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Jo McMeechan, SEN Parent, Founder and Director of not for profit SENstory Group supporting children and young people with additonal needs to access therapy. Jo offers equine therapies, coaching for businesses and inclusion training. Jo is a speaker and Amazon No.1 Best Seller and we have thoroughly enjoyed this conversation.  Join us in this episode where we speak to Jo McMeechan (aka Jo McChicken) and cover so many great topics; Barriers of neurodiversity within her family and going through a mental health crisis The school system and the failings to neurodiverse children The difficulty in asking schools to meet the needs of children as the spectrum is so vast Neurodivergence isn't a super power Importance of Self-Awareness  Whats your crystonite? The wood fork? haha (listen to find out) The first step is having the conversations Neurodiversity and entrepreneurs Wellbeing in corporate Quick wins on making your business more inclusive; adding descriptors and making your website more accessible Equine therapy; what it is and how it supports people Spirtuality v Science   Connect with us here; Jo McMeechan Follow her on socials, download free resources, check out her website and book some training   Inspire and Connect Follow us on socials, find a local meet up and download our free '7 ways to connect with YOU' guide.

Join Laura and Ali in this episode where they talk about grief and those special occasions.    Grief can happen at any time throughout our lives; the loss of a loved one, divorce or break down of a friendship. The feelings of grief can be heightened during those special occasions, from birthdays to Christmas, it can feel heavy when it should feel happy.   There is no right or wrong way to navigate this but Ali and Laura share their personal experience with you in this episode.   If you need help or support please reach out to Laura and Ali [email protected] or for more urgent support with your mental health or wellbeing please call the Samaritians 028 9066 4422***.    ***these details were correct at the time of releasing this episode December 2023.   Please connect with Inspire and Connect below; https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links  

We are joined by Carol-Ann Reid and I just knew it would be a match made in heaven. I knew before recording that Ali and Carol Anne would get along so well. This episode is Unedited with dogs barking talk haha! Carol Ann Reid is a life and business coach, podcaster, author, HeartHealer™ and mum to twin boys. This conversation will feed your soul. We talk about HeartHealing™, Awakening, Parent Wounds, Chakras, share experiences of Anxiety, the power of our senses and sooo much more. We recorded this episode just 4 months after losing my Dad to suicide. After recording I reached out to Carol-Ann and she supported me in processing what I was going through. This is such a beautiful woman inside and out and I can’t wait for you to listen to this episode and connect with her too.   Trigger warning! We discuss Suicide What is HeartHealing™; Enoughness wound  Parent wounds Heart Chakra and link between shoulders/relationships What an awakening is for us? Power of our senses Share experiences of anxiety What Carol-Ann does to support herself as a busy Mum and someone who helps others with their healing Crystals, oracle cards and essential oils Get curious; our fear killed curiosity Feeling safe to explore more about you and your spirituality Embracing the weird and woo Connect with us Carol-Ann Reid https://www.facebook.com/carolann.reid.88 https://www.instagram.com/carolannreidcoach/ https://www.carolannreid.com/   Inspire and Connect www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links      

Join Ali and Laura in this new series of episodes where they talk all about healing, grief, divorce and suicide. This weeks episode they discuss; What healing looks like for them Where they are in their journey now Do we prevent ourselves from healing? Comparing our grief or trauma to others Posting on social media about your experience Please share your feedback, rate and review so we can support more people going through the same.

Sam Squire is an Ignition coach at Inspire to Ignite which is a CIC company helping young people, who are not in education or employment, to set up a business for free. Sam has engaged with around 10,000 young people in the last 3 years some from the most deprived areas and many care leavers. Here are some of the topics we discuss in this inspirational episode with Sam; • The difficulty young people have when they are in housing and start earning • What Sam wants to do to change policy to a flawed system for those leaving the car system • Sam’s dream to have entrepreneurship on the curriculum • The experience employment has given us • Introducing an Entrepreneurial mindset to young people • How we support the young people’s mental health • The importance of connection for young people • Coaching v Counselling • Are the digital CV’s replacing the traditional paper CV? • Great stories about young people smashing the entrepreneurial world! • Why should we be curious? Does this help us be successful?   Connect with us here; Sam Squire https://www.facebook.com/curiousentrepreneursuk https://www.instagram.com/aspirewithsquire/ Inspire and Connect https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links  

Leigh Howes is an Executive Coach with over 20 years’ experience in observing, partnering, and advising high performing business leaders and founders. Over this time, she has been trusted to hold space for many wonderful emerging and established leaders from start up to board. She is also the best-selling author of Foundations to Lead From™. Leigh specialises in supporting these service-based businesses to develop their leadership and business without compromising their priorities and boundaries along the way. She is passionate with empowering greater curiosity, consciousness and communication to uplevel performance and impact. Leigh is on a mission to spread a ripple of ‘happy’ leaders & next generation CEO’s with more joy, energy, freedom and alignment to their business model. Meaning, there’s more of a focus on ‘happier’ higher levels of performance without working around the clock.  In this episode • Diagnosis of breast cancer and the impact on her life and business • The importance of critical illness cover • How community and connection got Leigh through some of the most difficult times in her life • How we learn to be more curious • What questions we can be asking when we meet new people • The conditioning we are in working 9-5 • The four corner stones of critical thinking   Connect with Leigh here; https://www.instagram.com/leighahowes/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/leighhowes1/  https://www.facebook.com/growwithleigh   Inspire and Connect Ltd https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links  

Jen Albano, from the Secret Core Club, is passionate about helping people develop the life long, daily habit of a 15-minute exercise routine based on the innovative Hypopressive Breathwork and Movement method. A way of reclaiming your vitality for life and powerfully ticking SO many important health and wellness boxes at once. After giving birth to her son, closely followed by her twins, Jen started to suffer with her pelvic floor issues, a slipped disc and a cervical prolapse, she knew something needed to change. This is what led her to Hypopressive. This has supported with her pelvic floor, posture, building her core strength and exercise to tick more than one box. In this episode we talk about; • Raising awareness about the changes our bodies go through during pregnancy • What Hypopressive is and the benefits? • Why we need to be changing habits and being consistent • The importance of Self-Care and Self-Love • Why we need to be dropping the punishment and bringing the pleasure   Come and connect with Jen here;  http://secretcoreclub.com https://www.facebook.com/jen.k.albano https://www.facebook.com/thesecretcoreclub  https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesecretcoreclubwomenreclaimingtheirvibrancy/?ref=share_group_link  https://instagram.com/thesecretcoreclub?igshid=ZDdkNTZiNTM=   Inspire and Connect https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links  

Founder of Lejla Please Tell My Story™️ (LPTMS), Lejla Dauti, joins us on today’s podcast to share more about her experience of Domestic Abuse and how she now supports other women through LPTMS. Lejla has grown her followers to over 21K followers by sharing her story and looking for a community herself. She now hosts a docuseries to share more women’s voices who have been through Domestic Abuse and has some exciting plans coming up to support these women even more. In this episode we talk about; • What is Domestic Abuse? • The power of community and connection when going through Domestic Abuse and after leaving the situation • Signposts to how to get support • How YOU can support people going through Domestic Abuse • Post Separation Abuse • The work Lejla is doing and what is coming up in her CIC   Connect with Lejla here; https://www.facebook.com/lejlapleasetellmystory/ https://www.instagram.com/by.layx/?hl=en https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lejla-dauti-06120b227   Inspire and Connect; https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links  

Anupa Roper, 44, is a mum of two from Leicestershire, UK. She is a bestselling Children’s Author and Positive Body Image Educator. As a former primary school teacher and someone who struggled with her own body image for over two decades, she is now on a mission to empower the young to feel happy in the skin that they are in and to accept others in theirs. In this podcast Anupa shares her own experiences, we talk all things body positive and Anupa tells us why she is joining us as an Inspire & Connect leader. Find out more about Anupa's brand new course here. the A-Z of Children's Body Image, covering topics from eating disorders to media literacy. This course is for parents, carers and those that spend time with the young, to arm them with the tools they need to support the young with feeling good in their own skin https://learning.sparrowlegs.com/childrens-body-image/   Connect with Anupa here; https://www.sparrowlegs.com https://www.instagram.com/miss_sparrowlegs https://www.facebook.com/groups/sparrowlegs   Inspire and Connect https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links

Join us for a slightly different episode this week where we answer 20 questions. A great chance to connect with the faces behind I&C and understand us a bit better. It is funny, deep and a little bit random. Come and connect with us on socials on the link below and don't forget to download, subscribe and rate the podcast Https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links

We are joined with the lovely Alex Lynam from Beyond the Binary and are so excited to start opening up this conversation. It is so important for everyone within I&C to feel included, welcomed and heard. We realise some of our language is not inclusive and we need to do better. We appreciate these conversations are uncomfortable but nothing exciting happens from our comfort zones and we don't learn and grow. Please join us in being uncomfortable and bringing change for people like Alex. Here are some of the things we covered in this episode;   - What is the difference between Non Binary and Transgender? - What Alex has had to face in social situations or in relationships -What is Gender Dysphoria? -What can we all be doing to make our language more inclusive? -PLUS so much more   We would really appreciate your love and support. Please make Alex feel welcome and lets start these difficult conversations. Connect with Alex Lynam from Beyond the Binary here; https://www.facebook.com/alex.lynam95 https://www.tiktok.com/@beyond_thebinary4 https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebinary4/   Inspire and Connect https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links  

On this episode we chat to Helen Bartram & Lisa Viccars founders of the HAN Training Academy & The Red Sisterhood Helen and Lisa are two self confessed weirdos with a joint mission to make the world a better place. They believe the world will be a better place when you show up as your authentic self and share your passion and purpose with the world. They do this in two ways - 1. Through delivering accredited training to help individuals develop them self first and then go on to share that with the wider world. 2. Through empowering women to connect to self, their gifts, spirituality and transform their own worlds in safe and encouraging environment.   This is a wonderful chat covering all sorts of woo, human design and the importance of being your true authentic self. I hope you like listening to these 4 weirdos….   Come and connect with Helen and Lisa here; Www.Facebook.com/Hantrainingacademy Www.Facebook.com/theredsisterhood https://www.facebook.com/groups/314353000773484   Inspire and Connect https://www.inspireandconnect.co.uk/links