Hello and welcome to Harnetting Happiness with myself Sarah J Naylor.
Today I want to
Chat to you about getting inspired because I've been inspired a couple of times just recently.
Yeah,
I just wanted to share those little nuggets with you because you know what?
Inspirations
Around us,
If we look for it,
If we seek it out or if we,
You know,
Just recognise those
Opportunities.
So the first person I was rather inspired by was a lady called Elise Downing who
I am hoping will become a podcast guest so do look out for that episode.
In fact I'm sending
It out there.
So who is Elise Downing and what was it about her that inspired me and why do I
Want to record a podcast episode with her?
When we were on holiday just recently and the first part
Of our holiday was at the Love Trails Festival in the Gower Peninsula in South Wales and in addition
To the loud music that was booming all night,
Well until about midnight anyway,
We were just
Old and in bed early,
There were also activities on and guest speakers in the book tent.
So there
Was like a library cum book tent which was rather lovely and there were a selection of speakers on.
One speaker I really wanted to hear talk but I missed was another speaker on that I'd listened
To speak at a running show previously.
This woman particularly caught my eye when I read the notes
On her book and I picked up the back of the book and I thought,
Oh that sounds interesting.
So I
Duly joined the audience in the tent to hear her read an extract out of her book and then do
A Q&A.
I subsequently bought her book,
Read it and loved it.
So basically Elise,
Five years ago,
Decided with very little training or knowledge to run around the coast of Britain.
She's very honest
In this book and it's very humorous.
In fact I would go so far as to say it's Bridget Jones
Meets Cheryl Strayed.
Cheryl Strayed wrote the book Wild,
Who Reese Witherspoon played her role
In the film and obviously then you've got Bridget Jones.
So the writing of the book and the story
And the journey is like a real combination of the two because you've kind of got that Britishness
Of Bridget Jones with that adventure of Cheryl Strayed.
Because Elise,
She graduated from
University,
Although she started to do some running and I think she had run a marathon,
That was all she had done.
Well I say that's all she'd done,
To me that's amazing because I've
Never run a marathon,
But she didn't know anything about really running around the coast of Britain,
So much so that she was relying on Google Maps and it wasn't until I think about two-thirds to
Three-quarters of the way through where she ran with somebody who I think had been in the military
Or was in the army or something like that,
Who then encouraged her to actually follow
An Ordnance Survey map.
I don't know what the maps are like globally or anywhere else but
The OS maps are the ones that track the landscape of the UK which show you in detail where the
Footpaths and roads are,
The train lines,
The gradients,
The coastline and you know where you
Can go and where you can't go and what you should be mindful of in terms of what's hilly and what's
Not.
For the best part of her journey Elise used Google Maps which was how she got round.
Anyway
Suffice to say the fact that she did it and had the journey that she had and she kept persevering,
It was just a fascinating read because she wrote the book actually during lockdown,
She'd had somebody,
I can't remember which publisher she did it with but I think this
Person had been following her when she did her journey because apparently she did it all on
Facebook with videos and things like that and they wanted her to write the book and she kept
On putting them off putting them off then during lockdown she thought well sort of if not when so
That is what she did and it's just such a brilliant read in fact my partner Gareth is now
Reading it and keeps on reading out bits to me because he's just chuckling away.
So if you've
Not read it I do encourage you to have a look at Coasting by Elise Downing that's E-L-I-S-E
Downing D-O-W-I-N-G and keep your fingers crossed she'll come on a podcast with me because
She'll be an amazing guest she's just really she's really honest down to earth humorous and
It's just a fascinating tale of somebody deciding they were going to do something setting that
Intention following up on her fears and her worries and her concerns and sort of her nearly sort of
Jacking it all in but then sort of just really embracing it and doing it on her terms yeah it's
Just really empowering and she's so humble about it as well but she now does a lot more running and
She reads OS maps she would be as she said in her own words that she would definitely plan if she
Was to do it again and if I tell you it took her 10 months and she started in the November and
Finished the following I think it was August but anyway we will hopefully get her on as a podcast
Guest and if you read a book you'll find out more it's brilliant but I was really inspired because
It's just like yeah it is it's about seizing those moments it's about just doing stuff as such
You know I was talking to and I've just recorded an episode with Claire Deacon as you will discover
She's had a very challenging time in her life on top of a whole host of other stuff that she'd had
Happened previously but in short she went back into higher education and she's got a master's in
Positive psychology I was having a chat with her about that and saying you know I quite fancied
Doing a master's degree myself and going and studying because I live and breathe positive
Psychology that is part of who I am you know the power of the mind and what we can do with it and
How we can reframe things experience life in a different way I understand the fundamentals of
So much stuff and have conversations with people like herself and I get all this stuff but I just
Sometimes think should I have a qualification underneath my belt to go wave it in the air
And say you know I've got a qualification as well but I don't know it's really it's an interesting
Concept so very inspired by the fact that she took told and did that but she's also embraced
All nature of modalities and therapies holistic therapies as have I done so we've covered so much
Ground it's the same you know I've done in my past I've trained to level two Reiki I've done
Ascension work I've done journey work I've done shamanic work I've done EFT I've had RTT I've
Done hypnotherapy I've done regressional hypnotherapy I've experienced all nature
Of holistic therapies as part of my journey part of things that have excited me interested me and
I've been inspired by some stuff I've gone on to learn more about you know I've done my coaching
Qualification NLP I've done stuff with Richard Bandler and Paul McKenna I've done coaching with
Horses I've done coaching with children I've done just all sorts of stuff and the beauty of recording
These wonderful podcast episodes is the fantastic conversations I have with people about all nature
Of things I've had my astrological chart and I wouldn't claim to be an astrologer it's all too
Many symbols it's all too technical for me but you know I kind of get the energies of things I don't
Need to go into it all but I just regularly get inspired and want to do stuff yeah so what have
You been inspired by what what inspires you does anything inspire you what if you know how have
You got to where you are today what's inspired you to do what you do what do you enjoy doing
You know and if you want help with that get in touch I mean you're welcome to have a free
Discovery chat with myself I've got a link on my website if you want to book in it's sarahjnaylor.
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And if you go to work with me you can book yourself in for a free discovery call you know
I've talked to people I love talking to people anyway I have been talking for my allotted 10
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