Episodes

I’m excited to share this week’s ep of the pod with the wonderful Dr Libby Weaver, nutritional biochemist (PhD), women’s health expert, 13 times best selling author and founder of Bio Blends. Dr Libby’s unique approach to health incorporates nutrition, biochemistry and emotions. There are so many layers to this which we unpack and delve into in this episode. We get stuck into an array of topics around problems women most commonly face around weight loss including; Why you’re not seeing the res...

**Trigger warning. In this episode we touch on the subject of eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia. What a treat it is to have the lovely Kate Kendall on the pod this week. Kate is the co-founder of Flow Athletic, yoga expert and the author of Life in Flow. She has been a fixture in the health and wellness space for a long time and the former yoga expert for Body & Soul magazine. Aside from having a wonderful approach to translating the yogic life into everyday life, we also delve into breat...

I’m super excited to drop this latest ep with the lovely Katie Martin, trainer, Founder of KFit and author of The Kitchen Series. Having worked in the health and fitness industry since she was only 16, Katie shares her journey and we get stuck into some popular topics around steering away from diet culture, social media diet trends, healing your gut from the inside out, plus we delve into the controversial topic of calorie counting. Katie also shares her personal training and nutrition routine...

We’re celebrating 2 years of The Rach Active Podcast with a solo episode. I don’t do these often, mainly because I love having fab conversations with all my inspiring guests. This week I get stuck into 3 simple steps to become the happiest version of you. If you incorporate these practical exercises into your life, you will become happier! I’ve got diverse background across health and wellness disciplines and one of the things I have studied is positive psychology. Studies in the field aroun...

I’m super excited to share this week’s episode featuring the lovely Leonie Dawson, CEO, award-winning entrepreneur, self-made multi millionaire, international best selling author and online business mentor. For someone going from no background in business to running a multi million dollar business, all whilst working 10 hours a week, Leonie takes us behind the scenes and shares her insights into how she’s created the success and lifestyle that works for her. Leonie is so fabulously transparent...

I’m absolutely honoured to have the lovely Bronnie Ware on the pod this week. Bronnie is the international best selling author of the global classic The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying, which has been published in 32 languages and read by over one million readers worldwide. She’s also the author of Bloom and Your Year of Change, a speaker at Ted X and a teacher of courage and regret-free living. It was such a pleasure to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying being publi...

**Trigger warning. In this episode, we touch on the topic of suicide. This week I’m joined by the awesome Sam Webb. Sam is the co-founder of not for profit mental health organisation Livin, he’s also an actor who you may have seen on Neighbours, Home & Away and Survivor. This was such an impactful chat. Sam and I get stuck into all things mental health, dealing with emotions and how acting is so intertwined with understanding yourself and developing as a person. These are such important topic...

What an absolute pleasure it is to have the amazing Lisa Messenger on the pod this week. Lisa is the founder and CEO of the Collective Hub, best selling author, serial entrepreneur, international speaker and all round amazing woman. I’m so excited for you guys to listen to this one. Our chat literally felt like sitting on the couch with a good girlfriend curled up with a warm tea and lovely conversation. Having run her business The Messenger Group since 2001, Lisa then started the Collective H...

I’m so excited to share this week’s episode with you guys! I’m joined by none other than the wonderful Simon Hill of The Proof with Simon Hill (formerly known as Plant Proof). Simon is the best selling author of The Proof is in the Plants, founder of Eden Bondi and is also a nutritionist and physiotherapist. It’s such fab timing, with Simon recently announcing he will be expanding his focus from purely nutrition to a broader scope, exploring other topics around health. He has an incredible tale...

I am so excited to share this ep with you guys. Dr Kieran Kennedy and I literally nerd out to some really amazing topics in this week’s ep. Kieran is a medical doctor, psychiatrist, mental health advocate and a leading voice in the mental health space, being a regular contributor to Men’s Health Australia, as well as contributing to publications such as The New York Post, Women’s Health Australia, and appearing on The Today Show, Studio 10 and more. It was so serendipitous how K and I came tog...

I’m absolutely honoured to have multi New York Times Best Selling Author, psychologist and leader in the personal development space, Gay Hendricks on the pod this week. He is the author of best selling books like The Big Leap, The Genius Zone, Conscious Living and so many more. I happen to be working with an amazing female entrepreneur as my mentor and coach and she recommended Gay’s book The Big Leap to me. The concepts in this book are some that I haven’t heard framed this way before. Many o...

I absolutely loved this chat with Scott Henderson, editor of Men’s Health Magazine Australia and host of the Live Life in Sneakers podcast. Scottie and I nerd out to our common passions of storytelling, fitness, mental health and our mutual love of the latest Men’s Health cover star Jay Shetty. A self confessed fitness addict, adventurer and really good assembler of food (to clarify – not cooking, assembling), we get stuck into some awesome topics around… The shift of Men’s Health away from fo...

This week, it’s such a pleasure to share this episode of the pod featuring the lovely Lee Holmes, founder of Supercharged Foods, best selling author, clinical nutritionist and whole foods chef. Lee and I go way back and realised we have actually known each other for 10 years now! It’s been so great to see all the amazing work she has continued to offer in this space. She’s appeared in Vogue, Wellbeing Magazine, Body & Soul and more. Having gone through her own journey of autoimmune disease, nam...

I’ve been rejected and have failed many times in my life. I generally am used to being an avid listener to my guests who deliver their pearls of wisdom and inspiration. We talk a lot about rejection and failure on the podcast, because we all experience various forms of this throughout our lives. Each episode, I ask my guest ‘What is your biggest rejection and failure and what have you learnt from it?’, and it dawned on me that I had never asked myself the question. So this week, I’m sharing wi...

I am beyond excited to share this special episode with you guys. This week I’m joined by the Editor-In-Chief of Women’s Health Australia, Lizza Gebilagin. She’s also the producer and host of podcast Holy Sh!t I’m Pregnant. We get stuck into so many amazing topics we’re both so passionate about. Lizza shares the pivotal moment when the loss of a loved one made her realise she had been too scared to live the life she truly desired. From that moment, she decided that everyday for a year, she would...

I’m thrilled to drop this episode of the pod this week with the lovely Ashley Wray, Founder & CEO of Mala Collective, Meditation Teacher and Coach. Ashley has been featured in publications like Forbes, Goop, Ted Women, the LA Times and so many more. We get stuck into so many juicy topics around starting your own meditation practice, dealing with negative thoughts, cultivating a deep acceptance of who we are and getting out of our own way. Plus, Ashley shares her own journey from a journalist c...

I’m thrilled to share this week’s episode with you all. This week I’m joined by the lovely Steph Lowe, nutritionist, founder of The Natural Nutritionist and Host of the Health, Happiness and Human Kind podcast. Steph has been in the nutrition game for a long time and has such a wealth of knowledge. This episode is jam packed with so much that will help you with: How to eliminate or reduce your sugar intake How to address sugar cravings The “standard” food pyramid, what’s wrong with it and w...

I’ve been hanging to release this ep since we recorded it. This week I’m joined by the lovely Michael Ramsey, co-founder of Strong Pilates and founder of Journey Retreats. Rams is well known in the fitness space, particularly in Melbourne where he established and sold 6 extremely successful F45 studios within the space of 4 years. It’s been such a pleasure watching the development of Strong, his new baby, over the past 2 years. We’ve had this chat in the works for a while, so it was nice to fi...

I am beyond thrilled to open the 2022 season of the podcast with none other than the lovely Sweat Pilates Trainer Sara Colquhoun. Sara is also the founder of Union Pilates and a Balanced Body Master Instructor. Sara shares her story of how she was diagnosed with and ultimately overcame Bell’s Palsy, at 19 no less! Plus, we get stuck into so many juicy topics in this chat. Not only do we nerd out to some really amazing tips Sara has for levelling up your pilates practice, we also get an insider...

I put a little word out on the gram for some questions around health, fitness, nutrition and some other things, and you guys came back with some great ones! I've selected a few to answer for you in this episode, including a few personal questions around my journey. To be honest, this is the most I've really talked in an episode, since usually I'm having some fab conversations with our inspiring guests, so I hope you get some value from this episode that helps you along your health and fitness j...

I'm thrilled to have the beautiful Jordanna Levin on the pod this week. Jords is a best selling author of the books Higher Love and Make it Happen and the host of 3 amazing podcasts, Lunar Lover, The Middle and Higher Love. Her upcoming new book Make You Happen is on its way, due for release in May 2022. If you're not into super woo woo stuff but are keen to create the life you want, this ep is for you! Jords' approach to manifesting is super practical and real world. She unpacks her manifest...

This episode is so freaking good! I'm super excited to share my chat with financial wellness coach Betsy Westcott. She's a leading voice in the financial space for women, having appeared on Studio 10, Yahoo Finance, Leading Women's Network 9Honey and many more. If you've been listening to the pod, you'll know we talk a lot about physical, emotional and mental health and wellbeing. And what's interlinked to this is our financial wellbeing, especially as women. Our mula is what's going to fund ou...

I'm so excited to share this week's ep with you guys with the lovely Ange Simson. Ange and I have mutual friends and happened to be at the same wedding years ago before we 'virtually' even met, but this chat literally felt like a good D & M with a girlfriend. Ange is a health coach, writer, speaker and mentor. She's also the creator of The Gratitude Gang and The Health Hub. Her philosophies around health are "wellness without deprivation" and "gratitude makes everything enough". Ange opens ...

I'm so honoured to have the lovely Cass Olholm join me on the pod this week. This is her first ever podcast interview, so I'm so grateful that she has chosen this podcast as the first to share her amazing journey and insights! Cass is SWEAT's High Intensity Strength Trainer, she is also the co-founder of The Ground Australia, a nutritionist and a weightlifting coach. We delve into Cass's journey into health and fitness as a career, how she was able to overcome being a completely shy and introv...