If you are afflicted by self doubt, and suspicious of the power of self belief, give me and Ahiyana Angel from Switch Pivot or Quit just 35 minutes of your time. You will learn some important lessons in self belief : things like sometimes giving yourself a break, trying to think in favour of yourself before thinking against yourself and the value of getting to know what is true for you. Now that is a beautiful thing!

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"I am loyal in friendship, loyal in love and loyal in my working career, but I am not blindly loyal. I have always stood my ground." Jakki Jones Healy celebrity handler and doodler explains what loyalty means to her and why it often it isn't reciprocated!

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Celebrity handler, Jakki Jones and I discuss how she deals with difficult people, and her strategies to survive the ever present danger of them 'having a moment'. I think we used the word 'calm' more than 25 times throughout the conversation!

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Nadine Baggot and I discuss the upsides of getting older in an industry not famed for respecting its elders, but where the elders are becoming the majority. We consider whether the young are inherently ageist. Whether the ascent to the summit is worth the effort. And whether we actually do give a s*** !

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Co-founder of the charity Beauty Banks, Jo Jones joins me to think about Beauty. She doesn't believe in beauty from the inside out, it makes her feel a bit sick, but she does know that ugly thoughts can eventually 'make you look ugly'. For a long time she was embarrassed to say she worked in beauty, and she finds very different things beautiful now than she did when she was 24. If you fear beautiful people, if you are worried about loosing your beauty to age, if you have wondered why people obsess about the subject.... this one is worth a listen!

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Harvard accredited business and career coach Lisa Strutt joins me to discuss her personal struggles with allowing herself to be supported instead of being the supporter. Her husband is terminally ill. She has 3 teenage children. She is navigating the Covid 19 crisis. She has had to learn the art of being supportable.

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Bravery is not lack of fear. Bravery is surviving despite the fear, and learning how to thrive in the face of devastation. Lisa Strutt joins me to discuss the everyday bravery she must find each waking moment, and the things she has learned about herself as part of this truly difficult journey.

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Feck is not a swear word. .... I am Irish, so I know this to be true. That's all really. Feck and other musings with Emma Guns and Alyson Hogg.

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Margaret Atwood wrote 'What I am living for and what I am dying for are the same thing'. Purpose is lots of things but it should never be money. Surprised? If you haven't yet found your 'Why', you might want to listen to Emma Guns and I discuss our struggles to define our own.

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Are you a Dinosaur at heart? Change is hard. Really hard. But if you are to survive, and thrive, there is no avoiding it. Award winning journalist Emma Guns joins Alyson to talk about all the changes she made in her career that changed everything else in her life.

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