S11: The power of vulnerability, with Anna Mathur, psychotherapist, speaker and author
Conversations of Inspiration
Holly Tucker MBE
5.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Anna is a strong believer that needing help and support isn’t failure; it’s a prerequisite of being human.
It’s easy to feel like a failure. It’s easy to feel guilty for not giving enough of yourself to your work, to your family, to your friends, and it's easy to feel alone with these thoughts. Anna has an amazing way of normalising these emotions, encouraging us to accept our humanness and giving us the gift of being able to find compassion for ourselves.
A total breath of fresh air, Anna has a really honest and open view of her own life which allows you to look at yours through a different lens, lower the bar for yourself and accept that you are enough.
If you are in need of a warm hug, grab yourself a cup of tea, curl up, and listen to this conversation. It has the power to change your life.
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| 0:00.0 | Wow, that was like a therapy session. I just spoke to Anna Mother, who is a psychotherapist, |
| 0:06.8 | speaker and author, and you are going to love this. Why? Well, we delved into nearly all, |
| 0:14.8 | maybe not all, but lots of areas that us women dread, go through, survive, such as imposter syndrome, |
| 0:24.9 | mother's guilt, depression, postnatal depression, not feeling worthy, beating ourselves up. I mean, |
| 0:32.8 | all of these sorts of things, and it was just a breath of fresh air. She tackles it in a way |
| 0:38.9 | that helps us understand why we feel what we feel, not afraid to go there, breaking down those |
| 0:47.8 | terrible monologues that go round and around in our heads. And it was just the perfect |
| 0:55.6 | pick-me-up. I so needed this, and I think when you've listened to it, you're going to say exactly |
| 1:01.6 | the same thing. Enjoy, take notes and enjoy. I'm Holly Tucker, and welcome to Conversations of |
| 1:16.4 | Inspiration. Back in 2006, I founded Not on the High Street from my kitchen table, and since then |
| 1:23.7 | I've gone on to launch Holly and Co. I'm the UK ambassador of Creative Small Businesses, |
| 1:29.4 | and I believe that having a business doing what you love is the key to a happy fulfilled life. |
| 1:35.4 | My dream is to help everybody start theirs. I'm here to offer advice, inspiration, wisdom and |
| 1:42.4 | encouragement. And in my view, the best way to do this is by sharing stories. So I've reached out to |
| 1:50.1 | my favourite small businesses, entrepreneurs, and those who simply inspire me and ask them to share |
| 1:56.8 | theirs. With thanks to Dell Technologies, who've helped bring this free podcast to life. |
| 2:02.9 | Here are my Conversations of Inspiration. |
| 2:06.3 | Hi Anna, I know we've spoken quite a few times now, but we've actually never had a proper one-to-one, |
| 2:13.6 | like our alone time, and I'm looking at your glorious face, and we're here sitting, having a good |
| 2:21.3 | chinwag before we started, but it's just so lovely, I can't wait for this. Oh Holly, thank you so |
| 2:27.1 | much. I feel massively honoured. Honoured to be in your presence, even if it's digital, but imagining |
| 2:32.8 | that we're sat together with a cup of tea. Well, we do. We have, we've been slurping away, |
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