Travel & Transformation

Have you ever felt afraid to do something… but knew you needed to do it anyway?In this episode, I’m sharing a few real experiences from my own life that all come back to one thing. Mindset.From going live on Facebook for the first time, to skydiving, to even just getting out of the house on a cold day. Each of these moments required courage, a shift in thinking, and a willingness to do the uncomfortable thing.I talk about what it feels like to face fear head-on. And how the first time is always the hardest. But once you do it, it gets easier. You build confidence. You start to trust yourself.I also share something we don’t talk about enough. The voice in your head.The loud voice that tells you:“You’re not good enough.”“You don’t know enough.”“Stay where it’s safe.”And the quieter voice that’s trying to guide you forward.How often are we listening to the wrong one?This episode is an invitation to start noticing those voices. To question where they came from. And to ask yourself if they’re actually true. Because sometimes, the very thing that feels like it’s protecting you… is actually holding you back.I also talk about what it means to pivot when things don’t go according to plan. Whether it’s a disrupted schedule or a delayed flight, you always have a choice in how you respond.At the end of the day, you can’t control everything. But you can control how you show up.If there’s something you’ve been afraid to do… maybe this is your sign to try it. Even if it’s just dipping your pinky toe in.TOPICS DISCUSSED:Facing fear and doing the uncomfortable thingOvercoming perfectionism and fear of judgmentWhy confidence comes after taking actionThe “loud” vs. “quiet” voice in your headHow limiting beliefs are formed and reinforcedReframing fear and excitementPivoting when things don’t go as plannedChoosing your response when things are out of your controlBEST MOMENTS:"When you finally do the thing that scares you the first time, each subsequent time becomes easier.""How often is the voice that is trying to protect us really sabotaging our progress?""You came into this world good enough."CONTACT THE HOSTWebsite |  www.thereikihealingcoach.com Instagram | @sophia_i_got_igInstagram | @createlifeyourwayFacebook | www.facebook.com/sophia.e.754LinkedIn | Sophia Elcock

You did everything right. The career. The hustle. The titles. And somewhere along the way, you stopped feeling like yourself.In this episode, Ashley DelBello is transformational coach and trauma-informed breathwork practitioner shares how 15 years in high-pressure pharmaceutical PR left her anxious, depleted, and "dying slowly on the inside." She talks about what it actually looks like to find your way back to yourself, why your core values are the root cause of your emptiness, and how to start listening to a body you've been ignoring for years.If you've ever felt off but couldn't explain why this episode is for you.TOPICS DISCUSSED:What "trauma-informed" actually means and why it comes down to safety and choiceBig T vs. little T trauma: why the same event affects two people completely differentlyWhy your core values are the missing link between burnout and fulfillmentHow to define your values Orienting: a two-minute somatic tool to calm your nervous system anywhereConnect with Ashley On LinkedIn here www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-delbello-b356a81Want to learn more about Ashley’s work? Visit her website Ashley DelBello at ashleydelbello.comBEST MOMENTS:"Your core values are the things that make you feel alive. If they're not in your life in some way, you're not going to feel fulfilled — period.""Everybody's going to define wealth or travel or leadership differently. The most important part is defining it for yourself.""We're so up in our heads all the time. We need to be in our heads sometimes — just not as much as we currently are.""We do need a mirror put in front of us sometimes. That's what a coach is really there for.""Learning how to listen to your body isn't a one-and-done thing. It's a practice of slowing down enough to actually hear it.""You are a sovereign adult. You always have the choice. And part of the work is learning to trust what your body is already telling you."CONTACT THE HOSTWebsite |  www.thereikihealingcoach.com Instagram | @sophia_i_got_igInstagram | @createlifeyourwayFacebook | www.facebook.com/sophia.e.754LinkedIn | Sophia Elcock

You've done everything right. The career. The marriage. The house. The kids. And still something feels missing. In this episode, Melanie Soloway shares how she spent decades checking society’s boxes, from apartheid-era South Africa to deputy Los Angeles. But it was divorce that made her go on a trip back home. Melanie talks about what humanitarian travel actually looks like and how it can reignite the light at the end of the tunnel. If you've ever arrived at a destination you spent years chasing and thought this isn't it — this episode is for you.TOPICS DISCUSSED:Growing up in South Africa during apartheid and what it taught her about resilienceWhy achieving "success" left her feeling empty — and what finally didn'tHow Nelson Mandela's story became a personal turning pointUsing your pain as a passport to freedom, not despairWhat villages in Kenya and South Africa can teach us about joy that the West has forgottenThe "trinity of connection" — self, source, and other — and why all three must be litWhat humanitarian travel actually looks like and how to join the next tripConnect with Melanie On humtravelgroup@gmail.comWant to learn more about Melanie’s work? Visit her website Humanitarian Travel Group  at humtrav.comBEST MOMENTS:"We can use our pain as a passport to go down into the depths of despair, or we can use our pain as a passport to our freedom.""We don't even want to see the light at the end of the tunnel — we end up becoming the light in the tunnel.""When I. Then I. — When I get that job, then I'll be happy. And then you arrive in those spaces, and it doesn't quite work the way you had anticipated."CONTACT THE HOSTWebsite |  www.thereikihealingcoach.com Instagram | @sophia_i_got_igInstagram | @createlifeyourwayFacebook | www.facebook.com/sophia.e.754LinkedIn | Sophia Elcock

You know what to do. You're just not doing it. And it's not because you lack willpower.Courtney Townley has spent 30 years in the wellness space — from fitness trainer to fat loss coach to behavior change specialist — and she kept seeing the same pattern: women who knew exactly what the healthier choice was, and still couldn't make it. That gap between knowing and doing is what her new book, “The Consistency Code: A Midlife Woman’s Guide to Deep Health and Happiness,” was built to close.In this episode, Courtney reframes everything you thought health was supposed to look like, and why the diet-and-exercise lens has been failing midlife women for decades. If you're exhausted, running on empty by 5pm, and wondering why the wine always wins over the walk, this conversation is the one you didn't know you needed.TOPICS DISCUSSED:Why midlife women are running on the least hormones with the most stress The real reason you reach for wine, Netflix, or sugar at the end of the day Why your nervous system was never designed to run in fight-or-flight all day longThe four practices of the Consistency Code: Awareness, Organization, Follow Through, and RealignmentWhy "stop doing X" never works, and what to focus on insteadRigidity as the silent killer of consistencyHow to be your own coach: the art of insourcing your healthConnect with Courtney On Instagram @gracegritWant to learn more about Courtney’s work? Visit her website at https://graceandgrit.comListen to her podcast - Grace & Grit PodcastBEST MOMENTS:"You cannot be curious and judgmental at the same time. Choose curiosity.""Rigidity is the death of consistency.""I have never worked with a woman who didn't know what the healthier choice was. The bigger question is why aren't we doing it?""Health is not a destination. It's a direction you travel in for as long as you have breath in your lungs.""You are one decision away from traveling back in the direction of health."CONTACT THE HOSTWebsite |  www.thereikihealingcoach.com Instagram | @sophia_i_got_igInstagram | @createlifeyourwayFacebook | www.facebook.com/sophia.e.754LinkedIn | Sophia Elcock

You don't need a divorce, a diagnosis, or a breakdown to change your life. Sometimes you just need to buy a one-way ticket.Pascale Landriault sold her house, gave away her furniture, and flew to Paris in her late 50s with no return date and no plan beyond eventually reaching Bali. Today, at 65, she's still going — and she wrote a book on what solo travel actually does to a woman from the inside out.In this episode, Pascale shares the story that stopped her in her tracks: robbed in Sardinia, left with a bathing suit, a towel, and a phone — no passport, no credit cards, no crypto keys. What happened next wasn't just survival. It was the deepest healing of her life. If you've been waiting for the "right time" to travel solo, or convinced yourself it's too unsafe, too lonely, or too late, this conversation will dismantle every excuse you have.TOPICS DISCUSSED:Why selling everything and leaving in her late 50s wasn't a crisis — it was a callingWhat getting robbed in Sardinia taught her about childhood wounds, surrender, and real freedomThe myth that solo travel is lonely, unsafe, or only for the youngHow to heal by feeling — not fixing, not pushing throughHer two coaching programs for women ready to travel transformatively or go fully nomadicRetreats in Bali (May 2026) and the Moroccan Desert (November 2026)Connect with Pascale here - https://ca.linkedin.com/in/pascale-landriaultWant to learn more about Pascale’s work? Visit her website at pascalelandriault.comHere is Pascale Landriault - SHE TRAVELS: Real Stories of Women Transformed Through Solo TravelBEST MOMENTS:"Travel is the catalyst, the mirror, the container, and the medicine.""I just don't buy the idea that after a certain age you start declining. To me, that's mass conditioning.""The biggest act of healing is surrendering. Surrendering to whatever's there and whatever's coming up.""When you try to repress it, it keeps coming back. But if you let it flow through, the cloud moves away quicker.""You don't realize how heavy you are until you're lighter.""The more you shed what's not the real you, the more you realize — I didn't even know I was heavy before.""Vulnerability is courage. First to yourself — and once you can do that, it becomes easier with others too.""There's a gift in every situation. Travel teaches you to trust that everything's going to be okay."CONTACT THE HOSTWebsite |  www.thereikihealingcoach.com Instagram | @sophia_i_got_igInstagram | @createlifeyourwayFacebook | www.facebook.com/sophia.e.754LinkedIn | Sophia Elcock

You're not stuck because life is hard. You're stuck because you're in the way.I just drove cross-country from California to Oklahoma, moved into a place a third the size of my old one, in a city where I know absolutely nobody—and then I showed up for my pop-up Zoom and not a single person came. And I'm here to tell you that every bit of it was exactly what needed to happen.In this solo episode, I get radically honest about the excuses I made, the fear underneath them, and the moment I had to tell myself to get up, get dressed, and go outside. If you keep explaining away why your life hasn't moved yet, this episode is the mirror you didn't know you needed.TOPICS DISCUSSED:Excuses vs. fear: how we justify standing still and what's really underneathWhy not keeping your word to yourself is quietly destroying trust—with you and othersBlaming circumstances vs. owning your response to themThe melancholy trap: what courageous action looks like on your hardest daySelf-doubt after a big decision, and how to come back to yourself"Good girl syndrome" and why putting everyone first is keeping you lastBlind spots: the beliefs running your life that you can't even seeHow to start becoming the woman you want to be—in small, identity-shifting stepsBEST MOMENTS:"Underlying those excuses were levels of fear. I was just afraid nobody was going to show up, nobody was going to want to hear what I have to say.""Nobody showed up. So I had the opportunity to actually face my fear—and I didn't die.""I told myself: pick your ass up and go outside. And that was courageous action.""When you're not keeping your word to yourself, you're not only self-abandoning—you could be creating a lack of trust with the very people you care about.""What looks normal to you may really just not be serving you."CONTACT THE HOSTWebsite |  www.thereikihealingcoach.com Instagram | @sophia_i_got_igInstagram | @createlifeyourwayFacebook | www.facebook.com/sophia.e.754LinkedIn | Sophia Elcock

Belinda David, founder of Soul Treader and house sitting expert, looked in the mirror one day and didn't recognize the vibrant woman she used to be. Overweight, exhausted, consumed by corporate life and caregiving—she bought hiking boots and joined a meetup. That first hike nearly killed her. Today, she hikes 8 months a year across the world's most stunning trails and teaches women in their 40s and beyond that the best is truly yet to come.In this episode, Belinda shares her transformation from corporate burnout to hiking 200+ kilometers solo through Greenland's Arctic Circle Trail, reveals the exact safety tools that keep her alive on remote trails, and breaks down how house sitting allows her to fund a location-independent lifestyle without draining retirement savings.If you're waiting for "someday" to travel, stuck in the when-the-kids-leave-I'll-finally-live mindset, or convinced your best years are behind you, this conversation will show you that life at 60 can mean waking up overlooking the Mediterranean Sea on your birthday.Code for discount SOPHIA15 on all housesitting courses. housesitting101.comFree Resource: Download Hike It Right: Health, Safety and Hygiene on the Trail at soultrader.comTOPICS DISCUSSED:The mirror moment: recognizing you've disappeared while caring for everyone elseSolo hiking the 230km Arctic Circle Trail in Greenland Health, Safety & Hygiene on the Trail: the free resource every hiker needsHouse sitting as the secret to affordable long-term travel and cultural immersionWhy our bodies won't stay active forever—and why "later" might be too lateEarly retirement at 60: choosing life over endless work Want to learn more about Belinda’s work? Visit her website at soultreader.comBEST MOMENTS:"One day you look in the mirror and that youth is gone. You've given yourself to everything else.""I saw these men and women in their 60s climb that mountain far easier than I, and I thought—you are so healthy.""I just remember the lack of sound, the lack of interaction with any other people, and just this sparse tundra with lakes—it was really quite insane.""I think I've got another 10, 15 years of doing this. Our bodies aren't this active for the rest of our lives.""I want to wake up on my 60th birthday overlooking the Mediterranean Sea watching either a perfect sunrise or a perfect sunset."CONTACT THE HOSTWebsite |  www.thereikihealingcoach.com Instagram | @sophia_i_got_igInstagram | @createlifeyourwayFacebook | www.facebook.com/sophia.e.754LinkedIn | Sophia Elcock

Serenity Lesley, manifestation coach and author of "It's Time to Manifest Your Vision," transformed complex PTSD into a thriving coaching practice by mastering one truth: manifestation isn't just thinking it—it's accountability, clarity, acceptance, healing, and then becoming it.In this episode, Serenity breaks down the exact framework for turning fear into fuel, reveals why "I am" statements can trap you instead of free you, and shares the breathing technique that stops anxiety before it hijacks your prefrontal cortex.If you've been forcing manifestations that won't come or wondering why your vision board isn't working, this conversation gives you the missing piece: the healing that must happen before the manifesting can begin.TOPICS DISCUSSED:The power and danger of "I am" statements (and how to use them correctly)Accountability → Clarity → Acceptance → Healing: the manifestation frameworkWhy acceptance without over-identification changes everythingPractical anxiety relief: breath work and physical grounding techniquesCreating reminders that actually rewire your brainThe difference between feeling sad vs. being sadHow PTSD became her entrepreneurial superpowerConnect with Serenity on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/serenity-lesley-aa-%E2%93%A5-9066a0223Want to learn more about Serenity’s work? Visit her website at manifestingserenity.com/its-time-to-manifest-your-vision-2BEST MOMENTS:"Whatever you feed grows. You can either continue to feed the opposite now that you have awareness, or you can feed the new direction.""Manifestation isn't just one aspect. It's thinking it, seeing it, saying it, hearing it, and repeating.""If our emotions are too heavy and starting to go rampant, they cloud our better judgment. You have to calm yourself first before you can work on your mind.""I decided what I wanted to feel instead—that's a choice you make."CONTACT THE HOSTWebsite |  www.thereikihealingcoach.com Instagram | @sophia_i_got_igInstagram | @createlifeyourwayFacebook | www.facebook.com/sophia.e.754LinkedIn | Sophia Elcock