Interesting Lives of Ordinary People

Emily is an Accredited Transformative Coach, Facilitator, and Mentor. Her work has evolved over the last 20 years working internationally with a variety of individuals, and groups and organisations in both the education and corporate sector. In this conversation Emily walks us through the major turning points in her life that helped her deal with her worst nightmare with compassion and resilience. She helps clients reduce the levels of stress and anxiety by building resilience and wellbeing. She does this via 1:1 coaching, group coaching and facilitation, and tailored retreats and away days on a 8.5 acre hassle free retreat/campsite https://oldbidlakefarm.co.uk/ You can find out more about Emily by visiting her website http://www.emilywellbeing.co.uk/ Here is the link to the blog she wrote as she dealt with one of the most difficult challenges of her life https://journeyswithgrief.blogspot.com/2021/07/we-didnt-get-memo.html You can find out about her upcoming events here https://www.emilywellbeing.co.uk/events/

In this episode we get metaphysical with Donna McMurtry and Diana Adair. The sisters have been Quantum Healers for over a decade having trained in the QHHT technique pioneered by the late Dolores Cannon. They help clients get to the root of their challenges by connecting them with their own Soul's wisdom, Higher Self and Spirit Guides. Donna and Diana have spent many years researching, learning and practising different modalities of healing and therapy, including yoga, shamanism, cranial sacral therapy and breath work. They have co-authored five books including the "Golden Age Series" of historical fiction based in the time of the ancient civilisation of Atlantis. The two non-fiction books New Earth Healing - All Healing is Self Healing and Doorways of Death. You can find out more about them via these links: https://quantumhealers.com/practitioner/diana-adair/ https://quantumhealers.com/practitioner/donna-mcmurtry/ https://ddadair.com/

I’ve known Sanjay for over thirty years from our time together at business school in India He is one of the most well read and informed people I know. He is highly regarded for his experience and views on entrepreneurship and innovation, and his ability to be brutally honest in his capacity as mentor to startups, established companies and industry bodies. He jokingly describes himself as not just a mentor, but a tormentor to his mentees. As a passionate advocate of entrepreneurship and innovation, he writes, lectures, advises, invests and mentors startups, companies and industry bodies on innovation, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking. He is the co-founder of a not-profit company, Network of Indian Cultural Enterprises (NICEorg.in) that aims to create an ecosystem for nurturing and growing successful Indian cultural enterprises; the global ambassador for iSpirt (ispirt.in) a not-for-profit technology focused think-do tank that works to create digital platforms for societal transformation, Executive Board member of IIIT Bangalore housed Mosip.io, an open source national ID platform for countries, and advisor with the Data Governance Network. He also serves on the boards of publicly traded Quess Corp, Allsec Technologies, impact consulting company Sattva Consulting, governing board member of TiE Bangalore, and advisor to NSRCEL-IIMB, CWE and other organisations. Sanjay has led or played key roles in several pioneering high tech cross border product development initiatives. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded Neta, perhaps the first VC backed software company in Silicon Valley created by founders who had relocated from India, that subsequently became a part of Infoseek/Disney. He also set up Venturekatalyst, India’s first entrepreneur focused web magazine and JumpStartUp in 2000, one of India’s 1st tech oriented VC funds, investing in Silicon Valley and India. In 2016, he published Startup Mantras, [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive] which became one of the top business books of that year, according to Business Insider. It is a collection of 100 lessons for entrepreneurs and managers, and is unusual in that it packed so much wisdom with such brevity and simplicity.

In 2022, it is estimated that there are 106,000 people who are known to be waiting for an organ transplant, of which 92,000 (87%) are waiting for a kidney. The average waiting time for a kidney is longer than for any other organ: 3-5 years with with many not surviving the long wait. During that time, most patients will undergo dialysis and live with severe dietary restrictions. In today's episode you will meet 22 year old Ayush Chandwani who had his first kidney transplant at the tender age of 6, and a second one a few months ago. He is one of the lucky ones. He received a kidney first from his mother Smriti and more recently from his uncle Sanjay who both share their experiences of being living kidney donors.  In the course of this conversation, you will understand and appreciate the important role kidneys play in our body, and why it is the most endangered of organs. Diabetes and high blood pressure are the top two causes of kidney failure. This conversation might help you take greater control of your health and preempt the onset of some of these chronic conditions that are caused by our lifestyle choices.

In this conversation, Joanna talks about the experiences in her formative years that taught her the meaning of catastrophic compassion. She offers a moving account of how she first encountered death and the grief that stayed suppressed for years. Her career trajectory, with its twists and turns, is a reminder that life has interesting ways of making us pay attention. Saving the best for last, Joanna described her vision and mission that is so needed, and yet controversial.  Joanna Davis, MCC is one amongst a very small worldwide community of Master Coaches, as defined by the International Coaching Federation. She has over 5,000 hours of coaching experience, spent seven years as Senior Faculty for a Level 2 ICF credentialed school and works in-house as a Corporate Life Coach for a South Florida Fortune 500 company of 20,000+ employees. She is an ICF PCC Assessor, serves as a Mentor Coach for both ICF and ReciproCoach, and has a small private practice specialising in coaching to Executive Development. Her passions include the neuroscience of human behaviour, creating food forests, and trying to keep up with her Basenjis.