Podcasts by Alchemy in the mid-life kitchen

Let’s talk about why you feel you’re not enough – Peter Anthony from 2022-12-13T19:00

Peter Anthony is the co-founder of you’re a nuff, an organisation encouraging young women to have conversations about healthy self-esteem with their peers, their parents and those who care about...

Wings to Change – Albana Vrioni from 2022-11-08T19:00

Albana is a recognised thought leader in Generative Leadership and business innovation.  She creates transformational change in business performance and generative growth, most notably via digit...

M is for Menopause – Madhu Kapoor from 2022-10-25T19:00

Madhu is a British South Asian who founded M for Menopause after her own menopause experience. Its mission is to ensure all employees feel supported to thrive at work during menopause. She previ...

Nurture, connect and grow – Dr Elizabeth Davidson from 2022-09-13T20:00

Dr. Elizabeth Davidson had been putting together the puzzle of maximizing well-being for her whole life. She's suffered with chronic illness since childhood and this spurred her to search for so...

Bliss beyond the buzz – Janet White from 2022-09-13T20:00

Janet White is a registered nurse, author and certified coach. She’s also a devoted grandmother who enjoys warm sunny beaches. She loves sharing her passion for living a happy, healthy alcohol-f...

The beauty of reinvention - Anke Middelmann from 2022-08-30T20:00

Anke Middelmann is a German national, but she has spent most of her life abroad - UK, Belgium, US, France - for study, work and professional life. 

For most of her life, she considered it...

Ep40 Find your own version of greatness – Dawn Bates from 2022-05-17T20:00

Dawn Bates is an international bestselling author multiple times on five continents. She specialises in developing authorities who wish to give a voice to the voiceless, working with them to cre...

Ep39 It matters what you tell yourself – Kelly-Anne Cummings from 2022-04-05T20:00

Kelly-Anne Cummings is a highly experienced Life Coach with over a decade of industry experience. She is the go-to person if you are wanting tools and strategies to strengthen your mind both in the...

Ep38 Being happy with one’s own innate self – Pia Antico from 2022-03-22T19:00

At 49, Pia Antico survived three near deaths, two abusive marriages, and a major head injury. Her mission is to help single, empty nester businesswomen over 40 to effortlessly get past their darkes...

Ep37 A journey to discover her family – Kathy Donaldson from 2022-03-08T19:00

Ann’s guest this episode is Kathy Donaldson, who discusses the events which led her to search for her birth parents. And they talk about the wisdom she has gained to guide others in this time of he...

Ep36 Healing with Art Therapy from 2022-02-21T19:00

Karen Ceccon is a registered counsellor with the Australian Counselling Association and is highly experienced in the use of Art Therapy as a mode of healing in all those she works with. Karen lives...

Ep35 Shift your thoughts and actions – Marcy McDonald from 2022-02-01T19:00

Marcy McDonald is the daughter of a genius father and a schizophrenic but loving mother, so she started life with an unusual gene pool. She’s worked at a 6-figure corporate job, and she’s hauled po...

Ep34 Breakup to breakthrough from 2021-11-23T19:00

Dr Ann Moir-Bussy welcomes back Leanne Kanzler, a psychologist and a coach who supports men and women who have or are experiencing divorce. Leanne enables them to find new passion, release their fe...

Ep33 Accepting and embracing menopause – Lesley Tait from 2021-11-09T19:00

Lesley Tait helps corporate women between 40-50 struggling with menopause symptoms resulting in loss of confidence, self-esteem&performance issues because of which life&career goals are getting der...

Ep32 Helping women embrace their intuition – Susan Agyare from 2021-10-26T19:00

Susan Adzagba Gavua Agyare was born in Ghana, West Africa and she came to study at the University of Queensland in 1995. She came from a very spiritual family. Both of her paternal and maternal gra...

Ep31 You choose how you respond – Ria Story from 2021-10-12T19:00

Like many, Ria faced adversity in life. Ria was sexually abused by her father from ages 12 - 19, forced to play the role of his wife, and even shared with other men. Desperate to escape, she left h...

Ep30 Rethinking life – Diane Ebsworth from 2021-09-28T20:00

Diane Ebsworth first trained in nursing, and in 2015 changed to counselling in her mid-life. She explains to Dr Ann Moir-Bussy what it was like to transition to the next stage of life and shift car...

Ep29 Thriving through menopause – Clarissa Kristjansson from 2021-09-14T20:00

Clarissa Kristjansson is an internationally recognised Midlife and Menopause coach&mentor who helps women reinvent midlife by come into a greater awareness of themselves, shifting their mindset, bu...

Ep28 Finding the inner wisdom – Urvina Shah from 2021-08-31T20:00

Urvina Shah has worked as a therapeutic radiographer since the 90s. Her personal journey as a mother of 3, one with special needs, has given her a different perspective, and helped her to create an...

Ep27 Activation for healthy longevity – Margie Hare from 2021-08-17T20:00

Margie Hare is co-founder of Team Activate Distributors, one of the biggest entrepreneurial teams in Australia helping people to take charge of their health naturally and building a legacy business...

Ep26 Inner wisdom – Dr Sridevi Kalidindi from 2021-08-03T20:00

Dr Ann Moir-Bussy chats with Dr Sridevi Kalidindi CBE, consultant psychiatrist and leadership coach in London. She is also a visiting senior lecturer at the institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and ...

Ep25 Emotional resilience – Lisa Lukretia Fischer from 2021-07-20T20:00

Dr Ann Moir Bussy talks with professional coach, Lisa Lukretia Fischer, who helps female entrepreneurs overcome their crippling self-doubts to grow themselves and their businesses.  Lisa Lukretia ...

Ep24 Flourish – Barbora Jedlovska from 2021-07-06T20:00

Barbora Jedlovska is master mindset coach, manifestation coach and expert, and big dreamer who is on a mission to help others to flourish and reach their full potential. Barbora Jedlovskahttps://f...

Ep23 Regaining control of life after divorce – Leanne Kanzler from 2021-06-22T20:00

Leanne Kanzler is a psychologist and a coach who supports men and women who have or are experiencing divorce. She enables them to find new passion, release their fears and create lasting change.  ...

Ep22 The equine effect – Deb Pace from 2021-06-08T20:00

Deb Pace is a coach and consultant who takes her clients to a new level of thinking. raising standards both personally and professionally by bringing them to work with her horses. In her equine eff...

Ep21 Seeking clarity – Dee Coxon from 2021-05-25T20:00

Dee Coxon is a wonderful woman from northern England, who in her 50s has taken the transition into the afternoon of life. She shares with Dr Ann Moir-Bussy her own experiences as she came into the ...

Ep20 Health and wellness for the over 50s – Kwavi from 2021-04-27T20:00

Based in Atlanta, Florida, Kwavi Agbeyegbe has devoted herself to health&wellness and weight loss strategies for over 30 years. Kwavi’s a certified weight loss coach, a life coach and an internatio...

Ep19 A journey to the mid-life – with Samantha Touchais from 2021-04-13T20:00

Samantha Touchais is a business and mindset coach and best-selling author. Samantha helps busy women seeking change to create a safe and secure path to launching their dream business and provide th...

Ep18 The Menopause Stylist – with Gloria Smythe from 2021-03-30T19:00

This episode, Dr Ann Moir-Bussy speaks with Gloria Smythe, also known as The Menopause Stylist.  Gloria helps women bring back style confidence into their life by showing the key areas they need to...

Ep17 Age is a state of the mind – with Donna Maltz from 2021-03-16T19:00

This episode, Dr Ann Moir-Bussy speaks with Donna Maltz, also known as Mama Donna, and whose tagline is, “Why retire when I can inspire”. From her home in Hawaii, she’s refines success and wealth t...

Ep16 The Bone Gate from 2021-03-02T19:00

In the last few episodes, Dr Ann Moir-Bussy has been looking at the gates of wisdom that we meet as move through midlife and that invite us to step into our wisdom and greatness. This episode, she ...

Ep15 The Black and White Gate from 2021-02-16T13:00

The Black and White Gate is an interesting one as it is where we are refined and made more beautiful. And it is the gate of relationships and it is the only gate that we must go through in the comp...

Ep14 The Clay Gate from 2021-02-02T19:00

Clay is such an interesting medium, isn’t it? You can mould clay and remould or reshape our image of it into many different shapes and if you want to you can burn it so it solidifies. Dr Ann Moir-...

Ep13 The White Picket Gate from 2021-01-19T19:00

We’re all familiar with the little white picket fences and alongside a white picket gate. What is intriguing about this gate? In this episode, Dr Ann Moir-Bussy says it’s about changing identities ...

Ep12 The Silver Gate from 2021-01-05T19:00

The Silver Gate is the first of the eight gates which lead us through midlife to the rest of our lives. It’s not surprising that a lot of women arrive at this gate leading to the second half of lif...

Ep11 Opening the gates from 2020-12-22T19:00

Moving into the second half of life requires us to understand what has been and is most significant and meaningful; in our lives.  Dr Ann Moir-Bussy says we can do this as we place all those mornin...

Ep10 Breaking through our limitations – The Values we live by from 2020-12-08T19:00

Here, in mid-life, we have to find out what is true for us and how to live it. We also need to be responsible for who we are becoming. It’s so easy to blame our circumstances or events for why we a...

Ep9 The Hero/Heroine’s Journey from 2020-11-24T19:00

Historically heroes have been men and women have been damsels in distress waiting to be rescued. Unfortunately, the warrior archetype, became somewhat elitist – only some brave men would take that ...

Ep8 Activating the Goddess Archetypes from 2020-11-10T19:00

In the last episode Ann Moir-Bussy talked about the energies of the goddess archetypes – remember these are ancient patterns present across cultures and ages. Did you reflect on which goddess was y...

Ep7 Which goddess energy do you live by? PART 2 from 2020-10-27T19:00

Last time Dr Ann Moir-Bussy talked about the some of the powerful energises within us in the pattern of the Greek goddesses  and we looked at the “independent” goddesses – then, Artemis and Hestia ...

Ep6 Which goddess energy do you live by? PART 1 from 2020-10-13T19:00

Recover your personal authority – know the archetypes we live by! Did you know that within every woman is a goddess? And so, as a woman you play the leading role in unfolding your own life story. ...

Ep5 Two essential elements from 2020-09-29T20:00

The barriers we face in life are not outside of us – it’s not the people around us or the work or the relationship. The barrier is inside us. It’s the core belief you have about yourself, about oth...

Ep4 Beliefs and patterns of behaviour that wound your soul from 2020-09-15T20:00

The real reason that makes menopause so challenging is that it isn’t just a physical change. It also marks the end of your morning of life – the end of youth and vitality as we knew it. But is it?...

Ep3 Starting the journey from 2020-09-01T20:00

Lack of self-compassion is a common experience of many women and can be traced back to our inability to accept and come to terms with those parts of ourselves we don’t like or have disowned. So, a...

Ep2 The ingredients we need for this adventure from 2020-08-18T20:00

In the last session we talked about coming into the middle of life as a process somewhat like the alchemists engaged in when they transformed raw material or ore – metal - into gold. They used a p...

Ep1 At the Threshold – entering the alchemical kitchen: the school for mid-life from 2020-08-04T20:00

This is not a series about cooking – not in the traditional sense of cooking food and recipes. But is it about cooking in another sense. You know we have an expression - ‘Cooking up new ideas” – or...

A new podcast series for women in mid-life from 2020-07-29T01:09

'Alchemy in the mid-life kitchen' is a new podcast series for women in mid-life who yearn to gain new clarity and purpose for the afternoon of life. Ann Moir-Bussy will help you awaken your femini...