The Mandala Effect Podcast

Today I speak with Kerry Gregory, founder of Gemmology Rocks, qualified and extremely knowledgeable gemologist and all-around badass no BS woman. I met Kerry through my love of gemstones and desire to learn more about gemology and we hit it off straight away over Zoom and firing each other up so I am very excited to bring you this episode. We speak about the power of being authentic, learning who you are and what you stand for and acting on that instead of who you think you should be, non-traditional marriage as well as some of the wonderful jewellery in the world including that in her treasure box. Kerry gives some wonderful advice about the importance of ‘being you’. Perhaps something we can all reflect on as we move forward in our life. Magic does truly happen when we’re less afraid to be ourselves and can act from a more authentic place aligned with our values, whatever they may be. Kerry also has some wonderful stories relating to her jewellery. Having her gold wedding rings cast in the sand from the beach she used to play on as a child, does it get more wonderful than that? 

I really hope you enjoyed today’s conversation and if you did please give us a rating or perhaps share this episode with a friend if you think it will resonate. The more people who can hear these stories the more people in the world we can help. 

Gemmology Rocks Website - https://www.gemmologyrocks.com/about-me 

Gemmology Rocks Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/gemmologyrocks/ 

Connect with Roseanna on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roseanna.croft/ 

Roseanna Croft Jewellery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roseannacroftjewellery/ 

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In this episode of Design Your Legacy, Roseanna speaks with Masami Sato, 2x TEDx speaker, amazon bestselling author and founder of the charitable organisation, B1G1.

B1G1 is an organisation born from Masami’s vision to want to make a positive impact on the world with the work she did. You can hear her wonderful business journey and how she first learned she wanted to give back to how she now helps thousands of businesses make an impact in the world. This impact helps people throughout the world live a better life.

Imagine buying a book, knowing that then a child in India can receive some help in education. Imagine buying a bespoke piece of jewellery knowing a child in Colombia is given a workshop to help prevent them working in illegal and toxic gold mines. This has been made possible thanks to ‘Buy 1 Give 1.’

In the episode we speak of legacy only needing you to commit to being the best version of yourself every day. It doesn’t need to be high aspirations of becoming prime minister or putting a complete stop to world poverty. Just to do the best you can every single day.

If you loved the episode then we’d be so grateful if you could leave a review or share it with a friend to help others find the podcast and carry on the ripple effect of legacy and change.

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In this conversation Roseanna speaks with her good friend and founder of wellness company Glow Motivation, Lauren Stevenson. In this conversation the tables are turned and Roseanna is in the spotlight! Roseanna was recently diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, which at the age of 30 you can imagine came as quite a shock. 

Roseanna and Lauren speak about this journey so far and how it has impacted her. They discuss how Roseanna has grown and is still growing her bespoke jewellery company, Roseanna Croft Jewellery, the challenges she faces on her breast cancer journey and they speak of their friendship and how they’ve spurred each other on in life. A powerful conversation not to be missed, aimed at inspiring anybody who is facing, who has faced or who will face adversity (so, everyone!) to keep going and believe they will come out on top. Believe you can and you will. 

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Design Your Legacy host, Roseanna Croft, wraps up the series with a short introduction of her incredible guests and sharing her takeaways.  She reinforces the 3 areas that she covers in each episode; their life, legacy and jewellery and says that the three together are filled with power and value.

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The series starts by meeting Josie Goodman, a mum, a jewellery mysteries author and a jewellery historian.

In Episode 2 we meet Anouska Taylor, a voice teacher and professional singer.

Episode 3 sees us meeting Action Amanda who is literally a children's champion as she teaches kids how to be fit and healthy in a fun way.

Dara Ford is the dressmaker we meet in episode 4 who is a feminist in her own quiet way and an inspiration to her daughters and other women.  

Gina Unterhalter is my interviewee for episode 6.  She is a soul and purpose-led life, career and business coach and she reminds us the importance of listening to your inner voice and not being afraid to make changes.

Episode 7 sees me talking to Gemma Ray who is head of content for Body Smart Fitness.  Gemma’s talks about two arms of her legacy.

Our final episode sees me with Dr Sally Bell who talks about living a life inside out.

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Ep 1 Josie Goodman

Ep 2 Anouska Taylor

Ep 3 Action Amanda

Ep 4 Dara Ford

Ep 5 Lucy Kebbell

Ep 6 Gina Unterhalter

Ep 7 Gemma Ray

Ep 8 Sally Bell

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Dr Sally Bell is a trained GP and medical doctor with over 20 years of experience. She uses a style of medicine that is very personalised.

In this episode, we talk about Dr Sally Bell’s journey to wholehearted living and so much more.

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She went into medicine because she wanted to help but halfway through her career she lost her own health and that was the tipping point for her looking at how she could manage her health differently because she did not want to just medicate her symptoms.  Sally has a small clinic and also offers online course, as well as lifestyle escapes where she teams up with the beautiful Hampton Manor which focuses on teaching the steps and giving the tools to help the client recover their health.

Wholehearted living is personalised in that we each need to figure out what we need to survive and thrive, building a lifestyle that is sustainable for our happiness and health.  Legacy for Sally is deep, it’s what messages she’s sharing, and how she lives her life in a way that is sustainable not only for her own health but for planetary health too.  It’s creating a future for not only her children but for her grandchildren as well. Her own legacy is to create beautiful family rhythms that are sustainable and healthy.  Thinking about nutrition, and healthy living for ourselves and the earth.

Sally’s family didn’t really have jewellery aside from wedding rings but Sally loves the idea of heirlooms, so much so that she’s saving so that she can create beautiful jewellery for her girls.

Her advice on living a meaningful and wholehearted life and leaving a legacy, is to have the courage to live an inside out life, connect with who you really are, surround yourself with people who call out the better you, and who give you the courage to live from your inner convictions.  Once you find that sweet spot, that’s wholehearted living.

LINKS MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

Dr Sally Bell - https://www.drsallybell.com/

Dr Sally Bell on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/drsallybell/

Roseanna Croft Jewellery Website -  https://www.roseannacroftjewellery.com/

Roseanna Croft ebook - https://www.roseannacroftjewellery.com/

Find Roseanna Croft Jewellery on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roseannacroftjewellery/

Find Me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roseanna.croft/

Gemma Ray is a powerhouse who wears many hats.  Her most important role is being a mother but she is also a best selling author, a radio presenter, a podcast host, and head of content for Body Smart Fitness.

In this episode we talk about the importance of self-discipline, making the most out of your life and so much more.

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Gemma started her radio career at 19 when she got her first job and she did that for 10 years doing many different things and loved it all.  She then moved on and got a job in a PR company and was there until she moved on to freelancing and became a communications coach before moving back to Body Smart Fitness as their head of content.

Gemma shares her breakdown and the lessons it taught her and how she’s coming out on the other side.

Legacy for Gemma is how you’re remembered and the lasting impact that you leave.  For her own legacy, through Body Smart Fitness, Gemma is part of a legacy that is changing the future for a lot of people.  She is also part of a knife crime awareness initiative and that campaign means she’s part of a team that is potentially changing a young person’s life.

Gemma loves jewellery and she shares details of some wonderful pieces both for her personally and pieces in the family.  She also talks of getting her 3 rings modelled into one; her wedding ring, her engagement ring and the ring her husband gave her when they just started dating. A ring is not just a ring, it tells a story of their love, and the ring is a reminder of that love that she can carry all the time.

For her advice on living a meaningful life and leaving a legacy, comes down to values.  For Gemma, hers are trust, fun, positivity and expression, as long as she’s practising one of the values she's happy with but the most important one is trust, which also encompasses truth, speaking your truth to yourself and others.  Don’t be scared to be who you are.

LINKS MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

Gemma Ray on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gemmadeeray/

Honest to god podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/honest-to-gob/id1553150536

Best selling books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Gemma-Ray/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AGemma+Ray

Body Smart Fitness - https://bodysmartfitness.com/

Roseanna Croft Jewellery Website -  https://www.roseannacroftjewellery.com/

Roseanna Croft ebook - https://www.roseannacroftjewellery.com/

Find Roseanna Croft Jewellery on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roseannacroftjewellery/

Find Me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roseanna.croft/

Gina Unterhalter is a soul and purpose-led life, career and business coach.  She started her career in law and spent ten years there before realising that it wasn’t her calling.  She now empowers people to create their legacies, doing what they love.  She’s also a mother to two young boys.

This is a thought-provoking conversation and in this episode, we talk about Gina’s life and living your life in true alignment.

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Gina’s family immigrated to South Africa in the early 1900, with her grandparents fleeing Palestine and Poland respectively. They arrived in a new land with nothing but the bags on their backs, but through hard work, the family prospered.  The deep love and respect she has for her family is apparent and their legacy is clear to see.

Gina herself started her career as a lawyer like her father and grandfather before her and she remained there for 10 years, ignoring her inner voice and intuition until one day she could no more.  It was then that she took the leap to establish herself as an intuitive coach and leader and she’s doing work that sets her soul on fire.

Legacy for Gina is being brave enough to step into our purpose and be the change we want to see in the world.  For her own legacy, Gina wants to create a legacy of empowerment, and for the people she touches and works with, to remember who they are.  That’s what she wants to be known for and remembered as.

Gina talks about her engagement ring that has such a wonderful story and meaning and is now a constant reminder of the legacy of her family and purpose-led work she’s doing now and her relationship with her husband.

For her advice on living a meaningful life and leaving a legacy, Gina says to trust yourself, trust your power and your truth.  Know and believe that you are powerful and that the world needs you just as you are.  You are enough.

LINKS MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

Gina Unterhaler - https://ginaunterhalter.com/

Gina Unterhalter on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gina_unterhalter/

Roseanna Croft Jewellery Website -  https://www.roseannacroftjewellery.com/

Roseanna Croft ebook - https://www.roseannacroftjewellery.com/

Find Roseanna Croft Jewellery on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roseannacroftjewellery/

Find Me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roseanna.croft/

Lucy Kebbell is the founder of The Vendeur which is a media platform focused on sustainable and ethical fashion, beauty and lifestyle.  She is a champion for small sustainable brands.  She is also the host of a podcast called ‘Style with substance’.

In this episode, we talk about Lucy’s glamorous experience and what led her to sustainable fashion.

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Lucy’s love for fashion and jewellery started at a very young age and by 13 she’d realised that it was possible to get a job doing what you loved.  She discovered that Lucinda Chambers was the Fashion Director of Vogue, that she was a stylist and that was a job that people did, and Lucy realised that that’s what she wanted to do. She shares the details of the start of her journey and you can still hear the excitement!  With over 15 years in the fashion industry, and working with fashion magazines, jewellery was always the main feature in that journey.  Until she began working on her own business, Lucy was with Harpers Design’s Town and Country magazine.  She then freelanced and worked as an editor and again she focused on fine jewellery and watches.

It was while working as a freelancer that she came across sustainable fashion after watching ‘The true cost’.  Lucy created and founded The Vendeur after the realisation that she was perfectly placed with her experience in the fashion work to learn how she could do better and in turn teach others in the fashion industry how they could do better because at the time she could not find the resources that were sharing what she wanted to know.

The Vendeur have also launched a membership called the WIP (work in progress) to further support brands who are working sustainably and give them the community they need to continue the work that they’re doing as well as practical business training.

Legacy for Lucy is leaving things in a better state than you found them.  She believes in pausing and figuring out how to make it a more positive thing or experience.

When talking about jewellery passed down Lucy has quite a lot passed down/given as she comes from a family where jewellery was personally important to them.  She was given pieces that her grandmothers liked and it gave them pleasure to see Lucy wear them. Other pieces were promised to Lucy from them, for when they were gone. She also has pieces from her dad, her mother and also pieces from her partner.  She has wonderful pieces that she talks about and all are etched with memories and sentiments.

For her advice on living a meaningful life and leaving a legacy, Lucy goes back to thinking about how you leave things; with people and with the planet.  Slow down, be mindful of the now and be in that moment.

Lucy's new project, The WIP is a digital membership platform for sustainable brand founders and entrepreneurs. Find out more about our Kickstarter campaign and launch by subscribing, links below.

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The WIP - https://thevendeur.co.uk/the-wip/

The Vendeur - https://thevendeur.co.uk/

The Vendeur on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vendeurfashion/

Style with Substance Podcast - https://thevendeur.co.uk/podcast-style-with-substance/

Lucy Kebbell on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lucykebbell/

Roseanna Croft Jewellery Website -  https://www.roseannacroftjewellery.com/

Roseanna Croft ebook - https://www.roseannacroftjewellery.com/

Find Roseanna Croft Jewellery on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roseannacroftjewellery/

Find Me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roseanna.croft/

Dara Ford is an exclusive female tailor and dressmaker with over 20 years of experience.  She is based in London and is one of the few female-specific trailers in all of the UK.  She is also a mother to three daughters.

In this episode, we talk about Dara’s journey, her values and her business.

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Her story starts as a teenager, where she should make her own clothes, and as a ballroom dancer who would also make her own gowns and then eventually lead to making clothes for friends.  After school, she became an apprentice for an Haute couturier and spent 3 years learning the craft. She then moved to London to study Fashion.  After university, she got a job with a small designer label that had just been awarded a new generation award by the British Fashion Council, where she had a wonderful learning experience.  When it was time to move again Dara looked at her own values and how she wanted to live her life and decided to start her own business because her views were not compatible with the industry norm. And she’s been doing it for over 12 years.

Legacy for Dara is more of an emotional thing, it is the values that can be instilled in children and that are passed down from parents and grandparents.  It is the thought of how we approach life and the relationships we leave behind.  Secondary would be physical things that we pass down and also money and the things that can make life easier for the next generation.  In terms of physical pieces, there is jewellery that she’d like to pass on and she mentioned the importance of passing jewellery on with a note that tells the story of the piece.

Dara inherited a necklace from her grandmother and what she loves about it is that it has three gold beads that makes her think of her daughters and when Dara wears it she feels it links her grandmother to her daughters.  Most of her jewellery are gifts and have a story.  Dara mentions several pieces in the episode.   One piece is a custom-designed silver necklace with an aquamarine stone that her husband of 22 years made for her just 2 years into their relationship and another is a beautiful broach she bought with birthday money that her father had given her just before he passed away.

Her advice about living a meaningful life is to believe in yourself and follow your intuition.  Trust the decisions you’re making.

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Dara Ford - https://daraford.com/

Find Dara Ford on Instagram - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dara-stringham-3b37318b/

Find Dara Ford on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/daraforddesigns/

Roseanna Croft Jewellery Website -  https://www.roseannacroftjewellery.com/

Roseanna Croft ebook - https://www.roseannacroftjewellery.com/

Find Roseanna Croft Jewellery on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roseannacroftjewellery/

Find Me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/roseanna.croft/

Action Amanda aka Amanda Frolich is a children's champion and her mission is to teach children in the early childhood years how to be healthy and fit.  She does this through props, music, dancing and a whole load of fun.  She is passionate about her concept because getting the kids at a foundational level, sets them up for success in later years.

In this episode, we talk about Action Amanda’s 30-year legacy and all the things she still wants to do.

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Action Amanda is full of energy which she attributes to 30 years of keeping healthy.  Even from when she left school, Amanda knew she was passionate about staying active, so her first job was working as a recreational assistant at a leisure centre where she worked her way up to be assistant manager.  But she was offered a course in 1991 which focused on teaching preschoolers and she knew she would love it and it was called Action Kids.  She started doing her classes and people were bringing their kids but she knew/felt something was missing.  One day she was in Ikea and saw some bunny rabbit ears and inspiration hit.  And this is where the concept was born, working with props, music and dance to teach the kids how to be healthy and fit in a fun way.

Through parents attending her classes she was also asked to do the same thing at kids birthday parties and events and even for notable celebrities which started with Victoria and David Beckham and although she became known as a ‘celebrity entertainer’, her passion was always educating children and Action Amanda has grown from there.  She has an app where kids can watch her videos if they’re not able to attend her classes, songs like ‘Wash your hands’ that encourage children to be healthy and finally she has an animation show coming.

Legacy for Amanda is being remembered for doing something wonderful and showing up and shining for other people.  She wants to be the female role model and be known for making children happy and healthy around the world.

For her 50th birthday, her two best friends from childhood gave her a necklace that had more meaning than the friends realised. The pendant says “It’s good to be happy” and has a little A on it and Amanda’s surname is Frolich which means happy jolly in German and the sentiments blew Amanda away and she treasures it.  Her engagement ring is another piece that she treasures.  It was handmade in Turkey and she helped design. Amanda also loves her watches and it’s a piece that works well for her because she’s in tracksuits 7 days a week.  She has two that she wears.  One is a watch she bought for her husband and when he outgrew it, she had it resized for herself because she loves it so much, and she has another one that her husband bought for her.  She also had stud earrings which are her Action Amanda trademark.

Her advice about living a meaningful life is to look after your body as you only get one life.  Spend time with your family, have a good work-life balance. And if you have a gift, go out there and don’t hold back.  Don’t live in what if’s.  Take life's opportunities.  Say yes and work out how to do it afterwards.

LINKS MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

Action Amanda - https://amandasactionclub.co.uk/

Find Action on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/actionamanda/

Find Action Amanda on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/amandasactionclub

Roseanna Croft Jewellery Website (you'll also find my ebook there) - https://www.roseannacroftjewellery.com/

Find Roseanna Croft Jewellery on Instagram - https//instagram.com/roseannacroftjewellery/

Find Roseanna Croft on Instagram - https//instagram.com/roseanna.croft/