Mel Bampton Presents...How Human

Have you ever experienced such a deep belief in where you thought you should be in your life, who you should be but it didn't come to pass? When something didn't go your way, how did you peace with the new outcome?
Sherrie Laryse spent a lifetime knowing that her life would contain a certain something; and that that something was part of her life's purpose. But life itself (or Wendy as Sherrie likes to call it) had a different plan.
This is an adventure across decades of wanting, of seven years of trying and the process of readjusting to a new self-identity, wading through oceans of disappointment. It's a guidebook to changing your own mind when the mind is suffering, when it's snagged tightly onto something that will not come to fruition. This is a learning of how to let go, for your own good, of knowing when to stop trying, and of how to not just reach peaceful acceptance but harness all of that flailing energy and transform it into a new life purpose.
Sherrie Laryse is an Author, Emotional Intelligence Teacher, hardcore meditator, Science Yogi, Neuroscience student and first and foremost, she is a Mum. With a twist.
Contact Sherrie at www.sherrie.com.au
Find her book On Path here.

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

What happens when you’re on a very straighty one eighty trajectory climbing the conditioned tiers of Christion upbringing, devoted wife, mother and Corporate CEO and then for the first time you take magic mushrooms at a festival in Portuagal and you have your mind blown out of the crown of your head, along with everything that was programmed into you to that point, and suddenly all you thought life was, is no longer holding true?
For Trauma-Informed Educator, Holly Rhodes it set in motion an odyssey of grand exploration - uprooting everything in her luxurious very corporate London life to find out what the hell happened in that pyschedelic experience and found herself going so deep into different spiritual studies, to living life between her new found place in the Kimberley region of northern Australia as well as with the phenomenal Aboriginal Women Elders of Balgo, who schooled her about life, the universe and everything, in one of the most remote Indigenous communities, with some of the most powerful law and knowledge keepers, in the world. This is a story of going where you never thought your life could go, to places and people you didn’t even know existed, by giving yourself permission to simply step through those doors one after another as they open up in front of you and find a purpose that no school counsellor ever offered up as possibility.
Special and vital acknowledgment to the Law Women of Kapululangu and Auntie Alison and the Mutitjulu Law Women for the work they do with the women's culture camps. If you're interested in the next one 28th March - 1st April 2023, you can email [email protected] for more info & the application form. More amazing camps planned in The Kimberley next year!
Holly Rhodes is a therapist who incorporates ceremonial healing, integrative therapies, community development and spiritual healing. She weaves a wealth of knowledge and experience into cultural immersions with Australia’s First Nations women.
Holly spent over 4 years intensively training and finally initiated in Peru as a Currandera working with sacred plant medicines, she continues to offer traditional cultural experiences to Peru. For the past 9 years she has been intermittently living with and supporting the first contact Aboriginal Law Women of the Western Desert in Western Australia with their traditions, law and culture. She currently co-ordinates Women’s Culture Camps at Uluru with senior Elders who hold traditional Law ceremonies, in addition to deep for healing for participants.
Holly studied her own European culture through a degree in Art History and English Literature at Roehampton University in London. S
She is a Founder of the Strong Leeyan Collective, an initiative to support the development of Wellbeing and Empowerment hubs throughout the Kimberley where people can heal and educate themselves to be empowered in living more sustainably.

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Is there any more difficult terrain to navigate as a human being, than heartbreak? That wretched feeling when you know something has to end, it’s crushing, you feel your whole world tilting sideways and you know that things will never be the same – whether that’s because of an event, someone has crossed a line that there’s no going back from or because of the slow corrosion of a relationship dying over time.

How good would you say you are at breaking up? What feelings does the very thought of a breakup initiate in your body? Are you in the pain of separation right now – at the start, the thick heavy going middle or the time of grief that comes with the spaciousness of the definitive end? How are you holding up? Are you separating as well as you'd like?
In this episode of How Human, we’re looking at How To Break Up Well.

Nikki Parkinson is a Divorce and Separation Doula, Coach, Strategist, Parenting Coordinator, with 30 years of experience in Family Law, she’s spoken at TEDx on these topics but her biggest learning curve was her own divorce. Nikki. During one of the hardest times of our lives, can we go into it - despite all of the hurt - with the goal of doing it well and achieve a wonderful outcome?

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Okay. This episode is very different. It is both very personal but also prolific. I would really, really like you to tune into this one...

In 2018 an extraordinary little foundation that I had been in awe of at a very close level for nearly a decade – for their small all-female team of brilliant scientists, their incredible support of innovation, capacity to fundraise and of course, the integrity and commitment they had to environment – received a whopping $443 000 000 from the federal government. What should have been an incredible moment for the reef, became an all out brawl. There was the suspicion that came from the lack of tender process, the fact that the money was coming from the Liberal Govt not known for it’s support of environment and of course the uproar from other larger organisations in the marine space that demanded to know why this little not for profit was getting money they of course wanted.

At the heart of it was this passionate team who had up until that moment simply been in their lane doing everything they could to protect the reef, right up until the moment they received the email that told them the news. On that team, was my number one mentor, one of my dearest and absolute favourite humans in the world: the Executive Director of Projects & Partnerships, Theresa Fyffe.
If you've known me personally in the last 25 years, you’ll have heard me speak about her with immense admiration for her integrity, sickening work ethic and mind-boggling commitment to her crusade of making the world a better place. If you knew me pre the last 25 years, you’ll know we used to smack the shit out of each other.
This is an interview with a personal twist BUT Theresa is one of the most tenacious and curious intellects I’ve ever known, her story travels from the western suburbs of Brisbane to falling pregnant at 16, becoming one of the youngest heads of a university department in QLD history, to East Central Africa, Saudia Arabia, to addressing the UN in front of thousands to take the plight and protection of the Great Barrier Reef worldwide

Get your snorkel on and take a deep breath, you’re going to need it, as we dive into the story of one little western suburbs kid who could.

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The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety

Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Why has Lissie chosen to chat with this very rugged looking bloke? Well hopefully by now you’ll trust me enough to know that if they’re a guest on this pod, there’s something a little bit rich and special lurking not far beneath the outer crust. Luke Andrews or Blue as his red hair has demanded he be called in this country, is like that in so many ways. At his heart a very soft, thoughtful and kindness driven human, who puts being in service at his centre but on the surface, that may look a little different.

As a former Special Forces soldier, who’s entire adult life, until recently, has been defined by that very strong identity, Blue on the surface is all braun, muscle and short back and sides but underneath lurks a funny, light-hearted and deeply caring human.
Blue is one of the Founding Directors of the Krait Foundation, helping retired Special Forces Soldiers find their feet in their new future and an all-round legend.
If you're wanting your spirits lifted about humans, especially big strong ones who are geared for kindness, settle in and enjoy the excellent company of Blue, and if you want to find out more - check out https://tkf.org.au/

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Follow Mel Bampton for upcoming opportunities to support you to become a Master of Change:

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• Subscribe to the website & get Mel's free 'Slaying Bad Habits Ebook'

Catch some of Mel's presentations:

The Uncensored Truth About Ovaries
Message From The Bottle: Stories Of Sobriety