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
71 episodes
Episode 60 - Tracy Cox: Surviving the Care System
A social worker and a police officer turn up at a child’s school and say, “You’re coming with us, you won’t be coming home tonight.” Tracy remembers her knees going weak, not from fear, but relief: “Oh my God, I’ve been saved.” That moment open...
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Getting Triggered
A song, a smell, a date on the calendar and suddenly your body is back in a moment you thought you’d left behind. We talk about triggers in a simple, human way, including why they can hit without warning and why the real turning point is what w...
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Episode 59 - Chelsea Noel: A Loved One Incacerated
A single phone call can split your life into before and after and Chelsea still carries the exact timestamp: 11:34 p.m. She was in the final stretch of an undergraduate psychology thesis in forensic psychology, proud she’d gained the trust of a...
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Starting Over
Starting again can feel like walking into the first day of school, except you’re older, wiser and far more aware of what could go wrong. I’m sitting in a quieter space between guest chats to talk honestly about what it means to begin again, esp...
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Episode 58 - Thomas Carchidi: The Good, Bad & Corrupt
Most people only meet police on their worst day, then assume they understand the job. We don’t and that gap is where judgement, stigma and burnout grow.I’m joined by Tom for a blunt, grounded conversation about what law enforcement real...
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Know Thyself
The scariest question is often the quietest one. Who are you when nobody needs anything from you? I’m taking a pause between guest conversations to sit with self-awareness, identity and what it means to truly know yourself beneath the masks, th...
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Episode 57 - Helen Ayling: Choosing Sobriety over Addiction
She thought the answer to her problems was another man, another night out, another bottle hidden just well enough to get through the day. Helen takes us back to 2013, when alcohol addiction and chaotic thinking collided with motherhood, marriag...
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Finding Joy
Joy can sound like a big word when you’ve spent months or years in survival mode. When your mind is fixed on getting through the day, even genuinely good moments can slide right past you, not because you’re ungrateful, but because your system i...
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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 ...
