Your Gifts Matter

Tammy Johnston from KSA Business has been working with Small Businesses for over 20 years. She specializes in helping Solopreneurs as early in their journey as possible to teach them the basic, foundational skills they need to first survive and then THRIVE!

In this episode, you will hear from Kevin Scott, Relationship Expert at Effortless Alpha.  

He shares his experience living in a rural farming town in Ontario, Canada. His career journey spanned electronics, farming, retail, finance, live infomercials.  The entire time he was living paycheque. He was focused on doing something great with his career and was struggling financially.  

A shift in perspective changed for him when he met a life coach who challenged him to see that he wasn't open to change and seeing his life from a different perspective.  

Kevin will share the key gifts he accessed to enable him to become open to change and step into his true self.  Today, he helps other men going through similar experiences he faced in his life.  

In this episode, you will hear from Julianna Quijano.  She is a Transformational Guide. She shares her experience as the youngest of six siblings and the only girl in her family.  

Her parents divorced when she was around 10 years old which shifted the family dynamic as well as her own sense of belonging.  As a young girl, she was shy and more introverted. You will learn how dance gave her confidence and self-esteem she was missing.  She shares the gifts she found her struggles as a child and as an adult.  

You will have an opportunity to experience a breathing exercise to help with stress and anxiety. 

In this episode, I talk with Marian Bourne from the Bourne Practice.  She operates a private health and coaching practice in London, England. 

She shares about her experience with living with pain. Pain that she wasn't fully aware of the cause.  While running her practice, she got to the point where she could help clients in the morning yet needed to rest in the middle of the day to have the energy to see clients in the afternoon. 

Marian found a profound gift within all the pain and today is able to help others in the corporate world dealing with pain.  She finds a large number of her clients' pain is a result of stress in the workplace.  

Marian demonstrates an exercise to help reduce stress and you can use it immediately.  

My guest in this episode is Ruthann Weeks, Corporate Culture Strategist with Harmony in the Workplace.

She shares her story which ultimately brought her to create her company which helps organizations in areas such as violence & harassment in the workplace and workplace wellness.

In her past, she experienced relationships focused on control and manipulation which resulted in her becoming very ill.

For quite some time, she dealt with the illness on her own.   Until finally, it was so bad she realized she needed to see a doctor. Once she was assessed by a doctor, she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. Stress is something that is known to be a potentially major cause of this condition.

At the time, she was facing a lot of stress in her life and recognized that when the illness showed up previously it was during very stressful times in her life.

Ruthann shares about the gifts she found in the middle of the stress and struggles. She shares how she learned to change her perspective on how she viewed the world and ultimately herself.

In this episode, you will hear from Michael Tranmer who lives and plays in Vancouver, BC.  Michael works as an engineer in the highly specialized field of coastal engineering where he designs and builds projects along the coast.  He shares his struggles related to his career as an engineer and going through a divorce.  You will hear about his realization that training for the Ironman ended up being a method of numbing out.  

In this episode, you will hear from Sarah Ross.  Sarah shares her experience working for 16 years for well known international companies in roles focused on Compliance, Ethics, and Process Improvement. 

She speaks about the challenges of being in a role where not everyone wanted to hear what she had to say about maintaining compliance and ethical standards.  Her role left her feeling isolated from the people she worked with.   The stress and pressure of her work resulted in severe migraines and debilitating pain. 

She found herself at a place where she created a plan to commit suicide after a six month period.  For six months, she would do things she always wanted to do.  This led her to visit an orphanage in Vietnam and meeting a dying orphan who completely changed her life forever. 

You hear about the gifts she accessed to change her plan to stay alive and impact the lives of others. 

Sarah Ross is an international award-winning speaker and bestselling author who uses her own experiences with Burnout and Depression to help others avoid the dark place that she found herself in when she left the corporate world. 

My guest in this episode is Monika Becker from Clear Directions Coaching. 

She is trained as a Horticultural Engineer and working for 12 yrs in Sales & Marketing in German, Italian & Canadian tree nurseries. Eventually, she transitioned from horticulture to the tourism industry and worked as a Team Lead in a Call Center.  

She shares how she tended to be a person who would withdraw in stressful situations.  She grew up learning that you are supposed to follow the rules and do what your parents and adults tell you.  Over time, she became very nervous and anxious while at work. It ultimately resulted in a psychosomatic illness.  

You will learn about the inner gifts she accessed to overcome her struggles.  

In this episode, you will hear from Fatima Zaidi, Owner of Project Instigate and an acclaimed TEDx Speaker.

She shares her experiences related to moving a lot as a child, bullying and public speaking. 

You will learn the gifts she accessed during these movements of her life and how she still uses them today. 

Welcome to Your Gifts Matter. 

Aaron Solly, Owner of Engage Coaching Group shares his intention for this podcast.