It's our Season 1 Finale! For our last episode, we're reflecting back on the lessons I've learned over the past year in Life, Love, & Self. I share how Stoicism has changed my outlook on life, and how I've learned to embrace my next chapter - whatever it might be.

A true deep dive into my most inner thoughts and vulnerabilities, this episode delivers huge insight into my growing mindset and how I've learned to question, challenge, and accept my evolving self.

This episode features Katrina, as she gears up for a very Monumental Moment: moving overseas. She shares how she’s using fear to drive her further by embracing the unknown and riding the life’s momentum to the fullest. 

It’s easy to find safety in comfort, but that’s not where the best experiences lie. We discuss finding the balance between not regretting our choices, but also knowing when to take the right risks.

We talk about backing yourself, and how you are your biggest motivator. By acknowledging that you got yourself to where you are, you can get yourself to where you want to go. 

This episode is about AJ's journey towards achieving his childhood dream of becoming a pilot in the military. No easy feat, it's been a collection of failures, challenges, and setbacks. Despite this, his outlook has always remained positive and his dedication towards his goals has never wavered.

In this episode, AJ shares how he's remained determined and persevered through each of life's curveballs. We discuss how prioritising your purpose requires a level of sacrifice, and how failure should only push you to keep going.

If you have an empathetic nature, struggle with perfectionism, and avoid conflict, chances are you're a people pleaser. It's not necessarily a bad thing, however constantly putting others first can become a chronic habit to break.

In this episode, my guest Tracey and I discuss the ways our people pleasing-ness presents, and how it's affected our identities. Tracey shares her strategies and tools in building healthy boundaries in order to protect ourselves. We talk about what it means to be an over thinker, and discuss how to establish your circle of control in order to help manage better expectations.

In last week's episode we reflected on our past relationships. This week, we're looking forwards! How much weight should we put on compatibility vs connection? Is it possible to have more of one than the other? We ask ourselves if love should be easy, or earned. Can relationships be easy without the effort, or does every relationship require a level of compromise?

Finally, I share the three top qualities that I value most in a relationship, and how I'm learning to reframe the qualities I disliked about myself, into ones that I can now embrace.

This episode is the first of a two parter! In part 1, we talk about the lessons we've learned from previous relationships, and learning when to commit, versus when to call it.

We talk about why closure is important to us, how our long term values have changed, and why honest communication is always the way - even if it hurts.

Today's episode is all about the delicate dance between being a realist and romanticist. Is it possible to be both? How do you know when you're expecting too much, but accepting too little?

We discuss the influence Rom-Com movies have had on our perception of love, and the impact our attachment styles have had on our relationships. We unpack the unhealthy patterns we've found ourselves in, and how we've worked to rewire our mindset and rebuild a life that better serves us.

For our first episode, I share one of my biggest turning points - the ending of a 10 year relationship, a cancelled wedding, and starting all over again.

Do you ever think about those turning points in life that impacted your sense of self? Those transformative moments that guided you to rediscover your essence, rebuild your identity, and find your purpose?

I’m currently on that very journey. Wanting to document my journey towards healing and finding myself, Monumental Podcast was born.

Each episode, we'll explore topics that have influenced my pathway towards self discovery. I may not have all the answers, but each of my guests bring with them their own wisdom and insight through embracing their own journeys.

Season 1 explores elements of self discovery including reinvention, rebuilding and recalibration. Join us as we explore the moments that impacted us, and the lessons they left us.