Courage and Spice Podcast

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Hello, guys and gals and non-binary pals! You are warmly invited to Courage + Spice: the podcast for humans with self-doubt. You can expect inspiring interviews with ace humans + evidence-based approaches for you to try. If self-doubt is holding you back personally, relationally, creatively or professionally, Courage + Spice is especially for you.

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Sas Petherick

Previous Guests

Sarah Vermunt
Sarah Vermunt is a career coach and the founder of Careergasm, where she helps individuals navigate their careers. She has written books about careers and contributed columns to major publications such as Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, Fortune, and Fast Company. Sarah has also had a regular coaching segment on television in Canada. Recently, she has experienced psychic clairvoyant visions, leading her to move to a small town and start a venture called Psychic Normies, where she assists others in developing their intuitive abilities.
Ali Shapiro
Ali Shapiro is a deeply experienced coach specializing in the intersection of food, psychology, and behaviour change. She holds multiple certifications in integrated nutrition and has a master's degree in human behaviour. With over a decade of experience working with clients, Ali founded the Truce with Food coaching methodology, which reflects her passion for helping individuals navigate their relationships with food and their bodies.
Samantha Dhu
Samantha Dhu is a Psychotherapist, Mentor, and Facilitator of Permission. She is a passionate advocate for being radically kind and compassionate to oneself. As a highly sensitive person, she emphasizes the importance of embracing one's unique needs, particularly in relation to ADHD. Sam is also a mother to two children, Amelie and Frankie, and she shares her journey of navigating success while being sensitive and ambitious.
Tamu Thomas
Tamu Thomas is a transformational somatic leadership coach, the eldest daughter of West African immigrants, a mother, a speaker, and a published author. Her first book, 'Women Who Work Too Much', helps overachieving, overfunctioning women set boundaries, find joy, and flourish. Tamu's work focuses on addressing the challenges faced by women, particularly those in their 40s and 50s, as they navigate the complexities of work, rest, and personal fulfillment.

Topics Discussed

clairvoyance energy work intuitive community energy alignment psychic readings intentional weight loss diet culture body stories long term health emotional eating fitness health highly sensitive person ambition success softness sensitivity psychotherapist ADHD self-compassion neurodivergence self-love weight loss body image food psychology behaviour change coaching transformational coaching boundaries joy overachieving women natural productivity radical rest menopause parenting work-life balance

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0:00 54:20

Clairvoyance for Normies with Sarah Vermunt

Hosts
Sas Petherick
Guests
Sarah Vermunt
Keywords
clairvoyance energy work intuitive community energy alignment psychic readings

Sarah Vermunt is a longtime pal, career coach and the founder of Careergasm. She's written books about careers and columns for Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, Fortune, and Fast Company. She’s had a regular coaching spot on the tele in Canada.

Three years ago, out of the blue, Sarah started having psychic clairvoyant visions. She did not see this coming. Since then, life-long City-dweller Sarah has moved to a small town with a vibrant community of witches (it sounds a lot like Stars Hollow). She is now helping other newly awakened intuitives through her side quest venture: ‘Psychic Normies’.

Sarah and I chat about:

* The rise of clairvoyance and energy work over the last few years.

* The importance of discernment in the intuitive community.

* The need for energy alignment (especially with mentors).

* How to navigate chaotic times, with Sarah sharing her vision about what 2025 holds for us all.

Resources for you:

* Psychic Normies

* Book a personal energy reading with Sarah

* Sarah’s career coaching work: Careergasm

* Sarah on The Gram



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0:00 1:01:05

Under nourished to moderately active with Ali Shapiro

Hosts
Sas Petherick
Guests
Ali Shapiro
Keywords
intentional weight loss diet culture body stories long term health emotional eating fitness health

Content note: This episode includes discussions around intentional weight loss and diet culture, and therefore contains some swearing.

This episode is part of a podcast series called The Body Stories. I’m joined by my beloved friend and fellow coach, Ali Shapiro. Over the next year, Ali and I will have an occasional and ongoing conversation about the nuanced relationship with our bodies. These are tender conversations, and at times, I will be in the coaching client seat. Our hope is that listening in will spark your own exploration of your body story.

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In this second episode, we talk about:

* Lizzo’s ‘weight release journey’ and the public conversations over private choices.

* This month I realised I didn’t really know what creating long term health looks like, and so I decided to work with a coach.

* The emotional response I had to a community walk (there are tears!).

* A big old protective belief that has shifted for me.

* And the identity level stories about fitness and health that are slowly changing.

Mentioned in this Episode:

* Connect with Ali here.

* Ali’s upcoming program: Your Emotional Eating Blueprint: Why Am I Eating This Now?

* Lizzo’s conversation with Jay Shetty: YouTube

* Jay Shetty backstory: Guardian article

* Let’s Get Triggered: Oprah, Ozempic and our Outrage

* The Body Stories Ep 1: Can you love yourself and want to lose weight?



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0:00 41:37

How to be Softly Successful with Samantha Dhu

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Samantha Dhu
Keywords
highly sensitive person ambition success softness sensitivity psychotherapist ADHD self-compassion neurodivergence

As a highly sensitive person, Sam Dhu believes it is possible to be deeply ambitious and successful AND soft and sensitive at the same time.

Sam is a Psychotherapist, Mentor, and Facilitator of Permission. Mum to eight-year-old, Amelie and two-year-old Frankie, and passionate advocate for being radically kind and compassionate to yourself.

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We chat about how to acknowledge our individual capacity to create a life that feels "soft and successful." Many of us don’t have time, the capacity (and maybe even the desire!) for traditional approaches to achieving success, and rather than making ourselves wrong, we can be much more creative in how we do this on our terms.

Sam shares her journey of embracing her ADHD diagnosis and how the more she has accepted that her brain and nervous system have unique needs, the more successful she has become.

This is where things get really fun: being compassionate with yourself when something isn't working or it's feeling hard, opens you up to your individual, unique needs, so you can get curious about what does work.

This is such a reassuring and nurturing conversation for anyone who wants to create success on their terms. I just know you’re going to love Sam!

Resources for you:

Sam mentioned these assessment tools for sensitivity and neurodivergence:

* Highly Sensitive Test self-report

* ADHD self-report

To connect further with Sam:

* Website

* Find Sam on The Gram

* If you are looking for support, this looks delicious: Slow: the Mastermind



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0:00 56:06

Can you love yourself and want to lose weight? with Ali Shapiro

Hosts
Sas Petherick
Guests
Ali Shapiro
Keywords
self-love weight loss diet culture body image food psychology behaviour change coaching

Content note: This episode includes discussions around intentional weight loss and diet culture, and contains some swearing.

This is the first in a new podcast series called The Body Stories with my beloved friend and fellow coach, Ali Shapiro. Over the next year, Ali and I will have an occasional and ongoing conversation about the nuanced relationship with our bodies.

Ali is a deeply experienced coach whose work sits at the intersection of food, psychology, and behaviour change. Ali holds multiple certifications in integrated nutrition, and her master’s degree is in human behaviour. She has over a decade of work with clients and founded the ‘Truce with Food’ coaching methodology. This work is Ali’s love language!

To give you some context for this episode: I first went to Weight Watchers aged 11, thus began my on-off ‘its complicated’ situationship with the worst of bad boyfriends: diet culture. It’s been hard won, but these days, I have an appreciative and compassionate relationship with my body, and I feel so free of diet mentality.

I also have a complex heart condition, and losing body fat will reduce the burden on my heart. At age 51, I want to lose weight in order to build a strong body that my 81-year-old self will be so proud of. As I embark on this process of intentional weight loss, a lot of old stuff has come up. So far, this process has contained a lot of surprising realisations, story rewrites, and tentative healing.

In this first episode, we set the scene for this ongoing conversation. We talk about:

* Diet culture as “thin at all costs”

* Feeling peace within our bodies

* What does it mean to trust your appetite?

* How I’ve changed my eating habits

* Why restriction is different from deprivation

* Doing the “good thing” vs actually feeling good

* Finding satisfaction in our day-to-day

* Letting go of the Weight Watchers “walk of shame”

This podcast series was sparked by our private chats where Ali’s support has been rich with insight. Our conversations felt so nourishing I invited Ali to make this a public chat.

These are tender conversations, and at times, I will be in the coaching client seat. Our hope is that listening in will spark your own exploration of your body story.

Mentioned in this Episode:

* Connect with Ali here.

* Ali’s upcoming program: Your Emotional Eating Blueprint: Why Am I Eating This Now?

* That Sugar Film



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0:00 47:59

Women who do too much with Tamu Thomas

Guests
Tamu Thomas
Keywords
transformational coaching boundaries joy overachieving women natural productivity radical rest menopause parenting work-life balance

Tamu Thomas is a transformational somatic leadership coach, the eldest daughter of West African immigrants, a mother, a speaker, and now a published author!

Tamu’s first book, Women Who Work Too Much, helps overachieving, overfunctioning women set boundaries, find joy, and flourish.

This conversation was a balm, and I suspect fellow Gen X women in particular, will feel seen and understood. We are the generation that grew up being told we could have it all. Now, we find ourselves in our 40s and 50s—often our most creatively fulfilling years - doing too much during menopause while parenting teens and caring for parents and wondering why we are so bloody tired.

In this conversation, we discuss natural (rather than toxic) productivity, radical rest, and why work (not overwork) can be a positive thing.

This is such an important conversation for those of us who have blurred the boundaries between work, rest, and play (me, too!).

Resources for you:

Women Who Work Too Much by Tamu Thomas

Tamu on Instagram @tamu.thomas

Tamu on TikTok @tamu_thomas



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4.9 rating 271 reviews

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