39. What If The Magic is in Simply Being Yourself?
This one's for everyone who's tired of feeling like they have to keep pulling rabbits from a hat to deserve a seat at the table.In this unscripted solo episode, Amanda challenges herself to just talk. No outline, no plan, no trunk full of wisdom to unpack.What emerges is a beautiful meditation on recovery, control and the radical act of being enough exactly as you are.Fresh from re-entering the world after hermit mode, Amanda reflects on the insights that come from working a 12-step program while navigating business networks, social media and the simple act of house-training a new dog. It's all connected: the way we try to control our environment, manage other people's experiences and reach outside ourselves to fix internal discomfort.This episode captures the messy, real work of recovery. Not just from substances, but from the addiction to productivity, people-pleasing and the exhausting need to prove your worth through performance. Amanda shares how she's learning to give her brain a break and trust that she's enough without constantly adding to herself..🎧 Listen now and subscribe on SUBSTACK for podcast companion articles, tools & resources. .Music Credit: Holes By Bradley James Grace.
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38. The Four Stages of Womanhood with Ashleigh Tobin
Ashleigh Tobin is a master storyteller who uses words as colours and her voice as a paintbrush. As a hormone health coach, registered nurse with 35+ years experience and TEDx speaker, she helps women navigate the profound transformation of midlife not as decline, but as awakening.In this conversation, we dive deep into the four stages of womanhood: maiden, creative, enchantress, and sage. That third stage, enchantress or warrior woman, coincides with our forties and fifties, exactly when society tells us we're "over the hill." But Ashleigh reveals this as the time when our greatest resources are waiting to emerge.We explore how the stories we tell ourselves either open or close possibilities, why curiosity is the antidote to certainty and criticism and how to navigate the break in continuity when you start becoming someone new. This conversation also touches on the profound moment when Amanda chose her creative calling over traditional motherhood, leading to an identity shift from "escape artist" to "creative wayfinder", proof that we can rewrite our stories at any stage of life.Key Themes:Four stages of womanhood & midlife as a beginningHow the stories we tell ourselves shape our realityMoving from certainty to curiosity as a way of livingWhy "someday" is the enemy of a life well-livedHow small moments of noticing create profound changeCreating space for your evolving selfConnect with Ashleigh:WebsiteLinkedInTEDx Talk: "How Menopause Will Change Your Life"Instagram
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37. What It Means To Be Free with Tara Morris
Photographer and yoga teacher Tara Morris sits down for one of the most honest conversations about what it actually means to be free; not when you're "perfect," but right now, exactly as you are.Fresh from losing her mother after 25 years of Parkinson's & navigating her own profound grief, Tara speaks with raw honesty about being "face down in the arena" while still somehow radiating the kind of energy that makes you want to lean into life harder. As an Enneagram 7, she's learned that you can't just run from the hard feelings, sometimes you have to turn toward them.We explore the difference between the stories we tell ourselves, particularly about our bodies and the actual experience of living in them. Tara talks shares why she practices 'granular gratitude' for every single thing her body can do. This is about more than body acceptance, it's about the courage to stop waiting for permission to live fully in the skin you're in.Key Themes:What "being free in your body" actually means (and it's not what you think)Why we numb instead of feel and what's on the other side of that choiceThe different understandings of powerHow grief and gratitude can exist in the same momentWhy your body stories are not the truthIf this conversation reminded you that you're already worthy of love exactly as you are, we'd love if you'd share it with someone who needs that reminder too..Connect with Tara: The Love Offensive Tara Morris ImagesINSTAGRAM.Subscribe to Amanda's SUBSTACK for companion articles, tools & resources..Music: Holes by Bradley James Grace
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36. The Architecture of Belonging with Jean Evans
This one's for everyone who's ever felt like they had to choose between being authentic and being professional. Jean Evans is a Networking Architect, but this conversation isn't about collecting business cards or LinkedIn strategies. It's about something much more essential: how authentic connection becomes life resourcing, especially for women rebuilding their worlds.After being made redundant while breastfeeding one child with two toddlers around her feet, Jean discovered that learning to network wasn't just about business—it was about discovering who she was as a human being. We dive deep into the wounds that keep us isolated—the fear of being seen as needy, the toxic self-reliance, imposter syndrome, perfectionism. This conversation challenges everything we think we know about networking, success and the dangerous myth that we can, or should, do it all alone.Key Themes:Networking as a learnable skill Vulnerability as permissionTransactional networking or life resourcing?What's costing you connections & opportunitiesThe mentality that leads to burnout, everytime The courage equationYour TRUE credentialsIf this episode reminded you that none of us are supposed to do life alone, we'd love if you'd share it with someone who needs to hear that message..Connect with Jean: WebsitesIgnite Business Network Jean's Newsletter, + free Top 20 Tips to Rock Your Week. Jean's Networking Blog PodcastsIgnite Talks NetworkMeSocialsLinkedinInstagramFacebookX.comYouTube.Subscribe to Amanda's SUBSTACK for companion articles, tools & resources..Music Credit: Holes By Bradley James Grace.
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35. Together, We Are Magnificent: with Michelle Mills Porter
Amanda met Michelle at a professional speaking event, where she stood before a room & declared: "Every single person has something to offer. Everybody has value." Then she challenged everyone to prove it, right there, in real time. In this conversation, Amanda unpacks with her, the inner panic that quickly ensued. Michelle, aka THE PEOPLE READER, is an expert in human behaviour, president of the Professional Speaking Association and a woman who, on Dec 26th 2004, was caught in one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. But what she witnessed in the aftermath wasn't devastation, it was revelation and it led to her life's work. Tune in to hear:Why self-reliance doesn’t work & what the alternative isWhat happened when Amanda's ego "threw a tantrum" & quit on her recovery. Michelle's take on the key to our collective evolution. The results of Amanda's driving forces analysis (a tool developed by Michelle) & a powerful challenge to us all.Connect with Michelle: LINKEDINFACEBOOKWEBSITETHE PEOPLE READER. Subscribe to Amanda's SUBSTACK for companion articles, tools & resources. .Music Credit: Holes By Bradley James Grace.
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