In this episode, we explore how a lack of self-trust, not just confidence, can contribute to stress and anxiety in various situations like job interviews, career changes, or returning to work after family leave.

We also touch on how menopause can affect self-trust with symptoms like brain fog and low mood.

Joining me is Antonia Siegel, a mindset and behavior change coach from Healthy Habits, to discuss strategies for rebuilding self-trust and thriving through life's challenges.

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In this episode, we get hands-on!

Antonia explains to us how breathwork can regulate the stress hormone and reduce stress levels.

She takes us through a powerful breathing technique that can help to control the stress we feel and get us into the right headspace before presenting.

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75% of the population fears public speaking. Avoiding it isn't always an option though and imagine the opportunities you could miss if you aren't able to fully engage!

We can take control and we always have a choice.

In this episode, Maryanne and Antonia discuss Imposter Syndrome and practical techniques to control your stress levels. They chat about their experiences and what works for them.

You can learn more about Antonia and her work here:
Healthy Habits

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If you're a company with Scottish connections, looking to scale up then you might want to listen to this podcast. Ken Whipp is the Programme Director of Scale Up Scotland. Their ambition is to support fellow entrepreneurs to build world class, scalable businesses by sharing experience, access and networks to drive dynamic growth.

Maryanne has delivered workshops with their cohorts and enjoyed asking Ken about how important being a good speaker is to leaders who are scaling their businesses.

Scale Up Scotland
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenwhipp/
The Hunter Foundation

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The World Health Organisation deems stress to be the health epidemic of the 21st Century.
In this episode, Antonia and Maryanne discuss what stress is, where it comes from and how it manifests itself within us.
If we can understand our stress response, we can find ways to manage it.

Healthy Habits

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Caroline Barelle is a force of nature.

She is also the CEO and Founder of Elasmogen, a biopharmaceutical company in Aberdeen, Scotland. Elasmogen is rapidly progressing a pipeline of next-generation, differentiated soloMER products for the treatment of solid tumour cancers and auto-immune inflammatory diseases.

She has won the Scottish Life Sciences Award for Rising Star – Extraordinary Talent, Entrepreneurial Scotland’s Summit Award for Academic Entrepreneur of the Year and Most Innovative Company at BioFit2018’s Start-up Slam.  

Be prepared for entertaining stories of her experiences of presenting throughout her career to all sorts of audiences.

Elasmogen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-barelle-94631032/
Scotland's Life Sciences Awards
Entrepreneurial Scotland
BioFIT

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Converge has supported 600+ entrepreneurs, since it started in Scotland working with staff and students at universities.

300+ companies have been created, 1000+ high value jobs and £320m+ follow on funding has been raised.  

I chatted with Claudia about some of the challenges founders have when taking to the stage for the first time to pitch their business to investors.

https://www.convergechallenge.com

https://www.novosound.net

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-renouf-16b20086/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-barelle-94631032/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-reid-2b89ab203/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://mirna-diagnostics.com/en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/eve-hanks-703108199/

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I chatted with Hayley and Emma about the programme we delivered, the impact it's had on their speakers, as well as on the Marketing Team who support the speakers at these events.

https://www.smartestenergy.com/en_gb
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayley-t-773b8212/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-smeaton-1073b935/

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As Head of EIE Programme Delivery & Investor Relations, Danny Helson has been involved in EIE since the start.

He shares some great stories about some of the 500+ companies who have been through the programme. $1.5bn investment has been raised so far, teams have grown, they have scaled internationally and some have successfully exited.

For more information on the events, accelerators, programmes & companies we mentioned during this episode, here are the relevant websites:

https://www.eie-invest.com/
https://www.ed.ac.uk/
https://guykawasaki.com/
https://www.fanduel.com/
https://www.currenthealth.com/
https://www.strath.ac.uk/
https://www.krotosaudio.com/
https://www.appointedd.com/

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From being an Agile Speaker to a Conscious Speaker.... Ana Gallardo shares some thought provoking takeaways in this episode.
Ana is the Entrepreneurial Development Team Leader at Scottish Enterprise. Scottish Enterprise have organised and funded many programmes to help businesses and their people grow. Maryanne has delivered several of these programmes so we talk about the impact these programmes have had in giving business leaders confidence, helping them on their journey to raise millions in investment. We also discuss working with Ana and her team when they were establishing relationships, speaking at events and how she handled a very last minute speaker slot.

For more information on Scottish Enterprise, Informatics Ventures, Scottish Edge, RSE, Young Enterprise Scotland and Elevator, here are the relevant links:
https://www.scottish-enterprise.com/
https://www.informatics-ventures.com/
https://www.scottishedge.com/
https://rse.org.uk/
https://yes.org.uk/
https://www.elevatoruk.com/

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