Doing more of what makes you happy with Amy McLaren

Today’s episode of the podcast is an interview with the lovely Amy McLaren who is the CEO of three passion-led businesses - Lady Strength where she takes women on trips that get them to leave their comfort zone, a charity called Village Impact where they help build schools in Kenya and a luxury Airbnb!

KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST

Take one step at a time and just put one step in front of the other.

You can learn so much about yourself when you are put in an uncomfortable situation.

It took 3 years for Amy to write and publish her new book.

Your legacy and the impact you have on the world starts from the little things we do every day.

We can all do more good in the world.

Giving back doesn’t have to be a huge gesture – you can start small.

Just be kind - in life and business.

You may never know how much of an impact a simple act of kindness can have one someone.

Living with passion doesn’t have to be expensive and you don’t have to change your whole life.

Do more of what makes you happy and brings you joy to fulfil your passion. This could just be small moments of your day, not your whole life.

There is no point doing something that makes you unhappy or feel unfilled.

We are all here for a purpose and to do something.

People never forget how you make them feel.

It is important to encourage our children that they can have what they desire, but they have to work for it!

Take a moment to check in with your life and ask yourself if you being intentional with your time and what you are doing.

If this was it – would you be happy?

THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE…

Do more of what makes you happy and brings you joy!

HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN’T MISS

An introduction to Amy – 05:00

Women in business – 18:45

Turning passion into purpose – 21:46

The myths about living passionately – 29:48

Leaving a legacy – 35:04

True happiness in your life – 45:05

CHECK AMY OUT:

Book – Passion to Purpose

Website

Transcript Below

Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How are you doing? So if you are new around here, welcome, it's lovely to have you here. If you've been listening for a while then welcome.

You're still very, very welcome to be here. Also, if you've been listening for a while and you feel like sharing this podcast, I would be so very grateful. It's like with everything you have to just keep working at it and working at it and working at it. And even though we are over 200 episodes, we still keep, to keep having to work at followers and get the podcast in front of people. So I would really, really appreciate it. And by all means, tag me in, and then I will share your post to my audience. I would really appreciate that. So anyway, thank you for that. Um, okay. This week we have an interview. And it's a really, really good interview.

It's with a lovely lady called Amy McLaren. And you know, when you meet someone or you talk to someone and you think, "Oh my God, you are like so genuine and nice, such a lovely person." Well, that's exactly what I felt when talking to Amy. She was just so nice. We had such a nice chat. It was really, really good.

Amy is a mum of two. She's a CEO, adventurer, a tea lover. When I say I love tea for those of you know, I mean, gin. So I don't think she means that, but I think she does like gin as well. A ceiling pusher, first-time author and a people connector, experienced maker ride-or-die friend, Peleton crusher, wife, Airbnb entrepreneur, and Founder of Village Impact and Lady Strength.

That's an amazing bio. So basically Amy came on to talk about the fact that she has a new book coming out. The premise around the whole book. So the book's called Passion to Purpose and she's put together this book to talk about how you can take yourself from living with passion and having a life full of passion.

And we talked...