Get Naked with Effy

In this episode with Leadership Coach Usha we dive into the power of authenticity at work—why ditching the mask, trusting your intuition, and creating space for real conversations can transform the way you lead and thrive. If you're tired of workplace burnout, the pressure to "have it all together," and the myth that success means constant hustle, this one's for you!

We chat about:

🎯 Self-Worth & Authenticity at Work – Why embracing who you truly are leads to success

🔮 Intuition & Divine Timing – How gut feelings can guide better decisions

🎭 Taking Off the Mask – Creating space for realness in the workplace

💡 Speaking Up & Psychological Safety – Why open conversations matter

🎉 Making Work FUN – How joy fuels engagement and productivity

🤖 You're Not a Robot – Let’s stop glorifying stress, busyness, and burnout

⚖️ Balance & Rest – Shifting beliefs around slowing down and still being productive

🌀 Breaking Free from the Hamster Wheel – Finding focus in a distracted world

🤔 Questioning 'Normal' – Challenging outdated work habits and expectations

💬 Vulnerability & Leadership – Even the top leaders don’t have it all figured out!!!

🔄 Working with Your Body’s Rhythms – Aligning work with your natural energy and regulating your nervous system

🌟 Enjoying the Now – How to stop wishing for the future and embrace the present moment

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If you’re ready to stop hiding behind masks and start leading with authenticity, Live Limitless is for you. This 3-month coaching experience will support you to remove the pressure, trust your intuition and create a life of balance and joy—both at work and beyond. Learn to embrace your authentic self, your natural rhythms and unlock your full potential!

In this heartfelt episode, my mum Liz opens up about her journey with insomnia since 2017 and the lessons she’s learned along the way. We explore:

• Overdoing, overtraining & burnout
• Not listening to the signs - “If you don’t listen to your body, your body talks louder!”

• Her experience with doctors vs. holistic health practitioners
• Uncovering the root cause instead of masking symptoms
• Taking responsibility—acknowledging how we create our own challenges
• Shifting focus to the solution: peace, calm & tranquility rather than focusing on the problem!
• The power of meditation, yoga & energy healing

• Becoming truly present in life
• How challenges guide us back into alignment with our true path and purpose
• The life-changing power of books!
• Not trying to go backwards but instead going FORWARDS!

If you’ve ever struggled with sleep, burnout, or ignoring your body’s signals—this episode is for you!

If this episode resonated with you and you're feeling called to dive deeper into your own healing, transformation, and alignment, I’d love to support you. I help my clients reconnect with their bodies, their inner wisdom, release limiting beliefs, and create balance in their lives.

You don’t have to navigate this journey alone—if you’re ready to take the next step, you can book a call with me here.

Check out my website or send me a DM on instagram to find out more about working with me!

This conversation with Hannah, Social Media Manager & Cacao Facilitator is packed with so many golden nuggets!!! We dive into:

• Divine meetings & trusting intuitive nudges over logic
• Hannah’s journey with endometriosis, adenomyosis, anxiety, agoraphobia & holistic healing
• Your purpose and how its so much more than your job or business
• The power of intention—creating & actually doing your bucket list!
• Finding people who lovingly push you toward growth
• How simply being you inspires others
• How working with me has supported Hannah in life and business
• Being authentic—the strongest and most magnetic emotion
• The connection between your business, health & body
• Spiritual awakening & the power of ceremonial cacao
• The emotional root of disease & how embracing feminine energy can heal
• Reframing limiting beliefs & how this reduced Hannah’s flare ups!
• Releasing guilt & stepping into true self-care

Here is the link to Hannah’s tiktok page

If you’re feeling the intuitive nudge to work with me, check out my coaching programme Live Limitless or book a free connection call 💗

LOVED this spicy episode with Sexologist Vanessa (@hookedonpleasure) talking about:

• Break ups- how they CAN be good and lead to beautiful new beginnings
• Getting ghosted & why its not about you!!
• "Unconventional" relationships that can be amazing! Including casual relationships, non-monogamy and Vanessa's experience having a boyfriend AND a girlfriend at the same time.
• Are we supposed to be with just one person forever? Different perspectives on marriage and relationships. there areno rules!!!!
• How your beliefs about men and relationships MATTERS
• Communicating like a BADDIE
• How the Universe supports us with ending things that no longer serve us
• How our relationship with ourselves influences our romantic relationships
• Deciding what you want, setting standards and enforcing boundaries 
• Detaching from the outcome and enjoying the present moment!
• The sunk cost fallacy- why people stay in long term relationships they know aren't serving them

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Listen to Vanessa's podcast episode"Congratulations on your break up!!!"

Get ready to awaken your feminine energy and trust the universe in this episode with one of my closest friends Adelle (@adelle.angelic) Angelic Reiki Healer 👼🏼

“You actually cannot fool a spiritual woman”

We chat about:

• Feminine energy & healing the masculine wound – reclaiming the power that’s always been within you
• Coming back to who you REALLY are
• Spiritual awakening & divine timing – how the angels orchestrate divine encounters + Adelle’s out of body experience
• Breakups, rock bottoms, existential crisis & transformation – moving from anxiety, depression, comparison, feeling insecure and stuck to standing in your power and purpose. How life’s biggest challenges can lead to massive growth!
• Signs, synchronicities & connecting with the angels – understanding how the universe is always supporting you
• Following your intuition even when it doesn’t make sense - how this is the key to true manifestation
• Benefits of energy healing & moving stagnant energy
• Un-conditioning & deep healing – letting go of energy leaks what no longer serves you
• Becoming magnetic & attracting opportunities – stepping into your highest, most aligned self

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If you are ready to step into your purpose & power using your feminine superpowers, my 1:1 coaching programme Live Limitless is for you!

In this episode with Somatic Dance Facilitator Christina (@christina.hlong) we we dive into the magic of movement, manifestation & so much more! A few of my fav quotes:

“The mind holds stories, the body holds the truth”

“What is this voodoo magic”

“I never would have planned it like this”

We explore:

• What somatic movement is & how you can practice it
• Listening to the wisdom of the body , the mind-body connection & allowing the body to inform the mind
• Using movement as a tool for fun, self-expression, healing & tapping into your inner wisdom
• Letting go of "doing it right" and embracing the messy, non-linear path of life
• Manifestation & co-creating with the universe – shifting from fear to faith
• Spirituality, God, a Higher Power
• Releasing control & surrendering
• Taking responsibility – realising that you’ve manifested everything in your life and how we contribute to our struggles
• Whats on the other side of discomfort – growth, transformation and soul evolution!

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A fun episode with one of my closest friends! We talk about Karla's journey of awakening in her saturn return, finding out who she truly is, the biggest game changers for her and your reminder to do things YOUR way!! A few quotes that gave me a giggle:

“I’m not a bitch, I’m just hungry"

“There will be some weeks where I’m lighting my palo santo and I’m doing oracle cards and there’ll be some weeks where I’m sitting on the sofa binge eating chocolate watching Virgin River”

We talk about:

• Ex-boyfriends (in which we share TWO hahaha)
• The power of sisterhood & having quality friendships
• Changing careers and industries (from teaching) even when you’re passionate about it - prioritising your wellness & making yourself happy!
• Receiving aligned jobs that support you to live the life you desire
• Spiritual awakening - the moment she realised “this isn’t the life I want to live”
• The psychic reading that gave her a push
• Finding balance & creating time for yourself
• True self care, doing whats right for YOU without judgement
• Visualising her dream life and now living it!!
• The power of small changes & becoming intentional with your time!
• WILD WOMEN - the benefits of cyclical living, improving your periods & PMS, speaking to the moon & the WILD circles coming in the future!!

The book Karla highly recommends is In the Flo by Alisa Vitti

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I will be holding sisterhood circles around New Zealand and the UK this year, if you would LOVE to hear about upcoming circles, follow me on instagram @empoweredwitheffy

If you would love to connect with like minded sisters online from anywhere in the world and take small steps towards creating a balanced life that is aligned with your true desires, my community Aligned & Abundant is for you!

The new theme in my monthly membership Aligned & Abundant is BALANCE, the programme that changed SO much for Karla and the other 19 women that have been on this journey!

We take a holistic approach to life with monthly masterclasses on finances, self-love, relationships, joy, physical health, spirituality, creativity and your environment. We explore both the masculine (practical) and feminine (energetic) tools for each topic PLUS there is a monthly live hot seat coaching session where you can ask any questions and receive personalised coaching.

We start with FINANCIAL HEALTH & THE ENERGY OF MONEY 💸 in September...Join now and get instant access to Live Your Best Life (my full 4-week course) for FREE

The investment is $88 NZD per month (Around £40)

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Your start of the year pep talk to release the pressure, dream BIG, expand your possibilities, shift your perspective & inspire you to make small shifts that can create big changeeeee

I chat about:

Find your personal year number in numerology here!

If you are ready to start this year feeling grounded, safe & creating solid foundations to support you to THRIVE, join my community membership Aligned & Abundant for $77 NZD / around £35! The first live call is on 16/17th Jan depending on your timezone (the replay will be available if you can't make it live!)

If you are SO ready to create your dream life whilst embracing your own rhythm and timing, my 1:1 private coaching programme Live Limitless is for you! This is a personalised coaching experience where we create a holistic vision of your life and bring it to reality through goal setting, upgrading your beliefs, mindset shifts, spiritual guidance, practical tools, energetic shifts, personalised resources & more! Everything is connected, I have a holistic approach to health & life and connect the dots where you likely don’t see them 👀

This is for you if you are ready to make change, whether you are wanting to move jobs, start a business, have a better work/life balance, move abroad /travel, live a more ‘unconventional’ lifestyle, improve your physical health, improve your mindset, live your purpose or simply enjoy life more! You can book a free connection call with me here ✨

The secret to health that everyone wants to know but no-one wants to do, regulate your nervous system!!

A raw, fun & informative episode with Clinical & Functional Nutritionist Michelle (@MichelleMeredithHealth). Michelle shares her journey with burnout, adrenal fatigue, pain & period problems to having a new lease of life and singing with happiness!!!

In this episode we talk about:

• Getting to the root cause of physical issues rather than covering up the symptoms
• A holistic approach to period problems
• Easy nutrition tips for women
• Tools to regulate your nervous system 
• The importance of doing the "inner work" & how your mind and body are connected

• Creating a career you love & getting rid of the "labels" we give ourselves

• The power of small changes!!!
• How we have been lied to & how to listen to our bodies

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A spontaneous episode guided by my intuition!

Sharing a story of MAGIC moments, perfect timings, sychroncities and everything working out even better than I had planned!

I hope this episode supports you to shift your perspective when things don't go as you expected and know that its likely something even better is unfolding, even if you can't see how right now.

I discuss the power of meditation & having supportive people in your life. Holistic Health Coaching supports you in creating stable foundations in your life - physically, mentally and spiritually, enabling you to better handle challenges and trust that everything is working out FOR you. If you'd love to explore if working with me is for you, book a free connection call here!

This is your reminder that you are exactly where you are supposed to be!!!