Power To Live More With Jo Dodds

Amanda Holges has over three decades of experience as a serial entrepreneur, having grown her family business into a highly successful international company. She is a business mentor and mastermind facilitator who passionately helps entrepreneurs with business development and growth strategies to achieve success through her membership site, virtual mentoring programmes, and group mastermind programmes. She is the host of the Time for Business Growth Podcast, where she shares strategies and advice for busy entrepreneurs on everything from productivity and time management to managing their finances and building a successful business. Amanda joins me today to share her story and journey as a business mentor, providing guidance and support to business owners. She shares some particularly useful insights on improving productivity, including her top app choices. She also explains how she faces minor problems versus how she handles major situations and shares the value of using and tweaking

In 2001, Mohammed Elkhamissy found himself a new graduate in the wake of 9/11 and unable to get a job. He had grown up playing soccer competitively and had initially thought he would go on to play professionally. When that didn’t come to fruition and he found himself unemployable as a Middle Eastern American in a post-9/11 world, he began reaching out to connections. He wound up working for a construction company and discovered that he had an affinity for the business. He now lives in Qatar and runs one of the top construction companies in the region.  Though Mohammad had achieved a lot of material success, when he discovered that his young daughter had been diagnosed with cancer, everything he had prioritised to that point vanished. He found that it didn’t matter how great his car was or how successful he was. Through his study of Stoicism, he discovered that living positively is a choice and that when you live authentically, you can give back immensely. In the wake of his daughter’s illness,

Ashley Leeds is The 15-Minute Guy, a specialist LinkedIn trainer that helps people make the most of their corporate social network. Starting in hospitality, Ashley learned that excellent customer service is where the real value is in a business. Moving into a successful sales career for over 30 years, he decided to start his own coaching company to help people focus on the right areas and make improvements where they are most needed. Ashley helps people maximise their reach and gain clarity, purpose, and structure on LinkedIn with his training programme. Today, Ashley shares his story from working as a chef to sales and finally starting his coaching practice. He reveals how he developed his LinkedIn programme and how you can make the most of your time on the platform. He shares how he now structures his day and prioritises his time to get everything done. Ashley reveals how music became an essential part of his life during the lockdown and how starting his own business helped him take c

Susan Moore is the founder of Moore Business, a service offering back-office support to entrepreneurs and non-executive directors. As one of the pioneers of remote working, Susan has been offering virtual assistant services for over 14 years and her company won the Outstanding VA of the Year Award in 2008. Her highly experienced business support team works from home across the world with clients in various industries taking on tasks to give clients the time they need to do what they do best.  In today’s episode, Susan and I discuss running a remote team and the challenges of coordinating remote workers. She shares how she started her VA business and how her work has changed over the years. She explains how she helps her clients work effectively and promotes a network of support and connection with her team. Susan shares the top apps that help her and her team with remote working and how outsourcing can be a big help for any business owner. She also shares her best timesaving advic

Laura McClellan is a lawyer, writer, productivity enthusiast, and tech geek who is passionate about encouraging women in their individual journeys as people, wives, mothers, and citizens. Laura hosts The Productive Woman podcast, a weekly show about productivity for busy women that helps the listener find the tools and encouragement they need to manage their time, life, and stress so they can accomplish the things they care about and create a meaningful life. Laura also facilitates mastermind groups and offers productivity coaching for women who are seeking support, encouragement, and accountability in identifying and pursuing their goals. Laura joins me today to reveal how her interest in increasing productivity started at an early age, why she has always considered herself as a little bit of a ‘productivity nerd’ since she was very young, and how that interest developed into creating time management and organisation strategies as her life got busier. She discusses the obligations on most wome

Evernote, Purple Cow, Dream It Alive, Business Connectedness with Hela Wozniak-Kay of Sister Snog Listen Below and Here’s What We Recommended: Tools & Apps Evernote – “I’m a Virgo who loves lists. My essential tool of life which includes work, and play, and organising everything else, is Evernote. I’m not quite sure how I possibly existed before Evernote came on the scene. I’m a massive fan of Evernote. You’ve got to get into it, and buy into it. It’s kind of like a sort of effortless solution, and you can share what you’re doing with those that are also on Evernote. I think it’s like a killer app that is just gorgeous, and whatever you want, music, videos, photos. It’s kind of like a sort of seamless snapshot of stored ideas, and information.” Note from Jo – I’m an Evernote Certified Consultant and use those skills to help my members in POWER to Live More CALM Note from Jo – Steve Dotto has a series of videos about using Evernote. Note from Jo &

Ursula Jorch is a business coach, speaker, and the founder of Work Alchemy. She helps women leaders transform their businesses into profitable agents for change, create global impact, and become recognized as a powerful force for good. She works at the intersection of consciousness and capitalism so clients can make strategic business decisions and achieve financial goals while nurturing team and personal development. Ursula is also the host of Work Alchemy: The Impact Interviews,  a podcast where she interviews successful entrepreneurs and business leaders about what it takes to have an impact. Today, Ursula joins me to share her journey into coaching with a focus on impact for business leaders and how her experiences in Africa inspire her work. She reveals what impact is for a business and how she works with her clients to achieve it. She shares how business impact applies to any industry and what B-corps certification involves. She also shares her strategies for staying productive and wh

Blinkist, My Fitness Pal, Trello, Pocket, reading, productivity and learning with Darren Bandoo, Personal Performance Coach, Photographer, blogger, volunteer board member for the International Special Events Society and Business Development Executive for PRG XL Video. Read More The post Darren Bandoo: Blinkist, My Fitness Pal, Trello, Pocket, reading, productivity and learning first appeared on POWER to Live More.

Page to View Diary, ValueAddon, Living your Dream and a Whiteboard with Roy Carter of IM Income Builders Club. Read More The post Roy Carter: Page to View Diary, ValueAddon, Living your Dream and a Whiteboard! first appeared on POWER to Live More.

I talk about how your good habits can lead you to success by making them the magic potion for your mind. Read More The post Forming Habits first appeared on POWER to Live More.

Mary Hyatt is a life and business mindset coach who is passionate about helping high achieving female entrepreneurs move from living a life of burnout back to their enoughness, wholeness, and femininity. The post Mary Hyatt: Embracing Your Feminine Energy first appeared on POWER to Live More.

Carole Railton FRSA is a behaviourist who specialises in business body language and helps others become excellent communicators by learning about different personalities. The post Carole Railton: Learning Business Body Language first appeared on POWER to Live More.

Paul and Emily Hughes run the Parent Guide to GCSE, a website where they support parents whose children are in Year 11 and are preparing to take their first set of important exams. The post Paul & Emily: Helping Parents Help Teens Prepare for Exams first appeared on POWER to Live More.

Lorraine Hamilton PCC is a Speaker, Author, Coach, and CEO of the Coach School Academy, where she supports life coaches in making a living from making a difference. As an engineer designing mobile phone networks, Lorraine started a coaching business, then leaped into coaching full time. The post Lorraine Hamilton: Becoming the Legendary Leader of Your Technicolour Life first appeared on POWER to Live More.

Siobhan McKeown is the Director of People Operations at the internationally distributed web development agency, Human Made. The post Siobhan McKeown: Finding Balance Whilst Working Remotely first appeared on POWER to Live More.

Dr. Allen Lycka was a leading cosmetic doctor for over 40 years, pioneering many modern cosmetic procedures that have become so routine today. The post Dr Allen Lycka: Choosing Joy After Trauma first appeared on POWER to Live More.

Christine Morrison is a former Merseyside Police sergeant and specialist crime prevention advisor with Greater Manchester Police who established her own business, CMA Training, in 2003. The post Christine Morrison: Staying Client-Focused first appeared on POWER to Live More.

Ellen Goodwin is a TEDx Speaker, Author, and Productivity Expert who uses neuroscience practices to help businesses and individuals overcome procrastination struggles. The post Ellen Goodwin: Squashing Procrastination Through Energy Management first appeared on POWER to Live More.

Ali joins me today to share how having a home office for work helps create a separation between work life and home life. The post Ali Farrell: Separating Work-Life from Home-Life first appeared on POWER to Live More.

Vanessa Vallely, OBE, is one of the UK’s most well-networked women and is a prominent figure in gender equality who guides government and corporate organisations seeking to attract, develop, and retain their female talent. The post Vanessa Vallely OBE: Helping Women Drive Their Careers Forward first appeared on POWER to Live More.