“I had all the tools in my toolkit — and I still couldn’t fix it. That’s when I realised: maybe the goal isn’t fixing. Maybe it’s feeling.” — Tahnée Sanders
In this episode, I sit down with Tahnée Sanders — messaging strategist, deep thinker, and co-founder of Unwind Co — for a raw and richly layered conversation about the lived experience of high-functioning anxiety, and the slow, brave unraveling that brought her back to herself.
Tahnée shares her path from early success and burnout as Australia’s youngest female newspaper editor, through a panic attack that forced her to pause, to years of inner work that dissolved perfectionism, softened control, and redefined her relationship with success, safety, and self-worth.
Together, we explore the invisible emotional load carried by high-achieving women — and what becomes possible when we stop performing and start integrating.
This episode is an invitation for anyone who looks successful on the outside, but still feels stuck inside — and is ready to loosen the grip and live from a deeper truth.
Today on Limitless:
- When high-achieving becomes high-functioning anxiety: the panic attack that cracked everything open
- Control as a safety strategy: the hidden hyper-vigilant parts that quietly run the show
- The illusion of safety nets: why backup plans can feel smart — but keep you stuck
- You can’t out-talk trauma: when therapy loops stop working, and what works instead
- The hard work = worth myth: how identity gets entangled in performance and productivity
- From boundaries to burnout to breakthrough: relearning what it means to say no
- Letting go of fixing: reframing anxiety as something to meet, not erase
- When the backpack’s too heavy: what happens when we finally put it down and look inside
Creativity as nervous system repair: joy, play, and purpose as access points to healing
Flow that doesn’t require force: what ease actually feels like — and how to allow more of it
Connect with Tahnée:
The Strategy Studio
Website: www.thestrategystudio.com
Instagram: @thestrategystudio
Unwind Co
Website: www.unwindco.com.auInstagram: @theunwindco
Connect with Fiona Walsh
Private Coaching + Nervous System and Identity Recalibration for High-Achievers
Work with me: www.fionawalsh.co
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
Regulate and Rise Somatic Masterclass: From Fear to Freedom
Nov 1/2 (US/CAN), Nov 2-3 (AUS) - Sign up here
If you've done the work, built the life, and still feel the quiet hum of anxiety underneath — this episode is your invitation to soften, surrender, and finally feel safe in your own skin. It’s not about fixing yourself. It’s about coming home to the parts of you that never felt safe to soften — until now.
Welcome back to Limitless Microdose – a short-form, high-impact format to meet you in the swirl and help you recalibrate, one nervous-system-safe dose at a time.
In this episode, Fiona and trauma-informed breathwork facilitator McKenzie Whelan go deeper into the patterns that keep humans quietly stuck in survival — and what it actually feels like to live, lead, and love from a grounded, regulated place.
Together, they share the very personal stories behind the protective patterns they've lived inside — from perfectionism, people-pleasing, and emotional control, to hyper-independence masked as strength. You’ll hear what fear looked like in their lives, how it lived in their bodies, and what finally helped them interrupt the cycle.
This conversation is an intimate look at the internal recalibration that so many of us are ready for — not another mindset shift, but a full-body return to safety, softness, and self-trust.
If you’ve done the inner work, but still feel stuck in subtle loops of overthinking, pressure, or self-doubt... this is for you.
Join Us to Regulate & Rise: From Fear to Freedom
A trauma-informed 120-minute somatic and breathwork experience
Two sessions on:
- November 1 & 2 in North America
- November 2 & 3 in Australia
- Live on Zoom (Replay available)
- Open to all genders and experience levels
You don’t need to try harder — you need to feel something different in your body.
Book your spot: https://stan.store/highvibrationhealth/p/regulate--rise--from-fear-to-freedom-
Today on Limitless:
- The cost of “high-functioning”: how fear disguises itself as control, self-doubt, and over-responsibility
- When the inner critic is just trying to protect you — and what happens when you stop making it the enemy
- The trauma of “doing it all alone”: how early programming shaped hyper-independence and emotional disconnection
- What it feels like to live outside your body — and the life-changing moment you realize it
- From fear brain to freedom brain: why regulation isn’t about never getting triggered, but returning home faster
- The invisible beliefs that drive perfectionism, people-pleasing, and over-performance
- Why traditional mindset work falls short — and how breath + somatics unlock lasting safety
- The difference between insight and integration: freedom is a felt sense, not a thought
- A preview of Regulate & Rise: what we’ll explore, release, and rewire inside the November sessions
Connect with McKenzie Whelan:
Instagram: @highvibrationhealth
Website: www.highvibrationhealth.com
Connect with Fiona Walsh:
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
LinkedIn: Fiona Walsh
Private Coaching: www.fionawalsh.co
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
"I didn’t just want to get to my hundred percent. I wanted to get to better than where I left it." (with Gurpreet Jhaj)
When a hit-and-run accident nearly ended her life, Gurpreet Jhaj, a senior executive and deeply intuitive leader, found herself navigating a recovery no one could see. This wasn’t just about physical healing. It was about rebuilding cognitive function, regulating a shocked nervous system, and recalibrating her entire sense of self.
In this powerful episode of Limitless, we explore what it really means to come home to yourself after trauma. Gurpreet shares the invisible layers of her healing, her refusal to settle for “fine,” and the inner transformation that followed. This is a conversation for anyone who has outgrown survival mode and is ready to reclaim clarity, safety, and a deeper kind of power.
Today on Limitless:
- What it’s like to experience trauma that no one can see
- Why Gurpreet refused to settle for functioning and chose full healing instead
- The hidden cost of being resilient when your nervous system is in survival
- How she rebuilt her memory, focus, and visual processing through layered therapies
- The emotional release that opened the door to clarity and self-trust
- How identity recalibrates after trauma, and why it’s a portal to truth
- What it took to surrender control and allow herself to receive
- Choosing to live with passion, purpose, and intention after everything changed
Connect with Gurpreet Jhaj
Work with Fiona Walsh
Private Somatic Coaching - www.fionawalsh.co
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
LinkedIn: Fiona Walsh
“Once the rules and the programming and the trauma fell away, I knew exactly who I was… It wasn’t hard. It was just removing all the barriers between myself and that.” Liané Elle
What happens when the life you were taught to build collapses—suddenly, painfully, and completely?
In this raw and powerful conversation, trauma-informed coach Liané Elle shares the moment she stood at her kitchen sink and realized she wasn’t going to live forever, an earth-shattering awakening for someone raised in a high-control religious environment. What followed was a radical, soul-led recalibration: exiting a fundamentalist faith, navigating divorce and total shunning by her community and family, and moving alone across the world to rebuild her identity from scratch.
But this isn't a story of loss. It’s a story of liberation, sovereignty, and remembering who you really are once everything else falls away.
Today on Limitless:
- Breaking the programming: why high-control systems (religious or otherwise) disconnect us from our inner compass, and what happens when we finally start listening again
- The cost of awakening: how betrayal, grief and disillusionment can become unlikely gateways to clarity and personal power
- Leaving the known: what it really feels like to walk away from the only identity you’ve ever known, and how to start again without a map
- Healing in real time: EMDR, trauma loops, and how our bodies often complete what our minds can’t yet articulate
- Spiritual reclamation: from dogma to divine mystery, how Liané found her way back to a spirituality that feels expansive and real
- Creative energy after collapse: why true creativity and purpose come online after we stop performing and start living from truth
- Micro-moments of choice: how imagining your 80-year-old self can become a compass for your next brave move
Connect with Liané:
Website: www.lianeellecoaching.com
Instagram: @liane_elle_coachingFree Private Podcast – Made for This Moment: A powerful 3-part series for changemakers and cycle-breakers who want to rise to the challenges of today and stay strong, steady and resourced for the long game.
Download here: https://lianeellecoaching.com/private-podcast
Contact Fiona:
Private coaching and breakthrough sessions: https://www.fionawalsh.co/work-with-me
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
Show Resources:
Referenced book: The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware
“The amazing thing is that when you do finally let go, you make space for so much to come in.” – Amber (Twin Transmissions)
What if the very thing you're trying to control is the thing blocking your next level?
In this magnetic and refreshingly grounded conversation, I’m joined by Hilary and Amber a.k.a , Twin Transmissions — twin sisters, energetic mirrors, and the creators of Menifestation — a transformational method that blends primal psychology, quantum physics, and frequency recalibration to help women reconnect with their inner magnetism.
Together, we unpack what really happens when high-achieving women finally let go of control: the self-trust that builds, the relationships that shift, the energy that returns, and the clarity that rushes in. From walking away from high-pressure medical sales careers, to building their dream lives in Byron Bay, to teaching women how to live in alignment with their true colors — literally and energetically — this episode is a masterclass in feminine expansion without force.
If you're ready to soften your grip, reclaim your life force, and create more by doing less… this one’s for you.
Today on Limitless:
- Letting go as a frequency shift: why control keeps you stuck
- How micro self-care rewires self-worth & nervous system safety
- Why women feel safe in overgiving — and how to unlearn it
- The illusion of security in corporate life (and what’s actually safer)
- Menifestation: the quantum power of how you relate to men
Visibility as a frequency: how color analysis unlocks confidence & clarity
- Releasing martyrdom: receiving as an energetic reset
- Boundaries, energy leaks, and making peace with worst-case scenarios
This episode is your reminder: You don’t have to earn ease. You don’t need to be less of you to create more of what you want. Let it be simpler. Let yourself receive.
Press play. Feel the exhale. Let it in.
Show Resources
Connect with Twin Transmissions:
Instagram: @twintransmissions
Book a Color Analysis with Twin Transmissions: https://twintransmissions.com
Explore the Menifestation Course: https://menifestation.com
Connect with Fiona Walsh
Work with me & unlock freedom: https://www.fionawalsh.co/work-with-me
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
"There’s a saying in recovery that you’re as sick as your secrets."
In this episode, Martin Dineen, founder and managing director of MJD Recruitment, shares his powerful journey of resilience, reinvention, and recovery. From building one of Australia’s leading recruitment agencies to confronting the hidden cycles of addiction and perfectionism, Martin opens up about the moment everything had to change and what it really takes to move from survival to grounded self-trust.
This conversation explores the intersection of high achievement, hidden struggles, and the courage it takes to create a life rooted in authenticity, balance, and freedom.
Today on Limitless:
- The Turning Point: How relapse, isolation, and burnout forced Martin to surrender and finally let go of doing things “his way.”
- Addiction Beyond Substances: Why workaholism and overachievement can mask the same underlying patterns of disconnection.
- Living Without Secrets: How honesty and vulnerability became the foundation of Martin’s recovery and freedom.
- Rebuilding Identity: Moving from people-pleasing and chameleon-like behavior into a life where every facet aligns with who he truly is.
- From Highs to Balance: Trading the sprint-and-crash lifestyle for rhythms of fulfillment, calm, and purpose.
- The Gift of Recovery: How service, community, and self-discovery transformed Martin’s definition of success.
- Micro-Moments of Change: Why 1% shifts matter more than instant fixes and how to start with one small action today.
This is a story for anyone who has ever looked “successful” on the outside but felt the quiet weight of self-doubt, secrets, or striving on the inside. Martin’s journey is proof that surrender is not giving up, it is the doorway to real freedom.
Show resources
Connect with Martin and learn more about MJD Recruitment:
Website: MJD Recruitment
LinkedIn: Martin Dineen on LinkedIn
Instagram: @mjdrecruitment | @martindineen
Contact Fiona:
Website: Work with me
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
“I was on the floor crying and saying I can't do this, I can't do this and then at some point I remember praying and just saying okay just help me. I know I'm meant to be here. It doesn't feel like I am. I'm meant to be in this world. So what am I supposed to do? And then I reached to the books behind me on the bed. I grabbed a copy of Michael Singer's Untethered Soul. I opened it to a page that I was up to and I read a paragraph on surrender.”
In this deeply honest episode, journalist, author, and founder of The Spiritual Book Club Jacinta Tynan shares the rarely-seen layers beneath a life of public success. From single motherhood and estrangement to spiritual awakening and surrender, Jacinta brings words to the quiet becoming so many high-achieving women know - but rarely name.
We talk about how clarity often follows collapse, how stillness lets the truth speak, and how journaling and Vedic meditation became anchors for rebuilding from the inside out - plus the surprising role breathwork is now beginning to play in her healing.
This is not an episode about fixing yourself. It’s about softening into your wholeness and remembering who you were before life asked you to prove it.
Today on Limitless:
- The moment on the floor: Jacinta’s “dark night of the soul” and the unexpected turning point
The lived truth of surrender: Why spiritual tools don’t always land until we’re truly ready
- Beyond survival mode: Reclaiming stillness after a life lived in adrenaline
- How the soul speaks: Recognizing the quiet, clear voice of inner truth
- Breathwork, journaling & meditation: Anchoring practices for nervous system repair
- The victim archetype: How it operates - and how to gently unhook from its grip
-Motherhood & memoir: Writing The Single Mother’s Social Club and the breathwork vision that reframed her child’s soul connection
-From stuck to sacred: Seeing the humor, pattern, and higher meaning inside everyday frustration
Explore Jacinta’s work:
Instagram: @thespiritualbookclub & @jacintatynan
Jacinta’s books including The Single Mother’s Social Club, Mother Zen
Contact Fiona:
Private coaching Work with me
Instagram @fionawalshcoaching
Email fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
Welcome to the first Limitless Microdose - a new short-form episode format designed to deliver potent insight in less time, without losing depth.
In this debut Microdose, Fiona and McKenzie introduce Regulate & Rise, the first live experience inside The Sanctuary - a 90-minute somatic and breathwork session created for those who are tired of holding it all and quietly longing for space to feel again.
Alongside trauma-informed breathwork facilitator McKenzie Whelan, Fiona explores the invisible weight so many people are carrying - and the power of finally letting yourself be held. Together, they share the behind-the-scenes journey of how Regulate & Rise came to life, and what becomes possible when we let the body lead instead of the mind.
If you've outgrown “coping” and are ready to soften, land, and reconnect, this is your invitation.
Join Us to: Regulate & Rise I The Sanctuary: A Journey to The Heart
A trauma-informed 90-minute somatic and breathwork session to help you reconnect with your heart, release internal pressure, and remember what it feels like to feel.
Saturday, August 23 (US) / Sunday, August 24 (AUS/NZ)Live on Zoom (Replay available)Trauma-informedOpen to all genders and experience levels
Book your spot: https://stan.store/highvibrationhealth/p/regulate--rise
Today on Limitless:
- When the mind hits its limit: why insight and mindset tools stop working when the body is still in survival
- The myth of managing it all: how high-functioning creates hidden emotional burnout and what it costs us
- Body-led healing: McKenzie's journey from "healthiest on paper" to finally feeling safe in her own nervous system
- The power of being witnessed: how collective healing magnifies transformation, even onlineLetting the heart reopen: why we unconsciously shut down to protect ourselves and how to gently return
- A safe space to exhale: why Regulate & Rise was built as a trauma-informed cocoon for restoration and reconnection
- This space is for men and women: whether you're the man who holds it all together or the woman who holds everyone else, this session is for you. Nervous systems don’t care about titles or roles. The Sanctuary is a space where high-achieving, heart-driven humans of all identities are welcomed to soften, be seen, and come home to themselves
- The invitation: why this is the work your nervous system has been waiting for. Not another mindset shift, but a return to self
Connect with McKenzie:
Instagram: @highvibrationhealth
Connect with Fiona:
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-walsh-coach
Website: www.fionawalsh.co
"You're perfect as you are... You just haven't met that part of you. You haven't allowed yourself to be in it. You haven't appreciated it." - Yasmin Ibrahim
In this episode, spiritual mentor and identity alchemist Yasmin Ibrahim shares her extraordinary journey from suppression, trauma and survival to deep self-reclamation and soul alignment. We explore how the healing world can sometimes keep you stuck in loops of endless fixing, and why remembering who you truly are is often the key to the transformation you’ve been seeking.
Yasmin speaks candidly about collapsing timelines, clearing ancestral patterns, and her refusal to keep outsourcing her power to tools, teachers or trends. This conversation is a powerful reminder that your intuition is not something you need to earn - it is something you need to trust. If you’ve been doing the work but still feel stuck, this episode will help you understand why. And more importantly, what to do next.
Today on Limitless:
- The illusion of “blocks”: Why you are not broken, just running old identity patterns
From survival to soul: Yasmin’s journey through trauma, psychic shutdown and full reclamation
Healing vs identity work: Why endless healing might be keeping you stuck and how to shift out
- The 4 Levels of Consciousness: Moving from victimhood to energetic sovereignty
- The truth about manifestation: It’s not about doing more, it’s about aligning your energy with the identity of who you are becoming
- How to collapse timelines: Stop chasing and start receiving from the version of you that already lives it
- Reclaiming your innate wisdom: Why constantly outsourcing your power keeps you disconnected
- Simple nervous system resets: How movement, breath and nature return you to clarity and truth
- Bringing joy back: Why Yasmin is learning to DJ at 55 and how play expands your energy
🎧 Tune in for a grounded, truth-filled conversation on intuition, identity and the energetic alignment that makes receiving feel natural - not earned.
Connect with Yasmin
Website: www.yasminibrahim.co.uk
Instagram: @missyasminibrahim
Yasmin’s go-to soul song 🎵 “Kiss of Life” by Sade — a song that reminds her she is divinely supported and deeply loved Listen on Spotify
Contact Fiona
Private coaching: Work with me
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
“Fear is the price of courage… and when you look back on how far you’ve come, you’ll find a confidence you never expected.” Tim Loh
In this episode of Limitless, I’m joined by Tim Loh, lawyer, senior executive, and former national spokesperson for the Australian Tax Office. Tim shares how long-held beliefs about not being good enough quietly shaped his life and leadership.
We explore how saying yes to what terrifies you can unravel old stories of unworthiness, build deeper trust in your own voice, and influence how you lead teams, parent, and handle pressure. Tim speaks openly about blanking out on live TV, the hidden costs of childhood comparisons, and why vulnerability and humor became his most powerful tools in high-stakes environments.
This is an honest conversation about what changes when you stop trying to control every outcome and start leaning into the discomfort of being fully seen.
Today on Limitless:
- Turning old stories into new leadership. How a single comment from childhood led Tim to believe he was bad at public speaking for more than thirty years, and what finally helped him rewrite that belief.
- Imposter syndrome and belonging. Why even top executives feel like frauds, and how naming it can actually create more trust.
- From fear to flow. The small, practical steps that helped Tim move from dread to ease on national TV, like reviewing awkward footage, asking for feedback, and practicing at home.
- Pressure, boundaries, and energy. Balancing high standards with family time, noticing what drains versus energizes you, and being intentional about who you let into your closest circle.
- Courage as a daily practice. How discomfort becomes the training ground for greater capacity, and why reflecting on how far you have come changes everything.
Tune in for a heartfelt and relatable conversation about growth, letting go of old roles, and creating cultures at work and at home where people feel they truly belong.
Resources and next steps
Ready to explore what drives your own patterns of pressure and not-enoughness? Discover private coaching or book a breakthrough session: work with me
Stay connected for more nervous-system-safe insights on leadership and life:
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
“I shifted from doing things just because I thought they needed to be done to actually asking why it mattered, and who I wanted to be while doing it.”
In this episode, I’m joined by Mark Pacey, Ironman legend, corporate leader, father, and founder of The Bloody Long Day. Mark shares his profound journey of moving from control and proving into trust, purpose, softening, and heart-led leadership. His story begins with the life-altering moment of his son’s cancer diagnosis and unfolds through a decade of recalibrating how he trains, leads, contributes, and ultimately lives.
Together, we explore what happens when the illusion of control shatters and how that breaking open can become the very ground where a truer, freer version of yourself emerges. From using endurance sports to punish himself to learning the power of rest, compassion, and leading with belief, Mark’s evolution is a mirror for so many of us who have been defined by grit, achievement, and pushing through.
Today on Limitless:
The illusion of control: how Mark’s world was shattered in a children’s hospital waiting room, stripping back his identity as the bulletproof leader and revealing what truly mattered
Channeling energy vs. controlling outcomes: using endurance sports first to cope, then to suffer, and ultimately to deepen self-trust and purpose
Letting the body lead: the race where Mark’s back gave out days before the start, and how surrendering control led to his best performance and deepest enJOYment yet
Rewriting endurance: moving from a proving mentality to a process and consistency approach, anchored in rest as a strategy, not a reward
Leading with heart: how Mark’s journey shifted his approach to leadership, family, and giving back through The Bloody Long Day
Softening without losing drive: the paradox of holding high standards while also being kinder to yourself, and how it unlocks more sustainable success
Tune in for a deeply human conversation on navigating life’s unexpected pivots, leading from belief and compassion, and finding a new kind of limitless, one rooted not in how hard you can push, but in how deeply you live aligned with what truly matters.
Show resources:
Support The Bloody Long Day Cancer Event : Take on The Bloody Long Day Endurance Challenge this August or September, or make a small donation, and help kids beat cancer.
It’s a bloody long day for a bloody good cause because no child should face cancer alone.Donate or join the challenge here: https://the-bloody-long-day-2025.raiselysite.com
Your efforts support life-saving research through The Kids’ Cancer Project.
Follow Mark’s journey and connect:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-pacey-976b7042
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodylongday
About your host:
Fiona Walsh is an executive and founder transformation coach, podcast host of Limitless, and creator of the Inner Freedom Method, a process that guides high-achievers beyond overthinking, over-functioning, and high-pressure into a life led by grounded self-trust, alignment, and intuitive clarity.
Connect with Fiona Walsh:
Private Coaching: Work with me
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
LinkedIn: Fiona Walsh
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
“If nothing changes, nothing changes. I just kept walking and saying that to myself. We were stuck in a vortex and something had to shift.” – Andrea Barr
In this honest and emotionally grounded conversation, career coach and speaker Andrea Barr joins Fiona to share the deeply personal story behind her professional pivot. After her husband faced a major heart surgery and unexpected complications, Andrea found herself navigating two months of daily hospital visits, uncertainty, and fear, all while seven months pregnant.
As she moved through postpartum, more medical challenges followed. These experiences forced Andrea to look at how much she had been holding — emotionally, logistically and energetically — and sparked a fundamental shift in how she approaches life, work, parenting and partnership.
This episode is for anyone who feels like they are doing all the right things on the outside but still feel like something is off inside. Together, Andrea and Fiona explore what the invisible load really includes, how to bring more awareness and ownership into partnership, and how to plan in ways that protect your capacity instead of draining it.
Today on Limitless:
- How real change begins : Andrea shares how crisis interrupted her default patterns and forced her to question what she was holding and why. We explore how change often begins in disruption, and what it takes to choose differently when control is no longer an option.
- What the invisible load really looks like - It is not just tasks. It is the emotional labor of remembering, anticipating, tracking and caring, often silently. Andrea shares how noticing what she was still holding, even after delegating, helped her and her partner begin to truly share the load.
- The myth of “handled” - What happens when you have done all the right things — coaching, systems, batch cooking — and still hit a wall.
- True partnership vs task splitting - Why delegation is not the same as shared ownership, and how Andrea and her partner found a new rhythm through trial and error.
- Planning as a nervous system tool - How a simple weekly check-in became a way to reduce stress, prevent resentment and make life feel more doable.
- Agency in powerless moments - How choosing small next steps, like switching doctors or changing care, helped Andrea feel more supported in a time of deep uncertainty.
Show Resources
Podcast: Listen to Andrea’s Podcast episode on the Fair Play Method with Valerie Recore: Valerie Recore on redistributing the household load
Book and Cards: Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
Book: A Beautiful Constraint by Adam Morgan and Mark Barden
Connect with Andrea Barr:
Website: www.andreabarr.com
Podcast: All Figured Out with Andrea Barr
Instagram: @allfiguredoutandrea
Connect with Fiona Walsh:
Coaching: Work with me
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
“I didn’t just take off a mask - I had to question everything I thought was me.” ~ Miranda Lievers
In this bold and beautiful episode, Miranda Lievers, tech co-founder, systems thinker, and midlife reinventor, shares the story of what happens when you realize the life you've built wasn’t truly yours.
After co-founding a multi-million dollar tech company and spending decades in a monogamous marriage, Miranda stepped away from it all and began the long journey home to herself. That journey led to an adult autism diagnosis, coming out as queer, exploring polyamory and kink, and rediscovering her deepest truths. One unraveling at a time.
This episode is a masterclass in reinvention, radical honesty, and the power of choosing yourself again and again.
Today on Limitless:
- Midlife as a portal: why reinvention often starts when the old life stops fitting
- Autism, queerness, and rebuilding identity after decades of masking
- The invisible patterns we mistake for personality
- Finding aliveness again through curiosity, choice, and pleasure
- Questioning everything: marriage, music, style, sex, success
- The deep cost of self-abandonment and the joy of reclaiming truth
- Why it gets easier to change once you realize you won’t die from it
If this episode resonates:
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Ready to reclaim your truth? Work with Fiona
Connect with Miranda Lievers:
Instagram: @mirandalievers
Website: torchtheplaybooks.com
LinkedIn: Miranda Lievers
Connect with Fiona Walsh:
Private Coaching: Work with me
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
LinkedIn: Fiona Walsh
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
“There’s nothing wrong with your mindset. There’s nothing wrong with your healing. You’re just off rhythm. And when you come back into rhythm, everything starts to feel softer.” Jessica Cerato
She started her career on Wall Street, working with numbers that measured performance, productivity, and profit. But the numbers that would eventually change Jessica Cerato’s life weren’t on a spreadsheet. They were energetic. Personal. Soul-level. And they brought her home to herself.
In this episode, Jessica, now an intuitive strategist and numerologist, shares how she went from high-performing corporate leader to someone who helps others decode their timing, patterns, and personal power through the lens of numerology. If you’ve been quietly questioning the pace you’re keeping or wondering why things still feel off despite all your personal growth, this one will land deeply.
Today on Limitless:
- The moment Jessica’s body said “no more” and what came next
- What numerology actually is and how it helps calm the nervous system
- Moving from overthinking into energetic alignment
- The energy themes for June, July, and August and how to work with them
- Why clarity often arrives when we stop trying to force it
- The link between control, proving, and the timing of transformation
- What it means to root before you bloom
- The difference between mindset work and being in right rhythm
Connect with Jessica:
Best Summer Yet Energy Forecast and Workshop: link hereInstagram: @jessica.cerato
Jessica’s Website
Connect with Fiona:
Explore 1:1 coaching: Work with me
Connect on Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Connect on LinkedIn: Fiona Walsh
“You’re not falling behind. You’re not broken. Even though you might feel stuck, you’re not stuck.” Fiona Walsh
In this deeply personal solo episode, I share what it looks like to be right on the edge of an identity shift—when the habits, roles, and protective parts that once worked are no longer aligned, but the next version of you hasn’t fully landed yet.
This is the part no one talks about: the emotional swirl, the somatic tension, the grief of letting go of old identities, and the radical trust it takes to move forward from your body, not just your mind.
From a rage-fuelled release in a yoga class to my ongoing journey of stepping out of people-pleasing and into intuitive power, I’m naming what it actually takes to reclaim your truth—and why you can’t think your way through it.
If you’re navigating that quiet, internal tension between who you were and who you're becoming, this episode will feel like a deep exhale.
Today on Limitless:
- The sacred middle: what it feels like to be almost at the top of a transformation and why it’s the most tender partLetting go of the pleaser: releasing self-abandonment, approval-seeking, and perfectionism without shame
- Rage in the hips, truth in the body: the somatic moment that helped me meet resentment and reclaim self-forgivenessBoundaries as self-love: how I moved from shaky people-pleasing to clear, kind, confident leadership
- Coming out of the spiritual closet: publicly owning my intuition as a core part of how I live, coach, and leadThis isn’t an upgrade. It’s a return: why true transformation is about becoming more you, not becoming better
If you’ve ever thought:
- I’ve done the mindset work, talk therapy... why do I still feel stuck?
- I don’t want to go back, but I’m scared to move forward
- I feel like something big is shifting but I can’t explain it yet
This episode is your mirror. And your permission slip.
Connect with Fiona
Private coaching: Work with me
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
You’re not broken. You’re becoming.
And the part of you that’s ready for more?
That’s your truth calling you home.
“The biggest driver of happiness is making the choice to be happy. And that’s something you can change.” — Lisa Walker
What happens when everything you thought defined happiness—success, control, doing it all—suddenly falls apart?
In this raw and empowering episode, I’m joined by Lisa Walker, co-founder of Eir Women, whose life turned upside down after the sudden loss of her husband. What followed wasn’t a crisis—it was a conscious reinvention.
We explore how midlife can be a sacred turning point. Lisa shares how choosing joy (even in grief), releasing control, and embracing silliness helped her rebuild from the inside out. From pole dancing at 51 to quiet moments of presence, her story is a testament to the truth that happiness isn’t found—it’s chosen.
If you’ve been feeling the low hum of pressure, like life should feel better than it does, this conversation will meet you right there—and invite you into your own expansion.
Today on Limitless:
- The Invisible Load of Midlife: Why so many high-performing women feel overwhelmed—and how to name it.
- Controlling to Coasting: Lisa’s realization that striving for the “perfect” life was actually breaking her.
- Choosing Joy After Loss: How grief cracked her open—and joy became the rebellion.
- The Year of Yes: Why saying “yes” to fun, risk, and presence changed everything.
- Happiness Is an Inside Job: The science (and soul) behind choosing happiness—regardless of circumstance.
- Letting Go of the Mask: Why control, perfectionism, and pleasing aren’t personality traits—they’re patterns.
- Living for You, Not the Checklist: Reimagining success on your terms in the second half of life.
Connect with Lisa:
Learn more about Eir Women: eirwomen.com.au
Lisa's Instagram: @walker_on_the_wild_side
Work with Fiona: If this conversation stirred something in you and you’re ready to stop spiraling, stop proving, and start leading from trust and grounded clarity—I’d love to support you.
Learn more about private coaching: Work with me
Connect on Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Or reach out directly: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
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Thanks for being here.
“There’s the conflict we think we’re having, and then there’s the one underneath, the one that actually started inside of us.” ~ Lena Morgan
In this powerful episode, I’m joined by Lena Morgan, communications expert, former midwife, and author of The Fight Languages. Lena shares the story behind walking away from a beloved career, the identity unraveling that followed, and how that path led her to develop a framework that is changing the way people experience conflict.
Her work is rooted in nervous system awareness, emotional truth, and helping people translate what is really going on in high-stakes conversations, especially the ones we are afraid to have. If you are someone who avoids conflict, over-functions in relationships, or feels misunderstood in moments of tension, this conversation will land deeply.
Because as Lena reminds us, the fight is not just with others. It starts within.
Today on Limitless:
- When success no longer fits: Lena’s story of burnout, panic, and the breaking point that changed everything
- The Fight Languages framework: five nervous-system-based conflict styles and how to identify your own
- Why most conversations miss the mark: understanding the hidden needs beneath your communication style
- The void between identities: why transitions feel disorienting and what your body is trying to tell you
- Self-abandonment in the name of peace: the cost of people-pleasing and over-responsibility
- How you fight is how you talk to yourself: what internal conflict has to do with external reactivity
- Creating safety in conflict: translating others’ behavior without taking it personally
- Self-advocacy as nervous system repair: what it means to honour your limits without guilt
If this episode resonated:
Take the quiz to discover your Fight Language Share this episode with someone navigating big transitions or recurring communication patternsFollow or subscribe to Limitless wherever you tune in. This is the way we can grow the ripple effect and impact of these conversations and transformationsLeave a review on Apple Podcasts to help more people access conversations that shift their inner world
Connect with Lena:
Take the Fight Languages Quiz: www.lenamorgan.comInstagram: @lenamorgan.co
Connect with Fiona:
Explore 1:1 coaching: Work with me
Connect on Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Connect on LinkedIn: Fiona Walsh
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
“The shift that is available to you is that we can receive all of these things from ourself and we don't need to rely on other people for it. And that's one of the biggest, most powerful moves you can make in your life.” —Fiona Walsh
In this solo episode, Fiona Walsh explores how the need for external validation quietly keeps high performers stuck. While you may appear successful on the outside, there’s often an internal disconnect that no amount of praise or achievement seems to resolve.
Fiona breaks down how this pattern develops, how it shows up in perfectionism, people-pleasing, and overachievement, and what it takes to shift from performance-driven worth to internal trust and clarity.
Today on Limitless:
- Understanding External Validation: What it is, how it forms, and why it becomes so hard to spot
- When Praise Doesn’t Land: Why recognition can feel good in the moment but still leave you feeling unsure or unfulfilled
- Performance-Based Worth: How childhood praise and silence taught your nervous system that results equal love and safety
- Signs You’re Caught in the Pattern: Real examples of how high achievers override their truth to stay validated
- Perfectionism, Overachievement, People-Pleasing: How these are not personality traits but protective parts trying to keep you safe
- Reclaiming Internal Validation: The shift from outsourcing your enough-ness to creating safety and trust within yourself
- Parenting and Leadership: How this pattern shows up in how we give praise and model self-worth to others
If you've been doing the work but still feel like something is missing, this episode offers a grounded reflection on how to come back to yourself. If you're ready to explore this more deeply and shift these patterns for good, you can learn more about working with me 1:1.
Get in touch with Fiona:
Explore 1:1 coaching: Work with me
Connect on Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Connect on LinkedIn: Fiona Walsh
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
"I used to try to be really palatable to everyone. And I still remember the moment I stopped. It felt scary… but also so right." – Vicky Ryan
In this powerful conversation, Vicky a senior consultant in leadership and culture and founder of GirlsClub, a registered charity for girls with neuro and developmental differences, shares how the need to be liked and the fear of being a burden shaped her voice, her visibility, and her choices… until they didn’t.
What started as a deeply personal parenting experience became the spark for a movement that now impacts hundreds of families across British Columbia. But behind that impact is a story of identity, internalised expectations, and what happens when women stop self-editing and start trusting their own voice.
This episode is a must-listen for high-achieving women who feel called to more but find themselves holding back out of fear of rejection, judgment, or being “too much.”
Today on Limitless:
- Playing it Safe vs. Playing Small: Why Vicky’s fear of being a burden, not a lack of purpose, kept her hiding in plain sight
- The Likeability Trap: How wanting to be palatable cost her authenticity, joy, and deeper connection
- Turning Frustration into Purpose: The exact moment she realised if it doesn’t exist, I’ll create it
- The Vulnerability Shift: From avoiding the spotlight to using her story to create systemic change
- Healing the Fear of Asking: Rewiring a lifelong belief that “asking for help = being too much”
- What Happens When You Show Up Real: How her unapologetic authenticity created deeper impact and unexpected support
If you've ever held yourself back out of fear of being too much, asking for too much, or taking up too much space, this is your reminder: your story is medicine. Your voice is needed. And when you stop playing safe, you start creating real impact.
Ready to stop shape-shifting and start showing up fully?Explore coaching with Fiona:Work with me
Connect with Vicky Ryan:
Learn more about Girls Club: http://www.ingirlsclub.com/
Vicky's LinkedIn
Connect with Fiona:
Private Coaching: Work with me
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
LinkedIn: Fiona Walsh Coaching
"Perfectionism isn’t a personality trait. It’s a stress response. It’s what happens when fear convinces us we have to control everything to stay safe." — Louise Siwicki
In this soulful and deeply honest conversation, fertility coach and change-maker Louise Siwicki shares how her own journey through chronic stress, burnout, and perfectionism led her to a profound healing transformation. Louise opens up about the invisible weight of performing, controlling, and overachieving, and how learning to regulate her nervous system, trust herself, and feel her emotions allowed her to come home to her true self.
Whether you are navigating fertility challenges, high-functioning anxiety, or the exhaustion of keeping it all together, Lou’s story is a powerful reminder that freedom doesn’t come from striving. It comes from surrender.
Today on Limitless:
- Perfectionism as Protection: Why high-achieving individuals often develop perfectionism as a survival strategy, not a personality trait
- The Control Illusion: How chronic fear leads to control, overthinking, and decision paralysis, and why true healing requires surrender
- Mind-Body Connection: How stored emotions in the body manifest as physical symptoms, and how tuning into your body's whispers can change everything
- Breaking Generational Cycles: How Lou's healing is not just personal but an act of generational transformation
- Healing is Feeling: Why the only way to move through stuckness, grief, or trauma is to feel it, and why you don't have to do it perfectly
- Coming Home to Self: How trusting your intuition and allowing imperfection can lead to a softer, more vibrant life
If you are tired of trying to "get it right" and ready to finally feel right in your own body and life, this episode will land deeply for you.
Connect with Louise:
Instagram: @louise.siwicki
Explore Lou’s offerings: louisesiwicki.com
Connect with Fiona:
Private coaching: Work with me
Instagram: @fionawalshcoaching
Email: fiona@fionawalshconsulting.com
