I recorded this conversation just before I launched Nutritious Conversations and it’s one I’m really stoked to now bring to life on the podcast. Danni is my sister and one of the most incredible Sol’s I know. She has such a passion for life and this permeates into all facets of her beautiful presence. Danni’s partner Charles encapsulates such a healthy expression of the Sacred Masculine. His ability to hold space, not just in their relationship, but in his absolute passion for the land, flora and fauna of this beautiful earth is humbling. I love these two Sol’s immensely and am honoured to be their kin.

This conversation is one that will present a deeper enquiry of how do we be the best stewards of supporting Mother Nature? There are some challenging insight brought forward around how human’s have facilitated the damaging of the land over tens of thousands of years.

Danni and Charles live on the south coast of NSW. Their three hundred and sixty acre farm was right in the middle of the path of the fire storm that hit there several years ago. The decimation of native species from one burning event, eludes to asking the question, “Is fire the best way to manage earths environment?”. Couple this with, the pillaging farming practices and the hijacking and perversion of words such as sustainable, natural and organic, we are now at a unique crossroads in the trajectory of our land.

This is a great conversation to sit and listen to with an openness, that invites you to question popular narratives around the future of land management.

Big Love Duncan

The intent for these recordings is to be unhomogenised and unpasteurised conversations that aligns with real life. The falling over words, the poise and challenge in moments to understand how to verbalise what’s wanting to come forward, is part of the realness of nutrient dense conversations. So, with that, I have to say I’m embracing and enjoying watching my own clunkiness as I explore my expression through this space. I hope you too hold space for yourself, friends, family, strangers yet to know and myself as we navigate enriched conversations on this journey.

Give me a rating, drop a comment, and share these nutrient dense conversations if they land with you.

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“My aim is to provide a process and a platform for men to feel comfortable to connect deeply with themselves. I believe this is the way to complete health – the mind, body and soul approach.” Jack May

From the very first interaction I had with Jack, at a mutual friend’s gym, I could see this bloke was genuine, life loving and heart lead. Having been a chippy, then a healthy food entrepreneur, he morphed again into combining all these facets helping blokes build and nourish their best version of themselves and their lives. Passionate about knowing himself, Jacks all in on creating a living example of his innate expression and the embodiment of the Sacred Masculine. Curiosity, Compassion and Courage is a key to his beautiful expression, which is the premise that underpins his work and incredible coaching space “Wildman Wellness”.

I love the question on Jacks webpage (Wildman Wellness): “What will it feel like to spend another 3,6,12 months where you are right now, knowing you could’ve done something about it?”

Topics we delve into includes:

• Understanding our nervous system
• Internal Family Systems
• Masculine – Holding space and safety
• Birth
• Self-doubt and “Courage to be disliked” (Book he’s also currently reading).
• Breaking out of the masculine cage
• The Wildman Wellness space

And so much more. This conversation is an invitation to step beyond your inertia into the radical empowered life you deserve to live. Linking in with Jack, through his webpage, is an incredible courageous step you can take to be the embodied version of your best self.

Hit play, sit back and enjoy this great chat.

Big Love

Duncan

For further connection with Jack: https://wildmanwellness.com.au/home

The intent for these recordings is to be unhomogenised and unpasteurised conversations that aligns with real life. The falling over words, the poise and challenge in moments to understand how to verbalise what’s wanting to come forward, is part of the realness of nutrient dense conversations. So, with that, I have to say I’m embracing and enjoying watching my own clunkiness as I explore my expression through this space. I hope you too hold space for yourself, friends, family, strangers yet to know and myself as we navigate enriched conversations on this journey.

Give me a rating, drop a comment, and share these nutrient dense conversations if they land with you.

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What a journey Phil has had. From being a trucker to stepping into mindfulness and purpose coaching with adolescence and young adults, then to be handed what Phil would call a gift. A health expression that shattered his perception of who he is in this world, presented Phil with an opportunity to connect into the essence of who is, outside of the stories and narratives that he existed in.

I connected with Phil through supporting the holding of space at a “Live in Flow” retreat. From the very first greeting with a hug, I had this awareness in me to hold space for this amazing Sol with a love, attention and tenderness. I may not have put it to words at the time but there was a warmth in me that encouraged me to be really present with him. The expansion and experiences that Phil stepped into was truly inspirational.

Phil is an incredible Sol and I’m honoured to have connected in with this courageous Brother as I’m sure you will be too.

Big Love and enjoy

Duncan

The intent for these recordings is to be unhomogenised and unpasteurised conversations that aligns with real life. The falling over words, the poise and challenge in moments to understand how to verbalise what’s wanting to come forward, is part of the realness of nutrient dense conversations. So, with that, I have to say I’m embracing and enjoying watching my own clunkiness as I explore my expression through this space. I hope you too hold space for yourself, friends, family, strangers yet to know and myself as we navigate enriched conversations on this journey.

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Heal Birth Heal the Earth – Calling the Power of Birth Home – Carla Sargent

“Carla is New Zealand’s leading authority on birth trauma. Her background in midwifery & her many years of experience in helping people heal from their birth trauma, combines to offer you reliable, compassionate and trusted support.” https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/

To encounter the mindset that, for a woman, her body is broken and needs to be outsourced to a model of “care” for her to birth, is creating an epidemic of disempowerment. The catch phrase “We’ll you’ve got a healthy baby” is the go-to rebuttal of anything that challenges accountability, retrospection, and deception of sovereignty. What this inhibits is the potentiality of creating an initiation into the innate power of a woman evolving into the new reality of mother and expression of motherhood. This “groomed” abdication of the innate woman’s sovereignty is creating a significant setting and experience of destabilisation in connection on multiple levels for the woman, child, parental unit and beyond. “Heal Birth Heal the Earth” is more than a proclamation it is an invitation to call our power and sovereignty home.

Carla and I connected through a beautiful mutual friend and my first podcast guest, Lynley. In that first episode, Lynley shared her emotional birth trauma and the healing space that Carla created which empowered her to reclaim this incredible aspect of womanhood. What an amazing and courageous Sol Carla is. It is so evident, through our conversation, that Carla is following her innate calling and tapping into that wisdom to support the healing of birth trauma and empower many women. For me, I can see this is an incredibly pivotal aspect of an individuals, and more so, humanities return to wholeness.

In our conversation we share aspects of our experiences of birth, Carla’s incredible ability to hold space, her courage to create a business to support birth trauma healing for woman, what the invitation is for woman to step into for their sovereignty, her amazing mothers courageous innate birth wisdom, fear as a grooming tool to abdicate women’s sovereignty, then the power and privilege of hearing those birth stories of the amazing women who have worked through their birth trauma, as well as so much more.

This wisdom is so incredible to share, not just with other mothers but also young woman and future mums and dads to be. I really encourage you to tap into Carla’s podcast “Healing Birth with Carla” or if you would love to reach out to Carla to step into the healing of your own birth trauma’s or would like to be trained to support women through their healing, please connect in via Carla’s website:

https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/

Also check out Carla’s book “Where The Heart Is – Stories of Home birth in NZ”

Big Love.

Duncan

The intent for these recordings is to be unhomogenised and unpasteurised conversations that aligns with real life. The falling over words, the poise and challenge in moments to understand how to verbalise what’s wanting to come forward, is part of the realness of nutrient dense conversations. So, with that, I have to say I’m embracing and enjoying watching my own clunkiness as I explore my expression through this space. I hope you too hold space for yourself, friends, family, strangers yet to know and myself as we navigate enriched conversations on this journey.

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Karyn Janelle Davis is an expert in human development and with a wide variety of applied toolbox training skills. She always comes from an holistic approach to the entire person and their environment, teaching high level skills in the areas of human science, excellence and deliverable results.

A Business Coach for over 15 years, NLP Trainer, Master Practitioner, Multiple Integration Coach, Thetahealing Specialist, Craniosacral Therapist, Energy specialist, Yoga Instructor and with over 18 years of coaching, training, clinic work with all types of people.

When it comes to understanding human nature, she may have a few clues.

Karyn has developed coaches and trainers over the last 15 years that have consistently developed high level change and transformation within their areas of expertise. Programme design for extensive training and facilitation is her specialty, with in-room delivery a passion and a new love of the virtual space, as it works effectively. Karyn loves observing the up-levelling of everyone who is within the training environment.

As a guest speaker and trainer, she has delivered to Government Departments, Corporates, NGO’s, and teaches also within the public and corporate arena of New Zealand. (About – Karyn Janelle Davis “The Wellness Group NZ”)

If this conversation, with the beautiful Karyn Janelle Davis, could be encapsulated in two words for me, it would be “Deliciously Expansive”. The nourishing language and wisdom that dances from Karyn is so filled with invitational wisdom, from a Sol of wholeness. This gorgeous chat cracked open, for me, a new understanding of how we can be a co-creator in our own graceful evolution.

During our conversation, we strolled through the metaphoric farmers market of the Sol, tasting produce from the topics of: alchemy, diving deep into the water of our existence, calibration and the juicy consequences of the new experience of this, generational trauma and return to wholeness, and a whole lot more. We also discuss being an expert in “Speaking Chicken”, Karyn’s humorous talent in viewing life.

I’d have to say that if Karyn had a restaurant, I’d be eating there at least weekly. I am so grateful to have this gracious connection with Karyn.

I invite you to indulge in the deliciousness of this conversation and to explore more richness from Karyn please follow the link below: https://www.thewellnessgroup.nz/home

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“If we stop saying “I am traumatized” and instead say I’m in a massive period of shifting right now. That has to cause a collapse to occur. Trauma is the collapse of the framework that I currently understand life from.” – James Greenshield

From my first connection with James about 10 years ago, as a guest presenter for “Grab Life By The Balls”, I’ve found him to be a beacon of inspiration and a demonstration of the Sacred Masculine. James had a massive career of 17 years in the Australian Army, training and leading over 100 men into Iraq. A roadside bomb exploding under his vehicle kicked him into a direction of a deep invitation to know himself. At the point of having a stellar career mapped out and a significant safety net (James articulates this as above him not below him) and reaching the opportunity to be promoted into the rank of Lieutenant Colonel he stepped away, but more so toward his place on the planet.

I’ve had many thoughts and conversations with friends in the past about where is the patterning of the Sacred Masculine. Where are the Elders/Sages/Sovereign Individuals who express, articulate and embody this? This has driven my own evolution into the loving depths of myself and the Wisdom of Divine/Source/Quantum and the expansion of who I am and am becoming. For me, James is an inspired embodiment of the Sacred Masculine, a leader who has Emerged with experiential authority. The real deal.

In this episode we dive into a nutrient dense conversation on identity, love, relationships, trauma, archetypes, initiations, birth, wound, death moments and much more. Through this there is an invitation, an inspiration for you to courageously step into the fullness of who and the big why of your existence.

This chat wasn’t just a nutritious meal, it was a buffet with a doggy bag, to gift you a taste of your own divine sustenance.

Indulge, share and courageously dive into the incredible Sol you are.

Big Love

Duncan (Brown Chief/Warrior)

For further connection with James: Emergent Leaders Foundation emergentleadersfoundation.org

The intent for these recordings is to be unhomogenised and unpasteurised conversations that aligns with real life. The falling over words, the poise and challenge in moments to understand how to verbalise what’s wanting to come forward, is part of the realness of nutrient dense conversations. So, with that, I have to say I’m embracing and enjoying watching my own clunkiness as I explore my expression through this space. I hope you too hold space for yourself, friends, family, strangers yet to know and myself as we navigate enriched conversations on this journey.

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“I journey in the world as an eclectic mix of boho hippie, spirited rebel and regular Kiwi gal with a ‘can-do’ attitude…” Paula Johnson

What a pleasure to share space with Paula during this conversation. Paula is an incredibly courageous woman navigating the cards that had fallen in a beautifully poetic way. Not surprisingly this led to her writing a book “Silent Warrior”, a very apt title that really demonstrates her realisation of to go through this experience of life it’s fundamentally an inward journey.

Her own life-changing catalyst arrived unannounced and unwelcome at the young age of 29, when Paula was diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Failure (Premature Menopause). This diagnosis set her on a journey, delving deep into the mental and emotional, the physical and the spiritual. Finding meaning became her mission – Why? Why had this happened? And the even bigger question – why was I here?

I absolutely loved this chat as we flowed through the evolution of her book, what a warrior is, defining courage, premature menopause, gift of heart motherhood, surrendering to the unknown and her gorgeous life expressions in business and empowerment of others.

To connect in with Paula with her workshops on writing your own book, Wanderlust website design or grabbing a copy of her amazing book, please jump on her websites to explore more of this amazing woman’s expression in life.

Big Love

Duncan

https://www.paulajohnsonnz.com/

https://www.wanderlustdesign.co.nz/

The intent for these recordings is to be unhomogonised and unpasteurised conversations that aligns with real life. The falling over words, the poise and challenge in moments to understand how to verbalise what’s wanting to come forward, is part of the realness of nutrient dense conversations. So, with that, I have to say I’m embracing and enjoying watching my own clunkiness as I explore my expression through this space. I hope you too hold space for yourself, friends, family, strangers yet to know and myself as we navigate enriched conversations on this journey.

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So here I am being interviewed by the amazing Anita Toi - Inner Awakening Podcast. Anita has generously shared the interview she did with me and uploaded on her podcast. So I thought it'd be a great way to introduce myself and bit of background that has created the passion to live life fully. The serendipity and synchronicity of our connection is amazing. We found out that we both grew up in a small town in the Dandenongs of Victoria. We were probably at the same school for a year!! Anita lives in NZ now and her passion for life made this chat such a beautiful experience.

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