Love Life, Live Well

Episode Summary: In the ninth episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Anna-Louise Haigh, Creator, Guide and Teacher at The Way of Your Soul and author of  Light-filled, loving & wise and The Soul Whisperer.

Episode highlights:

• Anna-Louise’s journey to creating The Way of Your Soul
• Her focuses on oriental medicine philosophy and how this can be translated into wellbeing
• How she uses face whispering to tell us more about ourselves through heart, body, mind and soul expressions 
• How understanding these expressions can improve our health and wellbeing
• The effect inner conflict can have on our immune system
• The ways face whispering can help us find our hidden talents and gifts
• How Anna-Louise combines face whispering with mentoring and soul coaching
• Why Anna-Louise wants to see face whispering become wider adopted so people can get to know themselves and grow in a fulfilling, soulful way
• What the different areas of the body can tell us about ourselves

Key Takeaways:

• I discovered when I started making steps towards my commitment that your body truly does speak your mind on a mind, body, heart and soul level.  Anna-Louise
  
  
• The Chinese see the face like a book and every feature on the face, from your hairline to the hair on your chin is basically like a chapter in the book of you. - Anna-Louise
  
  
• People now have value conflict with the places that they work and it's intensified because they know they need to keep a job, particularly in our current economy. Yet increasingly they've discovered, through the pandemic and having time to reflect, that the person who they are is not actually the person who wants to show up for that particular job anymore because they have grown or they've reevaluated. - Anna-Louise
  
  
• It's about recalibrating and regaining that sense of self so that your self-belief is becoming rock solid. You learn to trust your intuition and that's a big thing with face whispering. - Anna-Louise
  
  
• So it's very much an empowering skill that everybody can learn and everybody can benefit from. - Anna-Louise
  
  
• We're looking at features that you were born with. So how you are made up such as your eye colour will tell me about the part of your body you need to be paying extra attention to, because this could be the area that your body will fail first at. - Anna-Louise
  
  
• I want people to be empowered to nurture themselves and grow themselves through knowing themselves better, using face whispering as a tool. - Anna-Louise

Episode Summary: In the eighth episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Holly Moore, Founder and Managing Director of Make Events Ltd and host of the podcast, Anything is Possible

Episode highlights:

• What the mantra ‘anything is possible’ means to Holly and why she is making a brand out of it
• How her attitude and beliefs as a child shaped her career
• Why goal setting is so important
• The things that have reinforced the ‘anything is possible’ mantra to Holly
• The inspiration behind the Anything is Possible Conference
• The tactics Holly uses when she struggles with motivation or confidence
• Why Holly believes personal development is an untapped market in the UK
• The inspiration she takes from her father
• Why Holly started the podcast, Anything is Possible
• Spreading the message that personal development can begin at any age
• Holly’s tips for carving time in her schedule to relax or unwind

Key Takeaways:

• It started off originally before I set up, make events, um, because I'd got over a mental health issue and rewired my brain and was like, if I can do that, I can do anything. - Holly
  
  
• I feel like I've always been searching for the meaning of life since I was a kid.I think I've just always been a thinker. I've just always been searching for more and the reason why people do what they do. I'm just fascinated by it. - Holly
  
  
• Leave your ego at the door and have that kind of relentlessness where you really don't care how many times you ask or which way you put it forward because you really want it to happen. - Holly
  
  
•  I feel like personal development at the moment feels exclusive to 20 to 40 year old. -Holly
  
  
• We're given this gift of life and it's up to us to make every single pocket of that as best as we can. And hard times, they just lead on to so much more, if we deal with them in the right way. - Holly
  
  
• I set my alarm for 5am because I really love that little bit of time to myself and I like to get the gym out the way. So between 5 - 9am I can have an hour to myself writing. I can do the gym, I can get ready, I can do a few emails and I feel like I go into my day like prepped. - Holly

Resources:

• Tony Robbins
• Kylie Minogue
• Barry’s Bootcamp
• Girlboss Rally
• Oil pulling

Episode Summary: In the seventh episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Sally Blease, a qualified aromatherapist who previously worked as a clinical physiologist in respiratory medicine

Episode highlights:

• How Sally became interested in aromatherapy and the other subjects she is currently studying
• The steps Sally takes to try and lead as healthy a life as possible
• The therapy Sally uses to help with quality of sleep
• What essential oils are and what they can do
• Her suggestions for anyone wanting to delve into the world of essential oils
• Using essential oils to cure everyday ailments
• The natural alternatives Sally uses in place of medication
• The importance of checking the purity of your oils and speaking to a qualified aromatherapist
• The different ways you can use essential oils
• The success stories Sally has heard
• Sally’s advice for aching feet

Key Takeaways:

• It’s not the hours that you sleep, but the quality of sleep. There's so many different levels of sleep - you could sleep eight hours, but if it's eight hours of surface level sleep then you're not given your body that rest time to heal, to relax. - Sally
• Those three things are top of my list for healthy living, good food, plenty of sleep and relaxation exercise as well. - Sally
• So the oil that is extracted from that plant is bottled, and that is what your essential oil basically is. So depending on what benefits that plant has, is what benefits the essential oil has. - Sally
• If anybody wants to delve into the world of aromatherapy, lavender is a really good one to start with because it's good for so many things. Certainly relaxation, certainly sleep, but mosquito bites, burns and skin discomfort. - Sally
• And we use essential oils on a daily basis. I use them in my skincare routine. - Sally
• I would say if you want to get into the world of essential oils, you need to speak to a qualified aromatherapist and you need to make sure that the brand that you are using is good quality essential oils. - Sally
• But for me the biggest, most rewarding thing is when people tell me that their quality of sleep has improved, because I know how debilitating lack of sleep can be. - Sally

Resources:

• Simplybesally
• SimplyBe
• Advanced Oil Magic 
• doTerra

Episode Summary: In the sixth episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Lisa McHargue, a digital organiser who helps online business owners take control of their digital chaos and create systems to keep the backend of their businesses organised.

Follow Lisa on Instagram

Episode highlights:

• How Lisa initially became interested in the world of digital decluttering
• Why decluttering and minimalism can sometimes be viewed negatively
• Lisa’s belief that decluttering should be removing things from our lives that don’t add value
• What digital decluttering is and the benefits of it
• How living or working in a cluttered environment can have a negative impact on our health
• How the stress caused by clutter may not be realised until it has been removed
• Lisa’s advice on how to break down your digital decluttering into manageable chunks
• The best way to get started with decluttering
• How little changes can build up and make a huge difference

Key Takeaways:

• But for me, decluttering is really the act of removing anything from our lives that don't add value to it - Lisa
• I work with people on digital decluttering and getting rid of those intangible things. Things that aren't necessarily taking up physical space, but are definitely taking up energetic space, emotional space. They're weighing us down mentally and taking a lot of our cognitive load. - Lisa
• So clutter is a sneaky stressor that has all of these physical and mental ramifications. - Lisa
• None of this really takes hours or even minutes, but are just all these little stumbling blocks that in our busy lives, with our lack of patience is enough for us to say, forget it. - Lisa
• Put all your emails in the order of who they're from. Then all the ones from, for example, your supermarket will be together and you can just highlight them all and just delete them all in one go. - Lisa
• But be brave people and be strong and delete those old, those old emails. - Lisa
• Try something and you can always change. That's the beauty of the digital world. - Lisa

Resources:

• Lisa McH Website
• Minimalist
• Marie Kondo
• Atomic Habit, James Clear

Episode Title: Habit Stacking: The easy way to create great habits

Episode Summary: In the fifth episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Claire Elmes, Founder of Inspire You a consultancy who help people to improve mental fitness through science backed approaches to enhance performance on a personal, team and organisation level. 

Prior to this she worked as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner with the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Episode highlights:

• The drivers behind why Claire wants to raise awareness on the benefits of  trying to achieve a better work life balance
• How she works with companies and professionals to manage stress and change company culture
• How Claire tries to work at the preventative level, so asking for help before reaching burnout
• How we need habits to be able to function
• Understanding what habits serve you and which don’t 
• What habit stacking is and how effective it can be both personally and professionally
• The benefits of setting intentions for your day
• How to try to make time in your day to try new things

Key Takeaways:

• 914,000 people are suffering with work-related stress, anxiety, and depression at the moment. And that has gone up from 822,000 last year.  - Claire
  
  
• It’s about getting into workplaces and really helping companies change culture, helping business owners to stop working 60 hour weeks, and helping professionals to get back on track in a more manageable way and get that rest and recovery into our lives. - Claire
  
  
• We still have that view of, but I am functioning on some level, so therefore I must be okay. It's still kind of that ingrained mindset. - Claire
  
  
• When you learn a new thing, a new habit, a new skill, like you learn to drive a car or ride a bike, you're having to think about absolutely every single part of that process, whereas when it becomes an autopilot, you just don’t think about it. - Claire
  
  
• So you have an old habit, a new habit, an old habit. And what that does is it helps your brain and gives it a bit of conditioning, a bit like a coding system. It helps your brain to adapt to that habit naturally. - Claire

Resources:

• Stress Awareness Day
• Inspire You Facebook Page

Episode Summary: In the fourth episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Fiona Pelham, CEO of Positive Impact Events, a not for profit organisation working to create a sustainable events industry.

She is also Chair of ISO 20121 and has an Honorary doctorate from Leeds Beckett University.

Episode highlights:

• Understanding that everyone’s journey with grief will be completely different
• How Fiona’s grief journey began when she learned about her dad’s terminal diagnosis
• How Fiona worked to create space and time to grieve and figure out who she was in that new point in her life
• How Fiona decided to view grief as a hobby
• The practical things she did to help her through the journey
• The importance of making time to allow ourselves to grieve
• Trying to find the positives in difficult situations
• The elements of grief that Fiona believes have contributed to her life
• Opening up the dialogue around grief and people’s experiences
• Wanting to make the event sector a safe space where people feel their voices are heard

Key Takeaways:

• Everybody's journey with grief is and will be totally different. And there isn't a wrong journey that you can have with grief. - Fiona
• I would say it's about being very responsible in making sure that you are grieving and not sort of suppressing it. - Fiona
• It is okay to be happy because grief is part of life. It's an expression of love and we can't have life without grief. So it's okay to still feel those emotions of happiness again. - Fiona
• There's a lot of societal norms that tell us one, we shouldn't talk about grief or two, it should be a big tragedy, but the reality is all of us will lose someone. So grieving is a shared space, a shared conversation that we'll all experience and we can all speak about. It would be different for us all. But one of the most important things is that we talk about it. - Fiona
• So it's the generosity of giving the griever the space to just say anything they need and to be a listener at that moment. - Fiona
• A statistic from the grief conference said 85% of people say they are scared to talk to people who are dealing with grief because they don't know what to say and they don't want to upset them. And yet 90% of people grieving do want to talk. - Fiona

Resources:

• Joan Didion, Magical Thinking
• European Grief Conference

Episode Summary: In the third episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Zachary Ames, Founder & CEO of XYZ Leadership, a consultancy specialising in coaching, facilitation, program design and D&I training. 

Zachary is also the host of the Expand Your Zone podcast.

Episode highlights:

• Where the idea for his podcast came from and the premise behind it
• What Zachary refers to as ‘bright spots’ and how to make these work for both personal development and leadership
• Zachary’s advice on how to deal with the pressures that can come from leadership positions
• Zachary’s view on the evolving nature of leadership in the workplace and the impact this is having on the development and support offered to co-workers
• His advise on how to stay connected as a leader
• The work current leaders should be doing with the pipeline in their organisations to identify and develop future leaders
• The shift towards a workforce that wants to feel aligned to a company's values and culture
• The three ‘a’s’ that Zachary always looks at in relation to change management
• The advice Zachary would give someone looking to move into their first leadership role

Key Takeaways:

• Let's understand the anatomy of what is an effective team even amongst their current constraints, and try to replicate that, pull on the good stuff. - Zachary
• There are ways that you can find a safe place to voice and vent or more importantly, also, how do I brainstorm? How do I get creative? It doesn't all have to be the negative stuff too. We sometimes need a space to just go and explore. - Zachary
•  I think there's now a duality. You still need to lead from the front, but now many times you're leading by the side and even at times leading from behind. - Zachary
• What is actually worthwhile to people and what is the new value set, especially when we look at generational work between the millennials and Gen Z, those priorities have shifted dynamically. - Zachary
• I promise you, no one is ever fully prepared for their first leadership role. There is just some stuff you will not know until you are in the ring.  - Zachary
• Leadership is a privilege because if you can get to mentor somebody, teach them how to do things, make them feel great at their jobs and make them want to come to work, what an absolute pleasure and honour that is in life to be able to do that. - Emma

Resources:

• The Seismic Shift in Leadership, Michelle Johnston
• JCI Junior Chamber International

Shout outs:

• Kara Swisher

Episode Summary: In the second episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Beth Hewitt, Director at Visualise You and a spiritual business performance coach.

She runs the Visualise and Thrive the Ultimate Business Club for Spiritual Entrepreneurs and is the Podcast Host for the Visualise You show. 

Episode highlights:

• How Beth encourages everyone to look at things with a fresh perspective and allow ourselves to see the small wins
• How concentrating on gratitude can change both our mindset and outlook
• What scripting means to Beth and the different ways it can be used
• How scripting is multi sensory
• How there is no right or wrong way to do scripting and that it needs to be personal to you
• Viewing scripting as sowing the seeds for what we want our lives to look like in the future
• How to ensure that you are aligning to the vision that you are scripting about
• The balance when scripting of going into detail, but also being open to possibilities when you don’t know how something will go
• How scripting can be used as a tool for achieving things not just in your personal life, but also in business
• Beth’s advice for people wanting to get started with scripting.

Key Takeaways:

• Scripting is what I'm describing in terms of that written form of visualisation. It’s that ability to take back control of your life, to get really intentional about what it is that you want to happen in your life, and to start to think about what is important to you and start to get really clear on what you would like to happen. - Beth
• If we want to try to create a new life for ourselves, we have to create those conditions through visualisation. That is, how we would experience it. Because our mind cannot tell the difference between that which is imagined and that which is real. - Beth
• When we're journaling, we're connecting to that part of us that knows what it wants, that knows what joy is and what our deepest, darkest desires are and yet we're not always connected to that rationally. - Beth
• If you think about your notebook or your journals as your new best friend, where your seedling ideas and thoughts are that you wanna bring into fruition. - Beth
• I believe what we're doing is we're taking action, but we're also co-creating with the universe. And actually the next thing that we need to be doing once we've done these scripts is to take action and start to do things that align with that vision. - Beth
• I think sometimes people let life pass them by, and actually we wanna be more in control and have more intention around what it is that we want in our life rather than just letting life happen to us.- Beth

Resources:

• Beth Hewitt Website
• Mike Dooley

Episode Summary: In the first episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Nicola Cook the CEO and COO of Company Shortcuts and a qualified NLP Practitioner, Timeline Therapist and Hypnotherapist.

She has previously published two business bestsellers and is scheduled to release six further business and personal development books in 2023 beginning with a fifteen-year anniversary edition of A New You: The small changes that make the biggest difference to your life.

Connect with Nicola on Twitter

Episode highlights:

• How Nicola uses journaling to ensure she maximises learning from everyday
• How collapsing at Heathrow forced her to refocus and start to prioritise wellbeing
• The initial motivation behind her book, A New You and why she is now releasing a second edition
• The period of self discovery and change she went through writing the book and how this can in turn help others
• How to approach new phases in our lives and how to craft this for ourselves, rather than allowing the world or our environment to do it for us
• How Nicola recommends making small incremental changes rather than one large resolution as these tend to be more achievable
• How our habits need to adapt and change as we do and why what used to work for us, may no longer
• The book being split into 2 sections, the first on developing the right mindset and the second on developing the right skillset
• Techniques and strategies in the book to help with mindset and framing powerful questions

Key Takeaways:

• I'm really passionate about supporting businesses and enabling them to create sales acceleration. I'm also massively passionate about individuals and people and helping them be the best versions of themselves that they can be. - Nicola
• I learned an awful lot about myself during that process. And not all of it was great, but I felt it was the catalyst that really cemented the transition of the person that I  became and the person that I was always meant to be. - Nicola
• To become your true, authentic self or a new version of yourself, it doesn't mean that the old version of you is broken, or isn't worth anything, but it's about how do you leave the bits of you behind that are not as helpful or are not supporting you or enabling you to be the person that you really want to become. - Nicola
• When you lose stuff, you think, oh, I will choose what I'm gonna put back into my life. - Nicola
• The final chapter of the book is called Make It Stick, which is about how once you've made these changes, you've done the mental work, you know  you've changed your behaviour and you know you're moving in a different direction, how do you make it stick? -  Nicola
• There's a definition in the book of what a peer group is, but Jim Rohn is the man who says that you become like the five people that you spend the most time with. So choose them wisely is my advice. - Nicola

Resources:

• A New You: The small changes that make the biggest difference to your life.
• Jim Rohn

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