The Liberated Life - When Did You Last Feel Free?

Lucy Maeve
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You've done everything right. So why does your life still feel like someone else's? The Liberated Life is a podcast about what it actually takes to stop performing and start living. I'm Lucy Maeve, a former JPMorgan banker turned somatic coach. Each week, I have honest conversations with you (and my guests) about relationships, identity, freedom and coming home to yourself. If you've ever felt stuck living a life that looks right but feels hollow, you're in the right place. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com

  1. 8h ago

    Why We All Just Need to Boast a Bit More

    You can talk about your struggles for hours. You can share your shame, your fears, your failures, the parts of yourself you are still working on. That part is easy. But ask you to spend three minutes bragging about what you are genuinely brilliant at, and something tightens. Something goes quiet. Something finds a reason to say I don't really know where to start. In this episode, Lucy comes back from leading the Liberated Life Retreat with something she did not expect to find there. A practice that cracked her open more than almost anything else that week. A bragging practice. And the discovery that for the highest achievers in the room, it was by far the hardest thing they did all week. You will understand why shitting on yourself has become your fuel, and why that fuel has a very specific cost. You will hear why staying small and staying relatable have become so tangled together that most of us cannot tell them apart anymore. And you will leave with a very simple invitation that might feel more uncomfortable than it sounds. This one is short, fired up, and recorded on a rainy London afternoon straight from the integration of something real. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/

    20 min

  2. Jun 1

    How To Deal With Stress Without Just Telling Yourself To Calm Down, with Stephanie Nelson

    You have been told to calm down. You have told yourself to calm down. And it has never once worked. In this episode, Lucy sits down with somatic practitioner Stephanie Nelson to talk about why that advice is not just unhelpful but actually works against the very thing you are trying to do. You will understand what is really happening in your body when you cannot stop yourself doing the thing you know you should not do, why the rational brain goes completely offline under stress, and why so many high-achieving people are not actually calm but in shutdown, which are two very different things. You will hear why the obsession with nervous system regulation might be making your world smaller rather than bigger, and what it actually means to meet the anxious, angry, terrified parts of yourself rather than trying to manage them into a box. You will also leave with a practical five step practice you can use in 60 seconds that changes everything about how you relate to what is coming up in your body. Stephanie's own story, from being told at 12 she would need a wheelchair by 30 to being completely free of chronic pain, is one of the most quietly radical things this podcast has aired. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/ https://www.thestresshealers.com/ https://www.thestresshealers.com/resourced

    59 min

  3. May 25

    What To Do When Your ‘Single’ Friend Meets Someone And You Feel Abandoned

    You have felt it before. A close friend meets someone, or falls pregnant, or gets the thing you have quietly been waiting for. And you feel happy for her, you genuinely do, and also something else entirely. Something that does not have a polite name. Something you push down because you are not supposed to feel it. In this episode, Lucy and her close friend Tessa sit down to dissect, in real time, what actually happened between them when Tessa met her now husband while they were both living as single women in Mexico City. They had built one of those friendships that functions almost like a relationship, the kind where you are each other's anchor, each other's safety, each other's person. And then one of them found another person. This conversation is raw and unscripted and genuinely healing to witness. You will leave understanding why the jealousy and grief that comes up in these moments is one of the most normal and least talked about experiences in female friendship. Why shame makes it worse. Why sometimes the most loving thing is to say the true thing out loud rather than performing okayness until the whole thing quietly breaks. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/

    42 min

  4. May 18

    BEST OF: Why Ambition Isn’t Always A Good Thing

    You have built your entire identity around being excellent at things. And for a long time, that worked. The grades, the career, the reputation. There was always somewhere to point to and say, look, I am doing well. But there are parts of your life that have been sitting quietly in the corner for years, underdeveloped, untouched, a little frozen in time. Intimate relationships. Play. Creativity. Emotional vulnerability. The things that don't come with a performance review or a clear metric for success. In this episode, you will understand exactly why high-achieving women tend to hide in their areas of competence, and what it actually costs over time. You will hear why being bad at something feels so unbearable when your whole sense of worth has been built on excellence, and what is really underneath that discomfort. And you will leave with a much more honest question to sit with than the ones you usually ask yourself. This is a solo episode, short and direct, and it might be the one that names something you have been quietly aware of for a while. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/

    16 min

  5. May 11

    How to embrace joy, creativity and disco balls as a straight laced corporate gal with Camille Akass

    There is a version of you that got very good at living inside the rules. The career, the calendar, the careful performance of having it together. And somewhere underneath all of that, something else entirely has been waiting. In this episode, Lucy sits down with Camille Akass, a woman who went from burnout coach navigating the corporate world to dancing twelve hours a day at festivals and crying on the floor on the way home, and found that both were part of the same thing. You will understand why creativity is a life force and why so many high-achieving women have spent years treating it like a threat. You will hear about desire as a navigation system, what it actually means to live from turn-on, and why the gray flat-line of control and safety is its own kind of suffering. And you will leave with something you probably needed permission to hear. That you are allowed to do things purely because they feel good. That play is serious work. That the weird, feral, slightly chaotic version of you is the one who knows the way. This is one of those conversations that is hard to describe and easy to feel. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com. https://www.instagram.com/you_arethefrequency/

    1h 7m

  6. May 4

    How to Get Out Of A Funk

    You know the version of you that finds magic in small things, that feels possibility rather than dread, that wakes up and actually wants to be alive in her life. And you know the other one. The one that turns up when you are depleted, when you have been pushing too long without a real break, when the normal human challenges that you usually carry with ease start to feel enormous. The one that whispers you're going to be alone forever, that nothing is going to work, that everyone would be fine without you. In this episode, you will find out why that voice gets so loud sometimes, and why it has almost nothing to do with what is actually happening in your life. You will understand the difference between being in a genuine season of difficulty and feeding a pattern that is running on empty, and why that distinction matters enormously for what you actually need to do next. And you will leave with a specific, practical way to interrupt the spiral before it takes up permanent residence in your head. This is a rare unplanned episode, just Lucy, her coffee, and the day before a flight to Uganda, talking honestly about the last few weeks. Those are often the best ones. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve https://offers.lucymaeve.com/the-liberated-life-retreat-2026/ https://lucymaeve133.lpages.co/sevendaysbacktoyou/

    22 min

  7. Apr 29

    SPECIAL EPISODE: A Return To Wholeness With Louise Lewis

    There is a version of self-development that takes you further from yourself with every step. More frameworks. More identities to perform. More evidence that the answer is somewhere out there, in the next programme, the next coach, the next approach. And there is another kind entirely. The kind that brings you back. In this episode, Lucy joins Louise on the Your Way podcast for a conversation about what real healing actually requires, and why so much of the coaching industry is quietly doing the opposite. You will understand why getting the result you said you wanted, the promotion, the relationship, the business, can still leave the inner ache completely untouched. You will hear why the most important thing in any healing container is not the framework being used, but the quality of presence of the person holding it, and what that actually takes to develop. And you will leave with a completely different lens for evaluating the support you choose and what you genuinely need from it. This is also an honest conversation about retreat, about what it means to be witnessed by other women, about why that work is some of the most quietly radical a woman can do. And about what it looks like when healing is not a product but a return. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve https://offers.lucymaeve.com/the-liberated-life-retreat-2026/ https://website.louiselewiscoaching.co.uk/the-embodied-transformation-practitioner-certification

    1h 10m

  8. Apr 27

    How to Figure Out What You Want In Life

    At some point, probably more than once, you have asked yourself what you actually want from your life. And if you are honest, the answer has been some version of I don't really know. Not because you are not intelligent enough to figure it out. Not because you haven't tried. But because for most of your life, you have been so well trained in reading what everyone else wants that your own signal has gone very quiet. In this episode, you will find out why not knowing what you want is not a character flaw, it is the entirely predictable result of years of conditioning. You will understand the real reason so many high-achieving women can crush a work brief, read a room in seconds, and anticipate everyone else's needs, and yet draw a blank when someone asks what they actually want for themselves. You will hear about the two core human needs that pull against each other, and how prioritising one for long enough will eventually drown out the other completely. And you will leave with a way into that question that doesn't require you to have the answer, just the curiosity to start looking. This is the episode for the woman who has buried this question for long enough. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve https://offers.lucymaeve.com/the-liberated-life-retreat-2026/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBpaUICxEhk

    20 min
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You've done everything right. So why does your life still feel like someone else's? The Liberated Life is a podcast about what it actually takes to stop performing and start living. I'm Lucy Maeve, a former JPMorgan banker turned somatic coach. Each week, I have honest conversations with you (and my guests) about relationships, identity, freedom and coming home to yourself. If you've ever felt stuck living a life that looks right but feels hollow, you're in the right place. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com

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