Meat & Monogamy

Olivia Lara Owen
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Hosted by Olivia Lara Owen, this is a space for women who have already done a lot of inner work, and are now navigating the quieter, more complex thresholds of life. The ones that don’t respond to urgency, forcing, or optimisation. Through solo episodes and occasional conversations, Olivia explores what it means to build a life that can actually hold you. One rooted in capacity rather than intensity, devotion rather than fantasy, and truth rather than performance. This is not a podcast about fixing yourself. It’s about feeding yourself.And staying. New episodes released in rhythm, not pressure.

Episodes

  1. Jul 22

    Ep 11. What do you do when you don't feel like yourself?

    "I just don't feel like myself." It's one of the most common things I hear women say. Maybe you've lost your motivation. Maybe your ambition has shifted. Maybe the things that once lit you up don't seem to anymore. Or perhaps you're grieving the woman you used to be and wondering how to get back to her. In this episode, I want to offer you a completely different perspective. What if nothing has gone wrong? What if you're not disconnected from yourself at all... What if you're simply becoming someone you've never been before? Together, we explore the difference between being disconnected from yourself and being unfamiliar to yourself, why we so often romanticise old versions of ourselves, and how trying to "get back" can stop us from meeting the woman who's quietly emerging. This is a conversation about identity, transitions, self-trust and learning to honour the season you're actually in, rather than longing for one that's already passed. If you've been feeling lost lately, I hope this episode offers you a little more compassion and a little less urgency. In this episode we explore: • Why "I don't feel like myself" isn't always a problem to solve • The difference between being disconnected from yourself and unfamiliar to yourself • Why we romanticise old versions of ourselves • What happens when your capacity changes but your expectations don't • How to navigate seasons of transition with more self-trust • Why The Comeback isn't about returning to who you were, but learning to trust who you're becoming 🌿 Work with me If this conversation resonates, the first step to working together is a Deep Dive. This is a 75-minute one-to-one coaching session where we'll explore what's really going on beneath the surface, identify the patterns shaping your experience, and map out the next chapter together. If we're a good fit, I'll also share how I'd support you through my signature three-month coaching container, The Comeback. Book your Deep Dive: Book here Newsletter & Substack: Suscribe here Instagram: @olivialaraowen

  2. Jun 28

    Ep 10. From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust: Reclaiming Your Whole Self with Gwen Yi

    From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust: Reclaiming Your Whole Self with Gwen Yi What happens when you stop trying to become someone else... and finally come home to yourself? In this deeply moving conversation, I'm joined by astrologer, mentor and beautiful friend Gwen Yi, a former Comeback client whose journey over the last year has been nothing short of extraordinary. When Gwen first came to me, she believed she needed more strategy, more structure and more certainty. What she discovered instead was something far more powerful. A return to her own body. Her own authority. Her own truth. Together, we explore what it really means to trust yourself, release the identities you've outgrown, and stop outsourcing your wisdom to everyone else. This is a conversation about sustainable power, the courage to evolve, and the profound freedom that comes when you stop performing who you think you should be and begin honouring who you've always been. It's one of my favourite conversations we've ever recorded. In this episode we explore: • Why personal evolution often feels uncomfortable before it feels liberating • The hidden cost of outsourcing your authority • Learning to trust your body's wisdom instead of constantly overriding it • Why slowing down can be the most powerful thing you'll ever do • What it really means to be held in coaching and why true support creates sovereignty, not dependence • The importance of integration after periods of massive growth • Reclaiming past versions of yourself instead of feeling ashamed of them • The difference between performing strength and embodying true power • Why investing in yourself is often the first act of self-trust • The beautiful moment Gwen realised she no longer needed to become someone else Memorable Quotes "You are worth waiting for." "The answers do not exist outside of me." "Whenever I'm lost now, I close my eyes and ask my body what it needs." "We don't just heal by learning. We heal by learning to hold ourselves." "When you stop outsourcing your authority, your whole life begins to change." Connect with Gwen Yi 🌿 Website: www.gwenyi.com 🌿 Instagram: @gwenyi WONG GWEN YI is an Astrologer, Mentor and Guide for Multidimensional Women learning to embrace the Art of Personal Evolution. As a 3/5 Manifesting Generator herself, Gwen’s life has been rife with pivots, U-turns and ups and downs, including founding an empathy training company and leaving an 8-year longterm relationship. Gwen’s hope is to change the narrative around Personal evolution in Asia, not seeing it as shameful or irresponsible, but empowering Women to reclaim their stories, past selves and innate sovereignty through her own lived example. Ready to explore your own next chapter? If this conversation stirred something in you, and you're standing on the edge of your own evolution, I'd love to support you. The Deep Dive is where every coaching journey with me begins. Together we'll uncover what's really keeping you stuck, what your next season is asking of you, and whether working together is the right next step. ✨ Book your Deep Dive: https://olivia-lara-owen.kit.com/products/1-1-introductory-deep-dive-with-olivia- If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs this conversation today. With love, Liv x

  3. May 24

    Ep 9. Potentiate Your Power with Helen Wilkes (and join us in Ibiza this summer!)

    In this episode of Meat & Monogamy, Liv is joined by one of her oldest and most beloved friends, Helen Wilkes, founder of The Collab in Sydney, yoga teacher, retreat leader and women’s power coach. This is a conversation about women who were never built for small lives. Liv and Helen speak about friendship, sisterhood, power, initiation, business, motherhood, and what it means to become a woman who can actually hold the life she has chosen. They share the origin story of a friendship forged in girlhood, rebellion, protection and being the ones who never quite fit the mould, and trace how that same thread has shaped the women they are now. Helen shares the deeper roots of her work with power, from witnessing her mother’s journey, to moving across the world with no safety net, to opening her yoga studio, to supporting her partner through a life-altering illness and discovering a level of inner resource she could no longer deny. And then, the invitation. This summer, Liv will be joining Helen in Ibiza for Potentiate Your Power, Helen’s flagship retreat, running from 30th June to 6th July. This is not a holiday with a bit of yoga. This is a deeply held, high-touch retreat for powerful women who are already living big lives and are ready to be supported, expanded, nourished and met in the next layer of their becoming. There will be yoga, embodiment, ancient energetics, deep facilitation, sisterhood, gorgeous food, spacious days, Ibiza magic, and one hell of a closing dance floor. If you have been craving an in-person experience where you do not have to hold everything, perform, explain yourself, or do your growth alone, this episode is your invitation. Two rooms remain. Find Helen on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/thehelenwilkes/  Potentiate your Power in Ibiza retreat here: Details here *Please note prices on the retreat page are in Australia Dollars*

  4. Apr 20

    Ep 8. You're Already Paying: The True Cost of Choosing not to Change

    You've thought about the cost of change. The discomfort, the uncertainty, the fear of getting it wrong. But have you ever really looked at what staying is costing you? In this episode Liv breaks down the hidden invoice of not changing. The one that doesn't come with a number, doesn't announce itself, but quietly debits from your clarity, your self-trust, your energy, and your time. Through real life examples of women choosing the familiar over the true, Liv reframes the question from "can I afford to change?" to "can I actually afford not to?" This episode is for you if you're circling something. A decision, a pattern, a relationship, a version of yourself you've outgrown. And you keep telling yourself it's safer to stay. It isn't. It's just a different kind of expensive. If you'd like to join for ORIGIN this weekend, you can book your ticket here.  Ready for a 75 minute Deep Dive? Book yours here.

  5. Apr 13

    Ep 7. The Moment Just Before the Bloom

    Two years ago at Easter I was technically homeless in Paris, burned out and suspended between versions of myself. A stranger pulled my cards and said one word that changed everything: provenance. In this episode I share that story and what it taught me about self-trust, orientation and what it actually means to come home to yourself. This episode is for you if you have been circling, overriding yourself, or trying to move forward without feeling fully anchored. We cover: Why most high-capacity women have an orientation problem, not a clarity problem. What self-trust actually is and why it is a return, not a build. Why the moment just before the bloom is the most important moment of all. Free masterclass: Unshakeable Self Trust. Wednesday 15th April. Link here: https://olivia-lara-owen.kit.com/e2361b0539   ORIGIN: A three-hour live experience. Sunday 26th April. 4-7pm BST. £55. Book here: https://olivia-lara-owen.kit.com/5a82e2f94c  Join my Mailing List here for exclusive written content & emails: https://olivia-lara-owen.kit.com/bbbc017bc1

  6. Mar 27

    Ep6. Deep Nourishment with Clara Wisner | Why Most Women Are Under-Nourished

    In this episode, Liv is joined by Clara Wisner for a rich and deeply grounded conversation on nourishment, female health, and what it really means to build a life your body can hold. Together, they explore Clara’s personal journey from deep undernourishment and burnout into the work she now teaches, supporting women to return to the foundations of care, safety, and embodied capacity. They speak about why so many women are living from depletion, the impact of consistently under-eating, how nourishment affects mood, boundaries, self-leadership, and what becomes possible when a woman is truly resourced. They also explore cycle tracking, feminine physiology, and the importance of learning to know yourself through the body rather than trying to live from the mind alone. This is a conversation for any woman who feels stretched, tired, reactive, disconnected from her body, or ready to build a steadier and more nourishing way of living. In this episode, we cover:  Clara’s nourishment story and how it shaped her work  Why so many women are undernourished without realising it  The impact of under-eating on mood, hormones, and nervous system capacity  Self-leadership, safety, and feeling at home in the female body  Why cycle tracking can be such a powerful tool for intimacy and self-trust  Clara’s new programme, Deep Nourishment - to find our more about the live course starting on 30th March find it here. Use code OLIVIA for a 10% discount at checkout. About Our Guest:   Clara Wisner is a mother, wife, and woman who has lived all that she teaches and guides. She is a nutritionist who teaches nourishment for embodiment and nervous system flourishing. She blends her knowledge, experience and training around nutrition, minerals, cellular biology and feminine physiology with her deep practice of divine union in service to creation for Life.  Find Clara Belize Wisner on Instagram.  Find Clara's Substack Remothering here. Find Olivia Lara Owen on Instagram here. Find Meat & Monogamy with Olivia here.  Book a 75 minute Deep Dive to work with Olivia here.

  7. Mar 23

    Ep 5. Intensity versus Nourishment

    At certain stages of life, intensity can feel like progress. Movement, big decisions, and decisive action can create the sense that something is shifting. That you are growing. That you are moving forward. But intensity is not the same as nourishment. In this episode of Meat & Monogamy, Olivia explores the difference between adrenaline-fuelled decision-making and the slower, steadier work of building a life that can actually hold you. Inside this conversation: • Why intensity can feel productive, even when it isn’t sustainable  • How dysregulation can drive big decisions and constant movement  • Why growth culture rewards adrenaline and overlooks integration  • What nourishment actually looks like in adulthood  • The subtle shame many women feel when they slow down If you have found yourself cycling between big moves and exhaustion, or questioning whether constant momentum is actually serving you, this episode will help you understand what may be happening underneath. If something here resonates and you are navigating a threshold that requires more capacity than intensity, you are welcome to explore a 75-minute Deep Dive. You can book here.

  8. Mar 12

    Ep4. The Arc of Becoming with Arabella Oz: Five Years of Desire, Creativity and Following the Soul Call

    In this deeply moving conversation, Liv sits down with Arabella Oz, a longtime client, creative and filmmaker, to reflect on five years of working together through huge life, identity and creative shifts. They explore what changes when a woman stops living by shoulds and begins listening to desire, how long-term mentorship supports real transformation, and what it looks like to follow a soul-led creative path even when it asks everything of you. Arabella shares the arc from her early years of living in tension with herself, through reclaiming desire as an inner compass, to building a beautiful life, marrying her partner, leaving her therapy practice, making her first feature film, and seeing it premiere at her dream festival. This episode is about creative courage, devotion, pacing, self-trust, spiritual leadership, and the power of staying the course. In this episode, we explore: what it means to move from conditioning into deeper self-trustdesire as an inner compass rather than a frivolous impulsethe difference between group work and one-to-one mentorshipwhy long-term support creates a different kind of transformationthe courage required to follow creative callingsthe spiritual and emotional reality of making a filmbecoming the woman who can hold bigger dreamsTimestamps 00:00 Pre-conversation check-in and arriving together 04:31 Arabella shares the emotional context she is in personally 10:36 Setting intentions for the conversation 18:19 Official podcast introduction 19:57 Introducing Arabella and the five-year journey 23:16 How they first met and what Arabella was looking for 26:56 Who Arabella was when she first began the work 31:08 Desire as a new language and way of living 34:06 Rebuilding life through listening to the inner compass 37:11 Gentleness, permission and ending the war with yourself 41:16 The energetic and ceremonial dimensions of the work 46:22 “It would be delicious to live there” 48:02 Following desire into home, love and marriage 49:16 Leaving a therapy practice to make a film 55:58 What filmmaking asked of Arabella as a leader 58:40 Becoming the divinely led filmmaker 01:00:52 Creativity as a spiritual path 01:02:01 Returning to centre inside the film industry 01:03:53 Decision-making, self-trust and waiting for clarity 01:05:47 Confidence that is earned, not performed 01:07:52 Letting yourself be a beginner 01:08:52 Reuniting for one-to-one work after a break 01:11:51 Desire, ceremony and claiming the dream festival 01:15:42 The vulnerability of wanting something deeply 01:17:47 Group work vs one-to-one work 01:21:08 The power of long-term mentorship 01:24:30 What happens when someone knows your whole arc 01:26:00 Arabella’s message to women considering the work 01:27:27 Gentle transformation and immediate nourishment 01:28:36 Maller’s Ghost and its SXSW premiere 01:29:47 Liv reflects on seeing the finished film 01:32:54 Invitation to book a Deep Dive 01:33:56 Closing reflections on bringing creative work into the world Mentioned in this episode Mallory's Ghost by Arabella Oz currently premiering at SXSW Film Festival. If this conversation stirred something in you and you’re navigating a threshold of your own, you can begin by booking a Deep Dive with Liv. This is a 75-minute session to map what you’re moving through, understand the patterns at pl

  9. Mar 3

    Ep 3. Containment is not Control

    Containment Is Not Control At certain stages of adulthood, structure can feel threatening. Especially if you are competent, independent, and used to holding everything together yourself. In this episode of Meat & Monogamy, Olivia explores the difference between rigid control and clean containment, and why high-capacity women often resist the very structures that would support them. Inside this conversation: • Why intelligent women can mistake containment for restriction  • The difference between control that contracts and structure that regulates  • Why some containers increase your capacity and others quietly drain you  • How to recognise the difference between a holding environment and a power struggle  • Why real safety increases freedom rather than limiting it If you have ever resisted structure, struggled with boundaries, or felt unsure whether you were being supported or subtly controlled, this episode will help you clarify what is actually happening. If something here resonates and you are navigating a threshold that would benefit from clean, steady containment, you are welcome to explore a 75-minute Deep Dive. Book your Deep Dive here

  10. Feb 17

    Ep 2. Why Forcing Clarity Stops Working

    At certain stages of life, the strategies that once worked stop working. You can’t push through. You can’t adrenaline your way into certainty. You can’t overthink your way into peace. In this episode, Olivia explores why forcing clarity eventually collapses, and what mature self-trust actually requires instead. Inside this conversation: • Why speed can masquerade as confidence  • How the nervous system influences decision-making  • The difference between urgency and truth  • Why capacity must come before major decisions  • What to do when you genuinely don’t know If you’re currently trying to force an answer in your relationship, work, or identity, this episode will help you understand what may actually be happening underneath. If something here resonates and you’d like structured, intelligent support while navigating your own threshold, you’re welcome to explore a 75-minute Deep Dive. The link is in the show notes. There’s no rush. Book your Deep Dive here

  11. Feb 16

    Ep 1. What Women Actually Need at Thresholds

    There are moments in adulthood when something shifts. Not a bad week. Not temporary burnout. Not confusion you can solve with a planner. A threshold. In this first episode of Meat & Monogamy, Olivia explores what women actually need at these pivotal points in life, and why the instinct to speed up, force clarity, or make a decisive move often makes things worse. This episode explores: • What defines a true threshold  • Why forcing clarity stops working  • The difference between containment and control  • Why capacity matters more than immediate answers  • Why nourishment, not intensity, builds a life that can hold you This podcast is for women who have already done a lot of inner work and are now navigating more complex, quieter decisions in adulthood. If something in this episode resonates and you’re at a real threshold in your own life, you’re welcome to explore working with Olivia through a 75-minute Deep Dive. There’s no rush. Book a Deep Dive Here Explore my website and offers here: https://www.olivialaraowen.com/

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Hosted by Olivia Lara Owen, this is a space for women who have already done a lot of inner work, and are now navigating the quieter, more complex thresholds of life. The ones that don’t respond to urgency, forcing, or optimisation. Through solo episodes and occasional conversations, Olivia explores what it means to build a life that can actually hold you. One rooted in capacity rather than intensity, devotion rather than fantasy, and truth rather than performance. This is not a podcast about fixing yourself. It’s about feeding yourself.And staying. New episodes released in rhythm, not pressure.

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  • Creator
    Olivia Lara Owen
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Meat & Monogamy
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