In this week's episode I talk to Karolina Rzadkowolska, an alcohol-free empowerment coach and bestselling author who specialises in helping women change their relationship with alcohol.

After living a pretty normal and standard life of drinking through college, then happy hours after work and drinks with friends on the weekend, Karolina was curious about how else she could feel and started exploring living an alcohol free life.

She found giving up alcohol very empowering and believes transforming your relationship with alcohol is the key to an empowered, fulfilled, purposeful life as it opens the floodgates to creativity, intuition, drive, and self-love.

This conversation is in no way about demonising alcohol, if it's working for you that's great(!) but rather offering a different perspective when it comes to our relationship with alcohol.

Check out links to all of Karolina's work below

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In this week's episode I talk to Aliesha Embleton, a Child Development Coach, best-selling author, keynote speaker and mentor.

Aleisha works with children in the sometimes forgotten middle childhood age group of 7-11, and is all about building resilience, authenticity, and an entrepreneurial spirit in children through her programs, retreats and coaching.

In this episode, we talk about strengthening the parent-child bond and developing life skills in children, the need for parents to cultivate their own intuition and gut instinct to better navigate challenges and support their children as well as the small moments we can integrate into our daily lives to help with common challenges parents face.

There is so much great info this episode if you are parent but also if you need a little parenting yourself!

Please find all of Aleisha's info below

Sapling Minds Website

From Seed to Sapling Book

In this weeks episode I talk to Parneet Pal, MBBS, MS. Parneet is a Harvard- and Columbia-trained physician-educator who teaches skills and communicates ideas that advance personal, workplace and planetary health. She is a systems thinker, and really views health as something that is in relationship with the systems around us.

As the founder of Systematically Well Advisory Inc., she applies her expertise to enhance health and performance, and its impact on business leadership and planetary wellbeing. She is leading the conversation to make our personal health an asset, not liability in the sustainability transformation.

Overall, her goal is to make you fall in love with your biology, so that it works for you, your work, your communities and the planet.

In this episode we talk about the importance of a holistic approach to health, the shift towards preventative well-being, the need to move away from the siloed thinking of modern medicine and the impact our social environments can have on our well-being, plus so much more.

Check out Parneet's work below:

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Matrescence: the process of becoming a mother: Those physical, psychological and emotional changes you go through after the birth of your child, which anthropologists call “matrescence has been largely unexplored in the medical community.

In this week's episode I talk to Kirryn Lee a coach and mentor who supports women through the largely forgotton and dismissed transformation that is becoming a mother.

In this episode we explore the challenges, expectations, and empowerment associated with motherhood, as well as the societal and historical context of women's power and gender imbalances, plus the importance of community, self-discovery, and the multifaceted nature of women's identities.

Check out Kirryn's info below

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In this week's episode I talk to Francesca Simpa, the creator of HypnoBreathwork and founder of experiential wellness company, Mastry.

In this conversation, Francesca shares her journey from being a party girl in New York to running a successful Breathwork and wellness business. Through breathwork, she discovered stillness, intuition, and creativity and believes the future of wellness is the merging intuition and action, success and spirituality.

In this episode we talk about the power of the breath, the importance of wellness and healing in the business landscape, intuitive action, how breathwork could change politics and reprogramming our subconscious mind and limiting beliefs.

Francesca is an absolute force with so much passion, drive, and motivation to make this world better by the way we show up in it. Check out the links to all her info below, her new book (!) and definitely give her Breathwork App, Mastry a try!

Mastry Experiences

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Francesca Simpa Website

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Unblock Your Purpose Book

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Have you ever felt like you're running on a treadmill you can't get off, endlessly chasing "success" but never quite reaching it? In this week's episode, I talk with Life and Leadership Coach Laura Hartley to explore the systems shaping our world and our lives: Capitalism and The Patriarchy.

In this episode, we discuss how capitalism is an ideology obsessed with infinite growth and scarcity, contributing to the climate crisis and impacting our self-worth and productivity. Laura examines The Patriarchy’s role in shaping societal norms, emphasizing traditional masculinity over femininity, and how it fosters perfectionism and shame. She challenges these systems, proposing a post-capitalist world focused on well-being and equity. We also discusses hope as embracing uncertainty, and the importance of self-awareness, authenticity, and community.

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In this week's episode I talk to Blair Beattie, the Executive Director of Farmer's Footprint Australia.

Farmer's footprint is a not for profit that celebrates and understands that farming sits at the heart of human and planetary health and their mission is to support Australia's farmers, who are often so forgotten, and the transition to a regenerative future.

Blair is such a wise soul, a beautiful story teller and a really nice balance of bigger philosophical ideas whilst always staying so rooted and grounded in the earth. He truly understands systems, the land, community and relationship.

In this episode, we talk all things food, food systems and localisation but we also talk about the need to take personal responsibility, growing up as a society and intergenerational trauma.

Farmer's Footprint is a beautiful organisation doing really important things so check them out and support them where you can.

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In this weeks episode, I talk to Amelia Kruse, a Concious Leadership Coach for Creative executives, professionals and entrepreneurs.

In our conversation we explore the concept of conscious leadership, understanding ourselves as whole ecosystems, self leadership and looking to nature for inspiration.

The work Amelia does is a beautiful example of the ripple effects that can happen when we start to explore and become curious about ourselves. Those ripples can touch our family, friends, colleagues and also how we show up and see the world.

They way Amelia talks about personal development is really accessible and easy to understand so I highly recommend you check out her work and musings below

Amelia Kruse Concious Leadership Coach

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