What if one radical choice to heal rewired your life completely?

Joining me this week is nutritionist, author and functional medicine practitioner Daniel O'Shaughnessy. Daniel has been doing something which many of us might have curiously come across, but haven't pulled the plug to try. He has been expanding his healing approach to include psychedelics and plant medicine.

Daniel grew up overcoming bullying, and as a surviver of childhood sexual abuse. As an adult, deep-rooted feelings of shame seeped out through steroid use, partying and an unhealthy pursuit of "perfection" fulled by the competitiveness of the queer scene.

At breaking point, he made a decision that changed everything – to face trauma head‑on through psychedelics.

We get into:

✨ Body dysmorphia and shame in the gay community

✨ Anabolic steroids, partying and the pressure to look “perfect”

✨ When talking therapy hits its limits for chronic overthinkers

✨ How psychedelics and plant medicine became a portal in his healing

✨ The realities of using psychedelics for trauma, not just a “quick fix”

This is a story of deciding to step into discomfort, of choosing to move toward healing rather than more destruction and using every tool available to change deep rooted issues.

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What if being ‘too much’ was never the problem - you were just with people who couldn’t hold you?

This week I’m joined by the stunning, vivacious and straight‑up hilarious Jackie Adedeji– the broadcaster and girls’ girl from Instagram known for her unapologetic empowerment and gentle roasting of her “older middle‑class white man” husband.

We talk about the one decision in her twenties that changed everything in her thirties: starting therapy. Not as a quick fix, but as the slow, uncomfortable work that reshaped her self‑worth just enough that when she met her husband, she was able to give him a chance at something serious.

This is about the complexity of how self-esteem might show up and a story to decide to follow love even when it shows up in a package you did not expect to find.

We get into...

✨ Feeling publicly confident but privately feeling shame that she was "too much"

✨ The truth of therapy as a turning point – and not a quick fix

✨ Ditching dating and situationships for a deep sense of self‑respect

✨  The honest dynamics of an age-gap relationship which people often want to shy away from

✨  What it's like to be living with the knowledge you'll likely end up a window much earlier than most

If your on the brink of booking that therapy sesh, or maybe love just showed up in a package you did not expect and your nervous, then girl, TAP IN.

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Welcome to Decision Season dramatic music plays

I joke, this won't be scary, I promise.

This season we dig into the choices that have shaped us so far, the ones we still wonder if we got right, and the ones we’re wrestling with right now.

In this episode, I’m getting into a truth we all know but might be avoiding: the decisions are coming thick and fast in our thirties. It feels daunting, it can feel intense, and we often judge ourselves for not knowing it all yet.

We cover career, kids, where to live, and what to do when you’re overwhelmed by too many options. It might feel safer to shove this to the back of our minds, but whilst we’re not running out of time, time is moving.

So what would happen if we stopped fearing the decisions and started embracing the relief that comes with making them?

In this episode I get into:

✨ Why we need to sound the alarm on the big decisions of our thirties

✨ The sneaky illusion of “keeping our options open”

✨ How deciding which doors to close can actually set life in motion

✨ Why decisions aren’t dead ends, they’re next steps

✨ A simple exercise to help you find more clarity

If we choose to face the question marks actively, we might just create the best decade yet, so let’s get into it.

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"I love you, but I'm exhausted" is a line that's been whispered at 2am, 2pm, 10pm, and every hour in between to our big blue-eyed, five-month-old baby.

Last time we caught up on baby life, I was three weeks postpartum and riffing mainly on the birth. Now, we're nearly five months in and emerging from the haze of the tiny baby stage. A new shape of me, my life, and my identity is starting to form, so it's time for an honest catch-up.

In this episode, I'm sharing a real, unfiltered debrief of the first five months of motherhood as a first-time mum, including:

✨ How I ACTUALLY feel now we're five months postpartum

✨ The things that have surprised me most about becoming a mum

✨ The many contradictions of motherhood and the postpartum experience

✨ What it's like to experience matrescence and a rewired "mum brain"

✨ The weird intrusive thoughts no one talks about

✨ Why motherhood is making me want to be vegan again (I know... odd connection, right?)

If you're contemplating starting a family, already in the thick of new motherhood, navigating the newborn phase, or simply want to understand someone you care about who's going through it, this one's for you.

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Why are we suddenly craving the "soft life"?

You might know this term from polished reels of flawless women skipping out of pilates at 11am and into a matcha café, but the soft life philosophy has a much richer origin. It started with women in Nigeria reclaiming their time and energy, pushing back against hustle culture and the expectation to always grind, give, and self-sacrifice.

Now more than ever, as the pressures of our thirties start to build, more of us are craving a dose of slow living. And with the dumpster fire of an economy we're trying to navigate, it's not any surprise.

In this episode we get into:

🧘‍♀️ What the soft life philosophy actually means (and it's forgotten roots)

🧘‍♀️ How the broken promise of success has left millennials burnt out and wanting to clock out

🧘‍♀️ The quiet quitting approach

🧘‍♀️ The watch out: when soft life tips into financial dependence

🧘‍♀️ How to bring more slow living and nervous system regulation into the life you already have

If you're one "I hope this finds you well" email away from lying motionless in a forest for a few days, then stick around.

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What if the version of “working on yourself” you’ve been sold is actually pulling you further away from other people?

In this solo episode, I’m unpacking the strange relationship between self-improvement and selfishness, and the point where becoming your “best self” can turn into endless optimisation, isolation, and feeling like who you are right now is never enough.

I get into how self-improvement shifted from something that happened naturally through life and connection… into a billion-pound marketplace selling us better skin, better habits, better nervous systems, better mornings, better relationships and somehow still leaving us exhausted.

We’re talking:

✨ Why women are under more pressure than ever to optimise themselves

✨ How beauty, wellness and even spirituality became products to consume

✨ Whether “working on yourself” can become an easy scapegoat away from real connection

✨ And why the massive piece missing in self-improvement is connection

If you’ve ever felt stuck between wanting to grow and wanting to just be enough already, this one’s for you.

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Why does everything feel like it’s your fault… even when it isn’t?



In this solo episode, I’m unpacking guilt - that constant, low-level hum that seems to follow women everywhere. From work to relationships, money to motherhood, friendships to finances… why does everything feel like it’s somehow our responsibility?

I get into the psychology behind why women experience guilt more frequently and more intensely than men - and how both nature and nurture conspire to keep us stuck in these guilt spirals.

We're talking:

✨ Rational vs irrational guilt > and how to tell which one you’re feeling

✨ Why women feel responsible for other people’s emotions (and how this is costing you)

✨ How guilt becomes a hidden decision-making tool that keeps you small

✨ Practical ways to stop carrying guilt which isn’t yours

Because if you’re making decisions just to avoid guilt… there’s a good chance you’re not actually choosing the life you want.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re constantly doing something wrong (even when you’re not), this one’s for you.

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What if your “self-awareness” is just control in disguise? 👀

I hate to call you out like that… but I’m also calling out myself.

In this episode, I unpack something that’s been sitting uncomfortably with me:

I can explain my feelings perfectly… but I don’t always feel them.

I dive into the sneaky coping mechanism of intellectualising emotions — how we analyse, rationalise, and “do the work”… without ever actually letting the feeling hit our body. And why so many of us (especially high-functioning, self-aware women) are stuck in this loop.

I’m riffing on:

✨ Why emotions have started to feel inconvenient (and what that’s doing to us)

✨ How overthinking shows up - from productivity to humour to therapy-speak

✨ What happens when feelings don’t get released (they don’t just disappear)

✨ How to get out of your head and actually feel your emotions

I also share a pretty raw personal shift 😅 the moment something cracked open for me, and I actually felt something fully for the first time in years.

Because the breakthrough in your 30s isn’t becoming more self-aware…it’s learning how to stop controlling your emotions, and actually let them move through you.

If you’re hyper self-aware but weirdly disconnected… this one’s for you.

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What if it’s not dating that’s broken… but how we’re showing up in it?

Stick with me for this....

I personally know so many amazing, sucessful, loving, and beautiful women who want to find a partner but are struggling in the dating world, so what's going on?

In this episode, I'm joined by dating and confidence coach Laura Nagiel to get into how we can break the cycle of unsuccessful dating and find someone who is worth partnering up with.

Laura's approach is rooted in awareness of what you want, direct honesty on who you need to become and never lowering your standard.

We're getting into...

✨ The difference between confidence vs self-love and how it shows up in dating

✨ A new approach to avoid dating burn out

✨ Is "being realistic" a myth or a need?

✨ How we might be both the victims AND the cause of toxic dating culture

✨ The biggest mistake many woman are making in dating

If you’ve ever felt like you’ve built a great life… but love is the one thing not clicking, this one's for you.

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What if the problem isn’t your body… it’s the fact you’ve been thinking about it for 30 years straight?

This week, I’m getting into body image, and why, somehow, it feels more confusing now than it ever did before.

Because here’s the thing… I've generally had a pretty good relationship with my body. Then I hit 30, then at 33 had a baby and suddenly it all feels a bit weirder.

In this episode I go all the way back — childhood, teenage years, my time modelling, the “health” phase that tipped into obsession — to unpack how our body image is actually built over time.

We're getting into...

✨ The mental reframes I'm trying to accept my body post-baby.

✨ The return of skinny culture (and why it’s messing with all of us)

✨ When even your own past self becomes the comparison

✨ The subtle ways we’re taught our value is in how we look

✨ Actionable ways to improve your body image

If you’ve ever felt like you’re simultaneously trying to accept your body and change it at the same time…

this one’s for you.

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