Your Shero's Journey

Welcome!  Today’s SHEro Carol Lee, shares how she turned to food to numb the pain of the tragic death of her husband.   Her diet, high in sugar, eventually caught up with her, causing panic attacks, anxiety issues, and reactive depression.  She knew she HAD to change, so she worked to use food to heal her.   Join me for an inspiring conversation with Carol!   Carol has worked in complementary health since 1993, both as a 5-element acupuncturist and as a nutritional therapist.  She combines the everyday with the spiritual, walking with a foot in both worlds.   She helps people make simple, practical changes in how they eat and cook to create a more nourishing and flourishing life.   In this episode, Carol shares: How she discovered a platform for telling people about the negative aspects of the pre-packaged diet food industry via an “Aha” moment 15 years ago How her passion for food and nutrition shaped her life’s path.  She even left her work as a social worker for full-time motherhood, and then for training

**Please be advised that this interview contains topics that may cause some people distress.   Welcome!  Today’s SHEro Tabitha Jayne (Tabi), who shares how she went from a troubled young person to a published author, international speaker, eco-psychologist, and natural growth consultant.   She helps people create meaningful and purposeful, stress-free lives and businesses with the help of nature. She is the creator of The Nature Process and Tree of Transformation. Join me for an inspiring conversation with Tabi!   Tabi’s life turned around when she was 22 and her younger brother, age 17, was killed in a car accident.   Until that point, she used drugs and alcohol to mask the pain of a troubled childhood that included being bullied at school and a rape incident at age 16.  It was the loss of her brother that motivated her to stop 'wasting her life' and to begin pursuing her dreams.   In this episode, Tabi discusses: Tabi realised that our society does not deal with death well. She had to find ways to work thr

Welcome!  Today’s SHEro is Heather Ash, who chose to go against the norm and listen to her inner voice regarding having a home birth, which was not a common thing to do in her area.  In fact, in her home state of Georgia, it’s not even legal for midwives to attend home births.   Heather, however, followed her heart.   She says the best thing about her life is being a mum to her two daughters, ages 3 and 7.  Heather encourages other mums through her blog and podcast, Happiness Mama, and works in her own coaching business.  Join me for an inspiring conversation with Heather!   Heather shares how she assumed a hospital birth would be sufficient until she read a book about midwives and doulas, and her mind was changed.  Home births were not common where she lived, and her doctor actually dropped her and other home birth patients as a result of pressure from the medical community.  She chose another Ob-Gyn but never disclosed her desire to have a home birth!  In this episode, Heather discusses: How Heather’s home

Welcome!  My guest today is Sandra Humby, Sandra shares how she endured the pain of a broken marriage, an end to her beloved business, divorce, and bankruptcy, and how her healing from this, led her to healing others. Sandra has worked in energy therapy, as a House Whisperer, and as a wedding dress designer.  She now works as an energy alchemist and a healing and empowerment specialist.  She is an author, and the founder and creator of Rose Alchemy, Rose Oracle for the Heart, and the Rose Alchemy Holistic Healing Program.  She shares her work through personal consultations, seminars, and teaching programs in the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, and the USA. Join me for an inspiring conversation with Sandra!   Sandra shares how she endured the pain of a broken marriage, an end to her beloved business, divorce, and bankruptcy.  She says that she “always felt that there was something else I was supposed to do.”  Even with all of that, she declares that she wouldn’t change a thing about the difficulties she has been thro

Welcome! My guest today is Jo De Rosa. Jo shares how she battled addiction for decades until yoga and meditation literally saved her life. She has recently celebrated 1000 days of sobriety! She has lived in Thailand and the UK, running a clothing and jewellery shop, a yoga studio, and a retreat centre. Her business, Inner Guidance, offers coaching, workshops, and retreats focusing on emotional and spiritual healing, nutrition, and visioning for the future.Join me for an inspiring conversation with Jo! Jo candidly shares about the excesses of her adult life, until yoga and meditation showed her a better path. Even in the midst of the addiction pattern, she felt a calling to search for something else for her life. When she attended her first yoga class, it was an “epiphany” moment—exactly what she was searching for to change her life forever! In this episode, Jo discusses: How yoga eventually led to soul-satisfying meditation in her life, and how you can start small and incorporate this practice into your life

Danielle shares how after investing so much in her 10 year career and building up her private practice, she made the very hard decision to leave it behind to become a mum. She shares how she went through guilt and embarrassment as she made this incredibly tough decision for her and her family.  Danielle shares that she was heading towards burnout, when she unexpectedly became pregnant and was delighted. However, everything changed as she suffered a miscarriage. Danielle reveals how this left her feeling devastated. She began to re-evaluate everything. She began to question what she was doing with her life. Was she even really happy? Had she gotten to see her daughter (who was then 3 years old) learn and change and grow? Was the work that she was doing actually making a difference? Why did she leave a previous job that she loved for more time with her daughter, only to find that a couple of years later, she only saw her when she was in bed? Two months later Danielle became pregnant again and decided in that mo

Heather shares how after having a typical standard and conventional start to her life, she began to follow her inner knowing which then took her on unexpected journeys that have taken her all around the world. She shares her story of how facing her fears connected her to her true passion and purpose. Heather shares how her first 'call' came when she was on a study abroad program in University.  She was on the fairly standard path of college, likely followed by grad school, and then career… But it all changed when she signed up to go on a tall ship training program. The only problem being that she was terrified of sailing! Heather shares that she knew that the only way to get over her fears was to face them. She signed up to spend six weeks at sea on a tall ship and got more than she bargained for. Not only did she get over her fear of sailing, she fell in love with it. It opened her up to a whole new way of living and seeing the world. Heather recounts her experience of sitting up on top of the mast of the sh

Elyse shares how following her chart success in the 90's, she then left the music scene due to self-doubt, as she no longer believed she could sing. She shares her story of how she found herself again, and re-connected to her passion and purpose. Elyse joined her first band with a group of friends at the age of 14. They were called Low Profile and had eight members. Elyse began by playing keyboards and backing vocals, but eventually moved onto Lead Vocals and Songwriting as it came so easy and natural to her. Elyse says; ‘I used to write lyrics about ‘lost love’, ‘looking for love’ etc….I would write about how I was waiting for someone to come and rescue me, love me. Nowadays I am at the other end of this spectrum and I write about ‘self love’, love energy’, ‘gratitude’ and more, all positive uplifting encouraging words.’Following her success with MAXX in the mid 1990’s, Elyse went through a period of self doubt and couldn’t sing herself for many years. During this time she undertook lots of personal developm

Karen shares how it was a health crisis that brought her into alignment with where she is now. Ever since she was a small child, she could hear, see and perceive things that not everyone else could and she chose to tell them to ‘shut up!’ Ignoring it, pushing it aside, because she didn't want to be seen as weird. Then in her early 40’s she had her health crisis. Karen had already had a rich growing up of doing lots of things and exploring lots of things that allowed her to use her intuition, but there was an underlying feeling that something wasn’t quite right.   She didn’t know what to do with the feeling of being out of alignment or not being on the right path, because she had not fully opened herself to her true path. She needed to reconnect to her spirit guides. Karen explains that there is no magic to connect with your guides, you just say ‘Hello’ She says the ability to connect with our guides is always on, all that needs to change to be able to connect is our perception, we need to turn inwards. She di

LJ shares that after a nasty incident at work her friend asked her if it was going to be a new company or a new career, she chose a new career. LJ explains how she left her career in IT to become a teacher, even though it meant a 50% reduction in her salary. Yet she readily admits, that the salary cut was a reason that this change had been delayed... When she found herself just trying to get to the end of the next three month project, she knew something had to change.The money was no longer worth the hassle  LJ shares that she chose to go in to teaching because she understand the power of teaching, having experience both the very good and the very bad. Her high school teacher had told her that she couldn’t do maths, and she had believed him.Yet later in her career, she met another teacher who believed in her, and because of him she now holds a degree in engineering.Having seen both the sides of a teacher, she wanted to be able to give that positive experience to others. She will now be teaching math to high s

Karina shares how she had The Call when she was working in a traditional 9-5 role and although it didn't become her business for 10 years, she learnt to trust herself and her gifts as she continually practised her channelling skills. A week after doing the channelling course and ‘receiving’ a large heart, she met her husband. Even though she wasn’t looking for love, she explains that it was like she had made the connection and everything started falling in to place. Karina shares how the more she acted on her seemingly crazy hunches from her spirit guides, the more she noticed that it worked. Karina shares how she knows it messages form her spirit guides and not just her imagination. Initially she created a secret world and only shared her business with the closest to her and those who she knew would support her. Even today, sometimes when she meets people she says that she works in communications, as she does, but not the way most people would assume.She shares how that when you hear the call, you know that

Ruby shares how she tapped into her inner confidence and turned her life around, despite suffering from severe anxiety, panic attacks, raging don't mess with me attitude, crushing sense of inadequacy, and a hopeless need to please everyone. Ruby shares how she left home before she finished grade twelve. She did finish grade twelve, but left home and moved out because she just knew that she had to leave. She went home, packed her stuff, and left. At this time she had the opportunity to take a full time job, and stay in her small community, and work in the bar, and be the same forever, or she could take a chance to move with a friend to a city a couple hours away that she didn't know, where she didn't know anyone, but she had to decide right there. She made the choice to move, and left. Ruby shares how she can make these quick choices as she explains what it feels like and how she identifies it as a call from her soul, and not just a moment of madness. She shares that her most challenging decision was to leave

Holly shares how she left her business in Mexico, of 8 years, and one which she loved, and moved first to Argentina and then to the UK. She shares how it was a really hard decision for her to make, because her gut was saying you need to leave, but her heart was saying you have this really beautiful business that we’d created from the ground up, why would you leave it. Eventually she'd had enough, and knew it was time to leave. Holly shares that with little more than a gut feeling, she and her husband, packed up and moved to the UK. In the beginning, she had no job or business, and with her optimistic nature she thought she could just start a business or find work, and she thought it would all be easy. But she shares that it wasn’t, it was really hard. Initially she trained as a coach, but that wasn't really for her. Then she took a job, and that wasn't for her either. Holly explains that it felt like an uphill struggle. However, this changed when she started listening to the call. Holly's business was evolvin

Froydis Egge-Jacobsen shares that after a rough divorce to the father of her child, her husband of over a decade and her business partner, she felt like her life was falling apart and she didn't know what she was going to do with herself. She shares how everything changed when she just clicked on a seemingly random  link on the internet – she didn't know why she clicked the link, but liked what she saw. The website was for coaching and Froydis explains that it was just what she needed to help her see things differently.   Having a coach made her dig deep in to herself and she loved the transformation and insight so much, that she realised that she was going to be a coach too.As she looks back, she can’t even compare herself, especially when she looks at how she views the future.Froydis shares how she has always lived her life her own way and chosen to take life changing opportunities, when she has felt guided by no more than a feeling. She has always been determined to live life with no regrets.Froydis remind

Iris Fritschi-Cussens shares that for her, the idea of being a SHEro meant connecting to the process of becoming herself and finding out what that even meant in the first place. She shares how she has used her art as a form of self-expression so that she can connect more deeply to herself, and how by allowing whatever is going to come out through her art, from deep inside of her, is a process that is both scary and exciting at the same time.  Iris explains how she would get really inspired by art and it would be the only thing that she could think about while she was at work. And then in the evening at home she would just feel either uninspired or too scared to start creating and would just end up watching TV instead. She explains how she felt she couldn't trust that she could make something that she would be satisfied with, and how she has now created a process to overcome this. Art became a gradual form of self discovery, as she began to realise that was a 'me' out there that she had not really explored, an

Ari Powell shares how she is currently in a place of huge transition, and how all of her plans were turned upside down when she suffered the most devastating loss. She explains that great plans don’t always happen the way you plan them, and that although she is still coming to terms with her loss and is grieving, she knows that she doesn't have all of the answers, but will continue to move forwards towards her original goals. Ari talks about how her initial plan needs changing, but she is still working towards the same plan. ‘The journey is different, but the destination remains the same’She is taking this time to clear out the emotional 'stuff' and enjoy being herself – enjoying work on her termsAlthough she is returning to work, albeit, in a different role, she has chosen to do this as it's a safe place, and as she is the main income earner for the family it takes the stress out of the situation.Ari had originally planned to leave this job sooner as something in her life wasn't quite clicking, despite all o

Donna Higton shares with us how she left her everyday routine to go backpacking to the other side of the world. She explains how although friends and colleagues advised her against it she left everything she knew to go travelling and that how it was on this adventure she 'found herself'. Donna returned from her travels with passion and purpose, but was soon fell back in to her old routines, even back to the same job. She knew something had to change and she shares exactly what did.  Although Donna was living the life she was 'supposed to want', she had a successful job, great social life, house etc but she had a nagging feeling that there must be more to life.  So she did what she had never even considered before, she went travelling.  During her adventures she fully understood the concept of enjoying the journey, and that it wasn't about the destination. That the beauty was in the unfolding of discovering herself, and this this process was more valuable than any label she could give herself. This process als

Joanna Hennon shares with us how it took a nervous breakdown before she claimed back her passions, from her teenage years, back in into her life. She explains how she turned her back on her fascination with anything to do with the soul and spirit guides, when she consciously decided it was 'stupid to be interested in it', and that it was time to grow up and be in the real world. So she went into a corporate world and was ambitious. She describes it as 'playing office', and that her 'pretty' suits were a costume. Joanna created a whole world around this way of life, because she didn't know there was another way.  This changed one day when she was reading O magazine, and it featured a woman who had a super high powered job, and gave it up to make wall paper. Joanna recognised that this woman had made a different choice from the typical 9-5 corporate life and was not only being recognised for it, but was being successful too!  She realised that there was a possibility that she too could be successful leaving her

Laura Yahmin shares what it took for her to go from living in a toxic environment trying to keep it together to living a great life full of contentment and fulfilling dreams - A life of no regrets.   Laura had been brought up where failure was not an option and she clearly identified herself as a person that didn't quit. Discover why it was so important to her that she then had to learn to quit and fire clients. She shares valuable advice for how to give up a toxic life, while still being supported and how she managed this. During the interview Laura identified herself as her biggest obstacle in her own life, that was holding her back, she had to move through this and give herself permission to have the life that she dreamed of.   Biggest Learning: To TRUST myself To believe I could figure it out.   Favourite Quote: Do one thing that scares you everyday. - Eleanor Roosevelt   Theme Song: I will Survive - Gloria Gaynor   Superhero Name: Invisible Laura   About Laura Laura is a recovering perfectionist and over

Amy Simpkins shares with us what it took for her to leave her 20 year career as a rocket scientist to become a lifestyle design strategist.   Amy shares how she had lost her passion, her inspiration, and her drive to continue toward the goals of her childhood and any desire to "climb the corporate ladder." Instead she found that she wanted new goals: flexibility to travel, time with her kids, and most of all, the opportunity to have a more powerful, personal impact on the world.   This realization rocked her.   She began to question everything, down to who she really was at her core.   For so long she had identified "who I am" with "what I have done or will do," especially when it came to her career, that she realized she didn't really know that much about herself anymore.   And so began a year long (and beyond!) exploration of herself as a human BEing, not a human DOing.  An exploration of who she is RIGHT NOW, as an adult, with wonderful and unique experiences behind her and new passions and interests in fr