"No, I'm gonna trust myself and not follow what you said," says Tania Ho, describing the moment her retreat-centre partnership with her own teacher broke down. "That was the beginning of that breakdown. And there were so many other moments too — that's what the industry is doing, that's what the trends are, that's what other people are doing. But it's so important always to come back to myself."

Tania isn't a data person, and this isn't a stat-driven conversation — it's an experiential one, built on nine years of running a wellness retreat from the ground up with no construction or hospitality-management background to fall back on.

We talk about what happened when Tania, an intuitive soul guide and the founder of Museflower Retreat & Spa in Chiang Rai, Thailand, quit her spa management job after her father died at 25, co-founded a retreat centre with a teacher she trusted completely, and then watched that partnership implode within six months of opening. She talks about the doubt spiral that followed — "can I really trust myself?" — and how she rebuilt from there, not by finding a better teacher to follow, but by learning to trust her own gut instead. We also get into the two types of sensitive people she sees at her retreats, why she runs an all-vegetarian, coffee-free centre on purpose, and how she reads the difference between a guest who needs a spa day and one who needs to properly fall apart for a week.

Tania Ho is the founder and owner of Museflower Retreat & Spa, an all-inclusive vegetarian wellness retreat centre in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand, and an intuitive soul guide helping sensitive people trust their own intuition through energy tools, oracle card readings and fire release ceremonies. She's also the host of Embrace Your Sacred Nature, her own podcast on wellness practices and energy tools. museflowerretreat.com

Connect with Tania Ho:

🌐 https://musefloweretreat.com/

🌐 https://taniaho.me/

🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/exploring-meditation-styles-with-tania-ho/id1639714009?i=1000631575793

Welcome to the Journey to Purpose Podcast — your guide to personal transformation, spiritual awakening, and finding meaning. Hosted by Philippa Bagley, each episode features in-depth interviews with inspiring thought leaders, therapists, coaches, and everyday people who have overcome addiction, trauma, financial hardship, and burnout to build purposeful lives.

Whether you're seeking direction in your career, healing from past struggles, building resilience, or exploring spirituality, this personal development podcast delivers practical insights and transformational wisdom. Topics include: personal growth, healing and therapy, entrepreneurship, financial independence, mindfulness, spirituality, overcoming adversity, life coaching, and authentic living.

Join our growing community of listeners discovering their life's purpose. New episodes every week.

If you like what you hear, don't forget to follow, review and subscribe

"Self-improvement is a whole crock of shit. Psychology is a whole crock of shit. It's all about getting to a level of being seen as good enough." — Jesseca Banchy

"It's okay to have temper tantrums. We need to have more temper tantrums. We need to scream and cry more often." — Jesseca Banchy

Jesseca spent nearly a decade nursing in ICU and critical care, including her current post at a small Tucson hospital that treats both civilians and shackled prison inmates, and she talks candidly about what that work has taught her about compassion, boundaries, and seeing people as more than the worst thing they've done. She and Philippa get into how Jesseca protects her own energy on shift, the near-fatal accident at 19 that got her sober, her belief that everyone has "their own planet," and why she thinks being weird is a form of courage. The conversation closes with Jesseca's other project, Compost Cultura, and why she thinks fixing the planet starts with fixing our relationship to trash.

Jesseca Banchy is a semi-retired ICU registered nurse, founder of Magnetic Soul Healing (holistic coaching in emotional independence for women) and Compost Cultura (composting and waste-reduction education), and is currently pursuing a PhD in Metaphysical Science.

Connect with Jesseca Banchy:
🌐 magneticsoulhealing.org
🌐 compostcultura.org

Welcome to the Journey to Purpose Podcast — your guide to personal transformation, spiritual awakening, and finding meaning. Hosted by Philippa Bagley, each episode features in-depth interviews with inspiring thought leaders, therapists, coaches, and everyday people who have overcome addiction, trauma, financial hardship, and burnout to build purposeful lives.

Whether you're seeking direction in your career, healing from past struggles, building resilience, or exploring spirituality, this personal development podcast delivers practical insights and transformational wisdom. Topics include: personal growth, healing and therapy, entrepreneurship, financial independence, mindfulness, spirituality, overcoming adversity, life coaching, and authentic living.

Join our growing community of listeners discovering their life's purpose. New episodes every week.

If you like what you hear, don't forget to follow, review and subscribe

"You don't want to show up in the promotion conversation like Oliver Twist: please, sir, can you please pour into my bowl the steps to get promoted," Sharfi says. "Instead, you want to show up almost as if you already have the role."

Sharfi points to a study showing that before around age five, boys and girls are equally drawn to games framed as being for "kids who are smart" and games framed as being for "kids who work hard." After five, girls start gravitating toward the "hard work" games. It's a measurable, early start to a pattern many women spend decades trying to unlearn.

In this conversation, Maya and Pippa dig into why so many capable women apologise before they've even made their point, and why "just be more direct" backfires when the advice doesn't account for how women get read differently for the same behaviour. Maya breaks down her "four zones of career alignment" framework for working out what you actually want before you chase the next title, her method for having proactive but collaborative conversations that surface the real, unwritten reasons someone isn't getting promoted, and why reconnecting with someone you haven't spoken to in ten years costs you nothing and isn't the social crime it feels like. They also talk about introversion, psychological safety at work, and the particular flavour of imposter syndrome that shows up once your clients are already getting results.

Maya Sharfi is a career and executive coach and the founder of Build Yourself, where she helps ambitious women step into senior leadership roles without burning out. Her background spans landscape architecture, Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and she now works with women navigating promotions, career pivots, and the gap between how they lead and how they're told to lead.

Find her at buildyourselfworkshop.com.

Connect with Maya Sharfi:

🌐 buildyourselfworkshop.com

💼 linkedin.com/in/mayasharfi

Welcome to the Journey to Purpose Podcast — your guide to personal transformation, spiritual awakening, and finding meaning. Hosted by Philippa Bagley, each episode features in-depth interviews with inspiring thought leaders, therapists, coaches, and everyday people who have overcome addiction, trauma, financial hardship, and burnout to build purposeful lives. Whether you're seeking direction in your career, healing from past struggles, building resilience, or exploring spirituality, this personal development podcast delivers practical insights and transformational wisdom. Topics include: personal growth, healing and therapy, entrepreneurship, financial independence, mindfulness, spirituality, overcoming adversity, life coaching, and authentic living. Join our growing community of listeners discovering their life's purpose. New episodes every week. If you like what you hear, don't forget to follow, review and subscribe

"I'm an absolute firm believer that what we see in our day-to-day life is not everything at all," says energy therapist Natasha Joy Price. "There is more beyond that, and we just can't see it, we can't sense it."

She's not exaggerating about the range of what surfaces. One client kept smelling burning at home for no reason, and driving her partner mad insisting he check the house. A regression session traced it back to a past life as Joan of Arc. "Your energy field is something that's missed off the list in our holistic health," Price says. "Nobody checks in on it. And your energy flows through your physical body — it's just a beautiful piece of organic machinery."

In this episode, Natasha talks about the accidental Reiki session after the birth of her third child that cracked open thirty years of parallel practice: a property solicitor by day, energy healer and past life regression therapist by night, the two kept deliberately separate until clients started telling her she was "the calmest solicitor" they'd ever met. She and Pippa get into what past life regression is actually for (clearing stuck emotional patterns, not proving you were Cleopatra), how she keeps sessions safe when they touch on death and trauma, what burnout looks like through an energy lens versus a purely psychological one, and the novel and workbook she's written along the way.

Natasha Joy Price is an energy therapist, Reiki master and past life regression practitioner with over 20 years of study across Reiki, Theta Healing, hypnotherapy, and her own Soul Continuum method, alongside a Master's in parapsychology. She runs Dandelion Therapies, hosts the podcast Balm to the Soul, and is the author of Freedom of the Soul and the novel The Red Magus.

Connect with Natasha Joy Price: 🌐 https://dandeliontherapies.co.uk 📖 The Red Magus: https://dandeliontherapies.co.uk/the-red-magus/ 📖 Freedom of the Soul: https://dandeliontherapies.co.uk/publications/ 🎧 Balm to the Soul (her podcast): https://dandeliontherapies.co.uk/balm-to-the-soul/

Welcome to the Journey to Purpose Podcast — your guide to personal transformation, spiritual awakening, and finding meaning. Hosted by Philippa Bagley, each episode features in-depth interviews with inspiring thought leaders, therapists, coaches, and everyday people who have overcome addiction, trauma, financial hardship, and burnout to build purposeful lives.

Whether you're seeking direction in your career, healing from past struggles, building resilience, or exploring spirituality, this personal development podcast delivers practical insights and transformational wisdom. Topics include: personal growth, healing and therapy, entrepreneurship, financial independence, mindfulness, spirituality, overcoming adversity, life coaching, and authentic living.

Join our growing community of listeners discovering their life's purpose. New episodes every week.

If you like what you hear, don't forget to follow, review and subscribe

• What corporate anthropology actually is — and how Andi invented the role for herself
• Using the participant-observer approach to unlock culture change in organisations
• Women in leadership: navigating male-dominated spaces whilst staying authentically yourself
• Why retirement is the most under-planned chapter of most people's lives
• What happens to people whose entire identity and social world was built around work
• The importance of curiosity, stories, and staying open to reinvention at every age
• How Andi built a 468-episode podcast — and why she's never monetised it
• Being unexpectedly named a futurist — and what it means to enjoy the journey without the label

• Isabelle's unexpected path from athletics coaching to holistic healing
• What somatic healing is — and what happened when her body knew exactly what it needed
• The concept of grace as a "soft river" — replacing harsh self-judgment with inner kindness
• How the harmonic egg chamber works and what clients experience
• What it means to be a channel for healing rather than the source of it
• Why authenticity isn't a destination but a daily, living practice
• How to move from reactivity to responsiveness in everyday life
• The beauty — and the difficulty — of a life shaped by unexpected pivots
• Why vulnerability and the fear of being unlovable keep so many of us stuck

• Leaving Idaho with a communications degree and no clear plan — and why that turned out to be exactly right
• Why Dee Dee's professor told her she couldn't be a therapist — and the advisor who changed her career in one conversation
• The little old lady in the car: why we always make up the worst thing first, and how to train yourself out of it
• Compassion, Process, Learning — the three-part framework that underpins every difficult conversation
• Why asking "why?" is the single most powerful communication tool most people never use
• Getting Scrum certified and realising she'd been running agile communications without a formula all along
• The 14-year-old girl who worked out mid-lecture that she could never be bullied again — and what that moment looked like
• Betrayal, narcissism and gaslighting: why the second foul is always the one that gets called
• Social emotional learning in California schools — and what happens when we teach children to ask questions instead of just follow instructions
• No intense conversations after 9:30 — and other household rules that actually work
• Why driving kids somewhere is still the best communication tool a parent has

• What actually changes when a family goes fully nomadic — and what gets left behind on purpose
• Learning from children instead of just managing them
• Why intuition and business acumen aren't opposites
• Building an advisory practice around energetic mastery rather than KPIs
• Emotional health as the foundation everything else sits on

• Why STEM identity is about belonging and belief, not just aptitude
• How the discipline of dance and performing arts translates into purposeful leadership
• What AI means for the future of education — and how schools can respond
• The importance of listening deeply to the people you serve (including your own children)
• Why great leaders don't need to know everything — and the freedom that comes with unlearning that pressure
• How to create communities that allow people to move between collaboration and solitude
• The role businesses, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs can play in transforming school communities
• Why Jennifer holds deep hope for the next generation — and what she sees in today's tweens and teens

• The one-week notice that ended Kisha's Citibank chapter — and the HR woman who changed the direction of her career
• Freezing in a C-suite interview, asking for a glass of water, and still getting the job
• Why fight-or-flight in high-stakes moments isn't a confidence problem — it's a values misalignment
• Power leaks: the things that drain your agency and silently limit your influence at work
• Power literacy: why reading the org chart is not the same as reading the power chart
• The DIVA method — Deliver, Image, Visibility, Advisory Board — and why performance alone will never be enough
• Why "political" is the word people use when they haven't learned to do it with integrity
• What it means to be the best-kept secret at work — and why it's costing you
• Stakeholder mapping as a career strategy: who actually holds the power, and how to build the bridge to reach them
• The cross-cultural blind spots that hold global organisations back
• Why you either win or you learn — and there is no third option

• The night that changed everything — and why the people closest to him never saw it coming
• What true strength actually looks like when you've spent decades suppressing grief
• How PTSD forms quietly behind a high-functioning exterior
• Faith as a framework for people who aren't religious — and what it means to just be human
• Working in a veterans' homeless shelter and becoming chaplain by default
• Why young people are more willing to talk about mental health than any previous generation
• The kindergartner who lost his father and what happened when someone finally sat with him
• Community, connection, and what the Shetland Islands fire festivals taught Pippa about mental health

• How Rachel's father force-switched the TV to English the year before she emigrated — and why it worked
• The psychology of language fear: why high-achievers who command boardrooms fall apart trying to say bonjour
• Why walking into a French restaurant without saying bonjour is essentially declaring war
• The Air Canada CEO who resigned after saying two words of French in a seven-minute speech
• What 20 years in corporate America taught Rachel about what she didn't want
• The $30,000 in bad coaching investments — and what eventually worked
• Her mother telling her she wasn't successful because she had no husband or children — and the book that came from that moment
• Why 71% of professionals are always looking for a career change, and what to do if you're one of them

• Why sports psychology translates so directly into life coaching
• The neuroscience of fear — and why understanding it beats trying to suppress it
• The Anxious Mouse Method, explained
• Facing a health crisis with the tools you've spent years teaching other people
• Choosing novelty on purpose to slow down how fast life feels