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This episode includes some upsetting content. In the studio with me is the wonderful Sue Higgins. She volunteers for The Compassionate Friends and organisation supporting bereaved parents and their families. Sue herself experienced the loss of her son Jonathan when he was not quite six years old. She is an incredibly strong and resilient mother and I am honoured to have had the privilege of sharing her story here.

From Wheelchair to Rock Climbing to Coaching. So honoured to have the incredible Alison Petty mindset coach in the studio. In this episode Alison shares her incredible journey of recovery from ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia and her transition into coaching. She is passionate about NLP and the human brain's ability to create positive change. Alison shares lots of powerful insights including visualisation and how the brain reacts if we replace destructive thoughts with positive thoughts. However NLP isn't magic fairy dust, Alison had to work super hard to make her transition, huge respect to her for her resilience and ability to keep going. Just a note on sound quality, I was so in awe of Alison that I sat back in my chair and hung on her every word, as a consequence I was too far away from my mic, so at times my input is a bit wobbly and lacking in clarity, but this is Alison's story and my input isn't really required ! Check out her website here

Here's the fabulous Nicky Pattinson's reflections on what she would say to her 16 year old self after giving her a huge hug. "It's you that's right. One day people will look at you and they might just be glad they met you" This woman is an absolute power house despite having had more than her fair share of set backs. Her resilience has developed from recalibrating periodically, especially when working her way back from adversity. This is an uplifting episode with plenty of laughs and plenty of positivity about the future. Fundamentally Nicky wants us to find our own true selves and ignore other people's perspective of us. There is some upsetting content in this episode as Nicky shares her experiencing of losing her first child. Please reference back to Episode 2 "Brave Starts" for information on where to go for help if you are experiencing this same loss. There's also the odd swear word for which we make no apology. Where to find Nicky nicky@nickypattinson.com Nicky loves to receive emails ! website Instagram

Some fantastic take aways in this episode as Mike discusses how he has developed personally, growing stronger and more resilient as he has grown his purpose driven marketing agency. One of the fundamental messages is surround yourself with supportive people, Mike speaks very highly of the coaches and mentors he has worked with over the last seven years of growth. Some interesting thoughts on understanding himself better to facilitate growth. We talk about the importance of laying good foundations for growth to enable scaling to happen without personal burn out. Mike has had to consciously let go of direct action in projects and also become much more agile in his approach, plans sometimes have to be let go not followed doggedly. He also shares how he has had to learn to work better not longer. Plenty of insights for anyone growing any type of business.

This episode includes some potentially upsetting content. My guest Nicola is the survivor of sexual abuse and rape. Nicola is now using her rediscovered voice to help others, including those researching into how best to support other survivors. Support services referenced in the episode include St Mary's Sexual Abuse Referral Centre in Manchester. There are SARC centres across the UK. The biggest message to take away from this episode is; if you too have experienced abuse or rape, reach out and get help. Nicola and I met in a yoga class, she is a brilliant teacher, she supports people of any age to make gradual progress towards a stronger mind and body. More information about her teaching and classes on Nicola Moves You - on instagram. Nicola is the embodiment of strength and resilience. I am honoured and privileged to share her story.

In this episode I chat with the amazing Lucy The company she has founded supports individuals to make changes to their career path when the traditional road is to a purposeless retirement. Lucy also works with organisations to help them avoid the skills drain which happens when people with valuable experience and knowledge plan to leave. Lucy is taking positive action to fill the skills gap whilst others offer only platitudes. She has bucket loads of energy and incredible resilience. Towards the end of the episode we hear where this resilience comes from. This part of the podcast contains content which might be distressing to some.

Kicking off the new season is my first guest the amazing Alex Beardsley She has strength and resilience in bucket loads. Listen in to hear her incredibly inspiring personal and business journey, from being a 16 year old single mother in a council flat to being the owner of a hugely successful commercial finance business. Lots of twists and turns along with insights and tips on how to stay strong and build resilience.

The absolutely wonderful human that is Naomi Timperley shares her insights on the power of innovation and the need to educate young people to believe they can achieve their dreams. Naomi is an absolute power house and gives so much to so many. She has many roles and has founded multiple businesses including GSI which is all about enabling growth and innovation. Listen in for some massive inspiration. It's all about the art of the possible.

This is just such an uplifting and positive episode with my amazing guest Kirsty Boulton founder of Dubholistic and director of Fold Yoga If you've ever wanted to make a significant career change but just not quite found your way to engineer it, then this is the episode for you. We talk all things holistic therapy, yoga, business and community and so much more.

Welcoming into the studio the wonderful human that is Caroline This episode is so energising and uplifting, despite us talking about some pretty devastating lows in Caroline's business journey. But that's the point, it's about resilience, optimism and perhaps most importantly humility. "just a business owner trying to do some good stuff and help people into employment" Caroline is an absolute inspiration and a joy Lots of laughs and plenty of pearls of wisdom.

A lovely conversation with the totally energising Emma Stocks. Be Amazing is all about enabling and inspiring people to be the best human they can be so I thought it would be really interesting to talk about culture from the employee's perspective. Emma shares some powerful insights on positive and uplifting company culture. We talk about collaboration, respect, cross functional OKRs, people development amongst a whole host of other powerful insights on the positive culture at her place of work Portswigger

The Podcast studio has re-opened ready for lots of inspiring and uplifting conversations with people from all walks of life. People who are working in their dream jobs, people who have changed direction and started on new career paths, people who are committed to sharing their knowledge to enable and inspire others, people pursuing wonderful creative careers, people who have triumphed over adversity. They all have in common not just the fact that they are amazing but the fact that they want to inspire amazing in others.

Despite the dodgy broadband this episode is a joyful conversation with the utterly inspirational Julia Gash. Julia shares some amazing insights from her wide ranging career in lingerie, retail, printing, manufacturing and now illustration. There's still more to come as Julia is set on launching a book to guide other creatives wanting to make a success of a freelance career. Of course there's also contributions from the cats, chickens and the cleaner.

Although this episode doesn't go quite to plan for a number of reasons, it's a wonderful chat with the founder of Mantra Media the delightful Johnny Pawlik. It starts with a failed attempt to record Johnny playing guitar and moves into a discussion about acceptance. We also chat about that old chestnut work life balance, along with some thoughts on how to live your life with purpose. We wrap up with Johnny sorting out his lunch, vegan macaroni cheese, in case anyone's interested. As always a joyful chat.

Just one of many questions posed in this lovely conversation with the best selling author of Survival Skills for Freelancers the amazing Sarah Townsend. We talk about Sarah's career journey, her writing process, mentoring, bird watching and much much more. I loved recording this episode, despite the fact that we have never actually met nor had a conversation before the recording there's lots of honesty, warmth and laughs. It's yet another big up to the Freelanceher100 programme where we both mentored that such fantastic friendships have been formed.

In this episode I'm all alone in the podcast studio. Not because I've run out of guests but because I recently did a business talk and thought it would be good to share it in the studio. I turned around a bakery business whilst being a single parent to three strong independent young women. Here's some thoughts on the things I know now, that I don't know if I would have known had I not grown my own business. There's also some thoughts from my daughters on what the experience was like for them. You may want to pop your headphones on if there are children present. There's just the odd ***.

Introducing the amazing Gary Nightingale https://www.linkedin.com/in/garynightingalebusinessillustration/ Lots of lovely sound bites in this episode as we ramble around how Gary's work has changed in the last year then move into conversations around the creative processes involved in writing. "Looking optimistically to the future by looking realistically to the past. " Gary and I met through storytelling and both enjoy spending time and connecting with people who ignite something meaningful in us. If that makes us excitable and manic then so be it ! The episode also features a silent dog.

A lovely Friday afternoon conversation from my kitchen table. Stefano Capacchione and I share some giggles and also some deep moments as we discuss the super powers of storytelling. One for anyone in business struggling to find their audience or anyone looking to put pen to paper to tell their story. As Stefano says, use words to communicate in a way that leads your audience "to think, feel and take action." Sound quality not always the best but I'm ever the fan of substance over form! https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanocapacchione/ https://puckcreations.com/

A little ramble to introduce the next episode which features the wonderful creative writer and branding guru https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanocapacchione/ Stefano uses words to make people think, feel and take action. The AtHome podcast today gained the sub-title "the kitchen table sessions" The podcasts are definitely not for the sound purists, but for those interested in connecting with fellow storytellers then come on in to the kitchen! There's one story in the trailer and plenty more in the episode.

Naomi Timperley is back in the studio to talk about her latest project. https://www.thelanding.org.uk/freelanceher100/ We share some love on Valentine's day and some thoughts on mentoring, coaching and lifting others up.