Nurture & Nourish

Anna speaks with Master Level coach and kindred spirit Holly Toronto. Holly works to reunite women with a sense of love, respect and ownership of their own bodies. She shows women they have inner value, completely separate from society’s beauty norms, and the emphasis placed on appearance, and teaches them to believe in that inner value on a deep level. She and Anna discuss the fascinating, sometimes enraging connection between how women restrict and limit themselves, and the history of how w...

In this episode Anna shares a heartfelt and illuminating conversation with inspiring coach Sedruola N Maruska. They talk about Sedie’s incredible work speaking and working with organisations who are authentically striving to address racism and social injustice. Sedie’s own journey stems from difficult experiences – the cancer recovery that triggered her move into more meaningful work. She found herself reconnecting with an event much earlier in her life, a deep loss that she trained herself t...

Anna speaks with Elliot Rae, speaker, writer and founder of MFF, MusicFootballFatherhood which has been called the ‘dad’s version of mumsnet. After a traumatic experience following his daughter’s birth, Elliot suffered PTSD and found he was forced to confront unspoken issues around fatherhood, masculinity and mental health. He’s now created spaces for other dads to explore their own conditioning and find more helpful ways of dealing with difficult emotions and experiences, in a way that suppo...

Anna speaks with mind and money mentor and Chartered Accountant Laura Powner, who after years of success in the corporate accounting world suffered quietly with acute anxiety for many months before she discovered the deep need for gentleness and self-care. She now helps other business owners to tap into their own needs, not only for health and wellbeing, but also to help their businesses thrive. Laura and Anna talk about ideas around work, abundance, harnessing feminine energy, and receiving ...

Anna meets Ben Bidwell for a refreshingly honest conversation about what it’s like to be a stereotypical ‘successful’ man – and where stereotypes let men and women down. Traditional masculinity was not serving Ben. At 30 years old, he was doing great on a surface level, but he felt empty and alone. A lucky encounter with a hypnotherapist led him to realise he wasn’t empty. He was just disconnected from his heart. Ben didn’t have the vocabulary or experience to reconnect with himself alon...

If you’re not someone who drinks green smoothies and has a daily yoga practice, is ‘self-care' out of reach for you? In this episode Anna speaks with the perfect person to answer this question: success coach Rachel Letham, whose first yoga class (including chanting and a giant gong) was a shock to the system! When Rachel hit burnout via a high-stress job, she had to look for her version of self-care, and eventually discovered a love of affirmations, and a seasonal approach to movement for her...

Anna speaks with perinatal therapist and coach, Sophie Burch AKA The Mamma Coach, in this very honest conversation about motherhood. From going through difficulties with her own fertility, to challenging pregnancies and birth experiences. Sophie went from being a party-loving career woman working in film (who believed she couldn’t have children) to a mother of four on a mission to bridge the gap in mental-health support for parents.In this episode:How traditional birth education skips the mos...