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  • EP16: Losing Friends As You Do The Work - How To Know When To Walk Away & How To Meet Aligned People

    “What do I do when the people I love no longer feel aligned but the new haven’t come in yet?” is one of the most commonly asked questions I get.


    This episode is broken into two parts:

    The first part is how to meet new, aligned people, based on exactly what I did moving overseas at 31 without knowing a single person, (to now having friendships of a depth and capacity i didnt even know was possible to have).

    The second part is how to navigate the relationships already in your life - how to know when it’s time to walk away, when it simply needs a conversation with a boundary, and how to accept people who are now in a very different chapter of life to you.

    Navigating changes in friendships as we grow is a challenge we all face, and this is a practical conversation designed for you to come back to over and over.


    Say Hi on instagram - I love hearing from you @sarahscullyleaf


    GO DEEPER

    Join me inside The Elevated Woman - a 1:1 mentorship for changing your life to being “okay” or “good enough”, to one you absolutely thrive in and are excited to wake up to each and every day.


    Friendship is just one of the pillars we look at!

    34 min
  • EP16: Losing Friends As You Do The Work - How To Know When To Walk Away & How To Meet Aligned People

    “What do I do when the people I love no longer feel aligned but the new haven’t come in yet?” is one of the most commonly asked questions I get.


    This episode is broken into two parts:

    The first part is how to meet new, aligned people, based on exactly what I did moving overseas at 31 without knowing a single person, (to now having friendships of a depth and capacity i didnt even know was possible to have).

    The second part is how to navigate the relationships already in your life - how to know when it’s time to walk away, when it simply needs a conversation with a boundary, and how to accept people who are now in a very different chapter of life to you.

    Navigating changes in friendships as we grow is a challenge we all face, and this is a practical conversation designed for you to come back to over and over.


    Say Hi on instagram - I love hearing from you @sarahscullyleaf


    GO DEEPER

    Join me inside The Elevated Woman - a 1:1 mentorship for changing your life to being “okay” or “good enough”, to one you absolutely thrive in and are excited to wake up to each and every day.


    Friendship is just one of the pillars we look at!

    35 min
  • EP15: Chasing Success And Validation As A Form Of Safety - Stripping, Fitness and the Journey to Self Love with Jade Marrey

    I’m joined by Jade Marrey for a really honest conversation about self-love, chasing success and how to feel secure and enough within yourself.

    Jade shares very candidly her journey through stripping, fitness, plant medicine and becoming an author – and how what can look like ambition or success on the outside can often be a deeper search for safety, belonging or validation.

    We talk about what actually means to build self-love, how to grow it more deeply within yourself, and why so many people are still chasing things outside of themselves even after years of personal growth.

    We also unpack the duality of how to know when something is genuinely growth-oriented or from a wounded part still trying to prove something, be chosen, or feel enough. If you’ve ever struggled with not feeling enough or you know there’s a part of you that you need to love more deeply - this episode is for you.

    Key Talking Points

    • How to actively cultivate self-love in your life
    • The role of chasing success, achievement and validation to try to create safety
    • How to know when something is genuinely growth-oriented versus from a wounded part still trying to prove something, be chosen, or feel enough
    • What it looks like to outgrow identities that once felt safe
    • The role of body image and shame in your self-love journey
    • The importance of forgiveness as an act of self-love
    • How judging others mirrors the way we judge ourselves


    Connect With Jade

    • Pre-order her book Stripped to the Soul on Barnes & Noble or Amazon 
    • Jade’s instagram


    To work with Sarah: 

    • For deep 1:1 transformation - The Elevated Woman
    • For one-off sessions - email [email protected]
    • To create health habits - Health That Holds
    • First access to Sarah’s group breathwork events (limited spots) here


    To connect with Sarah on instagram click here.

    52 min
  • EP14: Self-Awareness Isn’t Enough: How To Break The Patterns You Keep Repeating (& How I Healed My PTSD)

    Have you ever sworn you were “done” with something - a job, a relationship, a pattern… and then found yourself right back in it? This episode is a deep dive how to break the patterns you keep repeating over and over again.

    I share my story of being in unhealthy relationships - cheating, arguing - until i met my ex-boyfriend in what would become a physically abusive relationship. I go deeply into my journey afterwards of PTSD, trying to healing with talk therapy, and what it took to actually heal - not just cognitively process it. 

    This is an episode about creating the life you want from a lived reality - where your level of knowledge and awareness matches your day-to-day behaviour and relationships in your life.


    Key Talking Points:

    • Why you keep looping in the same patterns and how to finally break them
    • The trap and prison of self-awareness when you know better but can’t act differently
    • How to know what’s yours to heal and what’s someone else’s responsibility
    • Why “making the right choice” feels impossible in the moment
    • My experience living with PTSD - the symptoms, behaviours and how I would act in ways I wasn’t proud of.
    • What Western therapy gave me and where it left me stuck
    • How somatic work and breathwork changed things that intellectually processing never could
    • The difference between knowing what to do and actually becoming the person who does it


    Links and Resources Mentioned

    • For Breath Different, Feel Different  (POD10 for 10% off)


    To work with Sarah: 

    • For deep 1:1 transformation - The Elevated Woman
    • For one-off sessions - email [email protected]
    • To create health habits - Health That Holds
    • First access to Sarah’s group breathwork events (limited spots) here


    To connect with Sarah on instagram click here.

    48 min
  • EP13: How to Be More Confident (& Why It's A Skill, Not A Personality Trait)

    Confidence affects every area of your life. Your relationships. How you feel about your body. Whether you advocate for a pay rise or go after work opportunities. Yet so many people still think it’s something you either have or you don’t.

    Its not - It’s a skill that can be developed and in today’s episode, I give you a step-by-step process to build it.

    I approach this from a nervous-system level, so you’re not forcing yourself to change or trying to “act confident.” Instead, you’re building confidence in a way that actually feels good, strengthens self-trust, and creates something embodied and sustainable.


    Key Talking Points 


    • Why confidence isn’t something you do or don’t have, but a skill that can be developed
    • The specific, tangible foundations confidence is actually built on
    • How your relationship with your body directly impacts how confident you feel
    • Why broken promises to yourself erode confidence
    • The nervous-system piece most people miss when trying to “be more confident”
    • The difference between forcing confidence and building real self-trust
    • Why “imposter syndrome” isn’t real and what’s really underneath it
    • The link between confidence, expression, and how you show up in work, dating and life


    Links and Resources Mentioned

    • Learn more about or apply for The Elevated Woman
    • Book a free connection call with me


    To work with Sarah: 

    • For deep 1:1 transformation - The Elevated Woman
    • For one-off sessions - email [email protected]
    • To create health habits - Health That Holds
    • First access to Sarah’s group breathwork events (limited spots) here


    To connect with Sarah on instagram click here.

    30 min
  • EP12: From Wanting To Hurt My Kids to Grateful for No Childcare - TEW Client Spotlight Series: Bonnie Wicks

    Today one of my client’s, Bonnie Wicks shares openly about a period of her life where she was so overwhelmed and burnt out she was having intrusive thoughts about wanting to hurt her kids. She was constantly overstimulated, reactive and on edge. What she needed wasn’t more parenting strategies. It was to regulate her nervous system and shift the internal state driving her reactions.

    Through our work together inside The Elevated Woman, Bonnie moved from frenetic, urgent energy and daily reactivity to a home and business that feel more easeful, manageable and joyful. More recently, Bonnie found herself genuinely excited to have five weeks with no childcare – and in this episode we unpack exactly how she got here.

    This conversation is honest, grounded and a powerful example of what changes when a mother learns to regulate herself.

    Key Talking Points:

    • How Bonnie went from intrusive thoughts about hurting her kids to feeling excited for five weeks with no childcare
    • The shift from frenetic, burnt out urgency to a far more regulated and patient baseline in running a business and a home.
    • Why you can’t regulate your kids, but regulating yourself changes everything. 
    • The specific practice Bonnie still uses to help her in high-stress moments including supporting a child with autism, ADHD and ODD
    • The single belief uncovered in hypnotherapy that changed the way she experiences motherhood and business
    • Why The Elevated Woman has been one of the top 5 most influential experience of Bonnie’s life


    Links & Resources Mentioned

    • The Elevated Woman - details and application form
    • Book a free connection call for The Elevated Woman to see if it’s an aligned fit (this call is with me)


    Connect With Bonnie

    • Instagram 
    • Website
    • Brand, Business & Becoming Podcast


    To work with Sarah: 

    • Book a free connection call with me for The Elevated Woman
    • The Elevated Woman - details and application form
    • To book in a hypnotherapy session - email [email protected]
    • To create health habits - Health That Holds
    • First access to Sarah’s group breathwork events (limited spots) here


    To connect with Sarah on instagram click here.

    39 min
  • EP11: From A Burnt-Out Lawyer to Building a Business in Bali: The Exact Process to Create Your Version of Success (& What I'd Do Differently)

    I’m taking you behind the scenes of the life you see now and walking you through the exact process I used to create it. I share the honest story of going from a burnt out corporate lawyer with PTSD and zero clarity on what was next, to building a business and life in Bali that I genuinely love waking up to.

    This is not a “just follow your dreams” conversation. It is the actual three step process I use with clients to create change faster than I did on my own. We talk about getting clear on what you want, identifying what is between you and that life, and how to take action that your nervous system can actually sustain. I also share a personal update from a recent low period and how I moved through it without abandoning myself or blowing up my life and business.

    If you are highly self aware, doing all the right things and still feel stuck in the same patterns, this episode will show you where change actually happens and how to start creating your version of success.

    Key Talking Points:

    • The honest backstory behind my move from law into business and life in Bali (and the exact process i used to build it)
    • What i’d do differently if i was doing it all over again
    • Why clarity does not come from waiting and how to actually get clear on what you wan
    • What is actually between you and the life you want (not what you’ve convinced yourself)
    • What aligned, inspired action really means and how to take action your nervous system can sustain
    • Why doing this alone keeps you in trial and error and what changes when you have the right support
    • The core wound I had to shift to create the life this beautiful life i have now

    Links and Resources Mentioned

    • The Elevated Woman - details and application form
    • Book a free connection call for The Elevated Woman to see if it’s an aligned fit (this call is with Sarah)
    • Replay for The Mission & Meaning Roadmap 

    To work with Sarah: 

    • For deep 1:1 transformation - The Elevated Woman
    • For one-off sessions - email [email protected]
    • To create health habits - Health That Holds
    • First access to Sarah’s group breathwork events (limited spots) here

    To connect with Sarah on instagram click here.

    48 min
  • EP10: Why You’re Stuck At Your Current Level (& The Biggest Block You Need to Overcome to Level Up)

    >> FREE WORKSHOP: The Mission & Meaning Roadmap <<


    This episode is for the woman who can feel she's on the edge of her next level. A knowing that something deeper is meant for you but you’re struggling to create it.

    You can feel that you’re not realising your potential or in work truly meant for you. And while your life might feel good for the most part, and your work gives you some flexibility… you don’t love it.

    This episode is the number one block between you and creating the life that you want and why until you move through it, it’s almost impossible to create a life that is actually fulfilling your potential.

    I share what my early days of business were actually life (including what my mum begged me to stop doing), and what was actually involved in creating a life I feel fulfilled and free in.


    Key Talking Points
    • Why you stay in a “good enough” lives for years, even when it’s not fulfilling, exciting and you know you’re meant for more
    • How i romanticised being a business owner and what the early days of business were really like (including what my family said to me)
    • The number one block why you don’t have the life you want yet
    • The two things you need to wake up excited about your day and your head to hit the pillow at night content
    • My journey from corporate law, burnout and PTSD to living my darma in Bali and spending my days however i choose to
    • The role of your nervous system in what you move toward, what you avoid, and what you stay stuck in
    • Why clarity doesn’t come from more thinking (and what it does come from)
    • The trap of consuming personal development content instead of actually implementing


    Links and Resources Mentioned

    • >> FREE WORKSHOP: The Mission & Meaning Roadmap <<

    To work with Sarah: 

    • For deep 1:1 transformation - The Elevated Woman
    • For one-off sessions - email [email protected]
    • To create health habits - Health That Holds
    • First access to Sarah’s group breathwork events (limited spots) here

    To connect with Sarah on instagram click here.

    29 min
  • EP9: Creating Financial Abundance: The Inner Work AND The Strategic Work Required for Wealth with Kim Kent
    In today’s episode with Kim Kent, money coach and financial advice disruptor, we start the episode by answering the controversial question, which is more important to create wealth - the inner work or the strategic work?


    This episode is a deep dive on both - the step-by-step inner work and the strategic work needed to create huge financial abundance in your life. We unpack how your nervous system and subconscious beliefs affect your ability to create wealth and why that alone isn’t enough, without structure to support it.

    We also unpack the practical side of money that most people avoid or oversimplify - how you relate to budgeting, the way your accounts are set up, the order money leaves your life, and how and when to prioritise saving or investing to build long-term wealth.

    Key Talking Points:

    • Inner work vs strategic work and why financial abundance needs both
    • The core money wound underneath your scarcity and why no amount of money ever feels enough
    • Why making money is different to holding money (and what actually changes that)
    • The “Person A to Person B” gap. Why self-sabotage kicks in right as things start improving.
    • What to do when you feel wobbly around money - how to create safety without bypassing reality.
    • What matters most between budgeting, saving and investing (and why “budgeting” can feel like punishment if you attach restriction to it).
    • Both of our investments preferences - Stocks vs real estate vs crypto
    • Both of our personal preferences what we invest in (stock vs real estate vs crypto)
    • Kim’s personal numbers - property numbers, how much money she made last month, and even how much money she has in her bank account


    Connect with Kim

    • Website - www.kimkent.net
    • Instagram - www.instagram.com/kimkent__/
    • Free savings cheat sheet - www.kimkent.net/savingscheatsheet


    To work with Sarah: 

    • For deep 1:1 transformation - The Elevated Woman
    • For one-off sessions - email [email protected]
    • To create health habits - Health That Holds
    • First access to Sarah’s group breathwork events (limited spots) here


    To connect with Sarah on instagram click here.

    44 min
  • EP8: Lessons To Take Into 2026 & How To Set Yourself Up For A Better Year

    In this episode, I walk you through the exact prompts and questions I took myself through to extrapolate my key lessons and personal growth points from 2025, along with my own answers. This is done in a way for you to do the same alongside me, making sure you get the lessons out of 2025 you're meant to.

    I also share, very vulnerably and honestly, my biggest challenges in 2025 and what I would have done differently had I realised them sooner.

    From there, I teach you how to set yourself up to reach your goals in 2026, in a way that works with your nervous system, so you don’t burn out or fall off by February.

    Key Talking Points

    • The exact prompts to extrapolate your biggest learnings and lessons from 2025
    • My biggest challenges in 2025
    • What to bring into 2026… and what needs to stay behind
    • How to set goals for 2026 in a way that doesn’t lead to burnout or failure
    • How many focus areas to have for your goals (& how many is too many)


    Links and Resources Mentioned

    >> To book a free, connection call with Sarah click here <<

    Note: this is not a coaching call. This is to see if it’s a suitable fit to working together.

    To work with Sarah: 

    • For deep 1:1 transformation - The Elevated Woman
    • To create health habits - Health That Holds
    • First access to Sarah’s group breathwork events (limited spots) here

    To connect with Sarah on instagram click here.

    49 min

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Head, Heart & Whole is a podcast for conscious people who want to create a better life for themselves - one that feels just as good as it looks and they genuinely love waking up…