February 2024 - Live True

Happiness is: moving with ease

Do you dream of a career change, but tell yourself it’s too late and that you’ve missed the boat?

If so, meet Mike Mullins, who has spent over 30 years working in the education sector, most recently supporting parents and carers of children with special educational needs or disabilities around their legal entitlements.

In May 2023, Mike embarked on a career change to pursue what he is most passionate about, which means he’s now building his own business as a Mobility Coach.

If you’re not familiar with the ‘Mobility Coach’ term, Mike’s work is all about helping people optimise their body to meet its fullest potential. It’s all about aging healthily, promoting wellness, and changing people’s mindsets around physical limitations.

Come join us as we talk about Mike’s career change from education to self-employment in the wellbeing space, how he’s approaching his transition in practical terms, and some of the fascinating concepts that underpin his work!

In this episode we discuss

Mike’s challenge on facing the financial issue of leaving the security of a salary (and what happened to help shift the gears for him).
The work that Mike is doing today and what makes him happy.
The concepts of ‘natural movement’ and ‘dynamic aging’ and Mike’s ethos in how he works with his clients.
My own story of applying some of Mike’s teaching in my own life and my relationship with my body and how I move.

In this episode you will also get to hear Mike’s personal journey of career transition and how it was his wife and close family that really gave him the courage to want something different and go for it.

A bit more about Mike Mullins

Mike Mullins has 30+ years of experience in education, supporting parents and carers of children with special educational needs or disabilities, around their legal entitlements.

Today he runs his own business as a Mobility Coach working to support people to optimise their health and wellbeing, to reach their fullest potential.

Mike is passionate about promoting the value in aging healthily and encouraging people to change their mindset regarding physical limitations.

He is a qualified MovNat coach, a 5^th dan Aikido instructor and a keen advocate of breathwork and meditation. He lives in Liverpool with his family.

If you would like to know more about Mike or would like to connect with him, please email him on mikestreeoflife@gmail.com. Let him know that you heard about him on my show.

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Sometimes your body knows better

Have you come to believe in work and life you have to just battle through and compromise, which means you end up chasing goals and expectations that society, culture and others dictate for you, when it’s not what you truly need or want?

That was me.

In this podcast episode, I share my own story of how my body clearly signalled I was not living true to myself. Even to the point where my digestive system shut down completely.

I also share how I’ve learnt to listen to my body and what it says, and how this helps me make daily decisions about what food I eat, the work I do, the movement I fit into my day, and the people I spend my time with.

My body physically breaking down was the trigger that set me on the path to my own career and life change, and its messages are the reason my coaching business is called Live True!

The episode is only 17mins, so come join me 🙂

In this episode I talk about

How ill I really got, before I figured out that something needed to change
How a medical consultant’s weird diagnosis showed me that I was making myself ill, and that reconnecting with my body was the antidote
How today I use my body’s responses to things to know what decisions to make on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
How you can do the same with a super easy technique

My story is the reason why my business is called Live True. I help clients discover and make career and life choices that wholeheartedly align with who they are, what they really want and what they love the most. I support them in finding ways around the things that our minds tell us aren’t possible.

Quick ref to resources or links I mention

In this episode I talk about Martha Beck’s “Shackles on, Shackles off” approach to weighing up your body’s responses to things. Martha is the author of several memoirs and best-selling self-help books and she is also the coach I completed my coaching training with.

I thought I’d note the approach here in case you wanted to read it after listening:

The idea is to pay attention to whether your body’s physical response and reaction is shackles on or shackles off.

Shackles on means that you have a physical feeling of being contorted. It’s a feeling of being trapped, limited and uncomfortable. Some people experience a kind of heaviness within their physical body or a kind of recoiling. For me, it’s always in my chest area and it’s like I’m being squeezed and crushed.

Obviously, this is your body saying: NO.

Shackles off means that you feel physically light and open and free. It’s a feeling of an expansion or ease in your body. A lot of people report almost feeling joyful in their body and sometimes enlightened. Physically it feels like freedom.

This is a big thumbs-up and YES from your body.