Offline, With Alison Rice

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Checking in with Eleanor, Sara & Beck. Dec 03, 2022

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Dearest you.

Eleanor Pendleton, Sara Crampton and Beck Wadworth are three of Australia’s most successful women’s lifestyle influencers but they’re also three women I am grateful to call my friends.

It’s been years between honest conversations and like so many of you, the four of us have moved through a lot — sustaining businesses during a global pandemic, pregnancy and sadly, pregnancy loss, birth, the first months and years of motherhood, terminally ill parents, the death of someone we love and the grief that follows — all while doing our best to show up for our teams, our communities and business’ missions.

The girls and I put it all on the table and we hope in doing that, we provide you with a rich entry point into feeling more seen and heard within your own life experiences.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo

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Checking in with Zoe Marshall. Nov 05, 2022

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Dearest you.

A very warm welcome to season eight of this beautiful and ever-evolving podcast.

This episode is part of a brand-new series called Checking In With, where I touch base with some of Offline’s earliest guests to hear how they’re doing today, what they’ve moved through since we last spoke and of course, how their definition of success has evolved in and around the rich texture of their life experiences.

This very first checking-in episode is with one of my best friends, Zoe Marshall. She was Offline’s fourth guest way back in season one. Zoe is my emotionally safe friend and while I didn’t realise it when I asked her to record with me, that’s really what this episode is about – friendship – and how important it is as aware and ambitious people that we have those emotionally safe relationships that we can fall backwards into when we’re being stretched to a new edge.

I hope you adore this season’s honesty. I hope you feel the joy and the pleasure and the play I’m actively seeking following what has been a really hard couple of years. I also hope you adore the explorations into the darker spaces life leads my guests and I into as we seek to land more deeply into our True Self.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo

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Celebrating 100 episodes by listening back to the wisdom that moved us the most. Mar 26, 2022

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Dearest you.

One hundred episodes Offline, The Podcast. One hundred times I’ve had the privilege of holding someone’s story or extracting their wisdom. One hundred times it’s been my honour to serve beautiful you and your growth.

To celebrate Offline’s 100th episode, we’re going to honour this growing body of work. We’re going to honour the volume. We’re going to honour you and I, showing up for every episode and doing our work.

I hope you enjoy this little trip down memory lane to hear from the teachers and the healers whose knowledge and wisdom has created real and meaningful shifts in our lives.

Jeannie Bourke, Natalia Benson, Jerico Mandybur, Matt Ringrose, Nadine Jane Astrology, Manoj Dias, Jaclyn Michelle, Lara Briden, Dylan Smith, Penny Locaso, Carson Tueller, Dalia Gencher, Rachel Ricketts, Dr. Nicole LePera, Laura Poole, Sah D’Simone, Shaman Durek and Tori Washington — thank you.

And thank you for being here. Thank you for gifting me your precious time and your awareness. Thank you for letting me in so fully, so I can help you on your way.

Alison xo

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Part 2 ~ Matt Ringrose on why possessions, houses, crypto — all of it — will never bring us lasting fulfillment. Mar 12, 2022

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Dearest you.

Welcome back to part two of my honest conversation with a teacher of mine, Matt Ringrose. Matt initiated me as a Vedic Meditator in late 2018, and he’s been a steady counsel in my life ever since.

If you’d like to start with part one, here it is.

Having a conversation with Matt is never linear, and that’s what I’ve loved most about our chats over the years. In this most recent sit down, we discuss the powerful technique of letting go — something we are inviting you to learn how to do — and more specifically, what becomes possible when we let go of our professional attachments and the definitions of success that don’t serve our highest possible growth and evolution.

This episode begins when we were discussing how our expectations of life, work, business and self evolve as our state of consciousness evolves and increases. Which is perfect and relevant, but for me personally has sometimes had a bit of a melancholy flavour to it.

He also explains why acquiring things like cars, houses or even a private island aren’t the throughway to lasting fulfillment.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo

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Part 1 ~ Matt Ringrose on how to let go of all that’s holding you back. Feb 26, 2022

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Dearest you.

If you’ve been listening to Offline since the beginning or at least since season two, you’ll know about Bondi Meditation Centre founder and Vedic Meditation teacher, Matt Ringrose. He taught me this effortless meditation technique a few months after I launched the podcast in 2018, and it quite simply changed the direction and intention of my life, my work and how I define success.

Matt was just the type of teacher I needed at a time in my life when things felt really hard, sad, anxious and serious. Fast forward three and a half years and Matt remains a steady counsel in my life and also a friend.

We both received such a warm reception for our first episode, so it’s really an honour to bring you another honest conversation with Matt.

We spoke for two hours (!) so I’m publishing it over two episodes. This is part one. We covered a lot of really valuable ground but the thread that weaves its way throughout is letting go. How to let go of all that is holding us back and what becomes possible when we do.

Ok, here’s to letting go of our professional attachments and the definitions of success that don’t serve our evolution. I’m calling it professional peace.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo

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Shaman Durek on being your own damn guru. Feb 12, 2022

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Dearest you.

Now, while I can’t control how you’ll experience this episode, my hope is that it speaks directly to your innate deservingness for a life that is joyful and happy. That it encourages you to see what you do for a living as less about what you’ll get, and more about unlocking what you have to give. I hope this episode gives you the courage to create a life that feels like your own, not one that someone else suggested you live.

Shaman Durek is a sixth-generation Shaman, the founder of The Shaman School, and best-selling author of the book Spirit Hacking: Shamanic Keys to Reclaim Your Personal Power, Transform Yourself, and Light Up the World.

If I had to sum up this episode in a sentence, it’s about reclaiming our independence. And perhaps even more specific than that, our spiritual independence.

Shaman Durek is dedicated to giving people their power back. His wisdom and his work asks us to be our own damn gurus. He reminds us that we are the expert on us, and that if we choose to exist as the multidimensional beings that we actually are, then we’ll bump into happiness. We’ll feel the sense of fulfilment we’ve been seeking through otherwise unsustainable and oftentimes self serving and stagnant pathways.

He believes that success is no more than us being able to live in a place of joy, happiness, freedom and play within what we do. I’m in.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo

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A professional development space for the consciously ambitious. Jan 25, 2022

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Dearest you.

Thank you for being here. Let me share what you being here means.

It means you’re ready for your professional truth
It means you’re ready to align your profession with your essence
It means you’re done waiting for someone else to provide you with the professional development they promised, and that you’re taking your evolution into your own hands. Where it always belonged
You being here means you’re ready to claim your one big life
You being here means you want professional peace
You want more from your ambition. You want it to stand for something
You want more than the things that signify success today
You want to feel success
You also want to learn how to harness your ambition. To direct it into places and spaces that serve you and the evolution of all things
You being here means you trust me and that on some level, you value what I have to give

It’s my honour to share Off— with you. A professional development space for the consciously ambitious.

Part mentorship, part knowledge membership and part conscious professional network, Off— is my response to what you’ve told me you need: Mentorship. Strategic but conscious career and business advice. Thoughtful leadership. A network of conscious colleagues that will become your expanders and your cheerleaders.

Thank you for listening, you can register your interest in joining the next opening of Off— here.

Alison xo

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The business values & boundaries behind this founder’s 12-month waitlist. Jan 15, 2022

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Dearest you.

This episode is produced in partnership with Estée Lauder and is a continuation of our Self Care Sundays mini-series. Over four seasons now, it’s been an honour to sit down with some of the brand’s inspiring ambassadors and friends to have an honest conversation about self care, skincare, confidence and success.

My next guest is someone very dear to me. She was my moment of self care every eight weeks for two years when I was working as a digital publisher. I used to book her last appointment at 7pm and fall in a heap on her treatment bed. Her name is Diandra Politano.

A regular facial with Diandra was a luxury I could afford at the time, but for me, it was about much more than skin health. It was the way she cared for me. The way she rubbed my sore shoulders and massaged my hands. She led me into rest during a chapter of my life when I had an unhealthy addiction to my work.

Fast forward six years and Diandra is one of Sydney’s most in-demand facialists.

When I had this honest conversation with Diandra before Christmas in 2021, she’d already closed her personal book to new clients in 2022. I just thought that was so truly incredible. To be providing the kind of self care that people prioritise up to a year out.

There’s so many of us starting our own service-based businesses and all we could ever dream of is being booked out. Having that sense of financial security but also the feeling of confidence that comes when we can clearly see that people need what we have to give.

I hope you adore this honest conversation. We talk about the big resignation moment before starting your own thing. About business values and boundaries. About preserving our gifts. About setting the plan and getting comfortable with the unknown.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo

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Wealth embodiment guide Tori Washington on creating a wealth identity. Dec 18, 2021

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Dearest you.

Are you ready to receive? Because I want you to go into this honest conversation with an understanding that it has the potential to spark real and meaningful change in your life. Evolution. I was actually crying quietly in the background for a lot of this conversation.

Tori Washington calls herself a money medicine woman. She’s a business and sales mentor, and the founder of Wealth Embodiment Flow. It’s a somatic financial practice that exists to reprogram our relationship with money, and what it means to feel prosperous from a cellular level.

You know, I always talk about us all being loving ideas in the eyes of God. Speaking to Tori, I felt God in the room. She is such a steady and clear vessel, and being in the presence of someone who is here doing God’s work. . . It's rare. And that makes it energising. Exciting. Through mentors like Tori, we’re able to bear witness to what it looks and sounds like when we’re living in alignment with our true nature and using our unique gifts to serve.

This is Offline’s reason to exist.

This episode is dedicated to what it means and looks like to create a wealth identity from someone who has lived it herself. Tori filed for bankruptcy four years ago and at the time of recording, had just celebrated her first million dollar year.

Keep going. Don’t give up.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo

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Juliet Allen on how she uses visualisation & sex magic to grow her business. Dec 04, 2021

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Dearest you.

#Jalison is back. If you’ve listened to my first and second honest conversation with Juliet Allen, you’ll know about our cute nickname. We became fast friends after our first recording session and now I probably talk to Juliet more than I do Tony during the day. We’re both deep in our motherhood season and we also have really similar businesses, so we exchange voice texts all day about everything from what bibs we’re using, to what we’re currently creating and what we’re having for dinner. It’s nice.

If you don’t know about Juliet, she’s Australia’s leading sexologist, the founder of Pleasure School and The Juliet Pleasure Wand.

The last two times she’s been my guest, we’ve spoken about sex. This time, I invited her back on to talk about how she’s built and grown such a pioneering and progressive business, but also, to share what life and work looked like before the Juliet Allen we know today. She’s worked so hard to get where she is so I want you to keep that in mind.

Slow, meaningful, deliberate.

In this episode, we talk about authentic expression over having a social media strategy, how leaving a financially secure situation was the moment her business began to thrive, productising her brand and generating new income streams, how she uses sex magic, visualisation and manifestation to reach her goals, and why success has nothing to do with the amount of money in her bank account.

Juliet has been a huge expander for so many of us who want to use our unique gifts to serve, and to make a living while we do it. A big thank you to Juliet for opening up so we can all learn.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo