Creator & Author of Taming Tigers It took Jim Lawless fifteen years to pick up the phone and ring Alcoholics Anonymous. Now he’s one of the world’s best known motivational speakers and the best-selling author of Taming Tigers, a how-to guide to achieving what you thought was impossible. ‘My tiger was very real, roaring at me: […]
Controlling Emotions
Massage, the Mind… and Kylie, Ben Barnett
Healing Massage Dubbed ‘The Magic Touch’, Ben Barnett has developed a breakthrough, crossover therapy. Just treating the body isn’t good enough, says the Kent, UK, based therapist. So while Ben massages, he gives therapy at the same time. With a background in sport and engineering, Ben honed his skills over the past 22 years. In […]
English Actress does the Hoffman Process, Jane Horrocks & Serena Gordon
English Actress & Co-founder Hoffman Process UK When actress Jane Horrocks ‘lost her fun self’, she knew it was time for a change. ‘I felt stuck in my life,’ says the mother of two. Her best friend and fellow actress Serena Gordon is the UK founder of the Hoffman Process, a much raved-about 7-day personal development […]
Meditation Teacher, Burgs
Meditation Expert ‘The hardest bit is the beginning, to get over the restlessness,’ says meditation guru Guy Burgs. But once you’ve mastered it, and your mind becomes coherent, many of the problems you thought you had will disappear. Burgs, who has fast become one of Britain’s leading experts in meditation, quit his fashion business in […]
Female Empowerment Therapist, Katie Phillips
Daring and Mighty (Female Power!) Katie Phillips has been there: single mum to a child in nappies, burned out, with no income, or place to live. ‘We – especially women – are pros at smiling and keeping up appearances. While I was actually dying inside.’ Through a process of self-help and therapies, Katie discovered her […]
How to Survive the Quarter-Life Crisis, Joey Bradford and Persia Lawson
Founders of Addictive Daughter When self-medicating with alcohol, men and drugs no longer worked, Joey Bradford and Persia Lawson decided to ‘sit through this and meet the pain.’ Persia, a daughter of drug addicts, and Joey, drinking and dating from age twelve, became best friends in drama school. After both making an ‘amazing’ inward journey, […]
Former hostage, and Colombian presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt
Held Hostage by the Columbian FARC Ingrid Betancourt became headline news when she was kidnapped by the Colombian guerrilla movement FARC in 2002. The Colombian presidential candidate was held in the jungle, mistreated and tortured, until she, and 14 other hostages, were rescued by the Colombian military six years later. Betancourt, who has a son […]
Entrepreneur & Founder of YO! Sushi, Simon Woodroffe OBE
Founder of YO! Sushi When he was forty, Simon Woodroffe found himself divorcing, without an income, and battling depression. A few years later he stood at the helm of a hugely successful business empire: The YO! Sushi chain and other YO ventures. ‘If someone asks me ‘what inspired you to start YO! Sushi?’ I reply: […]
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