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Welcome to Positively Selfish, with Robyn Lee. My mission is to show you that IT IS OK (and positive!) to be more protective and selfish with your time and do more for yourself rather than just give and give and give your time to everyone else around you. I take you away from the craziness of life.. for inspiring stories, awesome information and overall: empowerment. I interview guests who I admire for their mission, what they represent and who I know will inspire you to be more Positively S ...
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Guy Horne - How to play Life Chess.. and win [#099]
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Guy is a man of many many talents and you cannot listen to this episode without learning an immense amount about yourself, your life, your career/business and how to uplevel it all. Guy is the CEO of HSPG (where I also happen to be the MD!) - an impactful, innovative social housing real estate company supporting all angles of the UK homelessness cr…
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Dr Frankie Jackson-Spence - What's NORMAL?? Periods, morning after pill, training & more... [#098]
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Dr Frankie is a NHS Junior Doctor, Media Medic and absolutely divine human, dedicating her career to researching cancer, conducting clinical trials within the treatment landscape, diving deep into our immune systems and if that wasn't enough.. she's also educating the masses on getting to know our bodies, demystifying our cycles and helping women t…
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Nathan Dyke - Inside the Mind, Body and Motivation of a SURVIVOR [#97]
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I ask all the questions you're dying to ask.. We get the answers, and I'm still just as much in the dark as you are, but convinced that More Gainz takes home the Survivor win!! Nathan is not only one of the nicest humans on the planet, he looks like a friggin superhero and runs like one too. We chat through his insane schedule, his job(s), how he g…
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Lauren White: From Rock Bottom to Sober.. Her journey so far...
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Lauren is a motivational speaker (I challenge you to be in her presence and NOT feel motivated by her insanely warm, supportive energy btw), Addiction Counsellor, and Founder of the Sober Collective (check it out on insta - @sober.collective), working with successful high achievers who struggle to break free from self sabotage and toxic behaviours.…
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Emma Wilson - How to turn 30, WITHOUT losing your sh*t [#095]
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Stressing about approaching key milestones and not being ‘there yet (or ever)’ – owning a home, career/ earnings goals, getting married, having kids, just actually making new friends..? Emma is the first and only life coach dedicated to helping those who are turning 30 to feel better at this transitional time. After experiencing her own personal tu…
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Dr Emilia Thompson: Emotional Eating 101 [#094]
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Dr Emilia Thompson @dremiliathompsonphd is a disordered eating coach, mentor, podcast host, super honest and authentic human and my long time gym girl crush! Why do we emotionally eat? What do we do about it? How do we stop? This is Emilia's expertise, so listen in... We chat everything from emotional eating, the BS of the fitness industry and I qu…
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You've heard it mentioned, you may or may not have a clue what it is: let these guys clear it up for you! I ask them the questions you feel too silly to ask.. and then some :D Cue the insanely knowledgable Jack: daily learner & Crypto investor who fell down the rabbit hole 5 years a go and never got out. He has a passion for defi, NFTs and the meta…
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David Birtwistle - ACTIONS reflect Priorities [#092]
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David Birtwistle - what a legend. Founder of online fitness business - Endeavour Life, Coach, lifestyle junkie and you may have seen him grace your TV screen from time to time as well. We chat all things life, motivation, mindset, December nutrition and how not to lose it! And there are a definitely a few love punches in there to get your arse into…
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Opt for Mama - Bodies, Bumps, Boobs ... and Pelvic Floors! [#091]
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Mama-to-be or mamas, this is one for you! OPT for MAMA is a power duo of Amanda and Rachel: Amanda is a Physical Therapist specialising in perinatal care and the pelvic floor. Rachel is an Occupational Therapist trained in child development and parental education. They created OPT for MAMA to help women navigate pregnancy, birth, and postpartum wit…
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Gambling, Gaming, Guilt and Girls: The Girl Gambler [#090]
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Stacey Goodwin AKA The Girl Gambler is the fairy godmother for female gamers: for those who feel they may be taking it too far, and those who are simply enjoying it all. Stacey shares all about her losing significant amounts in a matter of days, feeling so alone in her journey and everything up to where she's at now: what an honest, empowered, insp…
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One Corporate Blonde - Brains, Beauty and Badass all in One [#089]
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Becky, AKA, One Corporate Blonde, is a Chartered Accountant and Senior Manager at one of the Big 4 worldwide Accountancy firms, living in Manchester. She also dazzles us on a daily basis with fashion tips, new outfits and your absolute faves at a fraction of the price. Hello high-end fashion on a normal human’s budget! We chat and laugh away about …
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Emma Kirk Odunubi - How Mental Resilience Wins Every Time [#088]
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Emma Kirk-Odunubi is a footwear expert and sports scientist with an incredible 10 years in the running industry. Emma masters a whole host of talents: Coaching group treadmill classes and 121s at Thirdspace, being a running biomechanics nerd and trainer geek: matching the perfect footwear to the individual runner, runner, crossfitter, S&C coach and…
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Josh White, CanOwater - How Obsession Can Create Success [#87]
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Josh White, co-Founder of Canowater, shares the fascinating journey from 3 friends in full time jobs, through a load of twists, turns, rejection and determination to create one of the coolest branded, ethically sourced, infinitely recyclable alternatives to single use plastic bottles I’ve ever seen: CanO Water. If you want to hear how you block out…
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Sarah Welsh, HANX - “Sex, Shame, Stimulation… and Condoms” [#086]
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SEX: us Brits are so prude.. Cue: Sarah Welsh for normalising sex, female sexual health, knowing our bodies (gals) and de-prudifying Positively Selfish. Thank you! The lovely gynaecology doctor and co-founder of vegan condom company HANX is doing more than just creating sex-care products that are kinder to us and the planet. She and her oldest scho…
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Olamide Michelle - Do You Know What You Want In Life? [#085]
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The beautiful Olamide Michelle exudes charisma, chill (even though she sometimes disagrees!) and the most calming aura that you just wanna be around. Michelle is a trademark attorney, business mentor, health and wellness enthusiast, dancer, owner of Omi Brand Consulting and a total all-rounder. We love an all rounder! Michelle literally takes no BS…
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Gary Neville - No Filter on Success. Failure. Lockdown. [#084]
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I’ve only had a handful of guests on Positively Selfish who need absolutely no introduction and this is definitely one of them: not only a Manchester hero but a worldwide legend - Mr. Gary Neville. His whole professional football career was dedicated to our favourite team: Manchester United, now a highly strategic entrepreneur, the best pundit on B…
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Jack Forth, Flow Cognition - How To Unlock YOUR FLOW [#083]
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I am gonna assume that right now, most of you would agree with me that bringing out the ‘best you’ and unlocking your flow is pretty high up on the agenda. So I am buzzing that Jack has founded Flow Cognition and basically helped us do just that. Flow Cognition is one of my new favourite brands, born in Manchester, my fave City, with a huge amount …
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Amy Hughes - “80% Mental, 20% Physical!” [#082]
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This podcast is so aptly named after one of my absolute FAVOURITE phrases Amy uses in her incredible - beyond incredible - Barry’s bootcamp classes. Amy is an absolute hero: her physical (and mental!) feats are insane and the way she pours that motivation, inspiration and love into her clients, friends and quite frankly anyone she supports is WILD.…
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Denise Duffield-Thomas - "What A Lucky Bitch!" [#81]
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Denise is a total legend, I am SO grateful to have had the pleasure of interviewing her! Do you have money mindset blocks? Well, spoiler alert, we all do! Denise sheds all the mindblowing light on how our engrained childhood memories can shape our successes, self sabotage and what to do with the information once you realise it. Go and listen with a…
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Sarah Knight - “The life changing magic of ACTUALLY not giving a fu*k” [#80]
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You could say Sarah Knight was the catalyst that put a rocket up my own personal development journey. She simply an absolutely incredible human: after 15 years as a book editor in NYC, she became a best selling author of the ‘No F**ks given guides’, TedX speaker, and she’s been featured in a whole host of publications including Vogue, The New York …
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Stuart Armfield - What do you LOVE? (In a world filled with uncertainty) [#079]
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I’m hugely grateful to have this inspirational superstar Stuart Armfield on the show this week. We discussed the madness of the world right now, how to deal with it in a positive way and how to really truly accept yourself. Stuart - Executive National Vice President with Arbonne and total friggin badass human - shares his thoughts on being Positive…
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Mary Jelkovsky - Ask The Angels and FLY [#078]
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Mary Jelkovsky is a truly inspiring, empowering, refreshing INTERNATIONAL WOMAN. So, who better to star on Positively Selfish today than the angel herself. We discuss guilt, self-love, being an example to your loved ones, giving yourself a break, trusting the universe and social media. Whether you relate, sympathise, feel gratitude, reflect or simp…
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Rick Stevens is, quite frankly, a very modest legend. Highly successful in everything he has done and will do: Rick is a father, husband, star (my words not his!) of SAS Who Dares Wins, CrossFitter, charity ambassador, adventurer, barrister and so many more things! Rick delves into everything from behind the scenes stories that you won’t have seen …
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Have You Given Them Your Power? - Robyn Lee [#076]
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Have You Given Them Your Power? You have the power over your thoughts, emotions, life decisions and choices. But does it sometimes feel that you don't? If you find yourself under the watchful eye of other people's opinions, even sometimes changing your decisions as a result, you NEED to listen to this episode. Are you giving them your power? Have a…
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Patrick Hamilton Walsh - The ONE podcast that will SKY ROCKET your 2020 [#075]
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Patrick Hamilton Walsh is here to tell you how to set up your 2020 in a way that will not follow the same patterns of old: if will not find you on the 2nd week of January already giving up hope on your goals and resolutions. Patrick is a totally inspiring Author, Adventurer, Life Coach and super well-travelled Phoneographer. After training as a Cha…
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Jack Dyson - Happiness: The most important KPI to life? [#074]
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Totally privileged to have chatted to, been inspired by, taken advice from and laughed a LOT with this awesome human, Jack Dyson. Jack - Global Brand Manager for Boda Skins and Nadine Merabi - adds another dimension to Positively Selfish with his creativity, vision and focus on doing the right thing. Above all, he’s all in on happiness: his ultimat…
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Mark Ross - Have Your Cake, Eat It, And Enjoy It! [#072]
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Mark Ross' variety of life is inspiring: from playing semi-pro football to coaching 50 people at a time at Barry's Bootcamp in Manchester, to training his team of Lifestyle Lean dudes online.. repping myprotein, and casually throwing a bit of planning for his wedding abroad in between! Mark Ross is a BUSY man. We chat life, nutrition, fitness, life…
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6 top tips on how to win the day. And how do you even know if you’ve won? This is an episode I wanted to for my clients, friends, and really for myself as well. Sometimes you can go through the motions of the day and not really feel like you’ve achieved much. But you always have, no matter how small. So how do you know if you’ve won?…
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10 Turkeys and 20 Vodkas, anyone? - Clare Rafferty [#071]
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Could I be anymore obsessed with this gal if I tried?! Along with showing deep rooted love for the Raff, we truly throw some great content out there about December diets and not letting it alllllll go to pot; how to ‘manage the damage’ over the festivities, why you should never feel guilty and other big debates around this illustrious month. Enjoy …
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We Are Feel Good Club - What’s ACTUALLY Making You Feel Good Today? [#070]
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So incredible spending the evening with these two wives, who are on a mission to make us feel good and support us in being our best and happiest self. It’s just the name of their brand, they truly personify it in their social media posts, products and their whole vibe! You’ll also notice, I went totally raw on this one: no intro, straight in, no ed…
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Robyn Lee - End of A Triennium (yup, that’s a word) [#069]
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I answer your questions, name drop basically everyone I know and just have a few lols to myself about life and get pretty passionate about being Positively Selfish. Enjoy x Check me out: Instagram: @itsrobynlee Stay #PositivelySelfish you awesome human.By Robyn Lee
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Bonnie and Danielle - The Absolute Definition of YAS QUEEN! [#068]
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These two queens embody what it truly means to when we shout YASS QUEEEENN! Bonnie Lister Parsons created Seen On Screen, with an incredible timetable of pop-inspired dance classes for all levels, taught by the celebrity instructors who work with the stars. Their professional instructors are regularly seen on screen, dancing with Beyoncé, Drake,…
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Jessie Aru-Phillips - “I am amazing because…” [#067]
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Today I’m super excited to chat to Jessie, who is a BBC Radio 5 Live video journalist, award winning podcast creator and producer of ‘The Sista Collective’, the BBC's first podcast led by Black British women. Jessie worked as a reporter for Forces TV, reporting from Kuwait and Afghanistan, and also previously represented Great Britain in athletics.…
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Robyn Lee - Get Over Yourself Mate [#066]
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Another short, sharp show about gratitude, learning from others and your ego! I am SO happy to be wrong these days: bye bye ego bitch of old! Where’s your ego at? I also give you a challenge and I’m so intrigued as to how it goes for you... Check me out: Instagram: @itsrobynlee Stay #PositivelySelfish you awesome human.…
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Steven Bartlett - This Guy Needs No Tagline [#065]
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Steve has gone from shoplifting pizzas and unable to pay his rent to being the CEO of probably the most influential and creative marketing agency in the world: Social Chain; speaking on the same stage as Barack Obama; Ted talking, taking his company public and living out his dreams. We chat everything from whether or not to have a plan B, bursting …
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Elise Rose Richmond - What Would You Do If You Had 5 Years To Live? [#064]
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Elise you total friggin BADASS, it was an honour to have you on the show. Hard to find a clip without me gasping or wow’ing at your stories of adventures, living life to the absolute max and having a totally Positively Selfish outlook to all of your endeavours. Listen as we chat adventures, being a boss chick, exploring Mother Nature’s delights, pl…
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Sophie Malkin - How To Stop Carrying Your Regrets With You and LIVE [#063]
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When life gave her lemons, she well and truly made lemonade. Not only lemonade, but a whole load of lemon drizzle cake, lemon cookies, lemon sorbet and everything in between. Sophie is an incredible friend, with a badass career, she smashes her workouts and TRULY appreciates the gems that life has to offer. She doesn’t take anything for granted and…
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Leanne Brown - Girl Got Grit, Trust Me [#062]
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Leanne Brown: you may know her, you may THINK you know her. Have a listen to this and you’ll get her up, close, personal, gritty, honest and raw. Leanne is one of the kindest, warmest souls and you can’t help but feel this when you’re around her. She is a fierce protector of her beautiful family and listening to her story, you’ll understand why. We…
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Carl Greenslade - When The Universe Gives You A Puppy [#061]
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I AM SO PROUD OF MY FRIEND Carl Greenslade!!!! This legend picked up his life and moved to Montenegro. He is an incredible online personal trainer, nutrition and performance coach and I’m so honoured to share my Positively Selfish stage with him today. Carl shares a recent story of the cutest puppy every - Salma. You’re gonna love this one. When th…
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Robyn Lee - Make Them, Break Them, Just Don’t Let Them Break YOU [#060]
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Another short, sharp show about a mystery topic. I want you to know: you can make them, break them, but just don’t let them break you. What am I on about? Listen to find out… Listen in to find out how to get your own free guide sent to you on my mystery topic today! Check me out: Instagram: @itsrobynlee Stay #PositivelySelfish you awesome human.…
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Claire and Annette - Getting Hot And Moody - [#059]
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Claire and Annette form 2 different, but equally delightful halves of the duo Hot and Moody. They share a podcast, share their views on women being able to be hot and moody! In all seriousness, this pair tell it like it is. They know that menopause and everything surrounding it can be at best taboo and at worst just not known by anyone. So, they’re…
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Manwellness - How Do You Keep Going When It Just Keeps Getting Worse? [#058]
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Manuel Benages has had so much crap thrown at him during his time, you couldn’t even imagine it. He remains incredibly positive and THIS is really a lesson in itself. Manuel’s wild journey of life has taken him from drinking pints of spirits and doing grams of coke, to being the founder of @getfit4mentalwellness changing thousands of lives on the d…
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Jamie Windust - Being Unapologetically Positively Selfish [#057]
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What an absolute breath of fresh air you are: Jamie Windust and I chat everything from their life inspiration as a schoolchild, to the positives of social media (for a change on the show!), to sustainable fashion, workout wear and what being Positively Selfish is all about: being unapologetically YOU, my friend. What better way to round off an insa…
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Clare Rafferty - Stop Judging a Book By it's Cover [#056]
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Clare Rafferty is an online trainer, group exercise trainer and absolute all round star. But like with many of my guests, please look behind the scenes because she has faced an extraordinary amount of tragedy and life overhauls to get to this point. Clare is a total hottie, honest, REAL and knows her stuff about food, fitness and focus. We discuss …
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Michael Maisey - Armed Robber to Local Hero: The Journey [#055]
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Michael Maisey is a true gentleman, a TV star, a picture of health. But please look behind the scenes because it wasn’t always that way: a former heroin addict, served a prison sentence, angry at the world and suffered a childhood filled with abuse. Let this be the precursor before you get stuck into Michael’s incredible book: YOUNG OFFENDER. We di…
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Ben Coomber - 50 Reasons To Upgrade Your Life [#053]
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ONE YEAR ON: I’m so excited to be re-joined by my first ever guest, for the 1 year anniversary of Positively Selfish, Ben Coomber - performance nutritionist, coach, international speaker, writer, podcast host, with the UK’s number 1 podcast, educator, owner of Awesome Supplements and BTN Academy, fabulous friend and mentor to me, an amazing human a…
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Robyn Lee - How has It Been A Year? [#052]
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A short, sharp show reviewing the Positively Selfish inspiration we’ve had over the last year. And a HUGE THANK YOU to the over 25,000 downloads we’ve had to date. Wow!! Here’s to many more shows, being Positively Selfish and having an AMAZING day :) Check me out: Instagram: @itsrobynlee #PositivelySelfish…
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Samantha: The Glambox - How To Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway [#051]
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Today I’m joined by Sam, who is the owner of award winning salon: The Glam Box; highly successful entrepreneur and mummy to 2 beautiful kids. Sam keeps it real with the ups, downs and more ups of her entrepreneurial journey. She is so down to earth and gives us some absolute gems of wisdom how she is smashing her goals, loves a good motivational bo…
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Tim Cooper - One Moment, One Decision, One Life: He’s Living It [#050]
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Aside from being a total LEGEND, Tim Cooper is an outstanding Recovery Coach, speaker, author of “The Art of Unlearning”. Listen to the first 2 minutes of his story and you will be HOOKED. We discuss addiction, trauma, affaird, being on the verge of suicide and that one moment that changed his life forever. Enough said.. Go and enjoy! Check Tim out…
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