On The Same Paige with Paige Leacey

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...

I sat down with Ruby Shine — menstrual cycle and mindset coach, and one of my closest friends of 22 years — to chat about stress, somatics and why we can't think our way out of all our problems. Ruby's story is one I've watched unfold in real time. Years of survival mode until her body finally said "enough is enough" through crippling anxiety, insomnia, cystic acne and PCOS (all physical manifesta...

My bladder pain had me spiralling — no clear answers, no quick fixes, just months of relentless discomfort that took a toll on my relationships, my sanity, and my sense of self. But as I’ve started exploring pelvic health, I’m beginning to see female physiology and energy in a whole new way. In this episode, I share where I’m at with healing my pain, what I learned from my first session with a bod...

In this episode Paige journeys solo to deliver you three tips for loving your body that no other sexologists are sharing (it's shocking, really). Plus, she shares a personal story about the time another woman (lovingly) schooled her at a sexuality immersion.   Ep links: She mentions the work of Rachel White in this podcast who you can find here: https://www.rachael-white.com/ @therachael.white   C...

The poddy is back! Paige has taken the project on as her own but fear not, Bestie Ruby will drop in from time to time. In this brand new ep, Paige delves into the complexities of "feeling" shame as she navigates a life decision. After admitting she's not really into the whole solocast thing, she hands the mic over to her new AI friends, Jane & John, who graciously explore how her latest piece...

Paige shares what happened the next time she interacted with her aggrieved (and slightly aggressive) colleague. Ruby muses on conflict in romantic connection, and why it hits different.   Connect with us: @samepaige__ @rubyshine__

Paige shares a story about being unexpectedly (and accusatorially) confronted in the workplace, and how her frazzled nervous system responded. The girls discuss why their individual conflict styles are so different, despite both always wanting the same outcome – to be heard.   Connect with us: @samepaige__ @rubyshine__

Paige and Ruby discuss what it means to be 'legit' at something, in the eyes of other people and from a place of self belief, and question how much of that has to do with assigning a monetary value to it.   Connect with us: @samepaige__ @rubyshine__

Paige and Ruby hit the couch for their first official episode of Little Questions and, fittingly, discuss how imposter syndrome has stopped them from pressing play on their creative projects... until now.   Connect with us: @samepaige__ @rubyshine__

Paige and Ruby introduce Little Questions the podcast, and ask themselves the age old question of 'who am I?', but also, 'who am I, really?'.   Connect with us: @samepaige__ @rubyshine__

In this episode, I get schhhvitzy with Mel, my spirit guide and fellow witch-sista. We (well, mostly me) crank the sauna a little too high, but still manage a fairly robust discussion about being in the sorts of connections where your worlds revolve around completely different things ie. your world around theirs, and theirs around… the surf? We ruminate on the concept of rejection as a symbol, pro...

In this episode, I sweat with Mariama Rose Mansfield-Njie aka Maz, who hails from Brighton England, and is a creator of social justice content as well as the host for a radio show called ‘Babycakes’ which focuses on sex positivity. Maz and I chat shit (as she’d say in her pommy cadence) about the timeless moral dilemma of following your heart versus adopting society’s programming, especially when...