Shinnel Paras is an innovative educational practitioner who by leaving the stability and comfort of her full-time job as Head of Sixth Form is pursuing her life passion of motivating and inspiring young people from the most disadvantaged communities in London. Together with Shannel Bernard, co-founding Elevate, they are challenging the status quo and challenging the unconscious bias that, for some reason, is still embedded into our education system. Elevate’s exceptional programme consists of fo...
May 28, 2020•22 min•Ep. 26
Are you ready to build your "speak performance", your confidence and professionalism when ‘on a screen near you’ in front of your clients? Whether you're presenting the sales figures to your colleagues or delivering a pitch to 1000 people in the Carnegie Hall, Ges Ray speaks about the business of speaking. Speaker, coach and author, Ges Ray, delivers a toolkit for business delivering the confidence to present professionally in video communications with your clients, the confidence to stand up an...
May 27, 2020•30 min•Ep. 25
A home is a safe environment in which we can flourish. That’s what today’s guest Jessica Leader believes. To Jessica, property means security and she is now committed to creating as many homes as possible that create this foundation for her and for others. A wearer of many hats, each step of Jessica’s career across a variety of industries including marketing, experiential design, corporate, charity and property all combine to join the dots in hindsight to put her on her mission for both financia...
May 26, 2020•30 min•Ep. 24
World Record Holder, Chris Leek is the Fastest Man (Non Wetsuit) to complete the Enduroman Arch 2 Arc challenge. Only 44 athletes have ever achieved this challenge and of those only five have done it without a wetsuit. Chris Leek holds the fastest time in this category. Chris’s WHY is very personal to him and it is what kept him focused throughout every moment of this gruelling triathlon. Chris shares why he chose this unparalleled challenge and takes us on his very emotional journey which invol...
May 25, 2020•36 min•Ep. 23
Kul Mahay shares the secret of how to find your WHY! After 32 years of working in the UK Police Force, Kul became a businessman for the first time in his life and he speaks of how he wants to change the world through the transformation of how people think. He talks about the power of leadership, fourth quadrant thinking, emotional intelligence, public speaking, habits, transformations, passion, values and community. Kul reminds us to never, ever stop chasing your dreams and never ever kid yourse...
May 22, 2020•44 min•Ep. 22
Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections and observations of these recent podcast episodes: 015 Books Change Lives with Bérengère Guéry & Vicky Stanley 016 Circle of Life with Jodie Harburt 017 'Blowtorch on the Belly' Questions with Michael Dodd 018 Sunshine State of Mind with Sunny Mahal 019 Manifest Abundance with Lara Waldman 020 If You Don’t Risk Anything, You Risk Everything with Rob Moore, The Disruptive Entrepreneur KEY TAKEAWAY Many mistakes in life have gone on to become massive succes...
May 21, 2020•16 min•Ep. 21
Amy Rowlinson speaks with Rob Moore to find out what his WHY is, how he found his passion and purpose and what ‘good enough’ looks like. Rob explains how he built both his business and personal brands around his core values: growth and progress. Rob clarifies the importance of his investment in personal development and how it has affected him. He talks about spirituality, paradoxes, reflections, critics and happiness. Rob shares who inspires him, who he seeks to inspire and why he chooses to hel...
May 21, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 20
Lara Waldman is an abundance activator and is passionate about helping entrepreneurs reach their full potential, own who they truly are and build foundations where they can be aligned and connected in all areas of their life. Lara shows her clients how to manifest abundance and allow it to flow more harmoniously by taking them through a mind-blowing and extraordinary transformation. KEY TAKEAWAY “You are more powerful than you realise, powerful beyond measure. You have the power to consciously t...
May 20, 2020•24 min•Ep. 19
Property investor, business owner, coach and public speaker, Sunny Mahal, aka Mr Sunshine, brings magic and sunshine to the audio waves. Sunny shares his WHY and how he seeks to inspire, entertain and educate people either in person or via his social media presence. Together Amy and Sunny cover three different effects: The Domino Effect, the Ripple Effect and the Compound Effect. KEY TAKEAWAY “Things happen in life for you to become the person you are now. How do I become that person? I need to ...
May 19, 2020•31 min•Ep. 18
What is a ‘blowtorch on the belly’ question? What is a soft question? Former Foreign Correspondent for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Michael Dodd, explains the differences in these lines of questioning sharing stories of when he interviewed business leaders, politicians and officials. Nowadays, Michael focuses on helping people provide great answers to the tough ‘blowtorch on the belly’ questions which is much needed in their preparation for tough conversations, media interviews or vital ...
May 18, 2020•42 min•Ep. 17
What does it mean to be happy? What does wellbeing mean to you? What matters to you? How can we combine our individual journeys into being a wider, collective-based journey? These are just some of the questions that Amy’s guest, Jodie Harburt, poses as she talks about some of the many projects she is involved in. Jodie shares how she uses her Cooking up Dialogue sessions and Circle practice to curate important questions allowing the opportunity for people to speak from the heart around important...
May 15, 2020•47 min•Ep. 16
Bérengère Guéry and Vicky Stanley from Beevee Property talk about love, geology, winemaking and how their careers in corporate oil and gas have led them to building co-living homes in the UK. Their WHY is to travel the world, create their own family and spend time with people they love with a dream to live in France surrounded by sea and mountains with their vineyard! KEY TAKEAWAY “Life is short. Why not go after your dreams and follow your passions now? Why wait? You will find a way to make it ...
May 14, 2020•33 min•Ep. 15
Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections and observations of these recent podcast episodes: 008 Get Visible with Anna Parker-Naples 009 Create a Better World with Valter Pontes 010 Life Begins Outside Your Comfort Zone with Shannel Bernard 011 Free the Wage Slave with Skye Khilji 012 Believe in Yourself with Dr Zahida Johal 013 Take the Mañana Out of Your World with Matt Horder KEY TAKEAWAY This podcast “is the water for the seed I planted that is desperate to grow but is still finding its roots! Ve...
May 13, 2020•16 min•Ep. 14
In this podcast episode, Amy Rowlinson speaks with Matt Horder, Financial Planner and Transition Coach at Magus Private Wealth, where his role is to help his clients have uncomfortable conversations taking the mañana out of people’s worlds. He finds out what is important to his clients by building better relationships with them through the process of WHY, WHAT and HOW of his financial coaching and planning. KEY TAKEAWAY “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” Friedrich Nietzsche BOOK...
May 12, 2020•33 min•Ep. 13
Dr Zahida Johal speaks with Amy Rowlinson about her mission to help with the empowerment of people to feel proud of who they are both inside and out and to help them to look younger for longer. Mental wellbeing is the main topic throughout this conversation and Zahida guides us through her personal journey of how she found her calling in the discovery of how to truly believe in herself. KEY TAKEAWAY “Visualise what you want for yourself rather than what everybody else expects of you. Do you trul...
May 11, 2020•33 min•Ep. 12
Skye Khilji joins Amy Rowlinson to talk about why he travels the world moving from one country to the next each month with a flexible business that can be operated remotely. Skye shares what he was doing before he made the conscious decision to “free the work slave” and why it is important for him to have this freedom of lifestyle. What do the words entrepreneur, freedom and legacy mean to Skye Khilji? Tune in to find out! KEY TAKEAWAY “Walk towards your curiosities…you get into a flow state and...
May 08, 2020•38 min•Ep. 11
Shannel Bernard joins Amy Rowlinson to discuss her intense focus on changing her status quo. For the first 17 years of her life, Shannel witnessed her mum being physically and mentally abused and she made a pledge that she would take herself and her family out of that situation, to give her family a life they used to only dream of. Shannel refuses to be a victim of her adversity. Instead she uses this drive to create a successful property investment business, providing quality homes to young pro...
May 07, 2020•31 min•Ep. 10
Valter Pontes, consultant, property investor and entrepreneur, joins Amy to talk about what Valter has done since Amy last interviewed him on The Property Vault Podcast back in November 2019 (Episode 38) and why Valter believes that knowledge is the most expensive resource in the world. Together, they discuss the importance of knowledge, reading, sleep, visualisation, daily habits and WHY Valter is on a mission to become the best version of himself. KEY TAKEAWAY “The best thing a human being can...
May 06, 2020•30 min•Ep. 9
Focus on WHY podcast host, Amy Rowlinson, asks Anna Parker-Naples why is it important to have built a business to help entrepreneurs, coaches, leaders and experts to get visible. From wheelchair to the red carpet of Hollywood, Anna shares her personal journey of recovery and how her highest purpose, which is to awaken, helped drive her to achieve success. Anna wants to turn the light on for as many people as she can through the power of podcasting. KEY TAKEAWAY ‘Stop saying that you can’t. Work ...
May 05, 2020•33 min•Ep. 8
Amy Rowlinson shares her reflections and observations of the recent podcast episodes: 001 WHY? with Amy Rowlinson 002 Stop. Pause. Breathe. Continue with Adrian Brown 003 Now Is Your Time with Jo Akhgar (now Lightfoot) 004 Wheelchair to World Champion with Steve Judge 005 The Art of Social Selling with Sam Rathling 006 Wise Humanity with Davide Pagnotta KEY TAKEAWAY People want a forum to express their experiences, knowledge and in some cases their very soul! This podcast is for everyone to do j...
May 03, 2020•19 min•Ep. 7
Amy Rowlinson speaks with Davide Pagnotta from Wise Humanity. Discussing practical wisdom tools which can be used to remove the unnecessary complications that people create for themselves in life. Essentially, Davide shares ways of how to live a more radiant life, how to connect with the world and connect with one another. Retelling the old Sufi tale of “Good Thing? Bad Thing? Who Knows?”, Davide stresses the importance of viewing events as neutral and not to label them positive or negative. KEY...
May 03, 2020•36 min•Ep. 6
In this podcast episode, host Amy Rowlinson speaks with Sam Rathling, Europe’s leading expert on LinkedIn and Social Selling. Sam shares some invaluable top tips on how to use LinkedIn for business. Attract people through the value you give! Content is king and connection is queen. Before Sam shares her WHY, Sam talks about WHAT she does and HOW she built her first business from nothing. Her WHY is what kept her focused throughout. BOOK RECOMMENDATION* Linked Inbound by Sam Rathling - https://am...
Apr 30, 2020•45 min•Ep. 5
In this podcast episode, host Amy Rowlinson speaks with International Speaker, World Champion and Author, Steve Judge. Steve shares the many times he picked himself up after being knocked down both mentally and physically enabling him to go from wheelchair to world champion. He explains how he had to rebuild his wellness through mental and physical strength to move forward on his journey. In this podcast, you’ll learn how to adopt and adapt these skills to turn excuses into challenges and live a...
Apr 30, 2020•48 min•Ep. 4
In this podcast episode, host Amy Rowlinson speaks with Jo Akhgar (now Lightfoot) and discover Jo’s favourite word in the English language: passion! She even wrote a dissertation on the word ‘passion’ and now she is building an entire business around it. Jo uses her intrinsic compass to steer her through her life and she shares her reasons WHY she does what she does. Together with Amy, they discuss the role fulfilment has in life and how important it is to live with complete authenticity. KEY TA...
Apr 30, 2020•41 min•Ep. 3
In this podcast episode, Amy’s guest is Adrian Brown and they talk about change in today’s world and how to adapt and contribute. Adrian shares his 4 Step Process: Stop – Pause – Breathe – Continue – which can be applied to all aspects of your life. Currently, most of Adrian's work is dedicated to his clients reinventing themselves to survive the crisis and be better, faster and stronger post-pandemic. KEY TAKEAWAY Knowing your WHY helps people to uninvent the past and invent their future. RECOM...
Apr 30, 2020•46 min•Ep. 2
In this inaugural Focus on WHY podcast episode, the tables are turned on host Amy Rowlinson as Atuksha Poonwassie asks Amy why she has set up this new podcast. What is it about? Who is it for? Why is it important? Following her journey in business, life, personal development, Amy shares her passion as to why she is seeking to inspire others with this new podcast. KEY TAKEAWAY “Focusing on WHY is the foundation for everything that we do. For me, it is so important to understand what it is you're ...
Apr 30, 2020•51 min•Ep. 1
