Episode #135
With Sarah McCalden.....Financial Wellbeing & Mindset Coach
* PLEASE NOTE - in this episode we discuss drug abuse and addiction and suicide * Sarah McCalden works with business owners and entrepreneurs to close the gap between knowing what could move their business forward and actually doing it. Her work sits at the intersection of business growth, human behaviour and personal development, exploring how identity, beliefs, confidence and financial behaviour influence the decisions we make, the actions we take and ultimately the businesses — and lives — we create. Sarah has commissioned academic research with Newcastle University into financial behaviour and wellbeing and has spent years developing her own tools and frameworks around behaviour, decision-making and meaningful change. She is the founder of Business Momentum Mastermind and the Financial Wellbeing Club, and writes about business, money, behaviour and human potential on her Substack, Far More Than Money. Sarah’s story is one of extraordinary change — and it has shaped a lifelong fascination with identity, human potential and just how much a person can transform what they believe is possible for themselves. Earlier in her life, Sarah experienced a life-threatening drug addiction. The person she was then and the life she was living bear very little resemblance to the life she has built since. She recovered, went on to become an ultramarathon runner, built businesses and developed a career centred around helping other people create change in their own lives and businesses. Those experiences left Sarah fascinated by some much bigger questions. Who do we believe we are? Where does that identity come from? How much does it determine the choices we make and the opportunities we believe are available to us? And if our identity can change, how much more of our potential might become possible? Those questions have become a thread running through her life and work. Sarah has spent years working at the intersection of personal development, money, financial behaviour and business growth, and commissioned academic research with Newcastle University into financial behaviour and wellbeing. Along the way, she has developed her own tools and frameworks exploring the relationship between identity, beliefs, behaviour, decisions, action and the results we create. Today, Sarah works primarily with business owners and entrepreneurs. She is fascinated by the fact that knowing what to do is rarely the whole answer. Someone can know they need to make the offer, raise the price, become more visible, have the conversation or pursue a bigger opportunity — and still not do it. Her work explores what is happening underneath those decisions and helps people close the gap between what they know they are capable of and the actions they are actually taking. At the heart of it all is the question Sarah’s own life has repeatedly brought her back to: how much of our potential remains unrealised simply because of who we currently believe ourselves to be? Find at more about Sarah and her work HERE . You have been listening to The Sisterhood....In Session Podcast - thank you so much for joining us! The Sisterhood Networking Group is an award winning franchise with branches in many locations across the UK. We are passionate about changing the face of in person networking, our goal being to make it as accessible and affordable for as many as possible. Nothing local for you to attend? Why not consider becoming a franchisee and host your own groups?! Just like our meetings, the opportunity is affordable and no experience is necessary. Plus you get to promote the day job at the same time. What’s not to love?!! Fancy adding some online networking into the mix?! You can join me Sarah Ridge for my FREE sessions twice a month. For more information on everything I’ve just mentioned just head to our website HERE . Thanks for listening!!
