Any Mum Can

By Versha Patel

Bringing uplifting, informative and inspiring conversations to empower all mothers and women everywhere about prioritising and recognising their needs. With weekly health and wellbeing experts to rais... more

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June 15, 2021MANAGING BOUNDARIES & STOP PERFECTIONISM with Leyla Okhai
Episode #19

Leyla Okhai talks to me about how as mothers and women we find it increasingly difficult to manage work-life balance and the first port of call is managing boundaries. She wants to raise women's awareness and acceptance that good is good enough and when to stop.

Leyla also speaks about mental health and our cultural and individual differences are key to be aware of and essential to help people on their recovery journey after mental health issues, especially after the last 15 months.
And we should be aiming to create optimum mental health throughout our time in work.

Furthermore, feeling accepted for who we are and our cultural identity has become even more important for work place success in the current times we’re living through.

Leyla shares:
Consider what's important and what's in your control.

Listening to yourself before we overdo things, work or other things

Recognise whether you are beholden to your to-do list, what does this do to you

Changing your perspective on the ‘we must’
About Leyla
Leyla Okhai is the founder and CEO of Diverse Minds. Enabling organisations to create mentally healthy and equal workplaces through coaching, training, speaking and consultancy. With a focus on practical mental health strategies, cultural awareness and race equality to facilitate a positively productive workplace.

Connect with Leyla
https://linktr.ee/DiverseMinds

Connect With The Host
My name is Versha Patel. I transform lives, working with Career Women 40+ to get their health and quality of life back in balance, give themselves more energy and gift themselves with prioritising themselves and ending self-sacrifice and trade-offs in their life. I am a women's movement and nutrition specialist coaching behaviour change to accelerate energy levels, change body and health. Empowering women to create lasting healthy habits, and let go of disempowering ones and access their inner power to feel healthier and 10 years younger. Changing nutrition and movement to feed the mind, hormones, and body. Learn to know and love themselves, taking advantage of evidence-based neuroplasticity change in the brain means anything is possible in creating a different mindset to themselves and their health.

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41min
June 08, 2021ENDOMETRIOSIS - HOW TO REDUCE SYMPTOMS with Kim Linfoot
Episode #18

Kim Linfoot talks about her personal experience with endometriosis, the misdiagnosis of it and her personal journey through taking part in many medical trials to then going her own way to live with this chronic condition, and she is 22 years on in her journey.

She is an upbeat happy person who wants to raise awareness of this condition and help women identify what is going on for them regarding their periods so they can manage their discomfort better or overcome it completely.

Kim shares:
What endometriosis is.

How what you eat really matters

Why different foods help and or make it worse

What mental health practices can help
About Kim
Kim Linfoot is the proud mum of Martha Lily, who is 4 and a partner to Matthew who is a Nurse.
Kim’s background is in the musical theatre profession and she still gets the joy of performing professionally with her band, The Hummingbirds and teaching others how to get into the performing arts industry. She has been a teacher and mentor now in education for the last 15 years and loves it! Kim has always had a passion for coaching others and supporting people to flourish into their best selves.

Connect With Kim
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Facebook Page

Connect With The Host
My name is Versha Patel. I transform lives, working with Career Women 40+ to get their health and quality of life back in balance, give themselves more energy and gift themselves with prioritising themselves and ending self-sacrifice and trade-offs in their life. I am a women's movement and nutrition specialist coaching behaviour change to transform energy levels, body and health. Empowering women to create lasting changes in health, body, and let go of disempowering eating habits and access their inner power. Accelerating their energy levels, to feel healthier and 10 years younger. Changing nutrition and movement to feed the mind, hormones, and body. Overcoming the internal struggles, getting comfortable feeling uncomfortable and learn to know and love themselves to take advantage of evidence-based neuroplasticity change in the brain means anything is possible. Supporting women to step out of the shadows that live within them, and step into their power, giving them even more, to give to those around them. And to live a happy healthy life in a body they love and deserve.

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1h 12min
May 31, 2021GOOD VIBRATIONS ARE CONTAGIOUS with Rockstar mum Kully Gosal
Episode #17

Kully Gosal is my Rockstar mum of the month for her infectious energy of kindness, happiness and dedication to keep adding, tweaking things to help her health, mindset, and joy through her life with her family and work.

Kully Shares:
How her morning routine has transformed how she feels about herself and energy levels

What she's tried in her routines

Her happiness secret

Her contagious energy for life and helping others
About Kully
Kully Gosal was born in Leicester in 1978, and settled back here with her husband in 2014 when the birth of their second son meant they had finally outgrown their little London flat. In between, she lived in India with her grandparents between the ages of 1 and 5, where she almost died from a monkey bite.
She started taking physical fitness seriously as she turned thirty, and fused this with mental wellbeing exercises during her pregnancies and has been a science teacher for many years, a career she still loves to this day!

Connect With The Host
My name is Versha Patel. Women's movement and nutrition specialist coaching behaviour change to transform energy levels, body and health in women 40+. Empowering women to create lasting changes in health, body, and let go of disempowering eating habits and access their inner power. Accelerating their energy levels and clients vibration is my speciality among other things, to bring the change they desire.
Changing nutrition to feed the mind, hormones, and body. Overcoming the internal struggles and learn to know and love themselves to take advantage of evidence-based neuroplasticity change in the brain for different outcomes.
Supporting women to step out of the shadows that live within them, and step into their power, giving them even more, to give to those around them. And to live a happy healthy life in a body they love and deserve.

Contact Versha:
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43min
May 25, 2021COMMUNITY IN HELPING MUMS THRIVE with Beth Q. Mount
Episode #16

My guest this week was Beth Mount, she talks about the importance of having a community around women to help mums thrive, applicable for all ages and stages of parenting.
We are not designed as human beings to be alone and we need support, yet more and more women feel alone and often unsupported or heard. These are basic human needs that can be forgotten or not recognised as important in the ever-increasing priority placed on being productive over our well-being and seeking a friendship group.

Beth discusses how a community helps mums feel involved and can encourage activity or actions we may not take alone, without feeling pressured. Touching on how mothers can actually be fearful of asking for help or burdening others and she encourages mothers to work through a little discomfort of getting out to meet others and investing time to be part of a community, as it pays dividends in support once you have found a circle of like-minded individuals.

She shares:
We’re not meant to do this alone.

How a community helps us.

Changing perceptions on getting yourself support

Loneliness is harmful to our well-being and contributes to anxiety and stress.
You need and deserve support through all stages of change in motherhood, especially in looking after your health and family. Beth defines what a community can look like and how to lean into this support, seeing it as essential, not weakness to not being able to do it alone, part of self-love practices.

About Beth Mount
Beth is a mom of 2 in Southeast Michigan. Her boys, now 8 and 10 brought more challenges healing, and growth than she could have envisioned. Beth works as a Massage Therapist and Restorative Exercise Specialist. Through her journey with pelvic pain, she came to love a holistic movement lifestyle. In studying movement she found how it intertwines with the community. She's interested in the paradigm shift toward a deeper connection with ourselves and others. For her, the key to a healthier future starts with rebuilding trust in our bodies.

Connect With Beth:
IG @move.sovereign
FB @move.sovereign

Connect With The Host
My name is Versha Patel. Women's movement and nutrition specialist coaching behaviour change to transform body and health in women 40+. Empowering women to create lasting changes in health, body, and let go of disempowering eating habits and access their inner power.
Lifting their energy levels and vibration to bring the change they desire.
Changing nutrition to feed the mind, hormones, and body.
Overcoming the internal struggles and learn to know and love themselves to enable the neurological change needed for hormones to assist feeling and seeing change.
Supporting women to step out of the shadows that live within them, and step into the power that lives within them, giving them, even more, to give to those around them. And to live a happy healthy life in a body they love and deserve.

Contact Versha:
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43min
May 17, 2021 PERIMENOPAUSE - HEALTH TO HELP YOURSELF with Jeyanthi Nair
Episode #15
Jeyanthi Nair is my guest this week discussing perimenopause, what it is and when this transition of change in women can start.
Perimenopause is the pathway of change to menopause and it is a time when women can really take heed to be more serious about what they put in their body and how they've been thinking all these years.

Jeyanth explains the valuable signs and symptoms you can look out for and what natural things you can be doing to make life easier and better for your next 40 to 50 years ahead of you.

She shares:
· Blood sugar management influence
· How being mindful and changing your mindset is a game-changer
· How adding more veg can have a knock-on effect
· Importance of having a blood test and identifying symptoms
· Another opportunity in a women’s life to take health seriously.
This is a really important and powerful conversation for women approaching their 40s to mid-40s.
The changes women experience do not have to be seen as all doom and gloom.
And the culture of pill-popping being accepted once we come of a certain age is something we can choose to live free of.
Women can choose a different outcome for themselves.
About Jeyanthi Nair
Jeyanthi Nair is a nutritional therapist. She helps women balance their hormones through nutrition and health coaching and bring vitality and exuberance to their lives. She specialises in perimenopause as she is personally at that stage of life and supports many women through related issues.

Connect With Jeyanthi
FB business page: https://www.facebook.com/jeysoulnourish
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/🥗jeyanthi-nair-b041a128/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/jeysoulnourish/
Website: www.soulnourish.co.uk
Email: [email protected]

Connect With The Host
My name is Versha Patel. Former pregnancy, postpartum fitness, and nutrition specialist for over 8 years, turned Health and Body coach. I now help women 40+ empowering women to embed behaviour change to transform their health, release unhealthy weight, let go of disempowering eating habits and access their inner power.
Challenging thoughts and limiting beliefs, changing nutrition to feed the mind, hormones, and body.

I help women to do this by overcoming their internal struggles and learn to know and love themselves to enable the neurological change needed for hormones to assist feeling and seeing change. Empowering women to step out of the shadows that live within them, and step into their power to embrace themselves and choose themselves, so they can continue to give to those that need them.
And to live a happy healthy life in a body they love and deserve.
Versha's Contact points:
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50min
May 10, 2021BEATING BURNOUT & AVOIDING IT with Fay Victoria Durrant
Episode 14

Fay Victoria Durrant - the Wellness Wonder Woman is my guest in this epic podcast on Burnout. In his episode, Fay is very frank about what lead to her personal encounter of burnout and deeply shares what it was like and how she missed the many signs her body was telling her and the things she would say to herself avoiding the harsh reality. Fay wants to raise awareness on this topic of health for mums of all ages whether a working professional or stay-at-home mum, and that it can happen to anyone with a chronic stressful life and so they know the signs to look out for.

She shares:
Symptoms of burnout to look out for

The range of things that can occur

Listen to what your body is telling you

The 4 pillars to steer clear or recover from Burnout
About Fay
Fays health and Wellness journey has been a rocky road. As a young mum with a very stressful work & personal life, she developed a passion for working out hard and running, to manage the stress, this ultimately led to exercise addiction, and a lack of true self-care and balance, in turn, lead to extreme burnout, and a long learning curve to recovery.
Tenacious enough to not give up on her dreams of sharing the joy and benefits of movement, but keen to share her story to help others beat burn out, she retrained in Yoga and Pilates and exercise for older adults. And slowly, very slowly went back to work teaching a different more balanced form of fitness and wellbeing.
She now enjoys sharing more gentle but very effective forms of working out and teaching her clients about the importance of a more balanced life including a lot of real self-care to improve their health and wellbeing.

Connect With Fay

Facebook Fay Victoria Durrant | Facebook
Linked In fay victoria durrant | LinkedIn
Insta Health & Wellness Expert (@wellness_wonder_woman)

Connect With The Host
My name is Versha Patel. Former pregnancy, postpartum fitness, and nutrition specialist for over 8 years, turned Health and Body coach. I now help women 40+ empowering women to release unhealthy weight, let go of disempowering eating habits, and access their power.
Challenging thoughts and limiting beliefs, changing nutrition to feed the mind, hormones and body.

I help women to do this by overcoming their internal struggles and learn to know and love themselves to enable the neurologocal change needed for hormones to assist feeling and seeing change. Empowering women to step out of the shadows that live within them, and step into their power to embrace themselves and choose themselves, so they can continue to give to those that need them.
And to live a happy healthy life in a body they love and deserve.

Website
Instagram
Personal Facebook
Facebook Page
LinkedIn
...more
54min
May 04, 2021FIND YOURSELF & HEALTH IN OVERCOMING ADVERSITY & FAMILY FALLOUTS with Hema Nanuwa
Episode #13

Hema Nanuwa is another Rockstar mum guest on the podcast. I picked Hema for her resilience through the adversity she has been through and the importance she placed on her health through her work on herself to coming out the other side stronger and empowered. She changed her food she put in her body and how it made her feel to exercising regularly, she challenged her ways of thinking and healed herself, her childhood and made peace with the broken relationships that were causing her pain. The journey of doing the two together helped her create the confidence she feels she never had previously.

Her newfound perspectives and minset shifts, allowed her to remain positive through the miscarriage she had, with the deep knowing if another family member was meant to happen it would happen. Hema has since had a the second baby she was hoping for.

Hema Shares:
How important her health was to her in overcoming the issues brought by a toxic family situation

The practices she used and still uses to keep high spirited and healthy through challenging times

How she reframes everything to see what could be negative to empower her

How adversity has helped her realise she can give others hope and help to overcome similar life problems.
About My Guest:
Hema Nanuwa was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya and has now settled in Leicester UK, with her lovely, blended family. She is a mother of three incredible children, a 16year old stepson, a 4 year old daughter and a 6 month old son. Currently, she is enjoying motherhood but in her spare time focuses on her business as a transformational coach focusing on women. She empowers women to transform their lives by developing their capabilities and setting purposeful goals.

Connect with My Guest:
Website: https://hemananuwa.com
Instagram: http://Instagram.com/hemananuwa

Connect With The Host
My name is Versha Patel. Former pregnancy, postpartum fitness, and nutrition specialist for over 8 years, turned Health and Body coach. I now help women 40+ empowering women to release unhealthy weight, let go of disempowering eating habits, and access their power. Challenging fixed mindsets, changing nutrition to feed the mind, hormones, body, and teaching women how to optimise exercise effectively for their best outcomes. And I get women to do this by overcoming their internal struggles with their weight and enabling hormones to help the process. Radically changing my client's health in the process and to gain a stronger, fitter body inside and out. Empowering women to step out of the shadows that live within them, and step into their power to embrace themselves, choose themselves, and love themselves, so they can continue to give to those that need them and to live a happy healthy life in a body they love and deserve.
Website: www.vershapatel.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/versha_coach
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/versha1
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BeyondBodyCoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/versha-patel-0239041/
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48min
April 27, 2021RETURN TO EXERCISE POST BIRTH OR MAJOR OP
Episode 12
As part of the early motherhood health series, this episode I talk about returning to exercise classes and sport after having a baby or a majot operation. Reminding listeners that your health and personal care is essential to focus on and is an important habit to create with the right focuses for your body's needs at this time. It is short and to the point listen.

I share:
Things you need to do to return safely to exercise

What things you need to consider in the progression of exercise

How to build up your fitness

Why it is so important to pay attention to the small stuff
Early motherhood is a busy, tiring time for many mums, with some mums experiencing overwhelm with the many things to do for a baby, other children if they have them, and looking after themselves as well as thinking about work or returning to work. I reassure mums it is possible with encouragement and small bouts of time.

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Connect With The Host
My name is Versha Patel. Former pregnancy, postpartum fitness, and nutrition specialist for over 8 years, turned Health and Body coach. I now help women 40+ ingrain self-worth, release weight and let go of disempowering eating habits. Challenging fixed mindsets, changing nutrition to feed the mind, hormones, body, and teaching women how to optimise exercise effectively for their best outcomes. And I get women to do this by overcoming their internal struggles with their weight and enabling hormones to help the process. Radically changing my client's health in the process and to gain a stronger, fitter body inside and out. Empowering women to step out of the shadows that live within them, and step into their power to embrace themselves, choose themselves, and love themselves, so they can continue to give to those that need them and to live a happy healthy life in a body they love and deserve.

Website: www.vershapatel.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/versha_coach
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/versha1
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BeyondBodyCoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/versha-patel-0239041/
...more
13min
April 17, 2021WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT C-SECTION SCAR HEALING with Lola Akinola
Episode #11
Lola Akinola is my special guest this week, who is a pregnancy and postpartum exercise and education specialist.
She has had 2 c-sections herself and realised just how little recovery advice and approach to exercise was out there, leading her to specialise in this area to empower women to look after their body pre and post-birth. Calling all women who have had a c-section, recent or some time ago to know that it is never too late to rehab.

She talks openly about her personal shock of having an emergency c-section what she had to do to change it all around for her.
And she shares :
Valuable areas to focus on for c-section recovery.

What to start with to adjust to the scar

Reiterating the importance of acceptance of your body

How spot-training the tummy area will not help recovery

What a diastasis recti is

Importance of balanced breathing
About Lola Akinola
Lola is a mum of two, a primary school teacher but a women’s fitness trainer: specialising in exercise and education for pregnancy and beyond.
Lola’s fitness journey, however, began 6 months after having her first child by emergency c-section. She decided that she wanted to get into shape and lose her ‘mummy tummy’. At the time, she didn’t realise she had a large degree of separation in her abdominal muscles (diastasis recti) and. began using at home DVDs which consisted of sit-ups and crunches. A few weeks into them, Lola noticed a doming shape around her mid-section and after some research, discovered that the exercises she had been doing were too advanced at that time.

Connect With Lola
Website: https://www.thisfemalehealthandfitness.co.uk/
Facebook Page: This Female Health & Fitness
Instagram: @behindthisfemale

Connect With The Host
My name is Versha Patel. Former pregnancy, postpartum fitness and nutrition specialist for over 8 years, turned Health and Body coach. I now help women 40+ ingrain self-worth, release weight and let go of disempowering eating habits. Challenging fixed mind-sets, changing nutrition to feed the mind, hormones, body, and teaching women how to optimise exercise effectively for their best outcomes. And I get women to do this by overcoming their internal struggles with their weight and enabling hormones to help the process. Radically changing my client's health in the process and to gain a stronger, fitter body inside and out. Empowering women to step out of the shadows that live within them, and step into their power to embrace themselves, choose themselves, and love themselves, so they can continue to give to those that need them and to live a happy healthy life in a body they love and deserve.
Website: www.vershapatel.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/versha_bbb
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/versha1
Business Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BeyondBodyCoaching
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/versha-patel-0239041/
...more
47min
April 11, 2021PERSISTENCE OUTRUNS DOUBT with Rockstar mum Nila Chauhan
Episode #10
Nila Chauhan is another Rockstar mum guest on the podcast, who has come a long way from where she was 20 odd years ago.
From her teens food made her feel good for a big part of her younger life, leading to a learned way of using food to cope with stress in her life for the next 20+ years, becoming morbidly obese and having 3 children through this.

She is a testament that anyone can change their health, mind and body around. Nila is an inspiring individual who juggles work-life balance just like anyone else, however, it is now her mindset, discipline and dedication to her health and goals that keep her on her toes, not to mention she has coaches that are helping keep her accountable and learning how to do the things she is doing, showing human beings are not islands and everyone needs help.

Nila shares:
She cared about everyone else and not herself

Feeling she had to sacrifice herself to be the best parent

How perfection was destroying her

Change she realised had to come from within

Persistence will overcome any doubt

How goals have been her 'go to'

How adversity has shaped her to keep going

Her wisdom on what she wished she'd started earlier
This is an inspiring listen and lots of wisdom to help you begin or stay on your journey of the best health and best you.

About Nila
Is a nurse, a mother of 3 and is now 56, who started her journey from morbidly obese at size 24 to size 8, some 10 to 15 years ago.
She kicked obesity and has done London Marathon, Southend to London race, she is a European Karate Champion and has recently competed in Crossfit competitions, losing the weight some time ago, now getting stronger by the week!

Connect with my guest
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nila.chauhan1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prince55_nila/
Connect With The Host
My name is Versha Patel. I am a Transformation Mindset, Nutrition and Body Coach, devoted to helping women overcome obstacles to change their health, body and mindset towards themselves, for releasing excess weight, gaining a healthier, stronger, fitter body inside and out. Teaching women to live, feel and think differently as well as changing what they eat, how they move to release excess weight and keep it. Teaching women to choose themselves daily, to live an exceptionally happy healthy life in a body they love and deserve.
Website: www.vershapatel.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/versha_bbb
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/versha1
Business Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BirthBeyondBody
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/versha-patel-0239041/
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1h 5min

FAQs about Any Mum Can:

How many episodes does Any Mum Can have?

The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.