Jason struggled to find employment after completing his creative writing degree at university. He eventually found a 9-5 and started to write novels. However, he soon realised that he wasn’t fulfilled in his job and quit.

After experimenting with a few different stopgap jobs he found himself teaching English online to pay the bills and he began sharing his strategies for teaching with others.

As he started to achieve some success through this, he decided to dedicate himself to find jobs for others. The online teacher recruitment network — DigiNo — was born, allowing him to live a digital nomad lifestyle. Jason is currently travelling through Asia, teaching English online and teaching others how to do the same.

In this interview you will learn:

1: Don’t quit your 9-5

2:The three hobbies everyone should have

3:The benefits of exercise beyond just looking good

4:What Jason has seen in his travels that links all humans together

Website: DigiNo.org

Would you like to have the next four years mapped out?

To know exactly how you want to develop and progress in a key area of your life?

This episode will show you how.

In this episode, you will learn the key mindsets that you need to adopt year on year in order to succeed in important ventures in your life: from education to business to relationships.

Iona Russell’s core philosophy is that no matter who you are, where you’re from or what your personal circumstances, it is possible to reinvent yourself from the inside out and live your purpose.

We all have innate wellbeing, health and happiness within us. Iona has proven her own philosophy having overcome personal struggles with depression, stress and confidence.

She truly believes everyone can get out of their ‘funk' and get to a place of fulfilment, freedom and flow, and do so with ease. To live the life that they dream of - because she has done it. Iona has helped hundreds of clients to release their blocks, overcome negative habits and beliefs such as, lack of confidence, depression and feelings of ‘being stuck’. She’s often referred to as a wizard who does magic without the illusions.

Iona is an Intuitive Life Coach, who is also certified in Clinical Hypnotherapy (Dip.C.Hyp), Past Life Regression (PLR), Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), Kinetic Chain Release (KCR Masters), Advanced Ho'oponopono and Postural Energetics; She is experienced in meditation and mindfulness practices having been raised by buddhist parents with a hippie philosophy. She has developed The Rapid Release for Entrepreneurs to Release their Blocks and Embrace their Purpose.

Her Book ‘Making Waves’ is out Feb 22nd 2020.

In this interview you will learn:

1: Everything is a mess until we return to love

2: Your inner self will always warn you when you are doing the wrong thing

3: The importance of remembering that your worst experiences are behind you

4: Why your purpose is a mixture of happiness and curiosity

Website: www.ionarussell.com

Imagine you improve by 1% each day. Day after day, you make 1% progress on where you were at the start of the day.

How much would you have improved by the end of the year.

365% right?

Wrong.

You would actually have improved by 3778%.

That is the power of compound improvement.

What allows us to improve at this rate?

The actions we take each and every day, also known as our habits.

Your life is the sum of your habits, so what habits are you building for yourself?

If you would like to build some better habits, you will learn four principles in this episode that will help you do so.

Liam McKelvie is a quad amputee who believes that everybody can achieve their goals and ambitions irrespective of how many limbs they have.

After contracting meningitis as a young child he has had to adapt and overcome challenges in order to live his everyday life. His experiences have helped him craft an attitude of positivity, self-belief and resilience and he is now looking to spread this to others.

By embracing certain mindsets, Liam has overcome seemingly impossible challenges and believes that these attitudes can be embraced by anybody.

Liam is now a motivational speaker who teaches his “No Limbits” Philosophy.

In this interview, you will learn

1: The greatest limitations are the ones you place upon yourself

2: How to defeat negative self talk

3: The value of being delusional

4: Why to never take no for an answer

I was stunned when the reports started coming through last weekend about the death of Kobe Bryant.

My first thought, as it sadly often is in this day and age, is that it was "fake news".

However, as the reports confirmed the death of Kobe, his daughter, and seven other passengers, I reflected on his tragically shorted life.

I have actually used Kobe as an example a couple of times in my seminars and in my books to illustrate key points.

As I thought how I could pay tribute to Kobe, I decided not to come from the basketball angle or family angle that most tributes were focused on.

Instead, I wanted to pay tribute to how Kobe's example could help us, even after he is gone, and even if you have nothing to do with basketball.

In this week's episode of the Author Your Life podcast, I share what these three lessons are.

Madeleine Black chose to forgive the two men who gang raped her at thirteen years old and she shares her story for many reasons.

She wants to end the shame, stigma and silence surrounding sexual violence enabling others to find their voice, whatever their story is. She wants people to know that it’s not what happens to us that is important but what we do with it. She wants to encourage others to live their life courageously too; but ultimately she wants to inspire hope and show people that we are all so much stronger than we think we are.

The sharing of her story publicly on The Forgiveness Project’s website in September 2014 opened many doors for Madeleine in ways she never imagined, and the invitations started to pour in. Many women and men got in contact and explained how reading her story gave them strength, hope, and a different perspective of what’s possible in their lives. She has been invited to share her story of being gang raped as a teenager at conferences, book events, schools and on radio and television interviews. She recognises that she was a victim of a crime that left her silent for many years but has now found her voice and intends to use it. Not just for her, but for so many who can’t find theirs yet.

In March 2018 she won the Amazing Strength award at the No. 1 Magazine Amazing Women Awards and in October of the same year was asked to be the Patron for Say Women, a Scottish organisation which offers safe accommodation and support to young women who are survivors of sexual abuse/rape and who are homeless. She is one of 50 Thrivers taking part in research by The Global Resilience Project to develop a resilience blueprint for others. She is a TEDx speaker, a story teller for The Forgiveness Project and has recently become involved with their programme RESTORE, sharing her story in prisons

Her memoir, Unbroken, was published on April 4th 2017 and she continues to work as a psychotherapist.

In this interview you will learn:

1: Forgiveness is not for other people, it’s for you

2: To see the events of your past as pictures

3: Speaking out is the job of all of us, not just some of us

4: The power of sharing your story

Website: www.madelineblack.co.uk

The main problem people encounter when setting goals is they focus on the WHAT.

"I want to lose weight"

"I want to earn more money in my business"

"I want to find love"

The problem with focusing on the what, is you don't get a clear understanding of HOW to get there.

You get to the end of the month and find out you haven't lost weight.

You get to the end of the quarter and your business is still flatlining.

You get to the end of the year and you don't have a promising relationship to show for any of the dates you went on.

If you want more control over ultimately achieving those targets, then you need a different approach.

You can find out what that is in this video.

Phyllida works in third sector campaigning surrounding face equality and mental health. Her interest in the field began after being involved in a life-changing car accident in Ghana. In the crash, she sustained prominent facial scarring, and so was faced with a decision whether to let her changed appearance affect her self-esteem, confidence and sense of self.

She struggled for some time to come to terms with being a young woman who was now associated with an appearance that is predominantly seen in the media as scary, ugly or something to be pitied.

Phyllida found solace in a community that she found via ‘Changing Faces’, a charity with which she volunteered and shared her story. Over time, her confidence grew as she found courage that wasn’t dictated by her appearance and she developed an interest in the way that people with disfigurements are portrayed, treated and represented in society.

She took on a role at the charity in campaigning. During which time she worked on Home Office funded campaigns preventing disfigurement hate crime, partnerships with Facebook and Twitter, alongside awareness campaigns in partnership with the British Film Institute, the Telegraph, Avon and world renowned photographer, Rankin.

Phyllida now works as a freelancer for Mind, Hub Dot and Face Equality International and has also become a model with Zebedee, an agency which focuses on diverse representation in the public domain. She has also launched a project which seeks to break down barriers and connect people through the power of food, called ‘What People Eat’.

@WhatPeopleEat

@PhyllidaSwift

In this interview you will learn:

1: That you are more than just your looks

2: How to reduce judgement

3: To say yes to your opportunities, even if you end up taking on too much

4: Why to think about who you want to admire you when you’re gone.

Learn about three principles of growth and how you can activate them so that you become one of the few who accomplish their resolutions by the end of the year.

In this session you will learn:

1. How 60 minutes changed my life forever

2. Who you want to have around you this year

3. How I can help you for the rest of this year