INSPIRATIONAL INTERVIEWS

Getting into the Mental and Emotion Fabric of Thomas Wilken, a Young Zambian Man who has dedicated his life to Professional Hunting and Conservation. Hunting is a controversial subject, globally. It presents some major pro's and con's. Like many industries in life. The Fashion Industry to mention one. My role as the Founder of Inspirational Interviews, and the Host of the show, is to provide the platform for everyone to share their life story, from their own view point, and heart. My intention is to showcase why someone dedicates their life to a certain field, and to understand truthfully, why this thing that they do in life, is the very thing that gives my guest on the show, purpose and meaning in life. Why does it connect that person with their truth. Isn't that what we are all searching for, meaning, purpose and truth? Take a listen, Tom is a gentleman, and it was a pleasure to have him in the studio with me.

We learn about life through the voice of a South African healer and Sangoma. Fortunate Rakgomo shares how dark her life started out. She was seven years old when she was raped. She had never shared this story with anybody until she was an adult. Along the journey this incident manifested and when she was a young lady she tried to commit suicide. All the stories on the show are inspirational and empowering. Take a moment to forget your own life and be inspired by Fortunates beautiful journey, where she demonstrates how she takes ownership for her life. Acknowledging all of her gifts as a healer, and demonstrating courage, inner power and gratitude for her beautiful life ahead. Find me always on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/inspirational.interviews/ Find Fortunate here: Sangoma, Meta-Physical Healer/Medical Intuitive/Soul Retrieval Practitioner/Intuitive Counsellor/Holistic Massage Therapist Email: rakgomof1@gmail.com

With the current war in the Ukraine, I felt so strongly that I needed to reach out to someone from the Ukraine and have them on the show. It was just too dominant in my heart to keep sharing life stories and not hear a story from the Ukraine. Join me in listening to Olga Williams life story. Olga is from the Ukraine, moved to London and met her, now South African husband. They Moved to South Africa and started to raise a family here. Her whole family lives in the Ukraine. Find me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/inspirational.interviews/

A spark of authenticity and light. For me this was just a wonderful, and most interesting conversation. Speaking with Creative souls is always a music to my ears. When someone commits their life to a creative process, and they are truly immersed, mind, body and soul into what they do, this for me, is the sweet spot of all life stories. Join me in meeting Alun Richards, a South African Internationally Recognised, Multiple Times Award Winning Film and Television Composer. https://www.cutandpaste-generation.com/ Find Alun Richards here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1844069/ Find me always on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/inspirational.interviews/ Thanks for Listening guys!!

Eve Solomons, the winner of Mrs Johannesburg - South Africa, talks to us about her life story. Why would someone want to become a Mrs.... Pageant? What inspires a mother and wife to enter the Mrs Johannesburg and win! Eve Speaks with a smile on her face throughout the conversation. It was a delight to have her in the studio with me. Find Eve Solomons here https://www.instagram.com/eve_solomons/ Always find me on my fav social platform Instagram: Inspirational Interviews, its my way of connecting with you guys directly. Have a question , know someone deeply inspiring, feel free to message me directly here info@inspirationalinterviews.com

The most extraordinary conversation with a clairvoyant. Katherine Lee-Kruger shares her life story with me. When she discovered that she was a clairvoyant, and how she navigated this rare gift throughout her life. This is a profound conversation about love, loss, spirituality, just being normal!! Insecurities, suicide, trauma, and doing what you love in life. All Inspiring! Katherine also opens to her own vulnerabilities, and the loss of her entire family all through multiple suicides and tragic events. There is just the most beautiful guidance offered in how to help someone in your life. Beauty presents itself in truth, and this conversation is all about Love Light and Truth! Don't expect life to be perfect, it's not. Katharine no longer offers one-one consultations, you can find Katharine here: www.katharinelee.co.za and people can go to www.thehealingcommunity.co.za Follow my instagram and talk to me through my posts ;) I read every comment https://www.instagram.com/inspirational.interviews/ Have something to ask, message me through my website: www.inspirationalinterviews.com

All Inspiring to hear how Greg Jacobsen turns his life around. He was addicted to Drugs and Alcohol and Lies. One day, his suicide attempt failed horribly, and there was no further down the rocks he could go, He was at the bottom. We hear how he had to face the truth, and from that point on, start to see and feel the magic of life. Now Greg heel others who need it. As I always say, I would far rather receive help from someone who has been there and got the T-shirt. Find Greg Here: https://www.facebook.com/ShamanGreg/ AND http://www.thehealingcommunity.co.za/ Talk to me always on INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/inspirational.interviews/ Say hi and follow my posts, I love hearing from all of you. Want to reach out personally: info@inspirationalinterviews.com

Nico Van Niekerk had a motorcycling accident. He woke up five weeks later from his coma, to find he only had one leg, and one arm. I was just so inspired by the ease at which Nico approached this traumatic incident. He just like you and me have dreams to make this life time count for something, find out in the two part series how Nico looks back on the past and how he is going to be brave now in this predicament with one arm and one leg and still make his dreams come true! Listen to part one in the previous episode.

Nico Van Niekerk had a motorcycling accident. He woke up five weeks later from his coma, to find he only had one arm, and one leg. I was just so inspired by the ease at which Nico approached this traumatic incident in his life, and still continues to do so. He, just like you and me, has dreams and ambitions to make this lifetime count for something. In this TWO PART EPISODE, Look back with us on Nico Van Niekerk's life before the accident. Discover the challenges he faces now living in a wheel chair and otherwise walking around with a prosthetic leg. Learn how actually, once you have lost your arm and leg that even four years later, you can feel your "missing foot" clenching, or your "missing arm" tingling. Discover now, how he is going to be brave enough to step out of his comfort zone of indoor and wheelchair life, with a prosthetic leg, and no arm, to take on the world, and make his dreams come true! This week part one, next week part two!

Changing career doesn't always have to be complicated! Chris transitioned into a completely new career from a logistics and technical environment to becoming a Bush Guide. Moving From a career in the City to a career in the Bush, otherwise known as Safari Life . Normally change can be so scary! Be inspired by a certain level of ease at how Chris approaches the change. Look Chris up here: https://www.chrisbatessafaris.com/ Follow me on my Instagram Page, let me know you have listened to this episode, I'd love to connect there as well ! https://www.instagram.com/inspirational.interviews/

How do we snap out of this victim mindset? Move From Corporate to Creating Your Own Creative Purpose In Life? We can hold onto our negative past or grab onto everything that's out there. Meet Nolan Pillay, he failed school, and feeling so ashamed, he tried to commit suicide. Thankfully, he survived and got a second chance. But then, what do you do? Walk around with your tail between your legs? Or, out there, rain or shine, and be grateful for what comes your way and make life work. Nolan is the Author of " My Covid Journey" and he is the founder of his Self Development "Business Straight Talking With Nolan" All inspiring to listen to. How people make life happen FOR them, and not TO them!

We all have a past. Some of us are desperate to put it behind us and be the person we want to be, and not the person we were born into being. Some make it, some don't! Why? What does it take to remove yourself from your past and create the person you want to be? Try something you have never done before, run away from abuse, face the music from long ago, to enjoy the music in the present! A most candid, raw, transparent and Beautiful Life Story with "Peaches" of Instagram. AKA Lauren Jeffrie's from Cincinnati Ohio find her here: https://www.instagram.com/_vipeach_/ https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/inspirational-interviews/id1481460160

Meet Jeffrey Morse. He suffered an aneurysm. After days of migraines, he saw the doctor and he was told he had 25% chance of living. After being rushed into the hospital, the next thing he knew, he woke up paralysed! Like any life story, there is always so much more to a person than just one story. We learn how his childhood could have led Jeffrey to make the wrong choices in his adult life, especially at these times when he needed a solid base and people he could trust the most! But the beauty of human beings is that we are extremely resilient even when we don't have stability around us. Learn how Jeffrey's life story can mirror resilience and beauty in your own life journey. Find Jeffrey Morse here https://www.instagram.com/finding_forward/ His book is called Finding Forward Find me on Instagram guys!! let me know you have listened to the show :) https://www.instagram.com/inspirational.interviews/ Check out all the interviews face to face here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgXTTjtQHWL5zGpOsbnGNfQ

All he wanted to do was to compete for his country. He made one wrong decision, going against his gut instinct , and he ended up upside down, in a car, paralysed! Meet South African Fitness Sportsman, Marco Pietrowski, now, a walking quadriplegic. Find out why some people who do end up paralysed, do in fact start to walk again. Marco shares his whole life story with us, giving us a beautiful picture into a life lived, fully, painfully, tragically and magically. A Joy and inspiration to listen to. Find Marco Pietrowski here: www.iammarcopietrowski.co.za

How do you cope with life, and climb to the top of your ladder when your dad is murdered and your brother commits suicide! How do you cope at all? Meet a "Burnt Chef" Halima Ferreira - works as a Private Chef for the richest of the rich. An unfiltered and enlightening conversation with a Burnt Chef - Halima Ferreira, who shares her life story. Beware, there is no filter to this discussion about the chef industry! Sex, Drugs, the Rich and Famous and Park Benches! If you are in it, perhaps you can relate. If you're on the outside, join me in becoming wiser to this extremely cut through profession. It always looks glamorous and exciting on the outside. It's most definitely welcoming on the receiving end of the service. Let's find out.

"At one point I thought, this is it, and I was ok with it, I guess. I knew this was going to be dangerous" But then I thought, I didn't come here to NOT make it back from this dive, so hold on, lets reevaluate this situation." Meet Karen van den Oever, South African, World Record, Deep Water Cave Diver. Breaking the world record at 236 Meters. She Lives to Tell Her Courageous Tale, where others didn't. Its Braveheart's like Karen who can teach us so much about ourselves, about human nature, about quitting and winning. Humans are in essence all the same and these stories show us how. The Question is what makes others happier, and some more successful? How come some of us win and some of us loose. Listen now, or when you can, and find out your own answers through Karen van den Oever's courageous, passionate and beautiful life story of a woman who just loves to dive!

Being truly open is not easy. Most people fear the natural flow of a conversation because it can lead to certain truths which can scare and shock them. Known Artist, Linsey Levendall is a brave and enlightened soul who shares his turbulent and beautiful life story. Hearing him talk about growing up on the poorer & rougher side of Cape Town, to moving to Canada as an adult, we are absorbed and educated in his story, and we feel like we have a friend in his willingness to share. Learning about his work as an artist, and hearing his outlook on love, on life, mental health and suicide, is truly a gift to listen to. Go check out Linsey’s work here https://instagram.com/linsey_levendall?utm_medium=copy_link

We all have dreams, but do we go to all measures to make them come true? Regardless of the people around us? Kenneth's dad left when he was a little boy. This had a major impact on his perception of the word. He got into a lot of trouble throughout his life. But, he had a dream, and we learn how in persisting to make this dream come true, that dreams do come true, but in his case, it got really messy! How did he make this all right again? Looking at himself naked, stripped to the bone, in vulnerability, he had to take ownership, for all his actions in life, and ultimately become a better man, so that he could see the last leg of his mission to the end.

Magda is a true gem! Growing up in Indonesia, she was one of eleven siblings. After they were separated from their father, their mother and them were all put into the Japanese Concentration Camps in Indonesian, and thankfully, they all survived. Learning to brave the harshness of starvation, and having to learn to cope with life in war- Magda Cramer shares her whole life story with us. We learn her wise approach to life and death, and hear her elegant wisdoms she's learnt on her life journey. The death of her closest loved ones, her husband and her child has shattered her heart into pieces and yet she finds the ways to be present, not give up and still live a beautiful life .

Dedicating your life to something that speaks directly to your heart and the minds inquisition is outstanding and brilliant! To then be ostracized and bullied away from doing what you love, because your brilliance and transparency starts to threaten powerful countries and people in power. China, this is a big pill to swallow! What do you do next? Become Vulnerable? Fight Back? Or use your mind in a different way and create something new! Just Wonderful! Meet Cambridge Fellow, Ross Anthony! An absolutely beautiful and brilliant mind.