A Meaningful Life By Design

Today, I welcome onto the show the talented, Krissy Teegerstrom. I was first introduced to Krissy via her podcast Beyond and Back. Krissy is an Artist and Creative Consultant and she has a seriously enviable Rock and Roll career, working in the music biz. She has since gone out on her own under her personal brand of Featherweight Studio where she has designed for bands, artists, boutiques & brands and creates amazing clothes that have been worn on stage by many well-known musicians such as Eddie Vedder. She has super cool murals around Ohio, Texas and in addition to the podcast many other creative endeavors.

Henk Brand has the dream job! Now I know a lot of people may make that claim to fame, but honestly, this guy, his work, and his life, it is seriously enviable! Henk is an Adventure Concierge. He is the founder of the YOUR ADVENTURE - THE SECRET ADVENTURER and he spends his days CURATING EXPERIENCES | EXPEDITIONS and BESPOKE EVENTS in Cape Town, South Africa and around the world. How did he create this life, from working in tech and finance, to being paid to roam the globe on extreme adventures and taking people on secret adventures? Henk shares with us how sometimes you need to get back to your roots and get lost to find yourself again. Henk also kindly shares with us some really practical guidance on exactly how you can do what so many people aspire to, to turn a passion into a successful career. Now before you head directly over to Insta to check out this inspiring guy's incredible feed, listen in to the podcast for some really tangible advice and steps to take to create a career and life you love.

My amazing guest today Alina Berdichevsky, of Alina B Coaching is a Certified Professional Coach, Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and PSYCH-K facilitator, as well as a student of Meditation, Strategic Communications and Journalism. She has had a fascinating career from starting off as a Life Coach when she was only in her early 20s, running the famous "The art of being sexy" workshops, segwaying into journalism and PR. She now continues her coaching career and beautifully balances her love for both luxury and earthly, prestige and spiritual. Alina has an incredible presence, not only due to her draw-dropping beauty but in her uncompromising approach to honesty and intentionally showing up in every moment. In fact, if you've spent any time in Australia you may well be familiar with Alina, as she's often featured in popular media such as Body and Soul, Chanel Seven Sunrise, Madison, New Woman and SMH.COM.AU.

This podcast is an absolute gift if you're questioning how to bring together all the unique aspects of yourself into a somewhat aligned career. If you're someone with diverse interests and wide-ranging skills, you'll love this episode of the show, as Alina shares her personal journey of bringing together the unique aspects of herself and crafting an incredible career and life. If you're interested in working with a coach or forging a coaching career this podcast is an absolute must-listen.

My incredible guest today, Suresh Joseph, Reshie, is a clinical psychologist with a Masters in Psychology and the Neuroscience of Mental Health. He is also a medical doctor and has an incredible personal story to share on how through his studies and life experience he has come to understand a new way of looking at wellness, mental and physical health. Through his own search for answers to his own complex health condition of addiction and the lack of answers that his own biology and medicine provided, Reshie went on a quest to answer the question, "What is wrong with me". He soon learnt he was asking the wrong question. The question should have been "What happened to me?" And the answers were contained in a new understanding of a unified mind-body biopsychosocial medical model. This podcast lays out in simple terms Reshies journey to answer this question, and how that answer has reshaped his entire view on what it really means to be sick, and what we need to get well.

Our guest today, Kirsten Johnson, is a Transformational Life Coach with a powerful story of how she overcame childhood trauma, addiction and fear to pursue an incredible career changing the lives of women across the globe, appearing as a TEDx speaker and becoming a published author. Her story of understanding of her potential, overcoming all obstacles and living a truly incredible life is beyond inspiring. This podcast is a must-listen if quite simply, you'd like to uncover how to live beyond fear, how to free yourself from numbing, dumbing and distracting, and be inspired to live your best life. It is with great pleasure that I welcome Kirsten Johnson on to the show today.

Today, I welcome on to the show a guest and friend that I've watched from afar for a few years now, David Morrison. I've watched David, a guy I knew, a party guy, social guy, successful corporate guy, life of the party, the type of guy you want to be around, I've watched his life over social media change and evolve. Years ago, there were the crazy dance festival pics, then the wedding pics, next came the pics of his gorgeous kids, but in recent years I've seen David post about his personal development and entrepreneurial journey via social media and the occasional coffee catch up. It's been beautiful to witness this incredible guy find new levels of meaning in life, and to see the inner growth reflected in his outer world.

Angela Wing was the ultimate corporate boss, jet-setting around the world, platinum status style, wining, dining, winning, or so she thought. However, her external world of success was not mirrored internally, internally she felt a little, well, empty. She knew there was something more, in fact, Angie is one of those rare birds that knew she had a calling since she was a young girl. She has also had an out of body type spiritual experience in her teens, but it took reaching high levels of corporate and external success to realize she needed to follow her calling.

And this is what we're talking to Angie about today, her incredible talent to embody a limitless state of being and how she can assist each of us to feel truly limitless, to overcome our fears, limiting beliefs, busy minds, preoccupation with regret over the past and anxiety of the future. Through a study of modern science, neuroscience and numerous methodologies and modalities including neuro-linguist programming, Angie has learnt how each of us can achieve a state of being to unleash our potential and find joy in the present moment. This podcast is an absolute must-listen if you're ready to rocket to the next dimension and enjoy the ride.

I am truly humbled to welcome today's guest, Alan Clements, onto the show. Honestly trying to condense Alan's bio into something shorter than his entire podcast, has been a challenging task. In short, though, and trying to not to do this globally recognized Spiritual Leader a disservice. Alan was born in the US, he is a former Buddhist monk, and was ordained as one of the first Buddist Monks in former Burma. In 1984, forced to leave the country by Burma's military authorities, Alan returned to the West and through invitation, lectured widely on the wisdom of mindfulness, in addition to leading numerous mindfulness-based meditation retreats and training's throughout the US, Australia, and Canada. Years later in Zagreb, he wrote the film Burning while consulting with NGO's and the United Nation's on the pivotal role of consciousness in understanding human rights, freedom, and peace.

Alan has made a career of integrating his classical Buddhist training with a political awareness that includes global human rights, environmental sanity, democracy and the preciousness of everyday freedom. His efforts working on behalf of oppressed people led a former director of Amnesty International to call Alan "one of the most important and compelling voices of our times". A speaker at UN, Amnesty and global events, we can say with complete confidence that Alan knows a thing or two about living a meaningful and intentional life.

If you are at all interested in hearing from this poet, writer, artist, creator and global speaker on seeking what the soul desires, conscience reflection on the quality of our presence on earth and falling in love with life in the moment amidst troubling times, then settle in and listen on as Alan blows my mind with his poetic and eloquent deconstruction of the times we live in and how to face up to life's challenges with conscious intention.

My very first interview on this new podcast is with the talented Heather Porter. Heather kicked off her early career in a big way, working with Tony Robbins, managing events globally. She then went on to co-found the Billionaire Adventure Club, where she brought entrepreneurs to work with the Richard Branson School of Entrepreneurship in South Africa, and other social enterprises globally. Heather is an #1 best selling author, co-author of 4 business books, and host of 'That Social Media Show' on the Bizversity business app used in over 100 countries. She now runs Website Love, a website development and social media agency. Heather is a regular speaker on the circuit, speaking about growing your business online for audiences.

Recently she became the first of eight Facebook Community Trainers in Australia and New Zealand. In short, she is an incredible Entrepreneur and a queen of online business development. Heather works with her fiancé and is a step mum to two teenage boys. Originally from the US, she now lives with her family in the northern beaches of Sydney, when she's not jet-setting domestically and internationally for work.

What I love about Heather's career and life is how she has built a fulfilling career with awareness and clear intention. At each step of her career, at each juncture, she looked at her circumstances, considered everything and make conscious decisions, aligned to her values, on how she wanted to live her life and make a meaningful impact on the world. This podcast is a must-listen if you'd like to understand how to intentionally chart a career course that embraces opportunity and know when to change course in order to fulfill your potential and add value to the lives of others. Anyway, I won't give any more away, I'll let Heather tell you her amazing story herself.