An internationally recognized expert on ageism, Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. She speaks widely at venues that have included the TED mainstage and the United Nations, and is at the forefront of the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and to dismantle it.
Here’s an excerpt from her website home, which hit me smack between the eyes, and was a spectacular leaping off point for our chat:
"It’s not HEALTHY to go through life dreading our futures.
It's not being women that makes life harder for women, it is sexism.
It is not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, it is homophobia.
It’s not the passage of time that makes getting older so much harder than it has to be, it is ageism.
DISCRIMINATION IS THE PROBLEM, NOT AGING. Makes barriers acceptable. Shame and fear creates markets, and capitalism always need new markets.
Aging is not a problem to be fixed.
It is a natural, powerful, lifelong process.
In this ep, we speak about:
- Who benefits from ageism and all other isms
- Ashton’s response to the concept of “anti-aging” in the beauty industry
- Her perfectly put response to someone asking “Is that appropriate at your age?”
- How the older the person, the less their age reveals about them — because we grow more different from one another over time.
- Challenging the status quo of aging is negative to “aging is living”
And so much more status-quo challenging gold.
Listen in to this episode at:
Listen to Ashton Applewhite’s TED Talk “Let’s End Ageism” here
Read Ashton’s Book “This Chair Rocks: A manifesto Against Agesim” here
Check out Old School: The Anti Ageism Clearinghouse here

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Ange is an Advanced Sports Dietitian with over 15 years of experience working extensively with elite female fitness and figure athletes as well as fitness centres and celebrities for transformation campaigns. She helps active women over 35 understand their physiology, use it to their advantage and uncomplicate nutrition for sustainable results to nourish a high performing lifestyle.
She runs her own bespoke N=1:1 Nutrition to Soar consulting business from Brisbane, Australia, and has recently launched a successful active women (35-65 years only) online group course, educating women on the foundations of female nutrition and how to understand and work with their unique physiology for maximal results as they age.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Ange's Franco heritage and coming from a family of elite athletes had Ange grow up in an atmosphere where food is simply fuel and a delicious vehicle for connection and celebration
- the deep discomfort of being forced to subscribe the "common weight loss advice" to eat far less whilst working as a new graduate in the weight loss industry, and how this ultimately served as the driver behind Ange's decision to do nutrition "her way" and breaking all the rules
- so mush status-quo challenging gold that has her defy all the 1200 calories, starve yourself to stay as lean as you possibly can be diet culture BS out there, and the true cost of this deprivation has on our bodies as they age and transition through the perimenopause years and beyond
- the key "health ingredients" - think of it like a health cake - a batter of nutrition foundations, the icing of consciously fuelling your exercise and the final sprinkles of specific supplementation where nutrition alone is not enough - NEWSFLASH starting with the sprinkles without the two steps before is NOT going to help you lose weight or be healthier, because there's so much more to the puzzle.
- why an essential thread of what she teaches is how women can harness their menstrual cycle for the spectacular superpower that it is, how most nutrition and even exercise advice is based on studies of men, and how the fact that we are not just little men and are very different physiologically means we need F E M A L E specific support.
- the damage we can even unwittingly create when congratulating people on weights loss, and how we have to stop this obsession with the [weight or appearance = worth] equation, starting with how we speak to our daughters and grand-daughters about how they "look pretty"
and finally Ange and my common bond of the magic which comes from combining evidence-based science with side salad of "woo-woo" to help w

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THE HEALERS, REBELS + REVOLUTIONARIES GUIDE TO SWAPPING COOKIE CUTTER COPYWRITING FOR the power + magic of storytelling

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✍️ The difference between copywriting + storytelling, and how you're repelling your ideal people when you're using one-size-fits-all copywriting that doesn't feel like you

✍️ Storytelling structures you (may not know, but already love) from movies and exactly how to use these structures in your business, to share stories and build know, like and trust with your community and

✍️ The 6 soul-fuelled stories you should be sharing right now, so you can be magnetic to the people who need + want you the most

Elle Steele is a 5-time Australian Swimming representative, Paralympian and Gold medalist, who now works in the personal development space as The Self Belief Agent, energy healer and motivational speaker. Born with a congenital disability called Arthrogryposis, Elle’s life has been full of moments of great joy and sadness due to the continual change in her physical capabilities.
Living on the Surf Coast in Victoria, Elle’s life mission is to show others that despite all the heartache we may face, if we can be brave to heal our hearts, the ripple effect of this will help to heal the world.
Oh My Stars - you know when you have those "relationships" with someone on social media and you've watched so much of their content, it's totally like you have already met them, and then you realise you haven't and they're not aware that their your insta BFF? Well that was me and my Elle Steele "relationship" so it was a whole new level of treat to meet this spunk of a soul today and record our episode.
We cover so much ground in this one - all the way from spiritual awakenings, disability "decision makers", and Elle's first download of her Starseed origins, including:
- The journey from a Australian repping, Paralympian sporting career to the shoulder injury which led to Elle's connection to her psychic abilities gifts and a beautiful Christmas shopping story of her connection with her also-psychic grandfather
- How Elle chooses to lean into love as opposed to anger when met with ignorance or increased attention of her body, and how choosing this response allows love and curiosity to flow to her in turn
- How Elle's congenital disability literally shaped her first seconds here on earth and impacts of living in a body which happens to have a disability in a society which (still in 2023, which is totally gob-smacking to me!) automatically labels disability as a negative thing and different bodies as wrong
- How Elle is now "out and proud" with all aspects of herself including both her professional business background and her psychic nature, but how this was not always the way. We also go on a thought-provoking tangent around how Self Belief has to be the foundation for business.
- How right in the middle a fave movies, that Elle received the very first download of information from the Pleiades and her realisation she was a Starseed who chose to create controversy and invite people to heal themselves as a gateway to healing the Collective
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Listen to Elle's TedX - Dance with Disability here,
Find Elle online here,

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THE HEALERS, REBELS + REVOLUTIONARIES GUIDE TO SWAPPING COOKIE CUTTER COPYWRITING FOR the power + magic of storytelling

⬇️ Download your ONCE UPON A TIME storytelling guide here to learn ...

✍️ The difference between copywriting + storytelling, and how you're repelling your ideal people when you're using one-size-fits-all copywriting that doesn't feel like you

✍️ Storytelling structures you (may not know, but already love) from movies and exactly how to use these structures in your business, to share stories and build know, like and trust with your community and

✍️ The 6 soul-fuelled stories you should be sharing right now, so you can be magnetic to the people who need + want you the most

Whilst we take a break in between Season 3 and Seasons 4 of the podcast, host and storyteller Kylie Patchett shares some of her top Messaging + Marketing for Healers + Helpers in our Winter Storytelling Series in 6 snack-sized parts:
Pt 1 - Your Gifts are Meant to be Delivered to the World
Pt 2 - YOU are the secret sauce
Pt 3 - If You're Magenta, WTF Are You Writing Like You're Vanilla?
Pt 4 - Be Yourself, Everybody Else is Taken!
Pt 5 - I WANT to be a Thought Leader ... but ...
Pt 6 - Fortune Favours the Brave
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Also mentioned in this Winter Storytelling Series
- Get the first 2 chapters of Sam Garcia's book REGENERATIVE BUSINESS & unleash the abundance, fulfillment, and impact you crave here https://www.thedirtyalchemy.com/free-chapters
- Find Sam and Simone Seol's workshop Cold Pitch Magic here https://www.simonegraceseol.com/pitch
- Grace Hypnotherapy on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWZzF07Bdot09RvnbBuAa5A
- Emotional Freedom Technique - The Tapping Solution including app
https://www.thetapp

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THE HEALERS, REBELS + REVOLUTIONARIES GUIDE TO SWAPPING COOKIE CUTTER COPYWRITING FOR the power + magic of storytelling

⬇️ Download your ONCE UPON A TIME storytelling guide here to learn ...

✍️ The difference between copywriting + storytelling, and how you're repelling your ideal people when you're using one-size-fits-all copywriting that doesn't feel like you

✍️ Storytelling structures you (may not know, but already love) from movies and exactly how to use these structures in your business, to share stories and build know, like and trust with your community and

✍️ The 6 soul-fuelled stories you should be sharing right now, so you can be magnetic to the people who need + want you the most

YA adventure/fantasy author Mariska Anderson shares her story of the quest to find her "worthiness switch".
During this episode Mariska and I chat about:
- What she describes as her big leap, which led to a deep hole which she is now very proud to have climbed out of, and the breadcrumbs of this road which have ultimately led to her delivering her writing gifts to the world.
- Her dislike of labels (bios included) and how these feel like unattainable, unreachable (not to mention boring!) boxes which limit her self-expression- Seeking worth outside of herself, and the feeling of “fumbling around in the dark trying to find the worthiness switch”, despite living an outwardly successful academic career and achieving a PhD in sustainable agriculture.
- The next step after academic career, which including qualifications in many coaching modalities and another dark moment of the soul in terms of physical and financial burnout
- The unfurling of Mariska’s pattern of waiting for someone else to bestow her worth or their approval, her subsequent allergy to institutions and the freedom this has opened up for her as an author
- And the guiding light of Mariska speaking about how alive and real her characters are to her, anyhow this is the culmination of all the precious things that brought her deep contentment and joy from her childhood.
This is such a heart-warming, illuminating conversation.
Thank you Mariska for sharing your story with us.
You can find Mariska’s pride and joy - the first (self published - screw the publishing institutions!) book in the Kismet Map series: Olivia Jones and the Boone & Crockett Kismet Map, here.

Join SEEN from November 15-25 for $33 — an 11-day voice + visibility activation for disruptors, rebels, and revolutionaries like you - so you can EXPAND your capacity to be seen, heard and recognised as the thought leader you were born to be. Head to www.kpkreative.com.au/seen to book your spot.

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THE HEALERS, REBELS + REVOLUTIONARIES GUIDE TO SWAPPING COOKIE CUTTER COPYWRITING FOR the power + magic of storytelling

⬇️ Download your ONCE UPON A TIME storytelling guide here to learn ...

✍️ The difference between copywriting + storytelling, and how you're repelling your ideal people when you're using one-size-fits-all copywriting that doesn't feel like you

✍️ Storytelling structures you (may not know, but already love) from movies and exactly how to use these structures in your business, to share stories and build know, like and trust with your community and

✍️ The 6 soul-fuelled stories you should be sharing right now, so you can be magnetic to the people who need + want you the most