Over the last few weeks I’ve been pre-launching The Cabin and writing a lot of content on the blog that really digs into some of the concepts we’ll be immersing in in The Cabin. In the last episode, how to be fulfilled, I super briefly covered the nine pillars, so today I’m sharing the four deep dives from the blog: Presence, Devotion, Ritual and Effort. What I talk about in this episode: Practicing presence How we’d behave if our life was someone we loved Our need for rituals Grounding into you...
Jul 22, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 147
Clickbait episode title alert! This is not going to be an episode that’s going to tell you an exact formula for feeling fulfilled in the next 3-5 working days - but I think you know me well enough by now to know that wasn’t really going to happen. Rather, today I want to talk about what I’ve learned about fulfilment so far, giving you some jumping off points on your own journey. What I talk about in this episode: - An introduction to The Cabin - What fulfilment looks like - Relaxing into fulfilm...
Jul 08, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 146
Today I have a topic for you that has been coming up for me over and over again in conversations with friends, with people I work with, and in my own head: overcorrection. We know what it means to overcorrect in a car, but we do it in our decision-making too. We experience something as so painful, so frustrating, so unbearably uncomfortable, that we turn the wheel a full 180 in our efforts to get away from it. And sometimes that works. But often it leads us somewhere we don’t actually want to go...
Jun 24, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 145
Today is a Q&A episode with questions around longing and curiosity and what to do when things feel impossible. We have questions about getting started when things feel out of reach, openness, the hard in-between, what to do when work is all-consuming and how to stop going after the new and shiny things. What I talk about in this episode: Removing impatience and expectation to open up possibilities Just taking the first step - and then doing the next thing The struggle of the in-between Prior...
Jun 17, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 144
In the last Q&A episode I said something like ‘rather than failure, I’d be more worried about regret’. Quite often, I don’t know I think something until the words are coming out of my mouth, and that is a particular statement that has stayed with me since it tumbled out. I’ve been thinking a lot about using fear of regret as a tool, trickling it into my thinking and planning and prioritising, and today I thought we’d have a deep dive into this - the pros, the cons and whether it actually wor...
Jun 10, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 143
Today I am back catching up with Sasha in a very juicy, sunny episode. We talk about the fear of judgment around making changes or seeming chaotic and where it even comes from, we talk about coming to an objective place about what it is you really want and where we’re at as we approach the mid point of the year. We also talk a lot about resources, money, energy and how our perception of them is changing, as well as what we’re willing to do. In this episode we talk about: Sasha’s new chapter The ...
Jun 03, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 142
And now we emerge blinking into the new era. We have, over the last two episodes, talked about how Simple & Season started and grew into a business, and then the messy middle of deconstruction where it became less and less like a business. And that leads me to now, where I have a lot of pieces of things and am about to put them into a new shape. What I talk about in this episode: My relationship with control The freedom in saying what I actually do What my business model looks like now For l...
May 27, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 141
This is part two in this series on the evolution of my work, and last time I told you about my motivations for starting out and the circumstances that pushed me into my first pivots. I left you just as 2020 was about to start, so shall we continue? What I talk about in this episode: The lessons in an unsuccessful launch The struggle of a long breakup, and its effect on work How I came to pivot the business The difference between ‘a business’ and ‘my work’ For links and resources discussed in the...
May 13, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 140
I am writing this at my desk at home, in the second week of April and outside it is raining like it’s October. By the time you are listening, however, it will be May, and I will be in Lisbon, hopefully walking along sun-dazzled streets in a floaty dress. Although I will be writing on the trip, it now no longer occurs to me to take my podcasting equipment away with me, even though that is something I have definitely done before. So, for the beginning of this new season on the podcast, I’ve put to...
May 06, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 139
Today is a special episode with a conversation I’m so excited to bring to you. As you know, as a rule I don’t do interviews on Grow With Soul but I make exceptions for people whose work I find super interesting - and Jamie Varon is one of those people. After decades of never feeling good enough and always wanting to achieve more, Jamie began the process of unlearning so she could approach work and life from a place of peace, joy and radical contentment. Today we talk about her writing process, d...
Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 138
Today is an end of season bonanza with both Sasha and Cait joining me to talk about our winters and how we are going into spring. We talk about rejecting career paths, control, the practising of devotion, fun and lightness, uncertainty, fitting a new shape and the need to buy new clothes. We also share our favourite reads of the last three months. This was such an interesting and thought provoking conversation where we all took away deeper questions we want to ask ourselves, and we hope you enjo...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 137
Today is a Q&A episode where I’m answering questions submitted by you on Instagram all about projects and productivity. I’m covering rediscovering drive after burn out, procrastination, time blocking, structure, and overcoming fear to do the thing you want to do. In the survey I did a few weeks ago, many many people said they were struggling with actually doing the thing they really wanted to do - whether that was starting it, keeping it up, or calling it finished. So, I am working on a prac...
Mar 18, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 136
Today I’m chatting with Cait from her new home where all the writing was going to happen. We talk about whether the writing is, in fact, happening, and how Cait balances a lightness in her projects with the need for financial security. Mostly, though, we talk about love. Cait wrote a newsletter about embarking on a year of love and so today we talk about our experiences of this as single women - we talk about growth, about control, about friendship, about self-respect and ultimately about choosi...
Mar 11, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 135
Today I thought I’d share with you a bit of a review of the Mapping launch - what happened, how it went and my insights and feeling about it in general. I feel like launching is one of those things that can consume us if we let it. We can drown ourselves in all the launching advice there is out there and we can build these huge walls of expectation that we can’t ever scale. Launching so often can feel like a make or break moment in our businesses. So today I wanted to talk about my launch just t...
Mar 04, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 134
Today is, shall we say, a low energy episode with Sasha. We were both feeling a little meh about things, and decided to talk our way to why that was. We touch on surrender, the seasons, go into morning and night time routines - and do you need them - big picture vs day to day, and also all the word play around being and having confidence. Life is tiring, so come be tired with us. What we talk about in this episode: Listening to our bodies Having confidence How we feel about morning and nighttime...
Feb 25, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 133
Energy is a fickle thing that is hard to pin down or systematise - we know whether we haven’t or we don’t, but beyond that it is mysterious. Unlike time, which has books after books after podcasts after articles written about it, energy seems to get lumped in with sleep and nutrition and other topics rather than stand alone. But without an understanding of energy, you can’t live and work and play. I’d go so far as to say that energy management is just as crucial as time management. In this episo...
Feb 18, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 132
Today I’m catching up with Cait who is now in the same time zone after her transatlantic move. We talked about becoming yourself again after a huge change, having curiosity instead of panics about your work, the connection between thriving and a flow state and whether it’s possible to have one without the other. What we talk about in this episode: - Getting to know yourself as you evolve - Invisible growth - Ways in which we approach our time - Surviving vs thriving and turning to curiosity - Be...
Feb 11, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 131
Over the last three years, in increasing intensity, I have been thinking, writing and living about fulfilment. How does happiness happen? What stops us living true lives, enjoying our lives? And all that thinking and writing and living has converged into Mapping, my new programme which has opened today. Mapping is the the most distilled version of everything I know and have experienced about finding fulfilment, and today I wanted to give you some of that inside information. I will be taking you ...
Feb 04, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 130
Today I’m back with Sasha for our first update of 2022. Since we last spoke, Sasha has changed jobs, and also had some realisations about how her ability to turn her hand to anything was a way to keep herself small and in survival. We also talk about not overcommitting ourselves, self definition and job titles limiting the scope of our work, as well as new year feelings, bringing the lessons with us, and words of the year. What we talk about in this episode: The power of 'for now' Slow growth an...
Jan 28, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 129
Welcome back to Grow With Soul, and this first episode of 2022. Thank you so much for coming back and listening in and supporting the show. Today I wanted to talk about something that is as fitting in January as it is any other month: change. The only thing we can guarantee is change. Sometimes it happens fast, sometimes it is glacial; sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad, and sometimes it feels bad but is actually good. Sometimes it’s within our control, and other times it is thrust upon u...
Jan 21, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 128
As I have been collecting my thoughts ahead of writing this review of 2021, that well-worn, never-quite-attributed quote keeps coming to mind: you overestimate what you can do in a day, and underestimate what you can do in a year. That really feels like the story of my 2021 – not much happened, but so much happened. This time last year I was at the bottom of a very dark hole, so much so, you may remember, I couldn’t even write a proper year review. It feels mind blowing to now be in a new home, ...
Dec 20, 2021•16 min
Q4 is always a bit of a strange one because there is this push/pull between “making the most of the end of the year” and also hitting November and thinking “well that’s the year done”. Even as the product businesses shout at me that the year is very much not done, I do feel that no matter your business, by the time you get to November there’s a sense of “getting through December” and thinking forwards to plans for the next year. This is not a time for starting, it feels, but a time for culminati...
Nov 26, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 127
I wanted to talk about this topic today because it’s a common barrier to doing what you want with your life: other people. It doesn’t matter how certain you are about what you want and where you want to go, other people always have the potential to derail or deflate your plans; and when you’re not certain, not confident, then they can stop you from even considering it. As with so much, this is a difficult topic to generalise, depending as it does on our own relationships with others, our persona...
Nov 19, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 126
Today I am back with Cait, and as we promised in our last conversation, today we’re wrestling with the question of how to rebuild confidence. As with all great conversations, this took us to many different places, and uncovered things we didn’t even really know were there. So we talked about commitments to self and to others, self betrayal, self sabotage, the difference between confidence and trust, and came out with perhaps more questions than answers. But isn’t that the way of life? What we ta...
Nov 12, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 125
Today I am back answering your questions following the mindset Q&A episode a few weeks ago. Today’s questions are more practical, about sticking with your path, redirecting your career, choosing which ideas to follow, figuring out what you want and simplifying rather than being stuck in the busy trap. What we talk about in this episode: What to do when what you want to do goes against what is expected of you Fighting the urge to be ‘busy’ Avoiding the over complication of our time, and our w...
Nov 05, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 124
This week I’m sharing my next conversation with Sasha. It’s a little earlier than planned, because I have been moving house this week. This week was definitely not the time to be recording a new solo show, so I’m bringing this conversation forward. Earlier in the month, Sasha sent me an article about time millionaires, that we decided that we should talk about in the podcast. So on this episode we talk about how we’re valuing our time, productivity vs leisure, and the dreaded screen time. What w...
Oct 29, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 123
Hello, today you are meeting my final guest co-host Syreeta. In this conversation we moved from relating in person and online and what the ramifications of the last year are on how we do that, and how we’ve both dealt with a winter in our work and the awareness that you are the same human at work that is dealing with a lot in life. In this episode we discuss being in our bodies, and living as a part of nature rather than outside of it. There’s a lot of internals and externals in this conversatio...
Oct 22, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 122
Today is the first Q&A episode of the new iteration of the podcast, and I have to say that everyone who submitted questions via Instagram knocked it out of the park. Your questions were so thoughtful and piercing, and it has been a wonderful challenge, and also a joy, to put this episode together. Your questions were also so numerous that I’ve had to split them into two episodes - your more practical, efficient work-y questions will come another day, but today is all about mindset and the em...
Oct 15, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 121
Hello! Today I am back with another co-host this week, and sharing the first chat with Cait. We had a big old catch up about what we're even doing with work at the moment, and something that seemed to be a big topic for us was experiencing a huge disappointment in work, and how that affects...well, everything. Cait is always so open and honest and today is no different. What we talk about in this episode: The pressure to feel grateful Following your interest Thinking short term Stepping out of t...
Oct 08, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 120
Hello, welcome back to Grow With Soul, thank you for coming back, it is very much appreciated. It is just me again today and today’s episode I think follows along nicely from last week’s episode with Sasha, probably because this was all stewing and condensing in my mind since that conversation. We spoke a lot about the career ladders and following growth trajectories without even really interrogating them, and this episode is kinda the next step from that - what do you fill the vacuum with that’...
Oct 01, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 119
