Host Alison Rice has an honest conversation with fashion magazine co-founder and creative director, Annika Hein. In this episode, Annika shares the importance of backing yourself and self-finding your idea, the risks involved in starting your own business and how to maintain your creative integrity — especially when there’s real money on the table. 

JANE Magazine is a Melbourne-based, biannual fashion and fine art publication shot on film and printed on paper. The magazine explores the disciplines of art, photography, fashion, philosophy and poetry. 

Sounds a bit intimidating, right? Turns out Annika is anything but. Get ready to hear from a funny, down-to-earth, thoughtful and generous woman who isn’t scared to say what she really thinks. 

Alison and Annika cover some incredible ground in this honest conversation, including Annika’s pregnancy, a 36-hour home birth that ended with an emergency transfer to hospital, what she and partner Odin learned from living slowly in country Victoria, navigating perfectionism and a sometimes brutal examination of self, how she maintains her creative integrity while building and funding a business, the risks they took to launch issue one of the magazine and what starting her day with rituals helps her to achieve. 

Please note: Before they get onto business, Annika is an open book about her home birth experience. If pregnancy and birth is either triggering or irrelevant to where you’re at right now, please navigate this episode using the timestamps below. 

TIMESTAMPS

Moving to the country: 00:06:30 – 00:24:13

Pregnancy and birth: 00:24:00 – 00:46:20

Maintaining her creative integrity: 00:46:38 – 00:57:00

The risks involved in launching issue one: 00:57:00 – 01:07:15

Allyship and advocacy: 01:07:15 – 01:15:31

Morning and evening rituals: 01:15:31 – 01:33:42

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If you aren’t one of her 3.5 million followers, Alison is very excited to introduce you to Dr. Nicole LePera. She’s The Holistic Psychologist on Instagram and through her conscious protocol, is pioneering a new pathway to healing which starts and ends not with doctors and medication, but with us. Her community identifies as Self Healers. 

If you’re seeking out knowledge and experiences with the intention to heal, you’ll be familiar with the phrase “doing The Work”. We hear it often, but rarely can anyone define it for us. What is it? What does it involve? And how do we know we’re doing it right?  

Dr. LePera responds to our collective needs with her first book, aptly titled How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self. 

Available now, she describes it as an accumulation of the knowledge of the interconnectedness between our physical bodies, our mental or emotional worlds, and the very thing we explore here on Offline — our True Self. Our soul. 

It’s quite literally the bridge between spirituality and clinical psychology so many of us have been searching for. 

In this episode, Dr. LePera and Alison explore the book and what it has to offer, and Alison also gets Dr. LePera’s advice on the topics listeners sent in when she asked what they’d want to unpack if they had a session with a therapist today. Reparenting and inner child work, anxious attachment, navigating low self esteem, self healing after sexual abuse, how to establish boundaries with your boss, overcoming generational trauma and so much more.

• Follow The Holistic Psychologist on Instagram 
• Buy Dr. LePera’s debut book

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In this special Self Care Sundays mini-series produced by Studio Offline and in partnership with Estée Lauder, host Alison Rice sits down with some of the brand’s inspiring ambassadors and friends to have an honest conversation about their careers, businesses, life on the other side of the filter, fashion, beauty and. . . confidence. 

What does confidence really mean to women and what does having it help us to achieve?

The topic and series celebrates Estée Lauder’s Double Wear Foundation, a product that allows women to wear confidence and feel empowered to take on the day. 

Alison’s next guest is creative director, photographer and fashion influencer, Yan Yan Chan. One of Australia’s most-followed fashion influencers, Yan opens up about the importance of taking time to look inward and ask questions, so we can make contact with our authenticity and our why. 

Like it was for so many, 2020 was a year of intense introspection for Yan Yan which included therapy, time with a healer and a lot of time alone deciding what type of woman and creator she is truly destined to be.

Through this self work, Yan Yan found her voice.

She also shares the important role confidence plays when it comes to her mental health, the business of influencing, how to pitch to clients, leaning into advocacy, navigating self development while in relationship and what she does to deepen her relationship to her Chinese heritage. Alison is very thankful for Yan Yan’s honesty and trust. 

• Follow Yan Yan on Instagram
• Treat yourself to a bottle of Estée Lauder Double Wear Foundation 
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Host Alison Rice has an honest conversation with artist, photographer and mum, Bobby Clark. In this episode, Bobby encourages us all to speak our truth and shares why we need to stop trying to do the “right” thing. She also encourages us to make mistakes because they help us discover the thing that makes our work unique.

Bobby is one of Melbourne’s leading artists, but as she so beautifully demonstrates in this episode, her paintings aren’t the only thing she has to say.

This conversation is full season six energy. Unbounded, unscripted and real. Alison and Bobby speak for 90 minutes and every one of them is worth your time. Why? Because it’s important that we hear what a truly empowered woman sounds like without the filter and controlled messaging. 

From boobs and bodies, pregnancy and pregnancy loss, sex after birth, dealing with judgement from strangers on social media, therapy, love, the complexities of the art world, pricing her work, feeling embarrassed about her work, navigating not being taken seriously as an artist. . . it’s all here.

• Follow Bobby Clark on Instagram
• Explore Bobby’s work or buy a print

P.S. Alison also shares some special personal news in this episode!

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In this honest conversation, Natalie Fornasier opens up about living with stage four melanoma and what she’s learnt actually matters in life.

Natalie is a talented young writer and self-described skinfluencer (the sun safety kind) who is using her growing social footprint to advocate for those experiencing chronic and terminal illness. 

This honest conversation focuses on the present. On surviving. On what it means to accept your own mortality. Nat opens up about her relationship with death, the spectrum of diversity through the eyes of the chronically ill, navigating friendships that aren’t equipped to hold space for her experience, how she, in turn, thinks about holding space for her partner’s experience both within her illness and also separate to it, what it’s really like trying to establish a career when you have cancer and what she’s learnt actually matters in life. 

Every episode of Offline seeks to educate and inform, but Alison hopes this one also offers perspective. When we really get down to it, what else matters but our health and the health of the people we love? 

It’s World Cancer Day on February 4, but we know we can prevent skin cancer everyday. Melanoma is the third most common cancer in women. Please wear sunscreen and keep your precious skin out of the sun. 

• Follow Natalie on Instagram 
• Learn from Call Time on Melanoma on Instagram 

P.S. If you’d like to learn Nat’s full story, including how her melanoma first presented itself, Alison encourages you to read the interviews and personal essays made possible by sun safety education initiative Call Time on Melanoma on Byrdie Beauty. 

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We’re starting season six as we intend to finish — by listening, learning, healing, and then moving into informed, intentional action. 

Host Alison Rice interviews racial justice educator, attorney, grief coach, healer and author, Rachel Ricketts, about acting in allyship to Black, Indigenous, People of Colour vs. allyship, and what “doing the work” actually looks like for white people who hold the most power and privilege.⁣

She educates that we all rise when white people undertake the work of racial justice, and that when white people truly do this work, everything in their lives will change. They must also be prepared to lose things – friends, money, time, identity – and if they’re not, they’re not committed to racial justice. 

But, there’s more to gain than there is to lose. 

Rachel’s new book, Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy, is directed at white people but is for Black, Indigenous, People of Colour. She discusses what that means in this episode, educating that white people can’t be allies, but they can act in allyship. 

She also shares that white people must have a tolerance for f*cking up because they will. The need to be right can not supersede the commitment to racial justice, and that a white person’s fear and discomfort isn’t life-threatening but being a Black, Indigenous, Person of Colour is. 

People are dying because white people aren’t doing this work. If, like Alison did, you committed to it in 2020, she hopes that Rachel’s lived wisdom and education not encourages you, but demands of you that you stay accountable. 

Rachel asks that we do this work with a deep lens of compassion. 

Her book Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy is available to pre-order now and hits shelves February 2, 2021. 

Please note: This interview is completely unedited.

• Take one of Rachel’s online courses 
• Learn from Rachel’s Racial Justice Resource list
• Follow Rachel on Instagram

Cover image credit: Bethany Schiedel

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For episode 75 of Offline, host Alison Rice closes season five with her signature Ask Me Anything episode. She answers 15 questions sent in by Offline’s cherished listeners. 

Topics include overcoming imposter syndrome and negative thought patterns, why we need to find our fulfilment within, staying positive when trying for a baby, how to develop confidence, what areas of herself she’s working on, the leadership resource that helped her the most, tips to communicating authentically online, the way she thinks about building a conscious business and where she believes authentic creativity comes from.

• Follow Alison on Instagram 
• Take Alison’s online course about aligning to your purpose 

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For episode 74 of Offline, host Alison Rice sits down with proud Goreng Goreng woman and contemporary artist and designer, Rachael Sarra. 

In many ways, this episode stands for the complexities that come with the commercialisation of creativity. We also get a small insight into the deeply nuanced responsibility and pressure that comes with being a young, Aboriginal artist with a fast-growing Instagram following.

In this honest conversation, Rachael opens up about the relationship between energy, inspiration and emotion when it comes to creating, the good and bad of using Instagram to grow a conscious business, the importance of pulling out of jobs that become unaligned, why cultural protocols will always come before creation, overcoming her fears about how she might be perceived based on her commercial decisions and why her ancestors aren’t just part of her spirituality, they are her spirituality. 

She also shares her personal experience with land ownership, online dating in 2020 and beyond, and gives some sound advice to young creatives trying to establish themselves in an era that’s increasingly governed by comparison. 

• Explore Racheal’s work
• Follow Rachael on Instagram

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For episode 73 of Offline, host Alison Rice sits down with Vedic astrologer, Sattva Yoga teacher and holistic kinesiologist, Dalia Gencher. 

This episode is for anyone who is looking for higher answers to questions like: 

• What is karma and can we overcome it?
• What is purpose if it’s not actually linked to our careers?
• How do we align to what is most evolutionary for us?
• How can we use our birth chart to find direction and clarity?
• Cosmically, what happened in 2020 and what can we expect in 2021?

The pair also explore the spiritual practice of Japa — one of the most profound Yogic technologies accessible to us. It has the power to completely rewrite the neural pathways in our brains. 

In celebration of Japa and its power to transform our lives, Alison and Dalia also announce a special 40-day Offline Group Japa Journey. You can learn more about it in this episode or enrol at the link below.

• Enrol in Offline’s Group Japa Journey 
• Learn more about Dalia 

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In episode 72 of Offline, host Alison Rice has an honest conversation with Carson Tueller, a performance and empowerment coach based in New York City. His coaching methodology is rooted in the philosophy that our lives are lived inside of the narratives we’ve created about ourselves, our circumstances, and our experiences. 

Let that sink in for a moment. How much of the way you identify in the world is based on a story? A story about where you’ve come from, what you’ve been through or what your job title requires you to be? 

This episode stands for new perspectives and new beginnings. For reframes and radical acceptance. Carson is an educator, an activist and an advocate. 

In this honest conversation, Carson shares his journey to coming out as a queer man, the major life event that led him to step into his purpose as an empowerment coach, what true disability advocacy looks like, acknowledging unconscious ableism, why we need to re-examine our definition of sex, pleasure as a spectrum of feelings and why it’s OK for empowerment coaches to feel disempowered sometimes.  

• Follow Carson on Instagram 
• Book a coaching session with Carson

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