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Unstressable is a series of enlightening conversations hosted by Stress Management Consultant, Reiki Master & International Speaker Alice Law, where she talks to various leaders in their fields on the greatest stresses & losses they have had to overcome & how they came back from them. With inspiration, heart warming honesty & tips & tricks to get you through your own & what will make you become Unstressable.
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Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
In this episode Alice is joined by world renowned principal ballet dancer Xander Parish. Xander is a principal dancer for the world famous Marinksky Ballet in St. Petersburg.
He was the first ever British dancer to be asked to join their company and since then has been awarded an OBE for Dance and Russian and British Cultural Relations, when he was just 32 years old.
In this episode we talked all about his journey of what it really took to get him to where he is now, how his faith and determination allowed him to never quit, the importance of just taking small steps, how vital it is to learn to compartmentalise and not let other people's judgement determine your fate and so much more...
Xander was born in East Yorkshire, England, and began dancing at the Skelton Hooper School of Dance in Hull at the age of 8. He joined the Royal Ballet Lower School, White Lodge in 1998 and continued his training at the Royal Ballet Upper School from 2002-2005. While at the Upper School, Xander won the Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award (2003), The Young British Dancer of the Year Award (2nd prize 2004) and a Silver Medal at the Genee International Ballet Competition (Athens, 2004).
Xander joined The Royal Ballet Company in August 2005 along with his sister Demelza. They were the first brother and sister to be members of The Royal Ballet together.
In 2009, Xander was invited to join The Mariinsky Ballet by its ballet director Yuri Fateyev and joined the company in January 2010 aged 23 as its first and only British dancer.
His repertoire includes: Prince Siegfried (Swan Lake), Count Albrecht (Giselle), Prince Desiré (The Sleeping Beauty), Romeo (Romeo & Juliet), The Nutcracker Prince (The Nutcracker ch. Vainonen), Vronsky (Anna Karenina ch. Ratmansky), Jean de Brienne (Raymonda), Male Principal (Le Parc), Vaslav (The Fountain of Bakhchiserai), Andrés (Paquita), The Golden Slave (Scheherazade), The Poet (Chopiniana/Les Sylphides), John the Baptist (Salome ch. Faski), Ashton's Sylvia (Aminta) and Marguerite & Armand (Armand), Balanchine ballets including Apollo, Jewels (Emeralds & Diamonds), Serenade (Waltz, Elegy) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Demetrius), Hans Van Manen's 'Adagio Hammerklavier' & 'Variations For Two Couples', Millepied's 'Without' & 'La nuit s'achève' and McGregor's 'Infra'. His repertoire as a guest artist also includes Gauthier's 'Ballet 101', 'Le Spectre de la Rose', and Ashton's 'The Dream' (Oberon).
Xander has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet to Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Oman, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the USA, and has been a guest artist with English National Ballet, The Kremlin Ballet, The Ballet Company of the Opera National Bucharest, The Stanislavsky Ballet and has also performed with 'Roberto Bolle and Friends'.
Xander was the recipient of the Taglioni Award in the category “Best Young Male Dancer” (Berlin, 2014), the recipient of the Léonide Massine Prize in the category “Emerging Talent on the International Scene" (Positano, Italy, 2014) and won the UK Critics' Circle National Dance Awards 'Outstanding Male Performance (Classical)' category for 'Apollo' 2014.
In May 2016 Xander made his debut with American Ballet Theatre at The Metropolitan Opera House in New York as an ABT Exchange Artist dancing the role of Aminta in Ashton's 'Sylvia' partnering ABT Principal Isabella Boylston.
In January 2017 The University of Hull bestowed on Xander an Honorary Degree "Doctor of the University, honoris cause". In January 2019 Xander was awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Years Honours list for Services to Dance and UK Russia Cultural Relations.
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
In this episode Alice is joined by Mo Gawdat. Mo is the former Chief Business Officer for Google [X], a serial entrepreneur and author of Solve for Happy.
In this episode they talk all about how our need to control causes our suffering, what losing Mo's son Ali has surprisingly given him in return, universal laws and concepts, how we truly know so little and so much more.
Mo has an impressive combined career of 27 years, starting at IBM Egypt as a Systems Engineer before moving to a sales role in the government sector. Venturing in to the UAE, Mo joined NCR Abu Dhabi to cover the non-finance sector. He then became acquainted with the consumer goods industry as Regional Manager of BAT. At Microsoft he assumed various roles over a span of seven and a half years, in his last role at Microsoft he headed the Communications Sector across Emerging Markets worldwide.
Mo joined Google in 2007 to kick-start its business in Emerging Markets. He is fascinated by the role that technology plays in empowering people in emerging communities and has dedicated years of his career towards that passion. Over a period of 6 years, Mo started close to half of Google’s operations worldwide.
In 2013 he moved to Google’s infamous innovation arm, Google [X] where he led the business strategy, planning, sales, business development and partnerships. [X] does not attempt to achieve incremental improvements in the way the world works, but instead, it tries to develop new technologies that will reinvent the way things are and deliver a radical, ten fold—10X—improvement. This leads to seemingly SciFi ideas such as: Project Loon, which aims to use high-altitude balloons to provide affordable internet access to the 5 billion people on every square inch of our planet, Project Makani, aiming to revolutionize wind energy generation using autonomous carbon fiber kites as well as Self driving cars, Google Life Sciences, and many more. The business team under Mo’s leadership has designed innovative business models analogous to the disruptive technologies [X] creates, and has created deep partnerships and global deals that enabled [X] to thrive and build products fit for the real world.
Alongside his career, Mo remained a serial entrepreneur who has cofounded more than 20 businesses in fields such as health and fitness, food and beverage and real estate. He served as a board member in several technology, health and fitness and consumer goods companies as well as several government technology and innovation boards in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. He mentors tens of start-ups at any point in time.
Mo Gawdat is the author of “Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy” (2017). Through his 12 year research on the topic of happiness, he created an algorithm and a repeatable well engineered model to reach a state of uninterrupted happiness regardless of the circumstances of life. Mo’s happiness model proved highly effective. And, in 2014, was put to the ultimate test when Mo lost his son Ali to preventable medical error during a simple surgical procedure. Solve For Happy is the pillar for a mission Mo has committed to as his personal moonshot, a mission to deliver his happiness message to 10 million people around the world.
IG: @mo_gawdat
Friday Nov 27, 2020
Friday Nov 27, 2020
In these shorter episodes Alice reflects on some of the most prominent things that her last guest talked about (with clips in between) and gives her own insights into them.
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
In this episode Alice talked to renowned Angel Therapist, Healer, Spiritual Mentor, Author, Singer & Speaker, Anna Grace Taylor.
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
In this episode Alice reflects on her favourite parts of the conversation with previous guest Anna Grace Taylor and shares her own insights on Divine Connection and Intuition.
With tips for how to tap into yours.
IG: @lawali_life
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
In this episode Alice is joined by world renowned Vedic Astrologer Dr Dennis Harness.
Dennis M. Harness, Ph.D. is a professional Vedic Astrologer and lecturer who received his doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California.
For more than thirty years, Dennis has studied both Eastern and Western astrological techniques, such as natal chart analysis, synastry (relationship compatibility), prashna, and Astro*Carto*Graphy (locational astrology) with some of the world’s most respected astrologers.
In this episode they talk all about:
- How the stars and planets energy do effect us
- The ins and outs of different karma and how we can help ours
- Past lives and how they can effect the one we are living now
- The importance of realising we have free will even if some things are written in the stars
& so much more....
Dennis was a founding member of the American Council of Vedic Astrology and served as president of the American College of Vedic Astrology, located in Sedona, Arizona, from 1999-2009. His book, The Nakshatras: The Lunar Mansions of Vedic Astrology, is published by Lotus Press and continues to be one of the few works dedicated to uncovering the mysteries of these important, and often overlooked, asterisms of Vedic Astrology. Dennis is currently working on his new book, The Karmic Code™…
Dr. Harness is the founder of the annual Sedona Vedic Astrology Conference.
https://dennisharness.com/
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
In this episode Alice shares both her greatest takeaways from her conversation with Dr Harness, talking all about Karma and what was written in the stars for this unprecedented year.
As well as her greatest lessons from 2020 and her greatest tip for YOU to take with you into 2021
IG: @lawali_life
www.lawali-life.com
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
In this episode Alice is joined by globally renowned Feng Sui Master, Transformational Teacher, Speaker, International Best-Selling Author and one of the experts of the global Netflix phenomenon 'The Secret'.
Marie shares all about her incredible story of growing up and knowing she could work with energy, the accident that let to her NDA and why she knew what she had to 'come back' to do.
Listen as they talk all about:
- Marie's story of her Near Death Experience
- How she always knew she could work with energy
- The art of Feng Sui and how it effects us
- What you can do to use Feng Sui to your advantage at home
- The Law of Attraction
- What energy 2021 has in store for us
And so much more...
https://www.instagram.com/mariediamond8/?hl=en
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
In this episode Alice is joined by the wonderful Poppy Jamie. Poppy is an entrepreneur, author and founder of the mental wellbeing app Happy Not Perfect.
Poppy kicked off her career while studying at the London School of Economics when she became the youngest television host at ITN. After graduating, Poppy moved to Los Angeles to work with MTV, ITV and later launched Pillow Talk with Poppy, Snapchat’s first chat show.
In 2015, Happy Not Perfect was born out of a clear need for a tool to deal with anxiety. Poppy received hundreds of messages from viewers opening up about their stress and anxiety. With her mum being a neurotherapist, Poppy decided something needed to be created to help everyone manage their mental wellbeing better.
In this episode we talked all about:
- Why mental wellness is just as important as physical wellness
- On navigating IG and social media as they play with our ego
- On relationships being mirrors and heartbreak being one of our greatest tools of growth
- Poppy's own journey from control and burnout to balance
- Being happy not perfect
And so much more...
Whilst developing HNP, Poppy co-founded accessories brand Pop & Suki with actress Suki Waterhouse. The brand celebrates the meaning of friendship. Poppy delivered TEDx talk 'Addicted to likes’ in 2016 which focused on the harmful effect social media has on our mental health.
In 2017, Forbes named Poppy one of their 30 under 30s and she was appointed as the youngest board member of the Resnic Neuropychiatric Hospital Advisory Board at UCLA to help consult on the wellbeing of students.
Poppy is someone you always feel energised and uplifted being around and her open hearted way is something that really shines through in this conversation.
Please get in touch and let us know what you think of the episode!
https://www.instagram.com/poppyjamie/?hl=en
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
In today's episode Alice is joined by JP De Villiers - JP is an Athlete, Motivational Speaker, Author and High Performance Coach.
He has worked with thousands of influential men and women who demand the best from themselves and has over 250,000 followers on social media.
Olympic medalists, business leaders, entrepreneurs, actors and award-winning film directors and producers have benefited from JP’s expertise and have relied on him to help them perform at the highest level. JP teaches leading-edge strategies to keep his clients ahead of the game.
In this episode he shares his story, not just of how he got to where he is now and the loss he experienced on his road to getting there, but the story around the devastating hit and run that nearly cost him everything - when he was doing a charity cycle ride and was hit by a car and left for dead off the side of the road.
In this episode we talked all about:
- The hit and run that nearly cost him his life
- How he went from drugs, DJ'ing and emptiness to high performance coaching and speaking on stage with @tonyrobbins
- How he came back from that with many different healing modalities
- Why Meditation was the main tool he would recommend to anyone in an extreme circumstance
- The importance of Spiritual Fitness
- Why what is inside us is what we are really experiencing, no matter what is going on around us
- Why patience is one of the most powerful things we can practice
And so much more... please get in touch on social media and let me know if you enjoyed, I would love to hear from you!
https://www.instagram.com/lawali_life/
You can find JP De Villers at the following:
https://www.instagram.com/j_p_d_v/