Coach Sze Wing Podcast

Parenting is a challenging task, and this week we have Carmel Ecker with us to discuss ways to minimise drama in our relationships, change our mindset, and modelling self-care for our children. If you want to feel more empowered as a parent, this interview will be super useful and fun to listen to or watch!  Carmel Ecker is a single parent empowerment coach, she is also the Managing Director of eWomenNetwork, Victoria British Columbia chapter. You can find more information about her work and programs at https://speaknowcoaching.com/ Interview Highlights #1 - Introduction to Carmel Ecker; single parent empowerment coach and managing director of eWomenNetwork (00.03) #2 - An image makeover on the idea of what it is to be a single parent; limitations of negative stereotypes (02.42) #3 - Perspective; reframing your outlook before becoming a single parent, letting go of past expectations (06.57) #4 - Dealing with guilt as a single parent; the importance of self-care for single parents (11.56)

In this episode, I talked to Marlene Cameron, a business leadership and life coach, about the effect and importance of clarity for performance, productivity, and profitability. We also discussed the importance of intuition and the benefits of stepping away from overthinking and allowing creativity to emerge.  Marlene Cameron is a Business Leadership and Life Coach, she is also a speaker and trainer. She has been training, coaching and mentoring business owners, executives and mental health professionals since 2002. She had a successful career in interior design, then as a business owner, management consultant and financial analyst. She has an MBA and CFA as well as all her coaching qualifications. She now works with entrepreneurs and leaders to discover the clarity to be more calm, certain and connected. Highlights #1 - Introducing Marlene Cameron; trainer, coach. mentor. (00.25) #2 - Qualifications; why successful women feel pressure to collect credentials; imposter syndrome, self-doubt.  (02.56)

A woman's worth is such an important topic. I know many women who are so comfortable in giving, helping and nurturing others. But when it comes to receiving, for example, asking for a promotion, pay rise or even accepting a straight-up compliment, they may find it uneasy. When we are not open to receiving, we are playing small. A woman's worth is not measured by how much we sacrifice, but oddly enough, it has something to do with how open we are to receive and to shine. About our guest Dr Kelly Schuh Dr Kelly Schuh is a Worth & Wealth Alchemist for female coaches, consultants, and visionaries. She is the “Sales Whisperer”, an Amazon Bestselling Author, Speaker and Yahoo! Finance Top Biz Coach in 2021. In 2009 she pioneered the sacred sisterhood of Pink Tent International (now over 14,000 strong), the first women’s online community of its kind. Her body of work has been featured on Jamie Fox’s Foxxhold Radio, PopSugar Magazine, Fox31TV, Channel 2 and many other media outlets.   Interview Highlights

If COVID has taught me anything, I would say it has highlighted my value and need for connection with my family and friends. My parents live in Hong Kong and my mum was planning to come for the birth of my youngest son nearly two years ago. Then the pandemic forced all international borders to close. Now we are just hoping we could see my parents later this year, or maybe early next year. With all that in mind, when I heard about Robyn's work, especially her Musings and Memoirs Storytelling Production for aging loved ones, I had to interview her for this podcast, so that people can consider using this service to capture loved one's stories for the family. About Robyn Pearson Robyn Pearson is the owner and founder of A Friend Indeed. She is passionate about supporting adult children who are in a caregiver role to their aging parents. Over the past 11 years of service, she has spoken with numerous daughters and sons, each one admitting that it's a big role to take on alongside the many other responsibi

Many successful people consider lifelong learning a key habit for their success. This includes both work-related skills that can improve your employability and other skills and interests that can enrich your life. Nowadays, there are so many flexible ways to learn, as virtual learning has been growing and advancing exponentially in the last few years. You may be interested in adding an online course to your business or at your workplace, or perhaps you may want to know more about how to choose the right learning course for you.  For this week’s podcast, I got an interview with Jessica Pare, who is an expert in helping coaches and consultants to create online courses, programs and memberships. Among many things we talked about, we highlighted ways to encourage action from the learners so that they can learn better and the key things to include in a course to support the best learning experience. Also, we talked about how to make the courses more successful in the business sense.  About Jessica Pare: 

With the current pandemic and changes in our economy, many people are looking at other ways to create multiple streams of income by starting their businesses. Or perhaps you just had enough from your day job and want to pursue your heart-centred, purpose-driven business venture. Whatever your trigger or reason is, most people will become solo-entrepreneurs by utilising their skills and experience to begin with. This podcast episode with Tammy Johnston will help you to plan and transition from a full-time job to self-employment, or if you already took the leap to become self-employed, we shared some tips and reasons that you don't have to do it all alone. Tammy Johnston is a speaker, educator, business and author. Tammy specializes in helping small business owners and solopreneurs since 2003. She is a noted small business expert on the stage, in the classroom and in media outlets for the better part of two decades.  If you want to find out more about Tammy Johnston work, please visit https://ksabusiness.

For women who want-it-all: success in your business or career, fulfilling relationships, family, and health. But you don't want to be burnout in order to get there. Perhaps you are have experienced plenty of success in life, but not sure what you are NOT seeing and unsure how to up your game. This is the podcast interview episode that will give you ideas about creating your own success rituals, setting your expectations and boundaries right. Embrace your own cycle, rhythms, and strategy that works for you. Erin Acton is a certified life and business coach, digital media pro and former broadcast journalist. She is also the founder of the Act On It Success Institute. Erin helps time-starved entrepreneurs take action and take back control so they can rock their businesses. Interview Highlights From Want-it-all (career, relationships and family) to burn out, and the path that leads Erin into coachingPeople often under estimate that when you start your business, you may trade in the 9 to 5 for an even lon

We heard a lot about the importance of self-care, but what I've noticed in my coaching world is that caregivers are great at providing care and kindness to others, but they often underestimate how much they also need support for themselves as well. They bear the fatigue and stress until they reach the point where they are burnt out or feeling overwhelmed. That's why when I met Bill Cohen, I immediately know we need to do this podcast, so that people who are caregivers, especially those who care for family members who have dementia, can get the information that they need to better manage their care and understand there is support available for them too! Bill Cohen is the founder of Cohen Caregiving Support Consultants LLC. He is a certified senior advisor based in Oregon but he also provides support and other resources online.  If you would like to connect to Bill, please visit his website or look up his support group on Facebook. Interview Highlights How Bill becomes a caregiver consultantWhy ca

In this interview with Yvonne Winkler, the CEO of Lotus Consulting, we hear an uncommon story of a young girl who fled from oppression to freedom. Then, as a young woman, how she left a highly regarded job to discover true fulfilment on her own terms and to become the woman she is today. We talked about how "starting over" requires courage, trust and the ability to let go of the securities we believe in. A common thread we found in our stories is that when you trust your heart and act from your inner feminine wisdom, the rest will work out the way it needs to.  She said, “Freedom is found within, not outside of yourself.” This is so true. You can travel the entire world, but you can still feel trapped from within. I love doing podcast interviews because I see the value in sharing these conversations about hope, courage and inspiration. I also believe in collaborations with other women. As Yvonne mentioned, women really understand the value of collaboration, and this is how we can move forward as a soci

Starting over is never easy, but it is always necessary if we want to change or grow in our lives. I had a conversation with Cindy Drummond, the author of Reflections of the Dating Pool, about her journey to start over after a shocking discovery and the road to support other women. Cindy is also the creator of Women Only Weekend (WOW) events and co-host of Words of Wisdom online gatherings. Part of her journey was about "start before you are ready" where she went on 50 dates in a year in search of love. She turned those dates into learning lessons and part of her healing process. Eventually, it becomes her book with words of wisdom about loneliness, the importance of finding a tribe and how she fell in love again...with herself. Cindy lives in Canada and is now married to her loving husband. Interview Highlights Background story and how she "start over" From a healing process to writing her first book Why 50 dates and what she learned from that experience Dating takes courage, compassion a

Do you know there are now over two million podcasts on iTunes, as compared to about one million in 2020? That goes without saying that it is one of the fastest-growing media content formats. A podcast is often long interviews that offer the opportunity to show your personality and expertise, while a blog has only a few hundred or a couple thousand words. Not only it offers the time to explore, explain and expand on a topic, the conversation in a podcast often goes deeper as it progresses and since it can’t be fully scripted, it flows organically and may even have a few surprises. My interview this week is with Mary Chan, the creator of Organised Sound Productions, a Podcast Strategist and Voice-Coach. She has over 20 years of experience in the radio business as a Commercial Producer and a Voice-Over Artist. Mary is based in Victoria, BC, Canada. Mary said "A podcast is essentially an extension of your brand or business." and I completely agree with her. It helps me to connect with my audience in a more

There are certain things in life we may take for granted. For many of us, breathing is one of those things. We see that as an automatic and instinctive mechanism, but there is so much more to it. If we breathe more fully and efficiently, it can enhance our health and sense of well-being. In my conversation with Deborah Rubin, we talked about how we both fell in love at first sight with yoga, and we also discussed our view on life purpose, soul contract and how to enjoy our evolving life journey. Deborah Rubin is a certified Wellness Educator, Therapeutic Yoga Teacher, Buteyko Breathing Educator, Meditation Instructor, Workshop Leader, Speaker, and designer of the Clarity Process. For over 48 years, Yoga asanas (postures), pranayama (breathing) and meditation have been an integral part of Deborah’s lifestyle. She has also created, owned and operated several successful businesses over the years. Interview Highlights Different aspects of yoga, the physical one (Asana) is just one of many and there ar

For the last few years, I have been observing the moon cycles and my energy flow in order to plan my work and life more strategically. I have talked about that specifically on how to improve productivity, creativity and vitality in my previous episode. However, it is only recently that I dove into Astrology as I found myself became more aware of the impact of planetary movement on my internal emotions and external circumstances. As a result, I got Lisa Jones to read my Birth Chart and learned more about Evolutionary Astrology. I now realised that how my Sun, Moon and Rising signs have contributed to my nature of living in balance and my deep need to express creativity. Since then, I haven't stopped learning and implementing what I've learned from this highly spiritual and practical modality. My conversation with Lisa went beyond the zodiac signs or horoscope. It was like a conversation about our soul. We talked about using Evolutionary Astrology as a tool to look at our innate blueprint, life purpose, circ

Years ago, I read a book about how to use Feng Shui to improve the energy flow, including how to call new romances in life. I thought to myself, why not? It would be a pleasant change to rearrange some furniture in my bedroom and to add a few new decors too. Indeed, not long after that, I got into a new relationship. You can imagine how thrilling it was for me when I interviewed Patricia Lohan, an international Feng Shui Expert, to hear her saying that was what she did to meet her now-husband as well! In our interview, we talked about some basic principles of Feng Shui, fun facts and simple ways to improve the energy of your home. Some of the most common hot topics are how to use Feng Shui to allow more money to come through and to nurture better relationships. We also talked about the idea of the Yin and Yang part of a home and how to balance and harmonize the energy to better suit our lives. About Patricia Lohan: Patricia Lohan is a Feng Shui Expert, Speaker and Author. Patricia is the creator o

Last year, I had the pleasure of participating in a Goddess Circle, which was also a Circle Dialogue. Since then, I have been a firm believer that this ancient practice is one of the best ways to create a safe space for meaningful conversations. Therefore, when I met Ame-Lia Tamburrini, the founder and principal of Hum Consulting, who facilities and teaches about Circle Dialogue, I leapt into the opportunity to interview her for my podcast. For many years, Ame-Lia has been engaging with indigenous communities and corporations to discuss challenging and critical issues that are highly divisive in their communities. Hum Consulting was born out of that interest and aims to create more harmony, unity and momentum in communities, one conversation at a time. I love it when she said, "Circle Dialogue is not just about forming a decision, but it is also about having experiences to feel more connected to one another." This is exactly what we don't get enough of these days! There are many ways of using a Cir

Today's podcast and video feature Part II of my Honouring Your Divine Feminine Wisdom: Free Course. Follow from last week's conversation on why Goddess Archetypes can deepen our understanding of our subconscious pattern, helps us with acceptance and awareness of our relationship dynamics, as well as women's cycle of life, the four seasons. Part II of the conversation focuses on expanding what we know of ourselves and invites us to think about how can we live more strategically, to honour who we are, or where we are in life. How can we live more fully without pushing and forcing? Ultimately, it is a conversation about how to think, act and become like a goddess. I shared 3 key concepts in this part II of the course - The Three "G"s: G x 3 Mindset: God/Goddess - Let the Divine Take The Lead, Growth is better than Fixed, Grit is what we need for the long haul. Good Habits: Start small, make them easy and consistent, take the thinking out of it. Over time, you will reap accumulated benefits and exponen

This a special edition of my podcast and video. In fact, this is a two parts series of a FREE online course on Honoring Your Divine Feminine Wisdom. I will share with you how to tap into this divine power and experience more harmony, improve your productivity and prosperity. You can listen to my podcast or watch the video here. Today I am sharing with you Part I of this series where I will start with the archetypes - why knowing our inner patterns or blueprint can be so helpful to overcome our negative tendencies or build on our strengths. They also give us insights into our behaviour and open to more acceptance. The other part of this is to allow us to let the Divine take the lead. We do our part; we play on our strengths but we stay in the flow rather than go against the current. In Part II of this series, which will be released next week, I will further the concepts and talk about how can we live more strategically, develop good habits for our archetype and embrace our feminine wisdom as a daily pr

In this inspiring interview, you will hear from Celeste Hartwell on how can we bring in the feminine energy (intuition) into the masculine structure (action, strategy) to find balance and to fulfil your vision. No matter whether you are working in a corporate environment or you are an entrepreneur, you can relate to our conversation on why women have a tendency to play small or deflect compliments. You will learn about why it is vital for us to understand and acknowledge our worth, not when we want to ask for a pay rise, but as an act to practise receiving. 2020 and 2021 have been challenging for many people, for many different reasons. We also talked about how can we ride through this time and become more present and honest with our emotions. More importantly, how to find strength in the middle of a crisis, and peace, in a time of uncertainty. Celeste Hartwell, the creator of Divine Feminine Leaders, a spiritual leader and money mindset mentor. She is also the managing director at eWomenNetwork i

In this interview, you will hear from the renowned publicity strategist, international speaker, consultant, and four times bestselling author Jill Lublin on why being kind is more important than people realised. She shared with us her view on Return on Investment, where all things are transactional, versus if we can focus on Return on Kindness instead. Simply put, when you are a kind company, you get better publicity and having kindness in business, it actually brings you more business. I can't help but think a little kindness can go a long way with our customer relationships as well! Decades ago Marianne Williamson wrote her international bestseller and highly influential book Return to Love. Jill's Profit of Kindness is also a book written to remind us about humanity and divinity as something we need to come back to. I hope you will enjoy this conversation as much as I do! Jill A. Lublin is an internationally renowned speaker on the topics of publicity and networking.  As an author of her best-sell

Do you feel stuck in your life right now? Are you wondering what is your life purpose or if you are on the right path? Sometimes we feel we are playing small or not on the "right track", and other times, we may feel we are going through life in motion, but not exactly present or becoming the best version of ourselves. If any of these describe your current state of mind or feeling, then this interview may be a great pick-me-up to energise you and give you some clarity that you need. I interviewed Terry Kerr a while back, but our conversation is timeless and I have no doubt the content applies to us many times in life. Teri Kerr is an ICF certified Executive Coach through Royal Roads University and a graduate of the Purpose Project™. She lives in Victoria BC with her husband Jeff, a revolving door of teenagers, her beloved golden mountain dog Indy, and a one-eyed cat named Tallie. You can connect with Teri via her website: https://unstuckduck.ca/ Feeling you may like give coaching a go? Yo