Wild + (finally fcking) Free: Real, Raw Stories of the Disruptors, Rebels + Revolutionaries

E2S22 The Medicine of Me with Kerri Hummingbird Kerri Hummingbird, Medicine Woman, Mother and Mentor, is the Founder of Inner Medicine Training, a Mystery School that shares potent ancient traditions from the Andes and Himalayas for owning your wisdom and living your purpose.  She is the #1 international best-selling author of "Inner Medicine: Becoming One with Mother Earth for the Survival o...

Get ready for an empowering episode that dives deep into the realms of resilience, strength, and revolution!  We sat down with the phenomenal Strong Coach Mary, founder of Strong Formula, and discussed her remarkable journey from a civil engineer to a beacon for women over 40. 🚀 Mary shared her compelling journey, navigating through life's challenges to transform not just her own life, but t...

S12E20 Metabolism, Sleep & Energy: The Midlife Trifecta with Lisa Walker   Lisa is Eir’s co-founder and resident left-brain thinker/big-picture planner. She crossed paths with Eir co-founder Kate working in marketing, and water-cooler chat became a friendship, glued together by their ability to find hilarity in (almost) every situation that comes with feeling constantly foggy/fatigued/frazzled...

I reached out to MC McDonald after reading her book Unbroken: The Trauma Response is Never Wrong (And Other Things you Need to Know to Take Back Your Life) which I found pivotal in unravelling my own trauma response over these past few months.  MaryCatherine McDonald, PhD, is a research professor and life coach who specializes in the psychology and philosophy of trauma. She has been researching, l...

Patrice is a nurse with 39 years of experience working in a variety of specialties such as critical care, women's health, and geriatrics. After 15 years, she left clinical practice to teach nursing. As an award-winning educator at a top ranked university, she found her passion for mentoring new nurses and continues to teach abroad. She recently returned to clinical work and in addition to wri...

What if the signs of perimenopause were staring you right in the face and you didn't even know it? Get ready to unpack the unfamiliar terrain of perimenopause with our guest, Maria Doyle, as she shares her journey of awakening to her own symptoms, the challenges she faced due to the global pandemic, and the positive changes she made in her life. Maria's story is not just an enlightening...

Nikki Parkinson, 56, is a former journalist-turned blogger, author and now fashion designer. At the core of all that she does is her love of helping and supporting women to find greater confidence through their everyday style and the life they lead.  In 2019, Nikki launched her own fashion label, Styling You TheLabel, offering Australian-made, non-boring wardrobe basics that take the stress out of...

Join us for an unforgettable conversation with the one and only Lois Blackburn. Lois, a gifted artist, shakes up the art world with her textile masterpieces and a fervour for challenging the status quo. A true rebel at heart, Lois is not afraid to take on intimidating art galleries and the underappreciation of textile art. Get ready to see art in a whole new perspective as we delve into the tactil...

Motivated by her own debilitating & lonely experience with PMDD, Heidi is on a mission in her clinical practice to support other PMDD peeps to regain power over menstrual mood cycles, get off the emotional rollercoasters and balance body & mind naturally so they can feel calm, confident and empowered in themselves, in relationships, work and Life. Having been reading about the link of ACE...

Deb Benfield has helped hundreds of women heal their relationship with food, eating, and their bodies in her 35-year career as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist specialising in preventing and treating disordered eating. She brings her wisdom, passion, and lived experience to the intersection of pro-aging and body liberation, and her work is rooted in helping her clients shift their body relation...

An internationally recognized expert on ageism, Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. She speaks widely at venues that have included the TED mainstage and the United Nations, and is at the forefront of the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and to dismantle it. Here’s an excerpt from her website home, which hit me smack between the eyes, and w...

After being over medicated with HRT 2017, Somatic and Cognitive Psychotherapist Paula Rastrick joined the dots between childhood trauma, being a highly sensitive person and the mental health impacts her experience when multiple life stressors and perimenopause collided. She is on a mission to raise awareness and empower women to understand the links between childhood trauma, nervous system sensiti...

Dr. Aimie Apigian, MD MS MPH is the leading medical expert on how life experiences get stored in the body and restoring the body to its best state of health through her signature model and methodology, The Biology of Trauma™.  Dr. Aimie truly is the physician who healed herself. Join me as I sit down with Dr. Aimie in this enlightening discussion about the often overlooked impact of trauma on our...

Lori Saitz is the founder and CEO of Zen Rabbit and host of the podcast “Fine is a 4-Letter Word.” An award-winning author, speaker, and broadcaster, Lori is on a mission to teach the world to be calm and grounded no matter what’s going on. High achievers come to her because they have a strong drive to be productive, but at the end of the day never feel accomplished enough. As a nationally recogni...

Over the past 25 years Rebecca Sparrow has earned a living as a travel writer, a television publicist, a marketing executive, a magazine editor, a TV scriptwriter, a radio producer, a newspaper columnist and as an author. She is the author of three best-selling novels The Girl Most Likely, The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay and Joel and Cat Set The Story Straight (co-authored with Nick Earls). Sin...

France Forde is a Craniosacral Therapist, Intuitive Channel and Facilitator who provides her services In person (London, UK) and Worldwide (via Zoom). Fran happens to also be neurodivergent and coming to us from the "other side” — yes indeed people, Fran is post menopausal! Fran generously gifted me a craniosacral session with her prior to our interview and you can tell from my voice just how...

Libby Stevenson is a certified as a pregnancy, postnatal and menopause yoga teacher because of her lived experience of journeying through those stages without support, advice & knowledge. These are transformational stages of womanhood. Yoga can be very anchoring and centring at a time in life that is different to the one we have lived so far.  Libby’s is so motivated to help make all women’s j...

Samantha Nolan-Smith believes we can reshape the world when more diverse voices and perspectives are shared and heard. She knows that as we break through the silencing influences that have been plaguing women for millennia (hello patriarchy), new ways of living, working, and relating to one another and to the planet, will become apparent. What she also knows is that we cannot do this individually....

Dr. Kelly Teagle is a GP in Canberra specialising in Women’s health. She is the founder of WellFemme, a ground-breaking Telehealth menopause service. She graduated in Medicine from the University of Queensland in 2001 and worked in the Royal Australian Air Force as a Medical Officer until 2010.  Hold onto your hats perimenopausal people - this is a long and rich conversation covering so many meno-...

As CEO and Founder of Powerful Steps, host of podcast Powerful Stories and founder of brand and communications agency Torstar, it comes as no surprise that Tory Archbold has met some of the world’s most influential celebrities, entrepreneurs, and CEO’s. But the reason for Tory’s long-lasting connections is not for the many accolades she has under her belt. It’s because of her authenticity and genu...

Amanda Thebe is a Fitness and Women’s Health Expert. She is the author of the Amazon best-selling book, Menopocalypse: How I Learned to Thrive During Menopause and How You Can Too! With nearly 30 years of experience in the fitness industry, Amanda is a highly-regarded expert on women’s fitness and health. She is Canada’s first menopause workplace educator. Through menopause advocacy and education,...

In our first episode of Season 2, I explain the reasons WHY behind our new look and name - and my deep personal story behind why I have decided to slightly tweak the direction the pod is headed in.  In this episode, I speak about: - Our change of name, the why and how this will impact the reach of the podcast moving forwards, and therefore how many women’s lives will be profoundly impacted by tell...

What you would do if you walked into a room and a baby is shrieking with distress alone in its crib.  Your VERY NATURAL response is going to be: - Pick the baby up and snuggle it close - Use your voice to soothe and calm - Cuddle / rock / sway / change movements to settle - Respond to actual physical needs - hunger, thirst, nappy change - If it’s in an environment which cool be uncomfy (too loud,...

Tracey has been a close friend of mine for over a decade and I wanted her to share a very freaking difficult journey through Perimenopause - a lot of what she went through was harder due to not understanding what to expect and how it could show up. Her gift always has been Creative Abundance, and some of the ways this is expressed is the labels of Artist, Designer, Deep, Deep thinker, Human Design...

Libby Tozer is a photographer, writer, founder of the She Is Seen Movement. She lives, works, and surfs on Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna Country on the Fleurieu Peninsula of SA where she is also raising her daughter. I was looking forward to this interview so much. I came across Libby through a friend of mine who took part in the She Is Seen festival last year. I met her just after she had literally wal...