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. 4D AGO

    Why am I not happier? (and what to do about it)

    You are not broken. You are not ungrateful. But there is a good chance that somewhere along the way, in the pursuit of the next level, the next salary, the next thing to get right, you quietly lost access to delight. Not in a dramatic way. Just a slow, almost imperceptible compression of your experience of life until you can stand somewhere genuinely beautiful and feel almost nothing. In this episode, Lucy explores why this happens so specifically to high achievers, what it actually means to live from the shadow of seriousness, and why the answer is not a bigger holiday or a more radical life change. You will hear about a client session that cracked something open, about a poem that will stop you in your tracks, and about the Gene Keys concept that describes seriousness as the most widespread disease on the planet. You will hear what it looks like when someone reconnects with their own sense of presence through a painting on a wall and a memory of drawing on a beach in Greece with a stranger. And you will be reminded that the path from numbness to aliveness is not paved with grand gestures. It is paved with breakfast. With the weight of a mug in your hand. With the moment you actually taste something instead of moving straight on to the next thing. This episode is an invitation back to your own life. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve Andrea Gibson Poem The Gene Keys - Free Profile https://offers.lucymaeve.com/the-liberated-life-retreat-2026/

    24 min

  2. APR 6

    Why do I feel lonely in my relationships? AI Relationships and the Fear of Being Left

    You might have started small. A question you weren't ready to ask a friend. Something you needed to process at 11pm when calling someone felt like too much. A thought you were a little embarrassed about and needed to say somewhere without consequence. It felt fine. Maybe even helpful. But there is something happening underneath that that is worth paying attention to before it quietly costs you more than you realise. In this episode, Lucy talks about why so many of us have started turning to AI for emotional support, why it feels safer than turning to the people in our lives, and what we are actually losing in making that swap. This is not an episode about AI being bad or about the man on Esther Perel's podcast who fell in love with a chatbot, though that is in here too. It is an episode about what real intimacy actually requires and why the thing that makes AI feel so relieving, the total absence of risk, is precisely the thing that makes it useless for the kind of healing that will actually change your life. You will hear why real connection is built not in the absence of fear but in the presence of it. Why the moment you say the scary thing to a real person and are not rejected is the moment something genuinely shifts. And why for high-achieving women in particular, having a place to quietly offload the parts of yourself you are not performing, without ever having to let a real person see them, might be keeping you more stuck and more lonely than you know. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve https://offers.lucymaeve.com/the-liberated-life-retreat-2026/

    21 min

  3. MAR 30

    Stepping Off The Game of Life and Unearthing The Witch Within with Alaina Crystal

    You have done everything right. The impressive job, the serious career, the identity built around being the person who gets things done. And somewhere along the way, the parts of you that were creative, curious, maybe even a little bit magic, got quietly filed away under things other people get to do. In this episode, you'll get to hear from someone who was global head of strategy at an advertising agency, deeply embedded in the grind, and who has spent the last five years methodically, sometimes terrifyingly, stepping off what she calls the game of life path. Brand strategist, coach, hiking nonprofit founder, podcaster and self-described baby witch Alaina Crystal talks with Lucy about what it actually costs to build your entire identity around productivity, what opens up when you stop, and why the creative wellspring so many high-achieving women have buried doesn't disappear, it just waits. You'll hear about the relationship between spirituality and creativity, and why feeding your soul work first tends to make everything else better. You'll hear an honest conversation about what it means to want to work less hard, why that is one of the most radical and difficult things a woman in a big career can allow herself to say, and what has to shift inside you before it becomes possible to mean it. And at the end of the episode, Alaina pulls tarot for Lucy live on the podcast, which is exactly as electric as it sounds. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com. → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve The Coven in the Corner Office on Substack Listen to S1 of the podcast on Apple or Spotify Sign up to the Girl Hike newsletter for our latest hikes.

    1h 5m

  4. MAR 23

    Am I a loser for going away alone?

    You know how to hold it together in a room full of strangers. You know how to come across well, how to say the right things, how to make sure people see the version of you that has it sorted. You've probably been doing it so long you don't even notice it anymore. It just feels like personality. In this episode, you'll hear what it actually costs to live like that, and what becomes possible the moment you stop. Lucy shares the story of arriving at a retreat in Italy convinced she was a loser for going alone, spending the first few days performing impressiveness at people she'd never met before, and then something unexpected happening anyway. Slowly, without a five-step plan or a breakthrough moment, the armor started to come off. And in its place came something she hadn't felt in years: the experience of being genuinely seen. Not the polished version. The actual version. This episode explores what it means to let a room of people meet you as you actually are, why that is so terrifying for high-achieving women in particular, and why it tends to unlock the clarity that no amount of journaling or strategizing has been able to produce. You'll hear why a good retreat doesn't give you answers, and what it does instead. And you'll understand why the decisions that had felt impossible for years can suddenly feel completely obvious once you've had enough ground under your feet to trust what you already know. If you've been wondering whether something like this is for you, or whether you're the kind of person who does this sort of thing, this episode is probably the most honest answer you'll get. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

    24 min

  5. MAR 15

    Before you quit your job or leave your partner - listen to this

    In this week’s episode of The Liberated Life, we explore the quiet fantasy so many of us carry that if we could just change the right external thing, life would finally feel better - a different job, a different partner, a different city, a different version of ourselves. This episode unpacks why changing the outside rarely creates the fulfilment we hope it will, and why the same sense of “meh” can follow us even when life looks objectively good. We explore emotional numbness, the way high-achieving women often learn to override their feelings in order to succeed, and how that disconnection from the body slowly dulls not only the difficult emotions but also our capacity for joy, awe and aliveness. Through personal stories and reflections, this conversation looks at the difference between chasing extraordinary experiences and learning to feel deeply present in ordinary moments, and why the real shift comes from rebuilding the internal ecosystem that allows life to land again. If you’ve ever looked at your life and quietly wondered why something still feels a little flat despite everything being “good”, this is an invitation to reconnect with your own sense of aliveness rather than continuing to chase it outside yourself.

    22 min
  6. Undoing the Good Girl Complex and Stepping to Audacious Living with Amy Lavinia

    MAR 9

    Undoing the Good Girl Complex and Stepping to Audacious Living with Amy Lavinia

    You know the version of you that has an opinion but doesn't say it. That has a desire but talks herself out of it. That works incredibly hard, gives generously, and quietly makes herself smaller so no one feels uncomfortable. You probably don't call it the good girl. You just call it being professional. Being considerate. Being realistic. In this episode, you'll find out why that pattern runs so deep, where it actually comes from, and why no amount of mindset work shifts it if you haven't looked at what's underneath. You'll understand why shrinking isn't a personality flaw, it's a protection strategy, and a very intelligent one at that. You'll hear what it actually looks and feels like to start moving out of it, not by becoming louder or more controversial, but by building enough inner trust that your desires finally get more airtime than your fears. And you'll leave knowing the difference between the audacity that's performed for attention and the kind that quietly changes everything. This conversation with erotic empowerment leader Amy Lavinia is the kind that makes you want to go and do the thing you've been sitting on.  → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve The Audacity - Group Programme

    1h 5m
  7. Fine Is The Most Dangerous Word In The English Language

    MAR 2

    Fine Is The Most Dangerous Word In The English Language

    There is a word you say so automatically you don't even notice you're saying it anymore. Someone asks how you are and before you've even checked, before you've taken a single breath, it's already out of your mouth. Fine. And here's the thing about fine. It's not neutral. It's not just a social nicety. Every time you say it, you are training yourself that your actual experience doesn't matter enough to mention. That the complex, uncomfortable, beautiful, confusing truth of how you actually are is too much for the room. And somewhere in that habit is the reason so many high-achieving women feel deeply lonely inside lives that look completely together from the outside. In this episode, you'll understand why the word fine might be one of the most quietly destructive things you say on repeat, and what it costs you in connection, in intimacy, in the simple experience of being known. You'll learn what it actually takes to come back online after years of autopilot, and why one small shift in how you ask and answer that question can change the quality of every relationship you have. This is a short one. But it will stay with you.  → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve https://offers.lucymaeve.com/the-liberated-life-retreat-2026/

    20 min
  8. What To Do When You’re Confused, Exhausted and Overwhelmed

    FEB 23

    What To Do When You’re Confused, Exhausted and Overwhelmed

    You have read the books, listened to the podcasts, done the therapy, absorbed the frameworks. You know your attachment style, you understand your nervous system, you can articulate your patterns in impressive detail. And somehow, despite all of that, something still feels off. Stuck. Foggy. Like you're doing everything right and yet the thing you're actually looking for keeps not arriving. What if that isn't because you haven't found the right answer yet? What if it's because you've consumed so many answers that you can no longer hear your own? In this episode, you'll understand why the golden age of self-improvement might actually be making some of us more lost, not less. You'll hear why constantly reaching for the next framework, the next piece of content, the next explanation is the same outsourcing habit that got you here in the first place, just wearing different clothes. And you'll leave with something that no amount of information can give you: a little more space. Space to metabolize. Space to come back to yourself. Space to hear what was there all along underneath all the noise. This is the episode to listen to when you're exhausted from trying to figure it all out.  → Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve Online Breathwork

    23 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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