From Binge Eating to Best Version Yet: A Raw Conversation About Real Success

The Kitchen Floor Breakdown That Built a Multi-Six Figure Business

Some of the most powerful transformations begin in our darkest moments.

Laura welcomes Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach, Soul Speaks Live speaker, and founder of the transformational "Best Version Yet" program that has helped over 500 women lose a combined 10,000+ pounds while building unshakeable confidence.

But Nikki's story begins far from this success...

From professional contemporary dance at one of the world's best schools to competing for Team GB in bodybuilding, Nikki lived the "high performance" dream. Top sales manager. External validation. All the accolades.

Yet she was secretly binge eating every single night until she felt sick.

In this heartfelt episode, we explore:

• The three-phase journey from external validation to sustainable success.
• How somatic trauma work unlocks what traditional coaching cannot.
• Why your relationship with food mirrors your relationship with money
• Building a thriving business that honors your nervous system.
• The courage to rebuild your entire life and business from the ground up.

Today, Nikki leads a team of expert coaches, holds multiple certifications including Somatic Trauma Informed Coach and Nutrition Psychology Coach, and has created her signature "Whole-Health Mastery" method that transforms how ambitious women approach health and success.

This conversation honors the journey from breakdown to breakthrough—and shows how your healing can become your greatest business asset. 💕

For the women listening who recognise themselves in this story: sustainable success is possible when you honor both your ambition and your wellbeing.

Nikki will be sharing her wisdom at Soul Speaks Live—two transformational days for women ready to build businesses that feel as good as they look. October 16-17, Crystal Palace.

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Transcript

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: [00:00:00] Welcome back to the podcast for soulful women in business, and this week I have the beautiful guest and absolute ex expert as every. Every time I have a guest onto the podcast, I don't allow just anybody onto the podcast. I have the beautiful guest and one of our speakers at the Soul Speaks live in October, Nikki Acho. As with every guest, I do my research, of course, if they're gonna be speaking at the event in person, my baby.

I do my research. So Nikki has been in the fitness sector for seven years and she started off in contemporary dance. [00:01:00] She has really overcome an alchemized and eating disorder, which we've. Many of my guests, they have a story that they've alchemized and turned their purpose into profit. And Nick is really a prime example of that, of really making your story into your reason.

And that's why we connect on that level so easily and deeply. She's created a multi-six figure business out of her passion and in her own words, she knows that her clients feel seen, to feel heard, and safe. Those are three of my top values if you've been listening to the pod for some time.

So welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me. I would love to start with you just talking about [00:02:00] what was it that attracted you to apply to Speak at So Speaks. 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: I'd seen last year all the wonderful moves you were making in the world and the industry, and so very close people to my own heart.

Were actually speaking there. One of my really close friends and ex dance friends, Cherise was speaking there last year and I know with Shere, she's got a very similar background to myself and it intrigued me because I saw her as part of what you were doing last year. I was like, I wanna follow along and see what this is all about.

So, because there was somebody I trust, know, love, I thought, okay, this is gonna be something. The values, around soul speech will be something that I know will sit with my own values. As I watched and learned more about what you were delivering, I was like, this is my people.

These are women that are. Working. They're business owners, they're entrepreneurs, they're female founders, but they wanna work in a [00:03:00] way that feels more aligned with looking after themselves and their health. Not just very masculine numbers, business only. I could see you were bringing them along with all of their own femininity powers like that.

That's what. Business looks and feels like to me. Even all the coloring, the branding, it's bright, it's fun, it's vibrant, and there was this element that was like, speak up, like your soul can speak to other people instead of trying to push yourself into a box that someone else has said. 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: Yeah. Absolutely.

My whole life people have tried to fit me into that box and I've been kicking and screaming like a baby in a fish chair almost when you're trying to get a baby into a push chair. I dunno if you've ever, ever, uh, experienced this or s seen it and they're, they're.

Back goes. Yeah. That's basically me. When I'm, people try to put me into that, into that box and for a long time because I am very in, I very heavily [00:04:00] into strategy and I have got a very masculine side to me. Yeah. I love the numbers. I love the funnels. I love the, I love the strategy piece. And I love money and I love making profit, and I don't feel that women, especially British women.

Yeah. Where almost it's like a taboo to be able to talk about the fact that, yeah, I like making money and I, and I, and I think that more women need to become financially educated and stop so. Shy about talking about that. So I do have that side to me. But I also have a silly, fun, playful, soft side to me.

And I've always said that I'm almost like a bridge for people that are heavily into spirituality and consciousness and. Expanding their mind and those women that are heavily strategy, strategy [00:05:00] based and that are there is, there is a part in the middle where you can, there is 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: somewhere it comes together.

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: Yeah, there is And and I believe I am that bridge that brings both sides. So we have different types of women in the audience and speakers. 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: Yeah. 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: And it's bringing us all together because ultimately we need. All of that to yeah, run a success, a successful business. But yeah, I've been on a really long journey around imposter syndrome and who's gonna take me seriously.

Yeah. And all of that stuff that, that came up for me, and it's when I actually started to take myself seriously and know that. You can have both is when obviously the idea came to me and obviously it's the second year in and we have already sold tickets, so we know that we got, and yeah, I'm really, I'm really excited and I'm really grateful to have you on board because I know that, I know that you are the real deal.

So I'd love to know more about your story, about where. You shifted [00:06:00] from being heavily in that masculine and Yeah. Chin and forcing and you know, even Yeah, yeah. Controlling your eating and everything around you really. Yeah. And body building, all of that stuff. Yeah. Where was that transition for you and how do you implement that into your business today?

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: It's interesting 'cause this has been a long, it's been a long journey. It wasn't necessarily one defining moment. There was lots of them, lots of moments on the kitchen floor, crying in different houses in different places and different points. Um, really similar I think to yourself. I have a, there are elements and parts of me as well that adore.

The stats, the numbers, the facts, the figures, like all the strategy or when it comes to health, which is essentially what I help women with when they're running their lives and businesses. There is an underpinning of foundation that does still need to be quantified. There needs to be specifics, and without that quantified objective data.

The same as what you've said, like there can't be one without the other. There can't be a black [00:07:00] without a white, and then living in that grace versus grit and somewhere in the middle where there's a gray space where the changes happen and they're sustainable for women. I lived a lot of my life in that grit side of things where everything was high performance, but.

I've really, it sounds strange. I've really reclaimed what high performance means. 'cause it felt very toxic to me for a long time because for me, from my own experience, I was a professionally trained contemporary dancer at one of the best dance schools in the world. And that's sounds even weird saying it out loud.

It took me a long time to own that and say I auditioned and entered one of the best dance schools in the world. It felt shameful to say that it was good. I'd gone from that environment straight into high performance bodybuilding, amateur bodybuilding at the highest level. I was competing for team GB abroad.

Everything about my success was external, so it was all about what I could do, what I could get, performative, everything. My work was all performative. Highest in sales. I, I was a sales manager for five [00:08:00] boutique personal training gyms. I was the top sales woman. I was sales manager. Everything was very external and all of my worth was tied up in what my body image looked like.

What I was winning with my body or performing and what contracts I was getting and or what money I was making in my work felt really good for a period of time. I quite liked it. It's a good five or six years. I was like, yes, great. What was going on under the surface for me was there was a ton of eating disorders that were going on and a ton of coping mechanisms to deal with that high pressure lifestyle.

I would get home in an evening. You know, I'd travel to work four o'clock in the morning, open the gym at 5:00 AM, leave at nine o'clock at night, come home at 10 o'clock. At the time I was competing, so I was training hard. I was on a really strict, rigid diet plan, but I'd get home at nine o'clock at night and literally 10 o'clock be in the cupboards, blacked out, bingey in every single night.

I'm talking whatever I could get my hands on in the cupboards. We're talking like. Biscoff [00:09:00] spread by the spoonful out of the jar, not even by the spoonful. At times it would be by my fingers, literally to the point I'd feel sick, and that was a nightly occurrence. There would be evenings I'd drive home and I'd order a Domino's, like none of it matched up with what was going on externally.

And there was this. This doesn't work. Like what I, I'm meant to be this professional, like intelligent woman. I've got this, you know, big job, but I've got these goals and I'm not behaving like the person I look like outside. I was a trained pt, I was a nutritionist. I'd moved into the sales of the gym and the management.

I had all the knowledge. It just didn't match up with how I was behaving. So there was one shift that happened there for me where I was like, something's not right. This, this doesn't match. And I started moving away from that type, kind of toxic, for me anyway, toxic bodybuilding world into understanding me and my health on a more holistic perspective.

But who, who was I without my body being the thing, like from being a performer and you know, being employed for what you could do and what your body looked like. It was the [00:10:00] same thing with bodybuilding. Strangers stood on stage, watched you and said whether you were good enough or not. Trying to move away from that in terms of health and how I act and how I trained was part of the way, but then I was still working in that high performance, high pressure environment and I just moved that obsession with validation to my work.

So again, continued striving and I don't, I don't have a problem with working hard or striving for something, but it was toxic. It was to get the validation of the owners of the company. I felt deeply fearful that if I wasn't the top performer, I would lose my job every time. So I kept going, kept going, and the patterns were still there.

The disordered eating was still there. The toxic overworking was still there. The conscious waking up every morning with anxiety was still there. So that was a moment when I was like, mm-hmm. I remember coming home to my house, which is now my, me and my [00:11:00] husband's home. It was my boyfriend's house at the time, and I sat on his kitchen floor and literally had a full-on breakdown.

I'm talking snot bubble crying, like a baby breakdown. I'm crying. 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: I, I, I'm laughing. Not because I think it's funny. I'm laughing because I've been there. You 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: get it. Right. You know those moments when you are literally, it is completely feral in the nicest way of, of the sense like, it's uncontrollable, your body has gone, I'm done, I'm done, done, done.

And that moment I walked in and handed my notice in, and it was when lockdown happened that same weekend. So there's me with this full-time job that I would've been fully furloughed from highest performance possible. And I went, I'm done. I had nothing to go do. That's when I started my business. I was like, right, people need help.

Women need help. Nutrition and and fitness support, the fitness industry is closed. Cool. So guess what? I just did channeled all that work into my business. I was like, right, this is great. Business was booming. I can't, you know, I would never say I'm ungrateful. Everything took off faster than I could have ever expected it [00:12:00] because of lockdown.

It put a rocket up, its backside 'cause the fitness industry was shut. But I was just overworking constantly again to get validation off money and clients and numbers again. So it's kind of happening in three phases. It went body. Yeah, this doesn't work. Disorder, eating patterns are still there. In my actual job, high performing corporate role, I.

And then I just replaced it, did it all again with my own business. And it was at that point I went, yeah, enough, enough's enough. I need I, I've got knowledge around business. I've got knowledge around nutrition. I've got knowledge around PT, training, health. I went away and retrained as well in somatic trauma informed therapy and narcissistic abuse.

I went on a real deep dive in a healing journey myself, and I stripped everything back and rebuilt my life and business from. The ground up again. 'cause I wanted it to look as good as it felt and feel as good as it looked. So it had to work both ways instead of it looking like this thing that was, again, very performative.

Aren't you doing amazing, Nikki? Isn't your business doing incredible? And I'm coming home every night, a shaking wreck, binge eating that wasn't supporting or serving anybody. I can't show up as the best version of me coaching or anything while that. Inner turmoil and fights [00:13:00] going on. So my whole business, my whole life, my whole mission now has been born about helping other high performing, ambitious women build their health in a way that supports what they want to do in every area, not just business, in their relationships, their life, everything.

And it, it kind of happened in three stages because I kind of didn't learn the lesson the first time. Does that make sense? 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: I've been there. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going through, I'm, I'm actually going through a cycle of this, another layer of this right now. Yeah. And I feel confident to talk about it. And normally I, I say to my, I say to my clients like, don't talk from the wound.

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: Yeah. But 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: really somatics, like, you've just, you've just hit the nail on the head. Yeah. Me that has had. So much. I mean, I've had so much trauma in my life. Sexual, yeah. I've had, uh, physical abuse. Yeah. Mental abuse and my, your body keeps the score. Yeah. My body, I've been really doing a lot of, of somatic work and so much is coming up right now, which obviously I won't go into, but.

It's so vi It's like that next piece, I think. Yeah. When you've done a, when you are, if you are listening to the podcast and you are thinking, you know, I've done, I've done the, I've done the mindset [00:14:00] work. I've, I've, I know that, that, you know, I've accepted that, you know, the past, but there's still this pattern of proving, hustling of the external validation.

Yeah. It's. It's, and, but it's actually affecting you as a person. I would highly, strongly suggest somatic work. Absolutely. Um, uh, can you explain to the listener what that means? Because Yeah, of course. Might 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: think what, because I was, I didn't have a clue, to be honest. Like I'm somebody who had been through multiple rounds of therapy and I was freely happy to admit that like I part, that's part of personal development for me.

Learn about yourself, like go learn about yourself, learn different ways to manage coping mechanisms. I've done a lot of talking therapy. So people listening might have heard of things like C-B-T-N-L-P, in which I'm also qualified. So I've done them, gone away and qualified in them and I was like, yeah, I'm still feeling, excuse my French, but shit.

I'm still finish it and these patterns are still popping up. I was still waking up in panic attacks every morning. I still had these coping mechanisms, like too much alcohol consumption, [00:15:00] binge spending, binge eating, and I'm like, this stuff does not match the person I am on the outside or cognitively, who I would say I am in my head.

And then I found a world of somatic trauma and somatic healing. Now, similar to yourself, I've been through lots of abuse in my life, and again, it's not a little violin for me, but I've been through my father's narcissistic, so I've been through a lot of physical and emotional abuse. I've seen my mom experience it as well, and I thought it was normal.

Most of us do like our reality, what we've been through. You don't really realize it until afterwards, but somatic basically means body. It means it's the memories and the physical emotions are stored in your body, not necessarily only in your mind. So then things like anxiety tend to be a coping mechanism to help, which sounds so strange.

It helps your nervous system protect you from something that feels worse than anxiety. Bear with me. Any listeners that are thinking what could be worse than anxiety? It's debilitating. We tend to have four inner childhood wounds, essentially. I'm not good enough, I'm not lovable, I'm not worthy, and I'm not important.[00:16:00] 

Those four things are the deepest, most painful things a human being can feel. And any kind of coping mechanisms like binge eating, like alcoholism, anything you think of, anything that's an unhelpful habit that is addictive. Those will likely be masking something that else will feel really painful. So for me, learning about how memories and trauma and emotions are stored in your body and in your facia and in your tissues, oh my God, it was like full circle moment for me.

I've been a professional dancer. My life was my body and my movement and feeling into my body and coming away from it. I came back again and went, I need to get back into understanding what the sensations in my body are telling me and not just not just dealing with all the strategy. You can have the best business strategy in the world.

I could have the best diet plan on the planet. I could have the best training plan, not worth the paper it's written on if I can't stick to it because my body is trying to protect me from [00:17:00] something and to stop me feeling something else. So I can have a wonderful business mentor stand and say to me, Nikki, you need to do this for your business to progress it.

And I'll self-sabotage and block it. Why am I doing that? 'cause it was something stopping me potentially visibility, scary, it's potentially a problem. So I was self sabotaging it. Same with the nutrition plan. Cognitively, I want to stick to this every single morning. And every single night was the same story.

You, uh, you can't outthink this stuff. The talking therapy is fantastic to process and understand yourself, but I know the only thing that ever resolved how I actually felt was somatic therapy. 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: Hmm, that makes sense. It makes complete sense. So, so what the, the journey that I take my clients on is really around understanding why.

Why the behaviors, well, why the self-sabotage, why the limiting beliefs are happening, and then unlocking those to work and get to the core Yeah. Of why they're happening and. That's with Part Works, which [00:18:00] is somatic. And then there's other strategies and things that we and, and methodologies that I use to then get them to be able to carry out the strategy that's in place.

Because if you have trauma in your past and trauma, I just really wanna like. Tap into the word trauma because I think that some people that are listening that think trauma is something that, obviously I've been through some serious trauma in my life, and that's not to be dismissed. And that's why I work with women that have been through similar things, whether that's parents that, again, like you've just mentioned.

Parents that are narcissistic and, and emotionally available. They are an avoidant attachment style. Yeah. Or they are a, they are a

insecure, um, insecure attachment style, anxious attachment style. I mean, and. That is gonna create you as a person. So between the age of zero to seven, whatever was going [00:19:00] on, uh, is gonna create what your lens of reality looks like. Yeah. And then from the ages of 14 to 21, that continues. So I work with people that have had trauma, but that doesn't always mean sexual or physical abuse.

That could be that your brother told you that you were fat. Yeah. Or that could mean, I've had a client that her cousin was a ski, like really popular skinny girl and whenever she saw her cousin, whenever they'd have photos taken together, her cousin would. Tease her and say that she was chubby. Yeah.

So that's had a knock on effect to the way that she showed up her Her own, yeah, her own in her business esteem. 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: Absolutely. 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: And have I, 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: like you say, I think it's important to highlight, often when I talk about trauma, people go, that's not me. I haven't had narcissistic abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse. It doesn't have to be the big things that people would classify as obvious causes of abuse.

There's so many things that can be traumatic, like you say, from. Parents that forget to pick you up [00:20:00] after school 'cause they're busy. It's not intentional. Mm-hmm. But it's how it's received by the young child and what they make it mean by themselves. I'm not good enough, it's my fault. Parents divorcing.

How many marriages in the UK at the moment, statistically ending divorce? A child, a young child perceives that to be their fault. Even if their parents have told 'em it's not. So again, it's not placing blame on any parent, it's not placing blame on anybody. It's realizing this is our work as individuals, as we get older to unpack the things that are holding us back and figure out at what point did I feel that that meant I wasn't good enough?

What happened for me? What happened inside me? 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: Interestingly, the way that you are with food can be very similar to the way that you are with money. Absolutely. So the pattern that shows up with food is when, when you are ultimately, when you are either overeating, undereating, you are saying to yourself that I am, there's a core belief underneath that that's saying, I'm not safe, I'm not worthy.

One of the four that you've mentioned, and that's gonna be showing up with [00:21:00] money as well. Mm. By coming to these types of events is understanding yourself at your core level. Yeah. Because when you can start to understand yourself at your core level, then that's when you can actually see it.

Yeah. And you can start to do something about it. And obviously myself and Nikki and all of the incredible speakers at the event are gonna be able to hold space for you and then by the time you leave, which is why it's two days, not one. Yeah. Like a lot of people say to me, why is it two days? I'm like, because that's what you need to leave with actual practical tools.

Yeah. And to have an actual shift within yourself. 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: Yeah. 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: To walk away different. 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: Yeah. Like I know now that. Had there had been, and there may have been, but had I been aware of business strategy and mentorship and support in the style that you coach, I'd have been, I wouldn't say in a diff very different place now 'cause I'm grateful for everything I've [00:22:00] learned.

But I know there would've been a lot less pain and agony starting my business, having someone understand me when, you know, I've had mentors in the past that have said to me, Nikki, just double all your prices overnight to your current clients. For me, I was, oh, absolutely not. Absolutely. No. My whole business is gonna burn down if I do that.

Can't possibly do it. And I've had people push and push and push and push until I left that mentorship. 'cause like you're not hearing me. You don't understand that. Yes, strategically it might be the best thing to do. 'cause I'm oversubscribed, but my system can't handle that much right now. Help me find a different way.

No, it's that or nothing like. This is what I needed. That's why I wanna get behind it. 'cause I feel like women need that help. They understand that they understand them and help them get to that root that can then allow them to make big moves if they need to. That don't mind them being visible and being seen that if they want to put their prices up, they don't feel scared to do so.

If they know it's that they need to back themselves and they're worth that. And the same with health, like if they wanna look after their own wellbeing [00:23:00] and health. That's the underpinning of everything and the nervous system and how you'd show up, think, eat, and act impacts everything you do every day.

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: Yeah. Yeah. And actually one of the podcast guests that was last week, so Carla and Aha, this is what we were talking about. So she's a channel, she, so it's gonna slot and you are both on day one, which is all about coming home to yourself. Yeah. What does that mean? Essentially it is you calling your soul and your, your actual blueprint back into your body so that you can build a strategy for your business that you can actually stick to.

You can actually do. Right. Because most of us are, what we're doing in business is exactly what you've just said. Yeah. Is. We're going to hire a business coach and they are teaching you a strategy that is right for them. Mm-hmm. Exactly. Has worked for them and they're not considering the aspects of you [00:24:00] and how you work your human design.

So many aspects of I 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: I see so much crossover with business and health and I don't, and I don't just mean health in a perspective of like a nutrition plan and go to the gym. I mean, whole health, hormones, wellbeing, whole lot. The same thing happens in that health or fitness industry. Even if you've got a fantastic nutritionist, if there's not, through a trauma informed lens and understanding the nervous system, you'll have a very wonderful diet plan that doesn't work for you.

Yeah. And then what happens every day when you can't stick to it and you keep proving to yourself your deepest fears and worries? What happens every day when you turn up and say to your coach, I'm gonna go gym five times this week, and it doesn't happen, and you keep proving that you're not enough. Not enough.

Not enough. It needs to work with the individual and so much crossover, business, mentorship, health coaching, that underpinning, and the thing that makes it different is when it's in literally individual 'cause it's from your own nervous system level 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: and your energy levels. [00:25:00] So the way that most of us have been taught to do business is for a man.

Yeah. So it's work nine till five. It's, it's. Which actually women, our energy levels fluctuate through the day, through the month, 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: through the week, through the month, not through the year. 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: Yeah. So it's like what you are teaching is the supplements and the fuel that you need to give your body to give you.

Optimal health for Exactly that. For a peak performance 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: that suits you. Yeah. And to understand yourself on that level as well. Right. So that you know as a woman, that if you are in that second half of your phase and cycle and you need to be doing more internal work and you need to be doing like stuff that's not so external, like public speaking, client facing stuff, you understand that about yourself without guilt and without shame, and you lean into it and you are.

Absolutely cool with it. Instead of thinking, well, I should be doing X, Y Zs because I have to. How do I feel myself? How do I sleep? How do I look after myself? How do I speak to [00:26:00] myself to make sure there's no judgment, shame, or guilt around that? 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: Hmm. Yeah, I think, I think it's such a, a beautiful thing that I can see that when I was banging on this drum five years ago and started to talk about how.

Spirituality and business like mind, body, spirit is what I've been banging the drum on for many years and people didn't really get it, but I really feel the world is shifting and I really, people don't look at me, so like, what are we talking about? 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: No, there's science behind it. Like I. Business world is catching up faster than the health world, which is really weird.

Really weird. So I see kind of like one foot in both areas. 'cause I'm a business owner and obviously I speak and I work with high performing, ambitious women that have got their own businesses. I see what's going on in that world and it's that you can see it all moving and coming together. And women, they want a different way of work and they don't wanna work like a man.

They don't wanna run a business like [00:27:00] a man. They wanna run a business like themselves. They, they wanna run a business that works for them. Really interest in the health industry. Not so much. There's a lot of talk around hormones and cycle syncing and menopause, which is wonderful. It's not really applying to everyday life.

Do you think that it's trending though? That's why it's, it can be, you know, and it becomes the anti like antithesis of everything there seems. It's really interesting. I see that there's like a bit of a, a. A bit of a rift between, there's a bunch of people speaking about hormones, menopause, the importance of that, but not linking how, how that affects how you show up, how you think, how you act, how you move, how you do business.

That that's the bit that's excited me for the last four or five years where I've gone. Yeah, but what it's gonna sound, no, it won't sound strange. I'm speaking to you. What I eat for breakfast impacts how I show up in my business. And if I'm feeling dysregulated and I'm struggling with disordered eating patterns, I can't show up the best way possible.

So how do I take care of myself, not just nutrition for menopause or hormones? No, no, no. I'm a high performing woman that wants to under understand myself from the inside out and know how that affects how I show up for my life, my family and my [00:28:00] business. That link isn't quite yet there yet. People tend to look at me a bit like.

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: Anybody that's listening to the fog right now, Nikki is looking at me in a very peculiar way, peculiar 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: side eye going on. I get a little bit like, Hey, are you sure Nikki, what's going on here? Yeah. But I think, you know, it was something I saw the other day. It really interesting when, um, holistic is woo woo until modern medicine stops working and then holistic's what comes in and saves the day every time.

Every, well, 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: what? What I just find interesting now. Well, why? I believe that the business world is starting to wake up to this faster. Yeah. Because I've been using the same style of coaching for six years. Yes. Six years now. So I've always led with psychology and neuroscience and. And seeing that each person as an individual in their business and a much softer approach to it.

And I see women that have been leading with strategy [00:29:00] now, starting to sway more that way. Yeah. And what I believe why people are waking up to this, because obviously AI is moving so fast, we can get all of the strategies, all of the. Tools at our fingertips, but as we've just going right back to the beginning, none of that means shit unless you are be able, you are able to perform at your optimal level and what all of your limiting beliefs and all of those core beliefs that are built as you are reaching a young woman or person is.

Going to be showing up in your business. So you might be showing up in your business every day as a 14-year-old. Absolutely. I was, I was a 7-year-old for a very long time. Just saying, just saying they're running the show. So, yeah. You know, for doing unconscious work and working on your health, your gut, your nutrition, your physical body, you are fueling more [00:30:00] energy to drive the mission.

Absolutely. So. I'd love to know what is your promise for people that are attending The Soul Speaks live in October? I think 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: the biggest thing for me is I want those women highly ambitious, beautiful, amazing business owners, founders to come away from there. Knowing that if they struggle to show up the way that their brain and head tells them that they need to every day to remove that shame judgment and guilt, and to understand the why behind it, if they can come away from that knowing that health is the thing that's gonna lead everything in their business.

It's the biggest next business strategy that they don't know that they're needed, but they will do by the end of the day. That how that underpinning, if they're there getting frustrated at themselves, that they wanna work on X, Y, Z in our business, or they wanna work on X, Y, Z with their health, and they're like, why can't I do it?

Even though every nine o'clock in the morning I sit down and write it down? I want him to leave there with knowing why that happened.

In the moment when it pops up. [00:31:00] So those moments that they're like, I feel totally overwhelmed and I'm not doing anything right now. I'm treading water and paddling, like I'm on screensaver mode. I wanna give them specific tools that they can take away from that day and go, right, I know how to flip out of that and, and go back online so that they can come back to themselves sooner.

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: Yeah. Yeah. Love that. So I'm really excited about meeting you in real life. Yeah. See it's only, I think it's 14 weeks now. It's 14. 

Nikki Antonaccio- Holistic Womens Health Coach: 14 weeks. It's not long, is it? 

Laura Beddoe-Collins - Ethical Sales & Public Speaking Mentor: Yeah, 14 weeks. And um, in the show notes, there will be a link to a ticket and. I believe that Nikki will be giving me some gift Yeah, for the show notes as well.

So if you've loved this talk, you wanna connect with myself, go and check out the show notes. Go and check out Nikki on all of her feeds, and if you wanna come and see us in real life, then we are going to be at Kingswood Castle, which is in South London. In Crystal Palace. Yeah, in on the 16th and the 17th of October.

[00:32:00] We've got women coming from Portugal. We've got women coming from Ireland. We've got women coming from IBI A, , this is a global event. Yeah. So. Get over your excuses. We've really planned this out so that it's one week before the kids go onto that October half term. So this is your excuse to leave the kids at home with your partner, find a sitter, get to this event, and you'll be able to mix with the UK's leading names.

Myself, Nikki, we have our headliner, Tanya Bardsley. It is actually going to be aired on ITV. So if you are looking to get that coverage, you wanna increase your visibility, rub shoulders, and have conversations with these high caliber women that you will not get online. Whenever I go to these types of events, the, the.

The best part [00:33:00] is not only all of the knowledge that you learn, which is the most current and up to date knowledge, but also it's those breaks where you see those women that you aspire to be like, or that you know that you would never normally be able to get a conversation with. And the types of conversations and the goal that you get from those conversations, it outweighs.

It's priceless. Yeah, you can't, you can't put a price tag on that. So I'm really excited to see you. I'm really excited to see everybody that is attending and until next week, see you later. 

Bye.