Laurence McCahill, together with his long-term friend and business partner, Carlos Saba, runs The Happy Start Up School, whose annual Summercamp in Sussex, England, is the UK hippy business owners event of the year -- where festival fun meets inspiring talks, workshops and invaluable network connections with like-minded entrepreneurs & change-makers from around the world.

• Laurence tells the story of how The Happy Startup School came to be; from starting out with a design agency with co-founder Carlos; and feeling there was something missing somehow
• The evolution of Summercamp – from a one day event in Hyde Park and the evolution into a three day festival-style event
• Laurence on how growing up in pubs and in an Irish family gave him the vision for a more relaxed, authentic style of networking
• The power of letting go & saying “we need help”
• The Summercamp Church of Fail - Betty on deciding to share her “fail” – and how it turned out not to be a fail after all
• The increased need for authenticity in business in the modern times - bringing your whole person to your business
• Laurence; we are bringing wellbeing & business together
• Betty on how being at Summercamp felt like finally being at home
• Laurence’s favourite moment of Summercamp
• Laurence tells the story behind Alptitude, a week-long retreat for business owners
• Betty asks Laurence for tips on starting & running an event
• The importance of finding a good venue
• What to avoid when launching an event
• Being ok with saying “I don’t know what I’m doing”
• Laurence on his and Carlos’s group coaching program Vision 2020
• Covid and cancelling Summer camp
• What / who is the happy start up school for?
• Laurence on his new podcast ‘50 WTF?’
• Laurence on a near fatal accident while backpacking in New Zealand, and how that has impacted his life

The Happy Start Up School website: https://thehappystartupschool.com/
Alptitude, Summercamp & other events: https://thehappystartupschool.com/events/

Laurence on LI: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/laurencemccahill

From Betty: Being in business means being visible. Being ethical in business means being authentic in how we present ourselves.

The trouble is… Many of us carry wounds around being seen, accepted, and celebrated as the individual we are. Left untended, these wounds divide our will, i.e. we end up with conflicted desires:

Part of us wants to be visible to grow our businesses, but another part of us is absolutely dead set on staying well and truly within the shadows…

…whether that means literally hiding under the duvet (I've been there 🥸),

…or whether that means pretending to be someone we are not, so as not to stand out (I've also been there 🤫).

Not only is this BORING, but also… it doesn't WORK:

When we hide our personality, we hide the exact aspects that enable our perfect fit clients to find us, so we end up with people that aren't really a good match, or worse, no one at all.

It's time to drop the shoulds and start being UNAPOLOGETIC in your business.

Save your seat at Betty's free 2 hour authentic visibility masterclass now.

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Kate Valentine is the founder of the highly acclaimed non-profit Singing Mamas. She knows the transformative, healing power of singing together.

After tragic events and living through heart-breaking adversity, she had a vision, and she WENT FOR IT. (And the culture of our country is changing as a result of that. IF SHE CAN DO THIS SO CAN YOU - trust your vision!)

Her story is one of utter alchemy, and I adored every second of it. I hope you will too.

• How a teacher's harsh words put Kate off singing as a child
• How Kate losing her brother as a child led her to become an intensive care nurse
• Realising during the pandemic that she was going close to others’ trauma because she hadn’t resolved her own
• The idea “You’re either a singer or you’re not” and the damage that does
• How the burning of the witches has given women a fear of using our voices & shining
• How Kate’s friend ‘set her up’ and Singing Mamas was born
• Being a single mum to three sons, on benefits, working agency night shifts
• The mental health crisis new mothers face
• The moment in the ICU when Kate decided to make Singing Mamas a reality
• Betty reflects on the need to knit communities back together
• Kate tells stories of some of the mothers’ experiences
• Overcoming competition; and the power of women coming together
• Kate sings Cry Heart, But Do Not Break
• How Kate encourages the singing mamas leaders to collaborate instead of compete
• Where Singing Mamas is at now; being prescribed by the NHS
• The research behind Singing Mamas that is raising the credibility even more & helping get funding
• Kate on piloting a neonatal intensive care outreach program
• Being a singer, without needing to be a ‘performance singer’
• Performance & the false dichotomy between being an artist or being a consumer of art
• Kate on reclaiming the identity of ‘singer’
• Betty asks Kate about the science behind singing together as a means of lifting mood and decreasing stress & anxiety – as well as enhancing the connection between mother & baby
• Kate on the magical explanation of what she thinks is happening when we sing together
• Where to find your local singing mamas group, or if you don’t have one, how you can set one up
• Betty thanks Kate for her contribution in the world

From Betty:

Calling all ethically-driven entrepreneurs & change-makers! Do you know WHAT to do to grow your business... but feel 'blocked' when it comes to actually doing it?

If so... you don't need yet another business or marketing course.

What you need is... to figure out what is blocking you at a subconscious level...

And rewire it - to get your subconscious mind working for you instead of against you.

Book your gift session here:

https://calendly.com/betty-cottam/dreamhatcher

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Louisa Shorney is an artist, writer & healer. She is a student in the Aro gTer Buddhist lineage, and she also sings with Betty in the Savage Cabbage Blues Band. In the first half of 2024 she was a participant in Betty’s signature group program Ignite Your Power.

In this conversation:

• Louisa speaks about her energy & spirit work, animism, and the objects in her room
• Louisa on her intuitive childhood experiences
• The power of story & Louisa’s fiction book The Sacred Forest
• Psychic / intuitive powers in the family
• Witchcraft & magic and how it’s not been safe to speak of these things
• Betty on witchcraft in Wales
• Louisa on resonance & how she can physically experience what another person is experiencing
• How Louisa navigates her healing sessions; getting the person to discover the issue for themselves
• Soul retrieval, parts work & other healing modalities
• What we work on is not the thread they’ve picked, but the whole knot
• The Medicine wheel and how it can be applied to areas of our lives
• The Great Smoking Mirror of our delusions & illusions
• What is a shamanic healer? Where the term comes from, and what is meant by it
• Charlatans in the healing, coaching & therapeutic world; the dangers & how to spot one
• Using your intuition, and watching for knee-jerk responses
• Louisa’s experience of Ignite Your Power
• The phrase that 3-yr old Louisa heard from adults that impacted her lifelong financial wellbeing
• Betty & Louisa discuss the power of hypnotic recordings
• The joy of finding people who can support you & circles
• How you can work with Louisa online & in person
• The crafts that Louisa practices

You can find out more about Louisa & her work at https://louisa-shorney.com/

From Betty:

Calling all ethically-driven entrepreneurs & change-makers! Do you know WHAT to do to grow your business... but feel 'blocked' when it comes to actually doing it?

If so... you don't need yet another business or marketing course.

What you need is... to figure out what is blocking you at a subconscious level...

And rewire it - to get your subconscious mind working for you instead of against you.

Book your gift session here:

https://calendly.com/betty-cottam/dreamhatcher

FB: Betty Cottam Bertels
IG: Betty_Cottam
www.truewealthwithbetty.com

Music by Ahmad Mousavipour from Pixabay