Everyday Warriors Podcast
Trudie's mission is to ignite a beacon of resilience, and inspiration through heartfelt raw, real and authentic conversations with Everyday Warriors like herself.
In this podcast, she delve's into the vulnerable and unfiltered stories of herself and her special guests, embracing the complexities of life's challenges and adversities. There are no preset questions, just real time conversations.
By sharing personal journeys, insights, and triumphs, Trudie aims to empower her listeners with the courage and wisdom needed to navigate their own paths. There are no transcripts as you have to hear the emotion in the voices to truly comprehend their stories.
Through openness and honesty, she foster's a community where authenticity reigns supreme and where every story has the power to spark transformation and ignite hope.
Join her on this journey of discovery, growth, and unwavering hope as she illuminate's the human experience one conversation at a time.
Episodes
63 episodes
Episode 56 - Shaun Free: Man on Fire
A propane truck, a failed valve, a cloud of freezing fuel and a fireball that wiped out a whole workshop and changed Sean’s life in an instant. Calling in from Idaho, Shaun walks us through the day in March 2018 when he was burned across 46% of...
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Energy & Flow
Your energy is not unlimited and brute forcing your way through life is not the same thing as strength. I sit down for a quieter solo moment to talk about what we often overlook, the way physical energy, mental energy, emotional energy and spir...
Episode 55 - Cass Barrie: Widowed & Pregnant
One moment you’re building a future, the next you’re learning how to breathe through the ruins. I’m joined by Cass from Queensland for a raw conversation about grief in its many forms, and how it can show up not just after death, but after a bu...
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Chaos Into Calm
Your life can look fine on the outside while your nervous system is living like the siren is still on. I’m sharing a quieter Everyday Warrior Moments reflection on internal chaos. The racing thoughts, the tight chest, the shallow breathing, the...
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Episode 54 - Shalina Lodhia: Surviving Sexual Assault
“My body is the crime scene.” When Shalina says that, everything about trauma clicks into place, because you can’t walk away from the place it happened when the place is you. Shalina talks about sexual assault, online safety and the brutal conf...
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Questioning Identity
Who are you when the uniform comes off, the titles change and the roles you’ve carried for years no longer fit? I’m taking a quieter moment today to sit with identity and the tender work of letting go of who I thought I had to be. When life shi...
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Everyday Warrior Moments
You might think a podcast host sits on the outside, calmly collecting other people’s stories. I don’t. Every conversation I hold changes me and this quiet Everyday Warrior Moments reflection is me saying that out loud.Between the bigger...
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BONUS - 2nd Birthday Episode
Two years ago I hit record without a perfect plan, just a voice and a steady belief that honest stories can make someone feel less alone. Today, the Everyday Warriors Podcast turns two, and this bonus episode is my pause to acknowledge what we’...
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Episode 53 - Gavin Hyde: Single Dad Reset
A relationship ends, the coping spirals start, and then a knock at the door changes everything. Gav takes us back to New Year’s Eve 1995 and the years that follow, when anger, anxiety, partying and marijuana are masking a deeper fear of failure...
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Episode 52 - Claire Atkin-Smith: Living with Hypermobility
Some bodies don’t give you a clear “stop” signal. They just keep going, past normal range, past safe, and you only find out when something hurts. I’m joined by Claire, a UK-trained physiotherapist now living on New Zealand’s South Island, to ta...
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Episode 51 - Cherie Haysey: A Williams Syndrome Story
A twin birth, a smooth labour and then a jolt of fear. One baby thriving, the other struggling to breathe. That’s where Cherie’s story begins and it never lets go. We follow her from the long months of “wait and see,” through a 16‑month diagnos...
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Episode 50 - Adam Blum: Edge of the Cliff
A redheaded kid called a nobody, a 22-year-old worker broken by a boss’s spit-flecked tirade and a silent drive past home to a crowded Blue Mountains lookout. A moment when the clouds parted, a late Nana’s voice rang clear and a single phone ca...
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Episode 49 - Sightseeing Across 5 American States
Big sights drew us in, but the small moments did the heavy lifting. Across seven weeks we threaded a tight Tokyo layover, San Francisco’s storied streets, the bright blur of Las Vegas, sweeping Texas plains and the deep hush of New Mexico caver...
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Episode 48 - Manisha Bhati: From Arranged Marriage to Autonomy
How a marriage slowly tightened into coercive control. We sit down with Manisha to trace the subtle beginnings of abuse, rules about food and clothes, isolation disguised as tradition and the long arc toward reclaiming safety, dignity and voice...
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Episode 47 - Rosie Mac: Back from the Brink
A single slip on a wet morning changed everything. Rosie spent 42 years as a research nurse, then a head injury, a misdiagnosis and an atypical stroke forced a brutal reset. What followed wasn’t a neat comeback arc, rather a slow, honest rebuil...
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Episode 46 - Christopher Hill: Adventure with Impact
A house build in Cape Town changed everything. Christopher had the degrees, the London job and the momentum. Yet one day volunteering added two dimensions to travel that a corner office never could, genuine connection with local people and the ...
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Episode 45 - Tina Lembo: War with my Body
One sentence changed everything. Tina walked into a wellness talk determined to starve herself back into control and walked out with a new mission: stop the slow self-harm and start choosing life. What follows is a brave, unfiltered account of ...
Episode 44 - Matt Gilhooly: A Grief Journey
Some moments split a life into before and after. When Matt was eight, a phone call about his mum’s fatal motorcycle accident shattered the version of childhood where safety felt assumed. What followed was a quiet agreement many of us make witho...
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Episode 43 - Rhiannon Hetherington: If She Spoke
What if the hardest years of your life became the foundation for your boldest work? We sit down with Rhiannon, a single mum, artist and survivor who turned bipolar type 2 and C-PTSD into a creative engine, building a 1700 m² exhibition that cel...
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Episode 42 - Daylene Robinson: Rising from the Ashes
Some stories start with a roadmap. Ours begins on the side of a highway, smoke from a sliced radiator curling into the night while Dayelene and her son lie on a picnic rug, laughing at the chaos and choosing to keep moving. From Air...
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Episode 41 - Shaunace West: Stronger Than The Storm
This is my longest episode yet but it deserves ALL the time to tell this incredible Everyday Warriors story!What if “being strong” is the very thing keeping you from healing? Shaunace's story starts with speed, a senior OT by her mid‑20s...
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Episode 40 - Brigette Panetta: The Battle Within
What happens when your entire world collapses around you? For Bridgette, April 2020 brought an unimaginable storm – serious legal proceedings against her family's investment business, followed just two days later by the birth of her daughter Em...
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Episode 39 - Jacqui Crafter: Not TO, but FOR
What if everything that happens in your life isn't happening to you, but for you? This perspective-shifting conversation with Jackie explores how reframing our challenges can transform our entire experience of life.Jackie's journey begi...
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Episode 38 - Cruising into 50
Facing the open ocean despite a lifelong fear of water and motion sickness wasn't exactly how I'd planned to celebrate turning 50. Yet there I was, boarding a cruise ship for the first time, determined to make this milestone birthday unforgetta...
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Episode 37 - Tony Stewart: Carrying the Tiger
When a doctor's call on a lazy Sunday afternoon revealed that his wife Lynn had stage four lung cancer, Tony Stewart's world imploded. What followed was a six-year rollercoaster of clinical trials, spine surgeries, moments of hope and crushing ...
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