The Empowerment Palace: Recent Episodes
Tanya Weeks
A grand virtual palace. A place where anyone can enter to gain knowledge that will serve them and empower them to take chances that will change their life! Conversations. Workshops. Knowledge. Power.
Hearing & Seeing Energy, Soul Surgery, Card Reading and Naturopathy. How all this incredible gifts and knowledge come together to create THIS MEDICINE WOMAN'S WORK.
Rachelle was born with a gift that has been in her family's blood line for generations.
She is a Medium, a mediator between the Spiritual world & the Physical world with the intention of healing.
She is an accredited Naturopath, a Medicine Woman and a Mum.
Rachelle is a the forefront of Holistic health after 25years experiencing, practicing and teaching Health & Wellness.
Highly intuitive, sensitive enough to hear, feel & see the body's energy, she helps women that have psychic intuitive abilities, with a comprehensive holistic approach in order to provide specific guidance, programs & treatments for them to understand how to navigate their power & manage their skills.
Rachelle believes that healing is an active process where you take responsibility & do the work on your physical, mental, emotional & spiritual bodies.
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Rachelle's mission is to change the frequency of the Earth from fear to Love.
She focuses on helping the future children & it starts with you, young women, way before you meet you soulmate & your children.
She believes that treatment should focus on addressing the root cause of the condition as well as alleviating symptoms.
In this episode we discuss:
- How Tanya and Rachelle met
- Rachelle's incredible gypsy life that took her from where she was born in Martinique to Bali where she lives today
- Rachelle's early discovery that she was a medium and why at first she kept it to herself
- How her extensive and diverse studies are all connected to medicine and woman
- Why it took 38 years for her to be ready to become a mother
- What are the four different bodies she focuses her work on and how they differ
- How Rachelle's personal journey has enabled her to help other women
- How her work diversity stems across card reading, soul surgery and naturopathy and the different treatments she uses from meditation and nutrition including herbs and flowers
- The work she does supporting women from Maiden to Mother
- Rachelle's approach to balancing work, creativity, music and full time home care and motherhood
- Why we cant interfere with anyone's path and how education and inter-connection are the way to inspire change
- How motherhood has taught her more self compassion and how it also continues to expose her to the work she needs to do on herself
- Why the word SORRY isn't healing and what we need to replace it with and SO MUCH MORE!
Adam Mahmoud is a highly decorated and world renowned Meditation, and Holistic Yoga teacher, Life Coach and consultant specialising in health and integration of multiple disciplines for peak performance.
With over 15 years of professional experience as an educator and facilitator around the world, Adam is featured on the highly popular Breethe meditation app where his teachings now reach millions of people. He leads Meditation Teacher Trainings,
seminars, online and in person. He has led North America’s largest Yoga & Meditation event 2 years running, the Lole White Tour, with 8000 participants in attendance, appeared on national television and written articles that have become widely recognised on health, wellbeing and meditation.
Adam specialises in delivering 1:1 coaching and mentoring for high-achieving individuals, helping them find balance and presence of mind under the pressure from the demands of life. These coaching session are custom built to the individuals requirements. They move beyond limiting beliefs, reprogram your subconscious mind and give you the courage to take action to create your dreams.
Adam has lived a well cultured life travelling and living in multiple countries around the world for most his adult life. I met Adam while on a VC retreat in Bali in 2013 where he first introduced myself and the group to mediation. The work l went on to do had such a prolific affect on me envoking so much personal growth and change that l knew l had to share it with others. I introduced meditation to the VC program in 2016 and it has become one the most well received and important pillars of the program since so when l knew l wanted to create an episode on meditation, there could only be one person to interview and of course it Adam.
He is also a Qi Gong teacher, certified Basketball Coach, Breath work Facilitator, Deep Tissue Massage Therapist, Personal Trainer, Rescue Scuba Diver and Holistic Movement Teacher. His resume and experience is as impressive as the incredible authentic human that he is and l can’t wait for you to hear this conversation.
In this Episode discuss:
- How Tanya and Adam met and how Adam first introduced Meditation to Tanya (0.07.30)
- How pain and suffering were the catalyst for Adam’s journey into a life of meditation and Yoga Practice (0.13.30)
- How his incredible career in arts performance combined with his practice in Yoga and Meditation has lead him to become a life coach (0.16.00)
- Why COVID is the great awakening (0.19.30)
- Where do we begin if we want to start a practice of meditation (0.22.00)
- What are some of the important things we can learn when we begin to meditate (0.26.00)
- The first steps towards meditation and what tools we need to begin (0.28.00)
- What is the White Polar Bear Experiment and what are the findings (0.29.00)
- Why repetition is the key to progression (0.34.00)
- Do you have to sit in stillness to have a meditation practice (0.39.00)
- How meditation can lead to a choice in our emotional responses (0.53.00)
- Why Mindfulness is the only place to begin if you want to create change in you life
- Are we beginning to make the shift towards investing in our own happiness instead of materialistic things and has the pandemic brought more awareness for the need to make this change (1.10.00)
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REFERENCES
Adam Mahmoud Facebook
Adam Mahmoud Website
The White Polar Bear Experiment
The Happy Movie
Working in the corporate sector for 2 decades in Australia and abroad, Jess is a highly experienced mentor, speaker, chief parenting officer and full time technology professional primarily consulting with clients to achieve transformational success for their businesses.
When Jess started working in corporate, it was an exciting time, the boom of technology revolution in the corporate sector in the late 90’s saw so much possibility for change in business, the hustle and bustle and demand for more tech workers enabled Jess to move to London, where she was able to travel and live the high life of the corporate world in London.
But it wasn’t always as glamarous as it sounds, when Jess started working in the tech sector, the representation of women was at a low 14%, and with a lack of women role models in the workplace, Jess saw the struggles that many women face in the board room, like the impacts of unconscious biases, derogatory and sexist comments, and the feeling excluded by the ‘boys’ club. 15 years later and the number of women working in tech is approximately 26%, climbing at an incredibly slow rate.
Back track 7 years ago, with little access to women role models and often being the only women in the board room, Jess followed her passion addressing the gender diversity gap, by managing a small mentor program. The program provided an opportunity for women to connect, network and get matched with a career mentor. The program was a success and 7 years later, and with a new name, the MentoShe program has grown into a successful initiative supporting approximately 500 women thrive in their technology careers.
Today, Jess is Mentorshe’s program director, supported by an award winning not for profit organisation, named VIC ICT for Women, a powerful community of passionate people committed to its cause. The MentorShe program runs annually and is designed to build confidence, provide networking opportunities, and facilitate professional development for its members.
In this episoide we discuss:
- How Jess and Tanya met (0.08.00)
- Jess’s career as a technology consultant and how she began in the tech industry (0.10.10)
- What is MENTORSHE and how many women has the program supported over the last 7 years (0.16.00)
- How women are still facing inequality in the workforce (0.18.00)
- What levels of support and development can women receive in the MENTORSHE program (0.21.00)
- Why is it important to understand each gender in order to create better working relationships (0.25.00)
- Is each generation closing the gap on unconsious biases and what will the future of the workplace look like when our kids dominate them (0.31.30)
- How Tanya found her purpose and why its so important for parents to help thier kids discover who they are and what they are best at (0.39.00)
- What key indicators can help you realise if you are living in purpose (0.49.00)
- How do you differ between blockages and road blocks when working out if you are on the right path (0.53.00)
- Why we should always be moving in the direction of a full body yes (0.59.00)
- How can we become more concious of what our purpose is (1.01.00)
- Why personal development is so important especially for anyone going into business on their own (1.06.00)
- Why something so small as changing your language can result in big changes (1.16.00)
REFERENCES
Jess’s LinkedIn
MentorShe
VIC ICT for Women
The Queens Code
Libby believes she was put on this planet to help people be happy, feel good about themselves and live life to the fullest. Fitness and nutrition have proven to be the most impactful way for her to serve her calling and her resume and achievements that fullfill both of those purposes are IMPRESSIVE AND INSPIRING!
When Libby was diagnosed with malignant hypertension in her early 20s, with blood pressure more than twice safe levels, she was told she'd be on medication for life and probably never have kids. Healing herself through the right kinds of exercise and nutrition, and getting off medication was the start of her life-long mission to inspire others to move more and eat better.
A decade later, her knowledge and passion led to her starring role as the new trainer on Channel 10's re-imagination and relaunch of "The Biggest Loser: Transformed". As a former journalist she writes for publications such as Prevention Magazine and has also been the fitness expert for Women's Fitness Magazine and the HIT Network, Australia's largest radio network.
Outside of her work in media, Libby is the founder of multiple businesses in health and fitness including her Bondi training studio The Upbeat , Healthy snacking company with brands Chief Bar and Beauty Food, written a best selling book, "Totally BUF", and created her hugely popular 6-week online nutrition program Sneaky Nutrition Reset.
She’s also a co-founder of Nurture Group, a wellness and business event company for entrepreneurs and senior leaders and Libby is the proud mum of daughter Izzy and as this show goes to air, 22 weeks preganant with her second baby.
When l thought about the first female l wanted to invite on the show to share how they balance being both a bad arse boss lady and a magnificent mumma Libby was my first choice.
In this episode we chat about:
- How Libby and Tanya are connected and how they both began their businesses in Bondi (0.08.30)
- What health crisis lead Libby down the path of a career change (0.11.15)
- How Libby pioneered the way for outdoor bootcamp fusing women’s group fitness and nutrition (0.12.00)
- How she shifted from functional fitness to a dance based fitness business (0.15.00)
- What’s Libby’s approach to change and how motherhood has made her a more effective business owner (0.18.30)
- How did Libby overcome her fertility challenges to fall pregnant and was it something she planned (0.23.00)
- How does Libby juggle running multiple businesses and spending 2 days a week with her daughter (0.34.00)
- Has she found the perfect balance between business and baby (0.49.00)
- Tanya’s top tips for separating business and baby (0.53.30)
- What’s Libby’s plan for baby 2 and how lockdown has impacted that plan (1.01.00)
l am so grateful you took the time to listen to this episode. If this conversartion resonated with you please leave me a 5-star review in iTunes or on your podcast app so l can continue to bring you more interviews and conversations that can inspire and empower you to change your life!
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REFRENCES
Link to all of Libby’s business’s and programs https://linktr.ee/libbybabet
Libby’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/libbybabet/
Usborne Books
For 20 years Tiarnie has been wildly, consciously and fiercely curating, creating and mastering her own world. Astrology is her cosmic language, and with many tools in her toolkit, she believes self awareness, self sovereignty and authenticity are the pillars of self mastery. Tiarnie’s fascination with astrology began when she was just 9 years old and it has been her way of life ever since. Not just a belief or habit, Tiarnie embodies astrology and trusts that it is an incredible languae that enables us to understand, accpet and master ourselves. Her work is designed to equip people with a secrect super power that when you start to unlock your own chart and know who you are, we can begin to co-create and co-inhabit with the universe.
Tiarnie is a giver of information. Her years of study, research and trust in the universe has enabled her to help people remember who they are by removing blocks and arming them with awareness, which she believes is the best way to be prepared for the things that happen to them and around them so that they can live a life of freedom and liberation that comes from knowing who you are.
I was blessed to have Tiarnie referred to me by a close friend and fellow entrepeneur and began working with her to discover a deep understanding of not just myself but what was ahead for me. This understanding not only allowed me to feel fully seen by someone else but helped to navigate my way through difficult times and big decisions because for the first time in my life my chart readings gave me what l can confidently now call a road map of my own life.
l sat down with Tiarnie to find our how she discovered the magic of astrology and what it can tell us about who we are and where we are headed. Her work is in service to others and she belives once we master ourslves, we master the universe. Tiarnie’s is a coach through her astrolgy readings, runs emmersive astrology sessions for entrepreneurs, a 12 month Everyday Enlightenment course for anyone ready to not just know the path but to actually walk it and is the host of her own podcast Tiarnie Talks which are conversations on topics from Alchemical Astrology, Liquid Crystals, Practical Magic, Universal messages, to Mothering, Sex, Kids AND Relationships. And if all of this hasn’t captured your interest and attention then this conversation will!
In this episdoe we discuss:
- How Tanya discovered Tiarnie’s work (0.07.20)
- How Tiarnie got into Astrology (0.09.00)
- What information do you need in order to discover your chart and what your chart can tell you (0.14.50)
- Why is it important to know your chart? (0.15.00)
- If our lives are mapped out do we have free will? (0.17.00)
- Why is it important to know the archetypes of each star sign (0.21.00)
- Why star signs are not people and how each archetype plays out differently in our own lives (0.21.50)
- Why you need to know your own chart before you can undertsand the effects of the eclipses and retrogrades (0.25.50)
- Why charts are a map or blueprint to our lives (0.27.50)
- What do the 12 houses or archetypes represnt in our lives (0.29.50)
- How we know when we are not living in alignment and how our chart can help to pull us back in (0.36.00)
- Why there is no agenda in astrology(0.44.00)
- Why we can’t deny astrology as a way of life (0.51.00)
- Why not knowing your chart is like being blind folded driving a car
- Should we have rituals around full and new moons (0.56.00)
- Where do we start if we want to know more about astrology (1.04.00)
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Natalie is a highly qualified and regarded Melbourne based HMUA with a career spanning over three decades in the entertainment industry.
Her extensive experience extends across many platforms including film, television, theatre, fashion and advertising productions both in Australia and abroad.
Building a remarkable career has not been the only goal in Natalie’s life. Her love for Yoga evolved into her taking her teacher training and becoming a qualified instructor. She has also always had a deep down desire to have a family and although previous relationships and pregnancies didn’t result in the outcome she was hoping for, she also knew it didnt mean it was time to give up. At the age of 44 and single at the time Natalie began researching her options of becoming a mother through IVF with a donor. Her experience here in Australia at that age left her with limited to no choices and feeling incredibly dissappointed and unsupported in the system.
Still not willing to give up she began looking into treatment overseas and reserched many clinics and doctors who were more than happy to help her in her quest to become a mum. At 46 she underwent IVF treatment in South East Asia via a donor which did result in a positive pregnancy but unfortunately never went to term. Having recently undergone surgery to remove Fibroids, Natalie now 50 is continuing the journrey to motherhood reserching both donor eggs and sperm treatment overseas . Her determination and incredible approach to never conceeding until all options have been explored and exhausted is an inspiration to all women.
l was blessed to meet Natalie out one night through my dear soul sista Rebecca and our conversation that night was the trigger point in me moving from thought to process on the journey to becoming a mother. Natalie’s support to me through sharing information to help empower me to make the decison to change my life and also the emotional support during the treatment and pregancy has been the reason l can sit here today and share my story to also help others. Her message is that women need to know where they stand fertility wise and like myself her wish is to ensure there is more support and choices available for single women, especially older women her in Australia so they have more access to becoming parents alone.
In this episode we discuss:
“This Too Shall Pass”.
Rebecca is a woman, a sister, a daughter, a friend and a lover.
A former hair and makeup artist working in the film industry Rebecca burned herself out. She left behind the world she was “succeeding in” to live in right relationship with her energies natural ebbs and flows.
Deeply committed to supporting women in remembering that the greatest act of self love that they can do is to re connect to their own sacred ceremony, their menstrual cycle.
Rebecca has worked with women from all over the world supporting them
in connecting with their feminine essence as well as realizing their heart’s desires.
I have invited Rebecca on the show to share with us her incredible journey from Hair to Women’s Health and to empower us with the knowledge from her research and practice around Women’s Wombs and Menstral Cycles to help us become more in tune with our energies, know the best time to plan work, organise social events, create new projects, exercise and rest and how best to support ourselves with nutrition and herbs.
In this episode we discuss:
- Rebecca’s relationship to host Tanya and how they began thier sistahood (0.09.40)
- How Rebecca evolved from a career as a hair and make-up artist to living in Bali doing women’s work in the field of menstral health (0.11.38)
- How Rebecca’s work has always been about supporting women to uncover their radiance and connection to life regardless of the career she was in (0.13.05)
- How Rebecca’s own menstral cycle challenges lead her into reserching hormones and how she connected self worth to changes in her cycle (0.14.18)
- Why it is important to reflect on your life to see where you have been and where you have come from so you can turn that insight into growth (0.19.20)
- Why women don’t research what’s happening to them during their flow and choose instead to suffer in silence (0.22.00)
- How bleeding women were once treated like godesses and came together to bleed in tents (0.24.00)
- Why Rebecca refers to a women’s cycle as her moon and not her period (0.26.00)
- How a women’s cycle reflects the seasons of nature (0.27.00)
- What affect the patriarchal society had on the way women began to separate and the shame that began to form around their bleeds (029.00)
- Women’s experience with their first bleed or menarche and how that right of passage was for them (031.30)
- Where do we begin if we want to start understanding our cycle (0.37.30)
- The million dollar question! Should we rest on day 1 and why the answer is YES! (0.41.28)
- Why we need to be careful of our words and thoughts and how they are like spells (0.52.25)
- Why peri-menopause can trigger grief (0.54.00)
- Tracking your unique Rhythm & Flow (0.57.00)
- What to expect from a sacred moon workshop (1.06.00)
I am so grateful you took the time to listen to this episode. If this conversartion resonated with you please leave me a 5-star review in iTunes or on your podcast app so l can continue to bring you more interviews and conversations that can inspire and empower you to change your life!
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EPISODE RESOURCES
Rebecca May Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/the.womens.collective
Rebecca May Website: https://www.thewomenscollective.com.au
The Red Tent - Anita Diamont
“Live my life with passion and in a way that sets my soul on fire”
Camilla Drema, a big BALL of energy hailing from London, is 27 years old with a huge passion for all things fitness, music, spirituality and connection. She’s been Vicious Cycle’s Marketing & Sales Manager for the past 2 years and has brought all those passions into the brand and community.
She started her own side passion GRL TRBE as a means to empower women through a shared safe space through fitness & personal development. It’s taken on a life of its own and what started as a brunch club to hold important conversations, now holds events, workshops and even book clubs.
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I am so grateful you took the time to listen to this episode. If this conversartion resonated with you please leave me a 5-star review in iTunes or on your podcast app so we can continue to bring you more interviews and conversations that can inspire and empower you to change your life!
Please send any marketing opportunties or sponsorship proposals to tanya.weeks@gmail.com.
EPISODE RESOURCES
Camilla Drema Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camilladrema/
GRL TRBE Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/grltrbebrunchclub
Vicious Cycle Website - https://www.viciouscycle.com.au
Vicious Cycle Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/viciouscycle_
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Julia Gilard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - https://www.juliagillard.com.au/julias-book
Finally THE EMPOWERMENT PALACE is here! It’s been a dream of mine to create a space where l can share my story and offer up an abundance of knowledge that can inspire and empower you to change your life. This EP PRELUDE takes you inside for a glimpse of what to expect week to week as l bring you interviews and conversations with friends around all topics related to entrepreneurship, parenting in particular single parenting by choice and all things health and fitness related.
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For a list of all episodes, show notes and workshop links head to: https://www.theempowermentpalace.com.au/