On today’s show I’m chatting with Shani Nottingham - a working artist I met on Instagram. Her art and story fascinated me. And I wanted to share her story with you, to encourage you to find and live your wow.  And wow, what a story. We cover bullying, depression, the fizzy jitters, adult ADHD, the frustrations and beauty of living in the country and even breadtags!Shani (rhymes with rainy) is an artist of many talents, working with paint, print, collage and photography. She believes her mission is to make joyful beauty and loveliness to make your heart sing. Shani shows her work through exhibitions and her very successful social media channels, as well as hosting creative workshops and fulfilling commission pieces. Her clients range from small start up businesses to large companies, councils, government departments, big brands, homeware retailers, authors, magazines, charities and other creatives. As well as all of this, she continues to work on her very personal endeavour, The Breadtag Project.More details - go to merilyn.com

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240. Permission To Be A Creative – with Shani Nottingham

On today&apos;s show I&apos;m talking with Melissa Kirk. She is a personal empowerment coach for entrepreneurs, guiding business owners to their next level of success by getting to the root of what is holding them back. Melissa gets people results - with her out-of-the-box ideas, and ability to help people find and align their passion and purpose, shift their mindsets and create the lifestyle they desire. For more details go to merilyn.com

239. Losing ourselves, hand analysis & human design – with Melissa Kirk

Today’s guest is a three time Amazon best-selling author Molly McGrath. She works with small businesses owners on creating teams that work well and grow amazing businesses together.Since the late 90s Molly has been looking into ways of harmonising the entrepreneur / employee relationships (even though she is not the biggest fan of the word ‘employee’!). She believes that by empowering our teams to feel included and part of a bigger picture, we in turn can only strengthen our businesses and make them a happier and more productive environment.In her book ‘Don’t Be a Yes Chick’, Molly talks about entrepreneurs discovering the secrets to creating a vested dream team, so we can focus on what we love and do best. More details: merilyn.com

238. Permission To Pause – with Molly McGrath

Elizabeth Kristof is an expert in using applied neurology to move people out of pain, unwanted behaviour, trauma response and stress. She is the founder of Brain-Based Wellness, a revolutionary online platform that trains the nervous system and body to resolve old patterns, improve performance, and increase well-being. She has an amazing story to tell. For all her details,  and to take advantage of 1 months free membership to Elisabeth&apos;s Brain-Based Wellness Membership, pop over to merilyn.com

237. Why Our Brains Are Keeping Us Stuck – with Elisabeth Kristoff

On this episode I&apos;m chatting with the very insightful Dr. Maryhan Baker. She&apos;s a groundbreaking Psychologist and Parenting Expert with over 20 years experience.Dr Maryhan works with children, teens and adults who have difficulties managing their emotions, worry excessively, have low self-confidence, find managing friendships difficult, or get a little overwhelmed with life&apos;s challenges.We chat about:Raising children to be resilient and healthy individuals. Anxiety and low confidence in children.Knowing when a parent should hire a psychologist.Managing guilt as parents. Boundaries and the &apos;work-life&apos; balance.And much much more...For all the details, go to merilyn.com

236. How Not To Screw Up Your Kids – with Dr Maryhan Baker

Today’s guest is an author, international speaker, podcaster, a Barrister, an Attorney, a Solicitor, an Intuitive Life Coach, an EFT expert, an Energy healer, a Money Mindset expert, and, perhaps the most important job of all, a Mother.Gull Khan left her corporate finance background to begin her life as an Intuitive Life Coach and Emotional Freedom (EFT) expert and now helps people heal their money stories and manifest greater income and abundance into their lives.She has a fascinating, magical story. For more details: merilyn.com

235. Dyslexic Lawyer to Money WooWoo – the fascinating journey of Gull Khan

My guest today has battled burnout and illness to build the business of her dreams teaching other high achievers how they can have it all. With a long and profitable career in real estate and sales in Fortune250 companies she was the poster-child of ‘success’. But at a price. Now, through her performance strategy and coaching practice, she is helping others redefine success and bring more joy and physical, mental and emotional stamina to their lives. Introducing, Rhonda Berlino. For over 25 years, Rhonda worked in high pressure, high stress environments. Working with Real Estate professionals, as a Sales Executive at a Fortune 250 Company, as a coach specializing in business development, professional development, and lead generation. She worked with countless brokers and agents to help them increase profits, bring in new leads, close bigger deals. She worked long hours, travelled constantly, and ignored the signs that her body was giving her.  As a driven, talented professional who was all in, she pushed through and kept pushing through with the confidence and energy of someone who knew that she could handle whatever was thrown at her. Until she couldn’t. She found herself in the emergency room. Simply put, Rhonda had collapsed both physically and emotionally. The constant stress, the high stakes, the never-ending workload left her with Hashimoto’s, Fibromyalgia, Adrenal Fatigue, and Epstein Barr virus. Depleted, exhausted, but unbroken, she began the process of healing and determining what was important.Now, as a Performance Strategist and as the Founder of Undeniable Impact Coaching, she helps entrepreneurs thrive in the same way that she thrives and teaches high achievers how they really can have it all - more professional success, more joy, more physical/mental/emotional stamina, and a life in line with their values - as long as they know what “it all” looks like for them.For more details, go to merilyn.com  

234. Why Smart Women End Up In The Emergency Room – with Rhonda Berlino

My guest today, Gül Sönmez, worked in big multinationals like P&G, Coca-Cola, and Amazon for 15 years. Then, roughly 8 years ago, she noticed she was manifesting injuries and pain on her physical body (neck, meniscuses, back, and thyroids).Even though she had a nice job, a nice marriage, and a nice home, her picture-perfect life was giving her no purpose or meaning, and it was wreaking havoc on her body.Gül searched for solutions with modern medicine and therapies, but nothing could help her inner pain. She became obsessed with self-healing and studied three different religions, read more than a hundred healing books, and practiced Shamanism, breathwork, kundalini, EFT, and more... but something was always missing.Her path radically changed in 2017 when she left Turkey and moved to Luxembourg, leaving her job, marriage, friends, and teachers behind for a corporate job with Amazon. This path led her to work with her first client: a friend’s son had a brain surgery on a tumor and she asked if she could go to the hospital for healing. It looked like she was his healer, but in reality he was hers.As the famous poet Rumi famously said, “What you seek is seeking you.”From there, the demand for her work exploded, and Gül began working with many clients from various backgrounds and religions. She earned her coaching certification and began combining the healing modalities and energy work skills she’d accumulated over the years during her sessions.Gül’s path shifted once more in 2019 when she started to become a clear channel for her and her clients’ energies; they were revealing buried memories and root causes of traumas without her even asking. Leaning into this intense calling, she left her job and traveled around the world for months, learning how to channel and incorporate it all into her practice. This journey helped her to discover herself, realize her fears, and gave her the courage to completely change everything in her life!Gül now serves clients from all around the world, forging her path as a 6-figure entrepreneur through her unique transformational energy work. In her own words, she is “not healing or sending energies to make you feel better for a short period of time; you are walking along this transformational path to initiate profound changes in your inner world.” 

233. From Corporate Executive To Self-Healing Coach - with Gül Sönmez

Meet Jessica Zemple  - who has the unusual gift of helping people ‘shuck themselves’... !!! Made you look twice huh? Like the pearl farmers who &apos;shuck&apos; the oysters to find the treasure inside, Jessica helps people discover their pearls. She helps individuals and organizations find their deeper purpose and translate that into authentic success through transformative coaching, workshops, retreats, and motivational speaking. We chat about:Is living the dream life a myth or is it real?How do we actually align our mind, body & soulWhat flow really meansThe shock and beauty of being shuckedHow to move from driven executive to a flow life doing what you loveAnd much more...

232. Why everyone needs a good shucking - with Jessica Zemple

In this episode I’m chatting with Dawn Dahlby. Dawn is a personal-growth expert in the finance space serving empowered women, executives, and entrepreneurs. Her unique approach combines learning how to live in your worth by aligning financial goals, personal values, behaviours, beliefs, lifestyle goals, and desires. With 20 years&apos; experience as a Certified Financial Planner, a Fiduciary, and the country&apos;s first Behavioural Financial Advisor, Dawn seeks to help women improve their lives by combining psychology and results-driven financial strategies to build WEALTH & WORTH. Dawn&apos;s engaging coaching style and result-oriented approach has led her to become a sought-after speaker at a wide range of professional seminars and corporate events. Her inclusion on the esteemed Forbes Finance Council marks another exceptional achievement in her impressive career.

231. Building Wealth & Worth, with Dawn Dahlby

In this episode I’m talking with Kathy Svetina about a critical area of leading our lives and businesses – finance. So before you glaze over and tune out, take a listen, as what Kathy has to say might just be what you (and your business) needed to hear today. Kathy Svetina is the founder of NewCastle Finance, a company offering Fractional CFO services to women-owned small businesses. For nearly 14 years, she did senior-level financial planning and analysis for Fortune 500 companies. She saw first-hand how big companies use financial information to drive their companies forward. She started NewCastle Finance because she wanted to offer that same powerful financial insight to women-owned businesses. Now, she helps business owners as a "financial puzzle solver" to get clear on their numbers and their financial strategy so they feel confident to make good decisions that will result in a thriving business.More details? pop over to merilyn.com

230. Can Finances Really Be Inspirational? A chat with Kathy Svetina

If you love an intelligent, high-conscious conversation, then you’ll adore this episode. This is actually the second time I’ve had Monica on the show. It’s a continuation of the fascinating conversation we started in Episode 205 (which I highly recommend you go listen to as well).I originally wanted to chat with Monica about her successful work in disrupting the dating industry, but it kinda went all over the place – in a very good way! We talk about power marriages, purpose driven work, mental health and even the education system. Monica Parikh is a teacher, writer, lawyer and public speaker. Through her business, School of Love NYC, she teaches a global audience about love, psychology and higher consciousness. Using psychology, spirituality, non-violent communication and quantum physics, her curriculum gives clients practical skills in emotional intelligence to build healthy relationships.More details? Go to merilyn.com

229. High frequency relationships and a new world order – with Monica Parikh

Remember in the corporate 90’s when we used to hang ‘Success’ posters up about working hard, and it was taught by HR training courses to ‘leave your personal life at home’? This chat with author and coach Emily Golden reminded me of that. She too was raised in that high performing corporate culture… but life and various traumas guided her on her true path.  Emily Golden is businesswoman, parent, lifelong learner and in our conversation today she shares a few insights into her years of experience. We chat about being vulnerable, how putting your first book out feels like standing naked in the street, the difference between post-traumatic-stress and post-traumatic-growth and of course, wake up calls. Want more details? Go to merilyn.com

228. Vulnerability, Wake Up Calls & the New Golden Rule – with Emily Golden

Wow is the only way to describe this conversation! Hilary DeCesare is an award-winning entrepreneur, CEO of the ReLaunch Co and featured speaker in Silicon Valley. And it has to be one of the most fascinating, engaging chats I’ve done on the podcast. Hilary is a transformational coach and has now made it her life’s mission to help mid-life women shift from being stuck on auto pilot to fulfilling the potential they have within them and creating the life they were born to lead. More details, pop over to merilyn.com

227. The Absolute Magic of Re-launching Your Life – with Hilary DeCesare

London based, Maria Carras has lived a variety of different career lives. Now, as CEO and Founder of ‘Maria Carras – Creative Virtual Assistance’ she helps virtual assistants set up and grow location-independent businesses around the world. 

226. Creativity, Mum-guilt & the Virtual Wildwest – a chat with Maria Carras

Most women in business are naturally high performers. Yet when it comes to running their own business, their confidence can waiver - and leading even one day can result in the usual guilt, overwhelm and effort-ing. Hi, I'm Merilyn and the heart of this podcast is to tell women that there is another way. So let's start this new decade off every day, redefining leadership and what it means to be a woman entrepreneur, breaking from patriarchy and truly leading our year. Because the world (and your business) needs you to rise up and lead it and THE world needs great examples of women AND men in leadership. So join me every day of 2020 to lead your day, your year and your world.

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