Gayle Berry is a certified baby massage and yoga practitioner, a business mentor to other women, the founder of a charity, and an all-around force of nature. Over the course of their conversation, she shares with Mighty Pete the strange path that took her from being a finance lawyer in London UK to becoming the founder and CEO of Blossom & Berry Baby Massage. Along the way she discusses passion and parenthood, how to find your driving force in life, and what the true definition of success might be.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Understanding that growing your business isn’t always vertical, or linear. Gayle describes how it took 20 years for Blossom & Berry Baby Massage & Yoga to get to the place it is today: as her children have grown, so has her business. Her experience raising her children has informed how she runs her businesses.
• She believes entrepreneurship is a catalyst for connection, contribution, and community.
• Delegation – she advises that, as soon as you have the spare financial resources, to start removing things in your business that feel heavy, or difficult, or suck your time and energy, because you are so much better placed in your ‘genius zone’.
• Don’t waste your life and think “one day, I’ll do this”. She recounts how her husband and the father of her children, a previously healthy marathon runner, suddenly had a stroke at age 39. This reinforced to Gayle how none of us have control over what happens to us in life and helped her focus on her own path.

BEST MOMENTS

• “The more you know yourself, the more you trust yourself, the more you become that authentic style of parent. Everyone is in a different place on that and there’s no judgment on that, at all, because you can only be the parent of the person that you are … you don’t suddenly become Mary Poppins, then go, ‘okay, I don’t get irritated by a two-year-old who won’t put their shoes on.’ Of course, you do! … It’s about being mindful about owning what’s yours.”
• “I’m very much a present moment kind of person. I don’t try to know what’s coming too much in the future, and the past is gone.”
• “Success is enjoying your life and having the freedom to choose what you wish to do.”
• “Being constantly conscious of everything that you do is not coming from a place of fixing or ego, it’s coming from a place of co-creation.”

ABOUT THE GUEST

Gayle Berry is first and foremost a mother of three, and she credits her experience of motherhood as the catalyst in helping her find her true path in life. In her early 20s, her first career was that of a finance lawyer in London, but she constantly felt awkward and inauthentic in that role. It was after the birth of her first child, Emily, where she discovered baby massage, as a method of trying to calm her colicky baby. That was the genesis of her company Blossom & Berry. Over the last 20 years, as she raised her children, she grew and developed her vision for her company: now she helps train other women in baby massage and yoga, she runs a charity for mothers in Malawi, and she tries to bring love and connection to everything that she does.

CONTACT METHOD

Blossom & Berry Website: https://www.blossomandberry.com/

Blossom & Berry’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/globalinfantmassagetraining

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamgayleberry/

Blossom and Berry’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blossomandberrybabymassage/

Linktree: https://www.linktr.ee/gayleberry

ABOUT THE HOST

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 beau98tiful girls. Pete’s background is in project management and property, but his true passion is the ‘Fire in The Belly’ project itself. His mission is to help others find their potential and become the mightiest version of themselves. Pete openly talks about losing both of his parents, suffering periods of depression, business downturn and burn-out, and ultimately his years spent not stoking ‘Fire in the Belly’. In 2017, at 37 years of age that changed, and he is now on a journey of learning, growing, accepting, and inspiring others.

Pete can connect with people and intuitively asks questions to reveal a person’s passion and discover how to live their mightiest life. The true power of ‘Fire in The Belly’ is the Q&A’s - Questions and Actions section.

The ‘Fire in The Belly’ brand and the programme is rapidly expanding into podcasts, seminars, talks, business workshops, development courses, and rapid results mentoring.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.facebook.com/mightypetelonton/

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mightypete

https://www.facebook.com/groups/430218374211579/