With everyone's finances being slightly squeezed by economic factors, it's always wise to make sure we're investing in the right places. In this episode, Anthea talks about the best ways in which we should be spending on self-development, and how to make sure we're getting the most for our money.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Look at the cost of staying where you are right now in relation to your goals. It's difficult to quantify, but try to examine the state of your wellbeing and how an investment in yourself could actually prove to be something of a bargain.
• Health issues could actually prove costly in the long run. Would a preventative financial investment now actually save you money in the long run?
• When considering the best ways to leverage your time, think about the value of your hours, and what you could actually save vs the cost of acquiring external help in order to achieve it more quickly.

BEST MOMENTS 

'This is definitely something you should think about'

'As everything changes, you could actually be regressing'

'You could find that it pays off to invest in that coaching'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Action Women - 

MEET YOUR HOST

Anthea McCourtie

Anthea McCourtie is a transformation coach, a registered nutritional therapist, personal trainer, yoga teacher, action movie lover, keen climber and trail runner, with a particular love of pole fitness and staying active!

WHERE TO FIND ANTHEA

Website – https://youbyanthea.co.uk

Email – [email protected]

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/you.by.anthea/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/You.By.Anthea

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Sue Parker is a Female Lifestyle Entrepreneur, author, Business Tech Tools expert, and creator of the Freedom Project Podcast, designed to help empower and allow you to create the life of your dreams.

Sue joins Anthea to talk about the ways in which she took control of her life and built a more flexible existence for herself and her family, why we should embrace time as our greatest resource, and why we need to consult our future selves in order to overcome more and impress ourselves.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• The corporate world allows us to build skills and make incredible connections, but the constraints sometimes far outweigh the benefits. Creating a life of your dreams requires you to step into your own form of working.
• Time is the one thing we can't make more of. It's a finite resource and every moment we spend doing something we don't love, is time wasted. We can be in danger of losing sight of ourselves.
• The first step in creating the perfect life is taking risks. Change is never easy, but if we focus on the long term vision then the solutions become far more clear.
• We must show up as the person we would like to be, and ask ourselves what that person would do in any situation. 

BEST MOMENTS 

'I really wanted to have more flexibility'

'There are things we can outsource in order to do much more'

'You ask yourself "What happened to the me?"'

'It's about having the long term vision over the short term challenges'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Sue Parker - https://sueparker.io

MEET YOUR HOST

Anthea McCourtie

Anthea McCourtie is a transformation coach, a registered nutritional therapist, personal trainer, yoga teacher, action movie lover, keen climber and trail runner, with a particular love of pole fitness and staying active!

WHERE TO FIND ANTHEA

Website – https://youbyanthea.co.uk

Email – [email protected]

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/you.by.anthea/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/You.By.Anthea

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Anthea discusses self sabotage, one of the most frustrating challenges we face when working towards our health goals.

Anthea talks about how to identify this behaviour when it arises, and what we can do to overcome and surpass it in order to keep us moving towards our fitness and wellbeing goals.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Self-sabotage is very common in the weight loss arena, especially for those with a perfectionist tendency. The smallest things can often lead us to jettison our entire programme.
• If you've eaten too much then the feeling can be physically disastrous. It perpetuates a sense of self-loathing and frustration. These feelings lead into other feelings. Try peppermint or fennel tea to alleviate this.
• Specific breathing exercises can help us to change our state. Box breathing in particular allows us to tap into the para-sympathetic nervous system, which is designed to calm us down.
• To reach our goals, we have to put in place not one single action, but usually a series of actions. If we find ourselves lacking in one action, then turn your focus to another.

BEST MOMENTS 

'If you get a flat in one tyre, do you then go and slash the other three?'

'The idea is to get a break from your current environment'

'This is our calming rest and digest system'

'I don't like to think of things in black and white'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Action Women - 

MEET YOUR HOST

Anthea McCourtie

Anthea McCourtie is a transformation coach, a registered nutritional therapist, personal trainer, yoga teacher, action movie lover, keen climber and trail runner, with a particular love of pole fitness and staying active!

WHERE TO FIND ANTHEA

Website – https://youbyanthea.co.uk

Email – [email protected]

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/you.by.anthea/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/You.By.Anthea

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Wendy Firmin-Price is a spiritual mentor, coach and personal and professional development practitioner, as well as the founder of HEART, a centre for equine assisted therapies and equine assisted coaching.

Wendy joins Anthea to talk about her incredible ethic, and how she is proving that equine assisted therapy can support and assist our personal growth, and the ways in which we can embrace the spiritual side of the world in order to gain control over our destinies.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Listening to someone in pain can sometimes provide the greatest form of healing possible. Simply being there as another soul unburdens themselves can act as a true healing force.
• When you begin to understand that there is a scientific law behind everything that happens, it makes the belief in spiritual laws, and their perpetual presence in all we do, much easier to understand.
• The way we are treated by others is often due to the energy we project and the fact that their own sense of the spiritual is interacting with us. The signs are not always visible to the naked eye.
• When we find our Great Organising Dynamic, tapping into that flow allows us to move far more quickly towards our aims, and also shows us where shortcuts can be taken. it's like a form of spiritual GPS.

BEST MOMENTS 

'The most important thing we can do for anyone is just listen'

'Excel rather than strive for perfection'

'Spiritual laws are always in action'

'Whatever feeling we're having, it all carried a vibrational frequency. Like energy attracts like energy'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Heart Centre UK - https://www.theheartcentreuk.com/wendyfirmin-price

MEET YOUR HOST

Anthea McCourtie

Anthea McCourtie is a transformation coach, a registered nutritional therapist, personal trainer, yoga teacher, action movie lover, keen climber and trail runner, with a particular love of pole fitness and staying active!

WHERE TO FIND ANTHEA

Website – https://youbyanthea.co.uk

Email – [email protected]

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/you.by.anthea/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/You.By.Anthea

This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

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In this, the first of a brand new series dedicated to helping women to unleash their power and take real action towards their goals, your host, Anthea McCourtie discusses the power of self-development programmes, and why we need to not just consume their teachings, but truly absorb and understand their meaning in order to maximise the gains.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Self-development programmes can boost us, accelerate our growth, and help us to change the way we see life, and vie the world around us. But it’s not enough to simply consume, We must also understand and apply.
• It’s worth taking time to consider the speed at which the teachings need to applied, according to the author. To fully digest and grow from the lessons learned, we should follow the recommended speed where possible.
• Increased access to creative tools are allowing us to apply teachings to all parts of our lives. We should embrace this.
• Always take time to summarise an ethos or teaching to yourself in real time. If we can explain a teaching to ourselves so that we fully understand it, then we will absorb far more effectively.

BEST MOMENTS 

‘Could you elaborate on how you applied these things to your life?’

‘it’s easy to fall into some common traps with these kinds of books’

‘When you have a lack of momentum, you can fall out of sequence’

‘You haven’t really understood something until you can explain it to someone else’

MEET YOUR HOST

Anthea McCourtie

Anthea McCourtie is a transformation coach, a registered nutritional therapist, personal trainer, yoga teacher, action movie lover, keen climber and trail runner, with a particular love of pole fitness and staying active!

WHERE TO FIND ANTHEA

Website – https://youbyanthea.co.uk

Email – [email protected]

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/you.by.anthea/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/You.By.Anthea

This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.