Unicorns and Hand Grenades

Rachel Thomas, from Create Yourself Coaching, joins us as we dive into a conversation that we hope will challenge and support your thinking when it comes to transformation, overwhelm, navigating the unexpected and Futurescaping the life we desire. We also share some tips, tricks and thought provoking reflective questions we hope will help you steer your way into 2026 with a feeling of hope and pos...

Join us in as we deep dive into the messy, real, humaness of forgiveness and letting go.   If you've ever felt yourself waiting for someone to say sorry before you can let go and gain closure, being slow to forgive yourself, or struggling with inner peace in the face of external hand grenades... then this episode's for you! Some of the paths we sashay our unicorn along are: Forgiveness i...

Soulprints founder, Chaz Reid, joins us in this episode as we dive into all things numerology and life.   Not only is Chaz one of our fave humans, she's a master numerologist who shows up in life from an open heart with a passion to help people connect to their souls blueprint. Supporting people to step more fully into a life of clarity, purpose and alignment.   Numbers were never our thing a...

After a 2 year break, and life "lifeing" us - we're back, mojo intact, ready to drop into some powerful, real and raw conversations with some incredible humans. First things first though, we awkwardly saddle up the unicorn for her first ride around the mic by checking in with each other.  Sharing what had us hit pause and what we'd love to explore with you all on this new ride....

Heather joins us in this episode where we discuss all things related to mental and physical well-being, growth, meaning making and being the change we want to see! She's a member of the For All the Brothers Team, Co-owner of Movement Wellness Space,  & Senior Occupational Therapist at Being Therapy and she's an all round epic human. Heather generously shares her story, & how that...

In this yarn we're talking all things Mental Health and Headspace Hacks with Certified Mental Health Coach, Jem Walker-Carmody.   We explore what it means to do the Mahi (work), when it comes to owning our own Mental Health and Wellbeing.  What does it look like to set ourselves up for success so we can do our best to live our one wild and freaking precious life from a place of thriving, vs s...

If you want to know how to turn the dial down on stress & start kicking that MOFO to the curb then this episodes for you.   It's our first 'Espresso Ep' of the season.   Espresso Eps are short & sharp hits, like your morning caffeine (under 30 minutes), where we focus on something that is topical, in a more practical, tips & tricks way. Ever wondered why some people can...

We're joined around the mic this week by our first guest of the season Bridgette (Biddy) Jackson.   So saddle up your Unicorns, & get ready for a dose of triple trouble!  This convo's equal parts realness, wisdom & laughter alike.   There is so much gold here for the taking & Bridgette, or Biddy as we like to call her,  is so generous in sharing her story,  wisdom and experti...

We're BACK! Forgive us listeners, for we have sinned, it's been a year since we last released an episode.  This is one of our most vulnerable episodes.  It's real, it's raw, and there's a fair amount of laughter in there too.  Mainly at our expense. We're excited to reconnect with y'all again and we kick off with an update around our Hand Grenade & Unicorn mo...

In this episode we're joined by Kate Billing.  One of our favourite humans. Kate is a Speaker, Author, Thought Leader and Change Maker.  She is a Faculty Member of Thought Leaders Business School and Founder and Creative Director of Blacksmith.   As someone who is passionate about putting the tricky business of being fully human right at the centre of how we live, lead and work you can be sur...

In this Episode we dive into all things dating with professional Matchmaker Sasha Madarasz.  It's a dating minefield out there peeps, from the brutal to the magnificent and everything in between.  Sasha helps us navigate through the dating maze by sharing wisdom and insights gained over her 19 years as a professional Matchmaker.   We also have a damn good laugh, as you would expect with any c...

In this episode with Vitality Hub owner, Sonya Bower,  we discuss all things related to living a life full of vitality.  Through her love of competitive sports & adventure racing she has developed a unique approach of training people how to move & heal.  Also how to move away from chronic stress & pain patterns so they can live a life in which they can thrive.  This episode is about vi...

What happens when your ole mates uncertainty & ambiguity come for a sleep over and forget to go home?!  Which has pretty much been the state of the world for the last 2 years for most people on the planet. And are they friends with benefits?  Or friends without? It's been over 3 months since we've recorded and there's been a lot of changes for us both in that time.  Which also m...

This episode is dedicated to anyone that's ever felt like a square peg in a round hole, or like they're sitting on the sidelines watching everyone else 'do life' easily.  If that's you, it was us too, so we've gotcha in this episode! We're joined by coach and all round epic Human, Shiobhan Friel.  It's a playful, deep and energised convo centred around the n...

In this episode we dive into all things Wellbeing with Philly Powell from the Wellbeing Junkie & the Wellbeing Tick.    As creator of Aotearoa's first wellbeing  workplace accreditation programme, the wellbeing tick, Philly is passionate about seeing the day where toxic workplace culture is eradicated and Aotearoa's mental health statistics are improved as a result of healthy workpla...

This week’s guest, Stephen Brunton, deep dives into a powerful and vulnerable conversation with us that we know will shine a little light & share a little hope for those who listen in. We start off exploring what it’s like to leave your “job/job” to follow your passion and fall into alignment.  As an actor and a voice over artist this is something Stephen’s recently done.  We explore all the d...

This week we're joined by Aimee Kovacevic, author of: Cracked Open - A Teacher's Battle with Perfection .  Aimee is a Self Love & Mindset Coach, Teacher, Author, Gym Owner & Mama.   In this episode we explore all things burnout, perfectionism & compassion fatigue.  Things that led Aimee to crack open and notice she'd forgotten who she was, what was important to her, and...

This conversation with Gaia is full of mind blowing wisdom and insight, from this world & beyond.  We dive deep into all things spiritual, soulful, universal, past lives, life lessons & growth related.  It's a conversation that supports finding and speaking our own truth, so we can do what we were put on this earth to do. Why am I here? What's this all for?  There's got to b...

We got to dive off the deep end into this hopelessly hopeful conversation with Nick Ditchburn,  Co-founder of Damn Thieves. This conversation was a gift to be a part of.  We discussed all things mental health,  creating community through conversations, re-building male archetypes & societal expectations, finding meaning in what you do & stepping back into your passion & creativity afte...

There ain't no lonelier journey than the one back to yourself when you're brave enough to acknowledge you're living unaligned and need to fight your way back to your truth. Then courageous enough to do something about it.    And that's what we dive into in this incredible convo with Bree Le Roux, whose had more than one of those, "hell no, there's something coming I n...

Life - just because you're not nailing it all  of the time doesn't mean you're not doing it right.   And doing life right, if there even is such a thing, isn't measured by being in a constant state of happiness, or a constant state of pursuing happiness. In this weeks convo we dive into all things 'happiness' and the pursuit of it.  What's your definition of happ...

*trigger alert; see below.   What happens when you love what you do, but it causes you heart break?  The space between "Action & Cut" is the sweet spot in life for Actress Kim Crossman. It's the only place where she feels the Euphoria of being hyper-focused and fully present in the moment.  Not worried about the past or the future.   Kim is an Actress, Author, Presenter, Pretty...

We can't always choose what happens to us in life, but we can choose how we move through the aftermath of  our metaphorical hand grenade moments.  We can choose to pick ourselves up and do the work of healing,  We can choose to transmute the pain into lessons learned & wisdom earned. And we can choose to keep ourselves & our hearts open to the Kaleidoscope that's life and ALL it...

This week we're joined by Resilience Speaker and Author, Mark Wales.  Bear Grylls described Mark's new book, Survivor - a life in the SAS,  as "A powerful & honest story of courage, redemption and finding purpose".  Join us for this inspiring convo centred around all things transformation, resilience, growth and purpose.  A few of our favourite things. We hope it reminds yo...

In this episode we dive deep into everything fear related.  Because let's face it,  a life lived in fear is a life not fully lived.  Fear lets us know we're alive.  Like any of the other emotions that pass through us, it's a vibration, & an energy.  We get to choose our relationship with it.  We can let it keep us small,  comfortable, safe & unseen.  Which it's original...