In this episode, Ladey Adey is joined by Sheila Holt.

Sheila’s personality shines through in her business, which is unique in the finance sector as it specialises in building lifelong relationships, trust, and communication. It’s the finance business with heart. 

Sheila’s lightness and brightness of character together with her high energy, drive, and passion take the serious and often overcomplicated business of finance and turn it into something that flows with ease and clarity.

Sheila recognises that she’s both an outlier and a disrupter, which means that the standard career path never suited her – a discomfort that led her to a life-changing moment. Attending a neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) course in Hawaii opened her mind to entrepreneurship and gave her a completely different direction and purpose in life. Fascinated by how people think, Sheila developed a coaching practice utilising NLP to help her clients achieve clarity, focus, and success. 

During this time Sheila was also actively investing in property. The big lesson she learned from building a sizable portfolio was that in the property industry money needs to flow.

In 2007, she loaned some of her own money to a property developer, recognising a need in the market. This was the first step to building what is now Sapphire Lending Ltd. The business has evolved and grown over the years and she’s in the fortunate position of having attracted a great team, strong advisors, and good systems. All this was accomplished by applying the theories, practices, and actions outlined in her book. Shelia talks of the 40,000 lessons this is teaching her.

Sheila has a postgraduate degree in career counselling and an MA in research and education. She revels in being an entrepreneur and sees it as one of the greatest personal development journeys you can go on. She is a lifelong learner. 

Tip: "I think writing is a very personal thing. I naturally write from the heart, emotively.

It is about recognising who your readers are – who do you want to read your writings, and why? How do you want your readers to feel; what do you want them to do as a result of reading what you have written?

Also think about the key message(s) you want to convey.

Be clear about how you want your writing to position you – as a thought leader; an expert; a speaker; a mentor; etc"

Favourite Quote: “Only connect the passion and the prose…” from Howards End by E M Forster

 Useful links

Guests: Sheila Holt

Website: www.SapphireLending.com 

Book: https://amzn.to/3LESr07 

Social media: Facebook: https://facebook.com/sheila.holt.9210

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sheilaholt007 

Instagram: https://instagram.com/sapphirelending 

Ladey Adey: https://www.ladeyadey.com/ 

Book Academy: https://www.ladeyadey.com/the-book-academy/ 

Vicky Galbraith - Podcast VA: www.podcastva.co.uk

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