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Creating a buzz about health with Paula Carnell

Paula Carnellpaulacarnell.com

Paula Carnell is a bee consultant and honey sommelier, working internationally with land owners, honey producers and individuals wanting to re connect with nature through bees. TEDx speaker, author of 'Artist to Bees' and 'A quest for bees in Bhutan', and founder of the Bee Project & Beezantium at The Newt in Somerset, Paula speaks internationally and is a popular guest writer for many publications as well as many guest interviews on business and wellbeing podcasts, TV and radio. Winner of Environmental consultant of the year 2023.Listed in the Top 90 environmental Influencers in 2025.

Paula and husband Greg left the UK for a year on remote Cocos Keeling Islands in April 2024, following a dream Paula had in 1992. Setting up a bee project with the local Cocos Malay women on Home Island has been a huge success, despite some initial unexpected challenges!

Returning to the UK in April 2025, Paula will be continuing the Cocos Keeling documentary film project, returning to Cocos with scientists and camera crew to record this extraordinary project, where the bees were 'called back'.



Intro & outro music by Rayah.


Website :- https://paulacarnell.com/

TEDx Talk :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4LCGMM-gA

Instagram :- https://www.instagram.com/paula.carnell/?hl=en @paula.carnell

YouTube :- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVLOH-2x6ns3vtH3VbPI7bA @paulacarnell

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Episodes

Meditation 2 - Episode 116

Paula Carnell What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 JOIN PAULA"S COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP https://paulacarnell.com/membership Skep Making Course :- https://paulacarnell.com/courses Website :- https://paulacarnell.com/ TEDx Talk :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4LCGMM-gA Follow Paula on :- Instagram :- https://www.instagram.com/paula.carnell/?hl=en @paula.carnell YouTube :- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVLOH-2x6ns3vtH3VbPI7bA @paulacarnell Subscribe to Paula's weekly newsletter:...

Jan 01, 202522 minEp. 116

Collaboration - Episode 114

Paula Carnell What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 JOIN PAULA"S COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP https://paulacarnell.com/membership Skep Making Course :- https://paulacarnell.com/courses Website :- https://paulacarnell.com/ TEDx Talk :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4LCGMM-gA Follow Paula on :- Instagram :- https://www.instagram.com/paula.carnell/?hl=en @paula.carnell YouTube :- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVLOH-2x6ns3vtH3VbPI7bA @paulacarnell Subscribe to Paula's weekly newsletter:...

Dec 30, 202423 minEp. 114

How to really relax on holiday - Episode 113

Paula Carnell What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 JOIN PAULA"S COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP https://paulacarnell.com/membership Skep Making Course :- https://paulacarnell.com/courses Website :- https://paulacarnell.com/ TEDx Talk :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4LCGMM-gA Follow Paula on :- Instagram :- https://www.instagram.com/paula.carnell/?hl=en @paula.carnell YouTube :- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVLOH-2x6ns3vtH3VbPI7bA @paulacarnell Subscribe to Paula's weekly newsletter:...

Dec 23, 202424 minEp. 113

Gratitude with gains not goals - Episode 112

Paula Carnell What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 JOIN PAULA"S COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP https://paulacarnell.com/membership Skep Making Course :- https://paulacarnell.com/courses Website :- https://paulacarnell.com/ TEDx Talk :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4LCGMM-gA Follow Paula on :- Instagram :- https://www.instagram.com/paula.carnell/?hl=en @paula.carnell YouTube :- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVLOH-2x6ns3vtH3VbPI7bA @paulacarnell Subscribe to Paula's weekly newsletter:...

Dec 16, 202413 minEp. 112

Proof we are all connected to plastic ducks - Episode 111

Paula Carnell discusses how we are all connected to plastic ducks. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 How we are connected to plastic ducks 🐝 Filming of Blue Planet 🐝 How far plastic travels 🐝 How everything is connected “rubbish builds up there” “lots of lots of flip flops, tooth brushes, lighters” “we would often find little plastic ducks” “on these islands we get a lot of marien biologists come and stay” “How bizarre is it to find a plastic duck” “they became part of a study” “1992...

Dec 09, 202414 minEp. 111

Honey Advent Cocos Honeys - Episode 110

Paula Carnell discusses her Honey Advent and the honeys of Cocos Keeling. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 Paula’s honey sensory journey 🐝 Paula’s membership 🐝 Honeys of Cocos Keeling 🐝 Favourite Honeys 🐝.Honey and Memories “Welcome to December” “by recording my honey tasting sessions would enable me to compile and record to write a book” “on Cocos Keeling you can’t take honey off the island or bring it onto the island” “a creating a buzz about health advent” “during December we ar...

Dec 02, 202420 minEp. 110

Enforced Healing - Episode 109

Paula Carnell discusses how she fully recovered from Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 All about enforced healing 🐝 Deep healing 🐝 Hidden trauma 🐝 The importance of facing trauma “I didn’t think there was much left to heal” “I knew I was tired when I got here” ”I had everything in place to cope with that” “being in this house there were deep traumas” “everything dried up” “I was feeling on a deep level everything that was being shred with me” ”success that war...

Nov 25, 202417 minEp. 109

How I fully recovered from Ehlers Danlos Syndrome - Episode 108

Paula Carnell discusses how she fully recovered from Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 All about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome 🐝 The stigma of being disabled 🐝 Being judged by others 🐝 The transition of becoming well 🐝 How everything affects our health ”the real test for me when I felt energetically healthy” “I had a blue badge so I could park anywhere” “I could be invisible it wasn’t like I had a visible illness” “You would get verbal abuse from people” “I ended it...

Nov 18, 202428 minEp. 108

Bee Kind - Episode 107

Paula Carnell talks about how to Bee Kind in celebration of World Kindness Day. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 All about World Kindness Day 🐝 How people interact with one another 🐝 Why kindness matters 🐝 Some lovely kindness stories ”I love the association of bees and kindness. “They are all about the good of the whole. “We are care takers of this house ..it is really interesting to see how people interact with each other’” “Quite often people can be triggered by one another” “Who...

Nov 13, 202421 minEp. 107

Paula Carnell interviews Justin Wiggan - Episode 106

Paula Carnell interviews Justin Wiggan - musician, sound anrtist and sonic detective exploring the world through frequency and vibration. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 All about the listening passport 🐝 All about Justin Wiggan 🐝 Projects Justin has brought to life 🐝 The importance of sound ”I didn’t set out to have these as themed” “Sounds came in of knitting” “I’d be blind by the time I was a teenager” “In the back of my mind I’d been training my sense of hearing” “I did it out ...

Nov 11, 20241 hr 23 minEp. 106

Yachts visiting Cocos - Episode 105

Paula Carnell discusses What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 🐝 Yachts arriving and their impact 🐝 How Paula is often seen as a fraud 🐝 The healing of Cocos Keeling Islands 🐝 What scuttling a ship means ” “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “I JOIN PAULA"S COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP https://paulacarnell.com/membership Skep Making Course :- https://paulacarnell.com/courses Website :- https://paulacarnell.com/ TEDx Talk :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4LCGMM-gA Follow Paula on :- Instagram :- https://www.instag...

Nov 04, 202422 minEp. 105

Why am I called to Cocos Keeling - Episode 104

Paula Carnell discusses why she was called to Cocos Keeling Islands What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝Why Paula was called to Cocos Keeling. 🐝All the synchronicities. 🐝 How to make the calling meaningful. 🐝 How the healing is being kick started. ”most people come here for teaching or government jobs for at least 2 years” “back in 1992 when I had a dream” “The man who built it died on the Isle of Wight” “we are renting out our house, Greg had left his job” “all these things lead us her...

Oct 28, 202423 minEp. 104

Why do I teach Bee Keeping? - Episode 103

Paula Carnell discusses why she teaches Bee Keeping. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 JOIN PAULA"S COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP https://paulacarnell.com/membership Skep Making Course :- https://paulacarnell.com/courses Website :- https://paulacarnell.com/ TEDx Talk :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4LCGMM-gA Follow Paula on :- Instagram :- https://www.instagram.com/paula.carnell/?hl=en @paula.carnell YouTube :- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVLOH-2x6ns3vtH3VbPI7bA @paulacarne...

Oct 23, 202413 minEp. 103

Paula Carnell interviews Gareth and Louise from Manchester Honey Co - Episode 102

Paula Carnell interviews Gareth and Louise from Manchester Honey Co What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 About the Manchester Honey Company 🐝 Looking after bees without chemicals 🐝 Collecting swarms 🐝 How Gareth and Louise met Paula 🐝 The best way to take care of bees “you have to be quite strong in yourself” “society is accepting and has moved” “I just don’t tell anyone I don’t treat” @the bees have been around a lot longer than we have” “”let the bees just deal with it” “it’s delayed...

Oct 21, 20241 hr 18 minEp. 102

Jeannie and Hind - Episode 101

In this episode Paula Carnell What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 🐝 🐝 " JOIN PAULA"S COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP https://paulacarnell.com/membership TEDx Talk :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4LCGMM-gA Follow Paula on :- Instagram :- https://www.instagram.com/paula.carnell/?hl=en @paula.carnell YouTube :- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVLOH-2x6ns3vtH3VbPI7bA @paulacarnell Subscribe to Paula's weekly newsletter: https://paulacarnell.com/ Beekeeping start up bundle :- https://info.paulaca...

Oct 14, 202415 minEp. 101

100th Episode - Paula Carnell interviews Veda Austin - Episode 100

In this 100th episode Paula Carnell interviews Veda Austin, What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 Veda Austin and her story 🐝 The benefits and properties of 🐝 Does water have a memory? 🐝 Veda's experiments with water 🐝 Types of water and their effects 🐝 Latest scientific discovery regarding water "Veda Austin is leading the world with what she is talking about with water" "does water have a consciousness" "water and consciousness are so intimately intertwined they behave as one" "you d...

Oct 07, 20241 hr 14 minEp. 100

Why I brought my linen sheets to Cocos? - Episode 99

In this episode Paula Carnell discusses why bring linen sheets to Cocos? What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 About linen 🐝 The frequency of fabrics 🐝 Why linen was used in hospitals 🐝 Healing using linen "humans are between 70 and 90 hertz" "200 hertz is courage" "linen has a frequency of 5000 hertz" "Adam and Eve were clothed in light, is another way of saying linen" "sleeping between fabric of 5000 hertz is healing" JOIN PAULA"S COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP https://paulacarnell.com/membershi...

Sep 30, 202418 minEp. 99

How Reiki helped me through my divorce - Episode 98

In this episode Paula Carnell discusses how Reiki helped her through her divorce. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 What Reiki is 🐝 Divorce and trauma 🐝 Living in a state of fear 🐝 The effects of the Reiki treatment 🐝 About chakras 🐝 How to move forward 🐝 Tapping into universal life force energy 🐝 How Reiki feels 🐝 Closing a successful business “they whoever they are would take my kids away” “they just avoid you, and I’d taught my husband to paint” “when he left I lost my best s...

Sep 23, 202441 minEp. 98

Why would bees not eat their own honey? - Episode 97

In this episode Paula Carnell discusses why would bees not eat their own honey? What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 Why bees might not eat their honey 🐝 The importance of nectar 🐝 The first rule of bee keeping 🐝 How much honey a bee needs to produce wax “You put the stickies back in the hive” ”if you have hot a lot of wasps around you won’t want to encourage robbing” “bees will always eat the honey” “bees can smell honey they love the honey” “not a bee, the bees are not interested” “I ...

Sep 16, 202415 minEp. 97

Paula Carnell interviews Kathryn Vere - Episode 96

In this episode Paula Carnell interviews Kathryn Vere. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 Learn more about Kathryn Vere 🐝 Kathryn’s work on Cocos Keeling 🐝 How Kathryn and Paula met 🐝 Paula and Kathryn’s retreat 🐝 The importance of healing “I help people who have a calling that are stuck, facing unexpected challenges” “I really speed things up for them” “I’m a trauma healing specialist” “I work with people’s body’s, minds” “I work with very small domestic properties, and large commer...

Sep 09, 202459 minEp. 96

Healing Trauma Part 2 - Episode 95

In this episode Paula Carnell discusses medicines from the hive. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 Meeting with Kathryn Vere and healing Oceania House 🐝 The process of healing the house 🐝 How to explain freedom 🐝 How Paula and Kathryn met to heal the land and house 🐝 Collaboration "pulling the rug from the foundations of anything traumatic that hd happened" "where you could safely moor up, throw your anchor down and enjoy the fruits of a beautiful tropical island paradise" "layers o...

Sep 02, 202421 minEp. 95

Medicines from the hive - Episode 94

In this episode Paula Carnell discusses medicines from the hive. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 Medicines from the hive 🐝 About medicinal qualities of honey 🐝 Benefits of wax 🐝 qualities of propolis 🐝 Benefits of venom “Bees self medicate” “what other products they can get from the hive” “Super wax which is super clean” “Other waxed you can melt down for soaps and candles” “propolis is my favourite product from the hive” “when a tree is harmed or has a round it secretes resin” “t...

Aug 26, 202420 minEp. 94

Paula Carnell interviews Gizelle Renee - Episode 93

In this episode Paula Carnell interviews Gizelle Renee :- What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝All about Louma 🐝How to listen to the land 🐝The importance of regenerative farming 🐝Listening together 🐝Synchronicities creating Louma “it’s more than a transformation it’s a bringing to life” “The wine industry is going up and up in the UK” “knowing this was going to be so much more than a vineyard” “he’d planted 28,000 vines by hand” “our patch of earth doing a good thing” “if we listen clos...

Aug 21, 202453 minEp. 93

Bare Handed Beekeeeping - Episode 92

In this episode Paula Carnell discusses bare handed beekeeping. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 Issues using gloves 🐝 travelling the world without gloves 🐝 beekeeping on Cocos Keeling Islands 🐝 being stung by bees 🐝 fear and being stung “disposing of them and wastage” ”British beekeeping season is quite short” “couldn’t bring my used bee suits do I wasn’t transferring pathogens” “when you’ve got gloves on you feel superhuman” “I was working with a wild colony that had been split a...

Aug 19, 202415 minEp. 92

3ft or 3 miles - Episode 91

In this episode Paula Carnell discusses moving bees 3ft or 3 miles. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 bees and their environment 🐝 how bees work 🐝 transporting bees for pollination 🐝 introducing bees into new environments 🐝 moving bees on Cocos Keeling Islands “It’s 3ft at a time right?” ”encourages bees to find new landmarks and settle in their new home” “Bees have to do their orientation flights to find out where they are” “bait a beehive and a swarm would come in” ”what I’m going...

Aug 12, 202422 minEp. 91

Create a buzz about your art - Episode 90

In this episode Paula Carnell discusses creating a buzz about your art. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝5 Tips for being an artist 🐝How to use your full brain capacity 🐝Learning to look 🐝Distinguishing shadows 🐝How to see outside the box “her life is her art” ”share it” “be consciously in the zone whilst painting” “the best way to improve your own art is to teach” JOIN PAULA"S COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP https://paulacarnell.com/membership Skep Making Course :- https://paulacarnell.com/co...

Aug 05, 202420 minEp. 90

Bee prepared for colds all year round - Episode 89

In this episode Paula Carnell discusses how to bee prepared for colds all year round. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝Why we get ill in the summer 🐝The Naturopathic idea of why bugs spread 🐝Why people get ill at the same time 🐝The Terrain Theory 🐝How the body detoxes 🐝How to be prepared “If you’re not supporting your immune system the cold can get deeper” “if you’re not catching the cold from the outside why do families, people that working together get ill at the same time” “Be p...

Jul 29, 202420 minEp. 89

Paula Carnell interviews Tony Rothacker - Episode 88

In this episode Paula Carnell interviews Tony Rothacker about setting up and running intergenerational programmes on Cocos Keeling Islands. Tony builds bridges between generations. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 Intergenerational programmes 🐝 Using technology for the good of humanity 🐝 School programmes of volunteering 🐝 How the youth are challenged 🐝 How seniors can reconnect with the youth 🐝 To encourage motivation for both generations to gain life skills 🐝 What happens after...

Jul 24, 202417 minEp. 88

Healing Land and Property - Episode 87

In this episode Paula Carnell discusses healing land and property. What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 About deep healing. 🐝 Following your dreams 🐝 Challenges being faced living the dream 🐝 Kathryn Vere and healing properties 🐝.Working from a place of love 🐝 The healing of the land 🐝.Being give permissions to be on the islands “I’m going to talk about deep healing” “I’m following a dream I had in 1992 to come to these islands” “We are a week short of being her for 3 months” “everyt...

Jul 22, 202434 minEp. 87

Are bees examples of 5th dimensional living - Episode 86

In this episode Paula Carnell discusses are bees an example of 5th dimensional living species What you will learn from this episode:- 🐝 What 5th dimension perception is 🐝 The importance of healing yourself 🐝 About 3rd and 4th dimensions 🐝 Why bees are 5th dimensional beings 🐝 The importance of transitioning to 5th dimension “I had a dream and I spoke out about this” “when it comes to the public I tend to be a bit mainstream” “it started with me thinking that the bees are disappearing” “I wa...

Jul 15, 202426 minEp. 86
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