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Confidence Session 3: I Am Connected

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself.

This week's session is about the truth that we are not separate. From each other, from life, from the harmony at the heart of everything. It's about choosing to see through the lens of possibility, holding compassion for others and for yourself, and understanding that as you help others rise, you rise too...

Confidence Session 2: I Trust

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself.

This week's session is about connecting to something greater than yourself — a deeper intelligence that is steady, wise, and good — and learning to trust it not just in the big moments, but in the quiet everyday choices that shape your path.

How to use this session: Save this episode. Listen every day...

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself.

This week's session is about releasing the need to push, force, or strive — and returning to the deeper knowing that is always there beneath the noise.

How to use this session: Save this episode. Listen every day for the next seven days. Morning is a beautiful time — before the day begins and before anyone else's agenda has reach...

This summer I'm doing something different on the podcast.

Every week I'll be releasing a short confidence session — a recorded meditation designed to be listened to daily. Save it, come back to it each morning, let it settle into you. Twelve weeks. Twelve sessions. A summer of quietly, powerfully coming home to yourself.

But before the sessions begin, I want to share what confidence actually is. My definition — the one I'...

So many women are burned out, running on empty, and quietly wondering if they just need to try harder, speak up more, be more assertive, or do something differently. We've been implementing all the advice, and we're left exhausted and frustrated.

I am joined this week by journalist and author Stefanie O'Connell, whose new book, The Ambition Penalty: How Corporate Culture Tells Women to Step Up and Then Pushes Them Down, is out ...

Have you ever followed all the rules and still felt vaguely hollow? Ever done everything right and wondered why it doesn't feel like yours? Ever woken up somewhere in midlife and realised the map you've been navigating by was never actually yours to begin with?

Have you ever felt the exhaustion of being so easy to be around — and not been able to explain why that exhausts you?

If any of that lands, this episode is for you.

This ...

You achieved the thing, hit the goal, but somehow it still didn't feel quite enough. Meanwhile, someone else's success lands like a small deflation you can't quite explain, and you feel vaguely ashamed of both.

This is one of the most raw and personal episodes I've recorded. That's because I lived this one deeply, and for a long time.

In this episode, I get honest about where the comparison trap really comes from — long before ...

You're doing everything right. The work, the discipline, the showing up. And yet somewhere underneath all of it is a tiredness that a good night's sleep doesn't touch. A sense that you're pushing against something that shouldn't require quite this much pushing.

What if it didn't?

This week I've been revisiting the teachings of Neville Goddard — a mid-twentieth-century mystic whose work found me through Wayne Dyer's Wishes Fulfi...

We spend our lives building elaborate systems to avoid feeling certain things. And we don't even realise we're doing it. We call it being organised, being responsible, being careful. We call it managing. But underneath all that managing is something much simpler — pain we decided a long time ago we couldn't afford to feel.

And it costs us everything. Our energy, our relationships, our sense of aliveness. We were not put here t...

Maybe it's the Tuesday night drink that became two. Maybe it's the glass you pour before you've even thought about it. Maybe it's the question you push away before it fully forms - Is this still serving me?

Nia Thomas used to be the woman with the glass of bubbles in her hand. It was part of her identity, the glue she believed held connection and celebration together. Until it wasn't.

In this conversation, Nia and I - two old friends...

This is a personal one.

Earlier this week, I went in for a targeted ultrasound and left with a breast biopsy scheduled for the following morning. It was my third. And what happened in the hours between that appointment and the result, particularly on a walk I took on a cold Monday evening under a very blue New Mexico sky, felt important enough to bring straight to you.

The result was clear. I'm fine. But that's almost not the point.

T...

What if the voice in your head telling you that you're not enough isn't actually yours?

Most of us have been in self-rejection mode for so long that we don't recognise it as a choice. It feels familiar. It feels like reality.  It's time to wake up.

In this episode:

The billion-dollar industry that profits from your not-enoughness, and why you cannot win a game designed for you to keep playing
How your attention was colonised f...

Over 70% of women in the UK report experiencing sexual harassment in public spaces. Globally, it's higher than that. And yet the message to women remains the same — be careful, stay safe, it's your responsibility.

Today's guest is done with that narrative.

Amy Watson is the founder of Hassl, a social impact organisation launched just over a year ago that is tackling harassment at its root. It's shifting the focus away from what...

If someone asked you right now what you want — truly want, for yourself, not for anyone else — could you answer? For so many women in midlife, that question lands like a small panic. Not because life is bad. But because somewhere in the years of partnering, mothering, working, and showing up for everyone else, the thread back to yourself got very thin.

This episode is about finding it again.

There is a belief at the heart...

What does it look like to walk away from a nearly decade-long career — no backup plan, no degree, just a gut feeling that something had to change? For Sarah Magnoni, it looked like burnout, a text sent on a Saturday morning, six months of napping, and eventually... a sold-out trip to France in 18 hours.

Sarah is the founder of Cobblestones and Castles, which runs small-group trips to Europe for women — curated around his...

Are you the one who volunteers first? Who over-delivers without being asked? Who smooths the awkward silences, anticipates what everyone needs, and makes herself indispensable — in friendships, at work, in her family?

Most of us were never taught that being easy to be around is a pattern worth examining. It looks like warmth. It looks like generosity. But underneath it, for a lot of women, is something much older — a qui...

What happens when we finally name the system?

In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by award-winning journalist, activist, and author Soraya Chemaly, whose latest book All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy, is one of the most important books on gender and power published in recent years.

Soraya has spent decades researching and writing about gender, culture, and power — and in this conversation, w...

We live in a world where stress, anxiety, and burnout have become normal. According to the World Health Organization, workplace burnout alone was officially recognized as a legitimate occupational phenomenon — and it continues to rise year after year.¹ In the U.S., multiple studies show that more than 75% of adults report moderate to high stress, and anxiety disorders affect nearly 1 in 5 people annually.²

You don’t need...

Scrolling through social media and feeling that familiar sinking feeling? That's not accidental—it's engineered. But the real cost of comparison goes way beyond just feeling bad for a few minutes. In this solo episode, Eimear reveals three hidden costs of the comparison trap and shares one research-backed protocol that actually works to break free from the cycle.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS [00:00] Introduction: The comparison trap and...