I'm delighted to share the conversation with Martina Cowen, exploring the fundamental triangle between Nutrition, Psychology and Cooking. This is such a cornerstone for our mind-body connection as humans and Martina's approach is so empowering, refreshing and inspiring, I think there's something we all need to hear in here for our own wellbeing!

Martina Cowen is a Registered Nutritional Therapist and Mind-Body Eating Coach with over 10 years' experience in nutrition.

She is the founder of 'Freedom from Cravings', where she helps people understand what is really driving cravings, digestive difficulties and eating patterns that can feel difficult to change.

Her approach brings together evidence-based nutritional therapy with the psychology of habits, behaviour and our relationship with food. Martina helps clients understand both the biology and behaviour behind what is happening.

Alongside her private practice, Martina lectures in nutrition and biomedicine and works as a clinical supervisor, supporting the next generation of nutritional therapists.

Freedom from Cravings is where biology meets behaviour.

I hope you enjoy our conversation and find something helpful in here for you.

I know I've certainly learned a lot and its already making me think differently about the experience we create with food, in support of our overall health and wellbeing.

We'd love to hear your comments, questions and feedback. And if you'd like to get in touch directly with Martina, her details are below.

Thank you Martina! Your story has truly inspired us.

Where to find Martina:

Website: Freedom from Cravings | Food & Gut Health Coaching

Free 20-minute Freedom Call: https://freedomfromcravings.co.uk/get-in-touch-martina-cowen-nutritional-therapy 

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martina-cowen-nutritionist-60845b125/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/martinacowen/

Free resource:

Free eating pattern quiz: https://freedomfromcravings.co.uk/opt-ins/welcome-to-emotional-eating-quiz-starting-page

Starter guide: 3 powerful strategies for Freedom from cravings: https://freedomfromcravings.co.uk/opt-ins/opt-in

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Welcoming Ellie Lloyd-Jones to the podcast!

It was such a great conversation for me with Ellie, I really hope you enjoy it too.

So many parallels, from burnout to recovery and setting up your own business; to empowering others to connect with themselves, find space and explore with nature as a partner; to discovering and deepening the relationship to ourselves through the help of the Enneagram (a very comprehensive human personality system /map).

Ellie shares some really honest and reflective insights into her own journey and life, inclusing the challenges and learning she's gained along the way.

I loved Ellie's authentic self-awareness and how she's creating spaces, resources and communities so that leaders, teams and individuals can all uncover what they need and how nature can be the best facilitator and healer.

If you'd like to connect with Ellie directly, I really recommend connecting with her on Linked in or via her own website. Details below:-

Ellie is here on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellie-lloyd-jones-nature-coach/

Ellie's website:

www.elevatewithellie.co.uk

And if you would like to know more about the Enneagram as a fantastic tool for self discovery, development and growth, here's a link to the Integrative Enneagram Solutions site for more information on the Enneagram and the 9 different human personalities.

If it is something you'd like to explore more, I'm an accredited Enneagram Coach and always happy to chat Enneagram and support however I can.

https://www.integrative9.com/enneagram/

There's also plenty of information online about it too.

Thank you so much to Ellie - you were a wonderful guest!

Enjoy the conversation everyone and look forward to hearing your comments, reflections, questions, feedback, etc.

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Welcome to Episode 11!

We're here today in conversation with Rachel Kinney, a Solutions-focused Hypnotherapist based in Warrington, Cheshire (UK).

Rachel's here today to share more about her own wellbeing journey and how she hopes that she can help other people through sharing this, and also through the hypnotherapy work she does to benefit others' health and wellbeing.

Rachel's business is Acorn2Oak Hypnotherapy. You can find her website here: https://acorn2oakhypnotherapy.co.uk

On Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/racheljkinney/

And on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acorn2oak_hypnotherapy_

And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575188392906&ref=embed_page#

In this conversation, we chat about a range of topics around holistic wellbeing, including recovery from burnout, coping with an active /high stress load, the mind-body relationship, brain neuroplasticity and nervous system healing, as well as our own shared experiences of overcoming wellbeing challenges. Rachel also shares how hypnotherapy was an important catalyst in her own healing, inspiring her to want to study and change career, to help other people.

I hope you enjoy the conversation! As always do get in touch with Rachel or myself to let us know any questions, comments or feedback you have. And I'd encourage you to connect with Rachel directly too. She's a lovely person and very passionate about what she does to help others to live the lives they were supposed to, without fears, phobias or limiting beliefs getting in the way.

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We are delighted to welcome Liz Needham to the podcast!

It was a lovely conversation from our perspective, I'm thrilled to have Liz join us and share her own insights, gained both in her own journey and through working with leaders for many years in different contexts and walks of life.

Liz really brings to life her approach which is refreshing and intuitive, helping leaders in organisations of whatever shape and size, to seek out their own inner wisdom and find new ways to lead through the complex and fast-changing external environment we find ourselves in. Liz's warmth, down to earth, thoughtful approach and grounded coaching style really does help people to navigate unknown waters from a much more resourced place.

It was so good to touch on so many topics from self-discovery, to community, to inner systems and back to practical wellbeing and self care - so I truly hope there is plenty in here for everyone wherever you come to the podcast from.

I also love how through these conversations, we can normalise the messiness, the imperfect nature of being human in all of this - we truly are all learning and figuring out our journey as we travel along it. I hope you can join the conversation and share any insights and wisdoms you have gained along the way - as we really can and do learn from each other. So we'd love to hear your thoughts too.

If you would like to connect with Liz directly, her details are:-

LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/lizneedham

Website - https://www.lizneedham.com/

Email - [email protected]

And thank you again for listening!

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We are delighted to have Roger Lee-Emery with us on the podcast today.

Roger is a very experienced leader and an innately grounded and down to earth, glass half-full kind of person! He shares in the episode his own journey and reflections on what's helped his own wellbeing, self development and mindset over the years.

He's travelled most of the world and met a lot of people in his time. Perhaps as a result or simply his nature, there's a refreshing perspective that Roger brings - which I've seen him live and breathe in his leadership roles, but also in how he navigates life and seeks to bring balance, growth and opportunity for people - whether that's his family and friends or the people who he works with.

We chat about some interesting topics, such as what success means to him, how his relationship to emotions has changed, what makes him tick and finding peace and balance in micro-moments amongst the busyness and noise of life.

I hope that you enjoy the conversation and apologies again that there is a bit of background noise, we haven't been able to edit out altogether. I'm embracing the imperfect and hoping that it adds a dose of reality and doesn't detract from your enjoyment of Roger's conversation!

We'd love to hear any thoughts, reflections, questions etc that you may have on the back of the conversation.

And if you'd like to connect with Roger directly, he is on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-lee-emery-99490b5/

Thank you Roger for being a wondergul guest and sharing all that you did with us!

And thanks everyone for listening.

Bye for now.

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We are delighted to have Tony Grimes with us on the Podcast today!

Tony is the Founder and Manager for the Cheshire Wellness and Mental Fitness CIC group and a qualified Mindfulness Teacher, amongst many other strings to his bow.

Tony's wellbeing journey is a very inspiring one and also a very tough one as he shares honestly with us on the Podcast episode. Tony is continuing to navigate an ongoing healing recovery with chronic pain, due to a brain condition and previous injury, which at the time, meant taking early retirement from the Prison Service after 20 years dedicated career to helping some of the most vulnerable in society.

Tony is genuinely one of life's amazing people, despite what he manages in his own life, he continues to dedicate his time and efforts to helping other people. We will hear all about his own approach and how that may be able to help you in your own wellbeing and life journey. I believe that his wisdom and approach can help all of us, regardless of where we are and what we are dealing with in our own lives.

I hope that you enjoy listening to Tony's sory as much as I did. And please do let us know any feedback or comments you have, we would really love to hear your thoughts, any reflections and anything that has resonated with you.

If you'd like to connect with Tony directly, you can connect with him via Linked in on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-grimes-714689194/.

Thank you Tony for being on here and simply and most importantly, for being you!

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It is a privilege to welcome Colin Nicklas to the Podcast, Colin is a friend and former colleague who has a really interesting story and set of experiences, wisdoms and learning to share around health and wellbeing, self development and leadership too.

His is a facinating journey, as a curious child hearing stories of far away cultures, travels and adventures, he set his sights firmly on joining the Royal Navy which he did at 18 travelling the world and experiencing a breadth and diversity of experience that has clearly given him great perspective, understanding, passion and wisdom about people and how to help them thrive.

From there, its interesting to hear about how that shaped him as a person and a leader and how he has evolved all of that experience and those learnings into supporting leaders, teams and organisations as an independent Consultant and Coach to benefit from the space and partnering he generously gives to learn, grow and fulfil their potential.

Colin's warmth and honest sharing around the challenges he's faced and the tough times he's come through really I think really reinforce those key messages about the strength of vunerability, the importance of 'self' in our wellbeing and leadership attention, normalising asking for help when you're not okay, finding your own rhythms, mechanisms and resources that support you and the power of inner circles, communities and support networks. Things that we can all do to help ourselves and each other too.

I hope you all enjoy the episode and please do feel free to connect with Colin directly. He's on Linked in at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-nicklas/

Colin also mentioned the 'John Adair model of Action Centred Leadership'.

You can find out more on this here:

https://www.businessballs.com/leadership-styles/action-centred-leadership-john-adair/

https://adairleadership.org/acl

Thank you Colin!

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Well, after a short break, we are happy to be back with Episode 6 of the Podcast!

And I'm delighted to welcome Sue Southern into conversation - its a cracker of a conversation I think - Sue shares some brilliantly honest insights and reflections in her own journey of wellbeing and self discovery.

We explore really important topics around our purpose and identity, holistic health & wellbeing, courage & vulnerability, service and leadership and fundamentally, discovering who we truly are on the inside: how to do the work of sitting with ourselves and digging deeper to know and develop the person we are.

Sue shares the tools, experiences and insights that have helped her and that she's continuing to work with in being much more present, comfortable and accepting of herself.

I hope there's something that resonates and connects with you in Sue's story. If you would like to get in touch please do. Sue and I would love to hear your feedback and any questions on our conversation too.

Sue is on LinkedIn here on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-southern/. Please do connect directly with her if you'd like to, she's an inspiring person full stop, as well as an amazing leader, Coach/Mentor and Wellbeing practitioner too.

Sue mentioned the following resources too in case you'd like to check these out for yourself too:

Ikigai - Japanese model of being and purpose in life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

Joe Dispenza: 'Breaking the habit of being yourself' book

Mel Robbins: 'Let them theory' book, podcast and resources.

Massive thanks to Sue!

Enjoy everyone and let us know your thoughts, comments, questions.

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I am delighted to welcome Lisa Sherlock to the Podcast in this episode and I hope that you enjoy listening to Lisa's story and our conversation.

In this episode, we're diving in to explore the importance of the right nutrition for our body's long term quality of health. Specifically we're exploring with Lisa, the important data and research carried out by Zinzino, on our Omega 6:3 balance (amongst other key areas of our health & wellness) and how this can directly affect our chances of preventing or reducing life limiting/threatening diseases, inflammation and our immune response.

There are some simple information we can test to understand where we all are, and importantly what we can do to improve our bodies' health from the inside out.

Lisa will also share more on this, as well as how she came to learn about the power of getting the right balance and quality of personalised supplements on our health. Many of us may think we're taking vitamins and eating healthily, but when we actually test, we find that we're still not getting the right quality of ingredients going into our systems and being absorbed by our cells.

Lisa is keen to get the message out there, to help more people to know about all of this, to make informed choices for themselves. We will also be discussing Lisa's own background and learnings about self discovery through the conversation too.

I hope you enjoy it!

To connect with Lisa, these are her details:

Lisa Sherlock Independent Partner @ Zinzino.com

Email lisasherlock@talk talk.net Tel 07841428665 Web Link https://www.zinzino.com/2017652325 

To read more about Zinzino

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Welcome back to Episode 4 of the Podcast! We are chatting today to Angela Hodgson about all things wellbeing, self discovery and development. Angela shares her story, in a beautifully honest and authentic way and the strategies and insights that have helped her, so that she may help others.

Angela brings a wealth of experience, both in work and in her family and personal life to help leaders and teams to be at their brilliant best, in a way that is sustainable and prevents burnout.

Her warmth, openness, energy and passion for life and what she does can't help but reach through and lift you!

What's inspiring, is there's a gritty determination and years of self work that sit underneath that, so I really hope you enjoy the conversation we had and Angela's story and insights.

To connect with Angela, you can find her mostly on Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelahodgson/ and she has kindly included her quiz for listeners too https://igniteimprovement.co.uk/quiz

Do get in touch and follow or connect with Angela. And let us know if you have any questions, comments or feedback, we'd love to hear from you. And we'd love to hear your thoughts on our prompt questions too.

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