Zanta with Ruthie Zerai

What does it really mean to follow the nudges that lead you toward a more purposeful career? In this episode, Ruthie sits down with executive and personal coach Stephanie Vora, founder of Vora Coaching and co-founder of Zingbody to explore how to trust your intuition, silence your inner critic, and make career pivots that actually stick.

With 20 years of coaching experience and her own story of pivoting from corporate e-commerce to building a global coaching business, Steph brings wisdom, warmth, and real talk about what it takes to create change from the inside out.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How to recognize and follow the nudges guiding you toward a more aligned career
• Why most people stay stuck and what your nervous system has to do with it
• How to work with your inner critic instead of fighting it
• Why sustainable career transitions beat overnight leaps, and how to build yours

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Website: Vora Coaching

Zingbody Monthly Coaching for women

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About:

 Ruthie Zerai is a ICF Accredited Life, Leadership and Business coach, a first-generation entrepreneur and a curious soul. This podcast is for people looking to grow into their full potential and create alignment in their lives, careers and businesses from the inside out, by finding their own answers.

Podcast production:

This podcast is produced and edited by Ruthie Zerai Semere.

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Joy doesn't live in the big moments. It lives in the ones you keep rushing past. This episode is about how to romanticize your life through presence, small rituals, and intentional daily joy, without spending money or overhauling your routine.

If you've been looking for ways to improve daily life satisfaction, slow down, find joy in everyday moments, or practice slow living and intentional self care, this episode is for you.

In this episode you will learn how to:

• How to improve daily life satisfaction
• Redefine romanticizing your life beyond aesthetics and over spending
• Find and create small daily rituals that genuinely shift your mood and energy
• Bring presence and beauty into any season of life, even the hard ones

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About

Ruthie Semere is an ICF Accredited Life, Leadership, and Business coach, a first-generation entrepreneur, community builder and a curious soul. This podcast is for those seeking to grow into their full potential, creating alignment in life, career, and business from the inside out by finding their own answers.

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The community you are in is either moving you forward or quietly holding you back. In this episode, Ruthie breaks down how to use discernment as a self-leadership tool to identify the community spaces that are truly aligned with your growth, spot the red flags hiding in plain sight, and stop staying in rooms that are costing you more than you realise. If you are serious about your personal development, leadership growth, and building a life on your own terms, this one is for you.

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About

Ruthie Zerai Semere is an ICF Accredited Life, Leadership, and Business coach, a first-generation entrepreneur, community builder and a curious soul. This podcast is for those seeking to grow into their full potential, creating alignment in life, career, and business from the inside out by finding their own answers.

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Struggling to find your people or build real community as an adult? In this episode, Ruthie breaks down why community is essential for your growth, wellbeing, and sense of belonging, and how to actively create it instead of waiting for it to happen. She shares her own challenges and how she overcame them to build the dynamic, supportive community around her today. Learn what makes a community meaningful, how to find aligned spaces, and how showing up in the spirit of collective growth are key to building real connection that moves your life forward.

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About

Ruthie Zerai Semere is an ICF Accredited Life, Leadership, and Business coach, a first-generation entrepreneur, community builder and a curious soul. This podcast is for those seeking to grow into their full potential, creating alignment in life, career, and business from the inside out by finding their own answers.

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Money is never just about money. In this episode, Ruthie sits down with UK-based money mindset coach and host of the Real You Real Money Podcast, Ray Dodd, to unpack money blocks, pricing, guilt, and the conditioning that keeps so many of us earning less than we desire. They explore perfectionism, overgiving, and Ray’s grounded “plenty” mindset as a practical shift away from scarcity.

Whether you’re navigating money in your personal life or charging what you’re worth in business, this conversation will help you own your financial desires and move past what’s been holding you back.

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Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ray_dodd

Podcast: Real You Real Money Pod

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About:

 Ruthie Zerai is a Certified Life, Leadership and Business coach, a first-generation entrepreneur and a curious soul. This podcast is for people looking to grow into their full potential and create alignment in their lives, careers and businesses from the inside out, by finding their own answers.

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Ruthie revisits her conversation with therapist Nicole Carter on healthy vs unhealthy anger, how to understand and work with this emotion, and how it can reveal suppressed feelings and guide your self-awareness.

Catch the full conversation in Episode 7: How To Befriend Your Anger with Therapist Nicole Carter.

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Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/msnicole_c/?hl=en⁠ 

Offerings: ⁠https://linktr.ee/msnicolecarter⁠ 

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About:

 Ruthie Zerai is a Certified Life, Leadership and Business coach, a first-generation entrepreneur and a curious soul. This podcast is for people looking to grow into their full potential and create alignment in their lives, careers and businesses from the inside out, by finding their own answers.

Podcast production:

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Do you keep saying you want change, but struggle to follow through?

In this solo episode, Ruthie explores what it really means to do the work, not just talk about it. She breaks down why growth doesn’t come from the next book, course, or quick fix, but from showing up consistently for the promises you make to yourself.

This is an honest conversation about your say–do ratio, why we avoid discomfort, and how committing to the process creates long-term momentum, clarity, and results.

When you stop chasing shortcuts and start committing to the process, things shift. Not through perfection, but through integrity.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to understand your say–do ratio and why it matters
• Why growth always includes discomfort and why that’s not a problem
• How avoiding pain keeps you stuck and practicing the fundamentals moves you forward
• How keeping promises to yourself builds self-trust and long-term momentum

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Partnership and collaboration inquiries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]

Send me a voice note with your questions: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Voice Note⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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About

Ruthie Zerai Semere is an ICF Accredited Life, Leadership, and Business coach, a first-generation entrepreneur, community builder and a curious soul. This podcast is for those seeking to grow into their full potential, creating alignment in life, career, and business from the inside out by finding their own answers.

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This podcast is produced and edited by Ruthie Semere. All rights reserved ®

Grief is not something we fix, rush, or get over. In this solo episode, Ruthie explores grief as a sacred and necessary part of the human experience, particularly the grief that comes with losing people we love. Drawing from her personal journey after the loss of her grandmother, she reflects on how grief reshapes us, deepens our capacity for love, and asks us to slow down, feel fully, and honour our own timeline.

This episode is an invitation to stop making your grief palatable for others and to give yourself permission to feel everything. Grief does not need to be contained, explained, or justified. It is yours, and it is sacred.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How grief and loss are woven into the human experience
• Why sitting with grief, rather than avoiding it, is where real healing happens
• How ancestral and generational grief can surface through personal loss
• Why grief changes us, and why that transformation is not something to fear
• How allowing yourself to feel fully can deepen love, presence, and meaning

If you are grieving right now, or supporting someone who is, this episode offers space, reflection, and permission to move at your own pace.

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About

Ruthie Zerai Semere is an ICF Accredited Life, Leadership, and Business coach, a first-generation entrepreneur, community builder and a curious soul. This podcast is for those seeking to grow into their full potential, creating alignment in life, career, and business from the inside out by finding their own answers.

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Do you ever feel stuck in survival mode even when your life looks “fine” on paper? In this solo episode, Ruthie breaks down what it truly means to go from surviving to thriving. She explores how fear, scarcity, and an overloaded nervous system keep us small, and what it looks like to shift into trust, expansion, and a life that actually feels like yours.

When you start grounding yourself, regulating your nervous system, and choosing meaning over fear, thriving becomes something you claim not something you feel guilty about.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to recognise when you’re still operating from survival
• Why thriving is rooted in trust and nervous system care
• How generational patterns and identity shape your relationship to thriving
• Simple ways to shift from fear and scarcity into grounded expansion

In this episode, you will learn:

• How to recognise the signs that you are still in survival mode
• Why thriving is about trust, nervous system health, and meaning not just money or success
• How generational patterns, identity, and survivor’s guilt can make thriving feel unsafe
• Simple ways to start shifting from fear and scarcity into a more grounded, thriving mindset

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About

Ruthie Zerai Semere is an ICF Accredited Life, Leadership, and Business coach, a first-generation entrepreneur, community builder and a curious soul. This podcast is for those seeking to grow into their full potential, creating alignment in life, career, and business from the inside out by finding their own answers.

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This podcast is produced and edited by Ruthie Zerai Semere. All rights reserved ®

Do you ever feel pressured to be happy all the time? In this solo episode, Ruthie explores the truth behind toxic positivity and the myth that we should always feel "good". She unpacks why constant happiness isn’t realistic, what emotional sovereignty really means, and how embracing your full emotional range can lead to a deeper, more meaningful life.

When you stop chasing happiness and start allowing yourself to feel everything, you become more grounded, compassionate, and resilient.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How to recognise patterns of toxic positivity in yourself or others
• Why happiness is fleeting and meaning is more sustainable
• How to honour your full emotional range without judgement
• Simple ways to build emotional resilience and self-acceptance

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Instagram: ⁠Ash Alves⁠

⁠Website⁠

⁠Books⁠

⁠Therapy services⁠

Connect with Ruthie

Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ruthie Zerai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Join the Newsletter for more exclusive content: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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About

Ruthie Zerai Semere is an ICF Accredited Life, Leadership, and Business coach, a first-generation entrepreneur, community builder and a curious soul. This podcast is for those seeking to grow into their full potential, creating alignment in life, career, and business from the inside out by finding their own answers.

Podcast production

This podcast is produced and edited by Ruthie Zerai Semere. All rights reserved ®