A Brilliant Gamble

Silvina Marchisio talks about her year long journey with depression and anxiety.

She shares her personal experience of dealing with burnout in a foreign country and how visual thinking and visual metaphors help her share her own thoughts along her journey back to the world.

Leah Steele, is the expert in Imposter Syndrome. A sufferer herself through her years as a lawyer, she eventually developed techniques to deal with her demons and is now helping others to do the same.

In our interview we talk about the signals she missed that she was suffering overwhelm and burnout, and how now she is helping others get out of this cycle.

Today’s guest is Zoe Cohen, a former NHS Trust board member who became a very successful executive coach. Zoe has now pivoted her life to focus as much as she can on activism and peaceful civil disobedience to push for the much needed system change to tackle the existential threat we face from climate and ecological breakdown.

On today’s show I speak to Phil Quinnan, who stepped off the hamster wheel, not to start a business, but to take some time to reflect and reconnect with himself and his family in the Italian countryside.

It was a life threatening illness that first got Catherine thinking about how she could earn money outside of the 9-5. Today she earns 4 times what she was earning in her corporate role and has a lifestyle that works much better with her health and personal priorities.

In this interview we talk about how she started her business and how she’s grown it through her focus on constant marketing.

How should you spend your day when you work for yourself?

In today’s show I talk about two concepts to help you organise your time around what’s really important.

Failure is normal. Most of what happens when you take a Brilliant Gamble is failure. It’s just a part of the process of change. And I want to share with you a different way to think about failure and how to incorporate failure in to your business.

Maybe you don’t like the word failure and you’d rather I called it something else. But I want to take the charge out of the word so that it doesn’t have the power it might have in your own mind.

Are you putting off building your website? Is it half done? Have you done it but you’re not happy with it?

Today’s show is here at the rescue!

I’m talking to Matthew Eldridge, Owner and Head Geek at Melt Creative Ltd and this episode is Websites 101!

Creativity is hugely important to developing that sense of balance that so many of us are looking for and so this week, I talk to Sandra and Tara from Kick in the Creatives.

They have podcast of the same name, a website and a 1000 member Facebook group aimed at helping people incorporate creative challenges in to their lives.

Jennifer Kennedy's blog is only 18 months old but she has, to date, nearly 35,000 readers... and she balances that with a full time job as well.

Like so many of our guests Jennifer didn’t have a grand plan - she just got started, with the help of a friend’s 14 year old who set it up her blog for her.