What keeps us tethered to patterns, beliefs, and identities that no longer serve us?

In this deep exploration of attachment, we journey through the invisible threads that both connect and constrain us.

The conversation begins with a simple insight - our very first human experience is one of attachment through the umbilical cord. From there, we navigate the complex terrain of how we form connections to people, things, expectations, and even our own identities. Mark Henderson shares how physical tension in our bodies reflects our unwillingness to let go, while Scott Plate reveals how his theater directing experience showed him how desperately we cling to objects to make us feel real.

The dialogue takes an unexpected turn as we explore nature as our greatest teacher of attachment and release. "Trees let go every autumn," Mark observes, "shedding their leaves in complete trust they'll regrow in spring." This wisdom from the natural world offers a profound template for our own journeys of letting go.

Perhaps most practical exploration is the discussion around emotions - those 90-second chemical reactions that we extend indefinitely by attaching stories to them. Through simple awareness practices and perspective shifts, we discover how to allow emotions the space they need without becoming defined by them.

The most liberating realisation emerges when we question our fundamental assumptions: What if we're already okay? What if we already have what we need? As Scott beautifully articulates, "It's a much lighter burden when all we have to carry is our own presence."

This conversation invites you to examine your own attachments with gentleness and curiosity. Where might you be holding on too tightly? What freedom awaits in the space between?

Join us for this exploration of how letting go creates the possibility for experiencing our inherent enoughness.

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What does it truly mean to be sovereign in today's world?

Suzanne Hovmand-Simonsen takes us on a remarkable journey from childhood responsibility to corporate burnout to biodynamic farming, revealing how reconnecting with the land became her pathway to personal sovereignty and wholeness.

Growing up on her family's centuries-old Danish estate, Suzanne experienced both deep connection and painful disconnection. After her mother's illness forced her to take on adult responsibilities as a teenager, she initially sought normalcy through university education and corporate life. The result? Physical illness, allergies, and a profound sense of being unable to breathe – literally and figuratively. At thirty, she made the radical decision to quit everything and return to her roots, embracing organic and biodynamic farming practices.

The transformation Suzanne has witnessed on the land mirrors the inner journey we all must take to reclaim our sovereignty. "It takes seven years to convert a farm to biodynamic farming," she explains, "but it's not nature that takes that long – it's us." This profound insight encapsulates how our internal shifts manifest in the world around us, creating spaces where diversity flourishes and life returns in abundance.

Suzanne challenges us to reexamine our relationship with wisdom itself. True wisdom, she argues, doesn't come from intellectual achievement but from connecting deeply with ourselves and the universal field that unites all beings. This sovereignty – taking full responsibility for our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing – is the foundation for creating what she describes as "paradise" wherever we are. When we stand in our truth and express our unique gifts, we contribute essential pieces to humanity's collective puzzle.

This episode invites you to discover how reconnecting with nature's wisdom might be the key to finding the enoughness that already exists within you.

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What does it take to see your unique wholeness? What does it truly mean to give from this place rather than scarcity?

In this conversation we explore the often-overlooked connections between feeling "enough", the ability to see out own gifts and our capacity for genuine generosity.

Scott Plate, Alex Papworth and Mark Henderson join me, Lyn Man, to examine how labels, expectations and societal definitions of worth create artificial barriers to authentic being and giving.

We explore how our early experiences shape our perception of our gifts—from it's Scott's childhood "too muchness" being labeled as irritation rather than expressiveness, to Alex's adoption of the "computer person" identity that provided safety but limited authentic expression. Together, we share how we can shed these confining labels to rediscover the natural flow of giving that emerges when we simply allow ourselves to be.

From the place of our own gifts we then turn to exploring how crisis situations—like the recent wildfire in Scott's community— move us from a transactional mindset. In these moments doors open instinctively, resources are shared freely, and our inherent humanity shines through. This prompted us to ask: what prevents us from living with this same openness in ordinary moments?

Drawing wisdom from nature, which "never asks itself if it's enough," we explore how scarcity thinking has permeated our psyche since humans first began stockpiling resources and how we might return to behaving more like an ecosystem, where giving and receiving flow naturally.

Finally we invite you to join the #Flow of Gifts initiative through sharing your own gifts - for example creative expressions - on social media to inspire a community of generous giving.

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What if your struggles with prosperity aren't about strategy or effort, but rather having the wrong archetype in charge?

This insightful conversation with Lisa Michaels reveals how understanding your elemental nature might be the missing piece in your journey to feeling enough.

For over thirty years, Lisa has guided feminine leaders to connect with their intuition through alignment with natural forces. What began as a download in 1999 evolved into a framework for understanding how the elemental forces —earth, air, fire, and water— shape our consciousness and determine our unique pathways to prosperity and fulfilment.

Lisa explains how these elements subdivide into the twelve astrological archetypes, creating what she calls our "soul blueprint." Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach to success, she demonstrates why different people thrive using different methods based on their elemental makeup. Through fascinating analysis of host Lyn Man's chart, Lisa reveals how a predominance of air energy combined with Sagittarian fire explains Lyn's lifelong pattern of knowledge-seeking and occasional burnout.

The most transformative insight comes when Lisa describes how our "inner council" of archetypes need to work in harmony. When the wrong archetype takes control we find ourselves struggling against our own nature. She shares how putting her detail-oriented Virgo earth energy in charge of prosperity (rather than her expansive, consuming Sagittarian fire energy) led to profound change in her own financial wellbeing.

This conversation offers a refreshing alternative to conventional self-development narratives. Instead of trying to become someone entirely different to succeed, understanding your elemental composition helps you to ensure your inner archetypes work together harmoniously and create prosperity in a way that supports you.

You'll leave the conversation with a deeper appreciation that you truly are enough exactly as you are—in all your elemental uniqueness!

If you are ready to discover your own elemental nature you can find out more at lisa-michaels.com.

Visit lisa-michaels.com/unleash for a free guide to unlocking your inner feminine prosperity power.

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Do you ever take time to notice what is behind the actions you are taking?

In this episode I have a conversation with Alex Papworth and Mark Henderson about what we can learn from leaves around taking action.

This led us to talk about balancing being and doing, doing things with ease and flow, bringing in seasonality, giving and receiving and noticing when that is transactional or from a place of reciprocity.

We also look at what is driving our actions; how they can be habitual, expected of us, sparked by something and the influence of our environment, and from that whether they are aligned with us.

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Have you ever noticed that when you bring a mix of community, self-care and nature into your life you strengthen you inner self? That you can do more of what you want to do?

This week I have a conversation with Sami Aaron, founder of the Resilient Activist organisation. Sami founded the organisation after her official retirement at 65 while having a deep knowing this was something she had to do and to overcome the 'who am I to do this?'; to create an organisation focusing on mental health and resilience with no experience at her age. We talk about how she pushed the doubts aside, was motivated by her own grief and brought together a group of people with varied skills to create the organisation.

Sami shares the importance of being in nature along with community and self-care to increase your resilience, be with yourself and change the way you think and what you do. We talk about the challenge of practicing what you preach and how she now schedules in time for her, and makes it OK to do that while feeling the tension to be doing more.

You can find out more about Sami and the Resilient Activist and what it offers at https://theresilientactivist.org/

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Do you put more value on knowledge than what you intuitively know?

This week we look at how our western cultures value intellect over our inner knowing and explore how that inner knowing shows up for each of us.

We explore how we have to unlearn our way of being in the world, to look internally not just externally, how traditional schooling puts into an acceptable mold and squashes anything that cannot be rationally explained. How we forget what we knew as children - that sometimes we just know! - and it can be hard to stand in that knowing when challenged with the power of rational, logical thought.

We see how we all tap into our intuition differently and that it can show up in different ways - with words, symbols, images, feelings and sensations. How it can't be forced and can be hidden when we are in difficult situations.

Create some space and allow whatever wants to emerge do so in its gentle yet powerful way.

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What happens when we step into the unknown, trust and let the magic emerge?

In this conversation Magnus Florin took me on a journey looking at what happens when we draw on the principles of Theatre Improvisation, if we step out of thinking is this right or wrong, if we create a space in-between where we can allow something greater to emerge and expand by being open to possibilities.

We talk about how modernity has impacted our thinking, the power of being present, to listening to more than words and of holding the space for ourselves in any situation.

We touch on how our modern way of thinking influences us, how each experience enriches and changes our lives in some way, and how we try to put words on our experiences.

We talk about how there are dimensions of life our logical mind just can't explain and that when we are present, let go of the stories and allow the magic of life will emerge.

You can connect with Magnus on LinedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/magnus-florin-3aa07b7b/

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