Wowza, it’s been quite a year! This week's episode is a solo with Hannah, in which she talks through some things she learnt over the last year. It’s been a big year of self discovery. Ultimately, we are all in charge of our own life and taking action is the main ingredient to achieving our goals and living out our dream life. Hannah talks through some valuable, painful, joyous, compassionate and wise lessons she has learnt; some the hard way and some with ease. Hopefully, it gives you some things to think about, reflect on and move forward into the next year with a positive mindset and clarity on how we can make each day more enjoyable. We cannot control what anyone else does or says, but we do have control over how we choose to internalise it. Nobody is you, and that is your power. Happy New Year! Hope it's a good one.

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Imagine If It All Worked Out?

This week Hannah is joined by shining star Nick Ede. Nick is OVERFLOWING with positive vibes, so much so, he claims he was ‘born positive’. Nick talks through his story, starting from when he lost his mum at age 23. It spurred him to start his charity ‘Style for Stroke’ and knock on celebs' doors in order to throw some epic parties. Hannah manages to ‘convince’ Nick that manifesting is in fact real, because the biggest part is taking the action towards what you want. Nick details how he landed his big break, as a judge on project catwalk, effortlessly, just by being himself. Hannah and Nick discuss how adversity is an opportunity to grow and take that next step towards your biggest dreams, if you let it be. Nick talks about his ‘Revolution of Kindness’ and how you can still people to f off and be kind. Hannah laughs A LOT in this episode, and it's a reminder that authenticity, laughter and love conquer all. Whatever you do, turn it into love. Oh and Hannah and Nick happened to both wear jumpers with Love quotes on them. They manifested it, you might say. 

You can find Nick at Nick Ede on Instagram 

His charity style for stroke here 

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Nicks book recommendation: The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey and Michaela Angela Davis

*Trigger warning - Disordered Eating*

Hannah is joined by shining star 1rebel fitness trainer Martha. In this episode, Martha opens up about her personal experience with disordered eating and how it affected her life in multiple ways. In 2022 the NHS published that they were treating a record number of young people with eating disorders, so it really is an important topic to discuss and find ways to help wherever possible. Martha explains her journey from musical theatre into the fitness realm. She explains the feelings she had, how she saw herself and how she reached out for help to start her recovery process. Hannah asks Martha a range of questions around how her family and friends reached out to her to discuss her weight loss and for Martha’s advice for anyone who has a friend or family member struggling with an eating disorder, and what might be a caring way to approach it. Martha details how therapy helped her work on the feelings of control internally that contributed to her weight loss, and how she worked with professional Renee McGregor to start her recovery process. Martha highlights that it is not a linear journey to recovery and that taking whatever small steps you can, is a good place to start. This episode highlights how eating disorders can be highly complex. It was an open, honest and highly informative discussion. Martha states that she is always happy for anyone to reach out to her if they want someone to talk to. Thank you to Martha for being so open.

This week, Hannah is joined by author, podcaster and astrologer, Jordanna Levin. Hannah was super stoked by this chat as she is such a fan of one of Jordanna’s books - Make it Happen. Jordanna has built a reputation for taking ‘big’ topics and making them relatable, digestible and frankly very entertaining. Hannah asks Jordanna to explain some of the concepts in her book, which is all about manifesting and creating the life you really desire - through the manifestation equation, but by also not ignoring the signs that you are on an unaligned path. She details how we are all ‘energy’, and vibrate on a certain frequency, which then attracts similar things or people into our life who carry that same frequency. Basically, you want your frequency to be HIGH. Jordanna then explains some astrological concepts and why we don’t all relate to our ‘star sign’; it's because we actually have 3 big signs - our sun sign, rising sign and moon sign, which relate to our qualities, how we express ourselves externally and our internal world of emotions. Hannah explains how learning about the 3 had really blown her mind earlier in the year and how she relates mostly to her rising and moon signs, not her ‘sun/star’ sign. Jordanna highlights how self awareness is the key to a happy life. Its an uplifting and joyous chat.

This week's episode is a solo finance chat with Hannah. Having worked in the financial markets for over 10 years, Hannah has built up a plethora of knowledge around what they are, what they do, and how they affect the average megababe on the street. Finance can feel like a whole other language at times and Hannah thinks it is important for all of us, especially women, to have a basic understanding of some of the concepts that affect us in daily life. Hannah tries her best to keep it simple and explains the basics of inflation and why it became so high, the shocks to the economy that caused the cost of living crisis, basics around the ‘markets’ and shares her experience and opinion on some options for where and how to save money. Ultimately though, in classic Hannah fashion, she highlights how at the end of the day, the best investment you can ever make, is in yourself. 

Please feel free to DM the Wholeness with Hannah instagram if you have any questions. 

Book Reco: Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis

Film Reco: The Big Short (Hello Ryan Gosling) 
You can follow the podcast at @wholenesswithhannah on Instagram or email the podcast at [email protected].

*Trigger warning - Sexual Assault and Trauma*

@annaliehowling on instagram 

Annalie Howling on youtube 

Website www.annaliehowling.com 

Book Recommendations: 

The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer

Hannah is joined by theatre maker, director and dramaturg Tania. The conversation starts discussing how Tania switched course from medicine to pursue her dreams of musical theatre and how that was deemed very ‘unconventional’ in her family. Tania details how hard it was moving countries and taking on a different culture, and at times feeling like an outsider. Hannah and Tania discuss how discomfort can often lead you to build your character and confidence, even though at the time it's hard. Tania explains her experience around a 5 day silent meditation retreat and what she learned from it. The conversation then dives into how Tania explored her sexuality when she realised she actually liked women as well as men, and the differences she found whilst dating both. It’s a delightful and inspiring conversation, and makes you realise that we really only regret the risks we didn’t take. 

You can find Tania at:

@teevedz on instagram

You can follow the podcast at @wholenesswithhannah on Instagram or email the podcast at [email protected].

Hannah is joined by two wonderful guests this week, actress Laura Pradelska, and hypnotherapist Anna Lancaster. Laura opens up and shares how she has struggled with sleep her whole life. She highlights the struggles it has caused her and how it led her to creating her new sleep app ‘Stil’. Laura wants to help as many people as possible improve their sleep and in turn, their mental and physical health. Anna takes us into the fundamentals of sleep, and why it is so important that we are able to get between 7-9 hours sleep a night. Hannah highlights her relationship with sleep, and how much she has always needed a lot of it; she now just owns that that is how her body works, rather than feeling ‘weak’ for needing a lot of rest. It is a wonderful, vulnerable and scientific chat, which concludes with how actually, self love can be brought back in here, and perhaps giving ‘radical’ self love a try might just change your life!

You can find Laura at:

@lpradelska on instagram 

Stil App:

@stillappbylaurapradelska on instagram and on the app store at https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/stil-for-sleep/id6444453857

Anna: 

 @annalancastertherapy on Instagram

https://www.annalancastertherapy.com/

You can follow the podcast at @wholenesswithhannah on Instagram or email the podcast at [email protected].