Peel the Onion Podcast by Olivia Maxwell

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Peel back the layers to reach your true self. – Olivia Maxwell, Founder of Awakened Mind Body Spirit Pty Ltd Welcome to Peel the Onion, a podcast dedicated to guiding you back to your truth. It’s a space to reconnect with the whispers of your soul and heart—the parts of you that have always been there but were silenced by the noise of the mind, conditioned beliefs, fear, and the need to 'play small' to fit in. That outdated story no longer serves us in this evolving era. Yet, until we uncover and release these layers, they continue to shape our daily lives and limit our fulfillment. Peel the Onion is a safe space for cycle breakers to share their stories and the wisdom gained from living inauthentically. We explore the growing pains and challenges of transformation—much like peeling an onion, it burns! In 2024, I peeled back one of my toughest layers: stepping out of the psychology system as a psychologist and into my own fullest expression as a healer. This journey has taught me that the rewards of alignment and authenticity are beyond anything I could have imagined. Together, we’ll challenge societal and personal conditioning, shed the masks that drain our energy, and embrace the freedom of being our true selves. If you’re passionate about holistic health and healing, personal growth, spirituality, meditation, mystical truths, and uncovering who you truly are, Peel the Onion is for you. Be inspired by heart-led leaders and stories of courage, authenticity, and transformation. ✨ – Olivia

  1. 5d ago

    #38 The Absence of Self — How the Emptiness Became the Calling w/ Roberto Cansella

    What if the moment you felt most empty was actually the moment your real life was beginning? In this episode, I'm joined by Roberto — known as Nuki — a transformation mentor and podcaster whose path into entrepreneurship started not from ambition, but from a felt sense of absence. A deep, unsettling emptiness that turned out to be the most honest signal he'd ever received. We go into the places most people skip over: the gap between knowing something in your mind and actually living it in your body. The difference between meditating on your vision and genuinely feeling it as real. What it means to jump timelines — with your eyes open — and why curiosity might be the most underrated spiritual compass there is. Nuki brings in the concept of Sahu — the Egyptian term for the spiritual body — and we explore what it actually looks like to embody your spiritual gifts rather than just understand them. This one goes into Egyptian lineage, light workers and cycle breakers, the role of astrology held loosely (not as a cage), and what it takes to build something from the inside out. For the high-capacity people building legacies and creating from their essence — this is your episode. In this episode: The "absence of me" — how emptiness became Roberto's catalystMeditation twice daily to feel the quantum, not just visualise itSahu, the spiritual body, and embodying your gifts beyond the intellectJumping timelines with eyes open as a lived spiritual practiceCuriosity as compass — how it drives both healing and expansionEgyptian lineage, light workers, and building something that outlasts youWhy being fully human is the gateway, not the obstacleRooted. Alive. Full out. | Olivia Maxwell | Olivia Maxwell is a former psychologist, EMDR practitioner, breathwork facilitator and Akashic Records Guide based on Sydney's Northern Beaches. She works with people at the point where the old identity is no longer sustainable and something deeper is asking to emerge - more of their true unique essence they came here to radiate 100%. Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/om_oliviamaxwell/ Website | https://www.oliviamaxwell.com.au/ | Roberto "Nuki" Cansella | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/nuki_cansella/ Website | https://nukicansella.com/ Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/@nuki_cansella?si=5wlZW0sMMnoqsUyL

    #38 The Absence of Self — How the Emptiness Became the Calling w/ Roberto Cansella

  2. Sep 24

    #37 The Answer to My Burnout Was Quieter Than I Expected Minisode w/ Olivia Maxwell

    I was on the brink of burnout - and the thing that turned it around wasn't a better strategy, it was silence. On choosing yourself over the loud, busy mind loop, and why that gets hardest exactly when you're standing in a threshold. | Olivia Maxwell | Olivia Maxwell is a former psychologist, EMDR practitioner, breathwork facilitator and Akashic Records Guide based on Sydney's Northern Beaches. She works with people at the point where the old identity is no longer sustainable and something deeper is asking to emerge. Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/om_oliviamaxwell/ Website | https://www.oliviamaxwell.com.au/ Sign up my Sydney Breathwork Container Here | https://www.oliviamaxwell.com.au/rooted-alive-full-out

  3. Sep 14

    Being Fully Human (Part 1) w/ Sean Vitorovic #36

    What if being fully human - messy, uncertain, uncomfortable, expanding - is not the thing getting in the way of your becoming? What if it is the whole point? This episode is a conversation about what it actually means to be human. Not the curated version. Not the version that has it together. The version that feels the pull toward something more, answers it anyway, and discovers that the gap between knowing your gifts and living them can only ever be closed from the inside. I sat down with Sean Vitorovic - NLP practitioner, hypnotherapist, clinical Pilates teacher and former Google employee experience lead - for one of the most real conversations I have had on this show. Sean is someone who explores the edges of himself and of life, and who recently followed an inner call to leave the security of Google and build something entirely his own. In this episode we speak to: What being fully human actually means - and why embracing it is the spiritual work, not the obstacle to itSean's journey of returning to himself and answering the inner call to step out on his ownThe gap that opens between knowing your divine gifts and actually living them - and what closes itConfidence in self and in your gifts when the discomfort is loudestLeaning toward the edges of yourself as the path to real expansionBridging humanity and divinity - not as opposites but as the same journeyThe gap between knowing and living closes when you stop waiting to feel ready and start being human enough to begin. Peel the Onion with Olivia Maxwell explores the intersection of psychology and soul.  Find Sean here https://looongclub.com/ and on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@LooongClub Find Olivia at https://www.oliviamaxwell.com.au/ and on Instagram @om_oliviamaxwell

    Being Fully Human (Part 1) w/ Sean Vitorovic #36

  4. Sep 2

    Resistance Is the Signal Minisode w/ Olivia Maxwell #35

    This minisode is about what it actually feels like to be fully present with yourself - pleasant or unpleasant - without running from it, fixing it, or performing your way through it. This episode explores: Why resistance is not a problem to solve - it is a signal that you have disconnected from yourself and from source consciousnessThe difference between avoiding life and being genuinely at peace with what isHow to use thankfulness and gratitude as an anchor - not a bypass - to return to love, light and your own essenceSilencing the distractions that pull you out of the moment and back into your headA simple gratitude affirmation practice to ground yourself back into who you actually are todayThis is not about toxic positivity. It is about coming home to yourself - fully, honestly, in this moment - and finding that you were always enough to return to. Peel the Onion with Olivia Maxwell explores the intersection of psychology and soul. Instagram: @om_oliviamaxwell. Website: https://www.oliviamaxwell.com.au/ Fully Rooted, Fully You 9-Week Program - Applications now open. Apply here: https://www.oliviamaxwell.com.au/fully-rooted

  5. Aug 6

    For the One Still Figuring It Out - A Message for Existing and Upcoming Entrepreneurs

    I recorded this one from my car, parked outside, baby asleep in the back seat. And honestly - that is the whole message. Building something on your own terms does not wait for perfect conditions. Neither does your intuition. In this minisode I am speaking directly to the entrepreneurs and emerging leaders who are drowning in everyone else's formulas, frameworks and five-step plans - and losing the thread of their own knowing in the process. This episode explores: Why someone else's formula will never work the same way for you - and why that is not a failureThe order that actually works - intuition first, then let logic and strategy followHow to feel the difference between aligned action and performance-based doingThe reminder that there is a higher plan and frequency at play in your business and your life - bigger than any algorithm or launch calendarWhy the most successful thing you can do right now is come back to your own divine alignmentThis one is honest, unpolished and recorded in a car park. Which means it is exactly what it is meant to be. Peel the Onion with Olivia Maxwell explores the intersection of psychology and soul. Find Olivia on Instagram @awakened_mbs or at awakenedmbs.com.au.

  6. Jul 24

    Rooted, Alive, Full Out ✦ A Threshold I Recently Crossed and I am Forever Changed Minisode #33

    This one's personal. For a long time I carried things that were never mine to carry...patterns, imprints, an armour I built just to feel safe in the world. I was doing life from effort, not from essence. This episode is me speaking into that. Into what it's taken to come back into my body...to feel safe there, to feel grounded there, to stop performing my way through and start living from my own energy instead. It's the journey that birthed Rooted, Alive, Full Out - a new 3-part breathwork immersion launching 23 August, built from everything this threshold crossing taught me. Check it out here https://awakenedmbs.com.au/events/ Because living fully in your own essence, safe in your body and free of what isn't yours...that's not a nice-to-have. It's your birthright. | Olivia Maxwell | Olivia Maxwell is a former psychologist and intuitive guide based on Sydney's Northern Beaches, working with people at the threshold where the old identity no longer fits and something deeper is asking to emerge. Blending Trauma-informed psychology with Akashic Records, breathwork and somatic work, she guides high-functioning, soulful people out of the loop and into a life that's rooted, alive, and fully their own.  Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/awakened_mbs/ Website | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/ Group Breathwork Container Starting 23rd August | https://awakenedmbs.com.au/events/

  7. Jul 14

    Simplify to Amplify - Navigating the Current Shifting Frequencies Minisode #32

    The frequencies are shifting - and if you've been feeling it in your body, your moods, your energy, you are not imagining it. This short minisode is an invitation to soften. To let it move through rather than brace against it. To look honestly at what is complexifying your energy and your alignment - and to let it go. Less is more right now. Simplification is not a step back. For those on the awakened path, it is the work.  Simplify to amplify. Peel the Onion with Olivia Maxwell explores the intersection of psychology and soul. Find Olivia on Instagram @awakened_mbs or at awakenedmbs.com.au.

  8. Jul 3

    Not Up. In - Why Healing Isn't Rising Above, It's Coming Home to Your Body, Your Nervous System and Your Full Human Experience Minisode w/ Olivia Maxwell #31

    We talk a lot about ascension. About expanding into something bigger than the human experience. But what if the real work is descent? Coming back into the body. Back into the feeling. Back into the full, messy, tender reality of being human. In this minisode I speak to what it actually means to return to your full essence - not by transcending what's hard, but by letting yourself feel it. All of it. The moments you are triggered by others. The stored stress. The emotions your body has been holding on behalf of generations before you. Healing is coming back to your essence - your wholeness of who you are here to be. Allow this to happen by being human AND divine. Rooted. Alive. Full out. ✦

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Peel back the layers to reach your true self. – Olivia Maxwell, Founder of Awakened Mind Body Spirit Pty Ltd Welcome to Peel the Onion, a podcast dedicated to guiding you back to your truth. It’s a space to reconnect with the whispers of your soul and heart—the parts of you that have always been there but were silenced by the noise of the mind, conditioned beliefs, fear, and the need to 'play small' to fit in. That outdated story no longer serves us in this evolving era. Yet, until we uncover and release these layers, they continue to shape our daily lives and limit our fulfillment. Peel the Onion is a safe space for cycle breakers to share their stories and the wisdom gained from living inauthentically. We explore the growing pains and challenges of transformation—much like peeling an onion, it burns! In 2024, I peeled back one of my toughest layers: stepping out of the psychology system as a psychologist and into my own fullest expression as a healer. This journey has taught me that the rewards of alignment and authenticity are beyond anything I could have imagined. Together, we’ll challenge societal and personal conditioning, shed the masks that drain our energy, and embrace the freedom of being our true selves. If you’re passionate about holistic health and healing, personal growth, spirituality, meditation, mystical truths, and uncovering who you truly are, Peel the Onion is for you. Be inspired by heart-led leaders and stories of courage, authenticity, and transformation. ✨ – Olivia

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