Shedding the Corporate Skin: Recent Episodes
Ian Richards
Shedding the Corporate Skin is the podcast that helps you unleash your dreams, move away from the corporate world and release the real you to grow your own business.
Brought to you by Ali Ford and Ian Richards, Shedding the Corporate Skin offers insights, best practices and real-life stories that give you the support you need to help you navigate the journey from the straitjacket of the corporate world to creating the life you’ve always dreamed of.
If you’re thinking there must be something better on the other side of the nine to five, Ali and Ian are here to show you what’s possible and how to create it.
“We know what it’s like to sit there day after day thinking there must be something better on the other side of the nine to five. We were either brave or stupid enough (or both) to actually find out, and we’re here to show you what’s possible and how to create it. The truth is, we both love hearing different perspectives and learning from other people’s stories, so we thought ‘why not?!’. Let’s share our own experiences, the hard-won battles, the challenges and triumphs that have taught us what we needed to know along the way, and give all the details we can about the good, the bad and the ugly behind growing your own business after being in a salaried position.”
Shedding the Corporate Skin is a podcast for people who are: - Considering making the leap out of the corporate world, or are in their first year of business, or - Straddling a salaried job and a side hustle they’d love to make their living from, and - Want to believe more is possible
Shedding the Corporate Skin peels back the layers of what it’s useful to think about, to know, to consider and to frankly ignore, when it comes to leaving the corporate world. Ali and Ian share their own stories (which are quite different!), discuss the mindset changes that take place, reveal the myths and legends around the trade-offs they were told had to happen, and offer a fresh perspective on this scariest of journeys for many.
Leaving the safety net of the corporate world can feel like a huge leap. This podcast will help anyone who has recently taken the plunge or is preparing to dive off the cliff.
To find out more about the hosts, check out our website.
Ian
www.worktolivefinancialplanning.com
Ali
https://www.alifordcoaching.com/
In this episode Ian and Ali talk about whether you have to follow your passion in order to be successful when leaving a corporate role. Ian tries to provoke Ali when he says that the ‘worst advice is to follow your passion’, and unsurprisingly she doesn’t agree! We delve into what passion is, the different routes it can take and we debate whether your business really needs to be your ultimate passion.
We also discuss whether passion & purpose are the same, touch on conditioned thinking and how this can put us off following our passion.
Find out more about your hosts here
Ian - www.worktolivefinancialplanning.com
Ali - www.alifordcoaching.com
In today’s episode Ali and Ian discuss the seeds of desire that come before we start our own business, as well as some of the ‘nags’ that mean we can’t let the idea go. We also talk about permission and the power of allowing ourselves to explore.
Often, these work together to help us make the leap and ‘Shed the Corporate Skin’. But how can we harness them, and what do these seeds and nags look and feel like? How can we know that these are helping us grow and trust that they are leading us towards what we want?
Sometimes, nags can also get in our way – appearing as blocks to our growth and desire to work for ourselves. What’s the difference and how can we recognise these as conditioned thinking that we can work with and release?
Find out more about your hosts here
Ian - www.worktolivefinancialplanning.com
Ali - www.alifordcoaching.com
In the episode Ian & Ali talk about saying hello to FEAR - something we all must deal with whether we are just thinking about leaving our corporate role, in the process of it, or have already done it. Ian & Ali share their experiences of fear, how it shows up, where the fear ultimately comes from, and how they each dealt with it. We discuss how fear can hold you back from following your dreams and doing what you love and ultimately deserve.
We also share our top tips for overcoming fear and how to take baby steps in order to achieve your dreams.
Have listen if you are feeling the “fear” and are ready to embrace it.
Find out more about your host here
Ian - www.worktolivefinancialplanning.com
Ali - www.alifordcoaching.com
In this final episode of the series Ian and Ali talk about the process of ‘pulling the trigger’ and finally stepping into your own business. We discuss alignment, the practical and emotional process of letting go of your corporate role, how to stay high vibe and the stories we tell ourselves that can empower us or hold us back.
Have a listen to hear our thoughts on getting your ducks in a row and our top tips to help you finally Pull the Trigger and start your own business.
Find out more about your hosts here
Ian - www.worktolivefinancialplanning.com
Ali - www.alifordcoaching.com
In today’s episode Ali shares her story of Shedding the Corporate Skin, and how this evolved over time into the coaching business she now runs. Ali talks about how she didn’t even consider herself as having a corporate role, even though she worked for the largest organisation in the UK! We discuss how Ali’s journey out of the corporate world was a slow build with life events often getting in the way. We look at how she started building a business whilst still in a corporate role, and the progression from nursing to reflexology to coaching. Ali also delves into conditioned thinking, the practical steps she took to Shed her corporate skin and how she dealt with the fear.
Find out more about your hosts here
Ian - www.worktolivefinancialplanning.com
Ali - www.alifordcoaching.com
In this episode Ian and Ali talk about when the perfect time is to make the leap from the corporate world and press ‘go’ on your own business.
Essentially, there will never be a ‘perfect’ time.... so how do we know when to actually Shed the Corporate Skin? We talk in this frank episode about how to understand when it’s the ‘best time for you’. We share our own learning about how to navigate the barriers related to both the practical steps in growing a business and the personal factors that can keep us stuck.
Learning to understand the signs, synchronicities and tangible steps that conspire to show us the ‘best time’ is critical if we don’t want to miss the opportunity to create the life we want. But how do we do that? How will we know? Have a listen and find out our take on it!
Find out more about your host here
Ian - www.worktolivefinancialplanning.com
Ali - www.alifordcoaching.com
In today’s episode Ian shares his story of Shedding the Corporate Skin and building his own financial planning business. Ian had wanted to run his own business for a long time, but it wasn’t until a redundancy forced his hand that he made his dream a reality. The themes we talk about in this episode include motivating factors and stumbling blocks, entrepreneurial spirit, the tension between staying ‘safe’ with a salaried role vs fulfilling your inner desires, the joy of creatively controlling what you deliver, fear, what else gets in the way of making the leap and how to move through the blocks, support systems that help along way, managing expectations and the importance of celebrating successes.
Find out more about Ian here www.worktolivefinancialplanning.com
Find out more about Ali here www.alifordcoaching.com
In this episode we introduce ourselves and explain what you can expect from our new podcast. We will cover off some of the topics we will be discussing in the our first season, as well as who this podcast will benefit.
We hope you enjoy.