Helen and Pierre met through extreme sports but have since bonded over their joint passions of telling stories, filmmaking and their love of the sea. We soon learnt that Helen was connected to the fishing industry via her ancestry, whilst Pierre was more familiar with fishing in France and Canada.

Now currently living in Northumberland, they’ve dove deeper into the ocean, with their spears and cameras, to explore what lies beneath. Together they share their experiences of what this activity, be it for sport or necessity, conjures up in their physical and emotional being.

It’s a fascinating conversation which looks at why they do what they do. And what they’d like others to be inspired to follow and understand about the food they eat, where it comes from, and what’s available on our very own doorstep around the British Coastline.

A lot of the stuff you see on the line is quite raw, and you see the spear through the fish, the fish bleeding. It's quite horrific to look at without properly understanding it. But yeah as Pierre said earlier, it's really sustainable because you are only targeting exactly what you want to eat.

From their experiences, they’re creating film and artwork to tell the stories with this beautiful film Trigger Fish, as well as fish prints, developed with a Japanese methodology.

Their mission is clear

We’re here to turn the tide… spotlighting the beauty and bounty of our own waters through stories that reconnect us with the sea that surrounds us.

Thank you both for the open and unique conversation, and for sharing your passion for our natural environment.

For more information on Helen & Pierre and the work they do visit Tide to Table

Alex is a mountain goat, human powered adventurer, and galvaniser for those wishing to find themselves in the mountains.

Thank you to John and Caroline Tierney for leading Alex onto our pathway, to enable us to get under the skin of how a young man who’s faced bullying and prejudice for his physical conditions, has led him to lead others up into the mountain pathways for their own conquering.

because I finally found a path out of this.

I was able to change my whole narrative

Recently Alex, Founder of Mind Over Mountains, achieved 446. A challenge which saw him ride and run over 446 mountains in Wales and England, within 50 days to break a record, race funds for the charity and inspire others to get out in the rain and join him.

We spoke about all these challenges, both personal and professional, what drives him, what he’s looking to achieve, the why, and most importantly, what he’s learning about himself and life along the way.

We love his candid approach, not always easy when you don’t yet have your own answers, and for that reason, I loved the open conversation and exploration.

It's about trying to give people the tools and the confidence that they can go out on their own.

But often people come to us because they've lost confidence. They’ve not walked for years.

You’ll hear the balance between wanting to explore more in my questioning, and giving space for the stories and the experiences. Definitely a further conversation to be had, as Alex opens the door to more topics and emotions.

Thank you Alex, and we hope this provokes some emotions for you as you listen about the benefits of being outside whatever your age, and the very notion, that you can make a plan and achieve great things for yourself when you put your mind to it, and ‘trust the process’.

Here’s further details of Alex Staniforth, and of Mind Over Mountains. And please do let us know what you think, and maybe even, what it’s evoked in you?

We describe Eleanor as our Soulhub ‘oracle’. She has an incredible depth of knowledge, and intuitive sense. She is also highly skilled at weaving myths and stories into our every day experiences to help us make sense of how it all works.

Our conversation, of course, has flow at the heart of it, as we swing and sway through conversations of what she means by creativity, soul qualities, programming, quantum physics, conscious and unconscious patterns.

If you’re wondering any of the following, you will love this episode”

* What is ‘energy’ in therapeutic terms mean?

* Am I creative?

* How do I become more creative?

* How do I feel more alive again?

* What does creativity have to do with humanity?

* What is really going on in the world right now, from an energetic perspective?

People often think flow is always a good thing, a lovely thing.

It's all pastoral and lovely. It's like trees and nature. But it's not. It's just collective energy.

So it can be destructive as well.

Jump in, and enjoy the conversation, and if you have any questions, then please do leave them below.

To book onto one of her courses or workshops, or her wonderful Greek Retreat you can access them here at Eleanor O’Rourke. You can also buy any of her 4 books or read her regular downloads here on Substack at Fierce Love.

Trusting the flow of a conversation is like gold for me. Being given the permission to allow it to unfold organically, and simply see where the energy takes us, is sublime.

Each conversation we have on the Soulhubber’s Podcast, is, rightly, only ever a moment in time. A snippet of someone’s life. A shared moment between two people, which you get the privilege to overhear.

The more we do these podcasts, the more we unfold the true reflections of our souls.

Kalindi Jordan is a transformation therapist, sex coach and facilitator, who specialises in sexual healing, sacred intimacy and conscious connection for women and couples. Few women have the depth of transformational experience she holds. She also possesses a wonderful ability to uses her transcendence to help guide others within her work.

She’s authentic with her self and her being, most importantly, always open to learning more about the human condition.

In this very special episode, Kalindi shares her path through this healing work.. We talk about the power of presence in understanding self, and finding balance in the body. We also delve into her unique way of processing.

How does she deal with grief and healing?

“ It's not like we're going to get rid of pain in the human experience,

but I can be in relationship to painful emotions.

I can be in relationship to mental distress.

I can be in relationship with pain in my body.

And that's what healing is, it’s to be in relationship.”

5 years ago Kalindi had, what she would later discover was Alopecia Universalis, which emerged as the world went into lockdown. She lost her long bushy hair, and in fact her full body hair, which hasn’t returned.

She had to go deep, and ask herself…

“Can you find the beauty now?

You know, can you really, like…can you really fall in love with yourself now?

Even when your vanity, like, the vanity's been knocked.

You know, my reasonably good looking self, a part of that taken away.

Can you do it now?

Can you find the beauty?

What does it mean?

Oh, my God, so many layers of that.”

So if you're wondering how someone moves through this, and how they manage themselves and others around them, how they hold grief and embrace themselves, then please do listen.

If you’d like to find out more about Kalindi and her work visit her website - Kalindi Jordan.

If you’d like to join Pete Warnock and Kalindi’s Amrita Couples Tantra Programme in September 2025, you can receive a Soulhub discount via this link.

Off we go then….!

Stephen Kirk has so many more stories and depth to him, than this 50 minute podcast can convey.

To give you a flavour. He founded one of the first UK cable TV companies - Cable London. And then simultaneously, Broadsystem, which pioneered interactive services for newspapers and TV companies, which he sold to Rupert Murdoch. He’s also held many NED positions including the Shine Group and and Chairman of the Ink Factory. All aided by…

“I’m blessed with an ability to see the future and this gift enabled me to establish companies, with varying degrees of success, in technology”

His life is a continual stream of synchronicities, maybe because of his meditation practice, but also, what feels like an absence of fear of what could go wrong. He’s narrowly avoided death from colon cancer, saved by a witch (a story for another time), which led him on another path, this one to love, with his wife Luiza.

He’s trained as an Executive Coach and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Practitioner to help him better understand the needs of aspiring entrepreneurs and himself. He now works with individuals and businesses, whether as a Board Advisor or Coach.

His new book ‘Wild Card’ is based on fictional characters and any link to people or businesses is purely coincidental!!! It has now come to ‘market’ some 20 years sitting on his computer hard drive, as you’ll hear more about today.

I didn't want to write about my life and all the dramas in it and all that sort of stuff. What I wanted to do, however, was to piece together all the weird synchronicities that have happened during my business life and weave them into a story that had a middle, beginning and an end.

Stephen and Luiza (a fabulous chi-gong teacher) have been part of the Soulhub community, supporting and sharing all of our work together, so it’s with great pleasure to host this conversation with Stephen.

To order Stephen’s new book, you can buy it here….

The winding and interconnected story of Mark Michel, Musto jackets, Soulhub, Drake Passage, Antartica, and icebergs.

Carmen Rendell reminisces on the stories shared across continents and, now over a decade ago. Some stories should be shared further, and this is one of them. Not just because it highlights the change in our climate, or the remarkable work of Mark and the team in Antartica recording the sounds and images of the icebergs, but because of how the story is told by Mark, and how their experience and his talent transcends the air waves.

I wonder at what point we became so estranged from our relationship with this Earth.

You’re instantly transported to Australis, their vessel, and on the boat with Mark and the team.

Antarctica is a place not meant for humankind. colourful and often tragic history reflects this. It is not that we are unwelcome here, more that we are not, perhaps, natural.

In simple terms, it a beautiful tale, including how Carmen and Mark connected across the oceans, and still having yet to meet, brings you on board to relive how these Lincoln, Yoko and Ernest icebergs and their micro-environments end up projected onto the Auckland Museum.

Please do share and let us know what you felt as you listen to Mark’s story. We’d love to know what it evokes in you.

And if you wanted to purchase the 100 timeless soul stories, poems and artwork of the Soulhub Journal ‘The Collective’ then you can access it here.

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Carmen Rendell recorded a short back story ahead of her conversation with painter Sue Rapley, as their connection through Soulhub goes back to our Soulhub Journal No 3, and the web of unfolding felt worthy of good air time. It shows the magic of Soulhub and the beauty of serendipitous moments in not just Carmen and Sue’s life but all those touched by her artwork, the journal and Soulhub. And these are just the ones we know about.

Our entwining story, leads us up to the present day, as we create our Soulful Meadows Painting Retreat this May (17-18 May 2025).

What’s missing in the story is Sue’s raison d’etre. What led her to paint? What does she experience as she goes through her process, and for someone who spend decades estranged from her passion, how did she find her way back to it.

It’s a surprise story that took her back to art college, more than 30 years ago, and a squiggly path of many industries before she re-found the paintbrush. A supportive husband Dave, and a mentor who arrives just as the student was ready, meant that Sue’s love of the sea and desire to sit with her thoughts and creativity, finally found the space and canvas to be explored.

It's finding how you can create something that has real meaning and that's actually really coming from your heart and from your soul, really.

We hope you enjoy both spectrums, the introduction and then our podcast together.

For more information on Sue and her work, please do check out her website and instagram. And to access the brochure for our Soulful Meadows Painting Retreat click here. Please do share with others who might enjoy Sue’s story, or could be interested in our retreat this May.

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We go a little off the UK track, as we responded to the signs in front of us. Through our dear friend and Dance Al Fresco DJ Youssef Boutayeb, we were led to the work of CADFA, Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association led by Human Rights lawyer Nandita Dowson. Youssef is a super connector, who works deeply in his local borough, bridging many worlds across music, cultures and communities.

CADFA works in the UK to promote awareness about the human rights situation in Palestine. Starting in 2003 when people from the London borough of Camden made links with people in Abu Dis a town in the Jerusalem suburb. Within their core work, they organise exchange programmes with the young people of Jerusalem.

As a perfect connection to our ‘Why Dance?’ series with Andrew Cuerden, we explore with dance teacher Tamara, and her friend and colleague Sara (and at times translator) what dance means to their culture, how it infiltrates life, and right now amongst the rubble and war, what dance brings them on the ground in such a difficult time.

As Andrew talks into, this is not a political podcast. However as we’re all experiencing politics influences everything in all of our lives.

This podcast is a conversation between Andrew, Tamara and Sara and Human Rights Lawyer and CADFA CEO Nandita Dowson, who has enabled us a window of time in which we can meet and interview Tamara and Sara.

As we all, Carmen, Youssef and Andrew, sat through the recording of this episode, we felt extremely moved and touched by Tamara and Sara and their way of expressing all things culture, life and hope.

We don’t want to reduce their words to ours, or indeed paraphrase their emotions to diminish what you might feel as you listen to their stories.

For this reason, we just ask you to listen to this episode with curiosity about what life might be like for the women in Jerusalem and how dance changes our worlds.

Following the recording, we joined CADFA for a beautifully open dinner where we felt welcomed with open arms. A symbolism of the culture in itself. We left moved and emotional, as we went about our usual evening, feeling blessed to have met them all and privileged to hear their stories.

For more information on CADFA check them out here, and see how you might want to engage or support their work. For obvious reasons we haven’t used their surnames or images of Tamara and Sara but if you’d like to connect, then please do email CADFA.

After following her passion of drama, Jess Shaw studied drama at the University of East Anglia before a placement in Ghana changed her outlook on how we could use drama to benefit connection and communities.

In conversation with today’s host, Carmen Rendell, you’ll get beautiful insights into her own business, PACT (Play, Act, Create and Transform) Creative Training for 9 years which delivers play-based workshops for companies, schools and adult groups focused on staff wellbeing and team building around London and beyond.

It’s another fascinating and often undervalued aspect of our culture here in the West and our ability to play. To express ourselves in a silly or often child like way. Why is that? Well hold that thought and listen to our conversation as we explore our humanness and playfulness. And just to inspire you, here’s a snapshot of something which stood out for us in the conversation in relation to the work Jess does…

“Let the play do the work.

I think it’s the joyfulness. It’s accessing that humour and laughter. Sometimes I do a guided meditation afterwards to look at where we hold joy in the body. To remember it’s always there and accessible”

To find out more about Jess and her work, check our PACT Creative Training. or you can follow her on Insta at PACT Creative

How would you cope with a death threat on your family?

And as a consequence you might move houses, careers and even countries to find safety. As Kenny did. And yet safety is also an internal emotional feeling that has to be witnessed, held and expressed to make sense and find a home.

Kenny Mammarella D-Cruz returns to the Soulhubbers Podcast, this time with Carmen Rendell to share his personal journey of escaping to refugee camps in Italy and the UK, away from Idi Amin’s dictatorship of Uganda and finally to the remote Welsh town of Fishguard.

He talks into how, as a 60 year old, the stories he puts to feelings still spook him. How he falls apart and comes together again and again. He shares intimate details of how he’s finding tools through his life, such as breathing and deeper self understanding to let go of his unhealthy mental and physical coping mechanisms.

We talk about suicide, feeling feelings and trauma, and how he gets to his golden shadow, via the dark shadow.

Kenny very much follows in the community sharing as his father did when he first arrived in the UK.

He brought hockey here, he took it to school, so now it's a big deal in the area. He used to play hockey for Uganda. He started the Friendship Circle for older and lonely people. I think that was 30 years ago. He started a charity. He started and was the first Goan Mayor in the UK, and in the year, the bicentenary of the last invasion of Britain, which was our town.

It’s a beautifully insightful sharing of how ‘doing the work’ can change you and enables you to go on to work and support others go through their life challenges, trauma and dark nights of the soul.

Click here to find out more about MenSpeak and AllGenderSpeak Groups that Kenny and other trained facilitator’s hold over Christmas period and throughout the year. They’re held online on a daily basis including Christmas Day and New Years Day.

Please share this episode with others who you know might benefit or simply enjoy hearing real life stories and how we find our way through challenging times.