mindset

My Start up Story: Gaia Learning

Everyone knows a child who struggles in school. CEO of Gaia Learning and TEDx speaker alongside her cofounder, Kirsten Coughtrie are personalising learning experiences for neurodivergent children worldwide.
Gaia Learning have created a global online school that supports neurodiverse children through personalised education, which parents and educators can monitor via a dashboard that provides insights into a child’s learning experience. The model leads to reduced anxiety, more personalised learning, and better overall learner experience.
Kate exudes passion when she shares her absolute belief that Gaia Learning will change the world of education and is incredibly honest about the realities of building a business.
Some of her highlight shares include:-
• Her feelings when she realised that her daughter, Poppy was different from most other children and how mainstream education doesn’t adequately cater for 20% of the population who are neuro-divergent
• Why the world needs to understand the potential for online learning (which is not sitting your child in front of a computer for hours)
• How techniques such as using dinosaurs to teach maths and designing a dream house to teach English can revolutionise a child’s learning, confidence and creative thinking.
• How the Baltic Ventures Accelerator gave her headspace, a sense of community and an opportunity for meaningful conversation
• How her early childhood traumatic events gave her an absolute belief that everything will be alright
• What she has learnt in terms of accepting support from others
Our conversation with Kate starts at 03:52.
Following a competitive process, Gaia Learning have completed the Baltic Ventures Tech Accelerator 2023 programme and are currently fundraising for their next phase of growth.
For more details about the next Baltic Ventures 2024 application process or to seek information about investor opportunities go to www.balticventures.uk and for Gaia Learning go to www.gaialearning.co.uk
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My Start up Story: Hexis

Driven by a desire to address nutritional challenges faced in professional sports Dr Sam Impey, co-founded Hexis in 2018 alongside, David Dunne.

Hexis allows nutritionists, trainers, and sports organisations to predictively personalise the nutritional needs of their athletes. Based on unique demands of workouts, lifestyle and goals the technology analyses dietary intake and provides feedback and data visualisations to help athletes fuel smarter, perform better and recover faster. The technology is trusted by some of the world’s top sports nutritionists and has been used to power the performance of Olympic medalists and World Champions.

As well as detailing the unique elements of the Hexis offer, Sam talks about: –

• Transitioning from his accomplished academic environment into the uncertain and challenging world of starting and scaling a business

• How his scientific background helps him control overwhelm

• The importance of a complementary and motivational co-founder, Simon Roberts

• His inspirational mum who raised him alone

• How in spite of his dyslexia he gained a PhD and

• The book which provided him with a unique insight on leadership.

Our conversation with Sam starts at 03:52.

Following a competitive process, Hexis completed the Baltic Ventures Tech Accelerator 2023 programme and are currently fundraising for their next phase of growth. For more details about the next Baltic Ventures 2024 application process go to www.balticventures.uk and for Hexis see www.hexis.live

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Do you struggle with Big Decisions?

Are you someone who prefers staying in your comfort zone or have you changed your life by making big decisions? In their latest podcast episode, Michelle and Patrick discuss the importance of making big decisions and share their personal experiences.

Michelle talks about her decision to end her first marriage while Patrick shares his experience of choosing to leave a stable job. In their conversation, they highlight the importance of reflecting on what you really want, taking care when seeking the opinions of others especially the couch critics, tuning into your gut, and creating your own story to tell.

If you struggle with making big decisions, this podcast is definitely for you. Don’t allow your life to drift, do take action and create the life you want. Remember, age is not an excuse! #BigDecisions #PersonalGrowth #Reflection #TakeAction #Midlife #CouplesConversation

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Midlife Muddle Habits

Our first Midlife Muddle episode gave an overview of the importance of mindset and touched on how the narrative around midlife is finally changing from doomy gloomy to one of opportunity.

Whilst it’s all very well reading the headlines around “creating the life we want” and “finally being comfortable in our own skin” the reality is it doesn’t always feel that way. This is especially true if we don’t have at least a few good habits to help get us through the days when our joints are aching, we’re exhausted or we’re cracking up because, for the 10th time, we’ve forgotten where we’ve put our glasses or why we came up the stairs…

You will know which habits you either need to ditch or which habits you need to work on but if you want to hear our midlife habit experiences, ideas and top tips to not only survive but thrive in midlife and hopefully beyond then…

Let’s ‘Talk on to Walk on’ and let’s see where it leads…

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Dare to dream whatever your age

Nic Byrne sees possibility everywhere.
Approaching 20 years as a serial entrepreneur and alongside her business partner, she employs 40 people across her Urban Calm salons, training academy and spa with a purpose, Mini Madams.
Those of us who know and love Nic will think of words such as “resilience”, “grafter”, and “smart”.

Nic is now taking all that business and life experience and channelling it into her latest purposeful venture, Girls with Dreams Club.
The aim is to provide much needed support and guidance to girls throughout their challenging teenage years so they can go out into the world with the confidence to pursue their dreams.

As well as her talking about the reasons behind launching Girls with Dreams we discuss:
• The power of our network, working together for the greater good
• The realities of achieving success through hard work and
• Hacks to maintain a motivated, positive and purposeful state of mind as we transition into and through midlife.
Describing herself as an accidental entrepreneur, Nic Byrne is the epitome of what’s needed to walk on and go after your dreams, whatever your age.
I am delighted to be supporting her to spearhead a project to encourage and prepare the next generation of fabulous females to do the same.

Let’s ‘Talk on to Walk on’ with Nic and let’s see where it leads.

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Midlife Muddle

Have you ever heard anyone actually say, “I can’t wait to get to 40, 50 or 60…”?
Whatever age you are, are you in denial about the prospect of midlife, or refusing to acknowledge you’ve hit midlife let alone begin to embrace the opportunities that midlife presents?

Regular listeners will recall us asking our guests about their midlife mindset so we thought we would share our own midlife perspectives and experiences in a sub series called “Our Midlife Muddle”.
Our plan is to talk about topics which touch all of us as we work our way through what can be either an overwhelming or empowering stage of our lives.
Future episodes will take a dive into our habit changes, physical and mental wellbeing, careers and how relationships often alter as we navigate our midlife.
Even if you’re not close to 40 please do still listen, to prepare for life when your 40 plus era comes knocking on the door. I had no idea what to expect and was definitely in the denial category!
As always, we will be underpinning our stories with reminders about how the power of meaningful conversations can contribute to our midlife mindset reset.
Let’s ‘talk on to walk on’ and see where it leads…
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