Chit Chat

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

In this episode of the Free To Be podcast, I have a lovely conversation with my friend and makeup artist, Charlotte Hubbard. 

Charlotte is a British-based professional vegan and cruelty-free makeup artist, specialising in Bridal looks. She is committed to natural and ethically-made cosmetics that create a more sustainable future, whilst enhancing your natural beauty. 

We spoke about what inspired her to become a makeup artist, vegan, and what creativity looks like for her.

I loved what Charlotte shared in this conversation, and I hope you do too. 

You can find out more about her work at https://cmlhmakeup.co.uk/

Lots of love, Shaneen x

In this episode of the Free To Be podcast, I have a lovely conversation with my friend and makeup artist, Charlotte Hubbard. 

Charlotte is a British-based professional vegan and cruelty-free makeup artist, specialising in Bridal looks. She is committed to natural and ethically-made cosmetics that create a more sustainable future, whilst enhancing your natural beauty. 

We spoke about what inspired her to become a makeup artist, vegan, and what creativity looks like for her.

I loved what Charlotte shared in this conversation, and I hope you do too. 

You can find out more about her work at https://cmlhmakeup.co.uk/

Lots of love, Shaneen x

In this snack-sized episode, I share an insight into how understanding my experience of life from a personal perspective has helped me to feel more able to live in alignment with my natural desires. 

Also, a massive thank you to my dad, Chris Dawkins, who has kindly allowed me to use one of his album tracks - "Painting Colours" - as the intro/outro music for the podcast. 

I highly recommend checking out his album if you enjoy trip-hop, jazz, and soulful ambient sounds. 

https://releasedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/painting-colours

Lots of love, Shaneen x

In this snack-sized episode, I share an insight into how understanding my experience of life from a personal perspective has helped me to feel more able to live in alignment with my natural desires. 

Also, a massive thank you to my dad, Chris Dawkins, who has kindly allowed me to use one of his album tracks - "Painting Colours" - as the intro/outro music for the podcast. 

I highly recommend checking out his album if you enjoy trip-hop, jazz, and soulful ambient sounds. 

https://releasedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/painting-colours

Lots of love, Shaneen x

In this third episode of Free To Be, I was honoured to interview the beautiful, Cheri Gillings.

Coach. Alchemist. Queen. 

Cheri is the founder of Inner Space Coaching and through her soulful work, helps to guide people through recovery from addiction. She also works to train organisations and helps her personal coaching clients to find the inner light of being for themselves.

Cheri also hosts an amazing podcast  - Satday Soup for the Sistas Soul - intent on sharing inspiring content that helps to soothe, heal, inspire, nurture and elevate women's souls everywhere.

I haven't known Cheri for very long. I can't even remember how we got connected, and yet, in the short time I have known her, she has influenced me in some profound ways.

Her spiritual insight, and the grounded way in which she shares it, has been developed through a life of encountering challenging circumstances. It was through these experiences that Cheri found the understanding that changed the outlook of her life, and she now shares that with others.

In the episode, Cheri explains how she recognised a force beyond herself -that undeniably exists, and that within her she experiences an indestructible light which is what sparks her curiosity to continue looking in the direction of what's possible. 

I loved this conversation, and I hope you enjoy listening to it. 

If you'd like to get in touch with Cheri to explore more of her work and what she does, you can connect with her through the following links. 

Inner Space Coaching and Consultancy - https://m.facebook.com/InnerSpaceCoach/
Satday Soup for the Sista's Soul - https://anchor.fm/satdaysoupsistassoul/

Lots of love, Shaneen x

In this third episode of Free To Be, I was honoured to interview the beautiful, Cheri Gillings.

Coach. Alchemist. Queen. 

Cheri is the founder of Inner Space Coaching and through her soulful work, helps to guide people through recovery from addiction. She also works to train organisations and helps her personal coaching clients to find the inner light of being for themselves.

Cheri also hosts an amazing podcast  - Satday Soup for the Sistas Soul - intent on sharing inspiring content that helps to soothe, heal, inspire, nurture and elevate women's souls everywhere.

I haven't known Cheri for very long. I can't even remember how we got connected, and yet, in the short time I have known her, she has influenced me in some profound ways.

Her spiritual insight, and the grounded way in which she shares it, has been developed through a life of encountering challenging circumstances. It was through these experiences that Cheri found the understanding that changed the outlook of her life, and she now shares that with others.

In the episode, Cheri explains how she recognised a force beyond herself -that undeniably exists, and that within her she experiences an indestructible light which is what sparks her curiosity to continue looking in the direction of what's possible. 

I loved this conversation, and I hope you enjoy listening to it. 

If you'd like to get in touch with Cheri to explore more of her work and what she does, you can connect with her through the following links. 

Inner Space Coaching and Consultancy - https://m.facebook.com/InnerSpaceCoach/
Satday Soup for the Sista's Soul - https://anchor.fm/satdaysoupsistassoul/

Lots of love, Shaneen x

I had the pleasure of interviewing the beautiful Sara J. Sanderson for this episode of the Free To Be podcast.

Sara J. Sanderson is a Liberation Coach, Community Creatrix and compassionate leader and networker supporting people to express themselves fully. Sara is the CEO of the When Women Speak Global Network CIC a social enterprise committed to feminine embodiment and supporting womxn to uncover the voice within. Sara says "the invitation is to use that voice to be who you are unfiltered, explore what you are capable of and be the change you want to see in the world. You are here now with unique gifts to share and however small or big, everything you do has impact."

Sara’s open and honest outlook enables her to approach life with wit and grace, generously giving of herself to support others. Sara loves to guide people to live from the truth of who they are and thrives when fulfilling her purpose to serve, nurture and bring people together. Sara is also the host of the When Women Speak Stories Worth Telling Podcast, a series of conversations with ordinary extraordinary womxn sharing about who they are and how they show up in the world.

Sara is also the woman who opened me up to exploring, more consciously, the experience of who I am, and of life, and the work she does with When Women Speak has been pivotal in expanding my capacity to be more expressive as I am.

I am grateful to Sara for the work she does, and for allowing me this honour of being able to interview her.

I hope you enjoy listening.

If you want to get in touch with Sara about any of the work she is engaging in you can access her through the following links:

Website - https://www.wwsgn.com/

Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/whenwomenspeak

Podcast - https://whenwomenspeak.buzzsprout.com/

Coaching (Freedom to Be YOU) - https://www.wwsgn.com/freedom

Freebie on Taking Action - https://www.wwsgn.com/takingaction

( As a side note, true to form, I let a few swear words slip in this episode! And so if you are sensitive to swearing, or are listening with anyone who is sensitive to swearing, please be aware that I drop a few f-bombs on here.)

Lots of love, Shaneen x

I had the pleasure of interviewing the beautiful Sara J. Sanderson for this episode of the Free To Be podcast.

Sara J. Sanderson is a Liberation Coach, Community Creatrix and compassionate leader and networker supporting people to express themselves fully. Sara is the CEO of the When Women Speak Global Network CIC a social enterprise committed to feminine embodiment and supporting womxn to uncover the voice within. Sara says "the invitation is to use that voice to be who you are unfiltered, explore what you are capable of and be the change you want to see in the world. You are here now with unique gifts to share and however small or big, everything you do has impact."

Sara’s open and honest outlook enables her to approach life with wit and grace, generously giving of herself to support others. Sara loves to guide people to live from the truth of who they are and thrives when fulfilling her purpose to serve, nurture and bring people together. Sara is also the host of the When Women Speak Stories Worth Telling Podcast, a series of conversations with ordinary extraordinary womxn sharing about who they are and how they show up in the world.

Sara is also the woman who opened me up to exploring, more consciously, the experience of who I am, and of life, and the work she does with When Women Speak has been pivotal in expanding my capacity to be more expressive as I am.

I am grateful to Sara for the work she does, and for allowing me this honour of being able to interview her.

I hope you enjoy listening.

If you want to get in touch with Sara about any of the work she is engaging in you can access her through the following links:

Website - https://www.wwsgn.com/

Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/whenwomenspeak

Podcast - https://whenwomenspeak.buzzsprout.com/

Coaching (Freedom to Be YOU) - https://www.wwsgn.com/freedom

Freebie on Taking Action - https://www.wwsgn.com/takingaction

( As a side note, true to form, I let a few swear words slip in this episode! And so if you are sensitive to swearing, or are listening with anyone who is sensitive to swearing, please be aware that I drop a few f-bombs on here.)

Lots of love, Shaneen x

A short introduction to what the Free To Be Podcast is all about.

Here is the transcript:

Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Free To Be podcast.

My name is Shaneen Mooney, and I'm looking forward to opening this podcast as a platform, and as a way of being able to explore the understanding of who we are and of how we are always free to be.

I'm excited to sit down in conversation with people who I've felt influenced, and inspired, and impacted by in a positive way. To look within myself, to find the truth of who I am, and to feel free and expressing that out. And in that process of uncovering my natural sense of self, in uncovering the understanding of who I am - I realised that we are existing in a state of absolute freedom.

We are in essence, free.

There is nothing that we need to do.

There is nowhere that we need to get to.

There isn't anything that we need to become, in order to be free.

In order to express ourselves.

We are free now.

And once I felt this. And I understood it. And I understood it as true.

I had to share this message.

And so the inspiration for this podcast was born.

I knew I needed a way to get this message out there.

Because we can become so lost in the thoughts that we experience. In the ideas and the beliefs that we pick up, that can convince us we are not free.

I knew I needed to share this message. As a reminder, of the truth that we are free by nature.

We are free in being who we are, and even when we're experiencing those thoughts- the beliefs, and the ideas, and the conditioning that tells us that we're not good enough, we're not able to be free, we're not able to express ourselves - we can look within.

To a deeper sense of being who we are. To a deeper understanding. To an understanding that I find impossible to articulate. But it's one that we know it when we feel it.

It's home.

It's being here now.

A state of presence. Of recognising that the entire universe is existing in this moment.

And when we feel it. And we understand that this is who we are. And this is where we exist. The thoughts that come that tell us that we’re not free and that we’re not good enough. Just have less power to influence our behavior.

They have less attraction. And this deeper grounded recognition of the truth of who we are in nature is what can influence and inspire and impact us to behave in a way that feels good. That feels right.

And when we experience that and we dig into that. And we express ourselves from there. We can get a real sense of this freedom that we are, and how it's always available. It's always with us. This state of presence is what we are expressed into. We never leave this place, and to me that is beautiful. That is everything. Knowing and understanding. That we never leave this place.

We never leave this state of presence. And of being free, and of being expressive and of being creative. We are always in this space of presence.

Of freedom. 

Of absolute freedom.

And so my intention for this podcast is to record an episode every week.

And it will be a combination of episodes like this, where I talk and share my experiences and understanding. 

And there will be episodes where I have conversations with people who I admire, feel influenced and impacted by.

And it's my hope to share them with you every Wednesday. So, I hope that you have enjoyed this introduction to the podcast.

But for now, I'll wish you all the best. Lots of love. Take care. Bye