Turning 30 Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

If you’re in your thirties and find yourself spiraling with the fear that maybe you won’t meet your person in time…

If you lie awake at night wondering if motherhood is slipping through your fingers…

If you feel like you’ve done everything right and life still isn’t unfolding the way you hoped,

This episode is for you.

In this deeply honest and empowering conversation, I am joined by returning guest Hillary, a human design teacher and spiritual coach, to explore the fear that so many of us carry in our thirties: not knowing how it’s all going to turn out.

We dive into:

• Why we struggle with uncertainty- especially around love, timelines, and family dreams
• How to stop outsourcing your sense of peace to whether or not you meet “the one”
• What it really means to let go of control (and how it opens the door to everything you want)
• The spiritual truths behind why the timing hasn’t “worked out” yet
• Emma’s personal story of hitting an emotional rock bottom just before meeting her partner and becoming a mother

One of the most powerful moments in this episode: Hillary coaches a past version of me: age 35, single, and panicking about her future, through the fears, limiting beliefs, and pressure that so many of you are carrying too.

Whether you’re single and scared, dating with anxiety, or simply trying to trust your path, this episode is your invitation to soften.

To remember that just because you don’t know how it’s going to turn out doesn’t mean it’s not going to be everything you hoped for- and more.

🎧 A must-listen if you’re navigating transitions, feeling behind, or longing for clarity in your thirties.

📲 Connect with Hillary on Instagram at @designedasyou

🌀 Learn more about her work and human design certification at designedasyou.com

📲 Connect with Emma on Instagram @turning30coach

Have you ever been at a wedding, watching a friend slow dance with their new husband, and felt a lump in your throat when you think of the sadness that this hasn’t happened yet for you?

This episode is a love letter to every woman who’s ever felt the bittersweet ache of being single while her friends are hitting major life milestones. Whether it’s weddings, baby showers, engagements, or house moves, there’s often an unspoken grief that comes with watching others step into chapters you deeply want for yourself.

If you resonate with this, you are not alone, and inside my membership community Turning, we are constantly having conversations around this topic. In this solo episode, I wanted to share my thoughts on the complex emotions that comes with watching your friends hit milestones.

In this episode, I’m sharing:

• A powerful anonymous post from inside the Turning Community that brought me to tears
• My own story of standing at my best friend’s wedding, single and scared I’d never get there
• Why your complex emotions, envy, sadness, hope, are all valid and welcome
• Tools to help you navigate social triggers like weddings without losing yourself
• The beauty of reframing: turning envy into inspiration

And most importantly: this is your reminder that you’re not alone.

There is a whole community of women walking this path beside you, and you deserve to be supported while navigating the “in-between.”

Join the waitlist for the Turning Membership, a sacred online space for single and unmarried women in their thirties who want to reclaim this decade with clarity, connection, and courage. Join here.

And if this episode resonated, share it with a friend or leave a review. It truly helps more women feel seen and supported.

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With love,

Emma

In this solo episode we’re diving into the power of making bold, brave decisions and moving into new chapters.

I am sharing my personal journey of relocating to Thailand at the end of last year, a decision that marked the end of a challenging chapter.

In the episode I am giving you both inspiration and tips for how to navigate the big decisions- whether it’s changing careers, starting a new business, ending a relationship, or simply taking that first big step to your 2025 goals.

This episode will inspire you to face your fears, trust your intuition, and take action.

Tune in for practical tips for how to make that big decision and some things to expect what will happen when you have finally made it (and how to overcome them).

This episode is for you if you want to know how to break free from inertia, embrace life’s chapters, and manifest your next bold move.

Let’s make 2025 the year of brave decisions and unstoppable growth!

You are invited to become a founding member of my brand new membership Turning. To join the waitlist and receive the invitation- please head over to @turning30coach on Instagram and DM ‘FOUNDER’.

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Have you ever had one of those days, weeks, or even months where it seems like NOTHING seems to be going your way? Maybe you’ve even felt like the universe is conspiring against you?  I know this feeling very well, and after recently experience a very funky funk, I decided to share my take on it and outline some practical advice on what you can do to get out of it. Tune in for some simple strategies on how to clear out negative energy to feel better and learn how to hold space for your thoughts, process your emotions, be kind to yourself and most importantly, accept that you are a human having a human experience.

In the next instalment of my coaching tools series, I am sharing practical tools to help overcome comparison. When we reach our thirties, we often have lives that look different to our friends and peers, and our brains go into overdrive looking around to find evidence of this. The truth is, comparison is normal for our brains, but the problem is that we often take this to mean that there is something wrong with us, or the way that our lives have panned out.   If you have ever felt this way, this episode provides you with an explanation of why we indulge in comparison as we enter our thirties, and gives practical steps for how to overcome this to focus on living a life that is all about you, and not those around you. If you want to take these practical tips and learn how to apply them in the comfort of a group of people on the same journey as you- apply now to my Turning 30 Group Program.   To book a free consult: http://bit.ly/turning30consult Program Details:  bit.ly/turning30program Instagram: @turning30coach

Today’s episode all about how to become an emotional adult.  This episode is the second of a special series of coaching episodes where I am sharing concepts that I use in my coaching program with my clients. ⁣   In this episode, you’ll learn: ⁣The difference between emotional adulthood and emotional childhood, ways emotional childhood could be showing  up in different areas of your life and limiting  you from achieving the results you desire, how our own stories keep us stuck, and practical tips to rewrite a more empowering life narrative.    This is for you if you’re ready to take control of your own emotions so you can find happiness and contentment, no matter what’s going on around you.   Turning 30 Group Program Details: Program: bit.ly/turning30program Instagram: @turning30coach

Our 30 Manual is a concept that I teach in my Coaching Program. It is an instruction manual that lays out a set of rules for how we believe our lives will look in our thirties. When we don’t meet these expectations, we often feel like we have ‘missed the boat’ or that we have been left behind from others. The truth is, these goals are fictitious and have been created (often subconsciously) by a younger version of ourselves, who unfortunately did not have a crystal ball to predict the twists and turns of our twenties.    Today’s Podcast episode takes a deep-dive into understanding everything about our 30 Manuals and it kicks off a special series of coaching episodes where I am sharing concepts that I use in my coaching program with my clients. In the episode I explain what a 30 Manual is, how it has been playing out in your life and then I outline my four-step guide for how to re-write it. If you have ever felt that you have 'failed' as your life doesn't look exactly as you would like by now, this episode is for you.    Turning 30 Coaching Details: To apply for the group program: DM @turning30coach on Instagram. Next group will be in March and spaces are limited!

Often our twenties don’t work out exactly the way we planned. We graduate and don’t get the dream job, we experience breakups, rejection, grief and uncertainty and we aren’t taught how to deal with any of these things or the inevitable way they affect our mental health. Mena Kezia Emuh experienced this herself,  and at the age of 27 reached a breaking point that ultimately led her to create her community of @thel8bloomers. She bravely decided to speak out about her mental health and from there she has become a spokesperson for people who feel left behind, dedicating her time to a platform for millennials navigating the complexities of adulting in the 21st Century. In this episode, Mena shares her personal story with me and we have an authentic and vulnerable conversation about timelines, the pressure to be ‘normal’, religious and cultural expectations and why it is so important to speak out about mental health. This episode is for you if you’ve ever felt that things didn’t work out exactly as planned and if you’ve ever felt like a ‘late-bloomer’.   Turning 30 Coaching Details: Program: bit.ly/turning30program Instagram: @turning30coach   Mena’s Details: Personal Instagram: @menakez Late Bloomers Instagram: @thel8bloomers

To celebrate the release of the 20th episode of the Podcast, I am interviewing my first ever male guest, life coach Ben Harris @the.fear.guy.   After 13 episodes interviewing women, I finally got to ask a male on the eve of his 30th birthday his point of view around the pressures men feel around turning 30 and if this is different from the way women approach this transitional time.   As well as discussing turning 30 (my favourite topic of course), I invited Ben to talk about all things fear. Fear is one of our greatest teachers, but it can be so delimitating when we try to resist it. We dive into what keeps us in our comfort zones, our worst case scenarios and our want to avoid them at all costs, fear of failure, fear of what people thing and most importantly: how to overcome these fears.   Tune in for a role play where I play a fearful client and Ben coaches me and gives me practical tips to help embrace fear and make life changes.   Turning 30 Coaching Details: Program: bit.ly/turning30program Instagram: @turning30coach   Ben Harris: Website: www.feeling-free.com Instagram: @the.fear.guy

In this solo episode I have put together five lessons of 2020 that I will be taking with me into 2021. I am sharing personal details of how I went through huge growth and transformation in the past year, and how these lessons guided and helped me through the toughest of times. New Year Same Me, but with some new life lessons to share with you all.    Turning 30 Coaching Details: Program: bit.ly/turning30program Instagram @turning30coach