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✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨
Join Mindset Coach & Long-Term Student of the Mind, Betty Cottam Bertels for meandering and juicy conversations with friends, spiritual teachers and colleagues...
As she gets to grips with what it might mean to be 'truly wealthy' in this modern, technocratic age, in which social and familial division, fear, & isolation run rife.
Expect thoughtful, provoking conversation around the topic of whole-hearted responsibility & service, healing, belonging, creativity, the mind, and all things personal growth...
...with plenty of joy & laughter, too.
✨ True Wealth with Betty ✨
How One Woman's Vision is Changing the Culture of a Nation - with Kate Valentine
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:
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