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✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Finding Your 'Weird' to Amplify Your Culture-Changing Voice with Lara EastburnSend us a textMarketing expert Laura Eastburn shares her revolutionary approach to authentic business communication with her powerful philosophy: "Speak Human, Win the Internet." Drawing from her grandfather's wisdom to "tell the truth and ask for help," Laura helps businesses break through generic marketing language to find their unique voice.• Started her entrepreneurial journey at age 12 selling handmade hair bows• Created an innovative approach called "finding your weird" to help businesses identify their unique selling points• Analyzes business jargon through her "One Word" newsletter, categorizing terms as originating from military, indust...2025-07-261h 31
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨On Pilgrimage, Happiness & Making the case for Idealism with Satish KumarSend us a textSatish Kumar makes a compelling case for idealism in a world dominated by realists who have failed to solve our most pressing problems, sharing wisdom from his remarkable life journey from monk to peace activist.• Traveling 8,000 miles on foot without money as a peace pilgrimage across 15 countries• True peace requires work at three levels: personal peace, social peace, and ecological peace• Living as a pilgrim means accepting the world as it is and participating to create transformation• Diversity is nature's way - we must celebrate differences rather than seek uni...2025-05-231h 20
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Childhood trauma, healing from workaholism, & building a lifestyle business as a home-schooling mum of 4 with Dr Jo WatkinsSend us a textDr. Jo Watkins shares her transformative journey from traditional NHS doctor to digital entrepreneur who takes three months off annually to travel with her family while running a thriving online business. Jo also talks about working with Betty to uncover the root cause of her people pleasing, lack of self care, and her tendency towards workaholism, which, once she understood and had healed, enabled her to be more present with her family, take time out for herself, and achieve a greater work- life balance. Topics covered include:• Trad...2025-05-141h 05
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Serendipity, non-linearity & how to be happy in life & business w/Carlos SabaSend us a textCarlos Saba, co-founder of the Happy Startup School, shares his fascinating journey from quantum physicist to soulful business coach, exploring how scientific understanding and spiritual awareness can complement each other in entrepreneurship.• From PhD in atomic physics to helping entrepreneurs find clarity and purpose• Distinguishing between trauma-based reactions and authentic inner knowing in decision making• How quantum physics provides metaphors for interconnectedness while maintaining scientific integrity• Research showing "lucky" people succeed through awareness and openness rather than inherent fortune• The balance between focused intention and awareness of serendipit...2025-05-021h 09
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Initiation culture, Indigenous Britons, and Dreaming a Future We’d be Proud to Leave Behind w/ Manda ScottSend us a textDream deeply, rise up strong. A change is coming. These powerful words form the foundation of Manda Scott's revolutionary work, where ancient wisdom meets urgent contemporary need.In this profound conversation, bestselling author and shamanic practitioner Manda Scott takes us on a journey from the world of pre-Roman Britain to our current precipice of ecological and social collapse – and most importantly, charts a believable path forward. The contrast she draws between "initiation culture" (the indigenous way of being that characterized most of human history) and "trauma culture" (our current disconnected paradigm) of...2025-04-031h 29
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Practising Cultural Dignity in an 'Antibiotic' Mainstream Society w/Tad HargraveSend us a textTad Hargrave shares his profound insights on culture making – the practice of enriching our communities by honoring life transitions and creating meaningful ceremonies that acknowledge our significance to one another.• Culture making addresses collective problems rather than seeking individual solutions• The Orphan Wisdom School provided Tad with a taste of what culture could be – beauty, ceremony, and acknowledging what matters• Most problems are not personal but collective in nature• Creating ceremonies for farewells helps people know they mattered and had consequence• Even failed attempts at culture making keep "the scen...2025-03-121h 26
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Gemma Gilbert on Balancing Motherhood with Growing a Thriving Coaching BusinessSend us a textDo you crave simplicity & spaciousness as a busy business owner & parent? Me too! Today's guest, Gemma Gilbert, is a down-to-earth & successful business coach, ex-teacher, and mother. She's built a successful business that works for her, giving her the spaciousness & balance in her life that she longed for when she was working in the corporate world. I had so much fun hearing her story. Here's what we talked about: Winter morning dog walks & why mittens are superior to gloves!Gemma’s niche: a flags...2025-03-061h 03
The Start Up Support SurgeryEpisode #24 - Betty Bertels - Helping Entrepreneurs with Ease, Fun - and Flow! (Expert)Betty Bertels is a mother, singer, wife and therapist Heal your Past. Grow your Business. Change the World. She helps people Heal the beliefs that they think they can't and to relax as they grow an ethical business with greater ease, fun & flow and impact. Betty uses a combination of RTT and coaching to support entrepreneurs and change makers get to the root cause of their behaviours. I’ve worked with Betty over the past year, she’s just amazing and has offered a free disc...2025-02-2445 min
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Be the Oak 🌳 Regenerative Business w/Earth Scientist turned Biz Coach Debbie LeeSend us a textMy friend & colleague, Debbie Lee, helps purpose-driven doers and dreamers design, build and grow businesses they adore. She is Business Mentor, Embodiment Coach, a Corporate Escapee and a "mum to two Duracell bunnies"This conversation covers:Debbie on business as an eco-system ‘Regenerative’ business’ vs ‘Extractive’ businessBusiness as a vehicle to build communityCollaboration for mutual growthMy getting my needs met vs meeting the needs of the communityOur obsession with productivity and how that lacks balanceThe importance of rest & replenishment in a world of optimisationDebbie’s own struggles with restingCyclical ways of working; t...2025-02-1049 min
Beyond BusinessBeing unapologetically you in business with Betty Cottam BertelsThis week on the podcast join me in conversation with Betty Cottam Bertels. Betty is a hypnotherapist and coach who helps fellow entrepreneurs to overcome the internal obstacles that are keeping them stuck so that they can move forward and grow a business where they are the fullest version of themselves.In the episode we dive into Betty's story from shoe-string adventurer to business owner and mum of two, and how our life experiences all add up to the version of ourself that we are today.If you'd like to find out more...2025-02-0747 min
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Wealth, Individuality, Living Unapologetically -- The Buddhist Teachings that Underpin Betty's WorkSend us a textBetty talks about her Buddhist teacher Ngak'chang Rinpoche (see episode 1), and how his teachings on Wealth and Appreciation have led her to believe that we need to first heal our pasts, in order to have the courage to become an individual -- and stop giving such a shit about what other people think -- so that we can do the work that only we can do in the world.From Betty: Being in business means being visible. Being ethical in business means not using dodgy tactics...2025-02-0318 min
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Creating a Meaningful Business That Makes You Feel Good (And Does Good) with Laurence McCahillSend us a textLaurence McCahill, together with his long-term friend and business partner, Carlos Saba, runs The Happy Start Up School, whose annual Summercamp in Sussex, England, is the UK hippy business owners event of the year -- where festival fun meets inspiring talks, workshops and invaluable network connections with like-minded entrepreneurs & change-makers from around the world. Laurence tells the story of how The Happy Startup School came to be; from starting out with a design agency with co-founder Carlos; and feeling there was something missing somehowThe evolution of Summercamp – from a o...2025-01-281h 17
SOUL Purpose ~ with Caroline Carey ~ a journey of human-soul stories that lead to entrepreneurial offeringsAbundant Living with Betty Cottam BertelsBetty says: I have always been fascinated by the mind and human transformation. Since my late teens I have been obsessed with self-inquiry, and read everything I could get my hands on in an attempt to understand the mind, relationships, and... what it means to be human. I had just completed the first year of a degree in Music Therapy when I met my love, Rob, and after a stint in Barcelona teaching English (and giving puppet shows to kindergarten kids) we returned to Blighty to start a family. Family life was, as I suppose it always is, a sho...2025-01-2652 min
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨How One Woman's Vision is Changing the Culture of a Nation - with Kate ValentineSend us a textKate Valentine is the founder of the highly acclaimed non-profit Singing Mamas. She knows the transformative, healing power of singing together. After tragic events and living through heart-breaking adversity, she had a vision, and she WENT FOR IT. (And the culture of our country is changing as a result of that. IF SHE CAN DO THIS SO CAN YOU - trust your vision!)Her story is one of utter alchemy, and I adored every second of it. I hope you will too. How a teacher's harsh words pu...2024-11-291h 15
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Shamanic Healing, Money & The Great Smoking Mirror of our Delusions w/ Louisa ShorneySend us a textLouisa Shorney is an artist, writer & healer. She is a student in the Aro gTer Buddhist lineage, and she also sings with Betty in the Savage Cabbage Blues Band. In the first half of 2024 she was a participant in Betty’s signature group program Ignite Your Power.In this conversation:Louisa speaks about her energy & spirit work, animism, and the objects in her roomLouisa on her intuitive childhood experiences The power of story & Louisa’s fiction book The Sacred ForestPsychic / intuitive powers in the familyWitchcraft & magic and how it’s...2024-10-151h 28
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Healing for Business Growth & Full Spectrum Health with Ella CareySend us a textElla Carey is a Naturopathic Nutritionist who lives in Cardiff & practices both locally and online. She was a participant in the second round of Betty's program Ignite Your Power, which provides childhood healing as a foundation for sustainable and ethical business growth.In this conversation:Ella introduces her work How our birth can affect our microbiome later in lifeHow our bodies hold the wisdom re what we need to healThe heart field & how children’s systems pick up on our dysregulationEliminating eczema & from non-verbal to verbal; Ell...2024-10-101h 07
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Manipulation-Free Copywriting with Lauren Van MullemSend us a textLauren Van Mullem provides copywriting support for coaches who want to grow their business without pushy, sleazy non-ethical tactics. She is passionate about helping people express themselves authentically. She also likes vintage fashion hat-making, tea, and chickens. In this podcast we talk about:Lauren's background & how she came to ethical copywritingwhat is ethical copywriting, and why it's so importanthow to present ourselves authentically on our websitesa nifty trick for zhuzhing up your Zoom waiting roomhow to build a non-salesy salespagewhat is bad copy?Lauren reviews my sales page for Ig...2024-10-041h 26
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Lessons in Structure, Focus & Consistency - with Caroline LeonSend us a textCaroline Leon is a business coach for conscious entrepreneurs wishing to build & grow successful online businesses, ethically. In our conversation we covered:Caroline’s journey into business coachingBetty & Caroline share stories; how motherhood helped to clarify their pathsCaroline on starting her blog; leaving Britain to go travelling; Brene Brown & ‘The Art of Non-Conformity’How Caroline grew her life-coaching business through gift sessionsCaroline on launching a new business as a new mother and how that made her more productive. “Structure protects my life & freedom” - Caroline on how having children enforces business boundariesBe...2024-09-051h 20
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Tad Hargrave: 'The Artist & The Entrepreneur' & Why We Need to be Healed to Market EthicallySend us a textTad on The Artist & The Entrepreneur in businessThe first two columns: Collapse vs PostureThe Third Column: Composure and the marriage of The Artist & EntrepreneurCollapsing & posturing are both strategies; both manipulativeWhen it’s good to collapse/ What happens when a society collapsesCollapse & Posture; as a response to hurtChildren are inherently manipulative & reactiveViktor Frankl and the space between stimulus & responseThe importance of initiation & rights of passage in growing into adultsPeople pleasing & the hurt child in businessWhy we need to be healed as business owners & entrepreneurs & what happens if we don’tHow to know where we fit in a...2024-07-191h 21✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Betty interviewed by Alexlouise Thomas on 'Financial Freedom with Alexlouise'Send us a textIn this episode of the Financial Freedom with Alexlouise podcast, financial freedom coach & author Alexlouise Thomas interviews Betty about her work, and the importance of healing our pasts as entrepreneurs and business owners. Find Alexlouise at https://alexlouisethomas.com/And find the details of the Money Mindset / Healing workshop Alexlouise & I are co-hosting (in JULY '24) here.From Betty: Being in business means being visible. Being ethical in business means not using dodgy tactics, of course, but also being authentic in how we present ourselves ~~2024-07-111h 23
Financial Freedom with Alexlouise#034 Betty Cottam Bertels - Healing your past to allow money and business abundanceAlexlouise is joined by Betty Cottam Bertels from True Wealth with Betty - a Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) coach. RTT is a powerful healing modality that accesses the subconscious via hypnosis, with rapid and dramatic results and will change everything you thought you knew.
Betty will talk about delivering her signature workshop to Alexlouise's community on 17th July 2024 'Why you need to heal your past to grow your business'. To book a space use this link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/894310706397?aff=oddtdtcreator
Expect an illuminating and empowering chat...for ethical entrepreneurs and change-makers who are fed up...2024-07-101h 19
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Creativity is Our Natural State as Human Beings - with Loren Lewis ColeSend us a textLoren Lewis Cole is not only a remarkable, effusive, and incredible creative human being, not to mention highly skilled craftswoman -- but she is also my dearest friend. Her jewellery adorns women around the world (including this one!), and her words and creative fire inspire them to get in touch with their own creative life force energy. You can drool and slather over her work at www.lorenlewiscole.com 😍😍😍Betty & Loren reminisce about how they met; (circa 2007) on the Gloucester Road in Bristol; saving to go to India working min...2024-07-051h 28✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Betty's internal journey; creating & launching 'Ignite Your Power'Send us a textIn this episode I speak to my friend & mastermind buddy Dr Rose Aslan about the process of creating & launching my new group offering Ignite Your Power.- What is Ignite, how it came about, and why it is so amazing- Betty on Buddhism, Karma & the conditioning that limits us- Rose asks Betty what she means by transformation- The power of knowing what we want- The sneaky beliefs that limit us, where they come from and how to change them- Motherhood, people...2024-05-0241 min
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨At The Edge Where You Belong with Jeffrey Van Dyk: cresting the wave of your uniqueness to find your people & your path.Send us a textIs business is being used to evolve humanity—? From Jeffrey's website The Courageous Messenger:"We are at a defining moment in our history and we are stepping into a new world that none of us have seen before. We have the potential to create Heaven on Earth through the vehicles and structures we call business.That requires leaders like you and I to be more diligent than ever in staying attuned to what our unique role is in reshaping this world.It also requires us to be...2024-03-071h 22
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨When Everything Falls Apart; Traver Boehm on The Lost Art of InitiationSend us a textTraver Boehm is the founder of the fastest growing men's movement in the world. He has given two TedTalks, and written two books (with another one on the way).But most of all, he is such a joy. I am sure you will love listening to his story.Greeting and how Betty & Traver met in London last yearTraver on how it all fell apart for himComing to view the falling apart as InitiationEverything you want is on the other side...2024-02-221h 08
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨The energy of money, Chinese masters, and a new economy that breeds wellbeing - with Sarah McCrumSend us a textSarah McCrum is the author of the groundbreaking book Love Money, Money Loves You. In this interview Sarah explains the somewhat surprising story of how the book came into being; and tells us what we need to do in order to experience more money in our lives and businesses.02:37 Betty introduces Sarah07:43 Betty welcomes Sarah; story of how the book came about11.52 Sarah on what it was like to channel the energy of money & her background in energy training with Chinese masters. 21:00 Betty asks about ego, S...2024-01-251h 16
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨The Art & Power of ‘Pleasure-First Dressing’ with Feminine Adornment Coach Joy Asibey GabrielSend us a textDiscover the power of pleasure-first dressing with Feminine Adornment Coach -- Joy Asibey Gabriel, A.K.A. Black Lady of Leisure. Topics covered:What is a feminine adornment coach, and how Joy became oneTransitioning into MotherhoodThe Transformative Power of Pleasure & the ways we resist itMamagena & The School of Womanly ArtsJoy's 'PEACOCK' method of pleasure-dressingBetty tells Joy about the Vajrayana Buddhist teachings on Sartorialism as Buddhist practice, as taught by Ngak'chang RinpocheJoy sp...2023-12-011h 19
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨The Poverty & Power of BeliefSend us a textWhat we believe will make or break us. But what even are beliefs? How are they formed?And, what can we do to CHANGE them?Join Betty as she ponders one of her favourite topics of all: Our beliefs and how they shape our reality.From Betty: Being in business means being visible. Being ethical in business means not using dodgy tactics, of course, but also being authentic in how we present ourselves ~~ The trouble is… Man...2023-10-181h 01
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Fanny Snaith: What Becoming a Millionaire Taught Me About Money / Money Archetypes & Healing Your Money StorySend us a text"Money is the Instrument that displays our Limiting Beliefs"In the lunch queue at school, Fanny swore she would make a million. She worked hard and achieved her goal, only to find ~nothing changed~"The 'hole' was within ME", she explains. . .In this episode she discusses:- Her money story- How she made a million, and how it actually felt - Her journey into money coaching- What are Money Archetypes; and how understanding this concept can empower you...2023-07-191h 25
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Steve James, Guru Viking: Drop Expectation & Experience the Wealth of the Present MomentSend us a textSteve: Have no expectations.Steve explores passages that have brought him inspiration: Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’, The Eight Worldly Dharmas; 2 Corinthians 6:8-10, The Story of Hakuin taken from the book ‘Zen Flesh, Zen Bones’, by Paul RepsBetty reads a quote from Steve, from a Pandemic Youtube teaching with Michaela Boehm; “Life is like a live jazz improvisation”Betty asks Steve about his & Michaela’s event in LondonSteve on teaching with Michaela; relationship, embodiment, meditation, intimacy, erotic frictionSteve on the ways in which expectations and ‘shoulds’ obstruct enjoyment of ‘what is’Steve on his near-death experience. (Hear him tel...2023-06-021h 13
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Present vs Future EnjoymentSend us a textYou have permission to do what it takes to enjoy your life. . . Seems such an obvious thing to say. -- So why don't we do it? 😉 Join Betty for a musing on creating the space to enjoy moments -- both for your present moment self AND for your future self. From Betty: Being in business means being visible. Being ethical in business means not using dodgy tactics, of course, but also being authentic in how we present ourselves ~~ The tro...2023-05-1633 min
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Tad Hargrave on The 'Inner' & 'Outer' 'Games' of Mindset & Strategy in Ethical MarketingSend us a textTad Hargrave is a true gem. 💎 Having grown up a waldorf-educated hippie, he later got into the world of marketing & business.Witnessing the unethical & sleazy tactics employed by so many of the marketing gurus, he was moved to establish another way -- and so was born "Marketing For Hippies" - the promise that marketing can be ethical -- and importantly-- can feel good.This conversation is a deep-dive into the two major stumbling blocks when it comes to marketing your business -- the outer world of strategy, know...2023-05-121h 05✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Lessons on Enjoyment: Red Kites, Rain & Postman PatSend us a text"You Can Keep your Tesla!" - Give me a bicycle, and a rainy Welsh valley and I'm good. 😆 ~ Join me, as I experience what I describe as a 'peak experience'.Sense fields agog; perceiving the beauty (and moisture 😉 ) of the Welsh countryside in spring. ~How does one experience wealth?For me it's all about bike rides and drinking chai in the rain. What is it for you?2023-05-0241 min
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨Ngak'chang Rinpoche on 'Authentic Appreciation'Send us a text"Appreciation and creativity are inseparable – they also give rise to each other. When that happens, thankfulness and cheer arise as a natural understanding that sparkles through your existence." I have been fortunate to have been an apprentice in the Aro gTer Tibetan Buddhist lineage for the past ten years, with Ngak'chang Rinpoche and his wife Khandro Déchen, as my root teachers, and my greatest inspiration. ✨ In this episode, Rinpoche discusses 'Wealth' as the ability to perceive, and appreciate, via the sense fields. 02.03: Betty in...2023-04-261h 11