I bring back Alison O’Leary, a Career and Life coach, who comes to help us understand the importance of uncovering our Adventures in Happiness.

This bleeds nicely into my mantra of getting you to be more YOU, more of the time and have more fun in your everyday.

Back in episode 16, Ali and I talked about how designing your ideal working lifestyle was also key to defining the way YOU want to work. And we shared how work looks very different today, to say… our parent’s generation.

The world has changed, so I guess the question is: have you really realised that? Or are you operating on autopilot of what work HAS to look like because of a set of beliefs you are following based on the past?

In this episode, we ask you to open your mind - because we are going to dig into what you can do to enjoy your work more and specifically how you can build adventures of happiness into your day, week, month and year.

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𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗜𝗢:

Alison is a highly experienced, certified life and career coach and is an active ideal life advocate, helping people to discover their adventures in happiness.

She’s the founder and designer of the Work Wonderland™ process, her proprietary model that helps people make career and life choices that truly align with their values, strengths, passions, skills and life goals. She hosts her own podcast show called Dream Chasers.

Alison hails from a high-paced, London-based corporate background, working for more than 20 years in the field of PR and Communications, until she made her own radical transition to her ideal life, living and working from a remote mountainside in Wales.

Today she focusses her life coaching on supporting professionally successful people in making career changes that facilitate transformational life change.

𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗬 𝗥𝗢̈𝗦𝗧𝗟𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗕𝗜𝗢:

Shelley is a systems-led brand strategist working with knowledge experts…those who teach, educate, consult, advise or mentor others. Her specialism is in helping you uncover your genius gifts which the world needs from you and translate that into something that can be marketed and communicated in a way that’s comfortable for you.

South African born and British-grown, Shelley has worked with 150+ brands across 30+ industries through her consultancy and agency work. She runs her specialist marketing agency Harbour 32, with her magically gifted friends, where they focus on personal brand strategy and podcast show positioning.

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All episodes are video recorded and can be watched in the website show notes at shelleyrostlund.com/podcast, or on YouTube. (Click here for the full audio transcribed version).

I start the conversation with you about how you physically speak or communicate with your clients, or with an audience when you are recording a video, delivering a webinar, doing the work you do, or even being on podcast show.

I introduce you to Vocal Archetypes, and particularly how Vinh Giang describes these in his communication skills training, which I have done myself.

Honestly, Vinh is an absolute model of excellence if you are looking for someone to listen to, or even emulate when it comes to flexing your communication muscles.

In this episode I am going to walk you through some of what I’ve directly learnt from Vinh about the core foundations to communicating effectively, and will also share the four main vocal archetypes that Vinh teaches in his communication training. These four are the main ones that are easy enough for you to learn about and absorb immediately. AND you will want to.

Why is this important? Because you have to speak and use your voice A LOT, in your work - in consulting, advising and or teaching your clients. (Not to mention if you have a speaking gig opportunity!)

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𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗬 𝗥𝗢̈𝗦𝗧𝗟𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗕𝗜𝗢:

Shelley is a systems-led brand strategist working with knowledge experts…those who teach, educate, consult, advise or mentor others. Her specialism is in value propositions, the product eco-system sitting inside brand strategies.

South African born and British-grown, Shelley has worked with 150+ brands across 30+ industries through her consultancy and agency work, and spends the majority of her time teaching subject matter experts running micro businesses how to transform their expertise into a momentum-building brand machine.

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All episodes are video recorded and can be watched in the website show notes at shelleyrostlund.com/podcast, or on YouTube. (Click here for the full audio transcribed version).

I bring my Speaking Coach, Jackie Goddard, back on so we can have an open discussion about what it was like being coached to prepare for my talk at You Are The Media’s Creator Day, down in Poole (south coast of UK).

Come and be a fly on the wall as we walk through Jackie’s process, using my talk as a demonstrative example.

You’ll get some ideas on how this reflects on you, and how you move your clients through from point A to point B. This will be a particularly useful listen if you have been wanting to present something to a room, or even stand up on a stage and something has been stopping you.

Consider working with a speaking coach. I can highly recommend Jackie who is a complete subject matter expert at what she does.

Guess what? Speaking coaching isn’t “presentation skills” training – it’s so much more. The main meat of your value in delivering whatever it is that you are working on to share with an audience - is about eliciting what it is exactly you are trying to get across in your message, finding relatable stories and images to bring that message home, and then to find a way to do it in YOUR WAY.

And yes, Jackie will teach you about the anatomy of voice, breathing and balancing your wellbeing as well.

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𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗜𝗢:

Jackie Goddard is a Speaking Trainer and Coach who helps business owners, leaders and authors to gain confidence delivering paid talks to share their knowledge and leverage their authority in their space.

She is on a mission to empower yearning speakers to get excited about sharing their ideas, stories and life lessons.

She teaches her clients how to craft engaging talks, use their voice and breath better and sharpen their overall performance skills.

Jackie has over 25 years of experience working in and around the performing arts as an actor, director, producer, and teacher, facilitating acting and voice workshops.

𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗬 𝗥𝗢̈𝗦𝗧𝗟𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗕𝗜𝗢:

Shelley is a systems-led brand strategist working with knowledge experts…those who teach, educate, consult, advise or mentor others. Her specialism is in value propositions, the product eco-system sitting inside brand strategies.

South African born and British-grown, Shelley has worked with 150+ brands across 30+ industries through her consultancy and agency work, and spends the majority of her time running her group programme, teaching micro businesses how to transform their expertise into a momentum-building brand machines.

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All episodes are video recorded and can be watched in the website show notes at shelleyrostlund.com/podcast, or on YouTube. (Click here for the full audio transcribed version).