Sharon Singh Sidhu

In this episode, I share the 3-Step Process I've used and continue to use today to help me through financially stressful situations - or any difficult and challenging situation that we face in life every now and then.

Part 1 goes a little behind the scenes about why I do what I do, and why I've distilled everything I learned into this simple 3-Step Process. This episode introduces this 3-Step Process and what it is.

In Part 2 next week, I'll go into greater detail about each part.

I hope you find this useful. If it helps you or you think someone can benefit from it, please share the episodes with them!

And do give my podcast an honest rating and review on Apple Podcast, so that I can share my message with more people and help them live happier, more fulfilled lives!

Money goes beyond just the dollars and cents. 

We kinda know this in our heads, but do we live and apply this knowledge in our everyday lives?

Especially when we’re pressed a little bit financially?

As someone whose instinctive knee-jerk reaction to any kind of news that seemed to threaten my financial well-being was fear, worry and anxiety, I can tell you that unless you make a conscious effort to stay aware of how life is making you feel especially around money, it’s easy to let money worries completely take over.

So how can we live with more conscious awareness when it comes to something as practical and tangible to money?

This week’s podcast episode goes into greater detail to look at the spiritual and energetic side of money with financial freedom coach, Cindy Shaw. With over 30 years of corporate experience in financial services, Cindy now teaches you how to get your mind straight with money. Cindy empowers driven women to upgrade their money wellness so they can build their legacy and do good in the world. 

Key Takeaways from this episode:

• Taking practical actions with your money is important, but so is looking at money from a spiritual and energetic side, and how you’re using money to leave your legacy. Cindy calls it a marriage between financial literacy and understanding who we are.
• What blocks us from achieving the financial results we want in our lives.
• 8 sacred money archetypes and how knowing what yours is can help you achieve the vision you have for your financial life.
• Exercises you can do to help you develop money wellness
• And more!

Listen to the episode for even more great ideas on how you can start experiencing money wellness today.

RESOURCES

• You can find Cindy online at https://moneymasterseries.net
• Instagram @savvy.sacred 
• Facebook @SavvySacred by Cindy Shaw.

It’s easy to confuse the way to wealth and well-being as more ‘doing’ and ‘action’ alone, when actually, it’s when we’re able to do the inner soul work that everything else falls into place.

That doesn’t mean all you have to do is close your eyes and think about riches for it to land your lap. What it means is to find the balance between achievement externally that’s aligned to achievement internally in your soul.

My guest this week is Genecia Alluora, former Miss Singapore, Cafe Retail Chain Owner, Business Coach and Founder of Soul Rich Woman, the #1 female entrepreneur network in Southeast Asia.

Genecia talks about how she’s overcome being bullied and mocked in school to how she’s accomplished so much in her life today.

Genecia’s network connects more than 200,000 women across the region in the ‘Soul F’ membership program the F-word meaning - Being Fabulous, Having Freedom, Financial Independence and Family. 

Key Takeaways from this episode:

• The importance of aligning your inner soul with your external life for your well-being
• How starting from wherever you are, rather than waiting for perfection is what gets you the results you want
• The things that happen in your life happen for a reason - what are you learning from it and how are you using them to move forward?
• Failures are never just failures. They are stepping stones to real and true freedom.

I learned a lot from Genecia and I’m sure you’ll do too!

RESOURCES

• Connect with Genecia Alluoca on Instagram, Linkedin, Facebook
• Check out her website http://soulrichwoman.com/
• Download Genecia’s free ebook on Personal Branding and 7 Steps to Delegate 80% of Your To-Do List.
• The Straits Times article on Social Selling that Genecia talks about is here.

Do you grapple with reconciling your rational, logical mind and your intuitive, inner wisdom?

I know I have! Those of us raised in Western education have been trained to use our rational, logical minds much more than using our inner, intuitive, ‘sixth sense’. 

Dr Shirin was such a joy to talk to because she has combined her training in dentistry to do healing, energy work with her clients to help them reach a higher level of well-being.

Key Takeaways from this episode:

• The most successful business idea or the most successful lifestyle is when your heart, your head and your soul are in alignment - you don’t have to choose one over another.
• True health is when all 5 aspects of your being are functioning well - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, energetic.
• How we all have living guides on what Dr Shirin calls the Voyage of our Soul
• Discovering and doing what really moves you rather than what you’ve been told you ought to do

Dr Shirin’s own story about how she ended up going from dentistry to coach, healer and teacher is gripping and a must listen, especially for those of you still believing you must choose either head over heart or heart over head!

Listen to Dr Shirin's story video here!
 

RESOURCES

• Connect with Dr Shirin on Facebook or email.
• Check out her website www.soulconnectionmastery.com

Today’s episode is all about what to do when things don’t go as planned.

I recorded this solo episode in real time as I was dealing with something with this podcast not going as planned at the very last minute this very episode was supposed to go live. 

It wasn’t even supposed to be this episode, but I wanted to show you exactly how I deal with things that don’t go as planned in real time. 

Key Takeaways

• The 4 things I did to get this podcast episode out
• How you can apply this to any other area of life that isn’t going the way you want it to.
• I also took the chance to share some exciting things coming up, that you don’t want to miss!

Listen to the episode here.

RESOURCES

• Get the free ebook I mentioned ‘5 Simple Steps for Busy Moms to Live A Financially Free Life Now’

Join the waitlist for the Moms Who Profit Program

Val Nelson is a career and business coach helping introverts with big hearts to hear and activate their true calling.

It is possible to do work you love with ease and tap into your values and strengths as an introvert or highly sensitive person (HSP).

Join me on this episode to learn more how you can do so.

In this episode, we discuss:

• What introversion and high sensitivity is and is not
• How to thrive in cultures where the opposite - extroversion - is dominant
• You’re not weird or have a disorder if you’re an introvert and highly sensitive person
• How you can be successful in your career or business as an introvert or highly sensitive person
• And so much more!

You don’t want to miss this episode - you’ll learn more about yourself if you’re an introvert or how to live with one if you’re an extrovert!

RESOURCES

• Connect with Val at www.valnelson.com
• Val’s instagram is @valnelson
• Get her Career Clarity Course.
• Dr Elaine Aron

I enjoyed this chat with Samantha so much especially when you hear how she took her business from $40 to a million bucks in 12 months! When you look behind the curtain though, this was an 'overnight' 17-year success story of lots of trial and error, discoveries and failures before Samantha found her sweet spot and how she could help. 

I took Samantha’s recent pop-up training course, Time Redesigned, on Facebook LIVE and Samantha truly walks her talk. She has the ability to focus on the core essentials to get real results. This is so critical for busy moms where it’s easy for us to get distracted with seemingly important stuff that doesn't really get us closer to our goals.

In this episode, we discuss:

• All the different business ventures Samantha tried out before her current million dollar business.
• How she decided this is what she wanted to do.
• The key ingredient to helping Samantha build her business to what it is today.
• The importance of having confidence and self-belief that somehow, she’ll figure it out. 
• And so much more!

You don’t want to miss this episode that’s packed with inspiration and practical actions!

RESOURCES

• Samantha Siffring IG (tag @samanthahms)
• All of Samantha’s links here: https://linktr.ee/samanthahms
• Smart Passive Income Podcast (tag @patflynn)
• Flourish to 7 Figures Podcast (tag@flourishwithmonica)  

Despite being down and out after a failed health episode in the peak of her life at 31 years old, Chief Painter and a local Crafterprenuer, Amelia is thankful today that she has found healing and solace through her craft business, Sunshine & Love. 

From being a self-taught craft artist to conducting corporate workshops with various institutions such as Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Nan Chiau Primary School, Rainbow Centre; having her first ever art installation “Paper Cut Silhouette Jar Lanterns” with Chinatown Heritage Centre; to seeking out meaningful collaborations with local crafters and businesses to build up the craft community in Singapore, she hopes to journey on and bring about good vibes through her art/work.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Amelia’s slide into catatonic depression - and what does that even mean?
• What it was like during those lowest times in her life
• Amelia’s road to recovery
• How she sees money and financial freedom from a different perspective
• What business means to her
• How she keeps herself going
• And so much more!

I’m really grateful for Amelia’s honesty, friendship and generosity. I hope you’ll enjoy it!

RESOURCES

• Visit Amelia at her website (http://www.sunshinenlove.com)
• Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/sunshinenlove) or 
• Instagram (http://www.instagram.com/sunshinenlove_sg) pages. 

Rita Kakati-Shah is an award-winning, gender, diversity, inclusion and career strategist, speaker, mentor and advisor to Fortune 500 companies. She founded Uma in response to her personal journey of motherhood, transitioning careers and entrepreneurship, and is dedicated to empowering women and minorities around the world. Prior to Uma, Rita lead Business Development globally in CNS healthcare. She began her professional career at Goldman Sachs in London, where she was awarded the prestigious Excellence in Citizenship and Diversity Award. 

Rita has been featured as an expert on multiple international television and news shows, interviewed and quoted in various podcasts and publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Thrive Global, Dell Technology, PRWeek and iHeartRadio. Rita also hosts the popular South Asian television show, The Uma Show, on Mana TV International. She’s a best-selling author, and has co-authored books on women in business, diversity and inclusion. 

Rita is also a trained and accomplished classical Indian dancer in the forms of Bharata Natyam and Xattriya, enjoys Post-Impressionist oil painting, is a foodie and loves trying new spots for afternoon tea around New York City, where she lives with her husband and two young children.

I’m so very honoured to have such an accomplished woman on my podcast so let’s get right to it!

In this episode, we discuss:

• What motivated Rita to leave a lucrative corporate job in Investment Banking at one of the top investment firms to pursue her purpose.
• How skills you learn in motherhood directly translates into skills you can use running a company.
• The number one thing stopping women and minorities from becoming who they want to be.
• How Rita uses scheduling and compartmentalizing to manage her time with her family and her business.
• What financial freedom means to Rita and how Uma embodies the qualities of freedom as well.

RESOURCES

• This is the article where I first interviewed Rita.
• Uma website
• Connect with Rita or Uma on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, 
• Email Uma.

Lisa Canning is a mom of 8 and for the past 10 years, has been running an interior design business that saw her hosting her own HGTV show, working with The Property Brothers, and appearing on lifestyle TV shows like The Marilyn Denis Show.

Lisa is a coach to busy moms, creator of the ‘Conquer your Calendar’ online productivity course and has written the book ‘The Possibility Mom’.

I first heard about Lisa on Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income show, so a big thank you to Pat Flynn as well whose podcast I highly recommend if you’re interested in building your own online business.

What we discuss on the episode:

• Lisa and I talk about how she’s built up her business while raising 8 kids and how she’s overcome the challenges along the way to keep going.
• This episode is loaded with precious nuggets of wisdom, life experiences, advice and such honesty and transparency about Lisa’s own struggles and challenges relating to money and what she did to go from more than $50k in debt to making over 6 figures in her business. 
• If you’re a busy working mom, or just someone finding yourself always short of time, struggling with overwhelm, battling the fear of failure or lacking in confidence in yourself and how to make your dreams a reality, this is a must-listen. 
• Get a pen and notepad and get ready to take notes!

RESOURCES

Connect with Lisa - @lisacanning

Lisa Canning’s Website 

Lisa’s course - Conquer Your Calendar

Lisa’s book - The Possibility Mom

OTHER RESOURCES MENTIONED

Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income Episode 452 with Lisa Canning

Marie Forleo’s B-school 

January Donovan’s The Woman School 

Ryan Levesque’s The Ask Method