I'm in a period of life that has travel at the belly of it.

And in today's episode I want to speak for a moment about my relationship to travel as something that I'm engaged in, as something that I'm always adapting to. I have some stories to tell you about moments imprinted upon my soul like a wax stamp on an envelope. I hope these memories of mine make you smile.

I always want to walk away from a trip abroad feeling as though I've made new friends, or that I've deepened friendships, that I've also deepened my connection to myself and the land, broadened my scope of humility, and been plain stupefied by the Earth's beauty.

I want to return home feeling cared for, feeling as though I have cared for myself. Travel is not a time or excuse for me to abandon myself. No, and if I'm careful, that's what will happen naturally, so self-care is absolutely critical, but it doesn't necessarily look like what you may think.

I could bang on here about infrared saunas, and essential oils, and dietary choices, and supplementation, and morning routines you can travel with, and all the gadgets you can take with you to represent a semblance of home. I could do that. All of these constituents that bring about a sense of body balance, you know? But maybe that's for another time.

Instead, today, we'll chat about travel self-care on an energetic, soul level. This is a different conversation. It goes beyond things to apply, things to eat, things to do, necessarily. It's going into the energetics of it, remembering that actually, everything's energy anyway, so if we can come at it from that level, then perhaps we have a chance of creating harmony in our bodies as we tread the earth, rather than tipping ourselves into perpetual imbalance.

I've got another poem for you today, and it was important to me that I read it out to you.

It's a poem I wrote for my Rebels Of Light -- and can I just say for a moment how truly full I feel to have the creative freedom in my mentorship that I can reach into the hearts of these students through poetry. Such is a testament to their openness. I find poetry (or any type of art) is often the best way that I can communicate the intensity of what I feel for them and also what I want to teach them.

I decided to bring this one out to you, my cherished wider community, not so much to share the poem itself but rather to share what is available to you when you practice what the poem points to.

I want to remind you today that whenever something is unfamiliar to you, or uncomfortable to you, you have an opportunity to sit with that aspect or essence, to invite that into your life, and to ask that to tell you more about itself.

Curious?

Tune into this short 10-minute episode and if you can, close your eyes and sip the words into your being. Tell me over on Instagram what you find and what you feel.

My heart was thumping, and I was angry, but my breath was calm, and I could taste liberation. So close. So close this time. So close to me, lingering in my nose, still requiring me to chew and spit out the bones and then swallow in good faith.

The creative life takes on a whole different shape when a book is involved in your life, my friends. When a book starts to emerge, everything slows down a little, and it must. Books like businesses of course have their own life force but books draw you in, and I have been in.

Today I'm sharing all but a glimpse - but it's a glimpse that reveals much of the tone and texture.

I'm unsure what comes next. The crazy thing about engaging with, receiving and bringing a book to life is that you're walking the unknown every single day.

Each time I close my eyes to spend 'time' with my book, I never know what I'll experience or what it'll reveal.

Every next word in the next poem that will be woven throughout this book - unknown.

The blinking cursor - reminding me of all that is yet to come with this book.

But gosh - it feels right.

Tune into this episode for a glimpse into this project that has my heart, hook, line and sinker. (Title is remaining a secret for now)

HARD WORK.

On Instagram recently I asked you how those words 'hard work' sit with you.

We as a team, were bombarded. It was incredible.

It's straight up magic how you engaged with this request for your thoughts on this. Thank you.

We had some push back… Ew, hard work! That's the old paradigm...

We have some hard work evangelists… Hard work is what makes me proud to be who I am!

We received your desire to lean into this more… I know I avoid effort and it's to my detriment.

We were also sent some really beautiful musings and reflections that erred on the edge of poetry.

I learned so much about you and about us reading your responses.

And today I'm excited to share what I learnt, and what I personally believe, about hard work.

I'm coming at you today with a poem I wrote. It's simply called Happy Enough, and I hope you enjoy being taken along for the ride.

(It's sweet and tender and makes me smile when I read it)

Sweet spuds, a fun little podcast for you this week.

I know we all love a little behind-the-scenes action and I've received many a Q about how I structure my days as someone with a home-based business.

Happy to chat with you a little about this today, of course leaving plenty of room for you to feel into how this may apply to you, whether you work from home or not I think it's critical to imbue meaning into our days whenever we can. You may hear an idea or two that inspires you.

Tune into this episode for:

• Day Design as the pursuit of creation and evolution rather than perfection
• Honouring and sculpting your day based on what feels the most natural to you
• How time-blocking and spacious scheduling allows me to feel more free that my 'spontaneous, free-spirited' identity ever did
• The fun way I align my work schedule with planetary energy (oh yes!)

Instagram is a wonderful place. (Most of the time ;)

We get the opportunity to art direct messages that are coming through with imagery.

We get to stroke that aesthetic desire to create something beautiful.

We get to market, sell and give away our soul's work.

And….

We get to interact with the QUESTION BOX!

So, here we are.

Every 10th episode, I'm going to honour you, your journey, where you're at and what your curiosities are by bringing you a Q&A session! Round #1 is ready for your ears, now.

Tune in as I answer the following questions:

• How do you get in touch with your spirituality and what does that look like?
• What are your favourite books on the Divine Feminine?
• How can I step up to be a leader, when all my life I've been a follower?
• How can I get comfortable with receiving more than 'enough?' (Truthbombs, here).
• How can I drown out the noise of my parent's disapproval?
• How do you stay positive in spreading the light when people are mean / unsupportive?
• How did you heal yourself emotionally after your divorce?
• Can you share your new love story?

Friends,

A few weeks ago I emailed you sharing that I found a beautiful note to myself that I wrote 12 months ago, buried in my laptop.

On today's podcast, I'm reading that note aloud to you.

It contained a wisdom that I mistook for hope.

As I read it today, I am still in awe of what's within us, awaiting us to tap into it.

Do listen in and create some time for yourself to dive into a powerful scripting exercise of your own.

Women's autonomy -- this is our focal point in this week's podcast episode. These are two words that come in like a fast moving train. They demand attention, respect, space. These words want to be noticed for all that they stand for. They are certainly that why behind my why behind my why behind my why. I do not stand for women's autonomy because I have completely figured it out. I stand for women's autonomy because I believe that part of my incarnation is to really and truly be an example of what this looks like in its continual becoming. I think that it's part of my purpose here to continue to claim more and more of this for myself, so that I can be an example for whoever else out there needs to lean into that light as well in order to remember their own.

This is a conversation that I'm so passionate about having, but I'm fully aware that it's not always the easiest. I would be compassionate and sensitive enough to offer a trigger warning on this episode, which of course is delivered with care and love. I just know for sure that in moments of my past in which I was giving my power away, there are some core sections of this conversations that would have made me queasy. And that's okay.

As always, Sounds Like Bliss is not a place for you to 'learn.' It's a place for you to receive and roll in whatever you choose to.

Tune into this episode for these sounds:

• Empowered women are the driving force behind real and true metamorphosis
• How an anchored and powerful sense of self can draw the best out from the humans around us, including men
• The more women we see claim their autonomy, the less women we'll see in abusive / non-serving relationships, unfulfilling work and circumstances that don't inspire them
• The importance freeing ourselves from the burdens of our lineage
• An autonomous woman is not an ice queen, she in tune with the boundaries that help her to thrive
• She knows that no one can make her feel anything and that she's not responsible for the way people perceive her.
• She has the inner and outer resources to design a life that is aligned with the incarnation that her soul chose this lifetime.

Gosh, it brings me so much joy to offer you this podcast today.

It brings me joy and clarity and just so much eagerness. (I'm frothing on that word lately. Eagerness. It just feels so anticipatory and yummy and momentum-gifting, you know?)

12 months ago, when I was launching the debut round of Rebels of Light, I had the essence of it in my heart and felt the expansion of what was possible.

So I did the best job I could do in communicating that essence; what I felt she could offer the women who chose to join our rebellion. The vocabulary didn't come naturally but the feeling certainly did, and I'm so honoured and relieved that for 60+ women, it translated.

This year, things are a little different.

That essence is still alive and kicking and more enthusiastic than ever, but now, we have the proof of what this code looks and feels like once lived and breathed. This year, Rebels of Light inhabits my throat chakra (this is the best way I know how to explain it) with laser clarity, lightning speed and absolute knowing.

And so today, not only can I continue to lift the veil on this experience for you, but I can take you on a journey on the content that we'll trace in 2019.

In today's episode, we complete our journey through the world of 12 very powerful words.

Power, Metamorphosis and Beauty -- what do they have to do with each other, how do they relate to one another, and how have we completely misunderstood their essences?

Think about the ways that we as a society value 'Power' as a value or quality.

'Beauty,' too.

The lenses that we have peered through when it comes to understanding these qualities are grossly patriarchal. It's time to dissolve our current perception and become reacquainted with these values so that we may thrive, stunningly.

Tune into this episode for:

• We live in a world of such falsified power, of such bravado, of such inflated ideas of power, power that is not truly power, but looks like it, power that is a lie on a soul level. Power that thinks its power because of control or greed.
• Exploring power instead as shakti, as momentum, as life-force, as a resource you have autonomy over
• Love requires us to be in 'action' in this world. Creation cannot be what is it without power
• A spoken word poem to support your metamorphosis
• "Allow me to re-introduce myself" - Beauty
• Beauty as a byproduct of resilience