Willow Crossley. Making floristry accessible and fun, achieving sustainability in business and balancing working from home

A clip of some of the fab guests we have had so far on series 2. We have many more to come so stay tuned and enjoy! Thanks to Maude Hirst, Marina Barcinella, Scott Stevenson and Willow Crossley. 

Scott Stevenson BEd HONS, is an internationally renowned mindset specialist. From working as a deputy headteacher to being the first non-medic to be employed by the US Government to work with their veterans based in Asia, Scott believes that no matter your age, income, educational background or culture, everybody deserves to have access to the knowledge and practical tools that can easily bring about and sustain wellbeing.An important part of Scott’s work is to help people regain their confidence and identity, especially those who have either witnessed or gone through domestic abuse, high level traumas and emotional neglect. His 25 year experience, expanding over 80 countries, has also included providing coaching and mentoring to clients that are pushed to the limit of their physical and mental wellbeing. These include members of the GB Athletics team, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Criminal Investigation Department (CID).Scott’s passion and experience from working within the educational sector has provided him with the opportunity to work as an advisor and trainer for corporate and educational leaders within the UK, The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) and the Dubai Government (KHDA)Was totally fascinating to chat with Scott, he has such a wide range of clients, from people and children who have experienced some kind of trauma, to elite sports professionals, teachers and educational leaders, ceos and entreprenuers. On the episode we talked about the common traits that link all his clients and how and why his techniques, including EFT can help people from all walks of life. Scotts aim is to empower people them to help themselves. On the podcast Scott shares his simple and effective tools for relaxation and creating the self-awareness that is crucial in removing blockages and improving performance. Check out his website www.themindsetspecialist.com and to get in touch with Scott best to use this email [email protected] 10 minute video by Scott on how to reduce stress: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AQNY8ZQG9XwMFd2niuIWgWvnXNZVCR7D/view and for an explanation into the science of tapping watch this: https://youtu.be/0Vu0Tibt1bQ.

Marina Barcenilla is a multi-award winning Independent Perfumer and Fragrance Educator with two decades of experience as a Perfumer and natural fragrance specialist. In addition to being the Nose behind her two niche perfume brands, Marina Barcenilla Parfums and AromAtom, she creates fragrance for other British brands and has mentored a number of perfumers who have founded their own brands. She’s also a Planetary Scientist and an Astrobiology Doctoral Researcher. Her scientific research is currently focused on the search for life on Mars with the Perseverance and Rosalind Franklin Mars Rovers. She has managed to combine her two passions, fragrance and space, to create a science education project that uses fragrance and the sense of smell to teach people about Astronomy and space exploration called “AromAtom: Discover the Smell of Space”.She recently received and Academic medal from the Spanish Academy of Perfume in recognition of her two decades of work as a Nose, and of her approach to science communication using the sense of smell. As an Academician of this not-for-profit foundation, her role is to contribute to the advancement of perfume as an artistic discipline, and to the study of fragrance, its influence and potential within other fields.” It was great to have a chat with Marina, I am taking her Natural Perfumery course on line and so had lots to ask her about, including her journey to becoming a perfumer, how synthetics are used in fragrance and how they compare to using natural ingredients in perfumery. We also talked about sustainability and the potential toxicity in natural essential oils. We also chatted about loosing your sense of smell (anosmia) and how covid has pushed that to the front of peoples minds about her work in science and research as she hopes to encourage more children to enjoy science and space. 

Willow Crossley is an English nature writer and a high-profile floral stylist.Willow is interested in the profound impact nature has on our emotional and mental well being, and has gained a substantial following for her down-to-earth and inclusive approach to floristry and gardening. Willow firmly advocates for a sustainable approach to floristry, working with the seasons and sourcing locally grown stems. Concurrent to her work in floristry, Willow authored four lifestyle books; The Art of Handmade Living was published in 2012, followed by Inspire, The Art of Living with Nature (2014), Flourish (2016), and her latest book, The Wild Journal (2020). Willow specialises in creating floral arrangements, installations and exhibitions for events and weddings. Having worked alongside high-profile names and world-renowned brands such as Chanel, Jo Malone, Liz Earle, OKA, Daylesford,Anthropologie, Boden and The Duchess of Sussex, Willow provides flowers for their events as well as teaches their VIPs and clients floristry. Willow has recently launched an online floristry course with Create Academy that has been critically acclaimed by House & Garden and The Daily Telegraph. What a total treat to spend time with Willow in her beautiful house in the Cotswolds. We chatted about how her flower arranging and being in nature is very soothing and uplifting to her. Willow explains how always feels calmer, happier and more relaxed as soon as she steps outside, whether it be with her new found love of gardening, working with her flowers or just walking her dog in the countryside.  We talked about her wild and relaxed style and how her free spirited nature has created her signature style. Willow is very inclusive in her approach sharing her knowledge and love for floristry and with her brilliantly IGTVs and on-line course she loves to encourage people to have a go at flowers and not to be scared of them by thinking that they have to be perfect. We also discussed the issue of sustainability with flowers, plus she gave her top tips for looking after your stems, drying flowers, how best to incorporate fake flowers, the rules behind picking wild flowers and her advice for the floristry tools that we all need in order to up our floristry game. Find Willow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/willowcrossleycreates/Her website with links to her shop, books and her courses https://www.willowcrossley.comWillow also mentioned paper flowers by Green Vase https://shop.thegreenvase.comHer wallpaper collab https://www.barnebygates.com/product/willow-crossley-for-barneby-gates/ 

Welcome to Tilly at home with Hannah Barrett and Maude Hirst It was such a pleasure to chat with these two brilliant women, Hannah Barrett is a leading London-based yoga instructor with a passion for helping people to transform their lives through yoga. She enables her students to find their strength and develop their own self practice, while breaking down complex poses to make them fun and accessible to all, she has recently released her first eBook ‘Strength Through Yoga’ and has a Hannah Barrett yoga app and website, Hannah’s mission is to share the power of yoga with as many people as possible. Maude Hirst, is the founder of the bespoke mindfulness company EnergyRise.co.uk, specialising in making mindfulness accessible to all. Like Hannah Maude is also a leading wellness practitioner based in London running a virtual members club for the mind, a meditation app and wellness retreats, teaching meditation, yoga, movement meditation and Energy Healing globally. By exploring different brainwaves Mauds classes connect you more deeply to yourself and improve physical and mental wellbeing.  Theata brain wave neuroscientist to understand what’s happening in your brain and what is truly possible for us to achieve.. If you would like to go to Wanderlust and see them in person go to uk.wanderlust.events and use the code WLUKTillyathomewith for a 15% discount on tickets and if you can't make it for the first time you can buy a ticket to live stream the event.   Wanderlust 108 is at Battersea Park on Saturday 31st July. Its the world’s only mindful triathlon, starting the day with a breath work session with @thebreathguy Richie Bostock, then leading into a group fitness class with @pmacfitness PMAC who was my guest on last week’s podcast, so check that out as he is really entertaining and refreshing. Then the second leg of the mindful triathlon will be flow yoga with Hannah and @shivarea108 and then a guided meditation with Maude. It’s a great event with a great community vibe plus fab drinks and food stalls, music from @tommiddletonmusic and @roytheroach, plus the Kula market for shopping and lots more, so if you can get down there on Saturday 31st I can highly recommend it! 

 Welcome to Tilly at home with PMAC Fitness (Peter Maciver) PMAC is an experienced personal trainer and respected fitness influencer with a strong client base. His celebrity clients include Marvin and Rochelle Humes, Reggie Yates, Dua Lipa and others. He is well known for his Instagram account (@pmacfitness) where he motivates and inspires his followers through his uplifting and to the point attitude. He encourages people to live an active lifestyle and has helped men and women from all ages and sizes reach their fitness goals. PMAC’s open and relatable approach aims to show people that through hard work, consistency and effort anything is possible, and everyone has the potential to be the best version of themselves.Pmac's frank and open attitude to fitness is refreshing and entertaining and he has helped men and women from all ages and sizes reach their fitness goals. His celebrity clients include Marvin and Rochelle Humes, Reggie Yates, Dua Lipa and others. We discussed the benefits of training on one to one and why its best to drink to the point of not getting a hangover! PMAC believes that if you crave something, it’s best to have it immediately rather than waiting till the weekend to binge plus he busts the myths around ageing and fitness. He talks about the importance of looking after yourself with yoga for flexibility and preventing injury and how he is looking forward to his biggest audience yet at Wanderlust in Battersea Park on the 31st July. Find pmac on instagram @pmacfitness and his website https://www.pmacfitness.comFor tickets to go to Wanderlust on the 31st July and take a class with PMAC go to https://uk.wanderlust.events use the code WLUKtillyathomewith for a 15% discount  

John Daniels was the headteacher at a middle school near Newcastle, where he taught languages for many years, having gained his MA and PhD thesis on language acquisition at Durham University. After retiring he travelled out to Cameroon as a volunteer to work with the Environmental and Rural Development Foundation which seeks to protect the rainforest and its animals. On his return to the UK John decided to continue to support the foundation and its work, by setting up a UK committee, the Cross River Gorilla Project. John is also the chairman of the Tyne Wear Heritage Forum, and his local heritage group and is often called up as a speaker on the merits of immersion of languages at language conferences. He is a married with children and grandchildren and loves to walk with his dog in the countryside and along the deserted beaches of Northumbria. The Cross River Gorilla Project is a UK based charity whose main aim is to help preserve the critically endangered Cross River Gorilla, particularly those in South West Cameroon which are in danger of becoming isolated and therefore are on the brink of being extinct with less than 300 remaining. Central to this is: the preservation of the gorilla’s habitat in the rainforest in the Lebialem Highlands, an especially rich area of biodiversity where many rare plants and animals are found; the creation of wildlife corridors and the creation of new reserves.The CRGP aim to do this through supporting the existing conservation efforts in Cameroon and by working with Newcastle University and other groups to troubleshoot current conservation challenges facing this remote part of the world. They are also supporting the community and particular the local women. They were in the process of setting up a research centre for ecotourism, the first women’s centre for the area and a fundraising program to provide education to as many children in the area as possible. However South West Cameroon and particularly the area near where the gorillas live, has been devastated by a huge humanitarian crisis with villages burnt down and thousands of displaced persons fleeing into towns and into the forest, putting even more strain on the gorillas and their habitat. Their partner organisation in Cameroon, ERuDeF are helping the suffering communities and they are also supporting the international medical organisation Médecins sans Frontiers who are carrying out life-saving medical work to those affected by the crisis.First discovered in 1900 the Cross River Gorilla were thought to be extinct until being re discovered in 1960. On this episode John, talks about why he founded the Cross River Gorilla Project and  shares his first-hand experience of trekking in the highlands, and his experiences camping in the rainforest, home to the critically endangered Cross River Gorilla. He talks about the behaviours and character of the gorillas and chimpanzees and how their conservation drive is very viable, as although the gorilla numbers are small, they live a long time, so there is opportunity for them to flourish, if the conditions are right within their environment. John gives his thoughts on the current humanitarian crisis in Cameroon, the challenges they are facing and how this impacts on conservation projects but at the same time makes their support for the rangers even more vital. His talks about successful UK home schooling project, The Gorilla Club and his ambitions for taking these education programs into the schools and villages of Cameroon. This series of Tilly At Home With is kindly sponsored by Wanderlust. Wanderlust have an exciting new platform Wanderlust TV. Daily Live classes - morning and evening. World class teachers from USA + UK including yoga, meditation, breathwork, sound healing and fitness. Super inspiring talks from famous wellness, mindfulness and social impact leaders. Everything is included – no extra costs, ever, any new perks such as challenges, courses + VIP events are always included in the membership. Click here to sign up to the three month trial and use the code: TILLYATHOME -Unlimited access for 90 Days for £9-Huge thanks to Salome Jewellery for their support of this episode.  Salome produce beautiful handmade jewellery, inspired by the ‘power of natural gemstones'. As Ambassadors to The Cross River Gorilla Project (CRGP), SALOME supports the charity’s efforts to save the critically endangered Cross River Gorilla and 10% of all sales from their LEBIALEM HIGHLAND collection will be donated to the CRGP in support of their conservation efforts. Inspired by the natural beauty of the Cameroonian Rainforest, it features Rainforest Jasper & Moonstone which are a stunning combination and provide both balance and a deeper connection to nature. Find Salome on https://salomedesigns.co.uk and on Instagram @salome_designs. 

 Welcome to Tilly at home with Thomas Olivier is a registered nutrigenomics practitioner and was the first in the UK to offer fitness and nutrition plans based on individual DNA make-up. His innovative science-based coaching methods and his book Cracking Your Health Code have been aiding hundreds of people to achieve their optimum health.Thomas is the Founder and CEO of Omnos. Omnos is an A.I platform that analyses your genome combined with lifestyle assessments and functional medicine tests, to give you a scientifically validated dashboard of your health, with personalised and actionable recommendations at your fingertips. Thomas is also the founder of Smart Health consulting. S.H consulting is composed of a team of experts in Personalised nutrition, A.I ,IOT architecture and sustainability that help organisations to implement a smart health architecture ecosystem providing solutions to implement, track and forecast health prevention and performance while providing scientifically validated, data-driven and digitalised solution enabling the measurement of a tangible ROI.   In this totally fascinating episode, Thomas explains that by the time we are 70, 65% of the UK population will be living with two chronic conditions, living as he calls it “in a state of comorbidity” for the last 15 years of their lives and that 15% of teenagers have type 2 diabetes. He explains how these chronic conditions including diabetes, are lifestyle and diet related and can be prevented.Thomas’ aim with Onmos and his work at Smart Health is to help people be more proactive on the preventative side of their health. He sees what he calls “a new health architecture” where the science behind health becomes less alienating and more accessible to us all, replacing disease with prevention and democratising health, so we all have the ability to take our health into our own hands as Thomas believes that wellness starts at home. He talks about supporting your immune system rather than boosting it and how there is no such thing as the flu season, merely a time that we can become more susceptible. He explains the science behind the benefits of wild swimming and talks about the importance of reconnecting with your environment and your family, making not only your health a priority but also being proactive about your mental health too. He gives his tips for detoxing alcohol for all of you not doing a dry January (although he says of course glass of red wine is good for you as it is full of antioxidants) but the large amounts in ethanol which is in alcohol and is toxic can be removed more quickly with the help of supplements of Glutathione and Nac, eating protein, the herbal remedy milk thistle, re-hydration tables which include sodium, potassium, and magnesium, or just some sea salt in your water, taking an Epsom salt baths, exercising, saunas, cold and hot therapy and infra-red sauna. All good things to try! Omnos is a free platform so sign up to start on your health journey. https://www.omnos.me Thomas also recommends the Ouraring to start to track your sleep and your hrv so you can assess how you should be training each day https://ouraring.comFind Thomas on https://www.instagram.com/omnos.me/https://www.gensmart.me/about/ This series of Tilly At Home With is kindly sponsored by Wanderlust. Wanderlust have an exciting new platform Wanderlust TV. Daily Live classes - morning and evening. World class teachers from USA + UK including yoga, meditation, breathwork, sound healing and fitness. Super inspiring talks from famous wellness, mindfulness and social impact leaders. Everything is included – no extra costs, ever, any new perks such as challenges, courses + VIP events are always included in the membership. Click here to sign up to the three month trial and use the code: TILLYATHOME -Unlimited access for 90 Days for £9-Tilly At Home With is proud to be supporting Cross River Gorilla Project, to raise awareness of the critically endangered Cross River Gorilla and support their surrounding rainforest community. With only three hundred of these great apes remaining in the world, this comes at a crucial time. Please sign up to their website which is free and become a member at www.crossrivergorillaproject.co.uk. You can also follow them on Instagram @crossrivergorilla   

Louise Mita. (part two) Louise is the President and CEO of The Art Of Energy and founder of Integrative Quantum Medicine. Louise has studied metaphysical alchemy, healing, and martial arts since 1968 and began teaching her own philosophies in 1998. Louise has lectured and taught seminars internationally, working with notable organizations such as the World Economic Forum, the Swiss Olympic Medical Centre, the U.S NAVY, the Universities of Hawaii, Alaska, and Arizona. Louise is also a certified practitioner and teacher of Chinese Energetic Medicine, Tai Chi, Qigong, and Feng Shui. In this episode Louise talks about healing ability and the importance of watching out for making fear-based responses. We look at how we carry opinions of our behaviours and characteristics that often don’t serve us and how by being aware of them and altering our attitude, we can make easy changes that will have a profound affect on our lives.Louise talks us through the three different types of energy, Jing, Chi and Xen, explaining more about the Xen energy or ‘mind energy’ which she works with in IQM. Louise shares some brilliant facts on our bodies regeneration and great tips for stress management.Find Louise on https://taoenergy.com and on instagram https://www.instagram.com/louisemita/This series of Tilly At Home With is kindly sponsored by Wanderlust. Wanderlust have an exciting new platform Wanderlust TV. Daily Live classes - morning and evening. World class teachers from USA + UK including yoga, meditation, breathwork, sound healing and fitness. Super inspiring talks from famous wellness, mindfulness and social impact leaders. Everything is included – no extra costs, ever, any new perks such as challenges, courses + VIP events are always included in the membership. Click here to sign up and use the code: TILLYATHOME -Unlimited access for 90 Days for £9-Tilly At Home With is proud to be supporting Cross River Gorilla Project, to raise awareness of the critically endangered Cross River Gorilla and support their surrounding rainforest community. With only three hundred of these great apes remaining in the world, this comes at a crucial time. Please sign up to their website which is free and become a member at www.crossrivergorillaproject.co.uk. You can also follow them on Instagram @crossrivergorilla and see how you can make a difference. 

 Louise Mita. (part one) Louise is the President and CEO of The Art Of Energy and founder of Integrative Quantum Medicine. Louise has studied metaphysical alchemy, healing, and martial arts since 1968 and began teaching her own philosophies in 1998. Louise has lectured and taught seminars internationally, working with notable organisations such as the World Economic Forum, the Swiss Olympic Medical Centre, the U.S NAVY, the Universities of Hawaii, Alaska, and Arizona. Louise is also a certified practitioner and teacher of Chinese Energetic Medicine, Tai Chi, Qigong, and Feng Shui. In this episode, Louise talks about how she learnt the fundamentals of respect and discipline by studying many martial arts and after working with Chinese Energetic Medicine, came to develop her own system of healing and energy work. IQM is based on knowing who you are and how to master your own energy. Louise talks about the importance of being sovereign and leaning into the positive, how the Law of Attraction works and how to make it work for you. Find Louise on https://taoenergy.com and on instagram https://www.instagram.com/louisemita/This series of Tilly At Home With is kindly sponsored by Wanderlust. Wanderlust have an exciting new platform Wanderlust TV. Daily Live classes - morning and evening. World class teachers from USA + UK including yoga, meditation, breath work, sound healing and fitness. Super inspiring talks from famous wellness, mindfulness and social impact leaders. Everything is included – no extra costs, ever, any new perks such as challenges, courses + VIP events are always included in the membership. Click here to sign up and use the code: TILLYATHOME -Unlimited access for 90 Days for £9-Tilly At Home With is proud to be supporting Cross River Gorilla Project, to raise awareness of the critically endangered Cross River Gorilla and support their surrounding rainforest community. With only three hundred of these great apes remaining in the world, this comes at a crucial time. Please sign up to their website which is free and become a member at www.crossrivergorillaproject.co.uk. You can also follow them on Instagram @crossrivergorilla and see how you can make a difference.