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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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83: Reach the Peak with Cat Trebilco

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/05/20

Founder of Reach the Peak, Cat Trebilco talks burnout and how changing her business to keep her near mountains saved her. Starting out in a corporate banking career, the toxic work environment eventually took it’s toll leading to leaving her job and struggling to know what to do with her life. Spending about 6 months under her duvet, watching bad tv & seeing friends she slowly began building her life, a whole different life, that would combine her hobby and business in ways she could never have

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82: The Bipolar Businessman with Thomas Duncan-Bell

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/05/13

Known internationally as The Bipolar Businessman, Thomas has already reached 1 million people with his writing. Thomas Duncan Bell, grew up with a destructive father in a volatile environment, his early years were raw, violent and overwhelming. Despite his raw talent on the stage, he was thrown out of a prominent theatre school because of his mental problems. Nevertheless, after battling through alcohol and drug addictions, he successfully turned his life around. Now, as an energetic keynote

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00:59:17

81: How to Survive Horrific Loss with Karen Millsap

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2019/05/06

Karen’s world was ripped apart when her husband & father of her son was shot in his cross fit gym. Karen Millsap, began her career in human resources and talent acquisition where she lead countless training, new process, and change initiatives. At a young age, she suddenly became a widow when her husband was tragically murdered which completely changed the trajectory of her life. After experiencing a domino effect of other losses, she became acutely aware of the overall lack of support in our

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00:38:53

80: How to Change Habits for Good with Maneesh Sethi

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/04/29

Negative reinforcement starts the habit change, positive reinforcement helps them stick! Founder of Pavlok.com, Maneesh Sethi talks us through habit change, how negative reinforcement works better than positive praise and the device that shocks you into habit change. He has one of the most watched shark tank pitches on YouTube and wants to create a world where we can all change those annoying habits we just can’t get rid of. Diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, he was told a book deal would never be

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00:42:49

79: Cults, Living by Fear & Forging Your Own Path

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/04/15

We talk cults, prejudice against women in business, bankruptcy & building life back up from ground zero.

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00:43:31

78: Unbroken - How to Survive Trauma with Madeleine...

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/04/08

Gang raped at 13, Madeleine Black talks shame, recovery, building a good life and yes, even forgiveness. It’s never too late to get help & recover from our past so we can live in our present. Madeleine Black is a psychotherapist, speaker and author of the book: Unbroken, which chronicles her story and her lessons for getting through trauma. Her father & his sister, both holocaust survivors, both dealt with their traumatic past in vastly different ways. Her father finding meaning and always

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00:42:19

77: It's Never Too Late to Change Your Life with...

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/04/01

At 59, Karen Briscoe is training for a half iron man, has scaled Macchu Picchu, run a triathlon and written a book about how consciously adding movement to your life, gives you energy for all the things you’ve ever wanted to do. Karen has always been a high achiever, she runs a top real-estate agency in Washington and was living the dream in success, marriage and children. On the brink of burnout from relentless achievement she had a feeling that there must be something more and set on a personal

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BONUS: The Mask of Vulnerability - A hard truth...

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/03/27

I couldn’t get up this morning. I was riddled with self-doubt and thought I should just get a F**king job. Entrepreneurship is not for me and I just need to go back to playing small cause this overwhelm of heaviness is just too much. I can’t hack it. Given my visceral reaction, I thought there’s some growth going on here that’s worth sharing with you all. Perhaps we can grow together. I get tearful, I gesticulate, I get excited covering topics such as: What does our mask of vulnerability

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00:45:04

76: The School of Self Love with Katie Philips

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/03/25

‘I thought if I wasn’t perfect then Dad would leave to be with another family and Mum would kill herself…in the end both of those things happened’ Katie Phillips is a Coach, Founder of the School of Self Love and Author of The Self Love Affair: A woman’s guide to a daring and mighty life. A dynamic conversation about catalyst moments, repeating patterns from our past and the trap of co-dependency. As she took valium, closed the blinds and wished her life would end she woke up to the fact that

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00:50:15

75: When My Dad Ended His Life with Simon Mitchell

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/03/18

‘My Dads suicide was like a bomb that highlighted any family fracture and created full blown chasms for two generations’ Sam Mitchell, CCO of Rise ,a workplace wellbeing platform, talks us through the life experiences that got him passionate about the wellbeing topic. He describes himself as a 41 year old male, conditioned to not talk or reflect on his mental health. He describes his Dad as physically present but emotionally never there while his mum made up for his flaws with unconditional love

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00:52:20

74: Homeless at 16 with Ed Moss

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/03/11

A young carer who’s mother passed away leaving him with a violent father, Ed Moss ran away from home at 16 & never looked back. Bouncing between sofas, homelessness, local authority housing and shelters, Ed muses on living amongst ex-sex-offenders being a relief from the constant noise of home. Learning skills for survival by looking after his sick mother, when she passed away the family fell apart, his father couldn’t cope & there were many occasions when Ed’s life was threatened. Leaving home at

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73: The Outsiders Way In with David Thirumur

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/03/04

David Thirumur is a Social Entrepreneur, Youth Expert & Motivational Speaker who fought his way back from suicide, isolation and bullying in order to create a life he could be proud of. Raised in India to a French mother & Indian father, he grew up one of 9 siblings with little money but a strong purpose of giving back to society. Feeling lost and isolated as a teenager, he convinced himself he was worthless and there was no purpose to the pain in his life. Running away overnight he considered

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00:37:36

72: How to be an Entrepreneur with Sian Winfield

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/02/25

The journey of building a business is hard! It’s fraught with anxiety, loneliness & self-doubt! My business coach and founder of CoStartup&Go talks us through productivity, how to manage the anxiety of entrepreneurship & how to add more time to your day! Entrepreneurs can get lost in reacting to problems and forget to reflect and build a strategic vision for their business. Sian helps founders & CEOs think about the processes they need in place in order to scale, advises on productivity hacks,

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71: How I Cured My Anxiety with Seb Abecasis

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/02/18

Seb, a growth manager with Timewith, talks us through crippling anxiety and how he got through it. Growing up in the expat community, attending an international school in sunny Spain, Seb didn’t experience much adversity as a child. At 13 he attended boarding school in the UK, excited to spread his wings and find his independence. Realising he was becoming lazy, he began putting himself in situations where he had to scrap in order to develop his personality and life skills until studying at uni he

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Bonus: A straight talk on taking responsibility for...

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/02/15

Ok here goes! It’s just me this episode and I want to give you some hard-hitting advice on taking personal responsibility for your life. Everyone has a ‘reason’ for why they’re down, stuck, overwhelmed, not living their dream and slowly killing their unique impact in the world. I realised that in 1-2-1 sessions my USP is my directness but in my online content I’m not communicating all the things I want to say, the things I’ve learned from my own life, from the conversations throughout this podcast

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00:28:44

70: The Path Back from Suicide with Simon Jay

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/02/11

Simon Jay is the Commercial Director for the Thrive App, but when he was younger he attempted to take his life long before he knew what depression was. This is a real story filled with practical steps for moving past the bring of despair. Isolation and despair filled Simon’s brain as he took out a piece of paper and wrote a pro’s and con’s list with reasons to end his life or stay alive. He convinced himself that everyone else would be better off if he wasn’t here and attempted to take his life

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69: PTSD and Me with Lloyd Dean

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/02/04

‘PTSD may always affect me but I get to decide how I react to it.’ Lloyd Dean experienced a horrific car crash leading to PTSD which he now manages through tips he shares on the podcast! Growing up 1 of 7 kids, he describes life as chaotic but filled with creativity and learning to be resilient. As the Head of digital and innovative learning for EDF Energy, Lloyd lives in a masculine world where the stereotype is the thing to strive for: be the strong silent type, who is the main breadwinner who

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00:50:33

68: The Addicts Blessing with Henry Johnstone

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/01/28

Ooohhhh this is a good one! Henry is a dynamic coach who is changing the world one powerful conversation at a time! But it wasn’t always this way…join us as we go deep into addiction, self-harm, suicidal ideation and the steps it takes to build a life from breaking point! Henry’s story includes going to boarding school, being bullied by children & adults, feeling isolated, becoming a criminal to fuel his addictions, stealing from his own parents and eventually hitting his own rock bottoms. We

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00:41:16

67: #SeenNotScreen with Scott Newby

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/01/21

Scott Newby is on a mission to normalise mental health at work and his campaign #SeenNotScreen is about reminding ourselves to connect with the person away from screens. Scott only told his mental health story last October which liberated him to leave his job at Lloyd Banking Group and follow his purpose of starting his own business focussing on wellbeing at work. He talks us through hearing his mother’s cancer had come back when he was at Uni, losing her in 2001, a series of depressive episodes

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00:32:43

66: Make your side hustle your reality with Jessica...

Adversity to Advantage ·

2019/01/14

After completing a music degree then training as a teacher and moving to East Timor, Jessica found herself unhappy, unfulfilled and longing for a change. Divorcing and seeing her 3 year old son only half of the time felt soul destroying so she decided to change things and left her job to do real estate. She realised quickly it wasn’t her thing, desperately asking her parents for rent money and realising something needed to change. Jessica’s steps for success include: Be around the right people

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