I recently met today’s guest, Jayne Ifeacho, at an event that Denise Duffield-Thomas held in London. We spoke during the event, and when I checked out her website a couple of days later, I was fascinated by her work, and immediately invited her to be a guest on this show. I love the way she expresses herself online and how she lets her personality shine through.

Jayne is a writer, PR, photographer and author of The Art of Eating Pretty for Body, Beauty and your Bold Art. She’s a wellbeing, inner-branding and creative expression mentor to super, bright women in work, business and life. She helps them to create what they want to create in the world through a clear sense of self, bespoke self care, and the simple art of noticing. Jayne believes every day can be experienced as a moment by moment adventure through the transformative power of paying attention – to ourselves, others and our world.

Jayne offers five free 30-minute Bold Beauty Sessions in this show. Just email her with “Bold Beauty Sessions” in the subject heading of your email to take advantage of this opportunity.

I met today’s guest, Christian Marie Herron, in Leonie Dawson's Amazing Biz + Life Academy. I checked out her website and loved the look and feel and the nature of the work she does. And our first episode on copywriting for introverts was such a huge success, that I felt we needed to have another expert on introverts here on the show.

Christian Marie Herron, SPHR is a Professional Coach and Communication Expert.  She works with leaders, visionaries, and professionals who want to convert limiting beliefs into high potential opportunities and fast track success. She is passionate about working with introverted professionals - helping them toleverage their natural strengths, communicate their value and powerfully take their career to the next level.

Christian's signature program is called Elevate For Success:

For professionals who have reached a certain level of momentum in their career and are ready to leverage their natural strengths to activate their fullest potential.  This is for accomplished professionals like you who feel like you have already tried everything, followed all of the old standard advice to "stand out" yet still have not achieved the success you want.  Elevate for Success is targeted, results-focused coaching that is individualized to meet you where you are. Together we'll partner to reframe and transform your challenges into portals for potential.

I can't even remember how I first came across Kate Swoboda, more commonly known as Kate Courageous, but I've been reading for blog for at least a couple of years. She's been on my list of people to get in touch with for quite a while, and I'm so excited to feature her on this show!

Kate Courageous is a life coach, writer and speaker who teaches people how the practice of courage is revolutionary. Since 2009, thousands of people have visited Your Courageous Life to learn more about working with fear and practicing courage–with the core message being that when you’re trying to eradicate fear or pretend that it doesn’t exist, you’re working against yourself. Her approach is a sexy-soulful combination of intuitive spirituality with brass-tacks, pragmatic wisdom. She defines courage as feeling afraid, diving in anyway, and transforming.

Kate is the author of the Courageous Living Program and The Coaching Blueprint. She’s lead retreats in Italy and California, created marketing seminars for the Interchange Counseling Institute in San Francisco, and rocked out leading a breakout session at the World Domination Summit held annually in Portland. She’s currently at work onher first book proposal, training for endurance events, and (as always) improving her Italian.

You can also follow Kate to get daily doses of courage on her website, and also on Twitter or Facebook.

I recently met today’s guest, Sofia Barão, in Leonie Dawson’s Amazing Biz + Life Academy. I love the work that she does, and I especially love how she uses astrology to shed light on a person’s business and professional path. I’m delighted to have her share her business journey with you today.

Sofia is an Artist, Intuitive Facilitator and an Usui Reiki Master Teacher engaged in a path of spiritual and creative empowerment teaching. She works with women all over the world unveiling the woman that hides within; connecting them to their true Self!

I met today’s guest, Carole Ann Rice, in a business networking group in London. I loved her personality, and I loved how she combined her extensive background in journalism and media to coach business owners on how to get media coverage. This is an area that so many people are intimidated by, that I just had to invite her to share her tips.

A self-taught journalist who has written for many of the nationals (The Sun, The Express, The Independent on Sunday, The Mirror, The Birmingham Post as well as She and Redmagazines), Carole Ann Rice has independently devised and presented several network TV shows and documentaries in her time.

Hiring a coach, and later training to be become one, turned out to be one of the most empowering personal decisions she has made. She trained for 3 years at the internationally renowned CoachU academy and is a member of the International Coach Federation, and has now been coaching for over ten years.

As a high profile coach she is regularly featured in the press (Harpers Bazaar, Metro News, Bella, Prima, Pride, Glamour, Sainsbury’s magazine, The Times). Carole Ann currently provides both life coaching and media coaching services.

Visit Carole Ann on her website, and sign up for a free 30 minute session. You can also follow her on Twitter.

I’m a huge fan of Marianne Cantwell’s concept of the “free range human”. So many people make choices that force them into a self-imposed cage: whether it’s a career cage or a business so high maintenance that it’s like having a job, this is a common human tendency. What Marianne does is to teach people how to break free from their cage so they can live a free range life.

Marianne is the author of Be A Free Range Human – the unconventional ‘change your life and get paid to do what you love’ book published in the UK by Kogan Page, January 2013. This book is an Amazon bestseller (and the top 2 most popular entrepreneurial title on Amazon.co.uk this year).

Free Range is the new career change. This alternative to corporate life strikes a chord with stressed out professionals who are becoming more disillusioned with ‘jobs’ in this insecure economy and are dreaming of making a (good) living without an office or a boss, getting paid to do something they love, on their terms.

I met today's guest, Beth Martens, almost ten years ago in Mexico. We recently reconnected and I love what she's doing so much that I had to invite her to share her story here on the Socially Holistic Podcast.

After 30 years of family and personal business, marketing and communication experience; eight journeys to India to study yoga, meditation, mantras and kirtan singing; surviving a corporate life-induced cancer; releasing four of her own original CD’s; and raising a child, Beth loves to help women get their voice out in their business and online presence, so that they can be fully self-expressed, valued for living their creative vision, have more impact and more income.

To learn more about her self-expression, archetype and business coaching programs, please visit www.bethmartens.com. To get inspired about how you can make your creative genius or business into a more viable, self-sustaining source of abundant life, sign up for the complimentary and weekly #BreakFreeStories.

I had the pleasure of meeting today’s guest in this year's Biztopia Challenge, and then we got to know each other a bit more in Listapalooza. I absolutely love how she defines herself as a "multi-creative heathen witch gone magical life coach." I've been thinking, writing, and speaking a lot lately about the importance of being authentic and embracing our unique aspects, and I feel that Linda has really done this through the latest rebranding of her business.

Linda is the multi-creative heathen witch. She’s a life coach, blogger, author, artist, witch, tarot reader, radio show host and many other things. In her coaching she helps open-minded and creative women with chronic illnesses or similar challenges take control of their lives and symptoms, explore their creativity, and unlock their passions, so they can live with power, passion and peace of mind on their terms. Her coaching has attitude, humor, a splash of color, and a little touch of magic.

I originally met today's guest, Laura Hart, through a business networking group that she ran in Wimbledon. Laura is a qualified Voice and Speaking Skills Coach with over 20 years of experience working with business people across the public and private sectors.

She helps clients with all areas of spoken communication, working with them to define their communication intention, helping them to devise their business messages then coaching them to deliver their words in the best way possible ensuring that they sound professional, authoritative and interesting.

As a consequence of improving their vocal and verbal communication skills, her clients have experienced a plethora of results: significant praise and positive feedback for their presentations and conference speeches, more success in winning business contracts through improved sales conversations and presentations plus career advancement secured ahead of their expected timeframe.

* A quick warning: there's a bit of construction work going on at the start of the podcast, but it only lasts a couple of minutes. Sorry about that! I had no idea work was planned that day. :(

I originally "met" today's guest, Helen Elizabeth Evans, on a webinar that was scheduled as an online Meetup as part of the London Coaches Meetup Group. While I was simultaneously fascinated and skeptical about the whole concept of handprint analysis, I signed up for her Discover Your Life Purpose workshop. She mailed me a kit to take my handprints, and from that she did a reading of my hands. In the workshop, she covered the different details that are found in our hands that make up our life purpose.

The results were so accurate. She highlighted as my growth opportunities or challenges the exact same issues I had been focusing on in my personal development work this year. What I love about Helen's work is that she works a lot with women in business, using the details found in their hands to help them make the right business decisions for them.

Helen is the UK’s premier life purpose fingerprint analyst, and Your Signature Brilliance Decoder. Her passion is to get the world to stop seeing themselves through the limits imposed by their experiences and conditioning, to both, see and live according to the true spirit that lies within them. Doing so empowers individuals to fulfil their dreams, entrepreneurial, spiritual and personal… to be paid for what they love to do, to live and work in spaces that make them feel good and to take care of themselves and their well-being. She uses the pragmatism of her African upbringing and the deep intuition of her Celtic roots to guide her clients into the lives they were born to live.