This is an episode about change, and showing how even change that we want and choose can be hard to process. 

The wonderful Dr Rupy Ajula is a well known Doctor who founded The Doctors Kitchen and believes that food is a powerful medicine. He has succeeded in life because of his innate warmth and genuine intent to make the world a better place. He talked to me about the challenge of moving from being a practising Doctor in the NHS to being an entrepreneur and businessman. 

In this conversation you will hear about:

- How tricky it can be to form a new identity and a new sense of legitimacy in a new role. Particularly if it presses your buttons of ‘How much am I allowed’ and when it challenges our values of what is ‘good.’

- The challenges of building a business that is in public view, and therefore open to the opinions of others. How hard it is to hold trust in one’s own purpose and meaning. 

- Fascinating insights into what influences us as adults, is what has been modelled for us as a child. 

-The strengths and particular nuances of being born a British Asian, how that influences him and inspires him to go forward, and yet his parents wish to protect him from the very risks they took. 

- How developing our true self and finding our own identity; sometimes we have to go away in order to be able to come back. 

- The amazing power of a gratitude practice. You will hear how this simple practice has shaped and supported Rupy to enable him to be the man he is today.

- How gratitude can influence you to reframe what is difficult or negative to something that brings an opportunity. Aligning trust as a guiding force – ‘even not right moves are right moves.’ Trust enables him to tap into his innate guiding force and find his path. 

- Love is the strongest medicine; how love gives him strength being ‘Held by the hands of the people that love you.’

- We discuss the power of food, it is generative as a way of loving family, friends and neighbours. As well, of course as curative physically. 

Find more information on Dr Rupy:

Website: https://thedoctorskitchen.com/

Instagram: @doctors_kitchen

Podcast: https://thedoctorskitchen.com/podcasts/

App: https://thedoctorskitchen.com/app/

Find Julia:

Julia’s Website: https://juliasamuel.co.uk/

Julia’s Instagram: @juliasamuelmbe

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Produced by Georgie Rutherford

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