Hosted by Davina Rankin, an embodiment coach, energetic healer, author and mama, The Upgrade Edit is a curated collection of potent conversations with thought leaders, healers, and visionaries. It’s a space for those who are ready to elevate their lives and expand their perspective - through soulful, grounded dialogues that blend spiritual insight, lived wisdom, and actionable steps. Whether you’re on a journey of self-discovery, seeking to unlock your inner power, or simply curious about new ways to upgrade your mind and life, The Upgrade Edit offers real conversations to help you step into your next level.
The People Around You Are Mirrors: A Pep Talk on Hacking the Game of Life
What if I told you that the people triggering you, challenging you and frustrating you are actually offering you some of the most valuable information about yourself?
And what if learning how to use that information was one of the greatest little cheat codes to life?
In today's episode of The Upgrade Edit, we're diving into a perspective that has completely transformed the way I move through the world.
We're talking about the people around us being mirrors, recognising our unconscious patterns, learning to regulate our nervous systems, honouring our boundaries and taking our power back instead of giving it away to the circumstances around us.
I'm sharing some of my own recent experiences with dating, relationships and the beautiful (and sometimes incredibly uncomfortable) lessons that unfold when we start looking at life as a series of levels to unlock.
Because the truth is, we can't control the people around us, but we can learn to understand ourselves, choose how we respond and become a little more intentional with the energy we bring into our lives.
And once you begin to see life through this lens, everything starts to shift.
Consider this your loving little pep talk to stop taking everything so personally, start getting curious about what life is showing you and remember just how much power you hold in creating your own reality.
Because a bad day doesn't mean a bad life. Sometimes it's simply beautiful data for tomorrow.
2 Sept 2026
The Amazon: What Ayahuasca Taught Me About Desire, Pleasure & Presence
After taking some time to land, integrate and find my feet again, I’m finally ready to share what happened during my return to the Amazon.
This was my second time in the Peruvian Amazon, but this journey felt incredibly different. This time, I had the privilege of bringing a beautiful group with me and witnessing them experience the land, the medicine and the magic that changed so much for me the first time around.
In this episode, I take you inside the experience and share some of the moments, ceremonies and teachings that have stayed with me since coming home.
My intention going into this journey was to learn how to hold desire with an open palm. To allow myself to want deeply, dream deeply and be excited for what is coming, without allowing those desires to pull me away from the life that is already here.
And what unfolded became such a beautiful lesson in presence.
I share what the medicine taught me about stillness over chasing, becoming the grounded woman, trusting what is meant for me, finding safety within myself and recognising that pleasure, love and aliveness are not things we have to wait for another person or experience to give us. They are states we can learn to cultivate within our own bodies.
This episode is ultimately about learning to hold both.
Desire and presence. Expansion and gratitude. The spiritual and the human. Being deeply in love with where you are while remaining completely open to how good life can still become.
This is a very special episode and a little glimpse into a week that I know will stay with me forever. 🌿🤎
8 Aug 2026
The Observer Effect: How Metacognition Will Change Your Reality FAST
What happens when you stop believing every thought you have… and start observing it instead?
In this episode of The Upgrade Edit, I’m talking about one of the biggest shifts I’ve noticed in myself lately: my ability to become the observer of my own life.
After a situation completely rattled my nervous system and pulled me back into old patterns, resentment, rumination and ways of being that I thought I had moved beyond, I realised something pretty incredible. Even amongst the chaos, there was another part of me watching it all unfold.
I could see the trigger.
I could hear the old thoughts.
I could feel what was happening in my body.
And, for the first time, I didn’t have to become any of it.
We explore metacognition — essentially, the ability to observe your own thinking — and how learning to witness your thoughts, reactions and conditioning can create space between what happens to you and who you choose to be because of it.
I share a very real example involving a braless afternoon walk, an unfortunately placed construction site 😂 and the split-second decision that showed me just how often we change ourselves because of what we think other people might be thinking about us.
We also talk about letting go of old timelines — from burning years of journals to quite literally smashing my favourite mug — and why I’ve suddenly felt such a strong pull to clear physical, emotional and energetic space before heading into the Amazon.
But more than anything, this episode is about the tiny choices.
The moment you notice the thought and choose differently.
The moment you feel yourself shrinking and decide not to.
The moment an old version of you comes online and, rather than judging her, you simply observe her with curiosity and compassion.
Because changing your life doesn’t always require one enormous quantum leap. Sometimes the leap happens in the smallest moments, when you interrupt an old pattern and choose a new direction.
And perhaps that’s where our power really is.
Not in controlling every experience.
Not in never being triggered.
Not in becoming so “healed” that nothing affects us.
But in becoming conscious enough to witness ourselves inside the experience and decide what happens next.
Your little homework after this episode: observe yourself.
Notice the thoughts you think most often. Notice what happens in your body when you feel uncomfortable. Notice where fear changes your direction. Notice where an old version of you is still making decisions.
And then ask yourself:
Do I want to keep choosing this?
Because you are allowed to choose again x
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