Is This Seat Taken?!

In this episode I speak to Rev Gail Love-Schock, Prosperity teacher, Interfaith Minister, Wise Woman and dear friend. We reflect on finding home, and unpacking the boxes in the mansion of ourselves. We discuss the call to Scotland, and the joy of community building through cupts of tea, rambles and loch swims.

In this episode I speak to Ashleigh Li, designer, colour fanatic and all round breath of fresh air. Ashleigh's life changed completely when she had the opportunity to live under the palm trees in Los Angeles for a year, and we talk about how it shaped her business and her personal growth. Ashleigh is the founder of Pink Palms, a wedding design studio based in London. Needing an outlet for her interior design training and love of colour, Pink Palms was created after realising that modern, design - led couples weren't able to create a wedding that felt like a reflection of them, with it's mission to modernise the wedding industry at its core. Ashleigh now also runs Bungalow, an online membership for couples to plan & design their weddings with expert help and teaches other event professionals how to intuitively design for their clients through a range of digital courses. Keep the conversation going:AshleighWebsite: www.pinkpalms.co.ukInstagram: @pinkpalmseventsAmyWebsite: www.amymeadows.coInstagram: @amymeadowsuk

In this episode, I speak to Maddy Shine, SEO & Visibility Queen, some-time digital nomad, and all-around glitterball of a human.Maddy Shine is a coach who helps ambitious female entrepreneurs get more sales by increasing visibility. Work, and the pursuit of love, have taken her all over the world and we discuss how much her connection to place has changed over the years, and how the thought of a cheese and pickle sandwich eventually brought her home.

Series 2, episode 3 is with queen of the ‘gram and queen of The Hill, Lucy Sheridan. If you haven't come across Lucy before, you are in for a TREAT.Lucy Sheridan is the World's first and only Comparison Coach. Author of “The Comparison Cure: how to be less 'them' and more you" (out now), and noted as one of the UK's most successful coaches by The Times, she's on a mission to cure comparison. Named “Queen of self worth” by @adwoaaboah.Two years ago, Lucy made the decision to move half way up the country in search of trees, peace and space to expand into the next stage of her business and her life. The house on the hill rose up to meet her, and in this episode we reflect on how that came to be.Keep the conversation going:LucyInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/lucysheridan/?hl=enBuy The Comparison Cure - here.Website - http://www.proofcoaching.com/AmyInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/amymeadowsuk/?hl=enWebsite - https://amymeadows.co/

Welcome back to Is This Seat Taken?!This episode is with Skye Ferguson. Skye is a PR Coach, working with female entrepreneurs to help them get themselves featured in the press so they can grow their audience and become credible, go-to experts in their industry. As a qualified coach, Skye also works with her clients to overcome all the mindset blocks that come with putting yourself out to such a big platform!Skye has spent time working all over the world living the ‘digi-nomad' dream, and explains how it has impacted her feelings around where ‘home' is. She also talks about how she ended up doing a degree that she wasn't expecting, and the surprising opportunities that came as a result of it.Keep the conversation going:SkyeInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/skyefergs/?hl=enFree Facebook for female entrepreneurs who want to get themselves featured in the press, but don't know where to start - https://www.facebook.com/groups/PRMadeEasy/Website - www.skyeferguson.co.ukAmyInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/amymeadowsuk/?hl=enWebsite: https://amymeadows.co/

We're baaaaaaaack! The first episode of season 2 of Is This Seat Taken?! is with the incredible Somalia Seaton.Somalia is a storyteller, working extensively across theatre, tv and film. Her work has been produced by various British theatres, including Royal Shakespeare Company and The Royal Court.She teaches on The Royal Court's prestigious Intro to Playwriting Group, as well as leading masterclasses for several theatre and educational institutions.Somalia is passionate about helping people to cultivate their imaginations and reclaim their narratives. Having long known the transformative power of the written word, she incorporates her skills both as a writer, and intuitive writing coach to encourage others to forge ahead with bringing pen to paper - particularly those that are yet to recognise that we are all indeed, creative souls by design.She has several projects in development for stage, screen and audio platforms, and is very excited for the next cohort of writers that she will support in her one to one clinics.Somalia took the leap moving from London to New York at the end of 2019, and it has been a journey of discovery once 2020 took the turn that none of us were expecting.Keep the conversation going:SomaliaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/somaliaseaton/?hl=enWebsite: http://somaliaseaton.com/AmyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/amymeadowsuk/?hl=enWebsite: https://amymeadows.co/

Vasiliki Prestidge is a linguist, translator, and interpreter. She is originally from Cyprus, growing up in Cyprus and Greece, and now living in London and running a hugely successful business, Greek to Me Translations. Her clients vary from embassies to corporate businesses, to nursing homes, to couples wanting to get married in Greece.We discuss being tri-cultural, the human element of interpreting, and how a comment from her uncle (and a cheese and pickle sandwich in a car park) started her love affair with England.

Amanda Cutting is a global theatre and intimacy director. She is based in Calgary, Alberta, but spends more time on planes than anyone I have ever met before.We met in a chance encounter when she came to visit a hotel in rural Hertfordshire where I used to run an open-air Shakespeare festival. She ended up directing a show there the following year, and our working relationship and friendship blossomed from there.During our conversation we talk about Amanda's methods of settling in a new place, how to create relationships beyond language barriers, and the growth of the Intimacy Directing movement across the globe following the Times Up movement.Amanda | Instagram | @cuttingamandaAmanda's Website | hereAmy | Instagram | @amymeadowsukAmy Meadows | Website Track: Soulful — Waimis [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/SZrFx8J1MFE Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/soulful Magical editing and creative by Holly Jones at Directing Waves.

Meghan is the queen of making Big Moves, both geographically and in terms of her career. As a designer. researcher and strategist her talents have taken her all over the world. Her ability to create community both online and in her new locations means that she has resilience and addictive energy that is contagious. We talk about her relocation from the UK, to LA, to Detroit, and how she 'lands' in her new homes and what it was like going from room-jumping in Airbnbs to having a place of her own.

Ella Barrington is a tour-de-force of enthusiasm mixed with frightening competence. In this episode, we talk about her journey from a little girl in dungarees at the side of the track, to an extraordinary woman (still in dungarees) running a lean, mean business and looking back on a career in engineering.

Alya is an incredible advocate of people who have multiple cultures and identities. By writing her book, The Greater Freedom, she has opened up a platform to facilitate conversations with people of middle eastern heritage to share their stories.

I sit down with Adeola, Editor in Chief of Distinguished Diva. We discuss how her adventures around Greece, the UK, the US and Europe has made her 'multi-local'.