"Design an environment around you that makes it impossible not to make the progress you want to make - the people we spend time with, the books we read, the podcasts we listen to, what we watch, the physical spaces we spend time in - all of these influences our journey in life. "

In this episode of Decontextualized Podcast, Natalia Rachel is joined by Simon Alexander Ong, bestselling author of 'Energized: Make the Most of Every Moment', international keynote speaker and award-winning life coach. His work has seen him invited onto Sky News and BBC to be interviewed, while he has been featured in the likes of Forbes and Harvard Business Review. He has spoken at some of the planet's most successful organisations such as Barclays, Salesforces, Adobe, EY and Microsoft. And his debut book Energize, published by Penguin in 2022 became an instant bestseller, receiving endorsements from the likes of New York Times bestselling authors Simon Sinek, Marie Forleo and Marshall Goldsmith. In 2023, Energize was also awarded Book of the Year within the Wellness & Wellbeing category at The Business Book Awards.

About Natalia Rachel:

Natalia Rachel shares her voice to begin to remedy the world’s state of hustle, trauma, bias, disconnect, and disrespect. Her insights into the human condition and our profound need for healing, self-compassion, empathy, and human connection, inspire audiences to awaken their hearts, illuminate their patterns and step forward towards self-care and relational repair. She is a proud recipient of the Women Icons Asia Award (emerging entrepreneur) for social impact in the domain of trauma-informed culture transformation & self-mastery education. Natalia’s highly anticipated book ‘Why Am I Like This?’ launched last year with Penguin Random House.

Her goal is to bring trauma work to the mainstream and bridge the gap between mental health, diversity equity, inclusion, and human sustainability.


Connect with Natalia:

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In this episode of Decontextualized, Natalia Rachel is joined by Hanli Hoefer, media personality, influencer and content creator, and Ming Bridges, founder and CEO of Rentadella, influencer and content creator. Hanli and Ming share how they started their influencer journeys, the challenges and difficulties they face, how they overcame those challenges and built themselves and each other up.

About Natalia Rachel:

Natalia Rachel shares her voice to begin to remedy the world’s state of hustle, trauma, bias, disconnect, and disrespect. Her insights into the human condition and our profound need for healing, self-compassion, empathy, and human connection, inspire audiences to awaken their hearts, illuminate their patterns and step forward towards self-care and relational repair. She is a proud recipient of the Women Icons Asia Award (emerging entrepreneur) for social impact in the domain of trauma-informed culture transformation & self-mastery education. Natalia’s highly anticipated book ‘Why Am I Like This?’ launched last year with Penguin Random House.

Her goal is to bring trauma work to the mainstream and bridge the gap between mental health, diversity equity, inclusion, and human sustainability.


Connect with Natalia:

Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

In this mini episode of Decontextualized Podcast, Heather Hansen (author of ‘Unmuted: How to show up, speak up, and inspire action.') shares her personal journey and experience with bias and discrimination in organizations, and its effects on how individuals show up in the world.

About Natalia Rachel:

Natalia Rachel shares her voice to begin to remedy the world’s state of hustle, trauma, bias, disconnect, and disrespect. Her insights into the human condition and our profound need for healing, self-compassion, empathy, and human connection, inspire audiences to awaken their hearts, illuminate their patterns and step forward towards self-care and relational repair. She is a proud recipient of the Women Icons Asia Award (emerging entrepreneur) for social impact in the domain of trauma-informed culture transformation & self-mastery education. Natalia’s highly anticipated book ‘Why Am I Like This?’ launched last year with Penguin Random House.

Her goal is to bring trauma work to the mainstream and bridge the gap between mental health, diversity equity, inclusion, and human sustainability.


Connect with Natalia:

Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

“Working on self, healing self, honouring self is the key to everything.”

In this mini episode of Decontextualized Podcast, Shalini Verma (director of program management) shares her personal journey and experience with trauma, and how she overcame the challenges she faced.

About Natalia Rachel:

Natalia Rachel shares her voice to begin to remedy the world’s state of hustle, trauma, bias, disconnect, and disrespect. Her insights into the human condition and our profound need for healing, self-compassion, empathy, and human connection, inspire audiences to awaken their hearts, illuminate their patterns and step forward towards self-care and relational repair. She is a proud recipient of the Women Icons Asia Award (emerging entrepreneur) for social impact in the domain of trauma-informed culture transformation & self-mastery education. Natalia’s highly anticipated book ‘Why Am I Like This?’ launched last year with Penguin Random House.

Her goal is to bring trauma work to the mainstream and bridge the gap between mental health, diversity equity, inclusion, and human sustainability.


Connect with Natalia:

Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

"At that moment when I had this situation, I was at my lowest, and I didn't realise it, until I was in it."

In this mini episode of Decontextualized Podcast, Camilo Andrade (vice-president of brand marketing, Nike) shares his personal journey of dealing with a health crisis just as he was on the cusp of fatherhood, and how he overcame the challenges he faced.

About Natalia Rachel:

Natalia Rachel shares her voice to begin to remedy the world’s state of hustle, trauma, bias, disconnect, and disrespect. Her insights into the human condition and our profound need for healing, self-compassion, empathy, and human connection, inspire audiences to awaken their hearts, illuminate their patterns and step forward towards self-care and relational repair. She is a proud recipient of the Women Icons Asia Award (emerging entrepreneur) for social impact in the domain of trauma-informed culture transformation & self-mastery education. Natalia’s highly anticipated book ‘Why Am I Like This?’ launched last year with Penguin Random House.

Her goal is to bring trauma work to the mainstream and bridge the gap between mental health, diversity equity, inclusion, and human sustainability.


Connect with Natalia:

Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

In this episode of Decontextualized, Natalia Rachel gives her keynote speech prepared for TEDX PurdueU. She addresses concepts on trauma, where we are today as a humanity, and what we need to do in order to heal and become more peaceful, empathetic and compassionate humans. Her big idea is that as humanity continues to move through cycles of distress, disease, mental health crisis, inequity, violence and oppression, we need to look at root cause in order to heal. When we do our own healing work, we become the humans that break the cycle and learn how  to live and relate in ways that support others to heal too.

About Natalia Rachel:

Natalia Rachel shares her voice to begin to remedy the world’s state of hustle, trauma, bias, disconnect, and disrespect. Her insights into the human condition and our profound need for healing, self-compassion, empathy, and human connection, inspire audiences to awaken their hearts, illuminate their patterns and step forward towards self-care and relational repair. She is a proud recipient of the Women Icons Asia Award (emerging entrepreneur) for social impact in the domain of trauma-informed culture transformation & self-mastery education. Natalia’s highly anticipated book ‘Why Am I Like This?’ launched last year with Penguin Random House.

Her goal is to bring trauma work to the mainstream and bridge the gap between mental health, diversity equity, inclusion, and human sustainability.


Connect with Natalia:

Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

In this episode of Decontextualized, Natalia Rachel is joined by Dr. Elisa Glick, founder of Elisa Glick Consulting, and strategic partner of New Chapter Coaching. Elisa shares her personal journey of coming out of the closet, and how emotional tolls affect the body.  She also shares her viewpoints as a DEI person, on how the system has a huge impact on how we can experience the world freely and safely. However, we also need to also address the concept of working on ourselves and our traumas, as we need both the internal work and the system work to truly heal.

About Natalia Rachel:

Natalia Rachel shares her voice to begin to remedy the world’s state of hustle, trauma, bias, disconnect, and disrespect. Her insights into the human condition and our profound need for healing, self-compassion, empathy, and human connection, inspire audiences to awaken their hearts, illuminate their patterns and step forward towards self-care and relational repair. She is a proud recipient of the Women Icons Asia Award (emerging entrepreneur) for social impact in the domain of trauma-informed culture transformation & self-mastery education. Natalia’s highly anticipated book ‘Why Am I Like This?’ launched last year with Penguin Random House.

Her goal is to bring trauma work to the mainstream and bridge the gap between mental health, diversity equity, inclusion, and human sustainability.


Connect with Natalia:

Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

In this episode of Decontextualized, Natalia Rachel is joined by Hanli Hoefer, media personality, influencer and content creator, and Ming Bridges, founder and CEO of Rentadella, influencer and content creator. Hanli and Ming share how they started their influencer journeys, the challenges and difficulties they face, how they overcame those challenges and built themselves and each other up.

About Natalia Rachel:

Natalia Rachel shares her voice to begin to remedy the world’s state of hustle, trauma, bias, disconnect, and disrespect. Her insights into the human condition and our profound need for healing, self-compassion, empathy, and human connection, inspire audiences to awaken their hearts, illuminate their patterns and step forward towards self-care and relational repair. She is a proud recipient of the Women Icons Asia Award (emerging entrepreneur) for social impact in the domain of trauma-informed culture transformation & self-mastery education. Natalia’s highly anticipated book ‘Why Am I Like This?’ launched last year with Penguin Random House.

Her goal is to bring trauma work to the mainstream and bridge the gap between mental health, diversity equity, inclusion, and human sustainability.


Connect with Natalia:

Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

In this episode of Decontextualized, Natalia Rachel is joined by Heather Hansen, author of ‘Unmuted: How to show up, speak up, and inspire action.’ Heather shares ideas from her book and expands on the framework of ‘conscious, confident, and connected communication.’  She shares that in order to communicate well, in ways that promote peace and harmony, we have to listen and understand understand where our bias and preference move into discrimination.

About Natalia Rachel:

Natalia Rachel shares her voice to begin to remedy the world’s state of hustle, trauma, bias, disconnect, and disrespect. Her insights into the human condition and our profound need for healing, self-compassion, empathy, and human connection, inspire audiences to awaken their hearts, illuminate their patterns and step forward towards self-care and relational repair. She is a proud recipient of the Women Icons Asia Award (emerging entrepreneur) for social impact in the domain of trauma-informed culture transformation & self-mastery education. Natalia’s highly anticipated book ‘Why Am I Like This?’ launched last year with Penguin Random House.

Her goal is to bring trauma work to the mainstream and bridge the gap between mental health, diversity equity, inclusion, and human sustainability.


Connect with Natalia:

Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

In this episode of Decontextualized Podcast, Natalia Rachel is joined by Shalini Verma, director of program management, Google. Shalini shares how she brings her learnings from her children and her family into her work, which requires her to work on her self in order to be a better leader. She refers to research in the field, and speaks about how we see the world is viewed through the lens of our traumas and experiences. 

About Natalia Rachel:

Natalia Rachel shares her voice to begin to remedy the world’s state of hustle, trauma, bias, disconnect, and disrespect. Her insights into the human condition and our profound need for healing, self-compassion, empathy, and human connection, inspire audiences to awaken their hearts, illuminate their patterns and step forward towards self-care and relational repair. She is a proud recipient of the Women Icons Asia Award (emerging entrepreneur) for social impact in the domain of trauma-informed culture transformation & self-mastery education. Natalia’s highly anticipated book ‘Why Am I Like This?’ launched last year with Penguin Random House.

Her goal is to bring trauma work to the mainstream and bridge the gap between mental health, diversity equity, inclusion, and human sustainability.


Connect with Natalia:

Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube