Petra Velzeboer is a therapist, facilitator and executive coach. She skilled up after a childhood with no education living in a religious cult that erased her identity and future. Through depression, anxiety, alcohol dependence and suicidal thoughts she reached her rock bottom at 25 and decided she had a choice: to learn how to truly live or to end her life now. Over a decade of experimenting on strategies for success and learning everything about mindset and psychology, her life is 100% different than what it might have been! Her goal is to teach others who are near their rock bottom, to...
Latest episodes
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52 min
74: Homeless at 16 with Ed Moss
A young carer who’s mother passed away leaving him with a violent father, Ed Moss ran away from home at 16 & never looked back. Bouncing between sofas, homelessness, local authorit…
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47 min
73: The Outsiders Way In with David Thirumur
David Thirumur is a Social Entrepreneur, Youth Expert & Motivational Speaker who fought his way back from suicide, isolation and bullying in order to create a life he could be prou…
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38 min
72: How to be an Entrepreneur with Sian Winfield
The journey of building a business is hard! It’s fraught with anxiety, loneliness & self-doubt! My business coach and founder of CoStartup&Go talks us through productivity, how to…
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47 min
71: How I Cured My Anxiety with Seb Abecasis
Seb, a growth manager with Timewith, talks us through crippling anxiety and how he got through it. Growing up in the expat community, attending an international school in sunny Spa…
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21 min
Bonus: A straight talk on taking responsibility for your life!
Ok here goes! It’s just me this episode and I want to give you some hard-hitting advice on taking personal responsibility for your life. Everyone has a ‘reason’ for why they’re dow…
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29 min
70: The Path Back from Suicide with Simon Jay
Simon Jay is the Commercial Director for the Thrive App, but when he was younger he attempted to take his life long before he knew what depression was. This is a real story filled…
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28 min
70: The Path Back from Suicide with Simon Jay
Simon Jay is the Commercial Director for the Thrive App, but when he was younger he attempted to take his life long before he knew what depression was. This is a real story filled…
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37 min
69: PTSD and Me with Lloyd Dean
‘PTSD may always affect me but I get to decide how I react to it.’ Lloyd Dean experienced a horrific car crash leading to PTSD which he now manages through tips he shares on the po…
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51 min
68: The Addicts Blessing with Henry Johnstone
Ooohhhh this is a good one! Henry is a dynamic coach who is changing the world one powerful conversation at a time! But it wasn’t always this way…join us as we go deep into addicti…
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41 min
67: #SeenNotScreen with Scott Newby
Scott Newby is on a mission to normalise mental health at work and his campaign #SeenNotScreen is about reminding ourselves to connect with the person away from screens. Scott only…
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33 min
66: Make your side hustle your reality with Jessica Tosser
Jessica Tosser helps women leave 9 -5 jobs and start a business they’re passionate about. Find out how to build the mindset that makes up 80% of what you need to do the thing you’r…
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51 min
65: Show No Weakness with Jon Landau
Investment Director for New Model Venture Capital, Jon looks after a portfolio of early stage businesses and talks about success amidst a backdrop of an MS diagnosis in his 20’s an…
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29 min
64: Dream Big in 2019 with Smaranda Boros
Join me and Professor Psychologist Smaranda Boros as we take a stroll in south east London and muse on the New Year, all the cliche’s around resolutions and debate our opinions on…
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46 min
63: Loneliness & How to Deal with It
Are you missing family, reflective, isolated & losing the ability to truly connect? Check out this frank discussion about loneliness, the benefits, challenges and tips for how to c…
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49 min
62: The Day that Changed Everything with Suzy Basetone
On the perfect path to actress success, a horrific motorbike accident changed everything and forced Suzy Bastone to reevaluate everything. Raised in a perfect country-living life,…
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48 min
61: Conscious Relationships with Anita Cassidy
Writer, Novelist and co-founder of the first Conscious Relationship community, Anita Cassidy talks us through the slow rise of apathy and unhappiness in relationships and what to d…
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44 min
60: How to Survive Cheating with Olga Geidane
If you’ve ever been cheated on, had to find a way to survive heartbreak and financially struggled to survive than this episode is for you. Olga Geidane’s early conditioning was all…
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42 min
59: Get Rid of the Toxic Voice with Kathlene Monet
Health coach, abuse survivor, mother, Kathlene Monet has plenty of real advice on how to get through a rock bottom and thrive. In an intensely emotionally-abusive relationship, unh…
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44 min
58: Unconscious Bias with Daniel Holley
So excited to have Daniel Holley on again (remember his ADHD and belonging story in Episode 7?) discussing a topic dear to his heart: Unconscious Bias specifically in the coaching…
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47 min
57: Self Harm to Total Confidence with Danielle Mensah
Founding Director of Qidanchi, Danielle Mensah talks self-harm, an abusive step-father, crisis at university and while managing a successful career in Financial services, spirallin…