Welcome to the all new and improved M-Powered Business Show.

I have decided to relaunch this podcast under a new name and with a new intention - to help you in just 15 minutes a day start to develop the habits and high performance routines that will transform your business and your results.

In this launch show I am going to take you through what you can expect over the coming weeks and how best to take advantage of 15 minutes each day! I will share a little bit of the science behind 15 minutes and why this magical number will help you, day by day, boost your performance and transform your results.

I hope you enjoy the new show - please let me know if you do or if you want us to change anything to make it work better for you.

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We seem to be obsessed with change. From change initiatives to change management it has become a an accepted part of the language of business and our organisations. Yet, does change even exist?

I would argue that change is the wrong term. I believe that what actually happens is a far more natural process called renewal. Rather than being about a change what we are actually doing is constantly recreating the world and always building something new. When looked at through this lens then the opportunities are endless and resistance is lessened.

In this latest episode where I am exploring some of the challenges facing leaders as we create the future of work I am exploring the anxiety many will be feeling about having to give back control over their lives. For years we got accustomed to the fact that a large part of our time was dictated by the organisation we work for and the job we do. We accepted this as the normal.

Over the last 12 months we have opened our minds and our eyes to a new way to work and this has led us to have greater control. How many of our teams are ready to give this back? How many of us are ready to go back to the way we worked before the pandemic? Sharing some of my own thoughts on the way that I am now working verses a year ago I am certainly making different choices and am very resistant to reverting back to a previous mode of work.

In this episode I encourage you to start the conversation - to discover just what people have loved and what they have missed so that we can design our business in a way that helps people be their brilliant best.

Recently I have been reviewing the aims of this podcast - to discover a better way to add value to you, the people who listen in. My WHY is to find a Better Way and Share it - this is what drives me every day. As my friends at the WHY institute say, when you know your WHY WHAT you do has more impact.

We are approaching one of the most challenging periods for leaders the world over. The pandemic has created a dramatic shift in our expectations for life and work, and navigating our way through the aftermath is going to test leaders everywhere. The future of work is here, and we the leaders in business large and small everywhere are designing this future as we go. I believe there is a better future for the way we all work, I am passionate about helping more people to love what they do and design their life so that they can do more, be more and achieve more.

In tis episode I am setting the scene for the challenge ahead and over the coming weeks I will helping you as you navigate the new normal, and build the future workplace. My hope is that we together create a future where we can all thrive.

After growing up on a farm, and taking responsibility for running the farm from an early age Julie Nichols has always had a strong drive to succeed. After studying Agronomy she has recognised that there are different ways to operate that can help both growers and buyers all achieve more by working together - the Chinese principle of Guang Xi is a guiding ethos for Julie and her business Organzo (www.organzo.ca)

In this wonderful conversation Julie discusses her lessons learnt as a business owner, and how through it all she has never doubted her ability to succeed. This is not born out of arrogance, but an unshaken belief in her ability to create positive outcomes. What is wonderful about Julie is whilst she has belief in herself, she also recognises where she needs help and support. Her Advisor Board is a practice I would encourage all business owners to adopt.

If you would like to find out more about Julie and her work then check her out on Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-nichols-24676b17a/

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With a passion for personal growth and development spanning more than 40 years Sandhya Maheshwari is a student who now helps her clients through her own Transformational Life Coaching business, Lotus Life Mastery. Taking her upbringing in India and her spiritiual and religion beliefs and augmenting them through working with great mentors and teachers Sandhya has discovered how important the shift is when we stop focussing on what we do and start to work on who we become.

Sharing simple yet powerful questions Sandhya helps us to understand our key drivers that are impacting our life, so that we are open to and embrace personal transformation. 

Sandhya Maheshwari is a Transformational Life Coach and her business is LOTUS LIFE MASTERY. She has been in the personal and professional training and development industry for over two decades.  Her clients produce extraordinary results in the area of their health and well being, relationships, their career (vocation / creative expression), and they experience time and money freedom.

Sandhya offers free workshops and discovery sessions and those who are ready and willing take action to move beyond where they are to where they would love to be.

She empowers her clients with rigor and compassion to create and live a life by design.

You can connect with Sandhya at [email protected] or by visiting her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sandhya.maheshwari.10

How can a fear of rollercoasters become the mantra for living a fearless life? In this conversation Jackie Burton shares how, on a holiday to Florida she overcame her fear of the Hulk roller-coaster by taking one step forward and then just going with it. Something she has taken into her life and her business - the attitude of just get on the train!

Jackie is a highly successful retail leader and business owner. She leads two Vodafone Franchise stores in the North West of England, as well as launching a new business where she helps fellow entrepreneurs successfully grow and lead their business'.

Jackie's passion and belief in what is possible shines through in this conversation - using both her desire for growth and taking unhelpful criticism and using it as the catalyst to challenge herself to prove just how much she can achieve! She has found her own way to successfully deal with the imposter in her own head - a challenge she admits she faces daily! This is a great example of how we can manage our inner chimp and still push ourselves to be all we want in our life!

If you want to connect with Jackie she is on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelineburton-connectingtomorrowsworldtoday/

Her email is: [email protected]

What happens when you return after a career break and find your expertise and the thing that you once loved was no longer as relevant or the world has changed so much that you need to start again? This was part of the story of today's guest Ruthann Bowen.

Ruthann is the founder of Wix DesignHer (https://www.wixdesignher.com) and the Chief Marketing Officer for EastCamp Creative. Ruthann has dedicated her new found passion for web design to helping entrepreneurs, specifically female business owners, create beautiful websites without having to invest in huge design costs. In fact her brand new book is designed to do just that - it's called "Creating your own website in a weekend" and helps entrepreneurs create DIY websites that are beautifully designed, converting websites.

Ruthann is passionate about helping others and the importance of design. In this episode the not only shares what she does but also the journey she has been on as a business owner herself. From leaving a wonderful job, to the concern of her parents through to her work now disrupting the web design market Ruthann has always felt challenged by working inside a "box" as she calls it. Her desire to create and her love of finding new ways to do things means that she is able to forge her own path balancing the courage to take on board feedback, whilst having the inner confidence to trust her instincts - a balancing act she manages with real style.

if you want to connect with Ruthann you can visit her website or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruthann-bowen-0b9382107/

Sometimes a product or service comes to the market and provides a solution that is so obvious and needed that you can't believe it didn't exist before it was created - this is what Alison Tansey and the team at Simply Brilliance have done. 

Alison has had a highly successful career in the People Development function with a series of large corporate organisations. Through this she recognised the value of finding brilliant providers to help augment their own internal talent to create truly "dial shifting" solutions. Yet, the process of uncovering these brilliant providers was time consuming and often challenging. There had to be a better way...

There was - Alison left the corporate space and with her co-founder created it! In this conversation we discuss not just the great service she has created but also the thinking and the journey she has pursued in stepping into the entrepreneurial space and becoming a business owner and leader in her own right. From training others to now living the theory Alison shares how she is now applying the years of information and knowledge she has gained. Sharing her own thinking around the challenges this creates.

You can connect with Alison on Linked In here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisontansey/

You can find out more about Simply Brilliance here: https://www.simplybrilliance.com

In this episode I am speaking to Sally A Illingworth. Sally is someone who I have admired for a while through the platform Linked In - she was one of the first people to capture my attention by using video as a way to connect. In this conversation we explore how Sally's natural problem solving and curiosity led to her using the Linked In platform to see how she could create content that engaged people, and how this has since taken her career into a completely different space! If ever their is a person for whom the idiom "anything is possible" rings true it is Sally. What runs through all she does though is a love of solving complex problems and a deeply analytical approach to everything she does.

Sally is a hardworking, calculative and strategic consultant who thrives in complex adaptive working environments. She loves logical analysis and strategizing to find and curate the most effective solutions. Sally has high standards of operation and embraces her imagination to ensure the most considerate and thorough outcomes for important projects.

If you would like to connect with Sally (you 100% should!) the best place of course is Linked In - here is her profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sallyaillingworth/

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