EP037 | From People Pleasing to Personal Freedom with Nicola Cameron

About this episode

Nicola Cameron shares her journey from people pleasing to finding personal freedom and joy in her life.

In this episode: Do you ever feel like you’re at the bottom of a never-ending to-do list that’s full of other people’s priorities and tasks? That was exactly where my guest, Nicola Cameron , found herself. A solicitor by profession, Nicola had built a life that looked successful from the outside, but underneath she was completely disconnected from her own wants and needs. After literally Googling “how do you know who you are?” , Nicola began an incredible transformation. Today, she’s still a solicitor by day, but by night she’s a published romance author with 11 novellas to her name (under her pen name Mia Coco Lanner ), and she sings, dances and performs in musical theatre too! In this inspiring conversation, Nicola shares how she let go of guilt, perfectionism and other people’s expectations to create a “first-class life” designed around her joy. - - - 𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗜𝗢: Nicola Cameron is a solicitor by day and a romance writer and star of the stage by night. She is the author of eleven romance novellas and with a series about six mountain men looking for wives for Christmas in the works, she can confirm that she very much living her best life.  Nicola has gone from being…

People in this episode

Host: Alison O'Leary

Guest: Nicola Cameron

Topics covered

• personal freedom
• self-discovery
• career transformation
• creativity
• overcoming perfectionism

Keywords

• people pleasing
• personal freedom
• self improvement
• romance author
• musical theatre

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