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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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45: The Expansion Game with Gosia Gorna

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/08/20

Author of The Expansion Game, speaker, transformational coach, Gosia Gorna talks authenticity, vulnerability, and how we choose our path before we're born. Born in Poland to an alcoholic angry father, she experimented early on with meditation, visualising success and using affirmation to change the trajectory of her life. A failed relationship and essentially becoming homeless in the UK, she credits all of this adversity with setting her on the path of success that she now enjoys. A real

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44: Choose Life with Wendy Sage

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/08/13

Wendy Sage is a resilience coach and facilitator on the topics of leadership, positive psychology and mindfulness. She's an epic example of turning life's adversity into purpose as she didn't always work to support people. Starting out as an interior decorator, her second child died in her arms after being delivered by emergency c-section after becoming distressed and being hooked up to a ventilator. Wendy's talks through the pain of not being able to protect her child and how bereavement

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43: A Transgender Journey with Matt Ellison

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/08/05

Spending 4 decades of life hiding his true nature, Matt Ellison, transitioned from female to male just 4 years ago and is on a mission to educate people on what its like to live in the wrong body. We talk, learning to love yourself, the mental and physical journey, the loneliness of not being able to share your secrets and the fear of losing friends and work colleagues through finally becoming who you truly are. These lessons apply to all of us and will give you greater empathy and insight into

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42: Roots & Wings with Niven Postma

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/07/30

Niven Postma knows good leadership across a variety of sectors and disciplines and loves nothing more than seeing the light come on in someone's eyes when they get something! Being in a transition state with career and possibilities, she describes how being in flux is both exhilarating and terrifying and that what is brave for one person may not be brave for someone else. With thoughts on how we 'dare greatly', listen to our bodies and try to make decisions that break the patterns of our past

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41: Excited to Be Awake with Michael Laidler

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/07/23

Best selling author, keynote speaker, leadership coach, corporate trainer and dad, law enforcement officer we're in for a treat listening to Michael Laidler's views on resilience and leadership. Listen to this one if you're looking to be inspired and raise your game in leadership and success. Raised in a single parent household, with an absent father, and joining law enforcement at 19, Michael learned his work ethic through struggle. We cover topics such as the difference between management and

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40: Show No Weakness with Beverley Jones

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/07/16

Beverly Jones is an author, speaker, business mentor and mental health coach who's experienced burnout, mental health issues and is using her experience to challenge stigma and create healthier workplaces. An idyllic childhood besides experiencing school bullying, Beverley moved into a corporate career, working all hours for years until she experienced burnout which triggered her unprocessed bullying past. Unable to talk about what was going on, she left her job to recover her physical and mental

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39: The Cycle of Abuse with Richard Reid

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/07/09

Richard is a personal trainer, coach and is passionate about family and paddle boarding, but it wasn't always this way. Growing up without a father and intensely bullied at school, he learned early on to be resourceful and use his anger to protect himself from injustice. Experiencing several relationships that culminated in emotional abuse towards him, Richard is brave and authentic in stating that the cycle of abuse carried on to his becoming the abuser within a relationship himself. His rock

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00:51:41

38: 6 Months to Live with Abby Bushell

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/07/02

Abby Bushell knows adversity. 1 of 7 kids, she learned early on that the way to have a voice was through looking after everyone else. A string of domestic abuse relationships led to what Abby describes as becoming a functioning depressive, someone who held down a job and parented her daughter, but gained no joy or fulfilment in life. Being unable to ask for help she ended up in temporary accommodation for homeless people and had moments where she wanted to end her life. Thinking she had

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00:48:53

37: Name That Shame with Cahit Ali

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/06/25

If you want to learn how to turn the most challenging childhood into an opportunity for growth and happiness then this interview if for you! Cahit Ali, growing up with a paranoid schizophrenic alcoholic father, internalised intense shame, guilt and fear, which stayed with him throughout his adult life. When his first boyfriend died suddenly in a car incident, he spiralled into intense physical symptoms of grief and shock that he was unable to do things for himself for months. We go deep in

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36: Shame Vs Connection with Ann Betz

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/06/18

Ann Betz is an expert on the neuroscience of human consciousness and coaching and we go deep into topics such as resilience, attachment, amygdala hijacks and how to communicate what we need. Growing up in an alternative household with her parents in an open marriage, her rock bottom came at 17 when she lost all her hair to alopecia and had to reframe her identity as an adolescent and young actress. We talk about the impact of free love environments on children and how this plays out in adult

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35: Addicted to Pain - Jen Loong's Entrepreneurial...

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/06/11

Diagnosed with borderline personality disorder right before starting wandersnap.co , Jen knows first hand how important it is to look after yourself while creating dynamic change in the world. Authentic and direct about utilising DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) to give her the tools for handling stress and self-doubt in the roller coaster entrepreneurial journey. At 28, Jen leads by example in how millennial can make a difference in communities around the world. Jen Loong 龙晓灵is the

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34: Peak Performance and a fresh Perspective on...

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/06/04

Every once in awhile I get really excited about an interview and this is one of them! Nick's had loads of rock-bottom moments, including doing crystal meth in Cambodia and descending into the dark, lonely place of drug and alcohol addiction. His father suffered from MS for years before passing away right when Nick decided he had to try something to save his own life. While the first 3 steps of recovery helped him kickstart his journey, he gives insight into alternative ways to get what you need

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33: It Get's Better - with John Schless

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/05/28

John Schless is the Chief exec for the Student Union at Greenwich University discussing his journey from a small town setting as head boy at school with girlfriends, to moving to university and coming out as gay. We discuss the adjustment his parents needed to make, how he internalised his struggle with gay shame and turned to food as escapism, how he understands his body and his mind now and the advice he would give to his younger self. While we muse on how cuts in the UK are impacting services

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32: The Daring Way with Jacqui Scjenitzer

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/05/21

Jacqui is a facilitator for Brene Brown's The Daring Way workshops and knows all about developing self compassion in order to be brave. I enjoyed this conversation so much as Jacqui models vulnerability and encourages me to do the same. We discuss what we're not taught growing up such as understanding emotion, dealing with fear, that its sometimes ok to be angry and how to create useful boundaries. A perfectionist by nature, Jacqui's rock bottom came when she realised she would never be a

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31:When ok is not enough! withTomas Svitorka

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/05/14

Join me for a counter argument on why you don't need to hit rock bottom in order to make choices that improve your life! While Tomas Svitorka definitely experienced some adversity, he chooses to view this simply as life, without the possibility of holding him back. In fact, he wants life to be hard because he knows if he overcomes those challenges he'll make a bigger impact in the world through his work. One day, while working a mediocre job, Tomas realised that he could live his life being ok and

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30: Recovering Perfectionist with Valerie Teller

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/05/08

Valerie Teller is all about intuition. Listening to her body for the signs it gives her on which way to move her life forward. It's something I forget time and time again and this conversation reminds me of the information our gut instinct has for us, not only to keep us safe but to set us on the path for fulfilment. 'We're told that we should want certain things...' Valerie says, of her endless studying to be an international lawyer and barrister. Really, she just wanted to be an actress but was

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29: "I'm Fine" with Nicholas Morgan

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/04/30

Co-Director of Euro Youth Mental Health, Nicholas Morgan knows mental health and young people! "I didn't realise anything was wrong until it broke " he says, of the build up of stress and the pressures leading to a breakdown while driving on the motorway. With no education about how to notice the signs of burnout and stress in his own body, this surprising experience led him on a path to therapy, reaching out to his support network and talking to his boss about his mental health needs. Nick talks

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28: Taking the Business Leap with Natalia Talkowska

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/04/23

Natalia is a top creative mind and runs an agency Natalka Design specialising in visual storytelling that works with TED/Microsoft/Gov etc. She also launched Doodleledo - fun social experience for anyone who says 'I can't draw!' ran in 20 countries and growing. Find Natalia at www.natalkadesign.com and @natalkadesign This conversation is all about the entrepreneurs journey, from closed minded thinking sticking to the day job, to jumping in with both feet into her own business. An industry that

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27: F**k up Often but show up Anyway with Sian Rowsell

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/04/16

I messed up! I forgot to press record! I decide to show up anyway & jump in with my off-the-cuff thoughts on the catalysts that force us to change. We catch the last 20 minutes of the amazing Sian Rowsell who won a small business coach of the year award and talks us through: How to think bigger. How to be brave in business. Ask yourself what's your strategic plan for designing your LIFE not just your work. Do what you love even if it's risky! It's a short one but its a good one! Find Sian at

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26: Bipolar Psychologist Prof. Jamie Hacker Hughes on...

Adversity to Advantage ·

2018/04/09

SO excited about this interview! Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes talks bipolar disorder, suicidal ideation, 9 months in plaster after a bone operation at 2 years old, a career in the army, clinical psychology and as European minister for the 3rd order of Franciscans. He talks working in sales with every material possession and being deeply miserable, taking a 90% pay cut to find his path and the usefulness of being open about his mental health within the professional work he does. An inspiration

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