If you're honest — do you actually like yourself, or are you waiting until after the promotion, the launch, the relationship? In this episode, Amanda turns the microphone on her own coach, Matt Chavlovich — the man who has seen her at her most stuck and most doubtful — and asks him everything. What unfolds is a conversation about the one thing hiding underneath every goal you've ever chased: can you soulfully say "I like me" — before the thing, not after?

Matt's path here was anything but a straight line: a professional football career that taught him to listen to his intuition under the pressure of 15,000-seat stadiums, a decade in the corporate world where he realized he cared more about who his people were becoming than the targets they were hitting, and the courageous leaps — leaving a secure career, leaving a marriage that had run its course — that came from finally trusting his inner voice. He also shares something he's rarely spoken about: the spiritual faith he found not through religion or family, but through survival — sitting alone in a church at 13, offering up a pressure that was too big for him to hold.

And because it's Matt, the conversation is full of the reframes he's famous for: why perfection is "a juvenile conversation," why you don't have a commitment problem (you're just committed to the wrong things), why decisions become easy the moment you know what you're trying to build, and how a 30-day experiment can introduce you to a version of yourself you haven't met yet. Amanda brings her own stories to the table too — launching free oracle readings in a spirit of play, closing a 14-year-old credit card that was quietly leaking her energy, and claiming her new moniker, The Untamed Oracle.

If you've been waiting until "after the thing" to feel like you're enough — this episode is the door. Whether you walk through it, and how fast, is entirely up to you.

How to Get in Touch: https://www.mattchavlovich.com/

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What if the rage you've spent your whole life trying to suppress is actually one of your greatest gifts? In this extraordinary conversation, somatic trauma therapist and tantra practitioner Erika Tourell takes us deep into the territory most of us have been taught to fear — our anger, our grief, and the raw, electric charge of our own life force. This isn't a conversation about becoming a calmer, more managed version of yourself. It's an invitation to reclaim the fire.

Erika brings nearly 40 years of healing work to this conversation — from holistic bodywork at 19, through four years across India, Thailand, Bali and beyond, to her own reckoning with menopause, developmental trauma, and the shattering realisation that healing isn't just personal. It's political. She speaks with rare honesty about her own journey through depression, functional freeze, a Kundalini-like menopause, and how it led her to understand that the missing piece of her own healing — and perhaps ours — was the somatic piece: the body's wisdom, the nervous system's intelligence, and the power of community.

The heart of this episode is sacred rage — what it is, why we've been so thoroughly taught to deny it, and what becomes possible when we stop. Erika unpacks the link between suppressed anger and chronic illness, between our rage and our creativity, between our deepest fury and our most sacred calling. She offers real practices for moving the charge through the body — breath, movement, voice — and makes the case that learning to channel this energy is not just healing work, it's world-changing work.

This episode ends with a vision that will stay with you: that each of us, in healing our own nervous system and stepping into our gifts, is participating in what Joanna Macy calls "the great turning." The time is now. The time is yesterday.

How to Get in Touch:

• Website: www.erikatourell.com/
• Instagram: @erikatourell_ecosomatics

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What if the thing standing between you and real success — is the success you've already built?

Amanda had the contracts, the clients, the credibility. A leadership development business that ticked every box she'd been handed. And she walked away from all of it. Not because it was falling apart — but because it was working perfectly, and she still felt nothing.

What followed was three years of rebuilding from the inside out: investing in deep coaching, resetting her nervous system, and learning to trust herself again. The result wasn't just a different business. It was a completely different relationship with her own knowing — one that eventually led her to launch her highest-tier package at £47,000 and build something that felt genuinely aligned.

Amanda also shares the story of a client who made a similar leap — twice. From corporate to entrepreneurship, and then from that first business into something truer still. Rocky at first, yes. But guided by an inner sense that they were finally on the right path. Together, these two stories reveal something powerful: inner authority isn't a destination. It's a practice of listening, adjusting, and daring to honour what feels true — even when no one else understands it yet.

If you've ever looked around at your life, seen everything that's supposed to make you happy, and still felt something missing — this episode is for you.

Get in Touch with Amanda:

Join the Inner Authority Lab: https://www.amandaparker.co/inner-authority-lab

Podcast:www.dontsteponthebluebells.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandamparker/

Instagram: @amandaparker.co

Ready to go deeper on your journey of personal or spiritual growth?

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