In this deeply moving conversation, Liv sits down with Arabella Oz, a longtime client, creative and filmmaker, to reflect on five years of working together through huge life, identity and creative shifts.

They explore what changes when a woman stops living by shoulds and begins listening to desire, how long-term mentorship supports real transformation, and what it looks like to follow a soul-led creative path even when it asks everything of you.

Arabella shares the arc from her early years of living in tension with herself, through reclaiming desire as an inner compass, to building a beautiful life, marrying her partner, leaving her therapy practice, making her first feature film, and seeing it premiere at her dream festival.

This episode is about creative courage, devotion, pacing, self-trust, spiritual leadership, and the power of staying the course.

In this episode, we explore:

• what it means to move from conditioning into deeper self-trust
• desire as an inner compass rather than a frivolous impulse
• the difference between group work and one-to-one mentorship
• why long-term support creates a different kind of transformation
• the courage required to follow creative callings
• the spiritual and emotional reality of making a film
• becoming the woman who can hold bigger dreams

Timestamps

00:00 Pre-conversation check-in and arriving together
04:31 Arabella shares the emotional context she is in personally
10:36 Setting intentions for the conversation
18:19 Official podcast introduction
19:57 Introducing Arabella and the five-year journey
23:16 How they first met and what Arabella was looking for
26:56 Who Arabella was when she first began the work
31:08 Desire as a new language and way of living
34:06 Rebuilding life through listening to the inner compass
37:11 Gentleness, permission and ending the war with yourself
41:16 The energetic and ceremonial dimensions of the work
46:22 “It would be delicious to live there”
48:02 Following desire into home, love and marriage
49:16 Leaving a therapy practice to make a film
55:58 What filmmaking asked of Arabella as a leader
58:40 Becoming the divinely led filmmaker
01:00:52 Creativity as a spiritual path
01:02:01 Returning to centre inside the film industry
01:03:53 Decision-making, self-trust and waiting for clarity
01:05:47 Confidence that is earned, not performed
01:07:52 Letting yourself be a beginner
01:08:52 Reuniting for one-to-one work after a break
01:11:51 Desire, ceremony and claiming the dream festival
01:15:42 The vulnerability of wanting something deeply
01:17:47 Group work vs one-to-one work
01:21:08 The power of long-term mentorship
01:24:30 What happens when someone knows your whole arc
01:26:00 Arabella’s message to women considering the work
01:27:27 Gentle transformation and immediate nourishment
01:28:36 Maller’s Ghost and its SXSW premiere
01:29:47 Liv reflects on seeing the finished film
01:32:54 Invitation to book a Deep Dive
01:33:56 Closing reflections on bringing creative work into the world

Mentioned in this episode

• Mallory's Ghost by Arabella Oz currently premiering at SXSW Film Festival.

If this conversation stirred something in you and you’re navigating a threshold of your own, you can begin by booking a Deep Dive with Liv. This is a 75-minute session to map what you’re moving through, understand the patterns at pl