With Danielle Collins

In this week’s short solo episode of With Danielle Collins, I’m sharing how my approach to wellness and self-care has evolved since entering my 40s.

I’ve been passionate about health and wellbeing for over 20 years, and while many of the practices I loved in my 20s and 30s are still part of my life today, the way I approach them has definitely changed.

As a mum of two, running a busy business and navigating perimenopause, I’ve realised just how important it is to adapt my wellness routines to support the stage of life I’m in.

In this episode, I reflect on the shifts I’ve made, why I’m more intentional about prioritising my wellbeing, and how simple daily practices such as walking, yoga, Face Yoga and making time for relaxation continue to support me physically, mentally and emotionally.

It’s a personal conversation about listening to your body, recognising that your needs change over time and finding ways to look after yourself that feel realistic, enjoyable and sustainable.

I hope this episode inspires you to reflect on your own self-care routines and perhaps make a few small changes that help you feel your best.

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I’d love to connect with you and share more about natural beauty, Face Yoga, wellness and living well.

Website: https://www.faceyogaexpert.com

Instagram: @faceyogaexpert

Thank you so much for listening to With Danielle Collins.

 Over my 21 years in the wellness industry, I’ve had some incredible experiences working on television, teaching celebrities and travelling to some beautiful places around the world. But there’s one experience that stands out as perhaps the most surreal of them all!

In this week’s episode of With Danielle Collins – The Podcast, I’m taking you back nine years to when I was invited to Sardinia, Italy, to film for an ITV television programme about longevity and Blue Zones.

What happened during that trip was a mixture of excitement, unexpected twists, a few rather hilarious moments and some experiences I certainly never saw coming!

But beyond the humour and surreal situations, this experience taught me three powerful life lessons that have stayed with me ever since.

In this personal, behind-the-scenes episode, I share why it’s so important to stay authentic, remain open to unexpected opportunities and keep doing what you love, even when things don’t go quite as planned.

I hope this story makes you smile, inspires you and reminds you that sometimes our most unexpected experiences become our greatest teachers.

Enjoy my 7-Day Natural Facelift Course

If you’d love to experience the benefits of Face Yoga for yourself, my 7-Day Natural Facelift Course is a wonderful place to start.

Over seven days, I’ll guide you through simple, effective facial exercises and techniques to help tone and lift the appearance of your face, release tension and encourage a naturally glowing, refreshed complexion.

It’s an easy way to make Face Yoga part of your daily self-care routine, all from the comfort of your own home.

Join my 7-Day Natural Facelift Course here:

https://www.faceyogaexpert.com/natural_face_lift

What if something as simple as making and drinking tea could become a powerful daily ritual for slowing down, reconnecting with yourself and changing the way you feel?

In this episode, I’m joined by Sarah Scarborough, a Finnish-American tea ceremonialist, award-winning formulator and entrepreneur who has spent the last 30 years exploring tea as ritual, medicine and a pathway back to ourselves.

Sarah is the founder of Tea Huntress and Stardust Teas and has founded and successfully exited three tea businesses. Her work has been featured in Forbes, the Financial Times and Harper’s Bazaar, and throughout her career she has combined entrepreneurship with a deep commitment to nature, ritual, wellbeing and feminine energy.

We talk about what a tea ritual actually is and, importantly, how you can create your own at home without it needing to be complicated or time-consuming. Sarah explains why the simple act of preparing tea can encourage us to slow down, become more present and bring a greater sense of intention into our day.

We also explore Sarah’s personal wellness rituals and the lessons she has learned from her Finnish upbringing, including the importance of nature, simplicity and creating space in our lives.

Sarah shares one of her favourite concepts from the world of tea, the moment when a tightly rolled tea leaf meets hot water and begins to unfurl into its fullest expression. We discuss how this can be a beautiful metaphor for our own lives, particularly as women, and what can happen when we give ourselves permission to take up space and become more fully ourselves.

We also talk about business. Having founded and sold three tea companies, Sarah shares how she has built successful businesses while remaining connected to her values and feminine energy rather than feeling she has to constantly push, hustle or operate from a place of pressure.

In this episode, we discuss:

This is a beautiful conversation about tea, ritual, business, feminine energy and creating small moments in your day that help you come back to yourself.

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What if some of the things we’ve been taught about exercise, nutrition and wellness simply don’t serve us in midlife?

In this episode, I’m joined by Cara Metz, founder of the Midlife Mayhem app, for an open, honest and empowering conversation about perimenopause, menopause and learning to work with our changing bodies rather than constantly fighting against them.

Cara shares her own personal experience of moving through midlife and the hormonal changes that came with it, as well as the story behind Midlife Mayhem, her platform designed to help women feel stronger, healthier and more confident during this stage of life.

We talk about why midlife can require a completely different approach to exercise and wellness, and why doing more isn’t always the answer.

In this episode, we discuss:

This is such a positive conversation about moving away from the idea that midlife is something we simply have to endure. Instead, Cara and I explore how understanding our changing bodies and making small shifts to the way we move, eat, rest and think, can help us feel empowered through perimenopause, menopause and beyond.

Midlife Mayhem:
https://midlifemayhem.co.uk

Instagram:
@carametz
@midlifemayhem.app

At the beginning of this episode, I also talk about my Fusion by Danielle Collins skincare range — my natural skincare collection designed to work beautifully alongside Face Yoga and your daily wellness routine.

Discover the full Fusion range here:
https://shop.faceyogaexpert.com

In this week’s episode of With Danielle Collins, I’m joined by women’s health expert and board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner Chelsea Ann O’Brien for a fascinating conversation about why constantly striving to do more may be having a much bigger impact on women’s health than we realise. Yes you can have a great life and career but it shouldn’t take its toll on your wellness. 

Chelsea has spent over a decade working across labour and delivery, reproductive medicine, IVF, integrative medicine and women’s health. Through thousands of hours working closely with women, she began to notice recurring patterns around chronic exhaustion, anxiety, fertility struggles, burnout and disconnection from the body.

In this conversation, we explore Chelsea’s belief that many women have been conditioned to keep pushing, achieving and climbing what she calls “the staircase that never ends”, always searching for the next accomplishment, body, career milestone, relationship or version of motherhood that will finally make us feel like we’ve arrived.

We talk about what can happen when women spend too long operating from stress and survival mode, and why Chelsea believes reconnecting with our bodies, intuition and feminine nature can be such an important part of our wellbeing. We also talk about how you can be wildly successful and financially free with a thriving career AND feel well. 

We delve into the huge physical and emotional transformation of motherhood, particularly the first three years; nervous system regulation; the patterns and conditioning that can pass from mother to daughter; balancing motherhood with a career; and what it really means to reclaim femininity without losing yourself.

Chelsea also shares her own story of rebuilding her life following the end of her marriage and an international lifestyle, and how that experience ultimately led her to write The Feminine Effect and The Feminine Frequency.

Chelsea is the author of five books, including Mystical Motherhood and The Feminine Effect, and is building The Feminine Effect as a resource for women navigating conscious conception, pregnancy, motherhood and their changing relationship with themselves.

It’s a thought-provoking conversation about women’s health, motherhood, burnout, intuition, identity and what can change when we stop believing that the answer is always to do more.

Connect with Chelsea Ann O’Brien

Website: chelseaanneffect.com
Instagram: @chelseaanneffect
Facebook: Mystical Motherhood
YouTube: Chelsea Ann O’Brien

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How do you know if that feeling inside you is your intuition guiding you  or simply fear holding you back?

A few weeks ago, I had an amazing conversation on the podcast with Sarah Gregg and Jill Ritchie, where we touched on the fascinating subject of intuition versus fear. It really stayed with me afterwards and made me want to dedicate a whole solo episode to something I’ve become increasingly interested in: how to really know when your intuition is talking.

Because it isn’t always as obvious as we might think.

In this episode of With Danielle Collins: The Podcast, I delve deeper into intuition, fear, gut instinct and overthinking, and share some of the things I’ve learnt through my own life and career about trusting that inner knowing.

One of the biggest things I’ve realised is that intuition is often surprisingly simple. It can be the first quiet answer that comes to you before your mind has had time to analyse it, question it and create all the reasons why you should or shouldn’t do something.

Fear, on the other hand, often comes with a story.

It can be repetitive, noisy and filled with “what ifs”. And the more we overthink a decision, the harder it can become to hear what our intuition was telling us in the first place.

But I also explore an important distinction: fear and intuition can exist at the same time.

You can intuitively know that a decision, change or new direction is right for you and still feel frightened about taking that step. Fear doesn’t automatically mean “no”. Sometimes it simply means that what you’re considering is new, uncertain or taking you outside your comfort zone.

I also share one of my favourite questions to ask when I’m struggling to distinguish between intuition and fear:

If I knew everything was going to work out either way, what would I choose?

In this episode, I talk about:

I certainly don’t have all the answers, and trusting my intuition is something I’m continuing to learn and practise myself. But the more I listen to it, the more I realise that sometimes we already know the answer — we just need to get quiet enough to hear it.

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering, “Is this my intuition or is this my fear talking?”, this episode is for you.

Connect with me:

Website: faceyogaexpert.com

Instagram: faceyogaexpert

What is it really like to work with your husband, run a business together, raise a family and somehow keep your relationship strong through all the different seasons of life?

In this week’s episode of With Danielle Collins, I’m joined by husband-and-wife physician team Dr John and Dr Cristina, founders of The Longevity Protocol.

This conversation went in so many interesting directions. As two couples who have experience of working together while also raising daughters and navigating family life, we talk very honestly about the realities of being in business with your husband or wife, the good parts, the challenges, how you separate/integrate work from home life and what happens when the lines between the two inevitably become blurred.

I also share some of my own experiences of working with my husband, Bruce, and what we’ve learnt from building a business together while raising our two daughters.

But our conversation goes much deeper than business.

With nearly 40 years of combined experience in hormone optimisation, sexual wellness and regenerative medicine, Dr John and Dr Cristina share their perspective on some of the common changes women, and couples, can experience in their 40s and 50s.

We talk about hormones, relationships, intimacy and sexual wellness, as well as how both partners can change during this stage of life and why understanding what is happening physically and emotionally can be so important.

We also explore the bigger topic of longevity and healthy ageing. Is our increasing obsession with optimisation actually making us healthier or can trying to do everything perfectly become another source of stress?

Dr John and Dr Cristina believe longevity shouldn’t simply be about adding more years to your life. It should be about staying strong, connected, curious and capable of really enjoying those years.

We chat about muscle and strength as we age, hormone health, relationships, pleasure, connection and why our sexual health may tell us more about our overall wellbeing than we realise.

This is such an open and interesting conversation about marriage, working with your spouse, raising a family, women’s health, hormones and longevity  and ultimately what it means to create a life that feels good to live, rather than simply trying to live for as long as possible.

In this episode, we talk about:

If you’re navigating your 40s or 50s, working with your partner, experiencing hormonal changes, thinking more about longevity, or simply wondering how to create a healthier and more fulfilling life as you age, I think you’ll get so much from this conversation.

Connect with Dr John & Dr Cristina:

Instagram: @thesexdocs

I am so excited to launch With Danielle Collins: The Podcast — the new name and new look for The Face Yoga Expert Podcast.

After six and a half years, over half a million downloads, millions of views on YouTube and a brand-new episode every single Sunday, I felt it was time for the podcast to have a little facelift… a natural facelift, of course!

In this special episode, I’m sharing why I’ve decided to rename the podcast, what inspired With Danielle Collins, and what you can expect from this next chapter.

If you’re a regular listener, don’t worry — the heart of the podcast isn’t changing.

Over the years, Face Yoga itself has only ever made up a small part of what we talk about here. The podcast has naturally evolved into a space for conversations around wellness, natural beauty, holistic health, mindset, business, lifestyle and real-life stories and experiences.

You’ll still hear my solo episodes where I speak from the heart, alongside conversations with inspiring guests. But you may also notice a little more of me — more of my own stories, what I’m learning and experiencing, and conversations that feel genuine, open and connected.

The new name simply feels like it has caught up with what this podcast has already become.

Because ultimately, this is a space where you can simply be with me — whether I’m talking directly to you or you’re joining me for a conversation with one of my guests.

In this episode, I also talk about why I believe we don’t always need to completely close one chapter before beginning another. Sometimes we simply need to evolve, own who we are now and step more fully into the chapter we’re already in.

That’s exactly what With Danielle Collins represents for me.

Thank you so much for being part of this journey, whether this is your very first episode or you’ve been listening for years. I’m so grateful you’re here, and I’m really excited for what’s to come.

New episodes every Sunday.

Watch on the Face Yoga Expert YouTube channel or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, my website or wherever you usually listen to your podcasts.

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In this solo episode, I’m sharing three moments that changed my life, business and career forever.

This is a really honest and open conversation where I speak from the heart about some of the pivotal moments that, looking back, completely changed the direction my life was taking.

The first happened when I was just 21 and was diagnosed with a chronic illness that left me bedridden for around a year. I talk about my journey back to health, how I immersed myself in holistic wellness and natural healing, and how this incredibly difficult chapter ultimately helped me understand what I felt my soul’s purpose was. It led me to train, begin teaching and eventually start my own wellness business.

I then take you back to the early days of my career, when I was teaching yoga and relaxation and incorporating facial massage into my work. This eventually led me to discover Face Yoga and become a Face Yoga teacher, including speaking about it at my first national event. At the time, Face Yoga was almost completely unknown and some people even found the idea funny! But something inside me knew to keep going. I stayed consistent, continued teaching and sharing these natural facial exercises and techniques, and slowly began building what would eventually become the Face Yoga Expert brand.

My third story takes us to the end of 2019, when I made the decision to move my business from predominantly in-person work to online.

What makes this story particularly interesting is that at the time I had a very strong intuitive feeling that something big was going to happen in the world. I felt that it was connected to health, although I had absolutely no idea what it would be. At the same time, my intuition was strongly telling me to take my Face Yoga business online.

Of course, only a few months later, the world changed with the Covid lockdowns.

Looking back, I’m so grateful I listened to that intuition. Moving my business online before everything changed meant I was already in a position to reach and support people around the world from home, and it became a hugely important turning point for my business from 2020 onwards.

Throughout this episode, I reflect on intuition, consistency, trusting the path that feels right for you and how sometimes the moments that initially feel like challenges or unexpected changes can ultimately lead us exactly where we need to go.

I also tell you about my 7 Day Natural Facelift with Face Yoga course. It’s a simple, easy-to-follow Face Yoga programme with lifetime access to seven 12-minute videos, designed to help you naturally lift and tone the key areas of your face using my Face Yoga techniques. The full course is just £21 here 

https://www.faceyogaexpert.com/natural_face_lift

 In this episode of The Face Yoga Expert Podcast, I’m joined by entrepreneur, founder and author Kelly Ehlers for a conversation about success, kindness, ambition, self-worth and giving ourselves permission to choose again.

So many women have consciously created the life they thought they wanted — the career, the relationship, the family, the home, the success — and are incredibly grateful for it. But what happens when, underneath all of that, there’s a quiet feeling of “Is this it?”

And perhaps an even bigger question: Can we want more without being ungrateful for everything we already have?

Kelly believes we absolutely can.

Kelly is an award-winning entrepreneur who has spent more than 16 years building businesses and brands. She scaled The Evoke Agency into an agency working with major global brands, with the company earning a place on the Inc. 500/5000 five times. She is also the founder of The Tease Media and author of the forthcoming book Nice Girls Win. 

What I particularly love about Kelly’s message is her belief that we don’t need to become harder, colder or less ourselves in order to succeed. In fact, kindness, generosity, empathy and integrity can be some of our greatest strengths in both business and life.

In this conversation, we talk about the invisible contracts so many women unknowingly live by — the idea that our needs should come last, that wanting something different makes us ungrateful, or that once we’ve chosen a particular life or season, we have to stay there.

We explore what it means to choose again without burning everything down. Choosing again doesn’t have to mean quitting your job, ending your relationship or completely changing your life. Sometimes it simply means recognising that you’re allowed to evolve and enter a new season.

We also talk about the fascinating difference between wanting, needing and deserving. What happens when instead of saying, “I want this,” we begin to believe, “I deserve this”?

Kelly and I delve into manifestation too, not simply vision boards or wishful thinking, but what happens when we genuinely embody the belief that the things we’re calling into our lives are possible for us.

We also discuss Kelly’s own extraordinary business journey, the challenges she faced along the way, boundaries, people-pleasing, self-worth and why being a “nice girl” doesn’t mean playing small.

Kelly’s work challenges the traditional idea that success requires women to become tougher or less caring. Her message is about winning without losing yourself in the process. 

This is such an inspiring conversation for anyone who is ambitious but wants success to feel good too and particularly for women who are beginning to wonder whether they’re ready for their next chapter.

You can discover more about Kelly, her work and Nice Girls Win here:

Website: 

https://www.nicegirlswin.com

Instagram: @kellyehlers⁠ 

And before we get into today’s conversation, I also share a little about my Accredited Face Yoga Teacher Training Course.

If you love Face Yoga and would like to take your knowledge to the next level, whether that’s to teach professionally, incorporate Face Yoga into an existing wellness business or create a completely new career for yourself, my training gives you the techniques, knowledge and confidence to get started.

It feels particularly fitting alongside today’s conversation because sometimes choosing again doesn’t require changing your whole life. It can simply begin by taking one step towards something that excites you.

Find out more about my Accredited Face Yoga Teacher Training 

https://www.faceyogaexpert.com/teacher-training-course

I hope you enjoy this conversation with Kelly and that it reminds you that you can be kind and ambitious, grateful and still want more — and you are always allowed to choose again.