Feelings with Strangers

Feelings with Strangers

CONSCIOUSNESS & WELLNESS

Episodes

June 28, 2026 88 mins

In this episode, I speak with Veda Austin - water researcher, speaker, and one of those rare guests who can move from the deeply personal to the deeply metaphysical without losing warmth or clarity. What begins with a near-fatal story from her youth opens into a wider conversation about forgiveness, self-trust, consciousness, healing, and the intelligence that lives within water.

Veda reflects on surviving trauma, forgiving the un...

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What if manifestation wasn't about magical thinking at all, but about learning how to work with your own mind?

In this conversation with Brian Withers, we unpack energy, alignment, desire, resistance, and the stories we've inherited about suffering. They move past the usual language around "raising your vibration" and get into something far more practical: how your thoughts shape your emotional state, how your emotional state shape...

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What if the conflict in our relationships is not really between men and women, but between the parts of ourselves we have never learned how to bring together?

In this conversation, I sit down with Justin Patrick Pierce, relationship consultant, teacher, writer and long-time student of sacred sexuality, intimacy, polarity and non-duality.

Justin’s work moves beyond the usual conversations around masculine and feminine. He is n...

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Losing Weight & Building Muscle

Mind Mind-set matters | Exercise and the placebo effect

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17425538/

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What if you could become younger, lose weight, and build muscle without treatments, calorie counting, or working out?

In this conversation, I sit down with MikeyBreathes - a teacher, traveller, unintentional provocateur, and one of the more unique voices in the modern health and embodiment space. Mikey’s work sits far outside the usual language of wellness. He is not speaking about another supplement, protocol, diet, or bioh...

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In this conversation, I sit down with Brian Withers, author, life coach, and creator of Higher Vibrations Now, to explore manifestation from a different lens.

Manifestation, not as wishful thinking. Not as forcing the universe to give us what we want. But as a deeper education in thought, emotion, vibration, and the power we have to choose the meaning we give to life.

Brian’s work centres on personal empowerment, that our emo...

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What if time isn’t just something we move through, but something that lives inside us? In this conversation, I sit down with Bryan Hubbard, philosopher, journalist, author, and the creator of Time-Light Therapy, to explore the idea that trauma may not simply be stored in the body but expressed through our relationship with time.

Bryan’s work turns much of the conventional language around healing on its head. Rather tha...

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In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan, a practitioner of Chinese medicine, a researcher of human potential, and someone who, quite literally, had her world turned inside out through a single, profound experience during meditation.

What followed wasn’t a neat spiritual awakening. It was years of questioning… of trying to reconcile what she had felt. A state of complete love, peace, and contentment ...

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April 27, 2026 15 mins

There’s something unsettling about how little we actually understand hydration.

We’ve reduced it to numbers… Two litres. Eight glasses. Tick the box and move on.

But what if that’s not hydration at all?

What if the real question isn’t how much water you drink… but whether it ever truly reaches your cells?

In this episode, we explore a deeper idea, that the body isn’t just chemical, but el...

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There’s a quiet tension running through the world of health and wellness right now. On one side, endless protocols, supplements, and optimisation. On the other… a growing sense that maybe it was never meant to be this complicated.

In this conversation, I sit down with Greg, known to many as The Hydrogen Man, someone who has spent over a decade working at the edges of what’s considered possible. What he’s un...

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Ya’Acov Darling Khan, a shamanic teacher and co-founder of Movement Medicine. In this conversation, we explore what it really means to be human, as something lived, embodied, and felt. We speak about the deep necessity of integrating our past, not bypassing it, not transcending it, but transforming it into something alive within us.

As Ya’Acov shares, every experience we’ve lived holds the potential to become med...

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Questioning what we’ve been taught - not out of rebellion, but out of a quiet sense that something deeper is missing- is what Eric Laarakker has spent his life doing.

In this conversation with Eric, a man whose work moves between science, nature, and something less easily defined. What begins as a discussion around water slowly opens into something much wider, a reflection on how life organises itself, how information moves ...

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What if ageing is not what we’ve been told? What if longevity is not simply about extending lifespan, but about the quality of presence we bring to life itself?

In this solo episode, I explore the deeper architecture of health, ageing, perception, and what actually shapes the body over time. Moving between science, spirituality, direct experience, and cultural critique, I ask whether much of what we call ageing is not a ...

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Could removing limiting beliefs or processing trauma be as simple as noticing where your eyes rest?

Dr David Grand, the founder of Brainspotting, has shown that it might be. Brainspotting is a therapeutic approach designed to access and process trauma held deep within the nervous system.

David shares the story of how Brainspotting was discovered in 2003 while working with a competitive ice skater who had developed an unexplained pe...

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What if the quiet presence of the dog beside you, the horse in the paddock, or the birds outside your window is not the absence of language, but a language we’ve forgotten how to hear?

In this episode, we have one of the pioneers of modern animal communication, Penelope Smith — a teacher, author, and trailblazer whose work has helped thousands of people redis...

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What if you’re not seeing with your eyes at all?

In this conversation, with Dr. Jacob Israel Liberman - optometrist, vision scientist, mystic and author - explores light, perception, intuition, healing and the quiet intelligence that breathes us.

Jacob’s journey began in conventional science. Trained as an optometrist and researcher, he built his career around the mechanics of vision - lenses, retinas, prescriptions. Bu...

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Ellen has spent decades studying what happens when we stop moving through life on autopilot. When we stop treating our assumptions like facts. When we replace certainty with a simple act: noticing. In this episode, we talk about mindfulness without meditation—her version of mindfulness that doesn’t require silence or a retreat. Just attention. Just the willingness to admit: I don’t know.

We move through her iconic...

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What happens when the cultural story of “we’re all the same” collides with biology?

World-renowned relationship expert John Grey explores what has changed, and what hasn’t, since Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus reshaped the conversation on modern relationships.

Together, they move beyond slogans and into the deeper architecture of connection: hormones, polarity, evolutionary biology, childhood imprin...

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Lynne McTaggart is an investigative journalist-turned-consciousness researcher whose work lives right on that edge where science, healing, and the mystery of being human start to overlap.

Lynne is best known for The Field, and The Intention Experiment - and for taking a question most feel:  What if thoughts and intention don’t stay inside us? What if they have influence and reach we can only begin to imagine? In this co...

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Today’s conversation is with Hitesh Bhatt - the voice behind Echoes of Existence, a YouTube channel and podcast dedicated to spiritual inquiry, self-realisation, and inner transformation.

Hitesh calmly speaks to the things we tend to avoid - death, fear, suffering, and the pressure of trying to “get life right”. He has this rare ability to make the big existential questions feel… workable. 

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