What if the reason you can't make an outfit is that your wardrobe was built for a past version of you?

In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Mary Michele Nidiffer, The Visibility Stylist™, creator of the StyleFinder ID® System, and founder of The Art of Becoming Visible.

Mary Michele helps women entrepreneurs, speakers, authors, and leaders stop shrinking, blending in, and waiting for permission to be seen, not by reinventing themselves, but by fully expressing who they've been all along.

What I found so compelling about this conversation is that Mary Michele is not talking about clothes, not really. She's talking about the gap between who you were and who you are now, and the moment you stand in front of a wardrobe full of things you spent real money on and don't recognise yourself in any of it.

Her StyleFinder ID® System was created precisely because so many women told her they had no style, when what was actually happening was that their wardrobe had stopped reflecting them. Style, she says, starts within, and without understanding what your style types actually are, you're building a wardrobe for someone else.

She also shares the moment that changed everything for her personally, standing in front of a mirror after having her daughter, bracing for the familiar flood of self-criticism, and instead feeling only gratitude.

That one moment became a promise to herself and to her child, and it's the foundation of everything she now teaches.

In this episode we explore:

➤ Why so many women feel disconnected from their wardrobes, and how the identity gap between past and present self shows up in ways we often don't recognise

➤ The one question to stop asking and the one to replace it with, and why that shift alone begins to change the way women relate to how they show up

➤ How style became a vehicle for self-permission, and why Mary Michele's clients often discover they've been carrying unwritten rules about who they're allowed to be for decades

➤ What the StyleFinder ID® System actually reveals, and how knowing your style types gives you a language for self-expression that goes far beyond clothes

➤ Why true style is never performative, and what distinguishes dressing for yourself from dressing to manage what others think

This episode is for any woman who has ever stood in front of a full wardrobe and felt invisible, or who suspects there's a version of herself she hasn't quite given herself permission to express yet.

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What if 99% of what you're feeling at any given moment isn't actually yours?

In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Lisa Mohr, Reiki Master Teacher, author, intuitive development instructor, and Founder of The Mohr Method of Healing.

Lisa has been teaching Reiki and energy work since 1995, has taught more than 12,000 students worldwide, and is the author of seven books on Reiki, energy hygiene, and intuitive development.

Her work centres on helping naturally intuitive people strengthen their abilities while learning to understand, manage, and protect their energy.

Lisa's path into this work started at five years old with a quiet but certain knowing, and by eight she was already tracking down books on psychic phenomena in her school library.

By 19, she had saved up to train as a Reiki master and began building what would become her own system, combining Reiki with energy protection from the very beginning.

That integration, teaching people not just how to channel healing energy but how to ensure it remains distinctly theirs, is the thread that runs through everything she teaches.

What really stayed with me in this conversation is how grounded and evidence-based her approach is. Lisa is not asking anyone to take this on faith.

She builds demonstrations into her teaching from the very start, so students collect their own proof that the practices are working before they go any deeper.

And what they discover, almost universally, is that a huge proportion of what they thought were their own emotions, moods, and physical sensations are actually absorbed from the people and environments around them.

In this episode we explore:

➤ Why energy hygiene is the foundation of everything, and what changes when people learn to recognise what is their own energy versus what they've absorbed from others

➤ The Mohr Method of Healing, and how Lisa integrated energy protection into Reiki training from day one, creating something far more expansive than traditional Reiki alone

➤ What actually shifts for students who go through this work, including their health, relationships, sleep, and capacity to set boundaries without guilt

➤ How to start protecting your energy today, including where to find Lisa's cord-cutting meditation on YouTube and the simplest first step for anyone who suspects they're carrying more than their own

➤ What 31 years of teaching has led her to believe is the one thing that would change everything, if we learned it from childhood

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt drained after being around certain people, who absorbs the mood of a room the moment they walk in, or who has a sense that there is more to their intuition than they've yet been shown how to use.

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What if your illness was never a failure of your body — but a message from it?

In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Skylar Acamesis, Master Medical Intuitive, creator of the Medical Intuitive Technique™, founder of the Medical Intuitive Association™, nutritionist, author, and registered hypnotherapist.

With over 20 years of experience as a spiritual healer, speaker, and facilitator, Skylar works from her online Medical Intuitive Clinic, training healers and supporting clients to transform disease energetically into health.

Skylar's path into this work began at 10 years old, when she was diagnosed with Hashimoto's. What followed was a decade of pushing through exhaustion, looking externally for answers, and slowly realising that every answer she had been searching for was already available from within.

That discovery, that health is sovereign and belongs to us, became the foundation of everything she now teaches.

What struck me most in this conversation is how clearly Skylar articulates the gap between physics and metaphysics. Western medicine and energetic healing are not competing systems, they operate on entirely different principles.

And the reason so many people remain stuck, she explains, isn't a lack of trying. It's that we've been taught to approach the body as something that lets us down, rather than something doing its best to protect us.

Disease, from a metaphysical perspective, is often the perfect storm of images, meanings, and systems the body has built to keep us safe. Skylar's work goes into those systems directly, deconstructs them, and replaces them with what she calls an unconditional health system, built from each person's unique blueprint.

In this episode we explore:

➤ Why the language of the universe is images, not emotions, and how this changes everything about how we approach healing at a root level

➤ The difference between temporarily dissolving symptoms and transforming the system that created them, and why most healing modalities only go part of the way

➤ What sovereign health actually means, and why so many people have been taught to fear their own bodies rather than trust them

➤ The level of training and integrity it takes to hold someone through illness, and why Skylar founded the Medical Intuitive Association to close that gap

➤ The remarkable results she has witnessed over 20 years, and what they reveal about the body's capacity to return to health when the energetic root is addressed

This episode is for anyone who has done everything right and still feels stuck, or who senses there is a deeper layer to their health that conventional approaches haven't reached.

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What if healing doesn't have to be the long, drawn-out process most of us assume it will be?

In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Russell Kimberly, Trauma-Informed Breathwork Coach and Tantra Facilitator based in California.

Through conscious connected breathwork blended with tantric principles, Russell helps people move through PTSD, emotional dysregulation, addiction recovery, and disconnection from self, often in ways that years of conventional therapy hadn't been able to touch.

Russell's path to this work came through his own recovery. Ten years clean and sober, doing everything suggested by his programme, he kept hitting a wall of depression rooted in guilt, shame, and body dysmorphia he hadn't even known to name. Therapy felt slow. Medication wasn't something he wanted.

So he started looking elsewhere, eventually finding tantric practitioners in Santa Barbara whose work led him to breathwork, and to a series of experiences he describes as sudden emotional releases he didn't even know were still in there.

A practitioner told him he had a rare depth of connection to feminine energy and that he should train in this work. He knew immediately she was right 😊.

What followed was two years of training at Intercamp School and further study with breathwork practitioner Ben Holtz, then years of working with veterans with PTSD, people in addiction recovery, and anyone seeking a deeper connection with themselves and with something greater.

In this episode, we explore:

➤ What conscious connected breathwork actually does to the body and brain, including the chemical cascade of dopamine, serotonin, endorphins and oxytocin that begins naturally within the first fifteen minutes

➤ Why the Department of Defence is quietly prescribing breathwork to soldiers with PTSD, and what a near-hundred percent success rate within three months tells us about this approach

➤ The difference between outside-in and inside-out healing, and why somatic work can move people in six to ten sessions to places that therapy sometimes takes years to reach

This episode is for anyone who has done the talking, done the thinking, and still feels like something inside hasn't shifted yet.

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What if the thing standing between you and your first paying client isn't your skills or your certification, but a quarter-inch turn in how you see yourself?

In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Nancy E Presser, The Clarity Coach for New Coaches.

After 30 years as an energy healer and massage therapist, and a winding road that included failed online programmes, a redundancy, and losing her home in a California wildfire, Nancy found the combination of strategy, mindset tools, and NLP that finally worked.

Now she teaches it to newly certified coaches who are brilliant at their craft but stuck when it comes to actually getting clients and building a business.

Her story is a real one. She spent years trying different online programmes, doing three at the same time at one point, and still not being able to crack it.

After the wildfire took everything in 2021, she went back to a nine-to-five, hated every minute, and then declared to her coach that she wanted to do what she was doing.

Within weeks, she was made redundant. She took it as the sign she'd been waiting for. What came next was finally finding an approach that worked, and building a system she now hands directly to the coaches she works with 😊.

One of the things I found most refreshing about this conversation is how clearly Nancy describes what's actually missing for most new coaches.

It's not more training. It's the belief that they can do it, and then someone saying, here's the one strategy — now go do the reps.

In this episode, we explore:

➤ What most coaching certification programmes leave out, and why so many newly qualified coaches can coach brilliantly but struggle to run a business

➤ The quarter-inch turn concept, and how Nancy uses energy work, NLP, and mindset coaching to help clients get out of their own way without cringing when they take action

➤ The Tiny Challenges strategy, a five-day one-on-one approach that builds know, like, and trust faster than funnels, webinars, or social media — and gets new coaches actually coaching from the start

➤ Why most new coaches have their first paying client within six weeks of working with Nancy, and what shifts when that first yes arrives

This episode is for any newly certified coach who's been sitting on their coaching gift, waiting until things feel more ready.

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What if grief isn't something you move through, but something you get stuck inside, and nobody around you knows how to help?

In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Dr. Tina Fornwald, Founder and CEO of Widowhood Real Talk with Tina, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting widows, widowers, and the people who love them.

A retired US Army Chief Warrant Officer, ordained minister, bestselling author of The Five Widows Club, and breast cancer survivor, Dr. Tina is also the creator of the Where Grief Gets Stuck™ framework, which identifies five survival patterns that can quietly become the thing keeping people from moving forward.

Her path to this work is deeply personal. Ten years ago, Dr. Tina lost her late husband Mark while they were on holiday together. She describes stepping away from all the obligations of life in the aftermath, not because she couldn't cope, but because the only thing that mattered was facing what her life now actually looked like.

That experience, combined with years of supporting bereaved military families and serving as an ordained minister, gave her a perspective on grief she says she could never have gained any other way.

What she noticed, again and again, was that the people around the bereaved often didn't know how to show up past the first few weeks, and that the grieving themselves had learned to hide how much they were still struggling.

What I found quietly powerful about this conversation is how gently Dr. Tina reframes widowhood itself.

She points out that the goal of a marriage, if you're lucky, is to become a widow or widower. You completed your vows. That doesn't make it less painful, but it does make it worth honouring.

In this episode, we explore:

➤ Why the five stages of grief were never designed for the bereaved, and what Dr. Tina's five survival patterns reveal instead

➤ The signs that grief has moved from a natural response to feeling genuinely stuck, including isolation that's quietly cut you off from everyone who loves you

➤ How Dr. Tina works with organisations and places of faith, helping leaders learn to show up for people who are struggling long after the bereavement leave runs out

➤ What support actually looks like in practice, and why taking out the bins or dropping off a gift card can matter more than any words

➤ The Five Widows Club and what's coming next, including a 30-day companion journal and a Children of Widowhood Secret Santa campaign for families who've lost a parent

This episode is for anyone navigating loss who has started to wonder if they'll always feel this way, and for anyone who loves someone who's grieving and doesn't know what to do.

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What if the most powerful thing you could offer someone wasn't a transformation, but simply a space to exhale?

In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Angilina Stylianou, Holistic Coach, Reiki Master Teacher, Cacao Facilitator, and Founder of Retreat at the Mill.

Through wellbeing events, holistic therapies, cacao ceremonies, and community spaces, her work is built around one core intention: helping people step out of stress, overwhelm, and fight-or-flight mode and reconnect with themselves, sometimes for the very first time.

Retreat at the Mill opened its doors in August 2024, and it came from something deeply personal. Angilina describes watching people walk through the archway into the space and visibly exhale, their shoulders dropping, their bodies relaxing, almost without them realising it.

That moment is not accidental. It is the whole point. She built the retreat because she never had that feeling of safety growing up, and she wanted to create somewhere with no judgement, no whispers, no performance required. Just a community of people who are allowed to be exactly where they are 😊.

Her own path to this work was far from linear. Growing up with divorced parents, lots of back-and-forth, and a deep sense of insecurity about herself and other people, Angilina spent years not feeling seen or safe. She describes a period eight years ago when she was barely leaving the house, managing her mental health with medication and self-medication, and carrying a diagnosis she hadn't even told her family about.

When she discovered cacao circles and guided meditation, something shifted. But she quickly realised the medicine itself meant nothing if the environment didn't hold people first. That insight became Retreat at the Mill.

In this episode, we explore:

➤ Why Angilina believes you can't promise someone healing, and what she offers instead that actually creates the conditions for real change

➤ The moment she realised environment matters as much as modality, and how she started building spaces before she had a building of her own

➤ Who comes through the door at the Mill, from McMillan nurses to stroke survivors, and why she says it's never about demographic

➤ What genuine transformation looks like over time, including a client who found her way to her dream job through two years of cacao, Reiki, and circle work

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt like they don't quite belong anywhere, or who is quietly looking for a space where they can stop performing and just be .

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What if the story you've been sitting on is the one someone else needs to read right now?

In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by John Spender, Founder of A Journey of Riches, Transformational Coach, International Bestselling Author, Speaker, and Award-Winning Filmmaker. Through his anthology book series, documentary filmmaking, and coaching, John's work is rooted in one central belief: our greatest challenges are often the catalyst for our greatest purpose.

The Journey of Riches series is now 46 books deep, and each one brings together 12 to 15 authors sharing their perspectives on a single theme. It's memoir-style storytelling, but collaborative, inclusive, and built around the idea that multiple voices on one subject are far richer than one. The current book, The Power of Self-Belief, features fifteen contributors from across the globe, and the next book, The Infinite Power Within, is already in the works.

What struck me most about John's story is where it started. He was illiterate until he was nine or ten years old. Then a teacher noticed something. A scratch-and-sniff sticker, a phone call to his mum, and some after-school tutoring later, he was reading his own stories aloud after school assembly. Decades on, he's published over 45 books and created an award-winning documentary featuring some of the most recognised voices in the personal development world 😊. The thread running through all of it is lived wisdom, and the belief that sharing your real experience matters more than most people realise.

In this episode, we explore:

➤ The two signs you have a story worth sharing, and how to know if contributing to an anthology is the right move for you

➤ What makes the Journey of Riches model different, from collaborative cover design to a genuinely family-like author experience

➤ How John built a dedicated readership that actually buys and reviews, and why he believes synchronicity plays as big a role as strategy

This episode is for anyone who's been told they should write a book, or who's quietly sitting on a story they haven't yet found the right way to share.

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What if the hardest part of a serious health diagnosis isn't the diagnosis itself, but the waiting, the uncertainty, and the overwhelming anxiety in between?

In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Louise Coyle, Hypnotherapist and EFT Practitioner, and founder of Changing Times Hypnotherapy.

Louise helps people manage stress and anxiety differently, giving them tools to feel calmer, challenge unhelpful thinking, and find their footing when the ground has shifted beneath them.

Louise came to this work through lived experience. Her daughter has faced cancer twice, and Louise spent years in hospital waiting rooms, on the end of phone appointments that turned out to carry news she wasn't emotionally prepared for, and watching other patients and families visibly drowning in anxiety without access to anything that could help.

She was using her own tools to stay grounded through all of it, and that's the moment her focus sharpened. She now works specifically with people going through a cancer diagnosis or serious health condition, and increasingly with their families too, who so often become invisible in that process while carrying their own enormous weight.

What I found so compelling about this conversation is how clearly Louise understands both the clinical environment and the emotional reality of sitting inside it. The NHS is designed to inform, not to calm.

Every consultation is legally required to outline what could go wrong. That's the system, and it's nobody's fault. But for a brain already in threat mode, it can send anxiety spiralling in ways that nobody in that building has time to address.

In this episode we explore:

➤ How EFT tapping and hypnotherapy work as a combined toolkit, with tapping as the immediate first aid when anxiety is spiking and hypnotherapy for the longer-term shift in thinking and imagination

➤ Why "just be positive" is one of the least helpful things you can say to someone facing a health crisis, and what a genuinely useful alternative actually looks like

➤ The hidden toll on families and carers, and why supporting the people around a diagnosis matters as much as supporting the person living through it

➤ Louise's Tension Release Breathing technique, and why learning one reliable way to relax is more powerful than trying everything at once

➤ The myth about hypnosis, and why the reality, which is about directing your own imagination rather than surrendering control of your mind, makes it one of the most accessible tools available

This episode is for anyone going through a cancer diagnosis, supporting someone who is, or simply recognising that anxiety has been running the show for too long without any tools to change it.

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What if overwhelm isn't a problem to be fixed, but a signal that something needs to be understood?

In this episode of The Soulful Catalyst, I'm joined by Lucy Atkinson, Life Coach and Hypnotherapist based in Hope in the Peak District. After 16 years in education supporting children and families, Lucy now combines coaching, hypnotherapy, and her Journey to Balance framework to help women move beyond overwhelm and create calmer, more grounded lives.

Lucy's work is rooted in a distinction that matters: hypnotherapy goes deep into the subconscious to resolve a presenting issue, whether that's anxiety, insomnia, or a persistent phobia. Coaching, on the other hand, is where the longer-term sustainable change happens.

The patterns of behaviour we've slipped into over years, the way we become whoever the people around us need us to be, the quiet accumulation of stress that eventually tips into overwhelm. That's where Lucy's particular blend of skills becomes genuinely powerful, especially for women navigating midlife, with all its hormonal shifts and mounting responsibilities.

What I love about her approach is that she's not handing anyone a five-step plan. She's helping women understand themselves more deeply, so that when the overwhelm comes back (and it will), they already know what to do with it.

In this episode we explore:

➤ The difference between coaching and hypnotherapy, and why knowing which tool to reach for first makes all the difference to lasting change

➤ Why overwhelmed women often make the worst clients for standard self-help, and what a different kind of support actually looks like in practice

➤ How small shifts create enormous ripples, from a client who went on to publish a book and head up a department, to women quietly transforming their relationships and boundaries years after working together

This episode is for any woman who has read all the self-help books, tried all the strategies, and still feels like she's failing. Sometimes what's needed isn't more information. It's a different kind of support.

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Website: lucyatkinson.org.uk
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