You probably know by now how passionate I am about living an intentional life and doing things your own way, and I think it’s fair to say that my guest today is equally as passionate about it! Candice Smiley is a mom, speaker, writer, blogger, social marketer, host of Create the Ripple Podcast and essentialist who loves to engage in interesting conversations. And this chat we had was definitely one of those!

We dive into some deep conversations about what it means to live life our own way including:

 

• Trusting the niggle (which Candice says is always an inconvenient truth!)
• The journey of healing from trauma, including holding ourselves during healing and emerging on the other side.
• Radical forgiveness, acceptance, grace, self-compassion and self-love
• Embracing the dark days.
• How we’re (literally) putting ourselves in boxes.
• The concept of essentialism (have what you want, but have less, so you can have better) including living in a tiny home and who and what you surround yourself with.
• The anxiety of things (possessions).
• Doing things that don’t make sense to other people, but knowing it’s right for you, by tuning into what we want and what makes us happy. Setting boundaries with people when they express their “concern” because your choices make them uncomfortable.
• The lie we’ve been told about how we’re supposed to be living our life
• Embracing the duality and contradictions of life (eg. The masculine and feminine, the yin and yang that we all have within us).
• Why we both think it’s important to share our stories, especially the messy beautiful bits.
• Not being modelled healthy intimate relationships when we’re growing up, including the different types of love, how to love and what “good” love looks like.

 

Check out more episodes of This Messy, Beautiful Life Podcast:

https://www.hivecollective.com.au/the-podcast

 

Erin O’Donoghue is a coach and mindset mentor, recovering over thinker and imperfect human on a mission to live an intentional life and support others along the way. She’s all about mind, body, soul healing and supporting people to be their best. In life and work. 

 

With a background in Human Resources, Strategy and Innovation, Erin left the corporate world in 2018 to start her own business. Since then she's been undoing a lot of ingrained habits and behaviours, particularly the heavy reliance on the masculine energy of doing, achieving and hustling. These days she leans much more into the feminine energy of flow, creativity, receiving and trusting her intuition. As she’s more deeply connected to herself and her purpose she now realises that her diverse experience, multi passionate approach and inability to fit in a box is her super power!

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