House of Growth: Recent Episodes
Graham Smith
House of Growth is the go to podcast for leaders and high performers to maximise physical, mental emotional and spiritual wellbeing and master an authentic and energetic leadership style. Connect with me:
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When Conor decided to raise his son bi-lingual (English/ Irish) he had no idea it would lead him into a spiritual rabbit hole. By connecting with his heritage Conor was led to ancient spiritual teachings from his homeland.
We explored the impact of colonialism and the Catholic Church on spirituality in Ireland and much more!
If you're interested in developing a deeper connection with spirituality and don't feel drawn to Eastern practices or New Age Spirituality, this one is for you!
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Shabnam is a client who is 100% committed to reaching her FULL potential and serving the world powerfully. She is an award winning Partner in the Enfranchisement Team at Russell Cooke solicitors.
We discussed the potential for coaching to serve so many people across the legal landscape. We took a dive into the Enegy Leadership framework I work with to show how Shabnam has used it to reach her life and career potential.
Shabnam shared her passion for using social media to create industry change by sharing her personal journey around mental health and wellbeing, self-development and alcohol free living.
Connect with Shabnam on LinkedIn and Instagram.
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Clare is a dating and relationship coach on a mission to empower women to create their hottest and healthiest relationship.
After leaving a 14 year relationship at 33 years old, Claire embarked on a courageous journey to remove stress and anxiety from her dating process. She now empowers other women to do the same!
We spoke about the importance of understanding your attachment style, conquering dating app fatigue and practical tips to remove stress from the dating process.
Connect with Clare on Instagram or via her website.
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Sarah supports clients to reach their physical and mental potential with holistic living and biohacking. She is a psychology undergraduate with experience in neuropsychology and sport psychology.
Sarah courageously shares her inspiring journey from being told as a child she should accept being weak and sick, to taking responsibility for her health, transforming into an elite fitness trainer and now a holistic wellness coach.
Expect simple tips to maximise your wellness journey covering optimized sleep, energy levels and your morning routine.
Connect with Sarah on Instagram or via her website.
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Pasco is committed to creating organisations and communities that promote a world in which we ALL heal, grow and thrive.
We discussed Pasco's journey through social conscious entrepreneurship leading him to co-found Mens Circle. A global, online and in person community of men, supporting men to be better for everyone around them and the world.
We explore the purpose of Mens Circle and busted some myths for curious minds.
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Ali is a business owner in the fitness space and purpose and fulfillment coach.
We shared our experiences transitioning from a life defined by societal measures of success, to a life defined by our intrinsic motivators.
Connect with Ali on Instagram here or via his website here.
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Rick works with high achievers to create a connected life of meaning and purpose by tapping into the power of their inner world. After attaining ‘success’ by societal standards at a young age, both in business and life, Rick began to feel a sense of disconnection from the world around him. This disconnection led him to deep inner work, which led to outer transformation and journey to empower high achievers to create emotionally connected and rich lives.
We spoke about what it means to live a purpose driven and connected life, the importance of developing our inner world and how to get started and take the next step along the path.
You can connect with Rick here.
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Jacko is an ex-pro rugby player turned breathwork instructor on a mission to make breathwork, normal. A career ending head injury in 2013 inspired Jacko to dive into the growth and healing properties of breathing.
Expect simple instructions to influence your nervous system and promote optimal performance and relaxed state of mind in ANY personal or professional setting. There is a demo at 32 minutes and for a visual, subscribe to my YouTube channel here.
Connect with Jacko on Instagram here for awesome free content and hit the link in his bio to support his Ring-O-Fire 135 mile run from 2nd to 4th September 2022 by donating to Petals Baby Loss Counseling Charity.
We spoke about the book Breath, The Science of a Lost Art, which you can find here.
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Hannah is a lawyer and Founder of Authentically Speaking. She offers bespoke coaching and training programmes for lawyers and law firms to develop their business and themselves, both personally and professionally.
Her recently released book, The Authentic Lawyer, is supporting lawyers to overcome universal industry challenges. "I cannot tell you how much a book like this is NEEDED in the legal profession - I hope many legal professionals go out and buy it!" SUZANNE BRINIER, Commercial Litigation Solicitor.
The Authentic Lawyer
Authentically Speaking
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In this short solocast I reflect on the latest work of Dr Gabor Maté having the privillage of seeing him live ahead of the release of his latest book The Myth of Normal.
Dr Maté is a bestselling author and brings a compassionate approach to issues of stress, addiction and childhood development.
I talk the concept of making decisions that align with our authentic self and how to avoid making decisions that align with fear based values or our primal desire for attachment.
Learn more about Dr Gabor Maté's work here.
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Holly is THE no nonsense self development coach making wellbeing, growth, healing and self development easy and relatable. In her own words she's 'a little bit Deepak and a little bit Tupak.'
Holly has been in showbiz since the age of 11 and over lockdown she stepped into her purpose to use her platform to fulfill her passion for translating wellbeing and self care into language that EVERYONE can understand.
Her book The Happy Me Project is released in early June and later in the month she is hosting a Restival.
Connect with Holly using the links below:
Website
Below is a list of the powerful self development books we recommended in the show:
- Marie Forleo - Everything is figureoutable
- Light Watkins - Bliss More
- James Clear - Atomic Habits
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Rachel is an energy and expansion coach, qualified nutritional therapist, yoga teacher, somatic and embodied movement practitioner, meditation teacher and energy worker. Through 1:1 coaching, workshops and her online community, Rachel powerfully alchemises healing and growth modalities to support business owners and leaders to create optimal wellbeing and transform any area of their life that is limiting them and create a thriving life. Connect with Rachel on the following channels: Instagram Website
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This week I spoke to Sinead and Lucy, co-founders of theMakings. Their mission is to build leaders for a better society.
Through an innovative platform, a unique coaching method and an exceptional team of coaches, they are democratising access to the powerful impacts of 1:1 coaching.
Check out this episode to learn about theMakings and Sinéad and Lucy’s journey’s to building a purpose driven and mission led business. For business enquiries you can find Sinead and Lucy in the following locations:
Website
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Keegan LaMar is founder of LaMar Coaching, host of the Unstoppable Mind podcast and author of Forever Athlete. He is a performance and mindset coach for athletes, executives and his great wisdom will add value to anyone looking to maximize the impact they leave on this world.
We spoke about how leaders and future leaders can leverage knowledge from sports and some of the powerful tools he uses to empower business and sporting clients to maximize their performance.
This episode is for anyone that has an interest in business, sports and mastering a performance mindset! ENJOY!
You can reach Keegan at the following online spots:
keegan@lamarcoaching.com
Website
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Eddy found Shamanism on his journey to heal and root spirituality and spiritual practices in his life. His mission is to share the gifts he has been given and make them accessible. Eddy brings a fresh, relaxed and approachable style to spirituality and offers 1v1 healings, online and in person workshops and retreats.
Reflecting Eddy’s brilliance and the cultural yearning for this work, he has a huge following and has featured in GQ, Men’s Health and other MSM publications, and he is the resident shamanic practitioner at The Mandrake Hotel, London. We covered so much ground, here are my personal favorite bits:
- Shamanic practices - what's it all about?
- Integration; get healed and stay healed
- Reframing national identity with a spiritual and ancient perspective
- The glorious cultural phenomenon and tribal nature of football in the UK
- New Age spiritual philosophies and their pitfalls
Follow Eddy on Instagram here for information on shamanism, spirituality, healing, online events, retreats and other cool stuff. You can also subscribe here.
Power and Love to you
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Harry is a men's coach and masculinity educator. He works with Jungian psychology, archetypal embodiment and myth to facilitate transformational growth and emotional mastery. We go deep into:
- The 4 masculine archetypes (King, Warrior, Magician, Lover) and their relevance to emotional mastery
- The relevance of myth and it's application to cultural phenomenon such as the social movement arising from the Sarah Everard tragedy
- Incomplete emotions; the dangers of stored emotions
- Emotional alchemy; turning the wound into the salve
- Greek mythology and the relevance to Carl Jung's work
I celebrate Harry for the brave work he is doing and I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as me.
You can find Harry on Instagram or via his website.
Power and Love to you!
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This was an inspiring and powerful conversation with Stephanie Virchaux, coach, speaker, energy healer and founder of SV Empowerment. Stephanie equips clients with resources to understand who they are at the core, get clear on what they truly want, and empower them to GO. GET. IT 🚀 We spoke about:
💫 Stephanie’s hero’s journey from corporate job to sharing her deepest gifts
💫The importance of authenticity
💫Myth busting around transformational growth
💫The creative power of Theta healing
💫Angel readings
💫Chakra balancing - beyond the well known 7
Open your heart and your mind to this deep conversation to go beyond your current understanding of transformational growth.
You can find Stephanie on Instagram or at her website.
Power and Love to you ✌️❤️🙏💫
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This week I spoke to Zo Rahm; yogi, breathwork teacher and experienced meditator. We spoke about
💫 Yoga - the potential for the practice to heal the body, mind and soul 🙆♂️🧠👻
💫 Breathwork - how it complements other wellness practices and offers unique Health benefits 🫁
💫 Meditation - how commitment to the practice permeates life 🧘♀️
I really enjoyed this conversation and if you are curious about these practices or would like to go deeper, I encourage you to listen, share and let me know what you think.
For information about yoga and breathwork classes with Zo you can find him on Instagram.
Power and Love to you ✌️❤️💪🙏💫
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This was an awesome conversation!!
Carolyn is the oracle of nutrition, she is a Registered Dietitian and integrative and functional nutritionist and co-founder of Indigo Wellness Group, an East meets West wellness organisation. Carolyn supercharges your empowerment by getting straight to the point with science and facts. We spoke about:
- Calorie counting (spoiler alert, it’s a ❌ listen to find out why)
- Fad diets ❌
- The brain in the gut 🧠
- Body image 👀
- Supplementation, and how to get it right 💊
- Wellness hot tips 🧘♀️
I hope you enjoy the show and please share, subscribe and like.
For empowering, straight talking, scientifically back nutrition and wellness advice and world class programmes follow Carolyn on Instagram or find her at Indigo Wellness Group.
Power & Love to you
P.S. in the podcast Carolyn recommends a zinc supplement and the dose is a daily 30mg!
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I hope you enjoy the short bonus episode to sum up the emergent theme of episodes 1 to 3. Please follow the podcast and connect with me on social media as we continue to elevate consciousness, build community and develop connection. Power and love to you ✌️❤️
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What a great conversation! Paul and I spoke about his journey through the business world from barristers clerk to legal entrepreneur, his charity work with Save The Children Africa, finding inspiration, overcoming mental noise and self doubt, and the importance of having a growth mindset. It was a great conversation with an ambitious business leader and entrepreneur with a big heart.
Paul is regularly invited to speak on the global legal stage and delivered a lecture at IBA Conference in Sydney in 2017. He was recently ranked as a Thought Leader in Litigation Finance by Who's Who Legal and has published the following articles:
- Innovation Report (Thomson Reuters - Bar Focus)
- Raising The Bar (New Law Journal)
- Modern Clerk in a Modern Bar (Lexis Nexis)
Below are links to some of Paul's go-to motivators:
- Relentless - From Good to Great to Unstoppable, by Tim S. Grover - Paul's bible for motivation
- The Vegan Ant - fitness coach and movement enthusiast
- Simon Sinek - go to for life lessons and inspiration
Power and Love to you all
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