Today I’m delighted to welcome another guest to the show, Vicky Quinn Fraser. Vicky is the MicroBook Magician. She knows the ideas hiding in your head deserve their own space between their own covers on their very own bookshelf — and she understands how to drag, coax, and tweezer those ideas out and into the story only you could tell.

She’s the creator of MicroBook Magic, author of 4 books, ghostwriter of dozens, and shepherd to multiple dozens of other people’s beautiful books. When she’s not writing or coaching, she can be found dangling from a trapeze or peering at beetles in the undergrowth.

You can find her on LinkedIn at Vicky Quinn Fraser and sign up to her (highly recommended!) email list here: https://moxiebooks.co.uk/freebies/

Here are the highlights of this episode:

(2.46) The main blockers to writing a book

(4.45) I don’t know enough to write a book

(8.50) Who writes most of the books out there

(12.53) The importance of stories

(17.40) Going off at tangents

(27.05) Tips for writing a book

Sign Up for your free Resource Sheet HERE

Connect with Julia:

Website

LinkedIn

Instagram

We often find inspiration when we are away from our desks and this week’s episode is no exception. I’ve taken up a new hobby to help with my confidence and, in the words of Julie Andrews, “start at the very beginning, it’s a very good place to start”. And it was during a practice session that my teacher said something that stopped me in my tracks.

We all have belief patterns that keep us safe and tell us we are only capable of so much. But this really isn’t true. Sometimes we need someone to hold up a mirror to what we can achieve. Join me as I explore what might be going on from a psychodynamic perspective, and Matteo and Stan might pop up to help us too.

Here are the highlights for this episode:

(1.06) Learning new things

(2.02) The step around

(5.40) Defence mechanisms coming out to play

(6.12) Validation and permission

Sign Up for your free Resource Sheet HERE

Connect with Julia:

Website

LinkedIn

Instagram

“Lovely weather we are having”. We love to point out to other people what we are all experiencing. It isn’t just the weather that we state the obvious about. Anything is up for grabs in our bid to communicate.

Why do we state the obvious? Are we even aware that we are doing this? In this episode I explore what might be happening for us when we communicate this way, using the metaphor of tennis commentary. There’s a few of the greats that we meet along the way.

Here are the highlights of this episode:

(0.30) The arrival of the tennis season

(1.53) Martina Navratilova

(3.38) Stating the obvious

(4.25) Anxiety

(6.20) Learning and constructive criticism

Sign Up for your free Resource Sheet HERE

Connect with Julia:

Website

LinkedIn

Instagram