Roshni Pandey, who is Indian by ethnicity, Fijian by birth, Australian by citizenship, & Singaporean by residence, explains how her experience of freedom, imagination and creativity as a youngster influences her work today as a creative strategy consultant, angel investor and social entrepreneur. She reflects on how self-imposed limitations can get in the way of new idea generation, and how a desire for planning hindered her own ability to follow her passions. Roshni is Founder & Managing Partner Lexicon; Co-Founder BlueBox and Founder of TRIBE. She specializes in creative problem solving and strategy delivery and firmly believes in the balance between art and science, and intuition and data. With an innate ability to align consumer, market and business needs with creative solutions, Roshni uses her experience to take a project from articulation of business challenge, to design, assessment, planning & embedding solutions in order to drive sustainable business value. Amongst Roshni’s accolades she was recognised at the 2015 World Brand Congress’ as “Asia’s Most Influential CMO”; gained SME of the Year Award in 2015 for one start-up; and Best Leader Award (2013) IHG AMEA for leadership & talent development. Connect with Roshni Pandey via LinkedinKey Quotes

• I was born in Fiji in a city called Lautoka. You were bare feet 90% of the time.
• I think living on an island, you just feel the warmth, whether it's from the sun, or from the people.
• Growing up I thought I could be whatever I wanted to be, because there was nothing that you weren't allowed to do if you were interested in doing it.
• In Fiji life is basic, but it's never boring because you invent your own fun.
• A lot of great ideas are often preceded by a silly idea.
• I don't think good ideas just happen. I think they're built.
• I got a tattoo when I left my job, and it says, ‘if you desire something just ask the universe’.
• The comfort zone that we think we have is created only in our minds, because we've imagined the other parallel world to be so difficult or so scary.
• If I spend enough time exploring something, it will become comfortable and not scary anymore.
• Often our subconscious mind is our biggest saboteur.
• If you are not aware and in tune with your intuition or your gut feel, you often miss a lot of wonderful things.

This series is kindly supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations. Find out more at squadcast.fm Read the transcription for this episode on www.accesstoinspiration.org and connect with us:Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : LinkedIn Sign up for our newsletter Read our Impact Report Sound Editor: Matias de Ezcurra (he/him)Producer: Sue Stockdale (she/her)

Judith Keys talks to Sue Stockdale about how the ups and downs of emigrating to live and work in France. She explains what prompted her to move, how she initially found it difficult to integrate into the French way of life, and what helped her to adapt. Originally from Ireland, Judith has now lived in Provence for over 10 years. In 2013 she left her corporate job in Scotland, sold her house, and decided I wanted a better dream than the standard 9-5. Since the birth of her youngest son in 2021, she has created two businesses, My Food in France, and My Best Friend in France, with the aim of helping people to get comfortable and learn about French food - through cookery classes as well as to help them with the social and emotional impact of moving and living in a different country.Connect with Judith KeysMy Best Friend in France: My Food in France: Website: Linktree: Podcast (My Best Friend in France): Key Quotes

• I think it took a big commitment to make me realize that I needed to change.
• I think for a lot of people it's a dream life
• The same issues that I had before were still here when I moved to France, but I just was in a more beautiful place to deal with them.
• I thought – I could do this; I could do an online cookery class. I don't have to do it physically here.
• The people who come into my membership are people who love food and inspiration.
• A lot of people are bored with what they're eating all the time. We just get into a habit. So, my idea was to make it accessible, but also inspirational.
• I was extremely excited about this change, but there were so many times that I felt very lonely.
• I just knew in my heart it was the right choice and I needed to do it, and it was going to work out one way or the other.

Highlights[00:01:22] Leaving corporate life for adventure.[00:05:42] Moving to France without a plan.[00:07:55] Online cookery classes.[00:10:28] Cooking classes and recipes.[00:15:42] Realities of moving to a different country.[00:16:50] Making connections as an ex-pat.[00:23:27] French cooking membership community. This series is kindly supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations. Find out more at squadcast.fm Read the transcription for this episode on www.accesstoinspiration.org and connect with us:Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : LinkedIn Sign up for our newsletter Read our Impact Report Sound Editor: Matias de Ezcurra (he/him)Producer: Sue Stockdale (she/her)

Ray Martin created his own path in life after facing a crisis. In 2005, shattered by divorce and the loss of his father, he decided to let go of being a successful business leader to embark on a journey of reinvention by taking a six-month sabbatical which ended up lasting fourteen years. He explains to host, Sue Stockdale what he learned from this experience, and how he completely re-evaluated his life and personal mission. Ray Martin, aka The Daily Explorer, is an entrepreneur and award-winning business leader. As a coach, mentor, facilitator, speaker, writer, and mindfulness teacher, he is a torchbearer for greater human consciousness. He courageously explores both his external and internal world daily in pursuit of greater insight and wisdom about life, for himself and others. He created the Calling All Angels Foundation and runs marathons to raise money for causes he believes in, which have included an orphanage in Nepal and an elephant sanctuary in Thailand. Whatever he does, his mission is to bring more joy and happiness into the world. Connect with Ray Martin at his website and LinkedIn.Key Quotes:

• I kept wondering why I wasn't feeling in my deepest core, really happy. I had this sense of unease and unhappiness all the time.
• I came out of the monastery after 10 days in a completely different space, my energy had just really calmed down.
• I made a decision to adopt the principle of self-acceptance.
• One of the toughest challenges to reconceptualize my life without having a permanent home.
• We've got a huge need to control our external reality as human beings.
• Moving towards a less effortful way of living, is about tuning into your intuition
• If you got a strong core, you know what your values are, you know what your vision and purpose is, at least have a sense of it.
• The greatest source of happiness for me has been when I'm taking my knowledge and wisdom and experience and using it to empower others to have an amazing life.

This series is kindly supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations. Find out more at squadcast.fm Read the transcription for this episode on www.accesstoinspiration.org and connect with us:Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : LinkedIn Sign up for our newsletter Read our Impact Report Sound Editor: Matias de Ezcurra (he/him)Producer: Sue Stockdale (she/her)

Faisal Hoque talks to host, Sue Stockdale about how mindfulness has helped him in his life and work by enabling him to be present, patient and accepting the different circumstances he has found himself in. Whether it was at university where he had to work several jobs whilst studying, being let go by the investors that took control of the company he founded, or supporting his son through cancer treatment, Faisal has used mindfulness to stay calm and see beyond the challenge. Faisal is the founder of SHADOKA, NextChapter, and other companies that focus on enabling sustainable and transformational changes. Throughout his career, he has developed over 20 commercial business and technology platforms and worked with public and private sector giants such as the US Department of Defense, GE, MasterCard, American Express, Northrop Grumman, CACI, PepsiCo, IBM, Home Depot, Gartner, and JPMorgan Chase. As a thought leader, he has authored a number of award-winning books including the #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller Lift – Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change (Fast Company), and the #2 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller Everything Connects – Cultivating Mindfulness, Creativity, and Innovation for Long-Term Value (Fast Company). His work has appeared in Fast Company, Business Insider, The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Fox, CBS, Financial Times, Mergers & Acquisitions, Forbes, and Leadership Excellence, among others. Key Quotes

• Mindfulness can transform your business
• Everybody is struggling with something and everybody has a various level of emotion that runs through their daily lives.
• Patience comes from this mindfulness and empathy.
• I wrote Lift and my message was that if you want to lift others, you have to lift yourself first.
• When I face adversity, somehow I get very motivated to do something.
• My greatest strength is perhaps being mindful, staying calm and seeing beyond the fog.
• You can't be constantly happy, but you can find momentary joy and momentary impact.

Connect with Faisal Hoque: Website and LinkedIn This series is kindly supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations. Read the transcription for this episode on www.accesstoinspiration.org and connect with us:Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : LinkedIn Sign up for our newsletter Read our Impact Report Sound Editor: Matias de Ezcurra (he/him)Producer: Sue Stockdale (she/her)

Clive Steeper and Sue Stockdale, founders of Access to Inspiration podcast, reflect on the recent guest-hosted series and the key insights that they gained including:

• The value of reflection
• How to overcome fears and step into the unknown
• The importance of leadership and self-leadership

This series is kindly supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations. Find out more at squadcast.fm Read the transcription for this episode on www.accesstoinspiration.org and connect with us:Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : LinkedIn Sign up for our newsletter Read our Impact Report Sound Editor: Matias de Ezcurra (he/him)Producer: Sue Stockdale (she/her)

In our final guest-hosted episode, researcher and designer Josh Wasserman, from episode 44 talks to Andrew Freear, Director of Rural Studio which part of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture of Auburn University. Freear lives in a small rural community in Hale County, West Alabama, where for twenty years he has directed this unique architecture program where students design and build community buildings, homes, and landscape projects for under-resourced local towns and non-profit organization. Freear explains how the project has evolved over the years, and about the unique experience where the students live and work in-situ and are responsible for all aspects of the design and build process including liaison with community partners, local authorities, and those who will be using or living in the buildings.About Andrew Freear:Andrew Freear is the J. Streeter Wiatt Professor and Director of Rural Studio. He was educated at the University of Westminster and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He has designed and built exhibits for the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art, the Milan Triennale, and the Venice Biennale. His honours include the Ralph Erskine Award, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and the Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Freear was a 2018 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University and in 2020 received the President’s Medal from the Architectural League of New York.Connect with Rural Studio: Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Rural Studio Farm Connect with Josh Wasserman on LinkedIn Key Quotes

• We're here to educate architecture students and help them get a good design education.
• Architecture students get to not only design their projects, but they get to build their projects.
• There's a responsibility to make sure that you are building something that will be here a long time.
• In the late nineties we built a house out of carpet tiles.
• We asked ourselves could we come up with an affordable home that anyone and everybody could afford.
• We bring young folks into a place like this and they bring energy and it breaks down some boundaries. class boundaries, race boundaries, misconceptions about this place.
• We have ambitious students who want to, save the world and you can't come to a place like this and tell people how to live their lives
• I think we should care about the craft of things. We should care about the way things are put together. And from concept to compete completion. It's a richer world if it's that way.

This series is kindly supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations. Read the transcription for this episode at our website

Cori Myka, from Orca Swim School talks to Rob Lawrence (from episode 42) about how she supports adult non-swimmers who often have a fear of deep water, to realize their dreams. And it's all to do with healing the mind. You will learn how she teaches learners remotely to help them become aware of their thoughts and change their subsequent behaviour.About Cori MykaCori is co-owner of Orca Swim School and creator of the Foundations of Change learning method. For over 20 years Cori has been taking adult non-swimmers from fearful beginning to achieving their dreams. Her unique teaching is so highly regarded because it is based on training and healing the mind so individuals can learn physical steps which takes swimming beyond the pool and into life.Based in Seattle, USA Cori has been training students and teachers locally, across the US and in the UK and Singapore.Cori started her swim teaching career at the young age of 14, when she volunteered at a local pool. In 1999, she co-founded Orca Swim School, together with her husband Bruce. Cori’s continued love of learning and exploring has further developed Orca’s own curriculum to include the most recent developments of brain training, life coaching, mindfulness, and online learning.Connect with Cori Myka and Orca Swim School via Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | InstagramConnect with Rob Lawrence https://www.roblawrence.co Key Quotes

• What we are teaching our students is to learn to trust themselves.
• We start this process to notice the difference between the reactions our body has because of our thoughts.
• Children of color drown at a higher rate than white children in the US.
• Everything that we do in the world starts with our thoughts.
• We bring people to the present and sometimes what occurs to people in the present is a memory from the past.
• It is really about this process of bringing people's awareness and then slowing things down.

Connect with Access to Inspiration on social media via Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and LinkedInSound Editor: Matias de Ezcurra (he/him)Producer: Sue Stockdale (she/her)

Pierre Heistein talks to Brendan Davis, from episode 58, about the documentary film he made telling the story of Atuel River in Mendoza region, Argentina. In 2020 there were protests against the overturning of a water protection law that had successfully kept water-intensive mining projects out of the Mendoza province, the largest wine-producing region in Latin America that gets water from the Atuel River.Pierre and two others decided to trace the route of the river from high up in the Andes to its end in the Cuyo Desert, becoming the first to do so, and recording perspectives of local people who engage with the river in different ways. The resulting documentary received an overwhelmingly positive response from the local community and has caused Pierre to reflect on society’s pace of life, reliance on, and connectedness to nature.About Pierre HeisteinPierre believes that we really are capable of creating more harmonious relationships with each other and the natural world that supports us. He contributes to this through photography, entrepreneurship, teaching, and fatherhood.Find out more at: ATUEL Documentary Spanish version and Instagram Email: Pierre DOT Heistein @ Gmail.comConnect with Brendan Davis https://www.crazyinagoodway.comKey Quotes

• We felt that it was very important to make the river the main subject, the protagonist of thisfilm.
• We were forced to move at the river’s pace and we were forced to move at the pace of nature itself.
• It made me reflect on how to work better, how to live better, how to produce better and to do so at a far more natural pace of ebb and flow of passion and rest.
• I think the river just taught me that just how to ebb and flow, how to speed up, slow down, go stop and really integrate that into the rest of my life
• We are a manmade oasis in the middle of the desert, it is impossible to live here without having a deep connection to the river.
• Our little planet earth in this immense of expansive space is the only place we can live. And we depend on it. And if we don’t look after it, we’re probably not gonna be able to live here, at least with not any level of quality of life.
• It has made me really question, what am I working towards and reminded me to, to just always be very conscious of the jobs I seek and understand why.
• We are not here to serve nature. Nature’s not here to serve us. It’s a relationship. and just like any relationship in our lives, it needs to be as healthy as possible.

This series is kindly supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations.Read the transcription for this episode at our websiteConnect with Access to Inspiration on Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : LinkedIn : Read our Impact ReportSound Editor: Matias de Ezcurra (he/him). Producer: Sue Stockdale (she/her)

In the first of our series of guest-hosted episodes Racheal Wanjiku Kigame, Country Director, Help a Child Africa, who was a guest on episode 12 talks to her mentor Dr. James Kisia about using mentorship to cultivate leadership in Africa.They discuss:

• why leaders must listen and be curious
• why mentors should '‘walk their talk’ if they want to encourage others to grow and develop
• why there is a greater focus on localisation of NGO (non-government organisation) support today, to meet the needs of local communities.

About Dr. James KisiaDr. James Kisia is Country Director for Catholic Medical Mission Board Kenya (CMMB), is a medical doctor who worked within the public, private, and NGO sectors. He has more than twenty years of combined clinical and humanitarian program work. He has led large, multi-county implementation of projects in reproductive and maternal health in areas of low resource settings and difficult-to-access services in Kenya. James has been involved in setting up emergency and health services in some of the largest refugee camps in the world in Dadaab and Kakuma. James loves the outdoors and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya several times. He is passionate about the environment and has planted and cared for over three thousand trees within the last four years, most of them indigenous.Connect with Dr Kisia at LinkedIn and at the Catholic Medical Mission BoardConnect with guest host Racheal Wanjiku Kigame on LinkedIn. Key Quotes

• I realised that I had actually put aside my dream and so I rekindled it, and moved from my clinical practice to work for Kenya Red Cross. And I never looked back.
• My father was a mathematics teacher in the fifties, and my mother was an English teacher. And what they imparted in me was the importance of education.
• I derive great pleasure at seeing people just develop.
• Context is very important for leadership, and the way in which we respond to the world is largely influenced by our own perception of the world.
• I've always admired those kind of leaders that have clarity of thought, and clarity of action.
• Sometimes it's feast or famine. You have too much money within a short time when disasters occur. And then once the disasters disappear, you don't have any money.
• If I do my part and leave somebody feeling that it was useful for me to be in their lives then I think that's good enough.

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Sue Stockdale previews the guest-hosted episodes that will be featured in Series 12. They are:

• Dr. James Kisia talks to guest host Racheal Wanjiku Kigame from episode 12 about using mentorship to cultivate leadership in Africa
• Pierre Heistein talks to guest host Brendan Davis from episode 58 about recording the story of the Atuel River
• Cori Myka talks to guest host Rob Lawrence from episode 42 about helping non-swimmers overcome fear of deep water
• Andrew Freear talks to guest host Josh Wasserman from episode 44 about how Rural Studio creates sustainable impact

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