The Bootstrappers' Breakfasts™

Today we sit with Lady Val Corbett, a businesswoman who's dedicated her life's work to helping women help women.

The essence, ethos and heartbeat of Lady Val's Professional Network is betterment; building the life and career you dreamed for yourself. It is the mission of all of Lady Val's endeavors: Lady Val's Professional Women's Network, The Corbett Network and The Robin Corbett Award. Lady Val is a devoted advocate for Prison reform and the rehabilitation and re-integration of returning citizens into society. All the profits from the Network's events, both digital and live, go into Lady Val's enterprises, they fundraise for work on prison reform which Lady Val understands is an investment in people who, released from prison, have served their time and need a chance to change their lives. Lady Val's Professional Women's Network lunches in central London, are attended by women who work, not ladies who lunch. Speakers have included Michael Palin, Cherie Blair, Gina Miller, Dame Stella Rimington, Jon Snow etc. This Network links like-minded businesswomen into a cohesive group for sharing contacts, experience, knowledge and to attract future business. This is a cold world and if women don't help other women, who would? The Network motto is: "There's a special place in hell for any woman who doesn't help another woman." The Robin Corbett Award funds £10,000 annually to three charities who do the most for prisoner reintegration. Unless ex-offenders are steered in the right direction after release, around 50% will re-offend within two years – that figure plummets to 19% when they have a job. Yet only 12% of firms employ people with criminal convictions who have served their time and need to change direction. This led to The Corbett Network, a coalition of over 90 decision-makers of charities, social enterprises and organizations involved in reintegration working together to persuade more firms to hire returning citizens.

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Our guest and friend Claire Snowdon-Darling is the visionary founder and senior practitioner at Balanced Wellness, the UK’s leading Alternative Health Experts, and The Head of the College of Functional Wellness, a training School offering accredited training programmes in a new and exciting approaches to health. She is also an internationally recognised podcaster and presenter. Today she talks “the big change” with Geeta.

When Julie Foucht decided she needed to take her coaching business seriously, she hired a high end coach and learned to ‘market like a man.’ She doubled, then tripled her income in less than a year, but felt drained, uninspired and restless.

Urged by Spirit, she embraced her essential ‘Womaness’ and birthed a new way, The Art of Feminine Marketing. Today, Julie teaches female coaches, teachers and healers who are frustrated with traditional marketing, how to build 6-figure businesses through the Art of Feminine Marketing.

Julie’s clients report having clearer vision of their divine purpose, greater passion for their work, the skills to be attracting the perfect clients, and are being paid well for their gifts. Julie received her coach certification in 2006 from The Coaches Training Institute.

She has served on the boards of numerous non-profits, and was named Woman of the Year by the Professional Women’s Network of the Monterey Peninsula in 2013. She is married to the love of her life, has 4 children, 2 stepchildren, 2 furry babies and 7 spoiled grandchildren.

Check out Julie’s Socials:

Website:

https://juliefoucht.com/

Linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachjulz/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/coachjulz

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/artoffemininemarketing/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/juliefoucht

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FeminineMarketingMagic/

Having grown and sold his x2 podcasting networks and then used podcasting to scale and exit x2 professional services agencies, Phil is the ‘go-to-guy’ for understanding business for podcasting and podcasting for business. Starting his career as a talented football player and later coach, Phil combines his winning mentality and ability to build phenomenal teams to fuel and connect those around him. A top 100 podcast and host of global TV series Billionaires in Boxers, he empowers current and future industry leaders. Through a unique mixture of Podcasting, Broadcast media and live events, Phil is renowned for his ability to introduce high-growth potential organizations, from both the emerging and established markets to the most innovative investors.

Having spent most of her youth in and out of hospital, taking on, and beating, Aplastic Anemia (a life-threatening autoimmune disease), Haylee Kalani had the chance to experience life in a new light. An auto-immune disorder where one’s good cells would attack one another, from ages 8-13 Haylee became familiar with feelings of being lost, confused, insecure, and overweight during her most impressionable years. Haylee leaned into her love of creativity and that snowballed into discovering that she had the opportunity to be an Audio Engineer at a recording studio in Seattle WA (Robert Lang Studios). This is where she first found her ability and calling to help other people transform into the most creative, productive, connected version of themselves. Haylee strives to help people successfully impact others with their gifts. She now runs a successful coaching practice and focuses on life meditation, fitness, and play to keep one grounded and true to themselves. 

Hunted down to speak for audiences including Microsoft, Sky and Barclays, Harriet Waley-Cohen has empowered thousands of people over the last 17 years to believe in themselves and their potential. She has been through multiple transformations herself and knows what it takes to make deep rooted changes that stick, and get through tough times and emerge stronger and wiser.

Harriet empowers people to leave behind self-doubt, disempowering patterns and overwhelm in favour of new ways of thinking, feeling and acting that create confidence, wellbeing and success. She is described by Vanessa Vallely OBE, MD of WeAreThe City as ‘a real superwoman who empowers others wherever she goes.’ Harriet won Best Storyteller and Most Memorable Speaker at the 2019 UK Annual Female Speakers Conference, plus was given an award for Leadership in the World by The Network for Transformational Leaders at the end of 2019.

Saskia Marjoram is passionate about flowers and how we interact with them. And has worked with flowers at some level for her whole life. Starting out as a professional gardener for Prince Michael of Kent and then, for 10 years whilst her children were growing she moved on to being a florist - mostly for HRH Prince of Wales where her work took her to palaces and banquets around the country. In her 30’s her relationship was falling apart, her children were having educational and behavioural issues and she was suffering from burnout.

It was then that a homeopath friend of hers, also having problems, suggested they try flower essences… and miraculously they worked.

However they couldn’t afford all of the essences they needed. It didn’t look that difficult to make them, and being women who were always up for trying things they made their first flower essence in 2003 and Saskia’s Flower Essences was born.

For many years they ran the company as a side hustle developing a range of single and combination essences and learning more and more about what each essence could help with until, in 2018, Saskia decided to rebrand and dedicate her life to getting the essences to a wider audience.

Since then the company has gone from strength to strength and is now regarded as one of the main female led companies producing flower essences in the UK. She has a shop dedicated to her essences and other related products in Somerset and has a thriving flower essence therapy practice.

Ingrid Thompson is a Financial Educator and Advocate for Women Business Owners. Ingrid has devoted her life to making things simple and changing lives - through providing financial education for business owners, especially women business owners. She knows that when we truly understand how money works our lives change completely and forever.

Recognised as one of the UK’s top trainers, Sam Dossa harnesses self-care to push himself and others to the top. A proud father of three, Sam leads with authenticity, integrity, self-care, self-respect, self-love, and a strong connection with self.  He has been immersed in personal motivation and permanent transformation since 2007. Starting as a coach within the Youth Sector and then developing this into a business transformation which has been in operation since 2009. As a result of his extensive international training of entrepreneurs and leaders since 2002, he is recognised as one of the UK’s top trainers and coaches. In 2005, he began offering talks and workshops for young adults at schools and colleges. In that time, he trained and spoke to over 8,000 young adults. Within the corporate side of the world, he delivers training on - Mindfulness - Meditation - Mental Health Communication Skills Listening Skills Team Building and Emotional Intelligence Bespoke training.

Wizz is the founder of WIZZ&CO, a brand and retail strategy agency, take emerging brands to established and works with established brands and retailers. Previously she headed up Beauty Buying at Selfridges. Wizz has an eye for trends and customer behaviour and regularly speaks about the retail industry, beauty and wellness trends and consumer insights.