In this episode I decided to mix things up a little and do a solo recording - no guest, no interview. So in this rather unique recording I explain my reasons for doing it, and I reflect on the podcast's 6 months, 44 episodes, 35 guests, and downloads in 40 countries. I also share my thoughts on 3 important elements of the current global covid situation.

 

Key takeaways:

• 6 months of "Personal development mastery" and the 3 reasons I (finally) decided to do a solo episode
• My intention when I started this podcast and what has changed since
• The key defining moment in 6 months of "Personal development mastery"
• Blessed to have interviewed 35 exceptional, inspirational people so far
• My 3 biggest learnings these 6 months
• My thoughts on the current global covid-19 situation and 3 very important key points
• ...and the first time I am asking for something in return for this podcast!

 

Quote:

"Stand out, don't fit in!"

-Agi Keramidas

 

 

About the host:

I am Agi Keramidas, a knowledge broker and a zealous podcaster (among other traits). I am a firm believer in the power of self-education and personal development in radi

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Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a midlife career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

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Lauren Tickner is a Forbes Top-20 entrepreneur and the CEO of Impact school, a 7 figure coaching company that helps business owners implement systems to increase sales, save time & change more lives. She is also the host of the Impact School podcast, in which she shares action plans to increase your impact, influence & income, and she has also interviewed some exceptional guests. 

 

Key takeaways:

• The concept of "just in time learning": filtering the information that's relevant to you at this particular time
• Going from having information to implementation: the missing link
• Self-identity and how one's outlook on life will affect everything
• Entrepreneurial mindset: what is it? How can you cultivate it?
• Unfulfilled potential - one of the scariest things and heaviest burdens

 

Quote:

"Think bigger than what you're thinking right now. You're doubting yourself more that you should. Have a bigger vision!"

-Lauren Tickner

 

Valuable resources:

Course: http://www.impactschoolmba.com/

Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurentickner/

 

 

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Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a midlife career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

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Nikos Mavrakis grew up in Greece and at the age of 17 he moved to the United States to study. Since then he's obtained 3 degrees: a Bachelors and a Masters in Computer Engineering, and an MBA in Technology Management. He has worked in Corporate America, US Government, and the tech start-up world, and he invests in multiple asset classes. He is also a knowledge broker, passionate about helping people improve their mindset and get on a path towards achieving their biggest dreams!

 

Key takeaways:

• How self education improved his life much more than 3 university degrees
• The one book on mindset which should be mandatory reading
• The way towards financial literacy and financial independence
• The most important element of the entrepreneur's mindset
• From casually running 5k to running New York Marathon for charity
• How perfectionism holds you back and what to do about it

 

Quote:

"Be very careful whose advice you follow. There's nothing worse than bad advice."

-Nikos Mavrakis

 

Valuable resources:

Email Nikos: [email protected]

Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/performacecoachniko

 

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Michelle Mercier is a coach and a speaker who has worked with a wide range of businesses, from acclaimed non-profits to Fortune 500 corporations. After spending over 15 years in the corporate world, she took a leap of faith and ventured out on her own entrepreneurial journey, building her own business from the ground up and going through all sorts of twists and turns, both personally and professionally. She now uses her experience and expertise to help other female entrepreneurs thrive in their journeys.

 

Key takeaways:

• That "floor moment": when the rug gets pulled from under your feet and you decide to change your life.
• How to increase our resilience and perseverance
• Taking a leap of faith
• The myth of "work-life balance"
• The 3 best ways to overcome self-doubt
• The importance of authenticity
• The 2 important healthy habits for success

 

Quote:

"It will be ok. Don't force it through. Use your resilience muscles rather than power through."

-Michelle Mercier

 

Valuable resources:

Michelle's website: https://www.createhonesty.com/

 

 

About the host:

 I am a knowledge broker and a zealous podcaster (among other traits). I am a firm believer in the power of self-education and personal development in radically improving one's life.

 

 If you want to support my podcast and gain access to exclusive content, become my patron: http://bit.ly/pdmpat

 

Join my facebook group for personal

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Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a midlife career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

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 Joze Piranian spent most of his life avoiding speaking almost entirely, due to a debilitating stutter. He is now a TEDx speaker, the recipient of the Inspirational Speaker of the year award in 2017, and a stand-up comedian who has performed in 3 continents and 3 languages. In 2019 he had one of his talks going viral on social media and being viewed by more than 3 million people. He has performed for the United Nations and has delivered his inspirational keynote at many organizations, events and educational institutions all over the world

 

Listen to this episode to learn:

• Redefining your relationship with fear
• Fear can be either paralysing, or a catalyst propelling you
• Transforming adversity into drive
• The importance of reframing the way we perceive our "impediments"
• The practice of deliberately exposing ourselves to the worst case scenario
• The "inner stutter" that holds most people back in life

 

"It's OK to be different. Accepting who you are is the first step."

-Joze Piranian

 

Watch Joze's TEDx talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHSbojyBypo

 

Connect with Joze:

https://www.instagram.com/yeswayjoze/

 

 

 If you want to support my podcast and gain access to exclusive content, become my patron: http://bit.ly/pdmpat

 

Join my facebook group for personal development, inspiration, and actionable knowledge: https://bit.ly/pdmgroup

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Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a midlife career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

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 Genecia Alluora is an experienced and successful businesswoman, as well as former Miss Singapore. She is also a speaker and a podcaster, and she has shared the stage with great minds like Gary Vaynerchuk & Kim Kiyosaki. She is the founder of Soul Rich Woman, the #1 female online business network in Southeast Asia, that connects thousands of women entrepreneurs and aims to equip them with the right support, tools, and knowledge to run their own business and bring their leadership brand online.

 

In this episode:

• An extraordinary journey: from Miss Singapore, to owning a café chain with franchises in 3 countries, to supporting and mentoring thousands of women
• The one mindset aspect that helped her journey from being in a six-figure debt, to becoming a millionaire in a short time
• Her vision to support 1 million women to own and love the "F-word"!
• Where does her drive and reason to empower women come from?
• How to be authentic online, and who should start a podcast!

 

 

"Find a mentor early - stop complaining it's expensive! Invest in the right mentor, and you could 10x your income."

-Genecia Alluora

 

Connect with Genecia:

https://www.soulrichwoman.com/

 

 

 If you want to support my podcast and gain access to exclusive content, become my patron: http://bit.ly/pdmpat

 

Join my facebook group for personal development, inspiration, and actionable knowledge: https://bit.ly/pdmgroup

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Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a midlife career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

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 Rob Scott is a master-level mindset coach, who has been running his personal development business for over a decade now and has helped thousands of people shift their identity and dramatically break through their limitations. Having taught for companies like MindValley, his mission is to end suffering on planet earth, and he teaches the powerful and profound mindsets that people need to achieve success, happiness & fulfilment.

 

This is the second half of the interview - listen to the previous episode #037 for the first part.

 

Listen to this episode to learn:

• Looking at our limiting beliefs, rather than looking through them
• Instant gratification versus delayed gratification
• Self-sabotaging and our comfort zone
• How to achieve stillness in motion, a sense of being still while being active doing.

 

 

"The comfort zone is not comfortable - it's familiarity."

-Rob Scott

 

Connect with Rob:

https://www.robscott.com

 

 

 If you want to support my podcast and gain access to exclusive content, become my patron: http://bit.ly/pdmpat

 

Join my facebook group for personal development, inspiration, and actionable knowledge: https://bit.ly/pdmgroup

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Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a midlife career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

To support the show, click here.

 Rob Scott is a master-level mindset coach, who has been running his personal development business for over a decade now and has helped thousands of people shift their identity and dramatically break through their limitations. Having taught for companies like MindValley, his mission is to end suffering on planet earth, and he teaches the powerful and profound mindsets that people need to achieve success, happiness & fulfilment.

 

Listen to this episode to learn:

• Overcoming massive emotional, mental and physical challenges.
• What is a "fundamental shift" in one's identity?
• The profound changes that happen after choosing to stop an addiction.
• Is there a tangible way to spirituality?
• The difference between thinking and experiencing.
• Changing limiting beliefs both on conscious and subconscious level.

 

Listen to the second half of this absorbing conversation in the next episode #038.

 

 

"What you actually want is a deep sense of change in yourself, which looks more like self-mastery, self-actualisation and self-transcendence. These are the master keys that will get you everything else you want."

-Rob Scott

 

Connect with Rob:

https://www.robscott.com

 

 

 If you want to support my podcast and gain access to exclusive content, become my patron: http://bit.ly/pdmpat

 

Join my facebook group for personal development. inspiration, and actionable knowledge: https://bit.ly/pdmgroup<

Support the show

Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a midlife career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

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Katie Day trained at The Centre Performing Arts College in London, where she qualified as a teacher of ballet, tap and modern with the Imperial Society of teachers of dance. She has adored dance her whole life, and professionally she followed this passion of sharing her love for dance. She is the co-owner of a dance school, and also a trained life coach devoted to helping other dance teachers and studio owners to improve with the business side of running a dance school.

 

Listen to this episode to learn:

• The mindset shifts that motherhood causes to a businesswoman.
• How to alternate between "business mode" and "mum mode" - and why you must.
• Being a role model for your child according to what you are doing, not what you are preaching.
• The importance of coaching and Mastermind groups.
• The importance of defining your ideal customer and your unique selling point.

 

 

 

"Trust in your intuition and it will all work out - you're in the right path. "

-Katie Day

 

Connect with Katie:

https://www.facebook.com/katiedaydance/

https://www.katiedaydance.com/

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Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a midlife career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

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Dr Harry Singh is a former dentist who has been carrying out facial aesthetics since 2002. He was awarded the Fellowship of the International Academy for Dental-Facial aesthetics, and he runs various clinical and non clinical workshops for his training company, which has won numerous awards in the UK.

He has also been investing in property since 2002, and he runs the Dental property club, where he teaches professionals to become financially free through property investing.

 

Listen to this episode to learn:

• The 4 pillars of personal and professional development.
• Self development versus "shelf-development" and the "fakebook lifestyle".
• The psychology of money: how our money beliefs determine our income, and the money thermostat analogy.
• What if a genie would give you £86,400 each and every day - but you had to spend all of it?
• Are you spending time to save money, or spending money to save time?

 

“Just start. Sloppy success is better than perfect theory. You are after progress, not perfection."

-Harry Singh

 

Connect with Harry:

https://www.dentalpropertyclub.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/harrysingh72

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Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a midlife career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

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