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In today’s episode, we’re joined by Maeve McAnulty, founder of The Metal Masseuse - a bold, inclusive wellness practice built for people who never felt at home in the traditional, beige world of wellness. With deep roots in aromatherapy and natural ingredients, Maeve specialises in women’s health, focusing on four essential pillars: sleep, energy, pain, and stress management.
Maeve’s mission is powerful and unapologetic: to create a wellness space where everyone fits in. With a love of heavy metal, and a grounded, no‑nonsense warmth, she brings a refreshing authenticity to an industry that often feels out of touch.
This episode is especially for women rising in midlife - women who are done seeking permission, approval or validation, and are ready to claim their next chapter on their own terms. It’s also for anyone craving a wellness space that feels real, inclusive, rebellious and deeply human.
You can connect with Maeve via Instagram and Facebook.
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UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand and podcast - it's a movement rooted in mind-body practices, soulful healing and radical self-love. We create spaces for transformation whether you're navigating menopause, sobriety, midlife shifts, finding yourself after a change in your life, seeking community or simply looking to add to your well-being toolkit.
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You can follow Marie's personal journey to becoming her authentic true self by reading and subscribing to Growing with Grace. Where she reflects on life's lessons, blessings and the seasons of change as she enters her unapologetic AF ERA.
Supporting the show with Buy Me a Coffee helps sustain this community-led space, a simple way to pour back in and fuel the powerful work of amplifying women’s voices in midlife.
DISCLAIMER: the content in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of this podcast. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional if you are experiencing difficulties with mental health.
In this episode, Marie reflects on turning 50 and the quiet reckoning this milestone has stirred - an inner shift that’s less about age and more about finally hearing herself clearly. She speaks openly about her relationship with her parents, how old dynamics have softened, and how this has opened a deeper well of self‑trust, acceptance and emotional clarity. What emerges is a conversation about identity, belonging and the quiet courage it takes to meet yourself honestly at midlife.
Marie explores how reaching 50 feels like a homecoming - an invitation to release inherited expectations, rewrite internal narratives and recognise the wisdom that comes from decades of lived experience. It’s a chapter marked by a steady reclamation of self. This episode holds space for the tenderness, the grief, the gratitude, the relief and the surprising freedom that comes with finally trusting yourself.
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If you’re navigating your own transition - whether it’s turning 50, entering a new season of life or simply feeling the pull toward deeper self‑understanding- this episode offers a grounded, gentle space to reflect. It’s not about reinventing yourself; it’s about recognising who you’ve quietly been becoming all along and stepping into that truth with peace, acknowledgement and a renewed sense of inner authority.
If you have resonated with any of the themes in this episode we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments. You can also some love by following, subscribing or rating the show.
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UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand - it’s a movement created to help women reconnect with their authentic selves and reclaim joy, especially during midlife transitions. It’s rooted in holistic mind-body practices and designed to support emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation in Staffordshire, UK.
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You can follow Marie's personal journey to becoming her authentic true self by reading and subscribing to Growing with Grace. Where she reflects on life's lessons, blessings and the seasons of change as she enters her unapologetic AF ERA.
If you would like to show your support for the Podcast and Marie’s work buy a virtual vegan pizza at Buy Me a Coffee. This will help to support Marie, so she can continue creating more content for you.
DISCLAIMER: the content in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of this podcast. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional if you are experiencing difficulties with mental health.
In today’s episode, we’re joined by Maxine Mallen, founder of Coming Home Coaching. Max’s work is shaped by both her professional training and her lived experience of rebuilding life after abuse and divorce. She brings a rare blend of psychological expertise and personal insight - supporting clients not just with theory, but with deep understanding, resilience, and hard‑won healing.
Trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Thinking Skills and Mindfulness, Max weaves structured therapeutic tools with compassion, grounding practices and practical strategies. Her approach helps people move through anxiety, low self‑esteem, relationship challenges, recovery and major life transitions with greater clarity, confidence and emotional stability.
For Max, healing isn’t about “fixing” yourself. It’s about recognising your strength, reclaiming your voice, and creating a life that feels safe, aligned and empowered. Her story is a powerful reminder that riding the waves of change is a process of rebuilding, reconnecting and choosing yourself.
This episode is especially for midlife women navigating major life transitions, healing from past relationships or seeking a more grounded, self‑led way forward.
You can contact Max via her website and social media channels:
Instagram: https://www.instragram.com/cominghomecoaching/
Facebook: Coming Home Coaching
Website: https://www.cominghomecaiching.net
If you have resonated with any of the themes in this episode we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments. You can also some love by following, subscribing or rating the show.
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UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand - it’s a movement created to help women reconnect with their authentic selves and reclaim joy, especially during midlife transitions. It’s rooted in holistic mind-body practices and designed to support emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation in Staffordshire, UK.
Find our next event here
You can follow Marie's personal journey to becoming her authentic true self by reading and subscribing to Growing with Grace. Where she reflects on life's lessons, blessings and the seasons of change as she enters her unapologetic AF ERA.
If you would like to show your support for the Podcast and Marie’s work buy a virtual vegan pizza at Buy Me a Coffee. This will help to support Marie, so she can continue creating more content for you.
DISCLAIMER: the content in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical/mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard professional medical/mental health advice or delay in seeking treatment because of this podcast. Always seek advice from qualified healthcare professionals if you are experiencing difficulties with mental health.
In this episode, Marie explores the quiet, complicated wayschildhood survival strategies follow us into adulthood - especially the deep‑rooted need to control everything around us. What begins as a way to create safety inan unpredictable world can become a lifelong pattern of micromanaging, hypervigilance, fixing and gripping tightly to anything that feels like it might slip.
We look at how control becomes a shield, how it shapes yourrelationships and decision‑making, and what it feels like to slowly relinquish control. It’s about learning to trust life again, piece by piece, and discovering that letting go isn’t the same as losing power - it’s reclaiming it. This conversation unpacks what it means to recognise and hold space for thatunderstanding from a place of peace and acknowledgement.
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If you’ve been labelled a control freak and ever wondered why you react so strongly to uncertainty, why you plan five steps ahead or why surrender makes you feel vulnerable, this episode offers a grounded, compassionate space to reflect. It’s not about blaming the past; it’s about understanding it so you can step into your next chapter with peace, acknowledgement and understanding.
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UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand - it’s a movement created to help women reconnect with their authentic selves and reclaim joy, especially during midlife transitions. It’s rooted in holistic mind-body practices and designed to support emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation in Staffordshire, UK.
Find our next event here
You can follow Marie's personal journey to becoming herauthentic true self by reading and subscribing to Growing with Grace. Where she reflects on life's lessons, blessings and the seasons of change as she enters her unapologetic AF ERA.
If you would like to show your support for the Podcast andMarie’s work buy a virtual vegan pizza at Buy Me a Coffee. This will help to support Marie, so she can continue creating more content for you.
DISCLAIMER: the content in this podcast is not intended tobe a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of this podcast. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional if you are experiencing difficulties with mental health.
In today’s episode, we’re talking to Chamiah Goulbourne, the inspiring creator behind Nourish Me Wild. Chamiah is a plant‑based chef who travels across the UK and Europe, nourishing women on health and wellbeing retreats with food rooted in the seasons, bold flavours and a deep belief in plants as medicine.
When she’s not cooking, Chamiah is out exploring the land - foraging for wild herbs and natural remedies that she transforms into skincare, art and herbal tinctures for her online shop. Her lifelong connection to nature shapes everything she creates.
Chamiah opens up about how shifting to a plant‑based diet supported her own health challenges, including stress, inflammation and allergies. Her story is a powerful reminder of how reconnecting with nature and embracing simple, nourishing food can support women - especially during midlife through hormonal changes, burnout and the desire to feel more connected.
You can contact Chamiah, via her website and social media channels:
Website: https://nourishmewild.myshopify.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nourishme.wild
If you have resonated with any of the themes in this episode please leave a comment, follow, subscribe or rate and share the episode.
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UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand - it’s a movement created to help women reconnect with their authentic selves and reclaim joy, especially during midlife transitions. It’s rooted in holistic mind-body practices and designed to support emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation in Staffordshire, UK.
Find our next event here
You can follow Marie's personal journey to becoming her authentic true self by reading and subscribing to Growing with Grace. Where she reflects on life's lessons, blessings and the seasons of change as she enters her unapologetic AF ERA.
If you would like to show your support for the Podcast and Marie’s work buy a virtual vegan pizza at Buy Me a Coffee. This will help to support Marie, so she can continue creating more content for you.
DISCLAIMER: the content in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of this podcast. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional if you are experiencing difficulties with mental health.
In this SHORT Series: Let's Talk Turning 50: The Midlife Reset Marie reflects on the intentional steps she’s taking as she celebrates turning 50. She shares how she’s creating a life that truly aligns with who she is today - and the future she wants to actively curate. It’s a story rooted in growth, resilience and embracing midlife with passion and purpose.
This episode is for you if you’re navigating midlife transitions, preparing for a new chapter or moving through shifts such as an empty nest, relationship changes or a career change.
If you have resonated with any of the themes in this episode we'd love to hear from thoughts in the comments.
Don't forget to Subscribe, Review and Share. Tag UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® whenever you post on social media so we can continue to share the love.
You can follow UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® Podcast on Instagram and YouTube
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UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand - it’s a movement rooted in holistic mind-body practices, soulful healing and radical self love, created to help women reconnect with their authentic selves and reclaim joy, especially during midlife transitions.
Find our next event here
You can follow Marie's personal journey to becoming her authentic true self by reading and subscribing to Growing with Grace. Where she reflects on life's lessons, blessings and the seasons of change as she enters her unapologetic AF ERA.
If you would like to show your support for the Podcast and Marie’s work buy a virtual vegan pizza at Buy Me a Coffee. This will help to support Marie, so she can continue creating more content for you.
DISCLAIMER: the content in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of this podcast. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional if you are experiencing difficulties with mental health.
In this episode we’re joined by Leanne Sumnall, Psychodynamic Counsellor, founder of Maze Counselling Services, co founder of Maze & Tonic CIC, and author of two powerful books supporting survivors of narcissistic abuse. Leanne has built a people first, ethical, trauma informed counselling service that’s helping individuals, couples, families and even fellow therapists across the UK.
In this powerful and grounding episode, listeners will gain a deeper understanding of what truly safe, person centred counselling looks like, why therapeutic fit matters, and how trauma informed practice can transform the healing journey. Leanne shares the story behind Maze’s people first ethos and offers practical insights and tools that anyone - whether seeking therapy, supporting a loved one or working in the helping professions - can take away and apply.
This episode is for anyone who wants to understand therapy more deeply, feel less alone in their struggles or learn what ethical, relational mental health support can look like in practice.
Leanne is also a published author, her books Navigating a Narcissist and Leaving a Narcissist: A Survivor’s Workbook & Journal, blend of clinical insight and lived experience supports survivors in rebuilding identity, safety, and self trust.
Finally, Leanne shares the heart behind Maze & Tonic CIC, the community interest company she co founded to make wellbeing support more accessible through funded and community led initiatives.
You can contact Leanne, via her website and social media channels:
www.facebook.com/mazecounsellingservices
www.instagram.com/mazecounselling
www.mazecounselling.com
www.linkedin.com/company/mazecounselling/
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UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand - it’s a movement created to help women reconnect with their authentic selves and reclaim joy, especially during midlife transitions. It’s rooted in holistic mind-body practices and designed to support emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation in Staffordshire, UK.
Find our next event here
You can follow Marie's personal journey to becoming her authentic true self by reading and subscribing to Growing with Grace. Where she reflects on life's lessons, blessings and the seasons of change as she enters her unapologetic AF ERA.
If you would like to show your support for the Podcast and Marie’s work buy a virtual vegan pizza at Buy Me a Coffee. This will help to support Marie, so she can continue creating more content for you.
DISCLAIMER: the content in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of this podcast. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional if you are experiencing difficulties with mental health.
In this episode, Marie's is talking to Janine Scarff a sobriety coach who is helping women rethink their relationship with alcohol whether that means cutting down, taking a break or quitting altogether. With nearly seven years of sobriety under her belt, Janine brings not only professional insight but deep personal experience to her work. Her journey has been transformational and she’s passionate about breaking the stigma around alcohol struggles.
Beyond her coaching work, Janine is a home-educating mum to a teenager, step mum to three boys and founder of a home-ed cooking club. She’s also a lover of gardening, spreadsheets, and cake - so yes, we cover a lot of ground!This episode is a heartfelt, honest and hopeful look at what it means to choose a different path with alcohol - and how that choice can ripple out into every part of life.
You can contact Janine, via her website and social media channels:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SoberCuriousCoastal
Website: www.sobercuriouscoastal.co.uk
Insta: www.instagram.com/sober_curious_coastal/
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UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand - it’s a movement created to help women reconnect with their authentic selves and reclaim joy, especially during midlife transitions. It’s rooted in holistic mind-body practices and designed to support emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation in Staffordshire, UK. Find your next event here
You can follow Marie's personal journey to becoming her authentic true self by reading and subscribing to Growing with Grace. Where she reflects on life's lessons, blessings and the seasons of change as she enters her unapologetic AF ERA.
If you would like to show your support for the Podcast and Marie’s work you can buy a virtual vegan pizza at Buy Me a Coffee. This will help to support Marie, so she can continue creating more content for you.
DISCLAIMER: the content in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of this podcast. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional if you are experiencing difficulties with mental health or alcohol.
Trigger Warning: This episode discusses baby loss, including miscarriage and stillbirth. Please take care while listening.
In this deeply moving episode, Marie opens up about her experience as a bereaved grandparent following the heart-breaking loss of her granddaughter. With raw honesty and compassion, she reflects on the emotional toll of baby loss and the silence that often surrounds it. Marie also shares how Baby Loss Awareness Week offers a vital space for remembrance and community - shining a light on an unimaginable grief that many feel uncomfortable talking about.
The episode explores the broader context of pregnancy and infant loss where the statistics show that approximately 15 in every 100 pregnancies end in miscarriage and around 13 babies die shortly before, during or shortly after birth each day in the UK. These numbers highlight the urgent need for awareness, support and open conversation.
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UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand - it’s a movement created to help women reconnect with their authentic selves and reclaim joy, especially during midlife transitions. It’s rooted in holistic mind-body practices and designed to support emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation in Staffordshire, UK.
Find our next event here
You can follow Marie's personal journey to becoming her authentic true self by reading and subscribing to Growing with Grace. Where she reflects on life's lessons, blessings and the seasons of change as she enters her unapologetic AF ERA.
If you would like to show your support for the Podcast andMarie’s work buy a virtual vegan pizza at Buy Me a Coffee. This will help to support Marie, so she can continue creating more content for you.
DISCLAIMER: the content in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of this podcast. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional if you are experiencing difficulties with mental health.
In this episode Marie explores the liberating power of reclaiming your voice in midlife and to embrace life phases and transitions. From career changes to rediscovering personal passions, we dive into stories of how you can live boldly, unapologetically and on your own terms. Whether you're facing an empty nest, a new beginning or simply craving more, this episode is your reminder: life doesn’t stop, it evolves.
Whether you’re navigating an empty nest, a career change ora personal reinvention, this conversation is for you.
Tune in if you’re ready to:
💬 Say yes to what feels right - and no to what no longer fits
🌱 Grow through change, not just go through it
If you have resonated with any of the themes in this episode Subscribe, Review and Share. Tag UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® whenever you post on social media so we can continue to share the love.
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UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand - it’s a movement created to help women reconnect with their authentic selves and reclaim joy, especially during midlife transitions. It’s rooted in holistic mind-body practices and designed to support emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation in Staffordshire, UK. Find our next event here
You can follow Marie's personal journey to becoming herauthentic true self by reading and subscribing to Growing with Grace. Where she reflects on life's lessons, blessings and the seasons of change as she enters her unapologetic AF ERA.
If you would like to show your support for the Podcast andMarie’s work buy a virtual vegan pizza at Buy Me a Coffee. This will help to support Marie, so she can continue creating more content for you.
DISCLAIMER: the content in this podcast is not intended tobe a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of this podcast. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional if you are experiencing difficulties with mental health.
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