Charlotte, a Holistic Transformation Coach bravely shares her story from addiction to crystal meth to becoming drug free with no rehab, and just a determination to live a better life and to connect to who she truly was.

This is SUCH a powerful story and so much vulnerability, as well as looking at our childhood homes, the dynamics with our parents and how that can massively impact our self-worth, self-esteem and lead us into unhealthy patterns that do not serve us.

Key highlights of the conversation:

- Charlotte ending an engagement and walking away from a long-term relationship and bouncing straight into a toxic relationship with an addict.

- The rapid spiral into self-sabotage and drugs when we feel lost and repress feeling our feelings.

- The dramatic shift from being a woman who thought drugs were dirty and never touched them, to being a crystal meth addict, becoming homeless and living in a crack den.

- We dig into her family history looking at generational trauma, and how traumas in our parent’s lives can have a knock-on effect into our patterns in relationships and love.

- How child version of Charlotte was confident until age 8 when there were issues at home, and she kept getting her intuition of their being problems with her parents invalidated by them, which shook her sense of self and left her feeling ungrounded. This led into a pattern of craving love and connection and being in back to back relationships from 15 to gain validation.

- How a conversation with a friend when he pointed out that she was a pushover, made her realise she’d been a people pleaser for life and start setting healthy boundaries and saying no more, and working out what she truly wanted.

It is an episode not to be missed!

Charlotte's Contact details:

- Instagram: @Iamcharlottejackson

- Podcast: Game Changer, with Charlotte Jackson

I am so excited for you to hear this very special conversation with (in my opinion) the OG Confidence Coach. I was so blown away by Jo's book Flying for Beginners that I started using some of the techniques within it on my own coaching clients who battle very loud inner critics and low self-esteem, as it's so bloody powerful!

Jo is the UK's leading Confidence Coach and expert in human behaviour, Author and Podcaster. She is the perfect mix of wise, warm and relatable.

In this episode Jo shares her confidence story from low self-esteem after a difficult childhood to finding true confidence and authentic happiness after being jolted out of her people pleasing ways in 2011. In one week Jo was diagnosed with cancer and lost a good friend to suicide, shortly after she left her marriage. This collection of events led her on a self-discovery journey and to setting up her successful Coaching Business, writing her book and finding true love with her now husband.

I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed recording it.

Contact:

- Website: www.jo-emerson.com

- Instagram: @jo_emerson_

- Book, Flying for beginners. Available on Amazon.

Join us for a special episode where for the first time...drum roll....we have male guests!

Meet Matt Knibb, Dad of two, Head of PE at a school for those with additional needs and Mental Health first aid trainer and Brad Smith, Dad of one, solution based hypnotherapist, the hosts of Mental Health Takeaway podcast. A podcast that discuss men's mental health in a light hearted manner.

After being invited on to their podcast and having such insightful conversations, I thought it would be great to have an authentic conversation delving into confidence, mental health and let's be real...their life stories!

Key moments of the episode:

- Matt and Brad discuss what led to them launching this podcast and focusing on men's mental health. Discussing the vital things that we can learn from these conversations and how women can support the men in their life who are struggling with their mental health.

- Both men share their childhood confidence journeys into adulthood and reflect on key moments of struggle and lessons.

- Both share their life confidence pivotal moments and how those moments shaped their growth.

- We all realised that one of our life pivotal confidence moments were our divorces and walking away from marriages that didn't work, we discussed how hitting rock can set you up on a new more authentic path.

- We discussed pillars of self-esteem and how life sometimes impacts all of your pillars at once, losing a job, a relationship ending etc and when this happens it can be extremely ungrounding and stressful.

- Both Matt and Brad share some really valuable advice for those on a confidence journey with some golden nuggets of wisdom.

Contact Matt and Brad:

Instagram: @mental_health_takeways