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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
45 episodes
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...
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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...
Episode 31: The Dishes Challenge: Identity, Ego & Becoming the Woman Who Finishes the Loop
When my dishes are done, I wake up calmer, more regulated, and proud of myself. It's like this warm hug to go to bed too. Why, because the dishes SUX to do at the end of the day when you just want to stop.This is an invitation...
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...
Episode 30: "Hair by Jarns, Jarna Speaking": Where it all Began, My heart on A Page (AKA A Podcast)
Recognising your growth, honouring your story, and who you’re becoming.In this episode, I take a moment to slow down and reflect on the journey that has brought me here. This is the 61st Call of The Hardest of Bar, and that al...
Episode 29: Love, Courage and Trust: But What Comes First?
The Heart Is the Bar is an invitation into this work.A 12-week container where trust, courage, and self-love stop being concepts and start becoming lived experiences.If this episode stirred something in you, if these questions are...
Episode 28: Crying Over Car Mats: Triggers, Hormones & Choosing Who I’m Becoming
The Heart is The Bar, Doors Close Sunday the 8th.12 weeks of radical Responsibility, Action and Alignment. For the woman who is sick and tired of her own ...
Episode 27: Our Ego Isn't the Enemy: The Episode my Ego Wants Me To Delete.
In this episode of Playing The Fool, I talk about ego, what it actually is, why it exists, and how it’s been quietly running so many of our lives without us even realising it.I share honestly about my own ego, the par...
Episode 26: Season Two is Set: Trust, Alignment and "Tit's Out" Power.
Welcome back to Season Two of the Playing The Fool Podcast!This episode that almost didn’t happen.Between crackly audio, tech doing its own thing, school holidays, solo parenting, and trying to carve out space to record,...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...