Seeking Simplicity
Seeking Simplicity
Podcast Description
Seeking Simplicity is a podcast for women navigating the seasons and cycles of life, liminal spaces and personal transformation and reinvention. Through soulful conversations, and thought-provoking insights, we explore how to release the pressure to constantly do or be more. This is your space to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and embrace the power of simplicity. Because sometimes, the answers we seek come when we stop searching.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of personal growth, self-awareness, and emotional resilience, with episodes discussing topics such as sobriety, overcoming health challenges, and the understanding of liminal spaces. Notable episodes include a candid discussion on quitting alcohol and living with intention during life's cycles.
Welcome to #bemorelobster.
This podcast is for women in business who care deeply about what they do.
Women with ideas as big as their hearts and a business they love and want to grow.
Women who are brilliant at getting things done… but also know what it feels like to have twenty tabs open in your head.
To wake up thinking about work.
To feel excited by your business one minute… and completely overwhelmed by it the next.
To be holding growth, family, grief, perimenopause, ambition, relationships, life… all at the same time… and still trying to show up well inside your business.
That’s what we talk about here.
The real stuff.
Managing your brain when it’s spiralling.
Making decisions when everything feels noisy.
Building capacity without burning yourself out.
Learning how to handle the discomfort that naturally comes with growth.
Backing yourself when you can feel yourself wobbling.
And creating a business that actually supports your life… instead of taking over it.
Why #bemorelobster?
Because discomfort is how the lobster knows it’s time to grow.
Its shell gets tight and it feels pressure.
It never assumes somethings gone wrong – it knows it’s time to grow a bigger shell.
That’s the reminder here.
The moments where you feel uncomfortable, emotional, unsure, vulnerable, frustrated or like you’ve completely lost your rhythm…
It doesn’t automatically mean you’re off track or something’s gone wrong.
It means you’re right in the middle of becoming.
So if you’re a woman building a business and also living a real, full, beautifully messy life…
You’re in exactly the right place.
Let’s get into it.
With all my love,
Louise xx
In this episode, I dive straight into the topic of challenge—not just talking around it, but meeting it head-on. The conversation focused on how challenges and obstacles aren’t just hurdles or roadblocks; they can be reframed as the very fuel that ignites our ambition and growth.
One concept discussed was the idea of ”the pinch”—those moments of pressure and discomfort where real change and growth become possible. I share why I encourage my clients (and myself) to lean into the pinch, even when it's uncomfortable, and how it reflects on our ability to hold space for difficult emotions: uncertainty, fear, frustration, disappointment, and more.
A key theme that emerged was the importance of regulating not just to calm, but to hard—teaching ourselves how to find capacity and safety even in difficult states, rather than waiting to feel calm before taking action. The discussion explored my own story of overcoming trauma and physical challenge, such as returning to cold water swimming after my dad passed away, and how I learned to regulate myself inside the experience rather than outside of it.
Several points were raised, including how, as business owners, we often seek quick answers to relieve discomfort, but real solutions come from open, expansive conversations and from shifting our identity away from passive consumer or employee mindsets [08:12]. Another significant idea was recognizing how we magnify the pain of challenges when we treat them as final results rather than as parts of the process. Trading up problems is inevitable as we grow; the bigger the challenge, the more we expand.
Ultimately, the episode concludes with an invitation: to make challenge purposeful and powerful by changing how we think about it, to see adversity as an opportunity to step into new identities, test ourselves, and prove our resourcefulness .
Key Questions to Reflect On:
- Who are you in a challenge, and how does that shape your life experience?
- How might you choose to experience challenge differently, starting today?
Thank you for tuning in. I hope this episode helps you embrace your next challenge with fresh perspective and greater strength.
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