On The Same Paige with Paige Leacey

In this episode, I sit down with sexologist, medical doctor, and researcher Dr Jess Wade to explore the biology, psychology, and mystery of female pleasure. Together, we unpack the tension between what research can measure and what still feels ineffable about sexuality. We discuss cervical orgasms, the role of the vagus nerve, and why some researchers believe orgasm may function as a selective pro...

Prue is the founder of Earth Altering and an artist whose work sits at the intersection of nature, embodiment, and creative expression. Working at a large scale with flowers, natural materials, and the land itself, she creates earth altars, medicine wheels, and immersive installations for festivals and private events. She also creates and publishes images of herself nude in natural environments on...

Madeleine Monacelli is a holistic vocal coach and (incredible) singer who supports people to work with their voice as a tool for expression, regulation, and emotional processing. Her work draws on singing, sound, nervous system awareness, and embodied practice, with a particular focus on releasing perfectionism, self-monitoring, and fear held in the body. I invited Maddy onto the podcast to explor...

Jordan Hackett is a sexuality educator and somatic sexologist who supports men to address shame, fear, and confusion around desire, addictive pornography use, and emotional suppression - all with an emphasis on radical self-responsibility. I invited Jordan onto the podcast to talk about his own sexual development and the experiences that shaped his work - from early exposure to explicit content, t...

Venerable Nimala is a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and Kundalini practitioner who has spent over a decade in monastic life, teaching meditation, mindfulness, and Buddhist philosophy to people around the world. His work blends classical Buddhist teachings with embodied practices, offering a contemporary approach to spirituality. I met Ven. Nimala while travelling in Sri Lanka during a three-week Pancha...

Ruby Shine is the founder of Sol Method and a nervous-system-first wellness practitioner. Her approach centres the nervous system as the foundation for relational safety, emotional resilience, and sustainable change, and is a living reflection from healing her own insomnia, C-PTSD and PCOS. Ruby is also my best friend of almost 23 years. This episode was recorded live as part of a four-part collab...

Julia is a pelvic health practitioner and holistic healer who supports women to release the emotions, limiting beliefs, and unprocessed experiences stored in their body - particularly in the pelvic bowl. Her work blends Arvigo techniques, holistic pelvic care, a degree in Anatomy and Physiology, and intuitive tracking to help women return to deeper connection with themselves. I worked with Julia f...

Where does your mind go when you remove all distractions and comforts for ten days straight? In this solo episode, I break down my experience of a 10-day Vipassana - the structure, the mental unraveling, the physical intensity, and the unexpected anxiety that surfaced around friendship and worthiness. I talk about the moment things shifted, what the practice revealed about my patterns, and the con...

What does sovereignty in sex, love, and pregnancy actually look like? Victoria Redbard is a speaker, author, facilitator, sensualist, and business badass. She founded an internationally renowned sexuality school in 2019 (and sold it in 2023), co-created Enlightenment in the Bedroom across Australia, the USA, the UK, and Ireland, and now pours her magic into harp playing, writing, her sensual produ...

ChatGPT jumps on the pod to help out with a guest-related request. We talk feelings, consent, moral boundaries, the culture at OpenAI, why it won't help out with this specific request, parental principles, and free will. ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00:46 – Pushing Chat's boundaries 00:02:12 – A surprising metaphor appears 00:04:51 – Where do Chat's "principles" come from 00:10:48 – The question of free-will...

Where is the line between empathy and self-erasure? I sat down with my dear friend Alys Crocker - actress, yoga teacher, and one of the most emotionally resilient humans I know - to talk about something we both know too well: being the person who absorbs everyone’s feelings in the room. Alys is gifted - she can read energy, mediate chaos, and even find compassion for the villain. But, like many of...

For most people, survival is about playing it safe. For Katie Rydge, it's not. It’s about stripping life back to only what's real - in solitude, silence, with only instinct as your guide. Katie is a wilderness survivalist who's spent over 20 years mastering primitive skills, guiding rites of passage, and living off the land. She's ridden horses through remote Australian cattle stations, led expedi...

Should you sleep with someone on the first date? That's just the beginning of this raw conversation about love, heartbreak, and the messy truth about relationships. In this episode, I sit down (again) with mama Tara - a yoga teacher with nearly three decades of experience, specialising in nervous system work rooted in Polyvagal Theory and guiding women through embodied transformation and generatio...

Sound, breath, and presence can push the body to release what it has been holding onto for years - often bypassing the mind entirely. In this episode, Paige sits down (again) with Dr Sam Kankanamge, osteopath and multi-skilled body worker, to unpack a private session that was anything but ordinary. You’ll hear about: 🩷 How sound can release trapped emotion and ancestral energy 🩷 Breath as a tool...

Not all medicine comes in a bottle. Some comes from deep listening. Sam Kankanamge is a leading voice in holistic health, known internationally for weaving 5,000-year-old Sri Lankan healing wisdom with modern science. With over 25 years of experience in osteopathy, acupuncture, and neonatal medicine, Sam was once described by The Times (2014) as “the best back specialist in the UK.” He’s the found...

Yoga isn’t just a movement practice… It's a philosophy. Some practitioners even believe it’s a direct portal to meet with God. Whether you believe that’s a God in the sky, the God of the natural world or the God within you. Lance Schuler is a legend in the global yoga community, often referred to as the “Godfather” of yoga in Australia, with over 40 years experience teaching. From martial arts to...

Paige gives a grounded, no-fluff audio walkthrough of the subtle habits (and anti-teamwork moments) that quietly chip away at connection in your romantic relationship — and how to course-correct them with curiosity, not perfection. For smart women who are low on time, but big on self-awareness. Want to explore 1:1 coaching with me? Book a FREE 20 minute connection call https://calendly.com/talktom...

“Even in a place that’s well outside of your preferences, you still have authorship over your experience. That's free will.” Tamara the Brave is a transformation mentor, shamanic practitioner, and ex-corporate rebel who left her marketing job after losing her hair from stress and vomiting in the car every morning. In this conversation, she shares the true cost of ignoring your inner knowing — and...

"After cuddle party training, I had a clean ‘no’ in my back pocket." Hello, my loves. In this episode, I sit down with Tamara the Brave — bodyworker, mentor, and one of the most grounded women I’ve met. She speaks from the earth up. And this conversation is exactly that: rooted and real. Tamara shares what menopause has been teaching her. We talk about radical self-responsibility, the cost of self...

In this episode, I sit down with Teddi Emerald — transformational coach, crypto educator, and owner of Byron Bay’s beloved vintage store, Trash — to explore the wild intersections between trauma, spirituality, money, pleasure, and the feminine body. Teddi opens up about her childhood with a mentally ill parent, her ten years inside a religious cult, the journey that led her to become a practitione...

In this live-recorded episode, I sit down with Ruby Shine to explore how our earliest environments — even the womb — can leave a lasting imprint on the body. Ruby reflects on her journey through early parentification, relentless anxiety, C-PTSD, insomnia, and PCOS with her signature no-filter style. It’s raw, funny, and full of the kind of honesty that makes you laugh and then immediately reflect...

If you're curious about psychedelics, shamanism, and finding meaning beyond the matrix, this conversation is for you. If you don't have an open mind or if you're uncomfortable with conversations about death... it's definitely not. I sat down with Nick Sun — stand-up comedian turned Ayahuasca shaman turned stand-up comedian, again — to chat about his wild oscillation between two seemingly opposing...

This week’s episode is a little different — a live conversation, recorded at my favourite yoga studio in Byron Bay, Sol Method, with a room full of incredible, inquisitive women as our audience. I sat down with Tara Folton, co-owner of Sol Method, yoga teacher, and all-round powerhouse, to explore how movement, motherhood, and identity intersect in ways that are both deeply personal and universall...

Fletcher Nugent knows what it’s like to completely hit your limit. After competing at a high level in Melbourne’s footy scene, he hit a breaking point — a nervous breakdown that left him unable to get out of bed for months. His path forward wasn’t about getting back to where he was. It was about becoming someone entirely new. Now, he’s a respected evolutionary yoga teacher and Dao wisdom guide, le...

I sat down with Joel Iliffe — former heroin user turned drug dependency recovery coach — to explore addiction, authenticity, and why connection and relief are the driving forces behind everything we do. Joel's journey from dependency to recovery isn't your typical redemption story — nor does he tell it in that way. It's raw, messy, and refreshingly honest about both the allure and devastation of a...