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Welcome to Shining Beyond Shy podcast with Fiona Cutts

A podcast, dedicated to empowering you to choose beyond your shyness and create a greater life than you think is possible for you. 

I’m Fiona, and I was labelled shy, and considered shy for as long as I can remember. My shyness affected not only the way I speak, but the whole way I functioned in the world, totally limiting the choices I had in life. A few weeks after my 40th birthday, I was seemingly suddenly and mysteriously ill with the debilitating disease Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I was so tired that for years I could scarcely function, even going to the shops was difficult.

I now see that part of the catalyst for that illness was my introversion, my inability to express me. Holding yourself back takes up a lot of energy. I have transformed my shyness, healed my fatigue, using the amazing tools of Access Consciousness and Right Voice for You that I will be sharing on this podcast. What if everyone on the planet was empowered to shine beyond their perceived limitations???

EPISODES

Episode 81: Kindnessissimo

In this episode, Fiona shares her continuing dental journey as she has been going deeper into awareness of her vulnerability and getting clarity on what’s true for her. Included in that clarity of what’s true for her, is becoming aware of what actually is kindness for her. What kindnessissimo can we be for us and our sweet bodies?

Episode 80: Choice Magnifico

In this episode, Fiona shares more about her continuing dental journey, which has required following the energy to choose that which would lead to a greater life. She comes to us today wearing temporary dentures as her treatment progresses, something she actively resisted until she had facilitation to get over her fixed points of view about them. What choices can you make to have more of you and a greater life and future?

Episode 79: The Energy Of A Smile

In this episode, Fiona is smiling beautifully without some of her teeth following intense dental surgery. She shares a recent experience with a rude person and some tools that can help give our lives back rather than shying away. How much have you made yourself wrong, where you feel someone has pushed you to be rude, and you feel badly afterwards?

Episode 78: True Kindness

In this episode, Fiona comes to us as she continues on her journey of her extreme dental treatment and shares with us her developing awareness of what her body required and desired and the tools that helped facilitate that awareness.

​Episode 77: Beyond Avoiding And Defending

In this episode, the second since Fiona had full-on dental surgery, Fiona shares with us the tools she has used to get over what she had been dynamically defending and avoiding and COVID had given her the perfect excuse to hide away from. What are you avoiding and defending? What can you surrender to to create the most consciousness and be kind to you?
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​Episode 76: Beyond Vulnerability

In this episode, Fiona comes to us with a difference. She recently had full-on dental surgery, had planned to stay out of the public view until her treatment was completed and now just can’t keep it a secret! Did you grow up in a family where anything intimate is kept secret? Could you go beyond what you think is possible for you?
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Episode 75: Being The JOY That Melts Your Problems

In this episode from Croatia, Fiona’s Air BnB is not actually the quiet it is advertised to be. And she realised she had a choice: to go into familiar negativity or to choose to acknowledge all the great things she has created for her life in Croatia and not allow the noise to ruin her enjoyment. Why would we allow problems to stop the enjoyment we are having in our lives?

Episode 74: Being Space

In this episode, Fiona comes to us from Croatia, where she has been dealing with officialdom, something she usually does not enjoy at all. She allowed herself to be space, and something changed in the worlds of the officials and they became incredibly friendly and helpful! What if you could actually be space and see what that creates?

Episode 73: Exploding Head!

Fiona comes to us in this episode with her head exploding. She gets that it’s her  head making her aware that she’s in her head, overthinking, and not in her knowing and it’s an invitation to step into her power and potency. Are you willing to get out of thinking and get to the brilliance of you, the magic of you, the being?

Episode 72: Easy or EASE?

In this episode, Fiona talks about her trip from Zagreb to the coast in Croatia (just because she could) via the translation office, which was far from easy yet accomplished with fun and EASE! Are you willing to choose ease in your life?

Episode 71: Creating or Decaying?

This episode is chock full of tools and questions that Fiona has successfully used and continues to use which help her be present with choosing for a generative life and future. What choice can you make today that will create the future that you desire to be living?

Episode 70: What Do You Think?

In this episode, we hear Fiona in action facilitating herself as she develops more awarenesses around being in a tizz when repeatedly asked for her opinions about a new business venture and shares with us powerful tools to help us trust ourselves and go with what we know.

Episode 69: Avoiding And Defending

In this episode, Fiona shares with us tools and questions from an Access Consciousness class she has just attended that can help us with releasing the hidden avoiding and defending we are doing around our shyness. Are you willing to use the tools to bring you freedom from your shyness?

Episode 68: Creating From The Crazy

In this episode, Fiona talks about the chaos, the crazy that she has been experiencing since she chose to travel to and around England in a state of uncertainty and not knowing what next. By using the tools she shares, she got the sense that the crazy partly occurs because she was not getting on with creating her life. She is now being present and moving forward with her new and all of her businesses with ease, joy and glory. What if we, too, are willing to have the ease, the joy and the glory beyond the chaos?

Episode 67: Clarity + Intentionality = Happiness

In this episode, Fiona chats with Steve Fredlund, who has a varied history and whose current tagline is “Helping Leaders become Happier.” Steve shares with us his journey from lacking confidence, crippling shyness and ‘gritting his teeth and just getting on with it’ to creating happiness in his life. What’s true for you? What would you actually like to have in your life?

Episode 66: You Should Rest... You Should Work...

In this episode, Fiona reflects on the recent craziness in her life and her friend’s advice that she should rest. She asked herself the brilliant questions and used the tools she shares today that enabled her to trust her choices and continue to create what she desires for her life.What if we could have clarity about what you really require now?

Episode 65: We All Have A Stage We'd Like To Be On

In this episode, Fiona has a conversation with Eddie Rice, speech writer, public speaking coach,and author who used to be quite shy until he took action to overcome it. He shares with us some key steps that can help us on our journey to expressing ourselves and excelling at it!

Episode 64: What Are You Willing To Put Up With

In this episode, Fiona talks about a very unpleasant experience that she was told she just had to endure for the bigger picture that she was now choosing to create. As she waited in an unmoving queue, she became aware that she was just not willing to put up with the system and how by changing the energy and being willing to do something different, an alternative presented itself. What are you just not willing to put up? Fiona shares with us tools and questions to help us be and do something different when we are just not willing to put up with a situation!

Episode 63: Being Authentic Is Better Than Being Perfect

In this episode, Fiona chats with Daniel Alfon, LinkedIn author expert and trainer, who has used LinkedIn to go from being introverted to using the platform to get himself out there in a way that at times would have been too difficult. Daniel shares some of his tips, from his ebook, for using LinkedIn to build a successful business.

Episode 62: Enjoying Your Body

In this episode, Fiona reflects on her recent classes in Dubai and Kuwait and the inspiring women’s courage who were choosing way beyond what is considered ‘normal’ with their bodies. Fiona also shares with us the tools that helped her change from feeling shame with her body to prioritising a life of fun that includes dancing in public several times a week. What if there can be something completely different available with your body, too?

Episode 61: What If It's Not Logical?

In this episode, Fiona comes to us from Zagreb, Croatia and shares with us how by making the demand to be really present with her body and not limit herself to logical decision-making and an original plan, she is creating a life that is expansive and fun! What if we’re not actual logical beings? What if the way we live our lives doesn’t have to be dictated by logic?

Episode 60: What Are You Willing To Receive?

In this episode, Fiona talks about her recent travelling experiences that inspired her to choose this topic after realising she had become willing to receive so much more than she had in the past. Her experiences will resonate with a lot of us and we can benefit from the tools she shares that enable us to enjoy receiving from everything in our lives.

Episode 59: Choosing Gratitude

In this episode, Fiona talks about how she became aware of spaces where she wasn’t choosing gratitude, instead choosing to go towards the problem rather than going towards what was actually good with what is going on around her. She shares with us how we, too, can choose gratitude rather than going down the rabbit hole of complaint and problem and conclusion and yuck and see how gratitude can really change everything!

Episode 58: Honouring Your Body

Fiona has been visiting countries in the Middle East where she had been loving the warmth until the temperature skyrocketed. Moving onto Kuwait, where the temperature was much more comfortable, brought awareness to Fiona about not only what her body enjoys but also ways she can honour her body.  Fiona’s invitation to us is to start really tuning in to what our beautiful, sweet bodies actually require, to what is actually an honouring of our bodies and see what changes in our lives because EVERYTHING can change!

Episode 57: Standing Up For You

In this episode, Fiona talks about the learning process she traversed as she transitioned from being too shy to show up in the world to bringing kind people into her life who treat her the way she desires. She shares with us tools to help us learn how to stand up for ourselves without lashing out.

Episode 56: All You Have To Do Is Feel Your Feelings

In this episode, Fiona and Ann Hince, spiritual teacher, public speaker and author, explore empowering processes to release trauma stored in our bodies that is causing shyness and dis-ease and bring about “change in the world from the inside out”.

Episode 55: Can Shy People Really Love Their Bodies

In this episode, Fiona talks about the time in her life when she was so shy that couldn’t be in allowance of others noticing her body and never dreamt she could change her reality. She shares with us the tools to help us to enjoy our bodies and asks: “What would it take for us to have the perspective that everybody is beautiful and every BODY is beautiful?”

Episode 54: Afraid or More Excited Than Ever Before?

In this episode, Fiona has a conversation with Peter George, public speaking coach and author. Peter tells us that being shy is not debilitating, it’s just something you have to work with and shares with us some tips to find a way to be a comfortable, confident and credible public speaker.

Episode 53: Bullying

In this episode, Fiona recalls her early experiences of being bullied at school and shares with us the tools of Access Conscious that helped her to acknowledge that the shyness strategies she used were not wrong and the tools that helped her to step into even more greatness. What would it take for you to step into your greatness?

Episode 52: Am I Being The Up-To-Date Version Of Me?

In this episode, Fiona chats with Donna Tashjian, a life mastery coach who helps people to rise above painful pasts to live the life of their dreams. Together, they share useful insights that can help us rise above the painfulness of our shyness.

Episode 51: Shyness And Moving Your Body

In this episode, Fiona talks about “her history” when she was too shy to be seen in public let alone move her body. She shares with us tools and questions that empowered her to choose to get out of the stuckness and move, express and enjoy herself. And now she’s asking herself: What would it take to stay present with these dance lessons so I join in dance sessions wherever I am in the world?

Episode 50: To Be Comfortable, You Have To Get Uncomfortable First

In this episode, Fiona has a conversation with storyteller, author and actor, Tyler Foley (professionally known as Sean Tyler Foley), who tells us he’s only an extrovert on the outside. Fiona and Tyler explore his recommendations for shy people when giving presentations and his Three Pillars to being a successful speaker. What would it take for us to be in our own little worlds on stage in the spotlight, too?

Episode 49: Shy People Like Romance Too!

Happy Valentine’s Day! In this episode, Fiona recalls Valentine’s Days from childhood. She shares helpful tools with us to let go of what has been limiting us in our lives and encourages us to get clarity with what we truly desire in our  relationships. What could that change in the world if we were willing to be kinder to us?

Episode 48: "I Can't" or "I Won't"?

In this episode, Fiona has a fascinating conversation with her guest, Indra Rinzler in California, who is an astrologer and spiritual guide. They chat about ways that can help us overcome our challenges, including shyness. What if replacing the idea of “I can’t” with “I won’t” empowers us to create the lives we truly desire?

Episode 47: Depression

In this episode, Fiona, the birthday girl, shares with us her thoughts and helpful tools for getting out of low moods or depression and create more of what we like in our lives and ‘necessarily’ become happier!

Episode 46: Being The Source

In this episode, Fiona talks to us about her journey and the tools she has used to relocate the source for her life from her parents and money to herself, the phenomenal person creating abundant wealth in her life. What if you, too, can be the source for the next great thing you would like in our life?

Episode 45: enJOYment

In this episode Fiona talks with us about how she transitioned from living a life below the radar to stepping into more fun and acknowledging she could dance and sing and loved it! She shares with us the tools that showed her very quickly to be present with the “not fun” areas of her life and choose what she actually desired in her life. What do you actually desire in your life? Does it feel true for you that the purpose of life is to have fun?

Episode 44: Never Enough

In this episode, Fiona shares with us her developing awareness that her energy is greater than she has currently going on in her life and the tools and questions that can help us, too, create way more in our lives. What if we’re not here to just survive? What if we’re here to enjoy and there never be enough?

Episode 43: Stuffing It Down!

In this episode, Fiona shares with us the part of her journey with shyness that relates to her overeating and gives up some really practical tools that we can use right now to change the stuff we have around food and overeating. What if we could be living lives that are so fun that when it is mealtimes, we can enjoy the eating, that it’s not the only thing that is fun for us?

Episode 42: Changing It All Up

In this episode, Fiona helps us ring in the New Year with very helpful questions and tools to create new possibilities for our lives, our bodies, our businesses and a Happy 2022!

Episode 41: Creating Your Life

From the not very Christmassy Antalya, Turkey, Fiona gives us a wake up call and tools to start creating the energy we desire and require for our lives in 2022 and beyond!

Episode 40: Being Willing to Do Whatever It Takes

In this episode, Fiona is talking to us from an Egyptian seaside resort town en route to Antalya, Turkey. She shares with us her awarenesses and tools she used to get out of the trauma and drama of the craziness she has been experiencing and make the choice to do whatever it takes, to be the energy of her life.

Episode 39: People and Space - lessons from the Valley of the Kings

n this episode, we hear some lessons Fiona has learned from her latest stop, Luxor, home of the outdoor museum. Whilst exploring, alone, a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, an uncomfortable memory from adolescence popped up that resonated with what she has been experiencing in Egypt. Have a listen to how you, too, can use your awarenesses and the tools Fiona shares to bring ease to your life.

Episode 38: Communication Lessons From The Souk

In this episode, Fiona shares her experiences of the “big push” of the vendors at the souk and how she created the energy of “no, this doesn’t work for me” and succeeded in being listened to.

Episode 37: Your Life, Go For It

In this episode, Fiona shares with us her journey, using the tools of Access Consciousness, to become aware of and create a life so different from being the accountant her father thought she should be. She encourages us to make the demand to be present with ourselves and follow the energy to craft the lives we truly desire and have fun doing it!

Episode 36: Anger or Potency

In this episode, Fiona speaks to us from Cairo, Egypt and shares with us how she moved from being uncontrollably angry and shouting inappropriately to stepping into her new level of potency and actualising the possibilities she desired.

Episode 35: More Tips and Tricks for Public Speaking

In this episode, Fiona reminds us that 75% of people are afraid of speaking in public. and shares with us more of her tips and tricks for public speaking that help us “build the muscle” and truly get us beyond the terror of standing up in front of a crowd.

Episode 34: Tricks And Tips For Public Speaking

In this episode, Fiona talks about her earlier challenges with public speaking and shares with us her first tip to help us step into shining beyond shy when we are talking to a group of people.

Episode 33: Laughter

In this episode, Fiona speaks with us about the fun and out of control laughter she has been having as she participates in an Access Consciousness class and the delightful awareness that she has been investing way too much seriousness in her ‘problems’ and invites us to create the lightness and fun that we, too, can have in our lives using tools she shares with us.

Episode 32: No More Losing You

Ever walk into a room full of people and immediately feel like you’ve lost yourself? Or do you start out being ok and then go into other people’s thoughts, feelings and emotions and feel you’re not able to maintain yourself? In this episode, Fiona shares with us the tools she has used that have given her so much freedom to be who she truly is and invites us to have a play with them to see if we, too, find them helpful.

Episode 31: Being Direct

In this episode, Fiona talks about how she changed from going into fight with her landlords when her accommodation wasn’t working out to being direct, saying what was really true and creating what was required for her.

Episode 30: Shyness And The Body

In this episode, Fiona talks about how shyness impacted her body, hating to be looked at. She shares the processes and tools she used to create great ease with her body and her new love of dancing!

Episode 29: Trusting You

In this episode, Fiona has a fantastic conversation with her good friend, colleague and very yummy person, Pavani, who shares with us some of her journey and tools which helped her move from being socially phobic and painfully shy, to the point of paralysis, to beyond shyness. She encourages us to be gentle with ourselves, play with the tools, and see where we go with them.

Episode 28: Help! There Are People Out There!

In this episode, Fiona shares the tools that have helped her transition from a rather isolated existence to creating people around her that she enjoys and can be totally relaxed being herself.

Episode 27: Are You Willing To Be Disliked

In this episode, Fiona kicks us off with magical tools to help us let go of all the limited places with function from when we are unwilling to be disliked.

​Episode 26: Choice and Shyness

In this episode, Fiona talks with Rosie Brown who considers shyness to have been part of her life since the age of 3, feeling contracted and holding herself back until a few years ago. Together they share the amazing processes they used to stop making themselves wrong for being shy and helpful ways to continue to change and shine as themselves.
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Episode 25: The Superpower of Shyness

In this episode, Fiona talks with her brilliant friend and colleague, Nathalie, who used to judge herself so much for being shy that she wished she could have an operation and wake up and not be shy anymore. Together they explore the processes that she has, and continues, to use to be in the space of less judgement, more presence with her body and being and importantly, more peace and allowance of herself.
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​Episode 24: What If Your Mind Doesn't Have The Answers

In this episode, Fiona talks to us about how we all allow our minds to overrule our knowing when it isn’t helpful and she shares some tools to help us be, know, perceive and receive what is required.
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Episode 23: Relaxation

In this episode, Fiona facilitates us from this reality’s ideas of relaxation to a space where we can enjoy functioning from true relaxation and be able to ‘work’ and live our lives with more ease.

Episode 22: Help! I'm Too Aware

In this episode, Fiona not only opens us up to possibilities for being different than our shyness, she shares with us tools to help us care for our beautiful planet Earth. Do you have that caring for the Earth that you may not have acknowledged?

Episode 21: Consistency

In this episode, Fiona talks about consistency and commitment, and how committing to something may in itself lead to you becoming resentful.

Episode 20: What If I'm Judged When I speak Up

In this episode, Fiona takes us from her past experiences of hiding herself away, fearing to be seen and judged for being different to the place of willingness to not be perfect, not censor herself and to allow in other’s judgment when she speaks up, using the tools of Access Consciousness and Right Voice for You. She asks us: what if everybody could confidently enjoy their lives?

Episode 19: Money and Difference

In this episode, Fiona shares with us the journey, that over time, unravelled the awarenesses that allowed her to choose to be different with money and create a totally different life full of ease, joy and glory around money and everything else.

​Episode 18: Money

In this episode, Fiona shares her journey from enjoying working abroad for little money to choosing to become an international accountant earning lots of money. When work was only available in the UK, she became very ill and wasn't able to work and experienced money worries for the first time in her life. Then she began to choose differently and created careers that brought not only money but great joy to her life.
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Episode 17: Creating Your Life Beyond Shyness

In this episode, Fiona shares with us her experiences of shyness dominating and directing her life and the tools she used to create an exponentialisation of her business and her life to be full of fun and joy.

Episode 16: Who Can You Talk To

In this episode, Fiona shares with us her awareness of how we energetically assess someone when meeting them or seeing their picture for the first time which leads to the judgment of ourselves and how we show up, and what different choice we can make.

Episode 15 : Writing

In this episode, Fiona talks about how she moved from having to force herself to write, even though she always received praise, to how she now includes herself in her writing and is having way more fun with it!

​Episode 14: More Aware than You Want to Know

In this episode, Fiona shares with us recent experiences about where she had been living and how acknowledging what she was aware of allowed her to choose more fun, more joy, more happiness and more consciousness.
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​Episode 13: Intensity

In this episode Fiona shares with us experiences where she was feeling a lot of intensity and spoke very directly, how she managed what came up for her afterwards and encourages us to be willing to speak from what we know is true for us.
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​Episode 12: Engagement

In this episode, Fiona shares with us an experience where she became aware of what engagement truly is and how much greatness it created for her and others.
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Episode 11: ​Rejection

Nobody likes to be rejected, right? Or is it just a lie you’ve bought? In this episode, Fiona talks to us about fearing rejection and gives us tools to help us let go of anticipating being rejected and choosing what is true for us.
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Episode 10: ​Disappearing

In this episode, Fiona talks about ‘disappearing from her life’ when things get ‘too difficult’ or crazy and shares with us brilliant tools to help us choose to be present in our lives rather than ‘disappearing’.
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Episode 9: Being Out in the World

In this episode, Fiona shares with us her journey to a whole different level of ‘shining beyond shy’.
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Episode 8: Demand

In this episode, Fiona shares with us her experiences of demanding more from herself and gives us tools to create the life we would like to be living beyond shyness.

Episode 7: No More Making Others Greater than You

In this episode, Fiona challenges us to let go of believing we are less than other people and to acknowledge our own greatness and potency to help create a kinder world with more consciousness.

Episode 6: ​No More Pathetic

In this episode, Fiona shares questions and tools that allow us to get out of feeling pathetic and overcome worries about what would happen if we let go these points of view.
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Episode 5: It’s All About Me

​In this episode, Fiona shares tools and questions to create new perspectives when we face difficult aspects about being shy.

Episode 4: What if I Don’t Know What To Say?

In this episode, Fiona gives us tools for when we don’t think we don’t know what to say, no matter what situations we find ourselves in.

Episode 3: What If Your Voice Matters in the world?

In this episode, Fiona  gives us the tools we require for gaining confidence in using our voices.

Episode 2: How to Thrive and Not Go to Shy

In this episode Fiona gives us tips and tools to use straight away to help us have ease with just being in the world and thrive rather than go to shyness.

Episode 1: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Shyness

In this episode we hear Fiona’s take on shyness and learning that it is possible to overcome shyness even when you don’t know how, using the tools of Access Consciousness’s Right Voice for You.

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