Share Your Story

It wasn't a matter of having a picture-perfect image. My years of poor body image had brought on a sort of acceptance that my body would never do that. What I yearned for was something more meaningful. I didn't mind my mommy battle scars either. However, feeling trapped in my body did not have to be one of them. I did not want to accept something I could change. But how?
I took an inventory of my wishes, needs and resources and decided to take control of my body with care and compassion. This led to a fantastic wellness journey that started in 2008 and continues today. Along the way, there have been changes, life difficulties, personal & professional development, and ups and downs - but no more stops and starts. I am here today because of that moment I felt trapped in my body and decided to find the way out, and now I am here to share it with you. This is what inspired me to become a coach.

Begin Altraform

Coaching women in this holistic approach makes sense because as a mom and entrepreneur I know that we are balancing an enormous amount of overload and responsibility. Often we are polarized and also pulled in different directions. My biggest personal fear is that we allow ourselves to be pulled by all these forces and miss the things that give our lives meaning. I want to help others flourish physically, mentally, and emotionally to live a full life, without regret. How beautiful it feels to self-care without guilt and without "no pain no gain" bully tactics that I know do not work because I tried them on myself many a time.
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In my career before mommyhood, I worked with the elderly across long-term care settings. There were several individuals I consider mentors who touched me with their emanating sense of joy, contentment, and a natural way of nurturing their selves as well as others in their interactions. What leads a person to age gracefully and without regret, I wondered as I started my search for answers over 25 years ago. Mind-body self-care is essential. That is the road I am heading down in my life and I would love to walk alongside you on yours.
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My coaching is guided by the principles of Internal Family Systems. I am also a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Corrective Exercise Specialist, and hold degrees in Psychology and Health Care Management. I believe that movement helps us connect to our body and that as we connect we can access our own path to wellness.

Besides my professional training, I learned through my own journey how hard it can be to zero in on goals, understand obstacles, and confidently move in the direction of success in fitness and weight loss. Going through this all showed me that my calling is to share and empower others to find their own path to intuitively understand what their body needs and know how to truly nourish it. Guiding you towards the fulfillment of your fitness and weight loss for optimal is health my mission and passion. Showing you how to self-correct and remove obstacles so you can succeed requires focused individualized attention from me to you.
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The systems are simple and once learned are yours forever to apply in many areas of your life. Using science and age-old wisdom packaged into a user-friendly system for the modern, very busy person, you will find ways to tap into your aligned self to become the best version of yourself you dream possible. Learn to instantly relieve stress, avoid self-sabotage and self-criticism, and many other negative traits that hold us back.

Through Altraform I offer a holistic approach to personalized coaching using the mind and body connection in ways that are accessible, adaptable, and known to fuel your success.

Website: https://www.altraform.pro or https://www.theresaWV.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/altraform + https://www.facebook.com/theresawv
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theresa_wv
Clubhouse: TheresaWV
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresawalshvelendzas/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheresaWV

Diane Chang is the founder and Creative Director of Akushio, a sustainable specialty brand of travel bags and accessories for toiletries and cosmetics. As a skincare and makeup lover, Diane aims to take the stress and overwhelm out of packing your beauty products, so you can feel beautiful and confident no matter where you go. Later this year Diane’s product will be on Kickstarter.

Website: http://akushio.co

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/akushio.co

Facebook: http://facebook.com/akushio.co

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautipolitans

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@akushio.co?lang=en

Okay so a bit of self indulgence for you in this episode. I was invited by a previous guest and fan of the podcast, Rupert Honeywood of Business Growth Bureau to appear on his weekly live stream titled ‘Look Forward Thursdays’. This is my first speaking event since the start of the pandemic, so I said yes of course. Another opportunity to talk about my current passion, storytelling. 

We came up with a jazzy title ‘Your brain is wired for stories and how to implement this in your business’. 

We discussed the following 5 topics.

1. How storytelling affects your brain 
2. Research on the use of visuals 
3. The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve 
4. How you experience the Hero’s Journey 
5. How to implement this in your business from tomorrow

Now of course we discuss some visuals that I shared, which you can’t see on an audio podcast but if you head over to the show notes you will be able to see them all there for downloading. Anyway I hope you will find it useful and of course reach out if you have any questions at all. Enjoy!

Look Forward Thursdays: https://businessgrowthbureau.tv/event1/
Storytelling Workshop: https://www.stayingaliveuk.com/share-your-story
LinkedIn Rupert Honywood: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rupert-honywood
LinkedIn Michael de Groot: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stayingaliveuk

Full show notes: stayingaliveuk.com/podcast/2021/5/debra-sofia-magdalene-the-frequency-alchemist

Debra is an inspirational speaker, international best-selling author, digital nomad and ‘one of the UK’s Leading Evolutionaries’ according to Source TV. Debra opens transformational doorways for you to raise your frequency to empower yourself to be happy, healthy and wealthy. Returning you home to your innate superhuman blueprint from which you can create the life of your dreams.

Debra brings many years of coaching, training and mentoring, together with extensive experience in business support, personal & spiritual development. She has created programmes for thousands. As a gifted healer and energy worker, she uses cutting edge quantum frequency technology to achieve optimal results.

Debra is the creator of a global movement to help raise the vibration of 10 million souls.

Social Links: sociatap.com/DebraSofiaMagdalene

Facebook: facebook.com/DebraSofiaMagdalene + facebook.com/TheFrequencyAlchemist

YouTube: youtube.com/c/TheFrequencyAlchemist

Instagram: instagram.com/debrasofia

Twitter: twitter.com/DebraSMagdalene

Book: thelawofbrandattraction.com

Full show notes: https://www.stayingaliveuk.com/podcast/2021/5/alison-grade-author-consultant-mentor-and-trainer

Currently Alison owns Mission Accomplished, a consultancy offering training, mentoring and strategic advice to start-ups and established SMEs in the Creative Industries. To date she has assisted over 200 SMEs via these programmes. As a Nesta accredited Creative Enterprise trainer and mentor Alison has delivered international programmes in association with the British Council.

Websites: https://www.mission.guru + https://alisongrade.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisongrade

Freelancer Bible: http://styin.me/the-freelancer-bible

Twitter: https://twitter.com/alisongrade

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freelancebible

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freelancebible

First Steps into Film and TV https://hopin.com/events/first-steps-into-film-and-tv

Guardian masterclass - https://membership.theguardian.com/event/how-to-be-a-great-freelancer-a-practical-workshop-with-alison-grade-153476912577

Her work is about being real and creating personal freedom. So every step, becomes about coming closer to realizing and standing in your own truth and share it in love, courage and dignity. Her purpose is to create a learning space where people feel seen and heard in a way that opens up to a more authentic self expression.

Pia is also an enthusiastic advocate for women’s empowerment. She would love nothing more than to see women embracing their true authentic voice and speak up about what they most want to share with the world!

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piamuggerud/ ​

Website: http://www.co-pia.com

Facebook Biz: https://www.facebook.com/RISECoachingTrainin

Facebook private group for women: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RISETheEvolvingWomensCollective​

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoachPia​​

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/piaprana/​​

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/piaprana​​

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCmTKkrT48kGpABptmBB1IA

Book: She Rises For Tomorrow: https://tinyurl.com/r4v9s7c7​​

After many years of working in a bank, earning what most would consider good money, but not enjoying a moment there, I have finally built up the courage to say no to work I hated and began my search for a career, that is fulfilling and meaningful.

It started by looking for answers to my own health and weight issues.

The following 2 decades led me down countless avenues, some by choice and some by chance. No matter how many changes I made in my personal and professional life there seemed to be one constant - my interest in food and health.

These 2 worlds collided in a bad way during my first pregnancy when I gained 70 pounds! I didn’t just gain weight, I became unhealthy. In search of answers and help, naturally I turned to my doctors and to traditional medicine. Years went by bouncing from specialist to specialist, without seeing any results.

At the same time, I began exploring the healing power of food. I made a lot of improvements to my health by changing my diet. However, studying nutrition, I found a lot of contradictory information that made me confused, not sure whom to believe. It took me a while to realise that there is no “one size fits all” solution. It was a process of trial and error. Over time I’ve learned to listen to the feedback from my body. In my experience, changing my relationship with food was so much more powerful than I could imagine and I knew there was much more to learn.

This led me to discover the Institute for the Psychology of Eating and in turn this gave me the opportunity to consolidate everything I learnt over the years.

The final piece of the puzzle fell into place when, at the start of 2019, I discovered that I have insulin resistance. My research into this problem led me to finding out about keto.

At first, I didn’t know much, if anything about keto, but for some reason I had a negative opinion of it. I remember first hearing about keto and thinking; I wouldn’t and couldn’t even eat like that. I also remember feeling that this was going to be another trendy diet here today and gone tomorrow.

My opinion started to change when I began reading about reversing the causes of insulin resistance from some of the leading functional doctors in the field today.

The amazing work of people such as Dr. Anna Cabeca and her book ‘The Hormone Fix’ and Dr. Will Cole’s ‘Ketotarian’ started to open my eyes to the possibilities. I wasn’t quite sold that easily but now I was listening, so with nothing to lose I decided to put their ideas into practise using myself and my insulin resistance as the test subject.

As you can imagine I was blown away by the results and the ease with which my body became keto adapted. Just as impressive as the health benefits was the speed with which the weight came off, I wasn’t obese to begin with but I was starting to believe that my slight excess in weight was just part of being a woman in her 60s, I was wrong!

I was all in! I ordered a bunch of books on keto and quickly enrolled in a course with one of the leading names in the game, Dr. Berg.

Now that I am a certified keto coach I can say something truly amazing; my clients are reporting the same amazing experiences as me!

Website: www.greenmindfulketo.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/greenmindfulketo
Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/ketoforbusypeopleover40
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marijana-dragojevic-849b7b39

Discover the principles to get into the zone that gives you the powerful insights you need for business growth - WHENEVER YOU NEED THEM - not just walking the dog at the weekend, sat on a far flung beach or taking a morning shower. 

In the moment you need them

No matter how busy you are

And with NOTHING NEW TO LEARN

HAS YOUR STRATEGY FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT LOST MOMENTUM?
Your ability to get in the zone and access the insights you need whenever you need them is THE #1 competitive advantage in the growth of your business. And hardly anyone’s cottoned onto this. Yet! 

We work with entrepreneur-owners and senior directors to create an on-demand insight culture, that greatly increases business growth. In less time, with less mental effort, with NOTHING NEW TO LEARN and in a way that has you be at your best every day.

WHAT DO YOU NEED HELP WITH? 

Business Growth Leadership

Peak Performance Mentorship 

Executive Leadership Coaching 

Peak Performance Team Building 

Business Growth Insights

Peak Performance Coaching

WHAT DO WE OFFER? 

THE FREE VIDEO MINI-SERIES
Get access to the leaders’ guide to how to get in the zone whenever you need to. It's the engine room behind accelerated business growth – the essential framework for how it can drive remarkable results for your business in much less time.

THE TRAINING
Join me for a ‘no pitch’ private training and discover how you can use in the zone principles to start increasing the revenue and profit of your existing systems and strategy. With nothing new to learn.

THE PROGRAMME
Contact me to find out about our Peak Performance Business Growth Programme that uses your existing systems more powerfully for more revenue, in less time and with less mental effort. And also with nothing new to learn!

WANT TO KNOW MORE? 
Phone: +44 330 223 1542
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: /linkedin.com/in/business-growth-leadership-coaching
Instagram: /instagram.com/franco.demori

I’m a Dutchman and I’m hugely passionate about storytelling.

My quest is to enable small business owners become better storytellers and share engaging stories about themselves and their businesses.

I do this through my own small business, Staying Alive UK, where we enjoy producing visually impactful cartoons and animation campaigns, engaging audiences and giving them a unique insight into an organisation’s story and value proposition. One of our future aims is to deliver these stories via Augmented Reality (AR) too. In addition we also deliver the ‘Share Your Story’ Storytelling Workshops online to help business owners develop their own story blueprint.

I am the host and producer of the ‘Share Your Story’ Podcast, where I invite small business owners to share their own stories with the aim of inspiring new and existing business owners.

In my personal time, I’m a student of Taiko Drumming, Yoga, Mindfulness Meditation and Minimalism. Just my own way of developing a more meaningful life.

Website: /stayingaliveuk.com
LinkedIn: /linkedin.com/in/stayingaliveuk
Twitter: /twitter.com/stayingaliveuk
Facebook: /facebook.com/stayingaliveuk
Instagram: /instagram.com/stayingaliveuk
YouTube: /youtube.com/c/MichaeldeGroot
Podcast: /pod.link/shareyourstory
Book an interview: /zoom.as.me/podcast

Karen's passion is people development. She offers a wide range of coaching, workshops and presentations which are all specially designed to motivate and inspire you and your team, guaranteed to give your business a boost.
During her working career, she has spent 34 years working in a range of businesses and sectors. With that wealth of personal experience, she has learnt exactly what works and what doesn’t, and she would love to share that knowledge with you.
She has successfully managed various sized teams, consistently meeting challenging objectives, across income, customer service, risk and people management.