Courage & Purpose Podcast with Laurinda Antonio

In this episode, we are joined by Charlotte Hughes, the Head of Teaching and Learning at Debut Academy in Essex. Debut Academy offers private and fully funded courses and beauty treatments at their Debut Salons. Our conversation centers on the many opportunities the beauty industry offers to students considering a career in the field, as well as ways to combat the negative stigmas often associated with it.

On this episode, we have the wonderful Dr. Kimbi Marenakos. Dr. Kimbi has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare sector and in this episode, she gets vulnerable and allows us into her personal journey with dealing with burnout before and during the pandemic, how she managed to overcome this whilst also pivoting into her new journey filled with joy and meaning. There are tears, laughs, and lots of tips for our listeners that may be trying to realign their purpose and be courageous.

In this episode, we have Riley Jarvis, also known as the sleep expert. He gives us insight into how important getting enough sleep is and the negative effects of not getting enough, such as links to various diseases/syndromes including Dementia Syndrome and more. Riley also talks us through his own personal journey that inspired him to become a sleep expert and helped him to reverse a medical diagnosis.

In this episode we have Dr, Naeema Olatunji discuss her newly released book Raised as a lie. This episode includes worthiness, purpose, courage, parenting, lies and racism within her family but also finding freedom with the truth and forgiveness.

On this episode, I discuss the USA elections and Joe Biden being the courageous and fierce leader that he is. I discuss Biden's achievements, Trump's inability to be professional, but most importantly I discuss how WE the people chose love and unity over hatred and bigotry.

We have the amazing Tobi Oluwole discussing a broad range of topics including personal growth, human empathy, inequality, and his entrepreneurial journey of running his most successful business that supports the community by creating so many opportunities for so many people.

Entrepreneur and Brand Strategist Damian Mckeown joins us on this episode and we discuss a range of topics ranging from, Leadership, Mental Health and finding real inner happiness without all the material things the world has to offer.

On this episode, I discuss the current Docu-Drama on Netflix that highlights the negative effects that social media is having on us and the harm it is causing on all generations and the things that matter to democracy such as fair voting without it being swayed and manipulated by adverts and whoever has the most money to bombard us with the most effective adds.

I think 2020 is a hoax and we shouldn't take it seriously but I don't know about not canceling it anymore... Maybe we should cancel it... Hmmm

On this episode we have LGBTQ+ activist and entrepreneur Martin Kmiecik. We discuss Martin's journey as a gay man and the current state of the LGBTQ+ community, a bit of their history, and how much work still has to be done in 2020 for equality...