Jan Booth is a global leader in conscious dying.  In this episode, Jan brings her experience as an end-of-life educator, coach, and death doula, and decades of experience as a former hospice/palliative care nurse,  to an open and honest conversation about dying.

Whether you are approaching end-of-life, caring for someone at end-of-life, or want to learn how to live life more fully, this conversation is for everyone. 

In this episode, Jan helps us to have those important, but sometimes hard, conversations about death.  

What You'll Learn:

• How conversations about death can help us live more fully, 
• How conversations about dying can help our relationships with one another, 
• How death can help us with presence, joy, gratefulness, and letting go
• Death as spiritual awakening, 
• How death can bring more closeness, connection, and gratitude into our lives
• How talking about death can help us prepare for what's ahead and reduce the load of grief, 
• How our dying can also be part of our legacy, and
• How conscious dying can help us heal and create meaning in our lives.

Having early conversations about dying can make a world of difference at the end of life. Jan helps us have those conversations. If you have received a significant diagnosis, this episode can help you navigate this time in your life.

With love,

Melisa 

Connect with Jan's work:

deathdoulas.com

consciousdyingcollective.com

Email Jan - [email protected]

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

Follow the show:

Instagram - @live.differently.podcast

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Music attribution:

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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In this episode, I acknowledge the challenges of our times and provide you with practical tools to help you move through your stress response.

I talk about what nervous system activation feels like in the body.  I talk you through different ways you can calm your nervous system down, to bring yourself into a state of relaxation.

What you'll learn:

• What the stress response is,
• How to regulate your nervous system,
• How to recognise the language of your body,
• 2 breathing techniques that you can use to improve your health.

By the end of this episode, you will have some easy and accessible tools to help support you during times of stress.

The episode also includes a simple meditation you can use to calm your nervous system down. 

With love,

Melisa 

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

Follow the show:

Instagram - @live.differently.podcast

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Music attribution:

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This episode raises a conversation around conscious leadership.  Whether you are leading an organisation, a smaller business, or wanting to raise the consciousness of the society you live in, this episode will help guide you.

We talk about the leadership journey, and I help you identify if you are knocking on the door of this beautiful path.  

This conversation will help you see yourself as a changemaker in an evolving society and someone who can change the world through your leadership. Welcome to the conversation.

With love,

Melisa

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

Follow the show:

Instagram - @live.differently.podcast

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Music attribution:

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode, we're having a midlife conversation with a brain researcher about life. Associate Professor Andrea Bugarcic is a PhD molecular virologist specialising in understanding disease pathways, particularly of the brain. 

This is a powerful conversation about life, and navigating life's challenges and transitions.

Andrea shares how growing up in a country that no longer exists has shaped her.  And how important people are in our life's journey for developing ourselves and our self-awareness. 

She talks about how being different helps us to think outside the box and build resilience. And...how important discomfort is to growing ourselves and the societies we live in.

I am so grateful for this conversation, and I know it will help you think about your life in an authentic way.

With love,

Melisa

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

Follow the show:

Instagram - @live.differently.podcast

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Music attribution:

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sue McSweeney, Family Nurse Practitioner and Eastern Energy Practitioner, expands on our conversation in Part 1 (Episode 5). 

In this episode, Sue talks about kundalini energy and integrative approaches to bridging Eastern and Western Medicine.  She discusses:

• what a kundalini opening, or kundalini awakening is
• how to ground kundalini energy
• breath work
• bridging Eastern and Western medical paradigms of practice, and
• working with energy in healing practices.

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

Follow the show:

Instagram - @live.differently.podcast

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Music attribution:

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode, Dr Kate Broderick speaks about embodiment and wholism in a time when many of us feel the world is shifting.

Speaking from the perspectives of naturopathic philosophy and the elemental systems of five-element acupuncture and druidic spirituality, Dr Kate helps us understand how to bring the mind, body, spirit, and emotions together in an authentic way that honours our own authority. 

Drawing from a well of knowledge that is as broad as it is deep, Dr Kate also shares how sound healing and an understanding of astrology can help us 'ride the wave' of life by moving through its natural rhythms with grace and compassion.   In a time-sensitive discussion that integrates astrology and healing, Dr Kate explains the unique astrology for February 2026 (including the Saturn-Neptune conjunction), and she shares what's energetically supported for healing or starting something new during this period. 

In this episode, you will also hear about:

• the relationship between belief and well-being
• nervous system regulation...and,
• what causes us to get 'stuck' in an unhealed state, and how to get 'unstuck'
• how natural systems support health and healing.

Connect with Dr Kate (Naturopathic Doctor):

Dr Kate Broderick, BSc, JD, DNM, DipAcu - https://drkatebroderick.com.au/

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

Follow the show:

Instagram - @live.differently.podcast

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Music attribution:

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode, I am hosting a mini-workshop! So, grab a pen and a notepad or journal, or pull out your phone, because we are getting busy!

Today, we will workshop how to set goals that reflect who you really are. Why?  To put you in the center of your life and help you design a life that actually aligns with your authentic self.

So, pour yourself a cup of tea, get something to write with, and let's start creating a life that truly reflects you!

You're going to hit the pause button so you can take notes with this one!

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

Follow the show:

Instagram - @live.differently.podcast

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Music attribution:

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sue McSweeney is a family nurse practitioner and an experienced Eastern medicine practitioner. This interview is separated into 2 parts.  In this episode (Part 1), Sue discusses the benefits of working remotely and how location independence frees her to pursue her passion for travel.  She discusses key considerations for solo female travellers and offers tips on saving money while travelling alone.  

As someone trained and experienced in Eastern medicine, Sue moves into a deep conversation about how she uses her energy body to help clear energy patterns connected with the land she travels across.  In this intriguing conversation, Sue talks about a phenomenon known as 'energetic imprinting' and the important work of clearing ancestral energy patterns. 

I invite you into an episode where practicality and passion merge into the spiritual tasks of soulful work.

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

Follow the show:

Instagram - @live.differently.podcast

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Music attribution:

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Have you ever wondered how to know when you're living a soul-aligned life? If so, then this episode is for you!

In this episode, Karen Seinor brings decades of experience working in counselling, hypnotherapy, tarot, and spiritual healing to a dynamic conversation about the soulful self.  Karen describes how being aligned with our soul is different from our purpose, and how to know when you are living a soul-aligned life.  

I was so thankful for our conversation about:

• how dropping into the feminine energy and re-choosing old values can help us align ourselves more easily - and the potential this shift in consciousness might have for younger men and women, and future generations! And,
• how building a relationship with ourselves and becoming our own guru helps us align with who we feel ourselves to be on the inside.

I know you will LOVE this conversation as much as I did!  

Connect with Karen at: 

Website - www.soulfulnwild.com

Instagram - @soulfulandwild

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

Follow the show:

Instagram - @live.differently.podcast

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Music attribution:

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Do you want to change your life or your health, but don't know where to start?  I invite you to start here.  In this episode, Lifestyle Medicine Family Nurse Practitioner and Health and Wellness Coach, Linnea Baker, FNP, shares how stress, the pain of her son's cancer diagnosis, and the loss of her job helped her reclaim her health and transform her life into one of passion and purpose.  Linnea discusses how burnout can impact our health, and she helps you identify how to start turning things around so you can reclaim your life and health - and thrive.  We truly want this for you!

You'll hear:

• how burnout affects our health
• how we can reduce inflammation in the body
• how to transform pain and loss into purpose and thrive, and 
• why it's so important to align our lives with ourselves.

Connect with Linnea at:

Website: LinneaBaker.arbonne.com

Youtube: Tips & Tea with Linnea FNP www.youtube.com/@tipsandtea

Instagram: @hawaii.ny.girl

Coach with Melisa:

Email - [email protected]

Follow the show:

Instagram - @live.differently.podcast

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Music attribution:

"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/