Offline, The Podcast

[I’m Offline With. . .]

Welcome to a new Offline series called I’m Offline With. . . These episodes are produced by Studio Offline, and in partnership with a founder, leader or entrepreneur that will help us on our way.

Between each season, Alison sits down with someone who has started a conscious business so we can learn from them, and in return, they get to share their story and what they’ve created with you.

Alison’s first I’m Offline With. . . guest is the delightful and determined Jose Bryce Smith. Twenty years ago she co-founded Australia’s first natural hair salon, where harsh chemical formulations were replaced by high performing colour created in-house. It included natural extracts, minerals and native Australian ingredients. Today, we know it as Original & Mineral (O&M for short), with brand extensions in colour, styling and education.

Here’s why O&M is important — to those of us listening who have ambition to start a conscious business, and to the health of anyone who colours their hair. O&M is PETA-approved, leads innovation in the natural hair care space globally and it is founded by a generous woman who wants to share her start up story so we can learn from it.

Alison has been using O&M for the best part of a decade, so it was truly a thrill for her sit down with the brain behind a brand that celebrates hair as a health choice. It’s time we all got real about it. We read so many warnings about the dangers of using parabens, sulphates and other harsh chemicals on our skin — but what about our hair and our scalp?

In this honest conversation, Jose brings incredible insight into what it means to found and fund a multi-million dollar business, how to think about taking investment, what she had to sacrifice, the times she got it wrong, how she uses the Emotional Freedom Technique to reprogram her thought patterns, and so much more.

• Find out more about O&M
• Follow Jose on Instagram

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Host Alison Rice closes season three with another Ask Alison episode, dedicated to Offline’s beautiful and nourishing community. She put a call out for questions on Instagram, and answered 11 across topics including true self, spirituality and personal development.

From her own journey to feeling more spiritually expressed, to her advice on how to begin exploring what spirituality means to you, her definition of soul, how her life has changed since starting Offline, her biggest “ah-ha” moment, how sets up her day for success, her advice on finding love and fulfillment, how to find like-minded people, how she feels when she sees pregnancy announcements on Instagram, what she’s learned about leading teams, and much more.

Season four of Offline commences in November 2019.

If Alison’s honest conversations have helped you and you’re in a position to, please consider kindly donating to help fund season four.

• Follow Alison on Instagram

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Become a student of Self Study

If you’re interested in learning about True Self, conscious success and more, consider becoming a student of Self Study — a series of considered online courses.

Book a coaching session

Offline’s host, Alison Rice, is an award-winning leader and conscious coach. She offers personal coaching sessions. Find out more or book directly.

Early access

For early access to new episodes of the podcast, Self Study learning opportunities and Offline events, follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice on Instagram or Facebook.

Share with those in need

If you know someone who would benefit from hearing these honest conversations, please share Offline with them.

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In this special Self Care Sundays mini-series produced by Studio Offline and in partnership with Estée Lauder, host Alison Rice sits down with some of the brand’s inspiring ambassadors and friends to have an honest conversation about their careers, businesses, life on the other side of the filter, fashion, beauty and... confidence.

What does confidence really mean to women and what does having it help us to achieve?

The topic and series celebrates Estée Lauder’s Double Wear Foundation, a product that allows women to wear confidence and feel empowered to take on the day.

Alison’s next guest is personal shopper to the stars and fashion entrepreneur, Gab Waller. She got her big break sourcing and “Old Celine” coat for Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in 2018, and hasn’t looked back. She now has a team of six helping her to respond to hundreds of personal shopping requests each day.

In this episode, Gab opens up about what confidence means to her, how she’s seen fashion change a woman’s perception of herself, her breakthrough moment, why it’s so important to push through rejection, how she’s thinking about scaling her business, building her support team, how to develop deep relationships with clients and brands, the lessons she’s learnt the hard way, the importance of discretion in her business and how she’s thinking about circularity in our need-it-now consumer culture.

• Follow Gab on Instagram
• Explore Gab’s range of shopping and product sourcing services
• Treat yourself to a bottle of Estée Lauder Double Wear Foundation

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Become a student of Self Study

If you’re interested in learning about True Self, conscious success and more, become a student of Self Study — a series of considered online courses.

Book a coaching session

Offline’s host, Alison Rice, is an award-winning leader and conscious coach. She offers personal coaching sessions. Find out more or book directly.

Early access

For early access to new episodes of the podcast, Self Study learning opportunities and Offline events, follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice on Instagram or Facebook.

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If you know someone who would benefit from hearing these honest conversations, please share...

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To close season six, host Alison Rice dedicates her Ask Me Anything episode to her little girl, Betty.

So often, the stories we hear about pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period are negative and fear-based. Alison’s experience has been more soft than hard, and so she hopes that sharing a different perspective might help other women feel more excited than scared about this new chapter.

In this extended episode, Alison answers listener questions about her pregnancy, navigating pregnancy anxiety, her labour preparation, hospital bag must-haves and why she believes she had a soft and positive postpartum experience.

She also talks about the sense of perspective she has following two pregnancy losses, the life lessons she hopes to teach her little girl, her thoughts on her career and earning after having a baby, the products she’s loved, the books she read, her emerging parenting style, and opens up about Betty’s personality and what she looks like.

Below is a list of everything Alison refers to in this episode, plus a few extras she forgot to include.

Books

• WOT Baby ebook
• I didn’t mention it in the episode but loved Dr. Harvey Karp’s Happiest Baby On the Block for general info and newborn settling techniques
• Ten Moons
• Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth
• Spiritual Midwifery
• Spirit Babies
• The First 40 Days
• The Motherhood (would have liked more positive stories though!)
• The Montessori Baby

Conception

• We saw an IVF specialist after our second miscarriage for testing: AMH levels, reproductive carrier screening, sperm DNA fragmentation test
• I had weekly acupuncture from ovulation until week 12, then moved to fortnightly, then monthly during the third trimester. I see Jade at The Whiteowl Clinic

Pregnancy

• Our OB is Dr. Alex Owen
• Acupuncture with Jade at The White Owl Clinic
• I had a few osteo sessions to support some pelvic pain and one session after birth. I saw Nadia (French and amazing) at Sydney Osteopathy in Bondi Junction

Labour Preparation

• Epi-No Childbirth Trainer
• Perineal massage
• Labour preparation session with a women’s physio (to test pelvic floor and learn how to push correctly)
• Hypnobirthing course with Lillian from Woven
• Antenatal classes through the hospital

Hospital Bag

• I laboured in a black crop top and black maternity underwear
• Papinelle pajamas and robe
• Depends underwear
• Toms maternity pads. I then wore ModiBodi when I got home from the hospital
• Diffuser and lavender essential oil
• Portable speaker and charger
• Phone...

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My next guest is someone my sister suggested I follow a while back, and I’ve been obsessed with his signature style of spirituality even since.

Sah D’Simone is a Brazilian-born meditation teacher based in Venice Beach, California. He’s also a bestselling author, transformational speaker and coach.

He’s worked with the likes of Kanye West, Cardi B and Google, but as you’ll soon hear, those names were never on his career vision board. For Sah, True Self Success starts and ends in service.

Sah developed his personal equation for liberation through desperation. He said that even in some of the most enlightened rooms in the world, he experienced the same kinds of psychological and verbal oppression he experienced in the non-spiritual rooms in his life. So he created the Spiritually Sassy method, which, in its simplest form, helps people be themselves. It’s been described as a life-embracing path to awakening in modern times.

There’s so much for us to learn in this episode. He talks about starting and growing a spiritual business, learning to dance with fear and the uncertainty that comes with entrepreneurship, how to create from a place of abundance vs. scarcity, altruism as the ultimate strategy and so much more.

I hope this episode helps you on your way. Thank you for being here.

Alison xo

• Read Sah’s new book
• Find out more Sah’s Spiritually Sassy School
• Follow Sah on Instagram

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Offline is a resource for anyone evolving beyond the traditional ideals of success, to explore professional pathways that are more aligned to their true nature, unique gifts and passions.

Visit www.getoffline.co to learn more about Alison’s career coaching, professional development opportunities and community experiences, or follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice.

Alison Rice acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which she creates today, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. She pays her respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

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