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PD Warrior with Melissa McConaghy

Do you have message that is so strong you can’t ignore it?

You fear that you’ll be ridiculed at the start, but the evidence is so strong you really want to get it out there?

Then this is the interview for you.

This episode is with Melissa McConaghy who is an expert in her field; who spoke up about new findings that had her pulled over the coals and nearly lost her reputation in doing so.

Today, we hear her journey from a specialist to now a leader and business owner of PD Warrior.

We hear the journey of how Melissa stumbled upon evidence of a better way to treat Parkinson patients and turned this powerful research into a business that now services people worldwide.

 

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Melissa’s Book: The New Parkinson’s Treatment; Exercise is Medicine

 

About Melissa

Melissa is a clinician, educator, author, entrepreneur and thought leader. Recognised as a Specialist Neurological Physiotherapist in 2010 by the Australian College of Physiotherapists, she holds this title as one of only 8 in Australia. Academically, she also holds a Master of Health Science (Neurological Physiotherapy) and Grad. Certificate in Public Health. Melissa has been very active in the Australian Physiotherapy Association and currently sits on the NSW Branch Council. She is past chair of the Neurology Chapter in NSW and NSW National Representative. Currently, Melissa holds the position as Co-director of the International Neurological Physical Therapy Association (INPA) for the World Confederation for Physical Therapy.

As an educator, Melissa has taught thousands of physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, and fitness professionals in topics ranging across Stroke, Polio, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and Technology in Rehab. She presents regular evening lectures and workshops for the Australian Physiotherapy Association as well as for PD Warrior and Advance Rehab Centre. Melissa has also presented at many National and International Conferences as an invited speaker and has recently been appointed Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University.

Melissa also coordinates the internship programs for Physiotherapists and Exercise Physiologists with ACU and Macquarie University. Melissa established Advance Rehab Centre in 2006 as a specialist neurological outpatient and home-based rehab facility and she has grown this to a team of 75staff with an outstanding clinical track record and team culture. The centre is dedicated to clinical excellence and innovation and has produced some world-class programs, least of all, PD Warrior, which became an independent entity in 2015. Advance Rehab Centre was awarded the Australian Allied Health Practice Excellence Award in 2019 and was a finalist in the HESTA Excellence awards and Small Business Champions Business of the Decade in 2020. PD Warrior is now taught and licensed internationally to other physiotherapists and health professionals in four languages across 10 countries. Melissa is an active CEO of both companies.

As a thought leader, Melissa has led the way creating exercise programs incorporating intensive neuroplasticity training principles for people with neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, stroke and brain injury. In 2018, Melissa pioneered the first online global Summit for Parkinson’s disease, using cutting edge technology, this three-day summit was streamed live into people’s homes removing the need for travel and accommodation expenses, well before COVID demanded this transition to digital conferences. This summit has since raised $150,000 for global Parkinson’s charities and has hosted over 150 world class speakers.

In 2020, Melissa purchased the first LEXO® End-effector Robotic Gait Trainer in the world and leads the way in the use of Robotics and technology in rehabilitation in Australia.

As an author, she published the Amazon Best Seller “The New Parkinson’s Treatment: Exercise is Medicine” in 2014 which has since gained distribution rights with Simon and Schuster and is into it’s second edition. She also
contributed to the publication “The Late Effects of Polio: Managing Muscles and Mobility” as part of the Polio Australia Clinical Advisory Group.

Melissa is the winner of several awards including Australian Physiotherapist of the Year in 2019 and APA Contribution to the Profession Award in 2019 and in 2020, Melissa was awarded as the Small Business Champions Entrepreneur of the Year.

 

Working In Your Feminine Energy with Ainslie Young

Businesswomen are burning out BIG TIME.

Sadly, it’s happening more now in the past 5 years in comparison to the past decade.

WHY?

Because more women are starting business than men

yet we are working like men… (we explain more on that in the interview)

I have been passionate and preaching this topic for the past 3 years

as I had my dash with burning out and deep down I KNEW the way I was working was NOT GOOD!

It had to change!

So, sharing this interview on the show has me BEYOND excited.

Ainslie Young is a Feminine Embodiment Coach and Mentor.

She shares ‘The 5 levels of disassociation’ that we as women go through before we have a breakdown or a breakthrough.

Also besides teaching us her tricks of the trade-in how to tap into our feminine energy.

Ainslie also shares the specifics around how to work based on your menstrual cycles and the different strengths we have during that month.

Such a great eye-opening interview, especially for those who have yet explored this education and really want to make a change on how to work in FLOW and less stress.

Enjoy
Annette

 

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About Ainslie

Ainslie Young is a Feminine Embodiment Business Coach & Mentor who is passionate about partnering with female business leaders and showing them how to work smarter not harder, by combining feminine marketing strategies with their inner body wisdom so they too can create successful and sustainable businesses on their own terms.

Ainslie can be described as a heart-centred strategist thanks to her university qualifications in psychology and marketing, her life coaching and feminine embodiment certifications plus her extensive corporate experience in marketing coupled with her own entrepreneurial adventure across product and service based businesses.

In addition to her high-end mentoring and consulting, she also runs sold out workshops, retreats and intimate in-person business mastermind events in both Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia.

In 2018 Ainslie was awarded a Hong Kong Women’s Leadership in Business award and has been a Finalist in the Beautiful You International Coach of The Year category 2017-2018 and Emerging Coach of The Year category 2016-2017, plus was listed as a Young Entrepreneur To Watch in Anthill Magazine’s ‘30 Under 30 Rising Stars.’

She has been featured multiple times in the Australian Press including The Sunday Telegraph and the Collective Magazine and she also has her own podcast, ‘Feminine Business School’ that debuted at #1 on iTunes in Hong Kong and Singapore and #2 in Australia.

Ainslie is obsessed with her ‘cute as a button’ daughter Xanthe, writing and consuming words, almond croissants, and swimming in the ocean (although she doesn’t get to do it often living in Asia!). You can learn more about Ainslie over at her website startingwitha.com

 

Top 5 Sales Hacks For Social Media Campaigns

Straight up talk; you work so damn hard with your social media marketing but still not getting the results you KNOW you can get.

But what’s wrong? “What’s going on” you quietly ask to yourself?

You are asking yourself ”why doesn’t my ads convert as good as my competitors?”

If you are writing ads on social media… or heck even posting that you want to convert in the way of getting more clients

and it’s not performing, this episode is totally up to your alley and a MUST Listen!

(Believe me when I say once you listen you’ll thank me later… it will blow your mind)

In this episode, I’ll be sharing with you how to create ‘copy’ that gets ’read and converts
You’re gonna droll over this!

These are 5 hacks that are going to be HUMONGOUS in helping you convert like a queen in your industry.

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Instagram…The Social Club with Brooke Vulinovich

Her online Social Coaching community is in 32 countries around the world and is awarded in the top 50 small business leaders in Australia, but Brookes journey never started out to be a social media specialist.

She shares exactly how it all unfolded and the ah-ha! moment when she realised she’s seen as the go-to girl.

In today’s episode, Brooke shares the most important things you need to do on Instagram….even if you are already savvy on the platform, she’ll help give you a big nudge PLUS also stripping it back to some fundamentals basics that most business miss and why you aren’t converting on this platform right now.

 

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Free Ebook

 

About Brooke

Brooke Vulinovich is an Instagram specialist, international keynote speaker, creator of the global Social Club Membership and Academy and a regular guest on Channel 9 News Perth.

With a background in sales and marketing, Brooke’s love of customer service and her enthusiastic personality allowed her to quickly skyrocket through the digital marketing world to become one of Australia’s most influential Instagram speakers and trainers working with brands like American Express, Dermalogica, Mazda and City of Perth.

Brooke specialises in educating businesses on exactly how to leverage the power of Social Media to increase their brand awareness and boost their bottom line.

Her online coaching community – the Social Club Membership – has empowered thousands of businesses in 32 countries with the knowledge, confidence and tools to get real results and sell using Instagram.

Brooke’s journey from employment to business owner was not a clear path, and she has pivoted to exactly what her audience and clients want to build her Social Club community and highly successful business. Like any business owner, there have been ups, downs and plenty of in-between moments. But Brooke has been a leader in business with integrity and innovation being values that have led to fast and furious success.

Brooke’s media profile is also rapidly rising with a long list of well-known media outlets on her “featured in” list, as well as a long list of podcast appearances.

In 2019 Brooke was awarded in the Top 50 Small Business Leaders in Australia, featured on the cover of Inside Small Business Magazine Spring 2019 edition and referred to as the “Queen of Media” by the West Australian newspaper.

In 2020 Brooke was chosen for the cover of The Business Collection launch edition and named as a “Face to Watch in 2020” by the West Australian Newspaper.

 

Your Body Is Your Business

Understanding that your body is a part of your business…though most only take it seriously when things go wrong.

We schedule in launches, appointments, meetings all these money-making tasks but most women don’t schedule their own self-care; it’s like a ‘non-essential’ but these are imperative not to just your to your health and happiness….but also how we can show up in a peak performance state for our business.

Today, we cover 5 areas of education for you to observe:

Sleep

Nutrition

Sex

Exercise

Sunlight

Lets get you thriving!

Annette

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Primal Alternative with Helen Marshall

Impostor syndrome. Ever had it?

Perhaps you’re suffering from it now?

Helen Marshall is no stranger to that feeling. However the past six years Helen has managed to push through that constant feeling to now has built an incredible business selling gluten-free foods.

Today we hear the story of how Helen Marshall, the founder of Primal Alternative has organically built a solid business model that others can learn great things from.

Helen’s mission is to empower people to be accountable to their purpose with a new business model of freedom – the Primalista Licence.

The model was born from a desire to share a successful grain-free food business model.  As a health coach, Helen saw first hand how people ‘fell off the wagon’ as they missed comfort food staples like bread, pizza, pastries and cookies.  So she created nourishing alternatives to the foods everyone loves and they literally sold like hotcakes.

Helen gets the struggles many faces finding a vocation that aligns with their values. She packaged everything she’d learnt about creating a food business from home whilst on a healing journey, raising a family and designing a lifestyle around the things she loves.

Enjoy xx

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Primalista Pizza crust
Breathing Room – Soul Sync
6 Phase Meditation

 

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Q&A Monday Ask Annette Anything...

Many coaches start their coaching business working all hours of the day to ensure they serve their clients at the highest level.

Desperately hoping clients don’t cancel, so they over-deliver, working themselves into the ground.

Years on you know you’re great at what you do, and realise that the ‘dollars for hours coaching model’ isn’t sustainable and it’s time to scale….

“BUT HOW?” you ask.

In this episode, I’ll walk you through 4 ways to scale your coaching business, to help you avoid burn out and more importantly stay in love doing what you do, still using your genius zone and making a very profitable business along the way.

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Q&A Monday Ask Annette Anything...

Today you’ll learn the 5min rule. The rule that you put in place when you don’t want to exercise or when you feel TOO busy but know you need to move your body.

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Rejuvenators- Australia's Largest Hotel In-Room Professional Massage Service

Now known as the go- to-Holistic Therapist trusted by Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, Shania Twain, Anthony Robbins, Bruce Springsteen.

Kym Power’s business  journey  started out 27yrs ago from a passion in something so simple…just wanting to serve her massage clients with the highest level of etiquette

When Kym started her little 1 woman massage service saw her booked out for 3-4 weeks in advance. Quickly the news traveled fast about Kym’s special healing abilities. For the next 4 years had Kym working around the clock; 24hrs a day

This demand left Kym no option but to scale her, 1 person, massage business to today what is the largest hotel massage serve in Australia.

Today’s story is about the journey of Rejuvenators and also takes a holistic twist…of course, it does!

I never shed so many tears as I have in an interview. She truly is one special women.

Blessed!

Annette

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Rejuvenators
Website: Kym’s Powers holistic coaching
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Enjoy
Annette xx

 

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