Sharing Tales

Jessica is a multi-award-winning cognitive, clinical and somatic hypnotherapist who has been offering life-changing programmes to her clients for the past ten years.  Her mission is to help those who want to stop reliving the same patterns born from trauma and challenge, and to radically change lives by helping people to start a path to their chosen future. With a focus on supporting creatives, Jessica has been featured as one of the Evening Standard’s Best Wellness Practitioners, and in various global media including Marie Claire, The Sunday Times, Tatler, and Women’s Health. “Millennial Londoners have Jessica Boston on speed dial to help them break out of the behavioural patterns holding them back in life.” Evening Standard In this episode, we explore how Jessica overcame the trauma and pain from the events of a childhood which left her feeling and believing the world was unsafe; the joy of having a young creative mind inspired by colours, music and Disney; and how even in the depths of our own despair we can find hope and loving support from the good people who walk along beside us. It was as a result of her own healing through hypnotherapy that Jessica is now changing the lives of others through her deep transformative work.  An inspiration for those who seek to use their pain as a catalyst for purposeful living. SOCIAL MEDIA @happymarlolife @rebekah_clark78 @iamjessicaboston WEBSITES www.happymarlo.com www.jessicaboston.com

Patrick is a celebrated artist who has had his work shown in galleries all over the world, and featured alongside artists such as Sir Anthony Gormley, Gavin Turk, Shepherd Fairey, and many more.  He has exhibited in a number of shows, and his pieces appear in the private collections of well-known and respected collectors. In 2020, he appeared on Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year show, and was awarded the Galerie Heimat & NG Art Creative Residency Prize which saw him spend a month this summer in the South of France.  In addition, Patrick has worked with a number of brands including Faberge, ITV, and Bentley. As a little boy, Patrick was taken into long-term foster care and much of his creative work now deals with the idea of identity and ‘fitting in’.  He recognises those themes as universal and he seeks to explore what makes people do what they do to have a sense of belonging.  As Patrick says, “the sense of being in a tribe is all around us”. We talk about some of Patrick’s early experiences, and the difficulties of growing up, when children can be so cruel;  the relief of moving away to college and a fresh start; his realisation that he was naturally good at art; and a life, and a mother, which taught him the importance of simply being kind. SOCIAL MEDIA @happymarlolife @rebekah_clark78 @patrickmoraleslee WEBSITES www.happymarlo.com www.patrickmoraleslee.co.uk

Emma is the founder of Emma Tynan International, and The Channel Society ™, where she is passionate about supporting women, helping them to identify their gifts and to stretch beyond their limiting beliefs whether self-imposed, familial, or cultural. The eldest of two daughters, Emma was born and raised in Catholic Ireland to human rights activist parents who were also journalists.  Our conversation explores Emma’s early gift of seeing the usually unseen, turbulent times at school with abusive teachers, and how she overcame a long period of depression in her adolescence and young adulthood to become a healer for others. After living all over the globe, Emma now lives in Seattle with her husband, two boys, and their pug.  It’s from this idyllic sacred indigenous land that Emma joins me to chat, taking a break from the writing of her first book which speaks to the profound intersection of politics, spirituality, and the impact on women. SOCIAL MEDIA @happymarlolife @rebekah_clark78 @emmatynan_ WEBSITES www.happymarlo.com www.emmatynan.com

Susie is the founder of Family Flow, a ‘coming soon’ app giving parents insights and tools to support their parenting journey.  A family psychologist, she is passionate about family life, and about putting ourselves first in order to give our best to others. Currently in the trenches of busy family life, with four children aged two to 17 years, Susie understands family struggles.  She specialises in stepfamily wellbeing, and is a great advocate for differently wired children, understanding the increased challenges faced by parents (and educators) trying to nurture and develop these wonderful children. In this conversation we traverse a childhood spent in the Wirral, where Susie and her family were heavily involved in the Wirral Schools Concert Band.  We also talk about childhood bereavement, and how Susie and her family coped with the loss of her sister Judith, when all three siblings were still quite young. SOCIAL MEDIA @happymarlolife @rebekah_clark78 @familyflowapp WEBSITES www.happymarlo.com www.familyflowapp.com

Amit is the CEO of Nexa, an award-winning pioneering digital growth agency based in Dubai, a father to two girls, and a lifelong Everton supporter.  He also happens to be one of my oldest friends from school. A natural trailblazer and a visionary, Amit has led the holistic expansion of Nexa from its beginnings in 2005, to now employing over 100 staff across offices in the UAE, UK, USA, and Australia.  He is also the founder of STEM for Kids Dubai, which offers a range of educational support programmes for children aged 4 to 11 years. We delve into the circumstances around Amit’s first experience of true unconditional love, the critical role that expectations from school teachers can play in determining a person’s opportunities, and the power of exposure to different types of people and thinking which can influence your path from an early age. SOCIAL MEDIA @happymarlolife @rebekah_clark78 @amit_nexa WEBSITES www.happymarlo.com www.digitalnexa.com www.STEMforKids.ae

Donna Easton is a Joyologist, a mama, a laugher, a singer, a mindset and business coach, an artist, a mass-karaoke cabaret performer, and an entrepreneur. After a ‘pandemic awakening’ she left a corporate career of 25 years, and is now dedicating her life to spreading all things joyful.  She has developed Joyology ®, a unique blend of NLP mindset coaching, hypnotherapy, energy work, joy activations, and 80s music.  What’s not to love? Donna’s mission is to “help stuck humans re-awaken the kick-ass, glitter-flinging magical unicorn they were put on this earth to be.”  And from what I have experienced, she is the perfect person for this job! During this conversation we reminisce about fond memories of music from the 80s (Madonna, Kylie and Smash Hits), chat about Donna’s loving and wise Little Nan, and discuss the impact of throwaway comments on tender little hearts. SOCIAL MEDIA @happymarlolife @rebekah_clark78 @mylifeshines (IG) @LifeShine (FB) @scaredymumma (Twitter) WEBSITES www.happymarlo.com www.mylifeshines.com

Dr. Carlos Saba helps people build businesses that make them happy.  For him, work can’t just be about making money.  It also needs to be about applying what he loves doing in the service of others. The questions he likes to answer are “who am I really?” and “how do I make things that people will pay for?”. As the co-founder of the Happy Startup School, Carlos is passionate about startups and spirituality, and he thinks of business building as a voyage of self-discovery.  So if this is part of Carlos the man, who was Carlos the boy? In this first episode of the new series we talk about Carlos’ early years in the Philippines and the UK; the mixed-race experience; fitting in or not; and how the ways we were parented impact the way we try to parent our own children. SOCIAL MEDIA @happymarlolife @rebekah_clark78 @kungfucarlos @happystartups LinkedIn: Dr. Carlos Saba - Curriculum Designer, Facilitator and Coach - Vision 20/20 | LinkedIn WEBSITES www.happymarlo.com http://thehappystartupschool.com http://happystartupsummer.camp http://alpittu.de http://happypricing.co

Sharing Tales is a podcast for anybody who has had a childhood - that's right, all of us! We're creating space for people to share their own personal stories of childhood, and how these events impacted the adults they are today. You'll hear from a wide range of compelling voices, which inspire, inform, give us something to think about, and often help us to feel less alone in our own experiences and understanding of life.

Nicolas Croix is a Parisien, born and bred.  Now based in North London with his young family, he is the founder and CEO of Moonworkers, a next generation HR platform which launched in the UK last year.  In his previous career, Nicolas was a producer and production manager in the French entertainment industry, working across branded content, documentaries, live shows, and commercials.  During this time, he produced more than 20 prime-time TV shows, whilst producing footage from leading stage musical productions including Cabaret, the Lion King, and Mamma Mia. In this episode we explore some of the lasting wounds that Nicolas experienced due to traumatic early years in the schooling system; his subsequent rebellion against learning; later pride in gaining a place at the University of Cambridge; a football match which inadvertently changed the cause of his life; what Nicolas call’s ‘Finding my Easy’; and the path to entrepreneurship. Nicolas perfectly demonstrates through his stories, how life can take many twists and turns, and how one can suddenly find purpose and drive, where it was previously missing.  At a time when there is much dialogue on the future of education, Nicolas’ own difficult school journey further prompts us to ask, how can we radically improve this important chapter of our children’s lives? Social Media @bekah_wells78 @sharingtalespodcast @moonworkers_official Links www.moonworkers.co.uk https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nicolascroix

Tracey Chalk, aka The British Mother, describes herself as a wanderlust soul.  A creative, wife, educator, mother to three children, and now a conscious entrepreneur, she brings all of herself to the different roles she plays in life. After an early career in fashion PR, Tracey returned to university to study towards her PGCE (post graduate certificate in education), going on to teach English and drama to children and teens.  However, as she started to grow her young family, and dedicate time to exploring the world with her husband and children, new ideas and pursuits began to take root. During this episode we talk about the big impact of losing both her parents, in childhood and early adulthood; how this inspired Tracey to grab life with both hands with an attitude of gratitude; her confident and independent approach to motherhood; the expression of her creative desires through platforms such as The British Mother; and her current journey of building a conscious swimwear brand for teens and young women, Children of the Deep. Tracey is brilliant fun, and her positive energy a pleasure to be around.  She told me about her ‘love language of Summer’ which actually sums Tracey up perfectly – she’s full of joy and sunshine. SOCIAL MEDIA @bekah_wells78 @sharingtalespodcast @thebritishmother @childrenofthedeep Links http://www.thebritishmother.com