Hosted by Olivia Lara Owen, this is a space for women who have already done a lot of inner work, and are now navigating the quieter, more complex thresholds of life. The ones that don’t respond to urgency, forcing, or optimisation.
Through solo episodes and occasional conversations, Olivia explores what it means to build a life that can actually hold you. One rooted in capacity rather than intensity, devotion rather than fantasy, and truth rather than performance.
This is not a podcast about fixing yourself.
It’s about feeding yourself.
And staying.
New episodes released in rhythm, not pressure.
What if you don't need another breakthrough, reinvention or version of yourself to become? What if the invitation is to actually live the life that's already here? Over the last few weeks, I've been exploring desire, stewardship and what happens after we get some of the things we once desperately wanted. And your responses have opened up an even bigger conversation. Because somewhere along the way, personal development can leave us with the feeling that our real life is always slightly ahead ...
16 Aug 2026
Ep 13. Stewardship: What Happens After You Get What You Wanted?
What happens when you actually get the thing you wanted? The relationship. The business. The home. The friendships. The family. The freedom. We spend so much of our lives focused on desire, manifestation, expansion and creating what we want. But there is another part of the conversation that we don't talk about nearly enough: How do we care for what we've created once it arrives? After the response to last week's episode on Desire 2.0, there was one word that so many of you came back to me wi...
7 Aug 2026
Ep 12. Desire 2.0. When Desire Grows Up.
For years I've taught one central idea: Trust your desire. Follow what lights you up. Let desire become your compass. I still believe that. But over the past few years, through partnership, building a business, returning home from Paris, and now preparing for motherhood, I've realised something important: Desire doesn't become less important. It simply grows up. This episode marks the beginning of a new season in my work. We're exploring what happens after desire has helped you create a life ...
22 Jul 2026
Ep 11. What do you do when you don't feel like yourself?
"I just don't feel like myself." It's one of the most common things I hear women say. Maybe you've lost your motivation. Maybe your ambition has shifted. Maybe the things that once lit you up don't seem to anymore. Or perhaps you're grieving the woman you used to be and wondering how to get back to her. In this episode, I want to offer you a completely different perspective. What if nothing has gone wrong? What if you're not disconnected from yourself at all... What if you're simply becoming ...
28 Jun 2026
Ep 10. From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust: Reclaiming Your Whole Self with Gwen Yi
From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust: Reclaiming Your Whole Self with Gwen Yi What happens when you stop trying to become someone else... and finally come home to yourself? In this deeply moving conversation, I'm joined by astrologer, mentor and beautiful friend Gwen Yi, a former Comeback client whose journey over the last year has been nothing short of extraordinary. When Gwen first came to me, she believed she needed more strategy, more structure and more certainty. What she discovered instead was...
24 May 2026
Ep 9. Potentiate Your Power with Helen Wilkes (and join us in Ibiza this summer!)
In this episode of Meat & Monogamy, Liv is joined by one of her oldest and most beloved friends, Helen Wilkes, founder of The Collab in Sydney, yoga teacher, retreat leader and women’s power coach. This is a conversation about women who were never built for small lives. Liv and Helen speak about friendship, sisterhood, power, initiation, business, motherhood, and what it means to become a woman who can actually hold the life she has chosen. They share the origin story of a friendship forg...
20 Apr 2026
Ep 8. You're Already Paying: The True Cost of Choosing not to Change
You've thought about the cost of change. The discomfort, the uncertainty, the fear of getting it wrong. But have you ever really looked at what staying is costing you? In this episode Liv breaks down the hidden invoice of not changing. The one that doesn't come with a number, doesn't announce itself, but quietly debits from your clarity, your self-trust, your energy, and your time. Through real life examples of women choosing the familiar over the true, Liv reframes the question from "can I a...
13 Apr 2026
Ep 7. The Moment Just Before the Bloom
Two years ago at Easter I was technically homeless in Paris, burned out and suspended between versions of myself. A stranger pulled my cards and said one word that changed everything: provenance. In this episode I share that story and what it taught me about self-trust, orientation and what it actually means to come home to yourself. This episode is for you if you have been circling, overriding yourself, or trying to move forward without feeling fully anchored. We cover: Why most high-capacit...
27 Mar 2026
Ep6. Deep Nourishment with Clara Wisner | Why Most Women Are Under-Nourished
In this episode, Liv is joined by Clara Wisner for a rich and deeply grounded conversation on nourishment, female health, and what it really means to build a life your body can hold. Together, they explore Clara’s personal journey from deep undernourishment and burnout into the work she now teaches, supporting women to return to the foundations of care, safety, and embodied capacity. They speak about why so many women are living from depletion, the impact of consistently under-eating, how nou...
23 Mar 2026
Ep 5. Intensity versus Nourishment
At certain stages of life, intensity can feel like progress. Movement, big decisions, and decisive action can create the sense that something is shifting. That you are growing. That you are moving forward. But intensity is not the same as nourishment. In this episode of Meat & Monogamy, Olivia explores the difference between adrenaline-fuelled decision-making and the slower, steadier work of building a life that can actually hold you. Inside this conversation: • Why intensity can feel pro...
12 Mar 2026
Ep4. The Arc of Becoming with Arabella Oz: Five Years of Desire, Creativity and Following the Soul Call
In this deeply moving conversation, Liv sits down with Arabella Oz, a longtime client, creative and filmmaker, to reflect on five years of working together through huge life, identity and creative shifts. They explore what changes when a woman stops living by shoulds and begins listening to desire, how long-term mentorship supports real transformation, and what it looks like to follow a soul-led creative path even when it asks everything of you. Arabella shares the arc from her early years of...
3 Mar 2026
Ep 3. Containment is not Control
Containment Is Not Control At certain stages of adulthood, structure can feel threatening. Especially if you are competent, independent, and used to holding everything together yourself. In this episode of Meat & Monogamy, Olivia explores the difference between rigid control and clean containment, and why high-capacity women often resist the very structures that would support them. Inside this conversation: • Why intelligent women can mistake containment for restriction • The differ...
17 Feb 2026
Ep 2. Why Forcing Clarity Stops Working
At certain stages of life, the strategies that once worked stop working. You can’t push through. You can’t adrenaline your way into certainty. You can’t overthink your way into peace. In this episode, Olivia explores why forcing clarity eventually collapses, and what mature self-trust actually requires instead. Inside this conversation: • Why speed can masquerade as confidence • How the nervous system influences decision-making • The difference between urgency and truth • Wh...
16 Feb 2026
Ep 1. What Women Actually Need at Thresholds
There are moments in adulthood when something shifts. Not a bad week. Not temporary burnout. Not confusion you can solve with a planner. A threshold. In this first episode of Meat & Monogamy, Olivia explores what women actually need at these pivotal points in life, and why the instinct to speed up, force clarity, or make a decisive move often makes things worse. This episode explores: • What defines a true threshold • Why forcing clarity stops working • The difference between ...
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