Off Duty With Rachel Jay

This week I’m thrilled to welcome the wonderful Talitha Cummins. You may recognise Talitha from delivering you the news in the evening and on the weekends on Channel 7 in Sydney. As a former 7 News and Sunrise journalist, Talitha has been incredibly open around her journey and addiction with alcohol. ABC’s Australian Story featured her when she first went public with her story. Now, after 11 years...

To all you beautiful, strong and empowered women everywhere, may we continue to support and inspire each other. May we continue to embrace who we are. And may we continue to empower ourselves as women. Well..we’re here! The 100th episode of the podcast. Not only are we celebrating 100 episodes of the pod, we are also celebrating International Women’s Day this week. This year’s theme is #inspireinc...

TW: In this episode, there is brief mention of sexual abuse. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate women for upcoming International Women’s Day than to have the wonderful Kemi Nekvapil on the pod this week. Kemi is an executive coach, speaker and the best selling author of the book Power: A Woman’s Guide to Living and Leading Without Apology. With the theme of International Women’s Day this y...

This week’s note to self ep is around a topic that is one of the most popular of the podcast from previous seasons. I’m giving you my framework for how to approach your nutrition to lose weight and maximise your metabolism. This is the go-to framework I have used, and so many other women have used through my nutrition guides as well. Take a listen! Find more on Rach at: Instagram: @rachjay__ TikTo...

We’re back this week with an awesome chat with Internationally renowned Naturopath and founder of Boost Your Biology Lucas Aoun. This one is a goodie! Lucas and I chat all things that will help optimise your health and wellbeing. From have you been accepting suboptimal health, to what biohacking actually means, the best natural supplements to decrease anxiety, best ways to cure leaky gut and optim...

Did we actually like low rise jeans? Or did we just wear them to fit in? Millennials, you know what I’m talking about. Even though, technically, they are back in fashion now (lol). In this week’s Note to Self episode, I’m reflecting a few things that came up in my chat with Dr Sara Kuburic, The Millennial Therapist. If you haven’t already listened to that ep; LISTEN HERE . It was such a powerful c...

This week’s episode with Dr Sara Kuburic, aka The Millennial Therapist and the author of ‘It’s On Me’ is an absolute delight and I am so excited to share this one with you. Sara and I sat down in Sydney for beautiful chat filled with honesty, openness and humour. We connected on both having had panic attacks in LA (of all things!) and both having questioned life from a very young age, which has le...

Anyone who knows me, knows I’m always down for a good DnM. Let me set the scene, we’re girlfriends, having a good old DnM over coffee. Last week I caught up with one of my girlfriends who is currently out there dating, we also released best-selling author Daniel Chidiac’s episode this week and of course, it’s has been Valentine’s Day. So I’ve been reflecting a lot about relationships this week – s...

This week I’m excited to share this episode with Best-Selling Author of the books The Modern Break Up, Who Say’s You Can’t? You Do and his recent release, Thoughts and Feelings, Daniel Chidiac. HIs book The Modern Break Up, a novel full of truths about dating and love has captured readers around the world, having been translated in 13 languages and hitting best-seller status in 8 countries. In tod...

Welcome back to the Note to Self series. In these solo eps, I share with you what’s going on in my life, tips, personal insights and lessons that I’ve learnt during the week. This episode is for the overthinkers – like me. Sometimes we get stuck on thinking and going around in circles. We often are unconscious need to be perfect, have a perfect plan, have all our ducks lined up before we take acti...

I am beyond thrilled to welcome our first guest of the season. On her what is now her 18th visit to Australia to visit Kayla Itsines and the Sweat team, I was fortunate to sit down with the beautiful Kelsey Wells, Sweat Trainer, creator of the PWR programs (and many others) and host of the Redefine Fitness Podcast. With such openness and vulnerability, Kelsey shares her own struggles with hitting...

Welcome back to the pod for 2024! We’re opening the new season with a new series called Note To Self. In these episodes I’ll be sharing my personal insights, observations, tidbits and stories that will help make your life better. I’m constantly writing notes to to myself to remind myself of a new way of thinking, a new way to approach different things in my life, books I’m discovering, podcasts I’...

What a year! We’re wrapping the 2023 season with the biggest 10 lessons I’ve learnt. I also flip the switch and answer “The Final 3” questions that I’ve asked my guests all season. It’s been a big year and if you’ve been following along, you’ll know I went through quite a lot with my own health this year. Including being in hospital with a rare sodium condition, being in ICU, losing 8kgs over 3 we...

This week I’m sitting down with the lovely Ali Oetjen, meditation and breathwork teacher and founder of Ali Wellness. While experiencing anxiety during her time in the television and media industry, Ali rediscovered meditation and breath work to bring her back to a place of calm and peace, and find her true purpose. She is dedicated to helping people develop a deeper awareness of themselves, findi...

This week, I’m thrilled to welcome to the pod one of Australia’s most popular thought leaders and practitioners in mindfulness and meditation, Luke McLeod. He’s also the founder of mindfulness app Soul Alive and the author of Everyday Enlightenment, which is now available for pre-order.  Luke has spent over 20 years studying various meditation techniques and is passionate about helping other peopl...

I’m thrilled to welcome Masterchef Australia’s Diana Chan to the pod this week. Diana won the 2017 Masterchef season, she is also a TV host, cooking personality and businesswoman. Having an incredible journey over the past 6 years since leaving the show, we get an insight into what life was like for Diana working a corporate finance job pre-Masterchef to now living a life she absolutely loves. In...

This week I’m excited to share an episode with the lovely Canna Campbell, finance expert, founder of SugarMammaTV and best selling author of Mindful Money and The $1000 Project. With the cost of living having risen significantly over the past 12 months, what a great time to chat all things money and finance. Canna and I get stuck into some useful tips that will help you transform your relationship...

What a pleasure it is to share this week’s episode with the wonderful Alex Fevola, founder and CEO of Runway Room and author of Silver Linings: A Journey to Happiness. Alex has overcome an incredible journey of loss, grief, hardship and come out the other side with unquestionable resilience and amazing outlook on life. Through the loss of her partner at the time and father of her first child, to h...

I’ve been hearing this term being thrown around on social media, so what exactly is ‘main character energy’ and how do you unlock yours? After doing a bit of research on this, it’s apparent you can really define main character energy however you like. Though for me, it’s not all about keeping up with the latest trends but rather taking control of your narrative and become the leading lady (or man)...

I’m super excited to share this latest episode of the pod with you. This week I’m sitting down with the lovely Beauty Director at Lancôme Australia, Lara Srowkoski. Lara has been in the beauty world for over 15 years, travelling around the world representing Lancôme alongside Lancôme’s Global Creative Director. In this episode Lara and I chat about all things beauty, plus she gives you all her ins...

This week I welcome the wonderful Mitch Wallis to the pod. Mitch is a mental health expert, speaker, founder of Heart on My Sleeve and Co-Founder of Calm Water. While living a seemingly perfect life, hitting all the usual success markers, being the youngest ever intern at Microsoft and paving a successful career, Mitch was masking deep inner turmoil. An outer appearance of a perfectionist and high...

This week I’m sitting down with the lovely Sarah Grynberg, author, speaker and host of The Life of Greatness Podcast . I’m so glad we finally got to sit down and chat, after I had to reschedule this several times due to being unwell and in hospital. Sarah has over a decade of experience in the media and was also the executive producer of the Hamish and Andy podcast, after landing her dream job as...

What the hell happened? Is a question that I got asked many many times via my DM’s over the past few weeks. This week, I’m coming to you with quite a personal solo episode. If you follow me on Instagram specifically you may already know or seen parts of my journey through my personal health issues over the past 6 weeks. If you haven’t, then this will give you an overview of what I’ve been going th...

After some delays due to my own personal health issues, I am so excited to finally share this episode with you, featuring none other than the wonderful Dr Kieran Kennedy, co-author of The Manual, medical doctor, psychiatrist and mental health advocate. Along with his co-author Scott Henderson (former editor of Men’s Health Australia), who unfortunately could not join us on the pod today, Kieran an...

This week I’m thrilled to sit down with one of the most well-loved Apple Fitness Plus Alumni trainers and the founder of Warrior One Yoga. He’s also a black belt Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and a former professional surfer, Dustin Brown. In this chat, Dustin and I get stuck into how to find more awareness, happiness and flow in our lives. Dustin shares the learnings that he’s pick up along his journey inc...