The Yes...And Podcast with Claire Darr · Claire Darr

Season 1. Episode 12. The Yes...And Podcast with Claire Darr and Special Guest Dr. Donna Elliott Co-Founder of Now Is Your Time

·1 hr 24 min·5 clips

Donna Elliott left her corporate job after a conversation that made her cry, leading to a coaching business in months.

This episode features host Claire Darr in conversation with her lifelong friend, coach, and business partner, Dr. Donna Elliott. They explore their decades-long friendship and the philosophy behind living a "yes and" life. Claire is a former corporate lawyer turned executive coach, while Donna is a coach and mentor who helps clients rewire their brains. The hosts recount growing up together in South Shields, UK, and how they envisioned a life beyond their circumstances despite no family history of university or business. Donna shares her journey of leaving a corporate career to start her coaching business after a period without contracts and an inspiring conversation with a health coach. Claire describes her initial coaching session with Donna seven years ago, where she sought to increase her income but instead confronted limiting beliefs about her body and self-worth. They discuss a client who left corporate to run a successful retreat business, now living a life without compromise. A key insight is their belief that desires and dreams are not accidental but signals of what is possible, and that people can choose their thoughts rather than being controlled by them. They emphasize that the "program" of negative self-talk is not the brain itself but a habitual pattern that can be changed. Donna references Neville Goddard and "A Course in Miracles," noting that limiting beliefs are "a crazy idea we forgot to laugh at." The hosts highlight the "ripple effect" of using one's unique gifts, arguing that divine compensation follows when people operate in their purpose. The tone is deeply conversational, intimate, and emotionally open, with the hosts frequently finishing each other's sentences and sharing personal anecdotes. The style is motivational and infused with spiritual and self-help concepts, avoiding a formal or structured interview format. Listeners interested in personal development, life coaching, and stories of transformative friendship would enjoy this episode. Those seeking highly structured, data-driven content or who are skeptical of spiritual and mindset-based approaches might prefer to skip it.

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A warm, unhurried conversation about building a life that fits.

Claire Darr talks with Dr. Donna Elliott about what it takes to build a life that feels honest. The conversation moves from Claire's former corporate-law life to coaching, then into body image, limiting beliefs, and the harder work of naming what has been buried.

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For when you want a warm, reflective conversation about saying yes to change.

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