Gill M Edwards is known as a stress disruptor. She helps those who feel they’re drowning - she puts her hand into the water and pulls them out.  She also teaches on how to prevent getting up that point in the first place.

Gill is also an author and a Reiki practitioner, singer, and runs a ‘Singalong’ group in Staffordshire for those who love to sing in private, or have always been told to be quiet because they can’t sing.  She believes that everyone can sing and it is joyful and a brilliant way to relieve stress.

Website: www.gillmedwards.com

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Naomi Holbrook is a dynamic speaker, Number 1 bestselling author of ‘Your Weight is Not The Problem’, and women’s health advocate known for her magnetic presence and message that truly lands. 

Having created a name for herself as The Unconventional Weightloss Coach, what you’ll come to discover for yourself is Naomi is so much more. 

Naomi is the creator of the SMART formula and the SMART business blueprint: empowering entrepreneurs to prioritise their health to maximise their success. 

With a unique blend of compassion, bold truth-telling, and lived experience; Naomi battled low self esteem, disordered eating and chronic health issues for nearly 30 years, Naomi has a gift for making every person in the room feel seen, heard, and deeply validated. 

Her unconventional, human-first approach to weight and wellbeing goes far beyond diet talk - she invites brave conversations that create real, lasting change. 

If you're looking for a coach & mentor who will leave a lasting impact on your life and in the room, Naomi is the one.

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Michelle Rigden is a blogger and advocate for widows and widowers navigating life after loss. After losing her husband to pancreatic cancer in 2023, Michelle began walking the path of grief with her children, Holly and Osian, learning to hold hope close and seek joy amid life’s broken pieces. 

Through her work, she supports others facing similar heartbreak, helping them find light in the darkness and purpose in the pain. 

Michelle is also the founder of a growing community of Joy Seekers — individuals committed to finding meaning, connection, and beauty in a life they didn’t plan for. She shares her story and offers encouragement and practical insights for anyone learning to live again after loss.

Learn more, and contact Michelle at:

https://www.michellerigden.com/

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Dr Claire Vowell is a Clinical Psychologist, speaker, and advocate for compassion-led mental health support. With over 15 years’ experience working across the NHS and private practice, she specialises in helping individuals and families navigate life after trauma, illness, and loss.

Claire’s approach blends professional expertise with genuine empathy — she believes that healing begins when people feel truly seen and heard. Through her work, she’s helped countless individuals rebuild confidence, rediscover purpose, and reconnect with hope during some of life’s hardest chapters.

Beyond her clinical work, Claire is passionate about raising awareness around mental health in caregiving and grief, challenging stigma, and promoting early, accessible psychological support.

Connect with Claire:

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Caroline is an inspirational speaker and leadership coach for women over 30 dedicated to helping others rise, reclaim their voices and build passionate teams. She believes in the transformative power of stepping into your full, unapologetic potential.

In this episode, she opens up about the journey through losing hope, finding it again, and learning how to hold onto it - even in the hardest seasons. Her warm, honest approach inspires listeners to reconnect with their inner strength and step bodly into their next chapter.

Connect with Caroline on Instagram @caroline_i.e.e.coaching and on Facebook @Lead with Confidence, Inspire with Purpose

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Dr Ellie Hambly is a Clinical Psychologist specialising in supporting parent navigate the overwhelm of modern-day parenting. She understands first-hand the pressure to “do it all” and the toll this takes on our nervous systems, relationships, and sense of self.

Ellie has over a decade of experience supporting children and their families, starting in the NHS and then through her private practice which she set up in 2018, after experiencing burnout. She offers individual therapy, workshops and courses. 

Ellie’s work blends deep psychological expertise with a heartfelt belief: the way we parent has the power to shape not only our children’s lives, but the world. She supports parents to reconnect with their values, let go of unrealistic expectations, and create a life that feels more balanced, meaningful and sustainable.

She lives in Kent with her husband, their two children, and a very cuddly spaniel. She finds joy in family walks, reading with a cuppa, deep conversations, and ski holidays in the mountains.

Ellie’s list of book recommendations, with a section on grief (one for adults and one for children) https://www.drelliehambly.com/books

Emotion regulation toolkit -  https://www.drelliehambly.com/emotionregulationtoolkit

www.drelliehambly.com

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In this episode I’m talking to the wonderful Hazel McKinnon. We talk about the challenged of becoming deaf at a young age, and how she is striving to raise awareness of deaf issues.

Hazel writes:

I’m Hazel and I’m currently on a journey which I want to share with as many people as possible about the challenges which I face on a daily basis which bring me hope in supporting hard of hearing and deaf individuals to feel they are part of the community by giving them a voice By  raising awareness

My journey began when I was a child around seven or eight I was continuously getting recording ear infections which are also known as chronic otitis  media which is an inflammation of the middle ear. I also had a buildup of fluid. Which caused my eardrums to burst, this  had caused increasing pain and nothing could cure that pain of earache. Doctors from what I remember gave me every single type of eardrops that they possibly could think of they then tried surgical methods including Grommets, this involves a small tube being placed into the eardrums which the hope is that it will relieve the pressure and reduce the ear infections. The grommets didn’t work the ear infections continued, but I also started to lose Hope.  I started to withdraw, hold back. I lost trust in myself. I struggle to find and be able to express who I was anymore with both friends and family this had a knock on effect, with school I fell behind. I stopped doing as well as I could’ve. I didn’t push myself as much. I didn’t want to be seen. 

When I was about eight, I finally got some hope a breakthrough with the doctors and medical team that I might have an opportunity my hearing had deteriorated and reduced so much that I was now struggling to hear and now I was needing hearing aids to help.

Was this the chance for me to make something of myself? 

Adapting to hearing aids was challenging and it did have its difficulties. A lot of people still didn’t recognise that from the outside you look stereotypically normal or what’s perceived as normal, but without this you feel lost. You feel like a different person. It’s as if you take your ears off it’s as if you shut off the part of your world that silence that you feel the feeling that you’re missing that rush of chaos round about you you can’t hear the hustle and bustle of the traffic of kids screaming roundabout you every day noises that you want to hear I remember the very first day picking up my hearing aids and walking out of the hospital and I remember plane going over the hospital and I remember I had to pull my hearing aids out of my ears because I couldn’t figure out for the life of me what the noise was but at the same time once I figured out what it was I was so hopeful and grateful that I could hear the plane and that I was able to be able to recognise that this devices were being able to support me to live and to experience the joy and magic of life again. 

To this day I have had the hope of holding down a career as a support worker for people with learning disabilities and I’ve now gone back to university to study a degree in nursing. I want to continue to promote and advocate that there is Hope out there for individuals who have hearing loss of are deaf to reach there goals and that there really is no limits. 

Being a deaf individual in a hearing world is hard but if you have a dream and an vision reach for your dreams.

In this episode I talk with the spiritual engineer, Sarah Malone… listen as I find out all about what that entails!

(This episode contains occasional mild swearing)

Sarah Malone is a transformational speaker, Core Belief Decoding® creator, and soul-led truth-teller known for her raw, honest voice around living, leading, and rising with PMDD.

As a mother, business owner, and trauma-informed coach, Sarah brings depth, humour, and fierce tenderness to every room she enters. Her work blends nervous system regulation, energetic healing, and identity reclamation — helping people break cycles of shame, self-abandonment, and inner chaos.

Sarah’s message is clear: adversity doesn’t define you — it forges you. Whether on stage or in client spaces, she helps people reclaim their power and rise, not despite their pain, but through it.

Website: www.k3ukcoaching.com

Socials:  @k3ukcoaching

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In this episode I talk with the inspirational Andrea Rainsford

Andrea Rainsford – A Passionate Connector, Business Growth Expert & Advocate for Women in Business

Andrea Rainsford is a business growth strategist and the creator of Buyology™ a distinctive approach to business that helps wildly brilliant women create consistent income in a way that feels deeply aligned. Her work brings together the unique mix of values, personality, learning style, business style, connection style, buying style, and selling style empowering women to grow in a way that is natural, effective, and entirely their own.

With a 30-year career that includes senior roles at Ernst & Young and Eversheds, Andrea led multi-million pound deals and helped businesses across Europe scale through connection-led strategy. But her proudest achievement isn’t on paper, it’s the resilience and determination it took to rebuild her life and business from the ground up after a life-changing health event.

Today, she runs her business under her own name and leads two flagship experiences: The Freedom Factor and Haven, where she guides women to grow sustainable, profitable businesses rooted in clarity, kindness, and freedom.

This conversation will leave you rethinking what business can feel like and what becomes possible when you build it your way.

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Listen as I talk with Eve, and we discuss hope, fun, and singing!

Eve Stanway is a divorce and breakup coach, psychotherapist, author, and speaker who believes that part of hope is having the courage to speak when it feels impossible. Her work focuses on helping people find the words they need when they feel most overwhelmed, especially during times of heartbreak, conflict, or deep change.

As the author of Conversations at the Shoreline: Dare to Speak to Navigate Life’s Toughest Conversations with Confidence and Clarity, Eve brings compassion and practical insight to the moments we often dread – the conversations that keep us up at night, the silences that stretch too long, the truths we are afraid to tell.

She has guided hundreds of individuals and couples through the emotional and practical realities of separation, co-parenting, rebuilding, and reconnection. Her approach is rooted in lived experience, professional training, and an unwavering belief that speaking the truth – even when it shakes the ground beneath us – is how we begin to heal.

Eve is currently inviting people to her free three-day challenge, Dare to Speak, running from the 4th to the 6th of August at 10am each morning. If you know there is a conversation you need to have – with a partner, a child, a colleague or yourself – this challenge will give you the tools, structure, and confidence to begin.

To secure your place, email Eve at [email protected], 

visit: www.evestanway.co.uk or reach out via social media @evestanway on most platforms.

Because finding your voice is not just about communication. It is about hope.

Eve’s book - Conversations at the Shoreline: Dare To Speak: Navigate Life's Toughest Conversations with Confidence and Clarity

is available on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/4OK74uo

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