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Ep 102. When you feel like you’re never doing enough May 13, 2020

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Today is a solo episode where I'm sharing about when you feel like you're never doing enough.
Whether you procrastinate, beat yourself up or just never feel good enough, I'm sharing how to unhook yourself from FOMO, comparison and giving yourself a hard time, and instead get into flow, appreciate all that you do and feel happier and more satisfied with yourself each day.
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Thanks so much for listening!

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Ep 101. Stress and anxiety at work with Dr Ellie Cannon May 11, 2020

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It was such a pleasure to have a GP on the Podcast talking about stress and anxiety at work. Dr. Ellie Cannon joined me for such an informative conversation.
We chat about:
* Just how common it is for GP’s to see patients with stress and anxiety * At what point you should see your GP if you’re struggling mentally * Taking medication for anxiety * How to talk to your manager about how you’re feeling* Medication for anxiety and depression
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Ep 101. Stress and Anxiety at Work with Dr Ellie Cannon
Chloe Brotheridge 00:01: Hello and welcome to the Calmer You podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a coach, a hypnotherapist, and I'm the author of the Anxiety Solution and Brave New girl. This podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest happiest and most confident self.
If you are interested in working with me 1-2-1
I just want to let you know that I see a select number of one on one clients at the moment and have a few slots available online using a programme called zoom. It works incredibly well. It's a powerful combination of hypnotherapy and coaching. If you want to check it out, you can head to my website, Calmer-you.com/workwithme.
Free resources
You can find a load of free resources on my website to help you to become your calmest self. Head on over to calmer-you.com/free to grab those freebies now.
Meet Dr. Ellie
Today on the Calmer You podcast, I'm talking to Dr. Ellie Cannon. We met on a panel we did together and I loved everything that she was sharing. She's not only a GP, she's also an author. Her latest book is all about work, health and the effects that our jobs can have on our mental health. It's called, Is Your Job Making you Ill?
She's also columnist for The Mail on Sunday. I love her Twitter feed and approach. She's very no-nonsense and calls all sorts of things out. I'm not a doctor so I love taking this opportunity to speak with a GP. There are lots of things that I really wanted to get her perspective on.
In this episode
We talked about how common it is for GPS to see patients with stress and anxiety. Hint, it's an incredibly high number.
We talked about at what point we should go and see our GP if we're struggling mentally. This has to be one of the most common questions that I get asked. People ask me, what is a normal amount of everyday worries and stress? Also,

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Ep 100. Ayahuasca and the jungle May 04, 2020

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I'm welcoming you to the hundredth episode of this podcast! In this episode, I finally get around to talking about my experience that I had a few months ago, where I went on two different retreats to experience Ayahuasca medicine in South America.
I can't quite believe I've carried on for so long. It's been an amazing experience for me to do this podcast. I started this podcast because it was actually a bit of a mission for me to overcome those last little bits of social anxiety and fears about speaking to people. Especially people I really look up to.
I share about:
* Why I went to the Amazon jungle and what it was like (spoiler: it was intense!)* What I learned from the plant medicine and what you can learn from it too* The risks involved and how I overcame my fears
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Hello, and welcome to the Calmer You podcast. This is Chloe Brotheridge your host. I'm a coach, hypnotherapist and author of the Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And I'm welcoming you to the hundredth episode of this podcast. I can't quite believe I've carried on for so long. It's been an amazing experience for me to do this podcast. I started this podcast because it was actually a bit of a mission for me to overcome those last little bits of social anxiety and fears about speaking to people. Especially people I really look up to.
What it's meant doing this podcast
It's been such a great learning experience for that. Not only do I get to speak to people that I really admire and look up to, but, I'm also growing my own confidence by putting myself out there. It's been really valuable on so many levels. Thank you so much.
Whether you're joining and listening to my podcast for the first time, or whether you've listened since day one, thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate all of your messages and all the times that you let me know that you're listening that it's that it's helped you. It really makes a difference to me. So thank you for that.
Yes, it was a powerful experience
So in this episode, I'm finally getting around to talking about my experience that I had back in December and January of 2019/20. Where I went on two different retreats to experience Ayahuasca medicine from South America.
I have to say I've been putting this conversation off. I am feeling a certain amount of trepidation to even be talking about it because of the fact that it is not legal in the UK. It is legal in a lot of South American countries. There is definitely an aspect to it, which is pretty scary, a bit dangerous. And yet, it was such a powerful experience for me, and really did help me in lots of interesting ways.
What you can expect from this episode
I'm going to describe a lot of things about the experience from why I decided to do it, what it was like being in the jungle, the things that I was afraid of, and the insights that I gained.
Disclaimer
I also want to share a disclaimer that I'm not suggesting that anyone else go out and have this experience. There are risks involved. If you're considering this, please do a lot of research. You hear horror stories about people who go to Peru and find so...

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Ep 99. Knowing you’re enough with Zoe Blaskey Apr 27, 2020

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Zoe Blaskey of Motherkind joins me on the Calmer You podcast. Her message: knowing you're enough.
We chat about:
* Not feeling good enough – why it happens and how we can overcome it* Zoe’s experience of perfectionism and how she’s not letting it hold her back anymore * Healing intergenerational trauma – healing the past for ourselves and our kids
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Chloe Brotheridge 0:01
Hello and welcome to the Calmer You podcast.
This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a coach, a hypnotherapist, and I'm the author of the Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest, happies and most confident self.
Have a load of free resources on my website to help you to become your Calmest self. Head on over to Calmer-you.com/free to grab those freebies
Now, today's guest is the wonderful Zoe Blaskey who is the founder of Motherkind. She is a host of the Motherkind Podcast. It's for coaches and mothers of all backgrounds, from global CEOs to full-time moms on how to navigate the huge challenges of modern motherhood.
Who's this episode for – everyone
This episode is for you if you are a parent and 100% applies to anyone else who doesn't have kids yet or doesn't want kids.
Her work has helped me a lot. These themes are so universal. We get into all sorts of topics. We talk about not feeling good enough. I can relate personally to so much of what Zoe shares in her story and her experiences. I feel like we've been on quite a similar path in many ways.
We talk about perfectionism, and Zoe shares about how she's not letting that hold her back anymore.
I asked her this question, how are you really and she's really open and honest about that. We even get into the incredibly juicy topic of healing intergenerational trauma, which I am just fascinated by this whole topic.
We learn about how not to pass on our stuff to our kids, but also ensuring that we can be the happiest and best versions of ourselves. I hope you love this episode.
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Ep.98 Flow, money and how to be electric with Jody Shield Apr 20, 2020

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Jody Shield is a performance coach, author of best-selling self-help book “Self-Care For The Soul”, inspirational speaker, TEDx speaker and host of the “Be Electric” podcast.
I hope you can be inspired by Jody’s infectious positivity and confidence.
We chat about:
* What it means to be ‘in flow’* Why we’re so scared to talk about money and how to face your money demons * Consciousness hacking (this is fascinating!)* Jody’s experience of plant medicine
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Intro: Hello, and welcome to the calmer you podcast. This is your host Chloe Brotheridge, I’m a coach, a hypnotherapist and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution, and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest, happiest, and most confident self. In this episode, I am so excited to get to speak to Jody Shield. She is a performance coach, she's the author of the best selling self-help book “Self-care for the soul,” she's an inspirational speaker on Ted x speaker and she's the host of the “Be Electric podcast.” And I hope you will be as inspired as I was by Jody's infectious positivity and confidence. And we get into interesting topics such as what it means to be in flow.
Being in flow
And maybe you've heard of this term you know “being in flow,” it's
really the state of mind that we want to be in. And we talk about how to
cultivate this more and more in our lives, we get into the topic of money which
still in 2020 is such a taboo topic, but it's a real passion of Jody's to speak
about this and to help us to face our money demons and cultivate more abundance
in our lives, and so we get into that topic. We also talk about consciousness
hacking, and this is completely fascinating to me, I think you're going to be
so intrigued by this topic, I'll leave it to Jody to explain what that is but
it's something we can all do. She's sharing the ways that she's consciousness
hacking, and things that we can all do ourselves. And finally Jody shares her
experience, a very transformational experience of that of plant medicine.
So if you want more tools and resources to become your calmest happiest
and most confident self, I've got less a freebies on my website, you can head
over to calmeryou.com/free, enter your e-mail address there and I will send you
right away worksheets, audio downloads and podcast updates. So head over to
calmeryou.com/free to get that. So let's get into the interview with Jody Shield.
Chloe: Alright, let’s do it.
Jody: Let's do it.
Chloe: Welcome Jody, thanks so much for joining me. How are you?
Jody: Thank you so much, I am feeling really good today actually and I was… yeah it's Valentine's Day and self-love day I suppose. So yeah I've booked a lovely rose quartz crystal for the alter.

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Ep 97. How to be the change you want to see in the world with Nova Reid Apr 13, 2020

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Nova Reid is an advocate for equality and was recently nominated as a Positive Role Model for race equality at the National Diversity Awards for the third year running.
She is a certified NLP Life Coach, with an extensive professional background in mental well-being and is a frequent mentor at the Women of the World Festival London. She is regularly invited to provide expert media commentary for BBC and Sky News on race and diversity matters.
I am taking her Anti-racism course and I highly recommend it.
We chat about:
* Being the change you want to see in the world * Her anti-racism work * What are micro-aggressions* How our unconscious biases can cause harm, Nova Reid gets the courage to do the work she does and to be an ally
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Transcript
Intro: Hello,
and welcome to the Calmer-You podcast. This is your host Chloe Brotheridge, I’m
a coach, a hypnotherapist and the author of “the anxiety solution, and brave
new girl.” And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest,
happiest, and most confident self. So in today's episode, I am speaking to Nova
Reid, she is an inspirational speaker, a diversity campaigner, and mentor.
She's an advocate for equality, I was recently nominated as a positive role
model for race equality at the National diversity awards for the 3rd year
running. She's also a certified n.l.p. life coach, she has an extensive
professional background in mental wellbeing, and she's a frequent mentor at the
women of the World Festival in London.
She's also regularly invited to speak on BBC and Sky News on race and diversity matters, I have been learning so much from Nova, I am taking her anti-racism course, and I highly recommend that you check that out if you are inspired by this episode and want to learn more. I think she's doing incredible work in the world and we can see topics such as how we can be the change that we want to see in the world.
We talk about her anti-racism work, and we get into what micro aggressions are, and why they can be so harmful. We talk about our own unconscious biases which we all have by the way and how we need to start to examine them so that we can overcome them.
And I ask Nova how she gets the courage to do the work that she does
because she really is putting herself out there, doing incredibly brave work. We
also get into how to be an ally and what exactly that is. So if you want to get
some free resources to help you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident
self, you can head over to my website, Calmeryou.com/free, into your e-mail
address in there and I’ll send those resources straight away,

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Ep 96. Creating a Natural Lifestyle with Tony Riddle Apr 06, 2020

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Tony Riddle, otherwise known as the natural lifestylist, joined me on the Calmer You Podcast for a very in-depth and inspiring conversation. I think you are going to really find this episode quite fascinating and mind-blowing.
We chat about:
* The link between being disconnected from nature and depression and anxiety.* Re-wilding ourselves – what can we do at work, home and on daily life to re-wild. * Practical tips on everything from the plants to have in your house to clean the air to how to sleep better.
Tony Riddle offers Natural Lifestyle Coaching – find out more here.
* Tunes: https://apple.co/2mhhwoG* Spotify:https://spoti.fi/2nIETYt* Website: https://bit.ly/2HuaZAk
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Transcript
Hello and
welcome to the Calmer You Podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a
coach, a hypnotherapist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave
New Girl. And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest,
happiest and most confident self.
Chloe Brotheridge: Today, I'm speaking to the incredibly interesting Tony Riddell, a.k.a. The Naturallife Stylist. Tony is a natural lifestyle coach and he's spent the last 18 years developing and refining a robust way of life based on the principles of a natural lifestyle. Central to his continuing exploration is the question, “What makes the human animal successful in the modern world?”
We have a really interesting discussion all about the links between our disconnection from nature and the levels of depression and anxiety that we experience.
Tony
teaches us how we can re-wild ourselves, what we can do at work, at home and in
our daily lives to connect back to nature and gain all the health and mental
well-being benefits of doing that.
In this episode
And
he shares loads of practical tips on everything from the plants that you need
to have in your house to clean the air, to how to sleep better, to how to squat
better and so much more.
I think you are going to really find this episode quite fascinating and mind-blowing. So, let's get into the interview with Tony Riddle.
I'd love to invite you to check out
my new app, The Calmer You App. We are so proud of this app. It's been about
two years in the making. It's a great app, I have to say. It's not a crappy app
that was made in a rush with bad design. It works incredibly well.
There are so many tools in their
meditations,

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Ep 95. Busting myths and calming anxiety around COVID-19 with Dr. Frankie Jackson-Spence Mar 30, 2020

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In this episode I am joined by Dr. Frankie Jackson-Spence, we discuss:
* Why social distancing is so important * Dr. Frankie Jackson-Spence shares her COVID-19 anxiety tips * Busting some myths * The good things that can come out of this crisis
Listen at:
* iTunes: https://apple.co/2mhhwoG* Spotify:https://spoti.fi/2nIETYt* Website: https://bit.ly/2HuaZAk
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Transcript
Hello and welcome to the Calmer You Podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a coach, a hypnotherapist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self.
Chloe Brotheridge: So, welcome to this episode. This is a COVID-19 themed episode. Today, after this week, I'm going to be going back to my pre-recorded episodes that I planned, obviously, before this whole situation kicked off. So, perhaps that will be a bit of distraction, a bit more normality to get back to. So, hopefully I'll look forward to that.
But this week, I'm talking to the wonderful Dr. Frankie Jackson-Spence, who is a GP, and she has been sharing a lot about the facts around COVID-19, and busting a lot of myths and helping people to feel calmer and less anxious by spreading helpful information. So, I really wanted to speak to her about this topic.
So, she shares about how she's handling it, how her job has changed as a result of this crisis. We talk about the importance of physical distancing. She busts some of the most common myths that she hears and she shares her tips for feeling calm in the face of the situation.
I also want to let you know that I've created a new tool kit which is designed to help you to feel calm and resilient in uncertain times. You can check out on my website at calmer-you.com/benddontbreak. So, that's calmer-you.com/benddontbreak. So, let's get into the interview with Dr. Frankie.
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Ep 94. Working from Home in a time of Corona Virus with Toni Jones Mar 23, 2020

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Anxious about working from home? Partner driving you to despair because you're together 24/7? In this episode of The Calmer You Podcast I chat with journalist and Shelf Help Bookclub founder Toni Jones about how to handle coronanxiety and thrive at home in a time of Covid-19.
We discuss:
* WFH tips for introverts and extroverts * How to still be social (but also not overwhelm yourself with video calls and WhatsApp messages)* The importance of routine* Working at home with your partner or kids * WFH tips for introverts and extroverts * How to still be social (but also not overwhelm yourself with video calls and WhatsApp messages)
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Transcript
Hello and
welcome to the Calmer You Podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a
coach, a hypnotherapist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave
New Girl. And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest,
happiest and most confident self.
Chloe
Brotheridge: Thank you so much for listening today. Obviously, I'm so
aware of what an anxious time this is for so many of you. I've been having tons
of messages and questions coming through about how to deal with the uncertainty
about coronavirus and all the things that we have to deal with from redundancy
is to not be able to leave the house to lack of social interaction to fear
about our health and the health of our loved ones. There are so many things to
consider right now.
And so, what I normally do is record
podcasts quite a few weeks in advance and I've decided to push back the ones I
had scheduled and actually have in place some podcasts that are dealing with
the issues that we're struggling with today.
So, obviously, I know what an anxious
time they says and I'm going to be planning some online workshops to help you
to feel more resilient and feel more positive in what is, for many people, a
really challenging time.
If you want to hear about that and also download some of the freebies I have on my website, you can go to calmer-you.com/free. I've got hypnotherapy mp3 on there, affirmations, worksheets; all designed to help me to be a calmer you. And I'll also let you know about any events or live workshops I'm doing online.
So, I am chatting on the podcast today to my friend, Toni Jones. She was a guest, maybe a year ago now, on the podcast. She's the founder of the self-help book club, Shelf Help. And I definitely recommend you check them out. There's tons for you to get involved in. Even though the in-person meetups aren’t happening for now, she's doing loads of stuffs online. Definitely check out Shelf Help Club on Facebook and on her website and on Instagram.
I got in touch with Toni because she'd written
a fascinating blog post, all about working from home and the challenges that
can come up for us when it comes to working from home; from being productive to
spending more time with our partners,

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Ep 93. Dial-Up Your Self Worth with Becki Rabin Mar 16, 2020

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This week on the Calmer You Podcast I speak with Becki Rabin. She is THE business coach, brand consultant, speaker, presenter and entrepreneur. Wow!
We chat about:
* How can we shine more brightly without fears of what people think* Becki shares her own story of transformation * Practical tools for dialing-up your self-worth * How to move outside of your comfort zone
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Intro: Hello, and welcome to the Calmer You podcast, this is your host Chloe Brotheridge, I’m a coach, a hypnotherapist and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl.” And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest, happiest, and most confident self. So in the podcast today I get to speak about Becki Rabin, she's a friend of mine, she is a wonderful business coach, she’s a brand consultant, a speaker, an entrepreneur and she's all about helping people to get lit. She explains exactly what that means in this episode. She has so many useful ideas on helping us to master our mindset and feel better about who we are and dial-up our self-worth, how we can build a life of our dreams, how to become the happiest version of ourselves and really unlocking our fullest potential.
I think this really comes through in this episode with Becki. She shares a lot about her own transformation and the journey that she's been on to really shifting her mindset and changing her life in quite dramatic ways. We get into this topic of being lit, being lit up, you know turning a light on, this is something that Becki is really focused on helping people with and why for so many of us we can hold ourselves back from really shining brightly and being confident because we are so scared of what other people are going to think. And so she shares a lot about this and how we can overcome those barriers, so that we can just be our most confident selves. We also talk about anxiety.
Becki shares some of practical tools that she helps her own clients with, and we also get the topic of social media and that pressure, and how we can try to not allow social media to take over our lives.
So I would love to send you some free resources to help you become your calmest and happiest, the most confident self, you can head over the calmeryou.com/free, enter your e-mail address there, then I'm going to send you those free resources, mp3s, worksheets, lots of practical tools, and updates about the podcast, and you can get that calmeryou.com/free. So let's get into the interview with Becki Rabin.
Chloe: Hey Becki.
Becki Rabin: Hello.
Chloe: Welcome, thank you very much, thank you for being here.

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