Emerge with Fini Cooper

How do you know when something is intuition, when it’s coming from somewhere beyond you, and when it’s just your mind doing what minds do? This week, I’m joined by Spirit Team Channeller, Psychic Medium and Intuition Coach Natalie Miles for a conversation that definitely took me a little further into the spiritual side of things. We talk about how Natalie first discovered her intuitive abilities a...

What happens when you’ve done everything you were "supposed" to do, you’ve analysed every childhood wound with different therapists, and you still feel completely joyless, contracted, and terrified to even walk to the tube? In this raw, unfiltered solo episode, I share the messy backstory of reaching an absolute breaking point in my early thirties. From crumbling under the weight of corp...

What happens when you’ve tried everything to heal, and you’re starting to wonder if maybe you’re the problem? This week, I’m joined by breathwork facilitator and teacher Megan Ashton, whose own journey with breathwork began after years of searching for something that would finally make a difference. We talk about the experience that completely changed her relationship with healing, why breathwork...

What happens when you stop following the life you were taught to want, and start asking what you actually want instead? In this episode of Emerge, I sit down with Charlotte Holmes, yoga teacher and founder of Insight Out Yoga, for a conversation about questioning the paths we inherit, trusting what feels true for us, and learning to meet life with a little more openness. Charlotte has built a life...

Have you ever had one of those weeks where nothing is actually wrong, but somehow everything feels wrong? Nobody's done anything. Nothing dramatic has happened. And yet you're reading into conversations, questioning your relationship, scrolling more than usual, keeping yourself constantly busy, or lying awake at 2am entertaining yet another variation of the same fear. In this solo episode,...

You are not experiencing your whole life. You're experiencing an edit. Your brain is constantly filtering an enormous amount of information, deciding what gets through and what gets thrown away before you're even aware it's happening. In Part 2 of this shorter solo series, I get into what is actually setting that filter. I talk about why you suddenly see the same car everywhere once yo...

Most of what you think today, you already thought yesterday. The same fear, the same loop, circling back before you've even noticed it's happened again. In this first solo episode of a new shorter series, I sit with something I come back to in my own life too: what if the goal was never to be free from fearful thoughts? I get into why your brain isn't actually built for your happiness...

You are not separate from what you're trying to call into your life. That's the truth Sophie Kish sits with in this episode, and it changes everything once you actually let it in. Sophie spent a year and a half on Tony Robbins' team, working directly with surgeons, founders, and Fortune 100 executives, watching the same pattern show up again and again: it's never really about what...

What happens when the moments you can't explain are the ones that shape you the most? In this episode of Emerge, I sit down with Lucy Shelby, a trained spiritual psychosomatic coach, clown, healer, and artist. She holds an MFA in ensemble-based physical theater, has certificates in various healing modalities, and has been teaching hot yoga for over 18 years. Lucy is also a writer, producer, an...

What do you do when life gives you a wake-up call so big you know you can’t go back to the way things were? In this episode of Emerge, I sit down with Colin, a yoga therapist, author, and teacher, whose journey began after a terrifying health crisis in his late teens. After coming incredibly close to death, Colin was left with a question that many of us face in different ways: how did I get here,...

Do you ever feel like you should be happier than you are? Like, on paper, things might be okay. Maybe even good. But there’s still this quiet feeling of, “Why don’t I feel how I thought I would?” Maybe you’ve been waiting for the next thing to change everything. The relationship. The move. The job. The achievement. The version of yourself that finally feels successful, settled, or enough. And mayb...

In this episode of Emerge, I sit down with the brilliant Ada Ooi — London’s most sought after wellness practitioner and aesthetician — for one of the most genuinely eye-opening conversations I've had on this podcast. Ada has nearly two decades of experience working out of her renowned Harley Street clinic in London, and her approach is unlike anything conventional Western medicine offers. She...

What becomes possible when the noise softens and there is finally space to listen? This episode explores how silence can bring us face to face with the thoughts, fears, and patterns that quietly shape our lives. It touches on self-judgment, the search for belonging, the habit of looking outside ourselves for answers, and the deeper knowing that can emerge when we slow down enough to hear it. ⁠⁠DOW...

Today on the podcast, I’m joined by Sarah Yudkin, founder of You Love and You Learn. Sarah is a relationship coach and breathwork facilitator who helps people connect more deeply to themselves and others, so they can feel more fulfilled in their lives and relationships. Her work focuses on helping people move from anxiety and self-doubt into greater inner confidence, self-trust and emotional stead...

What happens when the life you’re living looks good on the outside, but something inside you knows, “this isn’t it”? In this episode, I’m joined by the lovely Susanna Soma, a somatic mentor, embodied movement guide and long-time yoga teacher. Susanna’s story begins with a feeling so many of us know, the quiet sense that the path in front of you might not actually be yours. From Melbourne to South...

In this episode, I’m joined by Nikki Heyder, a trauma-informed psychotherapist, business mentor, and author of Good Enough: A Roadmap for Compassionate Self-Acceptance. This was such a rich conversation, and one I think will really land for anyone who feels stuck in patterns they can’t quite explain, or who has achieved a lot on paper but still doesn’t feel how they thought they would. We talk abo...

There are moments in life when you know something needs to change. You can feel it. You’ve probably felt it for a while. But instead of moving, you stay where you are. Not because you’re lazy, incapable, or confused, but because fear has a way of making the familiar feel safer than the truth. In this episode, I’m unpacking the deeper mechanics of fear, how it lives in the body, how it shapes the m...

In this episode, I’m joined by Julia Woodford, a human design reader, somatic coach, gym owner and personal trainer. Julia and I met during our somatic coaching training, and this conversation felt like such an honest reflection of what so many women move through, self-doubt, overthinking, feeling disconnected from themselves, and the quiet desire to come back home to who they really are. We talk...

You did everything right. You worked hard. You had a plan and you went after it with everything you had. And yet somehow here you are, wondering where exactly that version of you actually went. This week on Emerge we're talking to Katherine Ormerod. Katherine is a journalist, author and former fashion editor whose work explores the hidden impact of social media, comparison, and modern life on our...

What happens when you spend years suppressing how you really feel? When every emotion gets pushed down, smoothed over, laughed off? When being fine becomes so automatic you can't even remember the last time you weren't? Eventually - something gives. Maybe it's your body. Maybe it's a relationship. Maybe it's just this quiet, persistent feeling that you've been living slightly outside of yourself f...

What happens when the life you've been working so hard to build… quietly destroys you? For Aron, it crept in slowly. The anxiety. The depression. The morning he woke up and realised he couldn't leave the house. For six months, an invisible wall stood between him and the world — and nobody saw it coming. Not even him. After 15 years climbing the corporate ladder, always saying yes, always w...

You know that feeling when you're in a room full of people - people you know, people you like - and you still feel strangely... alone? That's exactly what this episode is about. Because as it turns out, loneliness is way more complicated than we've been led to believe — and there are actually different types that show up in completely different ways. And once you know which one you&#39...

Have you ever sent a message cancelling plans and then spent the next hour obsessing over whether the other person was annoyed with you? Even when they hadn't even replied yet? Yeah. Same. In this solo episode, I'm getting into something that came up for me recently... that very real, very familiar anxiety around letting people down. The fear of disappointing someone. The over-explaining,...

What if nothing "big" happened to you, yet you still feel disconnected from yourself? In this episode of Emerge, I sit down with my friend Lani for one of the most honest conversations we've had. No perfectly polished healing story. No tidy before and after. Just two friends being really, really real with each other about what healing from childhood trauma actually looks like in ever...

Why is it so often a breakdown, injury, or crisis that finally makes us slow down and look inward? In this episode, I sit down with Yogi Kaivalyananda for a real conversation about pain, discipline, self-care, and what it actually takes to build a relationship with yourself over time. Yogi shares how chronic back pain in his early twenties led him to yoga, and how years of daily practice, sometime...