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My most proud moment in business... This one is a

My most proud moment in business... This one is a difficult one.

I always feel proud and happy when a client tells me how I've made a difference in their lives. This is without a doubt what lights me up the most.

But my proudest moment is probably the fact that I am in business. I grew up with a narrative in my head that I was the academic one. I was suited for a regular job as an employee and couldn't be the self-employed entrepreneur. It's something that I'd been telling myself until after I had children.
This narrative has changed slowly over time. As soon as I was on the Restore Your Core ®️ teacher training, I knew movement and wellness teaching was my next career.
I am very fortunate to be surrounded by other amazing women in business and it's with their support that I've really managed to move from the academic employee to a self-employed entrepreneur.

One of these places is @thrivecollectiveclub who is running this #gettingtoknowyou challenge. Thrive Collective is my go-to place for pretty much any business question I have. If Sam who runs it doesn't know the answer, you can guarantee that someone else in the group does plus there is tons of amazing training on everything you need to market and run your business.

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." I've read a lot of mindset books and this quote from Henry Ford appears in them all!
I really think it applies to so many things in life and it particularly applies to my work with my clients. Many have seen all kinds of professionals who have told them different versions of "you'll have to live with it", "there is no way to fix that", "you'll have to have surgery", "you can never do x, y, z activity again". They arrive in front of me with a mindset of "There is no hope for me" and by the end of that first session, they are walking taller, their heads held high knowing that there is hope for them. I believe that our bodies are perfectly capable of healing themselves. We just need to tune into them a little more, listen to what they are telling us, learn a few tools about the way they work and how we can help them to work better.
Day 5 of #gettingtoknowyou @thrivecollectiveclub
@thrivecollectiveclub is run by @thrivewithsamdixon and is my go to place for all things business, mindset, marketing, practical help.
#bishopsstortford #eastherts #hertspilates #hertsyoga #movementinmenopause #menopausefitness #postnatalworkout

What did I do before I started my business? Befor

What did I do before I started my business?

Before children, I was a tax and trusts lawyer working for a trust company in Switzerland. I get many raised eyebrows when I recount this as most people can’t quite see how you can go from being a lawyer to a movement coach!
You may find it hard to believe, but there are many similarities! 👩‍💻 As a lawyer, I project managed and assessed legal advice from different countries, worked out how it fitted together and how I could use it to solve my client’s problems. 🧘‍♀️ As a movement coach, I learn from and compare the teachings of movement teacher trainers from around the world, work out how they fit together and then use the appropriate parts, so that I can help my clients to solve their “problems”. The information craving analytical brain that sought a career as a lawyer, has come in mighty handy as a movement coach. 👩‍💻 As a lawyer, I had to turn complex pieces of advice into something easy to understand for a non-lawyer. 🧘‍♀️ As a movement coach, I have to turn complex ideas and anatomy into an easy to implement solution for a non-movement professional.

See they really are not so dissimilar! In fact, all the things my mind craved as a lawyer, are available to me as a coach, plus I get all that movement in as a part of my work life as well as in my spare time!
The only thing that might have been missing is travel. I got to travel regularly as a lawyer and it was one of the things I loved most about my job. This photo is taken from my last trip to Miami for work in 2012. But even travel isn’t counted out with my business now. So far it’s just been UK trips to London and Brighton for training, but if it wasn’t for the current situation I would have also travelled to Miami for the Restore Your Core teachers’ convention this year. Hopefully, it will be back on for 2021!
What did you do before you started your current job or business?

Day 4 of #gettingtoknowyou @thrivecollectiveclub
#postnatal #menopausefitness #postnatalexpert #menopauseexpert #corestrength #corestability #womenshealth

Why do I do what I do? It wasn't long after I'd h

Why do I do what I do?

It wasn't long after I'd had my first child 👶 that I realised I didn't want to go back to my old profession. I had loved my job. It filled me with an expansive feeling throughout my 20s and the start of my 30s. When the thought of returning left me with a sinking/contracting feeling in the pit of my stomach I knew that it was time to change. At the time, I thought I was destined to be a stay at home mum, but a whole host of post-natal issues and a brain that just wants to learn soon had me back onto an idea that had been in the background of my mind for a long time!
Even when I was lawyer I had joked about setting up a pilates studio - I just loved going to my 1-2-1 sessions and classes. I even investigated where to train in Switzerland (where I was living at the time). Pelvic organ prolapse and diastasis recti (separation of the abdominal muscles) were standing in my way though. How was I going to be a pilates teacher when my pilates practice seemed to be making my post-natal issues worse and I was nowhere near strong enough in my core to do most of the moves.

Enter @thelaurenohayon and Restore Your Core®! Despite the fact it was advertised as pilates and yoga 🧘‍♀️(I was quite anti-yoga at the time), I decided to buy the 13 week online Restore Your Core®️ program and as soon as I started working through the videos lightbulbs 💡 started going off in my head and my body. I decided to train to teach Restore Your Core® more to "fix" me, so I could become a pilates teacher. Well, I did "fix" me (more about that another day) and decided that all that amazing information couldn't be wasted. I had this deep pull to empower other women with these tools too.
I still haven't done the pilates training, but I am now a yoga teacher too having qualified with @heartandbonesyoga just before lockdown!

Day 3 of #gettingtoknowyou @thrivecollectiveclub
#bishopsstortford #cambridgeshiremums #strongcore #postnatalfitness #postnatalyoga #postnatalpilates

What better way to spend the afternoon after dropp

What better way to spend the afternoon after dropping hubby off at the airport! Eating lunch and chatting by the river with one of my oldest friends @mirrymhd. Makes life almost feel normal!

So what do I do? I teach women from around the wo

So what do I do?

I teach women from around the world in groups or 1-2-1. This is all online at the moment, but in other times it's a combination of in-person (Hertfordshire UK) or online. They want to feel strong again, they want to get back to doing the exercise that they used to do or try new things or play with the young people in their lives. And they want to do this without leaking pee or being in pain or being worried that they're making the separation of their abdominal muscles or pelvic organ prolapse worse.
Most of the time these symptoms can be significantly improved or resolved completely over time by gradually increasing body (and mind) awareness and through a regular movement practice.

I teach women from around the world in groups or 1-2-1. This is all online at the moment, but in other times it's a combination of in person (Hertfordshire UK) or online.
My clients leave with the knowledge they need to go into other exercise classes, try new sports or go back to sports they love, but most of all feeling that their body functions as it should. As the lovely @birtheasywithgeorgia commented I completely transform the way my clients move, so that they start listening to their minds and bodies again and trusting what they hear! 📷 @hjbrandingstories
Day 2 @thrivecollectiveclub - #gettingtoknowyou #bishopsstortford #bishopstortfordmums #eastherts

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