Dearest you.  This episode is a bit of a full circle moment for me. Caitlin and Anna interviewed me back in 2018 for what was then a soon-to-launch podcast but is now the very well established Lady Brains. I was still working in publishing and I had begun recording for Offline but it was still my little secret so to be sitting here five years later having an honest conversation about the texture and terrain we’ve all moved through as podcasters and founders is a real honour.  Like, we did it! We're still here! We had what I think is a really uncommon and kind of complex conversation about being a founder while also helping other founders. While we serve very differently, we share many of the same challenges and experiences. I am proud of this conversation because it feels like the antidote to polish and shine of typical founder interviews. We don’t talk in grabs and we take time to think about what we want to say. There’s lot of purposeful pauses.  Maybe it is just me, but this feels very compelling and encouraging as we come out of the era that hurt more of us than it helped — Girl Boss and the grind culture that came with it.  We hope you love out very honest conversation and that it allows you a moment to lean out and make contact with something real and unscripted.  Thank you for being here. Alison xo Listen to Lady Brains  Follow Lady Brains — Are you feeling the pull to make contact with your True Self and define your highest vision for your career?  My invitation to you is to move beyond curiosity and into intentional action. Visit www.getoffline.co and consider signing up to my mailing list to receive conscious career love notes, invitations to learn with me, and more.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are our land’s first storytellers. I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and create today, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and pay my respects to their Elders past and present. I extend that respect to any First Nations and Torres Strait Islander peoples listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.  Alison xo The 3 Step Breast Check Follow Leigh on Instagram Shop Leigh’s business baby, Brillo Beauty — Are you feeling the pull to make contact with your True Self and define your highest vision for your career or business?  My invitation to you is to move beyond curiosity and into intentional action. Visit www.getoffline.co and consider signing up to my mailing list to receive conscious career love notes, invitations to learn with me, and more.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are our land’s first storytellers. I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and create today, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and pay my respects to their Elders past, and present. I extend that respect to any First Nations and Torres Strait Islander peoples listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dearest you. If you follow Nadine Jane Astrology on Instagram, you’ll know that she went away for a little while. Her absence was very felt on my feed and I thought about her often. I wondered if she was ok, and I hoped she’d be back creating her signature style of intuitive, soft and highly emotive astrology content.  So you can imagine the smile on my face when I was presented with the opportunity to sit down with Nadine once again — three years after our first honest conversation. She’s such a joy to interview but I was also just so curious to ask her about the last couple of years. Where has she been? Why did she take a break? What did she do and how did it all feel? As you’ll soon learn, our favourite New York City astrologer (currently residing in country Maine) experienced the very thing she’s guided many of us through — her Saturn Return. For Nadine, this significant astrological event brought with it something unexpected. It turned the lights out on her love affair with astrology and as someone who channels, what that meant was she lost her signal.  Nadine and I explore what that was like, the other areas of growth her Saturn Return brought on, how it impacted the book she’d signed on to write and has since been published (Magic Days, her 800-page masterpiece), her evolved relationship with astrology and her body, and her cosmic weather report for this year.  If you’ve been thinking about making a brave decision, you’re going to like what she has to say. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Follow Nadine on Instagram  Buy Magic Days or gift it to someone you love — Are you feeling the pull to make contact with your True Self and define your highest vision for your career or business?  My invitation to you is to move beyond curiosity and into intentional action. Visit www.getoffline.co and consider signing up to my mailing list to receive conscious career love notes, invitations to learn with me, and more.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are our land’s first storytellers. I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and create today, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and pay my respects to their Elders past and present. I extend that respect to any First Nations and Torres Strait Islander peoples listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dearest you.  Eleanor Pendleton, Sara Crampton and Beck Wadworth are three of Australia’s most successful women’s lifestyle influencers but they’re also three women I am grateful to call my friends.  It’s been years between honest conversations and like so many of you, the four of us have moved through a lot — sustaining businesses during a global pandemic, pregnancy and sadly, pregnancy loss, birth, the first months and years of motherhood, terminally ill parents, the death of someone we love and the grief that follows — all while doing our best to show up for our teams, our communities and business’ missions.  The girls and I put it all on the table and we hope in doing that, we provide you with a rich entry point into feeling more seen and heard within your own life experiences.  Thank you for being here. Alison xo Follow Eleanor on Instagram or visit www.grittypretty.com.au  Follow Sara on Instagram or visit www.theundone.com  Follow Beck on Instagram or visit www.anorganisedlife.com  — Are you feeling the pull to make contact with your True Self and define your highest vision for your career or business?  My invitation to you is to move beyond curiosity and into intentional action. Visit www.getoffline.co and consider signing up to my mailing list to receive conscious career love notes, invitations to learn with me, and more.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are our land’s first storytellers. I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and create today, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and pay my respects to their Elders past and present. I extend that respect to any First Nations and Torres Strait Islander peoples listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dearest you.  A very warm welcome to season eight of this beautiful and ever-evolving podcast.  This episode is part of a brand-new series called Checking In With, where I touch base with some of Offline’s earliest guests to hear how they’re doing today, what they’ve moved through since we last spoke and of course, how their definition of success has evolved in and around the rich texture of their life experiences.  This very first checking-in episode is with one of my best friends, Zoe Marshall. She was Offline’s fourth guest way back in season one. Zoe is my emotionally safe friend and while I didn’t realise it when I asked her to record with me, that’s really what this episode is about – friendship – and how important it is as aware and ambitious people that we have those emotionally safe relationships that we can fall backwards into when we’re being stretched to a new edge.  I hope you adore this season’s honesty. I hope you feel the joy and the pleasure and the play I’m actively seeking following what has been a really hard couple of years. I also hope you adore the explorations into the darker spaces life leads my guests and I into as we seek to land more deeply into our True Self. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Listen to Zoe’s podcast, The Deep Follow Zoe on Instagram  — Are you feeling the pull to make contact with your True Self and define your highest vision for your career or business?  My invitation to you is to move beyond curiosity and into intentional action. Visit www.getoffline.co and consider signing up to my mailing list to receive conscious career love notes, invitations to learn with me, and more. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are our land’s first storytellers. I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and create today, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. I extend that respect to any First Nations and Torres Strait Islander peoples listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dearest you. Enrolments to join us for our next three months inside Off— are now open. Off— is a conscious professional development space that exists to help you live out a professional reality that feels nourishing, sustainable, purposeful and true.  You deserve this. We all do. Our work isn’t supposed to leave us feeling burnt out, disappointed or hopeless. What we do for a living should be a productive outlet for our fulfillment, not the source of our fulfillment itself.  This is one of the biggest lessons I teach inside this expanding professional development container — how to create space between who you are and what you do, and how serving from that place will evolve and elevate your definition of success.  Three months of conscious professional development and community. You set the pace. Everything is recorded.  Off— is professional development like you’ve never experienced it before. No more hustling. No more grinding. Just simply arriving at your highest professional expression.  Enrolments for our August, September, October intake are open until midnight on Friday, July 29. I hope you say yes. Explore or enrol here: www.getoffline.co/off  Alison xo — P.S. The title of this episode is a small part of the moving testimonial Melissa sent me after her first three months inside our space. More from Melissa:  “If you feel that the structures and systems we've learned to subscribe to don't support the truest version of yourself and you're looking to consciously expand your career then I encourage you to become a co-creator inside Off— with us.  "It's part learning, part mentorship, part brainstorming, sharing and exploring but at its essence Off— is a community. The energy inside this space is beautiful and you will feel held. When you're having one of those days and a voice memo from Alison drops in, it is the perfect reminder to take a breath and recognise that you know how to align your profession with your essence. “When I first logged into the space and started to explore, The Greatest Showman was on TV. The song 'This Is Me' has special meaning. Jeannie Bourke sent it to me after a treatment at a time when I was really struggling at work. It almost felt like a little sign that Off— was exactly where I was meant to be, knowing that without her as your first guest on the podcast I might not have found Offline and all the things since.  “I listened to it again today and the words made me think a lot about what I wanted to say as part of my testimonial but especially this: ‘I know that there's a place for us, for we are glorious.’” — Melissa  — Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dearest you. One hundred episodes Offline, The Podcast. One hundred times I’ve had the privilege of holding someone’s story or extracting their wisdom. One hundred times it’s been my honour to serve beautiful you and your growth.  To celebrate Offline’s 100th episode, we’re going to honour this growing body of work. We’re going to honour the volume. We’re going to honour you and I, showing up for every episode and doing our work. I hope you enjoy this little trip down memory lane to hear from the teachers and the healers whose knowledge and wisdom has created real and meaningful shifts in our lives. Jeannie Bourke, Natalia Benson, Jerico Mandybur, Matt Ringrose, Nadine Jane Astrology, Manoj Dias, Jaclyn Michelle, Lara Briden, Dylan Smith, Penny Locaso, Carson Tueller, Dalia Gencher, Rachel Ricketts, Dr. Nicole LePera, Laura Poole, Sah D’Simone, Shaman Durek and Tori Washington — thank you. And thank you for being here. Thank you for gifting me your precious time and your awareness. Thank you for letting me in so fully, so I can help you on your way. Alison xo — Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.  Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s career coaching, professional development opportunities and community experiences, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice. Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.  Hope this one helps you on your way. Alison xo P.S. Matt spent close to a year developing a guided online course called Learn to Let Go and just like Vedic Meditation, it was a transformative learning experience for me so we decided how wonderful to share it with all of you. Our invitation to study with Matt is sprinkled throughout both episodes, but if you miss anything, all of the information you need is detailed here: Enrol in Matt’s upcoming Learn to Let Go course here: https://bondimeditation.com.au/learn-to-let-go  Please enjoy the code OFFLINE10 for 10 percent off Follow Bondi Meditation Centre on Instagram — Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.  Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s career coaching, professional development opportunities and community experiences, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice. Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Alison xo P.S. Matt spent close to a year developing a guided online course called Learn to Let Go and just like Vedic Meditation, it was a transformative learning experience for me so we decided how wonderful to share it with all of you. Our invitation to study with Matt is sprinkled throughout both episodes, but if you miss anything, all of the information you need is detailed here: Enrol in Matt’s upcoming Learn to Let Go course here: https://bondimeditation.com.au/learntoletgo/ Please enjoy the code OFFLINE10 for 10 percent off Follow Bondi Meditation Centre on Instagram — Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.  Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s career coaching, professional development opportunities and community experiences, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice. Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. I hope this episode helps you on your way. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Learn with Shaman Durek at The Shaman School Follow Shaman Durek on Instagram — Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.  Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s career coaching, professional development opportunities and community experiences, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice. Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dearest you. Thank you for being here. Let me share what you being here means.  It means you’re ready for your professional truth.  It means you’re ready to align your profession with your essence.  It 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 belonged.  You being here means you’re ready to claim your one big life.  You being here means you want professional peace.  You want more from your ambition. You want it to stand for something.  You want more than the things that signify success today.  You want to feel success.  You also want to learn how to harness your ambition. To direct it into places and spaces that serve you and the evolution of all things.  You being here means you trust me and that on some level, you value what I have to give.  It’s my honour to share Off— with you. A professional development space for the consciously ambitious. Part mentorship, part knowledge membership and part conscious professional network, Off— is my response to what you’ve told me you need: Mentorship. Strategic but conscious career and business advice. Thoughtful leadership. A network of conscious colleagues that will become your expanders and your cheerleaders.  Thank you for listening and I hope to see you in there!  Alison xo Enrol or explore: www.getoffline.co/off  Enrolments close Monday, January 31, 2022 at midnight Off— opens for enrolments once a quarter. If you're listening to this episode in-between open weeks, please follow the prompts on the enrolment page to be notified Email me directly with any questions: support@getoffline.co — Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.  Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s career coaching, professional development opportunities and community experiences, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice. Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. I hope this episode helps you on your way. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Follow Diandra on Instagram *T&Cs: Enter the code OFFLINE at checkout to receive 15% off a single purchase excluding out of stock items and freight costs. Offer valid from 1st March 2021 until 11:59pm 31st July 2022. Offer not available in conjunction with selected offers as communicated at checkout. Offer valid to Australian residents at EsteeLauder.com.au only. — Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.  Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s career coaching, professional development opportunities and community experiences, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice. Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.  I don’t need to hope this one helps you on your way. I know it will. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Learn with Tori at toriwashington.com  Follow Tori on Instagram — Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.  Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s career coaching, professional development opportunities and community experiences, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice. Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#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. I think we keep each other sane. If you don’t know about Juliet, she’s Australia’s leading sexologist and the founder of Pleasure School, The Juliet Pleasure Wand and Yinn. Body.  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. I hope this episode helps you on your way. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Visit www.juliet-allen.com Follow Juliet on Instagram Join Pleasure School — Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.  Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s career coaching, professional development opportunities and community experiences, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice. Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.  I hope this episode helps you on your way. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Follow Jess on Instagram Visit www.selected.com.au  *T&Cs: Enter the code OFFLINE at checkout to receive 15% off a single purchase excluding out of stock items and freight costs. Offer valid from 1st March 2021 until 11:59pm 31st July 2022. Offer not available in conjunction with selected offers as communicated at checkout. Offer valid to Australian residents at EsteeLauder.com.au only. — Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.  Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s career coaching, professional development opportunities and community experiences, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice. Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.  I hope this episode helps you on your way. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Read Sah’s new book  Find out more Sah’s Spiritually Sassy School Follow Sah on Instagram — Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.  Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s career coaching, professional development opportunities and community experiences, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice. Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you ever thought deeply about why we start businesses or brands? Usually it’s to solve a problem, fill a gap in the market or make money.  But how many founders do you know have started something with the intention to exit it? And not “exit” Silicon Valley style with millions of dollars, but exit with nothing but the knowing that they’ve fulfilled their purpose in this lifetime.  Laura Poole is a powerful and prolific Vedic Meditation teacher, and in this episode, she presents a more evolutionary perspective on the why behind what we choose to create. She asks us to first know what we are, before deciding what it is that'll we’ll do.  Because how much of what we create is actually about our individual need to feel valued and valuable? Like, how many of us can hand-on-heart say that we hope our role becomes redundant because the business outgrew us? Our ego would be screaming. But with the context Laura brings in this episode, this becomes quite a liberating thought. She also helps us see past “success” as an individualised experience, and instead, asks us to consider what collective and community success might look like. How might that change the way we show up professionally?  What I also heard from Laura is that this way of building something also gives us back the one thing we can never get more of in the relative world: Time. Time to explore other parts of ourselves that want to be expressed. Time to consider the next season of our life and what would be most evolutionary for us once again. Because we are not the thing we started or the thing we do.  I hope this episode helps you on your way. Thank you for being here. Alison xo Learn more about Vedic Meditation through Mahasoma Visit www.laurapoole.com Follow Laura on Instagram — Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.  Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s career coaching, professional development opportunities and community experiences, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice. Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What we do for a living feels a bit more emotional than it used to. Restrictions to our freedoms have made many of us question what actually makes us feel happy and fulfilled. A sneaky sleep in. A long walk before the workday starts. A home-cooked lunch. Creating just because not for. The time to think more deeply and even change our mind. Many of us are also questioning if we're using our gifts and skills in ways that make us feel truly useful in the world. Is it time to start something that means something? Could we lead more consciously? And how much money is enough?  We’re evolving, and this podcast is evolving with us. I’d love to share Offline’s Manifesto with you.  I hope this season helps you on your way. Thank you for being here. Alison xo — Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.  Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s conscious professional development opportunities, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice. Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To close season six, host Alison Rice dedicates her Ask Me Anything episode to her little girl, Betty.  So often, the stories we hear about pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period are negative and fear-based. Alison’s experience has been more soft than hard, and so she hopes that sharing a different perspective might help other women feel more excited than scared about this new chapter. In this extended episode, Alison answers listener questions about her pregnancy, navigating pregnancy anxiety, her labour preparation, hospital bag must-haves and why she believes she had a soft and positive postpartum experience.  She also talks about the sense of perspective she has following two pregnancy losses, the life lessons she hopes to teach her little girl, her thoughts on her career and earning after having a baby, the products she’s loved, the books she read, her emerging parenting style, and opens up about Betty’s personality and what she looks like.  Below is a list of everything Alison refers to in this episode, plus a few extras she forgot to include.  Books WOT Baby ebook I 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 Moons Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth Spiritual Midwifery Spirit Babies The First 40 Days The 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 test I had weekly acupuncture from ovulation until week 12, then moved to fortnightly, then monthly during the third trimester. I see Jade at The Whiteowl Clinic Pregnancy  Our OB is Dr. Alex Owen Acupuncture 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 massage Labour 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 hospital Hospital Bag I laboured in a black crop top and black maternity underwear Papinelle pajamas and robe Depends underwear Toms maternity pads. I then wore ModiBodi when I got home from the hospital Diffuser and lavender essential oil Portable speaker and charger Phone... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special Self Care Sundays mini-series produced by Studio Offline and in partnership with Estée Lauder, host Alison Rice sits 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.  Alison’s 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.  Follow Gab on Instagram Explore Gab’s range of shopping and product sourcing services   Treat yourself to a bottle of Estée Lauder Double Wear Foundation  MORE FROM OFFLINE AND ALISON RICE Become a student of Self Study If you’re interested in learning about True Self, conscious success and more, become a student of Self Study — a series of considered online courses. Book a coaching session  Offline’s host, Alison Rice, is an award-winning leader and conscious coach. She offers personal coaching sessions. Find out more or book directly.  Early access  For early access to new episodes of the podcast, Self Study learning opportunities and Offline events, follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice on Instagram or Facebook.  Share with those in need If you know someone who would benefit from hearing these honest conversations, please share... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.