Empowered Conversations Podcast

Dr Elsbeth Meuth, Ed. D., has assisted thousands of women to create lasting intimacy and fulfillment in their lives and relationships. She is featured on Showtime’s documentary series Sexual Healing and the Emmy Award-winning NBC show Starting Over and is best-selling author of Sexual Enlightenment and the co-founder of TantraNova Institute in Chicago. She got nominated as Change Maker at th...

From a career in banking, to being a full time mum of three children and now a business owner with a creative career in visual arts practice, Julie Peadon love making art accessible to everyone. She is known by some as “the crazy art lady” because of her passion, energy, fun and enthusiasm for art and life generally. With Julie nothing is impossible so long as she gets her three shots...

Greg Tannos hasn’t lived if in his week he hasn’t made time to explore the outdoors. He loves nothing more than going off the beaten track and delving deep into nature and discovering what is beneath the surface. His outdoor adventures nourish his Spirit him and gives him purpose to keep exploring and discovering.  In his words, he just wants to take it all in as much as possible....

Rob Lobasso is a one-of-a-kind music instructor who teaches his students more than chords and notes. His love for guitar and music was born early in his childhood.  It unravelled something deep inside of him. He was hooked on playing, exploring and discovering music. The relationship was deep but it was broken. For ten years he forgot about his guitar . In doing so, he forgot about himse...

Milena is an artist, architect, poet and a volunteer for The Knowledge Book  Throughout her school years Milena showed a great love for both mathematics and the written word, earning numerous awards in mathematical and literature competitions before entering university. As a graduate in architecture, she had a prolific career in Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe.  She settled in the UK after the w...

How do we stay compassionate and keep our hearts open to others as we stand strong in our truth and what we believe in? Interested in the creative process from an early age, Sher Manu, a freelance choreographer, moved to Byron Bay from Sydney, after having her first child. It is here that she immersed herself in Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, through her children’s ed...

Rachel Smith is an intuitive and creative occupational therapist. Through her journey practising as a therapist, she discovered the need to unpack and reinvent aspects of herself. She is a yogi, mediator and journaller; who loves to channel in her inner owl (wisdom). Rachel often thinks about the structures and family systems that shape people and how this informs life itself. She is a deep thinke...

Dr. John Petrozzi (who also happens to be my hubby) has been fascinated with the human body since he was a young boy so it is no wonder he chose chiropractic as his profession to help those in physical pain. He recently completed his PhD in which he explored the effects of thoughts and behaviour on chronic low back pain.  In our time together we dive de...

After 26 years in finance executive positions in the corporate world in France and abroad, including Australia, Joel knew deep down that despite success in his career something was missing. It was while in Australia that Joel decided to embark on a personal and spiritual journey searching for love, connection and intimacy.  In our time together we explore his journey and his subsequent traini...

Melinda Dransfield is the Digital Producer for Children, Families and Creative Learning at the Sydney Opera House. She has worked as an actor and voice over artist throughout Australia and is passionate about helping other express their story. Together we explore how creativity has been impacted by COVID given boundaries between work and home have been blurred for many, affecting their r...

Phillip Kozis is a master photographer and an award-winning creative. He loves what he does. Getting lost in the creative process is his form of meditation. As a photographer, he is always looking at the horizon and leaning in to see what is coming, what needs changing and how best to adapt to change. He exudes calm and reassurance backed by his personal philosophy on what has helped set him free....

Fran Davidson has practiced as a psychic and energy worker for over twenty years. Always highly sensitive to her surroundings, she begun consciously developing in the early 90s. She is clairaudient, clairvoyant and clairsentient - she hears, sees, feels and "just knows” things.  In our Empowered Conversation, we openly talk about Fran's journey into the world of energy and how she navig...

Jacqueline Marks is a passionate teacher and writer. She is fascinated by what fuels our sense of connection and works to empower our future generations to connect with themselves and the environment around them so they can make a positive impact in the world. She holds a Bachelor in Education from Charles Sturt University, is a certified yoga instructor and has trained in mind...

Naomi Cao had a great start in Australia after escaping Vietnam with her parents in 1980. Despite the treacherous journey to Malaysia, her family settled in Sydney where Naomi built a successful life for herself. But her life didn’t play out the way she imagined. Her marriage ended abruptly and she found herself navigating the ever-complex and “soul-destroying” family court syste...

Dr Josephine Braid uniquely combines her passion for physical rehabilitation medicine and functional medicine. She is a strong advocate for health education and empowerment, and works closely with a health coach to maximise her patients' health outcomes.  Whilst historically doctor-patient relationships have been one of imbalance when it comes to knowledge and power,  times are changing...

Pattie Snudden is 88 years old. She is a treasure beyond measure and she knows it. She loves people and most of all she loves God. She has felt God’s presence from an early age and as such joined The Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart in late 1950’s to devote her life to God.  Pattie experienced much trauma and shame in her life but has always known that she was held...

The question ‘which two animals best describe you?’ started as a bit of fun in 2012 at a dinner party for Kate McNab and Lisa Bella, co-founders of  Animalyser .  Some of their friends were able to answer the question immediately and others not so. Over time, they found that this question connected people back to nature and more importantly to their own au...

From a computer programmer, working logically and strategically, with an appetite for continued growth and a desire to enjoy life’s journey, Donna McNulty now empowers mumpreneuers with proven tools to stay true to their heart and soul while busting their ‘mum guilt’.  As mums we can fall into the trap of ‘roles’ and doing everything for our kids and fa...

Armida Croccolo Brugnoli is a passionate and energetic 87 year-old-woman. She speaks five languages. She is a table-tennis champion in her age category. We recently met in the clinic of our acupuncturist Leo Viola. She was very loud and I could hear what she was saying. So I wanted to meet her. Then I wanted to know here story.  In our conversation she shares about growing up in Alexandria Eg...

For many, one of the hardest things to do is to make time for ourselves to do what we desire. In this Empowered Conversation I am joined by Pamela Zimmer, a bestselling author who is also known as “Self-Care Concierge” who teaches women how to have peace and balance in their lives through a consistent practice of self-care- which is more than just a monthly massage or mani/pe...

In this Empowered Conversation with Sydney-based artist, teacher and art therapist Georgia Freebody we engage in a vital and powerful dialogue on creativity, empowerment, transcendence and learning. We explore the nature, scope and power of a creative process and how creative space can enable change. Georgia shares how we can vulnerable to failure in the creative process and how to nurtu...

Lyle Steffensen is a first generation migrant with a (very) mixed ethnic background who grew up in the apartheid era in South Africa, and came to Australia in the “Recession We Had to Have” when she was 15 with her parents and two sisters.  Lyle’s passion for social justice, inclusivity and diversity is at the forefront of what she does as the Practice Leader for Marsh Care...

In this profound conversation I’m joined by Saniel Bonder who is the author of Healing the Spirit/Matter Split and the founder of the Waking Down® work. He has been a pioneer in the widespread embodiment and mutual, evolutionary exploration of awakened consciousness. With his partner Linda Groves-Bonder, Saniel is the founder of the Human Sun Institute, a founding member of the Integral...

Dr Natasha Andreadis, a.k.a Dr Tash, is Sydney’s renowned fertility specialist and one of only 78 Certified Reproductive Endocrinologists and Infertility (CREI) sub-specialists in Australia and New Zealand. This makes her uniquely qualified to manage infertility and hormonal issues. She takes a very integrated and practical approach when it comes to women’s health issues. In...

In this episode of Empowered Conversations I chat to Brad Goodchild, a leading yoga instructor and founder of "Bikram Yoga Five Dock”. Brad has been teaching Bikram yoga for over ten years to over five hundred and fifty students each week at his studio. Brad shares how he went from being a successful accountant to becoming a leading Bikram yoga instructor. We dive into what happens when on t...