The Tea Mind with Erica Moore

Quick note - there are very occasional choice words in this episode, so use caution if you’ve got younger people in earshot. Episode Summary What happens when the things that once drove you no longer feel quite so important? In this conversation, I’m joined by Alan Wick, whose life has taken him from playing drums in a rock band to building internationally successful businesses and now helping oth...

Episode Summary Have you ever felt overwhelmed by everything you need to do, even before you’ve started? Sometimes it’s not just the number of things on our to-do list that’s exhausting. It’s the mental effort of remembering them all. The unfinished tasks, conversations, reminders and thoughts that keep going round and round in our heads. In this week’s Pause for Tea, we’re making a cup of The Con...

Episode Summary We’re surrounded by more information than ever. Podcasts, books, articles, courses and now AI make it incredibly easy to keep learning. But how often do we give ourselves enough time to absorb what we’ve taken in and form our own thoughts about it? In this week’s Pause for Tea, Erica reflects on the constant flow of information and how easily we move from one thing to the next with...

Episode Summary How much difference can one sentence make to the way we experience our day? This week, we’re trying a small morning practice inspired by Mel Robbins. As soon as your feet touch the floor, take a breath and say, “Today’s going to be a great day.” It might sound a bit corny, but there’s an interesting idea behind it. When we begin the day expecting something good, we may become more...

Episode Summary Suzie Millar has made some significant changes in her working life, from studying law to becoming a chiropractor, founding the Scottish Bee Company and now building the Natural Larder Collective. But what interested me in this conversation was what sits underneath all that movement. Suzie talks about the strong gut feeling she gets when something is right, the doubt that often foll...

Episode Summary This Tea Pause is about familiarity, and how easily the things we know well can begin to disappear into the background. Using a cup of green tea and the idea of beginner’s mind, we practise paying fresh attention to something ordinary. It’s a reminder to stop relying on what we think we already know, and instead to look again and notice what is actually there. Perhaps nothing chang...

Episode Summary This week’s Pause for Tea is about intuition , particularly those moments when you sense something needs to change before you can quite explain why. I’ve been experiencing that with these solo episodes. They’d started to feel harder and less enjoyable, but with plenty of other things going on, it would have been easy to simply plough on. Pausing for tea gave me the space to pay att...

Episode Summary This episode is about the weight of sunk cost, and what happens when the time, effort or identity tied to a past decision starts influencing what we choose next. I reflect on my own experience of leaving law after years of study and training, and the difficulty of recognising that something can still have been valuable without needing to remain the right path forever. The shift is...

Episode Summary This episode is about what happens when a good idea becomes so complicated that it stalls completely. Erica shares a real example from developing a bespoke tea blend. What began as an exciting idea disappeared down a rabbit hole of complexity, technical challenges and stubborn determination to make the original version work. When she paused to see things through a simpler lens, she...

Episode Summary This episode began with an unexpected pause. A guest had to cancel at the last minute, which gave me the chance to do something I realised I had not properly done before: explain why I care so much about tea, attention and clarity. I share a little of my journey from litigation law to founding eteaket, and how years of working with tea led me to become increasingly interested in wh...

Episode Summary Thanks for joining me on our pause for tea this week. Sometimes we know something before we’re ready to admit it. A feeling keeps resurfacing, or we notice that the way we’re spending our time no longer quite matches the way we want to live. In this short Tea Mind practice, Erica reflects on returning from six weeks travelling with her family and realising that work had started to...

Episode Summary Thanks for joining me on our pause for tea this week. This short clarity practice is for the decision you keep revisiting. The one that comes back while you’re making tea, working, or trying to focus on something else. Some decisions genuinely need more time. Others reach a point where more thinking stops giving us useful information. Meanwhile, carrying the undecided decision has...

Episode Summary Thanks for joining me on our pause for tea this week. I invite you to lean into that feeling of skirting round the edges, appearing productive, but not actually getting the thing done. When something matters, it’s easy to believe that more thinking will eventually create more certainty. Sometimes it does but often, it simply creates more complexity. Together, we’ll notice why some...

Episode Summary In this conversation, I sit down with writer, brand designer and creative mentor Sarah Robertson to explore what happens when the version of success you’ve worked so hard to build no longer feels like your own. Sarah reflects on the shift that began after becoming a mother, the growing sense that something wasn’t quite aligned, and the courage it took to step away from a successful...

Episode Summary This week, we’re sitting with a feeling many of us know well. You look up and wonder where the week went. Rather than turning that feeling that into a story about falling behind, this pause for tea offers a different perspective. As the tea slowly unfolds, you’ll notice how unfinished things often take up space in our attention long after they disappear from our calendars. You’ll r...

Episode Summary Some weeks are really busy and yet there can still be a feeling that something important hasn’t moved at all. In this week’s pause for tea, we sit with that feeling of being active without feeling like you’re making progress. Together, we’ll notice the difference between movement and momentum. We’ll explore why certain decisions, conversations, and unfinished things keep returning...

Episode Summary Some days end on paper but our minds don’t get the memo! You finish work, close the laptop, and move into the evening. Yet part of your attention stays attached to an unfinished email, a conversation, a decision, or a task that didn’t quite get done. This episode is an invitation to pause for anyone who struggles to leave work at work. Together, we’ll explore why unfinished things...

Episode Summary This week, Erica Moore sits down with artist and entrepreneur Eleanor Cunningham. Many people know Eleanor as the founder of Edinburgh Larder. But this conversation isn’t really about hospitality or art. It’s about noticing when you’ve drifted away from something important and finding your way back. Eleanor shares how years of building and expanding a successful business eventually...

Episode Summary This week’s pause for tea is an invitation to notice how easily our attention drifts into the future. Many of us find ourselves living in “when things calm down”. When the project is finished, when the calendar clears or when the next season arrives. But while we’re preparing for what’s next, life keeps unfolding. In this episode, we explore the subtle habit of treating life as pre...

Episode Summary As summer approaches, many of us find ourselves pulled in different directions. Family commitments fill the calendar, holidays need planning, and if you’re running a business, you may already be thinking months ahead. It’s easy to mistake a full schedule for meaningful progress. In this week’s pause for tea, we explore why overwhelm is often less about having too much to do and mor...

Episode Summary This week, we’re pausing with a familiar feeling: the weight of unfinished things. Maybe it’s a projects that keeps getting moved from one week to the next. Or a decision that keeps popping up? Or perhaps a conversation that never quite reached an ending. As we move through June and begin looking towards the months ahead, these open loops can occupy more of our attention than we re...

Episode Summary This week’s episode is about what happens when there are too many voices in the room and your own becomes harder to hear. When we’re uncertain, it’s natural to seek more information. Sometimes that helps but more often than not it creates so much noise that we lose touch with what we already know. In this pause for tea, you’ll create a little distance from the constant stream of in...

Episode Summary Welcome back to The Tea Mind Podcast, a space to slow down, step out of the noise, and see things a little more clearly. In today’s conversation, I’m joined by Katharina Geissler-Evans, founder of heiter magazine, to talk about what happens when the pace of life stops feeling sustainable. We explore the realities of burnout, the pressure of constantly striving, and the moment Katha...

Episode Summary In this solo episode, Erica reflects on overperformance and the pressure many of us feel to keep pushing, producing, and staying constantly switched on. Inspired by Dr Pippa Grange’s book Life Reclaimed , we explore the difference between sustainable rhythm and relentless output. You’re invited to notice the warning signs we often override in the name of productivity and to reconsi...

Episode Summary This solo episode is for the decision that keeps circling. The message you have not sent. The boundary you keep renegotiating. The direction you already sense, but keep questioning. We explore the difference between thinking more and seeing more clearly. When a decision feels heavy, the answer is not always found by analysing every possible outcome. Sometimes clarity comes when you...