The Self-esteem Team is the UK’s leading mental health school-based programme. Founded in 2013 by Nadia Mendoza and Grace Barrett, the team have since worked with tens of thousands of young people, written a book approved by doctors, and continue to tirelessly tour the UK’s schools in their bid to equip young people with tools to navigate their mental health and build self-esteem.

Co-founder Grace Barrett and I chat about how we can help our kids, nieces nephews and the young people in our lives, to cultivate self-esteem.

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Gemma David is a Chinese Medicine practitioner, Mindfulness teacher and is trained in mental health care. She owns The Quiet Heart, in the rocking city of Bristol. Gemma's ethos is about living in balance, within the body, and with the seasons.

We talked about how living in alignment with our bodies, the seasons, our planet and our values are the raw ingredients for cultivating self-belief. Plus: loads of top tips for taking care of yourself during Winter.

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Randi Buckley is a coach and teacher who helps women facing big life decisions. Her programme Healthy Boundaries for Kind People is revolutionary work. Randi has spent decades coaching Fortune 5 companies, she worked at the Chopra Centre and once acted as a stand-in for Penelope Cruz. She is also the Assistant Dean at the Concordia Language Villages, a residential language- immersion program for youth in 16 different languages where she offers program-wide training, leadership and coaching to staff from over 30 countries.

Randi is one of the wisest people I know and I wanted to chat with her about where our two worlds intersect - where self-doubt meets personal boundaries. This is a practical, philosophical and (it ended up being) quite a personal conversation about how to create safety for ourselves in relationships. As most of us are about to spend prolonged time with our loved ones, this seemed like the perfect time to get together.

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Rachael Lucas self-published her first book aged 40 and it went on to sell over 130,000 copies. She is now a best-selling novelist working on her fifth book and has just been nominated for a Carnegie Medal for her YA novel, The State of Grace. 

Rachael is also a certified coach, mindfulness and meditation teacher, and a Reiki master teacher. She also happens to be a fabulous human and we connected earlier in the year on Instagram. With her photos of life by the seaside with her partner (who is also a writer) in a rambling Victorian house full of books, children, dogs, teapots and typewriters, Rachael had me at hello! 

I also know that Rachael has an incredible story of resilience and tenacity in the face of self-doubt and I wanted to talk to her about how she got to here. For anyone who loves books and words and has a dream (like me) of 'one day' writing a book, this episode is just for you.

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Self-doubt has a rather surprising kryptonite and it feels like a bit of a game changer. I first became aware of this when I was coding my research interviews for my Master's dissertation about Self-doubt a few years ago, but I am now feeling ready to nail my flag to this mast!

And because I am a huge fan of information that can be applied, I’ve taken this learning and turned it into an actual thing you can do today.

I’m going to talk a bit about how I discovered this, why I think it so useful and important, and then we’ll walk through how you can apply it right now. 

You’ll find a worksheet to help you here.

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Rachael Maddox is a trauma resolution educator, coach and guide who’s helped hundreds of women and men resolve their sexual trauma and reclaim their pleasure, power and wholeness. In her first book, 'Secret Bad Girl' Rachael tells the story of her return to wildness, sensuality, health and embodied safety after a decade living under the trauma spell. Her next book, Sex After Trauma, publishes in 2018, and is written to help people navigate life between the sheets after they’ve been through the worst of it. 

We discuss the #metoo campaign and how this might be impacting you right now, what happens when we have a trauma response and what to do to compassionately take care of yourself. There IS life after trauma and you can heal.

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The first year for any heart-centred business is a huge source of self-doubt: taking our creations and services out into the world with no guarantee of success is a cape-worthy endeavour! 

Up until recently, Kate Ferris was a marketing manager working with global brands. Now she runs her own business from her home in Snowdonia helping creative people find clarity and direction with marketing strategies that help their businesses grow with a bit of soul. Kayte and I talk about what the first year of self-employment is really like.

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Kevin Braddock is the founder of Torchlight, a project that is all about how to ask for help. Kevin has over 20 years experience in print media as writer and editor and has worked for GQ, Esquire, The Face and The Guardian. Kevin’s story is both a personal account and a wake-up call about men's experience of mental health. This episode is one of incredible resilience, tenacity and compassion as Kevin shares his experience and how he is helping others through his work with Torchlight.

 

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Allison Sadler is a creative entrepreneur, lifestyle blogger, designer, maker, stylist and mentor. With Her partner in all-things Mr C, she co-owns the award-winning People Shop in Birmingham. And she might just be the most fun person on the internet.

Allison recently started a hashtag project called #freeupyourinsta all about embracing imperfection and how to have fun and be yourself online. We dive deeply into this and have a fascinating conversation about what it means to be online. Enjoy!

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If you work in a traditionally male-dominated industry, and you've ever felt undermined or overlooked at work, this episode is for you. There is a worldwide shortage of graduates in the STEM sector (this includes Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). Women, black and ethnic minorities are under-represented, under-recruited and under-promoted in STEM roles. The reasons for this are both obvious and complex. Organisations like Equate Scotland, have a mandate to redress this balance and they are doing incredible work.

Allison Johnstone leads Equate Scotland's learning and development programme. She talks candidly and openly about women's experience in STEM, whats changing and why the issues are so much bigger than our self-doubt.

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