Emerge with Fini Cooper

What do you do when life gives you a wake-up call so big you know you can’t go back to the way things were? In this episode of Emerge, I sit down with Colin, a yoga therapist, author, and teacher, whose journey began after a terrifying health crisis in his late teens. After coming incredibly close to death, Colin was left with a question that many of us face in different ways: how did I get here,...

Do you ever feel like you should be happier than you are? Like, on paper, things might be okay. Maybe even good. But there’s still this quiet feeling of, “Why don’t I feel how I thought I would?” Maybe you’ve been waiting for the next thing to change everything. The relationship. The move. The job. The achievement. The version of yourself that finally feels successful, settled, or enough. And mayb...

In this episode of Emerge, I sit down with the brilliant Ada Ooi — London’s most sought after wellness practitioner and aesthetician — for one of the most genuinely eye-opening conversations I've had on this podcast. Ada has nearly two decades of experience working out of her renowned Harley Street clinic in London, and her approach is unlike anything conventional Western medicine offers. She...

What becomes possible when the noise softens and there is finally space to listen? This episode explores how silence can bring us face to face with the thoughts, fears, and patterns that quietly shape our lives. It touches on self-judgment, the search for belonging, the habit of looking outside ourselves for answers, and the deeper knowing that can emerge when we slow down enough to hear it. ⁠⁠DOW...

Today on the podcast, I’m joined by Sarah Yudkin, founder of You Love and You Learn. Sarah is a relationship coach and breathwork facilitator who helps people connect more deeply to themselves and others, so they can feel more fulfilled in their lives and relationships. Her work focuses on helping people move from anxiety and self-doubt into greater inner confidence, self-trust and emotional stead...

What happens when the life you’re living looks good on the outside, but something inside you knows, “this isn’t it”? In this episode, I’m joined by the lovely Susanna Soma, a somatic mentor, embodied movement guide and long-time yoga teacher. Susanna’s story begins with a feeling so many of us know, the quiet sense that the path in front of you might not actually be yours. From Melbourne to South...

In this episode, I’m joined by Nikki Heyder, a trauma-informed psychotherapist, business mentor, and author of Good Enough: A Roadmap for Compassionate Self-Acceptance. This was such a rich conversation, and one I think will really land for anyone who feels stuck in patterns they can’t quite explain, or who has achieved a lot on paper but still doesn’t feel how they thought they would. We talk abo...

There are moments in life when you know something needs to change. You can feel it. You’ve probably felt it for a while. But instead of moving, you stay where you are. Not because you’re lazy, incapable, or confused, but because fear has a way of making the familiar feel safer than the truth. In this episode, I’m unpacking the deeper mechanics of fear, how it lives in the body, how it shapes the m...

In this episode, I’m joined by Julia Woodford, a human design reader, somatic coach, gym owner and personal trainer. Julia and I met during our somatic coaching training, and this conversation felt like such an honest reflection of what so many women move through, self-doubt, overthinking, feeling disconnected from themselves, and the quiet desire to come back home to who they really are. We talk...

You did everything right. You worked hard. You had a plan and you went after it with everything you had. And yet somehow here you are, wondering where exactly that version of you actually went. This week on Emerge we're talking to Katherine Ormerod. Katherine is a journalist, author and former fashion editor whose work explores the hidden impact of social media, comparison, and modern life on our...

What happens when you spend years suppressing how you really feel? When every emotion gets pushed down, smoothed over, laughed off? When being fine becomes so automatic you can't even remember the last time you weren't? Eventually - something gives. Maybe it's your body. Maybe it's a relationship. Maybe it's just this quiet, persistent feeling that you've been living slightly outside of yourself f...

What happens when the life you've been working so hard to build… quietly destroys you? For Aron, it crept in slowly. The anxiety. The depression. The morning he woke up and realised he couldn't leave the house. For six months, an invisible wall stood between him and the world — and nobody saw it coming. Not even him. After 15 years climbing the corporate ladder, always saying yes, always w...

You know that feeling when you're in a room full of people - people you know, people you like - and you still feel strangely... alone? That's exactly what this episode is about. Because as it turns out, loneliness is way more complicated than we've been led to believe — and there are actually different types that show up in completely different ways. And once you know which one you&#39...

Have you ever sent a message cancelling plans and then spent the next hour obsessing over whether the other person was annoyed with you? Even when they hadn't even replied yet? Yeah. Same. In this solo episode, I'm getting into something that came up for me recently... that very real, very familiar anxiety around letting people down. The fear of disappointing someone. The over-explaining,...

What if nothing "big" happened to you, yet you still feel disconnected from yourself? In this episode of Emerge, I sit down with my friend Lani for one of the most honest conversations we've had. No perfectly polished healing story. No tidy before and after. Just two friends being really, really real with each other about what healing from childhood trauma actually looks like in ever...

Why is it so often a breakdown, injury, or crisis that finally makes us slow down and look inward? In this episode, I sit down with Yogi Kaivalyananda for a real conversation about pain, discipline, self-care, and what it actually takes to build a relationship with yourself over time. Yogi shares how chronic back pain in his early twenties led him to yoga, and how years of daily practice, sometime...

What if the parts of us we’re most afraid of are also where our deepest wisdom lives? In this episode of Emerge, I sit down with Angel Drake for a conversation that moves gently and honestly through some of life’s most complex terrain, spirituality, mental health, love, and what it really means to stay open in a world that often asks us to shut down. Angel shares her personal journey, from early s...

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Liza Al Sady, founder of We the Conscious, London’s first breath-led multidisciplinary studio, and someone I deeply admire for the way she holds space for real healing. This conversation is powerful, honest, and incredibly human. We talk about inner child healing, the long-term impact of a difficult childhood, and how our early experiences can shape everything fro...

So… it’s a new year. And I don’t know if you feel this too, but there’s something about January that can feel a bit… loud. Like suddenly everyone’s moving at full speed again. New goals, new plans, new routines, and this unspoken expectation that you should be feeling refreshed, motivated, and ready to reinvent your whole life overnight. And honestly… I’m just not doing that this year. In this epi...

Why do so many women feel constantly tired, wired, and unable to truly relax, even when they are “doing all the right things”? In this episode, I’m joined by Farzana, a sound therapist and author, for a grounded conversation about women’s wellness, burnout, and nervous system regulation. Together, we unpack what actually happens in the body when women suppress emotion, push through exhaustion, and...

Have you ever felt like you did not quite fit in, no matter where you were or what you were doing? In this episode, we talk about what that feeling can really mean, and why feeling different is not something that needs fixing. I’m joined by my good friend Bex Lowe, founder of the League of Your Own movement. Bex shares her story of growing up in a small town, always knowing she wanted more from li...

What happens when you stop following society’s rules for success and start trusting yourself instead? In this episode, I sit down with Jules, a mindset coach who helps women in their 30s break free from social conditioning, comparison, and rigid life timelines. We talk about living outside the conventional path, the pressure many women feel in their late 20s and 30s, and how self doubt can creep i...

You can build a life that looks successful, stable and sensible, and still feel flat, exhausted or quietly miserable inside. In this episode, Georgie Clarke and I explore what happens when the life you’re living no longer matches who you are beneath the conditioning. We move through many themes in this conversation, including burnout, sensitivity, nervous system healing, relationships, embodiment...

There are conversations that hit deeper than expected, the kind that make you pause, breathe and realise how long you’ve been living disconnected from yourself. This is one of those conversations. This is one of them. In this episode, I sit down with Sarah Hyde, a breathwork guide, somatic practitioner and women’s transformation coach whose work goes straight to the root of who you are. Sarah is o...

Fear and doubt have a way of talking us out of the things we want most. I have done that more times than I can count. For years I kept telling myself I would start a podcast one day, but I never let myself cross the line. Eventually I realised that holding back was costing me more than trying ever could. So this episode is a meaningful marker of growth - the moment I finally allowed myself to do t...