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Adversity to Advantage

Petra Velzeboer

Petra Velzeboer was raised in a religious cult with no education that erased her identity and future. Through depression, anxiety, alcohol dependence and suicidal thoughts she reached her rock bottom by age 25. Today her goal is to help others who are near their rock bottom to learn the fast track for improving their lives! Join Petra as she interviews people from all walks of life about their journey to discovering that their superpowers are nurtured in their pain and their success is crafted

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65: Show No Weakness with Jon Landau

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/01/07

Investment Director for New Model Venture Capital, Jon looks after a portfolio of early stage businesses and talks about success amidst a backdrop of an MS diagnosis in his 20’s and a Cancer diagnosis at the height of his tech startup career. Supportive early years, Jon describes himself as a ‘decent enough, entitled kid’ who hadn’t had to deal with much adversity. Moving into the family business at a young age, things started spinning out of control when his legs ‘turned to led’ at a conference

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64: Dream Big in 2019 with Smaranda Boros

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/01/01

Join me and Professor Psychologist Smaranda Boros as we take a stroll in south east London and muse on the New Year, all the cliche’s around resolutions and debate our opinions on how to get what we want in the new year. This includes: Are New Years resolutions healthy or unhealthy psychologically How most people create goals based on other people’s opinions of what success looks like not truly basing them on what they want Flow Vs Work Ethic Dreams Vs Goals How to ask yourself the right

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63: Loneliness & How to Deal with It with Daniel Holley

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/12/24

Are you missing family, reflective, isolated & losing the ability to truly connect? Check out this frank discussion about loneliness, the benefits, challenges and tips for how to cope. Join us as we challenge the taboo about loneliness in our Instagrammable society with the illusion of perfection and instead think about the growth opportunity. Petra and Daniel Holley chat through: What we do when we have nothing to do How to sit with ourselves Self-pity Vs healthy alone time The pain and

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62: The Day that Changed Everything with Suzy Bastone

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/12/17

On the perfect path to actress success, a horrific motorbike accident changed everything and forced Suzy Bastone to reevaluate everything. Raised in a perfect country-living life, attending one of the best musical theatre schools and getting her first job that had the potential to fully catapult her to success, life was exciting and perfect for the beautiful actress. Begging her boyfriend to allow her on the back of his motorbike for the short ten minute drive to work, a truck pulled out and

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00:47:48

61: Conscious Relationships with Anita Cassidy

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/12/10

Writer, Novelist and co-founder of the first Conscious Relationship community, Anita Cassidy talks us through the slow rise of apathy and unhappiness in relationships and what to do about it. Growing up with her Dad in the RAF she went to 6 different schools and was socialised to be the good girl, get perfect grades and cause no trouble. She hid the secret shame of overeating sweets in toilet-stalls which upgraded to wine as she became an adult. She learned to run away from pain through surface

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60: How to Survive Cheating with Olga Geidane

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/12/03

If you’ve ever been cheated on, had to find a way to survive heartbreak and financially struggled to survive than this episode is for you. Olga Geidane’s early conditioning was all about working 9-5, saving for a mortgage, getting married and retiring with no conversation about entrepreneurship, building the life you want or doing things seen as impossible by the culture she was raised in. She describes an innate desire for more, supported by watching the greats like Tony Robbins. Moving to the

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59: Get Rid of the Toxic Voice with Kathlene Monet

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/11/26

Health coach, abuse survivor, mother, Kathlene Monet has plenty of real advice on how to get through a rock bottom and thrive. In an intensely emotionally-abusive relationship, unhealthy, unhappy and a new parent, Kathlene remembers calling crisis helplines, posting cries-for-help on social media and gaining 30 pounds eating to escape the way she was feeling. Slowly she grew just enough self-belief to make a plan and leave the father of her child while he slept. This is where the Hollywood

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58: Unconscious Bias with Daniel Holley

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/11/19

So excited to have Daniel Holley on again (remember his ADHD and belonging story in Episode 7?) discussing a topic dear to his heart: Unconscious Bias specifically in the coaching industry. If you’re a coach, client or simply a person interested in discussing the tough stuff, then listen in to learn how to check your conditioning and become more inclusive. While coaches are meant to be self-aware, Daniel highlights how it’s a predominantly white male profession where we need to train ourselves to

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57: Self Harm to Total Confidence with Danielle Mensah

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/11/12

Founding Director of Qidanchi, Danielle Mensah talks self-harm, an abusive step-father, crisis at university and while managing a successful career in Financial services, spiralling into unhealthy eating and alcohol abuse patterns. She’s filled with practical tips for getting yourself through tough times, gives an emotional and authentic explanation of self-harm and gives advice on creating a dream team of support around you. Her business helps leaders live a life they love and employers create

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56: Run for Your Life with William Pullen

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/11/05

Author, TedX Speaker, Psychotherapist, William Pullen talks building up your empathy and intimacy skill and how active listening solves a host of problems. We talk nature vs nurture, what drives therapists to become therapists and the break up that nearly destroyed him. Dating someone from a different culture, age, religion eventually led to a painful break up which made William want to hide away and isolate into his depression. We discuss how the shame of intense feelings can make us hide away as

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00:33:58

55: Bullying and Delayed Burnout with Leyla Okhai

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/10/29

Founder and Director of Diverse Minds and former Head of Diversity at Imperial College, Leyla Okhai talks us through workplace bullying and how our worst experiences can make us! Leyla was intensely bullied and excluded as a child and just as she thought she was free from these challenges, she started a job where a new form of bullying and manipulation continued. With family struggles going alongside, Leyla remained strong for herself and others for years before the build up of these experiences

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54: Say No to Anxiety with Ann Marie Smith

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/10/22

Ann Marie Smith is a Life Strategist who specialises in working through anxiety and panic attacks. She loves seeing people take control of their lives and knows that the best coaches are just in your life briefly before setting you free to practice what you’ve learned. Ann Marie lived a breezy life up until the age of 18 when her brother was killed suddenly in a car accident. This led her down a spiral of drink, drugs and generally feeling overwhelmed and lost. After a relationship breakdown she

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53: What's the Gift? with Trevor Crane

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/10/15

Trevor Crane is an international best selling author, publisher, Greatness Quest podcast host and co-founder of superkidsbooks.com! But it wasn’t always this way… Having gone through a $2.2 million bankruptcy where he lost his daughter and his daughter’s mother moved to another state, he’s learned the hard way that success is facing up to countless challenges and realising that as long as you don’t quit you don’t lose - you may fail, but you don’t lose! About 20 minutes in Trevor hits on an

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52: Life Goes On with Stephen Thrift

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/10/08

A rare condition called Misophonia threatened to ruin Stephen Thrifts chances at a happy life and has also played a part in helping him find his purpose. Raised in a home with parents in conflict, he experienced extreme bullying at school which he told no one about due to his embarrassment at being a victim. His later marriage developed into a volatile relationship leading to divorce, leaving him so distraught he drank heavily and experienced suicidal ideation. Join me as I discuss how he moved

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51: Every Single Day with Nate Bailey

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/10/01

Nate Bailey is a lead coach, trainer, author and speaker who helps people create the life they truly desire! A few years back Nate’s life was mediocre and his healthy, work and relationships were suffering. He realised he had to change things and has spent the last few years significantly turning his life around. He’s lost weight, built a business, become an author and a better husband and father. He says ‘The purpose of life is to grow and expand every day’ so he makes sure he does hard stuff

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50: The Expert on building Mental Toughness! with...

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/09/24

Learn the practical steps for building your resilience and mental toughness from Psychologist, Coach and Author Sarajane Aris. Author of Beyond Resilience, Sarajane gives us simple, practical tips turning our adversity into advantage. Some of my favourite reminders include: Failure is the best practice ground for building mental toughness. Your attitude to dealing with setbacks makes you. We always have a choice in how we respond to life’s adversities. We can shape our brain through neural

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49: Chin Up! This is Adulting! With Ngozi & Obehi

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/09/17

It’s 2 for one this week with TWO amazing stories of adversity turning into a passion business creating wellbeing for busy people! Ngozi spent a decade climbing the corporate ladder, feeling it was just part of ‘normal adulting’ to occasionally want to throw yourself off a bridge or run away from everything! She helped other people with wellbeing strategies but never thought for a second she might be depressed. Her work related stress and anxiety spilled into everything and it took a breakdown on a

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48: How to be Superhuman! with Hari Kalymnios

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/09/10

TedX Speaker and thought leader who started his career in the London stock exchange, learned over time that if we want to be superhuman (the ultimate best version of ourselves), we need to have the physical and mental energy to sustain us. With his extensive knowledge of the practical habits we need to put in place to allow us to live our individual mission, Hari gives us a breakdown of the habits and routines that allow you to live your superhuman life! I love learning more about the connection

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00:42:03

47: How to Survive Trauma with Matt Pappas

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/09/03

Matt Pappas experienced horrific physical and sexual abuse between the ages of 5 and 10 from teenage boy who threatened to kill the family dog if he ever told. Matt found ways to suppress this trauma until his 2nd divorce at the age of 40 prompted him to get therapy. It was during this process that he realised the long term impact of trauma showed up in crippling anxiety, the inability to form deep connections, self-esteem issues and using alcohol to escape feeling the pain. He began his journey

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46: Food Addiction, Bulimia and Entrepeneurship with...

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/08/27

Simone Vincenzi turns is the co-founder of g-tex, a TedX speaker, a contributor to Huff post and Forbes, his passion is turning experts into authorities within their industries and tops this off with being a basketball player and musician. At 14 he realised his father was an alcoholic, his father left to rehab and life at home drastically changed. The conflict of being a child and needing to step up and be a man led to working in 200 restaurants by the time he was 19, becoming the youngest

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