INSPIRATIONAL INTERVIEWS
RAW-NOT RESEARCHED-REAL LIFE STORIES. Jen Rodd interviews people blindly. The aim is to discover who her guests are and why they are on this earth! Bigger purpose - To Inspire! The Conversation can go anywhere. Sometimes be a bit awkward, searching and intense. You can't just get to the truth with a straightforward question. Tune In, Share and feel free to Subscribe.
Episodes
Getting into the Mental and Emotion Fabric of Thomas Wilken, a Young Zambian Man who has dedicated his life to Professional Hunting and Conservation.
Hunting is a controversial subject, globally. It presents some major pro's and con's. Like many industries in life. The Fashion Industry to mention one.
My role as the Founder of Inspirational Interviews, and the Host of the show, is to provide the platform...
We learn about life through the voice of a South African healer and Sangoma. Fortunate Rakgomo shares how dark her life started out.
She was seven years old when she was raped. She had never shared this story with anybody until she was an adult. Along the journey this incident manifested and when she was a young lady she tried to commit suicide.
All the stories on the show are inspirational and empowering. ...
With the current war in the Ukraine, I felt so strongly that I needed to reach out to someone from the Ukraine and have them on the show. It was just too dominant in my heart to keep sharing life stories and not hear a story from the Ukraine.
Join me in listening to Olga Williams life story. Olga is from the Ukraine, moved to London and met her, now South African husband. They Moved to South Africa and started to raise a...
A spark of authenticity and light. For me this was just a wonderful, and most interesting conversation. Speaking with Creative souls is always a music to my ears. When someone commits their life to a creative process, and they are truly immersed, mind, body and soul into what they do, this for me, is the sweet spot of all life stories.
Join me in meeting Alun Richards, a South African Internationally Recognised, Multiple Times...
Eve Solomons, the winner of Mrs Johannesburg - South Africa, talks to us about her life story. Why would someone want to become a Mrs.... Pageant? What inspires a mother and wife to enter the Mrs Johannesburg and win! Eve Speaks with a smile on her face throughout the conversation. It was a delight to have her in the studio with me.
Find Eve Solomons here https://www.instagram.com/eve_solomons/
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The most extraordinary conversation with a clairvoyant. Katherine Lee-Kruger shares her life story with me. When she discovered that she was a clairvoyant, and how she navigated this rare gift throughout her life. This is a profound conversation about love, loss, spirituality, just being normal!! Insecurities, suicide, trauma, and doing what you love in life. All Inspiring!
Katherine also opens to her own vulnerabilities, an...
All Inspiring to hear how Greg Jacobsen turns his life around. He was addicted to Drugs and Alcohol and Lies. One day, his suicide attempt failed horribly, and there was no further down the rocks he could go, He was at the bottom. We hear how he had to face the truth, and from that point on, start to see and feel the magic of life.
Now Greg heel others who need it.
As I always say, I would far rather receive h...
Nico Van Niekerk had a motorcycling accident. He woke up five weeks later from his coma, to find he only had one leg, and one arm.
I was just so inspired by the ease at which Nico approached this traumatic incident. He just like you and me have dreams to make this life time count for something, find out in the two part series how Nico looks back on the past and how he is going to be brave now in this predicament with on...
I was just so inspired by the ease at which Nico approached this traumatic incident in his life, and still continues to do so.
He, just like you and me, has dreams and ambitions to make this lifetime count for something.
In this TWO PART EPISODE, Look back with us o...
Changing career doesn't always have to be complicated!
Chris transitioned into a completely new career from a logistics and technical environment to becoming a Bush Guide. Moving From a career in the City to a career in the Bush, otherwise known as Safari Life .
Normally change can be so scary! Be inspired by a certain level of ease at how Chris approaches the change.
Look Chris up here:
https://w...
How do we snap out of this victim mindset? Move From Corporate to Creating Your Own Creative Purpose In Life?
We can hold onto our negative past or grab onto everything that's out there.
Meet Nolan Pillay, he failed school, and feeling so ashamed, he tried to commit suicide. Thankfully, he survived and got a second chance.
But then, what do you do? Walk around with your tail between your legs? Or, out ...
We all have a past. Some of us are desperate to put it behind us and be the person we want to be, and not the person we were born into being.
Some make it, some don't! Why?
What does it take to remove yourself from your past and create the person you want to be?
Try something you have never done before, run away from abuse, face the music from long ago, to enjoy the music in the present!
A most candi...
Meet Jeffrey Morse. He suffered an aneurysm. After days of migraines, he saw the doctor and he was told he had 25% chance of living. After being rushed into the hospital, the next thing he knew, he woke up paralysed!
Like any life story, there is always so much more to a person than just one story. We learn how his childhood could have led Jeffrey to make the wrong choices in his adult life, especially at these times whe...
All he wanted to do was to compete for his country. He made one wrong decision, going against his gut instinct , and he ended up upside down, in a car, paralysed!
Meet South African Fitness Sportsman, Marco Pietrowski, now, a walking quadriplegic.
Find out why some people who do end up paralysed, do in fact start to walk again.
Marco shares his whole life story with us, giving us a beautiful picture int...
How do you cope with life, and climb to the top of your ladder when your dad is murdered and your brother commits suicide! How do you cope at all? Meet a "Burnt Chef" Halima Ferreira - works as a Private Chef for the richest of the rich.
An unfiltered and enlightening conversation with a Burnt Chef - Halima Ferreira, who shares her life story.
Beware, there is no filter to this discussion about the chef in...
But then I thought, I didn't come here to NOT make it back from this dive, so hold on, lets reevaluate this situation."
Meet Karen van den Oever, South African, World Record, Deep Water Cave Diver. Breaking the world record at 236 Meters.
She Lives to Tell Her Courageous Tale, where ...
Being truly open is not easy. Most people fear the natural flow of a conversation because it can lead to certain truths which can scare and shock them.
Known Artist, Linsey Levendall is a brave and enlightened soul who shares his turbulent and beautiful life story.
Hearing him talk about growing up on the poorer & rougher side of Cape Town, to moving to Canada as an adult, we are absorbed and educated in his ...
We all have dreams, but do we go to all measures to make them come true?
Regardless of the people around us? Kenneth's dad left when he was a little boy. This had a major impact on his perception of the word.
He got into a lot of trouble throughout his life.
But, he had a dream, and we learn how in persisting to make this dream come true, that dreams do come true, but in his case, it got really messy!
H...
Magda is a true gem! Growing up in Indonesia, she was one of eleven siblings. After they were separated from their father, their mother and them were all put into the Japanese Concentration Camps in Indonesian, and thankfully, they all survived.
Learning to brave the harshness of starvation, and having to learn to cope with life in war- Magda Cramer shares her whole life story with us.
We learn her wise approach t...
Dedicating your life to something that speaks directly to your heart and the minds inquisition is outstanding and brilliant!
To then be ostracized and bullied away from doing what you love, because your brilliance and transparency starts to threaten powerful countries and people in power.
China, this is a big pill to swallow!
What do you do next? Become Vulnerable? Fight Back? Or use your mind in a diffe...
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