This Messy, Beautiful Life

I’m so honoured to share this beautiful chat between two mama’s all about healing our heart and body after birth. As a previous Midwife, Registered Nurse, Bodytalk practitioner and now Holistic Pelvic Care Practitioner and Restorative Pilates Instructor, Prudence Todd (a mama of 4!) helps women heal their heart and body after birth trauma with her online and in person healing sessions.  

Although I wouldn’t have considered giving birth to my daughter to be particularly traumatic in itself, I now acknowledge that there are elements of trauma around my pregnancy and birth that deserve to be honoured, acknowledge and grieved. And you know that I’m so here for sharing these stories and talking about the things we don’t talk about enough!

In this episode, Prudence and I chat about: 

• Our individual and very different birth stories, with both resulting in trauma, grief and requiring significant healing
• What birth trauma is and why it may be different (or more broad) than what you think
• How Prudence works with her clients to support them post birth and processing trauma
• The importance of prioritising ourselves as mama’s including treating ourselves with love and compassion
• How to tune in and listen to our body and what she needs (including a practical example of how to do this in any moment)
• Navigating relationships through parenting and dealing with our own layers of trauma

Prudence Todd is the Founder of Your Womanhood and deeply passionate about women’s experience of womanhood, birth and beyond. She specialises in guiding women to reconnect with their bodies, access their intuitive wisdom and medicine within and in turn heal pelvic floor trauma and dysfunction. Prudence believes our womanhood is the portal to so much that rests within in us and that birth and pelvic floor dysfunction calls us home to address these issues. Prudence loves to gather women together across cultures and generations to share wisdoms and give language to what women experience in their body’s as a birthing woman. Prudence loves surfing with her family, spending time with their new puppy and being in nature.

Prudence has also kindly offered a 10% discount to listeners of This Messy, Beautiful life. Please mention the podcast at the time of booking to take advantage of this beautiful offer.

Connect with Prudence here

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prudence.todd.5?mibextid=LQQJ4d

Free fb support group for women want to heal after birth trauma

https://www.facebook.com/groups/healafterbirthtrauma/?ref=share_group_link

Free 30min connect call for women to debrief / begin their healing

This week’s episode is a very personal and inspiring chat with Carrie Serati Gobble who shares her story of growing up with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and requiring a bi-lateral lung transplant by the age of 27.

Carrie’s optimistic outlook on life in the face of significant health challenges and a shortened life expectancy, is nothing short of remarkable and I’m sure, like me, you will be inspired to go out and make the most of your day after listening to this beautiful, authentic and vulnerable chat.

Carrie shares her very personal story, including:

• Growing up with CF, including how her diagnosis of CF came with a litany of treatments to help keep her alive. Despite CF coming with a shortened life expectancy, Carrie talks about how she lived her life as parallel to other kids as possible.
• The lead up to her double lung transplant including the fears and reality of facing such a significant procedure at a young age, while knowing it was the thing that would save her life  Life post her double lung transplant and what she sees as her second chance at life, including meeting her now husband Gary who was her mentor (these two have such a sweet love story that will warm your heart!)
• The numerous complications with her health since the lung transplant, including new diagnoses, but sees her experiences as fuel to help others navigate their own health concerns.
• Her passion for mentoring, and the volunteer work she does with local chapters of organizations supporting organ transplant, cystic fibrosis and the transplant program where she received her life saving lung transplant.
• The importance of mental health awareness and professional support in the medical system    
• Her heartfelt request for people to consider the gift of organ donation.

Carrie Serati Gobble is a true warrior and survivor. Carrie uses her health experiences as a platform for personal advocacy when it comes to managing your own health care and is aiming to push for mental health professionals to be a part of the lung transplant program staff. Seeing a real need to assist patients enduring post traumatic stress due to complications with medical procedures as well as to help patients navigate a life they didn't foresee after their transplant. Carries does it all with a sense of humor and humility that has been learned over time. As well as with the support of her family, friends, health care providers, and most importantly her husband Gary.

Connect with Carrie here

facebook.com/carrie.seratigobble

@eyeceebeauty for IG and TikTok

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Today I’m speaking with Chelsea Webster all about personal power and how we can take it back to find purpose in life. This is such an important topic and something I believe we don’t talk about enough.

Giving away our personal power tends to happen over time and can sneak up on us. It’s when we make choices to abandon our own wants, needs and values and put the needs and opinions of others ahead of our own, leading to resentment, frustration and burnout.

In this chat, Chelsea and I cover:

· Some of the ways we give away our personal power, where it stems from and how it shows up

· Some of the signs you may have given away your personal power

· Steps to take to start taking back your personal power

· The power of epigenetics and clearing limiting beliefs

· The importance and value of understanding our individual humanness and unique needs

Chelsea is a Mum of two teenagers and a Registered Nurse who has worked in the healthcare industry for 20 years. Over her time in the Health care industry, she’s experienced challenging workplace cultures and personalities which left her frustrated, burnt out and overwhelmed. This led her to gain qualifications in the field of emotional healthcare and to start Create Your Glow. She now works with and empowers frustrated, burnt out and overwhelmed women to uncover and eliminate their limiting beliefs and emotions which allows them to live the life they deserve and find their inner glow!

It's finally here...the long awaited life update, alongside some big life lessons and reflections that have already dropped in for 2023!

As you may know, we've been travelling as a family since June 2022 and as the new year was upon us (and the longest time we thought we'd be away was upon us), we had a big decision to make! Where to next? Back to Australia? On to somewhere new? Or commit to settling in the place we've loved most in our travels? I'm sharing the big and exciting decision we made and all of the fun things that come with it!

Alongside that big decision, this year has already been a time for deep reflection and big realisations. For taking a further step back from the online world, a pause in podcasting and more time to focus on real life...family, friends and most importantly prioritising me! The online world is proving more and more challenging for many people, and I share my thoughts on what's (often unfairly) expected of us in this world and why I'm taking an even bigger step back. 

I also share how I've realised that the amount of time, energy and attention I've been giving to others is partly related to my trauma response and is in at least a small part (maybe more!) allowing me to distract from truly focusing on myself, my self care and my healing. So I'm saying enough is enough and declaring that 2023 is going to be all about me!

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Website www.hivecollective.com.au

Here’s another fabulous guest episode that was originally recorded in my (now closed) Facebook Group, The Consciousness Collective and now coming to you via the podcast!

Talking and learning about energy is one of my favourite things, because for so long I had no idea about the importance and existence of energy. Finding out about it explained a lot of previously inexplainable things for me; like why I seemed to feel other people’s emotions or why some environments made me feel really icky (and not because I was some precious princess!).

This episode will especially resonate for those who sit on the more sensitive and/or intuitive end of the scale, but I think everyone will enjoy this chat with Sam, Energy Healer and Psychic where we talk about how energy really is everything!

Sam and I cover:

• Energy healing modalities
• Being your own energy healer
• The importance of decluttering things (and people!) from your life to call in wonderful and aligned abundance including money, jobs and relationships
• Tips for tapping into, and managing your own energy

Ok, so I know I've been promising a life update for a while now, but TBH life and things are changing at such a rapid pace I'm just not in a position to properly share. BUT, I promise when I'm ready I'll be in here to share with you all the updates, along with the inevitable life lessons that come along with it!

In the meantime I wanted to share this short episode with you. It was originally recorded as an IG live around the time when we were preparing to leave Australia last year,  with the lessons contained in it, just as relevant to this day.

I talk all about the notion of busy-ness and how changing my mindset and the stories I was telling myself about how busy I was, has contributed to changing the way I operate in life and business. It was off the back of a very "busy" week, where I gained some incredibly valuable insights and in real time was learning how to let go of the "busy badge" that I held on to for so long.

Perfect for anyone who gets caught up in the busyness of what needs to be done, or a nice little reminder for those of us who have made conscious changes in this space, but slip up from time to time ;) 

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This week we’re back with my first guest episode for the year, a positive and abundant chat with Petia Kolibova, an alignment women’s coach who guides women to intuitively connect with their inner vision so they can experience personal and professional magnetism and become unapologetically abundant.

In the earlier decades of her life, Petia let the stories about who she was and how she came to be overshadow her, leading to unhappiness, unhealthy relationships with others and herself and a lot of time running away. It wasn’t until she realised that these stories were not her truth that she began to heal and open herself up to remembering who she truly was.

Petia and I talk all about:

• Shedding the stories that shape us, because we are not our stories, but if we let them they can take over our life
• Creating sacred pause in our day, week and life (I simply love this notion, you're going to want to implement this one!)
• Choosing how we feel in any moment and using this to guide us in our dreams, goals, and actions
• Starting the year with intention, while also being gentle with yourself and doing it in a way that works for you
• Creating balance between the sacred masculine and feminine in life and business and why it’s so important

Petia’s mission is to empower visionaries who are on the path to embody their fullest self-expression to soulfully expand into a quantum leap in all dimensions of their lives. Petia gives immense clarity + exact steps to unlock women’s divine feminine and abundance mindset. Through subconscious work as a certified breathwork facilitator, reiki, NLP & Human Design practitioner, she leads her 6 and 7 figure clients to their next level in life and business. If she is not interviewing fellow experts on her podcast Unapologetically Abundant, you’ll find her traveling the world with her husband, hosting retreats, or reading.

Connect with Petia here

Abundance Activation Process: https://petiakolibova.com/abundance-activation-process/

Website: www.petiakolibova.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/petiakolibova

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Website www.hivecollective.com.au

Hello 2023, and welcome back to Season 2 of This Messy, Beautiful Life!

I have a beautiful visualisation meditation to share with you and support you in your 2023 visioning and goal setting process. No matter where you are in the process, this meditation will provide you with an opportunity to reflect on the year that’s been, leave it behind (with love) and welcome 2023 with a clear vision of what you’d like to achieve this year. (Also, if you're listening back to this episode, it's relevant for any new year and/or at a time when you're honouring endings and beginnings)

I recommend finding a quiet space and at least 30/40 minutes, which includes time after the mediation do some journalling. In your journalling, reflect on what came up for you during the visioning visualisation. Let it all flow out and this can either be the beginning of your 2023 vision, or support the work you've already done.

The meditation starts at 06:21.

Rest & Reset Retreat - 27 -31 March 2023

I'm excited to announce that the Rest & Reset Retreat is now on sale! If you're ready to honour your need for rest, join us in Bali from 27 -31 March 2023 for a five day luxurious and transformative experience, focused on slowing down and nurturing your mind, body and soul.  First release Early Bird Tickets are available, and you can save up to $350 off the full ticket price by using the code "EARLYBIRD". Check out all the details here https://www.hivecollective.com.au/retreats

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Website www.hivecollective.com.au

If you’ve been on this journey with me for a while, you know that I’ve been questioning the impact of the online coaching industry and my role in it for a while now. I know that I’m not alone in this feeling, both from conversations I’ve been having and other people speaking out on social media. This chat today is a deep dive with another fabulous coach who has also been questioning the lack of humanity and in same cases the questionable ethics of what she sees online. 

Rachel Kurzp is a marketing coach, copywriter, speaker and teacher. She supports multi-passionate women to build an aligned, ethical and profitable business without having to choose between their passions, compromise their values, and use unethical marketing tactics.

With the new year around the corner, if you've been thinking about working with a coach in 2023, you're going to want to listen to this episode, where Rachel and I talk all about:

• Honouring our individual humanity in everything that we do.
• The promises that are made by some online coaches, the reason why they don’t sit right with us and are in some cases what we would consider unethical.
• Why copying someone else’s pathway to success isn’t likely to work for you, and how damaging it can be to our sense of worth when we feel like we're dong "everything we've been told" but we're not seeing results.
• The importance of values, boundaries and ethics in making decisions from a place of integrity and alignment.
• How privilege is rife in the online coaching and spiritual/manifestation space.
• The money mindset/stories that we carry and why choosing a coach who promises certain financial outcomes might not be the best choice.

Rachel also shares her journey from being homeless at 17 and the life choices she’s made as a result, predominantly from a place of strong belief that she was worthy and deserved a better life.

Rachel Kurzp has helped over 3,000 creative entrepreneurs gain financial freedom in their businesses, enabling them to make a positive contribution to the world. Rachel resisted speaking about her background for so long because her story doesn’t fit nicely into the ‘rags to riches’ narrative we hear so often, as those stories always left her feeling deflated wondering why she hadn’t had the ‘holy aha moment’ that set her on a new path.

But after sharing her journey privately with her clients and community she realised they didn’t want an over-simplified, highlight reel. They wanted to understand the life-long work that goes into creating a purposeful live and aligned business.

Connect with Rachel here

This week's episode is drawing a connection back to my second episode, The Joy of Slowing Down (Part 2) where I share with you, just how important slowing down has become to me in the past 12 months. What started this time last year as my "33 days of joy" has become a full blown commitment to myself, as well as supporting others in honouring our need for rest.

I have such a deep belief that taking the time to slow down is essential in any journey of healing. Because if we can't take the time to pause, be present and connect to our mind, body and soul, then we're unlikely to be able to cultivate the type of awareness to really tune into what we want and need in our own healing. If you're resisting the urge to slow down, it's an invitation to check in with yourself as to what you might be avoiding. Believe me, I've been there many times.

I talk about the universe's little nudge (ahem, push down the stairs!) to remind me to slow down, the experiment I've undertaken these past few weeks to really challenge myself to slow down (I've done WAY less work hours and achieved WAY more by honouring my need for rest than I was sitting at my computer for hours on end) and the reasons why slowing down and taking time to rest is so good for our nervous system.

The Joy of Slowing Down Masterclass

If you're keen to know more about The Joy of Slowing Down, join me for my free masterclass next Thursday 10:00am AWST / 1:00pm AEDT where we will explore this topic more deeply, including a beautiful live meditation to support us in slowing down and honouring our need for rest. Even if you can't make it live (I get it, it's the week before Christmas), please register and you will be sent the recording link. Grab your spot here https://calendly.com/hivecollective/masterclass-the-joy-of-slowing-down

Bali Retreats March 2023

And if you're really ready to honour your need for rest, join us in Bali in March 2023 for a 5 day luxurious and transformative experience, focused on slowing down and honouring your mind, body and soul.  The waitlist closes this Friday 16 December, so get your name on the list ASAP to access the VIP early bird price which provides you with more than $600 off the full ticket price. First release general tickets will be available from the following week, but if you're considering this experience getting your name on the list now is well worth the savings you will make, not to mention having first access to these limited release tickets! https://www.hivecollective.com.au/retreats

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Website www.hivecollective.com.au

Lu Bryant is an author, Reiki Master, Priest, Certified Neurolinguistic Programming Practitioner, EFT (Tapping) Practitioner and Master Life Coach specialising in overcoming invalidations and raising self-esteem. This episode is Lu's personal story of tremendous resilience, bravery and sheer determination to heal herself through incredible adversity. 

Trigger Warning: This episode contains personal experiences of significant childhood physical, emotional abuse and rape that may be triggering to some people. Please proceed with care and if anything in this episode triggers you, please reach out to a mental health professional for support. If you do not have access to your own individual support or need more immediate support, in Australia, call Lifeline is 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636. If you live elsewhere, please get in contact with your local mental health crisis support helpline.

Lu takes us on a journey through her incredibly traumatic childhood, all through the lens of the power of sound for healing. She was 12 years old when she got her hands on a 12 string guitar and the strumming of the guitar and the sound resonated through her body in a way she didn’t quite understand at the time. She now understands why this was so supportive in her healing, alongside a deep connection (and escape) into nature.

She shares her very personal and vulnerable story of overcoming tremendous adversity, long term, deep healing from complex PTSD and the sheer determination and courage she has to not give up.

We talk about the power of sound and music, science behind why and sound healing works, nature, spirituality, faith, near death experiences, experimenting with different healing modalities, sound and light therapy, Holosync and the concept of feedback rather than failure, writing a book, therapy and understanding and treating complex PTSD.

How do you just be you? It might seem like a bit of a silly question, but because of the work I do, I know that so many of us have lost touch with who we truly are (hey, it happened to me too!). If this idea resonates with you, then you’re going to love this chat with my guest Marissa Hamon talking all things finding and being YOU!

Marissa is a Life Coach who helps people take responsibility for themselves, so they show up as their best self and create their ideal life.

Talking all things self-love aka self-responsibility and truly loving and taking care about ourselves on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level), Marissa and I explore:

• How Marissa discovered who she was, what lights her up and what led her to become a life coach
• Finding peace through chaos, the human experience and realising that we never really arrive, but how important it is to enjoy the ride
• How we’ve lost touch with who we are, disconnected from our true selves through conditioning and the expectations of the outside world
• The impact of growing up in a religious family, how it taught Marisa to be someone other than her true self and how she is overcoming that
• Body image and the pressure to look a certain way to be loved and accepted
• How deeply our mind, body and soul holds on to the things we’ve learnt and experienced over time, creates beliefs and has reactions, that are not necessarily reflective of our true self
• Why self-compassion is so important but challenging for many of us
• Feeling and releasing emotions so as not to store them in our body

All of this adding up to how you can be more YOU!

Marissa has personally dealt with limiting beliefs, depression, emotional and binge eating, body shame, not being able to love and accept herself, and feelings of powerlessness, unworthiness, and not being good enough. Because of her own healing journey, she knows that it is possible to heal, overcome any life difficulties, and live a happy, joyful, fulfilled life with commitment, the right tools, and support.

Marissa now helps others find the right tools for self awareness and self management on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels so they too can love themselves, create their Ideal Life, and be excited to live!!

Connect with Marissa here

Welcome back to another delightful guest episode of the podcast. Oh my I'm really on a roll here...I've been talking with awesome humans about all things connecting to ourself and following our own path and today you're getting even more goodness! My next guest is Lisa Philyaw, a Career, Leader, and Business Coach who focuses on helping her clients do their work, their way, with soul. 

This episode is also going to appear on Lisa’s podcast, Your Work Your Way (go check it out!) and we explore the concept of strengthening our intuition and tapping into the soul’s inner wisdom, including;

• Lisa’s personal experience with anxiety and sleeplessness, and how she learnt to manage and overcome it in her life and work
• How telling ourselves our problem isn’t as bad as others, is not only unhelpful but damaging to our healing and why self-compassion is so important
• The difference between thinking we have control vs having the power to make a choice
• Meeting ourselves where we’re at, taking back our power and finding our own way
• The concept of intuition, how it can show up differently for each of us, as well as the connection between intuition, anxiety, fear and ego
• Understanding the brain, body, soul connection, developing a deeper connection with ourselves through understanding of what’s happening in our body and how we can use it to our advantage
• Feeling into what intuition means for each of us, being curious and open hearted about exploring it, while being open to receiving signs and seeing how it shows up for you
• Our personal experience of the difference between religion and spirituality, and how we’ve both come back to our own spirituality
• The importance of genuine connection and creating community with like-minded people

As a coach, it’s Lisa’s mission in life to help others trust themselves so they can take charge of their career. She uses her Master’s in Industrial Organisational Psychology (psychology applied to the workplace), life coach certification, and experience as a Learning and Development Consultant and Communication Trainer to provide clients with the tools, guidance, and insight to access their own brilliance.

Connect with Lisa here

This week’s guest episode is another wonderful conversation about uncomplicating our life through healing and following our passion with Ambila Nath, a serial entrepreneur, certified coach, spiritual teacher, international speaker and an avid follower of her passions.

In this episode, we chat about:

• Ambila’s philosophy that life isn't complicated, we are! And what happens when we work on ourself…the external world begins to look different.
• Making the transition from the corporate world to following her passion and purpose, alongside managing pressure from a family who had different views on her role and purpose in life.
• Creating a community of our own and finding somewhere we belong.
• Creating harmony between strategy and spirituality in life and business.
• Levelling up and developing a greater skillset to manage ourself, our healing and any resistance that comes up
• How small daily habits can change your whole life; the importance of small, consistent changes to support our bigger goals.
• How Ambila supports her clients, combining spirituality and strategy and the power of her 8-step Elevation process

With a corporate background in management consulting, Ambila is far from your stereotypical Spiritual Coach. She went from a 6-figure corporate job to having a spiritual business. She has worked with clients spanning 4 Continents and she knows that the greatest journey you can take is the one to build a relationship with yourself.

Ambila helps her clients to fall in love with their business again by aligning their energy, shifting their mindset and creating positive daily habits to grow their business using her 8-step Elevation process.

Connect with Ambila here

You probably know by now how passionate I am about living an intentional life and doing things your own way, and I think it’s fair to say that my guest today is equally as passionate about it! Candice Smiley is a mama, speaker, writer, blogger, social marketer, host of Create the Ripple Podcast and essentialist who loves to engage in interesting conversations. And this chat we had was definitely one of those!

This episode is also going to appear on Candice’s podcast, Create the Ripple (go check it out!) and we dive into some deep conversations about what it means to live life our own way including:

• Trusting the niggle (which Candice says is always an inconvenient truth!)
• The journey of healing from trauma, including holding ourselves during healing and emerging on the other side.
• Radical forgiveness, acceptance, grace, self-compassion and self-love
• Embracing the dark days.
• How we’re (literally) putting ourselves in boxes.
• How Candice embraces essentialism (having what you want, but having less of it, so you can have better) including living in a tiny home and the importance of who and what you surround yourself with.
• The anxiety of things (possessions).
• Doing things that don’t make sense to other people, but knowing it’s right for you, by tuning into what we want and what makes us happy. Setting boundaries with people when they express their “concern” because your choices make them uncomfortable.
• The lie we’ve been told about how we’re "supposed to be" living our life
• Embracing the duality and contradictions of life (eg. The masculine and feminine, the yin and yang that we all have within us).
• Why we both think it’s important to share our stories, especially the messy, beautiful bits.
• Not being modelled healthy intimate relationships when we’re growing up, including the different types of love, how to love, what “good” love looks like and the work it can take to make a relationship work.

Candice Smiley has learned the power of saying no, listening to your own heart and speaks openly about subtle abuse as it occurs in relationships - personally and professionally. She’s become a voice for listening to your own truth and speaking it clearly, powerfully - at home, at work and in your life. Candice’s favourite conversations are the ones that take courage to engage in.

Candice spends her time living in a tiny home (250 sq ft) with her family, traveling, speaking and sharing candidly with others how to live life after betrayal, to trust themselves, to speak up for themselves and set powerful boundaries.

Connect with Candice here

Website: https://www.candicesmiley.com/

Podcast: https://www.candicesmiley.com/podcast-archive

Blog: https://www.candicesmiley.com/blog

Contact: createtheripple@gmail.com

Social Links: https://www.tiktok.com/@candicesmiley.com?

LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/candicesmiley

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

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CandiceSmiley/videos

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Website www.hivecollective.com.au

This week we’re talking all things therapy, astrology, empathy and self-forgiveness and the power of understanding where Chiron sits in our astrological chart, with therapist and author Lisa Tahir.

With something for everyone, this wonderful chat is all about the blending of therapy and astrology for healing and growth. 

Come join Lisa and I as we chat about;

• Lisa’s Psychoastrology framework and her book The Chiron Effect: Healing Our Core Wounds through Astrology, Empathy, and Self-Forgiveness which helps people identify their patterns and decode them.
• How our childhood shapes our lives and forms our beliefs, often without us even noticing it; until we become conscious of it and able to make change.
• How our behavioural patterns provide clues as to where attention and healing is needed.
• Taking responsibility for our own healing and the importance of learning to self soothe in our healing journey
• Trying things out and experimenting with what works for us as the unique humans we are!
• Healing from trauma; both as perpetrator and/or victim
• The critical role of self-compassion, empathy and forgiveness in our healing journey, particularly in our self-talk.
• Understanding where Chiron is in your chart and how to access more information, as well as practical tips for growth and healing.
• Lisa’s philosophy of “changing consciousness one conversation at a time” and her tips for those beginning their healing journey.

Lisa is a licensed therapist utilising psychology, spirituality, and taking personal responsibility for one’s healing. Lisa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) for over 20 years certified in EMDR level I, Reiki level II, and as a Thought Coach through the Institute for Transformational Thinking. She resides in Los Angeles, CA and New Orleans, LA.

Lisa is the founder of Psychoastrology® and the author of The Chiron Effect: Healing Our Core Wounds through Astrology, Empathy, and Self-Forgiveness, which has been endorsed by His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama who says, “As a student of Buddhist Science, I have great confidence in the role empathy and forgiveness play in human development. The Chiron Effect, will be of interest to many and will greatly benefit readers."

Welcome to the next guest episode, talking all things Feng Shui, clutter & designing a life you love with Design and Clutter Expert, Krystal Holm.

Perfect for anyone who wants to learn more about the power of FengShui, the psychology behind clutter and the importance of the flow of energy in our personal space, come join Krystal and I as we chat about;

How the trauma of Krystal’s childhood has shaped her life and life’s work and her healing journey over time

• How she “stumbled” upon Feng Shui in her studies, including the multiple amounts of contradictory information that exists about Feng Shui and the history behind Feng Shui
• Being thrown into the deep end in her first designer job, where she fell in love with the process of not only making things aesthetically pleasing but getting the client in energetic alignment with their space…hello Feng Shui!
• Using Feng Shui for calling love into our life
• The psychology of clutter, and how our home reflects our inner world (not the other way around)
• How a workplace injury caused her to question everything and resurfaced old childhood traumas, resulting in clutter in her own home and leading her to where her business is today
• How finding your purpose and passion can take time, and that it’s absolutely ok to experiment and try things on, knowing that you may end up somewhere else
• How it’s ok to live in the question mark, being comfortable with the unknown and allowing things to flow and for us to go with it as life changes and evolves
• Krystal’s Designed Life Method and how she applies with her clients to support them to design a life they love

Krystal is a Feng Shui Designer & Clutter Expert who helps work from home entrepreneurs declutter and design a workspace that empowers them to create the life & business that they want.

Using her proprietary framework The Designed Life Method℠ Mind, Body, Soul, Home, she helps her clients design spaces & lives they love. Krystal shows women how to use their workspace as a 3D vision board to help them design who they are becoming & the life they want with it, right into their space.

Connect with Krystal here

Y’all seem to love the solo episodes, and here’s another one coming at you from the Philippines where I’m living my most intentional and authentic life!

The feedback I get most often is that people love how I do things my way. That I follow my heart and my intuition and do what’s right for me. Even when it’s scary. Or might not make sense to other people. And I want that for you too!

So, in this episode I’m sharing all things living an intentional AF life, including the framework I’ve used personally and with my clients to help us live a life where we follow our heart and our intuition. To know that we don’t have to live an ordinary life or live by someone else’s version of success. Because we get to pave our own path and make our own rules!

Come join me as I share;

My four step framework for living an intentional life;

• Connection to yourself and knowing who you really are
• Understanding the role of mindset and limiting beliefs
• Leveraging your energy and showing up your way
• Redefining what success really looks like to you

Some of the outcomes of doing this work and living an intentional AF life including;

• Doing more things that light your soul on fire
• Feeling the fear and doing it anyway!
• Making aligned decisions based on this work
• Speaking your truth
• How some relationships end, other relationships get stronger and new relationships open up for you

My new 4 week program Reset, is focused on reconnecting to yourself, uncovering what's holding you back from living your best life and hitting the reset button so you can move forward with clarity and live an intentional AF life!

The program is a combination of self-discovery, mindset, guided visualisation, group sharing and deep reflection work, and has been designed to provide a deep dive, transformative experience in a relatively short amount of time.

Welcome to another delightful guest episode talking all things finding our own path, personal development and complementary medicine with Dr Candice Staniek.

In this beautifully expansive and exploratory conversation, Candice speaks openly and vulnerably about her own path of healing and growth as we explore a broad range of topics including;

• How she found her way “back” to Naturopathic medicine after starting her career in a corporate environment around the time of her saturn return.
• The importance of following the clues and queues throughout life to follow our own path especially when we want something different than the “usual”.
• Relationship challenges and what happens when our life and vibration/frequency changes and people in our life are no longer aligned or don’t believe in what we believe in (anymore). How important it is to acknowledge these friendships for what they were and to grieve when these relationships end.
• How Candice overcame a number of challenges throughout medical school including discovering a learning disability, developing viral fatigue, conquering self-doubt and low confidence all while surviving a narcissistic relationship and successfully completing her qualification.
• How emotions and memories get stored in the body when we don’t process them in a healthy way.
• The art and science of medicine and opportunities for a more integrated and holistic health system that brings together “traditional” medicine with more “alternative/complementary” medicines and treats people as the individual and complex humans that we are.
• Living life outside the box, experimentation, judgement and honouring our own individual and unique views and experiences.
• A concept that Candice is currently exploring, about how cowardice is comforting and why people choose not to do things or make change.

Dr. Candice Staniek is a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, Spiritual Yogi, Speaker, Author, Social Marketer, and a huge advocate for people having the ability to reach their spiritual potential. She understands the trials and tribulations related to the struggle of choosing and gaining freedom from the ego (mind, body, pain body, and collective unconscious).

Candice loves having deep conversations and contemplating the bigger questions such as life and death and overcoming illusions. She also loves helping those who are lost and those who are seeking to find their way. She is a co-author of Business, Life and Universe Vol. 2 and has launched a successful 6 week online “Energized You” program, that helps people gain energy and detox. Dr. Candice is also the creator of the Whole Body Visionaries Facebook Group, creating a community for people that value Holistic Care. She knows that health is wealth, and when health suffers so do many other areas of life.

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Welcome to the next guest episode, talking all things Astrology and finding our own personal path with Kubra Ozguvenc.

Perfect for anyone who loves Astrology or would like to learn more about how they can use it to activate their potential (far beyond just reading what their sun sign has in store for them this month ;) ), join Kubra and I as we dive into;

• Kubra’s journey from a chemist (and sceptic!) to alchemist through her own journey of healing, when at 19 years old she became completely paralysed due to stress. Kubra was able to heal and return to health using a combination of traditional medicine and alternative healing approaches.
• The special approach Kubra has developed using astrology and how to activate your potential by aligning your chart.
• Living a life of full potential, not dimming our light to simply fit in and being boldly and unapologetically ourselves.
• What our unpleasant emotions are trying to tell us.
• The importance of setting healthy boundaries.
• Using our birth chart as a user manual for our life, including understanding the entirety of our chart, rather than just our sun sign (which is where many peoples understanding of astrology begins and ends).
• Self worth and the unworthiness wound.
• The power of personal healing and growth and the ripple effect that it has on healing the collective.

Kubra Ozguvenc is a self-confidence mentor, astrologer, and energy healer. She started the #beboldlyyou movement to encourage women to live a life at their highest potential with confidence.

Connect with Kubra here:

Website: https://www.kubraozguvenc.com/

Welcome to the next guest episode, talking all things Yoga, Grief and Healing with Page Park, owner of Tulsi Rose Yoga.

Perfect for anyone who loves Yoga or would love to learn more about it come join Page and I as we have a beautiful conversation about;

• The power of Yoga and how it can support us in connecting to self
• Yoga being for EVERY body, and how, in fact it’s about much more than just our physical body, but also our mind and our energetic body (the chakras).
• Exploring emotions in our body and how yoga and breath can support shifting these emotions. As well as the importance of exploring uncomfortable emotions that come up for us.
• Yin Yoga as a beautiful (yet different) style of Yoga that requires us to be able to be still and sit with ourselves
• Yoga allowing us to honour whatever we need in any given moment, supporting us to listen to our body and our intuition and trust that we know what’s best for our body
• How Page has taken her own personal grief of losing her parents, to lead beautifully supportive Grief Yoga classes for her clients where she creates beautifully gentle and supportive space for anyone processing grief.
• Managing our own energy as space holders and guides.

Page Park is the founder of Tulsi Rose Yoga. As a teacher, Page has taught every grade over the last 24 years. She has spent time over the last few years studying yoga. She has accomplished completing 500-hour yoga teacher training, 100-hour yin training, and 95-hour children’s yoga teacher training. In addition to teaching yoga and meditation, Page writes about yoga, meditation, and how to connect with people. When not writing or teaching, Page can be found practicing what she teaches, wandering local farmers’ markets, hiking, eating tacos, or playing with her dogs.

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Only one more sleep until we leave on our digital nomad adventure! Eeeeeeeee!! And what better episode to bring to you, than a guest chat with Annie Sisson all about travel for growth and healing (and of course joy)! Annie shares her view on why indie travel is the best way to travel, the importance of flexibility (and how travel teaches us to be flexible) and finding ourselves through travel.

We talk all about the powerful and life changing experiences we’ve both had through our own travel experiences, the joy of uncovering hidden gems when you’re open to the experience and willing to go with the flow and "get lost", returning home after life changing travel and our shared love of the Balkans! And of course we couldn’t not talk about what a passionate traveller did with herself during covid, including the need for a big pivot (urgh that word!) in her business. This episode is for the both the keen and novice traveller and will absolutely have you planning your next trip…which by the way IMO you should always have an eye on, especially after the “locked down” last two years we’ve had! Words cannot express the joy I have right now as we're sooooo close to getting on that plane! 

Annie is a Travel Educator, Consultant, and Community Builder. She helps indie travellers create more authentic experiences by planning their own international trips. She loves helping people see the world their way -- without big organized groups or cruises -- so they can immerse themselves in the moment and their destination. She channels her passions for education and travel into teaching others the skills and resources to travel smarter, save money, and hit the road with confidence. When she’s not planning trips for herself or running the Indie Travel Collective, you can find her out in nature with her husband and little dog, Lizzy.

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Join me in this week’s episode with Julie Lamb, where we talk all about childhood trauma and how it affects us as adults. Julie shares with us the four trauma responses; Fight, Flight Freeze or Fawn, identifying our own default trauma response and some practical tips to manage through it.

We talk about the difference between Big T Trauma and Little t trauma that occurs in childhood and then shows up in our adult life as those protective behaviours that served us in our early years, become unhelpful or problematic in our adult lives particularly in relationships and parenting.

My own personal journey and learning on the topics of mental health and healing has led me to understand how much of a role trauma plays in many of our lives. Having access to this this information and becoming conscious of our own patterns, is key to our ability to be able to make change. Whether you’re new to these concepts or keen to learn more about taking back control of your own trauma response, this is a must listen episode!

Julie Lamb is a therapist and intuitive business coach who has worked with trauma for 20 years. She focuses on helping individuals clear the subconscious blocks that show up their life. These blocks are often a result of trauma, even if we feel like we came from a good home. Julie helps people find their confidence to show up in business and life the way they are meant to.

Connect with Julie here

www.julielambcoaching.com

@julielambcoaching (on FB and IG)

This episode is a deeply spiritual conversation with Sophie Watson, who shares her journey back to her own spirituality, including how she learnt (or more accurately, remembered) how to communicate with spirit and how she’s used her knowledge of the Akashic Records to heal her own life.

From a previous life as a photographer and pharmacy technician, Sophie has been faced with more than her fair share of big life events, which she openly and vulnerably shares in this chat. She talks about the times in her life where the right people and situations appeared for her in the perfect moment and the importance of focusing on what we can control when life happens, in order to consciously create a life we love.

We dive into how Sophie has used the Akashic Records personally and to support her clients to better understand themselves and their purpose. For those who are not familiar, the Akashic Records are essentially a library that holds the information about our individual souls. Through accessing the Akashic Records we can find out information about our personality, our past lives and what happens when we make choices that are out of alignment with who we really, truly are. I was so excited to learn more about this modality, and if you’re also curious I know you’re going to love diving into it with us too!

Sophie has been guiding Corporate and Entrepreneurial Women from around the world to create a life they love since 2014. What makes her work so powerful is she not only communicates with Spirit but also embraces and uses her natural gift as an empath. Sophie physically feels others emotions, physical pain and energetic blocks, enabling her to very quickly get to the root of her clients issues. She has been featured in the Huffington Post and is a regular guest on BBC Radio Berkshire in the UK.

Connect with Sophie here

www.sophiewatson.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/SophieWatsonTimeToCreateALifeYouLove

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-watson-therapy/

Connect with Erin here

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

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-o-donoghue/

Website www.hivecollective.com.au

This weeks episode with Molly Ryden is all about healing ourselves in the chaos of raising little ones…without the guilt. Molly talks about finding our way as mama’s, prioritising our own joy and happiness and the unrealistic expectations of society and ourselves of how we should do, and feel about motherhood.

Molly shares her experience of shifting her perspective and re-writing her own story, through managing anxiety and depression and as a new mama who spent three months in the NICU with her son with no idea how to balance the needs of caring for him with her own. Molly is all about shifting the narrative about mama’s, the guilt they feel, their responsibilities and the view that there’s a certain way we should feel about being a mama (hint; it's not all sunshine and unicorns!). She also talks about the importance of lifting up and encouraging other mama’s rather than judging or shaming them – whoa isn’t that just a breath of fresh air?! Whether you’re a mama or going to be a mama (parent) one day, I know you’ll get a lot out of this open and uplifting conversation…one which I hope we keep having more of.

Molly Ryden is a mindset and empowerment coach specialising in defeating the stigma of mom guilt. She works with clients on organising "life" and finding time to prioritise themselves and do things just for them that don't involve hiding in the bathroom and scrolling social media.

Connect with Molly here

Website mamaneedsmetime.com

This weeks episode is a beautiful chat with one of my biz besties Nicole Towers about the power of Human Design. Understanding my own Human Design has been a big part of connecting more deeply with who I am and I’m really excited for Nicole to share more about this powerful tool with you in the hope you might be able to do the same!

Nicole shares an introduction to Human Design including the types and an overview of the concepts of Strategy, Authority, Profiles, Gates, Channels and more! We talk about making decisions according to our unique design, managing our energy, being in flow and how we can use HD to better understand the important people in our life. We also go deeper into both of our types Generator (Erin) and Projector (Nicole) and how we’ve both designed lives and work according to our respective types. It really is a beautiful chat combining both theory and practical application of Human Design (using ourselves as examples)! You're going to want to check this episode out if you're keen to learn more about Human Design and/or are looking for ways to connect more deeply to yourself and your purpose. 

Nicole Towers is a certified Human Design Reader and Business Coach who guides entrepreneurs to create an intentional life & business in the most aligned way. Having spent years studying and working in health science, journalism and marketing, Nicole has harnessed those skills to create a unique coaching method that combines the incredible system of Human Design.

It’s Nicole’s mission to help transformational entrepreneurs to unearth their highest potential and to thrive in life and business with more ease by using the power of their unique energetic design.

You can enter your birth details to get your own (free) Human Design chart at www.mybodygraph.com or https://www.geneticmatrix.com/

Connect with Nicole here

You’re going to love this free flowing and engaging episode with Jacqui Acree; a chat that’s a beautiful example of what happens when you meet someone and just click. Jacqui shares the power of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping, the importance of self-compassion, being woo sceptical and the (unintentional) damage done by the self-help and positive psychology movement.

We chat about the upside of being in our (early!) 40s and giving less f*cks, re-connecting to ourselves, working with our mind and body and embracing the fact that putting on our oxygen mask first can be just for ourselves rather than something we do for others (especially as mothers). Yep, that comment was an eye opener for me!

Jacqui Acree is an Emotional Freedom Technique Practitioner with a BA in Counselling. Jacqui is a self-compassion advocate, goal trauma coach, and self-help disruptor. Jacqui often says that if being hard on ourself works, it would have worked by now. Jacqui is the founder of Being Human Together, an online course community where she uses EFT to empower highly sensitive women to free themselves from chronic stress, perfectionism, and their inner critic so they can live each day as their favourite version of themselves.

This episode is a vulnerable and inspiring chat with Adam Miller. Adam shares his remarkable story of overcoming trauma and addiction and the importance of aligning spiritually to be our best self, regardless of the external circumstances we find ourselves in.

Adam talks about coming from a good family but one that had lots of mental illness, leading to his own personal experience with mental illness. In the absence of being able to get “the right” help early in life, Adam began self-medicating which lead to nine years of addiction. Adam shares his story of coming through that, beginning with a stint in rehab and the self-healing journey he has undertaken since in his quest for inner peace and joy in his life. 

The thing that stood out to me most throughout Adam’s story, is his determination to seek answers, and find help and support in order to be the best version of himself. If you’re seeking some inspiration about the power of healing and the ability of individuals to overcome obstacles, then this powerful episode is for you.

Adam Miller has his own mind/body trauma practice called The Edgy Saint, which uses Somatic Integrative Therapy and Energy Work to support others in their healing. Adam believes that we are all saints, or saints in the making.  But in order to realise our sainthood we have to embrace ourselves as we are. Not resist, suppress or deny anything, and not strive to be flawless and perfect, judging ourselves and feeling like failures along the way. We all have rough edges, differences and uniqueness in ways, and yet are all the same at the core. He believes the trick is to find the balance in all of it.

Here comes another guest episode and it’s a jam packed chat with the lovely Jenny Ottaway all about the importance of speaking our truth, living for ourselves whilst serving others and using the modality of ThetaHealing to help the healing process. All with the ultimate goal of finding and following our own unique path.

I promise you, there’s so much goodness in this episode! We covered a lot, including the elusive pursuit of balance, honouring ourselves, creating stable environments for our children, acknowledging and addressing our fears, celebrating our differences, taking responsibility for our own energy and the power we have to choose how we’re feeling in any given moment and to heal ourselves.

As a Wholistic Wellness Coach and ThetaHealing® Practitioner, Jenny Ottaway works with soul-led women who want to become more connected to their WHOLE selves.She teaches women how to live a life with purpose and intention which opens the door for you to call the life of your dreams, goals, and desires. Are you ready to rebuild the foundation of YOU?

Connect with Jenny here:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/jennyottaway/

I’m so excited to be sharing this episode with my first guest and one of my biz bestie’s Mary Zargarian about the beautiful mess of a mama on a mission to start a successful business. We chat all about the trials and tribulations of her three years of side hustling to get to a place of more heart and alignment.

Mary shares the story of shifting and evolving her business before she fully landed in her zone of genius, as she’s taken her business from a side hustle (while working in Silicon Valley nonetheless!) to a full-time entrepreneur and CEO of a busy OBM agency. We talk all about the myth of overnight success, discovering what really lights us up, finding personal and family balance and the importance of getting the right personal and business support along the way.

Mary Zargarian is the Online Business Consultant that ambitious women in business need if they’re ready to separate from their busy selves so they can grow a business with more heart and soul. There’s a lot of hats we wear as entrepreneurs and Mary helps her clients leverage their strength in business and build in systems to support the rest.

Mary's and her “Heart Not Hustle” team offers a wide array of services, such as workshops, project management, systems design, online business management and speaking engagements where she provides the clarity people need to design a sustainable business that prioritises overall alignment and balance.

You can connect with Mary here:

Right now, I'm in the middle of a messy bit.

In this episode, you're catching me in the depths of some powerful healing work. I'm physically and emotionally raw and I'm sharing it all with you because that's what I'm here to do. And I know it will help someone. Whether you've been there, it's happening now or will happen in the future; you are not alone. We are not alone. And although it might feel like it sometimes, we're definitely not broken.

Join me as I share the physical and emotional effects of energy healing work and hormones, processing feelings of mama guilt, feeling hopeless and beating myself up about how I was back here again. Then with with some space and time (thanks to the magic of the internet!), I come back with further reflections on how I moved myself out of the heaviness with gentleness and compassion to shift the energy and improve my overall mood.

Healing is not linear my friends, and you're about to get some insight to what happens when we continue to go deeper, even when it catches us by surprise. I've got some great guest episodes lined up for you in coming weeks, but in the meantime enjoy this very raw and personal episode.