Meat & Monogamy

What if you don't need another breakthrough, reinvention or version of yourself to become?

What if the invitation is to actually live the life that's already here?

Over the last few weeks, I've been exploring desire, stewardship and what happens after we get some of the things we once desperately wanted.

And your responses have opened up an even bigger conversation.

Because somewhere along the way, personal development can leave us with the feeling that our real life is always slightly ahead of us.

When I make more money.

When I heal this pattern.

When I find the relationship.

When we move.

When my business grows.

When I finally become the woman who...

Then I'll arrive. Then I'll relax. Then I'll really live.

But there is always another "there".

In this episode, I'm exploring the difference between transformation and inhabitation, and why all of our healing, coaching, growth and self-awareness should ultimately return us to our actual lives.

We explore:

• Why personal development itself can become a waiting room
• When self-improvement quietly becomes self-rejection
• The difference between changing your life because you love it and changing it because you can't accept where you are
• Why you might not need another reinvention, but need to live the last one
• The beauty and significance of an ordinary life
• Why inhabiting your life does not mean settling
• How desire can point deeper into the life you already have, rather than always towards something else
• What it means to stop perpetually preparing to live

One distinction at the heart of this conversation:

"I love my life enough to participate in its evolution."

is very different from:

"My life needs to change before I can love it."

And perhaps the question to sit with after listening is:

Where are you treating your current life like a waiting room?

Your life isn't waiting on the other side of your next breakthrough.

Your life is the thing we've been doing all this work for.

🌿 Work with Olivia

If you're moving through a significant life transition and you're ready for support, the first step to working with me is to book a Deep Dive.

This is a 75-minute one-to-one coaching session where we'll get underneath what's really happening, identify the patterns shaping your current season, and map out what I believe would most change the trajectory of your next chapter.

If we're the right fit, I'll also share how I would support you inside my private coaching work.

I am currently enrolling my final 1:1 clients before maternity leave, with my final containers beginning in late August / early September.

If you've been thinking about working with me, this is the window.

✨ Book a Deep Dive:
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✨ Learn more about The Comeback:
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A quick note on booking: you'll pay for your Deep Dive first and then choose your session time. If you're in a different time zone and can't see a time that works for you, send me a DM. I'm very happy to find something that accommodates you.

Liv x

What happens when you actually get the thing you wanted?

The relationship. The business. The home. The friendships. The family. The freedom.

We spend so much of our lives focused on desire, manifestation, expansion and creating what we want. But there is another part of the conversation that we don't talk about nearly enough:

How do we care for what we've created once it arrives?

After the response to last week's episode on Desire 2.0, there was one word that so many of you came back to me with: stewardship.

So this week, we're going deeper.

To me, stewardship is about caring well for what matters to you. It's the recognition that the things we once desperately wanted eventually ask something of us.

Desire says: I want this.
Stewardship says: I will care for this.

In this episode, I explore:

• Why we're so culturally focused on acquisition and "getting"
• What happens when the thing you wanted becomes part of your ordinary life
• Why stewardship is different from maintenance
• The role of devotion, care and participation in creating a meaningful life
• What relationships, businesses, friendships, homes and families actually require from us
• Why desire can initiate something, but stewardship is what sustains it
• The temptation to keep chasing the next desire rather than tending what is already here
• Why stewardship doesn't mean settling or suppressing ambition
• How stronger foundations actually create more capacity for desire, growth and expansion
• What pregnancy and preparing for motherhood are teaching me about stewardship
• A different way of thinking about abundance

One of the questions I want to leave you with is:

What did you once desperately want that is now simply part of your ordinary life?

And then:

How are you caring for it?

Maybe abundance isn't always about having more.

Maybe it's also about developing the capacity to enjoy, inhabit, protect and beautifully care for what is already here.

🌿 Work with Olivia

If you're moving through a significant life transition and this conversation is speaking directly to where you are, the first step to working with me is to book a Deep Dive.

The Deep Dive is a 75-minute one-to-one coaching session where we'll explore what's really going on beneath the surface, identify the patterns shaping your current season and map out what I believe would most change the trajectory of your next chapter.

If we're the right fit, I'll also share exactly how I would support you through my three-month one-to-one coaching container, The Comeback.

I am currently enrolling my final one-to-one clients before I take maternity leave at the end of the year.

✨ Book a Deep Dive:
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Liv x

For years I've taught one central idea:

Trust your desire.

Follow what lights you up. Let desire become your compass.

I still believe that.

But over the past few years, through partnership, building a business, returning home from Paris, and now preparing for motherhood, I've realised something important:

Desire doesn't become less important. It simply grows up.

This episode marks the beginning of a new season in my work.

We're exploring what happens after desire has helped you create a life you love. Because eventually, life asks something more of us. Not to abandon desire, but to learn how to steward everything it has created.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why trusting desire transformed my life
• Why I still believe desire is one of our greatest guides
• The difference between following every desire and leading your life
• Why you can honour a desire without acting on it immediately
• The powerful distinction between desire as information and desire as instruction
• The role of wisdom, timing, partnership and responsibility
• What stewardship really means and why it feels like the next evolution of my coaching

One of the ideas at the heart of this conversation is:

And another:

If you've spent years reconnecting with what you want, but are now finding yourself navigating partnership, family, business, home, responsibility or motherhood, I hope this conversation helps you make sense of this next chapter.

This isn't about becoming less alive.

It's about becoming the woman who can hold the life your desires have created.

If this episode resonated…

I'd love to hear what landed for you.

You can connect with me on Instagram or share this episode with someone who is navigating a season of building, growing or maturing alongside their own desires.

🌿 Work with Me

If this conversation resonated with you and you're moving through a significant transition in your own life, I'd love to support you.

The best place to begin is with a Deep Dive.

This is a 75-minute one-to-one coaching session where we'll explore what's really happening beneath the surface, identify the patterns shaping your current season, and uncover the shifts that will create the greatest change in your life.

You'll leave with greater clarity, a deeper understanding of what's keeping you stuck, and three personalised recommendations for your next chapter.

If it feels like the right fit for both of us, I'll also share how I would support you inside my signature three-month coaching container, The Comeback.

✨ Book a Deep Dive:
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✨ Learn more about The Comeback:
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✨ Connect with me on Instagram:
Connect here

Thank you for listening.

Liv x

"I just don't feel like myself."

It's one of the most common things I hear women say.

Maybe you've lost your motivation. Maybe your ambition has shifted. Maybe the things that once lit you up don't seem to anymore. Or perhaps you're grieving the woman you used to be and wondering how to get back to her.

In this episode, I want to offer you a completely different perspective.

What if nothing has gone wrong?

What if you're not disconnected from yourself at all...

What if you're simply becoming someone you've never been before?

Together, we explore the difference between being disconnected from yourself and being unfamiliar to yourself, why we so often romanticise old versions of ourselves, and how trying to "get back" can stop us from meeting the woman who's quietly emerging.

This is a conversation about identity, transitions, self-trust and learning to honour the season you're actually in, rather than longing for one that's already passed.

If you've been feeling lost lately, I hope this episode offers you a little more compassion and a little less urgency.

In this episode we explore:

• Why "I don't feel like myself" isn't always a problem to solve

• The difference between being disconnected from yourself and unfamiliar to yourself

• Why we romanticise old versions of ourselves

• What happens when your capacity changes but your expectations don't

• How to navigate seasons of transition with more self-trust

• Why The Comeback isn't about returning to who you were, but learning to trust who you're becoming

🌿 Work with me

If this conversation resonates, the first step to working together is a Deep Dive.

This is a 75-minute one-to-one coaching session where we'll explore what's really going on beneath the surface, identify the patterns shaping your experience, and map out the next chapter together. If we're a good fit, I'll also share how I'd support you through my signature three-month coaching container, The Comeback.

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From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust: Reclaiming Your Whole Self with Gwen Yi

What happens when you stop trying to become someone else... and finally come home to yourself?

In this deeply moving conversation, I'm joined by astrologer, mentor and beautiful friend Gwen Yi, a former Comeback client whose journey over the last year has been nothing short of extraordinary.

When Gwen first came to me, she believed she needed more strategy, more structure and more certainty.

What she discovered instead was something far more powerful.

A return to her own body.

Her own authority.

Her own truth.

Together, we explore what it really means to trust yourself, release the identities you've outgrown, and stop outsourcing your wisdom to everyone else.

This is a conversation about sustainable power, the courage to evolve, and the profound freedom that comes when you stop performing who you think you should be and begin honouring who you've always been.

It's one of my favourite conversations we've ever recorded.

In this episode we explore:

• Why personal evolution often feels uncomfortable before it feels liberating

• The hidden cost of outsourcing your authority

• Learning to trust your body's wisdom instead of constantly overriding it

• Why slowing down can be the most powerful thing you'll ever do

• What it really means to be held in coaching and why true support creates sovereignty, not dependence

• The importance of integration after periods of massive growth

• Reclaiming past versions of yourself instead of feeling ashamed of them

• The difference between performing strength and embodying true power

• Why investing in yourself is often the first act of self-trust

• The beautiful moment Gwen realised she no longer needed to become someone else

Memorable Quotes

Connect with Gwen Yi

🌿 Website: www.gwenyi.com

🌿 Instagram: @gwenyi

WONG GWEN YI is an Astrologer, Mentor and Guide for Multidimensional Women learning to embrace the Art of Personal Evolution. As a 3/5 Manifesting Generator herself, Gwen’s life has been rife with pivots, U-turns and ups and downs, including founding an empathy training company and leaving an 8-year longterm relationship. Gwen’s hope is to change the narrative around Personal evolution in Asia, not seeing it as shameful or irresponsible, but empowering Women to reclaim their stories, past selves and innate sovereignty through her own lived example.

Ready to explore your own next chapter?

If this conversation stirred something in you, and you're standing on the edge of your own evolution, I'd love to support you.

The Deep Dive is where every coaching journey with me begins.

Together we'll uncover what's really keeping you stuck, what your next season is asking of you, and whether working together is the right next step.

✨ Book your Deep Dive:

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With love,

Liv x

In this episode of Meat & Monogamy, Liv is joined by one of her oldest and most beloved friends, Helen Wilkes, founder of The Collab in Sydney, yoga teacher, retreat leader and women’s power coach.

This is a conversation about women who were never built for small lives.

Liv and Helen speak about friendship, sisterhood, power, initiation, business, motherhood, and what it means to become a woman who can actually hold the life she has chosen. They share the origin story of a friendship forged in girlhood, rebellion, protection and being the ones who never quite fit the mould, and trace how that same thread has shaped the women they are now.

Helen shares the deeper roots of her work with power, from witnessing her mother’s journey, to moving across the world with no safety net, to opening her yoga studio, to supporting her partner through a life-altering illness and discovering a level of inner resource she could no longer deny.

And then, the invitation.

This summer, Liv will be joining Helen in Ibiza for Potentiate Your Power, Helen’s flagship retreat, running from 30th June to 6th July.

This is not a holiday with a bit of yoga.

This is a deeply held, high-touch retreat for powerful women who are already living big lives and are ready to be supported, expanded, nourished and met in the next layer of their becoming.

There will be yoga, embodiment, ancient energetics, deep facilitation, sisterhood, gorgeous food, spacious days, Ibiza magic, and one hell of a closing dance floor.

If you have been craving an in-person experience where you do not have to hold everything, perform, explain yourself, or do your growth alone, this episode is your invitation.

Two rooms remain.

Find Helen on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/thehelenwilkes/ 
Potentiate your Power in Ibiza retreat here: Details here

*Please note prices on the retreat page are in Australia Dollars*

You've thought about the cost of change. The discomfort, the uncertainty, the fear of getting it wrong. But have you ever really looked at what staying is costing you?

In this episode Liv breaks down the hidden invoice of not changing. The one that doesn't come with a number, doesn't announce itself, but quietly debits from your clarity, your self-trust, your energy, and your time.

Through real life examples of women choosing the familiar over the true, Liv reframes the question from "can I afford to change?" to "can I actually afford not to?"

This episode is for you if you're circling something. A decision, a pattern, a relationship, a version of yourself you've outgrown. And you keep telling yourself it's safer to stay.

It isn't. It's just a different kind of expensive.

If you'd like to join for ORIGIN this weekend, you can book your ticket here. 

Ready for a 75 minute Deep Dive? Book yours here. 

Two years ago at Easter I was technically homeless in Paris, burned out and suspended between versions of myself. A stranger pulled my cards and said one word that changed everything: provenance.

In this episode I share that story and what it taught me about self-trust, orientation and what it actually means to come home to yourself.

This episode is for you if you have been circling, overriding yourself, or trying to move forward without feeling fully anchored.

We cover: Why most high-capacity women have an orientation problem, not a clarity problem. What self-trust actually is and why it is a return, not a build. Why the moment just before the bloom is the most important moment of all.

Free masterclass: Unshakeable Self Trust. Wednesday 15th April. Link here: https://olivia-lara-owen.kit.com/e2361b0539  

ORIGIN: A three-hour live experience. Sunday 26th April. 4-7pm BST. £55. Book here: https://olivia-lara-owen.kit.com/5a82e2f94c 

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In this episode, Liv is joined by Clara Wisner for a rich and deeply grounded conversation on nourishment, female health, and what it really means to build a life your body can hold.

Together, they explore Clara’s personal journey from deep undernourishment and burnout into the work she now teaches, supporting women to return to the foundations of care, safety, and embodied capacity. They speak about why so many women are living from depletion, the impact of consistently under-eating, how nourishment affects mood, boundaries, self-leadership, and what becomes possible when a woman is truly resourced.

They also explore cycle tracking, feminine physiology, and the importance of learning to know yourself through the body rather than trying to live from the mind alone.

This is a conversation for any woman who feels stretched, tired, reactive, disconnected from her body, or ready to build a steadier and more nourishing way of living.

In this episode, we cover:

•  Clara’s nourishment story and how it shaped her work 
•  Why so many women are undernourished without realising it 
•  The impact of under-eating on mood, hormones, and nervous system capacity 
•  Self-leadership, safety, and feeling at home in the female body 
•  Why cycle tracking can be such a powerful tool for intimacy and self-trust 
•  Clara’s new programme, Deep Nourishment - to find our more about the live course starting on 30th March find it here. Use code OLIVIA for a 10% discount at checkout. 

About Our Guest:  

Clara Wisner is a mother, wife, and woman who has lived all that she teaches and guides. She is a nutritionist who teaches nourishment for embodiment and nervous system flourishing.

She blends her knowledge, experience and training around nutrition, minerals, cellular biology and feminine physiology with her deep practice of divine union in service to creation for Life. 

Find Clara Belize Wisner on Instagram. 

Find Clara's Substack Remothering here.

Find Olivia Lara Owen on Instagram here.

Find Meat & Monogamy with Olivia here. 

Book a 75 minute Deep Dive to work with Olivia here. 

At certain stages of life, intensity can feel like progress.

Movement, big decisions, and decisive action can create the sense that something is shifting. That you are growing. That you are moving forward.

But intensity is not the same as nourishment.

In this episode of Meat & Monogamy, Olivia explores the difference between adrenaline-fuelled decision-making and the slower, steadier work of building a life that can actually hold you.

Inside this conversation:

• Why intensity can feel productive, even when it isn’t sustainable
 • How dysregulation can drive big decisions and constant movement
 • Why growth culture rewards adrenaline and overlooks integration
 • What nourishment actually looks like in adulthood
 • The subtle shame many women feel when they slow down

If you have found yourself cycling between big moves and exhaustion, or questioning whether constant momentum is actually serving you, this episode will help you understand what may be happening underneath.

If something here resonates and you are navigating a threshold that requires more capacity than intensity, you are welcome to explore a 75-minute Deep Dive.

You can book here.