This week on the show, Samantha Lotus joins me as we discuss Alchemy of self, holistic healing and moving from victimhood to empowerment. She also shares how she chose to free herself from the prisons she was trapped in (mind, body, life) and how she helps others to do the same.

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Samantha and I discuss:

• Being a vibrant human and realising how people around are so unwell and are struggling with mental health issues
• At a very young age, Samantha decided that her mission is to understand why people are unhappy
• While accumulating all different kinds knowledge and information, Samantha went through with her own health crisis
• Samantha's near-death experience and how it became her life's turning point
• How our physical body is affected by our emotional trauma
• Reclaiming who we are and what we came here for
• People getting addicted to their identity
• 3 Simple steps in the practice of Alchemy:
  • Observation
  • Deconstruction
  • Reconstruction
• Negative emotions are actually important because they are trying to keep us safe
• The practice of transmutation is to have deep forgiveness, deep compassion, and deep self-acceptance
• Having compassion for yourself
• Rewiring the way we think
• On being vulnerable and honest with how we feel
• Socialisation and pressure around what it is to be a woman
• Importance of taking feedback

Re and I discuss:

• The impact of James into Re's life 
• The rundown of his journey into entrepreneurship
• Getting through the initial fear of starting his own company - Branding for the People
• How a bad breakup pushed him to move forward 
• Getting off track from the original vision and restoring integrity
• Living an authentic life
• His definition of branding
• Difference between being loved vs being respected
• A chart that he modified on conflicting values and shared values, low and high impact
• His process on working with someone
• Helping people from "I want to make an impact" to "What impact do you want to make" or "What impact do you make"

This week on the show, Jeremy Slate joins me to discuss how it is working with his wife in their business, all about podcasting, and the best way to start your own podcast, grow your audience or use guesting as an effective way to grow you brand and business.

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Jeremy and I discuss:

• How Jeremy manages his business now that he has his own family
• Why Jeremy and his wife work well together as partners in business
• From being into ancient history, how Jeremy got into podcasting
• Learning from his first podcast, getting educated about podcasting, and starting a new and improved podcast
• How having a successful podcast opened a business opportunity for him
• Consistency as a key in podcasting
• Finding a different value you can offer that can make you stand out
• Importance of what type of content you are developing
• Tracking your last conversation and having control of the communication
• Is talent required in getting into podcasting
• Great interviewers tend to ask things called the "feel-felt-found" questions
• One of the unexpected things he learned in the world of podcasting is how much some of these people have to give and how willing they are to talk to you
• Getting on as a guest in a podcast can help you find and grab the right niches for your business.
• Podcast as a medium is a great relationship-building tool
• The three key components: Story, Message, Call-to-Action
• When you realize that the only way you can make a bigger impact is by actually training people to do what you're doing