I’m recording this episode from a campsite, cough and all 🏕️ After three weeks of a cold that refused to let go, I can finally feel the cloud beginning to lift, and I wanted to share where my heart has taken me.

Back in May 2026, I gave myself a weekend alone in Maroochydore, imagining beach walks and a good book 🌊 Instead, a clairvoyant reading opened something deep within me. One simple question, ‘Can I boil an egg?’, showed me how often I have been lying to myself. That night I couldn’t sleep, so I journalled and journalled until the truth was impossible to ignore. I wasn’t happy living in Gympie, even though I had always been told to be grateful for everything I had ✍️

With my daughter Shauna’s help and a pen and paper, my dream finally felt possible. By 16 September, exactly three years to the day after moving in, the house was sold and settled, and Russell and I had bought an apartment at Kings Beach to call home between adventures 🏡 I feel a little like a gypsy now, finally having the gap year I never had after leaving school in Year 10 💫

In this episode I share the joys and the wobbles of my first two weeks on the road. There’s the tent peg drill that saved Russell and me an hour 😄, the thongs that hurt my feet until my Havianas came back to me, learning to stay hydrated in the dry outback heat, and cold afternoon swims with dollar icy cups that made me feel like a child again 🍧 I also open up about how I started to doubt myself when other campers commented on my big setup, and how I’m learning there is no right or wrong way, only what feels right for me and my little turtle 🐢

Today at Porcupine Gorge, swimming in nature without my swimmers and sunbaking on a glorious rock, I felt like myself for the first time in months ☀️ After all the doing, my nervous system is finally starting to soften.

Coming up next is Episode 71, Caroline’s story, a conversation that reminded me exactly why I do what I do with Heart Felt 💛

I am learning that following my heart is the bravest journey I have ever taken 🌿

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In this episode I had the honour of sitting down with Justine Davis, a brand strategist and the creator of Magnetic Visibility School, and by the end I had tears in my eyes more than once 🥹 I loved hearing Justine's story unfold, from building a fashion brand overseas and tasting early success, to realising she wasn't happy in the journey and eventually burning out because she wasn't in alignment with her purpose 🌿 It was so moving to hear her speak so honestly about that chapter, and about how it shaped the work she does now helping business owners find clarity and become magnetic through alignment rather than performance ✨

We spoke about motherhood too, and I was so touched by the way Justine described becoming a mother as something that expanded her heart and her capacity in every area of her life 🤍 She shared a story about her father that stayed with me long after we finished recording, a handwritten note he'd left behind that simply said I can do anything, and how that belief in people is something she now carries forward in her own work 📝 There was so much wisdom in the way Justine spoke about fear, about doing the scary thing anyway because it matters, and about the small daily practices, meditation, gratitude, journaling, that keep her feeling grounded and true to herself 🌸

I left this conversation feeling so full, and so grateful that Justine trusted me with her story today 💫

Until next time, I'm taking care of my heart, and I hope something here reached yours too 💛

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In this solo episode I open up about what has been stirring in me as I prepare for the road ahead 🚐💛 With travel and downsizing on the horizon, and an apartment waiting for me on the other side, I have been sitting with all the little things that keep surfacing along the way. I have come to understand just how much joy I find in markets and retail therapy 🛍️, and I am having to ask myself what that part of me will do when there is no space left to hold anything new. I have been noticing my attachments, my comfort in having things around me, and the quiet fear of a void where that feel-good feeling used to live. I have realised I am not quite the minimalist I once believed myself to be 😅, and that this next chapter is going to teach me in ways I could not learn any other way. Through it all I keep coming back to what feels light rather than heavy 🌿, and I am letting myself feel into every decision instead of rushing past it.

I do not have all the answers yet, but I am trusting that this unfolding will bring its own kind of clarity 🤍

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