Double Espresso With Dee: Inspiring Stories of Change and Personal Growth Dee Stirling

Today we will look back to our interview with Coss Marte, an ex-inmate who is now a successful entrepreneur and founder of ConBody.

Speaking to Coss has been so incredible. His raw honesty, incredible journey, and desire to make something good out of something so bad has been very moving. During our interview, we touched upon a wide variety of issues, but the one story that stayed with me was our discussion about redemption. Coss shared with us how hard was to start from scratch when he was out of prison.

“Giving people a second chance that was one thing that I was struggling with when I came home.”

“Three felonies on my record … It was like a stamp for life. So ConBody was basically born out of desperation,” he said.

In this short excerpt from the interview you will hear his thoughts on inmate redemption and what could society and large corporations do to help bring them back to positive ways once they are out.

Today we are looking back to a fantastic interview with Veronica Chou from Season 2: Meet The Sustainability Advocates.

Veronica Chou is a Businesswoman, an Entrepreneur, and a Sustainability Advocate. She has seen every aspect and angle of the fashion industry and came to the realisation that her future is in sustainability.

Today, she is the founder of Everybody & Everyone, an eco-innovative and size-inclusive sustainable fashion brand. She is investing in innovative ideas and making a huge impact in the sustainable clothing industry.

Her motto is: “Spread Love, Do Good, Live Sustainably. Eco is for Everyone.”
I hope you will be inspired by this insightful story about sustainable fashion and the innovations it brings.
 
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In this 10 minute short, we discuss change, how to accept it, embrace it, and flow with it as part of life and part of growth.

My guest today has known and navigated radical change. The Incredible Emma Slade was a high flying financial analyst when her life took a massive turn. She was held at gunpoint in Jakarta. Emma survived, and coming out on the other side, she went down a long road to a new way of living. Today, she is a Buddhist nun. 
Emma tells me about this extraordinary life-changing moment, and how she knew she wanted to do something meaningful with her life. She shares with us her thoughts on handling change, making change, and finding our own unique direction in life.
 
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One of the subjects that comes up time, and again is failure. In this short, I discuss failure with the epic and spectacular Sian Sutherland. She is a serial entrepreneur, having launched a branding agency, set up a restaurant that in short order had a Michelin star and built an innovative global skincare business, which was subsequently sold to the hut group a few years ago. Sian leaned into her calling and co-funded A Plastic Planet, a global campaign organization with a single goal to ignite and inspire the world to turn off the plastic tap for good.

With Sian, we unpack the brilliance of failure, embracing what we don't know and being our own unique selves.
 
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Many of my guests have talked about the importance of taking risks to show yourself what you're made of and grow in every aspect of your life. All of them believe that if you play it too safe, you will miss out on the many adventures and opportunities that life brings. I always say, give it a go take the leap. What is the worst that can happen?
 
My dear friend and guest, Gerad kite is a big proponent of going out of your cosy zone and taking a risk. Many years ago within a space of a few weeks, he left behind a successful business in London, which he built in his early twenties and moved to San Francisco with one suitcase and nowhere to stay. Today we will hear how he was feeling while taking a risk and changing his life.

Over the coming weeks, we will launch the Double Espresso With Dee shorts. 10-minute podcast episodes with key soundbites from my amazing guests. We will revisit themes that matter to you, risk, letting go, overcoming adversity, embracing failure, making a change, identity, how to be you and many more.

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My guest today is the incredible Pirie Jones Grossman. Pirie started working in L.A. and over the following 20 years became a well-known actor and then a very high profile presenter and TV host for E! Entertainment, Fox, NBC, CBS and ABC.  She was famous, fabulous, and part of an L.A. power couple. But privately, she struggled deeply after hitting rock bottom. Pirie left L.A. for good and settled in Sun Valley, Idaho. Over time, she broke through, found herself and decided to change her life. 
Today, Perry is an international bestselling author, a soul-centred, transformational life coach and TEDx speaker and co-founder and co-host of podcast Own Your Throne. I highly recommend reading her amazing book Conversations With Pirie: 30 Stories of People Who Reinvented Themselves
Today through her own experiences, Pirie works with clients to empower their life path, enabling them to learn and recover from their life events, and rise like a phoenix to fulfil their potential. 
I am sure you will love our conversation as much as I did. 
Points of discussion:
Introduction (00:00)
Going back to Pirie's early childhood (02:45)
Moving past childhood trauma (07:59)
Building the next chapter (10:37)
Pirie's first marriage (13:46)
Moving to L.A. and starting a professional career (15:21)
Second Marriage and suicide attempt (20:18)
Leaving LA (24:39)
Becoming a mother (28:54)
Road to reinvention (34:51)
Coaching as life mission (40:07)
Final words by Dee (44:23)



 
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