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Find your voice - Episode 21 "From Surviving Rape to Finding Her Voice" - Hannah Power #21Tagline: "Embracing adversity is the biggest gift you can give yourself" - Hannah PowerHannah Power shares her story of being tragically raped having been abducted by 3 men whilst on holiday and discusses how the adversity and nightmare she suffered has now given her a new lease of life and purpose. She is now 100% committed to ensuring other rape survivors no longer become victims for the rest of their lives.Alongside this Hannah Power is also known for her branding expertise as she urges people to find faith and confidence in themselves to really bring out their unique gifts which they can offer to the world. With her assistance she helps people 'find their voice' and it was for this reason we had to get her on the show.Hannah's mindset is one that we can all take valuable lessons from without hopefully going through the same pain she has been through but it is now her light that shines so brightly we can all benefit from.I urge you all to follow her journey and support her on making a difference in the world.Thanks for listeningFree Audible book sign up:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?actionCode=AMN30DFT1Bk06604291990WX&tag=are86-21Best book on Mindset by Carol Dweck: Mindset https://amzn.to/2QajMvZSupport the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/findyourvoiceLinks to me:Website: https://www.arendeu.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aren.deu/Twitter: https://twitter.com/arendeuFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aren.singhLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aren-deu-65443a4b/Podcast: https://www.findyourvoicepodcast.com YouTube: http://tiny.cc/51lx6yLinks to guest:Website: https://hannahpower.co.ukFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamhannahpower/Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahIPowerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannahipower/Have an awesome day#JustDeuIt #FindYourVoice[Music]welcome to an episode of find your voicea movement led by yours trulyAren do a guy who has overcomecrippling anxiety adversity anddifficulty like so many of you in lifewhose main goal now is to help youcombat your excuses take control of yourlife write your own story and mostimportantly find your voice so nowwithout further ado I welcome the hostof the show himself mr. Aren do what'sgoing on people thank you for tuning into another episode of find your voice myname is Aren and as always I am thehost of the show so firstly I just wantto begin by saying this is a very verysensitive subject and if anyone findsspeaking about this difficult then I dohave to warn you prior to starting thisepisode now conscious of not making it adoom and gloom ii episode despite thehorrific events i've gone on we havetaken a little bit of a spin on it andrather than speak about the stuff thathannah has so bravely spoken about tothe papers already we look at more ofthe things that she's doing todaybecause Hannah's an incredible soulshe's somebody who's been through anunbelievable amount of adversity as youcan see from the title as you probablyknow from her story alreadyshe was horrific ly raped by anindividual when three men abducted herwhat she was travelling and I mean Isaid it before the show started I didn'thave the words or I wasn't confident inmyself of saying the right stuff duringthis interview I no actually mentionedthis to Hannah prior to the show startedbut we both have the same goal and bothour goals and both our visions anddreams is to help people out there findtheir voice so I also felt it would bean injustice if I never took on thisstory and shared it with the worldbecause Hannah for one is somebody whodoesn't want people who have gonethrough the same situation as her tosuffer for the rest of their lives andbe a victim foreverand again the premise of this show is tohelp people find their voice find theirway find whatever it is that sparks themin life and move forward irrespectiveand the cards that you're dealt with inlife so I think without further ado I'mgonna jump straight to this one I reallyreally enjoyed this conversation withHannah she's an incredible person she'snow doing amazing things working withentrepreneurs you probably noticed bythe name as wellher mom was on last week as well and sheagain is a fantastic individual I'dcertainly recommend if you haven'tchecked that episode out please do goback and check that one out as well andI think you'll realize then there'ssomething special about these powerladies so without further ado let's getstraight into this okay welcome to theshow and firstly I just want to saythank you to the guests for tuning intoday and more importantly our wonderfulguest Hannah Paula who has agreed tocome on and share her story slow Hannahhow are you doing today I'm great howare you I'm very well thank you I'mreally eager to sort of get this goingso for their purpose of their listenerswho are here today could you please justtell us a little bit about yourselfa little bit about your story and Isuppose what brings you to where you areright now sure so first of all thank youso much for having me it's a realpleasure to be here you're very welcomeso where to start so I am 26I graduated from University with a lawdegree in 2014 and started working in abig corporate consultancy calledAccenture and six months into working atAccenture I I went on holiday to visitsome friends in France who want a skiseason and while I was over there I wasraped by well three men picked me up inthe car and one of the men raped me andthey dropped me back off back in thetown after and the reason that thatstory is important to where I am now andthe reason that I start with it isbecause I had you know I've had a veryfortunate upbringing from a lovelyfamily and had a very sort oftraditional I guess middle-class journeythrough school to college through uniand then into a graduate job and I wassort of following a relatively similarpath to all of my you know all of myfriends and my colleagues and peers andstuff and then this huge spanner gotthrown in the workof my entire life being completelyturned upside down and and entering aworld which is completely new to me andwas which was completely new to me andcompletely awful and you know confusionand complete loneliness and it reallyyou know it would change the course ofmy life because obviously it wasn'tsomething which I was that I knew how todeal with and it and it pushed me off apath into you know a really big struggleand trying to understand really you knowthe world and why bad things happenbecause once you've seen the awful sideof the world it's so hard to you know tounsee it and I was happy in my job butit wasn't really doing it for me Iwasn't fulfilled and I was living inLondon and I was doing the wholecommuting thing and it just didn't youknow on the tube it just wasn't doing itfor me so around the time of sort ofstruggling with you know the healing andtrying to get through it all I was alsostruggling with you know alcohol and andstruggling with lack of fulfillment atwork I decided to you know quiteverything and move to Bali and I'm toBali at the beginning of last year 2018and I kind of went on this year of Iguess discovery in every single aspectof it of life of business of healing ofspirituality of everything to basicallyrecover from what happened to me and towork how you know what my purpose was inthis world and what impact and you knowwhat what my going to do with the restof my life and you know now I feelgrateful but what happened to me forgiving me that that sort of accelerantinto where I am and yeah it's been ahuge journey but now I'm focused onsupporting others who've been throughsomething similar and supporting peoplemore generally to find fulfillment intheir lives and not settle for less andsettle for a rubbish life but to goafter a life that they really love andare proud of and are excited about Ithink that's amazingI think just before we touch on thatlast bit there which is incredible andthat's kind of they I suppose the most Iknow about you so I've checked outwebsite and stuff and it's not justlimited to people who have suffered in asimilar situation to yourself you'vealmost found this purpose where you justwant to help as many people as possiblebut obviously just before I go into thatI don't want to kind of leave it as theelephant in the room and I spoke priorto us speaking about this that it is adifficult topic because I don't comefrom a counseling background nor do Iwant this episode to be some level ofcounseling but it I think anyonelistening to this it's going to fill himwith a mixed level of emotions I meanfor me myself it makes me sad I feelembarrassed on behalf of the malepopulation I think you know there's thislevel of anger how one human three humansorry could do that to another human Imean I just find how people can justjustify their actions by hurting otherpeople it really does touches a nerve tobe completely honest with you and that'sprobably why I was nervous before thisshow but I'm just I suppose I mean inthe very short amount of time that we'vehad this conversation obviously we spokepreviously I've learnt so much I supposeabout myself in terms of my own personaldevelopment and trying to change my ownperception because what you've just doneand how you've just explained yourjourney and how you sin this darknessand you've almost found it as you'reactually grateful for it now I thinkthat I think that's remarkable and Ithink in a very short amount of time asI said just knowing you I'm very veryproud of you for that I'm grateful thatI'm able to have met someone like thatbecause it teaches me so much and I'msure it's gonna teach our listeners aswell so much about once you sin thedarkest parts of the world you're almostnow they're trying to almost line upeverything around you and I think Ithink that's beautifuland I want to take it actually into thatbeautiful space if that's ok with yourather than dwell on that situationwhich has made you the person you aretoday so you're now in Bali which fromInstagram now are you back in UK ok soyou've kind of found yourself now you'vehad this year of discovery this healingthis purpose can we just touch on whatexactly you offer to easy clients yourclass amazing yeah yeah so and I I'vealways come from a sort of a digitaltechnology and marketing background andI've always been very I've always workedreally a lot in personal branding so youknow getting yourself known online in ayou know as a leader or as somebodywho's known for something I think it'scome from my parents have always workedin the internet and you know they wereone of the first people into this wholeworld and what I what I realized bymoving to Bali and sort of building thislife that I love was that the reason I'dbeen able to do all of these things wasbecause of the fact that I'd investedand grown my personal brand so when Imoved out to Baliit wasn't that difficult for me to getwork and my first you know my firstremote job and then for me to then starta business which was an agency and fillit with clients because I had investedthe time in creating content and beingknown online as being somebody who knowswhat they're talking about so by havingthis personal brand I thought I realizedthat oh my god this actually gives you ahuge amount of opportunity then afterthat side of things when I decided thisyear to to you know go public with mystory and try to create an impact andhelp other people again because of theparity of the internet and because Ibuilt this following and had a sort ofpersonality online I then was able tohave enormous impact on others so Idecided you know I I think that you knowbuilding a personal brand of being knownonline is an integral thing to do if youwant to you know live a life whichfulfills you and have a positive impacton the world so I you know this is whatI do to my clients now I help them toreally define their message and buildtheir their brand online I'd establishthem as leaders in their fields you knowand prepare them for having an impactyou know prepare them to have an impactso that's what I do and I think it'sdifficult working in personal brandingbecause there's a lot of in overlap withyou know there's sort of the negativeconnotations that come with being aninfluencer but what actor is not aboutyou know it's not about the influencerside of things of you know when peoplecome out of these reality TV shows oranything like that it's about somebodysaying look this is me this is what I'mreally good at this is I can you knowthis is what I love to do and this ishow Ican support other people through it andand helping those people to becomeleaders online because I think theopportunities that open up from opendoors from doing that are huge andliterally never-ending so that's why Ido what I do and I work with my clientson a one-to-one basis and at the momentI'm gonna start building a group programto support people on that journey that'sfantastic I'll have to get the detailsfor that and I'll put it in the shownotes afterwards for anyone who's thisnow who would love to reach out to youand I think just under personal brandingso it's something that I'm trying to I'mmore conscious of a suppose and I'mtrying to build my own and I'm sure manylisteners are as well but you also havean advantage of having the mostfantastic surname ever I think thatcertainly house but I'm I just wanted totouch on something there so try and wearthis the right way so obviously you havea personal brand now you're Hannah powerand you help people find their waybecome leaders online do you ever thinkor do you just try to think of the rightways are you against being known as thegirl who got raped or is that just partand parcel of that of the story andsomething that you're happy to beaccepted for however you have so muchmore to give to the world and I thinkthat I think the reason I'm public aboutbeing raped is because of the fact thatit's such a secret crime Thanks itcauses a lot more harm by keeping thingsa secret than it does by talking aboutthem that's true in every form of mentalillness or anything really that happenswe all know that secrets aren't really apositive so the reason that I am openabout what happened to me is because I'mnot ashamed of it it wasn't my doing ofquite who I am so it's a part of mystory and it's a part of me so that Idon't want to a keep it a secret becauseit is a part of me but secondly I wantto inspire others unfortunately withrape there are a lot of people that areraped in their lifetime and it and it'sit's huge it's like it's a secretepidemic that's going on I mean sinceI've shared my story the amount ofpeople that have reached out to me someof them that I actually even know quitewell we've been through somethingsimilar is actually unbelievable I meanI've got friends close friends male 4whose girlfriends have told me they'vebeen raped but they haven't even toldtheir boyfriend's yet because it's sucha misunderstood and confusing messed-upcrime that people don't know how to dealwith it so by me talking about and beingopen about it I just want to break thesecret if there's if the secret can gowe can talk about it we can deal with itwe don't have to be ashamed of whathappened to us when it's not somethingwe cause if I punched you in the facewould you think it was your fault no youwould but with Ray for some reasonbecause of the fact that we're not ableto cope with it and deal with it insociety we feel that it's on us so do Iwant to be known as the girl that wasraped no I would like to be known asmore than that but is it an importantpart of my story and am i proud to besomebody who has got through that andwants to inspire others absolutelybecause once you've got throughsomething like that there are very fewchallenges that the world can throw atyou that you aren't able to handle andfor me that's an incredible power andstrength in every challenge I take on inmy life whether it's a new business orwhatever it might be I am completely incomplete confidence that I can do itbecause I always can say to myself wellHannah you've done worse I love that Ijust think like you just said you shouldbe very very proud of that havingovercome that and I think should be evenmore proud that now you've your solepurpose in life is almost to help otherpeople and I think you'll do incrediblethings and I think sometimes a lot of usin life we kind of go through lifealmost not knowing what we actually puton this earth for and that's kind of howI've always seen myself so I was alwaysan academic at school and I was alwayskind of being pushed from Normal Schoolto do grammar schools to universitiesand any and I always felt like thisisn't me that there has to be somethingelse and we touched on it briefly beforethis episode how it took a massive 18months of adversity my life to reallycompletely change me and sometimes Ialways say I don't want any of mylisteners to go through any an OST forthat for their life to change butsometimes it's necessary it is I thinkthe people that have been through painif they can use if you can use itproperly and you can do the work I thinkit's it opensopens you up to to finding your meaningbut of course you wouldn't wish onanybody else but some of the happiestpeople I know have actually been throughthe worst absolutely and least happypeople I know who struggle with anxietyand day to day issues have actually hada real smooth ride and it can take a bigknock to to push you onto the right pathand that's why I feel so fortunate tohave had that happen to me at a youngenough age to be able to go to know thatevery day I wake up that you know I'm Imean I know exactly that I am where I'msupposed to be and have huge faith andexcitement for my future absolutely Ilove it I'm actually just really happythat you're in such a great place now aswell as I'm sure you and all your familyand friends are as well and and you hitthe nail on the head there I think whenpeople go through pain or adversity inlife they've almost reached a level ofdarkness where you can't see any lightespecially in that moment and I thinkwhen you kind of crawl out of that holehowever you want to imagine that thenany sort of light almost brings yougratitude and happinessyeah and fulfillment and I'm kind oflike that so the smallest things I willbe grateful for on a daily basis andhearing stories like like yourself andfrom whether guess it really does putthings into perspective of how fortunateyou all are and how limited our time isso it's amazing that there's people likeyou now who are just really trying tohelp other people find that papers aswell so I think that's fantasticand thank you again for sharing that sowhat I want to know now is could youtell us a little bit about your routinesyour lifestyle today in terms of how youmanage to maintain this almost solidmindset and how you manage to keeppersevering through life have you gotany daily habits rituals but meditationpractices and also really good questionactually because yeah I mean I first gotinto kind of healthy like I guess livingwhen I was 22 in terms of being you knowreally disciplined with my diet andexercise I am have got an ovarycondition which causes me to gain weightreally quickly so I have to be reallydiligent with my exercise and my siteyou know I put on weight quite quicklyand things like that so I've alwayssince being 22 I've always beenvery conscious of the fact that if I putbad things into my body then I feelrubbish so I know that if I eat like aload of chocolate or something it's notgoing to make me feel good and so fromit like a diet next size point of view Iguess I'm that sort of pot that's thesort of natural habit I already have andso I don't require the discipline ofthat anymore but I would say hey youknow to get to a habit stage you have tostart with discipline and I think someof the things which I sort of had to bedisciplined with in barley weredefinitely things around yoga andmeditation and almost just generallytaking time to breathe and just act so Iwould say that in terms of a dailypractice I I don't meditate every day Ireally want to get to a point that I dowhat I do do every day morning andevening is I like a little candle and Ido which is in front of a sort of it'snot a Buddha it's like a sort of a yogifigure thing and I do sort of givegratitude to the universe and and sayyou know I give you know I am on a pathand I and I trust you to lead me on itso I guess some people to call that aprayer I don't I don't mind I I justcall it sort of a moment of gratitude tothe universe and I do that every morningand evening so I say that's a dailyroutine I definitely plan to be muchmore disciplined with my yoga andmeditation every day the other thingwhich I would say that has had ahumongous impact in fact it's probablyone of the biggest decisions andlife-changing decisions I've made so faris um quitting drinking alcohol in Julylast year so I would say that without ashadow of a doubt that is one of thebiggest enablers of the reason that I amhappy positive achieving everything Iwant to be achieving supporting peoplewho I want to support and just generallymy sort of balanced mood I don't reallyget you know I don't get those lowanxious moments really anymore I don'tI had the alike was diagnosed with PTSDsoon after the rape and I would say thatthey're probably the biggest thing forme in terms ofwhen you've asked about sort of dailyhabits and sort of lifestyle stuff forme the biggest thing for me is is thenon the no alcoholthat's fantastic thank you for sharingthat so I think the moment of gratitudething that you do is is beautiful I Idon't do it twice I should probably doit twice I think I do always try andstay present so the yoga thing againthat's always a trait that or themeditation bit is always a trait ofsuccessful people so yeah it's reallyuseful the alcohol once it's aninteresting one because like yourself Iget almost after say for instance aheavy night of drinking going out on asocial the next day I have this reallyweird feeling of almost like anxiety orregret or just feeling absolutelydepressed I think you got from oneextreme of a high almost is such a lowand then I have these thoughts that forthe next 24 hours I'm really not thekind of person that I want to beperceived as so I'll call something I'mtrying to myself pasty knock in the headobviously another health benefits of itI'm not a drinker in terms of our drinkevery single week but I fully understandthat because I was going to ask you aquestion in relation to was the alcohollinked because you started drinking postrape or I would say that when I when Ifirst ever started drinking at parties Idon't know when you're what like 14 15 Iwas never particularly good at kind ofmanaging my alcohol in time so I waskind of a go hard or go home type crazyso I think a lot of people are I think Iwas a bit insecure when I was young andI think I used alcohol as a kind ofconfidence booster at parties and thingslike that when I after the after I wasraped I think I think the thing isbecause your mind my mind was just inthis whole crazy world it wasn't evenlike it was my mind anymore it was Ibecome somebody else and the alcoholbeing in that sort of drunk state almostgave me a connection to who I used to beI know it sounds really weird to say itlike that but it was almost a freedom Igot to leave the mind of this girl who'dbeen raped who was in pain whostruggling who was lost and move intobeing somebody else and I think it didgive me just like you said it gave mehigh highbecause it gave me a break and then itgave me very low loads but actuallythose low loads that went off and whenyou know you start to do the work so Iwould say actually although I would sayI was probably abusing alcohol Iactually wouldn't take it back againbecause I think it helped me to kind ofdeal with it the reason I ended upputting a hard stop to it was I ended uphaving an accident while I was in Baliand breaking my shoulder and I ended upin hospital for six days and I thenended up for another week after thatdealing with the sort of side effects ofbeing on a really strong like a morphinetype pill which they sort of give youwilly nilly when you're in a kind ofdeveloping country and I it took me awhile to return to being normal againbecause of the the accident the alcoholand then this drug and what's it calledoxycodone and after that I basicallythought you know what not only am ipotentially going to really harm myselfif I carry on drinking but actually if Ikeep losing these days our days of mylife I mean this was two weeks but ifyou're losing I was losing and maybe oneor two days of productivity a week to tobeing to being tired or being anxious orbeing hungover actually I'm not going tobe able to achieve everything that Iwant to and know I can in my life I'mactually not going to be able to do thatI don't have enough time to waste onthis poison there's no spare time and towaste the day being hungover in the dayafter that being anxious and the dayafter that getting back on track Ihaven't got the time in my life so Idecided that actually I loved myself andI was more excited for my life more thanI then I needed the alcohol so I made adecision that I was going to stop and Ilistened to an incredible book by a guycalled Alan Carr who's this this thisaddiction guru and it's a six and a halfhour audio book I did it in a day theday before my birthday and I woke up onmy birthday as a non-drinkerand I have never ever touched a dropdrop or wanted to since that'sincrediblecould you tell us the name of that bookyeah it's by I'm his name's Paul and thebooksthe easy way to stop drinking he's got aload of books he's got a smoking bookand a sugar book and a gambling book butthe drinking one for me was the one thatI was always really worried that I wouldfeel a sense of you know you know lossthat I was missing out on things and Iwould always sire it and what AlanCarr's book does is it sort of itremoves the desire so you no longer wantit it would be like me saying to youwhat you know 10 o'clock at night wouldyou like a really strong cup of coffeeyou know you just wouldn't want to sayno that's what I want right now andthat's you know I know that it wouldmake me not sleep and it's you knowwhatever to me it just immediatelyremoved the desire I mean I went frombeing a pretty big drinker to literallyeven the smell of like a beer made mefeel like a bit sick literally afterreading this book and for me I neverwanted I never preached to people youknow when they say say like a loteveryone drinks around me I'm not likenot like telling people not to drink butif people say to me Hannah what's youknow how can I achieve what I want to inmy life and start my own business orwhatever I say well the first thing youneed to do is is drink less because youknow knows that it doesn't do anythingpositive to their lifestyle and theirgoals absolutely Aarthi I think you'vehit the nail on the head there there wassomething you mentioned it turns upinsecurity and anxiety and that'sprobably one of the reasons I think Ifirst started drinking as well as ateenager I haven't been shy and anxiousit was kind of the only way to get onthe dancefloor the only way to feelconfident around other people soabsolutely and it's conditioned intowhat I mean if we just if we didn't haveApple and we were just forced to pushthrough those those embarrassing awkwardmoments when you're sort of you know youspotty or whatever because you're 1516and you kind of you know you're not yousort of fancy people and they don'tfancy and all that stuff that happens tous when we're young if we just had topush through it like we did when we werekids but what happens is you get told bysomebody usually older than you thatthere's this magic potion that takes itall away the rest of our lives weassociate whenever something goes wrongwith the magic potion when actually themagic potion tends to be causing a lotof the stuff that put us there in thefirst place so my dad got cancer lastyear and he stopped drinking as well andneither of us drink now and he would saythe same I meanit's just you know it's it's just he'syour and better because of it and yeah Imean again I you know I'd never preachedit but for me is definitely one of thebiggest things that I would post what Iwould ever attribute any success interms of you know financial or justgeneral in a call happiness is thatthat's a fair point I think just beforeI carry on and I'm sorry to hear aboutyour dad as well in relation to the caseI hope everything's fine yeah with himjust quickly then so not to make thisabout an alcohol podcast episode but umhave you managed to change your circleare you still able to associate yourselfhaving read this book in the same kindof circle that you were in previously doyou know what it's so funny because Ithought that everyone was going to bereally freaked out by it you know belike oh my god you're so boring orwhatever and I was so shocked by thereaction a most people are like oh mygod that's so cool I wish I could dothat be the other thing I realize isthat when I hang out with my friends andthings like that and family theyactually like seeing me because theyknow that they don't need to drink whenthey're with me so that means thatthey're not going to be hungover thenext day or they're gonna feel healthierso I think coming to see me is like orspending time with me it's like almost abreak from the pressures of drinkingwhen actually a lot of people don'tactually want to drink as much as theydo it's a lot of it's just because ofroutine and habit and the people thatthey're with so I mean I I have a lot oflike non-alcoholic alternatives so I'vegot non-alcoholic red wine and Proseccoand beers and gins and things like thatso if I hang out with a friend you knowoften I'll be with even a boy when he'seight having a beer when he's with mehe's very happy to have like anon-alcoholic Peroni and just tells mehow much you like I would say that about11 o'clock at night when people aregetting really drunk I tend to point tohead off just because I like to wake upearly and go to the gym or read orwhatever I'm quite an early riser so Idon't really see the point in stayingout late so I don't see out as late as Idid but and partly cuz also being arounddrunk people when they've been drinkingfor a few hours becomes a little bitring becausestart to repeat them separate you tellyou all their secrets they don't reallywant you to know when they're messy andso I mean my cycle is stayed completelythe same and I don't know maybe peopledo have a problem with it but I've neverI actually found it a lot easy I thoughtI was gonna have to really preparepeople for it it seems to me thateveryone's just fascinated by it andkind of wants to do it but it's justsort of like doesn't think that they canI think I've sort of become you knowamongst some of the people I know thiskind of weird enigma they're kind oflike well one minute Hannah was one ofus and then she moved to Bali and nowshe's doing all this and how she talksabout praying and she doesn't drinkalcohol and I think she's kind of Idon't know I think people just sort ofthink well I don't know she seems reallyhappy so maybe we should be doing allthat stuff yeah so no I haven't had tochange my circles to sum up that'sbrilliant so you've managed to keep yourcircle and still hang out and I agreecompletely as well with the whole 11o'clock thing I think we're both earlyrises and up and to find that this iswhy I think a lot of people strugglewith Mondays so you hear the whole worldmoaning that they're gonna go to work onMonday yes it's probably the factthey're in a job that they don't likebut I think the other thing is FridaySaturday Sunday their sleep patterns arecompletely yes and what's happening isthey're almost in a jet like kind ofphase so along with obviously limitedalcohol and health and stuff I alwayssay sleep should be like a massivemassive priority as well so I like I'mlike a baby like I have to sleep a hellof a lot I was reading my friend sharedan article the other day that apparentlythey're now proving that the kind ofhustle the kind of hustle mentality isbeing replaced by being like the mostsuccessful people actually rest a lotwhich made me really happy because Ilike I don't normally need eight hoursand then like a half an hour nap in theafternoon because I wake up so early Istart working about 7:00 in the morningor sometimes yeah about 7:00 so mybrains been pretty and my brain getsquite tired by about three o'clock inthe afternoon I have to have like alittle 20-minute catnap so it's coolthat sleeping in business it's thatcool to rest now rather than likehustling your way through to 11 o'clockat night every night so yeah it'sinterestingjust on that Hannah resolve there's abook called sleep smarter by SeanStephenson I'll send you a link to itafterwards it's inaudible and he'sactually done a lot of extensiveresearch into sleeping hence why I nowhave blackout blinds I'll make sure Itry and sleep at exactly the same time Iturned off my phonethey're 40 minutes before going into bedyeah have a look honestly it's it's afantastic but can you really does openyour eyes because there's links actuallybetween your productivity of being drunkand being sleep-deprived and it's almostthe same right yeah so in an officespace you probably see people who havenot drank the night before but not sleptpopu you're probably not as productiveso somebody who comes in absolutelyhungover so it being in barley becausebarley and the like the Sun comes up at5:00 and it goes down about half past6:00 so the whole day's almost startstwo hours before it does in the UK sonot barley like where I was living isquite buzzing at about 7:00 a.m. andthen by about like 9:30 10 o'clock likeit's pretty quiet apart from like theholidaymakers so I think I just reallygot into this way of living because wein barley everyone sort of living aroundthe Sun because people surf early in themornings it's better waves so yeah Imean I think it really works and itmeans yeah yeah it's really I mean it istotally crucial sleeping is crucial Ithink it's great I think you'veobviously not just developed your mindnow you start to look at even physicallyas well it's gonna obviously benefit youyeah I think we're getting awareness andself awareness is almost addictivethough isn't it like it certainly isyeah because I know that I can fixsomething if it and make I canconstantly improve myself like if Inotice something I'm like oh hey what'sthat right let's dig into that let's getthat worked out like what do I need todo there like I was actually looking atit earlier and I always find around the25th of the month is when I get quitelike I saw that's when I need really tohave more time off and then when I'm inthe kind of early stages of the monthlike the price to the seventh I'm intotal like knowledge mode I just want toconsume contentand then I think that I'm quite creativein the middle of the month so I'm alwaysjust getting more and more awarenessaround myself so that I can you know sothat I can do the B and flow as much aspossible so I guess it's just thatawareness yeah is addictive so I guesssleep is just falls under that bracketdoesn't it absolutely brilliant okay soanother question I wanted to ask you nowhopefully again this this gives thelisteners a lot of value because otherthan your routine and how your practicein your daily life now which is going toobviously give them great value goingback to the adversity and not to jumpinto it too much in relation to thathorrible event that happened to you inFrance what one lesson would you tellour audience I think for me it's theimportance of having faith in theuniverse I really I've never been areligious person and I've never eitheror I also you know I haven't cast myselfas a spiritual person but from readingeverything that I have read and watchingeverything I've watched from businessyou know business II really hardcorebusiness books by like people like GrantCardone to really kind of hippie woowoouniverse books by people like GabbyBernstein the biggest thing thatunderlies for me that's underlying thesethese books are people that aresuccessful and happy is that they justhave faith that everything will work outand it's happening the way that it'smeant to happen and that we're all on apar and as long as we you know we wefulfill the things that we should befulfilling that really you just havefaith in what's coming towards you youcan't you can't prepare for the thingsthat happen you can't prevent them fromhappening but as long as you always keepfaith that there is light at the end ofthe tunnel and that there is that thingshappen the way they're meant to happen Ithink you can get through pretty muchanything so I think yeah that would bemy my number one lesson and I would saya really big turning point for me itsounds a bit nuts actually but Ibasically towards the end of last yeargot reallyobsessed with watching films about WorldWar two I don't I don't know why I justthink I just that atrocity just I wasjust fascinated by I think and thestrength of everyone who came through itand I watched that filmThe Pianist have you seen it I've notseen that my life was totally changed bythat film and it's because there is thisman who loses his entire family his allhis friends everything he knows his homeand everything like thatand yet he is still fighting to survivethroughout that whole film okay Ihaven't given it away because thathappens right like really okay it'sstill fighting to survive because he hasfaith in whatever whatever theirwhatever it is that he is fighting forexists so we because survival is thestrongest human instinct and that isfaith that is that's what makes you forperhaps that want to survive in faiththat there is a reason to do it if youdidn't have the reason to do it youwouldn't do it so for me what got methrough is knowing that you know thatthere was there was gonna be positivesin the future I was gonna get throughthis so I'd seen people struggle throughawful things and come out the other sideso for me the biggest lesson would befinding faith if you have you got it youneed to find it whatever it might bewhether it's for me it's just theuniverse I think in the way Gabby burnshe talks about it in the way that she inher in her books and her teachings isjust about having faith in the universehaving faith is something bigger thanyourself and most people do have thatand it's just about then trusting thatthat I think is what gets most peoplethrough huge pain and challenge and forme that was the biggest thing for me isthat faith and I know that it will carryme through my entire life is havingfaith in that path and the world that'sbigger than me I love it I think that'sa that's a brilliant answer and it'sactually something that's brought back amemory to myself of actually my firstever episode so I did an episode with myvery very good friend Kevin Dillon hewas blind from a very young kid in oneof his eyes through meningitis and againhe's got brilliant attitude likeyourself he's up he's all about helpingpeople always a very positive person andhis mindset always gotfaith in things are always gonna bebetter and he he actually said a quoteand I mean uh this this episode was along time ago but I can actuallyremember it because he says believe inGod or believe in yourself or believe inthe universe but just believe insomething because if somebody doesn'tbelieve in anything they'll always belost it was really powerful and italways made sense to me because Isuppose I can't I'm kind of an atheistif I'm completely honest in terms of Idon't really necessarily believe areligion or anything like that but I dohave a kind of spiritualist side to mewhere I think there's obviouslysomething out there or at least that'swhat bigger than myself and you hit thenail on the head there he said somethingbigger they knew so almost giving faithand a bit of supposed control to thatthing knowing that maybe that's going toget us through it I think that believethat as humans because we're built tosurvive and we need something somereason are supposed to kind of keep usgoing well I you know I think at the endof last year I think I was having I meanI laugh about it because I was I wasliving with a big load of people at biand I was living with this one guycalled Joe who's from the UK and oh mygosh I think about him I think he mustthink I'm so nuts because I think I washaving existential crisis for the monththat he was living in the villa with meand he'd get back from like a day oflike I don't know a day of like surfingand co-working and he'll be like how wasyour day and I'd be like yeah it's goodso what do you think the meaning of lifeis because I was like really trying tounderstand I was like yeah so I'mwanting to understand why bad thingshappen I was like I've been through thisI would hear more stories it was almostlike I was taking on the whole world'spain like somebody would talk about likeplastic in the ocean and I was justcrying because I was like the world isso awful and then it just I just keptsort of delving into this and I waswatching all these films about theHolocaust and just I was just literallylike I was literally like hurting myselfwith pain because I was so wanting tounderstand why it exists and and thepoint of it and the point of life ifthere is all this pain why do we botherdoes it make sense me and then and thenthey had this lightbulb moment with thepianist film and then with reading a lotof what Gabby Bernstein talks about anda lot of the kind of yogi teachings andstaff from Eckhart Tolle stuffof this bigger thing and it's it's notsomething you need to put your miss andyou just have to know that it's thereand we do all know that it's therebecause whenever I ask someone you knowdo you believe that there's you know doyou believe in anything and most peoplesay I don't they say I'm not I'm notreligious but I do believe that there issomething bigger out there in theuniverse pretty much most people do saythat and I think that you know you don'thave to label it as anything you justhave to know that it's there and that itand it's taking care of you and once yourelease your your you'll panic and worryabout the future and where you need tobe and this and that and the past andeverything like that and you accept thatyour path is your path and you justfollow it my god it's so freeing I meanthat to me is total freedom I spent ayear trying to find freedom by being inBali you know what is freedom is it it'sabout being location free as if I'd beenfinancially free is about being timefree I think it's just about being freefrom the crap that's in your head andjust going well it's gonna work outeventually you know it always does andthat and that is what the journey is oflife and I think the second you canenjoy that and embrace it you're goingto enjoy your life and find that freedomthat's brilliant I think freeingyourself from the crap in your head iswhat I want to do to be honest and I'msure people listening to this canobviously relate to that because that iswhat it's all about and you said somestuff there that I was almost nodding inagreement because I'm like oh my godthat's me so the whole why do bad thingshappen and trying to understand whythey're happening it almost consumes youso we touched right before this I I'm anemotional person and I find myselfthat's why I don't even watch the newsor listen to stories because I'm likeI'll just be sitting there crying allday almost like using all my energy dueto myself for some reason it was it wasa while I was doing this myself forabout three monthsI literally just watched anything Icould that I knew was gonna make me cryand hate the world because I just neededto understand it otherwise I didn't seethe point I was like what is the pointthere has to be a point and then I lostthe penis and I was like well there isdefinitely a point because he survivedwhen he had basically in my opinionnothing to live for yet he stillsurvived which means that whatever kepthim alive exists because it literallydefies the point the reason it defieseverything in my opinion the reason hesurvived because it doesn't make anysense anyway it was basically I'mbasically talking about my existentialcrisis which I had at the end of lastyear and I read books I don't know ifyou've read a man's search for meaningby Viktor Frankl but all of these thingsI was just going all in and trying tojust get it I was like I'm a bit of afast person so I'm like look if I've gotto get through this I need to go all inand get it done fast so I think I justput myself an accelerated path o ofconsciousness and understanding and thencame out the other side with thiscompletely different mindset and I meanyeah life's you know never looked betterbecause I think and then you just havethat awareness where you feel yourselfslipping from it like last week when Iwas feeling you had these overwhelmmoments where I was thinking oh mygoodness you know there's a lot going onhere and I've you know I've taken a loton to just kind of catching and goingwell don't worry Hannah you know it'sgonna be fine you know you know justjust up you know do a bit more prayinglike a few extra candles whatever itneeds to be have that food and havingthat faith and then the second youreturn to that faith and and that andthat you know coming back to laughs youyou're fine so yeah I mean I think GabbyBernstein stuff is really fantasticI think she's she's she's well she'swell regarded but I think she should belike more more regarded like her stuffis so good I'm also fortunate to knowJay Shetty I don't know if you followhim but he's a friend of my dad and weused to work we work together for a bitat accenture and I'm fortunate to knowhim and obviously he's all about thisthis wisdom and so I think I'm luckyreally with the people that I follow andthat I have in my life my cousin hasbeen my complete spiritual guide overthe last five years who he's just he'sjust sent from wherever the greatnesslives that's the most incredible personin the world and then my direct familymy mom my brothers my dad and friends Ithink I'm just I'm just incredibleand that's what I focus on that's how Iyou know that's you know I don't thinklife's hard you know because I've beenthrough stuff I think life is incredibleabsolutely absolutelyyou got you got fantastic knitwear thereactually and obviously in your mum aswell she's she's an amazing lady I wasalso just thinking just there as wellwhen you're talking so I need toresearch Gabby Bernstein but EckhartTolle is another one who talks aboutthis the consciousness and stuff and Ikind of wish he had someone likeyourself to narrate his books becauseI'm listening to the audio books in afunny really difficult relaxing asleepabsolutely I'm driving and I'm like thisis just the hazard his voice is toorelaxing I literally you have to be onthe move on foot you have to like walkaround the garden or something becauseotherwise will not last because it'sjust do you know when Eckhart Tolle atcheck you watch him on YouTube he'sactually like he's actually pretty funnyand he's quite accessible if you watchedhim in like short sharp he does thesekind of question answer sessions andthings and you can kind of get hisknowledge in these sort of five-minutechunks which is obviously much moreaccessible you know his books prettypretty intense is pretty incredible butif you just want to grab bits of him orwould just have a question some doesn'tyou type in the question you've got he'sgot there's a video of somebody elseasking a similar question okay and he'spretty funny and light which reallysurprised me after listening to his bookso much at that I suppose he's probablymade that book maybe not for people whoare just driving and maybe as a sort ofhe's kind of encyclopedia of finding Ithink it's probably one that should beread rather than listen to you can behonest I've got it on my I need to getit you know I need to get it out and geta highlighter and all of that kind ofstuffdefinitely yeah I can imagine that I'msure he's full of like amazing gemsthat's brilliant okay so you're in thisplace now where I'm very happy thatyou're in such a great place then notjust spiritually if you want to call itthat and physically and just everythingin terms of your business business andmoving forwardyeah have you got any fears now I meanwhat kind of scares you in this currentmoment and okay that it's actually areally good question I'll tell you whatwhat scares me is the thought is afinding like a partnerlike her boyfriend or falling in loveokay that's interesting yeah which is avery operate dancer I didn't if youexpect me to go that honest but may aswell yeah please do can i elaborate yeahso I think I just not been I guess Iwouldn't say you know unlucky because Iyou know as I said I believe that ourpath is our path so I think you knowwhat's happened was meant to happen butI've not had great luck I guess if youdon't allow us to call it with withrelationships over the last few years Idon't think I'm very good at pickingpeople that are right for me I think Istruggle to be really open and I guessit comes a lot of insecurities from whenI was young now things are now my lifeis very different in terms of you know Idon't go out drinking so you're lesslikely to meet people I live in a youknow I live in a town where I love mytown that I live and I don't want tolive in London but that means that youknow I'm less likely to meet peopleyou know in my kind of age group I don'tI don't enjoy apps you know I'm not Idon't have I don't have any desire tospend more time using technology but Iwork or you know I work on technologyall day I don't want to sit in front ofthe TV and swipe on my phone and talk tosome random person and go whoo I don'teven know if they're interesting orfunny based on a photo and I need funnyso I guess I've also told three boysthat I love them and not had them say itback so all three of my relationshipshave been have been you know unrequitedlove and that's quite you know that'sfrom 16 to 26 so that's actually youknow that's tough so I guess what myfear would be in something I know I needto do the work on is around my relationyou know my relationships and myattitudes to - laughs I guess in termsof finding a partner to share my lifewith you know I want to have that youknow it's not that I you know it's notlike I'm not always because I love beingsingle I think a better when they'retogether I look at my mum and dad whohave the best relationship out of anyoneI know when they bring out the best ineach other and you know they get toenjoy their lives together and have areal partner so I guess that would beyou know if you want my honest answer tothat instead of a sort of aand answer then that would be somethingwhich I guess is a fear thank you forsharing that it's actually a reallyinteresting answer and probably one Iwill didn't guess if I had 100 guessesI'm sure obviously as you know as wellit will happen when it's meant to happenthe reason I find it so interesting ishaving had such a horrible experiencewhere you've almost got this incredibleresilience where I suppose nothing'sreally going to necessarily scare youanymore because you've already been hurtyou've already been to the bottom you'vealready been in a dark place to have inthat level of insecurity with thatparticular subject I just find thatinteresting it again I think if you lookat the world I mean love in terms of youknow love for another person a partneris a you know pretty big thing I meanyou know every song every film you knowmost of it pretty much most of lifecomes down to you know love of anotherperson and you know that's why you knowthat's why we're on our planet find apartner and procreate I mean that's howthat's how the evolution survives soalthough it sounds you know minor incomparison to you know huge adversityand stuff I think it's probably at thesame time one of life's biggest missionsand at the same time can be challengesto get it right I mean you got to getI'm not one who's gonna set you know I'mnot a settler so I've got to get itright it's got to be and especially youknow my parents have an incrediblerelationship so my you know my bar isset really high I you know I want realproper love that makes that makes usboth better that you know that we wehave the same hopes and dreams and Ithink you know I'm an extremelyambitious person I'm you know I'm veryself-aware I know what I'm about and Ithink potentially it's hard to findother people at that same level I don'tknow I don't know what the offer is Imean it's probably down to the fact thatI may be not not open to it and it'swork that I I've got it on my my mentalnote of work to do on myself is to is todelve into it and and make sure that youknow I'm not you know I'm not limitingmyself in any way yeah absolutely Ithink at least you're recognizing thatthere is potentially some work there tothat's really important but yeah I meanyour level of self-awareness isdefinitely not something that I supposeis common amongst common people should Isay but life is definitely better yearsin terms of if you can find the rightperson and obviously you'll never sellbut please do not settle and howeverlong that takes you can almost haveeverything and more Panna we're actuallygonna go to the fun part of the show nowso this is normally where quite fun justso you know sorry I have actually foundmost a bit quite honorable thank youthank youyou're a great you're a greatinterviewer great question so thank youthank you you really shouldn't worry Imean you're definitely skilled I meanI'm sure you're going to be verysuccessful with this podcast because Ilove your very you've got the rightlevel of empathy and you're really itsounds to me like you're you're reallylistening which actually sounds reallyobvious but it's actually a reallyimportant skill that very few peoplehave so yeah I think you should bereally you know pleased to do withyourself I'll bless you thank you somuchyou caught me off guard there a littlebit nice fine it's fineokay so quickfire round this isbasically 60 seconds where I'm gonna askyou the most random questions so why ifit comes to your mind there's no rightor wrong and said it's just a little bitof fun for the audience to get to know alittle bit more about you are you readyyeah okay fantastic we're gonna start inthree two onewhat did you eat for breakfast I don'teat breakfast I'm on intermittentfasting like eight no problem if youcould really relive one day again whichday would it be any day today I mean Ilove every day I love that the abilityto fly or be invisible fly who do youadmire most in the world my mum whenyour fame okay your favorite food youknow your proudest moment quittingalcohol would you rather speak orlanguages or be able to speak to animalsanimals 100 percent if you could abolishone thing in the world what would it beright what song best describes your lifelife by Desiree I love that song so goodit's brilliant if you had an extra houra day what would you spend it on justasking my parents questions Netflix orYouTubeyour favorite TV show ever friends wouldyou rather know how you would die orwhen you were dying how if you could sitwith one person in the world for an hourwho would it beGary Vaynerchuk I love Gary Vee yeahyour favorite place in the worldFarnum Ansari read minds or predict thefuture read minds and the last questionyour favorite superhero I love GrootGroot yeah from guardians of the galaxyyeah he's a superhero is new yeah Isuppose we can give you that one I lovehe's brilliant he's got like the mosteasiest lines ever to remember in a filmI think you can communicate with threewords only in your life in the world sothat would make which is basically myjob and everything I love so yeah yeahabsolutely yeah brilliant okay fantasticso we have just two more questions leftfor you Hannah and the next one's aboutreflection so knowing exactly what youknow now with all your knowledge and alleverything that you've been through inlife I want you to take yourself backand I want you to take yourself back toa young Hannah maybe where you struggledwith it first to you or something didn'tquite go your way in life so knowing allthis information now and going back tothis young Hannahwhat would you whisper in her ears suchinteresting question because two weeksago I did a hole in a child session withmy cousin and I actually did exactlythis so I went back to ten year oldHannah which I think was a Hannah whowas really starting to know who she wasin the world but because it wasn't thesame as what everybody else was feltthat she had to keep it down and so um Iwas at I didn't it wasn't very cool tobe smart and I was pretty smart I that Ididn't care about things that otherpeople cared about so I felt like Ishould so what I would whisper to herwas just it's just to to back yourselfto know that you are a hundred percentright and feeling what you feel becausethat is what you feel which makes itrightand to to worry less to just be soexcited about the journey ahead and tofind a way no matter what it was to findin a love it took me until last year toreally love myself and I wish my 10 yearold self could could find that becauseshe was really great she just wasn't thesame as everybody elseand that made it hard so yeah loveyourself back yourself and be veryexcited for the future love yourselfback yourself and be very excited forthe future I think that's brilliant andI think even as kids probably maybebefore the age of 10 we are kind ofbuilt that way in terms of we're justvery confident and we kind of I supposethe love ourselves and get excited byeverything and then some way along lifewhen whether it's teachers or thecommunity around us we could be kind oftend to lose that element whether it'syou fail at something or you don'tnecessarily do something that's thenormal you don't fit into a certain holea suppose so it's interesting I meanhe's just an a quick example but I am Ihit puberty like earlier than a lot offriends so I sort of got that kind ofcurvier body and weighed more than myfriends and I didn't know I didn't thinkoh I'm fan at until I rap and he weighedmyself and I think I weighed like sevenstones and I think everyone weighed likemy friends weighed five and that's whenI thought oh I shouldn't weigh more thatmust be bad aka I must be fat so itwasn't I'd actually looked in the mirrorand gone oh I'm fatter than my friendsI'd let you put a metric and then Idecided to judge myself for the rest forthe next 15 years based on that randommetric from a pair of random scales I'dstood on in my mum's bathroom when I waslike having a bath or something yeah andthat's like a story which stayed with meand I know it was when I was 10 so I canremember the moment this eat with meuntil I mean I guess now I mean you knoweveryone's constantly struggling withbody you know body image and in thedistant age we live it in so and that'sjust some stupid story which I picked upwhen I was young there oh I'm heavier ohdear I should weigh less oh no thismeans I'm not as good I mean what's thatwhat is that rubbish story absolutelyand that rubbish story I'm sure everyhas their own version of that room storyas well it's weird isn't it because Isuppose we can look back at it now withour heightened level of thinking Isuppose and self-awareness but as achild you were almost taken on thisstory and making it almost a truth thatyou're gonna live with now for the next15 20 years not realizing the impactthat can potentially have so it'sshocking it's shocking the stuff thatyou can pick up when you're you're youngI mean when I have children I'm gonnaread like every parenting book and goingeverywhere I'm gonna travel the worldstudying parenting my parents weren'tamazing but I mean in terms of things Ipicked up in school and stuff so that Ican I don't know just so I canunderstand it more because I know I doreallyhow much would shaped when we're young Imean my fantastic I'm not at all sayingit was them but yeah I mean there'srandom things that you have no idea thatcan have an impact for the you know therest of your life no I I hundred percentagree again my parents absolutelyfantastic I wouldn't change him for theworld but I think this is maybe why weboth like garyvee because some of hisstuff that he talks about in terms ofwhen anybody talks about parenting andstuff and just the cold hard truth interms of you as a person just findingyour way and not worrying about theopinion even of your parents for exampleand he has quite a few lessons in theway he talks and I'm always nod to mywife I'm like this is fantasticI need to listen to Gary Vee like whenthe time comes for us to have a familyfor example and similar to yourselfagain and another common trait is Ialways think I just want to immersemyself into becoming this ultimate pairof where it's never gonna happen I meanwe all make mistakes but I just want tobe mindful of those simple words in thesimple sentences about my behavior canliterally change my my child's lifebecause I believe there's a level of myanxiety came when I was a child and notto make this episode about me but I knowkind of when it came and I really wentinto myself and I don't ever want mychildren to ever yeah I mean I think myparents were pretty super parents interms of like they they had they've gotmost of it down I think for me what itwas was was it would be knowing I thinkit's about when something happens it'sbecause a lot of the stuff happens atschool doesn't it when we're youngthat's where we we pick up a lot of ourstuff I think in terms of our baggagethat we take through our lives so Iguess for me it's understanding moreabout kids other kids rather thanknowing how to pair it and understandingif my kid comes in this mood well whatmight have happened on that day and Idon't know I don't really know it Idon't know if there's really anything aparent can do to protect a kid fromthings they hear in school but thingslike body issues and I've always been akind of natural leader which is the waythat I would explain myself now as anatural leader but obviously like like alot of strong girls you know you're toldyou're bossy and too intense and stufffor a large proportion of your life nowI see it as you know I'm just a naturalleader which is super cool because I'vechanged the story in my head but for along time I felt bad for being foralways for being like look I knowinstead of you know letting everyone runaround in chaos for putting a bit oforder in there but now you know now Isee that as a positive but back then Ithought oh god I'm such a bossy whateveragain Britta Hansen I think people arelistening to this I just want to takeone of your sentences is you change thestory in your head and however we tellourselves this storywe can literally switch it and this iswhat I want this podcast to be about interms of just switching thecircumstances or the situations thatyou've been through in life to favor youbecause at the end of the day thesituation is the situation however howwe react to it that's gonna determinehow we live our life and I just thinkyou're a shining example of using youradversity and pain practice though Iwould say that because I know thatpeople people say that you know oh youknow it is up to you how you react butthat I used to annoy me when people saidthat to me because I was like oh shut uplike let me know it's just shut up ittakes a lot of practice and you justhave to basically for me what it was wasI heard that enough times that Ieventually started believing it so ifyou don't feel it now that you don'tfeel that you can choose to react tosituations in a positive way or howeveryou want to react to them if you don'tbelieve that's possible now just havethe faith that one day you will believeit's possible and you will naturally doitbecause when it's right it will happendo you know what I mean don't put thepressure on yourself because I think alot of people present themselves goingoh I should be seen us in a positive wayoh my god I'm rubbish at this oh my godI'm terrible at being positive why am Iso bad at everything and you get in aspiral because it doesn't come naturallywhereas have the faith that when it'sready when you're ready to react tosituations in a different way that'swhen it will that's when you will do yousee what I meanthat's a brilliant way of pointing meactually because I'm guilty of doingthat myself because we read so manybooks and always working on personaldevelopment if I don't do something howI know I shouldn't potentially do it Ibeat myself up about it and I think it'sagain going back to that faith elementthat one day it will click and I'll getthose moments you know we're imperfectthat's what makes us so amazing is we'repart that we'd be robots so nobody wantsrobot humans yet although they thinkwe're going to be able to marry them in2030 that might be my option perfect Ithink yeah I think it's just it'sknowing that you know you're never goingto react to every situation properlyyou're always going to sometimes not beyour best self that's what makes us ourbest selves is by accepting those thosetimes that we're not but when it comesto personal development and all of theseconstant improvements that we know wecan make on ourselves I think making theproblem is is that there's so muchknowledge and content and things onlinethat we can apply to ourselves it'sactually becomes overwhelming that youend up not doing anything because youdon't know where to startso I just think look when somebody givesme a piece of advice there I meansomething I know I should implement I gowell that looks nice when the time isright I'll do thatand then naturally because I've got thatfaith it does happen but I think what wedon't want to do is cause more overwhelmwe literally the amount of stuff that isthere in the world for us to look atevery day and the amount of choices wehave to make is just too much that Ithink just backup from the whole thingand go it will happen when it happens Iwill learn these lessons when I need tolearn them you know take it in it youknow and one day you know it goes intoyour memory naturally once it's goneinto your point once you've seen it orread it and then it wait for it to comeback up and and that's fine but don'tput yourself under pressure to startdoing these things straight away just goyou read somewhere that somebody did itand it worked for them do you know whatI mean absolutely I think that's afantastic message because overwhelmeddefinitely as you said it causes a kindof analysis paralysis and everyone Imean I am helping people in their 60s inbusinesses all the way downsupporting my 30 year old cousin withhis revision because I live with him atthe moment I'm helping with his revisionand honestly the main thing which iscoming out of everybody is overwhelmedwhether they're sixty or thirteen and wehave got to do something about the waythat we are living in this state ofoverwhelm because it's not it's not wecan always do more and be more we alwaysknow that we can but actually who we areright now is probably a Dan site of animprovement of where we are we were lastyear so why don't we why don't wecelebrate that while the rather thangoing oh god I need to be doing that andwhy am I not doing that and I need to dothis we need to break things down andhave the faith that the right you knowthe right thing happens when it happensand we can only do what we can do inthat present moment and as long as weare always honoring you know honouringourselves and making consciously gooddecisions well then what more could wepossibly do do you know what I mean it'sjust there's too much there's too muchpressure and and and overwhelm you knowit's like it's gone mad and I got a 13year old cousin I want to just you knowtake it all away from him and go lookit's all fine like with his revisionwe've broken it into these reallybite-sized chunks it's completelychanged his whole attitude to revisionbecause he's like suddenly gone fromoverwhelm to clarity and clarity is oneof the most important things we can getin our lives because clarity enables somuch so yeah all of the answer I'm moreimportantly good luck to your 13 yearold cousin as well for his exams yeah itwas like yeah I'm doing some revisiondays for some of his friends over thenext few weeks we're going I can't bearseeing them all stress so I said lookgive them to me for a day I'm gonna sortit out let's say well I'm sure he'll befine honey that suddenly actually bringsus to the last question and the lastquestion that I always like to ask myguess is basically if in 150 years timescience fails to save a sword and allthat existsis a book and this book is about yourlife and in it it's got all the weirdand wonderful things that you'veaccomplished all of the dreams andaspirations that you've you've done andachieved what would firstly the title ofthe book say and secondly what would theblurb at the backtell us about Hannah power oh mygoodness I wish I'd prepared ah thetitle of the book would be God that ishard it would be something likeenjoying enjoy the journey it would besomething about yeah something like thatand the back of the book it would say Iguess embracing adversity is the biggestgift that you can that you can giveyourself and finding your faith iscrucial to your success and findingconfidence in your inner self andeverything that makes you totally uniquethat these are all the things whichenable you to then enjoy your journeyyour short period of time on earth and Iwould like to be seen as somebody whohelped others to do that the question Ishould have really thought about thatbeforehand really good I love it I thinkthat's certainly a book that I'ddefinitely pick up and I think youcertainly will help so many people andjust on that could you please tell uswhere our listeners and audience can getthrough to you on your either InstagramFacebook or wherever you're availablesure so and yeah the easiest way isprobably to go to my website Hanna powerdot code at UK so you can yeah that'sthat's where you can contact me throughthere if you want to send me an emailit's Hanna Hanna power code at UK orInstagram is probably my favoriteplatform Hanna I power and if you'reinterested in joining I've got aFacebook group to support people whowant to you know build their brands havean impact create a life of fulfillmentthat's called powerful branding thatFacebook groups you can search for thatso I guess it all depends on what whatpeople you know what they want if theyjust want a bit of inspiration Instagramif they want some helpFacebook group but it's all kind ofculminates on my website Hannah power UKthat's fantastic thank you allshop with all of that into the shownotes so people can contact you I wantto take this moment once again to thankyou Hannah for your time and sharingyour story and I want to also thank allthe listeners at home thanks forlistening awesome that was fantasticthank you so much and remember thispodcast is absolutely free so all we askin return is for you to share this witha friend and drop us a 5-star reviewover on iTunes have an awesome day See acast.com/privacy for privacy and 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