Don't Step on the Bluebells

Amanda Parker
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Join Amanda Parker — Transformation Coach and Intuition Guide — on a journey of spiritual transformation and healing. Each episode features enlightening conversations with healers, shamans, mystics, and medicine people from across the world.Listen as they share their wildest healing journeys, the ancient wisdom behind their practices, and how they help people just like you change their lives.Don't Step on the Bluebells is a fortnightly podcast exploring:• Spiritual awakening and personal growth• Energy healing and holistic healing practices• Intuition and self-discovery• Finding your purpose and trusting your pathWhether you're curious about spiritual practitioners, seeking practical tools for transformation, or going through your own awakening — this podcast is your guide.Amanda's insights and the shared wisdom of her guests offer strategies for embracing courage, building confidence, and honing your intuition. Learn out-of-the-box approaches that actually work, demystify alternative healing practices, and start your own path to a happier, more fulfilling life.Hit subscribe and begin your journey today.

  1. Aug 27

    The Diary of a High Achiever

    What if the very drive that makes you capable of achieving almost anything is also the thing keeping you from ever feeling like it's enough? In this deeply personal solo episode, Amanda opens her diary and lets you see the shadow side of being a high achiever — the part nobody brags about. She names something many driven people quietly live with: the moment you complete the big thing — the MBA, the certification, the 70th podcast episode — you don't get to rest in the joy of it. Instead, your mind is already three steps ahead, scanning for the next goal. The goalpost moves before you've even caught your breath. And underneath it all sits a quieter question: who is this achievement actually for, and will it finally be the thing that makes you feel like enough? But this isn't an episode about pushing harder. It's about the antidote. Amanda shares what she's actively learning — how to step off the treadmill, do less and go deeper, and find the kind of fulfilment that endless striving never delivers. From crossing "learn French" off her list to letting her nervous system finally settle by the second week of a holiday, she offers an honest, grounding look at what it takes to appreciate how far you've already come. If you're someone with big visions and a to-do list that never ends, this one is a gentle, permission-giving pause. Come sit with it. Ready to go deeper on your journey of personal growth? Get this episode's full Show Notes with key takeaways, quotes, and resourcesStart with the Inner Authority Gameplan — a £9 guided experience to cut through the noise and hear your own inner voiceSubscribe to Amanda's Saturday Email for insights and essays on inner authority, intuition, and the art of trusting yourself

    The Diary of a High Achiever

  2. Aug 13

    Jacob Pegs on The Hidden Healing Journey of Building a Business (#069)

    What if the business you're building isn't just a way to make money — but the very vehicle through which you heal? In this episode, Amanda sits down with Jacob Peggs, the solopreneur behind Modern Maker, known for shipping businesses "like a mother flower" and his signature one offer, one post, one email a day method. But beneath the impressive track record is a far more tender story: a boy from Cyprus with divorced parents and a one-way ticket to America, who kept meeting his own wounds at every stage of success — and kept saying yes to healing anyway. Jacob shares, more openly than he ever has on a podcast, the four or five monumental inner events that shaped him: buying back his mother's childhood home when the family was about to lose it, a two-year court case against a relative who tried to take his company, a high blood pressure diagnosis at 26 from working 70-hour weeks, and the mentor's question — was this the dad he wanted to be? — that broke him open and changed everything. Each moment of outer crisis became, as Amanda names it, an initiation into the next level of who he was becoming. This conversation dissolves the false wall between business and inner work. Jacob explains why people come to him for money but stay for something much deeper, why you can scale from a 5k to a 50k month and your trauma will still come with you, and why the strategy is actually the easy part — believing you can be the person who executes it is the real work. He also breaks down, in refreshingly simple terms, what a funnel actually is, why you don't need to reinvent anything, and how building at the intersection of your interests makes you unmissable. Whether you're a healer who's scared to sell, a burnt-out agency owner behind a mask, or someone who's tried and flopped and wonders if that means something about you — this episode will feel like sitting on the floor with a friend who's a few steps ahead, handing you back your belief in yourself. How to Get in Touch: Website: https://jacobpegs.co/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@most_mojoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejacobpegsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-pegs/Ready to go deeper on your journey of personal growth? Get this episode's full Show Notes with key takeaways, quotes, and resourcesStart with the Inner Authority Gameplan — a £9 guided experience to cut through the noise and hear your own inner voiceSubscribe to Amanda's Saturday Email for insights and essays on inner authority, intuition, and the art of trusting yourself

    Jacob Pegs on The Hidden Healing Journey of Building a Business (#069)

  3. Jul 30

    You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Grief with Lou Hynes (#068)

    You can't think your way out of grief. It lives in the body — and no amount of rationalising, staying busy, or being "so strong" will move it through you. In this deeply tender conversation, Amanda sits down with Lou Hynes, The Grief Guide, to explore the part of grief we almost never talk about: what's actually happening in your nervous system when the worst has happened, and why "just feeling your feelings" is impossible when your body has gone into freeze. Lou knows this from the inside. In 2022, her husband Pete went from feeling a little unwell to dying of meningitis in a matter of hours — leaving Lou, at 40, to go from planning Christmas with her three children to planning his funeral. What followed was sixteen months of doing everything "right": functioning, coping, being told how strong she was — until one Mother's Day weekend her body simply stopped. She woke unable to move or hear, in what she'd later learn to name as a dorsal vagal collapse. That was the moment everything changed. This episode is a masterclass in grief literacy — for those who are grieving and for everyone who loves, works alongside, or wants to show up for someone who is. Lou and Amanda dismantle the invisible "hierarchy of grief" that ranks whose loss counts, unpick why our society goes silent exactly when connection is needed most, and offer genuinely practical language for supporting someone (hint: stop asking "how are you?" and start asking "how are you this morning?"). And underneath it all runs a thread of real hope. Not the tidy kind that promises you'll get the old you back — because, as Lou says with striking honesty, you won't. But the kind that says grief can be alchemised: that the version of you on the other side can be more authentic, more purposeful, and more fully yourself than the one who came before. If you've ever carried a loss you weren't sure you were "allowed" to name, this one's for you. Ready to go deeper on your journey of personal growth? Get this episode's full Show Notes with key takeaways, quotes, and resourcesStart with the Inner Authority Gameplan — a £9 guided experience to cut through the noise and hear your own inner voiceSubscribe to Amanda's Saturday Email for insights and essays on inner authority, intuition, and the art of trusting yourself

    You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Grief with Lou Hynes (#068)

  4. Jul 16

    Stop Learning Start Integrating with Amanda Parker (#067)

    What if the reason all that personal growth work "isn't working" has nothing to do with the courses, the books, or the teachers — and everything to do with the step you keep skipping? In this solo episode, Amanda Parker gets refreshingly honest about the trap so many seekers fall into: collecting wisdom faster than we can live it. After years of coach training, psychic development, and shamanic study, Amanda realised she could be a quoted expert on topics she wasn't actually embodying — knowledge that lived in her head, not in her bones. That gap has a name: integration. And closing it, Amanda argues, is where real transformation happens. She shares why continuous learning can quietly become a form of procrastination, why the self-help backlash misses the point, and what changed when she gave herself permission to stop buying new books and start living what she already knew. You'll also hear the story of a gloriously collapsed layer cake (proof that reading the recipe is not the same as baking it), a practical 30-day experiment framework Amanda uses with her own clients, and a compassionate word for the neurodivergent brains among us who chase the dopamine of new — plus what's waiting on the other side of sticking with one thing long enough to develop quiet confidence. If you've got a stack of half-read self-help books and a backlog of exercises you've never done, this episode is your permission slip to pause, digest, and let yourself catch up to everything you've already learned. How to Get in Touch: Website: www.amandaparker.co/Instagram: www.instagram.com/amandaparker.co/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/amandamparker/Substack: substack.com/@theamandaparkerReady to go deeper on your journey of personal growth? Get this episode's full Show Notes with key takeaways, quotes, and resourcesStart with the Inner Authority Gameplan — a £9 guided experience to cut through the noise and hear your own inner voiceSubscribe to Amanda's Saturday Email for insights and essays on inner authority, intuition, and the art of trusting yourself

    Stop Learning Start Integrating with Amanda Parker (#067)

  5. Jul 2

    What if You Stop Waiting to Like Yourself with Matt Chavlovich (#066)

    If you're honest — do you actually like yourself, or are you waiting until after the promotion, the launch, the relationship? In this episode, Amanda turns the microphone on her own coach, Matt Chavlovich — the man who has seen her at her most stuck and most doubtful — and asks him everything. What unfolds is a conversation about the one thing hiding underneath every goal you've ever chased: can you soulfully say "I like me" — before the thing, not after? Matt's path here was anything but a straight line: a professional football career that taught him to listen to his intuition under the pressure of 15,000-seat stadiums, a decade in the corporate world where he realized he cared more about who his people were becoming than the targets they were hitting, and the courageous leaps — leaving a secure career, leaving a marriage that had run its course — that came from finally trusting his inner voice. He also shares something he's rarely spoken about: the spiritual faith he found not through religion or family, but through survival — sitting alone in a church at 13, offering up a pressure that was too big for him to hold. And because it's Matt, the conversation is full of the reframes he's famous for: why perfection is "a juvenile conversation," why you don't have a commitment problem (you're just committed to the wrong things), why decisions become easy the moment you know what you're trying to build, and how a 30-day experiment can introduce you to a version of yourself you haven't met yet. Amanda brings her own stories to the table too — launching free oracle readings in a spirit of play, closing a 14-year-old credit card that was quietly leaking her energy, and claiming her new moniker, The Untamed Oracle. If you've been waiting until "after the thing" to feel like you're enough — this episode is the door. Whether you walk through it, and how fast, is entirely up to you. How to Get in Touch: https://www.mattchavlovich.com/ Ready to go deeper on your journey of personal growth? Get this episode's full Show Notes with key takeaways, quotes, and resourcesStart with the Inner Authority Gameplan — a £9 guided experience to cut through the noise and hear your own inner voiceSubscribe to Amanda's Saturday Email for insights and essays on inner authority, intuition, and the art of trusting yourself

    What if You Stop Waiting to Like Yourself with Matt Chavlovich (#066)

  6. Jun 18

    Sacred Rage as a Catalyst with Erika Tourell (#065)

    What if the rage you've spent your whole life trying to suppress is actually one of your greatest gifts? In this extraordinary conversation, somatic trauma therapist and tantra practitioner Erika Tourell takes us deep into the territory most of us have been taught to fear — our anger, our grief, and the raw, electric charge of our own life force. This isn't a conversation about becoming a calmer, more managed version of yourself. It's an invitation to reclaim the fire. Erika brings nearly 40 years of healing work to this conversation — from holistic bodywork at 19, through four years across India, Thailand, Bali and beyond, to her own reckoning with menopause, developmental trauma, and the shattering realisation that healing isn't just personal. It's political. She speaks with rare honesty about her own journey through depression, functional freeze, a Kundalini-like menopause, and how it led her to understand that the missing piece of her own healing — and perhaps ours — was the somatic piece: the body's wisdom, the nervous system's intelligence, and the power of community. The heart of this episode is sacred rage — what it is, why we've been so thoroughly taught to deny it, and what becomes possible when we stop. Erika unpacks the link between suppressed anger and chronic illness, between our rage and our creativity, between our deepest fury and our most sacred calling. She offers real practices for moving the charge through the body — breath, movement, voice — and makes the case that learning to channel this energy is not just healing work, it's world-changing work. This episode ends with a vision that will stay with you: that each of us, in healing our own nervous system and stepping into our gifts, is participating in what Joanna Macy calls "the great turning." The time is now. The time is yesterday. How to Get in Touch: Website: www.erikatourell.com/Instagram: @erikatourell_ecosomaticsReady to go deeper on your journey of personal growth? Get this episode's full Show Notes with key takeaways, quotes, and resourcesStart with the Inner Authority Gameplan — a £9 guided experience to cut through the noise and hear your own inner voiceSubscribe to Amanda's Saturday Email for insights and essays on inner authority, intuition, and the art of trusting yourself

    Sacred Rage as a Catalyst with Erika Tourell (#065)

  7. May 28

    I Found My Inner Authority by Burning It All Down (#064)

    What if the thing standing between you and real success — is the success you've already built? Amanda had the contracts, the clients, the credibility. A leadership development business that ticked every box she'd been handed. And she walked away from all of it. Not because it was falling apart — but because it was working perfectly, and she still felt nothing. What followed was three years of rebuilding from the inside out: investing in deep coaching, resetting her nervous system, and learning to trust herself again. The result wasn't just a different business. It was a completely different relationship with her own knowing — one that eventually led her to launch her highest-tier package at £47,000 and build something that felt genuinely aligned. Amanda also shares the story of a client who made a similar leap — twice. From corporate to entrepreneurship, and then from that first business into something truer still. Rocky at first, yes. But guided by an inner sense that they were finally on the right path. Together, these two stories reveal something powerful: inner authority isn't a destination. It's a practice of listening, adjusting, and daring to honour what feels true — even when no one else understands it yet. If you've ever looked around at your life, seen everything that's supposed to make you happy, and still felt something missing — this episode is for you. Get in Touch with Amanda: Join the Inner Authority Lab: https://www.amandaparker.co/inner-authority-lab Podcast:www.dontsteponthebluebells.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandamparker/ Instagram: @amandaparker.co Ready to go deeper on your journey of personal growth? Get this episode's full Show Notes with key takeaways, quotes, and resourcesStart with the Inner Authority Gameplan — a £9 guided experience to cut through the noise and hear your own inner voiceSubscribe to Amanda's Saturday Email for insights and essays on inner authority, intuition, and the art of trusting yourself

    I Found My Inner Authority by Burning It All Down (#064)

  8. May 14 ·  Video

    How Dare She Read Tarot with Hannah Joy Graves (#063)

    What if the most powerful tool for self-awareness wasn't a therapy couch or a meditation app — but a deck of 78 cards? In this episode, Amanda sits down with Hannah Joy Graves, known to her devoted following as Cult Mother Tarot, for a conversation that is equal parts hilarious, deeply moving, and genuinely transformative. Hannah didn't come to tarot through a mystical lineage or a spiritual calling — she came to it sober, shaken, and standing by a canal in Berlin in the dead of January, where her dog dug up a muddy tarot card from the dirt. That was the beginning of everything. Hannah dismantles the gatekeeping that surrounds tarot with characteristic wit and conviction. There's no right way to read the cards, she insists, because tarot has no single fixed point of origin — which means no one gets to be the final authority. What matters is the lens you bring, the life you've lived, and your willingness to sit with the images and let them move you. If they move you, she says — that's magic. Full stop. This reframe will be a revelation for anyone who's ever felt too inexperienced, too sceptical, or too messy to work with tarot. The conversation takes some breathtaking turns — through Hannah's journey to sobriety, the origin story of the "Cult Mother" name, the very real phenomenon of the witch wound, and why making good money doing spiritual work is not a betrayal of your values but a rejection of patriarchal capitalism. Amanda shares her own experience of fighting her way out of the spiritual closet — and Hannah meets her there with both fire and grace. And then, in the final stretch of the episode, Hannah pulls cards for Amanda live — and they land with the kind of eerie precision that makes you stop, catch your breath, and wonder what you've been avoiding. How to Get in Touch: Instagram: @cultmothertarotWebsite: cultmothertarot.comPatreon: patreon.com/cultmothertarotReady to go deeper on your journey of personal growth? Get this episode's full Show Notes with key takeaways, quotes, and resourcesStart with the Inner Authority Gameplan — a £9 guided experience to cut through the noise and hear your own inner voiceSubscribe to Amanda's Saturday Email for insights and essays on inner authority, intuition, and the art of trusting yourself

    How Dare She Read Tarot with Hannah Joy Graves (#063)
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Join Amanda Parker — Transformation Coach and Intuition Guide — on a journey of spiritual transformation and healing. Each episode features enlightening conversations with healers, shamans, mystics, and medicine people from across the world.Listen as they share their wildest healing journeys, the ancient wisdom behind their practices, and how they help people just like you change their lives.Don't Step on the Bluebells is a fortnightly podcast exploring:• Spiritual awakening and personal growth• Energy healing and holistic healing practices• Intuition and self-discovery• Finding your purpose and trusting your pathWhether you're curious about spiritual practitioners, seeking practical tools for transformation, or going through your own awakening — this podcast is your guide.Amanda's insights and the shared wisdom of her guests offer strategies for embracing courage, building confidence, and honing your intuition. Learn out-of-the-box approaches that actually work, demystify alternative healing practices, and start your own path to a happier, more fulfilling life.Hit subscribe and begin your journey today.

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  • Creator
    Amanda Parker
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    71
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Courage Factory Ltd
  • Show Website
    Don't Step on the Bluebells

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