Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Offline, With Alison Rice
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| A Little, Rich Life. | 02 Nov 2024 | 00:31:06 | |
Dearest you. It’s officially time to walk ourselves home to ourselves and our own, individual definitions of success. It’s time to get explicit about how we want to live and how we want our lives to feel. I'm here presenting an alternative lens to view success through, and it's called A Little, Rich Life. Alison xo
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| Cultivating a harmonious relationship with money. | 06 Apr 2024 | 01:36:41 | |
Dearest you. The best episodes are the conversations where I don’t ask any of the questions I had on my list. This is one of them. Megan deBoer is a wealth doula, mother, maker and caretaker. In this episode we explore what it looks like and feels like to land in our innate deservingness. What does that mean? It means closing the gap between what we're currently receiving and what we intrinsically deserve. More money, more opportunities, more responsibility, more impact. Megan is a light in an otherwise pretty dark corner of the self development space: Money. I hope you adore our very honest conversion and if you want to join a future season of Off—, express interest here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Life after losing your life partner. | 01 Apr 2023 | 00:52:20 | |
Dearest you. The first time I sat down with doctor, rocket scientist, author and zero waste life advocate, Dr. Anita Vandyke, she was looking ahead to a bright and exciting future with her husband James and daughter Vivian. She was close to graduating from medical school and had just written her second book, The Zero Waste Family. But just two years on, things look quite different. Today, Anita’s list of titles includes widow. Devastatingly, she lost her husband James to cancer in late 2022. He was just 40 years old. If you’re a regular listener of this sweet and stable podcast, you’ll know that some of my most connected episodes are the ones birthed during or after a significant life experience. At the time of recording and releasing this episode, that life experience is the passing of my beautiful mum and the grief that has followed. This honest conversation is dedicated to James and to my mum. It’s also dedicated to every person who can no longer smell, touch and hear someone they love. It’s for anyone who wants to learn how to be someone to the person left behind. What to say. What to do. How to be there and catch them in the oceanic swell that is loss. Thank you Anita for allowing the deep well of grief you hold for James to spill over so we can hear it and feel it and hopefully, help you carry it. P.S. I am sorry about the interference… we recorded in person at Anita’s home and I think our pesky mobile phones tried to get involved. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Part 2: Natalia Benson on leaning into vulnerability & getting the love we believe we deserve. | 16 Feb 2019 | 00:35:32 | |
Dearest you. Part two of my honest conversation with LA-based modern mystic, Natalia Benson. We discuss getting the love and relationships we feel we deserve, Natalia asks women to consider leaning into their vulnerability to find safety, and shares her advice on navigating conversations about self development and spirituality with the people in our lives. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Part 1: Natalia Benson on living outside the mind/body paradigm. | 09 Feb 2019 | 00:35:32 | |
Dearest you. Part one of my honest conversation with LA-based modern mystic, Natalia Benson. Natalia is the very first teacher to be featured on Offline, and the empowerment coach, astrologer and tarot reader gifts us with moving and powerful advice. Natalia shares her knowledge on living outside the mind/body paradigm, how to acknowledge our truth, why there's no shame in getting paid and how it is actually a form of power. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Jessica Vander Leahy on body positivity & delivering diverse content for women. | 02 Feb 2019 | 00:39:54 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with journalist, curve model and founder of women’s empowerment platform projectwomankind.com, Jessica Vander Leahy. Born in Australia and raised in New Guinea, Jess shares her unique and personal perspectives on the label plus-size, the seemingly long road to meaningful diversity in women’s content, and challenges Offline listeners to take responsibility for what we let into our social media feeds. Jess is an advocate for issues bigger than her own, and is helping women everywhere remember that we are more than what we see in the mirror. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Eleanor Pendleton, Carmen Hamilton, Zoe Marshall, Chloe Brinklow, Sara Crampton & Billie Iveson. | 26 Jan 2019 | 01:16:16 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with Carmen Hamilton, Zoe Marshall, Chloe Brinklow, Sara Crampton, Billie Iveson and Eleanor Pendleton recorded live at the Sundays Offline listener event in Sydney in early 2019. Unscripted and at times emotional, a total of seven women behind the Instagram accounts get real about taking risks, building confidence, moving countries, modern motherhood, manifestation and so much more. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Alison on spirituality, intuition, ambition & miscarriage. | 19 Jan 2019 | 00:59:28 | |
Dearest you. I sit in the interviewee chair for the first time. Recorded live at the Sundays Offline listener event in Sydney, I opened up to my close friend Amanda about spirituality and the soul, accessing my intuition, how my ambition is manifesting itself today, what I learnt through the pain of miscarriage, my bond with my husband Tony and how I'm honouring my body in 2019. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Alison shares Offline's Manifesto to close season one. | 15 Dec 2018 | 00:06:28 | |
Dearest you. This podcast is ever-evolving and this episode captures a moment in time. To close out season one and 2018, I recorded this short manifesto to share my why. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Zoe & Alison share the funny story on how they became friends. | 09 Dec 2018 | 00:08:08 | |
Dearest you. In this mini episode, Zoe shares the elaborate plan I put in place to ensure we became friends. I'm a firm believer we need to go out and get the people we want in our life! Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Eleanor Pendleton on self image, true love & humble beginnings. | 01 Dec 2018 | 00:49:22 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with beauty entrepreneur Eleanor Pendleton. The Filipino-Australian grew up on the New South Wales Central Coast before heading to Sydney to chase her dream of becoming a magazine editor. Fast forward a decade, and today Eleanor leads her own successful beauty company, Gritty Pretty. In this at-times emotional episode, Eleanor talks openly and honestly about self image, love, running a business and how her humble beginnings shaped the woman she is today. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ally May Carey on creating content that is thoughtful & seeks to spark change. | 24 Nov 2018 | 00:51:00 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with one of Australia’s most exciting creators, Ally May Carey. A learnt-it-on-the-job writer and photographer who has been blogging since 2010, Ally’s carved out a niche creating content that is visually inspiring, thoughtful and seeks to spark change. In her incredibly calming, slow and gentle tone, we chat about her 'why' and how she's identifying with self following a difficult 18 months. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Billie Iveson on the intersection of self, creativity & brand. | 18 Nov 2018 | 00:44:14 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with one of my best friends, Billie Iveson. The fashion and beauty director of cult publication Russh at the time of recording, Billie shares her take on the intersection of self, creativity and brand. One for aspiring creatives and anyone wanting to know more about fashion media from a leader in the space, Billie brings her signature: practical advice born out of deeper thinking. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Lady Brains & Alison on the parts most founders don’t talk about. | 04 Mar 2023 | 01:16:42 | |
Dearest you. This episode is a bit of a full circle moment for me. Caitlin and Anna interviewed me back in 2018 for what was then a soon-to-launch podcast but is now the very well established Lady Brains. I was still working in publishing and I had begun recording for Offline but it was still my little secret so to be sitting here five years later having an honest conversation about the texture and terrain we’ve all moved through as podcasters and founders is a real honour. Like, we did it! We're still here! We had what I think is a really uncommon and kind of complex conversation about being a founder while also helping other founders. While we serve very differently, we share many of the same challenges and experiences. I am proud of this conversation because it feels like the antidote to polish and shine of typical founder interviews. We don’t talk in grabs and we take time to think about what we want to say. There’s lot of purposeful pauses. Maybe it is just me, but this feels very compelling and encouraging as we come out of the era that hurt more of us than it helped — Girl Boss and the grind culture that came with it. We hope you love out very honest conversation and that it allows you a moment to lean out and make contact with something real and unscripted. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Leigh Campbell opens up about the pain & heartbreak of infertility & pregnancy loss. | 10 Nov 2018 | 01:00:08 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with one of Australia’s most respected beauty editors, Leigh Campbell. From Shop to Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post and now Mamamia, we chat big career moves, the beauty circuit, Leigh’s relationship with herself, Instagram’s relationship with Leigh, and the heartbreak and pain of infertility and pregnancy loss. This episode comes with a trigger warning. If you need help or support, please call the Sands Australia 24 hour support line on 1300 072 637. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Kelly Muller on redefining success as a working mother & moving her family to Byron Bay. | 03 Nov 2018 | 00:50:14 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with leading brand and marketing strategist, Kelly Muller. Founder and director of K.M.C. Consulting, you might recognise her work: ModelCo, Stylerunner and P.E. Nation, along with niche brands making headway including contemporary womenswear brand Kacey Devlin, and daywear label Assembly. In this episode we learn how, after becoming a mother, Kelly redefined “success” by putting her young family first. Her journey to understanding self includes a move to dreamy Byron Bay, a modern family archetype and daily trips to the beach. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Pip Edwards on co-founding P.E. Nation & the power of sitting in her feminine. | 27 Oct 2018 | 00:39:09 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with P.E. Nation co-founder, Pip Edwards. A mother, classically trained pianist, commerce/law graduate, co-founder, and a woman, who, after many years living life on everyone else’s terms, is today sitting in her most powerful seat yet — her true feminine. Pip passionately brings all of herself to this episode, sharing the lessons, her reflections, and what triumph looks like today. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Chloe Brinklow on her journey from Australia's Central Coast to New York City. | 20 Oct 2018 | 00:45:23 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with editor, leading digital strategist and founder of pioneering "less is more" beauty destination, Tomboy Beauty, Chloe Brinklow. Recorded in Chloe's New York City bedroom, she gives insight into her journey from Australia's Central Coast to living and working in NYC, openly discusses how her sense of self intersects with her work as a creative, and offers some thinking on mentoring, understanding our left and right side brain hemispheres, and more. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Sara Crampton on privacy & her journey to launching The Undone. | 13 Oct 2018 | 00:38:19 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with one of Australia’s most successful fashion influencers, Sara Crampton. Founder of minimalist style blog Harper & Harley and online retail store The Undone, Sara shares her practical and pragmatic approach to life as an influencer and explains why, a decade on from starting her blog, she still prefers to keep her private life private. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Zoe Marshall opens up about losing her mum & how that experience has shaped her outlook on life. | 06 Oct 2018 | 00:40:48 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with charming TV and radio host, Zoe Marshall. Zoe opens up about losing her beautiful mum, the spiritual practices she turned to in the years following and how that experience shaped her outlook on life, motherhood, manifestation and more. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Paula Joye on the experiences that have shaped her & how she's raising her girls in a world lived online. | 29 Sep 2018 | 00:34:47 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with Australian magazine icon, journalist, TV host and digital influencer, Paula Joye. This conversation is full of unique and insightful wisdom. Paula shares the experiences that have shaped her as a woman and how she's raising two girls in a world lived increasingly online. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Carmen Hamilton on Instagram's "pretty competition" & why comparison is the thief of joy. | 22 Sep 2018 | 00:50:32 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with fashion influencer and Chronicles of Her founder, Carmen Hamilton. One of Australia's most innovative fashion and beauty creatives, Carmen gets real about Instagram's "pretty competition" and why comparison truly is the thief of joy. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Elle Ferguson on launching The Elle Effect & the emotional landscape of Instagram. | 15 Sep 2018 | 00:47:57 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with global digital influencer and entrepreneur, Elle Ferguson. One of Australia's most successful fashion and beauty identities, Elle opens up about the realities of being an influencer, the emotional landscape of Instagram and her journey to founding The Elle Effect. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Healer Jeannie Bourke on how to develop self & an identity outside of our profession. | 01 Sep 2018 | 00:36:22 | |
Dearest you. In episode one of Offline, I set up my podcast by interviewing my healer and Sydney organic beauty lab owner, Jeannie Bourke. We explore definitions of True Self and the concerns we have for women living increasingly over-committed and always-connected lives. Are we truly living for ourselves, or to produce a highlight reel for social media? In episodes to follow, I interview the people behind the Instagram accounts to understand their own definitions of self, and how social media makes them feel. These are raw, imperfect conversations, grounded in reality. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Checking in with Leigh Campbell. | 04 Feb 2023 | 01:25:23 | |
Dearest you. A gentle warning upfront. This episode covers difficult topics like pregnancy loss, infertility and navigating the death of a parent while becoming a parent. I never expect the stories and experiences my guests hold closest to their hearts but I am always grateful when they gift them to us. This episode is no exception — Leigh and I really go there on some pieces and while an emotional listen at times, I know we both believe so necessary to bring the context and complexity to lives that otherwise look perfect and pain-free from the outside. We hope you love our chat and know you’ll hold us in our shares. Some are sweet, some are silly, some are brave, some act as an example of our privilege and some are so raw they make us want to take it back. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Our favourite astrologer had her Saturn Return. | 31 Dec 2022 | 01:17:03 | |
Dearest you. If you follow Nadine Jane Astrology on Instagram, you’ll know that she went away for a little while. Her absence was very felt on my feed and I thought about her often. I wondered if she was ok, and I hoped she’d be back creating her signature style of intuitive, soft and highly emotive astrology content. So you can imagine the smile on my face when I was presented with the opportunity to sit down with Nadine once again — three years after our first honest conversation. She’s such a joy to interview but I was also just so curious to ask her about the last couple of years. Where has she been? Why did she take a break? What did she do and how did it all feel? As you’ll soon learn, our favourite New York City astrologer (currently residing in country Maine) experienced the very thing she’s guided many of us through — her Saturn Return. For Nadine, this significant astrological event brought with it something unexpected. It turned the lights out on her love affair with astrology and as someone who channels, what that meant was she lost her signal. Nadine and I explore what that was like, the other areas of growth her Saturn Return brought on, how it impacted the book she’d signed on to write and has since been published (Magic Days, her 800-page masterpiece), her evolved relationship with astrology and her body, and her cosmic weather report for this year. If you’ve been thinking about making a brave decision, you’re going to like what she has to say. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Checking in with Eleanor, Sara & Beck. | 03 Dec 2022 | 01:41:22 | |
Dearest you. Eleanor Pendleton, Sara Crampton and Beck Wadworth are three of Australia’s most successful women’s lifestyle influencers but they’re also three women I am grateful to call my friends. It’s been years between honest conversations and like so many of you, the four of us have moved through a lot — sustaining businesses during a global pandemic, pregnancy and sadly, pregnancy loss, birth, the first months and years of motherhood, terminally ill parents, the death of someone we love and the grief that follows — all while doing our best to show up for our teams, our communities and business’ missions. The girls and I put it all on the table and we hope in doing that, we provide you with a rich entry point into feeling more seen and heard within your own life experiences. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Checking in with Zoe Marshall. | 05 Nov 2022 | 00:57:08 | |
Dearest you. A very warm welcome to season eight of this beautiful and ever-evolving podcast. This episode is part of a brand-new series called Checking In With, where I touch base with some of Offline’s earliest guests to hear how they’re doing today, what they’ve moved through since we last spoke and of course, how their definition of success has evolved in and around the rich texture of their life experiences. This very first checking-in episode is with one of my best friends, Zoe Marshall. She was Offline’s fourth guest way back in season one. Zoe is my emotionally safe friend and while I didn’t realise it when I asked her to record with me, that’s really what this episode is about – friendship – and how important it is as aware and ambitious people that we have those emotionally safe relationships that we can fall backwards into when we’re being stretched to a new edge. I hope you adore this season’s honesty. I hope you feel the joy and the pleasure and the play I’m actively seeking following what has been a really hard couple of years. I also hope you adore the explorations into the darker spaces life leads my guests and I into as we seek to land more deeply into our True Self. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Celebrating 100 episodes by listening back to the wisdom that moved us the most. | 26 Mar 2022 | 02:45:54 | |
Dearest you.
One hundred episodes Offline, The Podcast. One hundred times I’ve had the privilege of holding someone’s story or extracting their wisdom. One hundred times it’s been my honour to serve beautiful you and your growth. To celebrate Offline’s 100th episode, we’re going to honour this growing body of work. We’re going to honour the volume. We’re going to honour you and I, showing up for every episode and doing our work. I hope you enjoy this little trip down memory lane to hear from the teachers and the healers whose knowledge and wisdom has created real and meaningful shifts in our lives. Jeannie Bourke, Natalia Benson, Jerico Mandybur, Matt Ringrose, Nadine Jane Astrology, Manoj Dias, Jaclyn Michelle, Lara Briden, Dylan Smith, Penny Locaso, Carson Tueller, Dalia Gencher, Rachel Ricketts, Dr. Nicole LePera, Laura Poole, Sah D’Simone, Shaman Durek and Tori Washington — thank you. And thank you for being here. Thank you for gifting me your precious time and your awareness. Thank you for letting me in so fully, so I can help you on your way. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Part 2 ~ Matt Ringrose on why possessions, houses, crypto — all of it — will never bring us lasting fulfillment. | 12 Mar 2022 | 00:39:46 | |
Dearest you. Welcome back to part two of my honest conversation with a teacher of mine, Matt Ringrose. Matt initiated me as a Vedic Meditator in late 2018, and he’s been a steady counsel in my life ever since. If you’d like to start with part one, here it is. Having a conversation with Matt is never linear, and that’s what I’ve loved most about our chats over the years. In this most recent sit down, we discuss the powerful technique of letting go — something we are inviting you to learn how to do — and more specifically, what becomes possible when we let go of our professional attachments and the definitions of success that don’t serve our highest possible growth and evolution. This episode begins when we were discussing how our expectations of life, work, business and self evolve as our state of consciousness evolves and increases. Which is perfect and relevant, but for me personally has sometimes had a bit of a melancholy flavour to it. He also explains why acquiring things like cars, houses or even a private island aren’t the throughway to lasting fulfillment. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Part 1 ~ Matt Ringrose on how to let go of all that’s holding you back. | 26 Feb 2022 | 00:50:55 | |
Dearest you. If you’ve been listening to Offline since the beginning or at least since season two, you’ll know about Bondi Meditation Centre founder and Vedic Meditation teacher, Matt Ringrose. He taught me this effortless meditation technique a few months after I launched the podcast in 2018, and it quite simply changed the direction and intention of my life, my work and how I define success. Matt was just the type of teacher I needed at a time in my life when things felt really hard, sad, anxious and serious. Fast forward three and a half years and Matt remains a steady counsel in my life and also a friend. We both received such a warm reception for our first episode, so it’s really an honour to bring you another honest conversation with Matt. We spoke for two hours (!) so I’m publishing it over two episodes. This is part one. We covered a lot of really valuable ground but the thread that weaves its way throughout is letting go. How to let go of all that is holding us back and what becomes possible when we do. Ok, here’s to letting go of our professional attachments and the definitions of success that don’t serve our evolution. I’m calling it professional peace. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Alison on trusting your intuition, out-growing friends & founder doubt. | 23 Mar 2024 | 00:55:49 | |
Dearest you. Once a year I open the doors to my conscious professional development space, Off—, and I wanted to give you an experience of my range as an evolutionary career and business mentor. Here’s what’s on the mentoring menu:
If you'd like to be notified when enrolments open, express interest here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Shaman Durek on being your own damn guru. | 12 Feb 2022 | 01:08:41 | |
Dearest you. Now, while I can’t control how you’ll experience this episode, my hope is that it speaks directly to your innate deservingness for a life that is joyful and happy. That it encourages you to see what you do for a living as less about what you’ll get, and more about unlocking what you have to give. I hope this episode gives you the courage to create a life that feels like your own, not one that someone else suggested you live. Shaman Durek is a sixth-generation Shaman, the founder of The Shaman School, and best-selling author of the book Spirit Hacking: Shamanic Keys to Reclaim Your Personal Power, Transform Yourself, and Light Up the World. If I had to sum up this episode in a sentence, it’s about reclaiming our independence. And perhaps even more specific than that, our spiritual independence. Shaman Durek is dedicated to giving people their power back. His wisdom and his work asks us to be our own damn gurus. He reminds us that we are the expert on us, and that if we choose to exist as the multidimensional beings that we actually are, then we’ll bump into happiness. We’ll feel the sense of fulfilment we’ve been seeking through otherwise unsustainable and oftentimes self serving and stagnant pathways. He believes that success is no more than us being able to live in a place of joy, happiness, freedom and play within what we do. I’m in. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| A professional development space for the consciously ambitious. | 25 Jan 2022 | 00:26:14 | |
Dearest you. Thank you for being here. Let me share what you being here means.
It’s my honour to share Off— with you. A professional development space for the consciously ambitious.
Part mentorship, part knowledge membership and part conscious professional network, Off— is my response to what you’ve told me you need: Mentorship. Strategic but conscious career and business advice. Thoughtful leadership. A network of conscious colleagues that will become your expanders and your cheerleaders.
Thank you for listening, you can register your interest in joining the next opening of Off— here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The business values & boundaries behind this founder’s 12-month waitlist. | 15 Jan 2022 | 01:06:12 | |
Dearest you. This episode is produced in partnership with Estée Lauder and is a continuation of our Self Care Sundays mini-series. Over four seasons now, it’s been an honour to sit down with some of the brand’s inspiring ambassadors and friends to have an honest conversation about self care, skincare, confidence and success. My next guest is someone very dear to me. She was my moment of self care every eight weeks for two years when I was working as a digital publisher. I used to book her last appointment at 7pm and fall in a heap on her treatment bed. Her name is Diandra Politano. A regular facial with Diandra was a luxury I could afford at the time, but for me, it was about much more than skin health. It was the way she cared for me. The way she rubbed my sore shoulders and massaged my hands. She led me into rest during a chapter of my life when I had an unhealthy addiction to my work. Fast forward six years and Diandra is one of Sydney’s most in-demand facialists. When I had this honest conversation with Diandra before Christmas in 2021, she’d already closed her personal book to new clients in 2022. I just thought that was so truly incredible. To be providing the kind of self care that people prioritise up to a year out. There’s so many of us starting our own service-based businesses and all we could ever dream of is being booked out. Having that sense of financial security but also the feeling of confidence that comes when we can clearly see that people need what we have to give. I hope you adore this honest conversation. We talk about the big resignation moment before starting your own thing. About business values and boundaries. About preserving our gifts. About setting the plan and getting comfortable with the unknown. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Wealth embodiment guide Tori Washington on creating a wealth identity. | 18 Dec 2021 | 01:09:09 | |
Dearest you. Are you ready to receive? Because I want you to go into this honest conversation with an understanding that it has the potential to spark real and meaningful change in your life. Evolution. I was actually crying quietly in the background for a lot of this conversation. Tori Washington calls herself a money medicine woman. She’s a business and sales mentor, and the founder of Wealth Embodiment Flow. It’s a somatic financial practice that exists to reprogram our relationship with money, and what it means to feel prosperous from a cellular level. You know, I always talk about us all being loving ideas in the eyes of God. Speaking to Tori, I felt God in the room. She is such a steady and clear vessel, and being in the presence of someone who is here doing God’s work. . . It's rare. And that makes it energising. Exciting. Through mentors like Tori, we’re able to bear witness to what it looks and sounds like when we’re living in alignment with our true nature and using our unique gifts to serve. This is Offline’s reason to exist. This episode is dedicated to what it means and looks like to create a wealth identity from someone who has lived it herself. Tori filed for bankruptcy four years ago and at the time of recording, had just celebrated her first million dollar year. Keep going. Don’t give up. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Juliet Allen on how she uses visualisation & sex magic to grow her business. | 04 Dec 2021 | 01:17:36 | |
Dearest you. #Jalison is back. If you’ve listened to my first and second honest conversation with Juliet Allen, you’ll know about our cute nickname. We became fast friends after our first recording session and now I probably talk to Juliet more than I do Tony during the day. We’re both deep in our motherhood season and we also have really similar businesses, so we exchange voice texts all day about everything from what bibs we’re using, to what we’re currently creating and what we’re having for dinner. It’s nice. If you don’t know about Juliet, she’s Australia’s leading sexologist, the founder of Pleasure School and The Juliet Pleasure Wand. The last two times she’s been my guest, we’ve spoken about sex. This time, I invited her back on to talk about how she’s built and grown such a pioneering and progressive business, but also, to share what life and work looked like before the Juliet Allen we know today. She’s worked so hard to get where she is so I want you to keep that in mind. Slow, meaningful, deliberate. In this episode, we talk about authentic expression over having a social media strategy, how leaving a financially secure situation was the moment her business began to thrive, productising her brand and generating new income streams, how she uses sex magic, visualisation and manifestation to reach her goals, and why success has nothing to do with the amount of money in her bank account. Juliet has been a huge expander for so many of us who want to use our unique gifts to serve, and to make a living while we do it. A big thank you to Juliet for opening up so we can all learn.
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| Celebrity stylist Jess Pecoraro on feeling the fear & doing it anyway. | 20 Nov 2021 | 00:46:39 | |
Dearest you. This episode is part of my ongoing Self Care Sundays mini-series produced by Studio Offline and in partnership with Estée Lauder. I sit down with some of the brand’s inspiring ambassadors and friends to have an honest conversation about self care and success. My next guest is the perfect example of this idea that we need to get comfortable with discomfort when it comes to evolving professionally. Feel the fear and do it anyway. Jess Pecoraro is one of Australia’s most in-demand celebrity stylists, and during the pandemic, like so many others, executed a brilliant pivot. She co-founded a styling subscription platform called Selected. What she didn’t anticipate, though, was how hard it would be to come out from behind the scenes, to lead the scene. Also, the unique challenge anyone who is wanting to move into online learning and education faces: How to create a methodology for that which is just simply felt and known. In this episode, Jess shares her journey from magazine intern to styling the likes of Pip Edwards, Delta Goodrem and Jesinta Campbell. She opens up about choosing a redundancy package over re-applying for her role, how she overcame her fear of public speaking and presenting, why confidentiality is a key contributor to her success and the role she believes fashion plays in our lives.
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| Sah D’Simone on why altruism is the ultimate business strategy. | 06 Nov 2021 | 01:10:04 | |
Dearest you. My next guest is someone my sister suggested I follow a while back, and I’ve been obsessed with his signature style of spirituality even since. Sah D’Simone is a Brazilian-born meditation teacher based in Venice Beach, California. He’s also a bestselling author, transformational speaker and coach. He’s worked with the likes of Kanye West, Cardi B and Google, but as you’ll soon hear, those names were never on his career vision board. For Sah, True Self Success starts and ends in service. Sah developed his personal equation for liberation through desperation. He said that even in some of the most enlightened rooms in the world, he experienced the same kinds of psychological and verbal oppression he experienced in the non-spiritual rooms in his life. So he created the Spiritually Sassy method, which, in its simplest form, helps people be themselves. It’s been described as a life-embracing path to awakening in modern times. There’s so much for us to learn in this episode. He talks about starting and growing a spiritual business, learning to dance with fear and the uncertainty that comes with entrepreneurship, how to create from a place of abundance vs. scarcity, altruism as the ultimate strategy and so much more.
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| Laura Poole on knowing what you are before defining what you’ll do. | 23 Oct 2021 | 01:32:50 | |
Dearest you. Have you ever thought deeply about why we start businesses or brands? Usually it’s to solve a problem, fill a gap in the market or make money.
But how many founders do you know have started something with the intention to exit it? And not “exit” Silicon Valley style with millions of dollars, but exit with nothing but the knowing that they’ve fulfilled their purpose in this lifetime.
Laura Poole is a powerful and prolific Vedic Meditation teacher, and in this episode, she presents a more evolutionary perspective on the why behind what we choose to create.
She asks us to first know what we are, before deciding what it is that'll we’ll do.
Because how much of what we create is actually about our individual need to feel valued and valuable? Like, how many of us can hand-on-heart say that we hope our role becomes redundant because the business outgrew us? Our ego would be screaming. But with the context Laura brings in this episode, this becomes quite a liberating thought.
She also helps us see past “success” as an individualised experience, and instead, asks us to consider what collective and community success might look like. How might that change the way we show up professionally?
What I also heard from Laura is that this way of building something also gives us back the one thing we can never get more of in the relative world: Time. Time to explore other parts of ourselves that want to be expressed. Time to consider the next season of our life and what would be most evolutionary for us once again. Because we are not the thing we started or the thing we do.
I hope this episode helps you on your way. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Honouring the interconnectedness of True Self & profession. | 09 Oct 2021 | 00:19:08 | |
Dearest you. What we do for a living feels a bit more emotional than it used to. Restrictions to our freedoms have made many of us question what actually makes us feel happy and fulfilled. A sneaky sleep in. A long walk before the workday starts. A home-cooked lunch. Creating just because not for. The time to think more deeply and even change our mind. Many of us are also questioning if we're using our gifts and skills in ways that make us feel truly useful in the world. Is it time to start something that means something? Could we lead more consciously? And how much money is enough? We’re evolving, and this podcast is evolving with us. I’d love to share Offline’s Manifesto with you. I hope this season helps you on your way. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Alison on pregnancy, labour preparation & the postpartum period. | 10 Jul 2021 | 02:19:32 | |
Dearest you. To close season six, I'm dedicating this Ask Me Anything episode to my little girl, Betty. So often, the stories we hear about pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period are negative and fear-based. My experience has been more soft than hard, and so I hopes that sharing a different perspective might help you feel more excited than scared about this new chapter. In this extended episode, I answer listener questions about my pregnancy, navigating pregnancy anxiety, labour preparation, hospital bag must-haves and why I believe I had a soft and positive postpartum experience. I also talk about the sense of perspective I have following two pregnancy losses and the life lessons I hope to teach my little girl. Alison xo Books
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| 2 things to know before asking for more money. | 24 Feb 2024 | 00:16:29 | |
Dearest you. Whether or not your boss approves your pay rise request can feel so personal, but is it? In this episode, I offer a reframe and also some advice that will put you in a strong position to get paid what your contribution is worth. I hope my advice helps you or someone you love that deserves more than they're currently getting. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Gab Waller on having the confidence to push through rejection. | 26 Jun 2021 | 00:53:51 | |
Dearest you. In this special Self Care Sundays mini-series produced by Studio Offline and in partnership with Estée Lauder, I sit down with some of the brand’s inspiring ambassadors and friends to have an honest conversation about their careers, businesses, life on the other side of the filter, fashion, beauty and... confidence. What does confidence really mean to women and what does having it help us to achieve? The topic and series celebrates Estée Lauder’s Double Wear Foundation, a product that allows women to wear confidence and feel empowered to take on the day.
My next guest is personal shopper to the stars and fashion entrepreneur, Gab Waller. She got her big break sourcing and “Old Celine” coat for Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in 2018, and hasn’t looked back. She now has a team of six helping her to respond to hundreds of personal shopping requests each day.
In this episode, Gab opens up about what confidence means to her, how she’s seen fashion change a woman’s perception of herself, her breakthrough moment, why it’s so important to push through rejection, how she’s thinking about scaling her business, building her support team, how to develop deep relationships with clients and brands, the lessons she’s learnt the hard way, the importance of discretion in her business and how she’s thinking about circularity in our need-it-now consumer culture. Thank you for being here. Alison xo go deeper.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Stephanie Miller & Laura Henshaw open up about their journey from influencers to entrepreneurs. | 12 Jun 2021 | 01:13:37 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with Keep It Cleaner (KIC) co-founders and friends, Stephanie Miller and Laura Henshaw. What started as an ebook and a hobby has since grown into a multi-platform offering spanning recipes, workouts, mindful guides, community events and a podcast. But how did they do it? Have they had investment? How did they know who to hire? And what advice do they have for anyone with ambition to start a movement? I ask it all. We also discuss social media in all its usefulness and complexity, and I ask for their opinion on gifting. Is what was once an interesting and organic way for brands to expose their products to new audiences becoming more harmful than helpful? Steph generously opens up about how she’s feeling five weeks into her new role as Harvey’s mum, and Laura gifts us with invaluable insights about growth, evolution and confidence. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Rae Johnston on the realities of being a woman working in science, gaming & tech. | 29 May 2021 | 01:24:52 | |
Dearest you. In honour of National Reconciliation Week, please enjoy this replay of my honest conversation with proud Wiradjuri woman, mum, award-winning STEM journalist and host, Rae Johnston. It first aired in May 2019. Compassionate, strong and with an incredible sense of justice, Rae is a modern role model for women everywhere. In this episode, Rae shares unique and inspiring lessons taken from her humble beginnings — including what it was like to have $5 left each week after paying her bills and feeding her child as a 19 year-old mum, the disappointing and often-complex realities of being a woman working in gaming, tech and science, her reflections on the trauma she experienced as a young model trying to get her start, her advice to employers on how to attract and support Indigenous talent, and how proposing to her husband was less about challenging gender norms and more about deep love and respect. This conversation is longer than others, but every minute of it is compelling, educational and inspiring. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Zero waste life advocate Dr. Anita Vandyke on living in alignment with your values. | 15 May 2021 | 00:58:33 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with doctor, rocket scientist, author and zero waste life advocate Anita Vandyke. In this episode, Anita challenges the dogma surrounding living a zero waste life, educating us that it’s not about being perfect. It’s about effort.
Have you ever found yourself wanting to reduce your personal waste but feel totally overwhelmed when it comes to how? Or maybe you’re scared that if you try, you’ll fail. And then there’s the fear of the judgement that can come with trying to live more consciously. . . 2020 taught us that cancel culture is real and while sometimes very valid, it also stops us from speaking up and out about the ways we’re trying to be better.
Anita is here to help us take a step forward. She explains that living a zero waste life often starts with living a low waste life. She also shares how she personally handles criticism for her choices, why she implements spending bans and what she discovers when she does, easy zero waste strategies that absolutely anyone could implement today, why spirituality and science do co-exist and what motherhood and a major health scare taught her about herself. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Donna Hay on how she built a brand that transcends trends & mediums. | 01 May 2021 | 01:12:06 | |
Dearest you. In this special Self Care Sundays mini-series produced by Studio Offline and in partnership with Estée Lauder, I sit down with the brand’s Australian ambassadors, friends and experts to have an honest conversation about life on the other side of the filter. This season, the mini-series continues to explore our collective relationship with the word confidence. What does the word confidence really mean, and what does having more of it help us to achieve? The topic and series celebrates Estée Lauder’s Double Wear Foundation, a product that allows women to wear confidence and feel empowered to take on the day.
My next guest is Australian food entrepreneur, Donna Hay — a name synonymous with simple but delicious recipes enjoyed by families across the country.
In many ways, this honest conversation honours the time and level of integrity it takes to build a brand that transcends trends and mediums.
Donna has written 27 cookbooks selling over six million copies worldwide, and has successfully expanded into homewares and TV. But as someone who identifies as shy, how did she find or cultivate the confidence to do it? In this episode, Donna and I explore her journey to success and the lessons she’s learned along the way. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Storyteller Jess Molina is pioneering what it means to influence consciously. | 17 Apr 2021 | 01:13:39 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with conscious influencer, storyteller and founder of Loudly Quietly, Jess Molina.
Have you ever wondered how influencers choose projects and for the more conscious creators out there, the vetting process they go through when deciding whether or not to work with a brand? Jess is a guiding light on these topics.
In this honest conversation, Jess shares openly and honestly across a broad range of topics related to fashion, writing, influencing and inclusion —including the day she saw the Jess in her mind reflected back at her in the mirror — financially supporting her family and the subsequent guilt that can come with spending on herself, her advice to people who want to write but are struggling to find their voice, transparency around gifting on Instagram, how she’s navigated pricing herself for influencer projects, moving beyond diversity and inclusion as an initiative and into an ethos, reclaiming the word fat and her advice to anyone who is struggling to develop a loving relationship with their body.
In a reality where influencing has become a viable career path, Jess is the example of the type of influencer we should be following and celebrating. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| JANE Magazine’s Annika Hein on backing yourself & self-funding your idea. | 03 Apr 2021 | 01:28:11 | |
Dearest you. An honest conversation with fashion magazine co-founder and creative director, Annika Hein. In this episode, Annika shares the importance of backing yourself and self-finding your idea, the risks involved in starting your own business and how to maintain your creative integrity — especially when there’s real money on the table. JANE Magazine is a Melbourne-based, biannual fashion and fine art publication shot on film and printed on paper. The magazine explores the disciplines of art, photography, fashion, philosophy and poetry. Sounds a bit intimidating, right? Turns out Annika is anything but. Get ready to hear from a funny, down-to-earth, thoughtful and generous woman who isn’t scared to say what she really thinks. We cover some incredible ground in this honest conversation, including Annika’s pregnancy, a 36-hour home birth that ended with an emergency transfer to hospital, what she and partner Odin learned from living slowly in country Victoria, navigating perfectionism and a sometimes brutal examination of self, how she maintains her creative integrity while building and funding a business, the risks they took to launch issue one of the magazine and what starting her day with rituals helps her to achieve. Please note: Before they get onto business, Annika is an open book about her home birth experience. If pregnancy and birth is either triggering or irrelevant to where you’re at right now, please navigate this episode using the timestamps below. Moving to the country: 00:06:30 – 00:24:13 Pregnancy and birth: 00:24:00 – 00:46:20 Maintaining her creative integrity: 00:46:38 – 00:57:00 The risks involved in launching issue one: 00:57:00 – 01:07:15 Allyship and advocacy: 01:07:15 – 01:15:31 Morning and evening rituals: 01:15:31 – 01:33:42 Thank you for being here. Alison xo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||