*A gentle note before you press play: Elif briefly mentions childhood sexual abuse. There are no details, but please take care of yourself while listening. There is also a little strong language.

At six years old, Elif got lost in a crowded street festival in Turkey. She found a policeman, recited her home phone number and got herself back. What she took from that day was simple: I have to deal with it, and I cannot ask for help.

That little girl grew into the woman who always found the way. The fixer. The one with every answer. And it was quietly exhausting her.

In this episode, Elif Köse, founder and editor of Confidence Magazine, shares how she went from chasing free English classes in Brighton as a 21 year old au pair to running a magazine that reaches women all over the world. (Fun fact: I was her English teacher back then 🧡)

We talk about:

• how one childhood moment can shape your whole personality

• over-giving and helping when nobody asked

• seeing your mother as a woman, not only as your mum

• ending a marriage with love instead of a fight

• the moment she stopped people pleasing and started asking "how do I feel about this?"

• why she believes we are not broken

Find Elif at Confidence Magazine Official: https://confidence.elifkose.com/

International Women's Day event, 5 March 2027: https://iwd.elifkose.com/

Come and find me on Instagram @cometribewithme, where my door is always open 🧡

**A gentle note before you press play: this episode includes discussion of a controlling relationship and domestic violence. Please take care of yourself as you listen.

Taylor grew up with a single mum, not enough money and a whole lot of love. She was the good girl, the quiet one, the second mum who kept everyone calm and fixed whatever was falling apart.

Today she's a chartered accountant, a former CFO and a single mum of two, supporting women in business with their finances. But the road here wasn't simple.

In this honest conversation, Taylor shares how being the good girl shaped the way she loved, how she lost her family and friends inside a controlling relationship and found the courage to get out, and how, years later, she realised she'd slowly become the quiet version of herself again.

We talk about why putting yourself first isn't selfish, why grit will only get you so far, and why you were never meant to carry everything on your own.

If you've ever been the strong one who holds everyone else, this one is for you 🧡

Connect with Taylor: https://taylorsmithandco.com/Connect with Dominique: @cometribewithme

New episodes every Thursday.

What happens when a little girl learns that love has to be earned?

Marta Hyder grew up carrying everyone's emotions. She was the parentified child, her mum's best friend before she was ever just her daughter, and the lesson she absorbed was that love is something you deserve, not something you're given.

That belief followed her into two marriages. In this episode she takes us into the darkest chapter, the moment she finally saw the patterns she was repeating, and why she couldn't just leave. The new version of her had to be built inside that relationship first.

We talk about carrying what was never yours to carry, anger as a sign of broken boundaries, rebuilding safety in your body, and the work Marta does now helping women shed the identities that were never theirs.

Her message for you: you are enough, exactly as you are. Love is your birthright. You don't have to deserve it. 🧡

Find Marta: https://www.thethrivinggoddess.com/

Find me on Instagram @cometribewithme, my door is always open.

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*A gentle note 🧡 This episode includes abuse, grief and loss, a brief mention of suicide, and spiritual themes including mediumship. Go gently.

What happens when your life looks perfect from the outside, and you feel completely lost inside it?

In this episode, Dominique sits down with Lis, born in Argentina, now living as a nomad around the world, for a raw and expansive conversation about survival, self-abandonment, and the long journey back to yourself.

Lis shares what it was like to grow up raising herself in a disrupted home, always in survival mode, searching for love and worth in the wrong places. She opens up about a deeply painful marriage, the moment in a boutique hotel in Bali when she realised she was living in a golden cage and no longer recognised herself, and the turning point that finally set her free.

You will hear how she rebuilt her life as a single mother, started over financially from nothing, and slowly found her purpose, learning to stop playing small, to walk through her fears, and to step fully into who she came here to be. Lis also speaks openly about her lifelong experiences as a medium, and how embracing that part of herself became central to her healing.

This is a conversation about survival, self-worth, walking through fear, and the courage it takes to come home to yourself.

Come Tribe With Me: Real Healing Journeys Honest conversations with people who lost themselves and found their way back.

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What happens when you have never really known who you are outside of a relationship?

In this episode, Dominique sits down with Gemma, a spiritual coach originally from the UK, now living in Cambodia, for an honest conversation about sensitivity, self-abandonment, and the long journey back to yourself.

Gemma shares what it was like to grow up as a highly sensitive child in a world that felt overwhelming, with very young parents who were doing their best without the tools to understand her. She talks about the great grandmother who showed her what unconditional love felt like, learning that love meant self-sacrifice, and how she came to seek validation and comfort by outsourcing it to romantic relationships from the age of fifteen.

You will hear how she moved to the other side of the world to build resilience, why she never felt she belonged, her later understanding that she is autistic and had been masking for years, and how the end of a long relationship finally forced her to meet herself for the first time. Gemma speaks openly about the wounds that surfaced, learning that love has to come from within first, and choosing a season of being alone to build a deeper relationship with herself.

This is a conversation about sensitivity, self-trust, breaking the pattern of seeking yourself in other people, and coming home to who you really are.

Come Tribe With Me: Real Healing Journeys Honest conversations with people who lost themselves and found their way back.

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Work with me: https://start.cometribewithme.com/Work with Gemma: https://gemmalouisecoaching.com/

**A gentle note before you listen: this episode includes discussion of a cancer diagnosis and divorce. Please take care of yourself as you listen.**

She left a marriage, rebuilt her identity across continents, survived divorce alone, and then found out she had breast cancer, all while raising her daughter in a country that was never supposed to become home.

Mari's story is a raw, unfiltered look at what it takes to stop outsourcing your life to relationships, survive the moments that break you open, and finally choose yourself. If you have ever felt stuck in a role that was never really yours, this conversation will hit hard.

Dominique sits down with Mari, originally from Brazil and now living in Australia, to unpack the long road from people-pleasing and transactional love to self-trust, boundaries, and real emotional freedom. Mari shares how growing up in a busy, unaffectionate household shaped her early beliefs about love, why she married to leave home, and how living in South Korea became the first real chance to discover who she was.

You will hear how that pattern followed her through Singapore and Australia, why her divorce became the turning point that forced her to build a life on her own terms, and how she navigated a brutal cancer diagnosis in silence while balancing single motherhood, recovery, and survival mode. She also reveals the unexpected role fitness played in helping her reclaim her body, her confidence, and her sense of belonging.

Along the way, Dominique and Mari explore how healing can look messy, nonlinear, and deeply personal. This episode is for anyone rebuilding after heartbreak, navigating identity loss, or learning how to trust themselves again.

Mari's journey is proof that even after divorce, illness, and years of starting over, it is still possible to come back stronger, clearer, and more fully yourself.

Come Tribe With Me: Real Healing Journeys Honest conversations with people who lost themselves and found their way back.

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Mari's Instagram: @mari_walks

*A gentle note before you listen: this episode includes discussion of sexual assault and working in the sex industry. Please take care of yourself, and come back to it another time if now is not the right moment.

What if the answers you are searching for are already inside you?

In this episode I sit down with Zoe from Eternal Life Coaching (@eternallifecoaching) for an honest conversation about self-trust, inner knowing, and coming home to who you really are.

Zoe shares what it was like to grow up being told that her quieter, softer nature was wrong, and how she learned to perform a version of herself that felt more acceptable. We talk about masking, the exhausting belief that you have to carry everything alone, and the moment she started to question the patterns she had inherited.

She also opens up about consciously choosing her relationship, learning to receive support instead of blocking it, and trusting the quiet inner knowing that had been there all along.

A conversation about self-trust, letting go of who you were told to be, and remembering that some part of you already knows the way.

Come Tribe With Me: Real Healing Journeys Honest conversations with people who lost themselves and found their way back.

Instagram @cometribewithme 🧡

Have you ever lost yourself while being the strong one for everyone else?

In this episode, Insa @the.motherless.voice shares her healing journey - growing up in a home shaped by addiction and emotional absence, and how those early experiences quietly shaped the patterns she carried into her adult relationships.

Her insight is one that stays with you: healing isn't about fixing what's broken. It's about understanding our past, so it stops silently steering our present.

A conversation about the stories we carry, the cycles we inherit, and how understanding them becomes the first step home to ourselves.

“Come Tribe With Me: Real Healing Journeys” - Honest conversations with people who lost themselves and found their way back.

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