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Welcome to Mindfully Thrive, where mindfulness meets the warmth of a cozy tea chat. In this episode, we kick off a brand-new season with a heartfelt reflection on 2024 and the intentions guiding us into 2025. This season is all about embracing the beauty of relaxed, authentic conversations—just two friends sharing their journeys, insights, and dreams for the year ahead.

Join Ella and Joya as they dive into topics like:

• The power of setting intentions and manifesting growth.
• How small, mindful practices can transform daily life.
• Reflections on last year’s highlights, from family milestones to career leaps.
• Words and themes shaping 2025, including certainty, magic, and connection.

With a focus on being real, relatable, and inspiring, this season invites you to take a deep breath, find your flow, and grow alongside us. Grab your tea, pull up a seat, and let’s mindfully thrive—together.

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It isn't dramatic, or light fireworks it's just an irregular morning wake up call! Find out my shame moment of this week and how I am learning about The Kabbalah In Real Life moments.

As I build up courage to just speak my experiences once again, this week is another solo short. I have mentioned in the episode my favourites of the week:
To Be Magnetic - Authenticity Challenge
David Ghyiam - The David Ghyiam Podcast

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In this episode, Ella returns to Mindfully Thrive after a few years of pause, diving into the themes of authenticity, creativity, and personal growth. She reflects on the challenges and lessons from her journey. With a renewed focus on living an authentic life, Ella discusses how she’s learning to navigate fear and the importance of creative action, even in the face of uncertainty. Join her for a short but honest conversation about the pursuit of authenticity, trusting your own path, and how small, mindful actions can lead to big shifts.

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Last episode of the season. This week I find out all about how the Happy Self Journal came into being. The hugely popular and ever-growing journal for mindset, mindfulness, and personal growth from young kids to adults. It's been flying off the shelves ever since it launched back in 2018. Listen to the story of this young business, the find out the importance it has in enhancing the happiness of our children and our own happiness too!  A lovely conversation all about the joys of living simple and getting our ideas onto the page. Teaching our kids to be future-proof and how sharing some of our own adult experiences can help them make good decisions for their own future.

Francesca is reading:
John Wooden
Lives of the Stoics

Francesca is watching:
Mare of Eastown
Your Honor

Francesca is Listening to:
Dr. Chatterjee
Happier with Gretchen Ruben
Deliciously Ella 

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This week's episode delves into the real meaning of authenticity and how we can bring more of ourselves into our businesses, creating meaning around our brand and living with openness and honesty, as to live any other way is quite literally exhausting!

Join us for a conversation with Laura Agar Wilson, Business Coach and Designer, as shares her journey to her business Wholeheartedly Laura, find out how she created the gift of time; for herself, for her family and for her clients.

Laura's Website: Wholeheartedly Laura
Instagram: @wholeheartedlylaura

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This week I had Jeanie Scott, skin therapist on the show and we have a fun conversation with some tough bits in between. No story is linear and the light brings with it shadows or as you'll hear the shadow is what perhaps lights your soul purpose up, as Jeanie shares her story of embracing the difficulties and getting curious about them, this led to finding her purpose and to share her gifts, ultimately bringing joy in others.

You will hear what Jeanie is getting out of bed for in the mornings, what keeps her up late at night, and how she takes the barking dog, two young boys and everything in between in her stride, on the good days!

Show Notes

@jeaniescottskin

Nicola Rayner
Bryony Gordon

Bryony Gordon - Podcast
Sh**ged, Married, Annoyed

Strava App

Charity:
Coppafeel

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This week I am sitting down and having a wonderful conversation with the warm and wise Jenn Stevens. Jenn is a Spiritual Life and Business Coach, and best selling author of The Mindful Witch. We share our thoughts on meditation as a tool manifesting, why being in a good mood isn't necessarily enough and how you can find alignment more often.

Jenn shares her journey to becoming an entrepreneur and how the dark night of the soul can really become our greatest blessing. You will find out what you can do today to become a co-creator and align yourself with all that you desire.

I mention quite a bit about my human design at the end of the episode. If you haven't listened to the last two weeks episodes be sure to check them out also.

Jenn Stevens Website: The Aligned Life
@thealignedlife
Jenn's Book: The Mindful Witch

Inspo Pause

Reading:
Danielle La Porte The Desire Map

Watching: Made for Love on Netflix

Listening to: The Life Coaching School Podcast

Using: Insight Timer

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This Part 2 of the Human Design series, a brief introduction to the Profiles in Human Design, I suggest you go listen to episode 13 from last week if you haven't yet to get a better understanding of the system and the concepts.

In this week's episode; I share my ideal morning, my downtime and all about how I resonate as a 3/5 Generator in the human design system.

download your human design graph here: my.humandesign  or mybodygraph
Find out more at humandesigntools

Listening to: On Purpose with Jay Shetty
The Self Care Club Podcast

Reading: The I Ching
Please Yourself Emma Reed Turrell
The Midnight Library with Matt Haig

Watching: The Bold Type on Netflix

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This week is part one of two solo episodes of Human Design, my recent learnings in this most wonderfully fascinating subject.  I'm so obsessed, I really had to share it with you.
It’s a System for self-discovery and personal growth, it's a synthesis of both ancient and modern sciences, from astrology, the kabbalah, the ancient Chinese I- Ching, the chakra system and quantum physics. Each of these parts tells you about your authentic self and who you are in your essence. Truly Fascinating!
 
Can you imagine having your specific user manual for how to operate in this world based on your energetic design? This manual allows you to operate in the most optimal and authentic way for you.

Check out the episode to find out how Jenn Stevens from The Aligned Life describes the different Aura Types, so beautifully stated. 

All my research came from these sites:
thealignedlife.co
http://jovianarchive.com
https://understandinghumandesign.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Design
https://www.thealignedlife.co/about/
my.humandesign
mybodygraph.com

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This week, my hugely talented guest is the Welsh Maker, Amy Swann.
Amy works with varied materials and creates beautiful and unexpected delights from Cake decoration, fit for the most exquisite weddings to intricate and delicate heirlooms to be savoured and treasured for generations. Her work is very much centred around creating memories. Amy shares so much about her journey of following her inspiration and leading with love as she stays true to her passions and purpose. 
Amy and I share many commonalities yet our lives took very different paths and it's a pleasure to share this conversation on art, motherhood, trusting the process of life and allowing the pleasures to guide you towards the next opportunity.
Don't be fooled into thinking this conversation is not for you, as you are not a teacher, it is in its essence a conversation about navigating life from the vantage point of trust in your own unique truth and allowing life to unfold, without knowing all the details, yet fully embracing the fact that the thing that lights you up, is the thing you were born to do.
How lucky she was to have seen and felt it so clearly, and been granted the gift of parents who fully embraced her desires and now it's her turn to show her kids her way to live authentically and trust the process.

SHOW NOTES:
Amy Swann Website
Amy Swann Instagram: @swann.amy

INSPO PAUSE:
Reading:
Find Your Artistic Voice Lisa Congdon
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read Philippa Perry

Podcasts:
Conversations of Inspiration Holly Tucker
Happy Place Fearn Cotton
Mad World Bryony Gordon
The Mavericks

Watching:
Line Of Duty: BBC, Netflix
It's A Sin: Channel 4