The Full Circle Podcast

The Full Circle Podcast

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  • Ep. 17 - SOLO | My 2019 Reflections

    Words from Anna:.

    "There is no way that I could think that my body is not perfect when I have someone telling me on a daily basis how perfect it is."

    In this episode, we talk about:

    • Why reflection is an important part of manifestation
    • Why 2019 truly was the year of love for Anna (and all the lessons along the way)
    • Anna's top 2019 reflections
    • Ghosting (I'll also do a separate ep on this)
    • A bit about my love Steve and how he is a true soulmate
    • The energetics of manifestation and manifestation portals - what they are and why keeping them open can be blocking you from calling in what you want
    • What it means to jump off a cliff
    • Astrocartography - what it is and the places where Anna thrives best
    • Human Design - what it is and a little about Anna's type, the Projector
    • How Anna found peace with her body
    • Why it's possible to find exercise that you actually enjoy
    • Financial goals (and why it's important to know the figure but then let it go)
    • Coming off anxiety medication at the end of 2019 and why it wasn't the best decision (Plus, the one book you must read if you are planning on coming off)
    • Anna's biggest takeaway from 2019, and it's SO simple

    Resources:

    • Digital courses: All In Alignment and Heartspace (now called Relationship Manifestation)
    • Radical Blueprint (now an e-course)
    • My manifestation teacher Lacy Phillips - website and Insta
    • Book: Own Your Self by Kelly Brogan

    • Institute for Integrative Nutrition where I studied to be a coach

    • Blog post about Bali Blake
    • See Anna's upcoming events
    • Nigel Beach from Element Health (Wim Hof instructor)
    • Psychic in LA: Corey Daniels @thefashionmedium
    • Get your Human Design mini read with Anna here
    • Kelly Brogan on the Luke Storey podcast - on depression and big pharma

    Where to find Anna Squelch:

    • Website: annasquelch.com
    • Instagram: @annasquelch // @thefullcircle.podcast
    47 min
  • Ep. 16 - Energy Healing + Meeting Your Inner Goddess with Brittney Vangestel

    Words from Brittney:.

    "When you're in such a vulnerable position to be revisiting trauma and those feelings, your Goddess is able to really take a lot of that pain away from you. And she helps you pull out a lot of the stuff."

    In this episode, we talk about:

    • Transitioning from massage to energy healing work and how that transpired
    • How her own version of energy healing actually works
    • How she helps clients shift and shed to move into the next level of themselves
    • The common blocks she helps her clients clear
    • The unworthiness wound and how it shows up in almost every client
    • How she talks to her clients' inner goddess
    • Our honest thoughts on 'The Secret'
    • How schoolyard bullying led her to the pivotal moment that changed her life
    • How being fat shamed by her own family led her to create her first coaching program.
    • Her message to the girls who bullied her at school.
    • How she navigates people who are skeptical about energy healing work
    • How Britt protects her precious energy and why she shuns morning routines
    • Her favourite way to release anger
    • How she shows up for her clients when she's falling apart

    Resources:

    • Discover your Love Languages
    • Book: Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
    • Radical Blueprint (now an e-course)

    Where to find Britt Vangestel:

    • Learn more: theconsciousalchemy.com.au
    • Podcast: The Goddess Awakening Podcast
    • Goddess Guidance monthly online tarot reads: HERE
    • Coaching: The Goddess Awakening Academy coaching
    • Instagram: @conscious.alchemy
    51 min
  • Ep. 15: What Your Hormones Are Trying To Tell You With Beatrice Thorne

    Words from Beatrice:.

    "Your body cannot communicate with you, the only thing it can do is create signs and symptoms to say 'hey, listen to me'. The hormonal system is no different and it leaves women a lot of clues."

    In this episode, we talk about:

    • How the idea for Eve Health Co. was conceived and birthed, and the part that Beatrice's own hormone journey played in it all.
    • Why getting started on a hormone journey is the hardest part
    • How understanding our bodies as women could help with equality in the workplace
    • Beatrice's thoughts on the contraceptive pill, and the impact it had on her body after 9 years.
    • Hearing she was registering as post-menopausal at 27 years old
    • Her hormone testing journey with Be Pure
    • The markers of a 'regular' menstrual cycle
    • Breaking down each of the hormones and the role they play
    • The different forms of magnesium and which ones are the best for your bowels
    • The impact of stress on fertility and how to reverse the effects
    • Which inflammatory foods you should be removing for optimum fertility
    • The oils you need to remove from your kitchen right now! (And the ones to keep!)
    • The dangerous oil that most restaurants cook with
    • The two minerals you absolutely need to be supplementing with.
    • Lifting the lid on gluten intolerance
    • The hormone that is necessary for a healthy sex drive
    • The power of our belief when it comes to creating illness
    • What Beatrice does for self-care on a daily basis

    Resources:

    • Eve Stress & Adrenal Test (the one Anna did) - buy HERE
    • BePure Magnesium Restore - get it HERE
    • BePure Zinc Restore - get it HERE
    • List of healthy cooking oils: ghee & lard (high heat), coconut oil (medium heat), extra virgin olive oil, avocado oil, hemp oil & macadamia oil (salad dressings).
    • Monica Yates podcast episode on dangerous vegetable oils - listen HERE.
    • Book: The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
    • Book: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
    • The Modern Intuition Podcast with Olivia Scott
    • Radical Blueprint (now an e-course)

    Where to find Beatrice Thorne:

    • Website: evehealth.com
    • Top links: campsite.bio/evehealthco
    • Instagram: @beatricethorne @evehealthco
    1 hr 4 min
  • Ep. 14: Mentorship, Motherhood + Radical Reinvention with Amy Fraser

    Words from Amy:.

    "Finding strength is about being humble to the point where you have to start again. You have to move forward. It's pretty incredible what you can do when you don't have a choice."

    In this episode, we talk about:

    • How the idea came to start OKReal
    • How to figure out who you truly are, and it starts with honesty
    • Learning her husband had a double life and how everything she had built herself around got turned upside down
    • Refusing to let her situation define and harden her, and her own personal healing process
    • Choosing things to remind her of her power
    • Meeting her boyfriend, Ben, when she had a 6 month old baby and how she navigated that.
    • How Ben is such a hands on Dad and figuring out how to parent Ra together.
    • What she wants to teach her son, Ra (it'll give you goosebumps!)
    • The lack of comradery she feels in the entrepreneurship space with kiwi women, and how American women differ in that regard
    • How we can each leverage our own uniqueness
    • How you can figure out what you should be doing in life through how you were as a kid
    • Her recipe for raising a child on one continent and a business on another
    • Why she chooses not to believe in balance and instead thrives in chaos
    • Her health philosophy, how she stays in shape, and her preferred workouts
    • How her face changed once she ditched the toxic relationship she was in
    • The truth about Caroline Calloway
    • How women can get past the "I'm just a Mum" construct
    • Her ultimate self-care tips
    • The best advice she's ever been given

    Resources:

    • Amy's OKReal mentor course
    • Two Islands Co. collagen code: AMY20
    • Lacy Phillips' Pathway Membership (get $20 off with my link)
    • Waitlist for Health Coach bootcamp launching early 2020
    • Radical Blueprint (now an e-course)

    Where to find Amy Fraser:

    • Learn more: okreal.co/
    • Instagram: @ameohmy @heyokreal
    59 min
  • Ep. 13 - A Journey Of Trauma, Healing & Forgiveness with Leah Blomfield

    In this episode, we talk about:

    • What led Leah to becoming a PT and the journey that led her to becoming a women's health coach
    • Losing her period and fertility after pushing her body to the extreme with diet and exercise
    • Getting her period back
    • Labelling herself as "too masculine" (and the way her body shifted to match that belief)
    • How a traumatic memory came back from her childhood years
    • Her first relationship at 14 that turned toxic where she was mentally, emotionally and physically abused, and the string of similar relationships that followed from that one.
    • Why she blamed herself for the toxic relationships in her life
    • Being sexually assaulted by a family member and not telling a soul about it for many years, and how her body shape changed with the pain.
    • How a chance meeting with a healer helped her unearth the sexual trauma she'd carried for so long
    • The practical steps she took to forgive herself and heal
    • The power of mirror work
    • How deep her body hatred ran
    • Her non-negotiable morning rituals
    • The power of setting a daily intention
    • The different types of trauma
    • The work she now does with women and helping them rebuild their self-worth after traumatic experiences
    • How to care for our hormones holistically

    Resources:

    • Lacy Phillips' Pathway Membership (get $20 off with my link)
    • Waitlist for Health Coach bootcamp launching early 2020
    • Radical Blueprint (now an e-course)
    • Anna's hypnotherapist: Faye Lawand-Maclean
    • Read more about Leah's journey in this blog post.
    • Leah's group coaching program: Awaken
    • Headstand bench from Amazon
    • Book: Women, Food & God by Geneen Roth

    Where to find Leah Blomfield:

    • Learn more: wellnesswithin.co.nz/about
    • Instagram: @leahblomfield_
    1 hr 1 min
  • Ep. 12 - Food, Mood, Fertility, Hormones + Poop with Jessica Giljam-Brown

    Words from Jessica:

    We should all be passing two smooth sausages per day.

    In this episode, we talk about:

    • Why she decided to leave London after two years
    • The main health differences between Brits and Kiwis
    • What inspired her to become a Nutritionist (and it's not what you think!)
    • Getting run over by a bus at 16 which caused her to spiral into depression
    • A day in the life of a clinical nutritionist
    • The most common issues her clients come to her with
    • The increasing amount of anxiety she is seeing with women and how she treats it
    • The danger of high intensity exercise on women's hormones
    • The impact that social media and diet 'quick fixes' is having on the wellness industry
    • The thrill of helping women fall pregnant
    • The increasing misdiagnosis of PCOS
    • Approaching the topic of fertility in our mid-thirties
    • How to best care for your hormones at any age
    • The biggest health myths, debunked
    • How to stay "regular" in poop terms
    • The one thing that Jessica needs 95% of her clients to work on
    • Whether Kombucha is all it's chalked up to be

    Resources:

    • Jessica's book: http://aotearoabooks.co.nz/grow-younger-with-great-food/
    • Anna's Relationship Manifestation e-course

    Where to find Jessica Giljam-Brown:

    • Learn more: wellnessbyjessica.com
    • Instagram: @wellnessbyjessica
    53 min
  • Ep. 11 - The Trials of a Corporate Lawyer Turned Coach with Briony McKenzie

    Briony McKenzie is an NLP Master Coach, Hypnotherapist, and founder of two coaching businesses: Untapped and The Social Experiment. But before she did this she was a corporate lawyer. In this episode I sit down with Briony and learn what inspired the huge transition, and how she stayed true to herself along the way.

    Words from Briony:

    "We can't go out and create anything in the world until we understand ourselves. We are the source of everything."

    In this episode, we talk about:

    • The now or never moment which led her to handing in her resignation from her corporate job to pursue coaching
    • The first steps to take when you know your corporate job is no longer in alignment
    • The freedom that comes from surrender
    • The importance of revealing your core values
    • The sunk cost fallacy of 'giving up'
    • Being a student of the work, forever
    • The importance of integration and embodiment in embedding change. Doing only 'one thing' every day towards your goal.
    • How to find freedom within discipline
    • The distinction between deep work and shallow work and how to implement
    • Her adult 'star chart'
    • How she's pushing through her resistance to meditation
    • How pure serendipity led her to meet her soulmate earlier this year
    • Her years hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family

    Resources:

    • The One Thing by Gary Keller
    • Deep Work by Cal Newport
    • The Dark Side of The Light Chasers by Debbie Ford
    • Insight Timer meditation app
    • Elizabeth Gilbert: The Curiosity-Driven Life
    • Astrocartography with Melissa Holtz

    Where to find Briony McKenzie:

    • Learn more:https://www.untapped.nz/
    • Instagram: @untappedwithbriony
    1 hr 8 min
  • Ep. 10 - Choosing Your Health Over Your Business + Life After Clean Treats with Charlie De Haas

    Words from Charlie:

    "Shedding your past self is like trying to get a sweaty sports bra off. It's hard!"

    In this episode, we talk about:

    • How a career as a fitness model led her to punish herself with exercise, and then food
    • Her digestive issues that no allopathic or alternative practitioners were able to fix
    • Taking her health into her own hands
    • Being put on medication for paraplegics to help her body digest food
    • Being at the forefront of the gluten free bandwagon following her own health struggles
    • Having one of the first businesses in food to start working with influencers
    • Why women experience so much shame around being sexy
    • The importance of having integrity in both your personal life and business
    • Her battle with chronic anxiety, chronic depression and chronic fatigue
    • Why not to settle in your setback
    • How to know when the universe is leading you in the right direction
    • Her favourite ways to listen to the universe
    • All about her new business 'The Connection Co.' connecting conscious businesses with brands and influencers
    • The importance of creating your brand identity as a small (or large) business
    • Her daily non-negotiable morning routine

    Resources:

    • Beautiful state vs suffering state
    • 222 angel numbers
    • The Universe Has Your Back by Gabby Bernstein
    • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
    • The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
    • The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer

    Where to find Charlie De Haas:

    • Learn more: charliedehaas.com.au
    • Instagram: @charliedehaas
    57 min
  • Ep. 9 - SOLO | How To Make Empowered Health Choices + My Top 18 You Can Make Today
    In this solo episode I share with you how to make empowered, sustainable health choices, plus my top 18 simple, empowered health choices you can start making today.

    You'll also learn:

    • how the wellness industry is teaching us to give our power away
    • making choices out of love over fear
    • the power of tapping into your intuition
    • the importance of cultivating real connections and real relationships
    • what it means to live in accordance with your menstrual cycle
    • how to respect your own time
    • the number one killer (it's not obesity or smoking)
    • the best free wellness tools
    • plus so much more...

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    36 min
  • Ep. 8 - Laura Ellen: Living a Happy, Healthy, Turned On Sex Life
    Words from Laura:

    The doing is the knowing.

    In this episode, we talk about:

    • How her own journey of slut-shaming led her to doing what she does now.
    • The lack of understanding as to what intimacy is, what boundaries are, hormonal health, and how to access our pleasure.
    • Why having a happy, healthy turned on sex life is less about 'top sex tips' and more about eating healthily, learning communication schools and setting healthy boundaries.
    • How to get out of masculine energy and honour our feminine
    • Simple practices for living a turned on life
    • The importance of a self-love menu
    • Her daily non-negotiable practice
    • How the 4 phases of your menstrual cycle can impact the sex you want
    • The power of our triggers

    Resources:

    • Book: The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
    • Period tracking app: Flo Living app
    • Podcast: Expanded with Lacy Phillips
    • Radical Blueprint (now an e-course)

    Where to find Laura Ellen:

    • Learn more: https://laura-ellen.com/
    • Instagram: @_laura_ellen
    • Facebook community: Lalulah Ladies
    • Podcast: The Sexual Wellness Podcast
    58 min

About The Full Circle Podcast

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Anna Squelch, a women's life coach with a no fluff approach to personal development brings you this series of interviews with inspirational people in the spiritual, personal development and…