In this week’s episode I sat down with Beaonca Ward a certified life coach, to discuss the ever elusive term of finding one's purpose. This one was an interesting one for me, because I believe that we can find and assign purpose in everything we do on a sliding scale from the smaller more intricate everyday nuances, to the larger big picture purpose that we’ve come to know and identify with in our society. 

But we live in a society that pushes and encourages us to think that we must find that “one thing” that we’re put here on this earth to do, and that in itself can be detrimental to health and wellbeing if we feel as though we don’t have that one thing, we haven’t yet figured it out or perhaps it’s just not realistic for whatever reason. I often think passion and purpose are also used interchangeably, and the truth is they are quite different. Passion is any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, whereas purpose on the other hand is the reason for which something is done or for which something exists.

If we look at the concept of multipotentialites (someone with many interests and creative pursuits) and how for example, in the Renaissance period, you were considered a societal success if you had multiple talents that you excelled at. Yet nowadays we’re taught not to be a Jack of all trades - you must have heard that one before? When you’re at school, college or when it comes to picking a career, that we must pick one thing and be good at it, and that can sometimes be debilitating.

I also think that purpose changes at different points in our life, from your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and so on. And within that web the tapestry of what makes us “us” from our environment, the countries we grew up in, the culture, the beliefs and value systems we adopt, will all invariably change how we perceive our purpose at any given time.

I certainly enjoyed speaking to Beaonca and sharing our different views on the soul and deriving purpose in our lives. A great episode for someone who’s currently feeling a little at sea, has just finished university/college and is perhaps unsure of which career or job may be suitable for them, or someone who’s seeking a head start on seeking more clarity and direction in life generally. 

So, is there one answer to what is purpose? Have a listen and let me know what you think.

ABOUT BEAONCA:

Beaonca Ward is a certified life coach, motivational speaker, and founder of A Sunny Movement which is a personal development business that inspires women to live their purpose and develop a greater sense of resiliency.

Beaonca and her work have been featured in The International Coach Federation, Darling, and Medium.

Her work is rooted in helping individuals better understand themselves through their actions, emotions, thoughts, and soul, by shifting them, leading to positive change in an individual’s personal life, career, and relationships with others.

Onto this week's episode.

Social media links:

https://www.instagram.com/therealbeaonca/

https://www.beaoncaward.com/

In this week’s episode I’m joined by declutter coach and specialist, Sorted by Sue. With 20+ years experience as a senior Executive Assistant, most recently working for 5 years at Google New York, she founded Sorted by Sue to help busy New Yorkers declutter, purge, organise and streamline their belongings, improve their space and live a more meaningful life.  

Her natural ability to create order from chaos was evident from a young age - her favourite games were Tetris and jigsaw puzzles. At boarding school she was elected Head Girl, organising and overseeing the lives of 300 girls between 8 and 17 years.  Afterwards she moved to London and, since then, she’s organised senior executives' lives, calendars, workflow, and families in London and New York since. She’s worked for CEO’s, CIO’s, and VP’s at Google, Universal Music Group, Napster, PolyGram, Redscout, and P&O Containers. 

In 2009, she graduated from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition (IIN) as a Holistic Health Counsellor and in 2015 took a 10-week solo sabbatical to Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos culminating in her studying Permaculture Design.

Sorted by Sue is a member of NAPO (National Association of Productivity and Organising) and is fully bonded and insured.  

She believes that in working together incorporating a mixture of decluttering mentally, emotionally and physically, that you truly can improve your life and your home.

On to this week's episode.

Social media links:

https://www.instagram.com/sortedbysue/

http://www.sortedbysue.com/

In this week's episode I’m joined by Jonty Hurwitz an artist, engineer and entrepreneur. Born in Johannesburg, he studied engineering before going on to work as a researcher at the University of Cape Town.

Following his studies Jonty travelled in India studying Yoga and wood carving, before arriving in London where he then spent many years in the tech world designing financial risk algorithms.

Jonty is internationally recognised for his pioneering work in merging the world’s of art and science. His work has become widely recognised both academically and in the media (with over 165,000 followers on Facebook and Instagram). His art has appeared in Forbes, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and has been covered on Arte, CNN and BBC.

His work explores the deeper questions in life by bridging art and science through the use of cutting edge technology.

Alongside his art, he still works in the fin-tech industry and is immersed in the world of AI. In this episode we chat about art, creativity, technology and if AI really is as scary as we’re led to believe. 

On to this week's episode.

You find more about Jonty here:
Website
Instagram

In this week's episode I sit down with Tolu Farinto, Socially conscious entrepreneur, Change-maker & Ethnicity and Social Mobility specialist at Utopia

A culture change business that creates more purposeful, inclusive and entrepreneurial cultures for clients. Tolu is a central part of a team that takes Utopia’s top-to-bottom, boardroom to factory-floor into clients businesses including household names such as Coca-Cola, Google, Spotify and Universal Music. 

He co-founded The Great British Diversity Experiment in 2015, and is a key advisor to Hackney CVS's flagship Black Men for Change initiative: a strategic pan-London platform, funded by the Mayor of London, to combat structural inequality as it impacts vulnerable communities. He also sits on the creative advisory board for the Ideas Foundation, a charity that ensures that career opportunities within the creative industry are accessible to talent from lower socio-economic backgrounds. 

This episode is for you if you’re ready to learn the foundations for how to become more culturally aware, inclusive and how to incorporate greater diversity into your business. We’re not discussing light hearted subjects by any means, but Tolu’s approach and style of leadership helps to break down what may be barriers of where to begin.

So, let’s get started.

Social media links:
https://www.instagram.com/t_farinto/
https://www.instagram.com/weareutopians/

This week I’m joined by wellbeing entrepreneur, Kat Vitou. 

Kat’s world plunged into darkness in April 2015 when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of just 39, she embarked on her own voyage of wellbeing, ensuring her mind and body were in optimal condition to overcome one of life’s greatest adversaries.   Kat decided to take ownership of the areas of her life that she could control and extensively researched and sought specialist advice on holistic, integrative medicine. She bravely fought the disease. And won.

Following her remission, Kat trained in Integrative Nutrition and also qualified as a Level 4 Life Coach and she quickly established a successful health coaching and mentoring business alongside running, sellout Corporate Workshops with clients including Virgin Atlantic.

Her holistic lifestyle and journey has proved a catalyst in founding The Well+Life+Tribe which provides an opportunity for people to learn about wellness and the health coaching industry.  Well+Life+Tribe has grown quickly into a large wellness community and she has a panel of experts helping her, including doctors, nurses, nutritionists, neuropsychologists, psychotherapists, yoga teachers and personal trainers.  

She is host of the popular ‘One Size Does Not Fit All’ podcast with conversations including celebrities and health and wellness experts, which has a growing audience and following.

This week's episode is for you if you’re a wellbeing practitioner and looking to hear from Kat who has not only grown her own successful wellbeing business but now teaches others to do the same. 

Over to this week's episode.

Social Media Links:

https://www.instagram.com/katvitou1/

https://www.instagram.com/well.life.tribe/

Founder of Money & Wealth Within, Martine is a Money Magician, Societal entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author of the blog, The path to True Wealth. Martine inspires entrepreneurs and organisations in the new economy to pacify, humanise and empower women and their relationship to money.

With over 35 years of experience in the international financial industry, Martine adds a psychological and spiritual dimension to her practice as a wealth manager which includes Asian philosophy and Carl Jung psychology theories.

Martine combines her Money Coaching techniques and Jung’s archetypes to empower Female entrepreneurs and organisations to transform their relationship to money.

Martine says:

“Our relationship with money is rooted in our history - that of our own - and our - civilisations cultures, and education. Our own history causes us to project beliefs that we are unaware of into money. 

Whatever relationship we have with money - fear of running out, difficulty investing, dealing with debt, bankruptcy, addictions, difficulty talking about money as a couple, or the inability to monetise a business…our behaviour conveys the unconscious projections that hamper our true wealth.”

Her work had become obvious for Martine - more than a job, a real conscious career, of a societal and humanitarian nature.

Website Link:

https://martinelouis.com/

In this week’s episode I sit down with mindfulness and meditation expert, Terrence the Teacher. 

He believes in the magic of our personal goals – from being more mindful, reducing stress, gaining more confidence, sleeping better and even achieving a goal healthy weight. Whatever they might be, his passion is to teach practical empowering methods that help people achieve their goals.

The human mind, body and spirit has an extraordinary capacity for change and growth. Using a combination of Mindfulness Teaching, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and Clinical Hypnotherapy he teaches his clients how to access their own resources to change.

“The World is like a silent film, You Write the Script “

Terrence believes that change is possible and the time is now.

Social Media Links:

https://www.instagram.com/terrencetheteacher/

In this week’s episode I sit down with Sunniva Holt, a Self Made Multi-Millionaire, Author of Two No.1 Best Selling Self Help books, speaker & Mindset Coach. She is well known as Queen Fire, because of her unique gift to ignite people’s inner fire and help them find freedom in all areas of their life. 

This manifests through private coaching, her online masterminds, high level workshops and through supporting people to create or accelerate purpose-driven business that has a global impact and creates wealth that then gets to be circulated in a really powerful way.

So, are you ready to fuel your fire? Then, let’s get onto this week's episode.

Social Media Links:
https://www.instagram.com/sunnivaholt/

In this week's podcast episode I’m joined by Kia Aileen. Kia is a Soul Clarity Coach helping professional women and entrepreneurs around the world rid themselves of self-doubt, stuckness, procrastination and self-sabotage to get crystal clear on who they are and their unique path in the world. 

As a former lawyer and sales director, Kia understands the pressures that can accumulate when trying to balance work, family and life, in general. Following a bought of severe anxiety, she decided to focus on her own healing and retrained in numerous holistic and spiritual therapies. Seeing the immense benefit to herself and her family, she then launched her own UK-based practice in 2015. 

Kia combines Spiritual Counselling, Hypnotherapy, Therapeutic Coaching, EFT and Matrix Re-imprinting, Meditation, Reiki Healing, Soul Plan Healing, Soul Transformation Therapy, Shadow Work Therapy and Gut-Brain Therapy and is one of only nine Qigong teachers globally to be trained in the Golden Spine Nine movement of Qigong. 

Along with her private practice, Kia teaches at the world-renowned Holistic Healing College; facilitates retreats and workshops and teaches qigong and meditation for individuals, groups, workshops, retreats and corporate clients. 

So if you're feeling curious about the soul and being in alignment with your truest self, then give today’s episode a listen. 

Social Media Links:
https://www.instagram.com/kiaaileen_soulclarity/

In this week’s podcast we dive into the concept of pushing the boundaries of innovation and creativity, having entrepreneurial drive and creating a compelling vision to attract staff with values aligned to your own with executive chef and owner of famous degustation restaurant in Sydney, nel. 

Nelly began his career as a kitchen hand at the age of 14 at Michelin starred restaurant Northcote Manor (UK), stepping into the kitchen at 15 full-time to start his apprenticeship. Trained by chef patron Nigel Haworth and his team, including Warrick Dodds and Mark Burchill, Nelly was the first to complete an apprenticeship at Northcote. Nelly then worked around the world in more Michelin star restaurants in the UK and abroad.

At 29, Nelly opened nel., offering guests a unique dining experience with an innovative flair. 

Nelly has been invited to cook as a special guest at many Australian and international events. Notably, he was a finalist in the Chef of the Year Gault & Millau 2017 Award, Nel’s was awarded 79th best restaurant in Australia in the Australian financial awards in their first year of trading, and Nelly himself has been voted 228th in the top 300 chefs of the world by world chef awards.

Please note: the audio output has some background noise due to the recording taking place in a public place but we've done our best to reduce any noise disturbances.

Social Media Links:
https://www.instagram.com/nellyjrobinson/
https://www.instagram.com/nelrestaurant/