The Empowered Women Life Leaders Podcast

In this episode of The Empowered Women Life Leaders Podcast, host Karen Bashford shares her deeply personal journey of breakdown, healing, and breakthrough. She explores how slowing down, surrendering, and questioning long-held beliefs can transform pain into peace. Karen also introduces the Sloth or Beaver Toolkit, a powerful self-discovery tool designed to help you uncover patterns, release old stories, and step into the life you...

In this episode of The Empowered Women Life Leaders Podcast, host Karen Bashford sits down with Lottie Moore, a modern-day Celtic medicine woman and Grand Master Fire Walk Instructor. Lottie shares her journey from the mountains of Africa to the sacred landscapes of Ireland, revealing how indigenous plants, fire walking, and a deep relationship with the land can ignite transformation. Discover the ancient wisdom we’ve forgotten, ho...

In this uplifting solo episode, Karen Bashford shares how a spur-of-the-moment trip to Sicily turned into a powerful lesson in self-belief. From navigating foreign roads and unexpected challenges to climbing 84 stairs to her apartment, Karen reveals how trusting yourself—and taking things one step at a time—can transform fear into confidence.

Full of real-life anecdotes, gentle humour, and inspiring takeaways, this episode will rem...

In this inspiring episode, Karen Bashford speaks with Kay Reeve, a mentor, breast cancer survivor, and domestic abuse warrior. Kay opens up about her harrowing experiences of physical and emotional abuse, the trauma of sexual violation, and the long-term health consequences of suppressing her truth.

With raw honesty and grace, she shares how she found the courage to escape, rebuild her life, and now support others through their hea...

What Is Your Body Really Telling You?

In this deeply personal solo episode, host Karen Bashford explores the powerful connection between emotional trauma and physical illness. Drawing from her own life experiences, Karen shares how suppressed emotions—especially those tied to rejection, fear, and anger—can manifest in the body as everything from sprained ankles to autoimmune disease and migraines.

Through raw reflection and metaphy...

Menopause, Misunderstood – A Conversation with Michelle Rowlinson

In this powerful episode, host Karen Bashford is joined by Michelle Rowlinson, bestselling author, senior MSK physiotherapist, and menopause wellbeing educator. Michelle opens up about her seven-year battle with undiagnosed perimenopause symptoms, the toll it took on her health, relationships, and career, and how it led her to become a passionate advocate for menopau...

This week, The Empowered Women Life Leaders Podcast chats with Marian Egan, Energy Healer, who shares how her life has been affected by the death of her brother when he was under her care. 

Seeking to heal herself from the trauma of her childhood, she began painting, which led to her creating healing cards which incorporate frequency numbers. 

Karen and Marian discuss the emotions associated with trauma and how we can heal ourselve...

Want to know why you're really getting sick? In this raw, personal episode, I'm revealing how our emotions literally create our health. From my painful divorce to an autoimmune disease, I'll show you how every ache is your body's secret language - screaming what your voice can't. It's not just medical talk; it's a heart-to-heart about listening to yourself and understanding how unresolved feelings become physical symptoms. Your bod...

This week's Empowered Women Life Leaders Podcast features Sarah Kent, a former astrophysicist and meteorologist who transitioned to becoming a wild soul coach. The conversation explores Sarah's journey of leaving her civil service job, living on a narrowboat, and developing a unique coaching approach that combines scientific thinking with intuitive wisdom. Key themes include:

1. Personal transformation and the courag...

Spot the Red Flags: Change Your Relationships, Change Your Life

In this episode, intuitive therapist Karen Bashford reveals the red flags we often ignore in relationships — and how recognising them early can change everything.

From subtle warning signs to mindset shifts that break toxic patterns, Karen shares practical insights to help you protect your energy and choose better connections.

Start seeing the signs — before they becom...

Welcome to The Empowered Women Life Leaders Podcast with your host, Karen Bashford.

In today’s episode, I’m joined by the deeply intuitive and inspiring Susanne Wiechert — a woman who brings a whole new meaning to healing through creativity. Susanne combines the power of energy work with her original paintings to guide women through emotional transformation and personal awakening.

Susanne Wiechert, recently named Therapeutic Arts P...

This week, Karen dives deep into a powerful and often overlooked part of our healing journey: your Inner Child.

She unpacks how the unresolved emotions, beliefs, and patterns from your early years could still be shaping your relationships, self-worth, and even your success today.

In this episode, you’ll discover: ✨ What your Inner Child is really trying to tell you ✨ How ignoring her can hold you back ✨ Gentle ways to start reparen...

Relationship expert Puya Delavar joins host Karen Bashford to reveal the secrets of saving struggling relationships. Drawing from his personal journey and 10 years of research, Delavar shares insights into why couples disconnect and how to rebuild emotional connections. This episode explores:

• Effective communication strategies

• Understanding relationship expectations

• Overcoming personal and family relationship patterns

Empowering You: Reclaiming Your Voice, Power & Purpose”

In this powerful solo episode of The Empowered Women Life Leaders Podcast, Karen Bashford speaks directly to women who feel like life is just happening to them—stuck in cycles of people-pleasing, self-doubt, and silence.

Karen draws from her own lived experience and work as an intuitive therapist to ask the big questions: 🔹 What does it mean to truly empower yourself? 🔹 ...

In this episode, Understanding Your Trauma, we begin an honest, compassionate exploration into the experiences that shape us. Trauma doesn’t always come with obvious scars, it can sit silently beneath the surface, influencing how we think, feel, and live. I’ll guide you through how trauma impacts the nervous system, self-perception, and decision-making and how recognising it is the first step to healing.

This is not about blame. It...

Struggling with weight gain, energy dips, or stubborn health issues in midlife? You're not alone — and you're not out of options.

This week, Karen Bashford sits down with Maries Fraser, a passionate advocate for intermittent fasting, to explore its real-world benefits for midlife women. From boosting energy to supporting sustainable weight management, Maries shares how fasting isn’t just another fad — it’s a powerful tool for thriv...