Courage and Spice

Sas Petherick
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Courage and Spice

Hello, guys and gals and non-binary pals! You are warmly invited to Courage + Spice: the podcast for humans with self-doubt. You can expect inspiring interviews with ace humans + evidence-based approaches for you to try. If self-doubt is holding you back personally, relationally, creatively or professionally, Courage + Spice is especially for you. saspetherick.substack.com

  1. Emotions, Embodiment & Protein Popcorn with Ali Shapiro

    JUN 3

    Emotions, Embodiment & Protein Popcorn with Ali Shapiro

    Content note: This episode includes discussions around intentional weight loss and diet culture, and therefore contains swearing. This episode is part of a podcast series called The Body Stories. I’m joined by my beloved friend and fellow coach, Ali Shapiro. Over the next year, Ali and I will have an occasional and ongoing conversation about the nuanced relationship with our bodies. These are tender conversations, and at times, I will be in the coaching client seat. Our hope is that listening in will spark your own exploration of your body story. 💫 Subscribe below and I’ll send podcasts and posts straight to your inbox: In this second episode, we talk about: * Three months in, and the identity shifts are feeling more established! * How I’m learning to enjoy intentional exercise (after a lifetime of not) * The unexpected ripple effects of engaging in movement * Developing the capacity to experience uncomfortable emotions (without eating them) * How to cultivate self-compassion without resignation * The Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) and why we underestimate our strength and power * Why support from others makes the real difference * The cult of protein is real (the Kardashians are cashing in) Resources for you: * Discover more about Ali Shapiro * Park Run * Kloud Popcorn Get full access to Courage & Spice at saspetherick.substack.com/subscribe

    56 min
  2. Clairvoyance for Normies with Sarah Vermunt

    MAY 8

    Clairvoyance for Normies with Sarah Vermunt

    Sarah Vermunt is a longtime pal, career coach and the founder of Careergasm. She's written books about careers and columns for Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, Fortune, and Fast Company. She’s had a regular coaching spot on the tele in Canada. Three years ago, out of the blue, Sarah started having psychic clairvoyant visions. She did not see this coming. Since then, life-long City-dweller Sarah has moved to a small town with a vibrant community of witches (it sounds a lot like Stars Hollow). She is now helping other newly awakened intuitives through her side quest venture: ‘Psychic Normies’. Sarah and I chat about: * The rise of clairvoyance and energy work over the last few years. * The importance of discernment in the intuitive community. * The need for energy alignment (especially with mentors). * How to navigate chaotic times, with Sarah sharing her vision about what 2025 holds for us all. Resources for you: * Psychic Normies * Book a personal energy reading with Sarah * Sarah’s career coaching work: Careergasm * Sarah on The Gram Get full access to Courage & Spice at saspetherick.substack.com/subscribe

    54 min
  3. Under nourished to moderately active with Ali Shapiro

    APR 23

    Under nourished to moderately active with Ali Shapiro

    Content note: This episode includes discussions around intentional weight loss and diet culture, and therefore contains swearing. This episode is part of a podcast series called The Body Stories. I’m joined by my beloved friend and fellow coach, Ali Shapiro. Over the next year, Ali and I will have an occasional and ongoing conversation about the nuanced relationship with our bodies. These are tender conversations, and at times, I will be in the coaching client seat. Our hope is that listening in will spark your own exploration of your body story. 💫 Subscribe below and I’ll send podcasts and posts straight to your inbox: In this second episode, we talk about: * Lizzo’s ‘weight release journey’ and the public conversations over private choices. * This month I realised I didn’t really know what creating long term health looks like, and so I decided to work with a coach. * The emotional response I had to a community walk (there are tears!). * A big old protective belief that has shifted for me. * And the identity level stories about fitness and health that are slowly changing. Mentioned in this Episode: * Connect with Ali here. * Ali’s upcoming program: Your Emotional Eating Blueprint: Why Am I Eating This Now? * Lizzo’s conversation with Jay Shetty: YouTube * Jay Shetty backstory: Guardian article * Let’s Get Triggered: Oprah, Ozempic and our Outrage * The Body Stories Ep 1: Can you love yourself and want to lose weight? Get full access to Courage & Spice at saspetherick.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 1m
  4. How to be Softly Successful with Samantha Dhu

    APR 9

    How to be Softly Successful with Samantha Dhu

    As a highly sensitive person, Sam Dhu believes it is possible to be deeply ambitious and successful AND soft and sensitive at the same time. Sam is a Psychotherapist, Mentor, and Facilitator of Permission. Mum to eight-year-old, Amelie and two-year-old Frankie, and passionate advocate for being radically kind and compassionate to yourself. Sign up and get episodes sent to your inbox: We chat about how to acknowledge our individual capacity to create a life that feels "soft and successful." Many of us don’t have time, the capacity (and maybe even the desire!) for traditional approaches to achieving success, and rather than making ourselves wrong, we can be much more creative in how we do this on our terms. Sam shares her journey of embracing her ADHD diagnosis and how the more she has accepted that her brain and nervous system have unique needs, the more successful she has become. This is where things get really fun: being compassionate with yourself when something isn't working or it's feeling hard, opens you up to your individual, unique needs, so you can get curious about what does work. This is such a reassuring and nurturing conversation for anyone who wants to create success on their terms. I just know you’re going to love Sam! Resources for you: Sam mentioned these assessment tools for sensitivity and neurodivergence: * Highly Sensitive Test self-report * ADHD self-report To connect further with Sam: * Website * Find Sam on The Gram * If you are looking for support, this looks delicious: Slow: the Mastermind Get full access to Courage & Spice at saspetherick.substack.com/subscribe

    42 min
  5. Can you love yourself and want to lose weight? with Ali Shapiro

    MAR 25

    Can you love yourself and want to lose weight? with Ali Shapiro

    Content note: This episode includes discussions around intentional weight loss and diet culture, and contains swearing. This is the first in a new podcast series called The Body Stories with my beloved friend and fellow coach, Ali Shapiro. Over the next year, Ali and I will have an occasional and ongoing conversation about the nuanced relationship with our bodies. Ali is a deeply experienced coach whose work sits at the intersection of food, psychology, and behaviour change. Ali holds multiple certifications in integrated nutrition, and her master’s degree is in human behaviour. She has over a decade of work with clients and founded the ‘Truce with Food’ coaching methodology. This work is Ali’s love language! To give you some context for this episode: I first went to Weight Watchers aged 11, thus began my on-off ‘its complicated’ situationship with the worst of bad boyfriends: diet culture. It’s been hard won, but these days, I have an appreciative and compassionate relationship with my body, and I feel so free of diet mentality. I also have a complex heart condition, and losing body fat will reduce the burden on my heart. At age 51, I want to lose weight in order to build a strong body that my 81-year-old self will be so proud of. As I embark on this process of intentional weight loss, a lot of old stuff has come up. So far, this process has contained a lot of surprising realisations, story rewrites, and tentative healing. In this first episode, we set the scene for this ongoing conversation. We talk about: * Diet culture as “thin at all costs” * Feeling peace within our bodies * What does it mean to trust your appetite? * How I’ve changed my eating habits * Why restriction is different from deprivation * Doing the “good thing” vs actually feeling good * Finding satisfaction in our day-to-day * Letting go of the Weight Watchers “walk of shame” This podcast series was sparked by our private chats where Ali’s support has been rich with insight. Our conversations felt so nourishing I invited Ali to make this a public chat. These are tender conversations, and at times, I will be in the coaching client seat. Our hope is that listening in will spark your own exploration of your body story. Mentioned in this Episode: * Connect with Ali here. * Ali’s upcoming program: Your Emotional Eating Blueprint: Why Am I Eating This Now? * That Sugar Film Get full access to Courage & Spice at saspetherick.substack.com/subscribe

    56 min
  6. Women who do too much with Tamu Thomas

    MAR 12

    Women who do too much with Tamu Thomas

    Tamu Thomas is a transformational somatic leadership coach, the eldest daughter of West African immigrants, a mother, a speaker, and now a published author! Tamu’s first book, Women Who Work Too Much, helps overachieving, overfunctioning women set boundaries, find joy, and flourish. This conversation was a balm, and I suspect fellow Gen X women in particular, will feel seen and understood. We are the generation that grew up being told we could have it all. Now, we find ourselves in our 40s and 50s—often our most creatively fulfilling years - doing too much during menopause while parenting teens and caring for parents and wondering why we are so bloody tired. In this conversation, we discuss natural (rather than toxic) productivity, radical rest, and why work (not overwork) can be a positive thing. This is such an important conversation for those of us who have blurred the boundaries between work, rest, and play (me, too!). Resources for you: Women Who Work Too Much by Tamu Thomas Tamu on Instagram @tamu.thomas Tamu on TikTok @tamu_thomas Get full access to Courage & Spice at saspetherick.substack.com/subscribe

    48 min
  7. Your Future Self

    FEB 27

    Your Future Self

    Have you ever daydreamed about a different potential future for yourself? Perhaps your imagination offers you an entirely different job, country, or relationship? It might be that your life looks the same on the inside but feels entirely different to you. This might be a creative way to spend time on a drive or in a queue, and it could also point you towards an entirely new direction. In this episode of Courage and Spice, we are exploring this sometimes magical connection with Your Future Self. We explore: * How to connect to yourself years from now * How to use this envisioning exercise when we want to make a life change * When this exercise isn’t helpful * How to decode the breadcrumb trail your imagination offers. I also share a quite magical experience of connecting to my future self years before I even knew what it was, and how my vision was a giant metaphor for life now. If you have a feeling that something new wants to emerge in your life, this episode is for you! Please do share in the comments what your Future Self is up to ✨ Resources for you: * Self-belief Journalling: make a cosy date with yourself and your journal to explore a topic designed to help you grow self-belief. Our next topic is intention! * Write a letter to your future self. * Wishcraft by Barbara Sher * Rethinking positive thinking: Inside the new science of motivation by Gabriele Oettingen * Hal Hershfield in conversation with Scott Barry Kaufman: The Psychology Podcast Get full access to Courage & Spice at saspetherick.substack.com/subscribe

    32 min
  8. A Portal through the Polycrisis with Sally Burns

    FEB 12

    A Portal through the Polycrisis with Sally Burns

    If you love the idea of communal learning and connection, if you are looking for like-minded souls, if you have incomplete online courses on your laptop: listen in! I’m excited for you to get to know Sally Burns. We recorded this chat before ‘The US Situation’ - I guess we need to start calling it what it is - The Coup by tech billionaires. To know that Sally is thoughtfully building an alternative to everything they stand for, fills me hope. Sally is an e-learning expert and ecological thinker. Her work involves reimagining the ways we commune and learn online, away from algorithms and ads. She’s the Founder of The Portal Collective, an online space where people can gather to learn and grow in a meaningful community. The entire site and its ethos is so beautiful! It feels like wandering through a verdant garden. Sally also offers support for non-profits, coaches, and educators who want to host their work on a learning platform that is very far from big tech. I think this is a really exciting development for course creators! We discuss the importance of collaborative, co-created learning experiences that prioritize emotional safety and mutual care. We expand on the broader implications of community, collective action, and the role of imagination in creating a more connected and equitable world. This was such a hopeful and wildly nourishing chat. More resources for you: * The Portal Collective * If you are a Course Creator - check out the Portal. * Sally on Instagram * Combining by Nora Bateson * Love this? You might enjoy my conversation with Niki Wickes. Get full access to Courage & Spice at saspetherick.substack.com/subscribe

    55 min
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Hello, guys and gals and non-binary pals! You are warmly invited to Courage + Spice: the podcast for humans with self-doubt. You can expect inspiring interviews with ace humans + evidence-based approaches for you to try. If self-doubt is holding you back personally, relationally, creatively or professionally, Courage + Spice is especially for you. saspetherick.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Sas Petherick
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2025
  • Episodes
    167
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Sas Petherick
  • Show Website
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