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Storyteller Jess Molina is pioneering what it means to influence consciously. Apr 17, 2021

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An honest conversation with conscious influencer, storyteller and founder of Loudly Quietly, Jess Molina.

Have you ever wondered how influencers choose projects and for the more conscious creators out there, the vetting process they go through when deciding whether or not to work with a brand? Jess is a guiding light on these topics.

In this honest conversation, Jess shares openly and honestly across a broad range of topics related to fashion, writing, influencing and inclusion —including the day she saw the Jess in her mind reflected back at her in the mirror — financially supporting her family and the subsequent guilt that can come with spending on herself, her advice to people who want to write but are struggling to find their voice, transparency around gifting on Instagram, how she’s navigated pricing herself for influencer projects, moving beyond diversity and inclusion as an initiative and into an ethos, reclaiming the word fat and her advice to anyone who is struggling to develop a loving relationship with their body.

In a reality where influencing has become a viable career path, Jess is the example of the type of influencer we should be following and celebrating.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo

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JANE Magazine’s Annika Hein on backing yourself & self-funding your idea. Apr 03, 2021

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An honest conversation with fashion magazine co-founder and creative director, Annika Hein. In this episode, Annika shares the importance of backing yourself and self-finding your idea, the risks involved in starting your own business and how to maintain your creative integrity — especially when there’s real money on the table.

JANE Magazine is a Melbourne-based, biannual fashion and fine art publication shot on film and printed on paper. The magazine explores the disciplines of art, photography, fashion, philosophy and poetry.

Sounds a bit intimidating, right? Turns out Annika is anything but. Get ready to hear from a funny, down-to-earth, thoughtful and generous woman who isn’t scared to say what she really thinks.

We cover some incredible ground in this honest conversation, including Annika’s pregnancy, a 36-hour home birth that ended with an emergency transfer to hospital, what she and partner Odin learned from living slowly in country Victoria, navigating perfectionism and a sometimes brutal examination of self, how she maintains her creative integrity while building and funding a business, the risks they took to launch issue one of the magazine and what starting her day with rituals helps her to achieve.

Please note: Before they get onto business, Annika is an open book about her home birth experience. If pregnancy and birth is either triggering or irrelevant to where you’re at right now, please navigate this episode using the timestamps below.

Moving to the country: 00:06:30 – 00:24:13

Pregnancy and birth: 00:24:00 – 00:46:20

Maintaining her creative integrity: 00:46:38 – 00:57:00

The risks involved in launching issue one: 00:57:00 – 01:07:15

Allyship and advocacy: 01:07:15 – 01:15:31

Morning and evening rituals: 01:15:31 – 01:33:42

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Over 3.5 million people follow The Holistic Psychologist on Instagram, here’s why. Mar 20, 2021

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If you aren’t one of her 3.5 million followers, I am very excited to introduce you to Dr. Nicole LePera. She’s The Holistic Psychologist on Instagram and through her conscious protocol, is pioneering a new pathway to healing which starts and ends not with doctors and medication, but with us. Her community identifies as Self Healers.

If you’re seeking out knowledge and experiences with the intention to heal, you’ll be familiar with the phrase “doing The Work”. We hear it often, but rarely can anyone define it for us. What is it? What does it involve? And how do we know we’re doing it right?

Dr. LePera responds to our collective needs with her first book, aptly titled How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self. Available now, she describes it as an accumulation of the knowledge of the interconnectedness between our physical bodies, our mental or emotional worlds, and the very thing we explore here on Offline — our True Self. Our soul.

It’s quite literally the bridge between spirituality and clinical psychology so many of us have been searching for.

In this episode, we explore the book and what it has to offer, and I also get Dr. LePera’s advice on the topics you sent in. Reparenting and inner child work, anxious attachment, navigating low self esteem, self healing after sexual abuse, how to establish boundaries with your boss, overcoming generational trauma and more.

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Alison xo

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Yan Yan Chan on her year of healing. Mar 06, 2021

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In this special Self Care Sundays mini-series produced by Studio Offline and in partnership with Estée Lauder, I sit 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.

My next guest is creative director, photographer and fashion influencer, Yan Yan Chan. One of Australia’s most-followed fashion influencers, Yan Yan opens up about the importance of taking time to look inward and ask questions, so we can make contact with our authenticity and our why.

Like it was for so many, 2020 was a year of intense introspection for Yan which included therapy, time with a healer and a lot of time alone deciding what type of woman and creator she is truly destined to be.

Through this self work, Yan Yan found her voice.

She also shares the important role confidence plays when it comes to her mental health, the business of influencing, how to pitch to clients, leaning into advocacy, navigating self development while in a relationship and what she does to deepen her relationship to her Chinese heritage. I am very thankful for Yan’s honesty and trust.

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Alison xo

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Bobby Clark on speaking your truth & why we need to stop trying to do the “right” thing. Feb 20, 2021

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An honest conversation with artist, photographer and mum, Bobby Clark. In this episode, Bobby encourages us all to speak our truth and shares why we need to stop trying to do the “right” thing. She also encourages us to make mistakes because they help us discover the thing that makes our work unique.

Bobby is one of Melbourne’s leading artists, but as she so beautifully demonstrates in this episode, her paintings aren’t the only thing she has to say.

This conversation is full season six energy. Unbounded, unscripted and real. Bobby and I speak for 90 minutes and every one of them is worth your time. Why? Because it’s important that we hear what a truly empowered woman sounds like without the filter and controlled messaging.

From boobs and bodies, pregnancy and pregnancy loss, sex after birth, dealing with judgement from strangers on social media, therapy, love, the complexities of the art world, pricing her work, feeling embarrassed about her work, navigating not being taken seriously as an artist… it’s all here.

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Alison xo

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Natalie Fornasier on living with stage four melanoma. Feb 06, 2021

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In this honest conversation, Natalie Fornasier opens up about living with stage four melanoma and what she’s learnt actually matters in life.

Natalie is a talented young writer and self-described skinfluencer (the sun safety kind) who is using her growing social footprint to advocate for those experiencing chronic and terminal illness.

This honest conversation focuses on the present. On surviving. On what it means to accept your own mortality. Nat opens up about her relationship with death, the spectrum of diversity through the eyes of the chronically ill, navigating friendships that aren’t equipped to hold space for her experience, how she, in turn, thinks about holding space for her partner’s experience both within her illness and also separate to it, what it’s really like trying to establish a career when you have cancer and what she’s learnt actually matters in life.

Every episode of Offline seeks to educate and inform, but I hope this one also offers perspective. When we really get down to it, what else matters but our health and the health of the people we love?

We know we can prevent skin cancer. Melanoma is the third most common cancer in women. Please wear sunscreen and keep your precious skin out of the sun.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo

Natalie sadly passed away in early 2023. May she rest in peace.

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Racial justice educator & spiritual activist Rachel Ricketts on doing the work. Jan 23, 2021

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We’re starting season six as we intend to finish — by listening and learning, and then moving into informed, intentional action. In this episode, I interview racial justice educator, attorney, grief coach, healer and author, Rachel Ricketts, about acting in allyship to Black, Indigenous, People of Colour vs. allyship, and what “doing the work” actually looks like for white people who hold the most power and privilege.⁣

She educates that we all rise when white people undertake the work of racial justice, and that when white people truly do this work, everything in their lives will change. They must also be prepared to lose things – friends, money, time, identity – and if they’re not, they’re not committed to racial justice.

But, there’s more to gain than there is to lose.

Rachel’s new book, Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy, is directed at white people but is for Black, Indigenous, People of Colour. She discusses what that means in this episode, educating that white people can’t be allies, but they can act in allyship. She also shares that white people must have a tolerance for f*cking up because they will. The need to be right can not supersede the commitment to racial justice, and that a white person’s fear and discomfort isn’t life-threatening but being a Black, Indigenous, Person of Colour is.

Rachel asks that we do this work with a deep lens of compassion. Her book Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy is available to pre-order now and hits shelves February 2, 2021.

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Alison on imposter syndrome, communicating authentically online & how to develop confidence. Nov 14, 2020

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I'm closing season five with an Ask Me Anything episode. I answer 15 questions sent in by you — my cherished listeners.

Topics include overcoming imposter syndrome and negative thought patterns, why we need to find our fulfilment within, staying positive when trying for a baby, how to develop confidence, what areas of myself I'm working on, the leadership resource that helped me the most, tips to communicating authentically online, the way I think about building a conscious business and where I believe authentic creativity comes from.

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Artist Rachael Sarra on creativity, commercialisation & her advice to emerging artists. Oct 31, 2020

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An honest conversation with proud Goreng Goreng woman and contemporary artist and designer, Rachael Sarra.

In many ways, this episode stands for the complexities that come with the commercialisation of creativity. We also get a small insight into the deeply nuanced responsibility and pressure that comes with being a young, Aboriginal artist with a fast-growing Instagram following.

In this honest conversation, Rachael opens up about the relationship between energy, inspiration and emotion when it comes to creating, the good and bad of using Instagram to grow a conscious business, the importance of pulling out of jobs that become unaligned, why cultural protocols will always come before creation, overcoming her fears about how she might be perceived based on her commercial decisions and why her ancestors aren’t just part of her spirituality, they are her spirituality.

She also shares her personal experience with land ownership, online dating in 2020 and beyond, and gives some sound advice to young creatives trying to establish themselves in an era that’s increasingly governed by comparison.

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Vedic astrologer Dalia Gencher on evolving beyond our karma. Oct 17, 2020

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An honest conversation with Vedic astrologer and holistic kinesiologist, Dalia Gencher.

This episode is for anyone who is looking for higher answers to questions like:

What is karma and can we overcome it?
What is purpose if it’s not actually linked to our careers?
How do we align to what is most evolutionary for us?
How can we use our birth chart to find direction and clarity?
Cosmically, what happened in 2020 and what can we expect in 2021?

With reverence and respect, we also explore the ancient, Indian spiritual practice of Japa — one of the most profound Yogic technologies accessible to us. It has the power to completely rewrite the neural pathways in our brains.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo