In this episode, Ladey Adey is joined by Sheila Holt.

Sheila’s personality shines through in her business, which is unique in the finance sector as it specialises in building lifelong relationships, trust, and communication. It’s the finance business with heart.

Sheila’s lightness and brightness of character together with her high energy, drive, and passion take the serious and often overcomplicated business of finance and turn it into something that flows with ease and clarity.

Sheila recognises that she’s both an outlier and a disrupter, which means that the standard career path never suited her – a discomfort that led her to a life-changing moment. Attending a neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) course in Hawaii opened her mind to entrepreneurship and gave her a completely different direction and purpose in life. Fascinated by how people think, Sheila developed a coaching practice utilising NLP to help her clients achieve clarity, focus, and success.

During this time Sheila was also actively investing in property. The big lesson she learned from building a sizable portfolio was that in the property industry money needs to flow.

In 2007, she loaned some of her own money to a property developer, recognising a need in the market. This was the first step to building what is now Sapphire Lending Ltd. The business has evolved and grown over the years and she’s in the fortunate position of having attracted a great team, strong advisors, and good systems. All this was accomplished by applying the theories, practices, and actions outlined in her book. Shelia talks of the 40,000 lessons this is teaching her.

Sheila has a postgraduate degree in career counselling and an MA in research and education. She revels in being an entrepreneur and sees it as one of the greatest personal development journeys you can go on. She is a lifelong learner.

Tip: "I think writing is a very personal thing. I naturally write from the heart, emotively.

It is about recognising who your readers are – who do you want to read your writings, and why? How do you want your readers to feel; what do you want them to do as a result of reading what you have written?

Also think about the key message(s) you want to convey.

Be clear about how you want your writing to position you – as a thought leader; an expert; a speaker; a mentor; etc"

Favourite Quote: “Only connect the passion and the prose…” from Howards End by E M Forster

Useful links

Guests: Sheila Holt

Website: www.SapphireLending.com

Book: https://amzn.to/3LESr07

Social media: Facebook: https://facebook.com/sheila.holt.9210

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sheilaholt007

Instagram: https://instagram.com/sapphirelending

Ladey Adey: https://www.ladeyadey.com/

Book Academy: https://www.ladeyadey.com/the-book-academy/

Vicky Galbraith - Podcast VA: www.podcastva.co.uk

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In this episode, Ladey Adey is joined by David Rogers.

David is Chief Business Narrator at Fuelled, Fit and Fired Up. He passionately believes every business has untapped potential, a best-selling success story yet to be written. Using a childlike curiosity to explore the solutions to business challenges, David works with you to create the narrative that allows your people and business to thrive.

With an inquisitive nature about people and business, coupled with working for industry-leading organisations, has allowed David to learn from the best.

After a successful corporate career, working across many business functions, David set up Fuelled, Fit and Fired Up to share his knowledge and help people, businesses, and communities thrive.

Along with this journey came David's book, Fuelled Fit and Fired UP – Unleash the Power of a Healthy life.Toward the end of 2019, David made the decision to change his own lifestyle, addressing diet and exercise. Through the pandemic, David shared recipes, exercises, and tips and tricks that were aiding his new healthier lifestyle. During a writing experience with Michael Heppel the title and first chapter came to life.

Tips: "When writing my book I found reading more than usual helped my process. I tend to read business, self-development, and biographies, but I have recently started reading fiction which has triggered my creativity again, helping me think differently about life’s challenges"

Favourite Quote: "Do What You Love, Love What You Do"

Useful links

Guest: David Rogers

Website: http://www.fuelledfitandfiredup.com/

Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/FUELLED-FIT-FIRED-UP-UNLEASH-ebook/dp/B094RC545Q

Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fuelled-fit-and-fired-up-ltd/

https://www.facebook.com/fuelledfitandfiredup/

https://twitter.com/fuelledfitfired

Song mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6DO_7px1I

Ladey Adey: https://www.ladeyadey.com/

Book Academy: https://www.ladeyadey.com/the-book-academy/

Vicky Galbraith - Podcast VA: www.podcastva.co.uk

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In this episode, Ladey Adey and the book academy are joined by author Fiona Myles.

Fiona Myles, born in the mid-60s is married to the amazing Brian, a gorgeous redhead. They share one daughter, Georgie, and a son, Connor.

They have called Manchester home for the past 18 years.

Fiona started writing and telling stories at a fairly young age, her Mum bought me a typewriter when she was eight or nine years old. From there she battered away at that little typewriter day in and day out.

Fast forward 45 years and the laptop has become her new typewriter. Fiona has found her passion as an author and blogger has reignited with a strong desire to bring hope in an awful time called “Lockdown”.

Fiona has a series of books including,

THIS IS ME – No Darkness Too Deep

THIS IS ME – I’m Adopted

ADOPTION TRAUMA – Latest Book

THIS IS ME - No Darkness Too Deep tells Fiona's story of becoming a Christian from a challenging background of addiction, prostitution, and difficulty. Fiona felt her story could inspire and help to change their life.

THIS IS ME - I'm Adopted. Fiona talks about her experiences being adopted as a child, her struggles with fertility, and how life went full circle when she adopted her daughter.

Fiona hopes that by sharing her story she can let people know that whatever the challenge, there is a pathway through the dark times. For Fiona, this was becoming a Christian.

With more books hinted at, we look forward to what is to come for Fiona and "Adopted and Angry"....

Top Tip, " Focus , focus, focus. On both reading what you can and determining yourself to write every day regardless of how you feel. Get someone alongside you that’s not afraid to tell you your writing is not great and work towards making it great. Invest in yourself" - wise words!

Useful links

Guest: Fiona Myles

Website: https://www.fionamylesauthor.com/

Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-myles-960470226/

https://www.facebook.com/fionamylesauthor

https://twitter.com/FionaMyles5

Ladey Adey: https://www.ladeyadey.com/

Book Academy: https://www.ladeyadey.com/the-book-academy/

Vicky Galbraith - Podcast VA: www.podcastva.co.uk

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