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May 15, 2025 • 18 mins

The week that was in LA; from guava gelato to being quite literally chased home. This has been a week where I feel like I’m constantly chasing my tail and never quite getting ahead. But I feel like that’s just part of it, some weeks you feel like you’re kicking all the goals and others feel like you’re just trying to catch up. This has been one of those weeks.

Ps. There’s an oracle card reading at the end, lots of cards jumped out of the deck today so take what resonates most with you!

Big love and here’s to having the courage to find freedom.

Lola

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to your diary episode. Here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm a bit of a nomad, so these episodes come
to you from wherever I'm living or traveling to at
the time, so I'll share with you what's going on
in my world, from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals,
nature adventures, health discoveries, to swimming in Hidden Byron Bay Beaches.

(00:25):
Come with me as I share my adventures with you. Hello,
gangles La pod diary for you with also an oracle
card reading at the end. First of all, not to
get to whimsical and woo woo, but we've just had
a whopper of a full moon scorpio full moon. Everything

(00:50):
I saw on TikTok and Insta was like, do not manifest,
do not manifest manifest, Like, let this be a moon
that allows you to heal and to like sync into
that more emotional healing shadow work kind of stuff. So
I was like, all right, strap in. We know the
scorpio has a little stinger. You know, it's it's gonna

(01:12):
be a bit of a roller coaster, which I think
it has been for a lot of people. For me,
I've just been like, all right, I'm a control freak.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
You've probably figured that out by now.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
I'm just gonna let our control and just get as
be as productive as I can without putting any pressure
on myself. That's kind of been my whole shtick. But
I've got to admit the energy for me has felt
like I'm caught this week. I've just feel like I've
been constantly chasing my tail and not really getting ahead.
That's kind of been the vibe, even though I've still

(01:43):
like I look back and I'm like, oh no, You've
still got heaps done. Like an acting audition came in.
I got that off. I just got it off like
I had I think a three day window, which is
really good, like usually in LA that you'll get it
in the afternoon, it'll be due the next morning.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
But I was so lucky.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
This one came in on Friday. Was it Friday or
Saturday afternoon? So I was like great, So I was
able to put it in Sunday morning.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
So I got it.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Off obviously, like I like to get stuff off a
lot quicker than that. But I was like, nah, it's
full moon, just roll with it. And I just was
having loads of dreams about like Orca whales and man
to raise, and I was like, all right, to me,
that is like all watery emotional, but like strong energy

(02:29):
as well. So anyway, I was had a dream about
a black panther and that any type of black cat
means my Nan is visiting me. That's what David the
medium taught me. And so I was like, okay, well, cool,
get I'm also connecting with Nan, right, So there's he
whimsical stuff straight out of the straight out of the gate,

(02:49):
and we'll obviously end with an oracle reading just like
last time as well.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I just want to share the week that was with you.
I have been.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Teaching a lot of yogs this week. I'm teaching tonight Yin.
If you're in LA, I'm teaching tonight. Oh actually this
will be coming out on Friday.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
I forget it. Okay, well I did teach. So I'm
teaching yin.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Tonight Friday night and Power Saturday morning. And I think
I'm teaching a fair bit next week too, So it's great.
I love teaching, and I love planning a playlist and
I just love it all fun LA story for you.
So it wasn't fun at the time. Actually part of

(03:32):
it was fun. My lovely friend Brian. We live in
the same apartment building, and he's like, do you want
to go for a gelato? And it was Sunday night.
I just had a meeting with Kilo Who and Who
I'm an ambassador for on Zoom and I was like, great,
I just gonna get this meeting done and that I
can totally meet you.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
And so it was like some was going down. We
walked together. I had this really yummy gelato ps. I
tried guava gelato for the first time. That was my favorite.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Brian got raspberry and lemon and I got guaba and
a strawberry. But the guaboards, hands down, it was just
like tart, not too sweet.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Anyway, we're having our gelado, sun goes down and gets
dark and you can feel like there's a few rowdy
characters kind of like just circling, and we were like,
all right, let's walk home.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
This is our cute great.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Anyone that lives in LA or traveled to LA will
know that you just got to be like hyper aware
when it gets dark. I think maybe I'm a bit
of a skinny cat, but that's just how I've always felt.
And I think because I've always spent a lot of
time here on my own. I've always just been hyper
aware and a hyper vigilant at nighttime. Anyway, we're walking

(04:42):
back to our apartment building. This isn't like I'm not
fabricating in this. I'm not like beefing it up to
me more than it is. Anyway, this guy is running
towards us at full pelt, sprinting, screaming, and we're both like,
oh my god, oh my god. So we run to
our little like our entrance, and lucky, we have an

(05:02):
app to get in the door as opposed to like
a physical key, and so like I'm trying to find
the app on my phone, Brian finds it straight away
and we're in, and then the guy's like open up,
open up, call onme on one, and I'm like, what,
I thought you were chasing us. So we didn't open
up because we thought this guy was chasing us. Then
he vanishes and then my friend Brian's like, well maybe

(05:24):
he was the one being chased and he was screaming
running towards us. Anyway, it was all very la vibes,
and then a helicopter was circling like not two minutes later.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
It was very full on.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
But I must say I felt okay because I had
a mate with me. If I was on my own,
I would have been absolutely petrified. But yeah, that was
like welcome to La. Welcome to La. And I want
to be like brutally honest with you. My whole thing
is just like I'm never gonna sugarcate, sugar coat anything
for you.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
I teach yoga really late at night some nights.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
So I'm like getting home at like ten thirty eleven
pm at night. I fully have pepper spray in my
bag and I keep it with me everywhere, like anytime
I'm coming home at night alone, any of that kind
of thing. Even when I drive into the car park
that we have like a private car port in our apartment,

(06:20):
Matt's always like drive in and wait for the gate
to go down before you park, so like no one
can like sneak in and burgle or rob or whatever. Anyway,
crazy that you've got to think about these things. It's
just wild that you've got to think and be aware
of these things. Oh, I think I told you last
week or the week before that there was like a
serial killer on the loose. While that person I believe

(06:44):
is being caught. So anyway, Yeah, just another day in
Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
You know I'm obsessed with Air one. You know I'm
a member, blah blah blah. Anyway, I try a new salad.
It is their gluten free Caesar salad, and it is
so good. I keep getting emails from them. They've just
launched a organic I don't know if it's gluten free
or not, Lemon tart and I saw it, yes, so
I was like, oh, it does look good. I haven't

(07:12):
tried it, but it does look good. I'm about trying
new coffee shop and meet an actor Bud for a coffee.
It's called Jurassic Magic. I think it's in a suburb
called West Adams. So we're checking that out today in
about an hour or so, so that'll be nice.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
What else to tell you. I found it really quick.
You know, I'm obsessed with substack, so let me get
it up. Sorry.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Friends just writing to me and I'm like, no, I
need to read my I'm obsessed with substack. Basically, mine
is free. There's no money, you don't need like to subscribe.
It totally free. And I put this quote up the
other day and I was like, oh, it just hit right.
The success to happiness is freedom. The secret to freedom
is courage. In life, you must take action if you want.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
To experience freedom.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm going to read it one more time because for me,
I think feeling trapped or stuck is like my biggest
Achilles heel, and it's the thing that I mentally struggle
with the most, and it's probably the thing that I
do the most work with my therapist on feeling cage,
feeling trapped. I've felted at certain times of my adult life.

(08:27):
You know, if I've been in a either any kind
of relationship that feels like I'm being manipulated or I
don't feel free to be myself or to express myself.
And it's happened in a couple of adult friendships, it
has happened in a couple of romantic relationships obviously well
before I met Matt. And my therapist has been because

(08:48):
I've been with my therapist for oh, this will be
year ten.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
I think, and.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
He's really helped me with like that's probably been the
biggest thing of like working me through relationships where I
feel really.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Trapped.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
As the word, and like I keep wanting, I keep
touching my chest like you know, when you feel caged
and you feel like you can't express or be yourself.
And so for me, freedom is like a huge core
value that I know that I need to feel in
order to express and be myself as a creative, as
an artist, but also as just a human being. So
I'm going to read you that quite one more time.

(09:29):
The secret to happiness is freedom. The secret to freedom
is courage. In life, you must take action if you
want to experience freedom.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
How cool? I mean, so like he's to feeling free, right.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's an important It's an important one for me. I
might actually think my yoga class a little around it tonight.
I think I wasn't going to share this other quote
with you, but I love it. Be who you were
meant to be and set the world on fire. Love
that I am a I've got four virgos in my chart,
but I have Sagittarius rising. So that's why freedom and

(10:09):
fiery stuff really resonates with me.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
I just flip and love it. Oh that card's just
popped out.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
I'm shuffling the Oracle cards right now and two cards
have just like totally popped out.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
So I'm going to set them aside. And read them.
So the way that I read is the way my
Nan taught me.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Dorothy the one that when I see black cats, I
think of Dorothy. She's also stuck on my fridge, so
I see her all the time. Really interesting about David
the medium, So I shed a little peak of Nan
on Mother's Day and he goes, I recognize that face,
and I'm like, oh, shivers.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
I forget that he sees people.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
When I forget, I thought it was like he saw
as he's a psychic and medium. I forget that he
sees like actual. I thought he like take stared and
smelt and like I didn't realize his visual anyway.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Day. But if you hear this, you're awesome.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
He's actually about to come to LA and we're doing
an LA true crime podcast. Cannot wait. Also, the episode
coming out on Monday is with the Hunter Noah Hunter
Dorsy Ledge. I'm about to start cutting his his podreal

(11:26):
right now, right after I get off this recording with
you guys. So heaps of cards fell out today, so
I've just put them aside and then I'm gonna pull past.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Oh I'm trying. I always do.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
My Nan says, always pull with your left hand. I'm
gonna do this last one with my eyes shut just because, Oh,
that's weird that I did that.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Future okay real.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
And then I always look at the bottom of the
deck again, something that my nan taught me. Okay, So
let's start with the bottom of the deck. Soulmate relationship,
a new romance, its spiritual bias is here for you now.
Soulmate relationship for me, like that might be someone coming
into your life like or romantically, but for me, I
know Boss has some really exciting stuff going on today

(12:13):
when I record this, and so I'm so excited to
check in with him. On the top of the deck
is mother healing. As your feelings towards your mother heal,
your desires manifest more rapidly and accurately. That doesn't need
to be like literally your mother. It can be a
female energy that is older than you. For me, though,

(12:33):
I know my Mum's coming to visit, so I actually
will take that one literally all right. Past worthiness, know
that you deserve to receive good in all ways. Great present,
let yourself received, allow others to give you loving care,
receive without guilt or apology. And then the future, which
can be an hour's time tomorrow. For me, it's tomorrow

(12:56):
because i know I've got a big thing on tomorrow.
Dream big, let go of small thoughts about yourself, see
yourself succeeding. I am doing something really cool with the
pod tomorrow here in La and so I'm really excited
to see that come to life, which, yeah, that's exciting
for me. And then the ones that fell out treasure

(13:18):
chest an unforeseen windfall of new abundance comes to you
now amazing. Simplify your life. I've been pulling this nearly
every day. Eliminate clutter from your home and work life
to balance the flow of activities.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
That's me.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
I've been working my guts out at the yoga studio,
and I'm like, i feel like I'm losing tart. Like
I'm like, oh my god, I need more time in
the day. I'm like, I need to like be like
a Bama. He only slept for something like four hours
a night.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
I can't do that. I'm such a sleeper.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Helpful person, this also felt a few fell out just
by the way, So take whatever resonates with you. Helpful person,
someone wants to help you, think of who might that
be an initiate contact Okay, now there's full left, so
they just fell out. Explore your options. It's time to
look at other possibilities. It's a good time to make changes.

(14:10):
Love that one.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
You're being helped.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Oh, this is the prettiest little card. It's like a
little dolphin with a mermaid. Oh, Heaven is working behind
the scenes to help you, even if you don't see
the results yet.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Father Healing.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Your personal power increases as you give any farther related
issues to Heaven.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Just like the Mother Healing card. It can be a.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Masculine energy that feels older than you and just feel older.
And then morning affirmations, say positive affirmations each morning to
open the gates of manifestation.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
That's really cool. So my.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Affirmation that I've been working with for the last couple
of weeks is to be relentlessly honest. I saw it
in an interview with Marcus Mumford. And you know how
much I love my infid and sons, and so anytime
like something challenges me, or I feel stuck or I

(15:09):
just am like, just be real, just be honest. It
never lets you down. It never lets you down. So
you're are more than welcome to use that one to
be relentlessly honest. I themed a whole yoga class around it.
So that is our reading. Just coming back to the
three cards that I pulled for the past, present, future,
past worthiness. Know that you deserve to receive good in norways. Present,

(15:35):
Let yourself receive, Allow others to give you loving care,
receive without guilt or apologies. Future dream big, Let go
of small thoughts about yourself. See yourself succeeding.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
How good?

Speaker 2 (15:51):
And then I love this. I just can't grave how
gorgeous this little card is. You're being helped. Heaven is
working behind the scenes to help you, even if you
don't see results yet. So there you go, a little
bit of like this feels like a bit of trust,
a little bit of receiving, a little bit of like
being okay with taking a beat right now to heal,
probably off the back of that scorpio full moon. So

(16:14):
give yourself like this weekend as like a little reset,
I would say, And do you like make your weekend
work for you? Like I know I haven't moved my
body properly this week. I've just felt a bit like
I've been time crunched, and I think that like this
is the perfect time to like realign and give back
to yourself.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
That's what I think.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Anyway, I hope you find that fascinating and interesting, and
I hope you love it. By the time this comes out,
hopefully the pod, the exciting pod stuff will have happened
here in La. But I'm looking to find a studio
and film a really special episode with a really special guest.
So I will probably share a little bit of that

(16:56):
on socials as I can, if they'll let me.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
I don't know what the protocol is, but.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
I'm viewing the location tomorrow about this time tomorrow, so
I'm really excited about that.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
I love the pod so much. Do you know? The
pod will turn six years old this year? How crazy?
Feelously failing. She's six years old.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
So cute, so exciting. So I love the pod as
you know. Thank you to you for listening to it,
for sharing it with your mates, for subscribing, for all
the things, because it wouldn't exist without you. And as always,
please you know, touch base on Insta. Let me know,
you know, if you like these little oracle readings, I
like to add them in at the end. You know,

(17:41):
all right, all right, my friends, Mega mega, love dream big.
But let yourself receive you know what I mean, Like
take the time for you, have some really honest convos
with people around you, like healing convos, and remember like
there's help going on behind the scenes. That'd be my
take from this reading, So corect so cute. I don't

(18:05):
know why that didn't come out right. Just so you know,
I used the magical Mermaid and Dolphins deck from Dora
in virtue. I've had it for like a gazillion maazillion years.
All right, Mega love, who Roo, Go out to the
stuff you love, Stay relentlessly honest and yeah, go make
whatever flipp and goals you have come true.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
All right, big love, Bye,
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