Episode 92 - Twin Pregnancy & Motherhood with Leila of Village for Mama

To celebrate 100 episodes, join guest host and Kate's bestie, Angela Simson as she interviews Kate on her years in business, from her makeup career to network marketing, a retail business and everything in between. Celebrating 100 episodes of the podcast and the multilayered path that has unfolded to land here, has been a story filled with many twists and turns, and ultimately faith that if nothing else, we must peruse what excites us. 'I am so grateful for the experiences I have had in my career, the people I have shared a pocket of life with and the person I have become as a result of the work I have done in the world. I have done so many things in my life so far and it's always been such a joy to follow that when I have incredible people around me. Thank you for your ongoing support, especially to those who have been with me for the long haul. I adore you!'If you love listening, please take a moment to leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review on the platform that you're listening on. I love hearing your feedback, and sharing in this way helps me to grow the podcast, bringing your more incredible content.Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or wherever you love to soak up your podcasts.Find more on this episode and connect with Kate here.

Join me for Part 2 of Agnes' story. If you are yet to listen to Part 1, you can do that here. Between the time of recording and this episode going live, Agnes' story has deepend with her husbands cancer diagnosis and a medical procedure of her own. Please take a moment to send love and healing energy to her and her family while they are navigating another huge milestone in their lives. What I have learned through Agnes' is that life will continue to bring things towards you, there will always be growth in one way or another and that comes through challenges. The way that she handles herself now, as she navigates life without ego, completely humble, with love and kindness first is something I hope to continue to embody through my own life. Agnes is grounded in the brilliance of this existence and the importance of our seemingly small moments and how they create the life that we get to live. Agnes is the medicine that we need and her story soothes parts of us aching to be connected with. If you love this episode and wish to show Agnes some love, please take a moment to leave a review on the show and then come on over to Instagram and share your thoughts.Thank you for being here, beautiful community. For more, visit Substack. Find more on this episode and connect with Kate here.

I see Elisa's story as one of resilience by choice, polarities of life and despite it all, a  grounded gentleness woven through.In this episode Elisa shares her story from her childhood growing up in Australia and the wounds she nursed from a young age, to moving internationally 5 times, her journey to and through motherhood and how it's changed her vastly from the woman she was among so much more. Elisa has a unique perspective on conception and motherhood that is both relevant and deeply craved by so many on similar paths. Allow your curiosity to take you through this episode as you receive the medicine in Elisa's story to help you on your journey, no matter where you are at right now. For links and more on this episode please visit Substack. If you love listening, please take a moment to leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review on the platform that you're listening on. I love hearing your feedback and sharing in this way helps me to grow the podcast, bringing your more incredible content. Find more on this episode and connect with Kate here.

For my little family, the 2024 energetics have been so different to 2023, the themes of this year have been slowness, sacrifice, devotion, joy and replenishment. Where we are now I feel so much more held that I have in the previous years. It feels internal and also external. Exploring where home is, as an idea feels interesting right now. In this episode I bring you up to date from where we left off in Episode 95. A more flowing and magical year that has tied up loose ends and offered a-new. I mention a few sweet humans and businesses across this life update, I’ve included them and their links below. Thank you for being here for opening week, it’s been a hoot! If there is something you’d love to ask me, or something you’d love more on, come over to social media. I’ll be sharing episodes weekly now on a Wednesday morning AEDT. The best way to be notified is by subscribing to the podcast on your favourite platform and also subscribing to Substack where I share these deeper dives on the content delivered right to your internet-mail-box.Links for you...The beautiful store that is now owned by my dear friend (and first customer) Kayla Booth Little Love of MineKatherine at Kaptured Nutrition My Meditation Teacher Natalie Marinot who has also been on the podcast back in episode Hands on Health Burleigh HeadsFind more on this episode and connect with Kate here.

A LOT has happened in my world since we were last connected, as I'm certain has been the case for you too. It feels natural to share the momentous moments of the last 18 months (give or take) since I was generously sharing with you. A reintroduction to the familiar ears and a big 'hello, this is me' if you've just found my work. Any great change in life comes with many growing pains, big learnings and of course letting go of a whole lot, all of which were the medicine of 2023. In this episode I fill in the gaps from when I was last here up until Nov/Dec 2023. From moving interstate, to purchasing an online business that later became a retail store, to moving house and our life in Byron, I share it all here. Laced with sweet lessons and bountiful gifts, 2023 was *monumental* in forging a new path for myself and my family. Be sure to stop back tomorrow (if you're listening in real time) for part two episode 96 where I bring you right up to now. To add a deeper layer and for the video montage of this episode, come on over to Substack (a blog like platform for writers) where I give you a deeper look into life. While you're here, tap subscribe/follow on your favourite listening platform, I'm grateful for your ongoing support. Find more on this episode and connect with Kate here.

She’s here to bring voice to the stories of women, mothers mostly, so we as a collective can heal and parent with intention, community and curiosity. There is medicine in story and Medicine Mother is the megaphone. I’ve naturally lived most of my life outside the bounds of what ‘normal’ looks like. I’m built this way and naturally skew towards a road less travelled, and what I’ve learned is with those paths less travelled comes doubt, growth, scarcity, exclusion and that it is built on the foundation of healing my own wounds. It can feel deeply lonely. It would be naive to believe that I am actually alone in this though. In bringing the podcast back to life, I felt that I wanted to shine a light on the paths less walked. Or maybe it’s actually the paths less shared. I’ve never been able to only project a perfect picture of life.It’s stupid and boring. Give me raw. Let me get dirt under my nails.Show me the grit. I want to feel what’s real. And I want to feel it now, in the belly of my life, not only at the end. I want to know what matters about life, now. Not on my death bed. I know I’m not alone.Let me talk to the women healing linages as they raise their little people. The ones that don’t have research reports to show their significance, fan clubs and seven figure months. I want to highlight the stories you don’t get to hear. The women in the trenches of life. Reparenting themselves while they burn the dinner. The makers of art. The ones who moved mountains to build lives that matter, but that only they truly see. I want to give space for women to tell their stories of living life. Why they do what they do. How they burnt it all down and built anew. What they regret. What leads them. Their complexities and contradictions. Because when we hear story, it gives us permission. It heals us. It encourages us to connect to our own wisdom and lead our lives down the paths our soul wants us to go. When we don’t feel alone we feel braver, more bold. We make the choices we want to make. We sit together in the fear and hold each other through it. And we move god-damn mountains to build lives that we’ll toast to on our death bed. LFG! Welcome to Medicine Mother.Find more on this episode and connect with Kate here.

Have you ever wondered how to bring yourself back from a stressful event? Maybe you’ve tried to shift the emotional response to a trauma experience from your past, and felt defeated due to the lack of change. Today I’m speaking with Havening Practitioner Elle Louise McBride and she’s going to help us understand exactly what is happening in our brains when we replay traumatic events in our mind and how we can unbind from their power. Meet Elle Louise McBride, a force to be reckoned with in the world of NeuroSelf Care. With a holistic approach that blends various modalities, Elle empowers women and young adults to live their best lives and reach their full potential.As a Havening Techniques Practitioner, Elle is sought after for her expertise and is dedicated to bringing awareness to the impact of trauma and providing tools for release. She co-founded The Enlighten Co. in 2019, offering 1:1 sessions, retreats, workshops, and more to help individuals overcome their obstacles and reach their goals.Elle is also a gifted writer and speaker, sharing her wisdom and inspiration with the world. Her mission is to help people understand that the root of unhappiness lies in the belief of not being enough, and to provide the tools and support needed to overcome this belief.At the end of this episode at 50:30 Elle takes us through a Havening process. I share my experience in real time and how it shifts for me through the experience. Be sure to come back to this if you are unable to move through the process in real time, and please let Elle and I know how it unfolded for you via social media. Find Elle online… WebsiteInstagramFind more on this episode and connect with Kate here.

This week on the podcast I’m speaking with Leila of Village for Mama about all things, pregnancy, postpartum, birth and nourishment.Leila Armour is a Postpartum Doula, Holistic Nutrition Consultant, Mother and Author of Village for Mama - Nourishment for the Fourth Trimester. This postpartum recipe book is designed to help new mothers experience a well-nourished and supported postpartum experience. Leila is dedicated to helping new mothers feel held and supported through nourishing food and a village. You can find out more about Leila and her book by following @villageformama on Instagram or visiting www.villageformama.com.In this episode Leila shares the differences between her first and second pregnancies, what inspired her work, how she was preparing for birth and postpartum and so much more. I loved having Leila on the show and it’s an honour to have her share her motherhood story with us. NOTE - I can now also share that Leila has since given birth to her twin boys! Click the links below to follow her journey and support her work. Buy Leila’s cookbook with the AWAKEN code for 10% off at Little Love of Mine. Follow Village for Mama on InstagramEnter to win a prize pack including Leila’s Village for Mama Cookbook. Find more on this episode and connect with Kate here.

When I see people with big communities begin to talk about the challenges that conception can carry, I feel a kinship. When Lisa began speaking about her fertility challenges, approximately 8 years in, I knew immediately I wanted to speak to her.Not for any other reason than that, I had to know how someone navigates what she has, runs a company, maintains relationships and seems to be relatively well. Having navigated my own experiences with conception and through supporting thousands through the podcast and hundreds through my coaching, I have a pretty fair idea of what it feels like to go through IVF and infertility at it’s worst. In our conversation today Lisa shares that sparkly spirit that we all know and see through her social channels, but she also allows us to see the rawness of what she has navigated. From the lowest moments, big financial choices, pregnancy loss and everything in between.Somehow she manages to share the realities of HER story, while also bring lightness, hope and an unwavering resilience that I know we can all learn from. Lisa launched The Messenger Group in 2001, which has custom published more than 400 books for companies and individuals and now releases 40 – 60 products per year globally. Lisa has authored and co-authored more than 36 books and become an authority in the start-up scene.Her passion is to challenge individuals and corporations to change the way they think, take them out of their comfort zone and prove that there is more than one way to do anything. She encourages entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and innovation and lives life to the absolute max. With fans including Sir Richard Branson, New York Times Best-selling author Bradley Trevor Grieve, and a social media following of well over 800,000 across the Collective Hub platforms, Lisa’s vision is to build a community of likeminded people who want to challenge the status quo and change the world.I absolutely loved this conversation and I truly cannot wait to hear how Lisa’s story, helps support you in yours. I know you’re going to love this one. To take up the offer for 15% off Lisa's children's mindfulness collection use the code LISA over at Little Love of Mine by 30th April 2023. Connect with Lisa Instagram Mummy At Last (where Lisa shares her pregnancy journey)WebsiteFind more on this episode and connect with Kate here.

If you’ve ever felt completely overwhelmed by the world of astrology, you’re not alone. In this episode I bring it back to basics with my incredibly knowledgeable and very cool friend Kristy Gray. Kristy is an Astrologer and Life Strategist from the Gold Coast. Her career started in Learning and Development in the beauty industry, working for the likes of Clinique and global beauty giant Sephora. A passion for developing people and brands blossomed into a 10-year career, but Kristy was perpetually curious about astrology - she was ‘that girl’ in the office who was always asking everyone for their star signs. In 2018, she found herself sitting in front of an award- winning Astrologer who became her mentor, and instantly fell in love with the stars and how they can help you understand more about yourself to make conscious decisions. Five years on, Kristy has become one of Australia’s leading Astrologers. Through her signature formula, Astrostrategy®, Kristy combines mystical insights with practical tools to dismantle the uncertainty that’s been holding you back. When she’s not stargazing, you’ll find her at the beach, fantasy novel and green juice in hand. In this episode Kristy walks us through the foundation of our own charts when it comes to living full expressed and aligned as individuals. With her empowering approach Kristy shows us how to navigate the world of astrology with our internal filter switched on. We explore …+ Sun, moon and ascendent and how understanding them will give us an even deeper insight into who we are and what to celebrate within ourselves+ A brief look at the planets and houses+ Whether you have a daytime or nighttime chart and how that can inform the best way that you operate in the world (this is super easy to grasp!) + Your North and South Nodes and how to use these to help you live more aligned and fulfilled Plus so much more! At the top of the conversation Kristy guides us to pull up our own natal charts, follow the link below to do that for free, and if possible have on hand while you’re listening. Astro.comConnect with Kristy GrayInstagramThe Cosmic HotlineWebsite Find more on this episode and connect with Kate here.