The Soulhubber's Podcast

The winding and interconnected story of Mark Michel, Musto jackets, Soulhub, Drake Passage, Antartica, and icebergs.Carmen Rendell reminisces on the stories shared across continents and, now over a decade ago. Some stories should be shared further, and this is one of them. Not just because it highlights the change in our climate, or the remarkable work of Mark and the team in Antartica recording the sounds and images of the icebergs, but because of how the story is told by Mark, and how their experience and his talent transcends the air waves.I wonder at what point we became so estranged from our relationship with this Earth.You're instantly transported to Australis, their vessel, and on the boat with Mark and the team. Antarctica is a place not meant for humankind. colourful and often tragic history reflects this. It is not that we are unwelcome here, more that we are not, perhaps, natural.In simple terms, it a beautiful tale, including how Carmen and Mark connected across the oceans, and still having yet to meet, brings you on board to relive how these Lincoln, Yoko and Ernest icebergs and their micro-environments end up projected onto the Auckland Museum. Please do share and let us know what you felt as you listen to Mark's story. We'd love to know what it evokes in you. And if you wanted to purchase the 100 timeless soul stories, poems and artwork of the Soulhub Journal ‘The Collective' then you can access it here. Thanks for reading Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Carmen Rendell recorded a short back story ahead of her conversation with painter Sue Rapley, as their connection through Soulhub goes back to our Soulhub Journal No 3, and the web of unfolding felt worthy of good air time. It shows the magic of Soulhub and the beauty of serendipitous moments in not just Carmen and Sue's life but all those touched by her artwork, the journal and Soulhub. And these are just the ones we know about. Our entwining story, leads us up to the present day, as we create our Soulful Meadows Painting Retreat this May (17-18 May 2025). What's missing in the story is Sue's raison d'etre. What led her to paint? What does she experience as she goes through her process, and for someone who spend decades estranged from her passion, how did she find her way back to it. It's a surprise story that took her back to art college, more than 30 years ago, and a squiggly path of many industries before she re-found the paintbrush. A supportive husband Dave, and a mentor who arrives just as the student was ready, meant that Sue's love of the sea and desire to sit with her thoughts and creativity, finally found the space and canvas to be explored. It's finding how you can create something that has real meaning and that's actually really coming from your heart and from your soul, really. We hope you enjoy both spectrums, the introduction and then our podcast together. For more information on Sue and her work, please do check out her website and instagram. And to access the brochure for our Soulful Meadows Painting Retreat click here. Please do share with others who might enjoy Sue's story, or could be interested in our retreat this May.Thanks for reading Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

We go a little off the UK track, as we responded to the signs in front of us. Through our dear friend and Dance Al Fresco DJ Youssef Boutayeb, we were led to the work of CADFA, Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association led by Human Rights lawyer Nandita Dowson. Youssef is a super connector, who works deeply in his local borough, bridging many worlds across music, cultures and communities. CADFA works in the UK to promote awareness about the human rights situation in Palestine. Starting in 2003 when people from the London borough of Camden made links with people in Abu Dis a town in the Jerusalem suburb. Within their core work, they organise exchange programmes with the young people of Jerusalem. As a perfect connection to our ‘Why Dance?' series with Andrew Cuerden, we explore with dance teacher Tamara, and her friend and colleague Sara (and at times translator) what dance means to their culture, how it infiltrates life, and right now amongst the rubble and war, what dance brings them on the ground in such a difficult time. As Andrew talks into, this is not a political podcast. However as we're all experiencing politics influences everything in all of our lives. This podcast is a conversation between Andrew, Tamara and Sara and Human Rights Lawyer and CADFA CEO Nandita Dowson, who has enabled us a window of time in which we can meet and interview Tamara and Sara. As we all, Carmen, Youssef and Andrew, sat through the recording of this episode, we felt extremely moved and touched by Tamara and Sara and their way of expressing all things culture, life and hope. We don't want to reduce their words to ours, or indeed paraphrase their emotions to diminish what you might feel as you listen to their stories. For this reason, we just ask you to listen to this episode with curiosity about what life might be like for the women in Jerusalem and how dance changes our worlds. Following the recording, we joined CADFA for a beautifully open dinner where we felt welcomed with open arms. A symbolism of the culture in itself. We left moved and emotional, as we went about our usual evening, feeling blessed to have met them all and privileged to hear their stories. For more information on CADFA check them out here, and see how you might want to engage or support their work. For obvious reasons we haven't used their surnames or images of Tamara and Sara but if you'd like to connect, then please do email CADFA. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

After following her passion of drama, Jess Shaw studied drama at the University of East Anglia before a placement in Ghana changed her outlook on how we could use drama to benefit connection and communities. In conversation with today's host, Carmen Rendell, you'll get beautiful insights into her own business, PACT (Play, Act, Create and Transform) Creative Training for 9 years which delivers play-based workshops for companies, schools and adult groups focused on staff wellbeing and team building around London and beyond.It's another fascinating and often undervalued aspect of our culture here in the West and our ability to play. To express ourselves in a silly or often child like way. Why is that? Well hold that thought and listen to our conversation as we explore our humanness and playfulness. And just to inspire you, here's a snapshot of something which stood out for us in the conversation in relation to the work Jess does…“Let the play do the work. I think it's the joyfulness. It's accessing that humour and laughter. Sometimes I do a guided meditation afterwards to look at where we hold joy in the body. To remember it's always there and accessible”To find out more about Jess and her work, check our PACT Creative Training. or you can follow her on Insta at PACT Creative Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

How would you cope with a death threat on your family?And as a consequence you might move houses, careers and even countries to find safety. As Kenny did. And yet safety is also an internal emotional feeling that has to be witnessed, held and expressed to make sense and find a home.Kenny Mammarella D-Cruz returns to the Soulhubbers Podcast, this time with Carmen Rendell to share his personal journey of escaping to refugee camps in Italy and the UK, away from Idi Amin's dictatorship of Uganda and finally to the remote Welsh town of Fishguard. He talks into how, as a 60 year old, the stories he puts to feelings still spook him. How he falls apart and comes together again and again. He shares intimate details of how he's finding tools through his life, such as breathing and deeper self understanding to let go of his unhealthy mental and physical coping mechanisms.We talk about suicide, feeling feelings and trauma, and how he gets to his golden shadow, via the dark shadow.Kenny very much follows in the community sharing as his father did when he first arrived in the UK.He brought hockey here, he took it to school, so now it's a big deal in the area. He used to play hockey for Uganda. He started the Friendship Circle for older and lonely people. I think that was 30 years ago. He started a charity. He started and was the first Goan Mayor in the UK, and in the year, the bicentenary of the last invasion of Britain, which was our town.It's a beautifully insightful sharing of how ‘doing the work' can change you and enables you to go on to work and support others go through their life challenges, trauma and dark nights of the soul. Click here to find out more about MenSpeak and AllGenderSpeak Groups that Kenny and other trained facilitator's hold over Christmas period and throughout the year. They're held online on a daily basis including Christmas Day and New Years Day.Please share this episode with others who you know might benefit or simply enjoy hearing real life stories and how we find our way through challenging times. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

It's not often that you meet people that instantly make you feel at ease. Well Julia Franks is one of those people. She is a kind, curious and empathetic listener who is passionate about helping people be it through counselling or conscious dancing. Julia is a professional psychotherapist who has created her own form of therapeutic conscious dance called Flomotion. Born from her own love and appreciation of how music and dance can be a powerful wellbeing elixir.In this episode Andrew Cuerden and Julia explore how dance shapes and forms us as people. As well as what exactly does happen when we get together and dance with others. We also explore what “Conscious Dance” is and how it can help people find more awareness, agency and permission to move through beliefs and emotions without the need of alcohol or drugs. “Being on the dance floor allows us to notice all our patterns and stories that we tell ourselves.”We also touch on why many men in the west find it challenging to dance. Julia gives us a taste of what one would expect from a Flomotion session,“A cross between a disco and yoga class “as well as taste of her recent book “Dance of Life” (available on Amazon) which is a treasure trove of resource and inspiration for those wanting to explore therapeutic dance whether as a facilitator or participant. If you would like to get to experience Julia's work or Flomotion, you can either find her at https://juliafrankspsychotherapy.co.uk/ or https://www.flomotion.danceIf you would like feature in the Soulhubber's Podcast, please contact Andrew@soulhub.co.uk or Carmen@soulhub.co.uk.If you wish to receive full and free access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub please subscribe below. Lastly, if you feel someone else might enjoy this episode or podcast please share it. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Once again, Carey Davis-Munro takes to the microphone with Fabian Adami, and explores his path to becoming a Body Mechanics Coach. He turned the corner whilst pursuing a career of Academia rooted in his relationship with his dad and his quest to……‘How do I get my dad to love me?' It soon revealed that this lifestyle and career choice would either kill him, or that he'd spend his life in misery.This corner was clearer when, at 23 stone, with sugar addiction, insomnia, chronic pain and low self-esteem he found a Psychiatrist who asked him to follow his way of working if he wanted to get well. He didn't mean just the medication, but also personal training choices that required him to move his body every day, hire a personal trainer and get someone to advise him on his nutrition.A game changer for Fabian.Fabian now works with clients, mostly corporate men in their 40's, who have been chained to their desks and disconnected from their bodies and hence now facing burn out. He helps them back to balance and power through massage, movement, yoga and with a strength programme. His holistic approach and philosophy is clear and is integrated in his work which led to one of his clients giving him the testimonial of ‘I feel more connected to and aware of my body.' Bingo. He seeks and works only with those who are curious and serious about making change. So if you enjoy Fabian's approach and are looking for that for yourself, then please contact Fabian here.To hear more about the Soulhub Team members visit the other Soulhubber's Podcast, and as always please share with others or give us your thoughts and feedback on this episode and what Fabian has shared.Thank you for reading Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub. Fabian's Episode is public so please share with family and friends. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

As you'll hear from the introduction into this podcast, Vicki Edgson, in many people's eyes, found success as she rode the wave of nutritional education in the early 00's, with 11 books, a consultancy in Chelsea and a phone ringing for interviews and opinions on the latest food craze.Fast forward to 2024 and Vicki has found herself within a small community in Wiltshire, working her allotment, and finding contentment in ‘being' rather than ‘doing'. It's not been an easy path by any standards, with 3 strokes, which almost killed her. However it was a catalyst that brought about a slower life but perhaps a lot more contented life. If I woke up and put one foot in front of the other, I could gradually get my life backSome of you will know Vicki from her incredible books. Her first series were under The Food Doctor label, co-authored with Ian Marber, and her well-known TV series for Channel 5 The Diet Doctors, co-presented with Dr. Wendy Denning, for which they also released a best-selling book by the same name. Other books are ‘Broth', ‘It must be Hormones' and ‘GutGastronomy', co-written with Adam Palmer. She launched the Food Doctor range of foods into Tesco, back in the early 2000's and subsequently the Honestly Healthy range of foods into Selfridges and Waitrose with her god-daughter, Natasha Corrett.She works with the principles of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine and Naturopathic Integrated Medicine which made her a leading authority in nutrition.We agreed before the recording to keep it short, as focus is a challenge for Vicki, but as you'll hear we both felt that the conversation circled perfectly back to everything she really wanted to share with you all. It's a gentle, open and very moving conversation, and one we hope touches you in a way that makes you stop and think.Please enjoy and if you have any questions for Vicki or us, do let us know.Vicki previously wrote a beautiful piece ‘I am vulnerable but I am not weak', for our Soulhub Journal The Collective about her experience not long after the third stroke, when she was adjusting to her new way of life. You can find out more about the 100 short soul stories and art in the Soulhub Journal here.Thank you for listening to our Soulhubber's Podcast with Vicki Edgson. This post is public so feel free to share it with friends and family and maybe even others struggling with busy lives or stroke survivors. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

We're taking a slight pivot for this episode, to start a series of talks exploring ‘Wellbeing in the Workplace'. Corporate Consultancy is a main component of Soulhub, where we connect with businesses, schools, organisations and charities and deliver bespoke programmes for their staff and employees.We start the series with Carmen Rendell in conversation with Faye Green, Principle Recruiter at eBay. Over two years ago we reached out to Faye Green at eBay to understand if there was an opportunity for us to work together. Faye and Carmen had previous corporate history at Jack Wills where Carmen as Head of Brand Campaigns interfaced with Faye as Global Talent Acquisition. Prior to Jack Wills, Faye's career was mostly in HR and recruitment within recognisable brands such as Arcadia and Selfridges before becoming Principal Recruiter at eBay. It's clear that people are at the heart of what she cares about. Faye shares her experience in creating the WeMind community at eBay just before the pandemic with her co-lead Shani Verber, and how they've navigated the ever-changing landscape of mental and physical wellbeing within a large business. She shares why it's felt important for her to lead, given her own experiences of a miscarriage and bereavement and how they shaped what she felt was missing in organisations. She didn't want others not to be in the position of not being able to ‘be not okay' within their business. They talk about the initiatives the team (with some help from Soulhub) have created such as ‘Get eBay Talking Campaign', ‘Get Walking Campaign' and how they need to flex and learn with new recruits and changes happen within the wider world and business. How they look outwards for inspiration, but tend to trust what they've created as an organic offering for those who are ready and willing to be part of the process. This is an exclusive behind the scenes exploration of what it takes to lead an organisation to start putting wellbeing at the heart of a business, whilst listening deeply to what people need and want from their employees. That's the hardest, but most rewarding part. We hope you enjoy the conversation, and we look forward to sharing others further examples from other business leaders. If you're inspired by the work Faye and her team are doing at eBay, then please do share this episode with friends and colleagues, and get in touch if you want to know more.If you'd like to feature in the Soulhubber's Podcast for ‘Wellbeing in the Workplace' please contact Carmen at Carmen@soulhub.co.uk. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Back in the summer of 2018, whilst sitting with Debra Luker in her garden studio, Carmen invited Debra to showcase her artistry on our Soulhub Journal 02. She willingly and very generously shared a number of options to choose from.Carmen picked the one that stood out. It was an unusual magazine front cover. She fell in love with it. 6 years later, here we are, with Debra back in her studio speaking to Carmen Rendell about her life as an artist and her first ever book The Pigment Trail.Soul stories are all about getting to the heart and essence of someone's life. Our Soulhub Journal told those stories in print and through artwork, and today we're telling them through the medium of sound. Debra Luker is an incredible artist. Her style is bold and colourful. It has a life and vitality all of it's own, born from her experiences in India. The greens, golds, yellows, blues and oranges are just a handful of incredible colours, designs and textures that awaken the soul. Over the last couple of years Debra has taken a group of explorers and new artists to India to connect with some of the majestic nature of what she loves about this country and culture. Always drawn back to her soul place, Debra would sit for hours and whilst absorbing the streets, buildings, people and atmosphere would create her sketches and paintings there and then. Once returned to the UK, she would pull them all together, and send them off to a publisher in the US, and now here she is with The Pigment Trail launched and in the hands of many an armchair traveller around the world. Today she shares of her travels and inspiration. We hope you feel the vibrancy of India through her descriptions and stories. If you'd like to purchase The Pigment Trail, you buy it here, or follow Debra on Instagram and be absorbed into the life of colour and craft, and her creative days.To read our Soulhub Journal, with 100 stories from poets, storytellers, artists and creatives from around the world, you can find out more about the contents, and order your copy here. As Debra says, please do get in touch with her and let her know what you think of The Pigment Trail, or leave a comment below.Thank you for listening to our Soul Stories from the Soulhubber's Podcast. Please feel free to to share the inspiration. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Tom Edmunds arrived in our Soulhub world a few years before he actually arrived. What we mean by that, is we met his mum Deborah back in 2020 just before the pandemic, and then 3 years on, we received the call no mother wants to make. “Help.”Tom was given a cancer diagnosis out of nowhere. He was experiencing pain, which as we've got to know him well, realise that he level of pain management is extremely high so it must have been a strong indicator that something was wrong.He was told that not only did he have Level 4 Bowel, Liver and Stomach Cancer, but that his life expectancy would be about 6 months. Tom was 39 years old. He has two children, and he was in a fairly new relationship with the love of his life Esme, and she also has 2 children. Many people loved Tom, and as we've experienced each day, he touches hundreds of lives and is loved way beyond his immediate circle.We (Carmen & Andrew) met Tom and Esme for a walk and talk, and shared how we felt we could support them. We gave a wide directory of people and options, and he was quick to say, that we were his team. It was time for him to ‘get some control back'.Since November 2023, we've been Team Tom. This is an unusual ‘Soul Story' as sharing the experience of someone who's within our therapeutic care isn't the normal done thing. But Tom is extraordinary, and how he's managing himself and his cancer is a story we felt was important to share wider.Andrew Cuerden is your host, and together with Tom, they explore and cover Tom's back story and his present day thinking. Why he came to therapy, what he gets from it, and why he'd love more to step on this path to self-understanding.We have learnt that we can control our thoughts. That we can utilise our mindsets to control certain aspects. I deploy the tools that I have been given.He's travelled through a few very-near death experiences, hyperbaric chambers, chemotherapy, sepsis, cancer spreading to his intestines. Perforations, and poo stories are a regular occurrence in his house. He was in a fight (controlled in his favourite gym) weeks after his diagnosis, he's still working and restoring the family home and making time for his healing and reflections.Thank you for listening to Tom Edmunds' Soul Story. This recording is public so feel free to share it with those who you know would appreciate his words.Thank you Tom for your continual openness and we hope as listeners you get a real sense of what Tom is experiencing and who he's becoming as life throws curve balls at him.To follow Tom's journey, you can see him here on his Instagram @OldTomNewTom and if you'd like to donate to support his charitable fundraising for Phyllis Tuckwell.We'd love to have you back and go deeper into your experience. Please share in your comments if you'd like to hear more from Tom, and any questions you might like us to ask. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Kenny Mammarella-D'Cruz, fresh from the festive fields of Wales, talks to Carey Davis-Munro about boys, men and much much more…They look back to how Kenny arrived in the UK, via a Refugee Camp, as his dad, an ‘Enemy of the State' in Uganda was trying to stay alive. They unpick childhood Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), OCD, dyscalculia and other challenges, and how they'd manifested within Kenny. What unfolds is a beautiful in-depth conversation about love and how to breathe into feelings and follow them to the ‘broken off” spirited child, to allow the gold to open up. Kenny has been holding men's groups for over 23 years, to provide a place for other men and boys to feel safe to open up. Being in it together in a non-hierarchical way. He acknowledges how people are able show up to tell the truth, as they ‘name it, rather than shame it, or blame it'.“The deeper I go in myself, the deeper I can go with others, including silently.”They discuss the differences of how men and women handle life, as well as the need for difference, hormones, roles and our masculine and feminine energies within. How we have each have our own journey's and how we support each other along the way. Kenny shares his psychic visitations, how he's found answers for his own challenges and how he's had to find acceptance of himself. We think you'll love the honesty, the laughter and the beautiful ability to get truthful and raw.To find out more about Kenny Mammarella-D'Cruz, MensSpeak and his work, you can find him on our Soulhub website. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

The love of life. There's a beautiful and tangible thread of love and life, throughout the curious conversation between Pete Warnock and Carey Davis-Munro.Together they explore how humans tend to look outside for happiness, and how we're missing the LIFE right in front of or in fact inside us. How what we're feeling right here and now is life and freedom. Yet we tend to let it go past us.Pete discovered his sense of life through a lifetime of chronic pain since the age of 5 years old. In his sharing of childhood experiences you'll understand the man he is today. He reflects on the once ‘bliss baby' and how lots of things conspired against him from circumcision, being forced to change from left to right handed, ADHD, falling out of several trees, and later followed by the blow of redundancy all left him with negative self-beliefs and loathing, having thoughts of how he could end his life.“Life for me is meeting and transforming my own suffering, and teaching others how to manage theirs. Suffering is a relationship.”However, with a strong underlying curiosity of life, and a new emergence he found himself exploring meditation, massage, reiki, thai massage and breathwork. He quickly found a deep capacity to love himself, and his outlook became much more about seeking joy, connection and love, and if other things appear along the way, then he learned to embrace them. Welcoming all feelings without resistance and allowing life to flow.The birth of his son Josh deepened his exploration of breath and energy, as did his subsequent coming together with Kalindi Jordan - his tantric partner of now 15 years.It's a beautiful and insightful podcast, where you also get to sample some insight into Pete's breathwork and so don't be surprised if you're not left curious yourself to how you can find new ways of looking at yourself, your emotions and your breathing.After all. We are all spiritual….To find out more about Pete Warnock, his breathwork and emotional alchemy you can find him on our Soulhub website. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Dr Robert Owen goes deep into his life and works with Carey Davis-Munro as they share some beautifully intimate moments together on this episode of the Soulhubber's Podcast. From a stranded boat in France, to being labelled ‘rotten to the core' it's a life of curiosity and experience. He's extremely passionate about many things in life, from people and planet to Intelligent Ageing, giving back, growing and empathy. From starting one of the first organic shops in London, writing books, a moderator, creating CPD couples workshops for the Princes Trust, a Trustee for Space2Grieve and a relationship counsellor, his life is certainly full. They re-visit some childhood memories which have driven him to a place of caring for others, and an early marriage breakdown, swiftly followed by some Jungian Therapy, all set him on the path to become, not a Priest, but a Psychotherapist.We don't want to spoilt the surprise, but enjoy his humour, tales, wit and wisdom and take a listen. To find out more about Dr Robert, either working with him as a couple, finding out more about Intelligent Ageing, or on the Soulhub website. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Andrea Lucas is interviewed by Carey Davis-Munro in a nurturing conversation looking at how Andrea has found security and stability within. Through a dedicated self care journey Andrea discovered that the 'pain' in her right hip was also the gift ....the treasure and the key to standing tall and trusting mother earth to support her. She acknowledges and appreciates her journey from “playing small” as a child into to a place of standing tall and honouring herself in adulthood. “My self care has been a long journey of regular yoga practice, therapy and supervision for over 30 years.” Andrea also tells of her discovery of a golden light bodyworker called Lila. Who, with her miraculous hands and wisdom, has helped Andrea become more vulnerable and empowered than ever before. Her experience and training started 30 years ago in Britains first luxury Spa retreat called Champneys. Her continued fascination and training with the body and psychotherapy fields has led her to deeper understand that the mind and body are one and is now the basis for her work. Andrea practices both as an integrative psychotherapist and an insightful and intuitive body worker. She weaves a comprehensive range of skills from the mystical to the scientific that promotes holistic wellbeing of mind, body and soul. Her experiential wisdom and compassion enables her to hold sacred, secure and soothing space for people to truly feel held, heard and safe to release their blocked emotions. Andrea is particularly passionate about supporting woman into their greatness and therefore would like to dedicate this podcast to all the courageous women, including her sister, who dare each day to show up and realise their full potential.To find out more about Andrea, and book an appointment, you can find her here at the Soulhub website. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

After leaving Brisbane, Australia at the age of 21, now almost 50 (Happy Birthday), Melinda McDougall talks to Carey Davis-Munro, about the reasons she (accidentally) left her homeland behind in search of a more tolerant, expansive and diverse society. A journey that led her to London where she's stayed for the last three decades. Reflecting back over her decisions and choices, Melinda is surprised to see quite how she's embraced big life transitions, and how this now helps her in her work to support others. Fast-tracked into British culture via Channel 4, then as a freelance documentary director and producer, it was a close call with burn out that altered Melinda's path towards the rewarding world of Herbal Medicine.‘I can't imagine, being nearly 50, and still being in the media. Now I get a lot of clients from that world who come to me, and I really empathise with what they are going through.'It was a massive financial and personal commitment (8 years) to retrain, but her ambition to support other women with their health concerns - in particular the menopause - drover her forward, along with the knowledge that for too long, women's wellbeing had been swept under the carpet. It's a career she takes seriously and given the love she puts into every medicine she makes, clearly the work loves her too.To find out more about Melinda and herbal medicine, or to book an appointment, you can find her here at the Soulhub website. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Juggling careers, talents and life, Harriet MacMasters-Green talks to Carey Davis-Munro about her real passions and where she likes to focus her energy.Meditations and yoga are at the heart of her work, and then she swiftly swaps the lycra for heels and lippy, as she steps into the modelling studio or an acting role. Harriet is a master of changing hats and ensuring they all contribute and feed in to who she is and what she wants to stand for in the world.As a mother of two gorgeous boys, she's forever listening to what others need to shape how she teaches. She loves energy work, using Qi-gong, dance and her own experiences of many yoga modalities to create her own blended version, when in this space…I allow others to drop into a place of nothing, so they can become anything.For more information on Harriet and her Intuitive Soul Sanctuary, or to book a session with her go to the Soulhub website.Image Credits: Ilu Fitwear, with photography by Ste Marques Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Carmen Rendell and Bettina Falkenberg go on a seemingly backwards journey to give you a real sense of who Bettina is, and how she's become the magnificent women she is today.It's an unexpected conversation for the both of us. We wanted to bring the way we work into this conversation. To trust what we talked about, and how we talked. We hope you can enjoy the softness and depth of the truths and be witness to her story with curiosity and compassion.Bettina, born in Germany to two Doctors was grew up in a home with fear at the core, and having been conditioned to be a lawyer, she dutifully followed suit, until her soul could no longer go against the grain.It took her husband to leave her, a calling to go to the Findhorn Foundation for her to drop in to the exploration of love, sexuality and intimacy from the lens of self knowing and intimacy with her own spirit.‘It was spontaneous, I didn't know who would be looking after my boys. But it was the turning point. I was stuck in a rut, depressed and then followed my vibration, my joy and feeling alive .'Now as an EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and Integrative Energy Practitioner Bettina's mission is to help women find peace and joy through self-love and self-acceptance, no matter what life throws as them.For more information on Bettina, please visit her profile on the Soulhub website. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

We love that our host Carey Davis-Munro starts this conversation with Lynn Rae, with a set up that will leave you wanting to stop doing whatever you're doing, and listen. It is an astounding conversation, and one that warrants the gift of attention. They start from the place of how Lynn first came to Soulhub and how she became part of this community.“It is the most wonderful caring, wise and healing community. It makes me feel proud to be part of this community.” Together they talk about Lynn's career choices from beauty therapy at school, to a make-up artist and sports masseur before a break-up with her husband, losing her mother to cancer, and then thyroid cancer showing up. “I was a doormat, and it's taken me years to grow in to me”That wasn't Lynn's last brush with cancer. Following the thyroid, was breast cancer, and then tumours on her lungs which have meant a life of listening to her body and finding ways to manage her mind. From visualisations, guidance from a holistic therapists, listening to Dr Joe Dispenza, a strict nutritional diet have all contributed to how Lynn has found her balance, determination and answers to her bodies healing needs.‘This is my life. My focus from now on, is to embrace life'If you'd like to find out more about Lynn, and how she works with people through her Jaw Therapy and Facial Yoga you can find her here. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Carmen Rendell & Andrew Cuerden take turns to explore with Nancy questions about her life, her life. Because as you'll hear. It's a colourful life, an adventurous life, and a very confronting and profound life. Nancy likes to take life by the horns, and ride, ride, ride.In this episode Nancy goes right back to her Australian roots to explain part of who she is, and how life has taken her on a global path, from the mountain paths of the Himalayas to the suburbs of London Town.Getting married at 19 years of age, and then as she says 'falling apart' at 24, she lost her marriage, work and decided to head off travelling to find out about life, and what's it all about. Drawn from a young age to indigenous communities, she went to find out how they really lived and to understand more about how they lived with the land.She shares how her love of the sea helped when she 'didn't like humans', and so she knew she needed to heal that part of her. Travel opened up her heart and knowledge that there was something bigger than her.A crash landing from a paragliding accident shook her world, as she was bed-ridden for years and had to learn to walk again. A challenge for anyone, let alone an adventurous soul. This time in her life led her to immerse herself into the Universal Laws, and teach herself how to be in the world, leading with her heart.She has twin sons, and shares about how it was to be a mother during this time, and how life has led her to be an intuitive coach, trusting all life has to offer, including the highs and lows.A beautiful open podcast, we hope you enjoy as much as we did recording it.To find out more about Nancy and her work visit Soulhub Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Joint-hosts Carmen Rendell and Andrew Cuerden invite Carey Davis-Munro to sit in the hot, not hosting seat, for our 3rd Episode ‘Who is Carey?'. We, as always start with the exploration of what makes her feel soulful as we're treated to her experience of her local park, and her ‘coming home' place.‘I know it's part of me, part of my heart. I literally well-up when I go into Bushy Park'. Within our conversation Carey admits how exercise has worked for and against her. How she ran herself into the ground, resulting in numerous operations on her knees and ovaries, but which led her to really look at life more deeply, and in particular her relationship with food. Following an enlightening discovery of what was in her body, from metals to toxins, she vowed to change her life.A diet of nourishing food, but also a re-address of how she nurtured herself, she started doing yoga and finding ways of being calm and centred. From this place she was able to navigate the breakdown of her marriage, and choose big changes in her life from leaving a career as a PE teacher, to HR consultant and into coaching where she found, this was really what she does in life naturally, and wanted to do with the rest of her life.We love the final question when she relates her favourite food dish to her personality. We love how she shares her darkest days, and her own struggles with kindness and trusting others to be there for her, and not just go out alone. How she needs her community, as much as they need her. It's a beautiful exchange of what it means to be human, and how we are all continuously moving through stages, clearing the way for something new.Whoever works with Carey, be it coaching or receiving her care as she holds masterclasses and teachings with businesses and teenagers, they're in for a nourishing treat.To find out more about Carey and her work visit Soulhub or Eat, Nourish, Flourish.Thank you for taking the time to listen. A cliche, but it really does put a smile on our faces every time we know someone has pressed play. We'd love to know how you're enjoying our first 3 episodes too. If you have a moment please vote on the poll below, and of course add comments and share any of our 3 episodes so far. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Thank you for listening to our Soulhubbers Podcast. This is public and so we'd love you to share it to inspire others.Episode 2: Who is Andrew Cuerden?Carey Davis-Munro hosts this beautifully held podcast and explores the life of Soulhub's Co-Creator Andrew Cuerden.He talks about how his childhood religion, speaking his truth in the moment, and how the breakdown of his marriage in 2011, the loss of his long term dance partner, and the collapse of the world economy, meant for the first time in his life he saw the impermanence of all life. Dealing with loss, trust and betrayal, he shares how he hit depression, chronic illness and burn out. From there, in a country where he had little support, he went sideways! Packed his bags and went off travelling. A journey or quest to understand himself and life through meditation, psychotherapy, and start the process of opening and healing his broken heart. Together, they talk about his physical and emotional healing, including his relationship with food, his yoga training and what makes him feel soulful. They get to the big questions about life, and how Soulhub supports others and what is his own modality Metaphysical Dance is all about.Because 'life is a dance.'If you've felt inspired listening to Andrew, please share this episode on the links below, let us know ANY comments you have, and we'll have more episodes coming soon.Further Information: To find out more about Andrew, his classes and how to work with him, or read his biography here.. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe

Thank you for listening to Carmen & Carey. If you enjoyed what you heard, please do share wider. Get full access to Sole to Soul Inspiration by Soulhub at soulhub.substack.com/subscribe