Life, Love and Legacy

What happens when the relationship you thought would last forever can no longer remain as it is?

And is it possible to end a relationship without dismissing, destroying or denying everything it once meant?

Monica Douglas is a conscious relationship mentor and minister who helps successful men navigate marriage crisis, separation and the question of who they want to become on the other side. Interestingly, many of those men don’t find Monica themselves. Their wives send them.

Monica’s work is rooted in a deep belief that healthy, loving relationships aren’t a luxu...

What if the experiences that change us aren't the ones we push through and conquer, but the ones we allow to transform how we live and love?

In this Insights episode, I’m reflecting on my conversation with Lottie Moore and the very different way she approaches challenge, ceremony and transformation.

Lottie spoke about the contrast between “bro state” and “bliss state”. One treats the fire as something to defeat, the fear as something to break through and the experience as proof of individual strength. The other invites us into relationship with the fire, the land, the...

What might become possible if you stopped asking whether your life looked normal, and started asking whether it felt true?

Lottie Moore has lived a life shaped by adventure, ceremony, risk and a remarkable willingness to say yes.

She has lived without electricity and running water in both Burkina Faso and Ireland, travelled across Turtle Island and been welcomed into indigenous ceremonies. Yet the heart of this conversation isn’t the unusual shape of Lottie’s life. It’s what those experiences have taught her about choice, connection and living in a way that feels true.I...

We often avoid talking about death because it can feel like inviting darkness in, especially when life is challenging or even ebbing away.

But what if the opposite is true?

In this latest Insights episode, I reflect on my conversation with Katie Costello and the idea that talking more honestly about death can help us live a richer, fuller life.

It's not that talking gives us all the answers. Nor does it makes grief easier, or loss less painful, or life more predictable.

But it does bring us closer to what...

What does love look like when someone is dying?

Not the polished, sentimental version of love. The real, human kind. The kind that sits at the bedside, makes the tea, starts the difficult conversation, writes three things on a Post-it note, or simply stays present when there is nothing to fix.

In this episode, I’m joined by Katie Costello, a multi-award-winning soul midwife, funeral celebrant and death educator whose work is rooted in choice, autonomy and love before, during and after death.

Together, we talk about death and dying in a way th...

What if the thing we're most afraid of losing is also the thing we're most afraid to let ourselves have?

In my conversation with Tom Fitzsimons, he spoke with extraordinary honesty about only now beginning to understand love. About learning to say it, receive it and trust it. About the fear that can grow when loving people becomes closely tied to losing them.

That stayed with me.

Because fear rarely announces itself as fear. Sometimes it sounds like caution. Independence. Self-protection. Sometimes it persuades us to say less, hold back more and keep...

For Tom Fitzsimons, alcohol offered something he’d been searching for since childhood: belonging. After moving from Belfast to England and losing his father at just thirteen, he spent twenty years believing the world was against him, using drink, anger and violence to escape the grief and disconnection he didn’t know how to name.

Then running gave him another way forward.

Tom went from being unable to complete his first run without vomiting to completing the Marathon des Sables and then running 3,100 miles from San Francisco to New York in 100 days. But this isn’t simp...

There are moments when we know life cannot continue as it was.

Sometimes the threshold is unmistakable: a death, a relationship breaking open, a truth we can no longer avoid. At other times, it arrives quietly, as the growing realisation that who we’ve been can’t carry us into whatever comes next.

Season One of Life, Love & Legacy explored identity, visibility, alignment, kindness, truth and becoming more fully ourselves.

Season Two takes us deeper.

These conversations move through addiction and recovery, relationship rupture and repair, death and dying, grief, conflict, reco...

What if legacy is less about how we’re remembered and more about how we’re living now?

In this Season One finale, I’m looking back at seven conversations that explored identity, visibility, self-worth, kindness, success, truth and the courage to live more fully as ourselves.

What began as an experiment in creating a different kind of conversation became something much deeper. Again and again, the subject of love led us back to the relationship we have with ourselves: how we see ourselves, trust ourselves, express ourselves and stop abandoning ourselves in order to belong...

Some truths were never really ours. We inherited them, absorbed them, repeated them, and somewhere along the way we began treating them as fact.

In this solo Insights episode, I’m reflecting on my conversation with brand strategist, writer and ideas person Matt Thomas, and exploring the themes that stayed with me: truth, rebellion, language, ideas and becoming.

Not rebellion as noise, ego or some sort of performance. The deeper kind that begins when we question the accepted path, the rules of the room, and the stories we’ve been told about who we are allo...

Maybe you were never here to fit the market, follow the script, or become more acceptable.

Maybe part of your work is to disturb what’s become too comfortable, challenge what’s now too familiar, and tell the truth that keeps being quietly avoided.

In this episode of Life, Love & Legacy, I’m talking to Matt Thomas, brand strategist, speaker, and former award-winning business journalist, whose work helps experts, founders and organisations move beyond safe, samey positioning and become impossible to ignore in crowded markets.

But beneath the branding lies something much deeper.

M...

What if the part of you that’s still in hiding is not only protecting you, but withholding something that someone else might really need?

In this week’s Insights episode of Life, Love & Legacy, I’m reflecting on my conversation with Jenny Kovacs, the visibility specialist known as the Queen of Being Seen. But this reflection moved beyond visibility as confidence, courage or profile, and into something deeper: visibility as dignity and grace..

After leading my first funeral as a celebrant, and reading about a Service of Remembrance for people who had died while experi...

Have you ever felt the pull to be more visible, but quietly worried it might mean becoming louder, more polished, or somehow less yourself?

Visibility can so easily become performative. We try to say the right thing, show up in the right way and build the right kind of presence, while something essential gets left behind. But what if being seen was never about being more impressive? What if it was about being more deeply, honestly and recognisably yourself?

In this episode of Life, Love & Legacy, I’m joined by Jenny Kovacs, award-winning speaker, mentor an...

What if legacy is less about what we leave behind, and more about how people feel because we were here?

In this Insights episode of Life, Love & Legacy, I reflect on my conversation with Clinical Hypnotherapist and Advanced Rapid Transformational Therapist, Kate Hoyle, and the question that has stayed with me ever since:

Who feels more seen because you exist?

Kate’s words took me in two directions. First, towards the tender work of finding ourselves again when we have become lost inside roles, responsibilities and other people’s needs. And then towards the...

So many women reach a point where they have been everything for everyone, and then quietly wonder: who am I now? It's hard to love yourself when you have spent years losing sight of who you are. But what if loving yourself begins with noticing where you’ve disappeared?

In this episode of Life, Love & Legacy, I’m joined by Kate Hoyle, award-winning clinical hypnotherapist and advanced Rapid Transformational Therapist, for a conversation about the deeper stories our minds hold onto, the beliefs that shape us beneath the surface, and the gentle but powerful work of coming back...

Where are you abandoning yourself in the name of achievement?

It’s a brave question. Especially when achievement has been rewarded, applauded, admired, or quietly used as proof that we are enough.

In this Insights episode of Life, Love & Legacy, I’m reflecting on my conversation with Averil Price, The Legacy Coach. The interview was hugely thought-provoking and left me musing on a number of themes including success, burnout, recovery, alignment and the courage to live a life that feels true to who we are.

This episode is not about rejecting ambition. Far from...

With more than three decades in public service and leadership, Legacy Coach Averil Price knows what it means to carry responsibility, strive for impact and build a successful career. But this conversation goes far deeper than professional achievement.

Beyond the professional story you might expect, the leadership roles, the meaningful contribution and the visible success, there is also the more private story: of loss, identity, survival, recovery and re-invention, with many of the questions that can quietly reshape a life. Averil reflects on the experiences that changed her most, from discovering the truth about her father’s de...

What if the person who most needs your kindness is you? And what if kindness calls us to something deeper, braver and more expansive than we ever imagined?

In this solo Insights episode, I reflect on my conversation with Rich Waterman and the phrase that stayed with me long after we finished recording: extraordinary kindness.

This is an exploration of what changes when we make kindness 'extraordinary'. Of the difference between kindness as niceness, and kindness as something more spacious, more courageous and more honest. I reflect on the way some concepts benefit from that...

In this episode of Life, Love & Legacy, I’m joined by performance coach, speaker and former Tony Robbins trainer, Rich Waterman for a conversation about presence, performance, self-trust and what it really means to grow into the next version of yourself. With a background in investment banking and more than two decades in personal and organisational development, Rich now works with founders, leaders and high achievers who want to unlock deeper, more sustainable success.

Together, Rich and I explore the life moments that shaped his path, including divorce, grief, identity shifts and a profoundly moving experience supporting a...

In this Insights episode of Life, Love and Legacy, I return to my conversation with Karen Haller and reflect on what happens when we stop treating self-expression as something superficial, and start recognising it as something far more honest, powerful and revealing.

Inspired by Karen’s reflections on colour, courage and authenticity, this episode explores what it means to reconnect with ourselves in a world that so often pulls us away from what is true. I consider the courage it takes to live from the inside out, the quiet cost of hiding who we are, and the po...

In this episode, I’m joined by Karen Haller for a thoughtful conversation about colour psychology, self expression, and the moments that quietly change the course of a life.

We talk about the unexpected turning point that led Karen from a corporate career into the world of colour, and how that path became something much deeper, a way of helping people reconnect with themselves, their spaces, and the natural world around them.

We also get into courage, visibility, legacy, and what it means to keep following a calling even when hardly anyone understands it at fi...

In this first Insights episode of Life, Love and Legacy, I look back on my opening interview with award-winning independent celebrant Miranda Ash and share some of the deeper themes that stayed with me long after we stopped recording.

Inspired by my conversation with Miranda, this Insights episode explores what her story might help us recognise in ourselves. I reflect on the idea that we are born with our worth already intact, and how life can sometimes cover over that truth with expectation, disappointment and the stories we begin to believe about who we are.

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In this opening conversation, I’m joined by award-winning independent celebrant Miranda Ash to explore the deeper meaning behind ceremony, storytelling and the moments that shape who we are.

From weddings to celebrations of life, Miranda shares how ceremonies can help us honour identity, grief, joy and connection. We talk about self-worth, purpose and the quiet power of being truly seen.

If you’ve ever wondered how the milestones in our lives shape the legacy we leave behind, this conversation offers a thoughtful and uplifting place to begin.

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(03:17) Discovering purpose thro...

Life, Love and Legacy is a thoughtful podcast about the moments that shape us, the milestones that define us, and the meaning we make along the way.

Hosted by Sue Revell, coach, celebrant and story lover, this show invites you into honest, heartfelt conversations about life, love, purpose and the legacy we are creating every day. Through reflective solo episodes and meaningful guest conversations, Sue explores the turning points, quiet realisations and ceremonies that stay with us.

If you’ve ever found yourself asking what really matters and how you want to live, this podcast is...