The Secret Witch Show

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Marina Pearson. Marina is an investor, author, speaker and founder of Unshackled Wealth, a pioneering body of work supporting women with inherited wealth. Featured in the Financial Times for her work on the emotional and identity dimensions of inherited wealth, Marina brings a unique perspective to the intersection of wealth, identity and conscious stewardship. Having invested for over 15 years and navigated her own inheritance journey, she combines lived experience with deep expertise in helping women transform their relationship with themselves, their wealth and their identity. She is the author of three books, including an international bestseller translated into four languages, has appeared across international television, radio and print media, and hosts The She Who Inherits Podcast, where she explores the future of wealth through conversations with inheritors, family advisors and thought leaders.
In this episode, we explore why money is never really about money. Marina shares how inheriting wealth became an unexpected initiation into sovereignty, feminine leadership and becoming the woman who can truly hold more. Together we dive into receiving, scarcity, self-worth, the journey from Maiden to Queen to Empress, why asking for what you want changes everything, and how expansion often lies just beyond the edge of fear. Whether you're navigating money, business, purpose or simply longing to trust yourself more deeply, this conversation is an invitation to reclaim your power and expand into the fullest expression of who you're here to become.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
Wealth is never really about money - it amplifies the unconscious patterns, fears and identities that are already living within us.

Inheriting wealth is not the end of the journey - it can become a profound initiation into responsibility, sovereignty and conscious stewardship.

Expansion rarely feels comfortable. Restriction often signals where we've outgrown ourselves, while desire points us towards the next version of who we're becoming.

Receiving is a feminine practice. Learning to ask for what we want, trust support, and allow ourselves to be held transforms every area of our lives - not just our relationship with money.

Fear is not a sign to stop - it is an invitation to deepen our capacity. True safety comes from trusting ourselves, not from trying to control our circumstances.

The journey from Maiden to Queen to Empress is one of identity. As we expand into who we are becoming, our relationship with wealth, work, relationships and purpose naturally transforms.


Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Marina's Links:

Discover your She Who Inherits™ Archetype: https://bit.ly/SheWhoInheritsQuiz

🪑 Join The Velvet Lounge: A private monthly conversation for women navigating wealth, identity, relationships and legacy: https://bit.ly/velvetlounge

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marinacpearson

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/marinapearson

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_unshackled_woman

Website: www.marinapearson.com

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Resources:

The Queen's Code - Alison Armstrong - please link to book / website

 
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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the wild, instinctual wisdom of the body through one of her favourite poems: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. This is a deeply archetypal exploration of the Secret Witch's relationship with perfection, rebellion, desire, instinct, and belonging - and what it truly means to 'let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.' Drawing on her own lived experiences, motherhood, the Witch Wound, and the stories of women inside the Apothecary, Nicole explores how so many women become disconnected from the truth of their bodies through conditioning, hyper-vigilance, shame, and the pressure to be 'good.'  This episode is an invitation back into the body, back into instinct, and back into the wild truth of the soul.
 In this episode we explore the difference between instinct and impulse, and how the Secret Witch often misreads fear as misalignment - disconnecting from her deepest desires in an attempt to stay safe, loved, and accepted. Nicole speaks to the 'good girl witch,' feminine desire, visibility, nervous system conditioning, and the longing to reclaim our wildness without swinging into performative rebellion. She explores how desire itself can become an initiation - especially for women taught to suppress hunger, pleasure, erotic truth, and instinct - and why reconnecting to the 'soft animal' of the body is part of reclaiming feminine power, magic, aliveness, and soul truth. This is a poetic, honest, and deeply initiatory exploration of what happens when we stop monitoring ourselves and begin sensing ourselves again.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
The Secret Witch often disconnects from the truth of her body through both perfectionism and rebellion - and healing begins by returning to the 'soft animal' wisdom of instinct, sensing, and embodied truth

Perfection is often a strategy used to avoid the terror of being fully alive, and the Secret Witch does not heal by becoming 'good enough,' but by reconnecting to the wild truth of her body

There is a powerful difference between instinct and impulse - and learning to discern true soul desire from conditioned fantasy, fear, or shadow longing is part of reclaiming feminine power and self-trust

We often misread fear as misalignment, when in reality the fear may be the Good Girl trying to protect us from visibility, rejection, and the power of our own wild truth

Feminine desire has long been shamed, suppressed, and feared - and many women feel safer speaking about trauma than longing, pleasure, instinct, hunger, or erotic truth

Mary Oliver's Wild Geese offers an archetypal invitation home: to release perfection, reconnect to the body, remember belonging, and allow the soft animal of the body to love what it loves


Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
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Resources:

Wild Geese - by Mary Oliver:

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

 
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On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Olivia Roff. Olivia Roff is a Mystical Guide for the Soul and a Spirit Baby Channel, who lovingly supports women on their Motherhood journey. In 2020, after experiencing two miscarriages, Olivia received a beautiful call from Spirit Babies, asking her to usher in their Magical Souls to Earth and to guide their Mothers on their Motherhood journey. Since then, Olivia has been on an incredible journey, and has initiated some deep Soul healing. Olivia's children are her greatest Teachers and Guides. They have initiated her deeply into her truth on her Motherhood journey and into becoming the Wild Mother her Soul came here to Be. Olivia is passionate about guiding Women into healing and into becoming the Mother their Soul came here to be.
Now Olivia is a very special guest, because she's also a long-standing 1:1 client of mine, so this episode feels deeply meaningful as it's the living alchemy of Olivia's own journey of becoming the remedy for herself, discovering her gifts through that process, reclaiming her voice, and expressing her medicine into the world as a Soul Guide and healer. In this episode, we explore motherhood as initiation - and what it truly means to become the wild, instinctual Mother your soul came here to be. We speak about birth, miscarriage, Spirit Babies, shame, rage, feminine receiving, home education, healing the Good Girl and Rebel shadows, and learning to trust the body's deeper instinctive knowing. Olivia shares how motherhood became the portal that initiated her into her gifts, her truth, and her wild feminine expression - and how the path of healing herself ultimately illuminated the medicine she is now here to share with others, and helped her to create what once felt impossible!
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
Motherhood is not just a role - it is an initiation into truth. Our children pull us toward the places we've abandoned ourselves, so we can become the Mother our soul came here to be

The Wild Mother is not the "perfect" mother - she is the instinctual Mother who learns to trust her body, her truth, and her knowing, even when it goes against conditioning

The shadow of the She-Wolf swings between the Good Girl and the Rebel - healing begins when we stop reacting from fear and start expressing from truth

Birth, miscarriage, rage, burnout, grief, and overwhelm are not signs that you are broken - they are often initiatory portals calling you deeper into yourself

Receiving is a feminine initiation. Learning to ask for help, express our needs, and open to support changes what becomes possible for our lives and families

Creating a magical, soul-aligned life often takes years, not weeks. The vision may arrive long before we have the capacity, healing, or support to fully live it - but that does not mean it isn't meant for us.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Olivia's Links:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mystical_birthing/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mysticalbirthing

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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is speaking to one of her own core medicine topics - reclaiming your voice as a wild woman, and sharing your story as a healer witch. Drawing on over a decade of writing, speaking, and being seen across media, podcasts, and live event spaces, she brings a deeply personal and lived perspective to what it truly means to express your truth in the world. This is not just about storytelling - it's about the initiation of visibility, the courage to be seen in our vulnerability, and the alchemy of turning our wounds into medicine.
In this episode, we explore what it really takes to reclaim your voice and truth. Nicole shares her own journey from silence and fear to visibility and authentic expression, and opens a deeper conversation around the Witch Wound, the cost of being seen, and the identity shifts that come with stepping into your power. She explores how our stories are archetypal remedies for others - and how, when we heal and integrate our wounds, our story becomes medicine not just for ourselves, but for others (even just our immediate local community, family and friends). This is a raw, initiatory exploration of visibility, truth, and feminine power - and what it truly means to be seen, even exploring the fantasy of being seen by others, and how the real gold is truly seeing ourselves.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
Reclaiming our voice is not about simply being more confident - it's an initiation into being fully seen in our truth, and it will ask us to meet fear, truth, and identity in a deeper way

To be seen, we have to speak - and often that is vulnerable, but it's also worth it for the gift of being able to be fully ourselves

The Witch Wound often lives beneath the fear of visibility - fear of judgement, rejection, or being too much - and our work is to recognise that this is part of our healing

Your story is not just something that happened to us - it is our archetypal remedy, and when alchemised, it becomes medicine for ourselves and others

The edge of visibility often begins when we stop sharing what is safe or universal, and start expressing our unique perspective and embodied truth

Not everything needs to be shared - discernment is part of power, and knowing what is integrated vs still processing protects both ourselves and our work

You don't need to be fully healed to be seen - but your power comes from owning where you are, rather than performing a version of yourself for acceptance

We often have a fantasy that being seen and accepted will fulfil us, but the real person we want to be seen and loved by is ourselves.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Our Links:

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Resources:

Book - Maureen Murdock - The Heroine's Journey - https://heroinejourneys.com/heroines-journey/


 
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On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sara Fakih. Sara's work is an invitation to remember - to come home to the body, to emotion as power, and to the truth that lives beneath survival and self-sabotage. Through trauma-informed somatic practices, body–mind maturation coaching, and movement rooted in yoga and dance, she guides women into deeper embodiment, emotional freedom, and nervous system repair. A freedom explorer and rule-breaker at heart, Sara weaves ancient wisdom with modern somatic intelligence - empowering women to reclaim their voice, purpose, and wild feminine essence through womb reconnection, ancestral healing, and embodied remembrance.
In this episode, we explore what it truly means to become the 'cycle breaker' - via an embodied, initiatory portal into the womb and ancestral lineage. Sara shares how inherited trauma lives in the womb, and how ancestral wounds are carried through the feminine lineage as silence, suppression and fear of power - and how womb healing becomes a somatic portal for discerning what was passed down. We speak about the role of rage and pleasure in healing lineage wounds - and the importance of using our voice and reclaiming our body's natural cycle to stop numbing and reclaim our true feminine power. This is a grounded, mature exploration of reclaiming the womb as the place where inherited pain becomes embodied wisdom, and the trauma stops with you.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
You already know if you're a cycle breaker - it's an inner rebellion, an embodied knowing that you're here to create change, even if you don't know how

The body shows you the call - the throat closes, you shake, you want to shut down or dissociate - that somatic charge is a portal

When you drop into the womb, there's deep remembrance - and moments of realising "this is not just mine." You are feeling the whole maternal line

Feminine power is being anchored and grounded in truth - not forcing, dominating, or controlling, but knowing yourself so deeply nothing can shake you

Your bleed is a portal. What comes up during your cycle - rage, resignation, ideas, truth - is not 'just PMT' - it's information from the body

Healing is integration - daily conscious awareness. Turning toward what triggers us and staying with it until the old energetic charge no longer has us.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Sara's Links: please share what she said at the end of the conversation - listen.

Sara's Website - www.sarafakih.com 

Sara's Instagram - @Sara_fakih

Sambaddha  - 4 month Somatic Certification - https://www.sarafakih.com/sambaddha 

Reclamation - 5 week Reclamation - https://www.sarafakih.com/reclamation-1 

UnTamed - Membership for Untamed Women - https://www.sarafakih.com/untamed-membership

Our Links:

To reclaim your feminine power, magic and truth, join our Secret Witch's Apothecary: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership 

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Resources:

Wild Power - Sjanie Hugo-Wurlitzer and Alexandra Pope - find the book link from their website. - https://www.redschool.net/wildpower

 
Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.
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