Opening Closed Doors

About Opening Closed Doors

Opening Closed Doors is a podcast of inspiring conversations with people who have 'opened the doors of opportunity and closed the doors to resistance and through challenges to success . Stories of rejection to appreciation, loss to discovery, pain to purpose. Everyone has a story. Everyone's story matters. What's your story? Certified holistic transformational life coach, international speaker with over 20 years in leadership and advocacy Sophia Nicholls, is the host of the Opening Closed Doors podcast and will guide you through these inspirational stories. The intension of the podcast is to provide education, encouragement and to empower you to open closed doors of opportunity toward a life driven by purpose.

Publisher

Sophia Nicholls

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Apr 2022

Latest episode

1 Jan 2025

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Jan 2025

   Ep 019: Woman on Purpose with Lisa Ardley Price

   If you have ever felt a need to make a significant change in your life but not sure how to go about it, then I have the podcast for you. Lisa Ardley Price a brilliant successful lawyer and DEI Leader, discusses her journey from a busy, diverse childhood to her busy diverse and inspiring current roles. She emphasises the importance of prioritising activities that energise you and shares her transition from private practice to a more balanced in-house role at NatWest. Lisa highlights her passion for well-being and stresses the value of collaboration over competition. Her upcoming workshops aimed at helping participants realign their lives with their values. Lisa encourages self-compassion and leveraging community support to prevent burnout. Key take away ‘ Know your values? How do you prioritise? Knowing you can't say yes to everything you have but saying yes to the things that are truly important to you and light you up’. References: For details about workshops with Lisa Ardley price email: channelyourserenity@gmail.com (mailto:channelyourserenity@gmail.com) For the one day retreat on 26th Jan with Lisa, click the link below: ABOUT LISA ARDLEY PRICE Bio: Lisa is a lawyer, coach, mentor, charity trustee, fitness, yoga and mindfulness teacher, endurance runner and a mum of 2. Her growth mind set and curiosity drive her to try new things and she’s become highly experienced at juggling multiple roles and projects underpinned by her purpose to support others to reach their potential. Lisa has over 15 years experience in the Legal and Financial Services industries. After a significant life event 11 years ago, Lisa made a pivot in her career, moving from a high pressured international law firm to a bank where she had more balance and could pursue other interests. Lisa is a certified Coach who provides coaching and mentoring to private clients andthrough programmes with corporates, educational institutions and social enterprises including NatWest, Coutts, Women in Banking & Finance,Sisterhood, University of Law, Dechomai, Hatch and Digital Boost. As Global Co-Chair of an internal Gender Network with 9,000 members and a member and volunteer for a number of other external networks including BAFTWomen in Transaction Banking, Women in Working Capital and Women in Banking& Finance, Lisa champions diversity of thought, advocates for equity for all and practices inclusive leadership. Lisa was listed as a 2024 Leading Light for Leading with Kindness and an Involve x YouTube HERoes FutureLeader 2024. Social media links TO CONNECT WITH LISA: Website: www.livewelllivemore.com (http://www.livewelllivemore.com/) ONE DAY RETREAT WITH LISA https://www.champneys.com/retreats/yoga-pilates-meditation/channel-your-serenity-setting-loving-intentions-for-2025.html ABOUT SOPHIA NICHOLLS Sophia is a Christian transformational Life Coach. Through coaching Sophia inspires and empowers her clients, to move from limiting beliefs to a life of purpose and passion. She provides spaces for self-discovery, changing perspective and clarity to move from self-sabotage to self-love & purpose, opening doors into the life you truly desire. If you would like Sophia to help move you from the challenges and self - limiting beliefs through to the opportunity of the open doors of self-discovery and purpose book a free 30 min call: https://calendly.com/sophianicholls/30min-investigation-session CONNECT WITH SOPHIA LINKTREE  https://linktr.ee/sophianicholls21 LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophia-nicholls/ INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/sophia.nicholls.1/ WEBSITE https://sophianicholls.com/ OPENING CLOSED DOORS ON SOCIAL MEDIA OPENING CLOSED DOORS FACEBOOK OPENING CLOSED DOORS ON INSTAGRAM

2. 

   9 Oct 2024

   The Elegant Swan with Tinique Hays

   ‘It’s in the blood!’ Tinique Hay from Tinque Hay Events shares her entrepreneurial journey from her first-class degree in events management to founding an award-winning events management business. Born into a Caribbean family, Tinique had aspirations to begin her own business from a young age aiming to start her own family run restaurant. In this episode, Tinique shares how her love for managing events and projects align with her job giving her job satisfaction and a sense of achievement. Sky- diving for Dementia and planning a half marathon to raise funds for MEETING NEEDS charity Tinique achieves a personal project inspired by hre grandmother who lives with dementia Key take away Tinique’s 3 top tips for starting a new business when you're stuck for ideas or inspiration. 1Take a step back and think about your passion and something you enjoy. Align purpose with key skills 2Make contacts, network and get yourself out there Use the power of LinkedIn and social media outlets Key assets, Do your research Follow people you like for inspiration and ideas Secure a business mentor or coach that will help you drive your ideas Tinique describes herself as a Swan: frantically working behind the scenes with passion and joy to reveal a welcoming, well organised environment for the events she manages. References: Meeting Needs chariity - https://www.meetingneeds.org.uk/ ABOUT Tinique Hay A multi-award-winning Entrepreneur and Event Business Owner with over 10 years of experience established within the meeting, conference and private event sector. Driven by the love and passion of working within the Event Industry alongside building an everlasting family legacy led to the birth of Tinique’s Events Management company Hay Events. A strong advocate for entrepreneurship, Tinique believes once you align your skills and passion, the main purpose of starting up a business will shortly follow. In addition to being the Founder of Hay Events, Tinique is a Visiting Lecturer and Business Partner at the University of Hertfordshire. Tinique Hay has been featured in the press within the Business Leader, Conference News, Brand For You and The Event Industry News as well as being invited to be a Keynote Speaker for EY, The Houses of Parliament and the University of Hertfordshire. Tinique’s portfolio of events ranges from a 3000-person Brand Activation event for Cocoa Girl Magazine to a 2-day large-scale Lawyers Conference for Black Counsel Forum working with key industry leaders. Above all Tinique’s passion for the industry shines through her phenomenal commitment towards creating an impactful events experience to aid the growth of her client's brand awareness. Social media links TO CONNECT WITH TINIQUE: IG: @hayevents Website: https://hayevents.co.uk/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiniquehaybusinesseventplanner/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiniquehaybusinesseventplanner/) ABOUT SOPHIA NICHOLLS Sophia is a transformational Life Coach. Through coaching Sophia inspires and empowers her clients, to move from limiting beliefs to a life of purpose and passion. She provides spaces for self-discovery, changing perspective and clarity to move from self-sabotage to self-love & purpose, opening doors into the life you truly desire. If you would like Sophia to help move you from the challenges and self - limiting beliefs through the opportunity open doors of self-discovery and purpose book a free 30 min call: https://calendly.com/sophianicholls/30min-investigation-session CONNECT WITH SOPHIA LINKTREE  https://linktr.ee/sophianicholls21 LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophia-nicholls/ INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/sophia.nicholls.1/ TWITTER https://twitter.com/SophiaBNicholls FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/sophia.nicholls.1/ WEBSITE https://sophianicholls.com/ OPENING CLOSED DOORS ON SOCIAL MEDIA OPENING CLOSED DOORS FACEBOOK OPENING CLOSED DOORS ON INSTAGRAM

3. 

   25 Mar 2024

   Ep 017 Tapping Untapped Talent with Claire Cookson

   Tapping untapped talent with Claire Cookson Growing up in a family who advocated for change for people with learning disabilities Claire Cookson is now an award winning CEO for the DFN Foundation. Claire relates her experience of changing lives not only for people with autism and other disabilities but also for the employees of the partner organisations her charity, DFN, work with to provide well paid sustainable jobs for people living with autism and other disabilities. Working with the  National Grid to provide work opportunities for the clients who are supported by her charity, Claire states the following experiences by the partnering organisation: 'We then started to find that our satisfaction went up, we heard all the time, people would say like, I've never felt more proud to work for national grid or that was my first experience. I never felt more proud. So actually, then what do you get from your employees, you get more commitment, you get them coming to work, feeling like hang on a minute, my job now feels really different. I suddenly feel like I'm making a difference to humans and actually, if we boil everything down, that's where you get a good feeling. That's where you feel like you've got a purpose, then grid started to benefit from this amazing talent pool'. She goes on to share how the project creates safe spaces for employees to share personal experiences and employee networks for supporting people with learning disabilities at work. About Claire Cookson Chief Executive Officer of the DFN Foundation and DFN Project SEARCH, Claire is an experienced senior leader with an extensive background in education and best practice supported employment. Formally a headteacher of a broad spectrum special school, Claire now leads a fast growing charity that seeks to support best practice transition to employment for people with learning disabilities and autism. Nationally only 5.1% of people with these needs are in paid employment yet 70% of those supported by this charity secure paid roles. With the largest data set in the UK, DFN Project SEARCH’s evidence based model challenges misconceptions and changes the way society views and enables young adults with learning disabilities and autism to ensure that they reach their true and full potential. Connect with Claire Cookson Twitter: @dfnsearch @coooksondfn LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/company/dfn-project-search/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-cookson-93368b98/?originalSubdomain=uk Email - Claire.cookson@dfnfoundation.org ABOUT SOPHIA NICHOLLS THE HOST OF OPENING CLOSED DOORS PODCAST Sophia is a Transformational Holistic Life Coach, Mentor,  Global Virtual Summit convenor, Host, Moderator, International Speaker, Educator, Disability Advocate and Outstanding Leadership award winner. Through coaching Sophia inspires and empowers her clients, to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to ‘get unstuck’. If you would like Sophia to connect with Sophia or book an investigation appointment, use this link https://calendly.com/sophianicholls/30min-investigation-session CONNECT WITH SOPHIA LINKTREE  https://linktr.ee/sophianicholls21 LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophia-nicholls/ INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/sophia.nicholls.1/ TWITTER https://twitter.com/SophiaBNicholls FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/sophia.nicholls.1/ WEBSITE https://sophianicholls.com/ OPENING CLOSED DOORS FACEBOOK OPENING CLOSED DOORS ON  INSTAGRAM

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 34 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

43

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60