Chit Chat

I had a beautiful conversation with the founder of Sisterhood Social and the new Self Compassion Hub - Julie Mitchell.

Julie spoke so beautifully about what led her to initiate Sisterhood Social and to develop herself as a coach and mentor. She shared how it was founded in response to a call she felt to create a safe space for women to gather, feast and share their honest stories of life and experience. 

Julie also shares the personal growth she goes through in developing Sisterhood Social and how she is now exploring self-compassion and forgiveness through her offerings of The Self-Compassion Hub, and her personal coaching program - Unbecoming. 

I adored listening to Julie share her insights and experiences on the work she does that I know I personally find incredibly inspiring. I hope you enjoy listening to this episode.

You can find out more about Julie and the work she does at https://www.sisterhoodsocial.org/

Lots of love, Shaneen x

I enjoyed spending time in conversation with Chris Nunan for this episode of the podcast. Chris has a lovely approach to art and creativity and he shares some of what he loves about creative expression in the episode.

He also shared a personal experience of being near to death and how that unlocked insight within him of unconditional love and the humourous nature of the universe.

Chris is also a teacher and experienced in psychological understanding. He shares some of his soulful wisdom in this episode too.

There is a lot of soulful space in this episode, so I encourage you to sit back, relax, and don't mind the gaps. 

You can learn more about Chris and his work through his website - https://soulnudging.com

Lots of love, Shaneen x

It was lovely to be in conversation with my beautiful friend, gardener, and writer - Charly Bourne.

Charly and I have been friends for years, and when I embarked on a journey of exploring the Three Principles understanding Charly came along with me for the ride. 

She has been on her own journey of understanding the 3P's and so it's lovely to get together from time to time to compare notes and see how each of us is getting on with the insightful experience of understanding how the mind works. 

Charly is a beautiful writer, and gardener and spends most of her professional life engaging in these activities. she speaks about her experiences of the 3P's, gardening and writing in this podcasts and where she is at in her understanding of the mind, emotions, and being uncharacteristically "zen" about a lot of things in her life. 

I also love what Charly shares about her experience of being in the garden doing her work. 

It's a very laid back, conversational episode that I hope you will love and be relaxed with.

To see more of what Charly does you can check out her Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/born2garden/services/

I had a conversation with Amy Crippen in this episode of the Free To Be Podcast. Amy is a wellness coach and clinical nurse researcher who works with people to help them uncover their natural state of wellness from within.

Amy shares some lovely insights into what inspires her to be a wellness coach and how her natural empathy and energy encouraged her to go into nursing.

I love the understanding Amy has about innate wellbeing and I'm excited to see how she develops her wellness brand and coaching practice with this inside-out approach to health and wellness. 

If you want to learn more about what Amy does in her work you can also connect with her via her Instagram handle @cripcrunch

Lots of love, Shaneen x

In this episode, I had a beautiful conversation with my amazing friend - Chandy Singh-Hart, and we had the kind of conversation we would have had if we were sat in one of our living rooms together - drinking tea (or more accurately wine/cider!) and passing the time.

Chandy works as an Enterprise Executive for The Princes Trust where she has supported young people for over a decade in realising their business dreams and ambitions.

We talked a little bit about what she does in this role, and about some of the work she has been involved in.

We then went onto talk about some of our early sexual experiences as women. One of the things I love about Chandy is her light-hearted openness when discussing sex.

She has a beautiful and liberal feminist outlook on sex, which has definitely inspired me over the years to shed embarrassment around my journey of sexual understanding and experience. For those of you who know Chandy well, Mr Toad did get an honourable mention!

We also went on to explore our shared experience of losing our mums and how that tragedy has affected us both in coming to terms with life without our maternal figures being present.

We spoke about resilience and finding the strength within to keep moving forward, and also explored the inspiration behind Chandy's infamous (within our friendship circle) doll work.

It was beautiful to have this conversation with Chandy, and even more special to share it on the week of International Women's Day - In honour of our beautiful loved spiritual mums. 

I hope you enjoy listening to our no holes barred conversation.

Disclaimer* There is a LOT of swearing and sex talk in it - so it is not for the faint of hearts. 

Lots of love. 
Shaneen 

In this 9th episode of the Free To Be Podcast, I have a conversation with my lovely vegan friend, and colleague - Phil McManus. Phil and I both work at Leeds City Council and met when he was assigned to train me when I started my latest role. We hit it off from day one, and have stayed in touch as friends ever since. 

This isn't the first conversation I had with Phil to discuss his voluntary position as Regional Co-ordinator for the North-East at Sea Shephard UK and the work he does for marine conservation, but the first recording we did wasn't great so I decided to invite Phil for another chat so we could capture a clearer recording.  (If you would like to read the transcript of that first conversation you can email me at [email protected] for a copy.)

In this conversation, Phil and I discussed what inspired him to take up a role with Sea Shepherd and what he loves about marine conversation work. He shared some worrying fact about how we treat the oceans and sea life and how that is having a massive detrimental impact on the environment and state of our waters.

Phil also shared some inspiring documentaries about animal activism, animal cruelty and what inspired him to become vegan and to start on this path of animal activism and marine conservation work. 

Programmes to watch for more info:
Dominion - https://vimeo.com/278963435
The Cove - https://youtu.be/JtB36cztCh0
Earthlings - https://youtu.be/8gqwpfEcBjI
Cowspiracy - On Netflix
Gamechangers - On Netflix

For more information about Sea Shepherd UK, visit - www.seashepherduk.org

I hope you enjoy listening to this conversation, as much as I loved being part of it. 

Lots of love, Shaneen x

I am in conversation with Elizabeth Modene - AKA The Sovereign Goddess, in this episode of the Free To Be podcast. 

Elizabeth is a psychic, lightworker, and energy intuitive with a passion for spirit, astrology, metaphysics, and ascension.

She is the founder of The Sovereign Goddess, and co-founder of the Dear Enlightened One platform for lightworkers, along with her good friend and business partner - Hannah Morth. 

Elizabeth and I have been Facebook friends for a few years now and regularly connect with humour over spiritual exploration and memes.

It was an absolute joy to be in conversation with her (as you can tell from all the laughing in this episode) and loved the exploration we shared into being sovereign in our divine expression and exploration of this life. 

I hope you enjoy it too. 

If you want to connect with Elizabeth you can find her at https://www.facebook.com/SovereignGoddessElizabethModene
https://dearenlightenedone.com/

Lots of love, Shaneen x

I had an absolutely lovely conversation with the Self-Connection Coach, Siobhan Louise, about poetry, the power of cycles, divine insight, and listening to our innate wisdom. Siobhan offers one-to-one coaching and workshops around writing and self-connection.

Siobhan works with women on a journey of healing and spiritual evolution. She helps women to forge a deeper connection with Self and to reclaim their connection to their body and soul in radiating their innate divinity. This work is done via a process of self-inquiry and exploration. 

You can connect with Siobhan and find out more about what she does via these links.

www.theselfconnectioncoach.com
https://m.facebook.com/SelfConnectionCoach
https://m.facebook.com/groups/558807898415664

I had an absolutely lovely conversation with the Self-Connection Coach, Siobhan Louise, about poetry, the power of cycles, divine insight, and listening to our innate wisdom. Siobhan offers one-to-one coaching and workshops around writing and self-connection.

Siobhan works with women on a journey of healing and spiritual evolution. She helps women to forge a deeper connection with Self and to reclaim their connection to their body and soul in radiating their innate divinity. This work is done via a process of self-inquiry and exploration. 

You can connect with Siobhan and find out more about what she does via these links.

www.theselfconnectioncoach.com
https://m.facebook.com/SelfConnectionCoach
https://m.facebook.com/groups/558807898415664

In this episode, I had a delightful conversation with the beautiful, Catherine Anness- Antle. Catherine is a wise, sage woman who understands deeply that we are all unique expressions of the divine energy of life.  She shares her light-hearted wisdom, and insight, and the experiences which helped to shape her current understanding.

Catherine has studied as a yoga teacher, and reiki master, and after finding the teachings of Sydney Banks and the Three Principles, operates as a coach offering support and encouragement to anyone on a journey of rediscovering who they truly are.

You can connect with and find out more about Catherine at her website - https://www.breathofjoy.ca

I hope you enjoy listening to Catherines' beautiful insight, as much as I do. 

Lots of love, Shaneen x