40 for Tea Rach Allan

8 key foundations stones if you are having a life wobble.  Normalising the existential questions & numbing out.  Putting a stake in the ground for life.  How to focus when there is a war for your attention.
Rachel Allan, welcomes the return of 40 for Tea, calling courage, focus and Facing our inner worlds, to create a Vision for a new future.  With her local cafe, Shakespeare, the Rolling Stones & Jung.
We continue the exploration of navigating chaos, inner wisdom & power.  This tea reminds us to turn inwards, reflect and step forward wild and crazy life.  Rachel shares her foundation stones to recovery from Existential Crisis and reminds us what 40 for Tea is about.
5 teas left in this season and journey: 40 for Tea is a quest exploring being human in this new decade.  Subscribe & share to be part of the journey. Thanks for Being here.
Resources:
All the World's A Stage - Shakespeare
Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown
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Email Rachel: Rach AT talkagency.co
Balancing Heaven & Earth - Book recommended by David in the Cafe

Cuppa 35 of 40 - an energising tea between the Sacred Valley in Peru & London with Shaman, Feng Shui Consultant & Dream Weaver Davina Mackail & Rach.
Continuing the exploration of navigating chaos, inner wisdom & power.  This tea treads the path of the inbetween, otherworlds & metaphysics.  Davina shares lively stories of her journey to apprectince as a Shaman, the Quyllurit'i pilgrimage, plant medicine experiences & COVID from the amazon.
This tea talks listening to spirit, astrology, overcoming trauma & WTF is actually happening on an energetic level.  Wild dreams at night, what they mean, the power of 6, elemental wisdom and when she smuggled a second hand fax machine in return to tickets for the bolshoi ballet.  Its lively, thought provoking and and has laugh out loud moments.
40 for Tea is a quest exploring being human in this new decade.  Subscribe to be part of the journey.

Cuppa 34 of 40 - a tea between Liberia and London, lessons in history & bridging divides.  Human & animal, multi-national organisation & indigenous community, women and men, borders & freedom.  How do we hold polarities in both hands and explore new perspectives for a better world?
Letla, a highly respected leader, forester and biodiversity specialist by profession, (see her impressive CV), talks of her call to the timber trade and commitment to biodiversity in post-war Liberia.  For us, a reconnection to African history and ideas on how seeming opposing factors can create new futures.  
The tea starts with Letla in isolation, the electric down in Lesotho, boiling the kettle whilst laughing trying to get tech to work.  After tea, Rach and her progress to the history of Liberia, recovery following the funding of war through the timber trade, moving to practical ideas on development.  They open up clear and powerful perspectives on diversity in all ways: gender, biodiversity & knowledge.  This is wise woman stuff.  Borderless worlds, challenging beliefs on wealth, gender and what could be possible for us all.
"I have always believed in my capacity as a woman.  What we are socialised to believe shapes our world."
Celebrating diversity, human, animal, knowledge, through obeying the natural laws of biodiversity.  A history lesson and wisdom team all rolled into one.  If you want to learn something new and be inspired by a powerhouse woman, go get the kettle on, it's time for tea.
Cuppa 34 of 40 in a quest exploring being human in this new decade.  Subscribe to be part of the journey.

What do you value the most?  What a question. Mac shares a powerful 10minute perspective shifting story over tea with Rachel, on what is actually the most valuable and precious thing on this planet and in our lives.  I will keep the suspense - for you to listen for the answer.
This is an out-take from Cuppa 33, where we talk leadership, reconnecting to what's important and a vision for the future.  Powerful stuff.
Go put the kettle on!
"Let's place Beauty back at the centre of our altars." Earth practice time.

Oh its a goodie.  How we bring indigenous wisdom into our modern day lives, transform our relationship to the earth, leadership and living fulfilled lives.  Sustainability at it's core, in this rich tea, Mac & Rachel share stories offering ideas on a new way to lead, one that creates a future with integrity for generations to come.  This is heart work and offers the opportunity to find an inner settling and knowing within. It did for us at least!
Their cuppa journeys so much; life being a sphere, belonging and the importance of place, watching TV - Colin Stafford Johnson - The Wild Gardener, Dyscalculia which is like dyslexia with numbers, compromise, feeling broken hearted and whether its smarter to live a "middle of the road" life, life happening in the small moments, how do we listen and be with opposing views to our own, the bloody history of the land we stand on, the original instructions, Childrens Fire and the possibility of a new way of leadership.  Its life giving and real.
This is Cuppa 33 of 40, on Rachels quest to explore what it is to be human in this new decade.  40 for Tea is on Instagram.
Mac is an international speaker, writer and change-maker. Mentored by indigenous people over many years, he has acquired profound and original insights into questions preoccupying many contemporary leaders. Mac seeks to inspire the emergence of the leader in each of us, the leader who will take courageous action for a better world. Championing A New Story of Sustainability lies at the heart of this.

3 times Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Scilla Elworthy has tea with Rach to talk practical ways to influence peace for us all.   How we can affect and overcome conflict in the the world, in communities, relationships and within.  We hear of the Mighty Heart in Action, her new book guiding practical action that can transform lives & leadership everywhere.   Change your pension investment, the magic 4 words to resolve conflict anywhere, the power of listening and finding your purpose.  The Elders, Desmond Tutu & Nelson Mandela and how to find a haven of peace and tap into your inner power.
Not to be missed, go grab a cuppa!
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