Practical Magic Podcast with Kate Taylor: Recent Episodes
Kate Taylor
The Practical Magic podcast is a weekly dive into helping us live a BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL Life on our own terms with Kate Taylor, life design and empowerment coach. Practical Magic is Kate's blended melting pot of goodness to align mind, body and soul.
Each week on the podcast will be a voyage of discovery through the mind-body connection to uncover the buried treasure we have within each of us. Kate will be joined on the Practical Magic sofa by special guests from the worlds of creativity, wellness, modern spirituality, and those who live for unlocking the wisdom which lies in our experiences.
Find out more about Kate and her work at www.katetaylor.co, and the Practical Magic Activation Deck (your personal life coach in a box) at www.practicalmagicliving.com.
Hey Gorgeous Listeners!
I am super excited to have renowned designer and hell raiser James Victore on the show today! I am a HUGE fan and James is totally my kind of human!
James inspires brave rebels to step into bold creativity in order to achieve their personal greatness.
We discuss how we can let go of the pursuit of perfection and cover topics such as:
- James' backstory
- Creative Trauma
- Self-imposed limitations
- Unearthing our true creative selves
- Accessing Play, Joy & Love in our lives
- The power of femininity
- Letting children be & nurturing creativity
- Making good out of Covid-19
- Victim mode
- It is all a test!
- Beginning before you are ready
- Practicing self-love
Find out more about James' Creative Warrior Mentorship programme over at https://www.jamesvictore.com/
Hello Gorgeous Practical Magic listeners.
I am super excited to have the Beautiful Spiritual Queen Emma Mumford on the show to talk everything Law of Attraction.
Emma is an award-winning life coach and mentor, best-selling author, speaker, Law of Attraction YouTuber, and podcast host of the popular podcast ‘Spiritual Queen’s Badass Podcast’.
We talk about:
- Coupon Queen to Spiritual Queen
- Integrating spirituality into Law of Attraction
- The steps of Law of Attraction
- The Universe sees your vibes!
- Manifesting & stating your intentions
- Ask,Believe & Receive
- Being aware of resistance
- Trust & taking inspired action
- Learning to let go
- Coming from a place of abundance and not lack
- Practicing Gratitude
- Being Positively Wealthy
- Sustainably manifesting
- Feminine vs Masculine energy
- Maintaining mindset in the midst of bad news
- Mindful Spending
- Getting clear on your goals
Keep saying YES to your life yourself and yes to your dreams!
You can connect and learn more about Emma in the following places:
www.emmamumford.co.uk
www.instagram.com/iamemmamumford/
Book - Positively Wealthy
I cannot wait to share my conversation with you with The Beautiful, Soul Adventurer Trish Whelan.
Trish is a Kundalini Global Teacher, a Reiki Master Teacher, a Shamanic Healing Practitioner and a Sound Healing Therapist.
Trish also runs a retreat in ibiza and internationally and is opening up her beautiful home for me to share with my practical magic people this October so that they can experience the magic of gathering at a retreat.
In this episode we discuss what is important to us intrinsically and how we need to have a space to be with ourselves on all levels, removing the tools that we use to hide, whilst releasing the energy that is no longer serving us.
We talk about:
- Finding our Identity & purpose
- The Power of Reiki - Removing the Shackles
- Creating the space & removing blocks
- What are the non-negotiables?
- Lessons learned during Covid-19
- The simple pleasures experienced from slowing down
- Asking ourselves what is really important
- Soul adventuring & the need to retreat
- The technology of Kundalini yoga
- How to explore starting with a practice
- The 40-Day Journey
- Harnessing the ability to heal ourselves
You can connect with Trish and find out more about her retreats, practices and also her book at the following places:
www.souladventures.co.uk
www.kundaliniyogaibiza.com
https://www.facebook.com/souladventures
https://www.instagram.com/souladventures/
Hey Gorgeous listeners
I have a mission, my mission is to help light up 100,000 hearts over the world over the next 2 years so that people like yourself can create impact and transformation for a BIG,BOLD,BEAUTIFUL life.
In this episode i want to talk to you about YOUR mission.
I discuss:
- Being pulled out of a fear space by your mission
- Everyone has a mission
- Understanding what your mission is
- Why is your mission now?
- Being your own activist
- Helping you to clarify your mission
What is your mission? If you need help in bringing this into focus i am here to help. Get in touch www.katetaylor.co
On the Practical Magic Podcast the floor is open to Jade Sullivan. Jade is a mama of twins plus one and wife, a Black Activist & writer and creative entrepreneur.
Jade wrote an incredibly powerful article recently for Mother Pukka on the silence of white people on social media in the wake of the George Floyd murder, calling out how deafening it has been to have white voices stay silent when the Black community have been shouting about systemic racism for so long.
In the show today, Jade is here to share more about to talk more in depth about the post she shared. She covers a wide range of topics from:
Her own experiences with systemic racism
The stereotype of the Angry Black Woman, and how that affects the voices of so many Black women to be surpressed
How the silence of white influencers was deafening in the wake of George Floyd's death, and how we all have the position and collateral to do better
How the Black women are 5 x more likely to die in childbirth due to racism
How Black people are 4 x more likely to die from COVID-19 than white people
Why the education system needs to teach about a more diverse range of cultures and heritage of all nations
How the world's map is skewed
I am so incredibly grateful to Jade for coming onto the show to share her voice on the show.
Find out more about Jade:
Jade on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thesullivanslondon
Jade's 'The Silence was Deafening' Pass the Mic Post on Mother Pukka: https://www.motherpukka.co.uk/the-silence-was-deafening/
Jade's event business Yellowcroft Events: https://yellowcroft.com/
Get involved in your own Wonder Woman Twirl by posting your twirl on Instagram and using the hashtag #WonderWomanTwirl
Resource links:
The Angry Black Woman by Bozoma Saint John: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvjDDnJZjb/?igshid=gxj3lobiqsg9
Jane Elliot World Map Manipulation: https://youtu.be/Wg_LW-0DEEU
Uncovering Self: Adventures Into the Unknown | Nuakai Aru https://youtu.be/_YLKQZef6R0
Akala deconstructs race, class, and Britain's modern myths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atfVUgyEIOI&feature=youtu.be
The Monopoly Analogy: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBX4Aq7AEgz/?igshid=99blsldwbid5
Find out more about Black Pound Day on 27 June 2020: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBPJhY5H4mJ/?igshid=5acb45uv63ql
On the show today i have the Beautiful, ultra creative, feminist artist Vix Harris who is passionate about celebrating the strength, diversity and beauty of women (both internally & externally through her art. Her art reflects her deep love of the natural world, and her admiration and respect for the inspirational women who live life on their terms and refuse to apologise for taking up space.
We talk about how we can all tune into creativity & self care during this time of Lockdown and chose to use this time doing things that will help us when its time to reopen the doors to the outside world again.
We discuss:
- Vix's Background journey of to creativity
- Developing signature style
- Creativity as a path to wellness
- We are all born as creatives
- Having things around us that give us joy
- Opening up to sensory experiences
- Environmental influences
- Creating a great space
- The energy created whilst drawing
- The benefits of acts of kindness during lockdown
- Protecting our wellbeing during this time
You can connect further with Vix and see her art in the following places.
www.vixharris.com
www.instagram.com/VixHarrisArt
www.facebook.com/VixHarrisArt
www.pinterest.com/VixHarrisArt
A couple of weeks back I shared how we can turn our experiences of dissatisfaction into strengths, after my unfortunate run in with an uncomfortable non-wired bra! This got me to thinking about just what satisfaction is in our BIG, BOLD BEAUTIFUL lives.
On the show today I explore how we can expand beyond just putting up with our lot, and instead step into a life lived with full satisfaction.
In the show I share:
⚡️ Just what it is to live a BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL life in satisfaction, and why it's more about living in the present moment that worrying about what you do or don't have.
⚡️ Satisfaction to feel satiated and just how it can be to feel fullness and contentment in all areas of your BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL life.
⚡️ Why satisfaction is about fully embracing those opportunities you take yourself forward with, and how to own your accomplishments and growth spaces.
⚡️ Satisfaction and fulfilling your desires - and how doing something that has been driven by a deep sense of calling and purpose leads to satisfaction of no dream left unlived.
⚡️ Where you seize the call to arms to make the world a fairer and better place by tuning into where you are not satisfied, and how passion can fuel change.
Come and step into FULL EXPANSION as you journey with me over the next seven months to build your BIG, BOLD BEAUTIFUL dreams from the ground up with THE EXPANSION ACADEMY.
Doors to the ACADEMY will soon be closed for applications, so don't miss out on moving beyond your limitations and into FULL SATISFACTION.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE EXPANSION ACADEMY
I am beyond delighted to welcome back onto the Practical Magic Podcast my coach and mentor Suzy Ashworth.
Suzy is a mother of three, a Hay House author, TEDx speaker and a mindset and business coach, who has been leaping into the wild beyonds of creating in the quantum field.
I am down with the expansive power of energy and creating beyond our limitations, and I see just what’s possible when we step into that limitless space, so I invited Suzy on to share more more more.
In this empowering and fascinating topic we discuss:
- Just what the Quantum field is and how we can go quantum leaping to create beyond our wildest desires.
- Why energy is ever-y-thing
- How you can become a master of your energy so that you get to be in co-creation with the universe
- How you can start strengthening your energetic field in order to go beyond law of attraction in the manifestation game.
- The true potentiality of activated leadership
What are you putting up with in your life right now that is causing you discomfort and dissatisfaction?
Taking the lead for being open to more comfort in my life as we come out of lockdown, I ordered the ultimate comfort support - a non-wired bra. Game changer, or so I thought. Yes life without unnecessary wires is something to be cherished, but what I quickly noticed was that discomfort had been replaced by some bad design detailing on the bra that left me OBSESSING about it for days.
This got me to thinking about the levels of dissatisfaction we're putting up with, that lockdown is highlighting to us - the itches that need scratching - and making sure we do something about them now, before the doors re-open and we use the busyness of life to distract us.
On the show today, I'm sharing how you can turn your discomfort into a strength. One that you can learn from and do something about, before that seemingly small discomfort turns into an overwhelming burden.
You can also learn more about what you are going to be taking as learning from lockdown with my FREE ONLINE MASTERCLASS taking place next Wednesday 27 May.
Bag your seat and join me for an hour from 7:30pm BST.
SIGN UP FOR THE FREE LIFE AFTER LOCKDOWN MASTERCLASS >>>
In this episode i talk with the Gorgeous, Effervescent Donna Easton, the founder of LifeShine, which enables people of all ages to find a way to access parts of themselves that were locked away.
In early 2019 Donna attended a dance and drama class with her then 3 year old daughter, she was struck by the rigidness of the lesson with little outlet for self-expression. Where was the freedom to be who you want to be, to dream, to play, to laugh? It was completely absent.
With first hand childhood experience of how confidence, resilience, mindfulness and an overarching healthy sense of self-worth result from play without an agenda, Donna got to work on writing the LifeShine programme to reinforce the value of play-not just for children but for the adults who care for them;
Donna's mission is to help people recognise their worth, be confident in who they are, to have a few tools in their emotional toolkit to prevent mental health issues and enable them to have the time of their lives whilst doing it.
We discuss:
- Embracing your slippery slug!
- Dancing & singing for wellbeing
- Living your true self
- Reconnecting with who you are
- Remembering our inner child
- Creativity arising from Covid-19
Let's all make a conscious effort to access our inner child and start getting down with the essence of who we are!
You can connect more with the gorgeous Donna at;
www.mylifeshines.com
How do you start your mornings? Are you a pre-wee scroller heading over to Insta or Facebook to check in on what you might have missed over night? Do you dive headfirst into your emails before you've had chance to properly work out who you even are today? Maybe you catch up on the news before you've stepped foot out of bed.
How we start the day sets the tone for each and every day. The space we have each morning as we open our eyes is the most pliable time which creates the emotional and energetic preset for your day ahead.
Waking up to something that's going to kick your fight or flight reactors into play is creating a day that starts with cortisol and adrenaline firing through your system, and builds up from that point on.
Especially in these times of Coronavirus and lockdown, we are more susceptible to fear triggers from everywhere around us, and the more our fear triggers are activated, the more accumulate throughout the day and into your sleep. This causes something called allostatic load, which if left too long to build up causes wear and tear on the body and mind.
Having morning practices which allow you to create your day ahead from a place of breath and centre, is an incredible resource to help you feel calm, empowered and able to set the day in the way you need.
On the show I'm sharing some simple ways you can create a magical morning routine which will leave you feeling both EXPANSIVE and EMPOWERED and is good for your mental, emotional, spiritual, creative and physical health.
Enjoy creating space for yourself each day.
Creating a magical morning routine is taken from the EXPANSIVE EMPOWERMENT SESSIONS. These are seven powerful online mini courses to bring you calm in chaos. Dial up your confidence, fire up your energy and feel back in control.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE EXPANSIVE EMPOWERMENT SESSIONS >>
In lockdown life we have become aware of the duality of how we as humans give or take in nature and win our societies:
Hoarding vs. sharing
Going out vs. staying in
Not distancing vs. distancing
Self vs. society
How we show up in our humanness at this time is a reflection of our relationship to the world.
In time of lockdown nature is righting herself.
With no planes in the sky, less heavy industrial activity and not so many cars on the road, she is coming back to homeostasis.
It is shining light on some really truly uncomfortable truths that were always there, but that in light of COVID we can no longer ignore.
Being a human in society and the spiritual balance of receiving and sharing so in this special Practical Magic & Soul Pod Party Podcast collaboration with me and Karmic Alchemist Matt Taylor we discuss:
How to live inharmony and balance we must go beyond our nature and strike more than taking from our natural resource well.
How to live within the Law of Nature
Why the natural state of abundance if so surrender and trust; to give more and share more
Living society in its highest potential and how this restores balance in the cosmic system
Matt shares more about the Law of Development, and how this current time is here to remove negativity and restore rebalance
How we can share more from a place of non-attachment and no need for recognition.
You can join Matt and I for our online workshop ‘Making a Space for a Miracle’ on Thursday 14 May at 7:30pm BST / 8:30pm CET
BOOK NOW: https://sowl.co/bt81SZ
At the beginning of lockdown I was hosting some free online sessions where I would pull a Practical Magic card for the gathered group, and the same card kept coming up again and again; it was the SPACE card.
It's funny because at first people didn't trust what they saw 'It's just a blank card, there's nothing on it, are you sure that's supposed to be in the deck? ' When I asked them to feel into what the space card may be bringing up for them the words tumbled out:
I need space
I crave space
This is what I've been asking for for so long
I've been getting really curious about the lessons from lockdown and what we will be taking from them before the restrictions are lifted, and the resounding feedback, is that you don't want to lose the space this time has given you to pause, to reflect, to be rather than to do.
In this week's Practical Magic podcast episode I am sharing the importance of space, and how we can harness it, what we can learn about it in lockdown. Also, how it gives us the opportunity to connect to a life on our terms, and how we want to create a better world as a result of having this time for reflection.
It's also the most ideal time to get EXPANSIVE within space, as space has no limitations.
Find out more about how with the EXPANSIVE EMPOWERMENT SESSIONS here.
We're going on an exploration of the energy centres, otherwise known as chakras, in the Practical Magic Podcast today. At this time when we've been feeling overwhelmed and disconnected, it's time to connect back into the wisdom of our body to tune into what's not feeling good from an emotional, physical, mental and spiritual point of view.
Chakras are energy wheels that run through the body, and connect to what's going on in our body's, in our lives, and all around us. When they are out of whack, we are out of whack.
So on the show I take you through each of the seven main chakras in the body, what they relate to, how you can tell if you're off in each of the chakras.
Understanding what's going on from an energetic point of view has been the thing which has brought me home to my life, my body and my BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL self again and again and again, so I am honoured to share this information with you.
I am also over the moon to be sharing a new online offering with you; the EXPANSIVE EMPOWERMENT SESSIONS are seven online courses taking you through each of the chakras to help you relight your energy, your motivation and your confidence.
You can find out more, and buy any of the seven courses individually, or the full programme here.
How are you managing yourself through this huge period of change which we have had thrust upon us with COVID-19? Likelihood is that you’re navigating your way through each day, and trying to find a way to create some ‘new normal’
Even though we are all in this, each one of us has a different way of responding and reacting to this new normal whilst collectively grieving for our old daily lives, our previous sense of identity, and the plans we had made before this all happened.
So on the show today, I’m sharing how we navigate our way through change, and how we can use the 'Kübler Ross Change Curve' to see where we’re at, and where we might jump around on, to get some sense of awareness and grounding as we move forward. On the show I discuss the stages, and what might be showing up for you in each, and how you can move your way through them.
What I do know is that our lives will never be the same again, but we will come out of this period of time, and we will adapt to change, so let's keep our energy expansive and keep creating to empower our BIG,BOLD,BEAUTIFUL lives.
Throughout this time I am offering some online workshops, Qoya classes and creating content to help you as we move forwards, so make sure you’re signed up to my mailing list so that you can receive information and dates directly to your inbox.
SIGN UP TO HEAR MORE ABOUT ONLINE SESSIONS
We are in crazy, crazy times right now, where anxiety and fear are heightened and we cannot escape the news. In today’s show I talk about what we can do to look after ourselves and others, in the midst of the challenges around Covid-19.
- What do you need for yourself right now
- Checking in with yourself and recognise how you are feeling at the moment
- Actions to take to deal with the feelings
- Changing your physiological self
- Raising kindness and compassion
- Creating the feel good hormones
- Learn something new
- Expand your energy challenge
With love and magic
Kate x
“Today I have a lighter experience of suffering which only exists moment to moment. Generally my default state is one of peace which brings a sense of freedom, connection and endless possibilities within my life.”
Meet Life Mentor and writer, Nicole Barton, something of a unicorn within the self-help industry for her candid notion that nobody needs self-help. Committed to supporting people in finding freedom from whatever their particular form of suffering is, she is a breath of fresh air in her admission that while meditation, yoga and anything that leads us into soul-led expression can be useful to drop us out of our heads and into our hearts, none of these practices are prerequisites to peace. Profound, in that Nicole’s life thus far has not been devoid of challenge or trauma.
Nicole shares her early experiences with Trauma and her thinking around her belief that people are born with an innate wellbeing and resilience and do not require ‘fixing’.
In this episode we also discuss:
- Nicole’s early experiences with suffering
- How trauma shows up in our bodies
- Nicole’s initial quest to “fix herself”
- Join the re-discovery movement
- Being aware of our thoughts and not trying to change them
- The three principles
- Freedom with awareness
- Ways of dealing with anxiety
- Learning to sit with yourself & the feeling
- Tools & techniques for re-connecting
You can connect with Nicole Barton in the following ways:
Website
Or Join Nicole at The Awakening, festival of wellbeing, connection and self care.
Find out more about The Awakening, festival of wellbeing, connection and self care taking place on the Isle of Wight 6 & 7 June 2020.
In today's show I am talking about Disruption and how by stepping out of our comfort zone, showing up and doing something different we can put the BOLD into our BIG BEAUTIFUL lives.
Disruption does not need to mean destruction, it is about being brave, taking chances and breaking old habits to enable us to connect to our purpose.
It’s time for disruption, so what are you going to do this week to disrupt your pattern and move into your BIG,BOLD,BEAUTIFUL LIFE?
Find out more about The Awakening, festival of wellbeing, connection and self care taking place on the Isle of Wight 6 & 7 June 2020.
www.awakeningfestival.co.uk
Living the BOLD in a BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL life can often be the thing we struggle with the most. Becoming visible and stepping up to share our voice can lead to all kinds of fears rearing their heads around being judged, not being good enough, or the good old imposter creeping in to try and keep us back behind the curtain. But, you are needed. Your voice needs to be heard.
And thankfully, on the Practical Magic Podcast this week, I am speaking with Jessica Huie MBE, who’s here to help you do just that. She’s on the show sharing her work on Transformational Visibility.
Jessica enjoyed a glittering career as a publicist and has worked with some of the world’s biggest stars, including Samuel L. Jackson and Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle. Her book PURPOSE, published by Hay House in 2018, has been instrumental in helping us connect in with our mission to show up and live life from a place of being guided from within - and now Transformational Visibility is about helping us to show up and share our voice.
Jessica is joining The Awakening to host a wellbeing workshop, and she shares all about this and more on the show today, as well as:
▪How Transformational Visibility allows us to be more of who we are
▪How we can shine our light be stepping out of the shadows and sharing our voice
▪Why your message is more about who you are here to help
▪How to get more comfortable with public speaking and sharing your message
▪Why getting visible can be as much about talking to 1 person as much as it can
be about talking to 1 million people
▪The power of connection and community to support you as you become visible.
Find out more about Jessica
Website
Instagram
Facebook
Twitter
Jessica’s Transformational Visibility Academy - be quick, applications close of 13 March 2020:
https://www.jessicahuie.com/transformational-visibility-academy/
Jessica’s Shine Your Light & Raise Your Profile Masterclass taking place in London on 16 March:
https://www.jessicahuie.com/eventbrite-event/embrace-visibility-shine-your-light-and-raise-your-
profile-masterclass-3/
Find out more about more about Jessica’s incredible workshop at The Awakening, festival of wellbeing,
connection and self care taking place on the Isle of Wight 6 & 7 June 2020
www.awakeningfestival.co.uk
When making changes towards a BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL Life we can rationally tell ourselves we know it’s going to take time, and that we’re in it for the journey, not just the destination, yet we still demand huge shifts and instant results straight away. Today on the Practical Magic Podcast I’m sharing with you a super-simple, yet effective strategy that will make a huge difference - the one percent shift.
The one percent shift is about taking simple micro changes each and every day, that when added up over the course of a week, a month, a year, builds up to some serious BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL
transformation.
So, if one thing you can do today is to listen to this podcast episode, then let that be a step on your BIG,
BOLD, BEAUTIFUL journey.
Meet Joanna Forest, the UK’s number official number one selling classical soprano. Joanna she to fame in 2017 when she became the first independent artist to shoot straight to Number 1 in the Official Classical Album Charts with her debut album ‘Stars are Rising’.
Whilst at Stage School Joanna was one of the youngest women to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of just 21.
On the show today, Joanna talks about the impact this had on her life, and her career, and how it has helped shaped her musical journey. We also talk about Joanna has forged her career as an independent artist who has won much critical acclaim, including breaking records for going straight to number 1 with her debut album, her second alum ‘Rising Stars’ shooting straight to the top of the classical charts last year, creating her own show in the West End, her first public performance singing with Britain’s Got Talent star Paul Potts, and the song she sang ‘By My Side’ recorded to celebrate 60 years of Cruse making no. 1 in the Classical Singles Charts in 2019.
Joanna shares how she’s navigated the steep learning curve of being an independent artist, the magical power of classical music to benefit mental health, and how her new album ‘Rhythm of Life’ is a musical journey for the whole family, and how music is a connection to imagination and creativity in an over-stimulated world.
Find out more about Joanna
Website
Joanna’s classical album for children, Rhythm of Life is now available now.
The song you hear on the podcast, is Joanna’s recording of Life on Mars, originally written by David Bowie, which was recorded with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra in 2017.
Just how much do you find yourself in the shadows?
Today on the show I'm sharing why it's time to step out of the shadows of your life and into the light of what a BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL version looks like feels like, sounds like and feels like. For you, and only you, because when you do so it creates so much more for you and the world around you.
This does require you to step into the expansiveness of this and just what is available to you, because most of us are operating at 25% of our energetic potential keeping 75% hidden from the world, and that’s just freaking sad.
25% is the doing OK. It’s operating at a level that is just about keep your head above water. And don’t get me wrong, there is no judgement that. We’re all doing the best we can can with what we have, and the tools that we have available to us right now.
But 75%.
75% if you is hiding in the shadows, and that means hiding through holding yourself back because fear of shouting louder, and you’re not giving yourself space to listen to expense of truth and intuition about just what is possible.
75% of you is keeping yourself in a constant state of overwhelm, and being busy, and being all the things to all the people and giving it all away to everyone other than you.
75% of you is hidden because you’re not connected to your vision, your values, or your purpose, and how you were here to show up, and be of service and create in the world.
75% of you is hidden away because you’re stuck in a negative super-loop of lack thinking that you don’t have enough so how can you have anything else it feels completely out of reach.
And then 75% of you is hidden away because that fear of judgement what will other people think an old stories and narratives are holding you back.
Well I wanna call time on this it really is time to step out of the shadows it really is time particularly now to step into the BIGGEST, BOLDEST, most BEAUTIFUL version of your life. This is about showing up. This is about creating. This is about calling it out and getting really clear on what it is, and having a creative and healthy support system and belief system is going to help you to get there.
Get in contact with me, I want to talk to you about creating a BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL life. Email me kate@katetaylor.co
Find out more about The Awakening, festival of wellbeing, connection and self care taking place on the Isle of Wight 6 & 7 June 2020.
www.awakeningfestival.co.uk
A #BigBoldBeautiful life requires a step up and into a transformative experience to get you out of stuck behaviours, of old holding patterns, and repetitive ways of acting which mean you go round in circles chasing your tail. On the show today, I'm talking about the idea of transformation and radical change.
Transformation is radical change. And whilst the idea of radical change can be daunting, it can also be incredible exciting; an evolution, and evolving through transformative ways of living.
Transformation to living a BIG life, where you no longer hold yourself back, or play small.
Transformation to a BOLD life, one where you show up for ALL of it
Transformation to BEAUTIFUL Life, one of your creation, purpose and passion.
Transformation to make a POSITIVE IMPACT on the world.
Most people will wait for transformation to come to them
Most people will operate at 25% of what is available to them.
Transformation requires you to step up, and step into what’s possible
It requires you to go deep.
It requires you to be brave.
It requires you to get on board with the idea of radical change.
I want to talk to YOU about you saying YES to your BIG, BOLD BEAUTIFUL Life.
Find out more about the KICKSTART YOUR BIG, BOLD BEAUTIFUL 2020 group coaching programme
Find out more about the Practical Magic Spring Weekend Retreat on the Isle of Wight
Find out more about the deeply transformational Ibiza Retreat in October
Happy 2020, I am so looking forward to sharing more Practical Magic goodness with you over the airwaves this year. January is all about creating your BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL year ahead, but before we go rushing full steam into it like excited puppies, we are going to take some space for a little pause to review and reflect on the year that's been.
As humans we tend to bunch information up, and give a generalised view of one year to the next, because if we tried to process 365 days all at the same time, we would fall over. Often we use a 'catch-all' term for a year that's been, whether it was 'good', or 'bad', 'great' or an 'annus horribilis'.
On the show today, I'm talking about what you may have deleted, distorted or generalised from you year in 2019 and why it's important to get into some of the detail, so that you get more of what you want, and less of what you don't want for 2020.
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How often do you take the time to celebrate outside of birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, New Year, or any other key points in the year? When I work with clients, one of the fundamental parts of our work is to celebrate every time they take action.
As we are just a few days away from New Years, and the dawn of a new decade, I'm sharing why celebration isn't just for new years, and why celebrating is so important for wellbeing, productivity, confidence, resilience and motivation.
So, here's to celebrating the highlights and show reel of 2019, to kick off 2020 is BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL style.
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Two months ago I was spending my birthday at a beautiful spa creating my intentions for my year ahead. As part of that I called in the kind of energy; the people, the vibrancy, the kind of clients and work I wanted to be doing in 2020, and the environments I wanted to be creating these in, including the one I was in that day.
Fast forward two months and I was there again working with a VIP client in that space that I had created all those vibes. It was like a magic manifestation of everything that I desired.
In the show today I'm taking about the power of creating magnetic energy on a physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and creative energy, and what you're calling in for 2020. This also includes the people, the money, the clients, the opportunities and so much more.
So, let's call it in for a BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL year.
Join me to call it all on with my free mini course starting 6th Jan 2020 to kickstart an incredible year ahead.
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On the show today, I'm talking about how the language we use creates our reality. From the verbal language we use, to the non-verbal, the 'language' we use to speak to ourselves, about ourselves, makes a difference to our levels of ability, confidence and sense of self. And ultimately; creates our reality.
As a Master NLP Practitioner, I'm fascinated by the way linguistics and language creates both positive and negative effects on us. I noticed it recently when a friend was telling me about her flourishing new business, and described it as her 'little' business. I hear it a lot, and it's predominantly language that women use; the 'little's, the 'just's; we don't own our contribution to something incredible.
On the show I share:
- The narratives we are fed as kids as how they shape our adult world
- How apologetic vs. unapologetic language affects us - did you know that women are 4 x more likely to use apologetic language!
- How the language we use can change the way we take ownership of blame, and add unnecessary emotion to a situation
- How our language creates our identity
- Why the word 'should' creates excess pressure and guilt.
- And ways in which we can reframe self talk and language to remove restrictions, and create freedom.
Resources I mention in the show:
Ted Talk with Lera Boroditsky - How Language Shapes the Way We Think
From Conscious Lifestyle Magazine - The Power of Language: How to Shape Your Reality With Your Words
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What resistance are you feeling right now about a situation, which could be the thingyou've been looking for, which will help you change up in your BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL Life?
On the show today, I'm talking about the idea of resistance, and how it can actually be the thing which unlocks the key to knowledge and wisdom. And how, on the other side of this resistance is freedom and growth.
Grab a pen and a journal as we explore resistance through the lens of the energy centres of our mental, physical, emotional and spiritual.
Let's learn from it, and bust it through!
On the show today, I'm sharing with you the three stories you're telling yourself which are keeping you stuck.
In this mini series of episodes which are airing as we hit the end of the year, and knee slide into a new decade, I'm diving into more delicious detail as to how we can get towards a BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL Life. Or, namely the thing that stops us from getting there.
In this episode we explore the narratives of:
The 'I don't haves' and how what we are telling ourselves about the things we think we don't have is holding us back, is not the actual truth, and how this lack mentality is at play.
The 'When I's' that are keeping you stuck in the fallacy of waiting until everything is perfect before you can start living your life in the way you want to be living.
The 'I'm worried thats', oh yes, this old chestnut. How we are pre-disposed to head towards catastrophising and sending ourselves off a big cliff of doom of what could go wrong before we've even made a start.
This one is for you, once you have awareness you can start working through it.
Join me for me FREE Masterclass on How to create your biggest, boldest and most beautiful year yet (without making it complicated or overwhelming), taking place on Thursday 28 Nov GMT.
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Often ideas towards living a BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL come from a lightbulb moment, or divinely guided inspiration towards how we can meet someone else’s needs. The idea can seem so beautifully simple, yet obvious. Why hasn’t someone else thought if it before? Surely they must have done? No, wow, OK, let’s make it happen.
So, you make a start, and then quickly start getting over-excited about all the possibilities of what you could do. You start adding idea to idea to idea to idea. And then before too long, that beautifully simple idea begins to get completely overwhelming.
Today on the show, I'm talking about why we overcomplicate things on the show today, and why it might be the perfectionist at play, and your ego trying to keep you in a comfort zone.
I’m going to be sharing ways in which you can take your BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL Life idea to the next level without drawing yourself in overwhelm in my FREE Masterclass happening on Thursday 28 November
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2020 is going to be a year of living in our full potential, a year of activation and a year of possibility, and I'm inviting you along for the ride, as we up-level to live a BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL LIFE.
But, wait a minute, what if you want to harness to power of possibility, but you are hit with all the worries and doubts about, why me? How me? I don't know where to start? I'm just not ready yet?
Well, lovely Practical Magic Podcast listener, I am here on the show today to share with you just why you are ready NOW, and why there really is no better time to start planning, living and rocking that BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL life right NOW.
No more waiting until the 'perfect' moment exists, or all the things are in place. Our energy is about making it happen, regardless of whether you think you're ready or not (sidenote, none of us are ready, there is no perfect time, in fact, the most perfect of time is non-other than right now!)
Enjoy listening, and do sign up to be the first to hear about the BIG, BOLD, BEAUTIFUL Masterclass taking place at the end of November.
Would you describe yourself as a multi-hyphenate, multipotentialite, or in my case the proverbial 'slashie', meaning that I have so many strings to my bow, and things that I love to do in my work, that I find it difficult to encapsulate it all into one job title.
Being a multipotentialite or multi-hyphenate doesn't always have to relate to our work, it can relate to all of the things that we do in work, in careers, at home, in our interests; in live overall. Having so many things on the go at the same time can lead to overwhelm if we're trying to do them all at the same time, and feeling as though we not giving all the attention to all things at all times. Enter then the concept of the Carousel, devised by my lovely client - and multipotentialite - Sarah Weiler, who honours that having variety in life and career doesn't have to mean doing all the things at the same time, and that variety can also mean focus. Not one or the other.
Sarah has spent the last 12 years teaching, facilitating and coaching all over the world and working hard to build a life full of activities that make her feel alive. These include: Power of Uke (using the ukulele to access Growth Mindset and Creativity in corporate organisations like Google and PWC), Rye Laughs Comedy night, DJing, stand-up comedy, career and life coaching, teaching money mindset, becoming a TEDx speaker around the topic of Quitting and most recently creating The Carousel. Her claim to fame is her GDPR comedy song, which went viral.
So listen in to this fascinating conversation, as we celebrate our lives of having lots of different creative ideas and projects on the go.
On the show we chat:
- Just what the Carousel is, and how we can adopt it into our lives.
- Why there has been a societal bias towards focus over variety, when actually the Carousel means you can have both.
- Why doing less and taking time to be 'off' to 'do nothing' feeds the energy and flow of your creative projects, work and life in general.
- Embracing the cyclical / seasonal nature of life and our work.
- How bringing in Sarah's principles of quitting can actually benefit the rest of your life and work, rather than fearing it.
- How to bring the carousel into your life as a way of living.
- Just what's on Sarah's carousel right now, and what's at the back of her carousel.
Where to find Sarah on social media:
- https://www.facebook.com/ryelaughs/
- https://www.facebook.com/powerofuke
- https://www.facebook.com/DjSarahToninUK/
Where to find out what's on Sarah's Carousel:
- Sarah's Power of Uke website
- Reconnect with Your Creativity Event - Nov 12 2019
- Rye Laughs Comedy Night - Nov 13 2019
- Sign up to The Carousel Tiny Newsletter
- Day of Musical Joy - December 8 - Email Sarah
- The Quitting Quadrant
- New and Full Moon Ceremonies and Character act Sarah Moany (hilarious)
- Sarah's comedy songwriting
- Sarah's famed GDPR song
How often do you find yourself saying 'yes' to things through gritted teeth? Yes is a word in our lives that is lived with excitement, possibility and adventure, but so often we're held back, because we are saying yes to the things which aren't serving us. So on the show today, I'm flying solo to share with you the power of NO, in order to get to the big, bright, juicy, expansive YES!
On the show, I'm sharing ways which will help you get OK with saying NO, and what you need to do to hold the stare when the guild kicks in, or you worry about relinquishing the controls over to someone else (yes, love, I know it's hard!)
Listen in, this is a goodie. And I'm here to help if you you want to get to that big, bold, juicy, unapologetic YES. This is my super-strength as a coach.
Work with me
And also, the Practical Magic Spring Retreat is now SOLD OUT, so don't miss out on the incredible offering of the Magnify Your Radiance New Year Retreat taking place on the Isle of Wight from 29 Dec - 1 Jan. 2020 really is your year of YES.
Find out more about the Magnify Your Radiance New Year Retreat on the Isle of Wight.
This week on the show we are talking about anxiety, or specifically, how to go from Anxiety to Accomplishment, as I talk with incredible Sabrina Pace Humphreys, who's on a mission to help a million people transform their anxiety into the drive and energy to accomplish their goals.
Having run the ‘toughest footrace on earth’ - the 250KM Marathon Des Sables - across the Sahara Desert, and through her online course ‘anxiety to accomplishment’, Sabrina teaches men and women the tried and true mindset strategies/ wisdom teachings that got her across the finish line as the 13th GB woman. Strategies that she wholeheartedly believes can be learnt and employed by anyone in order to help them accomplish their hearts desire be it professional, personal or spiritual.
On the show as we discuss:
- Sabrina's story with anxiety, and how its crippling effects took over her life.
- How Sabrina used anxiety to help her push forward in completing the Toughest Footrace on Earth
- What she learnt about herself and anxiety through the ultra marathon process
- The power of focus and immersion to harness anxiety and turn it to accomplishment
- The cultivation of community, and which 5 people / personalities you need around you to help you achieve
- Changing the language or the anxiety voice to inner voice, and how to use 'The Committee' to quiet out the raucous inner critic.
Links to Sabrina
- Sign up to hear about her online Anxiety to Accomplishment Online Course
- Sabrina on Instagram
Sabrina's Anxiety to Accomplishment songs:
- Love on Top - Beyoncé
- Highway to Hell - ACDC
Find out more about my upcoming retreats:
- Magnify Your Radiance New Year Retreat on the Isle of Wight
- Practical Magic Spring Weekend on the Isle of Wight
- Practical Magic Retreat Ibiza
Money money money, it's a funny thing isn't it? Something we need to live and create a life in the way we want it, but also something we can have a less than healthy relationship with. On the show today I'm talking with Financial expert Sarah King as she shares ways in which we can have an empowering relationship with money to get us towards financial freedom.
We talk about:
- What it means to live a fulfilled financial future, and an empowered financial life.
- Sarah shares her own personal money story
- How a lack of education around money growing up has put a lot of women behind when it comes to financial empowerment
- How negative language around money impacts our relationship with money
- Demystifying and clearing the jargon around the language of money, which has for so long been created for men
- Using and owning our own voice when it comes to financial freedom and wealth
- How to own your financial power at home and in work
- How to show the financial value of feminine aspects of relationship building, empathy, creativity and community in the workplace
- How to bring empowered communication into relationships if you start a family
- Sarah's practical advice and positive action, as well as her self care routines around money and life.
Where to find Sarah:
Karmic Alchemist Matt Taylor and I come together for the third and final episode the third of our mini series 'Better Sleep to Beat Burnout' - our three part series of podcasts based our the power of sleep and dreams with practical application and consciousness raising to live a creative life. Today on the show we are talking about harnessing the power of sleep & dreams to live creatively, and how we can bring what we learn in sleep into our awakened lives.
In the episode we focus on how we can move away from a negative, autopilot robotic and reactive states to awaken your creative power. We also reveal how to leverage sleep to overcome past life issues, connect to the power of waking up to gain messages and implement practical, simple tools to transform your life to a mastered state.
This series provides instantly effective tips, tools and technologies to immediately improve, deepen and maximise your sleep power in order to quickly rejuvenate, refresh and revitalise so that you can avoid or heal stressful, anxious burnout. This is now the number one issue affecting the workplace leading to severe impacts on our lives.
Join us for fun, lively and fascinating insights into the world of sleep.
This week's show I'm flying solo to talk about lack mentality and how we can break up with it, and tell it stay the hell out of our lives... for good.
The show is a rally cry, and it's one based on some rather painful untruths I had been experiencing, which came to a head last week around how I didn't feel enough, or that I wasn't able to show up for my work, and therefore nobody liked me, and everything was going to go horribly wrong, I mean boo hoo, big time.
And I know I'm not alone in this. We all suffer with this idea that we're not good enough to get the job, the relationship, the clients, the life we want. Or we believe that there's just not enough resources to go around, such as time, money, capabilities, opportunities. This is lack mentality, and it sucks. So on the show today, I am sharing ways in which we can switch from the detrimental toxic relationship with lack mentality, to build an empowering, uplifting, and supportive love relationship with an abundant mindset, and abundant life.
On the show I share:
- A personal story as to what's lead me to the need to break up with a toxic relationship with lack mentality
- Just what the frick lack mentality is
- How, and where, it shows up in your life, and how it could be holding you back
- How it ties into the 'not enoughs'
- How we may be running a subconscious programming which says that all resources are finite, so if someone has more of what you want, that means you must have less
- How to call time and BS on lack mentality
- The go-to tools I share with you to switch from lack to abundance
- And finally, the big ask I have of YOU.
I'm ready to work with YOU, I am so ready to dial this up, and I am here to help you do the same in your life, so let's make it happen.
Want to find out how to work with me:
Find out more about the different programmes and work I offer:
- Life Coaching: Activate Your Magic life
- Neuro Linguistic Programming: Clear limiting beliefs and get empowered
- Creative Business Coaching & Mentoring: Get your business off the ground / take your business to the next level
Try a life coaching or NLP Taster Session
Join my reset / refocus online classroom on Tuesday 8 October
And here's a little song inspiration to help you shift it up!
Get up Offa That Thing: James Brown
How often do you give yourself permission in your life? On the Practical Magic podcast as part of the Reset & Refocus sessions today I am in conversation with the wonderful Susie Sourwine as we talk about the subject of permission, and how we can live our lives from a place of doing just that.
On the show we talk about:
- How permission is linked to decision making around what it is that we truly want in our lives.
- Being conscious about what we choose to measure our lives against, and not just about what the factory settings
- Obligations i.e. what you think you have to do vs. choice i.e. what you want / enjoy doing
- How to claim your own personal sovereignty around what you want and how to claim taking action around that
- The key points of permission around the three points of Desire, Decide and Do
- Why Permission is being in the present and an essential self care practice
- Permission is meeting yourself where you’re at
- Susie’s genius and simple tips for granting permission in our lives.
Susie’s self care tips:
- Paying attention to how to do things without hurting ourselves
- Connecting in with nature to connect into the nature of ourselves
- Feeding ourselves for powering up
Where to find out more about Susie:
- Susie's website
- The Little Book of Permission
- Susie's courses on permission
- Susie on Instagram
- Susie on Facebook
- Susie on Twitter
Susie’s song choice
Jessie J - Do it Like a Dude
Matt Taylor and I return for the second episode in our podcast mini series where we explore the practical and spiritual aspects of how we can get better sleep to beat burnout. This series provides instantly effective tips, tools and technologies to immediately improve, deepen and maximise your sleep power in order to quickly rejuvenate, refresh and revitalise so that you can avoid or heal stressful, anxious burnout. This is now the number one issue affecting the workplace leading to severe impacts on our lives.
In the episode today Matt and I discussing the power of dreams; why we dream, the purpose of our dreams, how we can use dreams to make sense of what's going on in our lives, the realm of dreams, travelling and messages and how we can use them practically, properly and powerfully to create great shift in our lives and improve our energy.
Join us for fun, lively and fascinating insights into the world of sleep.
Well, when you hear that someone's written a book called 'Be a Free Range Human' you just know that you've got to get them onto your show. As I'm all about helping you to live a life on your own terms, it seems that Marianne Cantwell and I are talking the same language.
This week on the Practical Magic Podcast, and as part of the Reset & Refocus conversations, I'm talking with Marianne about living a free range life, and how much has changed since she released the first edition of the book back in 2012.
On the show we talk about:
- What is is to live a truly free range life, and how it's not just about being a digital nomad tapping away from your keyboard in Bali!
- Why it's important to strip back the outer layers of how we want to life our lives, to get to understand what makes us tick, and what's at the core of who we are as individual human hearts.
- The cultural shift Marianne has noticed since writing the first edition of Be a Free Range Human 7 years ago, and how there's no 6 week programme out there that will get you to where you really desire to be.
- How living a free range life is about being led by intuition and accessing your inner wisdom, all whilst having your feet on the ground.
- How to deal with the 'Beige Army', i.e. why fear doesn't need to dominate living a life on your own terms, and not letting other people's stories hold you back.
- Bringing your whole self (mess and glory) to the free range party.
Marianne also shares her wellbeing and self care go-tos (they involve sound baths and breath work, which I am ALL over).
Find out more about Marianne
Her Website
Her book: Be A Free Range Human: Escape the 9-5, Create a Life You Love and Still Pay the Bills
Marianne's free range song choices
If You Wanna Sing Out Sing Out - Yusuf / Cat Stephens
Waste - Foster the People
This new episode starts the first in a series of Reset & Refocus shows on the Practical Magic Podcast to bring in September's new term vibe, and I have the pleasure of sharing the words and wisdom of the lovely Selina Barker, Career Change Coach, and one half of the fabulous Project Love.
Selina's on the show with me this week and we are in conversation about career change. Throughout the show Selina shares her motivation and wisdom with us.
On the show we chat about:
- Selina's story and how she redefined the 'factory settings' of her career early on.
- How following your passions and what you enjoy doing can define your career.
- How to follow and use your intuition rather than the path of 'should's and other people's expectations or obligations, to do what you really want to do.
- The metamorphosis of our selves, and how this shapes our career path and career changes.
- How career change doesn't have to be one big leap, it can be a series of explorations and projects in experimentation.
- How to create a safe space for you to 'fail' as you're making new changes, or rather, how failure is not a real thing.
- Why self care is fundamentally first when it comes to kicking a career change into action.
Links for further resources:
- Selina's website
- Project Love website
- Selina's 3 month career change coaching programme
- Goodbye 2019 / Hello 2020 Journal
- Power Thoughts by Natalie Costa
Lift up your headphones for a moment, I’ve got some exciting Practical Magic Podcast news, whilst taking a slight summer hiatus, I am excited to announce the launch of a summer mini series with collaborator and Karmic Alchemist Matt Taylor as we bring together the Practical Magic Podcast with Matt’s Soul Pod Party to bring you ‘Better Sleep to Beat Burnout’.
In this first of the three series sessions we are bringing you a soulful conversation on the Power, Purpose & Phenomenon of sleep. In the episode I bring the practical purpose and power of sleep, and Matt bring the soul’s purpose of sleep and how both the practical and the soul connect together through rest and restoration of the body to allow the soul and mind to refresh and come online.
Listen in as we discuss:
- How burnout affects sleep, and why sleep is the biggest factor in affecting burnout
- The different stages of sleep and the sleep cycles and what’s going on physically in our bodies, and the soul
- The power of breath and how this positively impacts the body, sleep and the soul
- How what we do in the day affects our sleep, and how the day is actually the set up for your sleep, not better sleep to affect your day
- Practical and spiritual tools to help you aid your sleep.
Matt & I are so excited to be sharing this wonderful mini series with you. We hope you enjoy listening in and learning ways for your body, mind and soul to get better sleep, and how this helps beat burnout.
Darling ones, just a little heads up from me as we hit the summer months. I'm taking a short podcast hiatus, and will be back in your ears, and on your airwaves in September.
Until then, catch up with my on social media @katetaylorcreativeliving, and at The Great Wonderfest 2-4 August on the Isle of Wight where I'll be hosting The Awakening Retreat.
Have a good 6 weeks or so.
How can sharing change the world? You may or may not be aware that this week (16-22 June 2019) is Global Sharing Week. It’s also the week that an incredible new book by Benita Matofska and Sophie Sheinwald called Generation Share. Generation Share is a collaboration between speaker, social change-maker and global Sharing Economy expert Benita Matofska and visual storyteller and photographer Sophie Sheinwald. It brings to life the phenomenon causing the most significant shift in society since the Industrial Revolution, and does so through telling the awe-inspiring stories of the change-makers behind the Sharing Economy.
On the Practical Magic Podcast this week I am sharing Benita and Sophie, and some of the incredible stories examples of sharing and the stories of profound examples of sharing from around the world, and how it captures the powerful action we can take when we capture hope and positivity around the world.
We also explore
- How humility drives purpose and passion
- How Sophie captured the spirit alive in those she photographed by connecting them back to their purpose
- How life saving milk banks could prevent 2.1m deaths per year
- How the power of sharing connected Benita and Sophie to the slums of Mumbai and an incredible young change maker who is educating and providing a meal for women who wouldn’t have access to education or food.
- How the food sharing app Olio is putting an end to food waste and allows people in their local communities to eat and connect with their neighbours
- How the sharing economy is the true value of the ‘we’ not ‘me’ generation.
Find out more about Benita, Sophie and Generation Share
Generation Share, the book
Generation Share on Instagram
Benita Matofska website
Benita Matofska Instagram
Benita Matofska Twitter
Sophie Sheinwald website
Sophie Sheinwald Instagram
Benita & Sophie’s Sharing Track
Why Share by Rifka Ravenna
When thinking about the topic for this week's Practical Magic Podcast I consulted the Practical Magic Activation Deck and pulled the dance card... twice.
So, I followed the call of the disco ball and dance with what I was going to share with you on the show today, and what I got was the kind of magic that only happens when you move and groove to get out of your stuck head and back in connection with the wisdom of your body, and your intuition.
Take a listen and enjoy the activation challenge at the end of the podcast.
My dance shuffle activation song:
To Dust by Alice Russell.
Find out more about the Practical Magic Activation Deck.
Follow the call of the disco ball and come dance with me at The Awakening THIS WEEKEND. Grab the last couple of tickets.
The Awakening Weekend bookings website
I have the most enormous pleasure in sharing the recent chat I had with author, medium and astrologer David Wells here on the Practical Magic Podcast.
On the show today David joins me in conversation as we explore the brilliance of David's work, and how connecting to past lives helps us to make sense and make peace with what challenges we're facing in every day life.
We also explore
- Just what soul is
- How to listen into your soul talking
- The depths of sacred past lives and how David has connected to new archangel archetypes
- David's self care tips for mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing
Find out more about David and his work:
David's website
David's books on Amazon
David's musical choice for the Practical Magic Podcast
Rhythm of Life Sammy Davies Junior on YouTube
Find out more about David's workshop at The Awakening on Saturday 8th June, and book now
I'm flying solo on the Practical Magic Podcast today to talk about following the breadcrumbs to understand more about the journey we are taking on our life's path.
This is all about being curious with the twists and turns, and pivot points we've been on to get us to where we are right now, and the little seeds we're planting which will soon become the breadcrumbs of your future.
Listen in and play the time game as you get some reflection on past, present and future and what you can find out from each as your wander through this incredible story which is your life.
Wahoo lovely Practical Magic Podcast listeners, I've got a treat for your ears and your soul today; I'm in conversation over a hot cup of matcha with my darling friend and spiritual mentor, Matt Taylor.
Matt was my very first coach, and the reason I now do what I do. We first met 10 years ago as Matt was coming out of the spiritual closet, and enable me (and many others) to tap into our biggest desires, and live a high vibe life; connected to purpose and meaning.
On the show today, Matt and I are sharing the airwaves to talk about karmic relationships, why self care is spiritual care and how to increase your energetic vibration through shifting your perspective.
So plug in and join us as we team up for a Practical Magic Soul Pod Party, and there's ain't no party like a Practical Magic Soul Pod Party now is there?
Find out more about Matt and his work:
Website
Book for The Awakening today
The original Blackwing Pencil has penned some of the most iconic and famous poems, songs, movies and books of our time, and it's slogan 'half the pressure, twice the speed', has turned into an interesting philosophy of how it would be to live life with 'half the pressure, twice the flow.'
In a world of side-gigs, hustle, multi-hyphenate careers and living our best lives, where are we putting too much pressure on ourselves? In this week's Practical Magic Podcast I'm exploring how we can reduce the pressure in order to allow creativity, flow and intuition to do their magic.
I will be sharing more about this as part of my Activate Your Magic Workshop at The Awakening, a festival of wellbeing and self care, taking place on the Isle of Wight 8 & 9 June 2019.
Find out more here about The Awakening.
On the show today, I'm in conversation with Maxine Laceby, founder & CEO of Absolute Collagen, a collagen supplement she formulated in her kitchen at 50. Maxine says, ‘coming back to the work place at 50 having not as much as written a cheque for 15yrs was both terrifying and exhilarating and after officially launching Absolute Collagen in the UK in May 2017 she is on track for a 3 million turnover this year.
Maxine’ s motto ‘own who you are’ was the beginning of her personal journey to self and the creation and ownership of her ‘own skin’ something she wears with pride every single day.
Maxine and I are in conversation as we flow through a range of subjects including:
- How the bloody hell you start a successful business from your kitchen table
- The importance of Maxine's key values of Safe, Important & Respected as a parent, a business owner and for her sense of being
- Learning to love the skin you're in
- Why letting go with love is the ultimate act of bravery
- And Maxine's mission to empower women in life and business.
Maxine will be joining The Awakening to give a Self Care Sessions talk on owning your own skin, and providing samples of Absolute Collagen throughout the Saturday too.
Find out more about Maxine & Absolute Collagen:
Absolute Collage Website
Absolute Collagen Instagram
Absolute Collagen Facebook
YouTube
Maxine Instagram
Welcome to this week's show. I'm flying solo today to talk about miracles, wonderful miracles. Not the turning water into wine miracles, but the everyday miracles that are happening all around us.
Quite often, we can be so transfixed on what we are shooting for, or what we want to achieve, and the frustration kicks in when it's not happening on the timeline we expected it to, or in the way we imagined it would. But it is happening, all you need to do is take a look around and notice all the little nods, which let you know it is.
This is super-charged magic making. Hope you enjoy the show :)
We hear a lot about the term burnout, and how linked it is to stress and overwhelm, but are you actually aware of exactly what it is, and whether you are suffering a burn out?
In the show today, I'm flying solo to talk about my own struggles with overwhelm and burn out, what the symptoms are, and how you can tell when you are burning out yourself.
I'm sharing 20 telltale signs you might be in the midst of burn out, and some powerful self care tools to help you turn things around.
Find out more about The Awakening festival of wellbeing and self care taking place on the Isle of Wight 8&9 June 2019
The Awakening Website
Harri Rose is a qualified health coach and mindfulness teacher in training. She teaches body acceptance, self compassion and creative living. Harri believes that for too long we have been apologising for our bodies - and that diet culture and beauty standards are holding us back. Through her writing, workshops and 1:1 clients, Harri helps people to live their lives without rules and restriction and embrace how amazing they really are.
On the show we chat about body positivity, body acceptance, boobs and body neutrality, and busting the myth of the diet industry.
Find out more about Harri Rose:
Website
Anti Diet Riot Club
“I live to enjoy life by the littlest things, feeling the grass between my toes, breathing fresh air, watching the wind sway the trees, enjoying the company of loved ones, a deep conversation, getting lost in a good book, going for a walk in nature, watching my kids grow up. Just the feeling itself of being alive, the absolute amazing fact that we are here right now, breathing, thinking, doing.”
- Marigold Wellington
When Siobhan Curham decided to write a book about happiness, there was one problem—she wasn’t truly happy. In her latest book Something More … a Spiritual Misfit’s Search for Meaning Siobhan shares her seven year journey to find meaning. In the show today Siobhan shares more about that journey, and her latest book. And we discuss how that something more in life can be found within ourselves, and through our connection to ourselves and love.
As Siobhan says:
“The book took me seven years to live and write; seven years that transformed my life for the better, leaving me happier and stronger and more at peace than I’ve ever been and I’m very excited to be able to share all I’ve learned with you.
This book is for spiritual misfits like me. People who have had enough of the doctrine of separation and fear. People who look around at the world today – at the politics of division and the hashtags of hate and the spiralling mental health crisis – and say, surely there has to be a better way.”
WHERE TO FIND SIOBHAN: * The book: Something More, A Spiritual Misfit’s Search for Meaning * Siobhan’s website * Instagram * Facebook * Twitter
SIOBHAN SEARCH FOR MEANING TRACK: * Amazing Grace by the Harlem Gospel Choir
Today marks International Women's Day 2019, the theme being #BalanceforBetter which highlights how we can make the world a more gender balanced world to live in from boardrooms, to government, in media coverages, employees, wealth and even sports coverage. We all have within us the power to make a difference, and to make the world a more balanced place to live in for our generations and the ones to come. We have to. It's no longer negotiable.
On the show I'm sharing some ways you can think about how you can make a difference, and it starts with using you voice to be the change.
So, no matter how you identify, this show is for you. Happy International Women's Day
Find out more about how to get involved on the International Women's Day website
"We need to celebrate all the incredible little things we do every single day and who we are, right now. I call it self celebration. Being your own inner cheerleader and reminding yourself, you’re doing your best." Sarah Powell
This week I'm joined once more on the Practical Magic Podcast sofa by friend of the show, and friend indeed, Sarah Powell. Sarah was on the show in June 2018 talking about making the space to find purpose, which she well and truly has, and it's BIG.
I've invited Sarah back onto the podcast to talk about her work with Self Celebration, what it means and why it's so important that we learn to celebrate the tiny wins we achieve on a daily basis. Sarah shares her journey to get her to this work, and ways in which we can bring practical and pragmatic action into each and every day.
As Sarah says:
"Self-celebration isn’t about waiting until big massive changes have happened or transformations have occurred it’s about celebrating who you are right now because then change can happen."
WHERE TO FIND SARAH:
- Sarah’s website
- The Jules & Sarah Podcast
- Wobble Podcast
- Sarah's Red Online column
SARAH'S GO-TO SELF-CELEBRATION TRACK:
- Born This Way by Lady Gaga
JOIN SARAH AT THE AWAKENING:
- The Awakening 8&9 June 2019, Isle of Wight
"If you don't turn your life into a story, you just becomes someone else's story"
- Terry Pratchett
How often do you feel that you're living your life with the volume turned down to that annoying volume where you can hear it, but not loud enough to make out what's going on? Or like you're watching your favourite film with a filter over the screen so you can just make out the moving parts, not the detail?
This is what it can feel like when we're living a life outside of our own, or we're living in a way that we feel we 'should' be, rather than living in, and on our own way.
If you long to a life where you're dancing to the beat of your own drum, and doing that in high-vibe disco ball technicolour shine, then today's show is for you.
On today's Practical Magic Podcast I'm talking about why it's important for us to do it in our own way, and sharing 10 ways in which you can become a soulful rebel in a sea of normality.
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Book your earlybird spot for the SEVEN PILLARS OF SELF LOVE ONLINE CLASSROOM taking place next Wednesday 27 Feb 7-9pm UK time. Watch it live, or watch it later.
“We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”
- Maya Angelou
I'm dropping in with a whole lotta love this week, to harness the power of love as an energetic frequency, which has the power to connect, heal and transform; not just our lives, but the lives around us.
I'm talking about love as a healer, love as expansive, love to create unbroken connection and how to create more love by giving more love out, along with a little help from Albert Einstein, Dr Massuro Emoto and a Buddhist Metta meditation.
Let's create love in the face of all that is not love, and beyond.
Love bombing your airwaves today, and always.
Find out more about The Seven Pillars of Self Love Online Classroom taking place on Wednesday 27 February 2019
Find out more and book your place for The Awakening; a festival of well-being and self-care taking place on the Isle of Wight 8&9 June 2019
Suzy is a mother of two, a Chartered Psychologist, Yoga Teacher, and Health Coach. She specialises in self-care, helping people manage their stress, emotions, and energetic bank balance. Suzy's written a book called The Self Care Revolution, and on the show we chat through Suzy's Vitality Wheel, which is a complete body and mind Self-Care toolkit that will boost your health, happiness and resourcefulness.
Suzy is a contributing editor for Psychologies Magazine, the Psychology Expert for wellbeing brand Neom Organics and is a founding member of the ‘Nourish’ app. She figure-skated her way through her childhood, growing up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, and now makes her home in hills of Hertfordshire,
The topics we cover on the show are:
- Sleep, Rest, Relaxation & Breathing
- Movement & Nutrition
- Coping Skills
- Physical Environment
- Social Connections
- Mood Boosters
- Goal-Setting & Accomplishment
- Values & Purpose
Find out more about Suzy:
- Website
- The Self Care Revolution book
Suzy's go-to track for a complete self care journey:
Air on a G String by Johann Sebastian Bach
Find out more about The Seven Pillars of Self Love online classroom taking place 27 February 7-9pm UK time.
We're a sum of our experiences, aren't we? Or are we? How often do you find yourself stuck in fear or procrastination because you think it's all going to go epic-scale disaster movie based on one thing that might have not worked out in the way you thought it was way back when? Or you have the voice of other people in your mind on repeat telling you all the reasons why X = Y, and that never ends well?
Well, one thing I've learnt as an NLP practitioner, and liver of life, is that shit goes down, but it's never quite as monumental as we think it is. And what, just what would happen if we could use a simple pre-supposition which could change the emotional and mental chatter that tells us we're crap, and everything we touch turns to shit?
On the show I'm sharing one of the simplest NLP techniques... ever, which when you adopt it into your every day, can change the way you perceive the idea of failing.
I'm also sharing launch news of The Awakening, a new festival of self care and wellness taking place on Isle of Wight on 8&9 June 2019.
Find out more about this little slice of awesome at www.awakeningfestival.co.uk
Tamu Thomas is one of those people who feels like the warmest hug just by listening to her speak. But more than that, she's a wise woman who shows up to help celebrate other women for all that they are. Join us in conversation on the Practical Magic Podcast today, as Tamu shares her story, and her work in helping Gen X'ers, -- women in their 30s and 40s -- to celebrate the wholeness of life.
On the show we chat:
- Why we've come to measure our value by our output, and why it's leaving us energetically bankrupt
- Exploring the shadow, and why it's so damn important!
- Living a thriving life, not just an OK life
- Why all of us need to have more open conversations around different stages, and changing chapters in our lives, in order to understand, rather than suppress the fullness of life
- How important it is for us to slow down and simplify life
- How to bring everyday joy into each day for real living, not just existing
- Tamu's 3 brilliant self care tips
Where to find out more about Tamu:
Tamu's website
Tamu's podcast
Instagram @livethreesixty
Twitter @livethreesixty_
Tamu's Live 360 tracks:
LL Cool J: Mama Said Knock You Out
Luciano Pavarotti: "Nessun dorma!"
This show is dedicated to a sense of wholeness, and how we can bring in more of the principles of the divine feminine, or feminine wisdom, into this crazy, mixed-up world we live in. And my oh my, do we need it now more than ever.
Where we've disconnected from ourselves, our communities and nature, it's time to turn the tide, and bring in the aspects of the feminine which work to bind our connections to each other, along with our emotional and physical worlds.
I'm sharing wisdom from some incredible women, including Mary Portas, with an extract from her recent book 'Work Like a Woman, A Manifesto for Change', as well as quotes from Clarissa Pinkola Estes' seminal work 'Women who Run with the Wolves', as well as a few words from book 'Qoya, A Compass for Navigating and Embodied Life that is Wise', Wild & Free, by the founder of Qoya, Rochelle Schieck.
I also share the pillars of feminine wisdom that I live and work with through the strands of life, and invite you to identify how they can be interwoven into your life too.
Join me for the first Activate Your Magic online classroom taking place on Wednesday 23rd Jan 7-9pm UK time. We will be Creating 2019 Goals with Soul. Earlybird tickets are available for £29 until Monday 21st Jan.
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This week I'm in conversation with Jade Shaw about the fascinating subject of out of body experience (OBE), otherwise known as Astral Projection.
Many people have heard of near death experience, where people witness seeing themselves in the environment they're in at time of near death, or talk about floating towards a white light, but out of body experience is something which we can consciously choose to do to help us shift out of our perceived reality to gain more spiritual awareness to bring into the everyday.
On the show
Jade shares here own story of how OBE has been in her life since she was a child, and how her experiences with OBE as an adult have helped shaped her path in life
The difference with OBE and near death experience
How we are more than just our human, physical bodies and experiences
How working on different levels and layers of consciousness bring more possibilities to our worlds
Ways to share your truth without feeling judged
And how Jade's work processes enable her to create and share her work with the world in creative ways.
Where to find Jade
Website
Jade's track to help overcome an existential crisis.
What's Up? by the 4 Non Blondes
Well, it's January 2019, which means a wonderful time of year to set some clear intentions for all that we would love to create for the fresh new year ahead.
So, this week on the Practical Magic Podcast I'm sharing some simple, yet effective ways in which you can create some goals with soul using some powerful coaching techniques along with a little Practical Magic.
And if you would like to carry this out in person with me, then there's a few spaces left on the Activate Your 2019 Magic Workshop taking place on Saturday 12th January in Worthing.
Book your place today, earlybird ends tomorrow 6th Jan.
As we don the sequins and pop the corks on a new year, it's that time to take stock on the year that's been; to celebrate; to learn; to extract all the juice we need before we set goals and intentions for a new year. So, this week on the Practical Magic Podcast, let's go on that voyage of discovery of the year that's just been using the pillars of Practical Magic — calm, create, empower and vitality — to get in touch with our energy, creativity and vibrancy.
You can download the free 2018 Practical Magic Love In coaching workbook that goes alongside this episode to work on your own review at your own pace following on from listening to the show.
Download the workbook here.
Find out more about Activating Your 2019 Magic One Day Workshop in Worthing on Saturday 12th January
Join me for the most delicious conversation as we round up the Practical Magic podcast interviews for 2018. I'm in conversation with founder of Sister Stories and documentary maker, Gemma Brady.
She has dedicated her life to creating spaces for people to tell important stories, be it on film, in writing or in their community. She believes in the healing power of storytelling and the power of the generous acts of both speaking and offering deep listening.
Gemma created Sister Stories as a means of offering women an opportunity to come together to be seen and heard, experiencing the transformative power of simply being given to the space to be truly witnessed. Grounded in the primal and magical traditional of storytelling, Sister Stories events invite women to depend their sense of connection to the self and one another, experiencing the simple joy of knowing we are all in it together. What started as a simple women's circle gathering in London has grown to a thriving, supportive movement with 15 women leading Sister Stories gatherings in their local communities.
We talk about the importance of sitting with others in conversation, and why sharing stories is so intrinsic to be human. It really is the most gorgeous podcast, and I could sit and listen to Gemma talk for hours, so do enjoy.
To find out more about Gemma and her work, head here:
- Sister Stories website
- Sister Stories Instagram
If you want a hit of love, creativity and inspiration, then listen in to this week's Practical Magic podcast with the divine women who are Selina Barker and Vicki Pavitt from Project Love who specialise in blending love and life coaching to help create a life you love.
On the show we chat about:
- How running a business is a constant creative project
- Creativity as experimentation, exploration and resilience
- How friendship works for Selina & Vicki in their business
- Why self love needs to be central to both love and life and how relationships are central to building a life you love
- How living a life you love is in collaboration with your heart
- And, the power of pets to teach us presence (natch!)
Find out more about Selina & Vicki here:
Project Love website
Project Love Podcast
Get Ready for Love course
Goodbye 2018 / Hello 2019 Journal
You can find the Practical Magic Activation Deck & GH Journal Bundle on the website Life + Me. Use the code 'MindfulXmas' at the checkout for an extra 10% discount up until 25th December 2018.
This week I'm in conversation with a dear friend Lorna Harris, who's recent photo she posted on Twitter of her dad's attempt at baking her a birthday cake after her mum died went viral.
It was his act of genuine warmth and kindness in the most difficult times of grieving that led to big, open-hearted conversations about loss and love around the world.
Join us for this very special episode dedicated to changing the conversation around grief, and how, yes, it's hard -- one of the hardest things you'll ever do, but it can also be utterly beautiful too. So, let's ditch the stigma and start talking.
Do reach out to both Lorna and myself on social media if you wish to talk more, and find out about Lorna's incredibly important work for the Childrens Society too:
Find Lorna on:
Facebook
Find me on:
The Children's Society website
I'm flying solo on this week's Practical Magic Podcast to talk in more depth about self love following on from my conversation with Gozen Girls and Wild Woman founder Donna Hay last week.
On the show I'm covering what I consider seven pillar which are fundamental to support our self love, and how we show up fully formed, and fully human in the world -- unapologetically so.
Take a dive in and enjoy the self love ride.
Have you met Donna Hay yet? She's an absolute breath of fresh air. She's the founder of online book club Gozen Girls, and the founder of the UK's first non-fiction book subscription box for women WILDWOMAN. As someone who's been suffered with mental health challenges a sustained period of grief, she found book to be the cure for her.
This week on the show, Donna and I are in conversation about Self Love, which is the theme for November's WILDWOMAN box. We talk about why it's so much more than bubble baths and spa days. More so, that it's the ultimate act of living unapologetically and in the fullest expression of ourselves to live a fulfilled life for ourselves, and to be of service to others.
The show is packed full of useful information and tips on how to bring self love and self care into the everyday.
Find out more about Donna:
- Gozen Girls website
- Wild Woman website
You can also get 10% off this month's Self Love box with the code 'WILDWOMAN10'
- Gozen Girls on Instagram
- Wild Woman on Instagram
Donna's Self Love songs
- This is Me
- Hero - Mariah Carey
I'm flying solo this week with one hell of a pep talk for you, because it's time to move beyond those limitations and fears which may be holding you back.
I'm pulling out the big guns to find out why we can do extraordinary things and pull through feats of adversity, and yet when it comes to living a life on our own terms, we so often hold ourselves back.
On the show I share with you:
- Where our old narratives, the stories we tell ourselves, and beliefs systems may have come from -- and how change the dial on these
- How the language we use in our narrative and self talk is holding us back, and how to change it
- The difference between expansive vs. contractive energy
- How to re-define self-imposed boundaries and re-frame negative programmming
- The power of positive intention and powerful language to create the conditions for going beyond our self-imposed limitations
- How to utilise the power of the subconscious and the brain / body connection to add rocket-fuel to our ambitions.
This week, I have the pleasure of speaking with author, visibility strategist, serial entrepreneur, and more importantly mum of three Suzy Ashworth on just how we can live a limitless live.
In this vibrant show we talk shifting our perspective and mindset to up-level our inner game, giving ourselves permission to set clear and limitless intentions and accepting our quirks and imperfections. Hell yes to that!
Suzy also shares her big, audacious mission to impact 1 million female entrepreneurs helping them to achieve economic freedom in their businesses so can do do good shit in the world AND live a life of limitless experiences.
You can find out more about Suzy:
On her website
I'm flying solo this week to talk about learning about our own rhythms and flows.
We live in a really odd world where outdated models of the '9-5', working longer hours, being in push, and working like machines and looking outside of ourselves for validation has been celebrated... until now. But, we're not machines, we're human beings made up of bio-electricity, and like nature around us, we can't be forced or contained to work in a certain way. It just doesn't work.
So, what would life be like if we are tuned into our own natural rhythms and cycles, you know, like nature? What could we learn about ourselves which helps us live in a much more aligned way?
On the show this week I'm talking about the natural rhythms and flows that go on around us, and within us all the time - seasonal, menstrual, lunar, circadium and ultradian, and many more besides. And how when we're tuned in, we have better mind, physical, emotional and spiritual health, as well as being much more creative and productive.
This week I'm joined in conversation by guest Katie Brockhurst, author and social media expert. She's been using social media in her work since she saw the power of channels such as MySpace to disrupt conventional marketing rules to engage with people on a more personal level, and how channels such as Facebook and Instagram have become a source for us to communicate who we are, and how we connect.
On the show we talk through some of the subjects in Katie's new book 'Social Media for a New Age', and just what it means to create and communicate in ways which are personal, subjective and unique, not matter what size your audience.
So, whether you're running a creative business, and you want to learn more about how to use social media effectively, whether you're interested in the deeper conversations about our relationship with social media and the impacts on sense of self, or you're looking for ways to become more authentically visible -- there's something in this show for everyone.
Find out more about Katie:
Her book: Social Media for a New Age
Katie's website
Katie on Instagram
Katie on Facebook
On World Mental Health Day, I'm flying solo to talk about the important subject of being aware of the impacts that stress has on our emotional, physical and mental health.
I'm sharing some of the ways that long-term stress affects wear & tear on our bodies, and our lives, and ways in which you can start to take notice of just how it might be affecting you, without you even being aware.
This is my rally cry for you to take care of yourselves. It is my wish that all of us become more aware of what's going on, so we can take better care of ourselves and our health, or to look out for other people who may be struggling too.
If you need to get in touch, you can email me on kate@katetaylor.co
In this frenetic world where our to-do lists are off the page, and there's constant distractions vying for our attention; it's not surprising we feel overwhelmed. With stress, anxiety and depression in the increase maybe it's time to get back to basics to help us all to get a little more balanced, and basically learn how to chill the f out.
On this week's show, I'm in conversation with the one and only Tamara Driessen AKA Wolf Sister, who's here to help us bring the ancient technologies of crystals, tarot, reiki and Shamanism (earth magic) into the everyday.
We talk:
- Dispelling some of the myths around 'woo woo' practices, and how they're simply metaphors for what's going on for us
- How to balance and understand your energy, and how it's linked into everything around you
- Good energy hygiene for self care; including how to set good boundaries
- How to harness the power of crystals and energy archetypes to live a more balanced life
- And how to chill the f out when it comes to self care, and why you don't have to throw the proverbial book at it to get what you need.
You can find out more about Wolf Sister and her new book here:
- The Crystal Code (out October 25th)
- Wolf Sister's website
- Wolfie on Instagram
Wolf Sister's Go To Tracks
- The Carters - Everything is Love
- Sza
- Drake
As women, each of us is affected by our energy month in and out dependant on our menstrual cycle, and this week I'm talking with women's coach Claire Baker on how we can get in flow with our cycles to be more in tune with all aspects of our lives.
Your monthly, Aunt Flow, the curse, your bleed. Period. Whatever you call your menstrual cycle, fact is it holds such infinite wisdom and power. And yet, it’s still such a taboo topic. I’m so honoured to have womens coach Claire Baker On this week’s #practicalmagicpodcast to help bust some myths around our cycles, and how we can actually work much more in align with our flow to live a more creative and empowered life.
Believe me when I say, you don’t want to miss this one. Claire shares the seasons of our cycles and what we have to understand about our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs in each phase.
Sometimes searching for purpose can feel like the pot of gold at the elusive end of the rainbow, but what if we come back to centre to realise that we are living purpose each and every day?
This week, I'm flying solo to talk about simple and effective ways in which we can find purpose in our lives through our values, being of service, our passions and our why.
We all desire to live a life of meaning -- to know that what we create in our lives an leave a lasting tribute to everything we've stood for. Living a life on and with purpose. Quite often living with purpose can seem too big, too out of reach, just... too much.
But what if living on purpose is something which can be done each and every day by being of service, redefining our narrative, and choosing our perspective?
Well, it's this and more which I am conversation about with author and entrepreneur Jessica Huie MBE.
Join us for this engaging and rich episode in which Jessica shares her journey, how we can live a life on purpose and the permission to embrace our true calling.
Find out more about Jessica here:
Jessica's website
Jessica's book: Purpose - Find Your Truth & Embrace Your Calling
See Jessica Live
Jessica's next media masterclass
Following on from my chat with Pandora from Rooted London last wee on the body / intuition connection, I'm sharing simple and effective ways in which you can develop your intuition. And why intuition never goes away — more like it gets drowned out by that attention-seeking sibling the ego.
On this week's show, I'm in conversation with Holistic Nutritionist and Life Coach Pandora Paloma from Rooted London on the importance of connecting into the body for emotional and physical health, as well as intuitive life guidance.
In our conversation we talk about:
- How the way we consume is linked to our connection to self, and emotional wellbeing
- The connection between the way we live and the way we eat
- Listening to your body and feeding your soul
- Difference between intuition and instinct
- Unpicking diet mentalities and old stories around food
- The importance of connecting in with the body to access wisdom around nutrition and intuition
- How listening to the body can mean truly listening into our lives and what we really need
- The difference between intuition and mind-chatter, as well as the difference between instinct and intuition
How often do you find yourself frozen in fear? The abject fear of getting things so spectacularly wrong, that you don't even start - procrastination hits and your motivation nose-dives.
This week, I'm flying solo to talk about what's really going on behind the fear of failure AKA FOFU (fear of fucking up); how it fundamentally ties into our root identity through a real fear of shame; how you can identify if you're being held back by fear of failure; and useful ways to help overcome it.
Failure is something which has been part of writer Siobhan Curham's narrative over the years -- from a writing apology letters for finding cockroaches in food through to being dropped by her first publisher, and spectacularly burning a baked chocolate cake the very same day.
On the show Siobhan shares her story with failure, and how she's taken it as a creative approach to doing some of her best work. Siobhan also shares her brilliant process for overcoming failure.
You can find out more about Siobhan and her work here:
- Siobhan's website
- Siobhan on Instagram
- Siobhan on Twitter
- Siobhan's latest book: 'Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow'.
Oh, and Siobhan's track to help her make friends with failure... TubThumping by Chumbawumba
...Sorry about that!
How often do you feeling like being busy is just something that is part of your life? Do you feel guilty when you sit down to relax - making a mental run through of your to-do list, and the things you've not yet done?
In this world of being 'on', we're overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected and have little room to breathe, let alone room for creativity. Well, I want to put an end to that, so this week I'm advocated for the power of doing nothing - of white space - of being bored as a way of sparking your imagination and creativity.
So sit back, plug in and enjoy 10 minutes of space just for you this week.
I have the pleasure of being in conversation with singer and artist Starling, as we dive into the most divine and rich discourse around creativity and crafting a handmade life.
On offer in this week's show are:
- How creativity is non-linear
- How therapy has allowed Starling to filter the BS, and understand the full range of her emotions, and how this has aided her music and creative expression
- Harnessing the unknown to power up creativity
- Why Starling creates music to help people feel less lonely
Where to find Starling
- Website www.starlingsworld.com
- Instagram @starlingsworld
- Spotify
- Starlings EPs:
- The Heart
- The Body
- The Soul
Let's explore the mind-body connection. Let's go on a journey of discovery into our inner space; this incredible vessel we have attached to our heads.
On this week's show I'm flying solo to talk about having connection and communication with the body, and how it will tell you more about the direction in your life than a library full of self-help books.
On this week's show I'm talking with author and blogger Alice Judge-Talbot, who's new book 'The Back-Up Plan' helps to look at what to do when your idea of the Happily Ever After doesn't go the way you're expecting it to AKA LIFE!
On the show we discuss:
- The enormous power of writing and music to process life's challenges
- The importance of setting boundaries in all areas of your life, and not to be the people pleaser when people rough-road over them
- How we consciously and unconsciously deal with issues such as sexism, grief, misogony and why we need to bust wide-open the myths around living a 'have it all life'
- The link between feminism and not feeling enough
- And why relationships with ourselves, our friends and our families are more important than romantic relationships.
You can find out more about Alice:
- On her blog More Than Toast
- YouTube
- And her new book 'The Back Up Plan'
On this week's show I'm talking with author and blogger Alice Judge-Talbot, who's new book 'The Back-Up Plan' helps to look at what to do when your idea of the Happily Ever After doesn't go the way you're expecting it to AKA LIFE!
On the show we discuss:
- The enormous power of writing and music to process life's challenges
- The importance of setting boundaries in all areas of your life, and not to be the people pleaser when people rough-road over them
- How we consciously and unconsciously deal with issues such as sexism, grief, misogony and why we need to bust wide-open the myths around living a 'have it all life'
- The link between feminism and not feeling enough
- And why relationships with ourselves, our friends and our families are more important than romantic relationships.
You can find out more about Alice:
- On her blog More Than Toast
- YouTube
- And her new book 'The Back Up Plan'
This week on the show, I'm talking about the elusive work life balance, and why in fact I think it's yet another thing that exists for us to give ourselves hard time. And that in fact, life is best life from a place of wholeness, rather than waiting for those spinning plates to come crashing down.
It's said that we take in up to 34GB of information through all our senses each day. I'm fascinated by this, and the impact it has on our thoughts and motivations, which is why I'm talking about it on the show this week. I share how I became aware of the impact of unconscious messaging on my energy levels and burning out by something as simple as looking at a piece of artwork each day.
On this week’s show I speak with creative coach, writer, podcaster, and the founder of One Girl Band, Lola Hoad. We have a great conversation about community over competition - how our businesses and creativity do better when other people are involved. You can also look forward to great tips for practicing self-care, taking care of your mental health, and setting better boundaries.
###### On the show we explore:
- Lola’a entrepreneurial journey and how a passion project turned into her coworking space One Girl Band
- Having a vision and allowing it to unfold rather than making a five-year plan
- Taking care of your mental health
- Alignment over hustle
- Getting real about self-care
- The healing power of naps
- Deciding what to share on social media
- The importance of community and the fact that we work better together rather than apart
- How to get started in creating a community
- Getting past other people’s fears about your dreams
- The fact that there’s no such thing as wrong decisions
- How to manage feeling triggered by social media
Where to find Lola Website One Girl Band Instagram Pinterest ###### Links and resources mentioned in this episode:
- The Practical Magic Activation Deck
- DNA - Kendrick Lamar
On this week's show I'm going solo to talk all about being unapologetic and stepping into your power. This is the “Sorry Not Sorry” episode of the Practical Magic Podcast. I’ll walk you through simple steps for being less apologetic and choosing more direct language.
On the show we explore:
- Getting really clear on how often we apologise just for being ourselves or existing
- The impact that being overly apologetic can have on the rest of our lives
- Simple tips for being less apologetic
- Choosing more direct language - while still being polite
- Making our sorries count
- A mindfulness technique to help you stop apologising when you don’t need to
In this week's show I talk to Sarah Powell about making space for the next big thing to enter our lives, manifesting the future and stepping into our future selves, and cutting through anxiety and self-criticism.
###### On the show we explore:
- Sarah’s journey working in radio and why she’s recently left the air
- The book that has recently had a big impact on the direction of her life
- The impact of on meditation and affirmations
- The magic of showers and making space for the next big thing to enter our lives - rather than trying to figure it all out
- Applying our creativity to every area of our lives
- Manifesting the future and stepping into our future selves
- Working through our money stories and recognising the abundance in our lives
- The importance of self-love - and why it’s not selfish
- How we project our inner experiences out onto the world
- What pain is here to teach us
- A simple question to cut through anxiety and self-criticism
Where to find Sarah
Sarah’s website
Instagram
Twitter
The Jules & Sarah Podcast
Wobble Podcast
###### Links and resources mentioned in this episode:
###### You Are a Badass by Jen SinceroLittle Bird - Annie Lennox
“You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
On this week’s show I’m talking about resistance, i.e what happens when we get stopped in our tracks by that impending sense of doom, or creeping niggles to not get ourselves out of a comfort. I talk about ways in which we can lean into resistance, and how it can actually help us grow. And why getting underneath the resistance to find out what it’s got to say and what we’ve got to learn from it, and where these might be old stories and old patterns of behaviour to break down the through the wall to get to the other side.
“What worries me most is ‘success’ has been reduced to an arbitrary tick list of Facebook updates and that’s not going to work for me.” - Lucy Sheridan On this week’s show I’m joined by my darling friend Lucy Sheridan, who’s the world’s first and only comparison coach. We talk all things comparison, mostly when it doesn't work, and also when it does.
###### On the show we explore:
- Understanding how comparison affects and shows up in our lives
- Online vs. online comparison behaviours
- Why comparison is an inside and outside job
- How not to get caught up in someone else’s dream
- Using comparison on a timeline of what’s gone before, where we want to be in the future, and where we are in the present moment
- Supporting improvement and progress rather than ‘success’
- Why relationships are our biggest assignment in life
- When our thoughts are hysterical, it can be historical
- Why comparison is directly linked to our self-care
- What happens when we're a comparison trigger for someone else.
Where to find Lucy:
- Lucy’s website
- Lucy’s online classroom
- Lucy's YouTube Channel
Lucy's go-to tracks
- Whitney Houston singing 'Higher Love'
- Higher Love - Steve Winwood
The Practical Magic Activation Deck on Kickstarter
"Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking"
- Miranda Priestly, Devil Wears Prada
We've all had those times when we secretly wish our bestie's life wasn’t so damn perfect. And, yeah those times when there's been a hidden desire to wish ill fate on everyone who’s doing so much better at this thing called life than you might be. These thoughts are malicious to say the least and can leave us feel like the world’s biggest loser. Yes, your inner critic is turning you into a bitch, so let's talk about it.
"Imagine living a life within which you can trust yourself. Consider this your permission slip."
Rochelle Schieck, Founder of Qoya
On this week’s Practical Magic podcast, I’m talking with the founder of Qoya, Rochelle Schieck on how we can tune into the wisdom of the body. If you’re not familiar with Qoya it’s based on the idea that through movement we remember that we are all wise, wild and free. Rochelle shares more about how Qoya came to be, and how it can help us navigate the reality of our existence.
On the show we explore:
- The body as a truth guide, and observing different states in the body
- How being led by our intuition allows us to free ourselves, and how we can never be wrong when we do so
- The difference between ego and soul voice
- How the pillars of Qoya, and embodiment are a metaphor for living in conversation with your life
- How slowing down helps us to tune in and to be in the experience of living
- Connecting into the hips as a true act of the power of the feminine
- Learning more about the 'shadow' to embrace our wholeness
- How movement can bring us back to ourselves again and again
- How to protect your lifestyle by nourishing life and what you put your attention to.
Links and resources mentioned throughout:
- Meggan Waterson - The Divine Feminine Oracle Deck
- Rochelle's book - Qoya: A Compass for Navigating an Embodied Life that is Wise, Wild and Free
- Find out more about Qoya on the Qoya website
- Learn more about Qoya teacher training here.
- A Call to Create - the Qoya online course
- 10 Days of Qoya Love - a Free online series of Qoya videos
“Allow your body to be a speaker through which all of your experiences are lived through your senses.”
- Kate Taylor
This week I share the story of how Practical Magic came to be, and why following the breadcrumbs of our narratives can prove so useful, and how living an embodied life can help you navigate any path through this crazy thing called life.
- The enlightenment of the journey of life, not the destination
- Being a social commenter to your life through all of your senses
- Ways in which we numb out to suppress our experiences and emotions
- Why disconnection from our bodies is disconnection from our lives
- Why feeling is living
- Noticing where your energy blocks are in your body and your life
- How Qoya changed my life through dropping out of my head and into my body
- How there is no right or wrong, there just is
Find out more about the Practical Magic Activation Deck, a coaching toolkit to help us unlock our own wisdom. Find out more here: http://bit.ly/PM_Kickstarter_Podcast
“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
On this week’s show, I am am chatting with the co-creator of my Practical Magic Activation Deck Mat Denney. Mat shares his personal journey through his creative path, and shares the inside workings of his brain and process. We also share our journey in working together on the creative process for bringing the Practical Magic Activation Deck to life, and what it’s like working in collaboration on a project in the way that we did.
On the show we explore:
- The conflict between order and chaos, and how it can be fundamental to the creative process
- Why surprises and accidents can lead to something beautiful
- How collaboration and the sum of our experiences make for a great ‘creative casserole’
- How to find the magic in the mundane
- How exploration of the mind and unconscious creativity led to the magic in Practical Magic..
Links and resources mentioned in this episode:
- Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic, Creative Living Beyond Fear
- The Practical Magic Activation Deck on Kickstarter
- Find Mat on Instagram
- Practical Magic on Instagram
You can back the Practical Magic Activation Deck now on Kickstarter, where you can pre-order a deck, or one of Mat’s incredible artworks.
I've got something exciting I'm sharing with you this week... Keep your eyes and ears peeled for an announcement of Practical Magic coming up this Wednesday.