We often get in our own way by creating stories in our mind that aren’t true. We think we can’t do something before we have even tried. We push our dreams and desires, our life, to tomorrow. But that day never arrives. The Live Immediately Podcast is about taking control of today. I have conversations with people who are living life on their own terms. We dive into those big moments that have pushed them through the fears and self-limiting beliefs that hold so many of us back. I hope these s ...
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092: Megan & Peter - Family Adventures On A Budget
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You have that love of travel, always trying to grab every opportunity to get away and explore. Travel is part of your DNA. And then you start a family. You become a parent. You push that travelling spirit aside and try not to listen to it every time it starts to get a little restless. In this episode I am chatting to a couple, Megan and Peter Richa…
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091: Liv Phyland - Helping Teenage Girls To Glow
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If you have a teenage girl, or a girl who will become a teenager, you definitely need to know about my beautifully fun guest today, Liv Phyland. The majority of my guests are parents, as the majority of you are parents. And we all know that doing something new or creating change in your life, is even more challenging when you add children into the …
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090: Sophie Brunton - Steiner education, parenting and a tree change
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What is the type of life you want to live? How do you want to raise your kids? What kind of community do you want to live in? What do you truly value? Have you ever sat down and spent the time to answer such questions? What do you think your answers would look like, and what changes would you need to make to the way you’re living now? I sat down wi…
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089: Lauren Branson - Five Kids, A Start-Up, And Creating Time For Yourself
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Who were you before kids? It is an interesting question and one that I had never really thought about. But what did you want to achieve before you became mum or dad? Are there aspirations, hobbies, or things you truly enjoyed, that you have stopped since becoming a parent? Today I chat with the inspiring Lauren Branson, a fun mother of five and sta…
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088: Katie Dean - Parenting, Fear & Becoming Brave
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“What screws us up the most is that picture of what we believe it should be, and we’re not open to what it could be—but what it could be, could be infinitely better.” Katie Dean My guest this week is the courageous Katie Dean, and I love this chat with Katie as it is beautifully raw. Katie opens up about the challenges of being a solo Mumma and how…
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087: Jeff Sandquist - How Curiosity Can Lead You Back To The Beginning
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Jeff Sandquist really needs no introduction to the Live Immediately family, as this is the third time I have had the privilege to interview Jeff. Jeff has become a close friend and he was the host of the brilliant Intentionally Wandering Podcast that literally changed my life. But over the past year, Jeff has been going through some changes in his …
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086: Abby Lewtas - Is Technology Starving You Of Love And Human Connection?
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This is an episode that demonstrates why I love long form interviews. Time allows me to penetrate deeper into the heart and mind of people I have the privilege of interviewing. My guest today, Abby Lewtas, is a world traveller and host of The Wanderlusters Mind Podcast. I imagined that our conversation would centre on travel and adventure. How trav…
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085: Shannon Meyer - The Courage To Change Your Path
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How did you arrive to where you are today? How did you find yourself on this particular path? And is this path the one that you want to continue on? My guest today, Shannon Meyer, asked herself similar questions when she started to feel like she was managing her life, but not living it. Shannon was going through the daily admin and coordination of …
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084: Chelsea Pottenger - The Science Behind Mindfulness
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True change starts within, and my guest today, Chelsea Pottenger, has gone through a complete life reboot that started when she dedicated time to her internal wellbeing. Chelsea was living the face-paced corporate life until her baby girl was born and Chelsea was slammed, hard, with severe Post Natal Depression. And as you will hear in the intervie…
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083: Matt Linnert - How To Live Life With Compassion As Your Highest Priority
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Today I’m chatting with a very special man, Matt Linnert, who is a thinker, a questioner, a listener, and a doer—who strives to make the world more compassionate by being a beautiful example through his work and daily actions. This entire conversation is quite deep, as Matt and I discuss some interesting topics that often left me with more question…
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082: Nancy Sathre-Vogel - The Family That Cycled From Alaska To Argentina
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What does it take to cycle from Alaska to Argentina with your husband and twin ten year old boys? Well this is exactly what I chat about with Nancy Sathre-Vogel. I learnt it takes over 27,000 kilometres (over 17,000 miles), 1,018 days, and 15 countries. It takes pushing through snowstorms and waking at 3am to ride through the desert before the sun …
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081: Talon Windwalker - 1 Dad, 1 Kid, And A Whole Lot Of Love
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So much of life, what happens around us, is out of our control. The only part of life that is within our control is the attitude in which we approach it. My guest today, Talon Windwalker, is a wonderful man who approaches life with a caring soul and who lives by the motto of “no regrets”. I reached out to Talon, as I wanted to learn about his life …
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080: Alex Brown - Single Mum, Fresh Starts, And Taking Control Of Your Life
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Parenthood is more about the lessons we learn than the ones we teach. And ideally, when we enter the uncharted waters of parenthood, we do so with the love and support of a partner. Unfortunately for my guest today, Alex Brown, that wasn’t the case. Alex was only 20 when she became a mother, and her abusive partner of four years left when Alex woul…
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079: Nerida Bint – Empowering Women And Creating A Community Of Change (men you need to listen to this one too)
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“I have more respect for someone who has tried and failed, than someone who has never tried.” – Nerida Bint There are some people in the world that lift you up and leave you in a better place than where you were before. My guest today, Nerida Bint, is definitely one of those beautiful people. What I love about Nerida is that she has taken all the k…
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078: Pat Seyrak - Saying No To A Mortgage And Yes To Financial Freedom
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Sometimes you can be on the conveyor belt of life and not realise it until it is too late. Or perhaps you’re heading down a life path because you feel it is what you’re supposed to do. We are told to get a good job, a 30 year mortgage, keep your head down, and then enjoy a handful of years when your hair is a little greyer and your body a little so…
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Hitting the open road with the wonders of the world out your window, pulling up and resting your heard wherever you park your van. It sounds so beautiful, and it is what my guest today, Jared Melrose, and his sweetheart of ten years, Ash, do as they both live in a van together. In this episode we touch on the functionalities of living in a van—the …
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076: Erin Carey - Family Of Five Sailing To Roam The World
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My guest today, Erin Carey, is, as she explains, your average wife, mother to three young boys, overworked, stressed and tied, who lives in suburbia in South Australia, nothing special. And Erin describes herself like this so when you listen to her story, you realise that you can do it too, that you can “get out there and do whatever your dream may…
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075: Garth Ashford - From Grief To Peace—How Death Can Teach You To Live
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Death is a natural part of life. It will touch us all throughout our life, and ultimately at the end of our days. For my guest today, Garth Ashford, the unforgiving hands of death choked his life in a way that is unimaginable for any parent. Thirty years ago, at the age of twenty-nine, Garth held his nineteen-month-old baby girl Samantha in his arm…
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This is a special episode as it is actually an episode where I am interviewed by Abby Lewtas for her recently launched podcast The Wanderlusters Mind. I know you love travel stories so it is safe to say that you will love Abby’s podcast as she takes you on an adventure into the minds of globetrotters. Abby and her guests share their travel stories,…
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073: Cait Flanders - The Year Of Less
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In this episode I welcome back a good friend Cait Flanders to the podcast. Cait and I originally spoke back in episode 19 about Mindful Budgeting, which I have linked to in the show notes. I wanted to have Cait back on the podcast for many reasons, but also as she has recently written a book titled - “The Year Of Less – How I stopped shopping, gave…
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072: Canna Campbell - Motherhood & Money
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I am so excited to welcome back Canna Campbell to the podcast. It was way back in episode two when I spoke to Canna about Minimalism and Money. If you haven’t listened to that episode, I have linked to it in the show notes below. Canna is a financial planner, has been running her business for over 11 years, and is the wonderful woman behind Sugarma…
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071: Tobias - Taking The Leap To Follow Your Heart
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Taking the leap, that step into the unknown, leaving the security of predictability, is difficult to do. That first step, that very first decision, is often the thing that holds so many people back. Because to do it, you need to step over and through your fears and self-limiting beliefs. But taking that leap to follow his heart is exactly what my g…
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070: Ben McAlary - Taking Risks And Experimenting With Life
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Massive decisions like selling the family home, packing up the kids, and embarking on a beautiful family adventure—to live, travel, and explore a different continent, don’t happen over night. Heck, they don’t even happen in a matter of weeks or months either. For my guest today, a Live Immediately Podcast alumni, Ben McAlary, his vision, wishes, dr…
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069: Summer Series: Natalie Walton - A Life Lived
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In this final episode of the summer series I bring you my chat with Natalie Walton. I have had the pleasure of meeting Natalie in person a number of times since our chat and I absolutely love the “give it a go” attitude that Natalie has. Natalie manages to juggle a couple of businesses, four children, and a new property in the hinterland of the Cen…
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068: Summer Series: Anthony Ongaro - What Is Your Ideal Day?
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On the Summer Series this week I bring you a great conversation with Anthony Ongaro. Anthony is behind the website Break The Twitch and I wanted to include this episode as Anthony had a lot of twitches in his life. Little things that he’d do, and by themselves didn’t add up to much, but over time, collectively they did. You see, Anthony used to sim…
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067: Summer Series: Tom Glafcke - The Deliberateness To A Simplistic Life
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On the Summer Series this week I bring you a conversation I had with a very special friend of mine, Tom Glafcke, who I met while my family and I were housesitting a log cabin in the north woods of Wisconsin a couple of years back. I loved learning from Tom’s stories, and his deliberate yet simple ways. Tom has lived life with contentment, happiness…
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066: Summer Series: Angela Lockwood - How To Find Calm In A Noisy World
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First in the Summer Series is my great chat I had with Angela Lockwood. Angela is an occupational therapist, speaker, mother and author. I absolutely loved her recent book - Switch Off: How to Find Calm in a Noisy World. And switching off is exactly what I am doing over the Christmas break. I’m switching off from all social media and most technolog…
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065: Evelyn Rennich - Living Smallish With A Family Of Six
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Living smallish can sometimes be a challenge, as you need to intentionally think about each item you have and be considerate to which new items you bring into your life. It is even more of a challenge when you throw a husband and four children into the mix. But that is the beautiful challenge my guest today, Evelyn Rennich, lives each and every day…
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064: Natalie Sisson - How To Create Personal Daily Freedom
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What does freedom mean to you? What does it look like? How could you inject more freedom into your daily life? My guest today, Natalie Sisson, is all about creating freedom in business and adventure in life. For the past seven years Natalie has been living out of her suitcase, while running her business and travelling to over 70 countries. In this …
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063: Shawn Askinosie - Meaningful Work: A Quest To Do Great Business, Find Your Calling And Feed Your Soul
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This episode had a huge impact on my life, and I know if you listen to it, do the work, it will change yours too and have a beautiful rippling affect. Shawn Askinosie is the founder and CEO of Askinosie Chocolate, a small business based in Springfield, Missouri. Their chocolate is world-renowned, award winning and Forbes recently named them as “One…
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062: Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui - Becoming A Student Of Your Children
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Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui is the beautiful writer behind the website - a life in progress. I admire Krista, as her writing is so honest, on both sides of the coin. Krista rips down the curtains and bares the beauty in the rawness, in a way that is comforting and helpful to others. We go quite deep in this episode as Krista opens up about attemptin…
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061: Hannah Alexander - Our Year Outdoors
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“Could we change our lives to become an outdoor family?” This was the question Hannah Alexander asked herself before embarking on a year experiment with her family—to spend at least three hours each day outside for a year. This is such a cool experiment and one that has fundamentally changed Hannah, her kids, and her family as a whole. Hannah and I…
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060: Amanda Lee - The Power of Intention
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So often you can feel stuck in the overwhelm of life, feeling like you don’t have any option to change your situation. In this episode I talk with a wonderful woman, Amanda Lee, about the power of intention and getting clear on what you want, that is coming from your heart. Listening to your heart and not your head is a recurring theme in this epis…
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059: Craig Kulyk - Create Good Mornings
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As sure as the sun will rise in the east, our days start when we wake up and get out of bed. Today I am talking everything mornings with Craig Kulyk, who runs the website creategoodmornings.com. Taking control of my mornings has been a big game changer for me, and the catalyst to so much change in my life. To be honest, without working on, testing,…
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058: Hugh Culver - Parenthood and Building Habits
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Today on the podcast I’m chatting with Hugh Culver—husband, father of two, business builder and adventure lover. I have always admired Hugh as he moves from work, family and fun each day with the same excited and optimistic step. In this episode Hugh and I discuss the different phases of parenthood and how time commitments change and evolve as your…
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057: Zoe Kim - Minimalism For Families
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Changing your life is always difficult. Throw kids and a family into the mix and it is no wonder that many people stop before they start. Today on the podcast I’m with Zoe Kim, who is a mother of four, the author of the new book Minimalism For Families: Practical Minimalist Living Strategies to Simplify Your Home and Life, and the voice behind TheM…
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055: Brooke McAlary - SLOW - Live Life Simply
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“Be patient with yourself, it does take time.” - Brooke McAlary I am excited to have friend, teacher, and all round beautiful human, Brooke McAlary, back on the podcast this week. Brooke and her husband Ben are the wonderful souls behind the hugely influential Slow Home Podcast, and are two people that have helped, guided, and encouraged Inga and I…
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054: Emily Ehlers - Parenthood, Intentional Living & Big Questions
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The big questions are often the most important but the hardest to ask, especially when you’re asking yourself. My guest today, Emily Ehlers, started asking herself the big questions—What do I value? What is important to me? — When her mother in-law passed away from brain cancer. My conversation with Emily takes many twists and turns as we discuss p…
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053: Angela Foong - Designing A Simple Life
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The home is so important when it comes to living a simpler life as it depicts many of our daily habits. My guest today is the lovely Angela Foong, one third of the sister trio behind the beautiful High Tea With Mrs Woo label. Angela and her architect husband Matt have built a small home on what used to be their neighbour’s garage plot. This deliber…
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052: Elesha Piper - Decluttering Personal Debt
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Personal debt gradually tightens its grip around us, slowly building up and weighing us down emotionally. This is exactly what happened to my guest today, Elesha Piper. It didn’t happen over night but she accumulated $15,000 in credit card and personal loans—a large amount of money, but an amount that is so easily achievable. In this episode Elesha…
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051: Matthew Bate – Reconnecting With Food & Following Your Heart
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Our body is communicating to us all the time but too often we don’t listen. My guest today, Matthew Bate, spent a decade playing Australian Rules Football at the top level for the Melbourne Football Club. For many years he tried to mask what his body was trying to communicate to him by using pharmaceutical drugs, painkillers and sleeping pills, whi…
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050: Denaye Barahona - Simple Families
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Simplifying your own life is one thing, but we all know things start getting challenging when we bring our kids and family into the equation. Today I chat with Denaye Barahona about all things to simplify your family. As a Clinical Social Worker with a specialty in Child and Family Practice and a Ph.D. in Child Development, Denaye is also the voice…
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049: Rachael Kable - The Mindful Kind
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My guest today is the lovely Rachael Kable, who is a mindfulness mentor, blogger and host of the wonderful Mindful Kind podcast, where she shares great tips and her journey into mindfulness to help people around the world to live more mindfully. If you’re new to mindfulness, feel like you are always busy being busy, or suffer from anxiety, then I t…
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048: Joe Fairleigh - Surfing Through The Connections Of Life
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The road less travelled isn’t always an easy one to walk, but it does do wonders for your soul. My guest today, Joe Fairleigh, is a father, surfing guide, and a student of life. I gravitate towards Joe, as I love his outlook on life, the type of questions he asks himself, and the way he approaches parenthood. This is a deep conversation on many lev…
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047: Clare Short - Navigating Towards A Simpler Life
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Simple living looks different for everyone. What does it look like for you? In this episode I chat with Clare Short who is a wife, mother of two, and someone that is navigating her way through simple living. If that description sounds very similar to you, well that is exactly why I wanted to have Clare on the podcast today. To share the ups and dow…
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046: Emrys Westacott - The Wisdom of Frugality
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One of the easiest ways to learn is to listen to people that have done it before you. We often do this when it comes to learning new skills for a profession—we do an apprenticeship, attend university or have a tutor. So why don’t we listen to people about living life, as it seems to be one of the most challenging adventures we are all trying to nav…
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045: Ricki Coleman - Tackling Fear, Creating Change & Losing 45 Kilograms
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What changes can you make in your life today that will enable you to live immediately? That is really the essence of the episode this week. My guest today is Ricki Coleman, a man, who at his heaviest, weighted 130 kilograms. Ricki lost his father at a young age, he turned to excessive eating and alcohol to numb the feeling, to the point where his w…
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044: Frances Trussell - Mindfully Happy
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My guest today, Frances Trussell, is one of the leading mindfulness and meditation teachers in the UK and I personally had an absolute blast chatting with her. We cover so much in this conversation including, mindful eating, being mindfully happy, how we always wait for the perfect conditions in life, travelling through life with our blinkers on, a…
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043: Samantha Doove - The Rich Life
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Money is an interesting element in our society—we seem to work so hard to acquire it, often not knowing why we want it, and simply believing we need more of it. In today’s episode I have a wonderful chat with Samantha Doove about the rich life and how money is only a small ingredient of it. We cover a lot in this episode as Sam and I discuss the re…
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042: Three Simple Ways To Take Back Your Time
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If you are a long time listener of the Live Immediately Podcast or even if you’ve only listened to a handful of episodes, I am certain that you’ve heard me say, many times, that “time is the true currency”. It really is the cornerstone of Live Immediately. That we only have this moment, right now, to do the things we love with people we love. Many …
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