Are you settling for less than you deserve? Do you deserve to go for that promotion, or get a new role, but settle for less than you deserve because you are fearful or think that you are not good enough. In this episode I talk about not settling for less than what you deserve.

Meetings are probably one of the most psychologically unsafe spaces in the workplace. In this episode, I very briefly touch on the findings regarding meetings from my research study looking at what the experience is of belonging and psychological safety in the workplace for introverted women leaders.

For many of the introverted women leaders that I coach, it is once they fully understand themselves, understand introversion, and embrace who they are that they unlock their introverted superpowers and thrive.

They become more confident and self-assured which has a positive impact both professionally and personally.

In this episode, I talk about how understanding yourself is key to unlocking your introverted superpowers and you becoming the best version of you.

What does a confident and hopeful self mean to you?

As a primary teacher, chaplain and life coach, Jessica Rowlands has spent much of her life observing people, none of whom are ordinary. Listening to them, seeing them and attempting to truly understand and accept them for who they are including all the not so good bits as well as the good bits, Jessica has observed that this brings safety in relationships, hope and therefore growth and connection. Also, knowing that she is not on her own in her introversion, shyness and her anxiety, changes her reality, her outlook and attitude to life. It is ok to be herself, and for you to be you. The conversation in this episode covers a range of topics centering around the 'confident, hopeful self' and the journey to realising and accepting that it only takes one person to be interested, you in them and they in you, and suddenly you are no longer by yourself; you can begin to grow and flourish....and be your confident and hopeful self.

About Jessica Rowlands

Through the services they offer, Jessica Rowlands and her husband Ian, inspire and coach people and communities to reach their full potential. Jessica has been married to Ian for 35 years and has 3 grown up children, a dog and a grand dog!  She has a background in establishing and building church communities, and has been a primary teacher for 34 years, a Chaplain for 12 years and a qualified Life Coach for 3 years.

Her passion, with all her experience with people of all ages, is for those she meets to know how deeply loved and valued they are, helping them develop into who God has made them to be.  As CS Lewis says, ‘We meet no ordinary people’; Jessica believes she hasn’t met an ordinary person yet!

 https://www.thinplaces.co.uk/about

Angela Clucas, a registered nutritionist and coach based in the Isle of Man, is passionate about helping people make a change, not just for the duration of working with her, but for life. Angela is obsessed with behaviour change and the brain and how we can rewire our thoughts to influence our behaviour.  In this episode she talks about how her journey to launching her company Next Level Nutrition wasn't straight forward, it took 17 after leaving school and quitting her 9-5 to follow her dreams twice!

A discussion follows about nutrition, the foods we eat and why, how we think about food and the choices we make. The conversation touches on how, as busy female senior leaders or entrepreneurs we can optimise our nutrition for optimal wellbeing. Angela is passionate about helping people do and feel their best which is why she will shortly be launching a new business, Health for Wealth - for female entrepreneurs to boost their income through looking after themselves better and giving themselves the gift of time. 

About Angela Clucas

Angela is a nutritionist with a passion for helping people make a change for life, not just for the duration of working with her. She is obsessed with behaviour change and the brain and how we can rewire our thoughts to influence our behaviour. Angela's journey to launching Next Level Nutrition wasn't straight forward, it took 17 after leaving school and quitting her 9-5 to follow her dreams twice! She is passionate about helping people do and feel their best which is why she is launching a new business, Health for Wealth - for female entrepreneurs to boost their income through looking after themselves better and giving themselves the gift of time. 

https://www.instagram.com/nextlevelnutritioniom/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-clucas-msc-senr-07861820/

https://nextlevelnutrition.me

Certified Professional Coach, author and speaker, Kamini Wood,  helps high-achievers heal their relationships with themselves. She helps people take courageous steps in identifying limiting beliefs, reasons for stagnation and overcoming self-doubt in order to live a fulling professional and personal life.  In this episode Kamini shares some of the life experience that led her to self-leadership. A particular aspect of this episode is how perfectionism and a lack of self-compassion can hold us back, how to recognise these traits, how we internally and externally process them and some of the steps we can take to evolve into being our own self-leaders.

About Kamini Wood

Kamini, a certified life coach, helps high-achievers heal their relationships with themselves. She helps people take courageous steps in identifying limiting beliefs, reasons for stagnation and overcoming self-doubt in order to live a fulling professional and personal life. 

She is the creator of AuthenticMe® and CEO of Live Joy Your Way - a coaching company helping high performers and overachievers who have seen success through old-rooted, traditional metrics, reestablish their relational self-awareness. Trained in internal family systems and cognitive behavioral- based coaching, she can help her clients navigate past traumas and toxic relationships and truly live in self- acceptance, self-confidence, and self-leadership. 

Kamini is a best-selling author; holding certifications in various modalities including life, wellness, high-performance coaching, teen life, conscious uncoupling, calling in the one, new money story, breath work, meditation and diversity, equity inclusion, and belonging. She is also trained in conscious parenting and coaching for children. 

https://www.kaminiwood.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaminiwood/

https://www.instagram.com/itsauthenticme/

It is often said that women don't utilise their networks enough, but networking can be beneficial for career success. For introverted women, networking can be a bit of a nightmare. Not liking small talk, environments which are over stimulating, and being drained of energy from doing it. These can all contribute to some introverted women not enjoying it.

In this episode I share tips on how to make networking an enjoyable experience for introverted women and how you can make it work for you, whilst doing it confidently.

Old habits or long held beliefs, can hold us back in our lives and stop us from being the person we are meant to be.

Clinical Hypnotherapist and Advanced Rapid Transformational Therapist (RTT) Kate Hoyle, believes that you can't truly fix a problem until you go back to the root cause to find out what caused it in the first place.  Becoming a therapist was a complete change of career for Kate, which didn’t happen until she was in her early 50s. Before that she had worked in the City within law and finance. It was the transformation that RTT created for her own daughter that made Kate drop everything, retrain and follow her current path creating powerful transformations for others.  In this week's episode Kate shares her journey to where she is now, and her thoughts on self-belief and how if we want to change anything in our lives, we initially need to understand why we act in a certain way or why we hold certain beliefs.  Once we know, if there is something that we passionately want to do in our lives, we will have the confidence (and self-belief) to take a leap of faith and discover who we truly are and meant to be.

About Kate Hoyle

Kate Hoyle is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Advanced Rapid Transformational Therapist (RTT) and believes that you can't truly fix a problem until you go back to the root cause to find out what caused it in the first place. She uses hypnosis to access subconscious emotional beliefs attached to past events and to convert these into beneficial and positive thoughts moving forward.

Becoming a therapist was a complete change of career for Kate, which didn’t happen until she was in her early 50s. Before that she had worked in the City within law and finance. It was the transformation that RTT created for her own daughter that made Kate drop everything, retrain and follow her current path creating powerful transformations for others.

www.KateHoyleHypnotherapy.com

www.facebook.com/katehoylehypnotherapy/

www.instagram.com/katehoylehypnotherapy/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-hoyle-8272079

A few thoughts for International Women's Day 2023.

In this episode I talk about my lived experience of imposter syndrome, where it came from, and how I overcame it using examples of 2 significant times in my life when I experienced it.