspirational speaker and transformational teacher. He’s the author of the two bestselling books You.Are.The.One. and The Magic of Surrender.

He’s widely considered the next generation leader in personal development as he offers a fresh, bold look at spiritual awareness for a new generation. His unique Japanese and Ghanaian lineage lay the foundation for his approach to breaking down barriers and unlocking an individual’s true gifts and greatness.

For over 20 years, Kute Blackson has been inspiring audiences worldwide. His electrifying presentations offer real-world practical ideas and soul-stirring wisdom and ignite the heart and inspire courageous action.

His mission is simple: To awaken and inspire people across the planet to access inner freedom, live authentically and fulfil their true life’s purpose.

Highlights:

👉 Understanding greatness

👉 Why you should stop searching for purpose

👉 Your ego is your conditioning

👉 How to frame fear

👉 Learning life lessons

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In this episode, I'll be chatting with the award-winning money coach, Catherine Morgan. Catherine is a qualified Financial Planner and Certified Financial Coach and she has set herself the mission to reduce financial anxiety and increase financial empowerment & resilience for 1 million women around the world.

Catherine has been featured as one of the top 32 female entrepreneurs to look out for in Business Leadership. She’s the host of the top 1% global podcast ‘In Her Financial Shoes’ and founder of The Money Panel®.

Recently she won the Financial Wellbeing Champion of the year and Marketing Influencer of the Year 2022.

And Catherine is the author of the best-selling book, It’s Not About The Money: 3 Steps to Become a Wealthy Woman.

Highlights:

👉 Overcoming bad money habits

👉 Financial Education

👉 Common mistakes around money

👉 Self-worth and money

👉 Changing your relationship with money

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In this episode, I’ll be speaking with Nick Bracks. Nick’s early career in the fashion and entertainment industries ultimately led him to his ongoing work in mental health awareness. He earned international modelling contracts and made regular appearances on Australian TV.

During his time on Dancing with the Stars, Nick publicly spoke about his experience with depression and anxiety for the first time. Nick has advocated alongside some of Australia’s most prominent mental health-focussed organisations by candidly recounting the mental health issues he has struggled with since age 11.

He has presented two TED Talks, one covering the growing suicide epidemic. One of Nick’s creative outlets is acting, including a two-year role on the Australian soap, Neighbours.

Nick’s passion for mental health and wellbeing, places a strong emphasis on helping people find focus, deal with stress, re-energise and be mindful through meditation.

Highlights:

👉 Fitting in within your environment

👉 Forecasting mental health challenges

👉 The importance of accountability

👉 Using personal challenges as a motivator

👉 Becoming forward focused

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Today I’ll speak with the UK’s leading tapper, Poppy Delbridge. Poppy is the host of the top 20 podcast, Rapid Tapping and the author of the up-and-coming book, Tapping In: Manifest the life you want with the transformative power of tapping.

Tapping or emotional freedom technique (EFT) as it’s sometimes referred to, believes that tapping the body can create a balance in your energy system and treat pain. Poppy’s coaching work revolves around making you the most authentic, abundant and empowered person you can be on all levels.

She’s a popular speaker, Ambassador and in-house coach across global members clubs such as Soho House and AllBright, and Poppy’s clinically-proven manifestation methodologies have been featured across publications such as The Telegraph, Red, The Sunday Times Style, Health and Wellbeing, The Evening Standard and Stylist.

Today, we intend to take a deep dive so we can all fully understand this incredibly powerful energy regulating technique.

Highlights:

• What is tapping?
• How tapping works
• The science behind tapping
• Tapping and trauma
• Her new book

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Today I’ll be chatting with the one and only Josh Connolly. For Josh, December 2012 was the beginning of him seriously planning his suicide. Fast forward to December 2019 and he’s delivering resilience workshops to global organisations. Back then he believed that resilience was the ability to keep going no matter what, to avoid any struggle and show up.

That ideal drove him to a place where he felt the best thing to do for his children was to take his own life. Today, I have the pleasure of saying he has a new idea of resilience. One that is fluid, which allows him to struggle and ask for help. One that allows him to keep his head up and shoulders back despite his internal struggles. One that embraces vulnerability and keeps him reachable. One that helps him to understand what he feels, know what he needs as a result and be able to communicate that within his activities and relationships.

Rather than driving him to suicide, this idea of resilience has helped to deliver emotional resilience training to village primary schools and global brands alike. Josh doesn’t believe he’s a new person, he’s the same person, with the same emotions. The difference today lies within what he does with the energy of those emotions.

Highlights:

• Josh’s experience with suicide
• The evolution of belief systems
• Resilence
• Addiction
• The difference between anger and rage
• Forgiveness vs acceptance
• The battle with ego
• Emotional freedom

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Today I’ll be chatting with Adam Lind. Adam is a mindset coach who helps both individuals & workplaces build resilience by teaching practical and accessible tools influenced by both western & eastern cultures.

Adam has always been drawn toward helping people, and after overcoming major adversities in his own life he was left entirely controlled by his mind & thoughts. A 6-year journey of travel, discovery & research has allowed him to harness a broad range of supported knowledge to help others combat stress, mindset & adversity.

He undertook a journey with his wife to travel from London – to Asia by land using only hitchhiking as their method of transport. They crossed 26 borders by land and placed their trust in the kindness of humans. They learnt invaluable lessons interacting with people from all walks of life whilst sitting in their cars.

Adam now lives full-time on a 59ft Narrowboat with his wife. They enjoy the primitive and dynamic nature that living on the British waterways entails and the nomadic sense of exploring the UK.

Highlights:

• How to build resilience
• What he learned from hitchhiking
• The importance of mindset
• Tools for improving mindset
• Self-development secrets

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Today I’ll be chatting with Paul Thompson. Paul is a certified life coach who specialises in helping men of all ages and backgrounds cope with their challenges.

He coaches his clients in a way that utilises both their heads and their hearts. He first learned about coaching when he hit a roadblock in his own life and was struggling to move past it.

His techniques were so successful that his friends and Instagram followers began asking him for help with their challenges.

This motivated him to turn his newfound passion into a full-time career.

Paul has helped countless people overcome their challenges and today I hope to discover what he’s learned along the way.

Highlights:

• Strategies for challenging times
• Tools for common challenges
• Head and heart coaching style
• The importance of vulnerability

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Today I’ll be chatting with Dana Chapman. Dana is a qualified nutritional therapist and neuro-linguistic programming practitioner and her approach to depression, anxiety, burnout, brain fog, and a lack of gusto make her truly unique.

Dana believes that it’s only when you truly understand how the brain and the body, work that you can take control of your mental health. She aims to empower people by providing them with an understanding of how your brain and body work and get answers to why you’re feeling low, anxious and withdrawn, and why you have no energy.

At that point, she can help overcome these feelings using food, movement, sleep, stress management, supplementation and more. Dana’s education and experience have proven that there’s so much you can do to feel your very best and achieve a clearer mind, long-lasting energy, and freedom from the cloud of depression or choke of anxiety that is common in today's society.

Highlights:

• What is gut health?
• The science behind gut health
• The link between gut health and mental health
• Anti-depressants
• Lifestyle choices you can make to improve your gut health

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In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, I’ll be chatting to The Teachers Health Coach, Charlie Burley.

Charlie spent 8 years plus as a school teacher, and although he enjoyed teaching, over time, both his health and his happiness began to decline.

Fast forward to now and Charlie is The teacher's Health Coach, helping teachers feel great, find balance and forge healthier, happier lives.

Highlights:

• His experience in the teaching industry
• The 3 leading issues that have an unhelpful impact on teachers' health
• How these issues can be resolved
• The impact of the pandemic
• Tools for challenging times

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In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, I’ll be chatting to a professional coffee taster and buyer, Freda Yuan.

Freda is currently devoting her career as the Head of Coffee at Origin Coffee Roasters, however, her journey to reaching the top of her industry has been unbelievable at times.

Freda is a 2017, 2018 and 2020 UK cup taster champion & came 3rd in the 2017 World championships.

She is also the author, of the sensory awareness book, Sip 'n' Slurp.

Freda is very accomplished within her industry, however, what does it take for a person to reach success within their industry? What sacrifices have to be made? What are the impacts on mental health? How can you support yourself to stay motivated and continue growing and developing?

These are the kind of questions that inspire the wisdom offered within this episode.

Highlights:

• The importance of having an awareness of attitude
• consistency
• The trappings of expectations and assumptions
• Updating your values
• Self-awareness
• Willingness to evolve

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In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, I’ll be chatting with Patrick Hill.

Patrick is a former school teacher turned business and personal coach and hosts the Positive With Patrick podcast.

His mission is to support the well-being of leaders and managers to empower them to reach their potential.

He offers support to individuals to live fully in and through the stressful, painful and challenging times of life.

Patrick has also set himself the mission to dramatically reduce international suicide statistics as he believes that whether your challenge comes from life changes, stress at work, a change in position or career, or other personally stressful times, you do not have to navigate that journey alone.

Patricks is an educated man, but it’s his life experiences that when brought together with his education, provide the wisdom shared within this episode.

Highlights:

• Emotional Pain
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• The Importance Of Feeling Your Emotions
• Grief
• Vulnerability

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In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, I’ll be chatting with Jen Pritchard and Sammie Roberts. These two remarkable ladies are the founders of Miracle Mindsets.

This is a space that they’ve created to support self-love, growth & positivity. They offer teachings on how to properly love yourself and to help you with your personal development and manifestation.

They do this through their podcast, the Miracle Mindsets Podcast and the amazing social media feed on Instagram.

Jen And Sammie have also created the first of their kind, affirmation and journal prompt cards that are designed to help with and inspire positive change in your life.

Highlights:

• A deep dive into self-worth and self-belief
• How to truly and genuinely accept yourself
• Reflecting on experiences that have led to personal growth
• Perspective on how to create success in life

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In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, I’ll be chatting with author, podcaster, YouTuber and anxiety specialist, Dennis Simsek.

Dennis is widely known as The Anxiety Guy and had tried all the anxiety cures he could find to overcome his challenges with anxiety.

However, generalised anxiety turned to panic disorder and panic disorder turned to health anxiety and it wasn’t long until he decided to take matters into his own hands.

It was then that he took all that he had learned about anxiety and used it to reverse negative thinking patterns, reframe his childhood trauma and steer himself towards inner peace and now he uses these insights to help others do the same.

He’s the creator of the End The Anxiety Program,  author of Me Vs Myself, F**k Coping Start Healing and Beyond Anxiety. Dennis is also the host of ‘The Anxiety Guy Podcast’ which has over 4 million downloads and he also offers the anxiety guy YouTube channel that has over 10 million verified views.

Highlights:

• A clear definition of anxiety and its causes
• What people can do to overcome anxiety
• The relationship between anxiety and trauma, belief systems and learned behaviour
• How anxiety can develop feelings of being unsafe and a lack of self-trust
• Overthinking

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In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, I’ll be chatting with nutrition and intuitive eating practitioner, Rose White.

Rose is the co-founder of, the not for profit organisation, Reframe Club and is the co-host of the Reframe Podcast.

She loves to write and believes that everyone deserves to be at peace with food. Rose is a good friend and her knowledge and experience during these types of conversations consistently have a profound impact. The way in which Rose is able to explain very complex psychological theories and make them feel understandable and actionable is remarkable.

This episode is mindblowing as we move between many topics all relating to each other but all equally being separate topics with clear mythology towards their approaches.

Highlights:

• A clear definition of intuitive eating
• Why do people develop eating disorders
• The mind and body connection
• Intellectualising trauma and bodywork
• Guidance for difficult relationships with food
• Yo-yo dieting and labelling food good or bad

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In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, I’ll be chatting with that meditation guy, Jimmy Wightman.

Jimmy’s meditation journey started because his enjoyment of life was crippled by insomnia and he’d heard that meditation could help with that.

He'd already tried courses on mindfulness and guided meditation books and CDs, but nothing got him to that deep place of stillness and silence that he'd heard about.

Jimmy found what he was looking for in the ancient Vedic tradition of meditation and shortly after he was sleeping like a baby.

He now teaches busy people the most powerful technique he knows for connecting to deep inner silence and stillness.

This episode is amazing as Jimmy has a calming manner that is beautiful to listen to and offers stacks of value on how to get started with meditation.

Highlights:

• How focussing on the breath isn't the only option for meditation practice
• How meditation can improve sleep and increase energy
• The science of meditation
• How meditation can help with trauma or addiction recovery
• How meditation can increase happiness in a person’s life

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In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, I’ll be chatting with stage hypnotist and human psychology enthusiast, Rob Temple.

Rob is passionate about what makes us think, act, feel and behave the way that we do.

He's not a psychologist, a scientist, a life coach or an academic. He hasn't got a degree, hasn't written a single book and doesn't ‘treat' clients.

But, over an 18+ year career as an entertainer, he's hypnotised over 20,000+ people around the world and has uncovered the real ‘in-the-field' magic behind our thoughts, emotions and mindset.

Rob is on a mission to help regular people just like him understand how a single idea, planted like a seed into our mind, can grow and flourish into something powerful, to change your life and become the very best version of yourself?

Highlights:

• How does hypnotism work?
• How can it improve someone's life?
• Transforming thoughts
• Creating fulfilment
• Finding purpose

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In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, I’ll be chatting with 1:1 and online personal trainer, Tatum Rose.

Tatum’s philosophy is strongly based on women's health.

It’s her mission to help normalise the industry and shift the focus to strengthening and conditioning the body and mind, rather than just focusing on how we look.

She understands that looking good does make us feel good, but believes it’s vital to move the body well, enjoy movement and make the most out of life.

Highlights:

• Tatums story
• Perceptions around fitness
• Unhelpful behavioural cycles
• Breaking Cycles
• Yo-yo dieting
• Comparison
• Debunking myths

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We place so much expectation on the idea of leading a happy life. It’s often that expectation that can cause us to feel unhappy.

In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, I’ll be chatting with Kate Baily, professional personal performance coach specialising in addictive behaviour and grey area drinking, associate coach trainer at The Coaching Academy, co-founder of Love Sober, co-author of Love Yourself Sober and co-host of the Love Sober Podcast.

Continuing with the dry January support, Kate discusses her sobriety journey and goes on to speak passionately about her love and understanding of the science of happiness.

Highlights:

• Kates sober journey
• Starting the Love Sober movement
• What opportunity does dry January present
• An explanation of the science of happiness
• The pillars of the science of happiness
• How you can start implementing it into your life
• What the differences are between the science of happiness and toxic positivity

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People often find in modern-day living that the elephant in the room is often their relationship with alcohol.

In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, I’ll be chatting with ‘Sober Dave’, David Wilson.

Dave’s a grey area drinking coach, ambassador to Alcohol Change UK and host of the top 10 apple podcast ‘One For The Road’.

With the intention of supporting those that would like to take part in dry January, this episode will help highlight the benefits of going alcohol-free and attempt to clarify what a problematic relationship with alcohol looks like in hope of helping you with what can be a difficult decision.

Highlights:

• Understand the definition of an alcoholic, grey area drinker and problematic drinking
• Sober Dave's journey towards sobriety
• What becoming sober can give you
• Advice for someone who is silently feeling overwhelmed by their relationship with alcohol
• What opportunities there are in doing dry January
• The grieving process associated with giving up alcohol
• Support and understanding for the partner of someone who has gone sober

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In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, I’ll be chatting with BBC favourite Simon Mundie.

Simon is a broadcaster, motivational speaker, author and host of the popular podcast ‘Life Lessons: From Sport & Beyond’.

He’s interviewed some of the world's most successful people and has learned many valuable lessons from the sporting elite. He believes that people aren't broken, they’re conditioned to believe they are. It’s this kind of thinking that has given birth to his motto of “Get out of your own way!”

Together we extract the wisdom from lessons learned from his life as he reflects on how the harsher experiences led to greater resilience and a deeper understanding of the concept of acceptance.

This is a profound episode with stacks of gems and plenty of laughs.

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In this episode of The Self Development Podcast, Johnny speaks with inspirational speaker, coach and breast cancer survivor, Louise McMilan.

This is an incredibly powerful episode where Louise is brave enough to speak in-depth about her breast cancer survival story.

Due to this, we wanted to make people aware as Louise does go into detail that may be distressing if you are not prepared for it.

Louise is truly a remarkable human being that has been through some literally, unbelievable, experiences and has somehow found the resilience and self-belief to continue to fight.

The two also discuss her experiences in her early life, around depression, self-confidence and self-belief and how it is often our perception of how others see us that dictates how we see ourselves.

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On this episode of The Self Development Podcast, Johnny speaks with confidence coach, trainer and educator, supervisor and mentor for coaches, public speaker and co-author with Sandra Stocks of 16 Seconds: Debunking The Myths Surrounding Manifestation, Pam Lidford.

Pam’s ethos is to work holistically and energetically to make a difference in people's lives through awareness and choice and working with mind chatter.

During this episode, Pam is kind enough to share a very personal story with us and it was an absolute honour to hear. She speaks about the mind, body and energy in relation to holistic coaching.

Pam has an incredible reputation for supporting coaches and offers advice based on what she has seen.

This is the kind of episode where having something to take notes on would be handy...

On this episode of The Self Development Podcast, Johnny speaks with life and business mindset coach, NLP master practitioner, the human potential coach, Nikki Hill.

Nikki is an entrepreneur with a love of helping people take control of their lives and their businesses.

She successfully works with many people and helps them turn their dreams into reality, goals into success and overwhelm into a thing of the past.

Johnny and Nikki discuss a variety of topics such as women in business from the challenges, the advantages and the pitfalls and opportunities.

She shares her unique perspective on blame vs impact, purpose and imposter syndrome.

On this episode of The Self Development Podcast, Johnny speaks with the social media experts that help businesses build strong brands and attract dream clients, Jacob and Jack Cardy, the Media Bros.

This remarkable team has been influential in helping develop “The Self Development Coach” brand and now the ‘School of Self Development’ community as well as working with other emerging brands.

The three discuss the common mistakes made on social media such as how to raise awareness, how to cover the basics, current trends and how to implement a long term strategy towards social media.

The Media Bros also stress throughout this episode the importance of offering genuine connection and value to your customers and how to approach that while still actively running a profit making business.

On this episode of The Self Development Podcast, Johnny speaks with the former Co-founder and facilitator of The Bridge Retreat, one of the stars of the stunning documentary ‘Loved’, author of  ‘The Bridge’ being published by Penguin Life in Spring 2022 and creator of the programme called ‘Deepening into Life’. This episode's guest is the remarkable Donna Lancaster.

This episode is a treasure trove of knowledge and wisdom. The two discuss the concepts of anger, grief, loss of identity, boundaries and dehumanisation.

There are truly some unbelievable and awe-inspiring moments in this episode, you are strongly encouraged to grab a pen and take notes, as there is some incredible insight passed along here that is sure to help with your self-development.