Warrior Heart Yarns with Aunty Shan
What does it take to be your bravest, boldest, most fully expressed self without apology? What does it take to stand in your power, be your truth and follow your heart in a world that wants you to play small, to be defined and stay in your lane? It takes a Warrior Heart. Come along and join me for some deep yarns, insights, lessons, wisdom and tough love on what it takes to create a life from your heart, without apology and a warrior spirit.
Episodes
67 episodes
Weaving Love, Leadership and Purpose: Without Losing Ourselves - Weaving Warrior Heart series
What does it mean to love, lead, and walk with Dreaming — without abandoning yourself?In this powerful first episode of Weaving Warrior Heart series, the raw, real struggle that gave birth to this deep reckoning of how do...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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41:22
Walking in Dreaming & Mana: The Difference Between Calling & Purpose
🌿 Your calling is the fire. Your purpose is the roots. Together, they guide the journey.In this episode of Warrior Heart Yarns, Shantelle Thompson, the Barkindji Warrior, explores the deep relationship between cal...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:03:15
Embodying Your Dreaming: Courage, Responsibility & the Path to Action
Dreaming is more than vision—it is an act of becoming.In this episode of Warrior Heart Yarns, Shantelle Thompson, the Barkindji Warrior, explores the profound journey of embodying one's Dreaming and the responsibility th...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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37:03
Sovereign & Unapologetic – Remembering Who I Am
In this episode of Warrior Heart Yarns, Shantelle Thompson, the Barkindji Warrior, shares her powerful journey of reclaiming sovereignty, cultural identity, and unapologetic living as a First Nations woman. Through personal storyt...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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50:13
Beyond Titles: Reclaiming Identity, Truth, and Legacy
In this episode, I take you deep into the heart of self-discovery, empowerment, and reclaiming identity beyond the titles and expectations the world places on us. I share my personal journey—the battles, the healing, the lessons—a...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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34:09
Embodying the Warrior Heart
keywordsWarrior Heart, empowerment, resilience, truth, reclamation, Barkindji Warrior, self-determination, cultural identity, mental health, storytellingsummaryIn this episode of Warrior Heart ...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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33:05
Season 4: Embodying the Warrior Heart
Warrior Heart Yarns - Season 4 Intro 🔥 Season 4: Fighting for My Dreaming. Going All In. 🔥This is more than a podcast—it’s a movement. Warrior Heart Yarns is a space for truth-telling, reclamation, and ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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3:31
Investing in Yourself - A Down Payment on Your Life's Purpose
Investing in Yourself – A Down Payment on Your Life's PurposeEpisode Description:In this episode of Warrior Heart Yarns, we explore what it really means to invest in yourself. We break down the myth that inve...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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33:47
When You Reach a Crossroad: Awaken Your Warrior Heart or Quit on Your Dreaming
Episode Brief: In this episode, I share a pivotal moment from my journey—when I realized that staying stuck and playing small was no longer an option. Faced with a crossroads, I made the decision to awaken my Warrior Heart, knowing that ...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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51:26
The dance of the in-between and how I am navigating from pain to purpose
In this special bonus episode of the Warrior Heart podcast, I open up about my current experience of being in the "in-between"—the space between pain and purpose. It’s a raw and honest look at the journey of healing, growth, and navigating unce...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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27:39
Part 3: The Global Vision - How the Warrior Heart Serves the World and Its Impact
In the final episode of this 3-part Warrior Heart series, we explore how the Warrior Heart extends beyond personal empowerment to create a ripple effect that impacts families, communities, and the world. Discover how this movement is about crea...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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24:03
Part 2: Why the Warrior Heart and Who it is for...
In this powerful episode of the Warrior Heart podcast, we dive deep into the essence of what the Warrior Heart truly is and who it’s meant to serve. From the core values of resilience, courage, vulnerability, and cultural identity, to the duali...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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26:53
The Birthplace of the Warrior Heart and Why It Matters - x3 part series on the Origins, Purpose and Global Vision
Episode 1 Brief: "The Birthplace of the Warrior Heart and Why It Matters"Objective:To introduce listeners to the concept of the Warrior Heart by sharing the origin story, journey, and purpose behind it. This episode aim...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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43:11
No More 'New' Me, Now It's Only Me. Embracing Truth, Vulnerability, and Authenticity
Episode Brief:Title: "No More 'New' Me, Only the True Me"Podcast: Warrior Heart YarnsHost: Shantelle Thompson, Barkindji WarriorOverview:In this episode, Shantelle Thompson challenges the po...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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1:37:03
Warrior Heart Yarns: Embracing the Shadows: Overcoming Shame and Reclaiming Your Power
"Embracing the Shadows: Overcoming Shame and Reclaiming Your Power"Trigger Warning: Mental illness and suicidal ideation mentioned and discussedShame is a dangerous emotion that can hold us back and convince us that we are unw...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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39:20
Quick Deep yarns: How to Climb Out from Rock Bottom: Finding Purpose Beyond the Pain
In this deeply personal and empowering episode of *Warrior Heart Yarns*, Shantelle Thompson, the Barkindji Warrior, explores the theme of hitting rock bottom and how to find the strength and purpose to climb back up. Through storytelling,...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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10:34
Warrior Heart: Choosing Life and Resilience. Keeping the dream alive, while meeting life.
Ngayi you mob, Today Aunty Shan yarn is deeply from the Warrior Heart and my journey in this season. And how in this season I am choosing life over sport, choosing to face my challenges and rise now that I feel ready and deeply cal...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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32:01
I'm choosing to live my life. Over survival, auto-pilot and existing. It is time to learn how to live over surviving
Warrior Heart yarns with Aunty Shan is back. It is has been a long while since I have had the capacity and resources to record and share my experiences in this medium and online. I retreated into survival and autopilot and toxic coping strategi...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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45:51
F*&K the following and why I am choosing to yarn about it and do something about it. - Imposter Syndrome, Lateral Violence, Shame and FWOT
I am so tired of seeing the impacts of the below on individuals and how we are conditioned to believe they are 'internal problems' for us to solve. Rather than tools, conditions and systems of patriarchy and colonisation. - later...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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36:32
How I am meeting myself in this moment - some truth-telling
It is a season for truth-telling, meeting myself more deeply and allowing my life, Ancestors and Dreaming to speak to me without filters or hiding. I have been doing this in varying degrees for a while now, and it is a practice tha...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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18:21
Reflections from attending 'My First Million Live' 2024
Have you EVER attended an event that just seems to be the catalyst for your next level? Or you just KNOW it's planted something in you that could change the trajectory of your lofe forever? I have and did. This week in fact. I atte...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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16:18
Evolution of the Warrior Heart
As I begin to walk the steps of putting the Warrior Heart into practice and being about it. I realise how many foundations need to shift, how it is an evolving concept and practice. Sharing my living experiences of thi...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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17:23
Love letter to myself.
Recently I had some dear friends call me in about the role I am playing and my responsibilities. And really asking me to be honest with myself and my current season about what my priorities are and how do I meet into the season I'm...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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24:57