Podcasts Hira Ali

Recently featured on Entrepreneur.com, Michael Nova has developed a proven track record of overseeing multiple businesses & creative projects simultaneously, both as a creative artist and entrepreneur.
As president of Nova Music Productions, Inc., Michael was featured in The New York Times as a pioneer in offering multiple services to independent artists in the music industry.

Several years later, Michael then created Nova Disc and Nova Custom Printing, divisions of the corporation that would focus on offering business to-business services. Over the years, Nova's clients grew to include Nasa, Google, Loreal, Calvin Klien, American Express, The U.S. Government and thousands more

Because the business was doing well, Michael found a calling to give back to the community. He cofounded Metrofly, a non-profit organization that hosted fundraising events for charity.
Then, with the intention of also making a difference Michael independently funded and created the music and film multimedia project X The Human Condition. During the production, Michael lost his eyesight due to illness and nearly lost his business to bankruptcy but manifested a miraculous recovery, inspiring people around the world with his story

The multimedia project has received rave reviews globally, from Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia to North & South America. To date, the majority of all proceeds have been donated to charity.

Continuing the journey, Michael has now founded human condition, featuring interviews with people worldwide overcoming adversity and succeeding in life.

A new album and a documentary film will be released later this year which chronicles the entire project.

In this episode Michael shares with us some important strategies and tips for overcoming adversity such as gratitude and healthy daily habits. He believes that . We all deal with adversity. It's
how we overcome it that can define us. Listen to this inspiring episode to learn more

Stephannie Weikert is an inspirational yoga teacher and yoga therapist, who’s on a mission to make yoga simple. Certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists, she has taught thousands of clients and students to use simple yoga to manage stress and experience more peace every day.
After overcoming stress-related anxiety with yoga herself Stephannie, trained in Integrative Yoga Therapy and has studied with leading teachers including: Elena Brower, Desiree Rumbaugh, Sianna Sherman, Noah Maze, Jillian Pransky, and Max Strom. She is the creator of the transformative programs Shift Happens and Make Peace with Stress.

In this episode Stephannie teaches you how to integrate Yoga in our every day life by following simple practices. She also shares her spectacular meditation formula Pause N.O.W which is described below

Pause N.O.W.

NOTICE /
First your physical body, just feel it and observe what’s happening. Then your breath and heart beat, watch both for a moment. Finally your mind, imagine you’re a fly on the wall inside your own head, listen.

OPEN
This moment is an opportunity to be intentional if you’re open to it. You can shift your unwanted patterns if you recognize that the unwanted pattern (of stressing, worrying, etc) is an opportunity to try something different.


WISH
Decide on a course of internal action. How do you want to think? How do you want to feel? What type of person do you want to be? Align your next, simple action with the answers to these questions. I wish to be calm, so I’ll focus on this one thing right now. I wish to be strong, so I’ll acknowledge my fear and match it with courage. I wish to be balanced, so I’ll say no to taking on more. Focus on your wish for
yourself, it’s the only thing you can definitely do something about.

Learn more about her programs at
www.stephannieweikert.com

TAKE THE SIMPLE YOGA CHALLENGE

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This podcast is based on my latest article in the HuffPost on yet another topic close to my heart- Beliefs and Limiting Beliefs & how they impact you in a major way! Do you remember a time when you wanted to pursue a goal but didn’t because you failed to perform it well the first time? Or a time when you didn’t voice your opinion in a meeting for fear of being rejected or judged? Well, that was a limiting belief holding you back. A limiting belief is a false belief that a person holds true based on incorrect or incomplete conclusions about certain things in life. All human beings have a tendency to be negative, some being more prone to it than others. However, when these beliefs turn into toxic thought traps that sabotage your progress, they need to be addressed promptly. The good news is that with a little practice and discipline, you can avoid succumbing to these mind-chattering gremlins and stop them right in their tracks!

In this podcast, you will learn questioning techniques that can help you to distance yourself from debilitating thoughts and allow you to view situations more objectively. However, for self-questioning to work more effectively, you need something else too and that is to stop believing in the myth that someone else will come to your rescue. Trust YOURSELF to be your own best rescuer! Why? Simply, because who else could be a better expert in your life than YOU YOURSELF? Your only limit is You!
Ultimately, you own and control the most powerful weapon that can help you to GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY- YOUR BRAIN

Do not underestimate its power - it will play a pivotal role in your success. By repeatedly telling your brain that it can achieve something, you can train it to think affirmatively, so make sure you feed it with positive and ‘can do’ thoughts only. After all as Henry Ford, aptly put it; ‘Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right!

In conversation with Carol Stewart,named as one of Britain’s top 50 Business Advisers by Enterprise Nation.

Carol has delivered several sessions to the Royal Bank of Scotland Focused Women’s Network (and other parts of the organisation), including the Maximising Your Future Potential webinar series to over 600 members of the Focused Women’s Network. In 2016 she was informed that she was one of the favourite speakers of the Focused Women’s Network. She has delivered coaching, workshops and talks on topics including leadership development, self confidence, career development and starting a business to Barclays Bank business customers, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London Borough of Lambeth, London Borough of Waltham Forest, the National Black Women’s Network, London Borough of Croydon, Work and Family Show, Department of Health, National Women’s Engineering Day Conference, Women in Gaming, Westminster City Council, Greenwich School of Management and Family Mosaic amongst others. She is listed as a coach on the Institute for Chartered Accountants England and Wales (ICAEW) Women in Leadership programme.
On the release of the report, Race in the Workplace: The McGregor-Smith Review, Carol was invited to appear on BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show, where she shared her views on the lack of progression for BMEs in the workplace.
In this episode hear Carol discuss a real life example wherein she transformed her client's limiting beliefs into enabling and positive thoughts. She will also be discussing some valuable tips for Introvert Leaders!

Carol Stewart is an Executive, Career and Business Coach, Speaker and Writer. She is the founder of Abounding Solutions and helps high achieving women (with an emphasis on introverted women) transform their professional lives. She coaches them to be authentic, bold, confident leaders who excel in their careers and businesses.

Carol also helps organisations to develop the talent pipeline of women. Her article How Diverse is Your Pipeline: Developing the Talent for Women and Black and Ethnic Minority Employees was published in the Industrial and Commercial Training Journal in 2016.

Prior to starting her business, Carol worked for the Ministry of Justice. Starting in one of the most junior roles, she progressed to a senior manager, with responsibility for a group of magistrates’ courts in the North East London area.

She holds an MSc in Coaching Psychology, a PG Diploma in Management Studies, is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and member of the Association for Coaching. In January 2015 (less than 3 years since starting her business), Carol was named as one of Britain’s top 50 Business Advisers by Enterprise Nation.

To find out more about Carol visit www.aboundingsolutions.com and view her LinkedIn profile.

In this podcast Carol shares tips for managing emotions in the face of disappointments and emphasizes on the importance of self reflection, receiving effective feed back, challenging beliefs and rationalizing thoughts

Publicly trashing ideas with the intention to belittle others, scoffing and dismissing any suggestions or proposals made in meetings, openly making snide remarks and frequently denouncing fellow team members at work; these are some of the common characteristics that categorize bullies at work.


American bullying experts Drs. Gary and Ruth Namie ​define bullying as a “Repeated, health-harming mistreatment of a person by one or more workers that takes the form of verbal abuse; conduct or behaviors that are threatening, intimidating, or humiliating; sabotage that prevents work from getting done; or some combination of the three.”


The bully aims to assault the dignity, trustworthiness, competence, and self-worth of the target to derive personal gains or sadistic satisfaction, often leaving the target feeling responsible, guilty, isolated and confused.

So what can we do to stop these baddies in their tracks?