The Adventures of Self Podcast

By Taylor Roark

Tune in and enjoy conversations with ordinary, and extraordinary, people about the adventures of their lives ... as they explore what it means to be self-expressed in this world.

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October 21, 2021 Finding What Matters to You – with Chloé Bourjalliat
This week's adventure is taken in the company of Chloe Bourjallia, a fellow adventurer in life and an intuitive life coach. She’s here with a message of hope, and talks about how to go for what you love, live in line with your values and how every breakdown is an opportunity for a breakthrough.
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1h 20min
October 14, 2021 Great (or Lesser) Expectations – with Ben Winter
This week's adventure is taken in the company of Ben Winter, the author of the books ‘Living Unscripted’ and ‘What to Expect When Having Expectations’. He has been an improvisational actor and has taught improv in business for over 10 years
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1h 6min
October 07, 2021Mission of Magnificence – with Isik Tlabar
This week's adventure is taken in the company of Isik Tlabar, an empowerment coach and breathwork facilitator who works primarily with teachers, coaches and facilitators, directing them to their magnificence.
Taylor and Isik have a rolling discussion on connection, joy, curiosity and how to bring all of these things into the adventure of your life, as well as giving permission to let them in to your hearts. Along the way they talk about conscious kink and what happens when you miss a flight at the airport.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Relationships go into a dead end when you look at someone and think I know who you are, I know how you work, I know what you do and don’t like, and then we put people into a box. But those people are always growing, and when we’re curious about them it make us want to find out more about ourselves as well.
I tune into my clients’ greatness, their true nature, their purpose, what they’re here for, and one reflection I often get is ‘I kind of know this, but the fact that you don’t know me and have tuned into me and told me all these things is giving me the extra permission, now I’m actually going to do something about it.’
We tell ourselves we can’t do things because I’m not good enough, people won’t like me if I do that, or I’ll be rejected, and we tone ourselves down, but the ability is always there waiting to come out.
If you plant a seed, you can’t see it growing underground. But because you’re not seeing the results straight away can sometimes feel demoralising or that you’ve failed and it’s not working. That’s why it’s so important to keep an eye on your vision, where you wan to go whilst taking little steps and trusting that you’re doing what you need to do to get there.
Imagine if we just planned everything and there was no space in your life for adventure. There’d be no room for meaningful relationships with anyone else. Also, always chasing new experiences can be destructively addictive.
BEST MOMENTS
‘The day we stop learning is the day we stop being curious. Curiosity brings aliveness.’
‘Fear of failure makes us little kids in an adult’s body.’
‘You’ve got to give yourself the right elements for your self-actualisation to flourish.’
‘Instead of blaming others for what’s going wrong, accept it and own it and move on. You are your own guarantee.’
‘Everything is great in balance and that’s why you need a structure.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Adventures Of Self
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The.Adventures.of.Self
ABOUT THE GUEST
Isik is a transformational coach, embodiment & breathwork facilitator. She got into meditation by the age of 8 and into the personal development world by the age of 14. Always having a curious, courageous, open and loving heart, she has been involved in psychology, creative development work, shadow work, alchemy, shamanic practices, sacred sexuality, breathwork, conscious dance practices and much more.
She was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. After studying architecture, she decided to turn what she naturally does into her now full-time business, helping people and now runs a full-time coaching and breathwork business.
She believes everyone has unique gifts to express in the world. In her private coaching practice, she works with her clients to unlock their greatness, their full potential so they can create what they love in all areas of their lives.
https://www.isiktlabar.com/
ABOUT THE HOST
Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.
He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England.
Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure.
“The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”
CONTACT METHOD
Website: https://www.galliant.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-roark-a852169/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetaylorroark/
Clubhouse: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@galliant.life
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
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1h 14min
September 30, 2021 Healthy Relationships – with Lily Walford
Healthy Relationships – with Lily Walford
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1h 7min
September 23, 2021 Archetypes, Myths and Service – with Christina Kottori
Archetypes, Myths and Service – with Christina Kottori
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1h 7min
September 16, 2021 Daring to Try – with Carina Notivoli
Daring to Try – with Carina Notivoli
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1h 4min
September 09, 2021 The Soul’s Journey – with Christina Valeska
This episode is about relaxing into self with awareness and that awareness brings choice and the ability to use our willpower.
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1h 29min
September 02, 2021 Restoring The Balance – with Daniela Lanaia
This week's adventure is taken in the company of Daniela Lanaia, a healer and musician who uses nature as a muse in both her music and in her sessions. Daniela brings a very laid-back atmosphere to this episode where the pair talk about the balance of masculine and feminine energies and how they work so well together to bring an equilibrium to life and nature.

KEY TAKEAWAYS
• I’ve been especially working with feminine energies and how we restore these sacred pathways of the feminine and masculine and the way of nature. How do we return to our essence and the qualities that we carry that were sown into these bodies that we incarnated in to and restore that balance within ourselves and in the Earth.
• The imbalance that we see in the world is coming out of our own thoughts. But even chaos has order. During these lockdowns where the whole world has stayed at home, I’ve heard it said that it was Mother Earth sending us away to reflect on our lives because we’ve caused so much imbalance in the world that it couldn’t continue.
• I had a dream years ago that sound would be the medicine that would carry us across the bridge from the old world to the new, tat sound would be the medicine of the future. A lot of my work with sound comes from listening to the frequencies of nature, especially stones at sacred sites, and the resonance of these aspects of nature.
• In the pause between breaths we enter that still pint, we have these movements and pauses – the space in between the sounds – which is very calming for the mind, the nervous system and the body.
• All the traditions in the world, that I can think of, place importance and practices on quietening of the mind to connect and to receive because we’re not separate – we have an ego, a mind and a body, but we are part of this web of life where we are all connected.

BEST MOMENTS
‘This healing and restoration of balance is reflected in the Earth.’
‘We are cells within the body of Mother Earth. If one cell becomes unhealthy it affects all the other cells around it and the body becomes sick.’
‘Everything has its own sound, its own song.’
‘With words, writing and sound we can create anything.’
‘Not all the fruits ripen on the tree at the same time, it’s part of an evolution of consciousness that we’re all moving through individually and collectively.’

VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Adventures Of Self
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The.Adventures.of.Self

ABOUT THE GUEST
Daniela Lanaia is a healer and musician whose work focuses on re-weaving our inner landscapes and sacred relationship with Mother Earth. Spending much of her life immersed in Nature, listening to the Earth and Stars, and learning with elders and indigenous wisdom keepers, she is dedicated to a path of healing and loving stewardship of our Earth. Daniela lives in the Highlands of Scotland where she works with the plants and land; and offers sound healing, journeys and one-to-one sessions. She is the female vocalist and songwriter within Anima Sound Medicine.
www.alunahealing.co.uk
www.animamusic.uk
https://www.facebook.com/AnimaMusic

ABOUT THE HOST
Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.
He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England.
Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure.
“The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”

CONTACT METHOD
Website: https://www.galliant.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-roark-a852169/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetaylorroark/
Clubhouse: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@galliant.life
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
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1h 22min
August 26, 2021 Let’s Talk About Sex – with Alison Pilling
Let’s Talk About Sex – with Alison Pilling
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1h 11min
August 19, 2021Exploring and Expressing Inspiration – with Amanda Hill Ryall
This week's adventure is taken in the company of Amanda Hill Ryall, a primary school teacher who has written a book – ‘I Choose Me’ – about her change and learning in life and coming to accept herself and to move away from the Idea of perfectionism. She’s also written a series of four other books called ‘Mood Munchers’ for children which talk about processing emotions and that all emotions are OK.
They discuss all of this as well as what it means to be an inspiration living in the spirit of the moment in a tale of joy, compassion and discovery.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Inspiring is literally drawing in breath to invigorate the body. The breath is the coming home. Life can get difficult and in situations where I’m feeling overwhelmed, I’ll stop for a moment and breathe deeply. We’re born with our breath and we’ll die with our breath, it’s part of us but we don’t use it and come home to ourselves enough.
The reason I decided to be a teacher of young children is because of their creativity, curiosity and innocence. They’re out to play, they don’t care what anybody things, they accept everything just as it is in the present moment. As we get older we lose that.
I ask my pupils ‘do you think I know everything? I may be an adult, but I’m the same as you, just a bit taller, we’re all connected.’ How we connect to each other is important
The biggest breakthrough for me, as an adult, was the statement ‘Thank you, btu what you think of me is none of my business.’ I thought, of course it’s my business how very dare you! That shocked me to my core to realise how attached I was to the approval of others. Why?
I was addicted to guilt and shame, they were my ‘go to’ places; you eat the chocolate cake and berate yourself for it the next day. Spend a day catching yourself and write down each time you do. What I look into now is gratitude; gratitude that I’m alive with my breath to stand up and meet and make connections with people.
BEST MOMENTS
‘We can all inspire, but you have to connect with yourself first.’
‘I was avoiding myself at all costs, but I wrote my first book to get over my victimhood and become centred.’
‘Taking silent time for yourself is the most beautiful gift you can give yourself.’
‘School should be about discovery. Discovery of self and discovery of learning.’
‘I’m not critical anymore, if something doesn’t go the way I thought it was going to I keep an open mind. That’s where growth is.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Adventures Of Self
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The.Adventures.of.Self
ABOUT THE GUEST
As a best-selling author and podcaster with her show ‘You Choose You Now’, Amanda is a leader in helping parents and adults to heal their inner wounded child so they can become the very best version of themselves to inspire their children – our future. With her passion, energy and enthusiasm Amanda is courageous in sharing her own story of depression and low self-worth to reveal how she overcame her limiting beliefs and inherited family narratives to become a woman that lives in complete gratitude and alignment with her purpose and in doing so, enable others to come home to themselves and lead others.
As a mother and wife, Amanda is the CEO (Chief Energy Officer) in her family and with her sense of joy and excitement shows up as a role-model for her family and inspires them to accept who they truly are.
A teacher working in both in the UK and abroad, Amanda has worked in the Education sector to allow children to show up as individuals to discover their interests through their curiosity, creativity and sense of wonder. Helping children to understand that they are not their thoughts or their emotions, Amanda has created her ‘Mood Munchers’ characters that are all the emotions we feel but are uncomfortable communicating. With her awareness and spirit of joy, she uses these characters in the classrooms to help children acknowledge their feelings.
Amanda is based in London, UK and has appeared as a guest speaker in podcast shows such as “The Mummy Warriors”, “Let’s Talk About Self Harm”, “The Journey” and more. She has been on radio with "The Yakking Show” and “Chat and Spin Radio”.
With her passion and purpose, Amanda is determined to help parents connect with their inner child and heal themselves so that they are their true authentic beings and as a result become amazing, inspirational parents.
In love, joy and compassion Amanda shows up every day to inspire and lead those around her so that the world can become a better place to BE.
ABOUT THE HOST
Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.
He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England.
Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure.
“The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”
CONTACT METHOD
Website: https://www.galliant.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-roark-a852169/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetaylorroark/
Clubhouse: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@galliant.life
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/
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59min

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The podcast currently has 56 episodes available.