The Art of Thriving Podcast

This episode was recorded before the Cornell 7 trial began trending. We don’t speak to it directly, but we hold it with great sensitivity, and nothing here is meant to excuse or minimise anyone’s pain.

In this episode Hannah Vela and Josh V. Roberts talk honestly about sex, shame and the parts of ourselves we hide: male desire, the sacred and the carnal, speaking your needs, and the intelligence in our defences.

Not to excuse harm, but to ask what becomes possible when we stop hiding.

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In this episode, I introduce my partner, Josh V Roberts, to the podcast for the first time. We share the story of how we met three years ago, and how we found our way back to each other.

We explore what we’ve been learning about ourselves and each other as we navigate a relationship where healthy communication is deeply valued.

We then move into a deeper conversation about uncertainty, the collective, cultural and family stories we inherit, and the beliefs that shape our experience of reality.

What happens when we begin to question the stories we’ve been given about who we are, human nature, and what’s possible in our journey of becoming.

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In this vulnerable episode host Hannah Vela shares her story through her relationship to sexuality, from childhood to now,

The delicious key moments of insight and transformation, and the waves of contraction and expansion that shaped them and what it took to come back from shut down.

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In this episode Hannah sits down with co founder of Onyx Business Academy Haley Madison.

Haleys shares her personal story, tips for going into business with your partner and the core gems needed to build a successful business that gets stronger every year.

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Todays episode is super vulnerable, my x partner of 3 years, Sage Jefferys sits down with me to share about our story of love, our dreams for a future on the Ocean, our break up and our process of letting go.

It has always been wild to me that people can love each other one day, meaning so much to each other and then completely cut each other out of their lives, once the partnership ends.

We wanted to share a different way and what it took to make friendship not only possible but feel nourishing and emotionally balanced.

How Sage showed up for me in the months after we closed our connection made all the difference to us being able to remain friends. It wasn't always easy but I'm so grateful for where we are at in our friendship, our allyship and feel proud to share this episode with you all today.

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Today I sit down with Matt Bruce, Former Australian Special Forces, now a somatic practitioner, trauma facilitator and founder of the Somatic Microdosing School.

After 10 years of service, active deployments and the PTSD that came with them, Matt found his way into the healing arts, and what he's gathered along the way is a rare blend of the technical and the mystical.

We move through his Kundalini awakening, the maladaptive patterns he had to unwind, and how he came to understand the body on an organ-by-organ, energetic level. From there we go deep on blood and magnetism, why low iron is rarely just low iron, the role of water in our biology, and the new research from the Dr Emoto Institute on "primary water" that reframes our collective scarcity around water.

This one bridges science and the sacred.

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What does it really take to call in and sustain a relationship that truly thrives?

In this episode, Hannah and returning guest Melody Lubin get honest about the side of relationships we don't always want to look at. They explore the profound power women hold in partnership, what it means to take radical responsibility for your role in relating, and a refreshingly different lens on calling in your person, one that goes beyond what manifestation culture typically teaches.

At the heart of it all is a shared prayer: to call in unions that amplify your mission and serve something greater than yourself.

This one will stay with you.

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Hannah Velas Mentorship

Todays episode we dive into the financial education most of us never received to be able to grow long term, legacy wealth.

Pesche Bekter - Founder of Born Naked.

Pesche is traveller, rapper, producer, calisthenics enthusiast and committed nap advocate who somewhere between a mushroom trip and a Saturn return ended up becoming a finance guy.

After years of doing the full conscious community bingo card - yoga teaching, permaculture, nude modelling, support work, circus coaching, bodywork, Centrelink seasons and everything in between, an experience that you'll have to listen to the ep to find out about…. delivered the most unexpected curve ball of his life.  He joined one of Australia's largest buyers agencies, became a top performer within six months and helped clients settle over $35 million in investment properties.

Now he supports the everyday Joe to, not just understand how money works, but actually build the systems, automations and investments that build real wealth while they get on with living. This is the financial education most of us were never given.

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Welcome back fellow thrivers!  Today for our first ep of 2026 we are joined by Melody Lubin, Melody is a mentor and guide devoted to your Full expression and a life built from your Desire.

She is deeply passionate about women living fully expressed through their bodies. She creates experiences and bodies of work that invite Women into deeper more honest versions of themselves.

Melody is known for making spaces that create long lasting transformation and her transmission is one of Grace & Power.

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SENSUOUS - 14 week online program

In todays episode we get a direct line to the Spirit world with world renowned psychic, medium and spiritual teacher Sean Collyns.

He first started his work offering 1:1 readings in the back of a crystal shop in Melbourne, Australia.

Since then, Sean has hosted international events, retreats and has worked side by side with some of the worlds most well known mediums. Today, he has a waitlist that is thousands of people long and reads for clients from all corners of the globe, (some of which include Hollywood celebrities.)

Sean's mission is to assist people to awaken their spiritual connection and to help bridge the gap between the physical world, and the world of spirit.

His teachings are highly acclaimed and is loved for his down to earth and light-hearted approach to his work.

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