Stories and Water are the most powerful mediums connecting people in place and time. The intention of these interviews is to reach, connect, empower and inspire women, by sharing personal stories of challenge and growth; and the role being in the water has played in their life and wellbeing holistically.
Karen Doyle on community, respecting your own capability, life as an experience and advocacy for the things we love.
This episode is with non other than the matriarch and one of the original founders of the swimming community at Seaford. You will love this episode especially if you are a Seafordian.
What struck me when I re listed to our conversation was how honest, direct and un apologetically herself Karen was, a quality of knowing thyself only years and living life can bring. We talk about what it was like for Karen to grow up with Port Philip bay as her back yard, the forming of the Seaford community in all its diversity and wonderful individuals, safety and respecting your own capability in the water, the total support water offers, life as an experience we are fortunate have, advocating and standing up for the things we love, her journey in creative pursuits and arts and so much more.
Without further delay, here is the conversation with Karen Doyle.
30 Aug 2024
Karen Mulholland on swimming for healing, showing up despite resistance…and tumble turns.
Episode 5 of the Half Mermaid podcast takes us to Benalla where the stay with family for a few days presented the wonderful opportunity and gift of the conversation you are about to hear.
Karen is such a gorgeous human, and I am grateful she is not only family and a trusted friend, but also someone I have looked to as a role model, for her integrity and strength through difficult times and her persistence in paving her own way as an small business owner and entrepreneur.
We talk experience over perfection, about how swimming helped her body heal post cancer treatment, how place and time in water bond us with past generations, the meditative state swimming can induce, overcoming internal resistance, and her passion, quilting, which is now a blooming business. I hope you enjoy the conversation.
9 Aug 2024
Maryse Meale on Release, What pulls us to the water, Community, Body Image and so much more.
The fourth episode of the Half Mermaid podcast is an absolute treasure of a conversation. I loved talking with Maryse Meale, a wonderful human I am grateful to have met in the Seaford swimming community. We talk about so many real things: What pulls us to the water, how the water releases what the body holds on to, body image, community, tips for cold water swimming and so much more.
25 Jul 2024
Half Mermaid. A short introduction.
Half Mermaid is about sharing the incredible gifts the open water offers. Being in the water has the capacity to move me and you, just like powerful questions can. This podcast is about sharing stories that can move our heart and soul. It is about the ways we can find and reconnect with ourselves. It is about meeting others on this journey and sharing the things that bind us - open water, stories, joy and sorrow, happiness and suffering- as we walk together and alone in search of self and meaning.
6 Jul 2024
Fiona Basile on Water, Place and time
Join us in our conversation with half mermaid Fiona Basile, for a trip around the world following some of Fiona’s travels. Fiona shares her love for the water and how being in it has helped not only feed her work but also her own sense of wellbeing and presence. We talk about her recent work, which captures the very essence of being in the water beautifully and the importance of taking time to disconnect in the modern world.
11 Mar 2019
Lisa Schmidt on Shitbox Rallies, Ocean Therapy and healing from PTSD
We are so humbled to be able to share with you our conversation with the most amazing and courageous half mermaid, Lisa Schmidt. My first memory of Lisa was meeting her in the water at Seaford and what stayed with me was her infectious smile. I have got to know her a little more since then and I love her smile even more for all she carries in her healing journey. I will let Lisa share more of her story.
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