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Playing The Fool
Welcome to the PLAYING THE FOOL Podcast, I am your host Jarna Saunders.
I am a proud as fuck Life and Relationship Coach and personal development nerd, with a HUGE passion to get every single woman in the arena of their own lives.
I have over 10 years’ experience coaching 100's of women and couples.
I've been where you may be right now: for years I sat on the side-lines of my life, stuck in fear, in my head, in the past of that ONE TIME I was put back in my corner and I let it cripple me with fear.
That was until one day when the PAIN of staying hidden was too much to take and I made the choice to get my butt in the ARENA of MY OWN life.
To take the risk of looking like a beginner, looking silly and GOD forbid looking like a FOOL.
My promise to you is to show up here in all my parts and seasons with my heart proudly on my sleeve, gate keeping nothing but asking us all to WALK OUR GOD DAM ARSES out of the corners we were never born to exist in.
Let's Play.
Episodes
30 episodes
Episode 25: Courage = Love: A Gentle but Brave Ending to 2025
Hey babe can you believe we have made it here. The final episode of 2025. I honestly cannot believe how fast this 6 months has gone or how much I’ve loved being here with you. Before anything else… thank you. The support, the messages,...
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Episode 25
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51:59
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Episode 24: Your Self Respect Season: Standards, Boundaries and Big Girl Choices.
In this episode of Playing the Fool, I’m diving into the real work behind living an intentional life - capacity, values, priorities, standards, boundaries, needs… and yes, the one I don’t stop talking about: radical responsibility....
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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58:32
Episode 23: Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? NO, It's Frikin Perimenopause.
In this episode, I’m sitting down with you after a couple of big emotional weeks to talk all things Perimenopause.Because honestly? This past year has been a wild ride. The symptoms, heartiest heart palp...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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1:00:15
Epsidoe 22: Armoring Down: Divorce, Forgiveness and the Art of Letting Go.
This week’s episode is a really emotional one for me. As I sat down to record, I had the tissues ready because, honestly, I could barely get through it without crying.My son, Will, turned 21 on Sunday and with that milestone came a floo...
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50:57
Episode 21: 💌 A Love Note on Capacity, Motherhood, and Permission to Pause
Hi loves, it’s Jarna. Today’s episode of Playing The Fool is a little different - it’s not really an episode, but more of a “mini love note”. So Liv has been unwell with a chest infection, Shane is away for work an extended...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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6:37
Episode 20: A Miracle Has Happened: The Beauty of Beginning
I can’t believe we’re already at episode 20 of Playing The Fool! Honestly it still feels wild to say that out loud. When I first started this podcast, I had no idea what I was doing, no fancy studio, no perfect setup, just me, my lapto...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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1:01:27
Episode 19: When Parenting Pulls us Apart: And How to Find Your Way Back
This week on Playing The Fool, I’m diving into something that has been one of the most challenging and transformative parts of my relationship — parenting.Last week, I talked about why being a “high maintenance...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:11:35
Episode 18: High Maintenance Women Make Life Easier (For Everyone)
This week we’re reclaiming a phrase that’s been used against women for decades: High. Maintenance. Not in the “she’s too much work” way. Not in the “she’s demanding and dramatic” way. I’m ...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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56:19
The Drop In 💫
This drop-in meditation is a space to pause, soften, and come home to yourself. It’s not about clearing your mind or getting it right, it’s about reconnecting. Whether you’re feeling scattered, stuck, or just need to catch your brea...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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15:57
Episode 17: Repeat After Me: "if it is to be its up to me", Say it even louder babe, "IF IT IS TO BE IT'S UP TO ME".
This week in the Heart of the bar, I’ve been reflecting on human needs and what it really means to take radical responsibility for our lives. For me, that looks like choosing myself again and again, even when it’s uncomfortable, even when it hu...
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42:35
Episode 16: Holding the Vision - Trusting the Timing.
This week’s episode is all about slowing down, choosing joy, and really celebrating the wins - even when it feels uncomfortable to share them.I open up about why I chose to push back the launch of Fool School and what that dec...
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49:32
Episode 15: Radical Responsibility: Is it Time to Re-Comit?
What a crazy, heavy and confusing week it has been??This week I had to slow right down, literally. After slipping a couple of discs in my back, I found myself in tears, resting, and coming to a place of surrender. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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52:26
Episode 14:The Magic in the Messy Middle: How I let it Suck and Still Feel Safe.
What do you actually have control over babe? If you said yourself then I whole heartedly agree. So why do we spend so much time trying to control so many things that are completely outside of our control?This week we deep dive...
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1:04:00
Episode 13: The Lipstick Leap: You Always Have a Choice to Change.
In this episode, I share a fun but surprisingly powerful experiment I set inside The Heart of the Bar: seven days of wearing red lipstick. Now, I’m not usually a bright RED lipstick person, but this practice became an anchor for me, he...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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40:35
Episode 12: Weight Gain, Disordered Eating and Walking Myself Home.
This episode feels big to share and not because I am nervous to talk about but I think that for every woman there is so much emotional charge attached to our bodies that this feels like a sensitive conversation. But one that is very close to my...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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54:57
The Drop In 💫
This drop-in meditation is a space to pause, soften, and come home to yourself. It’s not about clearing your mind or getting it right, it’s about reconnecting. Whether you’re feeling scattered, stuck, or just need to catch your brea...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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6:24
Episode 11: Facing the Storm: Building Emotional Safety and Connection in Your Relationship.
In this heartfelt and practical episode, we deep dive into one of the most powerful skills you can develop in a relationship - learning to walk in and FACE the storm of your relationship instead of avoiding it. I share my own experiences with S...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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56:06
Episode 10: You Are the Problem and the Solution: The Truth about "Too Muchness."
In this episode, I’m opening up about what’s been happening inside The Heart is the Bar and the powerful lessons emerging as we explore identity, belief systems, and the stories we’ve carried since childhood and how they are BLOCKING u...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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49:46
Episode 9: Stop Missing The Point. Presence, Parenting & Paying Attention
How a simple moment with my daughter singing in the shower snapped me out of the overwhelm and reminded me of what really matters.In this episode, I unpack how easy it is to miss the point of our lives when we’re stuck in old patterns, p...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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55:32
Episode 8: Motherhood, Perimenopause and the Messy Middle of Being a Beginner.
In this episode, I’m sharing what it’s really been like trying to start this podcast.I talk the gift in letting your mess be the magic.I also open up about Ross River virus, dealing with burnout, and learning how to live and creat...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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43:58
Episode 7: Tara Mitchell: Anxiety, Heartbreak and Where it all Began.
I can’t tell you how excited I am to be sharing this episode with you, I had no idea where it was going to go but MY GOD we went there. In this episode Tara from The Gentle Sleep Specialist speaks openly about her whole frikin life....
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:03:29
Episode 6: Haylee Guiver: Hot Girl Walks, Anxiety and her Deep Love for The Heart is the Bar.
This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt like they were the problem. Hayley and I sat down to talk about something that’s been showing up a lot. You know those pesky stories that “we must be the issue”.That feeling of cons...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:10:59
The Drop 💫
This drop-in meditation is a space to pause, soften, and come home to yourself. It’s not about clearing your mind or getting it right, it’s about reconnecting. Whether you’re feeling scattered, stuck, or just need to catch your brea...
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10:49
Episode 5: The Sacred Art of Playing the Fool and How it Makes You Brave.
In this episode, I open up about the messy magic of starting something new and why embracing the role of “the fool” takes real courage. So many tears were shed, they just kept coming as I shared the rawness of the loss of my ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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33:39
Episode 4: Mands and Jarns: it's about to go down. Playing the fool basic bitch style. (Listen for the inside joke)
Hey babe so this episode takes us straight to the moment of where it all began. Mands and I talk on all things The Heart is the Bar, the work we do together and Mand’s shares her own experience of what has being possible for her since Playing t...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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