In this episode, I speak with Trista Guertin, a former humanitarian aid worker turned life coach. With assignments in crisis zones like Angola, Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon, Trista shares her remarkable journey from global relief work and traveller to some 78 countries, to empowering midlife women through coaching. Her story is a testament to resilience, reinvention, and redefining what “normal” truly means.

Key Takeaways:

• You’re not broken – Most women think they’re doing life “wrong”; Trista reminds us that’s not true.
• Regret is a choice – You don’t need to carry it. Own your decisions and move forward.
• You have more power than you think – Even in crisis, you can shift your perspective.
• Coaching isn’t just for business – It’s a transformative tool for everyday life.
• Processing emotions is key – Suppressing feelings leads to stress; letting them pass sets you free.
• Midlife is just the beginning – Reinvention, excitement, and growth are still ahead.
• From burnout to boundaries Trista's journey shows why self-care is non-negotiable.

About:  Trista Guertin is a master coach dedicated to empowering women in midlife to break free from feeling stuck and overwhelmed. With a remarkable background spanning over 20 years of leadership experience, she brings a unique perspective shaped by her work as a humanitarian aid worker across 78 countries, including challenging regions like Angola, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Iraq, and Lebanon. As the creator of the UNSTUCK coaching program, Trista has developed a transformative 12-week journey that guides women to rebuild their self-relationship, unlock their potential, and create meaningful, sustainable life changes. 

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In today’s episode, I speak with massage therapist, coach, and survivor Cari Rickabaugh. Cari's story begins in a home filled with fear, emotional manipulation, and a secret she wouldn’t uncover for over three decades. We explore how trauma can shape our inner voice, the limits of traditional therapy, and how one intuitive call from a friend led her to a life-changing coach. Cari speaks candidly about her healing journey—from uncovering childhood abuse, to rebuilding her sense of self, to now coaching others with the same compassion and depth that saved her life.

Key Takeaways

• Childhood trauma runs deep.
• You can't heal what you don't remember, and it can shape your life unknowingly.
• Therapy isn’t one-size-fits-all - healing through coaching, not talk therapy.
• Resilience is remembering—and surviving—what once felt unspeakable.
• Nature, cold plunges, and breathwork practice.
• Real support and community matters. 
• Helping others can also be a tool for healing. 
• Even buried pain can find a way out. 
• Seeking help is a courageous step towards healing.
• It's possible to redefine one's identity beyond past experiences. 

About:  With 20+ years experience, Cari ignites radical personal evolution.  Blending her skills as a Massage Therapist, Master Bodyworker, and Trauma Healing Life Coach, she assists her clients in attaining powerful life transformations.  Her unique fusion of somatic techniques, energy work, and coaching - rooted in her own resilience in overcoming trauma and abuse - empowers emotional release and healing, and authentic self-discovery.  Her extensive experience, including work with clinics, chiropractors, and professional athletes, underscores her commitment to holistic well-being.  As a published author, public speaker, and podcast host, Cari inspires lasting transformative change, guiding clients to a vibrant, renewed life. 

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In this episode, we are joined by Kyra Howearth—yoga teacher, herbalist, and creator of a moon-themed tarot deck—to discuss intuitive living and spiritual growth. Kyra shares her journey from discovering yoga and meditation as a child, influenced by figures like Roald Dahl and Lisa Simpson, to becoming a certified yoga instructor during the COVID lockdown. She talks about the challenges of being vegan, shifting her career to be more aligned spiritually, and managing her husband's Lyme disease with herbal remedies. With warmth and humour, Kyra discusses numerology, astrology, yoga, herbology, raising kids, and her connection with the lunar cycle—elements that shape her holistic approach. 

Key Takeaways

• How early influences—books, media, and family—can spark a lifelong spiritual path.
• Navigating plant-based living and the importance of nutritional awareness.
• Exploring herbalism, yoga, and alternative wellness as tools for personal and family health.
• The role of astrology, tarot, and lunar cycles in building a more intuitive lifestyle and business.
• Embracing spirituality beyond tradition—through play, ritual, and inner guidance.
• Finding clarity and community by staying true to your unique rhythm, even when it feels unconventional.
• The use of herbal practices to support Lyme disease.

About Kyra: Kyra Howearth is a business astrologer and yoga teacher who is obsessed with the moon. She is passionate about living - and working - in alignment with nature's cycles. When Kyra isn't reading astrology charts or teaching moon-themed yoga classes, she's homeschooling her four children in regional Australia. Connect at:

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Karli Grove, a small-town Canadian, shares her bold journey of personal growth — from the quiet prairies of Alberta to the coastlines of New Zealand and the vibrant cultures of Southeast Asia. In this conversation, Karli reflects on how a failed chemistry quiz, a leap into the unknown, and a drive to experience life beyond the familiar reshaped her future. Through travel, independence, and self-discovery, Karli returns home with a renewed sense of purpose and the confidence to pursue the business she’s always dreamed of.

Key Takeaways

• Support through community: Community involvement can enhance life experiences and skills.
• Failure can redirect your life: A failed university quiz led Karli to switch majors, ultimately changing her entire trajectory.
• Your authentic self often emerges in anonymity: Being unknown gave Karli freedom to become who she truly is.
• Spirit speaks through signs: Karli's journey is guided by synchronicities, including license plates, dates, and even place names.
• Travel grows sovereignty: 500 days abroad gave Karli clarity, confidence, and a sense of identity she couldn't have found at home.
• Spirituality is personal: Her experience with human design, tarot, and the Akashic records shaped her intuitive decision-making.
• Reverse culture shock is real: Coming home after deep transformation can feel isolating when others haven’t shared your growth.
• Trust the unknown: Life doesn't always need a plan; sometimes the path reveals itself with each step 
• Personal growth:  Recognising patterns and learning from the past.

About Karli: Karli Grove navigates the intersection of strategy and spirit, where everyday life aligns with divine timing. A storyteller and keen observer, she follows signs and synchronicities with curiosity and trust. From small-town beginnings to global journeys, she explores both inner and outer worlds, offering grounded insights that remind us wisdom emerges where presence meets wonder.

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In this episode, we meet Eva Freund—former corporate project manager turned global traveller and spiritual explorer. After a life that looked perfect on paper, Eva experienced a profound emotional breakdown that cracked open the door to healing, transformation, and deep inner exploration.

From Germany to New Zealand, to Costa Rica, and Ecuador, Eva’s story is a powerful reminder that healing isn’t linear—and that life becomes richer when we surrender control, face our emotions, and follow our hearts.

Whether you’re feeling stuck, curious, or on the edge of your own breakthrough, this episode offers relatable insights and grounded spiritual tools for anyone ready to live from the inside out.

Key Takeaways

• Childhood experiences shape our adult lives but do not define us.
• Emotional breakdowns can lead to profound personal transformations.
• Alternative healing methods can provide new perspectives on health and well-being.
• Traveling can open up new ways of thinking and being.
• Community support is essential for personal growth and healing.
• Self-awareness is key to understanding emotional triggers.
• Letting go of expectations can lead to greater freedom and happiness.
• Meditation and mindfulness practices can help connect with the heart.
• It's important to allow oneself to feel all emotions without judgment.
• Life is a journey of self-discovery and surprises. 

About: Eva Freund is a Transformation Coach specialising in energy healing who turned her pain into purpose. After leaving behind a life she thought she wanted or rather should have she embarked on an intense healing journey deep diving into her heart and the world of spirituality and consciousness. Supporting and empowering women on their journey back to themselves, to their own essence and into a fulfilled life is what lights up her heart.

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This episode is an insightful yet lighthearted conversation with Joke Bekaert, a Belgian spiritual practitioner whose journey into tarot, shamanism, and energy work is as inspiring as it is authentic. From a childhood influenced by her grandmother to her own emergence from the "spiritual closet," Joke shares how her passion for tarot, her shamanic training, and her diagnosis with ankylosing spondylitis shaped her into the healer she is today.

Joke opens up about how she turned pain into purpose, how she incorporates ancient spiritual traditions into her modern life, and why she teaches tarot, reiki, and shamanic practices rooted in connection and integrity. With humour, humility, and grounded wisdom, she offers a glimpse into what it means to walk a magical path while managing everyday realities.

🔮Highlights 

• Joke’s grandmother’s secret scrying practice using a ring and a strand of hair
• Discovering tarot and Wicca as a teenager 
• Teaching her children to understand emotions through tarot cards
• Her evolving relationship with spirituality while raising a family
• Being diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis and how it impacted her path
• The role of shamanic training, including Incan and Norse traditions
• Building her business, House of Magical Roots
• Practising Reiki in the forest and honouring the energy of the land
• Insights for tarot beginners and advice on pursuing shamanism with integrity

About: Joke Bekaert has been a student of Tarot for 25 years. She’s studied Incan & Norse shamanism, is a certified Reiki Master & Death Doula, and has completed five years of astrology training. She offers intuitive guidance and healing in a grounded, no-nonsense approach. Although she works with spirits, other realms, and ancient energies, her teaching style is practical and down-to-earth. Her goal is to help people return to the core of their being in a space rooted in clarity, compassion, and honesty. She guides clients through transformational experiences in nature, spiritual mentorship, and energy-based modalities, offering a return to self in a world that often pulls us away from it.

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Joanna Hennon, an intuitive channel and mentor, shares her remarkable journey through childhood displacement, a lack of self-esteem, burnout, a spiritual awakening, and late-diagnosed autism. Joanna’s story spans countries, identities, and breakthroughs. Her move to Ireland became a homecoming—not just to a place, but to herself. This conversation is marked by vulnerability, insight, and hope for those navigating issues of identity, belonging, and personal empowerment.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Grew up feeling out of place across multiple countries—later realised she was autistic
• How girls often learn to “mask” autism symptoms, leading many, like herself, to go undiagnosed for decades
• A breakdown that catalysed a spiritual awakening and a deeper dive into self-exploration through manifestation and intuitive art
• Intuitive channelling practice and connection with her spirit team, Avalon, to help others live in alignment
• Moved to Ireland based on spiritual guidance, and it transformed her life
• Reclaims creativity through writing, ballet, art journaling, and play
• Encourages self-connection via oracle cards, journaling, and inner trust
• Now lives by the “soul-smart” approach: aligned, joyful, and authentic
• Joanna offers a practical tool for connecting with your intuition

About: Joanna Hennon is a soul guide, channel, and teacher of magical, intentional living. Through her Be SoulSmart! approach, she helps you connect with your inner wisdom, align with your soul, and manifest a life that truly fits—using intuitive guidance, self-connection practices, and many, many tarot decks. 

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Flautist Yvonne McIlwaine, shares her journey from growing up in a vibrant musical household to navigating life through intuition, energy healing, and spiritual exploration. She faced challenges of motherhood, depression, living in a foreign country, losing her father and hiding her interest in spirituality for many years. She shares how music, motherhood, spirituality, and self-discovery have shaped her life, and how she now subtly blends coaching and intuition into everyday life and teaching.

• Growing up in a musical family.
• Unknowingly practising energy healing and using herbal medicine in childhood—long before grasping the labels of "spiritual" or "alternative."
• Gentle Rebellion - Leaving high school early and later returning, followed by a conscious decision to no longer be angry through curiosity and deeper introspection.
• First quiet explorations into tarot cards and eventually angel oracle readings
• The emotional and spiritual challenges of becoming a mother, dealing with postpartum depression, and the impact of stepping away from professional life temporarily.
• Discovering Reiki and Lemurian Reiki as a way to reconnect and heal. 
• Moving abroad with her family and rediscovering community and spiritual practice while homeschooling and exploring holistic spaces.
• Becoming a certified coach and integrating coaching techniques subtly into her flute teaching, providing guidance and support for her students.
• Coming out of anonymity to share her intuitive Angel Card Readings.
• Why some spiritual practices don't work for her - individual preferences.

About: Yvonne McIlwaine is a flautist, coach, and intuitive angel card reader who blends music, mindfulness, and gentle spiritual insight to help others find clarity and calm. She shares insightful messages through her platform, Serena Starshine, and brings quiet coaching wisdom into her work as a music teacher.

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In this compelling conversation, Deanna Brown shares her remarkable transformation from a shy child with low self-esteem to a gifted clairvoyant and medium. She recounts her early encounters with spirits, the absence of support from her family, and her struggles with mental health while working in nursing, and how she learned to navigate and embrace her gifts. 

She reflects on the emotional toll of her experiences in the nursing field and emphasises the crucial role of trauma-informed care, community, and support in her healing journey.

The discussion goes deeply into her experiences with trauma and human trafficking, offering profound insights into the healing process. She explains the concept of non-state torture, describes the reality of night terrors, and details her involvement in paranormal investigations.

Additionally, Deanna offers guidance for aspiring mediums, advice on supporting spiritually sensitive children, and tips for building self-esteem through self-reflection and kindness. Her story is a testament to resilience, empathy, and the power of embracing one’s true self.

• Early experiences with spirits and lack of family support
• The difference between clairvoyant, psychic, and medium abilities
• Working in elder care and forensic psychiatry as an empath
• Her personal battles with mental health and energy overload
• Recovering from trauma and finding purpose through the Spiritualist Church
• Participating in paranormal investigations
• Living with night terrors
• Advocacy for non-state torture and human trafficking survivors
• Energy healing requires careful management of one's own energy
• Lessons on self-worth, boundaries, and using spiritual gifts for good

About: Deanna is a clairvoyant medium who connects clients with their loved ones in spirit, delivering messages with honesty and compassion. Passionate about sharing her gifts, she offers private and group workshops on working with Spirit.

As a retired nurse, Deanna has travelled across Canada and the US, making meaningful connections for others. She is certified in several healing therapies, including Reiki, Past Life Regression Hypnosis, and Reflexology.

She’s also a member of the Ontario, Canada paranormal team, Whispers from Beyond Paranormal Investigation, which helps others free charge to understand and resolve their paranormal issues.

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Dawn Tan shares her healing experiences transitioning from intense physical sports like weightlifting and dragon boat racing to more soothing practices like yoga, sound healing, and even animal communication. She opens up about various spiritual practices and her struggles with meditation and highlights the importance of intention and the fascinating science behind sound healing. We also discuss the challenges of spiritual loneliness and the meaningful significance of connecting with others who share similar values and interests. Listen toward the end when she offers some simple but practical exercises on dealing with anxiety.

• From weightlifting to yoga as a means to process emotional pain.
• Sound healing is scientifically backed and can shift brainwave states.
• Setting intentions is crucial for effective healing practices.
• Animal communication can be a profound way to connect with pets, both living and passed.
• Community healing sessions can be impactful for both participants and facilitators.
• Spiritual journeys are unique and evolve over time.
• Practising yoga can lead to moments of deep connection and realisation, and serve as a tool for managing stress and anxiety.
• Sound healing can complement yoga practices, enhancing physical and emotional well-being.
• The importance of a supportive community for spiritual exploration. 

About: Dawn Tan has been guiding yoga for a decade and facilitating sound and animal communication sessions since early 2023. She firmly believes in the power of movement, meditation, and trusting one's intuition, and she loves all furry creatures, big and small.  

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