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Expert To Authority With Simone VincenziEpisode #503 What's In Your Backpack? Explore the 7C's to An Abundant Life with Rohini RathourWelcome to another episode of Expert To Authority Show, brought to you by http://gtex.org.uk/, I am your host, Simone Vincenzi, The Experts Strategist, and this is the podcast for experts who want to become the ultimate authority in their niche while making an impact in the world.We have created the Webinar Conversion Kit where you will get access to:The High-Converting Webinar FrameworkBONUS #1: High-Converting Webinar Slide TemplateBONUS #2: Pitch and Follow Up TemplatesBONUS #3: High Converting Webinars Case StudiesBONUS #4: O...
2025-11-1536 min
Becoming Unapologetically Me with Helen NorburyEmotional Baggage Retrieval with Rohini RathourHow do you feel about this episode? Text us!Helen Norbury and Rohini Rathour take back control over emotional baggage.Helen interviews Rohini Rathour about her book 'What's In Your Backpack?' Rohini shares how she came to realize the metaphor of carrying emotional baggage and the impact it has had on her life. If you want to apply to have Helen help you exceed your own expectations, email her at helen@helenannenorbury.co.uk or send her a DM on Instagram, or follow her on LinkedIn.
2025-09-2539 min
The Unscripted CareerRohini's incredible journey from Temp -> Partner -> HulaHoop Instructor -> Life and Leadership CoachToday, get ready to be inspired as we chat with Rohini Rathour – an IIM Bangalore alumna, a former head of thematic equities in the UK, and now a phenomenal leadership, life, and money coach. Rohini's story is a masterclass in resilience, from navigating a tough recession in London and realizing sales wasn't her calling, to finding her true north in coaching and even writing 2 book called "Leading Ladies" and "What's in Your Backpack." She shares why personal champions are so vital, how she approaches coaching holistically, and why recognizing your own unique amazingness is the ultimate superpower. Ge...
2025-07-0245 min
Interesting Lives of Ordinary PeopleSanjay Anandaram - Startup Mantras and Cultural RevivalI’ve known Sanjay for over thirty years from our time together at business school in India He is one of the most well read and informed people I know. He is highly regarded for his experience and views on entrepreneurship and innovation, and his ability to be brutally honest in his capacity as mentor to startups, established companies and industry bodies. He jokingly describes himself as not just a mentor, but a tormentor to his mentees.
As a passionate advocate of entrepreneurship and innovation, he writes, lectures, advises, invests and mentors startups, companies and industry bodies on...
2023-04-0556 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleThe Gift of Life - Living Kidney DonationIn 2022, it is estimated that there are 106,000 people who are known to be waiting for an organ transplant, of which 92,000 (87%) are waiting for a kidney. The average waiting time for a kidney is longer than for any other organ: 3-5 years with with many not surviving the long wait. During that time, most patients will undergo dialysis and live with severe dietary restrictions.
In today's episode you will meet 22 year old Ayush Chandwani who had his first kidney transplant at the tender age of 6, and a second one a few months ago. He is one of the l...
2022-11-1656 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleJoanna Davis - Catastrophic Compassion and Divine CallingIn this conversation, Joanna talks about the experiences in her formative years that taught her the meaning of catastrophic compassion. She offers a moving account of how she first encountered death and the grief that stayed suppressed for years. Her career trajectory, with its twists and turns, is a reminder that life has interesting ways of making us pay attention. Saving the best for last, Joanna described her vision and mission that is so needed, and yet controversial.
Joanna Davis, MCC is one amongst a very small worldwide community of Master Coaches, as defined by the International C...
2022-08-3157 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleLeon VanderPol - The Path from Doing to BeingLeon VanderPol is an internationally recognised leader, master-teacher, and author in the field of transformational coaching and transformative living. He is the Founder of the Center for Transformational Coaching and his book, A Shift in Being: The Art and Practices of Deep Transformational Coaching, sold in multiple languages, is bringing his work to new audiences daily.
Leon has spent over two decades immersed in the dynamics of personal and inter-personal change. At the core of Leon’s teaching lies the transformation of human consciousness—what happens when we consistently begin to experience ourselves beyond our ego-based state of co...
2022-08-1455 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleLiving with Alcoholism (part 2) - in Conversation with Paul BabinIf you listened to the episode titled Living with Alcoholism, you will know that its purpose was to invite conversation around the subject of alcoholism and to create a space that was free from judgement. I was so happy when Paul Babin, having listened to the podcast episode, reached out to me and suggested we have that conversation and publish it. Paul has been a coach, mentor and friend to me over the past few years. What you are about to hear is a slightly edited version of an unscripted conversation led by Paul in which he raised his c...
2022-08-081h 02Interesting Lives of Ordinary PeopleLiving with Alcoholism - Rohini Rathour with Dipti SinghToday’s episode of iLoOP is a bit different, especially as the voice you will hear will be mostly mine.
I share with you today a recording of a deep coaching session I had only yesterday with Dipti Singh, who is a life coach and is part of a wonderful community of people who are learning the art of deep transformational coaching with Leon VanderPol. The session I am sharing with you culminates a series of coaching sessions I have had with Dipti and other coaches who are my peers in the Deep Coaching Intensive (DCI) community. Whe...
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Interesting Lives of Ordinary PeopleSian Young - From Street Life to Sustainable LivingSian is a shining example of a life that has not be defined by its beginnings. We can’t always choose how we begin, but we can choose who we become. From the age of fifteen Sian spent seven years on the streets: a homeless teenager. She’s written about her story of living on the streets in her book Teenage Kicks. In today’s episode Sian talks about how she turned her life around and what gets her out of bed each day.
Sian is an International Speaker, TEDx Speaker and Co-Founder of ©Centre for Sustainable Action...
2022-06-0542 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleMadhura Auddy - Making Learning a Life SkillMadhura believes that the youth of today will shape our tomorrow. With this in mind, she started working with Podar Jumbo Kids and completing my ECCed (Early Childhood Care and Education) qualification. After graduating in Developmental Counselling from SNDT, she started working in children’s day care services, including in a leadership role, followed by work at a school in the North India.She became a facilitator and trainer for teachers with The Teacher Foundation, followed by a "Teacher as an Innovator" certification from OEP, Finland. This led to her delving into the deeper aspects of children’s education, their...
2022-04-1040 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleAdrian Hales - Facing your Fears to find FulfilmentAdrian is a transformation coach who creates profound mindset shifts for his clients. He helps them focus on both their inner alignment and the outer transformation of their life and business. His tough love and supportive approach creates a new sense of freedom for his clients. Adrian is a former soldier turned master neuro-systemic coach. His clients include other driven coaches, high achievers and business owners ready to move to the next level.
2022-03-2543 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleMy Vipassana Experience - Ten Days of Silence and StillnessIn this special episode, I share the experiences and insights from my recent ten days at the Dhamma Sukhakari Vipassana Meditation Centre in Suffolk, UK. Vipassana is an ancient Buddhist practice whereby you train your mind and body to experience things as they are, not as you want them to be. It was both intense and interesting. I am grateful to my friend Sanat Rao for hosting this conversation with me and drawing out the most useful aspects of my experience. If you're considering going on a Vipassana retreat for the very first time, you may it helps you go...
2021-12-0156 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleJennifer Ramsey - Embracing the change that is menopauseMy guest today is Jennifer Ramsey. Jennifer and I were colleagues for seven years when we both worked in wealth management. With a busy and often stressful working life and a young family, Jennifer used fitness as a daily antidote. She was a keen cyclist and long distance runner who found a way to weave both into her daily life. Then five or six years ago things started to change. Jennifer describes her journey through menopause, how recognition of her symptoms led her to be kinder to herself and how the sense of loss of her former self was ease...
2021-11-0251 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleDr Ramya Ranganathan - The Inside Out Approach to LifeDr Ramya Ranganathan is an electronic engineer from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, an alumna of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad and a PhD in Organisational Behaviour from London Business School. After having worked at blue chip firms like ICICI, Infosys and Citibank, she quit the corporate world to explore the fundamental question – “why do people work?” She spent a decade as a full time faculty member at IIM Bangalore, has three Ted talks, is a published poet and has been recognised as one of the top 15 innovators in higher education by the Ministry of Education in India...
2021-10-1956 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleDr Divya Parashar - The unexpected gifts that grief bestowedDr Divya Parashar. Divya is a psychotherapist and certified life coach with over 20 years experience, 13 of which were spent working closely with patients who suffered life changing spinal injuries. As a consultant to The Ganga Foundation, a not for profit organisation in India, she continues to support people who are rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of a spinal injury. The Founder of The Ganga Foundation, Vaidyanathan (Vaidy) Singararaman, whom she mentions a few times during our conversation, sadly lost his life to Covid earlier this year. His team continue to work hard towards turning his bold vision, a...
2021-10-0354 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleRevathi Shivakumar - Serendipity, Silence and SpiritualityRevathi Shivakumar is a PCC credentialed Leadership Coach and an Undergrad Admissions Mentor. She has an MBA at IIM Ahmedabad which followed by a decade long career in finance. Motherhood changed Reva and became the catalyst for a different way of being and living. She describes herself as a spiritual seeker who grew up with religion but has never been defined by it.
Reva has two distinct vocations. The first is her work with students looking to enrol into graduate programmes around the world. The other is her work as a deep transformational coach who draws on he...
2021-08-2850 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleRitu Gupta - Leaning in and finding fulfilmentRitu is a graduate from IIM Bangalore, one of India’s top business schools. After spending 25 years in the corporate world she decided to take a break for 6 months, certain that at the end of it she would go back to work. But during the six months she discovered the joys of a being a homemaker and found peace within herself. She realised she had no desire to get back to the rat race. She now works as a consultant to a couple of companies but does this on her own terms, being careful to preserve her 'me time'.
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2021-08-1842 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleGopakumar Menon - Making the Otter the Tiger of the RiverGopakumar and I have known each other since the time we were both doing an MBA at IIM-Bangalore. After graduation, Gopa spent eleven years in corporate finance working for venture capital funds. He quit that to follow his passion for wildlife conservation. He founded the River Otter Conservancy to protect otters and their habitat, with projects in three landscapes in India. In his professional life he is a facilitator in the areas of negotiation and building influence.
His mantra for life is encapsulated in this favourite poem titled A bag of tools by R. L. Sharpe.
I...
2021-07-2055 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleAngelina Ray - The Courage to Heal from Childhood TraumaAngelina has an uncanny ability to hone into what is causing dis-ease in someone, and to help them heal through awareness, release and letting go. She has explored many different healing modalities. Her toolkit includes talk therapy, energy healing and physical fitness.
Angelina is a survivor of repeated childhood sexual trauma. She only briefly alludes to this and we have deliberately chosen not to delve into her past nor describe her trauma. What matters is her acceptance of that which cannot be changed, and her willingness to see it as the well in which she has dived...
2021-07-0947 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleKavitha Elango - The life changing impact of brain injuryInitially, like many young Indian professionals, Kavitha pursued a career in software. She gave that up in order to bring up her two children. In the process of parenting she practised Yoga and eventually became a Yoga teacher. Over the past 20 years she has learnt from different Yoga traditions and teachers, and evolved her teaching from being about the body to holistically working with the student at all levels of being – physical, mental and emotional. She describes herself as a seeker with a quest for learning the deeper truths of life.
This conversation is a reminder that life...
2021-06-2346 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleAnne Jirsch - Sliding through time and changing the worldAnne Jirsch is a London born professional psychic and a leading pioneer of Future Life Progression (FLP). Hers is the only FLP training school in the world with over 250 practitioners across eight countries. Anne has helped individuals and businesses change their current trajectory by glimpsing into what lies ahead for them in the immediate and the more distant future. She has a worldwide following with clients including heads of industry, government officials and celebrities from the world of film, music and sport. She has authored five international best selling books, including Instant Intuition, The Future is Yours, Cosmic Energy...
2021-06-0148 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleTrailer: Interesting Lives of Ordinary People (iLoOP)In this short (under 2 minute) audio I talk about what this podcast is about. It is my hope that my guests and their stories ignite a spark inside my listeners, so they feel empowered and inspired to own their own story and live a life of meaning and purpose.
2021-05-2301 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleHelen Snape - The emotional cost of being a people pleaserHelen Snape is a reformed people pleaser who discovered she had always put other people’s needs and wants before her own. A life changing event in her immediate family was followed by the decision to leave an abusive marriage and rebuild her relationship with herself. She now helps others to recognise people pleasing trait in themselves, and gives them the tools to make the necessary changes so they can live happier and more fulfilled lives.
Helen is a Healthy Relationships Coach who helps women reclaim their power and speak up for themselves. They learn to do th...
2021-05-2246 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleVaidyanathan Singararaman - Celebrating an extraordinary lifeToday’s episode is a special one dedicated to Vaidyanathan Singararaman. It should have been a day to celebrate his birthday. He would have received a voice message from me wishing him a happy birthday. Instead we celebrate his life: one lived fully and with purpose.
I’d known Vaidy for over 30 years when we were both at the same business school, but in I never really knew him until about ten years ago. Social media and a few changes in my own life brought us in greater contact. I wrote a blog in 2015 which took his story...
2021-05-1921 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleSuze Maclain Pont - Choosing life, one week at a timeSuze Maclain Pont is a business coach and trauma therapist who helps entrepreneurs create financial harmony. Through her own experience of battling suicidal depression in her early twenties and unexpectedly becoming a single mother at thirty, she learnt to reconnect with who she is and why she faced certain recurring patterns of behaviour. She created a way of life in which her work became completely aligned with the things she loved doing and what she believed in, and gave her time to be really present for her loved ones. She discovered that money is not key freedom, but that f...
2021-05-1450 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleNilima Bhat - Discovering Shakti through Dance and HealingNilima Bhat is a leader in the fields of Personal Mastery, Leadership, Gender Equality and Wellbeing. She has Coauthored two books, Shakti Leadership and My Cancer Is Me. She is the Founder of the global Shakti Fellowship Program for women change-makers. I’ve known Nilima all of my adult life and remember her as one of the most talented and versatile dancers who would literally light up the stage with her presence. As with all my guests, even those who I thought I knew really well, as a result of this conversation, I have discovered new and inspiring aspects to...
2021-05-0843 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleDr Priya Bellare - A decade of thriving post cancer surgery in the brainDr Priya Bellare is a post-doctoral scientist working in healthcare at the cutting edge of disease control and prevention. Priya is my first cousin and I’ve always considered her to be the baby sister I never had. In today’s conversation I learnt things about her that I was not aware of and might never have learnt had it not been for this podcast. In Priya’s words, she is a 46 year old woman who thinks she is 31. She is inspired by those who do the hardest of jobs like bringing up kids, being teachers and scientists. Priya loves...
2021-05-0245 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleDevaki Thomas - Growing Up In A Hare Krishna CommuneDevaki Thomas, a movement psychotherapist and multi-disciplinary artist, is known in international art circles for her work as a performing artist in many capacities including drummer/vocalist with her husband’s award-winning world-fusion-dance projects, Samsara and Stunflower. She made a name for herself in her late 30’s/40’s as a festival director, co-founding a renowned, ground-breaking 3-day event with her husband Thomas. The pair ran the Komasket Music Festival, in Western Canada, presenting and collaborating with icons in global music. She’s been a creative force working with many festivals and established arts organisations in London after re-locating to the UK i...
2021-04-2344 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleRajiv Maheshwari - Child is Father of ManRajiv Maheshwari has 25 years of experience as a management professional. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant and graduated in the Director’s Merit List at IIM Bangalore, one of India’s leading business schools. Becoming a parent proved to be a significant catalyst for him which led him to make different life and career choices. Watching his children grow and closely interacting with them spiked his curiosity, accelerated his learning and helped him reconnect with himself. He’s spent the last decade as CEO of India’s leading Intellectual Property Rights firm. Alongside his day job he is an author...
2021-04-1743 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeoplePaul Babin - Life after HollywoodPaul Babin spent almost four decades in Hollywood as one of their most respected cinematographers. He's worked alongside the likes of James Cameron, Peter Weir and Steven Spielberg on blockbuster films such as Always, Fearless and Terminator 2. He received a Lifetime Award for Cinematography in 2012. And yet, he turned his back on his successful career and now works with people who want to enhance their quality of life and work. He also has a YouTube channel where he shares insights, wisdom and many much loved meditation videos. You can find out more about Paul and connect with him direct v...
2021-04-1145 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleAnuradha Sridhar - The Darker Side of ResilienceAnuradha Sridhar had a successful career for over 15 years and was viewed as one of the strongest, most resilient women by all those who knew her. She had her first brush with mental illness well into her thirties, triggered by a couple of traumatic event in her personal and professional life. Unfortunately for her, it manifested itself in a very public way so there was nowhere for her to hide. It took her over two years to get the right kind of help in terms of a correct diagnosis and treatment. Fortunately for her, she is blessed with an i...
2021-04-0445 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleRohini Rathour - Being Me: My StoryIn a change to the usual format of this podcast, Rohini shares a poem that she wrote in a rare moment of creative, poetic inspiration back in May 2020. She also reads a chapter relating to her life story as presented in her book Leading Ladies published in 2016. It provides glimpses of her childhood in India, how she became an accidental immigrant to the UK, her early years of career wilderness until she found the job she once thought would be for life, how she met her husband whom she describes as "like no man I'd ever met before", and m...
2021-03-3132 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleJohn Roedel - A life of improv and regretsJohn Roedel is an improv comic, writer and poet. He is the author of Hey God, Hey John: What Happens When God Writes Back. He is prolific with his poetry and exquisite prose on social media and has a growing following. Over the past five years, he has written about his faith and mental health crisis in hopes that others going through the same struggles will know that they are not alone. Here he talks about how a diagnosis in a doctor's office 19 years ago proved to be a life changing catalyst for him and his wife. He is...
2021-03-2840 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleKuljit Sehmi - Work with your body to heal painKuljit Sehmi is the founder of Centre Balance and an award winning Chrysalis Effect Practitioner who specialises in resolving chronic pain, anxiety and trauma from the causes, tapping into the body's own ability to heal itself.
As a Mum of 3 young children she was diagnosed with the debilitating conditions of severe fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, arthritis and neuromas, which left her in constant pain and unable to walk. She fully recovered without medication and now has a deep passion and fascination for the true causes of chronic illness and pain.
In this conversation, Kuljit talks about h...
2021-03-2445 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleDr Aditi Sapre - Five Years on from the Big CAditi is a PhD and a biostatistician at a global pharmaceutical company. She recently hit a really important five year milestone. A cancer survivor, she talks about her diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. She credits her kids, spouse and parents, as well as the network of friends and family with providing the backbone of support in her journey from diagnosis to wellness. Above all it is her growing self awareness that proves to be the biggest support through adversity and beyond. She talks eloquently about what cancer taught her about her body, the gift of time and how she is f...
2021-03-2133 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleShahana Roy - Time to make a differenceShahana Roy is a Director at Time Institute in Bhopal. At some point most people are faced with existential questions about the meaning of life and how they are living it. Shahana grappled with these big questions in her twenties, not long after graduating from IIM-Ahmedabad, one of the top business schools in India. She met her life partner and now business partner at this critical juncture in her life. They had a vision for a different kind of life and took the road less travelled to create something more meaningful that is making a real impact in the liv...
2021-03-1736 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleSam - Grace under the influenceIn this searingly honest conversation, Sam talks about growing up with an alcoholic mother, becoming a single mum in her late teens and losing her younger sister to suicide. But this is not a sob story, and Sam is no victim. She is a daughter, sister, mother and a young grandmother who has taken ownership of her life's choices with grace and magnanimity. And perhaps for the very first time, she articulates what it would mean to rediscover her own identity and create the life she has always dreamed of.
2021-03-1436 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleDr Erin Baker - Living a fluid lifeSo much of our understanding about gender, biological sex and sexuality is changing. No amount of science or facts can ever replace the impact of a story: the struggles of someone who just doesn't fit into the neat boxes society creates. Dr Erin Baker is a transformational coach and strategic adviser to high performing entrepreneurs and leaders. Erin is a doctorate in social psychology and has previously worked at Facebook and Microsoft. In this conversation we begin with Erin sharing the three year milestone event that changed their life. I hope you will enjoy this conversation as much as I did...
2021-03-0839 min
Interesting Lives of Ordinary PeoplePramit Bhargava - Vision without sightAn unexpected side effect of a commonly used drug changed Pramit's life. Instead of blaming his doctors or living with resentment, he took ownership of his life's choices and decided to find a different way of living. He is now the founder of a startup that creates voice enabled solutions that help the visually impaired navigate the digital world with far greater ease. Go to https://www.visio-apps.com/ to find out more.
2021-03-0737 minInteresting Lives of Ordinary PeopleWhat this podcast is all aboutI'm Rohini Rathour and I want to make being ordinary feel like a blessing. A chance to live freely and to be whoever you want to be without the burden of other people's expectations. One of the best ways we can do this is through stories - through the telling and listening of real life and fictional stories, we can create magic.
2021-03-0605 min
Chai and ChatintROspectively yours, Rohini!Do you feel your life is good enough, comfortable enough, secure enough but still not enough? Our very first guest from across the pond, Rohini Rathour, a former fund manager turned leadership coach, chats with us about how she helps clients articulate and fulfill their dreams. And how she developed the Find Your Flow (with Ro) program to help them live the best version of themselves. Its our most introspective conversation to date. .. once we stop “oohing” over that gorgeous Brit accent!
2021-02-2332 min
Expert To Authority With Simone VincenziEpisode #212 Create Your Own BreakthroughWelcome to another episode of Explode Your Expert Biz Show, brought to you by http://gtex.org.uk/, I am your host, Simone Vincenzi, The Experts Strategist, and this is the podcast for experts who want to become the ultimate authority in their niche while making an impact in the world. If you want to make 6 figures presentations and become awesome at Selling From The Stage without compromising your integrity I have created The Ultimate Selling From Stage Checklist. The most comprehensive checklist to create a pitch that sell without be...
2019-03-2137 min
Globalise-AsianS I - EP 011: Rohini Rathour - Life & Business CoachIsn't it nice if your profession leads to a light bulb moment, bright enough for you to fire up your own business? Well, that's pretty much how Rohini, an ex-fund manager started her venture.
Rohini, an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) alumna figured that while it's a no brainer to put the buck on established/secure set-ups, it's the smaller ones with potential that can surely make for promising investments.
A life and business coach for corporates, Rohini soon figured that she was also able to offer valuable guidance and support to several bright entrepreneurial individuals that eventually led...
2017-06-3031 min
Globalise-AsianS I - EP 011: Rohini Rathour - Life & Business CoachIsn't it nice if your profession leads to a light bulb moment, bright enough for you to fire up your own business? Well, that's pretty much how Rohini, an ex-fund manager started her venture.
Rohini, an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) alumna figured that while it's a no brainer to put the buck on established/secure set-ups, it's the smaller ones with potential that can surely make for promising investments.
A life and business coach for corporates, Rohini soon figured that she was also able to offer valuable guidance and support to several bright entrepreneurial individuals that eventually led...
2017-06-3031 min