Welcome to Life Made Better! A podcast hosted by Fleur and Lucia, coaches with a zest for life and for improving the lives of others. They both truly believe that everyone can live a happy fulfilled life and are on a quest to shift mindsets and perspectives to make this happen. Fleur’s trademark is knowledge, kindness, care and the power of movement and meditation to help sustain a happy healthy life. Lucia is frequently described as Positivity, passion and energy; words she lives by and use ...
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Life Made Better - 145. Stories And Storytelling With Chris Payne
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How many times do we miss the magic of everyday life? Just because we are so engrossed in the glossy filter. The film industry has the best storytellers, but the charities have the best stories. These are what we talked about with our guest this week, Chris Payne.Chris Payne is the producer and director of Constellation Films, which he created in 2…
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Life Made Better - 144. Let's Talk Menopause With Rachel Twyford
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Did you know that 30% of women don't know they're in menopause?🚩And When we think of a woman going through "menopause" we use terms like “the change” ...Expect a woman to experience mood swings and be emotional. This image doesn't help women with their mental health.We took a deeper dive into menopause, with our guest this week, Rachel Ferster-Twyf…
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Life Made Better - 143. The 9 To 5 Paradox With Gemma Ryan
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When it comes to changing careers paths, pay isn’t the No. 1 motivator. Yes, it is! I believe somehow you agree.😏The pandemic put us into this experiment of seeing how you could value your professional dimension by factors other than pay, such as quality of life [and] quality of time with your family.These are what we talked about with our guest th…
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Life Made Better - 142. Inner Connection & Self-Love With Patricia Leggatt
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What's the connection between your inner-self, emotional well-being, and astrology?✨🧘 #innerself #selflove #loveyourself. Buzzwords that have been thrown around social media culture for the past few years now have popularized the notion of taking care of our inner self. But what do they mean? What is self-love, and how can you apply it? And how doe…
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Life Made Better - 141. Conscious Leadership With Michelle Ryan
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What is #consciousleadership: Why it is important?People are craving depth and human-to-human connection now more than ever, meaning the expectation is rising for authenticity, vulnerability, and relationship-based interactions. We’re shifting away from a hyper-masculine way of operating into a more balanced way of having healthy structures with th…
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Life Made Better - 140. Vulnerable Leaders With Sylvana Caloni
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Leadership is a word we hear frequently, but, what is a leader? Can anyone be one? and what does it take to be a great one?Sylvana Caloni, author of Humble Crumbles: Savouring the Crumbs of Wisdom from the Rise and Fall of Humble Pie, has an extensive career working with worldwide leaders and has a recipe for success!Sylvana is an executive coach w…
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Life Made Better - 139. Give Gen Z A Voice With Jay Richards And Cat Aghostino
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Gen Z has been spoken about for quite a while, sometimes with a negative skew, when we came across Imagen Insights, Jay Richards and Cat Agostinho's amazing business, we were very excited to hear about all the work they do with this generation and how their creative zest is put to great use!Jay and Cat were an absolute pleasure to speak to and thei…
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Life Made Better - 138. Healing Trauma With Donna Morgan
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This week our guest is Donna Morgan, an integrative body therapist, somatic worker and coach. Her focus is integrating mind, body, and emotions and has been working in the field of bodywork for 27 years. Her philosophy, which we discussed in the episode, is that our mind, body, and emotions are like three musical notes. Often we play them separatel…
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Life Made Better - 137. Can We Really Find Balance? With Katie Skrine
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This week we interview the lovely Katie Skrine, from Katie Wellness. Katie promotes A balanced approach to nutrition, fitness & wellbeing.Helping you achieve optimal health and restore ultimate balance in your life through bespoke nutrition, fitness and lifestyle changes.It was an interesting conversation about connecting the dots, tuning into what…
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Life Made Better - 136. The Healing Power Of Massage With Ruth Clarke
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This week we have with us the lovely Ruth Clarke. Ruth is a transformational healer who uses the magical power of massage. She takes pride in providing a bespoke integrated massage experience to support you on a journey of self awareness and responsibility, exploring any discomfort from a perspective of inner wisdom or harnessing an inner sense of …
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Life Made Better - 135. Solving Problems With Mikkel Dissing
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This week we’ve got a guest with a very varied background, from Denmark, to Prague, Zimbabwe and then London, Mikkel Dissing has been at the front of several companies, leading teams and upscaling businesses since the early 90s. An innovative, passionate entrepreneur who loves leading game changing businesses and building passionate teams to bring …
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Life Made Better - 134. Ain't No Mountain High Enough With Fredrik Strang
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Happy New Year!!! Welcome to 2022! What an exciting time, and talking about excitement, this week's guest was nothing but exciting! A true adventurer, entrepreneur, passionate, inspiring... Fredrik Strang is a beautiful soul and he delivered a conversation that we hope you find as inspiring and as entertaining as we did. Certainly a way to kick off…
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Life Made Better - 133. Just Do It With Shenin Lebrun
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Welcome to the final week of 2021!We hope you have had a great Christmas break and managed to spend some time with your loved ones. As we prepare to welcome 2022 and close the year on a high, we could not think of a better way than to invite this week's lovely guest, Shenin Lebrun. Shenin was born and raised in Amsterdam with Surinam roots. She is …
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Life Made Better - 132. Who Said You Cannot Have 2 Passions With Paulomi Debnath
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Happy Christmas Week everyone!As we bring you our final guests for the year, we do it with a bit of passion! Which Paulomi has plenty of!Paulomi has a very varied background, she is an Engagement Specialist, Luxury Travel and Event Specialist with more than 15Y ears’ experience in Hotel Sales in Luxury Sector and quite a creative soul! And she is a…
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Life Made Better - 131. Let's Talk Candidly With Alexandra Slater And Hannah Peet
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This week we bring you an amazing pair of female entrepreneurs!: HR Tech Co-Founders Hannah Peet and Alexandra Slater, who are building technology to aid better, faster and fairer hiring with an all-in-one recruitment platform.For 20+ years they have been passionate and committed to helping clients find the best talent to support their business gro…
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Life Made Better - 130. Difficult Conversations With Nicole Posner
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Today we are very happy to be interviewing Nicole Posner.Nicole is a Leadership Communication Coach and Trainer supporting CEO’s and Senior Managers to prevent and navigate difficult conversations through effective communication.Through our conversation Nicole revealed the power of really communicating, speaking openly and vulnerably with each othe…
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Life Made Better - 129. A Full - Time Life With Raggi Gandham
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This week's guest, Raggi Gandham, is passionate, open hearted and open minded. Raggi has travelled extensively, had her own recruitment business and currently manages a team of remote recruiters through a friends business. In her other life she is dedicated to helping others especially those with addictions. At present she is completing her Master …
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Life Made Better - 128. Stuff They Don't Teach At School With Alice Sheldon
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This week we interview Alice Sheldon, Founder of Needs Understanding. Who has recently launched her first book "Why weren’t we taught this at school?"Alice’s passion is sharing the interpersonal skills which make up Needs Understanding.Alice has been a secondary school teacher, a barrister and the Chief Exec of a national charity. She has an MA in …
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Life Made Better - 127. Loosing Yourself With Noortje Schreuders
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This week we have the incredible Noortje Schreuders. Noortje started her marketing career in Paris where she spent 10 years first working for the n1 French anti-ageing cosmetic brand, Dr Pierre Ricaud, and later for one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world NBCUniversal. With Universal Pictures she moved to London to work for as an In…
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Life Made Better - 126. It's Never Too Late With Helen Longfellow
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Helen Longfellow joins us this week to talk about starting afresh. She discovered a new passion in her 40s and decided to follow her curiosity, leading her to start a career as Interior Designer!Hers was a journey of questioning, listening and trusting. To connect with her: https://www.instagram.com/helenlongfellowinterior/www.samuelfrankhome.co.uk…
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Life Made Better - 125. Shine Your Light With Diana Nash
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This week's episode is music to our ears. Almost quite literally!Our guest, Diana Nash, went from exploring a career in London's West End to find her true passion and calling in Sound Healing. Diana is a transformational healer who uses the magical power of sound to heal, reconnect and realign Midlife Women who have forgotten the essence of their t…
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Life Made Better - 124. Acceptance And Failure With Ranila Burslem
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Welcome back to Life Made Better!We are kicking off this new season with the lovely Ranila Ravi-Burslem. Ranila's background is in financial services, having been Director of Distribution for AVIVA, board member for Upside and Worldreader. Her determination, kindness and strength shone through during our conversation, where we covered all things fr…
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Life Made Better - 123. A View To The Teenage World With Pearl Prime
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You've heard us talking about teenagers and the struggles they have faced most recently, particularly since the pandemic hit us. We thought it was time we spoke to one fo them to truly understand and hear in their own words what living in the current world means for them, and we could have not spoken to someone more kind, courageous, grounded than …
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Life Made Better - 122. Teenage Help With Tanya Nicholas
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Teenagers are amongst the group that has been struggling the most with the pandemic. Lack of real connection and communication with their friends, the rise of social media use (and the comparison and struggle that comes with it) paired with the pressure at school and the grades / exams at the end of the academic year. Thankfully people like our gue…
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Life Made Better - 121. Eating Disorders And Mental Health With Hope Virgo
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Today’s guest is Hope Virgo Hope is the author of Stand Tall Little Girl, Multi Award Winning Mental Health Campaigner / Public Speaker and an ambassador for the Shaw Mind Foundation.Hope suffered with anorexia for over 4 years, before being admitted to a Mental Health Hospital in 2007. She lived in the hospital for a year, fighting one of the hard…
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120. Do We Want To Be Superwoman With Lee Klabin - Grant
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Thanks so much to the lovely Lee Klabin-Grant for joining us last week! As we mentioned in the intro, this was a conversation that happened over our Facebook Group - your Best Life (https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbestlifebypeac) and we thought the learnings shared were very poignant for our podcast listeners too. Lee is a fashion designer, mot…
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Life Made Better - 120. Do We Want To Be Superwoman With Lee Klabin - Grant
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Thanks so much to the lovely Lee Klabin-Grant for joining us last week! As we mentioned in the intro, this was a conversation that happened over our Facebook Group - your Best Life (https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbestlifebypeac) and we thought the learnings shared were very poignant for our podcast listeners too. Lee is a fashion designer, mot…
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Life Made Better - 119. Stay Open With Pablo Rodriguez
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We frequently hear "the world is your Oyster" well, for this week's guest, this could not be more true. Pablo Rodriguez approached life with an open mind and heart, an eager learner, he stayed open to what was on offer. Studies, connections, opportunities...Not quite knowing what he wanted to do in life, he committed himself to just taking the next…
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Life Made Better - 118. The Fortune Teller Approach With Ariana Dunne
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You frequently hear us talking about being multi-faceted, multi passionate beings. Our guest this week is testament of this!Ariana Dunne is a career multi-hyphenate, for the past 3 years she has been working for herself with several different businesses and revenues streams under her belt ranging from coaching, recruitment, lecturing, training, con…
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Life Made Better - 117. Part Of The Game With Emma Liley
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Emma moved to Dubai from the North of England , she lost her dear mum to a routine operation and just finished a successful corporate career with Barclays and only had 1 child. She now lives in Australia with her husband, is a mother of 3 children and is focused on her health and fitness and actually plays Rugby for Melbourne University.…
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Life Made Better - 116. The RAP Project With Deana Puccio
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Deana Puccio is a former Assistant District Attorney from New York City. She worked in the Sex Crimes/Special Victims Unit of the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn. As a sex crimes prosecutor she worked on cases involving adult, teenage and child victims.Married and the mother of three daughters living in London, she co-founded th…
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Life Made Better - 115. Happiness With Lucia Paredes
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We have been part of your podcast feeds for two years, and although our purpose was to bring you guests that inspire us we have been frequently asked to share more about our own journeys. Since we are starting a new joint chapter together, we thought this would be a great opportunity to do so!So ladies and gentlemen, please meet us! In this episode…
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Life Made Better - 114. Rebel At Heart, Kind By Nature With Fleur Prime
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We have been part of your podcast feeds for two years, and although our purpose was to bring you guests that inspire us we have been frequently asked to share more about our own journeys. Since we are starting a new joint chapter together, we thought this would be a great opportunity to do so!So ladies and gentlemen, please meet us! In this episode…
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Life made better - 113. Sculpting The Brain
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If you have been following is, you'll know we are super excited to kickoff our next cohort of Empowered to Thrive! Our signature 7-week course designed to get you from surviving to thriving. A big part of what we do here is help our clients understand how to work with our mind and body to introduce change and create new habits for everlasting succe…
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Life Made Better - 112. Vulnerability, Impact And 12 Dollars With Brian McGhee
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This was a beautiful, vulnerable conversation and we are so grateful for Brian to share it with us. Coming from a background in sales, his passion lies in recruiting, coaching, training, developing, and guiding sales teams.We spoke about impact, empowering others, parenthood and discovering your why from Simon Sinek!His was a story of development, …
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Life Made Better - 111. Writing And Creativity With Stephanie Buckley
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This week we interview the wonderful Stephanie Gruner Buckley. Stephanie is a writer, editor and book author. She has worked on staff at the Wall Street journal, Quartz and Inc. magazine. She does freelance editing for MIT Sloan Management Review and Harvard Business School; and is a communications strategy advisor and trainer, running workshops fo…
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Life Made Better - 110. Are You Thriving Or Surviving With Vicky Morgan
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Vicky joined us in our last Empowered to Thrive course and was kind enough to join us this week and talk about what she learnt. Like many of us, she found herself on a place of survival, only (again, like many of us!) she didn't know that's what it was. Mother, wife, also carer of her elderly mum.... she spent her days looking after those she loved…
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Life Made Better - 109. Starting Afresh With Shirley Kennett
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In this episode we interview the incredible Shirley Kennet. Shirley joined and become a constable in the Metropolitan Police Service at 18 years of age and spent most of her career as a Detective. Her final job in the police was working as a Detective Sergeant in the Community Safety Unit where she managed cases relating to domestic violence until …
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Life Made Better - 108. Leading With Purpose With Sarah Fruehling
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This week we had the lovely Sarah Fruehling with us. Her story is one of purpose, of what some will call a nice chain of coincidences, some will call following your heart and finding your purpose. She was in her 23rd year as a Licensed Professional Counselor andentrepreneur, running her own successful therapy practice, when an oldfriend of hers inv…
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Life Made Better - 107. Going Back To School With Juliette Oakshett
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Today marks a big milestone in getting back to normal life in the UK, schools re-open and thousands of students return to school, their learning and friends. And this is something that is causing mixed reactions, in both children and parents. For children, you may find some of them looking forward to it, to see their friends and get a bit of normal…
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Life Made Better- 106. Connection And Networking With Hulya Kurt
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if you say YES? If you stayed open to connecting, to reaching out and accepting opportunities? Well, that is what our guest this week did, she said yes, welcomed every opportunity with an open heart and sought connecting with like minded people to help her progress and move forward. Hulya Kurt was a great ex…
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Life Made Better - 105. Born To Stand Tall With Kerrie Patterson
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Bullying. Terrifying just to even read about it, let alone when you experience it and when you discover there is none to little help for it. Well, this is exactly what our guest this week, Kerrie Patterson, had to go through. Having been bullied at work, she tried looking out for support, and found this was limited... In time, she overcame this, an…
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Life Made Better - 104. Pandemic In Review With Gemma Kirk, Elise Lockyer And Jacob Endemano
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Navigating this situation gets harder and harder. Anxiety and stress levels are sky rocketing, both individuals and the workplace report being hit harder this third time around.... and the uncertainty of when will this all end still lingers. With this in mind, is easy to see the impact this (almost) a year has had on us all. And we wanted to unders…
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Life Made Better - 103. Naturopathic Nutritional Therapy With Natalie Louise
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Natalie's journey gave us all the feels. She was diagnosed with depression in her early 20s. An illness that affected not only her brain, but her body. She didn't feel deserving of any love, attention, understanding... from her loved ones or herself. She couldn't quite understand how they wanted to stay close to her when she herself wouldn't have c…
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Life Made Better - 102. Shifting Perspectives With Femi Otitoju
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Have you ever wondered why you see the world the way you see it? Why you think what you think or what sort of pre-conceived opinions you may hold of the world around you and those who live in it?Well, that is exactly what our guest this week, Femi Otitoju, does: challenges perceptions, defies the status quo and replaces them with a new way of looki…
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Life Made Better - 101. Starts From Within With Gretchen Nemechek
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Sometimes we feel something is off, and we can feel it for a long time. And sometimes, what is off is our health. This was Gretchen's case. She started to notice certain things where not right, a variety of symptoms and seemingly unrelated. She began a quest to better look after herself and her health, consulted specialists and plenty of research. …
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Life Made Better - 100. Brand New You With Deborah O'Grady
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Episode 100 is here! And What a better way to celebrate than by interviewing the lovely Deborah O'Grady. Deborah comes from the branding / agency background, she has helped hundreds of eight-figure businesses, travel the world with them.... only to realise this was not a life that was filling her anymore. She lost her purpose. Luckily for us, she f…
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Life Made Better - 99. Superhero Syndrome
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Here in the Uk we are back to lockdown, pretty much like we were in March last year, staying at home, schools and commerce closed.... and as a result we are seeing a spike in anxiety levels. We have been approached by many reporting feeling overwhelmed, stressed... And also some feeling the need to "not drop the ball". With home schooling, working …
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Life Made Better - 98. Empowered To Thrive With Gemma Chapple
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Happy New Year!!! We hope you have had a good Christmas break and are welcoming 2021 with hope, joy and excitement. But we hear you, there are still many uncertainties, with the last gong COVID didn't disappear and you are probably wondering and even hesitating about what to expect of 2021. Whilst making plans for something we can't totally control…
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Life Made Better - 97. Looking Forward With Dawn Campbell
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The end of the year is in sight, farewell 2020 and hello 2021!Now, as we look at this year nearly gone and the new year with hope, we may want to start looking at the learnings from 2020 (yes, if we look close and with intention we will find them!)and the hopes and goals for 2021. And our guest this week, Dawn Campbell, is an expert at that!Marketi…
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