Samantha Layton-Matthews
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Consulting |
| Occupation | Development Consultant and Coach, Writer |
| Location | Benoni, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Introduction | With each meander and turn in the road, Samantha questions her sense of purpose. She brings her creative spirit into her personal and professional life. As a business and life coach, she enjoys working with individuals and teams, enabling them to work towards self-actualisation. As a mother, she explores the world through the eyes of her young son. As wife, sister, daughter and friend, she realises the beauty of relationships in enhancing her spirit. |
| Interests | Reading, writing, informally researching interesting historical stories of interest, painting, calligraphy, meeting good friends for coffee, traveling, being a mother, watching movies |
| Favorite movies | Brideshead revisited, Tea with Mussolini,Chocolat, Mrs Brown, Miss Henderson presents (Anything with Judi Dench), Pride and prejudice, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Room with a view, Remains of the Day, Howard's End, Shadowlands, Il Postino, Malena, Cinema Parediso, Under the Tuscan son, Shadow of the sun, Hotel du Lac, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Miss Austen regrets, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, Life as a house, The Emperor's Club, Immortal Beloved, Out of Africa |
| Favorite music | Beethoven, Katie Mehlua, Jack Johnson, James Blunt, Loreena McKennitt, various classical pieces, Stacey Kent,Joshua Bell |
| Favorite books | The thirteenth tale by Diane Setterfield, The house at Riverton by Kate Morton, I heard the owl call my name by Margaret Craven, Chocolat and Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris, Holy Food by Joanne Harris, A time of angels by Patricia Schonstien, Here be dragons by Sharon Penman, People of the book by Geraldine Brooks, Her fearful symetry by Audrey Niffenegger, The olive farm series by Carol Drinkwater, The bread of angels by Stephanie Saldanha, Traveling with pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor, The secret lives of bees and the mermaid chair by Sue Monk Kidd, Miss Garnett's Angel by Salley Vickers, To heaven by water and The song before it is sung by Justin Cartwright, Quarter Tones by Susan Mann, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, The blue bedroom and other stories by Rosamunde Pilcher, A word child by Iris Murdoch, The Zahir by Paulo Coelho, Inscape chronicles - sketch your year in poetry by Anne-Marie Moore, Celebrations by Maya Angelou, |