The Souls Pod

✨The host welcomes Julia Gavin, owner of the Liverpool Yoga Academy and a yoga resort in Goa, and they discuss Julia’s path from retail management and high school maths teaching to full-time yoga after discovering a teacher training in Patnem, Goa around 2012. Julia describes falling in love with Ashtanga, working for eight years running 200- and 300-hour trainings and yoga holidays, and how the physical practice supports stilling the mind, building discipline, and improving daily focus.

🌙They compare immersive three-week trainings in Goa with weekend trainings in Liverpool, and Julia explains how Liverpool teacher training began during lockdown. The conversation also covers yoga’s history, westernisation, community, chanting, ego and thought patterns, and upcoming Liverpool courses

🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

Chapters:
00:00 Meet Julia Gavin
01:14 From Teacher to Yogi
01:43 Goa Training Breakthrough
05:20 Yoga Then vs Now
05:51 Ashtanga Mindset
09:09 Discipline Off the Mat
13:06 Origins of Ashtanga
15:45 Yoga Goes West
19:55 India vs Liverpool Trainings
23:37 Central America Detour
28:19 Liverpool Training in Lockdown
29:15 Yoga Academy Begins
30:37 Never Too Late
31:21 Teacher Training Reality
32:58 Posture Labs Deep Dive
34:32 Mobility and Mindset
35:19 Thoughts and Detachment
39:45 Quiet Morning Tradition
42:05 Ashtanga Versus Modern Flow
44:12 Training Options and Goa
47:53 Workshops and Where to Find

✨ Claire and Nic welcome psychic medium and business psychic coach Katie Helliwell, who shares how she’s been gifted since childhood and now helps clients go beyond readings by seeing their “2.0” potential and practical pathways for growth. We discuss burnout, rushing, and how slowing down can reveal true soul purpose, shifting from “prove it” energy and scarcity into alignment, presence, and trust.

🌙 Katie explains surrender as stillness, acceptance, and boundaries, and suggests pausing when obstacles repeatedly appear, asking the body what it needs, and working with spirit guides through specific, purpose-led requests. The conversation covers money as neutral energy, intention-setting across businesses, seasons of change, home-life boundaries, and keeping loved ones’ presence close, with Katie advising that purpose can’t be found in chaos and may require resetting life first.


🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

Chapters:
00:00 Meet the Psychic Coach
01:05 Gifts Since Childhood
02:09 Seeing Your 2.0 Path
03:05 Rush Culture Burnout
05:41 Purpose Over Proving
09:02 What Surrender Means
11:04 Scarcity and Comparison
13:58 How to Actually Stop
18:50 Boss Girl Pressure
20:52 Wrong Industry Nudge
26:32 Money as Energy
29:14 Roulette Win Story
30:38 Desire Versus Desperation
30:59 Money Mindset Shift
32:19 Intentions In Business
34:26 Ask Your Guides Daily
35:26 Purpose Driven Success
36:21 Podcast Growth Surrender
39:13 Loved Ones As Guides
43:01 Kids And Spiritual Openness
46:21 Client Work Strip Back
50:09 Home Boundaries First
55:07 Healing Meets Aesthetics
56:33 Where To Find Katie

✨In this episode, Sarah Griffiths discusses functional medicine as a whole-body, root-cause approach that looks beyond basic nutrition to the gut microbiome, inflammation, organ function, and nutrient deficiencies before building a plan. The conversation covers how gut health can affect mood, sleep, skin, hormones, and chronic issues, and critiques overreliance on medications, unregulated supplements, influencer advice, and non-evidence-based testing.

🌙 Sarah explains her lab-accredited stool microbiome and blood-based food intolerance testing, the importance of scientific backing and practitioner support, and why generic elimination diets can be harmful without proper replacements. She shares examples involving eczema/TSW, antibiotics reducing beneficial bacteria, fasting and detox protocols, and emphasises simple, fiber-rich eating, full-fat choices over added sugar, and realistic consistency over perfection.

🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

00:00 Meet Sarah Griffiths
00:22 Functional Medicine Basics
01:43 Root Cause Over Pills
04:15 Mood Gut Connection
12:15 Testing Versus Guesswork
13:27 Lab Backed Pricing
17:42 Influencers And Misinformation
19:12 Pathogens Detox Protocols
22:40 Old School Eating
24:17 Simple Gut Friendly Diet
29:43 Oils Sugar And Full Fat
32:24 Personalised Plans
34:07 Client Support And Reports
34:53 Skinny Pens And Gut Damage
38:17 Bodybuilding And Starvation Lessons
39:09 Healing Timeline And 80 20 Rule
43:22 Food Intolerance Pitfalls
45:44 Fasting And Parasite Cleanses
48:30 Caffeine And Sugar Addictions
51:53 Late Night Cravings And Insulin
56:08 Collaboration And Influencer Drama
01:01:24 Online Trolling And Wrap Up

✨In this episode, Rachel Bertenshaw shares her lived experience of PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder) and explains why she created a peer-led PMDD community in the UK Northwest to address the lack of post-diagnostic support. She describes PMDD as a cyclical mood disorder and disability that can severely disrupt work, relationships, and daily functioning, often worsening from ovulation to menstruation, and details symptoms including rage, agitation, brain fog, overstimulation, swelling, bowel issues, heavy periods, and suicidal thoughts.

🌙Rachel discusses frequent misdiagnosis (e.g., bipolar disorder), underfunding and limited research in women’s health, possible sensitivity to hormone fluctuations, and links with ADHD. She outlines diagnostic tracking over three months and treatment options ranging from contraception and SSRIs to hysterectomy, and directs listeners to “PMDD Northwest” on Instagram for events and peer support.

🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

Chapters:
00:00 Meet Rachel
00:31 Building a Peer Support Community
01:22 What PMDD Really Is
02:19 Cycle Timing and Hormone Sensitivity
04:45 Years to Diagnosis Story
06:10 Symptoms Rage and Brain Fog
08:54 Awareness and Self Forgiveness
09:25 PMDD and ADHD Connection
10:37 Physical Symptoms and Genetics
13:20 Cyclical Living and Research Gaps
15:12 Coping Tools Diet and Acceptance
17:16 Women Misdiagnosed Historically
18:10 Cycles Perimenopause and ADHD
19:13 Work Life and Partner Support
22:06 Fertility Questions and Body Awareness
22:47 Diagnosis Tracking and Treatments
25:32 Suicidality and Monthly Crisis
26:39 Young Girls and Mental Health Services
27:48 Diet Hormones and Social Inequality
30:36 Community Support and Finding Help
32:40 How to Reach Out and Final Thanks

✨ This episode we interview Phoebe Greenacre, a Bali-based somatic therapist and nervous system coach, about her path from 10 years in corporate marketing and repeated burnout to yoga teaching, entrepreneurship, and supporting women (especially mothers) with nervous system regulation and generational trauma healing. We discuss grief after losing a parent, how it reshapes identity, and how grief can ebb and flow through everyday moments, alongside the added complexity of reparenting while parenting.

🌙Phoebe explains somatics as a bottom-up mind body approach that locates emotions as sensations in the body, contrasts it with talk therapy, and describes how layered, unprocessed emotions can surface as anger or anxiety. She shares practical strategies like scheduling rest first, “micro-mum moments,” and using yin yoga and conscious connected breathwork to access deeper release, including how yin targets fascia and meridians linked to emotions.

🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

Chapters:
00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro
00:58 Phoebe’s Burnout to Bali Story
01:39 Motherhood and Generational Healing
02:49 Personal Grief and Identity Shift
08:00 What Somatic Therapy Means
10:06 Layers of Emotion in the Body
14:06 Breathwork and Emotional Release
15:42 Business Burnout and Micro Rest
18:10 Yin Yoga and Daily Self Care
19:19 Self Love Isn’t Selfish
20:07 Breaking Family Patterns
21:32 Layered Grief and Rewiring
22:14 Tools for Emotional Awareness
23:01 Letting Grief Be Messy
23:59 Helping Someone Start
25:35 Talking About Death Openly
28:06 Yin Yoga Explained
33:37 Retreats Chakras and Meridians
35:44 Stillness Introspection and Journaling
37:50 Where to Find Phoebe

✨ In this episode, we interview Vadim, a board-certified psychologist and founder of Neuro Wave Therapy, about his background in body-based healing and how his method uses light touch to activate sensations, reflexes, shaking, and emotional release.

🌙Vadim explains that these “vibrations” can reveal body-held memories connected to past experiences, sometimes expressed as crying, pleasure, or orgasmic-like waves, and compares aspects of his work to Kundalini activation and tantra while emphasizing intentional therapeutic guidance and personal energetic independence. He discusses energy centers/chakras (including a three-center Tao framing), how trauma can create numbness or stiffness, and how retreats and sessions aim to help clients reconnect with body signals to make clearer life decisions.

🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

Chapters:
00:00 Meet Vadim
00:48 Origin Story Neuro Wave
04:50 Energy Shaking Explained
07:37 Trauma Or Pleasure Waves
10:17 Tantra Versus Neuro Wave
13:45 Sexuality And Vulnerability
16:45 Retreat Process And Reconnection
19:40 Kundalini Compared
22:10 Independence And Boundaries
24:55 Chakras And Energy Centers
27:48 Where To Find VA Boza
29:46 Final Thanks And Goodbye

✨ In this episode, we interview Sarah Allan, founder of Mindful Parent Club, about supporting children’s mental health by focusing first on the parent’s emotional regulation, self-awareness, stress response, and attachment story. Sarah explains that there is no single “right” way to parent, warns against information overload and stigma around parenting support, and shares that the strongest protective factor for lifelong wellbeing is the quality of the early parent-child relationship; she notes UK stats that 1 in 6 children are diagnosed with a mental health difficulty.

🌙 We discuss co-sleeping as co-regulation, developmental differences (including bedwetting), behavior as communication and lagging skills rather than “naughtiness,” why children aren’t truly manipulative due to brain development, teen behaviour and “connect before correct,” boundaries versus permissiveness, “spoiled” labels, screens and online safety, and Sarah’s three tips: start with regulating yourself, lead with connection, and prioritise regulation for both parent and child.

🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

Chapters:
00:00 Meet Sarah Allan
00:37 Mindful Parent Club Approach
02:48 Mental Health Info Overload
03:40 Attachment Protects Kids
05:42 Normalizing Parent Support
06:45 Co-Sleeping And Regulation
08:54 Developmental Milestones Myths
10:03 Behavior As Communication
12:30 Stop Crying And Triggers
13:47 Manipulation And Brain Development
16:36 Early Attachment Ruptures
20:19 Teens School Behavior
22:50 Connect Before Correct
27:30 Kids Mirror Our Trauma
29:28 Safe Not Always Happy
29:53 Holding Firm Boundaries
31:04 Gentle Parenting Myths
32:33 What Creates Spoiled Kids
33:48 Guilt And Buying Love
35:22 Values Based Boundaries
37:27 Screen Time Reality Check
42:05 Online Safety And Grooming
42:48 Finding Joy In Parenting
46:14 Staying Strong With Limits
47:15 Parenting Coaching Foundations
49:14 Good Cop Bad Cop Dynamics
51:06 Three Takeaway Tips
53:26 Where To Find Sarah

✨ In this episode, we welcome Jonathan Robinson, a board-certified hypnotherapy practitioner specialising in past life regression, to discuss how hypnosis works, how it differs from stage hypnosis, and how entering theta brainwave states can support healing, visualization, and behavior change.

🌙They unpack Claire’s recent online session, exploring childhood regression, recurring snake dreams and phobias, and vivid imagery of past-life scenes including medieval London, holistic healing practices, persecution, and throat/voice clearing. Jonathan explains “root cause” spiritual healing, how fears and trauma can carry over, why children may recall early memories or past lives, and what déjà vu can signify. The conversation also covers performance visualization in sports, a brief guided lemon suggestibility exercise, and where to find Jonathan’s sessions, trainings, and upcoming app.

🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

Chapters:
00:00 Meet Jonathan Robinson
00:54 What Past Life Regression Is
02:35 From Skeptic to Practitioner
04:46 How Hypnosis Works
07:43 Snake Past Life Story
10:26 Root Cause Healing
14:13 Deja Vu and Signs
17:29 Kids Theta and Memories
23:51 Beyond Trauma Uses
26:07 Sessions and Higher Self
32:02 Claire’s Past Life Visions
35:33 Two Lives in One Session
41:39 Meditation Emotional Roots
43:21 Hypnosis for Performance
48:30 Lemon Suggestibility Test
50:49 Where to Find Jonathan
53:49 Conclusion

✨Nic and Claire catch up on the past few months of growth since changing studios, rebranding, and leaning into a more controversial niche, which boosted engagement and followers but also brought trolling and the stress of losing their social media page before recovering it through legal letters.

🌙 We reflect on how recent guests and evidence-based discussions have helped them implement mindset, self-awareness, structure, and holistic practices in their own lives, including exploring ADHD traits, abundance as a feeling, discipline as self-love, and focusing on the journey rather than a fixed destination. They discuss breaking habits, avoiding comparison, curating environments, using free tools like podcasts, libraries, and ChatGPT, and balancing professionalism with spirituality, while sharing excitement about upcoming guests, including a past-life regression practitioner and growing interest from international contacts.

🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

Chapters:
00:00 Catch Up And New Direction
02:40 Guests To Real Life Change
03:38 Self Awareness And Growth
06:22 Evidence Based Spirituality
08:21 Success Leaves Clues
10:38 Discipline As Self Love
14:26 Social Media Trolls And Tragedy
19:27 Hummingbird Mindset And Purpose
21:24 Numerology And Alignment
25:20 Abundance And Podcast Origins
27:15 Press Send Fear
32:13 Enjoy the Journey
34:47 Control Yourself Only
37:30 Free Tools to Grow
39:27 ADHD Talk Backlash
45:06 Spirituality Meets Science
47:42 Next Guests and Goodbye

✨ In this episode, we welcome Tom Blackledge, a former MMA fighter and founder of Fighter Blueprint Academy, to discuss his journey from martial arts to becoming an author and personal coach. Tom delves into his exploration of stoicism, a Greco-Roman philosophy that has deeply influenced his life and coaching methods.

🌙 This episode covers Tom's approach to using social media positively, the importance of mindset during challenging times like COVID-19, and techniques for mental strength and resilience, including fasting and goal setting. Tom also introduces his new books aimed at instilling gratitude and personal growth in children. Tune in for insights on overcoming life's struggles, developing mental fortitude, and living in the present moment.

🎧 About The Souls Podcast
The Souls Podcast is a space for deep conversations on spirituality, healing, consciousness, manifestation, and personal growth — hosted by Claire and Nic.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Tom Blackledge
01:07 The Power of Social Media
02:03 Discovering Stoicism
04:30 Applying Stoicism in Life
08:00 Mental Health and Social Media
13:02 The Importance of Gratitude and Journaling
19:45 The Power of Gratitude
20:09 The Importance of Writing Gratitudes
21:47 Creating a Gratitude Habit
23:19 Living in the Present Moment
24:57 Understanding Control and Letting Go
30:28 Teaching Gratitude to Children
32:55 Dealing with Negativity and Vulnerability
34:40 Conclusion and Where to Find More