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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
63 episodes
Episode 56: Women in Business, I’m Coming for You: It Is Time To Stop Hiding Your Worth.
What if the thing standing between you and the woman you want to be isn’t a lack of confidence…What if it’s that you haven’t given yourself enough evidence that you can trust yourself?For years, I was ...
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Episode 55: Perspective: Are You Sure It's As Bad As You Believe?
In this episode, I reflect on Father’s Day, grief, loss, and how being close to tragedy has completely changed my perspective on life.Thinking about the people I've lost and those I love who have experienced unimagi...
Episode 54: Priorities Aren’t a Swear Word: Put Down Martyrdom, Pick Up Love.
For so long, I believed that putting myself first meant I was selfish.I thought my children should always come first. That my husband’s needs, my family’s needs, my work, and everyone else’s needs were more important than mine...
Episode 53: The "ICK" is the Invitation: Why Confidence Feels So Hard.
There’s something I noticed recently that completely stopped me in my tracks.I was watching footage from one of my events, and instead of celebrating how confidently I was showing up, I started giving myself the ick. I caught ...
Episode 52: Kelly Beatty: Through Our Eyes, Raising a Child with ADHD + ASD
Before we begin, the doors to THE HEART IS THE BAR are closing Sunday. If you’re ready to choose yourself, understand what’s really going on beneath the surface, and create meaningful change in your life and family, this is your moment.<...
Episode 51: My Daughter is on Ritalin: My Personal Story As Her Mum
In this episode of Playing The Fool, I’m opening up about something very personal: my daughter’s recent diagnosis of inattentive ADHD and how her journey has made me look more closely at my own brain and childhood experiences.
Episode 50: Kara Carnegie-Harding: Relationship Coaching Saved Our Marriage - What It Actually Takes.
I am so excited to be sharing this episode with you.Today we are talking withmy beautfil client Kara.Kara runs her own business Outward In, she is an operations and systems OBM business for Health and Fitness...
Episode 49: Nothing Changes if "Nothing Changes": Your Life Is Up To You.
The problem is you don’t know what you don’t know. And that’s exactly why learning, healing, and choosing yourself can change everything but so often we don't know it can because we havn't learnt it yet AND we don't know it exists.This e...
Episode 48: Haylee Guiver on The Heart is the Bar: She Stopped "Fucking Around" and Finally "Found out."
This episode snippet is for anyone who’s ever felt like they were the problem. (Episo...
Episode 47: Gabrielle walker: RomiRomi, Healing & The Certainty in an Open Heart.
There are people who don’t just change your life but they change the whole you experience your life, Gabrielle Walker is one of those people for me.When we first met over twelve years ago, I had no idea the journey we were abo...
Episode 46: Melissa Hohaia: Perimenopause, ADHD and the Truth About Our Vagina's.
For so long, I thought I was just tired. I convinced myself I needed more sleep, more water, more vegetables, or that this was simply what getting older felt like. I had no idea I was experiencing perimenopause.In this episode, I si...
Episode 45: Beth Katherine: Two Women With a Fire to See You Win.
There was a time when I thought nutrition was simply about eating the "right" foods and it was never about how I wanted to FEEL but it was so tied into how I wanted to LOOK.But the more I've grown, healed, and had conversations with incredible ...
Episode 44: 1 Year In: The Full Truth of Where I Am Really At.
One Year ago I hit publish on my very first podcast episode. Today I am celebrating 44 Episodes, over 50 hours of content, and a version of myself that wouldn't exist if I hadn't been willing to "Play the Fool" and have a crack.<...
Episode 43: Becoming Insufferable: The Fastest Way to Find Your Worth.
In this episode, I share a concept that has completely shifted my perspective lately: being "insufferable."After buying a new microphone and joking that I was about to become insufferable, I started reflecting on what th...
Episode 42: How To Get Out of Your Own Way Once And For All.
So a guy said "nice slut shorts" and I blocked him and went on with my day.I can do that now because I am so clear on who I am and who I am it from the mountain of evidence that I have created for myself.<...
Episode 41: You Are Your Social Proof: Your Values Lead the Way.
This week, I'm recording the podcast from my new studio for the very first time, and honestly, it feels like the perfect setting for the conversation I want to have with you today.It's been one of the biggest weeks I've had in...
Episode 40: You Can't "Shame Yourself" to Brave.
In this episode of Playing The Fool, I’m reflecting on turning 45, entering the next season of life, and the emotional shifts that have come with it.My eldest son has officially moved out of home, and while I’m incredibly happy for him,...
Episode 39: Our Love Story: Back To The Beginning We Go.
In today’s episode, I’m sharing something really personal.The story of how I met my husband, Shane, 16 years ago.Honestly, I felt nervous recording this because our story is messy, emotional, chaotic, funny, ...
Episode 38: Did I Do Enough?: The Episode That Breaks my Heart
In this episode, I open up about my journey through motherhood - the highs, the heartbreak, the healing, and everything in between. With Mother’s Day just passing, I found myself reflecting deeply on what it really means to be a mother, the emo...
Episode 37: Nourishment and Nurture: Rest isn't the Swear Word Your Ego Makes it out to be.
I’m back babe and what a surprise this break has being, why, because I didn’t feel like I really needed it.If anything, it reminded me how I am already taking such deep care of myself that I went away with my cup already full....
Episode 36: My Go To Move When Things Feel Wobbly: And it is Free.
What if, instead of waiting for things to feel certain… you just started with what you have?In this episode, I come back to a simple but powerful reminder: start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.
Episode 35: When the Dark Night Hits, and Why Talk Therapy Just Won't Cut It.
For the last 10 days I just hadn’t felt like myself.I felt disconnected, judgmental, and honestly just… off. I could feel my ego getting louder, my heart getting quieter, and everything around me starting to trigger something ...
Episode 34: Success Shouldn't Make You Cringe: Living Life on Your Terms.
In this episode, I dive into a topic that sparked a powerful conversation inside my community this week: integrity. I share my honest reflections on what it means to truly live in integrity, how easy it is to slip out of it, and why building tr...
Episode 33: The Accountability Gap: Navigating "The Gap" in Relationships
In this episode of Playing The Fool, I try something new and answer relationship questions sent in by my incredible community. I start by talking about the “accountability gap” a dynamic where one partner is expressi...
Episode 32: Relationships: Asking, Receiving, and Fighting for Connection
In this episode, I’m talking about the real work of relationships.The beautiful parts, the messy middle, and the growth that’s required when two people choose each other long term.Shane and I recently celebra...