Fire in The Belly
by Fire in The Belly
"Do you have a ‘Fire in the Belly’?"What does ‘Fire In the Belly’ mean to you? What is your passion? What is your drive and purpose and where does that come from? Are you being your true self and lighting up the mightiest version of you?These are some of the questions we seek to answer in this podcast. It is a great privilege to hear from some truly amazing people who are extremely successful in their lives whether it be money, business, achievements or overcoming adversity.Our guests talk about how they have overcome, excelled, thrived and shown utter-determination to fulfil their potential (and become the mightiest person they can be). The personal journeys, insights and lessons that our guests share on this intimate podcast makes for remarkable listening.We all have phenomenal potential, but not everyone is living their best and mightiest lives. For many, ‘Fire In the Belly’ is the invisible drive and knowing feeling that comes from deep inside. There is no right and no wrong a
Episodes
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E335: Feed Your Tigers - Speaking With Stephen Rudolf
Join Pete as he speaks to entrepreneur, founder and director Stephen Rudolf. Stephen talks to Pete all about his journey to the realisation that he had much to learn as well as teach eventually leading to the development of his programme: Feed Your Tigers. ABOUT THE GUEST Steven Rudolph...
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E334: “You’ve Got to be Vulnerable and Let Your People Flourish” Speaking with Jeff Cohen
Jeff Cohen is an entrepreneur, author, business coach, writer and speaker. Jeff works with CEOs and small and midsize businesses that are interested in growing into the new culture we are seeing post-pandemic. He talks to Pete about leadership, vulnerability and how we can all shift our mindset…
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E333: “The Experience of Life is the Experience of Feelings” Speaking with Stacy McAlpine
Stacy is the founder and CEO of journey fuel and a life transformationalist. She has been helping people transform their lives for over 20 years. She joins Pete to talk about how she is on a mission to share her knowledge with as many people as she can, how she developed her unique set of skills...
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E332: “Life Doesn’t Happen to You, You Happen to Life” Speaking with Sandy Weston
Sandy Weston is a keynote speaker, international podcaster, three times published author and entrepreneur. Sandy has owned and operated health and wellness companies for over 30 years, spent many years as mbc tens fitness expert and a successful media personality. Sandy joins Pete to discuss her...
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E331: “I’m not here to tell you what to think, I’m here to urge you to think ” Speaking with Nicky Billou
Nicky is known as the modern-day Napoleon Hill, he has interviewed top thought leaders of the world including the creators of chicken soup for the soul, John Maxwell, Oprah Winfrey’s coach and so many more. He is a millionaire maker, helping so many individuals turn their lives around. He joins...
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E330: Speaking with Brigitta Hoeferle
The ‘Mighty Pete Lonton’ from the ‘Mighty 247’ company is your main host of ‘Fire in The Belly’. Pete is an entrepreneur, mentor, coach, property Investor, and father of three beautiful girls. Pete’s background is in project management and property, but his true passion is the ‘Fire in The Belly’...
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E329: Paul The Secrets to Building Wealth” Speaking with Paul Halme
Paul went from working as a stockbroker for a major firm to being a full-time entrepreneur. He now specialises in helping other entrepreneurs fix their finances and teaches them to buy assets to create passive income. Paul talks to Pete about how he got to where he is today, his businesses and…
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E328: “Finding your Purpose” Speaking with Polymathic Intellectual Jim Marshall All About Septemics
Jim is an author and polymathic intellectual, he has successfully trained and treated clients over a 40-year career, his areas of expertise include psychology, physiology, science engineering math, law, septemics and more! He joins Pete to talk all about one of the newest social sciences…
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E327: “There’s Nobody Like you But You” Speaking with Claire Gallagher
Claire is a digital strategy coach for solo-preneuers. She helps people market and sell their services online by connecting with their strengths and core values. She joins Pete today to talk about what she does for her clients, how she learnt everything she knows, her passions as well as her...
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E326: “Healing My Relationship with Myself to Heal My Relationship with Food” speaking with Briana McAteer
Briana is a coach, nutritionist and speaker. After years of struggling with her own self-esteem, Briana wanted to help other women with emotional and binge eating issues. She talks to Pete today about her own journey to healing, how she managed to overcome her own trauma and difficulties and how...
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E325: “Action Brings Clarity“ Speaking with Ryan Horn
Ryan went from being a broke and homeless to becoming an award winning entrepreneur, peak performance coach, public speaker and podcast host! He joins Pete in this episode to talk all about his journey from the bottom to the top, his personal philosophies, what he teaches others and more. KEY...
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E324: “You Have to Heal Yourself Within to Free Yourself” – Speaking with Patricia Breslin
Patricia is a mother, grandmother and has been a hairdresser for over 40 years. She has always known there was something in her desperate to get out but couldn’t place what it was. It was after two abusive marriages and focusing on personal development and self-discovery that Patricia realised…
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E323: Everything Good in Life Comes From The Help of Other People -With Devin Durrant
Devin Durrant – retired NBA player, current entrepreneur, author, family man. Devin comes on the show to discuss his recently published book, The Values Delta, which is about how we can make our values count to make more of a positive benefit in the world. We talk about how his childhood and…
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E322: A Fire Refining With Bronson Hill
First off, Bronson Hill is a successful, multi-family apartment investor, who left a $200K job in order to go into real estate, and now coaches other investors on how to reach that same level of success. But more than that, Bronson is a deeply spiritual person, whose faith informs everything he...
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E321: The Juice is The Change With Jon Weberg
I can’t say for sure but I think Jon Weberg may be the youngest guest we’ve ever had on this show. He’s already self-published a book, spoken to entrepreneurs at conferences across the U.S., and founded successful start-ups. Our conversation today is about focus, intention, making sure your…
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E320: What would Happen if The Fear Wasn’t There? With Claire Aughmuty
Claire Aughmuty is a force of nature. After a career as a nurse and a wife and mother, a broken ankle sustained during COVID helped turn her life around. It was during her convalescence, when she was forced to ask people for help to do things that she’d always taken for granted, that she started...
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E319: Curious, Adventurous, Indefatigable With Jake Schmidt
Jake Schmidt is passionate about marketing and business strategy, and prides himself on having been on the ground level of many products that have changed our culture. We have a fascinating conversation about business, passion, and when it’s time to go onto the next adventure. KEY TAKEAWAYS Items...
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E318: Survival to Revival - Lewis Herridge Interview
Lewis Herridge is an ultra-marathoner, an outdoor enthusiast, someone passionate about rewilding himself and helping others to do the same. We have a fun, inspiring conversation about how we, as a society, can get back to a more natural way of living. Lewis sees a lot of correlation between the...
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E317: Working With Essence - Carol Sanford Interview
Carol has a precious way of looking at life. After a decades’ long career helping businesses continue to innovate in the long-term, Carol has found an approach to her work that integrates her Mohawk First Nations heritage and “logical” business economics. She has been called a “positive…
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E316: Let Your Soul Be the Expression - Interview With D. Neil Elliott
Neil and I talk a lot today about spirituality, power and purpose. How we are beings composed of unconditional love and divinity, and how we can spend our whole lives trying to remember that one unassailable fact. After a career in project engineering management, Neil put the decades he’d spent...
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E315: Finding That North Star - Interview With Scott McGimpsey
Scott was dealt a hard hand in his youth, but after he “graduated” from foster care when he was 18, he started on the path that led him to becoming first a personal trainer and then a motivational coach and the creation of his Bend not Break program. He shares his past from an authentic and...
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E314: “We aren’t guaranteed the next moment” - Ryan Rae Harbuck Interview (Redux)
Ryan Rae Harbuck is back on the show today, along with her recently self-published memoir, “When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Chair.” We talk a lot about her experiences writing the book, the endurance it took over years to get it visualized and completed, how having faith in oneself can be…
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E313: Roll the Dice and Pick One -- Charlene Madden Interview
Charlene Madden has lived through things none of us should have to. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather, and then an abusive marriage that lasted a decade, she had a plan to end her own life when she, by magical chance, attended a workshop. Three speakers, one...
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E312: Making Your Own Luck -- Dave Combs Interview
It’s not often that you get the chance to sit down and chat with an absolute legend, but I got the chance to do just that in today’s episode. Dave Combs had a successful career at a Fortune 500 company when he finally transcribed a melody he’d had in his head for a while. That song eventually...
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E311: “What’s Important to You After You Die ” - Ryan Lindner Interview
Are you truly living your life in a way that matches up with what you want it to be? Today’s guest, Ryan Lindner, experienced two serious cardiac episodes at a young age. After falling unconscious sometimes even with clients, he realized how important it was for him to understand his own energy…
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E310: “Lead in the Way You Want to Go ” - Mary Welp Interview
Sometimes you need the world to crash around you before you spiritually wake up to realize you are not living your true life. Our guest today, Mary Welp, is a cranio-sacral and body work practitioner who believes that we need to be more authentic and vulnerable both as a daily practice with...
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E309: “Who Do You Choose to Be ” - Jem Fuller Interview
Join me for this wonderful conversation with a man who seems to have done it all. He’s backpacked around the world, been a traditional tattooist, founded companies, and he has written a fabulous book, “The Art of Conscious Communication for Thoughtful Men.”. He has studied mindfulness and…
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E308: “Prosper Where You’re Planted ” - Darrell Evans Interview
Darrell Evans has founded and run six multi-million dollar companies since he was 20. He’s a natural entrepreneur whose main mission in life has been to make a positive impact on others. In our conversation we talk about his sometimes circuitous journey to becoming the business mentor he is now,...
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E307: “Seek that Light and Truth in your Life ” - David R. Edwards Interview
David has not only experience in the health care sector, but experience in managing the companies he’s been a part of, which has given him a unique perspective on the holistic nature of the human body. His work helped him realize that, in allopathic medicine, doctors don’t talk to each other so…
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E306: Divine Beings For Divine Timing – Roxanne Chaput Interview
Imagine surviving not one, not two, but four near-death experiences and coming out of that with an unshakeable sense of who you are and what your purpose is, and you will have a glimpse of what my conversation with today’s guest is like. Roxanne Chaput is an energy healer, life coach and…
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E305: Uncovering the Truth about Who We are – Liam Naden Interview
In this episode I have a fascinating conversation with Liam Naden, who feels half scientist, and half spiritual mystic. We talk about how to rewire our brains to let ourselves live life at our best; how to defuse fear; and how to turn on the best possible version of ourselves. We do this first by...
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E304: “We Are the Vessel, We Are the Message” - Jennifer Pilates Interview
Jennifer and I have a fascinating discussion about health, spirituality, and intentionality – as you’ll hear, there isn’t much, if any separation between them for my guest today. From going through a traumatic accident when she was younger which started her on the path to becoming a Pilates...
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E303: “Be Comfortable with the Mystery” - Chad Mansbridge Interview
Chad is a man whose faith is deep in his bones. He discovered a personal relationship with God when he was still in his teens, survived a near-death experience, and grew up to embody his spirituality by becoming a pastor. He is passionate about engaging with people who have doubts and questions...
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E302: “Tall Poppies” - Doug Garland Interview
Doug and I have a thoughtful discussion about individuality, burnout, and how to integrate all aspects of ourselves into our daily life. As a long time medical doctor, professor, and practitioner, Doug has a unique perspective on how to dig down deep into ourselves to find out who we are, and how...
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E301: Aligning with Your Genius – Mike Zeller Interview
Mike is one of those entrepreneurs who has an almost boundless supply of energy. He is known in the corporate world as the “business architect”, and enjoys helping people create the business which will not only sustain their finances, but their purpose in life. He has studied with...
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E300: “The Game of You Versus You ” - Mighty Pete
300 episodes seemed like an appropriate milestone to reflect back on the two years I’ve spent making this podcast, and talking with all these different, inspiring people from across the world. I never expected that I would be still in the thick of this project, all these episodes later, and I…
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E299: “Harness Your Life” - Babs Faseesin Interview
I loved my conversation with Babs. He has the calm, yet passionate conviction of a spiritual teacher, who has the scientific, business data to back up his claims. We talk about how to access our purpose in life, how to hone it, how to dig deep into our own authenticity, and how to use our...
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E298: "Find the Quiet Place and Go From There" Will Schirmer
Will is an experienced HR professional who brings a wealth of knowledge and passion about people and how they work to his daily life. He is consistently inspired by his life and his teachers, and he wishes to pass that along to others, and has made that his mission in his career and through the...
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E297: “Audacity or Death” – Roy Osing Interview
Roy is passionate about business and running them authentically. After a career as a CMO, working for one company in different capacities, he began to write books about his experience. We have an intriguing conversation about what makes businesses and people successful, how they can stand out and...
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E296: “Flow State ” - Jean-Philippe Interview
Join me for a whimsical conversation with retired professional athlete Jean-Philippe, who has founded several athletic companies and has a background in corporate business. Deeply philosophical, and able to connect moving his body with spirituality, we talk about nature, the disconnection in...
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E295: What is Inherited Trauma? with Writer Ruth Rotkowitz
Ruth Rotkowitz is a novelist, including the book Escaping a Whale which focuses around holocaust survivors. Join Ruth and Pete in this episode where they talk all about inherited trauma, how Ruth was inspired to write and why at 73 Ruth has finally realised her dreams and is living her truth as a...
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E294: Karin Freeland - The Ins and Outs of my Vagina
Karen is a speaker, life re-invention-coach and author. She focuses on helping women transform their lives and live their dreams with her tailored one-on-one coaching programme and wrote the book 'The Ins and Outs of my vagina' a funny, relatable and honest story about her life adventures with…
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E293: If You Really Want to Learn, Teach Others - Speaking with Erik Everhard, ex-Porn Star and Sex Coach
Join Pete as he speaks with one of the top performers is in the adult film world Erik Everhard. Erik has won numerous awards, been one of the top paid male performers and in 2010 embarked on a transformational journey studying NLP in one of the top institutes in America. He has made it his…
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E292: The Evolution of Leadership - Interview with Darby Vannier
Join Pete as he speaks to Darby Vannier. Darby has over 20 year’s experience in leadership, development and consulting. They talk all about Darby’s passion for leadership, self-development, how business is all about evolution and how you can never really know what’s coming next in life; you just...
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E291: “Chronically Curious” – Sarah Noll Interview
I got completely inspired by this conversation with Sarah Noll Wilson, and I bet you will too. Sarah is an executive coach, an author, and an entrepreneur with over 15 years’ experience in leadership roles. Beyond that, she has a creative background as she studied theatre in her undergrad. In…
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E290: “The Lowest Point is Your Turning Point” -- Deirdre Macguire
Deirdre is a powerful human. When her father died by suicide 20 years ago, her grieving over his death turned into the impetus for following a deeply spiritual, healing path. She created the Stress Solution System from what she learned, an online course which has helped hundreds of people the…
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E289: “I Want You to Become Your Brightest Hour” -- Susanne Danig Interview
I’m so excited to get the chance to introduce you to Susanne, a creative forced to be reckoned with. Susanne has been involved in some aspect of the arts for a long time – as a founder of an arts mentorship organization, coach, and producer. She also has experience organizing and running various...
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E288: “Phoenix Rising” – Eileen Robertson-Hamra Interview
Eileen joins me today to talk about her journey surviving an event that no-one should have to – losing her husband and the father of three of her children in a plane crash just a few days before Christmas. In the months and years that followed Eileen became determined to find joy and purpose in…
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E287: “The Efficiency Expert” – Jeff Finney Interview
Jeff owns and runs his own wood-working business, which he started in his garage and quickly grew to over 60 employees. He began to evaluate his growth, wondering how he could make better use of his time after a few years. The observations he made about his processes, both as a CEO and as a boss,...
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E286: “The Importance of the Unlearning” – Cathy Dimarchos Interview
I love what I do because it brings me into contact with people like Cathy. She is a force of nature – an indefatigable force for good and accountability in the world, someone who has goals of sustainability and equity always in the forefront of her mind. In this hour or so of our conversation, we...
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"Do you have a ‘Fire in the Belly’?"What does ‘Fire In the Belly’ mean to you? What is your passion? What is your drive and purpose and where does that come from? Are you being your true self and lighting up the mightiest version of you?These are some of the questions we seek to answer in this podcast. It is a great privilege to hear from some truly amazing people who are extremely successful in their lives whether it be money, business, achievements or overcoming adversity.Our guests talk about how they have overcome, excelled, thrived and shown utter-determination to fulfil their potential (and become the mightiest person they can be). The personal journeys, insights and lessons that our guests share on this intimate podcast makes for remarkable listening.We all have phenomenal potential, but not everyone is living their best and mightiest lives. For many, ‘Fire In the Belly’ is the invisible drive and knowing feeling that comes from deep inside. There is no right and no wrong a
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