Fireside

Today is an end of season bonanza with both Sasha and Cait joining me to talk about our winters and how we are going into spring. We talk about rejecting career paths, control, the practising of devotion, fun and lightness, uncertainty, fitting a new shape and the need to buy new clothes. We also share our favourite reads of the last three months. This was such an interesting and thought provoking conversation where we all took away deeper questions we want to ask ourselves, and we hope you enjoy it too.

Today is a Q&A episode where I’m answering questions submitted by you on Instagram all about projects and productivity. I’m covering rediscovering drive after burn out, procrastination, time blocking, structure, and overcoming fear to do the thing you want to do. In the survey I did a few weeks ago, many many people said they were struggling with actually doing the thing they really wanted to do - whether that was starting it, keeping it up, or calling it finished.

Today I’m chatting with Cait from her new home where all the writing was going to happen. We talk about whether the writing is, in fact, happening, and how Cait balances a lightness in her projects with the need for financial security. Mostly, though, we talk about love. Cait wrote a newsletter about embarking on a year of love and so today we talk about our experiences of this as single women - we talk about growth, about control, about friendship, about self-respect and ultimately about choosing how the relationships in our life work.

Today I thought I’d share with you a bit of a review of the Mapping launch - what happened, how it went and my insights and feeling about it in general. I feel like launching is one of those things that can consume us if we let it. We can drown ourselves in all the launching advice there is out there and we can build these huge walls of expectation that we can’t ever scale. Launching so often can feel like a make or break moment in our businesses. So today I wanted to talk about my launch just to break down some of the power around it.

Today is, shall we say, a low energy episode with Sasha. We were both feeling a little meh about things, and decided to talk our way to why that was. We touch on surrender, the seasons, go into morning and night time routines - and do you need them - big picture vs day to day, and also all the word play around being and having confidence. Life is tiring, so come be tired with us.

Energy is a fickle thing that is hard to pin down or systematise - we know whether we haven’t or we don’t, but beyond that it is mysterious. Unlike time, which has books after books after podcasts after articles written about it, energy seems to get lumped in with sleep and nutrition and other topics rather than stand alone. But without an understanding of energy, you can’t live and work and play. I’d go so far as to say that energy management is just as crucial as time management.

Today I’m catching up with Cait who is now in the same time zone after her transatlantic move. We talked about becoming yourself again after a huge change, having curiosity instead of panics about your work, the connection between thriving and a flow state and whether it’s possible to have one without the other.

Over the last three years, in increasing intensity, I have been thinking, writing and living about fulfilment. How does happiness happen? What stops us living true lives, enjoying our lives? And all that thinking and writing and living has converged into Mapping, my new programme which has opened today. Mapping is the the most distilled version of everything I know and have experienced about finding fulfilment, and today I wanted to give you some of that inside information. I will be taking you through the fulfilment process and sharing my favourite parts from each section of Mapping, making today’s episode a series of twelve little pep talks.

Today I’m back with Sasha for our first update of 2022. Since we last spoke, Sasha has changed jobs, and also had some realisations about how her ability to turn her hand to anything was a way to keep herself small and in survival. We also talk about not overcommitting ourselves, self definition and job titles limiting the scope of our work, as well as new year feelings, bringing the lessons with us, and words of the year.

Welcome back to Grow With Soul, and this first episode of 2022. Thank you so much for coming back and listening in and supporting the show. Today I wanted to talk about something that is as fitting in January as it is any other month: change. The only thing we can guarantee is change. Sometimes it happens fast, sometimes it is glacial; sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad, and sometimes it feels bad but is actually good. Sometimes it’s within our control, and other times it is thrust upon us with no say. But however it happens, it happens. So today I’m talking about dealing with the change you want, and the change you don’t.