Golden Thread: Recent Episodes
Judy Murdoch
As a certified coach and professional life designer, Lara Buelow is a catalyst for transformation. She specializes in guiding professional women through powerful career transitions, empowering them to become their most effective, fulfilled selves. With a talent for helping clients get unstuck and reignite their passions, Lara infuses her coaching with a contagious zest for life. She firmly believes that joy and purpose should be integral to success, encouraging clients to have more fun, chase their dreams, and rediscover their sense of purpose.
Hailing from picturesque Germany and sunny California, Lara blends nature’s inspiration with coastal vibrancy in her coaching. Leading creative programs remotely, her wisdom transcends boundaries.
Lara’s clients uncover not just career clarity but also a renewed sense of self, equipped to navigate life’s twists and turns. If you’re ready to transform your career and embrace a purposeful, fun-filled life, Lara Buelow is the coach to light your path to success. Lara can be reached at larabuelow.com.
Lara currently lives in Denver, CO with her two kids and husband. She gets lit up by reading, writing, exercising and spending quality time with friends outside. Though most of her time and energy are spent managing her two girls, Lara occasionally takes the opportunity to indulge in hobbies from her adventurous past. These special activities include surfing ankle-biter waves, painting murals on whatever walls friends or family can offer, and dancing at concerts. Lara travels to California frequently to spend time with her side of the family and breathe the coastal air.
Connect with Lara
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larabuelow/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/larabuelow/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lara.bcoaching/
Deanna Seymour understands the power of creativity, fun, and community when it comes to building a sustainable business. She’s all about bold branding, lively design, and making less content, but doing it better.
With a mix of humor, empathy, and real talk, Deanna helps the folks in her community Content Playhouse feel more comfortable in their own skin so they can actually have fun with their content and connect with their perfect-fit clients.
When she’s not hosting a Pop-Up Networking Party or working with clients, she’s probably making GIFs, hangin’ with her fam, or sneaking in some Real Housewives!
Ways to connect with Deanna:
- Website: https://deannaseymour.com/
- Big Fun Content Podcast: https://deannaseymour.com/podcast
- Social Links:
https://www.instagram.com/thedeannaseymour
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedeannaseymour/
Jessica- Roberts.comSuzanne Culberg is an international mindset coach, speaker and author, who helps over-givers and people pleasers learn to say ‘No’ to others in a way that feels good, so that they can say ‘Yes’ to themselves.
Suzanne has helped hundreds of women break the cycle of putting themselves last and instead build the confidence to set boundaries.
Suzanne’s passion for helping women is fueled by her own experiences of over-giving, over-consuming, and over-doing everything. She’s on a mission to not only help women set boundaries for themselves but also to make boundaries normal. We should be saying ‘No’ more often.
Suzanne lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband Jeremy and her two young children who keep her both busy and entertained. When she’s not coaching, or recording her popular podcast ‘The Nope Coach’ she can be found reading, enjoying Diamond Dotz, or Yoga.
Golden Thread Listeners can get Suzanne’s Building Boundaries Bundle for free (normally $50 AUD). Use coupon code GOLDENTHREAD. http://suzanneculberg.com/bbb
Karen’s calling to Awaken and Harness Creative Power! lights her up.She deeply believes that creativity is an innate human quality and is not only about making art – it is about making our lives. She pursues her mission in many ways as a Professional Artist/Illustrator who does mixed media work and illustrates children’s books through her company, Studio Light Illustration. She is also a Creative Coach and Teacher at her other company, HowDoodle, where she help Creatives who are struggling with Executive Functioning. She does this because she firmly believe that the world needs Creative ideas, voice, vision, and curious, playful, imagination to make this a better world for all. Her toolbox is honed from a lifetime of making art, over two decades of teaching, mentoring, and coaching thousands of people of all ages and all backgrounds, studying community arts, her work in social justice, healing arts, and connecting with ideas and people in the realm of empowerment and expanding consciousness. She have a BFA from Xavier University and an MA in Cultural Management from City University London as well as several coaching certifications.
Sarah-Luella Baker (they/she) is a visionary artist, witch, scholar, astrologer, somaticist, and mother whose work revolves around the liberation of individual and collective bodies. Sarah-Lu’s background in dance, education, arts education, healership, and family interweaves with the community in ever-evolving layers and patterns. They are a registered somatic movement educator, a master of fine arts, and a current PhD student in Transformative Studies at CIIS, where they are developing scholarship around grief, somatics, animism, and liberatory practices.
Connect with Sarah-Lu
www.sarahluellabaker.com
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Glenda Goodrich (GG) is a mixed media artist, art doula, SoulCollage facilitator, and devoted practitioner of the vision quest ceremony. She uses a soulful grounded approach, along with an open heart, to guide others in exploring their creative potential. She offers a variety of creative arts workshops including her most recent offering, “13 Moons: Art and SoulCollage Quest” which uses art in a playful way to explore the 13 juicy life questions. GG’s book, Solo Passage: 13 Quests, 13 Questions, chronicles the sacred ceremonies that connected her to the land, wove her into nature’s web, and transformed her from a woman who worked to please others into a woman who forged her own path. It is a profound reflection on the healing and restorative power of nature. GG is a grandmother of three and a great grandmother of four. She lives in a cottage in Salem, Oregon.Connect with GG at http://glendagoodrich.com/
Laura and I had a very juicy conversation about why caring, talented women work their butts off and often don’t have much to show it in terms of money in the bank.
Laura Gates-Lupton is a financial feminist, and life & money coach for talented, hardworking, overgiving solopreneurs. She helps her clients to untangle old beliefs and fears about money, simplify their businesses, and smash their personal glass ceilings. As a former psychotherapist, Laura brings a unique combination of emotional and practical support to her clients. Her approach is based on a three-pillar framework for multiplying income without increasing working hours: breaking the habit of overworking, growing financial identity, and amplifying impact.
Learn more about Laura and her work at https://www.dearlaura.net/letters and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauragateslupton/
Note to listeners: this is part of 2 of 2 from my conversation with Kanwal. In this conversation, Kanwal shares her journey as she becomes a healer and weaves into her healing practice her performance and cultural lineage. At the very end I join Kanwal in a song!
A daughter of the Indus River and the Sindhu peoples, Kanwal works and plays at the intersection of theatre, sustainable community-building and meditative arts where she strives to understand how stories shape human relationships, resilience and r/evolutions.
Raised in Pakistan, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Canada, her artistic explorations reflect her nomadic and multidimensional upbringing. She is a graduate of Second City’s program in Improvisational Comedy and Spoken Word at OCAD.
Drawing on her diverse experiences in movement and performing arts, Kanwal continues to explore body wisdom practices, healing modalities, ayurveda and plant medicine traditions to deepen awareness and connection, with a focus on honouring the integrity of the mental, emotional, physical, creative and spiritual layers of the body.
Kanwal has graced many stages in Toronto including Sound Poets Circle, SpeakOut, South Asia Calling Festival, Brave: Festival of Risk & Failure, Canadian Women’s Foundation and the Feminist Art Conference. Her poetry has appeared in From the Root and The Living Hyphen magazines. She is working on her first digital audio-visual storytelling project interweaving memoir, poetry, dance calligraphy and photo meditations.
Contact Kanwal at kanwal_rahim@hotmail.com
Linda and I always have fun and engaging conversations. In this podcast we talked about the concept of The Wild Feminine, a more detailed exploration of what the wild feminine actually is (kind of tricky actually), and ways in which we can invite more of the wild feminine way of being into our daily lives.
And wonderful news! Linda's first book, Homecoming: One Woman’s Story of Dismantling the Inner Cage and Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul, will soon be available on Amazon.com.
On this episode Cindy Winsel and I talk about creativity, addiction recovery, and what makes us ridiculously happy as visual artists.
Cindy is a Cindy is a Creative Depth Coach and Artist where she uses many different creative methods to design individual and group care for mind/body/spirit. She is also a certified Zentangle and Soul Collage facilitator. She is SO fun to work with!!
Learn more about Cindy and her work at cindywinsel.com
Learn more about Cindy and her work at cindywinsel.com
For the past two decades Larisa has specialized in trauma healing, embodiment skills, and supporting healthy boundaries. She’s especially passionate about ancestral healing and supporting those in recovery from a black-white, us-them view of the world.
Brooke is a holistic nutritionist and life coach whose business, Nourish the Sacred, focuses on helping people align with their true nature by listening to and caring for their body, mind, and spirit. She is also a creator of ritual wellness products that support personal healing.
Linda is a wild feminine soul guide and Qoya movement teacher who has been on a quest for the last decade to reclaim her wild. She spent five years on the hero's journey, escaping all the external cages she thought were keeping her constrained. But after changing nearly everything in her life and realizing that she still didn't feel the wildness she most longed for, she set out on the heroine's descent to dismantle the cage that existed within.
Heidi Timer is a yoga instructor, active isolated stretching practitioner, and myofascial massage therapist with over 20 years of experience in the Health & Wellness industry. Heidi's observation that "The emotional experience of life is stifled by our over productive and strictly structured modern lifestyles. We are too tired and too distracted by all our obligations to even realize that some of our suffering originates on an emotional or spiritual level" led her to develop an offering to help people reconnect with their lives in a magical and emotional way and start creating a life they love.
Linda is a wild feminine soul guide and Qoya movement teacher who has been on a quest for the last decade to reclaim her wild. She spent five years on the hero's journey, escaping all the external cages she thought were keeping her constrained. But after changing nearly everything in her life and realizing that she still didn't feel the wildness she most longed for, she set out on the heroine's descent to dismantle the cage that existed within.