Podcasts - Life Lessons with…

After moving to Maui eight years ago, Sarah found herself single, questioning what to do with her life and more than that - questioning who she even was. She realised she had really lost herself over the years, trying so hard to keep everyone else happy, be who those around her expected, that she wasn’t even sure what she wanted her own life to look like. Sarah began to write a list, a list of her values and how she wanted to lead her life and what happened was truly transformational...

Being a teenager can be tough. At just sixteen years old, Parnaz was having a tough time at home, at school and with her friendships - this left her dealing with high levels of anxiety and very much feeling she had hit her pit. With the love and support of some close friends and family, Parnaz worked hard to change her whole thought process and battled to overcome her anxiety. Find out how she went from feeling like her entire world was crumbling around her to knowing you can achieve anything you set your mind to...

Growing up on a farm in Australia, helping with the horses, being an athlete and competing as a teenager at an international level - that was Camilla’s reality as a teenage girl. She had a supportive family and a dad who adored her.  A diagnosis of whooping cough then was the first diagnosis made and there was much worse to come. A difficult and challenging journey led to Camilla realising her true passion, purpose and faith

When Jody was 20, this all star student who had moved cities to go to her scholarship took her first major life pivot - she walked away from her degree. Since then, she has built an incredibly successful career - without a degree as her Professor at school had predicted - and has also walked away from that. Find out why, in this fascinating podcast with a woman who is a boardroom rebel, she takes these life u-turns...

Growing up, Jessica was surrounded by family who weren’t in great health - cancer, heart-conditions and dysfunctional relationships with food. As a young woman, Jessica realised after some ‘uncomfortable learning moments’, that she needed to really be an advocate for her own health. She tells us how aiming to have a happy home life and pleasing others, actually meant she tuned out of her own body. Find out from her about how just having some eggs meant taking a big stand for herself and how she started to take herself seriously...

Twelve months before we spoke to Lucie she found herself living back in her parent’s basement after moving back to the city she was originally from, leaving her husband and one of her son’s behind in Nova Scotia.  Knowing she needed her life to change, Lucie came up with her ‘Fab 5’ - the five things she wanted to live by. Lucie took exceptional measures, to create change for herself from what she called a ‘desperate position’ and shares with us what she has learned from this crisis point...

When Julie was just four years old, she went in to wake her baby brother and couldn’t understand why he wouldn’t wake up.  Life would never be the same for any of the family and it left a deep wound in Julie that understandably affects her to this very day. How does it impact your teenage years, your relationships - what happens when you become a parent after this kind of tragedy? Find out from Julie, in this raw Life Lessons Podcast, as she talks publicly through the fallout for the very first time.

At just eight years old, Carolina was sexually assaulted for the first time, by her maternal Grandfather.  With an already difficult relationship with her Mother who was physically and mentally abusive to her, she still managed to share with her Mother what had happened. However without knowing as a child what action was taken, she remained quiet while she was abused by other family members. Find out in this powerful podcast how this impacted Carolina as a teenager, why she called herself a ‘Monster’ and how she refused to allow what she came from to determine what she became…

Twenty years ago, Linda had the year that she described her ‘WTF year’. Her husband got sick from out of the blue and a chain of events that followed left Linda as a single parent again, this time to her Granddaughter, without a job or a home and in a U-Haul driving to the other side of the country to start over.

Miscarriage is an emotional and difficult thing to deal with, so as Alex was desperate to have her fourth baby to complete her family young family, imagine the devastation of then enduring three miscarriages in just a year.

Can you imagine living in over 20 countries - sounds glamourous? Well it can be incredible but it’s also tough when you’re child being a global citizen.  Knowing how to fit in to all those cultures but always feeling like an outcast, even when you go back to your own country.

Her Father was an abusive alcoholic and with several failed escape attempts, Sandra recalls vividly what those experiences were like as a child when her Father would catch up with her, her Mother and her older Brother. She shares how this difficult upbringing full of guilt and lack of self-worth, affected her as she became a young woman and how she’s making sure her experiences are paid forward.

Moriah is a successful, young female entrepreneur, yet as a young child at just four years old, she was diagnosed with having bipolar disorder, epilepsy and ADD. The challenges these conditions provided for Moriah as a young woman, hugely amplified the challenges we all have growing up. Amongst some of these difficulties were suicidal thoughts, being bullied and going to eight different schools were just some of them.