How do we turn moments of deepest pain and disruption into seeds for beauty and courageous living? What happens when we stop shrinking from our grief, our longing, and our wildness and allow all of it to be seen, loved, and transformed?
In this profoundly honest episode of Embodied, Remi Olajoyegbe, executive coach, co-founder of Medicine Festival, facilitator, and community builder joins Anthea Bell for a conversation that ranges from loss and lineage to radical reclamation, women's circles, plant medicine, and the energetic truth at the core of healing.
You'll hear Remi recount the fierce initiations that forged her path from the loss of her first child, to leaving a high-powered corporate career, to discovering healing in community, ancestral work, and sacred plant medicine. Expect candid reflections on competition, creativity, being "too much," building belonging, and the discipline it takes to nurture possibility in ourselves and others.
This episode is a call to return to wholeness, to honour your gifts, and claim both your vastness and your vulnerability. Through story and wisdom, Remi issues an invitation to co-create new cultures of collaboration, compassion, and embodied joy within ourselves, and together.
Timestamps:
00:00 Being seen: the invitation to wholeness
01:50 Anthea Bell shares her first connection with Remi Olajoyegbe
03:19 Transformation, transmutation, and tending neglected places
04:47 Loss, grief, and awakening the desire to nurture
09:03 Mothering beyond motherhood
13:06 Radical inclusion and moving beyond judgment
16:21 The necessity and challenge of collaborative healing spaces
20:24 Why safety, love, and belonging are the ground for transformation
23:25 Practising wholeness: discipline, ritual, and returning to self
26:36 Grief as the portal to expansion and the importance of ancestry work
34:34 Feeling safe to be vast and small in circles
46:47 Plant medicine and embodied awakening
01:00:39 Choosing your path, creating new cultures,
01:18:06 The necessity of in-person community and relational connection
01:23:31 Amplifying others, changing culture, celebrating women's brilliance
If this episode resonates, share it with someone who is ready to reclaim their full aliveness, courage, and connection.
About Remi:
Connect with Remi:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/remi_olajoyegbe/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/remi-olajoyegbe/
Working together, beyond the podcast
If something in this episode landed in your body, there are a few doors open to you.
For 1:1 coaching, this is a bespoke and intimate partnership, curated by you and who you know you can become. If you're a woman of unmistakable talent who has hit a ceiling, in confidence, in bandwidth, in the career you're building, this is deep, targeted work. Together we locate the blocks in body, mind and context, and cultivate what it takes to move beyond them.
For a compact immersion, the Embodiment Coach Training runs each year. Applications for the September 2026 cohort are now closed, but you're welcome to join the waitlist for the next intake at info@ab-embodimentcoaching.org.
And if you'd like a taste of the work first, sign up to the newsletter and you'll receive the full recording of our Visibility Masterclass, a 2 hour session on the unconscious patterns that keep us from our fullest expression, and the body-mind tools to move beyond them.
Connect with Anthea:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ab_embodiment/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@embodied_anthea/videos
Substack: https://antheabell1.substack.com/
Website: https://www.ab-embodimentcoaching.org/
