All Up In Your Biz with Yvonne Tchrakian Yvonne Tchrakian

In this episode, Dr Sarah McKay, a neuroscientist, author, and mom, joins Yvonne. They talk about a wide range of topics, including the biggest misconception about the female brain, what happens to the brain during pregnancy, PMS, and a range of other fascinating subjects. Dr McKay also explains why the idea that the Reticular Activating System (RAS) is the centre of manifestation is not backed up by neuroscience.

KEY TAKEAWAYS


Four out of five mothers experience “baby brain.” Dr McKay shares what the research tells us about this.
Women´s brains change during pregnancy to prepare for motherhood, Dr McKay explains how and shares what the research tells us.
Hormones are not the main driver of the female brain. But they do have an impact and affect some women much more than others.
In countries where women do not feel they have a voice, rates of PMS are much higher.
When it comes to things like PMS, we need to factor in what society has told us to expect and the impact that has on how we think and in turn how our bodies respond.
The words we use and the social narrative we accept have a strong impact on how we think, feel and therefore act.
The placenta has a biological sex too.
Some of a baby´s cells migrate into the mother´s brain.
The RAS potentially plays a role in what you pay attention to, and where your focus goes. But it does not mean you can use it to manifest.
Your social networks have the biggest impact on your life.

BEST MOMENTS

‘We don't find clear variation of mood based on the day of the month in most women. ´

‘Be very conscious of what you are telling yourself.’

‘The loudest voice in the crowd is the people around us and that's the greatest source of strength and resilience that we should be seeking out.’

‘Our brains do change particularly during our first pregnancy.’

 

GUEST AND EPISODE RESOURCES

RSA article - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wishing-upon-neuron-reticular-activating-system-wont-manifest-mckay-1a2pc/?trackingId=GdUfZDFVQvmUqN1mWYCFvw%3D%3D

Placenta sex post - https://www.instagram.com/p/C5l4laCBzE0/ 

https://drsarahmckay.com/

Microchimerism - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-discover-childrens-cells-living-in-mothers-brain/

Brain change during pregnancy - https://www.uab.cat/web/newsroom/news-detail/pregnancy-leads-to-changes-in-the-mother-s-brain-1345668003610.html?noticiaid=1345716582270

VALUABLE RESOURCES

website: pausepenny.com

Instagram: @yvonnetchrakian_manifest @pause.penny

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-tchrakian-64257619/

HOST BIO

Yvonne started her career as a corporate lawyer for one of Ireland's top law firms. After the loss of a baby during pregnancy, Yvonne founded Pause. Penny - which was created to inspire people to manifest their dream lives. She is also a mom of four. Yvonne is a serial manifester, manifesting everything from her dream jobs (yes, multiple), her soulmate, dream house and even her twins!

Podcast Description

This podcast is all about manifesting your dream life. Interviews with incredible entrepreneurs who are using manifestation to create successful businesses and solo episodes on how to start manifesting everything you desire. Yvonne teaches you 7 simple steps to manifesting your dream life, shares her own personal manifestation stories and gives practical advice on how to make manifestation a lifestyle.

Tune in and I guarantee you will be manifesting your dreams!

In this episode, Yvonne is joined by Zain Peer the co-founder of London Nootropics. When he and his childhood friend Shez Shaikh discovered that adding certain natural plants that contained adaptogens to coffee gave their minds and body an incredible long-lasting boost they were amazed. So much so that they developed their own coffee adaptogen blends so others could also benefit.

They were approached to get on Dragons' Den UK. They got offered a deal - but did they take it? What really happens behind the scenes? Do people really take the money?

Zain shares their entrepreneurial journey including the role visualisation and manifesting played for them. He also provides a fascinating insight into what it is like to appear on Dragon´s Den. Yvonne and Zain also discuss the legal side of bringing investors into a company including some of the pros and cons of using this type of financing.

KEY TAKEAWAYS


Adaptogens which can be found in mushrooms, roots and other foods when combined with coffee are incredibly powerful.
Adding the right adaptogens to coffee provides you with a more sustained boost.
To work, the ingredients have to be high quality.
To fully access the nutrients in mushrooms you need to consume an extract.
To reach more people they have kept the price relatively low while keeping the quality super high.
You can reset your body clock during travel using a simple adaptogen coffee.
Being authentic in all you do is important.
Prioritising serving others over continually increasing your profits is more likely to make you happier.
Zain also shares a very effective sleep tip.

 

BEST MOMENTS

‘We started adding natural ingredients to coffee for like a more sustained boost. ´

‘The first thought of the business isn't to make loads of money and sell the business. It’s to share adaptogens with different people.’

‘We need an extract which makes the active compounds bioavailable so we can absorb them.’

GUEST AND EPISODE RESOURCES

https://londonnootropics.com/ 

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/zainpeer 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

website: pausepenny.com

Instagram: @yvonnetchrakian_manifest @pause.penny

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-tchrakian-64257619/

HOST BIO

Yvonne started her career as a corporate lawyer for one of Ireland's top law firms. After the loss of a baby during pregnancy, Yvonne founded Pause. Penny - which was created to inspire people to manifest their dream lives. She is also a mom of four. Yvonne is a serial manifester, manifesting everything from her dream jobs (yes, multiple), her soulmate, dream house and even her twins!

Podcast Description

This podcast is all about manifesting your dream life. Interviews with incredible entrepreneurs who are using manifestation to create successful businesses and solo episodes on how to start manifesting everything you desire. Yvonne teaches you 7 simple steps to manifesting your dream life, shares her own personal manifestation stories and gives practical advice on how to make manifestation a lifestyle.

Tune in and I guarantee you will be manifesting your dreams!

In this episode, Yvonne sits down with Lauren Murrell, a former lawyer who is the CEO and co-founder of BySarah. Lauren is a super manifester, a high-vibe kind of girl, who used affirmations and the power of her mind to help her to overcome a cancer with a 20% chance of survival.

When chemotherapy and full-body irradiation rendered Lauren´s skin red, raw, and hypersensitive, none of the commercial products provided relief. So, her sister Sarah formulated her own skincare solutions in her kitchen and their company BySarah was born. Today, they provide natural skincare products for people with stressed and sensitive skin from across the world.

KEY TAKEAWAYS


When life gets really hard, you have a choice. You can feel completely powerless and be a victim of life or fight with every ounce of your being.
Using language and believing that there can be a better way is incredibly, incredibly powerful.
Use visual inputs e.g. posters to help you to see your better future.
The mind is incredibly powerful, it can push your body beyond what you and others think is physically possible.
When you're manifesting and hoping for things you can't hold on to it too tightly you just have to trust it will happen.
Don´t doubt the signs. 
Chemo brain is real – at one stage Lauren could only read children´s books.
BySarah skincare is helping people who are going through life-stage events like cancer treatment, menopause, pregnancy and more to restore their skin to health.
You're over 70% more likely to achieve your goal. If you write it down, take action, and have accountability.
Be kind to yourself, it is really, really hard to build a business.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Stay strong, keep really strong. ´

‘The rebuilding of my body required so much of my mind.’

‘We're not just selling products to make money; we're selling products to help people to help the planet to make a positive impact.’

‘You´ve got to write it to invite it.’

 

GUEST AND EPISODE RESOURCES

https://bysarahlondon.com/

VALUABLE RESOURCES

website: pausepenny.com

Instagram: @yvonnetchrakian_manifest @pause.penny

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-tchrakian-64257619/

HOST BIO

Yvonne started her career as a corporate lawyer for one of Ireland's top law firms. After the loss of a baby during pregnancy, Yvonne founded Pause. Penny - which was created to inspire people to manifest their dream lives. She is also a mom of four. Yvonne is a serial manifester, manifesting everything from her dream jobs (yes, multiple), her soulmate, dream house and even her twins!

Podcast Description

This podcast is all about manifesting your dream life. Interviews with incredible entrepreneurs who are using manifestation to create successful businesses and solo episodes on how to start manifesting everything you desire. Yvonne teaches you 7 simple steps to manifesting your dream life, shares her own personal manifestation stories and gives practical advice on how to make manifestation a lifestyle.

Tune in and I guarantee you will be manifesting your dreams!

In this solo episode, Yvonne shares some of the Q&As she has recently got on Instagram and from a huge event she did. She explains how to surrender and let go, while still taking action, why you can´t manifest for others but can still help them and how to keep your vibe high. As well as how naming your brain helps you to replace negativity with positive thoughts and how to stop drifting in life.

This episode contains the answers to the manifestation questions nobody else is providing practical and logical answers for.

KEY TAKEAWAYS


Letting go (surrendering) does not mean doing nothing at all. You still need to take the practical steps e.g. update your CV and physically apply for your dream job.
You can´t manifest for someone else, but you can help them on their journey.
Nobody can be positive 24/7, having down days is normal but you can actively work to quickly bring your vibe back up. Yvonne explains how.
What you put out is what you get back.
Name your brain.
Stop drifting in life. If you don´t know exactly what you want to manifest, write down how you want to feel instead.
Let go of fear, doubt, and anxiety so you can tune into your gut - your intuition. The science shows that this is critical for manifestation.
When you push yourself out of your comfort zone once doing it again becomes much easier.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Then your brain, science, starts to rewire those pathways for positivity and the negativity becomes less and less and less.’

‘S**t happens, life happens, but it’s the way you react to it.’

‘You cannot manifest for somebody else, but you can help them on their journey.’

 

EPISODE RESOURCES

The Surrender Experiment by Michael A Singer - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Surrender-Experiment-Journey-Lifes-Perfection-ebook/dp/B00XVJBKHE

Top 5 Regrets of the Dying - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-Five-Regrets-Dying-Transformed-ebook/dp/B07KNRLY1L

VALUABLE RESOURCES

website: pausepenny.com

Instagram: @yvonnetchrakian_manifest @pause.penny

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-tchrakian-64257619/

HOST BIO

Yvonne started her career as a corporate lawyer for one of Ireland's top law firms. After the loss of a baby during pregnancy, Yvonne founded Pause. Penny - which was created to inspire people to manifest their dream lives. She is also a mom of four. Yvonne is a serial manifester, manifesting everything from her dream jobs (yes, multiple), her soulmate, dream house and even her twins!

Podcast Description

This podcast is all about manifesting your dream life. Interviews with incredible entrepreneurs who are using manifestation to create successful businesses and solo episodes on how to start manifesting everything you desire. Yvonne teaches you 7 simple steps to manifesting your dream life, shares her own personal manifestation stories and gives practical advice on how to make manifestation a lifestyle.

Tune in and I guarantee you will be manifesting your dreams!

In this episode, Yvonne sits down with Dr. Jonathan Fisher cardiologist and author of Just One Heart join Yvonne. They discuss how emotions affect the heart. Jonathan shares the latest research which demonstrates that intense emotions can physically change the shape of the heart and lead to heart attack like symptoms.

They also discuss the importance of developing and maintaining empathy and connection to others. Johnathan explains that the heart has 4 dimensions – the emotional, physical, social, and spiritual hearts. All 4 play an important role in keeping your heart healthy.

KEY TAKEAWAYS


The heart is not just about the physical systems like blood flow, stress and other emotions also impacts how it works.
Research shows that intense emotions can produce the symptoms of a heart attack. It is called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or broken heart syndrome.
Fortunately, just as stress and loss can break our hearts, positive emotions can help our hearts to function better. Jonathan explains how to tap into this.
The fast pace we live at is leading us to lose our connection with others, which is bad for our physical health.
Covid can impact the nervous system which plays a role in how the heart functions. The loss and emotional stress people felt are also still impacting some people´s heart health.
When you remember something bad that happened it reactivates the physical sensations associated with that pain.
Life is short. You can be healthy one day and seriously ill the next. That is why you should do what gives you purpose and meaning.
When you manifest or visualise, you are training the neural pathways that affect the way our bodies move and function. It is good for our health.

BEST MOMENTS

‘At least 60% of what I see as a heart doctor relates to either unaddressed or poorly addressed underlying stress because of what is going on in the world. ´

‘We have to learn to listen to our bodies, to sit quietly and tune in.’

‘It is wise to recognise that and to limit the intake into our nervous system of this information.’

 

EPISODE AND GUEST RESOURCES

Just One Heart by Jonathan Fisher - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-One-Heart-Cardiologists-Happiness-ebook/dp/B0D1526W7D

Barbara Fredrickson positive and negative emotions research - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20363063/

https://brenebrown.com/

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Website: pausepenny.com

Instagram: @yvonnetchrakian_manifest @pause.penny

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-tchrakian-64257619/

HOST BIO

Yvonne started her career as a corporate lawyer for one of Ireland's top law firms. After the loss of a baby during pregnancy, Yvonne founded Pause. Penny - which was created to inspire people to manifest their dream lives. She is also a mom of four. Yvonne is a serial manifester, manifesting everything from her dream jobs (yes, multiple), her soulmate, dream house and even her twins!

Podcast Description

This podcast is all about manifesting your dream life. Interviews with incredible entrepreneurs who are using manifestation to create successful businesses and solo episodes on how to start manifesting everything you desire. Yvonne teaches you 7 simple steps to manifesting your dream life, shares her own personal manifestation stories and gives practical advice on how to make manifestation a lifestyle.

Tune in and I guarantee you will be manifesting your dreams!

In this episode, Yvonne sits down with Gary Fox who started his podcast as a way to connect with interesting, highly successful people. To say it worked is an understatement. In just 5 years he has reached the point where 310,000+ people download his podcast every quarter . Gary has already interviewed many of the world´s most successful business founders and has attracted some really big sponsors.

Gary and Yvonne explain how to get started with podcasting. Including how to overcome your fears, attract the best guests, achieve a good recording, tackle editing and grow a loyal audience. As well as how to monetise your podcast.

KEY TAKEAWAYS


Right now, podcasting represents a big opportunity, 500 million people regularly listen to them. Yet there are only 400,000 active podcasts.
Podcast audiences grow slowly.
Start by interviewing people in your network.
You're asking your guests and audience for the invaluable gift of their time, so each episode must deliver excellence.
It does not matter how much you are offered, if a sponsor is not honest or does not fit in with your brand, say no to them.
Look at everything you are asked to do and ask yourself “What is the value of this?”
Never try to catch your guests out.
When building your business, work hard, but not to the point where you lose yourself or your health suffers.
Living a more balanced life helps you to avoid big downs.
Try to understand what works for you and don´t ever feel you should do things.
Be super careful about how you treat others.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Podcasting is a level 1 in terms of difficulty to get started and a level 10 in terms of keeping going. ´

‘Speed is everything, if you are goanna do it, do it.’

‘I hate that bro hustle culture.’

‘Female entrepreneurs are treated extremely poorly.’

 

GUEST AND EPISODE RESOURCES

The Entrepreneur Experiment Podcast - https://www.mrgaryfox.com/podcast

https://www.mrgaryfox.com/podcast

VALUABLE RESOURCES

website: pausepenny.com

Instagram: @yvonnetchrakian_manifest @pause.penny

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-tchrakian-64257619/

 

HOST BIO

Yvonne started her career as a corporate lawyer for one of Ireland's top law firms. After the loss of a baby during pregnancy, Yvonne founded Pause. Penny - which was created to inspire people to manifest their dream lives. She is also a mom of four. Yvonne is a serial manifester, manifesting everything from her dream jobs (yes, multiple), her soulmate, dream house and even her twins!

Podcast Description

This podcast is all about manifesting your dream life. Interviews with incredible entrepreneurs who are using manifestation to create successful businesses and solo episodes on how to start manifesting everything you desire. Yvonne teaches you 7 simple steps to manifesting your dream life, shares her own personal manifestation stories and gives practical advice on how to make manifestation a lifestyle.

Tune in and I guarantee you will be manifesting your dreams!