In this solo episode, Belinda explores how constant exposure to news, global events, and fear-based messaging is impacting your nervous system, and often without you even realising it.

We’re living in a time where we’re not just informed… we’re immersed. And when your attention is constantly on chaos, uncertainty, and division, your body starts to feel like it’s living in it. This episode isn’t about ignoring the world. It’s about learning how to observe without absorbing and becoming overwhelmed.

We explore:

• Why the world has always felt uncertain, but our consumption has changed
• How constant exposure to news keeps your nervous system in a stress response
• The difference between being aware vs being emotionally consumed
• Why fear-based messaging is so powerful on a dysregulated system
• How collective trauma shows up in real time
• The impact of what you focus on (and your brain’s filtering system)
• Why “what you consume, consumes you”
• Simple, practical ways to stay informed without staying in fear
• How to come back to your body, your environment, and what you can actually control

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, on edge, or mentally drained after scrolling or watching the news… this episode will help you understand why, and how to control the controllables so the world doesn’t feel so heavy.

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In this solo episode, Belinda explores what trauma really is, and why it’s often misunderstood.

When most people hear the word trauma, they think of something extreme or obvious. But trauma isn’t defined by the event itself, it’s defined by how it was experienced in your body.

This episode invites you to look beyond labels like “big” or “small” trauma, and instead understand how your nervous system has adapted to what you’ve lived through. Because sometimes… it’s not about what happened. It’s about what didn’t.

We explore:

• Why trauma is about your internal experience, not just the external event
• The difference between explicit (remembered) and implicit (felt) memory
• Why many people believe “nothing happened to me”… but still feel anxious or on edge
• How trauma isn’t always about what happened, but what was missing
• Developmental, acute (shock), pre-verbal, complex, intergenerational, and collective trauma
• How your nervous system adapts through fight, flight, freeze, and fawn
• Why trauma is stored in the body, not always as a clear story
• How unprocessed survival responses continue to show up in adult life
• The connection between trauma, patterns, relationships, and physical symptoms
• Why awareness—not blame—is where healing begins
• How to shift from “What’s wrong with me?” to “What happened to me?”

This episode explores trauma, nervous system regulation, emotional patterns, and how your past experiences continue to shape your present—often in ways you don’t consciously realise.

If you’ve ever felt like “nothing bad happened” but still find yourself feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck in patterns you can’t explain… this episode will help you understand why.

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In this episode of Beyond The Surface, Belinda is joined by Gemma Hudson, a past retreat guest who shares her journey from burnout to breakthrough.

Gemma opens up about her mum leaving when she was just three, how that unconsciously shaped her independence, identity, and the way she moved through life. In her early 30s, she made the decision to become estranged from her. Eight years later, when her mum was dying, Gemma chose not to reconnect.

On the outside, Gemma had built the “perfect” life - a successful corporate career and the version of success she had always been shown. But underneath, her body was sending signals she continued to ignore… until burnout forced her to stop and question it all.

Through coaching, personal growth, and attending Belinda’s women’s retreat and couples retreat with her husband, Gemma began reconnecting with her intuition, her emotions, her feminine energy, and her body, and with that, a deeper sense of who she truly is.

By learning to listen to herself, embracing vulnerability, and choosing to live in alignment, Gemma went on to retrain as a counsellor and coach, now supporting women in meaningful and purposeful ways.

This conversation explores burnout, childhood experiences, estrangement, boundaries, unconscious patterns, and the power of coming back to yourself.

If your life looks right on the outside but doesn’t feel right on the inside, this episode will resonate deeply.

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Connect with Gemma:

Website: https://www.qualialife.au/

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/qualia_life/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Qualia-Life/61578514086434/

In this episode, Belinda sits down with Emma Dunwoody,  Human Design expert, master coach, behaviour specialist and host of one of the most listened-to Human Design podcasts in the world.

Together they explore how understanding your unique energetic blueprint can transform the way you live, work, parent and make decisions. Emma breaks down what Human Design actually is and how learning to live in alignment can help you stop forcing life and start trusting your own inner authority.

Emma also shares her personal journey from corporate success and burnout to discovering Human Design, how it completely shifted the way she lives and works today, and why she believes focus, frequency and emotional mastery will become one of the most valuable currencies in the future. She believes the future won’t belong to the loudest voice, but the most aligned one.

In this episode we explore:

• What Human Design is and how it reveals your unique energetic blueprint
• How to make decisions by trusting your body instead of overthinking with the mind
• Emma’s journey from corporate success and burnout to finding alignment
• Why hustle, achievement and external validation don’t lead to true fulfilment
• How emotional mastery and alignment are shaping the future of success and personal growth

If you’ve ever felt like you’re pushing against life instead of flowing with it, this conversation will open your mind to a different way of living, working and making decisions.

Podcast Sponsor:

Evolution Botanicals specialises in functional mushrooms, tonic herbs, and superfoods to support energy, immunity, focus, strength, gut health and wellness. Visit: https://evolutionbotanicals.com.au/and add BTS10 for 10% off your first order.

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Connect with Emma:

Website: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_human_design_coach/

In this solo episode, Belinda shares why decision making can feel so difficult, and why indecision is often less about logic and more about what’s happening in the nervous system.

If you’ve ever felt stuck between two choices, overthinking every outcome or constantly asking others for advice, this episode will help you understand what’s really going on beneath the surface.

We explore:

• Why indecision is often a nervous system protection response
• Decision fatigue and why choices feel harder when you’re overwhelmed
• The fear of regret and how it keeps people stuck
• How perfectionism can show up as decision paralysis
• Why clarity often comes after action, not before it
• How small decisions help rebuild self-trust

This episode explores decision making, nervous system regulation, overcoming indecision, building self-trust, and understanding the psychology behind why making decisions can feel so hard.

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In this powerful conversation, Belinda sits down with Georgie Stevenson, founder of Naked Harvest and Rise & Conquer, to explore how she followed an internal “nudge” to walk away from a safe career as a lawyer and build multiple seven and eight-figure businesses.

Georgie shares what life looked like before the success…feeling lost in her early 20s, choosing law without true alignment, and having the courage to leave security behind to follow a creative pull. What began as documenting her fitness journey online eventually evolved into launching Naked Harvest with her brother, building a female-focused supplement brand rooted in integrity, and creating a global personal development platform through Rise & Conquer.

In this episode, we explore:

• Leaving law to follow intuition and build from scratch
• Creating an 8-figure wellness brand with no investors
• Manifestation beyond vision boards and affirmations — identity, inner work, and nervous system regulation
• Rewriting money stories and expanding your wealth capacity
• How she balances entrepreneurship, family, and motherhood
• How motherhood has shifted the way she sees life
• Navigating judgment, visibility, online growth and being one of the first “influencers”
• Why investing in yourself delivers the greatest return ROI

If you’ve ever felt the pull for more but questioned whether it’s possible for you, this episode will remind you that growth starts internally, and the nudges you feel are there for a reason.

Podcast Sponsor:

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Connect with Goergia:

Website: https://www.riseandconquer.com.au

Website: https://www.nakedharvestsupplements.com

Instagram: @georgiestevenson

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In this solo episode, Belinda explores the powerful truth behind the phrase “If nothing changes, nothing changes.

You say you want change, but find yourself repeating the same patterns, reactions, and choices.

Belinda explains why change feels hard and not from a motivation or “just think positive” lens, but from a nervous system and subconscious perspective.

Because change isn’t just a mindset shift. It’s a body shift. A pattern shift. An identity shift.

You’ll learn how familiarity, survival mode, and subconscious programming keep you stuck in cycles,  even when you truly want different.

Belinda shares personal stories, real-life examples, and practical reflections to help you understand how safety, capacity, and small repeated actions retrain your system for growth.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why the subconscious chooses familiar over healthy
• How the nervous system resists unfamiliar change
• The role of identity in lasting transformation
• Why change is a practice, not a decision
• How building capacity helps you tolerate discomfort
• The link between regulation and perception
• Self-reflection questions to interrupt old patterns
• A simple embodiment exercise to reconnect with yourself

This episode is for anyone who feels stuck between wanting more and staying where it feels safe, and is ready to understand why.

Podcast Sponsor:

Evolution Botanicals specialises in functional mushrooms, tonic herbs, and superfoods to support energy, immunity, focus, strength, gut health and wellness. Visit: https://evolutionbotanicals.com.au/ and add BTS10 for 10% off your first order.

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Trigger warning: This episode discusses childhood sexual abuse, incest, trauma, and healing which may be confronting or activating for some listeners. Please listen with care.

In this deeply vulnerable and powerful conversation, Belinda sits down with trauma survivor, author, advocate, and breathwork facilitator Caroline Brunne, alongside her award-winning therapy Border Collie Louie, recently named Australia Dog of the Year.

Caroline shares her lived experience of childhood sexual abuse, family estrangement, and the long, layered road to healing.

This episode is both confronting and inspiring, offering hope, insight, and practical perspective for survivors and those supporting them. Caroline reflects on her upbringing, from a vibrant Mauritian family life to migrating to Australia as a child, and how her experience of sexual abuse began at age ten and continued for several years. She shares the complexity of living a “normal” life externally while navigating trauma internally, and how abuse reshaped her sense of safety, childhood innocence, and ability to access joy later in life.

Caroline is the author of More Than One Thing Can Be True and now dedicates her work to supporting survivors, opening conversations around trauma and replacing shame with understanding.

Podcast Sponsor:

Evolution Botanicals specialises in functional mushrooms, tonic herbs, and superfoods to support energy, immunity, focus, strength, gut health and wellness. Visit: https://evolutionbotanicals.com.au/and add BTS10 for 10% off your first order.

Connect with Belinda:

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Connect with Caroline:

Website: https://carolinebrunne.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caroline_brunne

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cgb.mgmt

Deep Breaths with Louie: https://cbrunne.setmore.com/

In this episode, Belinda is joined by former NRL player, media personality and men’s wellness facilitator Ryan Girdler for an honest conversation about men’s mental health, identity, pressure, and what real transformation actually looks like.

Ryan shares his “that was then, this is now” story from professional football and public success to the quieter, more confronting inner work that followed. They unpack what happens when the structure disappears, when achievement no longer defines you, and when you’re forced to slow down and meet yourself without distraction.

This conversation goes far beyond football. It’s about men stepping out of the system, letting go of control, doing the work, finding purpose, and getting clear on what you’d be willing to do for your family.

Ryan talks about how meditation and breathwork changed his life and led him to the path he’s on now… being of service, running retreats and events, facilitating breathwork, and advocating for men’s mental health by living what he teaches.

A grounded and real conversation about growth, evolving as a man, and having the courage to do the inner work.

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Evolution Botanicals specialises in functional mushrooms, tonic herbs, and superfoods to support energy, immunity, focus, strength, gut health and wellness. Visti: https://evolutionbotanicals.com.au/ and add BTS10 for 10% off your first order.

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Connect with Ryan:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwgirdler

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reconnectedmen/

Website: https://reconnectedmen.com/

In this episode, Belinda is joined by mindset and relationship coach Jess Cameron for a deeply honest conversation about self-leadership, emotional regulation, and why mindset work alone doesn’t create lasting change.

They explore what really keeps people stuck. Jess shares insights from her work with individuals and international companies as Head Performance Coach, unpacking why growth isn’t about thinking more positively or avoiding discomfort. It’s about getting out of your head, regulating your emotions, and building the capacity to lead yourself from the inside out.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

• Why mindset alone isn’t enough for real change
• The difference between understanding emotions intellectually and actually feeling them
• Why procrastination and self-doubt are usually emotional blocks, not mindset problems
• How emotional capacity determines how much success, money, and responsibility you can sustain
• The hidden fear of success that keeps people playing small
• What self-leadership actually looks like in everyday life
• Why suppressing emotions leads to burnout, resentment, and disconnection

If you’ve done the mindset work but still feel stuck, overwhelmed, or burnt out, this episode will land.

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Connect with Belinda:

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Connect with Jess:

Website: https://jesscameron.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatsjesscameron/