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CORDELIA GAFFAR
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CORDELIA GAFFAR
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PGMAG: Cordelia, welcome to today’s interview with Lady Anita.
CG: It is a joy and honour to be with you today.
PGMAG: Please briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
CG: I am the World’s Best and Ultimate Joy Monger. That means that I hold space for you to reveal your joy within. Joy Mongering is a word I created from several life experiences and based on my philosophy that self-nurturing is freedom. In fact my Replenish Me ™ process is to help you transmute fear, rage and anger into Joy. In one of my eight books, Detached Love: Transforming Your Heart Do That You Transform Your Mind, I break down the Replenish Me ™ process through my research, client stories and personal vulnerable shares.
I am also the host of three host podcasts: I collaborate as a co-host on Unlearning Labels and the Ultimate Coach Podcast and won Best Podcast Host for my solo show called Free to Be Show . I am a multidimensional genius and the mother of six children whom I homeschooled for 17 years. In summary, I have won multiple awards: Best Podcast Host of 2019 (with Powerhouse Global Magazine), Top National Influencer, Sexy Brilliant Leader, and inducted into the Global Library of Female Authors in 2020; and in 2021 nominated for Author of the Year and Health and Wellness Coach of the Year and won the Brainz Global 500 Award of Influencers and Entrepreneurs for 2021 so far in 2022 i have won BOOKS for PEACE award and CREA Award.
I have been featured on America Meditating Radio, British Muslim TV, Spirituality Podcast, Ultimate Coach Podcast, also featured on South African radio 786, and Fox News.
hello@cordeliagaffar.com
https://linktr.ee/cordeliagaffar
PGMAG: Congratulations on the success of your recently concluded retreat in Hawaii.
CG: Thank you! I was very transformative, restorative and empowering. I love being with and holding space for women when they are out of the comfort of their home and out of their comfort zone. Witnessing that allowance of being child-like and wild like is a complete joy! On my retreats, I take women through my Replenish Me process intimately connecting with the physical elements of fire (volcano), water (beach, lake or river), earth (sand, mountains or desert), air (breathwork with trees or other possibilities). The next one will be February 19-25, 2023 in St. Martin on the Dutch side.
This space is not for everyone. My work is not for the faint of heart. Imagine going deeply outside of your comfort zone:
☀ You are leaving your home and creature comforts
☀ You are leaving behind your emotional safety nets
☀ Your are leaving behind your judgement of yourself and others
☀ You are trusting the process
☀ You are trusting yourself
When have you been willing to shed all of your masks?
When have you unveiled?
If you are ready to do that work, The Replenish Me Process is for you. Be who you are in your heart of hearts before that thing, experience or choice to hide yourself happened. Even if you have been operating in a self- belief or self- image which burdens your soul for decades there is light within you. That well below the surface is ready to reveal itself.
PGMAG: As a leader, what were the top three books that changed your life?
CG: Power of Awareness by Neville Goddard, The Legs Are the Last to Go by Diahann Carroll and Right Now: Mastering the Beauty of the Present Moment by Steve Chandler
PGMAG: You are a great inspiration to many – especially women. What would you say has been your greatest motivation in your position as a coach and mentor?
CG:
PGMAG: Your book (Detached Love) is a powerful tool for personal growth. What inspired you to write this book?
CG: Thank you for acknowledging my book. I wrote this book to share the practical ways the Replenish Me ™ process has helped me overcome adversity in my life and how it can help you too.
PGMAG: Wow! The magic no ‘50’ is here with you – congratulations. How does it feel to arrive at this special age?
CG: I am grateful to reach 50 in full health and presence. I remember my own mother at fifty was quite delicate. I vowed that I would be fully healthy and able to play with my children, grandchildren and great-children. Of course, I only have children now and my oldest is 21 and not in the neighbourhood of entertaining marriage or motherhood.
PGMAG: Please tell us more about your show (Free To Be) …
CG: The purpose of the Free to Be Show is to question your concept of freedom; internally, externally and how you show it with it. Mostly, to be free I believe we must always seek opportunities to nurture your soul, mind, body and emotions.
When I started the show six year ago it was called the Replenish Me Show. What I discovered four years in was once I was replenished (fully - nurtured), I was free. Then I was curious what my new found freedom would bring. Those are the conversations and inquiries I invite my guests and listeners to. Thank you for joining in one of those conversations.
PGMAG: Finally, what would you say to your younger self?
CG: The younger me who chose to hide, I would say..”for your consideration go within but do not retreat from the world in shame only always for restoration”
PGMAG: Thank you for sharing your brilliance with us through this interview. We wish you continued success as you travel in life.
CG: I deeply appreciate you witnessing my journey, encouraging me and celebrating with me. May you elevate more souls to elevation of your own. I love you sister!
PGMAG: Thank you for inspiring me with your work. I love you too and it’s a great to see you in an elevated state of being. Please share your website/links with us.
CG: hello@cordeliagaffar.com
https://linktr.ee/cordeliagaffar
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-free-to-be-show/id1514962377
https://www.cordeliagaffar.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cordelia-gaffar/
