Today's episode is an interview with Sarah McCalden. Sarah is a dedicated financial wellness and personal growth expert known for her achievement, strength, passion, and expertise. Award-winning and an international best-selling author, she has trained with industry leaders like Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield, and Kendall Summerhawk to master her skills in helping people achieve financial success and personal fulfillment.

Sarah's journey is a testament to her resilience. After overcoming a life-threatening drug addiction in her twenties, she turned her life around embracing motherhood and fitness, running marathons and ultramarathons. In 2018, she started her own business, achieving a six-figure income and making a real difference in the lives of women (and some men) by helping them take control of their finances and transform their relationship with money. And of course Sarah gave us some book recommendations.

Here are some of the key takeaways from this episode:

• Sarah's desire to home educate after seeing a lot that she didn't like in the education system.
• A lack of information about how best to manage the money that she was earning led to Sarah starting her own Money School.
• The difference between home schooling and home education. Education through play.
• Learning a different mindset and way of thinking about earning, money and wealth, through a network marketing business
• Shifting your mindset by taking more responsibility for your own journey and income. Seeking out and saying yes to opportunities.
• Low self esteem and low self worth following a long period of drug addiction. The journey forward - taking responsibility - being meant for more.
• Knowing your own comfort zone, pushing this slightly, taking tiny steps regularly to make massive change.
• Being put on the spot to speak at an international event. A small but very powerful moment of realising that others took inspiration from her story.
• Human design and being an introvert. Enjoying being around people and connection. But the need for time alone.
• Choosing the right opportunities rather than those that you feel that you "should" take.
• What other people think of you is none of your business. Looking back at times when fear, and what others think, has stopped her.
• Telegram as a good coaching and community tool.
• Zoom for video calls, group meetings, webinars.
• Networking - meeting each other through online networking.

Find the show notes and the links to recommended tools and books here.