Didn't See That Coming Zoë Weldon

If you went to dinner with 20 strangers and couldn’t talk about work, what would you talk about? What would you reach for first to describe who you are, to create conversation, to connect? This is the concept behind Dinner With Strangers - the dinner series created by Jess Janz, that brings together a group of strangers for one night to be guided in thoughtful conversation. To do away with the small talk and dive deep with others.

Her last dinner...sold out in under 5 minutes!

In this episode, we dive, tangent and fall into:
- Her TikTok video that hit half a million views and launched her business
- Lighting her life on fire to get back to a creative life
- Being changed by the stories of others
- Surprising answers she’s heard
- Declarations for living a slow life
- Her advice on living 10% more connected

Plus, she reads us one of my favorite poems of hers: You Don’t Have to Know What You’re Doing With Your Life (love this permission!)

Also friends, I wanted to kick off the new year with this episode to remind you, and me, that focusing on living a slow and intentional life is a rebellious act of self love. An act you are so worthy of.




About Jess:


Jess Janz is a creative with a brave and wild heart. She’s a poet, a writer and a community facilitator. Her work examines identity, softness, and the communal ache that binds us all together. Jess is the founder of Dinner With Strangers, hosts a monthly Poetry Club for tender hearts, teaches online creative writing workshops, and as she says, she lives with her own company and her worry, for whom she is learning to make a soft bed.

To find out more about Jess and Dinner With Strangers, you can check out her website at https://www.jessjanz.com/
TIKTOK: @jessjanz
INSTAGRAM: @jessjanz

There is a serious health crisis happening globally and it’s not one we could expect - it’s loneliness. We all crave meaningful relationships but these days many of us are struggling to create and keep them during one of the most disconnected times we’ve been in. 

A solution that many people are turning to to find support with this are psychedelics. 

That’s why I asked psychedelic-assisted therapist Sabina Pillai onto the show. She’s facilitated over a 1000 ketamine-assisted therapy sessions, and has seen the incredible potential of psychedelic medicine to transform people’s lives and help move them towards greater wisdom, wholeness and…connection.

In this episode, we talk about:
- Our deep desire to know our true selves
- Difference between ketamine vs psilocybin
- Why vulnerability is a superpower
- Our universal desire for connection and what holds us back from it
- Why bad trips aren’t actually all bad

Plus, she shares what feelings we struggle most to feel, and how psychedelics might offer a solution to help with that.

About Sabina Pillai:
Sabina is a Psychedelic-Assisted Therapist, Consultant and Trainer, currently focused on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to help her clients rediscover and reconnect with their whole being. Blending her background in Buddhist psychology as well as a variety of holistic modalities, she works from a client-centered lens primarily with those struggling with severe and complex trauma, addictions, depression, borderline personality disorder, & end-of-life. She also works with Veterans and First Responders, BIPOC, LGBTQ* people, Couples, and Groups. 

Sabina works in private practice and offering integrative, trauma-focused therapy and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and groups. She also helps build out psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy programs for clinics and organizations and offers training workshops. 

To find out more about Sabina or to connect with her direct, you can check out her website at www.sabinapillai.com

IG: @sabina.holdingspace

If getting up before sunrise in -20 degrees celsius to put on a bathing suit, hack a hole in the ice and then jump into freezing water makes your teeth chatter - then this episode might make you a little intrigued!

Today on the pod we’re talking with Lisa Kricfalusi, Founder and CEO of Unbounded, an experience lifestyle brand that offers primal therapy through hot and cold exposure, breathwork, re-wilding, adventure and human connection.  

In this episode, we talk about:
- Magic combo of breathwork + the cold
- How facing your fears can help you heal
- Power of building resilience aka sisu
- What 900 days of deliberate cold plunging has taught her

Plus, Lisa shares how returning to her Finnish roots led her back to the cold to process and move through grief and depression, and ultimately, change her life.

About Lisa:
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Unbounded an Experience Lifestyle Brand focused on offering primal therapy wellness classes in the form of classes, workshops, retreats, large-scale festivals, education, certifications and courses. Lisa's background is in kinesiology, sport venue management, global games operations, hospitality, global brand on-premise strategy, wellness business coaching, executive speaking engagements, executive one on one coaching and education on longevity and primal therapy. Lisa is obsessed with making people smile, coaching primal therapy wellness interventions and helping people function at their best. Her mission in making the world a better place starts with her own story and journey to finding wellness. A fun fact about Lisa is she represented her country in the sport of synchronized swimming, she has practiced deliberate cold exposure for over 900 days and is currently writing a book.

IG: @lisakricfalusi

About Unbounded:
Canadian based and founded by four friends on a mission to Experience Living. Unbounded specializes in primal therapy experiences and education featuring deliberate cold exposure therapy, heat exposure therapy, breathwork, human connection and re-wilding in nature while embracing the great outdoors. We offer classes, workshops, retreats and community experience events rooted in primal therapy and Experience Living.

IG: @stayunbounded

Find us on Instagram @didntseethatcoming__ or at www.seekerloverdreamer.com/podcast.

Why is conflict so scary? Why don’t we know how to argue, and does it ever get easier? Amy Rumbolt is back again for Part 2 of our kitchen table talks.

In this episode, we talk about:

- Does conflict always look like fighting
- How to take care of ourselves before and during “those discussions”
- Nervous system regulation
- Tension vs conflict
- How it can deepen and strengthen relationships
- Amy's desire to get as close to conflict as possible

With her extensive background in Conflict Resolution, Amy’s perspective on this topic is not about how to win, but being in true dialogue with others while staying curious - and how to do that!

If talking about sex and pleasure feels awkward and uncomfortable, it’s because it often is. They’re topics we learn little about and are expected to know how to navigate with ease. To make it even more challenging, to do that we need to know one crucial thing: ourselves.

Today’s guest, Amy Rumbolt is one of the most liberated, free-spirited, revolutionary humans Zoë knows. Amy is unapologetic in their belief that we all deserve and have capacity for a life and love bigger than we’ve dreamed of with the access to it through our own pleasure.  

In this episode, we talk about
- Embodiment
- Love
- Polyamory
- Shame, and
- Flirting (and about that time Zoë hired them as their flirt coach!)

Plus, Zoë shares a secret she regretted in the moment but has come to terms with it as a part of herself to love and not be ashamed of.

About Amy:
Amy Rumbolt works in Community Engagement at the intersections of food security, harm reduction and human relationship, with extensive training in Conflict Resolution. They are also in deep practice with what it means to be human - the complexity and beauty of it all.

Season 2 Launching October 13th!