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Offline, The Podcast

For recovering Girl Bosses everywhere. Hosted by one of Australia's most in-demand conscious career and business mentors, Alison Rice, Offline is a series of honest conversations dedicated to exploring who we are when we're sitting in our True Self and how that life-affirming realisation changes the way we define success. How do we want to be living? What are we really here to do? What are we no longer willing to sacrifice in pursuit of an outdated definition of success that can’t and doesn’t support the natural and intrinsic cycles and seasons that exist within a full and expressed life? Alison and her special guests explore it all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Is this Girlboss 2.0? Not on my watch.

    Dearest you.This episode begins as satire and if the opening feels uncomfortable, that's the point.All of it is real. Quotes and close paraphrasings from women and founders being held up right now as the aspiration.We have a problem.Eight years into this work, I find myself more alarmed than ever. Girlboss 2.0 feels to be emerging and mainstream media is serving her up as the role model we should be learning from and aspiring toward. And so many of us — consciously or not — are still subscribing.This episode is a call to action. It's an invitation to excavate the seed of ambition the system planted in us and to replant something more honest, more nourishing and more suited to bodies that cycle and lives that take place in seasons.It's an invitation to define your version of enough — your version of A Little, Rich Life — and build from there.No one is coming to save us. The external conditions will not change. We can't do this in isolation and that's what serve is for — my living practice room for regenerative entrepreneurship and service business. Alison xoExpress interest in serve herego deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    You no longer need to become a content creator to build a profitable service business.

    Express interest in serve hereDearest you.This is the permission slip so many have been waiting for and an explanation of why it's finally arrived.If the thing standing between you and starting (or sustaining) a service business has been the belief that you have to become a content creator, a semi-influencer or a founder building in public, this episode is for you. The model is moving on. Content marketing as the primary strategy for service businesses is giving way to something that has always felt more true in the world of purpose-driven business — relationship-based, community-led and human-centered.I trace what's driving the shift (the saturation of AI-generated content on social platforms, the quiet death of the follower economy, the coming transition away from the phone itself) and what I believe is next and will be preparing us for in serve — consulting collectives, long-form authority building and service businesses designed around depth of relationship rather than volume of reach.The conditions you've been waiting for are finally here.Alison xoExpress interest in serve herego deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The most important career advice I can offer you right now.

    Express interest in serve hereDearest you.There's a low-grade hum of anxiety moving through a lot of us right now and it doesn't matter whether you work for yourself or someone else. We know something has fundamentally shifted in how work works. We just haven't had the language for it yet.In this episode I name what's actually happening — the emerging agentic workforce — and more importantly, what this moment in time is asking of us.I introduce three ideas that invite you to evolve how you see your professional self:Evolving from a producer of value to a composer of valueEvolving from a holder of a title to a keeper of a unique and deeply human unit of value  Thinking and acting like an entrepreneur This episode is a reorientation of the way we think about our contribution in a professional setting. It's also a gentle but urgent act of self-direction that can begin today.What I unpack in this episode:Why the traditional career path is becoming less stable and what's replacing itThe fundamental shift from producer to composer of valueWhy an entrepreneurial mindset is no longer just for foundersWhat AI will never be able to do and why that's where our professional futures liveWhy starting or sustaining a human-centred service business may be one of the safest professional moves you can make right nowQuestions to start exploring your own answers toI am opening the doors to serve — a practice room for regenerative entrepreneurship and purpose-driven service — in early May. Express interest here. Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Want to cultivate personal taste? Consider starting a seasonal curriculum.

    Make a copy of my Season Curriculum Notion template hereSubscribe to my Substack hereDearest you.There is a loud conversation happening online right now about personal taste. Who has it. Who doesn't. How to get it and how we lose it. And somewhere in that conversation, taste cultivation got framed as something friction-full and — for a lot of women — another thing on a list that's already too long.In this episode I pull us out of that debate and move us into the how to develop personal taste.Because here's the reframe: You're not without taste. You never were. What's more likely is that the algorithm has been programming your taste, deciding what you wear, what you think and what you buy. And your taste — your real taste — is sitting waiting underneath.To help you make contact with it, I'm inviting you to pick up the really nourishing practice of designing your own seasonal curriculum — a romantic and creative personal program that acts as an alternative to the scroll.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Want to get off your phone? You don’t have a willpower problem, you have a values deficit.

    Dearest you.You know what you value. Or at least, you think you do. Maybe you'd say something like family. Creativity. Freedom. But your actual life — the phone you can’t put down and the yes you keep giving when you really mean no — is telling a different story. So what's going wrong?In this episode, I dig into the gap between our stated values and lived experience and why standard values exercises aren't working anymore. I offer a life-led values excavation approach to try instead, one that starts with inspecting the data your actual life is already giving you. I also talk about what it means to know your unique transmission as a creator and communicator, why I hope you’ll consider watching the podcast on YouTube, how I’m collaborating with AI as an inquiry partner and why this season of Get Offline is about one message, one community and shipping more long-form content for us to connect around. Alison xo go deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Gen Z don’t consume culture, they compose it.

    Dearest you.Kriti Gupta calls herself an Internet Anthropologist — a translator of the signals young people are sending about who they are, what they value and what it’s like to be them.In this honest conversation, we explore how Gen Z and Alpha are reclaiming their time, presence and self expression in an era defined by algorithms and increasingly, artificial intelligence.Kriti helps us understand the subcultures and online worlds shaping identity, power and belonging for the next generation and what that means for brands, creators and leaders who want to connect meaningfully.Kriti also opens up about her lived experience as a brown woman and creative trying to belong in rooms that value her ideas but not the face presenting them. Her reflections on reclamation, identity and creating her own tables are deeply moving. Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Alex Taylor on what founders aren't saying out loud.

    Dearest you.This conversation with my friend, peer and fellow world-builder, Alex Taylor, has been 10 years in the making. We first met in our Who What Wear days — two young leaders shaping the same brand world from opposite sides of the world.A decade later, Alex is the co-founder of Perelel Health, one of the most politically influential women’s health companies in the US with advocacy reaching all the way to the White House. This episode explores the parts of the founder journey that aren’t spoken about enough. The quiet questioning, the real costs, the faith required before investors and customers believe in what you're building.Together we explore:How a brand earns the right to advocateBuilding community from scratchThe tension between vision and viabilityHolding the mission before the market believes in youNavigating 100+ investor “no’s” while staying devoted to the workFeminine power, relational power and community power in leadershipHow our seasons as women shape the way we leadWhy founders need boundaries, privacy and an inner life of their ownThe evolution of digital intimacy and brand world-building todayThis is a conversation for founders, creators and builders who are quietly carrying the weight of their vision and looking for a reminder that they’re not alone. It’s also an invitation to rethink what modern leadership can be when it’s grounded in truth and generosity.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    From secret writer dream to published author.

    Dearest you.Are you sitting with a desire to become something or someone entirely new? To evolve your professional or personal expression in the most unlikely, bold way?Maybe, like my guest Ruby Jean Cottle, you want to become a published author. Or maybe you’re an accountant who wants to become an artist. Or a leader who longs to be led again.I hope this episode inspires you to take intentional action in the direction of who and what Nature is wanting you to become. I hope it affirms the quiet knowing that you’re ready to leap into the life you’ve been longing for.Ruby and I trace her journey from multi-hyphenate creative and mother of two navigating “work” while living with endometriosis, to becoming a published author of Black River — a young adult fantasy novel she wrote before she ever had an agent or a book deal.This is a conversation for anyone holding a creative dream inside them, wondering if they’ll ever feel ready.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Building a career or business in alignment with our design.

    Dearest you. If you’re an OG Offline Angel, you'll remember my first conversation about Human Design back in 2019 (listen here). Six years on and I'm feeling pulled back into this intricate knowledge system, this time through the lens of career and business building.I'm thrilled to be joined by Human Design expert and portfolio career strategist, Julie Fedele, for an honest conversation about learning to trust and interpret the energetic signals already alive in our bodies — the ones we so often ignore. Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Marianne Williamson on becoming the condition for the world we're longing for.

    Dearest you. What does it mean to become the condition for the world so many of us are longing for?In this honest conversation, teacher, author, activist and US presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson, invites us to stop waiting for change and instead begin to live as progressive agents of love and right action in the here and now. Your personal awakening is what will fuel system and political change.We also explore how activism can be rooted in compassion rather than contempt and how as female leaders, we can soften without surrendering our strength. She speaks candidly about the lessons, heartbreaks and growth that emerged from her presidential campaign which I'm really grateful for, offering rare insight into the courage and forgiveness that has been required. Marianne is bringing her talk Inner Light, Outer Change to Australian in February. Get your ticket here.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Dr. Shefali on helping our children feel safe to exist as their True Self.

    Dearest you.In this honest conversation with Dr. Shefali Tsabary — clinical psychologist, author and global teacher of conscious parenting — we explore what it means to truly steward the next generation.How can we start to see our children not as extensions of ourselves, but as spirits with their own unique signature? Dr. Shefali also shares her perspective on technology, cultural conditioning and how parents and leaders can return to wholeness so that our children feel safe to do the same.This is a conversation about redefining success, resisting cultural lies and guiding our children to know who they really are. Surely this is the greatest inheritance.Alison xoBuy tickets to see Dr. Shefali live in Sydney or Melbourne herego deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    What holds me through the wobbles that come with being in business.

    Dearest you.I have over 1,000 voice mentoring memos on my phone that I've recorded over the last handful of years for co-creators inside Offline spaces like serve. This is one of them.A co-creator asked me what strategic documents she can have in place to hold her through the wobbles that come with being in business. My response might surprise you. I share how to move beyond rigid strategies and into inner stability, how to practice daily contact with your Highest Vision and how to steward your business through financial ebbs and flows without abandoning yourself or the business itself.The Highest Vision Worksheet I reference in this episode is here.What you'll learn:Why clarity of vision and a mission for your money matters more than rigid strategyThe daily energetic practices that make your Highest Vision feel inevitableHow to use minimum viable, median and True Self Success salaries as responsive financial toolsThe importance of reserves, rhythms and quarterly reviews in building financial resilienceHow to hold yourself — and your business — through the dips without collapsing or constantly starting overI hope this one helps you on your way.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Part 2: Bianca Gregg on building a brand that belongs everywhere.

    Dearest you.Part two of my honest conversation with Del Rainbow co-founder, Bianca Gregg. Del Rainbow is the fashion sales agency supporting brands like St. Agni, Deiji Studios and Viktoria & Woods thoughtfully scale into new markets and here in part two, we move beyond tactics and into the heart of brand expansion.What does it really take to grow globally and stay grounded?Bianca shares her wisdom on how Australian fashion brands can break into international markets without losing the essence that made them special. We talk about the power of wholesale in 2025 and beyond, the energetic intelligence of global cities and the role brand founders play in stewarding not just scale, but resonance.This episode is about more than just growth. It’s about belonging. About becoming the kind of founder who can hold more — more money, more visibility, more opportunity — without breaking alignment.We hope this episode helps you on your way. Alison xoP.S. You can watch this episode on YouTube here.go deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Part 1: Bianca Gregg on embodying our highest role: the conduit.

    Dearest you.Part one of my honest conversation with Del Rainbow co-founder, Bianca Gregg. Del Rainbow is the fashion sales agency supporting brands like St. Agni, Deiji Studios and Viktoria & Woods thoughtfully scale into new, global markets.  In this episode — the first 45 minutes of our two-hour chat — we get into the experience 16 year-old Bianca had that taught her the true power of energy, connection and embodying our highest role: the conduit. In part two, we get into scaling strategy, her advice to Australian fashion founders who want to take their label global and the larger role wholesale plays within a fashion brand’s world building efforts. Alison xoP.S. You can watch here :)go deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    How to receive more support at home.

    Dearest you.I have over 1,000 voice mentoring memos on my phone that I've recorded over the last handful of years for co-creators inside Offline spaces like serve. This is one of them.A co-creator asked me how to receive more support at home now that she's working full-time, and when her partner earns more than her. There's also some great insight into how to accept the season we're in, and how to let our manager know we need more support without coming across as incompetent.I hope this 30-minute listen helps you on your way.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    How to show up unapologetically in every room.

    Dearest you.I have over 1,000 voice mentoring memos on my phone that I've recorded over the last handful of years for co-creators inside Offline spaces like serve. This is one of them.A co-creator asked me how to show up unapologetically in every room — especially the ones where we don't feel supported in our growth, evolution or life choices. How do we honour what's now true for us while also protecting our emotional wellbeing?I hope this 20-minute listen helps you on your way.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The evolution of my money mindset going from corporate to founder.

    Dearest you.I have over 1,000 voice mentoring memos on my phone that I've recorded over the last handful of years for co-creators inside Offline spaces like serve. This is one of them.A co-creator asked me to share the evolution of my money mindset going from corporate to founder, and how my version of success has changed along the way.I hope this 25-minute listen helps you on your way.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Part 2: Alice McMullin on thoughtful scale, building community & regenerative business.

    Dearest you.Welcome to part two of my honest conversation with founder of McMullin, Alice McMullin. In part one, we traversed the tensions and complexities we carry as mothers, founders, business owners and creatives. Here in part two, we get into the business and community building bits. We discuss what thoughtful scale looks like for a brand built upon restraint and intentionality, and we even have a mini strategy session that I suspect might evolve into something quite special for both of our brands. Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Part 1: Alice McMullin on the tensions we carry as mothers, founders, business owners & creatives.

    Dearest you.Alice McMullin is the founder and creative director of McMullin, an Australian furniture studio founded upon the principle of simple, considered, timeless and sustainable design.I had no less than 20 questions ready for Alice, but it turns out I didn’t need them. We didn’t need them. This, to me, is the sign of an honest conversation. It’s something that unfolds. Two people who trust each other enough to go where they’re being led.We had a very long chat so I’m running this conversation in two parts. Part one is all about the tensions and complexities we carry as mothers, founders, business owners and creatives.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Reckoning with artificial intelligence.

    Dearest you.This episode is for everyone but it’s most especially for the conscious builders, makers, creators, service providers, founders, freelancers (or soon-to-be because I know you’re thinking about it and yes, I think you should!), business owners and leaders.It’s for those who want to stay true in a world that increasingly feels false. Pre-generated. Automated. Streamlined. Optimised. Without soul.We are being asked to build, create, serve and lead in a time of massive technological change. Artificial intelligence is no longer on the horizon. It’s here in the room with us and as much as we might want to avoid it because of what it could mean for humanity, the highest call right now as awake and aware individuals is to turn towards it fully, allow ourselves to stretch to its edges and see what we discover there. Join me.Alison xoAccess the Being In Right Relationship With Artificial Intelligence Workbook herego deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    A Little, Rich Life.

    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 xoMake a copy of my Highest Vision Worksheet herego deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Cultivating a harmonious relationship with money.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  23. 97

    Alison on trusting your intuition, out-growing friends & founder doubt.

    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:Navigating the feeling of failure or loss when we don’t take action on intuitive pulls and nudges The biggest red flag when considering going into business with a friend and how to end a friendship we’ve evolved beyond with graceWhy aren’t doors opening for me?If you'd like to be notified when enrolments open, express interest here.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    2 things to know before asking for more money.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Checking in with Jasmine Dowling.

    Dearest you.This episode was recorded live at Sundays Offline, Brisbane on November 11, 2023. Jasmine and I catch up on what we've both moved through in the four years between honest conversations. We explore the lessons life has offered us and Jasmine shares some very good news. We hope you adore our chat and that you feel like you are right there in the room with us. I’d love to send my sincerest thanks to: Cass and Newstead Studios for hosting Offline once again in your beautiful creative spaceMy cherished co-creator Kymberly Louise for your effortless and calm event management style. You are literally the reason I could just roll in and do my thing Lunae Sparkling for our crystal-infused refreshments, so very OfflineThe stunning and interesting Miss Midgely’s for hosting me the night before the event. Miss Midgley’s is a 160 year-old heritage home that has had many lives. The house was recently reimagined as a heritage guesthouse by mother and daughter Lisa and Izzie. It’s perfectly positioned on James Street in New Farm so if you’re looking for somewhere just that little bit more special to stay, you’ll adore Miss Midgley’s Zoey from Senncha Studio for the incredible event images — you can see these on the @getoffline.co Instagram account Another cherished co-creator Jess from Hanako Studio for creating such a perfectly abstract floral arrangement  Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Checking in with Nadia Fairfax-Wayne.

    Dearest you. This episode is part of my long-running Self Care Sundays mini-series in partnership with Estée Lauder. For the past four years, I’ve sat down with some of the brand’s local ambassadors and friends to have an honest conversation about self care, skincare and success.In keeping with this season’s theme of checking-in with past guests, today I am curled up on the lounge with Nadia Fairfax-Wayne — a leading Australian creative, fashion influencer and the editor of Fairfax Journal. A lot has happened in the four years between honest conversations. She got engaged, married, converted to her husband’s religion, bought a home, renovated and decorated it, broke up with a close friend (a life event that led her to therapy) and so much more. I wanted to talk about it all.We hope you love it and that it feels like you’re in the room with us.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Where is “there” & how will you know you’ve arrived?

    Dearest you.Imagine a professional reality that is entirely unsubscribed from hustle culture, comparison and the relentless pursuit of a definition of success that no longer feels true for you. Imagine waking up every single day feeling like you’re living a life you’ve chosen, and that the shape of your day is weighted evenly between meeting your own needs, the needs of the people you love and the needs of the business you work for or the one you own. And that on some days, there’s no need at all. There’s just rest. Play. Pleasure.This can be real and I know this to be true because I am living this professional reality. I’ve gone from hustling and grinding to a level of grounded that makes me walk and talk slow. From pushing my career in a particular direction to simply letting it unfold. From over-analysing my next move to trusting that what's meant for me won't miss me. From feeling like I was compromising my values to now leading a thriving business that is built on my values.The moment I realised what I was doing for a living was no longer a fit with how I wanted to be living and what I wanted my life to represent, I knew I had to be an agent of change. I knew I had to define my own highest vision and move in the direction of it despite what other people might think.What is your Highest Vision and will you let me help you realise it?Alison xoMake a copy of my Highest Vision Worksheet herego deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Pitching to investors, securing funding, building & launching a haircare brand.

    Dearest you. An honest conversation with Maeva Heim. When Maeva Heim and I first sat down for an honest conversation in 2019, her texture-inclusive haircare brand, Bread, was still an idea yet to be realised. She was halfway through Seophora’s Accelerate program and four years later, we’re having a very different conversation.Maeva went on to secure investment and launch Bread (during the pandemic no less) and is now stocked exclusively in Sephora in Australia and multiple beauty retailers in the US including Ulta and Cult Beauty. She shares so many rich insights and learnings from her journey in this episode. Some highlights include:Why she believes it is actually about who you know not what you knowWhat she did to build her network from knowing no-one in the industry to meeting the haircare buyer at Sephora in the StatesWhat investors are looking for in pre-launch businessesHer take on the role our work should play in our livesWhy not everyone is built to work in a start-upStepping up as a leader and CEOWhy operating in 2022 was harder than operating in the pandemic Her observations on the VC space right now We had a lot of fun the second time around. Hope we offer you a lot of insight and also some giggles. Alison xoThe site I referenced is www.brandingstyleguides.comgo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Lessons from 31 years in conscious & ethical business.

    Dearest you. If you’re an entrepreneur or business leader, you’ll know how many business mentors, coaches and courses are out there selling you success. It’s noisy and a lot of the advice is conflicting.This episode is an opportunity for us to lean out of all of that noise and learn from an elder in conscious and ethical business. Jeannie Bourke has been running her beauty and body lab Venustus through the lens of her ethics, her morals and her values for over 30 years. It has been a heart-first business with a deep and intentional why long before people were writing entire books about it and calling it a strategy. There’s so much goodness in this one:How to attract, train and retain a 10-year teamHow she’s taken the wisdom, tools and techniques she’s learnt over 40 years and literally infused them into the walls and floors of her new space (which opens this month!)How she uses her body as a compass in businessThe benefits of conscious business owners getting comfortable with money and earning itWhy not everything needs to scale and how this can actually become a barrier to our long-term impactUnpacking the concept of failure when our ideas are channeled — did we fail or were we early?Thank you for being here.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Life after losing your life partner.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Lady Brains & Alison on the parts most founders don’t talk about.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Checking in with Leigh Campbell.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Our favourite astrologer had her Saturn Return.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Checking in with Eleanor, Sara & Beck.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Checking in with Zoe Marshall.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Celebrating 100 episodes by listening back to the wisdom that moved us the most.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Part 2 ~ Matt Ringrose on why possessions, houses, crypto — all of it — will never bring us lasting fulfillment.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Part 1 ~ Matt Ringrose on how to let go of all that’s holding you back.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Shaman Durek on being your own damn guru.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    A professional development space for the consciously ambitious.

    Dearest you.Thank you for being here. Let me share what you being here means. It means you’re ready for your professional truthIt means you’re ready to align your profession with your essenceIt means you’re done waiting for someone else to provide you with the professional development they promised, and that you’re taking your evolution into your own hands. Where it always belongedYou being here means you’re ready to claim your one big lifeYou being here means you want professional peaceYou want more from your ambition. You want it to stand for somethingYou want more than the things that signify success todayYou want to feel successYou also want to learn how to harness your ambition. To direct it into places and spaces that serve you and the evolution of all thingsYou being here means you trust me and that on some level, you value what I have to giveIt’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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    The business values & boundaries behind this founder’s 12-month waitlist.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Wealth embodiment guide Tori Washington on creating a wealth identity.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Juliet Allen on how she uses visualisation & sex magic to grow her business.

    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. Thank you for being here.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Celebrity stylist Jess Pecoraro on feeling the fear & doing it anyway.

    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.  Thank you for being here.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Sah D’Simone on why altruism is the ultimate business strategy.

    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.  Thank you for being here.Alison xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Laura Poole on knowing what you are before defining what you’ll do.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Honouring the interconnectedness of True Self & profession.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Alison on pregnancy, labour preparation & the postpartum period.

    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 xoBooksWOT Baby ebookI didn’t mention it in the episode but loved Dr. Harvey Karp’s Happiest Baby On the Block for general info and newborn settling techniques Ten MoonsIna May’s Guide to ChildbirthSpiritual MidwiferySpirit BabiesThe First 40 DaysThe Motherhood (would have liked more positive stories though!)The Montessori Baby Conception We saw an IVF specialist after our second miscarriage for testing: AMH levels, reproductive carrier screening, sperm DNA fragmentation testI had weekly acupuncture from ovulation until week 12, then moved to fortnightly, then monthly during the third trimester. I see Jade at The Whiteowl ClinicPregnancy Our OB is Dr. Alex OwenAcupuncture with Jade at The White Owl Clinic I had a few osteo sessions to support some pelvic pain and one session after birth. I saw Nadia (French and amazing) at Sydney Osteopathy in Bondi Junction Labour Preparation Epi-No Childbirth Trainer Perineal massageLabour preparation session with a women’s physio (to test pelvic floor and learn how to push correctly)Hypnobirthing course with Lillian from Woven Antenatal classes through the hospitalHospital BagI laboured in a black crop top and black maternity underwearPapinelle pajamas and robeDepends underwearToms maternity pads. I then wore ModiBodi when I got home from the hospitalDiffuser and lavender essential oilPortable speaker and chargergo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Gab Waller on having the confidence to push through rejection.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Stephanie Miller & Laura Henshaw open up about their journey from influencers to entrepreneurs.

    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 xogo deeper.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to SubstackBook a 1-1 SessionSeasonal CurriculumAlison's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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For recovering Girl Bosses everywhere. Hosted by one of Australia's most in-demand conscious career and business mentors, Alison Rice, Offline is a series of honest conversations dedicated to exploring who we are when we're sitting in our True Self and how that life-affirming realisation changes the way we define success. How do we want to be living? What are we really here to do? What are we no longer willing to sacrifice in pursuit of an outdated definition of success that can’t and doesn’t support the natural and intrinsic cycles and seasons that exist within a full and expressed life? Alison and her special guests explore it all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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