In this episode, I speak with my sister Carmel, who is four years older than me.  We talk about her period of extreme anxiety and what she did to work through that time and what it was like for her.  We didn't know until recent years that anxiety has been in our family for a very long time. Carmel is a beautiful woman and spirit.  The two of us are close and also quite silly together but I've made sure that the edit isn't too rude or inappropriate.  It is, but just a bit.

About Carmel:

Carmel Bridges lives in Western Australia, Perth, with her husband and twins who are now in their 20s.  She's a brilliant mum and child carer to little little kids.  What's always struck me about her is how much love, positivity and generosity she exudes wherever she goes.  Carmel is incredibly resilient and has always been an incredible strength and support to me.  She also happens to be a fantastic cook and a lot of our conversations include quite a lot of talk about food.

Find and Contact Carmel:

Your best best would be finding her through my instagram or finding her in an Italian deli in a beach town in Perth, WA.

About Patrick:

Patrick is a qualified Business and Personal Coach (PG. Cert.).

His passion is your well-being and growth.  Patrick is an expert at building high-quality relationships based on mutual respect, equality and trust with a twist of humour for good measure.

He is passionate about his clients well-being and their professional and personal development. Patrick is highly skilled at coaching people in and through times of change, challenge or high stress such as with grief and loss.  For more information see the links below.

Find and contact Patrick:

https://www.thinkingbeyondnow.co.uk/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-hill-382802152/

https://www.instagram.com/patrickhillcoaching/?hl=en

Kev and I discuss the pain of friendships when things go wrong and how we can choose to create boundaries and take actions that help keep us safer and healthier in relationships.  Kev shares the story of a close friend and what happened between them.  Kev also does his usual brilliant story telling and never fails to make me laugh.

About Kev:

Award Winning Actor, Musician, Stand-Up Comedian, Presenter, Motivational Speaker, Entrepreneur, Billionaire Talent Mentor & Multiple Business Owner.

British Armenian Kev Orkian, is without question one the UK's busiest Entertainers. Motivational Speaker and Internationally acclaimed Award Winning documentary presenter, Kev spends much of his time creating and producing original content for his many projects.

A highly skilled musician, Kev has honed his art to perfection over many years, from his days as a classical concert pianist to performing Stand-up Comedy around the world. Blending his off-beat humour with sensational performances on the piano, he has been dubbed one of the world’s finest comedy pianists.

Having starred in several musicals in the UK, Kev decided to move into the world of stand up comedy supporting numerous stars from stage and TV. Kev now spends a much of his time travelling around the globe to sell out audiences in over 150 cities.

A massive supporter of the British Forces, Kev has travelled to many army bases, including three visits to Afghanistan, Cyprus & Germany to lift moral for the soldiers.

Kev now dedicates much time to his four businesses and the numerous charities he supports, whilst still flying around the world with his Piano Comedy Show and his Inspirational Talks.

Everyday I dream big

some days are good days

some days are not so good

but everyday is a blessing

Find and contact Kev:

https://www.kevlive.com/

https://www.instagram.com/realkevorkian/?hl=en

About Patrick:

Patrick is a qualified Business and Personal Coach (PG. Cert.).

His passion is your well-being and growth.  Patrick is an expert at building high-quality relationships based on mutual respect, equality and trust with a twist of humour for good measure.

He is passionate about his clients well-being and their professional and personal development. Patrick is highly skilled at coaching people in and through times of change, challenge or high stress such as with grief and loss.  For more information see the links below.

Find and contact Patrick:

https://www.thinkingbeyondnow.co.uk/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-hill-382802152/

https://www.instagram.com/patrickhillcoaching/?hl=en

Lucy and I, discuss rollerskating, collecting erasers and sniffing secondhand books in the pandemic.  When we get to the deeper part of this episode, we talk about living well as adults despite the challenges we face as children.  Noticing we are different as children can be extremely hard and lonely.  Lucy talks about her sexual identity and the challenges she faced trying to talk to her parents about being a lesbian and feeling totally shut down, feeling unseen, unheard and misunderstood.  Lucy discusses drinking as a means to survive the discomfort she was living in and then how she got support and help to begin to heal and grow into the brilliant authentic person she is today.

About Lucy:

Lucy is a qualified and ICF professional certified Coach with a postgraduate qualification in Personal and Business Coaching from the University of Chester. She is also extensively trained and experienced in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy and integrates this with her coaching practice. Lucy has coached for well over 2000 hours and has helped many people access the lives they want and chose form a place of conscious autonomy.

Following a complex childhood spent in overwhelm, Lucy has spent all of her adult life searching for meaning and gathering knowledge about how we operate in our hardest and in our best times. Lucy has studied psychology, philosophy, business administration and leadership, interpersonal neurobiology and complex trauma. She has a Masters in Social Work and worked with marginalised people with complex mental health struggles for years.

Lucy, a Global Woman of Choice award winning community builder, has a safe and nourishing membership community which is ready to welcome you as soon as you are ready to step in for yourself. She also offers exclusive 1:1 psychotherapeutic coaching to help you to recognise, understand and resolve your early childhood wounds and become successful, free of old repeating patterns, feeling safe whatever happens, healthy, wealthy and joyful as a result.

Find and contact Lucy:

https://iamlucypower.com/

https://www.instagram.com/iamlucypower/?hl=en

About Patrick:

Patrick is a qualified Business and Personal Coach (PG. Cert.).

His passion is your well-being and growth.  Patrick is an expert at building high-quality relationships based on mutual respect, equality and trust with a twist of humour for good measure.

He is passionate about his clients well-being and their professional and personal development. Patrick is highly skilled at coaching people in and through times of change, challenge or high stress.  For more information see the links below.

Find and contact Patrick:

https://www.thinkingbeyondnow.co.uk/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-hill-382802152/

https://www.instagram.com/patrickhillcoaching/?hl=en

In this episode, I speak with my oldest, and my OLDEST friend, Ralph. We discuss how we met; he admits that he thought that I wasn't quite right at the age of 19!  We also discuss our working definition of boring people and how a lot of people just aren't that interested in listening to each other.  Ralph also discusses the pain of losing two of his most precious loving relationships.  Ralph told me about three years ago that he was dying.  Well he was wrong.  He's still here and for that I am very grateful.

About Ralph:

Ralph grew up in Scotland in the 1940s.  He moved to New Zealand as a young man and became a teacher in his late teens.  Ralph has always been passionate about the creative arts, particularly in education. Ralph taught me how to teach and probably how to think for myself and to be all of myself no matter what.  He's an excellent teacher, director, reviewer of theatre and books.  Ralph reads about 150+ books a year and regularly reviews books on Radio New Zealand.  He was also the only person I felt safe enough to turn to when I came out.  Ralph lives in Paekakariki, a small beachside town north of Wellington, New Zealand.

Find and contact Ralph:

Try lurking in bookshops, you might just get lucky.

About Patrick:

Patrick is a qualified Business and Personal Coach (PG. Cert.).

His passion is your well-being and growth.  Patrick is an expert at building high-quality relationships based on mutual respect, equality and trust with a twist of humour for good measure.

He is passionate about his clients well-being and their professional and personal development. Patrick is highly skilled at coaching people in and through times of change, challenge or high stress.  For more information see the links below.

Find and contact Patrick:

https://www.thinkingbeyondnow.co.uk/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-hill-382802152/

https://www.instagram.com/patrickhillcoaching/?hl=en

In this episode, Johnny and I talk about all sorts of things like his wrestling career, not really, just his wrestling pants, and his obsession with Hawaii - although he's never been - brilliant.  We also talk about the racism he experienced, his childhood and the harsh reality of growing up in an abusive, unsafe environment.  What I find incredibly inspiring about Johnny is that he's created a beautiful life for himself in the face of the challenges he experienced as a young person.  Johnny's also the person who challenged me to create this podcast giving me both a push and support.  If you are unhappy with anything in this or any episode, please contact Johnny Lawrence.

About Johnny:

Johnny’s coaching journey started in 2006 when he qualified as a health and fitness coach. It wasn’t long before he realised that he was coaching across so much more than physical health. Supporting people to improve and change all aspects of their lives became his passion which led him to become the self-development coach.

He found from working with a diverse range of people, and also from healing from his childhood trauma, that he had a passion and a talent for supporting people with their self-development.

Johnny is the founder of the School Of Self Development that supports, guides and educates people towards becoming unstuck and achieving what they want from their life.

Johnny also hosts a popular podcast called The Self Development Podcast, where he has conversations with industry leaders surrounding self-development in a vast array of areas and topics.

Find and contact Johnny:

https://www.schoolofselfdevelopment.com/

https://www.schoolofselfdevelopment.com/podcast

https://www.instagram.com/theselfdevelopmentcoach/?hl=en-gb

https://www.instagram.com/theschoolofselfdevelopment/?hl=en-gb

About Patrick:

Patrick is a qualified Business and Personal Coach (PG. Cert.).

His passion is your well-being and growth.  Patrick is an expert at building high-quality relationships based on mutual respect, equality and trust with a twist of humour for good measure.

He is passionate about his clients well-being and their professional and personal development. Patrick is highly skilled at coaching people in and through times of change, challenge or high stress.  For more information see the links below.

Find and contact Patrick:

https://www.thinkingbeyondnow.co.uk/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-hill-382802152/

https://www.instagram.com/patrickhillcoaching/?hl=en

In this episode, we talk about one of Natalie's greatest challenges - the start of the pandemic and all of her freelance contract work stopping overnight - being unemployed effectively.  From earning a good salary to suddenly overnight earning zero.  This dark moment was incredibly hard but Natalie talks in detail about this and what she did to stay well and move forward. Wine, chocolate, grief and forcing herself to connect with others helped her a lot!

About Natalie

Natalie Miller-Snell is a certified Life Coach, motivational speaker, qualified Civil Engineer and people enthusiast. She founded NMS Coaching Ltd following her lifelong passion and ambition to help people realise their potential and that anything is possible; everyone is capable of great things - sometimes we just need someone to help us find the right direction.

As a former Director of Development, Natalie has spent 20+ years in the building and construction industry, leading and enabling teams to successfully deliver retail projects across the globe.  She has worked with teams to transform underperforming departments, mentor individuals and encourage those around her to believe in themselves, trust in their abilities and build confidence to take on new tasks and succeed.  Natalie believes her positive attitude and can-do approach has been fundamental to everything she does, together with her desire to listen to and nurture the team around her. With her broad understanding of business and the challenges that leaders face, Natalie recognises a key component in coaching is to provide a safe and confidential space, where her clients can be themselves.  Natalie is passionate about enabling individuals to find clarity and purpose by tapping into their own genius through open conversation, positive psychology and creative thinking.

Natalie is also host of Seize the Day podcast, an uplifting and motivational show exploring tools for use in daily situations to help actively seize any and all opportunities.

Find and contact Natalie:

https://nmscoaching.co.uk/

https://seizetheday.simplecast.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nmscoaching/?hl=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-miller-snell/

About Patrick:

Patrick is a qualified Business and Personal Coach (PG. Cert.).  

His passion is your well-being and growth.  Patrick is an expert at building high-quality relationships based on mutual respect, equality and trust with a twist of humour for good measure.

He is passionate about his clients well-being and their professional and personal development. Patrick is highly skilled at coaching people in and through times of change, challenge or high stress.  For more information see the links below.

Find and contact Patrick:

https://www.thinkingbeyondnow.co.uk/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-hill-382802152/

https://www.instagram.com/patrickhillcoaching/?hl=en