Your Time To Grow

In this episode of Your Time To Grow, Charlie is joined by Jo Dorrington-Neville, creative entrepreneur, performer, and maker, for an inspiring conversation about creativity, magic, and how we can all reconnect with our personal spark.Jo shares how creativity isn’t just for artists; it’s in everyday choices, from doodling to fashion, and how embracing it can nurture mental health, identity, and joy. Together, Charlie and Jo explore:✨ How mental blocks and misconceptions often stop us from expressing ourselves creatively, and why small, low-pressure practices can reignite the spark.✨ The balance between extroverted creative expression (like performing or presenting) and quiet, introspective creativity (like drawing or journaling).✨ How engaging creatively can become a daily practice that supports self-connection, presence, and wellbeing.✨ Ways to rediscover magic in life through experimentation, play, and curiosity, without pressure or expectation.✨ How community and shared creative experiences can enhance joy while maintaining personal boundaries and energy.Jo also shares practical tips for anyone looking to bring more creativity into their life, highlighting that magic and creative expression are accessible to all, and that even small acts can inspire growth and a sense of wonder.If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your creative side or wanted to bring more play, joy, and personal magic into your everyday life, this episode is full of encouragement, insight, and practical ways to get started.Find Jo on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook as Silver Rock Designs

In this tender and deeply real conversation, Charlie sits down with her oldest friend, Magdalene, a woman she’s known since age eleven, recently reunited through a quiet intuitive nudge. Together, they explore what it truly means to trust yourself, especially when life gets messy, loud, or uncertain.Magdalene shares how subtle inner whispers (not the big dramatic signs we’re taught to look for) shaped her biggest decisions, including the moment she reached out after years of no contact. Charlie reflects on how motherhood strengthened her trust in small, present-focused choices, and how that trust has become a compass in her life and work.They dive into:✨ Trust as a living practice rather than a destination✨ How motherhood reshapes confidence and resilience✨ Building boundaries without losing connection✨ Emotional awareness in the body, and why it matters✨ Science meeting intuition: the RAS, Havening, Tara Swart✨ Practical tools like body dowsing, coin flipping, and creating a community✨ Trusting others and trusting yourself — without abandoning who you are✨ Embracing chaos, interruptions, and real-life truth as part of the journeyThis episode is a gentle reminder that trust isn’t loud. It’s quiet, subtle, patient… and absolutely transformational. And sometimes, the universe brings the right people back into your life at exactly the right moment.A conversation full of synchronicity, softness, and soul.

Land of Plenty is a guided meditation designed to help you slow down, settle into your body, and reconnect with a place of inner abundance and ease.Through gentle imagery and spacious pauses, you’re invited to journey into your own Land of Plenty, a personal inner landscape where nothing needs to be earned, fixed, or proven.This place will be unique to you. It may be natural or built, familiar or unexpected. What matters is not what you see, but how you feel.There is no right way to experience this. You may see images, feel sensations, notice emotions, or simply rest.You’re invited to listen somewhere comfortable, ideally with headphones. After listening, you may wish to take a few moments to journal or reflect, allowing whatever surfaced to integrate naturally.Return whenever you need rest, clarity, or a reminder of what nourishes you.

In this episode, I sit down with Lois Bates-Stubbs, founder of Mavenly, a quiet powerhouse, and living proof that one small moment can change everything.Lois’s transformation began in 2022 on a trip to Disney World, during one of the hardest seasons of her life. A single 25-cent coin on the floor became the spark that shifted everything; a promise to herself that she would return one day, fully self-funded, with her children.From there, Lois went from a £7-an-hour job and a draining side business to building Mavenly: a thriving, multi-skilled virtual support agency serving women entrepreneurs across tech, marketing and strategic growth. Her journey is a testament to resilience, patience, authentic power and doing the inner work while building the external success.We talk about:✨ Turning rock-bottom moments into vision✨ Building a business from self-belief, not certainty✨ Authentic power vs. performative confidence✨ Community, female friendships and outgrowing old environments✨ Burnout, boundaries, and the reality of “levelling up”✨ Returning to core values when life feels heavy✨ The future she’s manifesting — including that return to Disney by 1 December 2025This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt behind, stuck, impatient or unsure… and needs the reminder that one tiny spark is enough to build a new life from.Find Lois here:LinkedIn: Lois Bates-StubbsInstagram: @mavenlyWebsite: mavenly.co.uk

In this episode of Your Time To Grow, Charlie is joined by Laura Wyatt, breathwork and health coach, and founder of Loving Living Well, for a grounded and eye-opening conversation about burnout; what it really looks like, why so many people miss the early signs, and how to rebuild resilience in a way that feels sustainable, nourishing, and actually doable.Laura describes burnout as a slow, creeping loss of balance, something that often goes unnoticed until life grinds to a halt. Together, Charlie and Laura explore:✨ The early warning signs we often dismiss: poor sleep, brain fog, emotional flatness, social withdrawal, over-cleaning as control, and sensitivity to stressors like caffeine.✨ Why burnout hides in plain sight and why it often takes someone else’s observation before we’re ready to acknowledge it.✨ Redefining resilience as recovery and nervous system regulation, not pushing through or wearing busyness as a badge of honour.✨ The holistic habits that support genuine energy renewal: nutrition, movement, connection, rest, hobbies, and the practices that keep us grounded.✨ How breathwork can transform wellbeing, from shifting the nervous system into safety to creating more presence, clarity, and calm.✨ The values shift that follows burnout, moving away from external achievement and towards quality of life, alignment, and internal steadiness.✨ The cultural conditioning we must unlearn: multitasking, self-sacrifice, over-functioning, “doing it all,” and ignoring our own needs.Laura also shares simple, accessible tools for listeners who may be quietly burning out right now, including her powerful reminder to just stop, rest without guilt, and let your nervous system breathe.If you’ve ever felt stretched thin, stuck in survival mode, or suspicious that the constant busyness you’re living isn’t sustainable, this episode will help you recognise what’s happening and take gentle, meaningful steps back towards balance.Find Laura at @LovingLivingWell and lovinglivingwell.co.uk.