Starting Over (for real)

If you could spend five minutes with the ten-year-old version of yourself… what would you say?

In this episode, we talk about our inner child, the things we needed to hear growing up and what can happen when we finally offer our younger selves the kindness and understanding we may have been missing.

I share a conversation I’ve been having with little Frankie and why healing isn’t always about finding the right advice or fixing ourselves.

Sometimes we just need compassion.

Sometimes we just need someone to sit beside us.

Grab a coffee, come sit with me and let’s spend a little time with the child who’s still quietly living inside all of us. ☕️

What if you’ve never actually been behind…

You’ve just been measuring your life against somebody else’s timeline?

In this episode, we talk about feeling behind in life, comparing yourself to others, chasing milestones and the invisible pressure to have everything figured out by a certain age.

I share the checklist I spent years chasing and the moment I realised success had to feel right for me not just look right to everyone else.

We talk about comparison, life timelines, expectations, success, self-worth and letting go of the idea that there’s one “right” way to do life.

Grab a coffee, come sit with me and let’s leave someone else’s timeline behind. ☕️

When did everyone else’s opinion become louder than your own?

In this episode, we talk about what happens when you stop trusting yourself, when you second-guess your decisions, ignore your gut instinct, look to other people for reassurance and slowly lose confidence in your own voice.

I share how easy it is to hand our self-trust away and what learning to trust yourself again can actually look like.

We talk about self-doubt, intuition, overthinking, confidence, decision-making and finding your way back to your own voice.

Grab a coffee, come sit with me and let’s start listening to ourselves again. ☕️

How many of the things you believe about yourself were never actually yours to begin with?

In this episode, we talk about overthinking, self-doubt and the stories we quietly tell ourselves.

The assumptions, old beliefs and negative thoughts we’ve repeated for so long they start to feel like facts.

I share the simple question that helps me challenge those thoughts, quiet the spiral and start trusting myself again.

Grab a coffee, come sit with me and let’s gently ask… is that actually true? ☕️

Not all grief comes from losing someone.

Sometimes it’s the life you imagined.
The apology that never came.
Or the version of yourself you thought you’d be by now.

In this episode, we talk about grief beyond death.

The loss of relationships, dreams, identities and versions of ourselves we thought we’d become and why acknowledging what we’ve lost can be part of healing and letting go.

Grab a coffee, come sit with me and let’s make space for the things we’ve quietly been carrying. ☕️

Have you ever become so good at keeping everyone else comfortable that you forgot what you wanted?

In this episode, I share how people-pleasing became part of my identity, why setting boundaries felt so uncomfortable and what happened when I finally started putting myself first.

We talk about people-pleasing, boundaries, guilt, self-trust and what it costs when keeping the peace means abandoning yourself.

Grab a coffee, come sit with me and let’s talk about choosing yourself without needing everyone else to understand. ☕️

What if the only thing standing between you and the life you want is waiting until you feel ready?

In this episode, I share why I started Starting Over (for real), the fear offailure and self-doubt that kept me stuck and what finally helped me take thefirst step.

We talk about starting over, confidence, courage, trusting yourself and whathappens when you stop waiting for certainty before you begin.

Grab a coffee, come sit with me and let’s stop waiting for permission to start. ☕️

Maybe you’re starting over in life.

Maybe you’re feeling lost, wondering what comes next, or realising the life you’ve been living doesn’t quite feel like yours anymore.

Starting Over (for real) is an honest conversational podcast about life changes,identity, self-trust, boundaries, relationships and finding your way back toyourself.

No fixing.

No pretending we have it all figured out.

Just a coffee, a conversation, a few laughs and the reminder that you’re not theonly one figuring it out. ☕️ 

New episodes every week.