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Chapter 1: What travel mishaps did Georgie and Claire experience?
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That is for sure. Soul Sisters, welcome. Welcome to a first on the podcast. In 10 seasons, we've never recorded the podcast on the day of release. But yes, it's 24-7. It's the day of release.
So sorry to all the Soul Sisters that listen to us early in the morning on a Tuesday. We are coming to you a little bit late because, well, life got in the way yesterday. I was on a delayed flight back from our retreat. And by the time we came home, got the kit, like I was literally... the most tired I've ever felt in my life.
I was in the shower by nine o'clock putting body oil on and I was asleep by ten past nine. But up bright and early this morning, I do have sunglasses on, but I'm ready for the day.
To give you your juice, it is very sunny and warm at the moment. Plus, you're going on your holidays tomorrow.
That is what I'm focusing on. Even though I have a mountain to climb, a mountain of laundry, there's stuff all over the house. Before I get there, I am focusing on the end goal.
Yes, well done. Well, look, since we're talking about travel, I want to take you back to Saturday evening. So I was in Dublin while you were in... We swapped locations, actually. You were in the UK for the weekend. I was back in Dublin. I had my meditation gathering in Kilmacud Crokes on Sunday evening. So I flew back after Emma Willis' show on Saturday.
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Chapter 2: How do they create space for themselves during busy times?
Now, by any stretch, and everybody who's listening to this now is like, no. It's like, is there any way that like Aer Lingus, you can travel on your driver's license on Ryanair? Google. AI says no. I don't believe AI. So I scroll down to Ryanair and Ryanair says, under no circumstances can you travel on your driver's license. So then the mania begins. Think home alone, right?
The flight is 7.20 in Gatwick. I'm in Victoria. I have to go back to Tooting, pick up my passport and get back home. to Gatwick. What time was this at? Five o'clock.
No! You're literally the most Irish person. Can you not just go up and say, why would I lie? Like, I'm from Ireland.
And you know what? Anybody else, I think that you could swing it with Aer Lingus. I just don't think Ryanair, Ryanair are trained with the best of intentions not to care. They've heard every excuse under the sun.
So my concern is you said that you're bringing 17 items. So did you have a suitcase like that?
I had a little bag, yes. I always pack my backpack with way too much stuff. So I had my backpack really heavy on my back, plus a little pulley. So I had to run out of one train onto another one, head out. I mean, thank God I'm in London because I think if I was in Dublin, it would have been game over. literally from one platform, platform 13 to platform 11, say, jumped on the train.
Train took me out to Streatham Common. And at this point, I am like, I'm really optimistic that I can do this, but I'm feeling so very alone. I'm feeling so very, very alone. I'm like, this is so annoying. So I'm like, I'm going to ring me London, da. So I get a phone to Nilo and I'm like, Nilo. Hi, Nilo. He's like, hey, what's happening? I was like, what's happening with you?
He said, just sitting here watching baseball, going to a barbecue later. I was like, there's a window. I was like, so just wanted to get your thoughts on this. I'm walking like at pace from the train station back to my house while also texting my cat sitter to say, don't be scared when I come in like the Tasmanian devil. I've forgotten my passport. I've got zero minutes to get to Gatwick.
So I'm talking to Neil and I can tell by Neil's voice, he does not want to drop me to Gatwick.
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Chapter 3: What lessons did they learn from their meditation retreat?
I was like, angels, I understand. You must be really frustrated with me at the moment. I'm frustrated with myself. But please. Please, please just help me make this flight because I was thinking if I didn't make the flight, I would have had to get a flight the next morning or maybe get a later flight that evening.
It just would have made, you know, it would have thrown me completely off considering I was coming home to lead a meditation gathering. This was not the start I needed.
I'm so glad you made it. I had my own. Well, it was nothing compared to your airport drama. But, you know, the way in Dublin Airport now, you can bring like any amount of liquids in your bag, in your hand luggage now. So you can bring like a two litre bottle of water. You know, it doesn't have to be under 100 mils anymore.
And then you're supposed to check the country that you're flying back from to check that they too have the same rules now because not everybody does. So every country that I've been to over the last while, like Rome and like Garda, you know, you could just... Are they... They're not countries. Italy. Yeah. In Italy. You can bring back the over 100 mils.
So we pull up a cornwall and, you know, the penny drops though only at the last minute. So I'm putting my bags up and I was like, oh my God, they're definitely not going to let me through with all this stuff. But I'm the type of person that I just say absolutely nothing. Yes. Let it all go through. All three bags of mine got pulled. Three trays. Oh my God. So I was like, oh, Jesus Christ.
But the guy was taking all of my stuff and like lining it up behind. So like a giant hairspray, like. Like the tallest hairspray you could imagine lined up. Next thing. But he explained it to me each time like it was the first time. Oh. You know, so then he'd pull something out. Well, this is too big for our allowances here. And I was like, yeah, no, no, I know.
It's just, it's different in Dublin. Yes, but here we don't have those rules. So I'm going to have to take this from you. Do you want to use a bit of it before I do? I was like... No, thanks. I used my heat protector that I paid 50 quid for already this morning. Then that would get lined up and the tan would get lined up. I was like, oh my God.
Then he gets like a little can of San Pellegrino and he's like, this is too big. Okay, I get it. And he was like, would you like to open this and drink some of it first? I was like... No, thanks. But so interesting, right? We arrived and our flight was delayed and this is a tiny little airport. I don't know if you've ever been in Newquay before, but it's gorgeous.
It's like a little train station. And So we had three hours then till our flight and we decided to sit outside of the airport because once you go through, you're in this tiny little room. So we were like, let's sit outside. So a group of us were sitting around a table outside. So your pal, Ian Rejoice, who is... One of the top cardiologists in the country, like such a powerhouse.
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Chapter 4: How do angel cards play a role in their lives?
Yeah.
So I, I should have, I knew I was in the wrong place and I should have done a U-turn, but I could see a little path and I started running through it. But then there was no path anymore. And it was just, I'd say a foot high of brambles. Oh my God. And I was in so far that I was like, I need to just keep going. And I was so afraid of the snakes.
I just ran through it and absolutely just shredded my legs. Like there was blood, there was like nettles or like stings all over my legs. But like I felt, as Lauren Nelson would say, I felt like a wild woman. And it was just such a moment of survival.
I've just Googled while you were telling us that the spiritual meaning of snake is. Profound transformation, healing and awakened intuition.
I love that. It was so funny. So like, obviously there's so many soul sisters on the retreat and like everyone's just, every time someone saw something, people were like, Google the spiritual meaning of that. Someone's like, I see my cat, my own cat and I Google what the spiritual meaning of coming across a cat is.
Yeah.
Like we're all so similar, aren't we? Oh my God, it's so funny. Because snakes shed their skin, they are universal symbols of rebirth and renewal. So that's lovely, isn't it?
I got the angel cards for the retreat and they just add so much because I think angel cards that give you a minute with yourself because, you know, retreats are like very much about connection and shared moments. And, but the angel cards are,
give you a moment and it was really interesting what was coming up for people so one of the girls Avril came with her husband and the angel card she picked on the Monday just as we were leaving was romance and connection No way. Isn't that crazy? That's mad. We had someone who came with a really busy job that is juggling a lot at the moment. And their card was no. It just said no on it.
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Chapter 5: What unexpected moments of magic did they encounter?
Wow. And I thought that was such a testament to the group and how we made each other feel, which was completely and utterly safe. Yeah. And I think it's so interesting, like the arc of a retreat weekend, how it begins versus... how it ends. We even did like a beach Olympics because we wanted to bring a bit of play into the weekend.
And you could tell people were coming to that just for us, like just to be sound. They were coming down like, oh my God, what is this? By the end of it, we were like on the floor laughing. It was amazing. People were like on the beach, were like watching, laughing, like it was contagious. We had little races and stuff. It was absolutely brilliant.
Okay, Clare, we're into my favorite bit of the podcast. You know that feeling, you close the bathroom door, you step into a gorgeous shower, you know you're looking after your skin because you're using the Sanex Skin Therapy range. You're preserving your skin's barrier. It's helping support your skin's natural defense and it delivers a 24-hour hydration feel.
It's a real moment of relief for you and your skin. So tell us about your five-star product. moment this week, your aha moment and the breakthrough that dropped in for you this week, Clare?
Well, happily, I can report that it's all about Sanex this week. So lots of my friends who are soul sisters have been telling me how they've been buying Sanex all season long, thanks to us. And my mum said to tell Georgie every time she says it's on sale, wherever it is, she goes straight to that shop and she picks it up. So all the Soul Sisters are on board with Sanex.
But somebody told me the other day about Yucca, which is the app, which I think is very popular in Ireland, where you can scan products and find out how good they are. Excellent, good, poor or bad.
Yes.
And my soul sister said to me, have you seen the score of Sanex on Yucca? Because Laura's kids have quite sensitive skin and she was really keen to find something that was pure and simple and effective for her kiddies. And the first thing she did was go straight to Sanex, having heard us talk about it. And she found An excellent score, far better than a lot of other leading names and brands.
So I was using my Sanex this week and I just thought, I know, I just know that all of the Soul Sisters, all of us as a tribe are doing the best thing for our skin with Sanex.
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Chapter 6: How do they navigate the challenges of travel?
And what we did first was we had a cup of tea and we headed out onto the pitch. Now, we were lucky that the dubs were playing Donegal on Sunday. So everybody who probably would have been in Crokes... maybe watching the TV and watching the game would have been out in Croker and out in Dublin. So the place was absolutely like a ghost town.
So all of us girls got out onto the pitch, got our feet into the grass, bare feet, summer solstice, sun was beating down on us and we were just getting our feet, just grounding, earthing and chatting, having a cuppa. Then we headed back inside. And we began our mantra. So this month, June, in my online meditations, I've been working on the base chakra.
So we did a little bit more on the base chakra than we did for summer solstice. We did some intentions. So what is it you want to grow for the rest of 2026? And what is it halfway through the year that you're ready to get rid of? So we wrote them down. Eileen lit a fire in a bucket.
What a legend.
No. I said to my dad on Father's Day, I said, Dad, I need a bucket. And he's like, right. I said, I put a light of fire in it. He goes, what? That's, what? So dad had to go off, get a coal bucket, find his last fire lighter. And then mum took it to Kilmaco at Crokes. She stood at the front door. So when we finished our meditation, we finished our intentions, everybody on the way out dropped their
that whatever they wanted to let go into Eileen's fire, she stoked the fire and then, oh my God. So raging, I miss this. Well, this is definitely going to be a format for us for the next couple of months. And what I'm going to do over the next couple of months each month is work through each chakra. So the base is the seat of your security, your foundation, your perspective on life.
You know, what are you scared of? What is it? How do you view the world? Next, we're going to do our sacral chakra. And sacral is so important, obviously, for us women because it's the seat of our emotions. It's our reproductive system. It's our sexual energy and our creative energy. So if we don't have... If our sexual energy is dormant... That means our creative energy is also dormant.
So every time that your husband comes towards you or whoever, your partner comes up and says, do you fancy? Come on, bidder. And you're like, no, actually, I don't. Stop and say to yourself, hang on. What am I denying myself here? Because once my sexual energy flows, my creativity flows and then everything flows.
So for the next gathering on the 19th of July, we'll work on our sacral chakra and things like dancing. is what really stokes the sacral chakra. So we'll do some lovely yoga movement for the sacrum and then we'll do a little bit of dance and some meditation as well.
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Chapter 7: What insights did they gain on personal growth and connection?
Yeah, and you have to just fill up your own cup as much as possible. Like there's probably loads of couples that are going on holidays and they haven't seen each other all year because all they do is work. But for us, it's kind of the opposite, you know. You're going off now to get the air coach back too. And do you know what I was thinking? Like there's...
There's certain forms of public transport that you probably don't strike up a conversation with people, right? So like the air coach is probably one of those ones that you definitely keep to yourself, do you? You're not like chatting to strangers on the air coach.
No, I must say the air coach, the guy who picked me up from Dublin airport on Saturday evening, such a friendly dude. And, you know, like those moments, that's what my love affair with Dublin is very much about. you know, in session. And I was on the air coach traveling at pace because boy, oh boy, do those guys drive fast through Dublin city center on Saturday evening.
And I was listening to the radio station that he had on. Avicii, wake me up. Okay. Avicii, wake me up is on the radio in Dublin all the time. I heard it three times over the space of three days here. Is that something that's on your radar at all? That song?
Yeah. Oh, my God. I listen to songs and it just brings me back to the time in spin. I was like, I used to be writing the news. We're like...
It's exactly what I thought. It was bringing back loads of great memories. But yeah, no, definitely this trip on the air coach is probably going to be pretty silent. Everybody, you know, that kind of airport feeling where you're like, oh, I'm under a little bit of pressure for time and I just need to get there.
But I was on the bus the other day and I, you know, again, what's so nice about Ireland is people are like, thanks, thanks to the bus, the bus driver. I mean, again, London is just different. It just doesn't operate the same way. But everybody who got off the bus was saying thanks to the bus drivers. So sound as pounds, lads. Oh, savage.
Is Nilo collecting you or are you training it back to tooting? Nilo is collecting me and it's like serious temperatures over there. There's like 36, 37 degrees over the next couple of days. So Nilo said to me, yeah, looks like good weather for spotting. Oh, great. So he's going to be out in Gatwick watching planes until my flight lands later on.
Oh, I think it's like, it's such a sign that you really love someone when you track their flight. So I'm going to track your flight and make sure that you get home safe.
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