Blank Canvas Podcast

Dan started Hypa ten years ago selling high end spas. He left a corporate job convinced he would be a millionaire within a year. He was not. What followed was a decade of hard lessons, nearly walking away more times than he can count, becoming a dad and realising the business had to work around his son rather than the other way around, and learning that you cannot build anything worth having compl...

Jessica is the founder of Embodied Authority Coaching. She works with female founders to master their energy and mindset so they can become the most limitless, expensive version of themselves. But her story did not start there. There was a point where Jessica was ready to give up. Trauma had defined her for years. She was drained, stuck in corporate, and her body was screaming at her that somethin...

At 23, Janine bought her first flat near Tranmere Rovers for 87 grand. By the time her 20s were done she had three properties, a career across sales, magazines, and radio, and a reputation for working hard and playing harder. Then life took her somewhere completely different. Janine is now a meditation and mindfulness teacher. And she is one of the most honest guests to sit down with Natalie on th...

Laura Spence is a family lawyer. Divorce, finances, private children matters. She spent years working her way up through big firms including international corporate practices. And the whole time, in the back of her mind, there was always this idea. Then one day, going through old emails, she found one she'd sent 11 years earlier at university. It was to the first person she'd ever worked for, aski...

Before Victoria ended up working reception at a law firm, she had already lived about five different lives. She competed in Miss World. She started her flying career on tiny six seater planes in the Isle of Man. Spent three years with Japan Airlines on long haul routes. Then British Airways. Then she went self employed and ran her own detox clinic. Taught yoga. Went deep into spiritual wellness an...

Sarah Nolan spent 22 years as a lawyer. She fought her way in. Hand-delivering CVs around town, teaching herself to type, studying at night school while working full time. Nobody made it easy for her. A careers advisor told her law was not really for kids like her. She did it anyway. Then at 40, she walked away from it all. In this episode, Natalie talks to Sarah about what it really takes to chan...

Zoe Morris had it all together on the outside. Retail director. Leader. The person everyone leaned on. But behind closed doors, she was stuck in a toxic relationship for nearly a decade, battling an underactive thyroid, and quietly disappearing under the weight of it all. There were days she couldn't get out of bed. Days she stared at four walls wondering what the point was. But there was always s...