Shocked Into Awakening

🗣️006 - Viktor Saghy Interview

Today's special guest is my personal coach and friend Viktor Saghy! Viktor coached me for 1.5 years 2023-2025. He is an amazing coach and mentor.
In this episode, we spend the first half discussing his coaching approach and the second half him live-coaching me! I was in a bad place with my speech and this was the support I needed.
I delayed putting this episode out for 15 MONTHS! I kept avoiding. What becomes obvious to me is I was ashamed of my stuttering 'relapse' here. This was when I was going through a bad time with my speech. I had done hypnotherapy and seen temporary improvement, and yet had a huge relapse. Where my fear levels and stuttering had increased back to previous levels.
I was distraught.
And yet, what I hear when I listen back, is the amount of value that is in this episode. I have been robbing the world of gold, because of my selfishness. Because of my own insecurities. Because of my own shame.
I am supposed to be better than this. I am supposed to be guiding us all. I have let you, me and us all down.
I will be better.
Enjoy the episode. x
Viktor's bio:
Be Unstoppable: Coaching That Actually Moves the Needle
Viktor helps high-achieving health leaders and individuals stop overthinking, reclaim their power, and create the life they know they’re meant to live.
Whether it’s elevating their career, leading with heart, healing relationships, or showing up courageously in the world—clients come to Viktor when they’ve hit a ceiling and are ready to finally break through.
They walk away with more time, more income, more clarity, better relationships—and most importantly, a deeper relationship with themselves.
Viktor has helped clients:
- Raise their income 30% in one session- Launch businesses they’d been sitting on for years- Transform self-doubt into public speaking confidence- Heal long-standing self-criticism, anxiety, and mental health challenges- Stand up for themselves and finally claim their power- Repair strained relationships and reconnect with their families- Take bold action that collapsed timelines from “someday” to “right now”
What do clients say?
Viktor is the coach who’s all heart and no fluff. He sees what clients can’t see, says what others won’t say, and challenges them in ways that feel safe and empowering. He walks with them through it all—with fierce care and a relentless belief in their potential.
Viktor brings two decades of leadership and entrepreneurial experience, an ICF-accredited coaching background, and deep training in communication, somatic work, and personal transformation. He’s invested tens of thousands into mastering this craft—because he lives what he teaches.
But none of that matters if real change isn’t created.
That’s what this work is about.
If clients are ready to stop settling and start leading their lives from the inside out—Viktor would love to meet them.
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❤️006 - Letting Go

Part 2 of the Ego Sabotage/Letting Go episode series!
We spoke about feeling triggered in the last episode, where the fight/flight centre of our brain gets activated.
We spoke about bringing awareness to these sabotaging thoughts. Dealing with them on a thought-level.
In this episode we speak about letting go of the feeling on a somatic body emotion-level.
This process has changed my life in numerous ways. Being able to regulate your feelings, and let go of our trauma in the body, is the single most useful technique you can learn to live a peaceful life.
Note that this is a 2-part episode. Please listen to"🧠006 - Ego Sabotage" for part 1.
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🧠006 - Ego Sabotage

Do you feel like your mind hijacks you sometimes?
Your ego sabotages your growth?
You behave in ways you later regret?
When we feel triggered, we are activating the amygdala, the fight/flight centre of our brain. We are NOT being ourselves.
Find out why this happens, and the first step in changing your behaviours, in this episode.
Note that this is a 2-part episode. Please listen to"❤️006 - Letting Go" next week (Feb 25).
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🗣️005 - Alex Manzi Interview

Today's episode is a very special one to me. You see, I met Alex Manzi on a personal development course back at the start of 2023. This was a course which launched me into embarking on my podcast journey. But whilst the inkling for the idea had formed on the course, it was Alex who massively encouraged and guided me on getting setup with my recording equipment and the "how to". He is a fantastic life coach and his podcast was rated the top life coaching podcast a few years ago. He has had amazing people like Amy Johnson (author of 'Being Human' and 'Just A Thought') and Wretch 32 (famous UK rapper) on there, sharing their knowledge.
This episode is a full circle moment for me, as Alex committed to me that he would be on the podcast, provided I put up 5 recorded interviews. And here we are, with the 5th one going live. Thank you Alex for pushing me to be better!
Here's a bio written by the man himself:
"Alex Manzi is a Creator and Coach who works with Creatives and Entrepreneurs to help them optimise their mindset so that they can bring their dream projects to life. Alex is also the host of 'In The Moment with Alex Manzi' which is one of the most downloaded self development podcasts in the UK as well as author of the book 'The Search For Clarity' which he released in 2020."
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❤️005 - Building Trust

Why do we never trust our hearts or our guts?
We used to when we were kids... we would laugh, love and cry. Create and play all day!
Then we developed thought.
The mind started trying to keep us small. Make us play it safe.
It wants everything to be CERTAIN.
Life is uncertain.
Enough.
Start building trust.
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Update: Starting from 🧠004, each episode type will follow on from each other. E.g. 🧠004,🧠005, 🧠006... will be sequential. Same with ❤️004, ❤️005, ❤️006... I hope that this will make your listening experience better, and aid you on your journey from the mind to the heart.
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🧠005 - Feeling Trapped?

Do you feel trapped by your mind?
Does it feel like it's caging you in, with no way out?
Do you feel helpless, even after trying postitive affirmations, therapy and numerous ways to 'change' your thoughts?
What if there was another way?
A way that didn't involve changing any thinking.
A way that showed you who you truly are.
A way where you realise you aren't trapped inside the cage, but rather you are the one observing the cage.
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Update: Starting from 🧠004, each episode type will follow on from each other. E.g. 🧠004,🧠005, 🧠006... will be sequential. Same with ❤️004, ❤️005, ❤️006... I hope that this will make your listening experience better, and aid you on your journey from the mind to the heart.
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🗣️004 - Essi Virtanen Interview

I hope you enjoy this very special episode with my friend Essi Virtanen; a lovely inspiring heart leader! We met through a mutual friend of ours and instantly hit it off, with similar views on life and how the heart triumphs the mind in all facets of life. Why be thoughtful, when you can be heartful?
She has recently launched her FIRST book called Heartful, which can be found on her website below! I've read it and it's wonderful.
Here's a little more on Essi:
Essi believes connection is the foundation for our wellbeing. She is an Intuitive Wellbeing Coach who holds a BA in Journalism and MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology.
By combining her communications expertise, positive psychology knowledge and her gift of connecting with people, Essi founded Connected You to bring women together to support each other, connecting heart to heart for wellbeing, work on personal development through workshops and events, and share experiences to make long-lasting connections.
Everything she doed is to help you to create a Connected YOU: who feels connected within You, with Others and the wider world and the Universe to create a heart-led, fulfilling life.
Essi also does 1:1 coaching on her HEARTFUL method which is about supporting people to reconnect with themselves after heartbreaking life events or through big life transitions, find their direction for a fulfilling life and support them to start and go after it!
https://www.essiaugustevirtanen.co/ 
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Update: Starting from 🧠004, each episode type will follow on from each other. E.g. 🧠004,🧠005, 🧠006... will be sequential. Same with ❤️004, ❤️005, ❤️006... I hope that this will make your listening experience better, and aid you on your journey from the mind to the heart.-------------------------
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❤️004 - What IS The Heart?

The start of the new Heart series.
What IS the heart?
The heart is the part of you that has remained unchanged since you were born.
The heart is the absence of problems.
The heart is the antithesis of the mind.
The heart is peace.
The heart is expansion.
The heart is infinite.
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I hope you enjoy the episode. Much love.
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Update: Starting from 🧠004, each episode type will follow on from each other. E.g. 🧠004,🧠005, 🧠006... will be sequential. Same with ❤️004, ❤️005, ❤️006... I hope that this will make your listening experience better, and aid you on your journey from the mind to the heart.
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🧠004 - What IS The Mind?

What IS the mind?
Do you often find yourself wondering what exactly is going on in your head?
Do you feel like your thoughts are frantic and chaotic?
Have you tried countless affirmations and positive thinking to try and change your mind, but nothing worked?
What if there was another way?
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I hope you enjoy the episode. Much love.
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Update: Starting from 🧠004, each episode type will follow on from each other. E.g. 🧠004,🧠005, 🧠006... will be sequential. Same with ❤️004, ❤️005, ❤️006... I hope that this will make your listening experience better, and aid you on your journey from the mind to the heart.-------------------------
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🗣️003 - Meehir Patel Interview

Wow wow wow! What an incredible episode this was. Meehir and I met at a personal development course in March 2023 and immediately hit it off because... well... let's just say he doesn't hold back with the jokes! He's an amazing heart-centred person, and when I say that, I don't mean "la-di-da-di-da, life is amazing all the time, sunshine and rainbows, peace love and unity". I mean he stands for the truth at all times. He has been through some very dark days and the only way I can describe him is a true "heart warrior". He was the perfect guest for this podcast.
Here's a little bio about Meehir, written by the man himself:
Meehir Patel is an Executive Facilitator and Personal Leadership Coach at Creative Self-Mastery.  
His journey has led him from wanting to jump in front of a train at Tottenham Court Road Station in London, to owning the truth that your demons hold no bearing on the life you want to create and who you want to become.... for him that was being the most empowered version of himself and to have his life and reality reflect that new found power.
Meehir is committed to supporting his clients in experiencing that same empowerment for their own journey and transformation. His coaching has a 'no stone unturned' and a 'no nonsense approach' to actualising his client's leadership potential and their deepest desires.
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