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.

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Playing The Fool

Episode 24: Your Self Respect Season: Standards, Boundaries and Big Girl Choices.

November 27, 2025 • Jarna Saunders • Season 1 • Episode 24

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.

This year I’ve been practicing exactly what I teach. I’m clearer on my Capacity, what I want to hold, and what I’m simply not available for, guilt free, and let me tell you, that level of clarity feels like freedom.

Not the Instagram-quote kind of freedom. The actual kind, where you stop abandoning yourself to make everyone else comfortable.

In this episode we get into how understanding your true capacity is a form of self-respect, why aligning your values and priorities isn’t “dramatic,” it’s adulting at the highest level, and how raising your standards weeds out the chaos faster than anything else you can do.

And of course: boundaries.
The loving kind, the firm kind, the “I’m not explaining this again” kind.

I also talk about radical responsibility, the uncomfortable, empowering truth that we always have a choice. Even when the choice is hard. Even when the choice is to stop doing what people expect and start doing what actually feels right for you.

And because the holiday season can turn even the calmest of us into emotional piñatas, I share some practical ways to navigate the weeks ahead with clarity, self-respect, humour, and zero self-abandonment.

If you’re ready to finish the year feeling grounded, aligned, and fully in charge of your own energy… this episode is your reminder that you get to choose. Every single time.

This is also you LAST CHANCE to work with me at my current price. From January first my pricing will increase significantly to reflect the healing, energy and transformations I create with my clients. You can enquire and purchase through the links below.

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