The Successful Women Podcast Show with Gill Donnell

Verna Haywood of La Vie Heath & Wellness, is the self-styled original Spice Girl having been born on the Spice Island of Grenada in the Caribbean!

In the show, she talks about how her faith helped her overcome the challenges of being abused as both a child and adult and allowed her to build a positive life, one where she can now guide others on an holistic journey into wellness.

Find out more via her website - https://www.lavierefresh.co.uk/

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Gill is joined by Neena Saith, a Pranic Healing therapist, helping people to overcome physical and emotional health conditions using the amazing power of energy. 

Neena discovered Pranic Healing during her corporate career in Catastrophe Risk Management with the aim of finding ways to manage her own stress and energy levels that became prominent after having her first child.  

Suffering with very painful shoulders and neck for over two years and having tried many other therapies, Neena decided to learn about Pranic Healing in order to self heal.  Blown away by what she learnt, she continued to study the teachings and learn about energy in a greater depth. 

She now takes great joy in helping others improve their health and wellbeing. 

She works with people in person in Hampshire in the UK as well as on Zoom. 

You will find Neena on social media @neenapranichealing and www.neenapranichealing.com

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Paola Royal is mother to a 20 year old boy called Fynn. She lives in Devon with her husband dog and cat. Paola loves the outdoors to reconnect with nature.

She has over 30 years of medical and psychological experience working as a Physiotherapist, studied energy psychology, Nutritional Therapy, and works as a Mindset Mentor,

Her passion is to improve our health and well - being through raising our awareness about how we psychologically work and the impact a healthy diet can have on our physical well being.

She created a 6 month programme where she holds her clients' hands on their way to improved health and well- being.

She is also in the process of writing a book which will be published some time this year    Find Paola at www.HealthyLivingwithPaolaRoyal.co.uk Facebook LinkedIn Twitter  Instagram   Thanks for listening to the Podcast - we would love you to subscribe (if you are not already a friend) and leave a (hopefully lovely)review !   The discount code for our Confidence and Self Esteem course during March is IWD21 Check out the course here   Find more goodies on the website gilldonnell.com  

Rachel Mason is the founder and CEO of Our Remedy, an award-winning wellness brand offering sustainably packaged natural remedies for sleep, periods and anxiety.

The range is totally vegan and eco-friendly, using soy inks, biodegradable shipping bags and recycled card boxes. Led by a team of women, the brand hopes to provide support and hope for women experiencing debilitating symptoms associated with their menstrual cycle and beyond.

Here, Rachel shares the story of the brand's conception and its subsequent success, as well as more of her business and healthy journey.

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Read her advice and check out everything on the website -  ourremedy.co.uk 

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Shanna Truffini is our 100th guest on the show.

When her daughter Anna was only 7 years old, she was diagnosed with 'anticipatory anxiety'. In her effort to help her daughter, she tried everything from therapy to homeopathic remedies, but she still could not get to the root of her daughter's emotions. It wasn't until one day a friend of hers compared stress and anxiety to 'watering your weeds'.

This is when she realised that Anna was 'watering her weeds' instead of 'watering her flowers', focusing on the negative feelings and thoughts instead of the positive. This is how the You Are a Gardener® seeds were planted.

Creating a new narrative and tools for her family to talk about their feelings and emotions, opened the lines of communication and gradually Anna was able to spend more time 'pulling her weeds' to make more room for her flowers".

What started out as a book for her family has now flourished into an entire platform dedicated to helping families and educators encourage the social and emotional well-being of young children. "Plant your seeds, pull your weeds and enjoy the flowers along the way. You are a gardener. "

Since You Are a Gardener® was published in 2017, several new social and emotional learning (SEL) programs have since blossomed to empower kids, families and educators with tools so their gardens can grow healthy and strong!

Check out Shanna's resources:

Hello Gardeners® & Camp Hello Gardeners® Video Series The #PullYourWeeds® Blog Virtual Workshops For Students Ages 4-11 Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs For Educators Grades K-5 www.youareagardener.com @youareagardener | #PullYourWeeds   Join the Successful Women Members Club, Find your Tribe and increase your personal and professional confidence

This week's guest is Viv Allen, Success + Business Performance Coach, podcaster, speaker, founder. 

Her mission is to inspire and nurture, so that people can have a beautifully balanced, joy filled life and a prosperous business.   With over a decade as a psychotherapist and 2 decades in business Viv combines these skills with her passion for True Growth, helping entrepreneurs to balance their passions and profits so that they can create a business and lifestyle that they love.   In 2017 Viv also founded a local charity DorPIP to help families flourish during the first 1001 days of their babies life. With two adult children, Viv now lives by the beach on the beautiful south coast of UK where you will find her on, in or near the water every single day.   Viv shares her inspiration for starting an online business, how she overcame personal mindset blocks to succeed and how she is now helping business owners to change their mindset and allow money to light up their life.   Viv revels what truly makes her happy and how this helps all areas of her life She discuses the joy in helping others to find their winning formula. Hear how doing the inner work is the key to combating imposter syndrome.   Contact Viv: www.vivallen.com  LinkedIn Facebook  Instagram    You can find Gill and the SWIB Tribe here Join her in the Successful Women Members Cub   Our latest course on Building Your Confidence and Self-Esteem is available online here

Erin is the Founder of The Mumpreneur Collective. She's a Mentor, Speaker, Author and Champion for Mums in Business. Over the past 12 years she's founded 5 small businesses whilst raising her two boys. She's helped over 3,000 women to grow their businesses through her Facebook groups, Cocoon membership, live events, 1:1 Mentoring and her book (available via Amazon) Mumpreneur Evolution: On our terms.  Contact Erin - [email protected] www.mumpreneurcollective.com Here's her Facebook Group    Thanks for listening to this podcast, do subscribe and send us a review.   For all things Successful Women , head over to our website You can also find Gill's book 'Celebr8 Success- How to be a successful working mum without the guilt' on Amazon

Jean’s first career was in the world of telecoms. Although she loved it, she was constantly stressed, feeling like she had no control over her life and increasingly no work-life balance.
When a family issue forced her to take time out she started to think “maybe there’s a better way to have a good income AND a good work-life balance”.
That was 23 years ago. Then she decided to start her own business.
After 7 months of working on it very very part-time, she was able to leave the corporate world.
Since then she has grown an international business, in over 30 countries, working from home. She has helped many many people to do the same so that they too can take control of their lives, whether that’s by simply earning some extra income, or developing a whole new career.
Now she chooses when and how much she works.

Visit Jean's website - https://lifechoicesglobal.com/

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Today’s guest is a good friend of the Successful Women in Business Network or SWIBTribe, Alison Edgar MBE.

Alison hosted our International Women's Day conference in March 2020 – and this recording was made when she was the guest speaker at our last network meeting of that year. 

Alison set up her own business to work with entrepreneurs, start-ups and teams, after leaving the world of blue-chip sales.

According to Forbes magazine "90% of start-up businesses fail", Alison made it her mission to flip this statistic on its head and give every business a fighting chance.

Since then, she has been crowned ‘The Entrepreneurs Godmother’ by a plethora of successful entrepreneurs including Dragon’s Den and Apprentice Winners. In recognition of her outstanding contribution to enterprise, not only was she named one of the UK’s Top Ten business advisers, she was awarded an MBE in  2020.

 

Alison’s debut book ‘Secrets of Successful Sales’, is an international best-seller and was featured in the Independent’s 2019 Top Business Books written by Women.

Based on her TEDx talk, ‘The Art of Getting What You Want’, Alison is now working on book number 2 which combines her work with top entrepreneurs and psychology to teach everyday people to think with an entrepreneurial mindset, to meet their goals and improve their lives. 

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This interview was recorded from a LinkedIn Live with Malin Rosenkvist on 3rd November 2020

In the interview, Malin, The Director of Fundraising and Communications for the Microloan Foundation talks about the impact of the current global pandemic on women, and about the EmpowerHer campaign with a goal to empower 50,000 women in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe before the end of 2020.

Head over to https://www.microloanfoundation.org.uk/ to find out more, including how you can help make a difference to the women in Africa.