Shapeshifter
SHAPESHIFTER, is about celebrating the magic of all the parts of you.
Imagine what it would feel like to not have to chop yourself into tiny bits to fit into these predetermined boxes, imposed by society, culture, your family and even yourself?
Imagine a world where you are allowed, in fact, cheered on to explore all your different interests, desires and passions in a way that feels like water flowing through a river - yes, there will be branches along the way that might hit you in the face and want to throw you off course, but those river banks are solid AF. To guide you. To re-direct you.
And guess what?
You get to peek behind the veil whilst you’re at it. No more hiding your woo, yuk, let’s call it what it is. No more hiding your partnership with Spirit, here you learn how to dance and play with it.
Yeah, it’s unconventional, out of the box, audacious, bold, curious, weird even, but dear wild woman, so are you.
It’s time to flip the script and dive headfirst into the not-so comfy parts of life, and really embody your innate creative wisdom, build your business your way and call in your spiritual squad.
When these 3 things come together in song and play - ouuuuffffffff, that’s when your life becomes a wild ride that your future descendants will tell endless stories about.
That’s when your legacy is truly built.
Get out of that snug little bubble, it’s time to really live.
Shapeshifter
#26 - Lead like a tree
What if leadership didn’t ask you to climb higher, speak louder, or move faster — but instead invited you to root deeper?
In this episode of Shapeshifter, I share a living philosophy that’s been growing within me for years (but I didn’t know it!): Leading like a tree.
Recorded in the presence of winter trees, birdsong, and big blue skies, this episode is a slow, honest reflection on leadership, legacy, and the deep exhaustion many of us feel with the dominant models of success, urgency, and visibility. This isn’t a strategy-heavy episode, it’s an ancestral remembering, rather than a terrestrial one.
Join me as we explore:
- Why Traditional Leadership No Longer Fits: Questioning urgency, extraction, hierarchy, and the idea that it’s “lonely at the top.”
- Rooted Leadership: What it means to lead from lineage, ancestry, and the body — not from algorithms or market gaps.
- The Tree as Teacher: Understanding leadership through roots, trunk, branches, fruit, leaves, and soil — and how this living architecture applies to your work and life.
- Fulfilment Beyond Metrics: Why multi-six-figure success without nervous system safety and joy isn’t success at all.
- Visibility Without Burnout: Honouring cycles, seasonality, and presence without betraying yourself.
- Leadership That Lasts Generations: The story of living tree bridges in India and why true leadership is often for people we’ll never meet.
- A New Way Forward: Introducing Lead Like a Tree — a living practice for those who are done with forcing, hustling, and performing.
This episode is for the shapeshifters, the quiet leaders, the artists, witches, space holders, mothers, elders, women of depth and creators who feel the call to do things differently. Slowly, honestly, and in reciprocity with life itself.
If your work took 20, 30, or 50 years to fully bloom… would you still do it?
If the answer is yes, this episode is for you.
🌿 Remember: you were never meant to do this alone. Let’s grow something that outlives us.
LEAD LIKE A TREE – a living practice for those that don’t fit inside traditional leadership models, we begin February 17
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