In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Verna Haywood, life coach, speaker, therapist, and founder of Unstoppable Life with Verna Haywood. Verna shares her powerful life journey, from growing up in the Caribbean and navigating deep personal trauma to building resilience through faith, healing, and lived experience. She opens up about loss, abuse, miscarriage, cancer survival, and caregiving, explaining how these defining moments shaped her calling to help others rediscover their strength and self-belief.

Verna explores her coaching philosophy, which centers on mindset, self-worth, and personal responsibility, helping people—especially women—break free from self-doubt and limiting beliefs. She discusses her work across one-to-one coaching, group programs, and holistic therapies, emphasizing the importance of nurturing individuals so they can truly “bloom.” Looking ahead, Verna shares her vision of building a legacy-driven foundation focused on changing lives globally through empowerment, education, and inner healing.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Anne Alvarez, parent coach, school counsellor, and former teacher, and the founder of Masterful Parenting. Anne shares her deeply personal journey from decades in education and counselling to launching a purpose-led parenting practice shaped by healing, faith, and lived experience. After navigating a painful personal chapter, Anne felt called to help parents break generational cycles and create healthier, more connected family dynamics rooted in understanding rather than control.

Anne dives into her hands-on coaching approach, particularly supporting mothers and parents of teens, where emotional regulation, communication, and self-awareness are most tested. She explains how unresolved childhood experiences influence parenting responses, why self-care is essential to calm leadership at home, and how reframing a child’s behavior can transform relationships. The conversation also explores building a mission-driven business, growing organically through content and community, and Anne’s vision to scale her impact globally through coaching, speaking, and an upcoming book designed to make healing accessible for parents everywhere.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Sarah Jade, a virtual assistant, business support specialist, and mentor helping founders streamline operations and reclaim time. Sarah shares her journey from a fast-paced career in radio broadcasting and the music industry to building a flexible, online business during the 2020 lockdowns. Along the way, she opens up about confidence challenges, career pivots, and how working remotely sparked her decision to step into entrepreneurship.

Sarah breaks down what it really means to build a sustainable VA business, from specializing in a niche and delivering high-level support to balancing strategy with mindset. She also dives into her mentorship program for women becoming virtual assistants, explaining her framework that blends energetics, business systems, and action-based strategy. The conversation explores pricing misconceptions in the VA space, standing out in a crowded market, and how working smarter—not harder—can create both impact and freedom.