Learning to Fly with Kerri Aab

Sue is a six form teacher, published author, editor, examiner and mum to Alex & Dom who both play Rugby League professionally. In this conversation, Sue shares her ideas on what has helped her children become grounded and successfully navigate the world of professional sport.

Up to the age of 60, Susie lived a life of negative thinking, shrinking into the background and making damaging choices as a result. When she was 60 she had a light bulb moment that changed her whole perspective of who she was. This is her story. 

Annabelle is 74 living in Somerset, she recently noticed that her life had become very narrow and in her words 'boring' - she decided to change that by embarking on an impossible project of creating a 6ft Totem Pole and she learnt to fly along the way. In this inspiring conversation, she shares her stories of adventure and her wisdom on how we can all learn to fly at any age! Her Totem Pole is currently raising money for both Comic Relief and a local community initiative, if you would like to donate and be in the raffle to win it, you can do so here. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rednoseday23-annabelle-b .

Kerri is originally from New York City and currently calls Asheville, NC home, where she lives with her husband and teenage daughter. She is a homeschool mom, Reiki Master Teacher, Intuitive and Qigong teacher-in-training. She has been performing since the age of 3 but about 16 years ago she left it all behind due to burnout, This year she  is embarking on a Creating The Impossible Project of being cast in a broadway musical in the next 90 days and she is really learning what it takes to fly! Here are the links to connect with Kerri referred to in the episode www.kerriaab.com   https://threesmallsmiles.substack.com/

A little introduction sharing what we mean by flying and our new stone stack approach to finding balance in order to fly.

Karen is a coach and although she lives in England, she is a south african Mama at heart. Her children are now in the their 20's and in spite of challenges like coming to England unable to speak english and a traumatic accident that left her son Xander paralysed at the age of 19, they are flying! Our discussion centres around her stories and wisdom as a parent - there are so many gems in this one!

Caryl was born in 1937, just before the second world war. She is the founder of a very successful office space business which she built without any previous knowledge or experience, having left school with the minimum academic requirements. At the age of 60 she retired from the business and attended university for the first time, gaining a degree in Psychology. Now in her 80's Caryl is still flying. She is passionate about facilitating self esteem and the impact we can all have during the early years of childhood. In this podcast, she generously shares her stories on how she learnt to fly, it is full of wisdom, simplicity and fun!

Wieke trained and worked as a dancer and choreographer and she has been CEO and Artistic Director of Yorkshire Dance for the last 14 years. Born and raised in the Netherlands, she lives in North Leeds with her partner Sarah and their daughter.

In part 2, Marien & Gabriella share their thoughts and stories in response to the question; If we are born with everything we need to fly, how is it that sometimes we don't feel it? In particular they discuss the nature of thought and how it can stop us flying.

Marien & Gabriela coach leaders on the "human factor" which dictates success or failure, struggle or ease, creativity or limitation - in this podcast, they generously share how we might teach this to our children. In part 1, they propose that we are all born with everything we need to fly and they share spine tingling stories from when they were children.