Today I'm joined by Jess Marie, licensed and certified coach and owner of Unapologetic Life Coaching and host of her podcast Unapologetically Overcoming.

Jess has faced her own struggles in life and after leaving a violent partnership, she began taking steps towards turning her pain into strength - becoming unapologetically herself after having spent years putting others first and neglecting her own needs.

In her work as a coach and podcaster, Jess provide a space for others to talk openly and honest about all the parts of themselves - particularly the parts we'd rather keep hidden - in a non-judgmental way with the aim of looking at them as part of an amazing person who has dealt with life and is still standing.

Speaking first about how she brought herself through difficult times and then into a place of acceptable and eventually radical self-care, Jess uses her experience in order to relate and connect on a fundamental level to bring about change that sticks by guiding you to the solutions that already reside within.

Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Check out Jess's work on the links below:

Unapologetic Life Coaching LLC

https://open.spotify.com/show/4y0hzYvNRc8bNPS5luFMSJ?si=f8c7c57e82c44f83

Today I'm joined by Lori Simons and Stephanie Rickman - two women who didn't know one another and had never met until an extraordinary situation brought them together.

Lori had re-entered the dating pool following an earlier divorce and time raising her son. After setting up a profile on a dating app, she met a man who "checked all the boxes" and after being together for four years felt that they would see out their lives together until a fateful day when Lori found him with another woman and things changed dramatically.

Stephanie had been dating and was in a relationship for five years. By her own admission she had "never loved a man as much as I loved him" and her kids adored him - things had progressed to a stage where Stephanie believed that she had found her person. However...

After Lori caught her boyfriend out, she went on the group 'Are We Dating The Same Guy' and posted a photo - it was at this point that Stephanie and others made the same connection and reached out, each with their own stories that spoke of their own relationships with this man and things then started to fall into place.

In an age of dating app culture and social media overreach, this story highlights the heartbreak, opportunity for manipulation and terrifying consequences of how someone with the motivation to deceive in this manner can easily make contact with someone and infiltrate their lives. While I firmly believe that the majority of people are well-intentioned, Lori and Stephanie's story serves as both a reminder that devious people exist but also that the power of friendship can help us rebuild.

Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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Today I'm joined by Nichole Hensley Henson, the co-founder of the Fullness of Joy Ministry to talk about her life which began in darkness and began a long road to her current state of peace.

Michelle's life began surrounded by domestic violence and from the age of 7 she was sexually and mentally abused by her biological father, in addition to being exposed to satanic and occult practices. This continued due in no small part to the mental stranglehold placed upon her by her father and she kept this inside up until almost in her teenage years when she began acting out in extreme ways and began counselling.

While the initial counselling sessions brought the abuse into the open, this did nothing to improve her domestic life and contributed to her Nichole's mental health struggles which included OCD, clinical depression, PTSD and dissociative identity disorder. When years of subsequent therapists and medication did not change things, Nichole was at the point of just giving up when she learned about spiritual warfare which was the catalyst for her to finally heal.

While having grown up around the church, Nichole finally concluded that she needed to give herself fully to God and describes the moment when the demons - that she formerly believed were just character traits - were cast out from her body and the peace that has washed over her since then, while also suffering none of the symptoms of her previous diagnosed conditions.

Nichole now devotes herself to doing as God requires and through the Fullness of Joy Ministry spends her time consulting, teaching and writing in order to help others who have suffered torment of their own so that they can heal and nurture their own relationship with God.

Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Check out Nichole's work on the links below:

Fullness Of Joy Ministry – Nichole Henson: Ministry Blog

Delivered From 60 Demons | Nicole Hensley-Henson Testimony of Jesus Christ

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Today I'm joined by Michelle Valiukinas Tisdahl, founder and executive director of The Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation to talk about her work and - perhaps more poignantly - the circumstances that led up to it.

Michelle talks from the heart about her struggles to conceive and carry a pregnancy, the steps taken to become pregnant, the pain of losing her first child Sweet Pea to miscarriage and the awful day in which she was admitted to hospital when she was forced to give birth to her daughter Colette 16 weeks prematurely. Though Colette was born and taken to NICU, sadly she passed 9 days later.

In the midst of her own grief and trying to make sense of the situation, Michelle couldn't help but see the pain of others who were struggling with their own grief and loss but also the financial strain placed upon them by the U.S. healthcare system. While acknowledging that she was in a financially privileged situation, Michelle sought to help families who had been affected by their own loss but were forced back to work in a state of physical and emotional distress due to the cost of their time in hospital.

On September 7th of that year (Colette's original due date) Michelle launched her foundation with the aim of providing financial assistance to families dealing with high-risk or complicated pregnancies, NICU stays or loss, in addition to advocating for institutional reforms in order to provide better care in traumatic times and working alongside families to provide emotional support.

Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Check out Michelle's work on the links below:

Home - The Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation

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Today I'm joined by Matt Melvin, author of the book 'Bullied Behind Bars: A Gay Christian Trump Supporter Goes to Prison' - a story of consequences, wrestling with difficult emotions, a critique of the justice system and redemption.

As you can imagine with such a title, there is a great deal to the story of Matt's life from his childhood growing up lonely in a small town, an adult diagnosis of Aspergers Syndrome, a passion for selling and a great deal more.

Matt details his two visits to prison, small town corruption, a brutal rape in prison and his inner work that - along with his faith in Christianity - brought about a change in his life as well as a desire to support positive changes in society and the hope to deter young people from engaging in offending, by social activism and public speaking.

Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Check out Matt's work on the links below:

Bullied Behind Bars: A Gay Christian Trump Supporter Goes To Prison | prison reform

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Today I'm joined by chef to the stars, author, radio personality, entrepreneur and host of the '50 Tastes of Gray' podcast, Matthew Gray.

Since childhood, Matthew has held a love of food and cooking that has taken him from New York all around the world to his present home in Hawai'i. Using food as the vehicle, Matthew combines humour, an engaging personality and a genuine curiosity to encourage those around him to share their stories in a manner that showcases the person behind the role that they play.

Sharing moments from his own life with the culinary world as the backdrop, Matthew talks us through his journey into kitchens from his time studying in London, through to cooking for groups like Pink Floyd, to the burgeoning Los Angeles restaurant scene before love took him to Hawai'i to run a culinary tour business until COVID had a say...

Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Check out Matthew's work on the links below:

https://open.spotify.com/show/4f1R9ndbwu4HAoVsC6kvyU?si=fd6c7874fb1c47e0

50 Tastes Of Gray | Matthew Gray | Substack

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Today I'm joined by Dr. Ray Doktor, Psy.D., bestselling author of "All it Takes is One", clinical psychologist of 30 years and relationship/life coach who has worked with some of the leading figures in personal development and whose expertise can be read in publications including Psychology Today, the Los Angeles Times and Men's Health.

While practising with a broad range of modalities, Dr. Ray looks to understand his clients on an existential level in order to understand what makes them tick while using a solution-focused method of shifting ones' mindset from old, outdated patterns of thinking that leave us stuck in rumination or repeating maladaptive, unhelpful behaviours.

In this episode we discuss Conscious Parenting, which highlights the need for our own self-awareness with regard to how we relate to our children, our partner (or ex-partner) and the world around us in order to guide our children into the wider world. We use poignant examples of our own lives to highlight the differences between parenting now against our own upbring, the Gen X climate that shaped our thinking, the differences in aging across the generations and so much more.

Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Check out Dr. Ray's work on the links below:

Ray Doktor Psy.D. - Life and Relationship Coach

Ray Doktor - YouTube

All It Takes Is One: Drop Your One BIG Hidden Belief and Master Your Life : Doktor Psy.D., Ray: Amazon.com.au: Books

36: The True New Secrets of Attraction Over 40 that High Quality Men Haven’t Shared with You with Dr. Ray Doktor - Love Coach Junie Moon

Today I'm joined by Dr. Matt Motchkavitz Ph.D, founder of The Excellence Incorporated Company to talk about the importance of goals - just in time to kick off 2026.

Matt started the company with a mission to teach practical life skills and this is done via a variety of mediums including seminars, takeaway training programmes, events and tangible products such as books. These are currently provided across the United States with a view to take these teachings to a global audience.

Matt talks of his beginnings in college while training to become a therapist and how he had never taken a class on personal development but circumstances took him in a different direction after becoming a single parent to his son, meaning that he never became a therapist but moved towards training and public speaking.

We discuss the role of ego, self-esteem, array of distractions and so much more when looking at how to set goals that resonate with us, how to stay on track once your goals are identified, how regularly to review them as well as the importance of having fun and balance along the way.

Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

https://open.spotify.com/show/4aAdbPrTjEEnwco5jII65U?si=546ac484ebde4135

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Today I'm joined by Petya Yordanova, the owner of 'You-Expanded Coaching' . Petya works with women to attract the love they deserve by focusing on that which is within - healing from past hurt, removing emotional blocks and allowing your true self to flourish in order to find someone who aligns with you rather than settling for an unsuitable partner or repeating old, negative patterns.

Petya and I examine how past trauma can show up in relationships, often unnoticed and keeps us locked in cycles that perpetuate unhappiness or the feeling that something is missing. We talk honestly and openly about our own lives, using examples of our own relationship struggles before taking steps to love and appreciate ourselves in order to attract that which works.

As a student of Katherine Woodward Thomas, Petya brings a transformational style that incorporates what is unique about YOU into a coaching model that highlights the positives whilst bringing about a greater self-awareness which will benefit your love life in addition to how you show up in the world.

Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Check out Petya's work on the links below:

Finally Find Love | Relationship Coaching for Women | You.Expanded Coaching

You.Expanded Coaching - Create the Love You Desire | Facebook

I'm joined today by Dominique Favreau - an artist, growth advocate and presenter of the Coconut Soul Podcast to discuss a myriad of topics including vulnerability, self-love, personal growth and so much more...

Dominique AKA Nikky, supports people in the move to become 'Soulpreneurs' in that she helps them to discard the unnecessary and sometimes toxic baggage that accumulates in life over time with a view to living a more fulfilled life and "being vulnerable enough to love yourself"

As part of this, we look at things such as shame, mistrust, fear and perfectionism which manifest as getting in our own way and adding to the stressors already present in modern life. As both of us are fans of the 'no BS' approach, we draw on our own experiences and the mistakes within to demonstrate that the path through life is not a simple one and that it's expected that we will make mistakes - something that we seem to often forget when judging ourselves.

Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Check out Nikky's work on the links below:

Self love story of “Being vulnerable enough to love yourself” - Nikky & Patrick Coconut Soul Podcast

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