Unbound

About Unbound

I’m Georgia Vavasour, and I’m so glad you found Unbound. I created this podcast as a space for honest conversations and grounded wisdom to help you let go of what’s holding you back — so you can live with more meaning, freedom and flow. We’ll explore the mechanics of real liberation — how to live with clarity, connection, and purpose — diving into ancient wisdom and modern tools you can actually apply. Whether you’re moving through change or simply craving deeper connection & meaning, this podcast is here to act as your inspiration & roadmap to your own unbound life. Click follow and join the Unbound crew. I'm so glad you're here. Let's get Unbound.

Publisher

Georgia Vavasour

Category

education · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Sept 2025

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

28 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   You're Not a Burden. Here's Why It Feels Like You Are.

   If you've ever found it easier to burn out than to ask for help — this episode is for you. Hannah arrives with something she's been sitting with: a pattern of taking on everything, delegating nothing, and then finding herself unable to ask for support even when she desperately needs it. Not because it isn't available. But because somewhere deep in the system, asking feels unsafe. Georgia and Hannah trace exactly where that comes from — the childhood conditioning that taught us that having needs leads to negative repercussions, the way women specifically learn to pour into others as a coping mechanism for the very love they can't ask for directly, and why the martyrdom cycle is so seductive and so functional that most people don't even recognise they're in it. They get into the difference between people pleasing and the deeper programming underneath it — I'm a burden, I'm unworthy of support, if they loved me they'd already know — and what it actually takes to reprogram that at the level where it lives, not just in the rational mind but in the part of you that was standing in the dark waiting for someone to come. Georgia also shares from her own experience of being unable to ask for help during cancer treatment — nerve pain in her hands, unable to cook, people around her who would have shown up if she'd only said the words — and the moment she realised she was unconsciously seeking the very pain she was trying to avoid. This episode also covers the resentment that builds when you see others resting or receiving and you can't let yourself have it, what projection is actually revealing, and the hermit crab and lobster analogies that between them perfectly describe the exact moment of growth most people mistake for going backwards. This one is for anyone who finds it easier to give than to receive, who doubles down instead of asking for help, or who has ever told themselves they'll be fine — when they really won't. Hit follow so you don't miss what's coming. And share this with someone who needs to hear they're not a burden.

2. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Why You Can't Stop - The Real Reason Rest Feels Uncomfortable

   Rest should be simple. And yet for most people it's one of the hardest things to actually do — not just find the time for, but allow themselves to genuinely have without guilt running in the background. This week Georgia and Hannah get into why that is. Where the discomfort around stopping actually comes from, what the body is really asking for when it sends the signal to slow down, and what happens when we keep overriding it — from the daily afternoon energy crash to the longer cycle of burnout, enforced rest, and the karmic jail that nature eventually puts us in when we've ignored our own signals for long enough. They cover the cultural programming around productivity and why busyness became an identity, the guilt that runs even when you do manage to rest, why the female body has its own built-in rest cycle that most women have been trained to push through, and what identity has to do with the terror of stopping — including the woman who couldn't rest while injured so she read a book about running instead. Georgia also shares openly from her own experience of enforced rest through cancer — eight weeks before she could walk to the letterbox and back — and what that complete stripping away revealed about where her worth had been stored. Plus the current astrology — Jupiter in Cancer — and why nature itself is calling most of us to do less right now, and what becomes possible when we actually listen. This one gives you permission. And the reasons why you deserve to take it. Hit follow so you don't miss what's coming. And share this with someone who needs to hear that rest is not laziness — it's intelligence.

3. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Child-Free and Fully Alive - Betrayal, Freedom and Conscious Choice with Char Holmes

   What does it actually mean to consciously choose not to have children — not by default, not by circumstance, but as a full, clear, joyful yes to a different kind of life? Char Holmes — yoga teacher, former Miss England, and founder of the Insight Out Yoga App — joins Georgia for one of the most expansive and honest conversations Unbound has had on this topic. And to get there, Char shares the story that cracked everything open. Mid-retreat, her closest friend and business partner pulls her into the car park and reveals that she has been unfaithful with Char's husband. What followed — the four-hour wait, the phone call, the conflicting stories, the physical collapse when her body finally let the magnitude land — is told here in full, with the honesty and complexity it deserves. Within weeks Char had left her marriage, moved back to her parents, and found herself standing in the shell of her former life feeling, for the first time, completely free. If you have ever had a marriage or relationship end in betrayal, or been cheated on by someone you trusted completely, this episode will meet you exactly where you are — and show you what's possible on the other side. But this episode is really about what came after that freedom — and the choice Char made about the life she wanted to build. This is the conversation about what it takes to own a child-free life fully — the noise from family and friends, the programs that run about what a woman's life is supposed to look like, and what it feels like to finally arrive at a place of genuine peace and joy with that decision. Georgia also shares openly about her own experience — being single without children, the layers she's had to unpack around that, and why being unified is not the same as being alone. This one is for every woman who has ever felt the weight of other people's expectations about what her life should contain. Content note: this episode contains an open discussion of infidelity, sexual assault allegations, and complexity around consent. Listener discretion advised. To find Char's work follow her here @misscharholmes and visit the @insightout.yoga.app. Child-free resources: @weare.childfree @danni___duncan @theothersclub_ @rubywarrington Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood by Ruby Warrington Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington Hit follow so you don't miss what's coming. And share this with every woman who deserves to hear that her choices are enough.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

22 ratings

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