The Financially Free Woman Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sharon Singh Sidhu
Welcome to The Financially Free Woman Podcast! This podcast is for you if you're a woman who aspires to be free from financial anxiety, stress, and worry about money. Explore and learn from amazing women defining their version of financial and career success.
Follow me on LinkedIn, where I share insights and practical tips about becoming calm, confident, and savvy with your money and career: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
In this episode, I share a recent decision that made me feel physically uncomfortable — investing in a mastermind for my business.
As a working mom and primary provider, decisions about money are never just about the money. They come with responsibility, trade-offs, and doubt.
But this decision brought up something deeper.
Not just whether it would work — but whether I was willing to take a chance on myself again, especially after past attempts didn’t always go the way I expected.
In this episode, I talk about:
- why fear doesn’t always mean you’re making the wrong decision
- what it really means to believe in yourself again without much proof
- how building a business alongside a job creates options
- the role of self-awareness in making better decisions
This episode is for women who are building something beyond their job, while managing the responsibilities of work and family.
Resources
- CLICK HERE to sign up to get the notes and updated when new episodes are out.
Most women don’t design their careers.
They default into them.
Climb the ladder. Stay for stability. Do what’s expected.
And then one day, it stops working.
In this episode, I share why I chose to build a business while keeping my job — even though it’s harder.
Not because it’s ideal.
But because the alternatives were unacceptable to me.
I talk about:
- why “stability” isn’t always safe
- what keeps you going when motivation runs out
- and a simpler way to think about designing a career that actually supports your life
This is part of my weekly Career Design Notes where I share how I’m thinking about career, money, and building something on the side as a working mom.
Subscribe to get the full notes here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com
In this episode, I break down what I mean by financial resilience - moving from fear, panic, and anxiety around money to feeling calm, clearheaded, confident, and empowered even before you've achieved your financial goals.
I share why the first step to financial resilience is awareness. On the practical side, this means getting organized and knowing where your money is coming and going. More importantly, and less discussed, on the psychological side, observing your money behaviors and the patterns behind them.
I introduce the idea of “money disorders” (avoidance, worship, and relational issues) and how early experiences and financial flashpoints can shape how you react to money.
I share the power of pausing to self-soothe, including simple techniques like breathing, mindful practices, movement, and more empowering self-talk to help you get better at overcoming money challenges and make a simple, doable plan instead of reacting from anxiety and fear.
If you've tried all the money tactics like saving, budgeting, investing, planning and still anxious about money, this episode is for you.
Resources Mentioned
- Follow me on LinkedIn for regular posts about building financial resilience
- Sign up to my newsletter to get updated when new podcasts are available
I’m back after taking a break to reflect on where I want to take the podcast and I’m recommitting to a core theme I don’t see discussed enough in personal finance: financial resilience—the internal ability to stay calm and make clear decisions when money situations change.
With rising costs and uncertainty around jobs and business, I want to help you find more financial certainty by building resilience from the inside, not just focusing on tactics like budgeting or investing.
I share my story of starting a cafe that closed after four years and left us with six-figure debt, returning to my HR career, and becoming my family’s primary provider.
Drawing on decades in HR and my own fear and money avoidance, I explain why uncertainty is unavoidable and preview next episode’s first steps to build resilience.
Resources Mentioned
- Connect with me on LinkedIn.
- Get updated when new episodes are released.
In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on what 2025 actually looked like while building a business on lunch breaks and weekend mornings while working full-time, providing for my family, and caring for aging parents.
No highlight reel. No guru 'expert' advice. Just the real lessons from the trenches.
What You'll Learn:
- The Reality Check: What I planned for 2025 vs. what actually happened
- The 5 Unglamorous Lessons:
- It Takes WAY Longer Than You Think
- Visibility Is Practice, Not Personality
- You Have to Become a Different Person
- Building While Employed Is the Smarter Path
- Small Wins Matter MORE Than Big Wins
- What I'm Taking Into 2026
This Episode Is For You If:
- You didn't hit your 2025 goals and feel discouraged
- You're building a business on the side while working full-time
- You're scared of being visible on LinkedIn (what if your boss sees?)
- You're overwhelmed by how long it's taking to see results
- You need permission to celebrate small wins instead of fixating on the gap
- You're a sandwiched mom providing for family while building something of your own
Resources:
- Business Clarity Session (1-on-1): In 60 minutes, we'll identify your monetizable expertise, map your first income stream, design your 1-hour/day plan, and handle the fear of being visible while employed. Book here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.thrivecart.com/business-clarity-session/
- Create 2026 Workshop: Review your 2025, set your 2026 vision, and create your action plan. Includes Annual Planning Guide + 5-Step Problem-Solving Framework. Get it here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/create2026
Learn More:
- Website: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
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Recording this on the last day of 2025, I'm sharing what came up for me while facilitating my Create 2026 workshop. It's probably not what you expect from a typical year-end review episode.
Yes, we talk about goals. But more importantly, we talk about WHO you need to become to achieve them.
In this episode:
- Why building a business is harder than anyone admits (and why that's okay)
- The skills employees aren't taught that business owners need
- How to hold two opposing energies: caring deeply while staying detached
- Why your 'failures' are actually stepping stones
- The perspective shift that changed everything for me: the process IS the goal
- How to approach 2026 with joy and gratitude instead of frustration
This is for you if:
- You didn't hit your 2025 goals and you're feeling discouraged
- You're building a business on the side while working full-time
- You're tired of the hustle culture and want a more sustainable approach
- You want to become the sort of person who figures things out even when it's hard
Resources mentioned:
- Create 2026 Workshop (FREE): Review 2025, set your 2026 vision, create an action plan
- Bonuses: Annual Planning Guide + 5-Step Problem Solving Framework
- Get it here: sharonsinghsidhu.com/create2026
Connect with Sharon:
- LinkedIn: @sharonsinghsidhu
- Weekly guides: sharonsinghsidhu.com
As the year comes to a close, many of us are reflecting on our jobs, our lives, and what we want next. But when you’re a working mom building a business on the side, it’s easy to skip reviewing your own progress especially when results feel slower than expected.
In this episode, I share what my 2025 business review revealed after 20+ years of leading reviews and goal-setting in corporate roles and what I’m doing differently in 2026.
You’ll hear:
- Why your vision can stay constant even when priorities shift
- How different seasons of motherhood require different strategies
- Why avoiding your numbers is often about emotion, not discipline
- How to review your business without beating yourself up
- A simpler, more sustainable way to plan goals when time and energy are limited
This episode is especially for working moms who feel:
- Busy but unsure if they’re making real progress
- Discouraged by slow or uneven results
- Overwhelmed by 'big goals' that don’t fit real life
Mentioned in this episode:
Create 2026 (Free Live Workshop)
A guided year-end review + 2026 planning session designed for busy working moms building a business on the side.
You’ll review what worked (and didn’t) in 2025, clarify your 2026 vision, and leave with focused priorities you can actually follow through on.
Register here: sharonsinghsidhu.com/create2026
Have you ever felt deeply exhausted, discouraged, or disillusioned while working toward something that truly matters to you - your career, your business, or your long-term goals?
In this episode, I share what I’ve been personally moving through over the past few weeks, and the deeper reason many high-achieving working women feel drained even when they’re doing “all the right things.”
This episode isn’t about time management or productivity hacks.
It’s about how a lack of self-belief and self-trust quietly running in the background drains our energy, leaving us feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and feeling like we want to give up.
In this episode, I share:
- Why exhaustion isn’t always about workload
- How doubt and uncertainty drain more energy than action
- Why acceptance is not giving up but a powerful reset
- How to build self-trust when progress feels slow
- What to do when even loved ones don’t believe in your dreams
- How to stay committed without burning out or rushing the process
If you’re a working woman building something meaningful alongside a full life and wondering why it feels so heavy lately, this episode is for you.
Key Takeaways
- Exhaustion often comes from doubting the outcome, not the effort
- Acceptance clears emotional resistance and restores clarity
- Self-belief is a muscle, not a personality trait
- Big goals exist to shape who you become, not just what you achieve
Resources
- Follow the podcast so you don’t miss future episodes
- CLICK HERE to download the weekly guide with key insights and actions
- CLICK HERE to book a free discovery call if you want support navigating burnout, visibility, or career uncertainty
Links are in the show notes and on https://sharonsinghsidhu.com
Most corporate women are sold the same story:
Get a good job, climb the ladder, earn more and you’ll be safe.
But what happens when restructures, mergers, pandemics, or one decision you didn’t make suddenly threaten your income, your identity, and your family’s security?
In this episode, I share the moment I realised my 9–5 job was not safety and what true financial resilience really looks like for corporate women.
Drawing from nearly 30 years in HR, including hiring, firing, restructuring, and my own story of quitting a 6-figure job, taking on 6-figure debt, going back to corporate, and then building side income as a freelance trainer, I walk you through:
- The illusions of job security we’re sold in our 20s and 30s
- Why higher salaries often make you more financially vulnerable, not less
- How layoffs, mergers, and pay cuts helped me see who really controls your income
- The hidden emotional cost of depending on a single paycheck, partner, or employer
- The mindset shift from “I need a stable job” to “I can create money on demand”
- Why your existing skills and lived experience are enough to start earning outside your job
- What “paying the price” really means and how to decide what’s worth it
- The 3 core truths that helped me stop acting from fear and start building safety from within
This isn’t an episode about quitting your job overnight. It’s about never again outsourcing your security to someone else’s decision.
If this resonated and you want support to build your own safety, visibility, and side income while staying employed:
- Follow the show so you never miss an episode
- CLICK HERE to book a free discovery call to explore working 1:1 with me
In this episode, I share what’s really happening inside you when you try to post on LinkedIn and suddenly freeze. This isn’t about algorithms or content hacks. It’s about your brain, your conditioning, and why visibility feels unsafe especially for high-achieving corporate women and working moms.
You’ll hear my own stories of posting 'scary' selfies on LinkedIn, being the quiet compliant girl growing up, and how my failed café and 6-figure debt eventually led me to write online, build a side income, and show up consistently on LinkedIn all while still working in HR.
If you’ve ever stared at a drafted post and then quietly deleted it, this episode will help you understand why, and what to do next.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why your brain is wired for survival, not visibility
- Why LinkedIn feels uniquely risky compared to Instagram or Facebook
- The 'spotlight effect' and why it feels like everyone is watching you
- Catastrophizing: the worst-case stories you tell yourself before you post
- Old scripts from childhood, culture, and school especially as an Asian woman
- Identity conflict: 'good employee”'vs 'visible thought leader'
- Perfectionism & all-or-nothing thinking that stops you hitting post
- 5 practical ways to work with your psychology, not against it
Links:
- Sign up for the weekly guide & episode summary: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com (Click 'Guides').
- Book a discovery call: talk about your LinkedIn fears and your next safe steps: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com (Click 'Discovery').
Why do the smartest, most capable women stay quiet in meetings, on LinkedIn, and in their careers while others with less experience speak confidently?
In this episode, I break down the real reasons behind women’s silence (spoiler: it’s not a confidence problem), how it quietly hurts your career, and how to start speaking up in small, safe ways that build real confidence over time.
If you’ve ever held back from sharing your ideas, posting online, or putting your face out there because you’re afraid of being judged, wrong, or 'too much', this episode is for you.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- What the 'confidence gap' really looks like in real life
- 3 core reasons smart women stay silent: conditioning, safety, perfectionism
- How silence quietly harms your career, visibility and opportunities
- Simple ways to recognise you’re already competent, confident and full of potential
- 3 practical steps to start speaking up and being seen (without shocking your nervous system)
- How tools like MAP, journaling and affirmations can help you shift your identity over time
Visit my website to join the newsletter or book a free discovery call: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com
If you’ve ever felt guilty for not being consistent enough in your business this episode is for you.
As working moms, our version of consistency looks nothing like what business gurus preach. We’re juggling full-time jobs, caregiving, school runs, and career responsibilities. We can’t stay online for an hour after every post or leave 100 comments a day.
This episode is an honest conversation about:
- Why every small step you take still counts as progress
- The difference between consistency vs frequency
- How to design a business rhythm that fits your real life (job, kids, exhaustion and all)
- How to stop beating yourself up when you can’t keep up with 'expert advice'
- My Lunch Hour / Early Morning business model - creating, engaging, resting
- The question that changed everything: 'If this were easy, what would it look like?'
Links mentioned:
- Book a Power Hour: https://calendly.com/sharonsinghsidhu/powerhour
- Free course – Build your business in 1 hour/day: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/start
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu
- Podcast RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1390135.rss
Ever felt like your full-time job is swallowing all your time and energy, leaving nothing for your business, creativity, or dreams? That was me last week. New job, kids, travel, business ideas… and zero time to breathe. I felt trapped, frustrated, and on the verge of burnout.
In today’s episode, I share:
- What triggered this wave of overwhelm
- Why being the primary provider makes quitting your 9–5 not an option
- The 10-step process I use to move from “I can’t do this anymore” to calm, grounded action
- How overwhelm can actually be training for the next version of you as a business owner
This is for you if:
- Your 9–5 is draining your energy
- You’re a mom juggling work, kids, and a side business
- You feel behind, stuck, or scared you’re losing momentum
- You want practical and emotional tools to keep going
Links Mentioned:
🎧 Free course – Your First Brave Step: Build your coaching business in 1 hour a day without quitting your job or being on social media 24/7: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/start
💬 Book a Power Hour (HR-safe visibility, side business planning): https://calendly.com/sharonsinghsidhu/powerhour
Does the thought of posting online make you feel like a fraud? You’re not alone. For many working moms starting a side business, imposter syndrome and fear of visibility are the biggest roadblocks.
In this episode, I share:
- Why imposter syndrome shows up (and why it never fully disappears, even for 'successful' people.
- How to use your lived experience as proof you’re already qualified to help others.
- A 7-step process to move through self-doubt so you can share your story without fear.
- My personal journey of posting on LinkedIn as a full-time HR leader and working mom, even when senior leaders were watching.
Key message: You don’t have to be the world’s top expert to be valuable. You just need to share your story, because someone out there needs to hear it in your words, at this exact moment.
Listen to the full episode now!
Want to sign clients in just 1 hour/day without cold DMs or hustling? Get my free course: sharonsinghsidhu.com/start
Prefer to book a 1:1 power hour with me? Go here: https://calendly.com/sharonsinghsidhu/power-hour-with-sharon
Starting and growing a business is exciting, but it’s also scary. Fear shows up in many ways:
- Doubt – Will this even work?
- Lack – Will I ever make enough money?
- Judgment – What will people think of me?
In this episode, I share the three core fears most side-hustling moms face and how to overcome them by upgrading your Business Owner Beliefs (B.O.B.).
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Why fear is normal when shifting from employee to entrepreneur and how to navigate it.
- The 3 fears every new business owner faces (and how to reframe them).
- How to build certainty beyond logic when doubt creeps in.
- How to shift from a scarcity mindset to an abundance lens.
- Why self-acceptance is the antidote to fear of judgment and how I overcame my own visibility fears as an HR leader posting online.
- The power of knowing your big WHY and how it can carry you through fear.
- The importance of defining what you’re willing and not willing to do for your dream business.
- Simple daily tools I use to reset fear: journaling, reflection, MAP Method, Human Design, and raising consciousness.
If you’ve been letting fear, doubt, or judgment hold you back from starting or growing your side business, this episode will give you a new way to think about it.
Listen now and start building the certainty, abundance, and wholeness you need to move forward.
Get my free course to learn my full MES Framework (Mindset, Energy, Systems) here: sharonsinghsidhu.com/start
Six years ago, my dad passed away. At his wake, as I pieced together photos of his life, I kept hearing his voice asking me:
'What will your legacy be?'
That question has shaped everything I do today - as a working mom, HR leader, and entrepreneur building a lifestyle business to 'retire' in 5 years instead of 65.
In this special, reflective episode, I share the timeless lessons my dad taught me and how they apply not just to life, but also to building a business that gives you flexibility, fulfilment, and financial freedom.
You’ll learn:
- Why 'more haste, less speed' is the secret to building your business with patience and trust in the process
- Why you’ll never 'find time - you have to make it
- How 'we must find a way' can help you push through challenges with resourcefulness and resilience
- Why being honest with yourself is the foundation of building a business (and life) aligned with your true values
This isn’t about hustling harder. It’s about living fully, creating your own '3rd path' beyond the 9–5, where you work because you want to, not because you have to.
Quick Wins to Apply Today
- Write down one guiding phrase you’ll carry into your business this week (mine: 'We must find a way').
- Block 1 hour on your calendar this week to work on your business - no matter how messy life feels.
Resources & Links
My free course: Sign your first client in 1 hour/day without cold DMs or hustling 24/7 → sharonsinghsidhu.com/start
Subscribe & review the podcast so more working moms can find it → The 1 Hour/Day Side Hustle Podcast
DM me on LinkedIn: What’s your legacy?
When you’re a working mom building a business on the side, motivation and willpower aren’t enough. Life gets messy. Kids get sick, work runs late, weekends disappear.
That’s why systems are everything.
In this episode, I share:
- The difference between routines, habits, and systems (and why you need all three)
- How I run my business in just 1 hour/day—even when life throws curveballs
- What my morning, evening, and weekend routines actually look like
- Why systems make it easy to bounce back after setbacks without guilt
Because it’s not about hustling harder, it’s about building systems that support you, even on your busiest days.
Listen now.
Want to dive deeper? Get my free email course where I walk you through my MES Framework—Mindset, Energy, and Systems to build a lifestyle business in 1 hour/day: sharonsinghsidhu.com/start
We’ve been told the secret is to 'hustle harder'. But as working moms, that advice just burns us out.
Here’s the truth: It’s not hustle that creates the business you want - it’s your energy.
In this episode, I share:
- Why your energy (who you’re being) matters more than your to-do list
- How to embody the vibe of the woman who already has clients
- The power of holding two truths at once—fear & faith, career & kids—and still moving forward
- The daily intentions I set to keep going, even when life gets messy
This is the second pillar of my MES Framework: Energy.
Because it’s not just about what you do, it’s about who you are while doing it.
Listen now and start building your business in a way that feels good, not exhausting.
Resources mentioned
- Get the starter kit where I share my MES Framework: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/start
- Get your free Human Design: https://humandesignblueprint.com
- Learn about the Kabbalah: https://discover.kabbalah.com/k1-ondemand/
- And David Ghiyam: https://davidghiyam.com
If you’ve been grinding for months (or years) and still don’t have the clients you want, I get it. For me, the time it took from 'I first meet you' to 'you become a client' used to be about two years. Now it’s about five months. That’s ~79% faster - with a full-time job, two kids, and 1 hour a day for my business.
In this episode, I walk through what actually changed. Spoiler: it wasn’t a shiny tactic. It was my identity and beliefs. When I started becoming the woman who already signs clients - the way I think, feel, show up - everything sped up. Strategies didn’t suddenly start working; I started working, because I was aligned.
What I cover:
- Why strategies 'work for others' but don’t stick for you (yet)
- How your identity + beliefs → emotions → actions → results (and timelines)
- The uncomfortable truth behind my first refund (and why it was a gift)
- Why my latest inbound, no-ads client felt easy and sustainable
- My 12-month 'do the scary thing' experiment (and how I gut-check fear vs. truth)
- The MES Framework I use now: Mindset, Energy, Systems
Mentions & resources:
- My free, First Client Starter Kit for Side-Hustling Moms: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/start
- Louis Butterfield — the video guy whose honesty about failures inspired me to share the messy middle (see his posts and video philosophy on LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/louis-the-butterfield_this-week-i-wrote-a-post-about-my-money-activity-7374837794302541824-9P5O?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAB1JVjgBFeq_djFMXzfkbhmmZbdDVTvKl9s
- David Ghiyam — my go-to for learning Kabbalah and the inner work that powers outer results: https://www.instagram.com/davidghiyam
Most working moms feel trapped in an impossible choice:
- Stay in your career and miss out on time with your kids.
- Or step back to be with your kids and give up financial security.
But what if that choice was never real to begin with?
In this episode, I share how I refused to accept the “either/or” path — and instead built a third way: growing my business in just one focused hour a day while working full-time and raising two kids.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Why the “false choice” keeps so many moms stuck
- How I carved out 1 hour a day to grow my side business
- The 3 key components that make this possible (Mindset, Energy, Systems)
- Quick wins you can try today to start creating your own third way
Want to take the next step? Grab my free starter kit: Your First Client in 1 Hour a Day: The Side-Hustling Mom’s Starter Kit → https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/start
This week I’m getting very real with you about something we all face as working moms building a business: fear.
- Fear of rejection.
- Fear of not being approved of.
- Fear of doing something that feels uncomfortable but is necessary for growth.
I share a very personal story about how even something as simple as saying “no” can feel terrifying, and how I’m learning to check in with my gut (through Human Design) and take action anyway.
In this episode, we’ll explore:
- Why most of our default reactions come from fear (and how to shift to love-based action).
- How discomfort isn’t a sign you’re on the wrong path but often the exact signal you’re growing.
- My 12-month experiment to practice “doing the scary thing” and leaning into what feels uncomfortable.
- A personal example of how saying no revealed where I still needed growth.
- Why trusting yourself is the most important step in creating a life and business on your terms.
If you’ve ever felt stuck in fear or struggled with people-pleasing, this one’s for you.
Resources & Links
- Connect with me on LinkedIn or Instagram @sharonsinghsidhu
- Want support signing your first client without burnout or cold DMs? DM or email me (sharon@sharonsinghsidhu.com) me “FIRST CLIENT.”
If you’re a working mom with a side business, you’ve probably felt the fear of putting yourself 'out there'. Maybe it feels selfish, salesy, or just plain uncomfortable to talk about yourself online, especially when you’ve got colleagues, bosses, or even family watching.
I know, because I’ve been there. For years, I hid behind quotes, generic posts, or faceless updates because showing me felt too vulnerable. But here’s what I learned: staying invisible isn’t humble, it’s actually holding you back from helping the very people who need you.
In this episode, I share:
- Why self-promotion isn’t selfish (it’s service)
- How I went from hiding to posting photos, soundbites, and real stories
- Simple, safe first steps you can take to build visibility without overwhelm
- A framework (Before → During → After → Debrief) to share your journey in a way that connects and builds trust
- Tips for balancing visibility with professionalism when you’re still employed
It’s always scary at first but it gets easier. And showing up online with intention can be the key that unlocks your first client.
Resources & Links:
- Connect with me on LinkedIn or Instagram (@sharonsinghsidhu)
- Email me at sharon@sharonsinghsidhu.com
Feeling overwhelmed by everyone else’s 'must-do' strategies? One guru says 'post daily', another swears by ads, and then someone else insists you need a funnel before you even think about clients. For side-hustling moms already stretched thin, this constant noise quickly turns into overwhelm, burnout, and frustration.
In this episode, I share what helped me stop chasing every shiny new tactic and start focusing on what really matters: knowing yourself first. When you understand how you make decisions, how you manage your energy, and what fuels you, you’ll be able to cut through the confusion and pick strategies that actually work for you.
You’ll hear how meditation, journaling, and tools like Human Design helped me connect with myself on a deeper level, and why this self-awareness is the missing piece most moms skip when trying to sign their first client. Plus, I’ll share a story of trusting my gut — even when it seemed 'impulsive' — and how it set me on the path to building flexible income streams alongside my 9–5 and family life.
By the end, you’ll know the real first step to signing clients without guilt or burnout: creating a business that feels aligned, energizing, and uniquely yours.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Why overwhelm keeps you stuck and how to break the cycle
- The real reason strategies fail when you copy-paste them from gurus
- Practical ways to increase self-awareness as a busy mom
- How tools like Human Design can help you manage energy, not just time
- Why acceptance (not self-rejection) is the foundation for sustainable success
Resources & Links:
- The Body Keeps the Score — Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
- Human Design Chart: humandesignblueprint.com by Erin Claire Jones
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Or email sharon@sharonsinghsidhu.com
Ten years ago, I was climbing office steps thinking 'there has to be more than this'. If you're a working mom who feels trapped between climbing the corporate ladder and giving up your career dreams, this episode is for you. I'm sharing the 3rd path that changed everything for me—and why other moms started asking 'how do you do it all?'
Listen if you're:
- A working mom feeling guilty about missing family time for work
- Tired of asking permission to attend to your sick child
- Dreaming of controlling your own schedule
- Wondering how to build something meaningful without sacrificing stability
IN THIS EPISODE:
- The False Choice That's Keeping You Stuck.
- What is the 3rd Path?
- 'How Do You Do It All?'
- The 3 Signs You're Ready for the 3rd Path
- Your Starting Point Audit
- The Mindset Shift
- Your Next Steps
RESOURCES
- Connect with Sharon on LinkedIn or Instagram
- Join the priority list to Career By Design: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/redesign
The truth working moms need to hear: You'll never feel 100% ready to create the career you want. The process takes time, and waiting for certainty is what keeps you stuck.
In this episode, I'm sharing the three-step method for building the self-belief and self-trust you need to start designing your career now - even when you're scared.
The career creation process takes time - waiting longer only delays your timeline. But it can feel scary to start when you don't know how it will go. I share my 3-Step Evidence Method to overcome your fears and doubts about taking the first steps to create the career and life you want.
Here's the key mindset shift to make:
If other people have the career or life you want, it means you can have it too. What's possible for them is possible for you.
Ready to Design Your Career?
It can be hard to see the old identity and beliefs blocking you from creating the career you want. This is when working with a coach who's walked this path becomes invaluable.
I help working moms design careers that support the life they want, instead of forcing their life to fit into a standard corporate mold.
Want to explore this? Email me: sharon@sharonsinghsidhu.com and let's chat.
You can also join the priority list to Career By Design For Moms. This is my signature program where I handhold you through the process to redesign your career so it supports the life you want: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/redesign
Connect with me on LinkedIn where I regularly share how to build a career where you do fulfilling work and experience time and financial freedom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
What if the choice between "climbing the corporate ladder" and "stepping back for family" isn't really a choice at all? In this episode, I share insights from interviewing 12 high-achieving women who felt trapped between two impossible options - and reveals the strategic third path that most working moms don't know exists.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
- Why ambitious moms feel limited to just two career choices
- The strategic framework for designing portfolio careers alongside stable employment
- How Sharon built $20k+ in additional income while working full-time • The difference between settling and strategic career design • When to optimize for growth, stability, or flexibility in different life seasons • How to align career moves with your actual priorities (not just traditional metrics)
Key Takeaways:
- Multiple career paths can lead to success - there's no single "right" way
- Strategic career design gives you agency over your professional path
- You can build security AND flexibility simultaneously
- Different seasons of life call for different strategic approaches
Resources Mentioned:
- Strategic Career Design Guide: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com
- DM Sharon for personalized career strategy consultation
Connect with Sharon on LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
In today's uncertain job market, layoffs are happening across every industry. If you're lying awake wondering if your position is safe, or if you've recently been let go and feel like your world just crashed down, this episode is for you.
Everyone's pushing the 'start a side business' solution, but what if you need income NOW? What if you have no emergency fund and bills to pay?
In this episode, I share my personal story of losing my job with zero financial buffer - and the strategic moves I made that transformed my biggest career crisis into my greatest breakthrough. You'll learn why your job loss isn't about your worth, how to calm your nervous system enough to think clearly, and practical steps to take when you're starting from scratch.
This isn't feel-good fluff. This is real-world wisdom from me who's been where you are.
Key Topics Covered:
Why Job Loss Feels Personal
- How we confuse our job with our identity and worth
- The emotional betrayal when relationships at work end in business decisions
- Understanding employment as energy exchange, not validation
My Personal Story
- Getting laid off with zero emergency fund
- The 2 AM panic and shame spiral
- Swallowing pride to take a "smaller" job as nervous system strategy
- How temporary work became a decade-long passion career
The Neuroscience of Financial Fear
- Why panic mode shuts down clear thinking
- The critical role of meditation in rewiring your brain
- How to calm your nervous system enough to make smart decisions
Practical Action Steps
- Emergency planning when you have no buffer
- Strategic networking without desperation energy
- Taking temporary work as bridge, not failure
Want to go deeper? Join my free training 'From Financial Panic to Financial Peace' at https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/peace
Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by your finances but don't want to become a financial guru to figure it out?
In this episode, I break down the exact 3 steps that transformed my relationship with money—and they have nothing to do with budgeting apps or investment strategies.
What You'll Learn:
Must-Do #1: Get Out of Survival Mode First
- Why you can't make good financial decisions when you're in panic mode
- The first step to take if you've been laid off or need money urgently
- How to get an honest snapshot of your financial situation (even when it's scary)
- Why facing the truth is always better than living in fear
Must-Do #2: Learn to Let Go of Fear and Panic
- The connection between your money beliefs and your financial reality
- Why your current money story is creating your current money situation
- How to create space in your heart and mind for clear thinking
- The difference between reactive fear-based actions and intentional dream-based actions
Must-Do #3: Paint the Vision of Your Financial Future
- How to shift from running away from fear to moving toward your dreams
- The power of feeling your future financial reality before it happens
- Why visualization isn't just "woo-woo"—it's belief-building
- Tools for daily practice: meditation, journaling, and the MAP process
Key Takeaway: You have to BE the financially confident woman first, then you'll naturally DO the things financially confident women do, and finally HAVE the financial freedom you want.
Connect with me:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
- Join my program waitlist: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/5m
- Subscribe to my podcast: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/podcast
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Have a 6-figure salary but still feel financially insecure? You're not alone. In this episode, I share why I quit my high-paying job without a backup plan and what it taught me about the hidden dangers of depending on a single paycheck.
You'll discover why salary increases don't fix financial anxiety, how 'stable' jobs aren't actually stable, and the mindset shifts that keep professional women trapped in financial dependence. Plus, I'll share exactly how I turned my corporate skills into $20K in side income over a couple of years.
If you're tired of feeling powerless about your financial future despite your professional success, this episode is for you.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:
- Why your 6-figure salary doesn't make you feel financially secure
- The hidden cost of depending on one income source
- What happened when I left my "stable" job (spoiler: it wasn't stable)
- Signs you're trapped in single paycheck thinking
- How to start building income security this weekend
KEY TAKEAWAYS:The 'cost of privilege': When everything was provided for you growing up, you never learn to trust yourself with money.
High salaries = golden handcuffs: They consume all your time and energy, preventing you from building multiple income streams.
Financial security starts from the inside out: Your beliefs about yourself matter more than the actions you take.
You don't have to choose: You can be both an employee AND build side income simultaneously.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
- How I turned leadership training skills into $20K extra income
- LinkedIn networking strategy: From 100 to 3K followers
- The lunch break and weekend morning side hustle approach
CONNECT WITH ME:Ready to break free from the single paycheck trap? Let's connect:
- Newsletter: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/podcast
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
- DM me: Have a question about building side income? Send me a message!
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Worried about losing your job or stuck in one you’re afraid to leave?
If you’re feeling the weight of job insecurity, financial pressure, or career confusion, this episode is for you.
So many women stay stuck in roles that drain them, not because they want to, but because the fear of instability, judgment, or starting over feels too big.
In this episode, I share 4 practical and powerful shifts that helped me stop spiraling from fear and start building a career on my terms, without sacrificing security.
You’ll walk away with mindset and action steps that help you feel clear, calm, and confident again. Even in uncertain times.
You’ll Learn:
- How to tell the difference between fear and intuition when everything feels risky
- Why leaning into your strengths creates more opportunity than trying to 'fix' yourself
- How to advocate for your time, money, and future rather than waiting for permission
- Tangible steps to create financial and emotional stability even in shaky job markets
Ready for More?
- Subscribe and get notified when new episodes drop: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/podcast
- Want to go deeper with me in a small group? Join the waitlist for my upcoming program: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/ccc
You'll learn how to build your dream career with intuition, belief, and consistent action.
If this episode spoke to you, share it with a friend who’s also feeling stuck. Your career doesn’t have to stay this way. You can make it better, one powerful shift at a time.
Fear is normal. Especially when it comes to money.
Whether you're worried about layoffs, struggling to sign clients, or doubting your ability to grow your business, fear can feel overwhelming. But what if fear isn’t your enemy? What if it’s the fuel you need to take your next bold step?
In this episode, I’ll walk you through 8 practical and science-backed steps to transform fear into forward momentum. You’ll learn how to calm your survival brain, reframe fear as a sign of growth, and take intentional action so you can move closer to your financial goals with clarity and confidence.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why fear is a natural (and even helpful) part of your money journey
- How to recognize when fear is keeping you stuck
- A simple practice to calm your nervous system when you feel anxious
- How to shift from survival mode to intentional action
- Real-life examples of how the universe often supports you in surprising ways
- How to build confidence and momentum even when things feel uncertain
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
- [Free Guide] Stop Money Stress: A 7-Step Science-Backed Guide to Reset the Way You Think, Feel, and Act Around Money
- [Join the Free Webinar] The Financial Freedom Experience
- [Subscribe to the Podcast] The Financially Free Woman Podcast
If this episode helped you see fear in a new light, share it with a friend who needs this message today.
If you've ever felt like conventional financial advice just doesn’t work for you, this episode is for you.
I walk you through the exact 7 steps I used to rewire my financial life, not by cutting expenses or obsessing over spreadsheets, but by changing how I felt about money.
This is the emotional and practical roadmap that helped me pay off six figures of business debt, rebuild my confidence as the sole breadwinner, and finally experience peace around money.
These steps aren’t just theory, they’re the foundation of how I help other women become financially free from the inside out.
Resources
7-Step Guide to Rewire Your Financial Life and Be Financially Free
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We always hear “never give up” but when life gets hard, how do you actually do that? In this episode, I share the 7 essential things that help you stay committed to your dreams, especially when you're exhausted, doubting yourself, or questioning if it's all worth it. These are the tools I return to over and over again, from staying healthy and grounded to building certainty and surrounding myself with the right people.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why taking care of your health is foundational to not giving up
- How to create a compelling vision that keeps you motivated
- The role of community in keeping your energy high
- Why routines aren’t restrictive, they’re liberating
- How to build inner certainty, even when results are slow
Take what resonates, and most importantly, keep going. You’re closer than you think!
If this episode supports you, please share it with someone who might need it today.
In this episode, I share how you can get anything you want by redirecting and channelling your energy and attention from your fears and worries to more productive uses.
This has been the one thing that's helped me find my way out of a 6-figure business debt, constantly worried and fighting with my husband about money.
This is also what I teach in The Clarity Reset, a 4-week live experience for women who want to learn how to process their fears, doubts and stress around money, time, career or business. We'll use the power of your mind to clarify what you truly want, so you can take action from a position of confidence and clarity rather than anxiety and fear.
Resources
- The Clarity Reset
Often it isn't that we don't know what to do, but fear and overwhelm prevents us from doing it.
That's why having a powerful and effective tool like the MAP method really helps me.
When we're stuck in fear or overwhelm, it's hard to get ourselves out of it. But learning to use MAP and work with your own intuitive, superconscious mind can help you do it in minutes, on-the-go, anytime you need it.
I share how to do this in this week's episode.
MAP is something I use all the time and I'll be sharing this in my upcoming 4-week program for a small pilot group of women to target common topics like time, money, purpose and taking consistent action towards your dreams and goals. Get on the waitlist to receive details when the program opens for registration here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/waitlist
Resources
- A Theory and Treatment of Your Personality: A Manual for Change by Garry A. Flint, PhD.
I used to feel frustrated because I never seemed to have enough time to build my dream business with a full-time job and kids to take care of.
But then I realized I didn't have to choose between my job or business because I could do both.
Besides, I didn't want to blame my kids for not being able to pursue my dream - that would just be an excuse to not take responsibility and ownership of the life I want to create.
In this episode, I share the moment I learned that the way I was chasing success as a means to get financial security was all wrong. It led to a reset in how I thought was possible for me.
Listen to this episode and if you want to learn more about the steps I shared, join the waitlist to the 4-week program where I take a small group of women through it: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/waitlist
Busy working moms straddling a job, side business and family don't have time to waste! That's why I love time and energy saving hacks like this one I share in today's episode.
People always ask me how I get so much done as a full-time working mom, primary earner and caregiver, and business owner. Well, listen to this week's episode to find out how!
Building your dreams doesn't have to cost you your sleep, energy, and mental wellbeing once you learn how to do things in creative ways.
Remember, if you found this episode useful, please rate the show and share with other moms struggling with work-life balance, thank you!
Do the work you can't not do. This is how work no longer becomes work, and you work because you want to, not because you have to.
Isn't that what many define financial freedom to be? Yet, many people don't take this leap due to practical and financial concerns about being able to provide for their family.
In this episode, I share the wisdom from others with clout and connections, who have become sought after rather than desperately seeking clients. This is something I'm working on to grow my own career coaching business for moms.
I hope it inspires you to go after your dreams and do the work you love.
Resources
- Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
- Lindsay Kough's LinkedIn post about humans being the algorithm
Whenever people hear that I work full-time, run a coaching business on the side all because I prioritize family, they wonder why and how.
Listen to this week's episode where I share why I do what I do.
I hope it inspires you to get really clear on what you truly want and why you do what you do.
When you're redesigning your career, money is an important consideration.
You need to know
- where you are now financially.
- what you need to create the life you want.
- how to get there.
This enables you to redesign your career in a way that supports what you want.
In this episode, I break it down into key steps to take to
- figure out where you stand financially now
- work out how much you need for the life you want
- create a plan to work towards making the money you need
Listen to this episode to learn more.
Resources
- Book a free consultation call to work on this
- Career Redesign Checklist
Designing a career you love includes getting clear about what you like doing.
You find out what you love doing and if it works by actually doing them.
But how do you find time in your busy schedule for these side projects?
I'm a full-time breadwinning mom and primary caregiver to our 2 kids.
I also have my own dreams and goals I'm working on every day.
This means I've got to be creative about optimizing my time and energy.
Listen to this week's episode where I share how I maintain a daily writing practice.
This daily practice is how I consistently post on LinkedIn, record a podcast like this and send a weekly newsletter.
If you've got something you've been wanting to do but just can't find the time, this episode is for you!
Remember to rate and leave a review if you enjoyed this. Thank you!
Resources
- Kleo
- Join my newsletter
We know comparison is the thief of joy.
Yet we still do it.
In this episode, I share how owning your story helps you end comparison and what self-doubt is really all about.
Listen in to find out if you’re being honest with yourself about whether you truly want what you say you want.
Resources
Redesign Your Career Starter Guide
https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/guide
In this episode, I explain my definition of consistency that's enabled me to grow my business since 2018 through ups and downs while handling a full plate of responsibilities as a full-time working mom.
I share my simple consistency formula that anyone can implement to keep going and never give up on their dreams.
This formula is how I stay adaptable through different seasons of my life to continue showing up for my business.
This episode was a long awaited one. My guest is LinkedIn Top Voice, Niharikaa Kaur Sodhi. If you’re on LinkedIn, you probably know who she is. Her program, Summit 21, featured other heavyweights like Tim Denning, Justin Welsh, Ankur Warikoo and more.
Niharikaa’s phenomenal growth has inspired many people building a solopreneur lifestyle. This episode is packed with her valuable wisdom and experience transitioning from a corporate job into becoming a self-employed solopreneur today.
Here’s a snapshot of what we discussed:
- Her journey to self-employment since age 25 in 2021
- How her accidental building-in-public experiment catapulted her growth
- Her mindful approach to content creation - it’s so much easier than you think
- Finding your niche and writing about it instead of stressing over it
- Mindset and gratitude practices to cultivate solution-focused thinking rather than anxiety
- Advice for working moms with a full schedule aspiring to grow a business on the side
- New projects she’s working on as she ventures into new and unchartered territory
What I love most about Niharikaa is her openness to try new things and share publicly about it, regardless of how they turn out. I’m sure you’ll learn a ton in this episode. When you do, share your key takeaways with Niharikaa and me by tagging us on LinkedIn:
- Sharon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
- Niharikaa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsodhi4696/
- Email Niharikaa at hi@niharikasodhi.com or DM on Twitter to connect
In this episode, I chat about how to overcome the fears and doubts that hold you back from growing your business.
It's a question I got on one of my LinkedIn posts and something I too grappled with when I first started practising listening to my inner wisdom for guidance.
I share my process of how to distinguish between rational fears that protect you and irrational fears that keep you small.
You can also treat this episode as a mini guided meditation session because I take you through a powerful process to move past fear and get to a point where you're certain and confident about what to do next.
I hope it's one that you enjoy and return to every time something scares you as you grow into the next level of your business.
Resources:
- Download the free MAP guide: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/guide
- Send me your questions on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
Balancing a job, family, and coaching business doesn’t have to leave you drained.
In this episode, learn how to release resistance, manage your energy, and take small, aligned actions to grow your business with ease.
I share how to use the MAP Method to rewire your brain so you can take small, daily actions to grow your business with clarity and confidence.
What's covered in this episode:
- How resistance drains your energy—and how to release it.
- What the MAP Method is and how to use it to rewire your mindset.
- Practical steps to simplify your weekly actions and build momentum.
Key Takeaways:
- Resistance isn’t just mental—it impacts your energy and productivity.
- Small, consistent actions create lasting progress.
- MAP helps you align with your goals and act with confidence.
Links and Resources Mentioned:
- MAP Coaching Institute
- Book a MAP Experience Session
- Follow me on LinkedIn
Are you struggling to find your groove after the holidays?
The January blues can leave you feeling overwhelmed and unmotivated. In this episode, I explore why the post-holiday blues happen, how they impact your mindset, and how the MAP Method can help you reset, refocus, and regain clarity in just minutes.
Listen to this episode to reset your mindset and start the year with focus and energy.
Here's what's covered:
- Why post-holiday blues occur and their symptoms, like low energy, irritability, and difficulty concentrating.
- How the MAP Method leverages neuroscience to release mental clutter and create emotional calm.
- Simple steps to reset your mindset today and regain your focus.
Key takeaways:
- Vacations often highlight the need to enjoy your work and environment or at least manage them better.
- Using MAP, you can rewire how you feel about stressors, helping you prioritize what matters most and make better decisions.
- Guided MAP sessions can give you personalized support to shift from stress and overwhelm to calm and clarity.
Your action steps:
- Take a few quiet moments to breathe and visualize stress being washed away like waves on a beach.
- Notice any insights that surface when your mind is calm—you often already know what steps to take.
- For a deeper, transformative experience, book a MAP session with me.
Resources:
Book your MAP session here:
https://sharonsinghsidhu.thrivecart.com/map/
Connect with me on LinkedIn for daily insights balancing your job, family and side business: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
When you're a busy working mom growing a business on the side, it's all about trying something new and experimenting.
Often, typical business building advice don't work under your circumstances.
You need to adapt and improvise - that requires you to follow your curiosity and try something new sometimes.
If you find this scary to do, then today's podcast episode is for you!
I recently tried a crystal sound healing and chakra balancing session when I was in Bali. I'd never tried this before, but it seemed interesting so I decided to give it a go.
I share more details about it in my podcast, what I got from it, and also:
- a previous business experiment that on the surface looks like it led to really bad outcomes
- why I'll always still follow my curiosities to try and experiment despite this
- what to do if you're feeling fearful or hesitant about trying something new
I hope this gives you ideas and inspiration to go do that thing you've been thinking about!
Everyone wants more money.
In this episode, I share a different approach to creating the money you need for the life you want in a calmer and more enjoyable way.
Money is one of the 6 topics I share in my free Starter Guide for Career Moms.
It's also one of my favourite topics!
Get the free starter guide here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/starterFollow me on LinkedInfor regular tips and insights about growing a career you love without sacrificing family time.
The 3 must-knows to have a better handle of your time and achieve your career ambitions without compromising your desire to be the best mom to your kids.
This is how some people seem to accomplish so much in the same time you have.
Taken off my free Starter Guide for Career Moms, this is one of the 6 topics I address after being an ambitious career mom myself for more than 2 decades.
Get the free starter guide here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/starter
Follow me on LinkedIn where I regularly share insights and practical tips on building a successful career and being there for your kids.
When you're an ambitious, high achiever, you'll always have goals. Even after you've achieved a goal, the next one almost immediately appears.
The tendency is to focus on the gap between where you are now versus where you want to be already.
But this just makes it harder and a less enjoyable process as you're doing the work to get to where you want to be.
Listen to this week's episode where I share how you can fall in love with the process and enjoy being in the gap between where you are now and where you want to go.
I share about this in my Starter Guide for Career Moms, among other foundational topics I'd tell my younger self when I became a mom about building a career while being the best mom you can be.
Click here to get the free guide: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/starter
As a working mom, it's all about having boundaries right?
We've heard this 100x already.
So why are working women and moms still struggling with work-life balance?
It comes down to what we know and what we do.
This week, I talk about one thing that helps me do all that I do as a full-time working mom, wife, and business owner.
Boundaries.
There's a world of difference between having them (what we know) and enforcing them (what we do).
Having them is easy. Enforcing them? Not so easy.
Listen to this episode for some tips on how to enforce boundaries without feeling bad or upsetting people you care about.
If you liked this episode, please follow and rate it so more working moms can benefit from it.
I help working moms build fulfilling careers without compromising time with their kids. To explore how I can help and support you, book a call to chat through this link:
https://calendly.com/sharonsinghsidhu/call
Follow me on LinkedIn where I post regularly on practical tips about building a rewarding career and motherhood journey:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
As a full-time working mom who runs a coaching business on the side, I'm all about getting more done in less time.
In this episode, I share how the unexpected and simple way to do it.
Plus, it feels so much better than typical productivity hacks we hear about.
Here's the book I mentioned:
Money, and the Law of Attraction by Esther and Jerry Hicks
And the link to book your call with me:
https://calendly.com/sharonsinghsidhu/call
This episode is for you if you're feeling frustrated about where you are now in your business (career, or life) and how you can turn any obstacle in front of you into an opportunity to help you get to where you want to go in a better way.
I draw from my own experience making my dreams of becoming a business owner come true.
I share how I turn a disempowering story that I'm a failure into a more empowering one that fuels me and keeps me going.
You can also read the step-by-step guide in my weekly newsletter at:
https://sharonsinghsidhu.com
If you like what you heard, please share it with someone who might benefit from it so we can lift each other up!
Also, please leave a review if you enjoyed this podcast, it helps other people find it, and me grow it!
Thank you so much!
This is the last episode of a series of women I've invited on the podcast to share their stories building their businesses.
In this final guest episode, I chat with career coach, Keji Ogunnaike.
Keji is more than just a career coach though because she works with her clients holistically. She shares how our personal lives can limit or propel our careers. A career coach can help you navigate these without judgement that frees you to talk about topics that can be hard to discuss at the workplace.
What I love most about Keji is her positivity, abundant mindset, and practical advice she shares to help you move through difficult career transitions so you can achieve anything you set your mind to.
Connect with Keji on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/kejinaike/
In this episode, I go against conventional wisdom and suggest you give up and quit.
Yes, you read that right.
You absolutely must give up and quit if you want to be successful.
On everything that distracts you from building the business and life you want, that is.
When you give up and quit on everything that gets in the way of building your dream, that's how you win.
Are you ready?
Listen to this episode to get the practical actions I share on how to give up and quit well.
Are you worried about promoting your side business online?
This is a common fear those of us in 9-5 jobs have when starting a business on the side.
- How to market your business and promote your services or products?
- How to be visible on LinkedIn where your bosses and colleagues hang out?
- Should you have 2 separate accounts?
- What to do about conflicts of interest?
These are some questions I tackle head on in this episode as an entrepreneur with a HR job no less!
If this is something you're grappling with and want help figuring out how to navigate, then book a call with me to chat!
Click here to book your call:
https://calendly.com/sharonsinghsidhu/call
After a year's break from my podcast, I'm excited to be back with my first solo episode.
I share why I 'gave up' on my podcast and why I'm back.
In this episode, I talk about how building a business takes a lot longer and is a lot harder than most people are prepared for.
That's why most will give up.
If you want to be like the minority of those who succeed, listen to my 6 tips so you can stay in the long game and make your success inevitable!
Follow me on LinkedIn for more insights, lessons and practical tips on building a business on the side of my full-time job and being a mom.
Book your free MAP session here: https://calendly.com/sharonsinghsidhu/call
Join me as I interview Dane Tang, a corporate leader turned entrepreneur who founded Design Future, a coaching and consulting company that specializes in life design and work design.
Dane shares her journey from the corporate world to entrepreneurship, including the catalyst of the pandemic that led her to make the transition.
Dane shares the 5C's that guide her life and work now:
- Calling
- Connection
- Caring
- Cultivating Joy
- Courage
She emphasizes the importance of redefining one's own success metrics beyond just financial goals and highlights how to navigate the identity shift that needs to take place when you start a business.
Connect with Dane on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/danetang/)
In this episode, you’ll hear from Miki Maruko, a Performance Optimisation and Life Coach.
Miki helps high achieving women who want to optimize their work and personal lives so that they feel as successful as they look on the outside and have the time and energy to truly enjoy their lives.
Miki shared her journey of leaving her global corporate HR role after having children, becoming a full-time mom, and then transitioning into part-time coaching as a way to have a career beyond just raising her kids.
We go DEEP in this episode and talk about, among other things:
- Transitions in her career from employee to coach
- How engaging a coach transformed her life
- Why she decided to become a coach
- Being visible as an Asian woman
- Her biggest challenges balancing business and family
- Advice of aspiring coaches and entrepreneurs
Miki works privately with clients on a 1-to-1 basis and offers her clients a calm, non-judgemental space to focus on what’s important to them. Her award-nominated approach combines her formal education in psychology, neuroscience, coaching and training.
She now lives in a rural mountain village in the Swiss Alps, where she is a hands-on mum to 3 girls and runs a successful coaching business in part-time hours.
Connect with Miki:
- Email: miki@mikimaruko.com
- Website: https://www.mikimaruko.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iammikimaruko
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikimaruko/
Get all the insights and tips about how to grow your personal brand on LinkedIn - whether you're an employee or business owner - in this value-packed episode with Khushi Agarwal.
Khushi specializes in helping Business Coaches, Founders, and Senior Leaders enhance their presence and authority on LinkedIn by handling everything from content creation to community engagement.
In this episode, we discussed
- the importance of having a strong personal brand and presence on LinkedIn
- why it's especially relevant in today's world of work
- her journey from her internship days, 9-5 jobs, and now as a founder of her own agency
- how to transition from working for yourself to having a team
- the role LinkedIn has played in helping her land opportunities and grow professionally
Connect with Khushi on LinkedIn to learn how you too, can enhance your thought leadership, grow your professional network, and transform your LinkedIn presence.
‘Nothing in my 20-year career in a corporation prepared me to run a business.’
Yes, being incredibly successful in a corporate job - even a place like Goldman Sachs - does not naturally mean you have all the skills and experience to launch a successful business.
The rules of the game are completely different when you become a solopreneur.
Listen to how Evelyn Poh, ex Goldman Sachs VP transitioned from a financially lucrative career at Goldmans to becoming a Financial Educator and Creator of The Financial Styling Academy.
Why did Evelyn walk away from an established career to do what she does now?
This episode will shed light on what it really takes to launch your business, why your purpose matters, and give you a different perspective on financial security and success.
Evelyn is a financial coach who helps people build the lives they want without running out of money. She spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs working in London, Zurich and Tokyo, and qualified as a chartered accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
Connect with Evelyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evelyn-poh/
In this episode, I speak with Samantha Cieslinski, a high school health and PE teacher, podcaster and mom of two.
Samantha shares how she wrote her book, 100 Days of Happiness, as a means of coping with the isolation of having a baby during the pandemic in 2020.
Later, spurred by the desire to share stories of mothers who do so much behind the scenes, Samantha started a podcast, The Running Wine Mom, to highlight the stories of inspiring women in her community.
If you ever wondered how amazing women like Samantha manage to design a multi-faceted life filled with all the things they're passionate about, then this episode is for you! Hear how Samantha handles her day-to-day and finds time for all that's important to her.
Resources
Connect with Samantha on Instagram @therunningwinemom_
Samantha's website
100 Days of Happiness book
The Running Wine Podcast
Calm app
Peloton app
Tap into the rich experience of Ellen Taaffe, Leadership Coach, TEDx Speaker, Kellogg Professor, Board Director, and Author of "The Mirrored Door: Break Through the Hidden Barrier that Locks Successful Women In Place", Ellen Taaffe.
In this episode, we explore Ellen's background and journey, including her experience in corporate America, her transition to coaching and teaching, and her observations about women's advancement and struggles in their careers and as mothers.
Ellen discussed five strategies for women in their careers, including preparing to perfection, eagerly pleasing, fitting the mold, working tirelessly, and the challenges faced by women who are also mothers. We explored the pitfalls and pivots needed for each strategy to achieve success.
If you're a career woman, this episode will give you insights into how you can grow professionally and realise your full potential!
Resources
- Get Ellen's book, 'The Mirrored Door: Break Through the Hidden Barrier that Locks Successful Women in Place' where books are sold (e.g., Amazon)
- Connect with Ellen on LinkedIn
- Get the 10 tips Ellen wished she knew earlier in her career
- Subscribe to Ellen's newsletter
What a treat to have a previous guest back on the show! Samantha Siffring is my business coach and I had her back to share more about some changes she’s made recently in her business.
This has been a theme for me too recently so it was good to hear from someone I look up to. Samantha shares her thinking behind her decisions, how and why she’s making changes in her business.
If you’re wondering about the changes you’re making in your career or business and questioning if what you’re doing is right, this episode is a must listen!
Resources Mentioned
Episode 024. Hear how “Mama to CEO” Founder, Samantha Siffring, Took Her Business from $40 to A Million Dollars in 12 Months
Samantha’s programs
I’m excited to welcome Deon Senturk back on the show! Deon was my very first guest when I started the podcast and since then, she’s started her own company and developed the app Slashie that provides mentorship on a platform to engage learners and build community. We also discussed the considerations and challenges when starting a business and what it takes to make it all work when you’re also a mother. If you’re looking for coaching and mentorship, do give Slashie a try, it’s free to join and there are loads of useful resources on the app.
Go to the App Store or Google Play and search Slashie to download the app.
Connect with Deon on the app or email her at deon@slashie.sg
Here’s the link to that first interview:
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What Doing Work You Love & Having A Vision for Your Life Looks Like With Deon Senturk
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Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/empowering-career-moms/id1534253252?i=1000500645559
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0biRDeuP2fjl0u2CqmxDuo?si=Jh9NHBXyRsS6BtRXVqq1Iw
Join me as we hear Kasturi Gomatham, Global Head of Battery Swapping (E-mobility) at Shell share her experience as a chemical engineer and growing her career to where she is today as a full time working mom heading up the Battery Swapping business at Shell. She shares how being a mom and observing her own mother's resilience influenced her approach to balancing work and family. She emphasized the importance of picking meaningful moments and finding solace in sleep during tough times, the importance of having a support system and prioritizing self-care. If you’re a working mom who has big aspirations for your career, then this is a must listen to hear how other moms like you are doing it!
Resources Mentioned
Samantha Siffring
Encore Empire
Do you see having a successful career coming at the expense of time, bonding and connection with your kids?
Do you feel you have to make sacrifices or are they simply choices you make in your life?
When it comes to thriving and building a successful career as a mom - whether that’s in a job or a business you run - it comes down to your perspectives and how you see things.
In today’s episode, I wanted to share a few of mine with you as a career mom.
I’ve gained these perspectives in the course of building a career and raising 2 teenagers both which I love, over the past 2 decades.
This is something I’ll be sharing more of in the podcast as a career mom.
To learn more about how you can build a thriving career while raising happy kids who are bonded and connected with you, come for my free Master Class on Thriving in Career and Motherhood. You can sign up here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/meetup
I share my thoughts about what kind of leadership is required if you want to firstly lead your life from a position of empowerment, where you create the life you want and you get the results you desire.
This is where you must begin before you can ever hope to ‘change’ your circumstances, the people around you so that you experience a happier, freer and more fulfilling life.
Have a listen to it!
If you’d like to find out how you can work with me to get results in an alternative way that’s gentler, kinder and more intuitive than what you’ve always been led to believe, then book a complimentary private session with me at: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com
If you prefer joining a live demonstration of what coaching with me is like in a group setting, join my free Meetup group here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/meetup
I share my thoughts, observations and experience about the key to success in this episode.
It’s much simpler than many people make it out to be.
And it’s not what you may have heard about high performance, success and achievement.
If you feel like you’ve been doing everything you’ve been told to do or that’s supposed to get you the result you want and yet find yourself back at square one, this episode is for you.
I uncover the missing piece to experience more success from a place of ease, joy and empowerment.
Have a listen to it.
RESOURCES MENTIONED
Join my Meetup group for a free, live demonstration of my coaching method here:
https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/meetup
If you prefer a more private and personalized setting, apply to my complimentary private session here:
https://sharonsinghsidhu.com
This episode is for you if you’re feeling overwhelmed with everything you feel you’ve got to get done.
I share how to use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to prioritize and get clear on how to focus on the essential things so you can experience more calm, peace and happiness in your life.
If you’d like to go beyond just learning about this information and actually apply it in your life, join my all-women Meetup group for a free, live demo here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/meetup/
This week I share some quick tips about how to make the best use of your time when you feel you don’t have enough of it!
This is real time, real life, as I too, felt overwhelmed by all the things that needed to be done.
It’s something we all go through sometimes, so why not use it as an opportunity to learn something from it?
I hope you enjoy this short episode.
In this episode, I talk about how to turn your people-pleasing tendencies into a superpower!
You often hear how people-pleasing is not a good thing.
I think people-pleasing reflects a good quality of you.
It’s all about knowing when and how to use it so you don’t end up doing it to a degree where it affects your well-being.
Listen to hear more about how to tell when and how to use people-pleasing for good rather than allow it to run your life or drain your energy.
The ability to turn the feelings you want on, and the feelings you don’t want off, is an amazing power to have.
Imagine being able to do this so you don’t do something you regret when you’re angry, or let something that scares you prevent you from taking action you know you must and want to.
What could your life look like if you had this ability?
I share the technique I use in this week’s podcast episode.
Being able to do this has improved my relationships, enabled me to design and define what kind of work I do, be myself and who I want to be, experience financial freedom, and create a life I love.
This is something every child and person needs to know, learn and apply to live a happy, fulfilled, and peaceful life!
If you want to learn how to do this, join my all-women Meetup group where I do free, LIVE demo sessions to show you how: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/meetup
This week’s podcast episode is about something I notice a lot of people (including me) do.
And that’s making excuses and rationalizing something we know in our hearts we want, but because it involves some scary moves, we tell ourselves that’s not the practical, realistic thing to do.
So we continue telling ourselves it’s better that we stick to what we know is the safer option, the more ‘responsible’ option and try to push away what we feel in our heart.
Living this way is out of alignment with your true self. This true inner self knows what she wants. Sometimes, this choice is the more difficult one. But it’s the one that could lead to a richer, more fulfilling life.
Instead of rationalizing it away, how about embracing it, then use that rational mind of yours to figure out how to make it work?
This shift in perspective from what’s impossible to how we can make it possible is the difference between settling for second best or going out and creating your perfect dream life!
If finding the courage and trusting yourself to make the right decisions is something you’d like to build up, then join my free, all-women Meetup group to experience how to do this. Sign up at https://sharonsinghsidu.com/meetup
It’s ok to acknowledge, recognize and honour what your heart and intuition chooses.
Maybe you’re like me and have been pushing away your emotions, valuing your rational, logical mind more than your intuition and what your heart feels.
Now, you can acknowledge, recognize and honour your emotions and your intuition and do it with the peace of mind that it’s backed up by science and research, the stuff your rational, logical mind needs and loves!
In this episode, I share more about how you can and must use your entire being - your heart, your head, your soul, all of it, in harmony to create the perfect life you’ve always been dreaming of.
If you’d like to experience this transformation for yourself, then sign up to my all-women Meetup group where I run live demos to show you how this works. Sign up at: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/meetup
We usually hear how comparison is not a good thing, especially in the age of social media where this is rampant. But I say comparison is a good thing and I talk about how to use comparison to help you achieve your dreams and goals in this week’s podcast episode.
It’s such a simple concept that we learned as kids in school, but we’ve lost our ability to use comparison for its intended purpose when we grew up. Comparisons help us gain clarity, focus and open up more options to the problems and challenges we’re going through.
Listen now to go back to basics and use comparison to help you rather than paralyze you from taking the actions needed to make all your dreams come true!
If you want to learn how to use comparison to help you achieve your goals, I’d like to invite you to join my Meetup group for women where we meet each week to go through this demo LIVE so you can experience it first hand for yourself. Sign up at https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/meetup. I look forward to seeing you then!
The key to transforming your dreams to reality is your ability to hold the space for both seeing your current reality - where you’re not yet at your goals yet - and be totally ok with that as you continue working towards achieving them.
A lot of people can’t do this, they give in to the frustration and disappointment of not achieving their goals at the time they want to, or totally giving up and telling themselves it’s not possible.
How do you cultivate this ability to do both - accept and detach from your current situation and at the same time, feel good and positive about taking one step at a time towards your dreams and goals, no matter what’s happening in your life?
This is the topic I share in this week’s episode.
If developing the ability to do this is something that you’re curious about, I’d like to invite you to join my Meetup group for women where we meet each week to go through this demo LIVE so you can experience it first hand for yourself. Sign up at https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/meetup. I look forward to seeing you then!
This week I share a very simple technique to create your perfect life.
Simply answer 2 questions:
- Will doing this get me closer to my goals and the kind of life I want to create?
- Will doing it keep my vibe high, i.e. will I be happy doing this?
I share how these 2 questions have guided my decisions and actions and helped me create my perfect life and what to do if you get a ‘no’ to these questions. And if you want help keeping your vibe high, feeling happy and good as you work towards your goals, then join my Meetup group to experience this for yourself. This is experiential and not something I can ‘teach’ you or ‘explain’ to you in a podcast. It’s something you have to experience yourself.
Listen to the episode then join me in my next LIVE demo session over at my Meetup event. Sign up here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/meetup and get a complimentary full session with me (worth $150) as part of the launch of my coaching program, Dream Life Accelerator. Offer valid until 28 February 2023.
Today, I wanna remind you to love yourself!
This is something I started doing a couple of years ago each Valentine’s Day.
Besides celebrating with those you love, take some time today to remember to love yourself too!
As women and moms, we often do a lot for everyone else and often neglect ourselves.
So invest the time to do this for yourself today.
I share in today’s episode a few ways you can celebrate being you.
RESOURCES
Dream Life Accelerator program - this is my signature program that’s open for registration until 6 March 2023. Learn more at https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/dla
Rewire Your Brain Meetup group - we meet weekly in this group where I do LIVE demonstrations of the rewiring process to help you clear any blocks getting in the way of your path to success. Sign up free here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/meetup
We all have the rational side of our minds and our more intuitive side.
If you’re like me and have a tendency to engage more with your rational side, perhaps it’s time to explore balancing this out with your intuitive side.
Especially if you still feel like there’s something missing, despite being very successful in your career or life.
In this episode, I share how challenges in my life actually led me to engage more with my intuitive mind because I was out of balance where my rational mind weighed in more on how I approached my career, money and time.
While you can be very successful pushing and driving results from your rational mind, learning to also engage with your intuitive mind can lead to more peace, fulfillment and even more success.
Listen to this episode to hear practical steps you can take to be more guided by your intuitive, subconscious mind and enjoy greater fulfillment and success.
Everyone experiences emotional trauma on some level. But no one taught us how to process it. Like suffering from indigestion, emotional trauma if left unprocessed, becomes a part of us that remains somewhere in our unconscious mind.
This un-integrated, unprocessed emotions we experience from some past negative event can keep us stuck in disempowering behaviors and thought habit loops so we feel a low frequency, chronic dissatisfaction, disillusionment, disappointment, discouragement we feel.
While we can rationalize it away all we want, it’s this unconscious negative emotional trauma that hooks onto us, keeping us where we are rather than where we want to be.
Listen to this episode for the 3 steps I share on how to process and digest your emotional trauma so you can create the life you want to have.
How do you tell the difference between being guided by your higher, wiser, intuitive self and your ego, animalistic self?
Why does it matter anyway?
In this episode, I share how learning to reconnect with your intuition can help you end the cycle of repeated disempowering habits and behaviours so you can achieve your goals and create a life filled with joy, fulfillment, peace and happiness.
Engaging both your intuitive and rational mind helps you be in charge and feel in control of your life versus feeling like you’re subject to external circumstances you can’t control, leading to stress, anxiety and confusion.
I also share details about free online sessions I’ll be launching to help you reconnect with your intuition so you can rebalance that beautiful rational mind of yours with the powerful gift of your intuition! If you want to be informed when these go live, then sign up here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/meetup
I’m so excited to meet you there!
RESOURCES
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Book a call with me to find out how I can help you: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/call
In this first episode for 2023, I talk about the reason why you may still not be where you want to be in terms of your career/business despite working hard and doing everything you can to get to where you want to be.
If you’re feeling drained and exhausted by your work, this episode will help you start 2023 that energizes and recharges you instead!
Listen to the episode here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/107
In this week’s episode, I share my process on how to spend your time and energy on activities that actually help you to achieve your career or business goals.
This is a simple process anyone can do, anytime of the year, and not just at the end of the year.
What makes it different from the usual evaluation of goal achievement is that it taps into your intuition at the subconscious level.
This is something that can guide you towards making decisions and taking actions that are aligned with who you truly are, so you can take the right actions that really matter to you.
It seems so simple but it’s a powerful process to help you balance out being too much in your head, especially if you find you’re doing a lot yet still seem to feel stuck and not where you want to be.
Listen to the episode here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/106
The old model for your career where you have to choose between money or your passion is outdated.
Instead, we need a new model for a career where you can make the money you want doing work you love and that energizes you.
The reason why so many people don’t believe this is possible is a combination of not applying the right strategies to do this and not knowing how to manage your beliefs and confidence to make this happen.
What you need if you want to make the money you want doing work you love are 4 key ingredients:
- Talents & Gifts (what innate talents and gifts you have)
- Skills, Experience & Passions (what skills, experience and passions you possess)
- Market Demand (match what you offer by using your talents, gifts, skills, experience & passions with what people are willing to pay you for)
- Belief & Confidence Management (your ability to change your beliefs and increase your confidence to support what you want to achieve)
I share the 4 key ingredients you need to make the money you want doing work you love in this week’s podcast episode.
Listen to the episode here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/105
This episode is for you if you’re at the stage in your career where you feel stuck in a rut, have lost that lovin’ feeling for what you do, or just know where your career is heading is not where you want to be.
If that’s you, I want you to know you don’t have to feel trapped because you don’t know how to make the transition into doing work you love and adore.
I share 4 things you can do today to transition into doing work you love without sacrificing your financial security in today’s podcast.
Listen here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/104
Then, book a free, no obligation, 15-minute call with me to chat about how I can help you do this. Go to https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/call
When it comes to building a successful career where we do work we love, get paid really well for it, have autonomy over our time and where we work, i.e. the dream life many people have, we often underestimate what it takes to create this.
For every success story you hear, there are many more you don’t hear who are still trying to build the life they’ve always dreamed of.
Today’s episode is for those of you who aren’t quite where you want to be yet.
Just remember this word: Underestimate.
We often underestimate what it takes to create what we want.
But we also underestimate what we can take and what we’re able to go through to make our dreams come true.
Keep trying, keep going, keep improving. You have what it takes to make it happen.
In this week’s podcast episode, I share the 3 signs that tell you when it’s time for a change in your job, what you can do about it and when you should activate your plan.
I also share my perspective about job hopping and how to tell when this is a very important and good thing both from a hiring manager’s perspective and as a job hopper myself earlier in my career.
This week’s episode was inspired by the common fear many of us in corporate #jobs may have - how to have job security in our uncertain world.
It’s one of those things we accept when we step into a #corporate job.
There isn't any guarantee you’ll keep your #job forever, no matter how hard you work.
I share the common misconception many people have about the reasons you get fired or let go from a job.
And what you can do to make sure you become unfirable.
This phrase ‘be different’ kept coming back to me over the past 2 weeks.
Perhaps it was F1 fever…
I’ve been noticing the recurring theme about how different people at the top of their game are.
How unafraid of being different they are.
Being different is tough. It’s scary. It can feel lonely. But it’s what’s needed to be exceptional.
People who are exceptional at what they do aren’t like everyone else. That’s why they’re exceptional. And being exceptional requires you to be different.
I talk more about this idea about being different and how we can be exceptionally different in this week’s podcast episode. Listen here: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/100
Here are 10 lessons I learned about achieving BIG things in your life.
I recorded this after getting certified as a coach by the MAP Coaching Institute which was a pretty big thing I’d been working on for the past 7 months.
It involved showing up every week for class, clocking tons of client sessions, taking a written exam and a face-to-face interview exam.
It was so intimidating when I started, I didn’t know how I could get it done, but I did.
I share the 10 steps or things to know when you’re trying to achieve big things that matter to you in your life, drawn not just from attaining this certification but also from all the big things I’ve done in my life.
I hope it helps you deal with those uncomfortable feelings we all experience when we step into the unknown.
You may have heard that in order to create your dream life, you must have a vision of it and fully believe in it.
While I’m all about building beliefs that support the life you want, I’m also practical.
Sometimes, we just don’t believe we can create everything we want.
What can you do when this happens? How can you create everything your heart desires even when you don’t believe it’s possible for you?
Listen to this week’s episode to learn the 2 practical things you can do so you can continue to create a life you love even if you don’t believe your dream life is possible.
No matter how many actions you take and plans you make, you’re not going to achieve the results you want until you work on your lack of self belief & trust in your unconscious mind.
You can use all the positive affirmations in the world, all the discipline and determination that you want, but until you clear what’s blocking you in your unconscious mind, you’ll hit a limit and wonder why you can’t get further.
Listen to this week’s episode to learn how to clear those unconscious blocks to create the results you want. Link in bio.
Learn the power of journaling and use it to help you deal with your feelings of stress, anxiety, worry or fear.
Besides helping you process these difficult emotions, journaling can bring fresh insights and inspire you to take the daily actions necessary to get what you want.
Listen to this week’s episode where I break down the 8 steps to using journaling to deal with fear, doubt, worry, stress or anxiety and create a clear plan of action that you’re excited to move forward with.
How do we try to change others?
Effective strategy is to learn how to deal with our emotions because we just have to be ourselves.
You've got to be aware enough to even catch yourself responding or reacting.
Be very self aware of the thoughts that are going through your mind. Whatever physical sensation in your body, just always being in the state of awareness, especially when you get triggered.
If you really want to learn how to handle your emotions, listen to today’s episode.
Do you know what your stories are and how they’re running your life?
We are meaning making machines and we make up stories along the way as we go through life.
Since we tend to remember more of the bad stuff than the good stuff, most of those stories aren’t stories that empower and uplift us, or that give us confidence and believe in ourselves.
That’s why it’s important to catch them, and see them for what they are, and what the role they’re playing in your life.
Listen to this week’s episode where I share how you can debunk the stories that no longer work for you or help you build a life you want.
When we think about living a life we love, we think it’s about doing what we want to do, making our own decisions about how we spend our time, who we’re spending our time with, and what we’re doing.
Yet, many people don’t do this because something is holding them back. This thing that holds them back is worrying about what other people will think, say, criticize or ridicule them.
It’s hard to create a life you want when you go about your life holding back on what you want to do or say because you’re worried about how others will react. This is you still needing other people’s approval and it’s got to stop.
Listen to this week’s episode where I share how you can do this.
In this episode, I share a simple yet powerful practice you can use today to handle your emotions so that you don’t feel stressed out and overwhelmed by strong emotions like fear, anxiety, anger, or panic when things don’t go the way you want them to.
This is my daily practice and I’ve been using it for almost a decade. It has transformed my life and I hope it will help transform yours so you can create a life where you’re free to be yourself and live life the way you want to.
RESOURCES:
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Here’s how to guarantee your success. Be unstoppable. Being unstoppable just means not stopping. Simple right?
So why is it so hard to do? Because you have to learn to hold the space for gratitude and frustration at the same time.
This means being grateful for all the things that aren’t working out for you. Not just those that are.
This isn’t something we do naturally. It’s something we train our minds for. But when you get strong with this, you truly are unstoppable and that’s exactly what guarantees your success.
I talk more about this in today’s episode, so listen in to learn how I work out this brain muscle!
URL: https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/91
We struggle with time.
Something you want to happen takes too much time.
Something you don’t want isn’t going away fast enough.
Here’s the thing about time to wrap your head around.
If you want to have more time, you have to let it go.
Yes, I know, it doesn’t make sense right?
Because we’ve been taught that if we want something, we go out and grab it, we take it, we control it, we hoard it, we keep and save it.
We definitely don’t just let it go, get away from us, leave us. We think doing that means we ‘lose’ it.
But that really is the secret to creating more time for all the things that are important to you.
Enough with all the productivity tools. They’re good, but they’re tools that support how you manage time.
They don’t create more time for you. YOU create more time for you.
Listen to today’s episode where I share the paradoxical nature of time and how to make more of it.
RESOURCES
Episode mentioned: Hear how “Mama to CEO” Founder, Samantha Siffring, Took Her Business from $40 to A Million Dollars in 12 Months
This week, I share my thoughts about what true freedom is.
We seek it, thinking if we had more money, more time, more energy, more success, more love, more this or that, it’ll solve our problems and we’ll live happily ever after.
Sure, you need basic necessities to live.
I’ve met people with so little materially, yet are full of faith and believe in themselves.
I’ve also met people with so much, but live in so much fear that they’re going to run out.
This intrigues me. As I reflect on my life, what I’ve gone through and what I’ve learned and observed from others, I realized it isn’t just about how much you have or don’t have in your physical world.
It’s how you handle whatever cards you’re dealt with as you go through life that makes the difference. And this begins in your mind, your ability to handle your thoughts and therefore your feelings and the corresponding actions you take.
I interviewed Nathania Stambouli on this week’s podcast episode.
Nathania Stambouli, founder and creator of Yogi Flight School and SoulTribe Adventures is a 500 E-RYT Yoga Teacher and Transformational Coach. She teaches people from around the world how to defy their perceived limitations and fly - on their hands and in their lives. She is a cat lady, lover of iced coffee and lives to lead people towards the most free and expressed version of who they are.
We talked about how Nathania quit her comfortable corporate job that she hated and what it was like for her to step out and finally do the work that she loves and the safety nets she put in place so she could get past the psychological barriers that made it scary for her to do this earlier.
Nathania’s story is going to resonate with those of you who know you’re meant for something more, but feel afraid of leaving your current comfort zone. I love it that Nathania helps you overcome your mindset barriers through such a physical activity like yoga. You literally see in real time how what you once thought impossible is possible once you get out of your own way and see things from a different perspective!
Remember to let Nathania know what insight you gained from this episode and follow her on @nattasticyoga on Instagram.
Nathania’s websites: Yogi Flight School & Soul Tribe Adventures
In today’s podcast, I talk about why positive thinking and affirmations don’t work.
As someone who used to be very rationally and logically driven, positive thinking and affirmations sounded like fluffy stuff that perhaps worked for others, but not for a practical, grounded, working mom with a family to support.
But I found out it wasn’t that positive thinking itself doesn’t work. It’s when we don’t understand the mechanics of how our mind works and use it to help us rather than hinder us from creating the life we want that’s the crux of the problem.
Understanding how your mind works, specifically how your thoughts can either help you get what you want or create more of what you don’t is key.
Listen to this week’s episode to learn how to use your mind and your thoughts to help you rather than stop you from getting what you want.
This episode was inspired by a question one of my clients had about how many coaching sessions she could expect to have before she’s done with coaching. I explain what coaching is and how you can benefit from having a coach.
You’ll also hear how my approach is slightly different from traditional coaching because I think we live in a world where too much weight is given to our conscious thinking that’s caused us to lose touch with our innate wisdom that knows what’s best for us.
We need to rebalance this by learning to trust our own innate wisdom which is our internal compass to take actions which are just right for us.
Listen to this episode to find out how you can begin to create the life you want from a more holistic approach.
No one taught us how to handle our emotions.
We go to school and learn lots of information, facts and how to use our rational mind to create plans and goals for what we want to achieve.
Where did you learn how to handle your emotions?
If you’re lucky, maybe your parents did this, or you had a wise mentor or teacher who shared their advice about this.
When you encounter difficulties in life that make you feel big, strong emotions like fear of failure, disappointment or rejection, how do you deal with it?
In today’s episode, I share how your ability to handle your emotions is key to your success. Unlike what we’ve been conditioned to believe, especially for us women in the corporate world, being in touch with your feelings and using them to guide your decisions and actions doesn’t make you unreliable or unstable at work.
Your ability to use your emotions to help you achieve your goals is the difference between being successful at creating the life you want and settling for less than what you envision for yourself.
Listen to the episode where I share how leaning into my emotions has helped me achieve things I’d never imagined I could.
RESOURCES:
The Limbic System
https://youtu.be/LNs9ruzoTmI
The Prefrontal Cortex
https://youtu.be/i47_jiCsBMs
Many of you are familiar with your rational conscious mind. It’s what we’ve been taught to use a lot growing up and in school. It’s almost to a point where there’s now an imbalance between your conscious mind and your superconscious mind. We’re used to dismissing and disregarding our superconscious mind. This is the part of us that some people refer to as your innate wisdom, your intuition or your higher level of consciousness.
The interesting thing is that as kids, we’re very in tune with this part of ourselves. But over time, dealing with the disappointments and ‘harsh reality’ of life has conditioned us to push this aside as being unrealistic or unreliable to create the life we want.
Instead, we believe that it’s our rational, logical mind that’s more important in helping us achieve goals. Sure, this is the part of us that’s needed to make plans and take actions. But that should be done in consultation with our superconscious mind, rather than to push away or ignore this part of us.
So what is this superconscious mind anyway and how can you use it to create the life you want? Tune in to this week’s episode where I answer these questions.
My guest this week is Christine Looi, a divorcee with 3 kids. Christine was retrenched from a high paying job, and subsequently faced financial instability and eventually lost hope.
With a proper mindset, accepting help, and acknowledging that change needs to be done to move on with life, she overcame her problems.
Since then, Christine has been inspired to create a community to help support and empower women to grow not just physically but emotionally. She’s also become a strong advocate in the parenting and charity community.
I spoke to Christine this week to get behind her thoughts and mindset about how she managed to bounce back from what life threw at her to build NRSC, a growing platform empowering women, creating opportunities for women to become financially free and build connections and community.
Listen to the episode to learn more about this energetic and passionately inspiring woman!
RESOURCES
https://www.nurensc.com/
https://www.instagram.com/nurensc/
CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE:
https://www.instagram.com/chrispylooi/
This is the final step in the 4-step podcast mini series to tap into your feminine energy.
This is the all important step to get different results.
We often think it’s what we’re ‘doing’ that needs to change to get the results we want.
Either we do more, or we change what we’re doing, thinking that’s what’s going to make the difference.
While action is important, it’s the kind of action that matters too.
And the kind of action you take is determined by the quality of your thoughts that reflect your beliefs, your identity, and your values, all of which can be affected by our past experiences.
More importantly, the emotions and meanings we’ve associated with those past experiences.
Listen to this week’s episode to find out more about how you can shift your thoughts so you can take the kind of different actions to get you what you want.
If you missed the earlier steps, you can catch up here:
Step 1 (https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/79)
Step 2 (https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/80)
Step 3 (https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/81)
Today’s episode is step 3 of the 4 steps to tap into your feminine energy.
This step is all about ‘knowing’.
I share the different levels of knowing. There’s the ‘knowing’ where we amass information and head knowledge.
Then there’s a ‘knowing’ that’s what we feel certain about. Like the wind, or gravity, which we can’t see or touch, but we know it’s there because we feel it.
Listen to this episode to find out more about tapping into this deeper level of ‘knowing’ to help you get the results you want.
If you missed the previous 2 steps, you can listen to them here:
Step1 (https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/79)
Step 2 (https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/80)
Today’s podcast is step 2 in the 4 step process of tapping into your feminine energy.
Step 2 is all about being curious about the signs you receive in life and how it informs you about being your true self and living a happy life that brings you true joy and satisfaction.
How do you tell the difference whether something is a sign or a calling for you to do something to live a happier, fuller life, or just mere coincidence?
If you’re like what I used to be, you may find yourself using your rational, conscious mind and go getting masculine energy more than your gentle, feeling, feminine energy.
There’s value in both, but in today’s world, many of us are out of balance. We use too much of our masculine energy, dismissing our feminine energy as unreliable and unproven or even unproductive.
Listen to today’s episode for step 2 to tap into our feminine energy to rebalance yourself and live a life you want.
If you missed step 1, go to https://sharonsinghsidhu.com/79 to catch up!
When it comes to achieving your goals and dreams, you need 2 types of actions.
The one we’re most familiar with is the go-getting, striving for results type of action, also called your masculine energy. And you don’t need to be a man to have this type of energy.
What’s often neglected is the feminine energy. This is about ‘stopping’ yourself from taking an action, pausing, paying attention or an allowing type of action. And men also have this.
We need both in balance to create the life we want.
However, for most of us, we haven’t been exposed to the feminine energy as much as the masculine energy.
So today, I want to share the first of 4 steps on how you can develop this feminine energy and balance it with your masculine energy.
Remember to come back next week for the second step!
P.S. Go to sharonsinghsidhu.com to book your coaching session with me if you want to change your mindset to create the life you want.
It’s not actions that get you results. It’s the thoughts & beliefs behind your actions that do.
No one gets from zero to hero overnight. Not even weeks & months. Maybe even years.
But somehow, many people get discouraged & give up when they don’t get what they want.
Why?
Because they’ve lost the belief that they have what it takes to make it happen.
Maybe you’ve heard of success stories where the person who achieved success said she didn’t know what she was doing or she couldn’t believe she could achieve such success.
It’s not that she didn’t believe she could make it. It was because she was willing to stay open, curious and give herself permission to try and maybe even make mistakes and learn from them.
This is not the same as the person who hustles until the cows come home and still wonder why they haven’t made it.
The difference is that even though the successful person may not know exactly how to do everything or how everything would pan out, she had a small bit of belief that it would.
She could focus on that seed of belief and tuck aside the fear, resistance and doubt, at least for a while, to keep trying.
The hustler on the other hand, was doing all the doing, taking all the action, meanwhile, was feeling deep down she didn’t have what it takes to achieve the success she wants. She may have even said daily affirmations, yet had a seed of doubt.
She was subconsciously focused on this seed of doubt, instead of that seed of belief.
Ultimately, it’s your thoughts & beliefs that create your results.
I talk more about how your thoughts & beliefs are what get you results in this week’s podcast. Click on the link in my bio to listen.
I’m offering 5 FREE coaching sessions to help shift your thoughts & beliefs to 10 women. Yes, that’s 5 FREE sessions EACH to 10 of you. Go to https://sharonsinghsidhu.com for details.
My guest this week is Tori Mistick.
Tori is a single dog mom and the creator of Wear Wag Repeat. She started her blog https://wearwagrepeat.com in 2013 as a creative outlet for her love of fashion and dogs. Her mission is to help women live their best life alongside dogs as a pet parent or a petpreneur.
Tori blogs about dog lifestyle tips, toy & food reviews, plus DIY tutorials and dog-friendly travel guides. Shr also sells merchandise in her Wear Wag Repeat Shop.
In this episode, Tori shares her journey ditching the 9 to 5 to start her own social media agency and later on convert her love for dogs into what she does for a living.
We dive into what it takes to make that leap and how the pandemic was a catalyst for Tori to take Wear Wag Repeat into the next level.
There’s so much to learn from Tori so listen to the episode to get all the details!
RESOURCES
Tori’s story on ConvertKit’s Creator Stories
Blog: www.wearwagrepeat.com
Podcast: www.wearwagrepeat.com/podcast
Online Courses: www.wearwagrepeat.com/courses
Instagram for Dogs: www.instagram.com/tmistick
Instagram for Biz: www.instagram.com/wearwagrepeat
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/wwrlabs
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/tmistick
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/torimistick
For years, I held the belief that changing mindsets and attitudes is impossible.
As a trainer and recruiter, it’s what I’d always told myself.
That’s why I would say, we can train for skills, but we can’t train for mindset.
Today, I share how this long-held belief of mine, even as a trainer, recruiter and mindset coach was broken and turned upside down on its head.
I’m so grateful to the MAP Coaching Institute and what I’m learning in my certification program for revealing this to me.
Changing your mindset doesn’t have to be hard, or take a long time.
Listen to this episode as I share the insights and lessons I’m learning when it comes to mindset change being easy and fast.
In this episode, I share more about how exactly your mind works based on neuroscience and mindfulness research and how you can use this to help you deal with stress, fear and self-doubt that we all face when we’re trying to do work we love and create a life we want, or go after any big dreams for that matter.
Mindset is a big, vague word and while many of us understand the importance of mindset in helping us achieve our goals and reach success, there isn’t a methodical, valid, scientific system that’s proven to get results.
At least not until I discovered the MAP Method of changing Mindsets.
The MAP Method has provided the framework for us to change our mindsets in an organized and proven way so I’m so excited to talk about it with you this week.
It’s also made me realize my own 4-step process that I’ve been doing has actually been working on these principles and that’s why it’s worked out so well for me to help me overcome my own fears, limiting beliefs and self-doubt to create a career I want.
You can find the resources I mentioned on the show here: https://twopointzero.me/resources
After interviewing a number of women who are either running a business, in careers or pursuing a cause they love and believe in, I thought I’d share my own journey of how I ended up doing work I love, running this podcast on the side of my full-time job, pursuing my coaching certification and generally doing what’s needed to create the life I want.
In this episode, I share the following 9 tips to make a living doing work you love and how it looks like in my real life.
Here are the 9 points I share. Listen to the full episode for how this actually plays out in my life.
- Have the courage to try, be willing to make mistakes and look stupid
- Know what’s important to you, i.e. your values in life
- Detach from what others say about you - this one is easy to say, harder to do
- Everything is always happening for you so you’ll be okay
- Your ego & reptilian brain is a powerful force that keeps you in your comfort zone and sometimes this feels like ‘truth’
- Know the difference between your ego that keeps you safe & small and your superconscious mind that asks you to be brave & strong - and whose advice to take
- Following your innate wisdom means reason & instinct become indistinguishable. This is what living as your true self means
- Our mindset, mentality or thoughts about life create everything in our outer reality
- Reminder : We’ll all die, it’s just a matter of when and how, so what are you going to create in this life?
I hope these 9 insights help you relate it to your own life and get you thinking about what kind of life you want to create.
I’m also really excited to launch my Courageous & Confident Coaching Program where I help working women shift their beliefs of what’s possible, dissolve fears & doubts, and build mental and emotional resilience so that they can make a living doing work they love. Go to https://twopointzero.me/coaching to find out more.
If you’re one of those people who feels like you need to get everything perfect before you put your stuff out there, this episode is for you!
My guest this week is Shelby, a full-time artist and online content creator of Little Coffee Fox, and an online art education platform called Foxsy.
She loves watercolors, digital art, lettering, and tons of other artistic mediums, and helping people discover the power of creativity and how transformative it can be.
Shelby strives to help her students get in touch with art again and she’s definitely helped me rediscover my creative side that I abandoned since I was a kid because I thought I was ‘bad’ at art and it was a waste of time and money.
We talk about Shelby’s own journey from her very practical decision to study human factors psychology and her unexpected journey into the world of art as her career.
The bottomline is that sometimes doing something you love and turning it into your career involves lots of trial and error that’s not always neat, tidy and perfect. I love Shelby’s guiding motto of ‘done not perfect’. This is how she’s built a business that both she and her husband run full-time. Shelby is an inspiration of what’s possible when you give yourself permission to play and do the apparent ‘impractical thing’!
Connect with Shelby:
On her website
On Instagram (@little_coffee_fox)
Sign up to Foxsy (I highly recommend! I’ve signed up for it and am loving it!)
My guest today is Janine Kwoh, who is the owner / artist / one-person assembly line behind Kwohtations, an ever-evolving collection of greeting cards and gifts that reflect and celebrate a diversity of identities and life experiences. Janine is also the author of Welcome to the Grief Club, an illustrated book on grief for anyone who is grieving the death of a loved one.
Janine started making cards in 2011 as a way to reflect on and honor the lives we actually lead, versus the ones we think we should. Specifically, Janine uses a letterpress to make her cards by hand, one by one.
Her goal is to create products that encourage us to embrace the diversity, complexity, and kinship in our lived experiences. Janine’s hope is always that others will recognize some of themselves in what she creates and feel a bit more seen, more connected, and less alone.
We talked about grieving, making decisions, time management, what it means to honour yourself, recovery from setbacks, acceptance when things don’t go as planned and designing a life that suits you, rather than doing what you think you should do or what others say you should.
You can purchase Janine’s beautifully handcrafted cards and her book, Welcome to the Grief Club on her website, https://kwohtations.com/
Connect with Janine on Instagram @kwohtations
Today’s guest is fashion designer, Whitney Manney. She says,
"My inspiration to create wearable art and textiles started at the age of 13, not because I was obsessed with fashion but because I was tired of growing out of my clothes so quickly. Remixing old clothes into my own creations inspired me to create the WHITNEYMANNEY label. "
This episode is filled with so many great stories and lessons like:
- The role of parents in supporting our kids’ dream
- Taking care of practical concerns without ever having to give up on your dreams
- Keeping the faith and staying consistent to your goals
- The importance of identifying with the person you want to be and acting before you believe it
- And so much more!
I know you’ll gain so much inspiration and practical lessons from Whitney’s story, so have a listen to the episode today!
RESOURCES
Connect with Whitney on Instagram @whitneymanney
Or her WEBSITE
Sign up to Whitney’s newsletter HERE
Diana Hill, Ph.D. is a modern psychologist, mom, and co-author of ACT Daily Journal:
Get unstuck and live fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She is the founder and host of the podcast show Your LIfe in Process and a co-founder of the Psychologists Off the Clock podcast, blogs for Psychology Today and offers regular teachings in compassion and ACT for clinicians and the general public. Through her online teachings, executive coaching, and private therapy practice Diana encourages clients to let go of unhealthy striving and build psychological flexibility so that they can live more meaningful and fulfilling lives. Diana practices what she preaches in her daily life as a mom of two, homesteader, and yoga teacher.
I first learned about the work for Dr Diana Hill on her ‘From Thriving To Striving Summit’. I then worked through the ACT Daily Journal that Dr Diana Hill and Dr Debby Sorensen wrote, which is a 8-week program using the core processes in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help you deal with life’s challenges and live a happier and more fulfilling life.
Diana has a way of explaining ACT in a simple and practical way so it was a real treat and honour to have her on the podcast to talk about how she ended up doing the work she does and explain a little bit about ACT.
What I found most valuable was learning that living a values-based life and choosing what’s important for us can sometimes be scary. And that can be why we avoid it. But choosing to live a life of meaning requires us to do difficult things sometimes. ACT equips us with the tools to do this and roll with life’s punches.
This was such a rich episode with lots to take away, so listen today!
Connect with Dr Diana Hill on:
- Her website and Download her free ‘6-Step ACT Daily Vision Board’
- Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn @drdianahill
Ok, full disclosure. When I first heard about my guest this week, I didn’t think to ask her about being on the podcast. I saw Serein Wu, beauty YouTuber and thought, she’s beautiful, and what's more, she used to be a dancer and an actor in LA! Way out of my league!
Turns out, Serein is funny, down-to-earth and such a friendly person! I’m so glad I eventually plucked up the courage to invite her to be on the podcast to talk about her journey with anxiety, depression and why she decided to leave show business to become a blogger, YouTuber and a Nutritionist & Health Coach.
Here’s the thing I learned since starting the podcast. There are so many generous women willing to support other women, who believe in other women especially when we don’t even believe in ourselves! Serein is one of those women. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed talking with Serein.
Connect with Serein on Instagram @sereinwu or go to https://sereinwu.com/link-in-bio/
This week’s podcast guest talks about something close to my heart - FOOD!
Growing up overweight most of my childhood and still identifying as someone who has to watch her weight, I’m always interested in learning more about cultivating a healthy relationship with food.
My guest this week is chef Daniella Malfitano @chefdmalfi. Daniella is a chef of 15 years and a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and she’s passionate about helping you use food to heal and thrive.
She’s created and hosted Delicious Discoveries for PBS and was also the producer of the Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival, hosting all of the Food Network stars and celebrity chefs from all over the United States on the Disney stage. She’s written and produced her own in-park show about healthy living and edited cookbooks.
Her impressive culinary experience belies a super personable, relatable and wonderful human being. We talk about her transition from being a traditional chef to a plant-based chef and what Daniella refers to as being the antithesis of a chef! These days, Daniella streams live demonstrations of her plant-based recipes daily on her live cooking show.
Daniella takes us on her journey of listening to your intuition, acting on your calling, even when it’s difficult, painful and involves twists and turns along the way. Find out how Daniella went from nursing to food, what they have in common, what spirituality and God has to do with food, and how you can become plant-based even if it’s just a few times a week as a way to get healthier, save the planet and be kinder to animals!
RESOURCES
Connect with Daniella on:
Instagram @chefdmalfi
Facebook @chefdaniellamalfitano
YouTube
Plant-Based Made Easy Facebook Group
I’m very excited to share this week’s episode with Espree Devora.
Espree Devora recently featured in INC Magazine as one of the top 30 women in tech to follow and known as “the Girl who Gets it Done” uses technology and digital content to thoughtfully connect people in the tech industry and move them from online connections to meaningful offline relationships.
Her company WeAreLATech creates high quality digital content including podcasts, technology and curated offline experiences focused on the Los Angeles tech and global women in tech ecosystems.
Espree is also the producer and host of the Women in Tech Podcast. Women In Tech shares stories of ‘actionable empowerment'. Listeners walk away feeling “If she can do it, so can I.”
We didn’t talk about this during the interview, but you may also recognise Espree as the face of Clubhouse!
This episode is packed with so much valuable insights, lessons and takeaways from Espree about doing something you care deeply about in spite of the fear, limiting beliefs and doubts you feel and learning to love yourself, protect your energy, and be the person you want to be so that you can create the life you want.
She shares 6 powerful Self-Audit questions to ask yourself to help you become more aware and conscious about whether you’re living the life you truly want:
- Is how I’m living how I want to be living?
- Is who’s in my life who I want in my life?
- Do I feel empowered and energized by the people I’m surrounded by?
- Do I feel supported by them?
- Do I communicate honestly and authentically?
- Do I set boundaries for my needs?
Espree’s energy is infectious so I was surprised to learn she’s an introvert. I asked her how she protects her energy since what she does is so much about being around people. She admits this is something she’s paying more attention to and shares what helps her protect her energy:
- Having sufficient sleep
- Being in nature
- Eating well
- Having boundaries, saying no more than yes
- Meditating
- Doing something nice for yourself
RESOURCES
Connect with Espree on:
- Twitter & Instagram @espreedevora
- LinkedIn @espree
- YouTube
Espree’s Experimental Cohort, Launch 30 Podcast Episodes in 30 Days
Women in Tech Podcast
WeAreLATech Podcast
Smart Passive Income Podcast Episode with Espree - SPI 543: Marketing, Mindfulness & Making Things Happen with Espree Devora
Espree’s podcast interview with Karen Dwyer, The MS Coach: Women In Tech Ireland
Shelpful
Daniel Vassallo on Twitter
A Portfolio of Small Bets Course by Daniel Vassallo
‘It’s About Damn Time’ by Arlan Hamilton
Elaine Haren is a homeschooling mom and parenting coach who believes in the unconditional potential of children. As a Parenting Coach, Elaine helps parents deepen their connection with their children and helps motivate them through positive and loving parenting techniques. Elaine is passionate about raising creative and confident children.
I wanted to have Elaine on the podcast to learn more about what it’s like to homeschool her kids and how homeschooling differs from traditional schooling. Elaine shares her goal of raising her kids as global citizens and equipping them with skills that will prepare them for the future and to become creators and problem solvers. She’s also interested in the future of education, and finding out about the latest ideas, resources, platforms, and technologies that will help parents prepare and best raise a child.
Whether homeschooling is something for your kids or not, this episode will remind us that regardless of our age, we’re all creative beings gifted with the ability to solve problems, so let’s not lose sight of this innate potential in all of us!
RESOURCES
- Connect with Elaine on:
- Instagram @creativemummyinspirations for fun activities to do with your kids
- @unconditionalpotential on Facebook and Instagram for some parenting tips and techniques
- Wolsey Hall Oxford Homeschooling
- Elaine has also been listed as one of 20 Inspiring Women in Singapore for International Women’s Day 2020, Sassy Mama and mentioned in Singapore’s 40 over 40.
My guest this week is someone I had on episode 59 when we talked about her career as a trailblazer in the tough industry of advertising and her personal journey with IVF which also led to her instrumental role in shaping Singapore’s policy on IVF. She’s none other than Linda Locke.
Linda is a highly awarded creative with over 300 awards to her name including a string of accolades from local, regional and international shows and a Gold Cannes Lion winner and part of the prestigious Cannes Lions judging panel.
The 10th anniversary of the Singapore Advertising Hall of Fame Awards in 2008 saw Linda receiving the ‘Newsweek Lifetime Achievement Award’ in recognition of her three decades of service to the Singapore Advertising Industry. Linda was the first woman to achieve the award.
Linda’s extensive experience and accomplishments makes it such an honour and inspiration to me. She’s someone who breaks boundaries, challenges the status quo and works with great tenacity for what she believes is the right thing to do.
She calls herself stubborn, I see it as resilience and someone who always finds a way to make her ideas and dreams a reality.
I invited Linda back because the last time we spoke Linda briefly mentioned her work to get Agnes, her great grand aunt's contribution at creating the first hybrid orchid and Singapore’s national flower, the Vanda Miss Joaquim recognised.
This episode is a little longer than usual because I really wanted to get the behind the scenes of how Linda worked with multiple parties locally and abroad and in some instances, rather high level parties, to reinstate the correct facts of the history behind Agnes’ work with the Vanda Miss Joaquim orchid. Along the way, we talked about growing up today versus in earlier times, the impact of social media on our kids, storytelling, her new book series and more!
So grab a coffee or take us on your walk, your work out or drive and eavesdrop on our conversation about pushing through boundaries, following through to the end to get the resolution we want, how to work through challenges and roadblocks when going for something you really desire, growing up, parenting and more!
RESOURCES
- Connect with Linda on Instagram @godmotherbooks
- Linda’s website Godmother Books
- Vanda Miss Joaquim: Singapore's National Flower & the Legacy of Agnes & Ridley
- Episode 59 with Linda Locke - Inside the Mind of Linda Locke, Accomplished Leader In Advertising, IVF Warrior, Children’s Book Author & Great Grandniece of Agnes Joaquim, the first woman in the world to create a Hybrid Orchid, Singapore’s National Flower
- To get a taste of Linda’s extensive accomplishments, please go to the EPISODE PAGE.
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- The Royal Horticultural Society
- The Straits Times
- Epigram Books
This week I speak with Snehal Ponde, Life & Career Coach and a certified NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) practitioner. What makes Snehal’s journey from an HR professional to a Coach special, is how she decided to pursue her passion for Coaching while battling Stage 4 breast cancer.
Snehal and her husband moved to Singapore from Mumbai in 2019. In April 2020, the couple welcomed a healthy baby boy. She got detected with breast cancer when her baby was five-months old and had to initiate her treatment immediately since the cancer had spread to her lungs, liver and bone.
The last 16 months has seen her undergoing chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and radiation. Despite the pain and problems associated with cancer and its treatment, Snehal was determined not to allow cancer to define who she is and what she does.
While her treatment is still on, she is keen on speaking about her journey, in her quest to spread awareness about breast cancer, finding her passion and not treating cancer like a death sentence.
We go beyond talking about her cancer to discuss spirituality, one of my favourite topics. No one would fault Snehal if she had a negative perspective on life, but what’s so inspiring is that in spite of everything she’s going through - the uncertainties, fears, doubts and more - Snehal remains positive and determined to live life fully.
If you’re at a place where you feel everything is at a deadend, listen to this episode to get a wider perspective on life and your incredible power to make a difference. You’ll be inspired by Snehal’s story.
RESOURCES
Snehal’s Instagram @blue_lotus_coach and website
Snehal’s mobile: +85-88309484
Sofie Hon’s LinkedIn Post
The Channel News Asia article I referred to:
Fighting stage 4 breast cancer: New mum shares her story while still in chemotherapy
This week, I spoke with Dr Deborah Ward about the consequences of basing our self-worth on financial success. I was interested in this topic because I wanted to understand why some people place so much importance on financial success compared with others. I learned from Dr Ward that it’s because some people derive their sense of self-worth from how financially successful they are. We also discussed what to do if you’re someone like that.
Besides the topic of deriving self-worth from financial success, Dr Ward also shares her insights and experiences about why she decided to pursue a career in academia and what you’ll need to be aware of if you’re considering going into academia. We talked about the key to success for a career in research, like the need for collaboration, of finding good mentors, how to view failure differently, and the tenacity, independence and balance needed to thrive.
Dr. Deborah Ward recently graduated with her Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology from University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. She earned her B.A. in Liberal Arts from Muhlenberg College, where she double majored in Psychology and Russian Studies, and her M.S. in Psychology from Villanova University. Currently, Dr. Ward is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Saginaw Valley State University.
Broadly, Dr. Ward studies topics related to identity threat. People are susceptible to identity-threat when they receive negative feedback related to important aspects of the self (e.g., competence, appearance). Much of her work revolves around the consequences of basing self-worth on financial success.
More recently, she has applied this work to academic contexts with the goal of understanding how to identify circumstances – in the classroom or university-wide – that could threaten students’ self-esteem or self-efficacy, and potentially discourage them from meeting or pursuing academic goals. Dr. Ward has also conducted research on numerous other topics, including romantic relationships, economic inequality, cultural norms, and coping with stressors.
I’m grateful to Dr Ward for sharing her perspective, wisdom and insights from her work and her own journey and I know you’ll enjoy this one!
You can connect with Dr Ward through email at deward@svsu.edu
This week’s episode is with Ashleigh Rennie. Ashleigh is a conversion copywriter and copy strategist. She works with high-performing business women all over the world, who are looking to increase their impact, expand their audience, and connect with their communities in the most authentic and human way imaginable.
It was Siobhain Danaher, one of my previous guests, who introduced me to Ashleigh because Ashleigh had written a blog post about how having to adapt to changing financial circumstances has led to the kind of relationship she has with money. We also talked about how she ended up doing what she does now, which is to help women entrepreneurs discover and speak in their truest and most authentic voice.
These 2 themes of money and authenticity couldn’t have come at a better time as this podcast transitions from one that used to primarily discuss our relationship with money to one that now is all about helping you follow your passions and pursue your dreams to create a life your heart desires. To do that, you have to find who your true self is. You can’t speak in your authentic voice, or say and do what your heart desires if you don’t know who your true self even is.
Ashleigh also recommends a book, The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, which is a 12-week workbook that I’m now halfway through and I thoroughly enjoy and suggest you pick up if you want to find your inner voice and creativity that is essential to living a life of passion and doing what your heart loves.
I see all this happening in perfect timing to support this transition for the podcast and for me personally in finding and speaking in my most authentic, true voice, from my heart. All of which is to say how everything is always happening synchronously for us, if we care to pay attention.
Ashleigh is so much fun to talk to and please check out her website and follow her on Instagram. Her newsletters are always a blast and she has an awesome quiz to find out your brand’s unique voice. The links are found below.
RESOURCES
Ashleigh’s website and Instagram (@thestoryteamldn)
Ashleigh’s blog post - Grateful For Growing Up Poor: AKA Let’s Talk About Money
Take Ashleigh’s Quiz to find out your brand’s voice
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Siobhain’s episode - There Are Multiple Paths to Financial Freedom - What's Yours? With Siobhain Danaher
Natalie’s episode - Create Freedom in Your Business & Adventure in Life with Natalie Sisson
This episode explains why I decided to rebrand The Financially Free Woman Podcast into The Two Point Zero Podcast and what you can expect from the show in 2022 and beyond.
You can listen to these interviews on https://twopointzero.me/podcast
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If my guests helped you in some way, please let them know! I hope you stick around by following the show and please leave a review on Apple Podcast if you enjoyed the show.
Thanks for listening!
This week’s episode is a continuation of where we left off from Episode 052 with Lagom Kids.
When I asked co-founder of Lagom Kids, Anna if she had any final advice at the end of the episode for you listeners, she suggested for women to ‘freeze your eggs!’.
Well that intrigued me and we had a brief chat about it after the interview and I found out a little more about her personal journey with IVF. That’s how we also talked about Linda Locke from last week’s episode. Linda was Anna’s mentor through her IVF journey.
If you’re wondering whether you should freeze your eggs, or know a loved one or friend who is considering this, or maybe you just want to learn a bit more about this topic, then I hope Anna’s honest and open sharing will give you some insight from her perspective.
I really appreciate Anna offering to share this personal experience in the hope of helping someone out there. Don’t forget to let Anna know if what she’s shared helped you in some way.
Enjoy!
RESOURCES
Episode with Lagom Kids
Episode with Linda Locke
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
This week’s podcast is an epic one!
I talked to Linda Locke, accomplished leader in the advertising industry, IVF warrior, children’s book author and great grandniece of Agnes Joaquim, the brilliant woman who created the first hybrid orchid and Singapore’s national flower, the Vanda Miss Joaquim orchid in 1893.
We talked about her advancement as graphic designer to senior leadership in the tough industry of advertising, her heart wrenching and triumphant journey with IVF, how she helped to shape the history of IVF in Singapore and so much more.
Linda shares her wisdom about succeeding as a woman in a fast-paced, highly demanding industry like advertising and when she switched gears with her decision to become a mom. That decision led her right into her next role as IVF warrior and again, Linda is a trailblazer here, helping to shape Singapore’s IVF policy.
Here are the key points Linda touches on about that she thinks helped her succeed:
- Be persistent in getting the results you want.
- When things don’t work out the way you want them to or when you encounter challenges, overcome them if you can. If you can’t, find a way to work around them.
- Look for solutions and learn how to communicate your ideas and solutions effectively so that people buy into your vision.
- Get the results for people so that they trust that you’re the person who can help them.
- Build trust by being authentic so people know what they see is what they get.
- Be transparent and direct with the truth.
- Be self-aware and know your strengths and weaknesses. Use your strengths and have people around you who can complement your weaknesses.
- Have mentors who can guide you and help you get better at what you do.
- Don’t be afraid to ask questions when you don’t know, then apply what you learnt.
- Think big, have a vision that’s beyond yourself, then find the resources to make that vision happen.
Linda’s tenacity and resilience is clear when you hear her talk about her career and IVF journey. You will be inspired.
This was such a wonderful conversation, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it and learn a lot in the process!
RESOURCES
Episode with Lagom Kids
Godmotherbooks website
Godmotherbooks Instagram
Linda Locke’s books on Epigram
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
When I embarked on my journey to find out how I could live a financially free life where I could break free from the tyranny of being worried and stressed out about not having enough money for the lifestyle I wanted for me and our kids, I never thought I'd find it in MINDFULNESS.
As I delved deeper into mindfulness, I discovered that practising mindfulness is exactly the thing that brought the peace of mind, confidence and a sense of abundance and gratitude about money that I was searching for. It wasn’t making more money that did it for me. It was through mindfulness that I found the security and reassurance I'd always been looking for externally - be that in other people, my education and qualifications or my job.
The practice of mindfulness has helped me to stop stressing about money and still enjoy life, even while paying off our 6-figure business debt, even through having my income reduced because of the pandemic, and living with the uncertainties of corporate life during a period of mergers and acquisitions.
Listen to this episode to learn how mindfulness can help you stress less over your money and financial life.
Finally, if you found this episode useful, please share it with someone you think would benefit from it, and follow the show on Apple Podcast and leave a review.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsinghsidhu/
This week’s episode is a fun one with Anna & Toni who run Lagom Kids, the first homegrown kids retail and activity brand to use comfort, exploration and experience to inspire play to learn and discover this beautiful world of ours.
Lagom is a Swedish word that means “just right” and Anna & Toni share how they are using the theme of Goldilocks & The Three Bears to bring children on a journey of self-discovery and growth with the idea of "not too little and not too much" by seeking out what is "just right" for them. This is how our kids will experience and live a life of happiness.
Toni and Anna from Lagom Kids may have grown up worlds apart, but they shared the same free spirit of adventure, exploration, and self-discovery as young girls. They bring their passion and collective life experience as individuals, wives and mothers with their own families to inspire play, stories and confidence to a new generation of children.
I loved this conversation with Anna & Toni because we talked about not just how they came to start, run, grow and evolve their business but also:
- Working as two very different people and learning to complement each other
- Thriving in retail amidst COVID-19
- Evolving a new part of the business that is serving such an important need for our kids by encouraging self-discovery, creativity and imagination
- Making choices, staying present, freezing our eggs and so much more!
This is a must-listen for all you women & moms. And check out the following resources mentioned on the show.
Resources
- Lagom Kids Website
- Imagination Kits
- Instagram is @lagomkids
Don’t forget to let Anna & Toni know how what they’ve shared has helped you. Take a screenshot of the podcast episode and tag Lagom Kids (@lagomkids) and me (@sharonsinghsidhu) on Instagram and tell us what you did differently or learned after listening to the podcast!
Finally, if you found this episode useful, please share it with someone you think would benefit from it, and follow the show on Apple Podcast and leave a review.
This week’s guest is Gretta Scholten, a certified life and time management coach. She helps women overcome overwhelm, procrastination, analysis paralysis so they can create habits and routines they love and feel productive and fulfilled every single day.
What I love about Gretta and her story is her resilience and tenacity around money which comes through so clearly when you talk to her. As a breadwinner and dealing with moments of having a negative account balance, Gretta shares how even despite such challenging times, she’s been able to coach herself and adopt the mindset necessary to create money in her life.
I found Gretta’s grounded energy to be very calming and reassuring. I’m impressed by Gretta’s rapid transition from Occupational Therapist to Life & Time Management Coach and how she’s managed to deal with the financial pressure on a new business in such a calm, rational and spiritual way.
Gretta shares so much valuable insights about:
- How to go for what your heart wants (also known as desire) and to start before you’re ready even though your brain’s always going to talk you out of it because it’s trying to keep you safe.
- How money can be easy instead of always feeling difficult. Gretta shares openly about how she deals with scary moments of a negative account balance.
- How not to throw money at problems thinking that money will solve them. Learn the process that Gretta uses to ensure whatever money she spends helps her deal with a problem.
- The key to getting the things that are important to you done and how to develop self-trust to become the person who always follows through.
- And so much more!
A big thank you to Samantha Siffring @samanthahms as well for the introduction to Gretta. I connected with Gretta through Samantha’s podcast and coaching program - both which I highly recommend!
Resources
- Gretta’s website
- Gretta’s Instagram is @gretta_scholten
- Brooke Castillo’s Self Coaching Scholars Program
- Episode 024 with Samantha Siffring - Hear how “Mama to CEO” Founder, Samantha Siffring, Took Her Business from $40 to A Million Dollars in 12 Months
- Samantha Siffring’s Podcast Interview with Gretta Scholten
Don’t forget to let Gretta know how what she shared has helped you. Take a screenshot of the podcast episode and tag Gretta (@gretta_scholten) and me (@sharonsinghsidhu) on Instagram and tell us what you did differently after listening to the podcast!
Finally, if you found this episode useful, please share it with someone you think would benefit from it, and follow the show on Apple Podcast and leave a review.
This week’s guest is Kelsey Kerslake, CEO, Creative Director, and Business Coach at Pinegate Road and the Aligned Business Academy.
Over the last decade Kelsey has helped hundreds of online business owners build their brands and online presences. She believes deeply that everyone has the potential to make their dreams a reality and has a passion for supporting online service providers, coaches, and educators to help them lead business and live lives that are fulfilling AND profitable.
We talked about how Kelsey turned her fun side hustle into her current branding agency while working a corporate job at American Greetings before deciding to strike out on her own as a business owner when she started earning more from her side hustle than her full-time job.
This was such a valuable lesson in financial mindset, decision making, taking risks, overcoming fears and so much more!
Some of the things we talked about were:
- How to make decisions from your ‘future self’ instead of from fear.
- How to run a profitable business even without having any formal business training or background and how she grew her team to help her continue to grow her business while working her full-time corporate job.
- Kelsey’s time management process by working from her ideal schedule.
- How to charge the ‘right’ price for your services or products. This was a fantastic crash course by Kelsey on Pricing! I loved this portion of our chat getting business advice from Kelsey including the mindset needed to succeed at this level of financial success
- Getting over the fear of taking risks financially for her business.
- The peace that comes from being financially free.
- And more!
Resources
- https://pinegateroad.com
- https://pinegateroad.com/academy/
- Instagram @kelseykerslake
- The Aligned Business Podcast
Don’t forget to let Kelsey know how what she shared has helped you gain a new insight or try something new - like charging the price you really want instead of what you think people will pay!
Finally, if you found this episode useful, please share it with someone you think would benefit from it, and follow the show on Apple Podcast and leave a review.
‘Don’t give up!’
‘Winners don’t quit! Quitters don’t win!’
Don’t you ever sometimes feel so sick of hearing so much ‘ra-ra’ motivational talk?
Especially when you’ve been giving your all, pressing on, never giving up...until now.
You feel like you’ve had enough, and you just want to throw in the towel.
Well, that might actually be a very good idea!
What?
Yes, in this week’s episode, I talk about how giving up actually helped me achieve my goals.
When you feel like you’ve had enough, it may just be a sign for you to give up the fight.
I mean give up fighting and resisting the current situation you find yourself in.
As much as you don’t like it, and wished you were somewhere else, thinking like that is precisely what’s preventing you from achieving your goals and dreams!
Listen to this week’s episode to learn how to ‘give up’ so that you can actually get what you want.
This week, I talked to Kate Kordsmeier, writer, educator, and creative entrepreneur.
For nearly a decade, Kate was a full-time, freelance journalist for over 125 magazines, newspapers and websites, including USA Today, EatingWell, Cooking Light, Travel + Leisure, The Washington Post, Forbes, Esquire, Women’s Health, Clean Eating, Wine Enthusiast, SELF and Real Simple. She’s also the author of the cookbook Atlanta Chef’s Table: Extraordinary Recipes from the Big Peach.
In October 2015, after being diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), Leaky Gut Syndrome (IBS), and hypothyroidism, and subsequently healing her symptoms naturally, Kate created Root + Revel, a holistic wellness blog with a focus on true mind-body-soul health.
After turning the blog into a profitable, six-figure business, Kate started getting questions from people nearly daily about how she did it. So she started The Six-Figure Blog Academy, her digital course where Kate empowers her students with actionable advice and inspirational content to help them make their dreams of being their own boss a reality.
We talked about Kate’s journey from journalist to blogger to running her 6-figure business, the tactics and strategies, and more interestingly, the money mindsets needed to grow your business and income.
Listen to the episode here: https://twopointzero.me/kate-kordsmeier
Resources
- Kate’s website and podcast
- Kate’s Instagram
- Get your free gift from Kate
- Root & Revel
What would you do if your job was costing you your health?
How would you transition into the next phase of your professional and personal life?
This is what we discussed in this episode with Cara Chace, former Special Agent, Metalhead, and a Pinterest Expert and most recently, helping business owners find balance between their business and their personal life.
Cara helps online entrepreneurs triple their Pinterest traffic so they don’t have to market their business 24/7. Talking to Cara, I felt like she was the embodiment of work-life balance!
Every move in her business has been focused working smarter, not harder, whether it’s through her work of helping business owners use of Pinterest as a marketing tool or with her latest venture, Work Better, Live Well
Cara has been balancing her aversion to rules and bosses with the need for structure since 2013, when she had her first child and took on the role of social media manager for Megadeth and their 13 million online fans. After realizing being a work-from-home entrepreneur was the best fit for her life, she built a digital marketing agency from scratch, had another kid, navigated constantly shifting priorities and life demands...and made it her mission to Work Better Live Well.
Listen to this week’s episode to learn how you too, can begin to put systems in place in your life to work better and live well!
https://twopointzero.me/cara-chace
Amber Bruseke is a Registered Nurse, Personal Trainer, Crossfit Level 1 Coach, the founder of MACROS 101 and the host of the Top 15 nutrition podcast: Biceps After Babies Radio. Amber is also a wife and a mom to 4 kids. Amber works with women who need to jump start their fitness goals, from losing fat, gaining muscle, or simply developing a better relationship with food.
We talked about how Amber transitioned and evolved from stay-at-home mom to becoming a one-on-one personal trainer and now, a 7-figure entrepreneur running her business, Biceps After Babies.
Find out how in order to achieve success you sometimes have to go ‘backwards’ before you can move forward, what the biggest thing Amber had to do to grow her business to 7-figures and more!
Connect with Amber @bicepsafterbabies on instagram or her website at https://bicepsafterbabies.com
In this episode, I speak with Natalie Sisson. Natalie is a New Zealand entrepreneur, three times bestselling author, speaker, host of the ‘Untapped’ podcast and handstand lover.
After ditching a successful corporate career and co-founding a technology company, Natalie decided to monetise her humble, 6-month old blog, The Suitcase Entrepreneur, into a multiple-six figure online education platform back in 2010.
In her efforts to continuously innovate, Natalie, the OG of digital nomads, turned that content and knowledge into 8 different revenue streams including digital products, courses, workshops, international retreats, and coaching. These days, she’s passionate about helping women tap into their potential and get paid to be them, so they make an income and impact, simply by being them.
Listen to the episode as we explore Natalie’s journey and find out how you can make a living with your talents and passions!
RESOURCES
Main Website: nataliesisson.com
Book Website: thefreedomplan.co
Website: suitcaseentrepreneur.com
Episode mentioned ‘When Too Much Change is Dangerous
Link to Natalie’s books
Kate Saffle is a life coach for moms, host of the Streamlined Motherhood Podcast, and a mama of 3. She coaches moms on how to use mindset and brass tacks strategy to create a happier and more purposeful life for themselves and their families.
We talk about how Kate went from feeling stuck, disconnected, and disillusioned as a mom to creating and living her dream life today.
Today, Kate runs her business that supports her family, right out of their RV! Learn the exact steps and mindset strategies Kate adopted to make her dream an everyday reality.
Connect with Kate:
Kate’s
Podcast: Happier in Motherhood
Website: thestreamlinedlife.com
Instagram: instagram.com/happierinmotherhood
Facebook: facebook.com/happierinmotherhood
Get Kate’s Visualization Toolkit
What would it be like if you no longer have to worry about your weight?
You could eat whatever you want, whenever you want, and be healthy.
How freeing would that be for you?
This is exactly what my guest today, Beth Smeeton, Intuitive Eating Coach helps you with.
We talk about the similarities between the disordered behaviours so many women have with food and money that’s defined by deprivation, shame, guilt and control.
Plus Beth shares practical advice and tips to anyone who wants to try Intuitive Eating, or help someone they love get a healthier relationship with food.
Key Takeaways from this episode:
- How Beth became an Intuitive Eating Coach and the evolution of her own relationship with food
- What is Intuitive Eating?
- How does one start Intuitive Eating?
- The biggest challenge most people face when they start Intuitive Eating
- How to overcome challenges with Intuitive Eating
- And more!
Listen to the episode to hear more about Beth’s journey.
RESOURCES
- www.bethsmeetoncoaching.com
- @beth_smeeton - instagram
- @beth_smeeton - TikTok
This week’s episode is with Elizabeth Lee, or Liz as she is known. Liz left her corporate job as Head of Consumer Planning with Diageo right before the pandemic, to start her coaching business which she had been doing for the past 8 years as a side hustle.
Liz offers coaching services to professional women who are looking to find their passion and purpose in life. She offers 2 signature programs, ‘Reigniting your Passion for Life & Living' and YB12 (Having the Best Year of Your Life).
We talk about Liz’s interesting journey going from employee to entrepreneur and her unexpected success as a face yoga teacher too!
This was a fun conversation with a new friend and we got honest and transparent about the path of entrepreneurship. It’s not always what you’d expect, but every step is worth it because you get to learn a lot about yourself.
RESOURCES
Check out Liz’s work and connect with her:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-lee-5204704/
- https://lizleecoaching.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/lizleefaceyoga/
- Contact Liz at liz@lizleecoaching.com
Monica Louie is a Facebook and Instagram Ads strategist and helps ambitious online entrepreneurs increase their impact with high-converting ads. Facebook and Instagram Ads wasn’t where Monica first started though. Monica made the switch from corporate employee in financial services to entrepreneur because of her desire to spend more time with her kids while making money so that she could continue to contribute to the family income.
We talk about her journey from corporate employee, to personal finance blogger and finally to what she does with passion today. Along the way, she and her husband also paid off $120,000 of debt in 2 short years on a single, middle-class income!
Monica’ story is inspiring on so many levels that I could relate with as I’m sure you will too.
Key Takeaways from this episode:
- The steps towards reaching your dreams and desires aren't always all laid out in front of you before you take the first step. It’s the twists, turns, detours, backtracks that are the necessary steps to take towards them. Keep trying and have faith it will work out.
- It’s possible to be a sought after expert in a space where you could be a beginner in now. Monica never saw herself as a Facebook & Instagram Ad expert back when she was thinking about starting her own business. It was paying attention to the feedback from other people she was getting and the results she was seeing that led her there.
- Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there to tell people what you do and how you help.
- How Facebook Ads can help you grow your business and the common questions Monica gets about Facebook Ads.
- And so much more!
Listen to the episode to hear more about Monica’s story!
RESOURCES
- Learn more about Monica’s online training program, Flourish with Facebook Ads.
- Download Monica’s free Facebook Ads Starter Kit here.
- Listen to Monica’s coaching call with Michelle Vroom that we mentioned in the episode here.
- Connect with Monica on Instagram @flourishwithmonica.
Katie Kimball, the national voice of healthy kids cooking, is a blogger, former teacher, and mom of 4 kids who founded the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse, recommended by The Wall Street Journal in 2020 as the best online cooking class for kids. Her blog, Kitchen Stewardship helps families stay healthy without going crazy, and she’s on a mission to connect families around healthy food and teach every child to cook as part of the Kids' Meal Revolution.
Connect with Katie:
- https://kidscookrealfood.com
- https://kitchenstewardship.com
- https://www.instagram.com/kidscookrealfood
- http://facebook.com/kidscookrealfood/
- http://facebook.com/kitchenstewardship
- https://youtube.com/kitchenstew
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-kimball/
Money goes beyond just the dollars and cents.
We kinda know this in our heads, but do we live and apply this knowledge in our everyday lives?
Especially when we’re pressed a little bit financially?
As someone whose instinctive knee-jerk reaction to any kind of news that seemed to threaten my financial well-being was fear, worry and anxiety, I can tell you that unless you make a conscious effort to stay aware of how life is making you feel especially around money, it’s easy to let money worries completely take over.
So how can we live with more conscious awareness when it comes to something as practical and tangible to money?
This week’s podcast episode goes into greater detail to look at the spiritual and energetic side of money with financial freedom coach, Cindy Shaw. With over 30 years of corporate experience in financial services, Cindy now teaches you how to get your mind straight with money. Cindy empowers driven women to upgrade their money wellness so they can build their legacy and do good in the world.
Key Takeaways from this episode:
- Taking practical actions with your money is important, but so is looking at money from a spiritual and energetic side, and how you’re using money to leave your legacy. Cindy calls it a marriage between financial literacy and understanding who we are.
- What blocks us from achieving the financial results we want in our lives.
- 8 sacred money archetypes and how knowing what yours is can help you achieve the vision you have for your financial life.
- Exercises you can do to help you develop money wellness
- And more!
Listen to the episode for even more great ideas on how you can start experiencing money wellness today.
RESOURCES
- You can find Cindy online at https://moneymasterseries.net
- Instagram @savvy.sacred
- Facebook @SavvySacred by Cindy Shaw.
It’s easy to confuse the way to wealth and well-being as more ‘doing’ and ‘action’ alone, when actually, it’s when we’re able to do the inner soul work that everything else falls into place.
That doesn’t mean all you have to do is close your eyes and think about riches for it to land your lap. What it means is to find the balance between achievement externally that’s aligned to achievement internally in your soul.
My guest this week is Genecia Alluora, former Miss Singapore, Cafe Retail Chain Owner, Business Coach and Founder of Soul Rich Woman, the #1 female entrepreneur network in Southeast Asia.
Genecia talks about how she’s overcome being bullied and mocked in school to how she’s accomplished so much in her life today.
Genecia’s network connects more than 200,000 women across the region in the ‘Soul F’ membership program the F-word meaning - Being Fabulous, Having Freedom, Financial Independence and Family.
Key Takeaways from this episode:
- The importance of aligning your inner soul with your external life for your well-being
- How starting from wherever you are, rather than waiting for perfection is what gets you the results you want
- The things that happen in your life happen for a reason - what are you learning from it and how are you using them to move forward?
- Failures are never just failures. They are stepping stones to real and true freedom.
I learned a lot from Genecia and I’m sure you’ll do too!
RESOURCES
- Connect with Genecia Alluoca on Instagram, Linkedin, Facebook
- Check out her website http://soulrichwoman.com/
- Download Genecia’s free ebook on Personal Branding and 7 Steps to Delegate 80% of Your To-Do List.
- The Straits Times article on Social Selling that Genecia talks about is here.
Do you grapple with reconciling your rational, logical mind and your intuitive, inner wisdom?
I know I have! Those of us raised in Western education have been trained to use our rational, logical minds much more than using our inner, intuitive, ‘sixth sense’.
Dr Shirin was such a joy to talk to because she has combined her training in dentistry to do healing, energy work with her clients to help them reach a higher level of well-being.
Key Takeaways from this episode:
- The most successful business idea or the most successful lifestyle is when your heart, your head and your soul are in alignment - you don’t have to choose one over another.
- True health is when all 5 aspects of your being are functioning well - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, energetic.
- How we all have living guides on what Dr Shirin calls the Voyage of our Soul
- Discovering and doing what really moves you rather than what you’ve been told you ought to do
Dr Shirin’s own story about how she ended up going from dentistry to coach, healer and teacher is gripping and a must listen, especially for those of you still believing you must choose either head over heart or heart over head!
Listen to Dr Shirin's story video here!
RESOURCES
- Connect with Dr Shirin on Facebook or email.
- Check out her website www.soulconnectionmastery.com
Today’s episode is all about what to do when things don’t go as planned.
I recorded this solo episode in real time as I was dealing with something with this podcast not going as planned at the very last minute this very episode was supposed to go live.
It wasn’t even supposed to be this episode, but I wanted to show you exactly how I deal with things that don’t go as planned in real time.
Key Takeaways
- The 4 things I did to get this podcast episode out
- How you can apply this to any other area of life that isn’t going the way you want it to.
- I also took the chance to share some exciting things coming up, that you don’t want to miss!
Listen to the episode here.
RESOURCES
- Get the free ebook I mentioned ‘5 Simple Steps for Busy Moms to Live A Financially Free Life Now’
Join the waitlist for the Moms Who Profit Program
Val Nelson is a career and business coach helping introverts with big hearts to hear and activate their true calling.
It is possible to do work you love with ease and tap into your values and strengths as an introvert or highly sensitive person (HSP).
Join me on this episode to learn more how you can do so.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What introversion and high sensitivity is and is not
- How to thrive in cultures where the opposite - extroversion - is dominant
- You’re not weird or have a disorder if you’re an introvert and highly sensitive person
- How you can be successful in your career or business as an introvert or highly sensitive person
- And so much more!
You don’t want to miss this episode - you’ll learn more about yourself if you’re an introvert or how to live with one if you’re an extrovert!
RESOURCES
- Connect with Val at www.valnelson.com
- Val’s instagram is @valnelson
- Get her Career Clarity Course.
- Dr Elaine Aron
whatever passion, skills or knowledge they have and monetizing it into something that they can offer online.
I enjoyed this chat so much especially when you hear how she took her business from $40 to a million bucks in 12 months. When you look behind the curtain however, this was an overnight-17-year success story of lots of trial and error, discoveries and failures before Samantha found her sweet spot and how she could help.
I took Samantha’s recent pop-up training course on Facebook LIVE and Samantha truly walks her talk. She has the ability to focus on the core essentials to get real results. This is so critical for busy moms where it’s easy for us to get distracted with seemingly important stuff that doesn't really get us closer to our goals.
In this episode, we discuss:
- All the different business ventures Samantha tried out before her current million dollar business.
- How she decided this is what she wanted to do.
- The key ingredient to helping Samantha build her business to what it is today.
- The importance of having confidence and self-belief that somehow, she’ll figure it out.
- And so much more!
You don’t want to miss this episode that’s packed with inspiration and practical actions!
RESOURCES
- Samantha Siffring IG (tag @samanthahms)
- All of Samantha’s links here.
- Smart Passive Income Podcast (tag @patflynn)
- Flourish to 7 Figures Podcast (tag@flourishwithmonica)
Despite being down and out after a failed health episode in the peak of her life at 31 years old, Chief Painter and a local Crafterprenuer, Amelia is thankful today that she has found healing and solace through her craft business, Sunshine & Love.
From being a self-taught craft artist to conducting corporate workshops with various institutions such as Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Nan Chiau Primary School, Rainbow Centre; having her first ever art installation “Paper Cut Silhouette Jar Lanterns” with Chinatown Heritage Centre; to seeking out meaningful collaborations with local crafters and businesses to build up the craft community in Singapore, she hopes to journey on and bring about good vibes through her art/work.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Amelia’s slide into catatonic depression - and what does that even mean?
- What it was like during those lowest times in her life
- Amelia’s road to recovery
- How she sees money and financial freedom from a different perspective
- What business means to her
- How she keeps herself going
- And so much more!
I’m really grateful for Amelia’s honesty, friendship and generosity. I hope you’ll enjoy it!
RESOURCES
- Visit Amelia at her website (http://www.sunshinenlove.com)
- Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/sunshinenlove) or
- Instagram (http://www.instagram.com/sunshinenlove_sg) pages.
Rita Kakati-Shah is an award-winning, gender, diversity, inclusion and career strategist, speaker, mentor and advisor to Fortune 500 companies. She founded Uma in response to her personal journey of motherhood, transitioning careers and entrepreneurship, and is dedicated to empowering women and minorities around the world. Prior to Uma, Rita lead Business Development globally in CNS healthcare. She began her professional career at Goldman Sachs in London, where she was awarded the prestigious Excellence in Citizenship and Diversity Award.
Rita has been featured as an expert on multiple international television and news shows, interviewed and quoted in various podcasts and publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Thrive Global, Dell Technology, PRWeek and iHeartRadio. Rita also hosts the popular South Asian television show, The Uma Show, on Mana TV International. She’s a best-selling author, and has co-authored books on women in business, diversity and inclusion.
Rita is also a trained and accomplished classical Indian dancer in the forms of Bharata Natyam and Xattriya, enjoys Post-Impressionist oil painting, is a foodie and loves trying new spots for afternoon tea around New York City, where she lives with her husband and two young children.
I’m so very honoured to have such an accomplished woman on my podcast so let’s get right to it!
In this episode, we discuss:
- What motivated Rita to leave a lucrative corporate job in Investment Banking at one of the top investment firms to pursue her purpose.
- How skills you learn in motherhood directly translates into skills you can use running a company.
- The number one thing stopping women and minorities from becoming who they want to be.
- How Rita uses scheduling and compartmentalizing to manage her time with her family and her business.
- What financial freedom means to Rita and how Uma embodies the qualities of freedom as well.
RESOURCES
- This is the article where I first interviewed Rita.
- Uma website
- Connect with Rita or Uma on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,
- Email Uma.
Lisa Canning is a mom of 8 and for the past 10 years, has been running an interior design business that saw her hosting her own HGTV show, working with The Property Brothers, and appearing on lifestyle TV shows like The Marilyn Denis Show.
Lisa is a coach to busy moms, creator of the ‘Conquer your Calendar’ online productivity course and has written the book ‘The Possibility Mom’.
I first heard about Lisa on Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income show, so a big thank you to Pat Flynn as well whose podcast I highly recommend if you’re interested in building your own online business.
What we discuss on the episode:
- Lisa and I talk about how she’s built up her business while raising 8 kids and how she’s overcome the challenges along the way to keep going.
- This episode is loaded with precious nuggets of wisdom, life experiences, advice and such honesty and transparency about Lisa’s own struggles and challenges relating to money and what she did to go from more than $50k in debt to making over 6 figures in her business.
- If you’re a busy working mom, or just someone finding yourself always short of time, struggling with overwhelm, battling the fear of failure or lacking in confidence in yourself and how to make your dreams a reality, this is a must-listen.
- Get a pen and notepad and get ready to take notes!
RESOURCES
Connect with Lisa - @lisacanning
Lisa Canning’s Website
Lisa’s course - Conquer Your Calendar
Lisa’s book - The Possibility Mom
OTHER RESOURCES MENTIONED
Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income Episode 452 with Lisa Canning
Marie Forleo’s B-school
January Donovan’s The Woman School
Ryan Levesque’s The Ask Method
Today’s guest is Carolyn Law, Founder and Programme Planner for ARThaus a painting studio for enthusiasts from all walks of life. Carolyn’s also been my son’s art teacher for the past 5 years and Carolyn has been instrumental in guiding and nurturing his love and passion in art.
I found out about Carolyn’s story as we met for coffee one day to chat about how she ended up doing what she’s doing now. It’s a great story of passion, grit, perseverance and resourcefulness to go for her dream and make it a reality.
Inspired by her own different learning style and personality, Carolyn has had the dream since the age of 14, of one day running her very own unique art studio to teach art in a non-judgemental way that honors and respects all diverse learning styles, interests and personality.
That dream became a reality 11 years ago when ARThaus was born.
This was such a great chat. For anyone looking to hear firsthand from someone who literally took a childhood dream and turned it into a profitable business and turns the conventional notion of ‘starving artist’ on its head to becoming a thriving, inspirational, strong woman going after and living her dream every day, this is a MUST-LISTEN!
In this episode we talked about
- What’s needed to make your dream a reality besides just loving what you do
- What’s important to be able to make money from your passion
- What courage looks like when running your own business
- How serving others to the best of your ability is key to business survival
- How Carolyn made the most money in the months during the COVID-19 lockdown than all the 11 years running ARThaus in a non-essential, enrichment service like Art!
- And so much more!
Connect with Carolyn or find out more about the programmes offered by ARThaus in the links below:
- ARThaus - Holiday Camps are available from now until the end of April ( Easter)
- Contact Carolyn directly on her mobile: + 65 90230458
If you liked what you heard, please
- Leave a review on Apple Podcast or anywhere you listened to this episode. Your review really helps the podcast get known and helps spread this very important message to more people that money doesn’t have to be a source of stress and anxiety. Money can be a source of joy, love, impact and inspiration. By using your talents and doing what you love, anyone can be financially free! Here’s how you can leave a review on Apple Podcast.
- Sign up to my mailing list to receive updates about new podcast episodes, free training and courses to learn how to master your relationship with money, have fun making money doing what you love, and be financially free!
I’m super excited to launch my RISE Programme. This is an online course to help you master your mindset and relationship with money so that you can take the right actions to be financially free! Register here to be notified when it’s released and to hear more about it!
purpose #financialfreedom #financialindependence #money #personalfinance
I really enjoyed my chat with Siobhain Danaher, Business & Personal Strategist, Lean Practitioner, Travel Photographer, Blogger and most recently Online Course Creator.
Outside of her day job, Siobhain is building a business around her many passions. In 2012 she launched her first blog ‘The Photographer’s Guide to Travel’ and in 2017, Siobhain launched her 2nd blog ‘The Art of Positive Change’. Siobhain has just launched her signature course 'Kickstart Your Personal Strategy' which supports people with personal, purposeful, positive change.
What’s Covered In This Episode
How Siobhain found her ‘why’ and what’s truly important to her, and how you too must figure out what’s important in your life if you want financial freedom.
- Know what’s preventing you from focusing what’s important in your life.
- Siobhain’s specific plan to transition towards doing work that she loves, including how she makes it work financially.
Resources
To get regular emails on all things Positive Change, download Siobhain's free ebook 'The A-Z of Effective Change'.
Find out more about Siobhain’s course, 'Kickstart Your Personal Strategy'.
Connect with Siobhain on any of her social media platforms - Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or email and check out her website.
Other resources mentioned
- Money: Master The Game - 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins
- Money Grit - Tool to help you master your money and your relationship with money by Karen McCall
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I’m super excited to launch my brand new programme, RISE. This is an online course to help you master your relationship with money so that you can stop stressing about money, do what you love and live a financially free life. Register here to be notified when it is released and to hear more about it!
purpose #financialfreedom #financialindepedence #moneyrelationship #money #personalfinance
In this episode, I talk about what doesn’t really get talked about as much when it comes to good money management and living a financially free life.
Conventional ideas about being good with money focuses on how to cut your spending or stick to a budget. These operate from what’s called a ‘scarcity’ approach - the idea that money will ‘run out’. Even investing and saving stems from this fear that if we don’t invest and save, we won’t have enough for later because we’ll run out.
While having healthy money habits such as not being reckless with our spending is important, what we can do more of is to also pay attention to how we can make more, because there’s only so much you can save and cut.
The first step to making more is to master ourselves, particularly our mindset about how we see our own value. Without recognizing your own value, how are you ever going to convince and demonstrate to others your value to them, so that they will pay you more?
Embracing a more abundant perspective to your life and yourself is how you can start to acknowledge your own inherent value and look at how you can continuously grow to increase your value to others and ultimately, make more.
What’s Covered on This Episode
- Ramit Sethi’s CEO approach to money.
- Why continuing in a scarcity way of life is limiting and unsustainable in the long run.
- My 3-Step Approach to Cultivating an Abundant Mindset to see the value in yourself - a critical first step before you can create value for others and therefore make more.
Resources
- Ramit Sethi’s website and New York Times bestselling book.
- Download the worksheet to my 3-Steps to Cultivate an Abundant Mindset so that you can increase your own value and sense of self-worth to take the actions to get the outcomes you want.
If you liked what you heard, please sign up to my mailing list to receive updates about new podcast episodes, free training and courses to learn more about your psychology and relationship with money, and how to implement practical, grounded actions to live a life you love and be financially free.
I’m super excited to launch my RISE Programme. This is an online course to help you master your mindset and relationship with money so that you can take the right actions to be financially free! Register here to be notified when it is released and to hear more about it!
Sofie Hon is the founder of Hearty Mums. Sofie is a mother of 2 young girls, a certified coach, MAP practitioner and an advanced trainer at MAP Coaching Institute. Hearty Mums provides mindfulness coaching services to empower Career Mums and Mums-To-Be to raise resilient, happy children, and to embrace an environment that nurtures happiness and success for their children by mastering their own emotional fitness. In other words, to become Hearty Mums!
In this episode, we talk about how Sofie made a career switch as an Engineer to become a mindset and mindfulness coach, what she wished she’d learned starting up her business and her practical tips on how you too, can find your purpose or ‘why’ to live a fulfilling life.
More fascinating is that mindfulness isn’t just sitting on your meditation cushion and learning how to think positive and feel good. Sofie explains the neuroscience behind what’s actually going on in our brains, how to rewire our neural networks to reprogram our brains and free us from beliefs holding us back so that we can take the steps necessary to live the life we want.
What We Discuss on This Episode
- How and why Sofie started Hearty Mums.
- How her approach combines both the science-based research with softer aspects like mindfulness to get results you want.
- Potential partnership opportunities in Sofie’s focus to prioritize more time with her kids this year - anyone interested in partnering up with Sofie on technology, marketing or coaching should connect with Sofie!
- The 4 questions Sofie uses to help her clients discover their ‘why’. Knowing your why is important when working towards financial freedom.
- Why looking out for patterns that repeat in your life is an indication and clue to misalignment between what you know in your head and what’s in your heart. Such misalignment may lead you to wonder why despite doing all the ‘correct’ things by the book, you still aren’t getting the results you want.
Connect with Sofie on:
- Website
- Facebook page
- Facebook group
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Barbara Fraile is an artist and author. She started her blog, Life with a Mug in 2019 where she shares her experiences of starting her life back after having to deal with PTSD in 2017 and depression.
In this episode, we look at how Barbara approaches life - all it’s highs and lows - to create a life being true to herself and doing what she loves.
What We Discuss on This Episode
- Why Barbara started Life with a Mug to help her get through one of the most difficult periods of her life.
- Her Wheel of Success that has helped her art business thrive despite the pandemic while taking care of her mental health
- We also talk about her new book, ‘Own Your Happiness’ which was a result of Barbara’s process of healing the loss of her sister and reconnecting with her inner self and establishing life priorities. Barbara shares the 5 pillars of her Wheels of Success in her book for anyone interested in living a balanced life from the inside out. Download your free copy here.
Connect with Barbara on:
- Blog
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As promised, this was the first interview I had with Deon back in the beginning of 2019. It wasn’t until last month that I got this podcast up and running and had Deon back as my official first guest on the podcast! In case you missed that, you can listen to it here. Life sometimes has other things planned for us! Apologies on the audio quality - this older interview was before I had a professional podcasting team helping with my podcast production.
In this interview, Deon shares 8 tips on how to achieve success as a working mother. I wrote an article summarising our conversation back in 2019. You can read that article here.
What We Discuss on This Episode
- Earn Your Confidence And Credibility By Taking Action And Putting In The Work
- Be Open To New Opportunities And Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone
- Be Kind And Forgive Yourself When Things Don’t Go As Planned
- Discover What You’re Great At And Passionate About By Taking Action
- Be Flexible To Adjust For Seasons In Our Lives
- The Importance Of Financial Independence And Career As A Woman
- Integrate Your Work With Your Life
- Finding The Right Employer, Boss And Mentor Is Essential To Succeed
If what you heard helped you in some way, please let Deon know. Connect with Deon.
Find out more about CLIMB here.
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Nerice Gietel is a certified coach and founder of The Career Lounge. Nerice set up her coaching practice with the aim of supporting experienced professionals to access meaningful job opportunities.
In this episode, we look at how Nerice’s own career transitions have led her to the work she now does to help other people navigate transitions in their career or life events. We explore how it is usually in taking small actions that we gradually learn more about ourselves - our values, beliefs, motivations, and what’s important to us.
What We Discuss on This Episode
- Nerice’s career transition through social work, law, recruitment, human resources and now coaching.
- How Nerice confronted her own beliefs about earning, ‘failure’ and shifted her perspectives about money, business and changing paths.
- The importance of listening to your own intuition of what feels right when making career decisions rather than settling, to help you get to where you’re meant to be.
- Change doesn’t have to involve big transitions, you can make mini adjustments to meet your needs.
- Why protecting your energy is critical to your growth.
- How the pandemic has presented more opportunities and challenged Nerice to do things differently than before.
- Why you should invest in getting to know yourself because it’s with self-awareness that you can navigate your thoughts and what you do.
- Her relationship with money.
Here are the featured resources and links to find out more about The Career Lounge:
- Website
- Courses
Connect with Nerice on:
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Marie Kretz Di Meglio is the founder of Uplifters. Uplifters is a non-profit organisation registered in Hong Kong and their mission is to empower underprivileged communities, particularly domestic helpers in Hong Kong and Singapore with online education and peer support.
Listen to this entire episode to learn how Marie tapped into her experience both in the private and nonprofit sector to start and fuel this community movement that is transforming the lives and given the women she serves, hope and real, concrete actions to make their dreams come true.
What we discuss in this episode:
- How it’s actually the lack of self-belief, self-confidence, self-esteem and hope for a better future that makes it so difficult for people to adopt more positive financial behaviours rather than just the lack of financial education.
- Why community and connecting with people who understand you is more important to change than just teaching and telling them to do so.
- How adapting online education to make it relevant to underprivileged communities helped Uplifters grow by 400% in 1 year.
- The unique financial and emotional challenges that women who leave their families and kids back home to make a living overseas face and how these can be overcomed.
- How Uplifters combines social media and community leadership to meet the women exactly where they are, instead of more preaching about sound money management.
- How Marie constantly pushes herself out of her own comfort zone to overcome mis-steps, detours and challenges to gain self-mastery and do what she believes in as the Founder and CEO of Uplifters.
- What drives Marie to continue doing what she does and her vision for her life.
- We also talk about the Fogg Behaviour Model from Dr BJ Fogg’s book, ‘Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything’ that both of us subscribe to in making behaviour change stick.
Here are the featured resources and links to find out more about Uplifters and how you can support and get involved in their cause:
- Find out more about Uplifters, read inspiring stories, and support their cause on their website
- Check out the Uplifters Facebook community
- Connect with Marie on LinkedIn
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I first heard this definition about financial independence by Jim Rohn while reading the book, 'Banned Money Secrets' by Richard Dotts. And it shifted my perspective about how we often think about financial independence or financial freedom.
In the end, financial freedom and independence boils down to what feels right for you. There isn't a specific amount of savings you must have, or a fixed technique you must follow to make money or the best way to make money.
Beyond a few sound, basic principles, how you go about becoming financially independent and free is really up to you. So make it your own, stop doubting yourself, and let your journey unfold as you take one step at a time.
In this very first guest interview, I speak with Deon Senturk, CEO and founder of CLIMB, a leadership development programme at the Singapore Management University.
Deon talks about how she ended up doing work she's passionate about, and how it doesn't have to be a trade-off between doing what you love and being financially free and secure.
Listen in to hear about Deon's journey, how CLIMB is adapting to the current uncertain and quickly evolving environment, and how you too, can do purposeful work and be financially free.
If you liked what you heard and found it useful, please share and subscribe to be notified on weekly episodes. You can also sign up for my newsletter to receive updates.
Connect with Deon on LinkedIn.
Find out more about CLIMB and Talent Plus.
Ya, I know, you're wondering, 'what do you mean discovering my 'life's purpose' will help me become financially free?'
Your life's purpose isn't where most people will start when they want to be financially free.
Most people will start by finding out how to invest, trade, and a variety of other methods how to make money, or how to get better at making and sticking with a budget, etc.
But you're not like most people now, are you?
In this episode, I share why the last place most people think to start to be financially free is actually the FIRST PLACE you should start at.
Listen in!
Download the free audio guide on Dilts' Logical Levels here.
Download the worksheet here.
The results we seek are only a by-product of the person we are. If you want to have abundance and prosperity in your life, you must first begin by living your life as an abundant and prosperous person before you can see that happening in your life. How do you do that? Every moment in life can be a chance for you to practice having an abundant mindset. Here's a simple example of how I did it through an instance when I had to got to court - and I'm not a lawyer!
In today's episode, I answer the question if you can be financially free and pursue your passion doing what you love?
Very often, we think if we want to do the thing we love, we can't make enough money to have the lifestyle that we want.
Well, what if I tell you that you can have both? What will it take to do that? Find out in this episode!
Principles by Ray Dalio
LinkedIn Post by Daymond John
Rudy Chart by Alex Kouts
Have you been burnt by financial mistakes and setbacks before? I know I have. In today's episode, I share how you can turn financial mistakes and setbacks into your arsenal and part of your toolkit for your financial freedom journey.
Most people think achieving financial freedom means you never have to worry about money because you have lots of money at your disposal. While that certainly helps, it's not more financial information and content you need to reach that. It's about exercising your choice to be financially autonomous, to take charge of your money and finances. Listen to this episode to find out the 3 things you can do right now to become financially free.
Download the worksheet here.
Here's the book mentioned in the episode:
Mind Over Money - Drs Brad & Ted Klontz
Find out more on my website, Two Point Zero
Join me on this introductory episode where I talk about the elusive and coveted notion of FINANCIAL FREEDOM - what is it, how to get it, why most people never reach it, and how YOU can become truly financially free.
I also share my personal journey to financial freedom, who I am, why am I qualified to talk about this, and what you must do to become a financially confident woman and experience financial freedom for yourself.
Unlike many personal finance or money podcasts, you won't hear more financial information and jargon about the best investing strategy, the hottest stock, or how you must cut coupons, save every single cent, and live a frugal life so you can retire by 30.
Instead, I believe that the very first step to becoming financially confident, independent, and free is to transform yourself. The person you are, your purpose in life, who you are being, your identity, values, and beliefs. Although I'm all about the mindset and identity, I'm also all about taking the right action to get real, long-lasting results.
This podcast will teach you the practical actions to take AND the deep inner work you must embark on if you want to become a financially confident woman, and ultimately experience true financial freedom.
Find out more on my website, Two Point Zero.