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Episode 15: Journey to the Food Freedom Fairy

In this episode Jenny shares her powerful story of how hospitalisation as a little girl led to her overeating and secret eating as comfort. She tried all kinds of things and in the end lost 40kg through meal replacements but, in her heart, knew there must be another way by healing women’s relationship with themselves and with food. Hence the Food Freedom Fairy Æ was born. We hear about her key learning on her journey and two great book recommendations for you.

Jenny McDonald, aka The Food Freedom Fairy®, empowers serial dieters and emotional eaters to eat cake without feeling guilty, release weight without dieting and most importantly heal their relationship with themselves.

Like many, Jenny struggled with food from an early age. Recognising her larger body was not accepted by society led to feelings of shame and guilt around food, secret eating and constant dieting.

In 2004 Jenny started to repair her relationship with food and lost over 40kg. She went on to work in the diet industry. Years later witnessing clients repeat the lose, gain cycle she knew there had to be another way.

Jenny is an award-winning, best-selling author of ‘The Book the Diet Industry Doesn’t Want You to Read’, speaker, coach, and energy alignment mentor with over 18 years of experience in weight loss.

Jenny is a certified and accredited Health and Life Coach trained in CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) and various energy healing modalities. She offers private coaching and a group membership programme for women who are ready to ditch the diet and lose weight for the last time!

To connect with Jenny:

All links: https://linktr.ee/_jennymc

Book: https://amzn.eu/d/ho7gXAt

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/605793686751503/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JennyMcDonald.Power

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_jennymc/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennymc/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Dq0OHvSTh-FF9jaGKFNsQ?view_as=subscriber

Podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C16IU1baAUE98DpuNukmS?si=4te3lLBoQkmk_aTKjQg03w&nd=1&dlsi=911a5f474b5245d7

To connect with me and join my group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/unlikelyguru/?ref=share

https://www.facebook.com/ann.girling/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anngirling/

http://facebook.com/yourunlikelyguru

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Date broadcast: 27th August 2024

Episode 14: Journey to Holistic Healing

In this episode Jo shares with us how a miscarriage at 6 months led her to reevaluate her life and become a holistic healer helping women through miscarriage and onto their next pregnancy and also older women who have rather lost their way. She has a great book recommendation and she shares some great learning how change is inevitable and trust in the process. Listen on!!

Emotional Wellbeing Intuitive Coach & Holistic Therapist Jo has been working in the field of complementary therapies since 1997. She made the decision to cross over from the corporate world after she experienced a miscarriage at 24 weeks which changed her life and her direction.

After taking a diploma in Aromatherapy at The Tisserand Institute she went on to train in multiple therapies, including Aromatherapy in Pregnancy, Indian Head Massage, Reiki, Hypnosis, Wellbeing Coaching, Mindfulness & Meditation, Vitali Chi, The Energy Alignment Method (EAM) and Sound Healing Tuning Forks and INIGMA Healing Certification.

She runs Holistic Healing Wellbeing Retreats in Turkey, France and Ibiza.

Jo offers a unique blend of transformation and joy which is bespoke to each person. She draws on her different modalities depending on what is required at the time, as no one size fits all.

Jo is the author of “Life after Miscarriage - Your Guide to Healing from Pregnancy Loss” and the Owner of “Essences by Jo” a range of Aromatherapy Body and Bath Blends.

Jo runs a membership group called The Cherish Circle, where women come together weekly on a Monday at 7.30 pm to take time for themselves, with guided meditation and breathing exercises.

Jo holds professional membership of The Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT) and is a regular speaker at networking events including Women In Business Network and SisterSnog. She is a member of f:entrepreneur Top 100 2019 and winner of Janey Loves Gold Award and Highly Commended Award in the Voice Category at the Mpower Awards.

She is a silver winner for Essences by Jo, in the Best Product Category at the Best Business Women Awards 2023 and a silver winner in helping Families and Children at the BBWA’s 20

To connect with Jo:

https://jotocher.com/ https://jotocher.com/oracle-cards/

https://jotocher.com/cherish-circle/

To connect with me and join my group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/unlikelyguru/?ref=share

https://www.facebook.com/ann.girling/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anngirling/

http://facebook.com/yourunlikelyguru

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Hosted by Ann Girling

Date broadcast: 13th August 2024

In this episode Yvonne shares her decision to leave a well paid corporate job to seek greater purpose outside not initially knowing what she was going to do. Her story is one of going from extreme stress to the joy of running her own business as a coach and she also gives us some tips about managing procrastination which we all suffer from to some extent!

Yvonne Pritchard is a “Fabulous” coach, who coaches and mentors women to;

• Remove doubt
• Be more confident
• Discover their identity
• Fall in love with themselves
• And to be Fabulous.

I know what it feels like to be less than Fabulous. I didn’t know who I was, what my purpose was and I had lost my confidence, my mojo and my sparkle. People didn’t know this as I hid it well, and this was exhausting. I was putting on a mask and pretending to be happy, in control and confident, I was not. This took it toll on me and I ended up being diagnosed with depression. Fast forward to now and I am 100% in love with myself, I know who I am, what I stand for, I am happy, confident, and in control of my life, and when curve balls come, I know how to deal with them.

She is walking, talking proof that you can be the person you want to be, but you need to invest time and money into yourself to make these changes. And I hope we’ll hear her story

She is an NLP Master Coach, A Time Line Therapy Master coach and a Hypnosis Master. Over the past 5 years she has coached over 200 people to be fabulous and to lead the life they deserve.

To connect with Yvonne:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/beeleevinyou (for my free Facebook group)

www.beeleev.co.uk/female-fabulous-home for more information about the membership community.

To connect with me and join my group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/unlikelyguru/?ref=share

https://www.facebook.com/ann.girling/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anngirling/

http://facebook.com/yourunlikelyguru

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