The Good Intentions Podcast
Good Intentions connects with experts and storytellers around social impact, psychology, mindfulness, personal growth, and health.
Each conversation unpacks the beliefs and rituals that drive and ground each guest. You will hear about achievements that go beyond the conventional and tangible to a deeper level, finding the meaning and intention behind what we do.
I believe that there is a deep longing in our culture and society for something more: something higher, something deeper. Material possessions and technology do not satisfy our souls. As human beings we long for connection.
I'm on a mission to spread positivity, drive connectivity and to inspire others to live a more meaningful life.
Episodes
45 episodes
Ep 46 - The Menopause Revolution: How to Embrace Change and Thrive - Fiona Day
Fiona Day is an incredible woman - she's an intuitive consultant and an energy healer - and she's also the only guest I've ever had on the show twice!The last time I spoke to her was January 2020 - just before the world got turned on it...
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Ep 45 - Why Your Job as a Parent Isn't to Make Your Children Happy - Joanne Jewell
Joanne Jewell is a therapist, educator and speaker. Born in the UK, she became an expat at just 12 years old when her family moved to South Africa for her father’s job. She says she spent most of her adolescent years trying to fit i...
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Ep 44 - If You Have a Body, You are an Athlete - Jessie Gubbins
Meet Jessie Gubbins, a dynamic force in the realm of fitness and coaching. Her journey from a dedicated management consultant, traveling the world and working endless hours to her current role as a fitness advocate is nothing short of i...
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Ep 43 - Empowering Young Minds with Confidence and Resilience - Yasmine Hammad
Yasmine Hammad, the visionary behind the Blossoming Kindness Initiative and a Certified Children’s Life Coach, is dedicated to empowering young minds through play-based coaching.In a world inundated with toxic influences, social media pr...
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Ep 42 - The Military Secret Bio Hack You Need to Know - Why Peptides will Change Your Life - Dean Henry
Dean Henry became fascinated with health and fitness at an early age. He grew up in a household that was dominated by sports and was on the path to a promising athletic career before a knee injury quite literally got in his way. It ...
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Ep 41 - How to be Happier with Nasreen Abdulla - Happiness Editor at Khaleej Times
Nasreen Abdulla has a very unusual job title - she’s the Happiness Editor at Khaleej Times. I was fascinated to speak to someone whose whole job revolves around optimism - Nasreen is tasked with finding human interest stories that s...
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Ep 40 - Good Intentions Special - Purpose
Here on the Good Intentions podcast I love to explore the subject of purpose - it’s one of the main reason why I started recording three years ago.I’m constantly curious about how can we become more deeply connected to the world ar...
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Ep 39 - How to Build a Stronger Mind (and climb mountains) – Caroline Leon
Caroline Leon is an Australian born health and fitness advocate, fitness professional, and the co-founder of A Life of Education. When Caroline broke her back four years ago, falling from an indoor climbing wall, she never thought she'd...
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Ep 38 - Good Intentions Special - Success and Achievement
"What have I achieved?" is a question we all ask ourselves as we progress through the valleys and hills of our lives. Whereas this was once a cliched mid life crisis question - it now seems to be coming up earlier and earlier...
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Ep 37 - Leadership Soul - Why Meaning and Connection are Crucial in Life and Business - Kate King
Kate King is a top Leadership and Team Coach who has coached thousands of the world’s top CEO’s through her own coaching practice and as an Executive Coach at London Business School.She creates meaningful and lasting change in her client...
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Ep 36 - Why You Need to Stop Playing The Blame Game Now - Denis Liam Murphy
My guest this week is Denis Liam Murphy - author of the incredible new book: The Blame Game. I spent a weekend reading it and as I did, a thousand light bulbs went off in my head - it will honestly take everything you thought you knew and blow ...
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Ep 35 - Silicon Valley Success Secrets - Ann Hiatt
Ann Hiatt is a bestselling author, executive consultant, speaker, and investor. She’s a Silicon Valley veteran who reported directly to CEOs including Jeff Bezos from Amazon, Eric Schmidt from Google and Yahoo!’s Marissa Mayer.Ann ...
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Ep 34 - Age Proof - How to Live a Longer, Healthier Life - Professor Rose Anne Kenny
Does old age fill you with dread? What about dying - how do you feel about that? Why do some of us live longer than others? What does the latest science teach us that will help us not only live longer lives but also to live fitter, ...
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Ep 33 - Bollywood, Hollywood and Cancer - Lisa Ray
Lisa Ray is an internationally acclaimed performer, philanthropist, author and public speaker. She’s also one of India’s most successful models and an award-winning actress who starred in Canada’s Oscar nominated film Water.
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Ep 32 - Authenticity in Leadership - James Lafferty
James Lafferty is the CEO of Fine Hygienic Holding and has been described as one of the most unique and diversified CEO’s in the world today. He’s not just a successful CEO, he’s also an Olympic coach. An award-winning journalist. A...
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Ep 31 - Living a Fearless Life - Cassie Mather-Reid
Cassie Mather-Reid is a holistic life coach who left her 18-year career in corporate IT behind to follow her calling. One of her main areas of focus is blocked energy and how we store trauma and distress at a cellular level, leading...
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Ep 30 - Freedom from our Addictions - David Golding
I really do have an incredible conversation for you today. David Goulding is a Sober and Recovery Coach who has been on a 15-year journey of addiction discovery, which saw several attempts to get clean and sober in addition to sever...
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Ep 29 - Organised Life Organised Mind - Shelina Jokhiya
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff you have? Do you have too many things at home that you don’t know what to do with? You are not alone: most of us have a bit of a hoarding streak and live with clutter in our lives.
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Ep 28 - Silencing the Inner Critic - Aliya Rajah
On this episode, I had a super conversation with Aliya Raja. Aliya is a personal and professional development coach, a corporate trainer, a podcast host an entrepreneur and founder of Coaching with Aliya. She helps people develo...
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Ep 27 - The Journey Through Grief and Finding Hope - Sasha Bates
My guest this episode is Sasha Bates: psychotherapist, journalist and former BBC and Channel Four producer. Sasha’s husband, the actor and playwright Bill Cashmore, died unexpectedly at the age of 56. When Bill died, Sasha tu...
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Ep 26 - The Sober Revolution - Erika Doyle
On this episode we speak about a topic very dear to my heart - the zero alcohol revolution. I stopped drinking alcohol in 2017, and it was a truly life changing and momentous decision. I’m always passionate to talk about how embracing a sober l...
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Ep 25 - Making Big Life Changes and the Power of Learning - Louise Nichol
Louise Nichol fell in love with Dubai when she moved here in 2005. Originally from the UK, you probably know her best as editor of fashion magazines Grazia Middle East and Harper’s Bazaar Arabia. Most recently Loui...
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Ep 24 - Mind Hacking Toxic Patterns and Healing Trauma - Hiba Balfaqih
I just love it when my incredible guests recommend other incredible guests to be on the show, and that is exactly what happened with this episode. Earlier this year I interviewed the wonderful Shereen Al Qutob - who is a corporate a...
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Ep 23 - Why Empathy is Essential in Leadership - Mimi Nicklin
Mimi Nicklin is the internationally bestselling author of Softening The Edge - an incredible book about how humanity’s oldest leadership trait - empathy - is changing our world. The data shows that in emotionally intellige...
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Ep 22 - How to Write a Bestselling Book - Karen Osman
Karen Osman is an award winning, best selling novelist based in Dubai. Since she won the Montegrappa Prize for Fiction at the Emirates Literature Festival back in 2016, her gripping psychological thrillers have flown off the shelves across the ...
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