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• How long have you been interested in the field of well-being and are you practicing?

  Wellbeing is a key part of my life. Praying 5 times a day since the age of 10, mindfulness has always been crucial to help me keep mental freshness and outcome-orientation in my tasks. Even in sixth form, I started a peer-mentorship organisation to provide students with a platform to access tailored advice which relates directly to their experience from people who have just recently been through those similar experiences.

• Tell us what your discipline can bring to people’s lives

  Your speech is your personality. People will judge, react, form relationships, all based on how you speak, because it is their most prime data point to make their judgements. It therefore gives you the key to mastering your personal brand to boost your professional career and will bolster your capacity to connect with people in different situations. This also helps you master written communication as youunderstand clarity and concision to a high level. Lastly, it boosts your self-perception. You feel good in your own skin, confident to take the lead or contribute ideas and will have your skills and personality trusted by friends and colleagues alike.

• Could you provide some instant top tips to help us feel good in body and mind?

  1. Be strategic with your time. People spend a bulk of their time worrying about the work they do, which drains them when they actually get to doing their task! If you are strategic about delegating your time to work and rest, you can more meaningfully do both things
  2. Play a sport. Exercise in general is great, but sports force you to immerse yourself in the world of your game, which rests your mind and energises you for the rest of your commitments.
  3. Stretch. It sounds cliché, but if you stretch for five minutes before you sleep and after you wake up, it gives you great rest which is fuel for your day
  4. Do not neglect your protein! You do not have to be an athlete to need to prioritise it. Protein bars, protein cereal, it is energy you need that won’t give you crashes like sugar or coffee.

• How would you describe your method as a practitioner?

  1. Crystal clear about outcomes: we discuss the ideal view of yourself you want to achieve and are granular about the steps we need to take to get there.
  2. Tailored: My teaching is a dialogue. I aspire to teach you in ways that work for you, so you can get the most you can out of the arrangement. As I learn you as a client, I can exercise more judgement about what works and what doesn’t, but you always have input.
  3. Evidence based: my methods will have worked for many other people in very similar situations to yourself. 100% satisfaction, 95% success rate when clients aim to achieve a position. Your faith in my methods will be repaid

• With experience, are there things you have learned or unlearned about yourself or others?

  1. About others: Despite being incredibly intelligent, my clients often misinterpret their own needs. Families, bosses, friends influence them to tell them what they need. Having 2-3 conversations with someone about their problem and the times in life that this has manifested, people can learn themselves without me saying a word.
  2. About myself: Being quite outspoken as a child, I often found myself upsetting a lot of people. This led to me having a hardened view of the opinions of others, where I thought that because they were so negative, they just didn’t matter. Over time, I understood the benefits of a sense of the right thing which should not be rooted in the opinions of others, but other people can understand parts of yourself that you are and cannot be aware of, so even if that doesn’t affect a sense of self, their feedback can create value in different ways.

• Do you have a role model, a person who really inspired you?

  My father. Diligent, open to change, and regardless of the challenge puts his family above everything.

• How do you personally relax; what methods work for you?

  Detachment from work, which is unique to everyone. For me its getting a change of scenery: a park, a new city, going to a coffee shop in a town centre. Playing team sports like football do help you mentally detach from all your commitments. Just anything which is different from work which can sometimes become circular.

• Tell us about a memorable lesson

  As a signal of progress, I video my students answering a question like ‘tell me about yourself’, and again at a random unannounced point after a decent amount of time has passed. With my client Jacky, who already started at a good level, she remarked in an almost emotional way after listening to the comparison how the difference was not just in interviews, but in her relationships, small interactions and self-perception. That feedback warmed my heart: this skill had changed her life, and I will always remember that reaction of joy