Heart Felt with Julie Margerison
Heart Felt is more than a podcast - it's a space for real, human connection.
My mission is simple: to give people a voice. Not the polished, performative voice that society often expects - but the voice that comes from the heart, from the soul.
It's about holding space for others to share their perspective with judgment.
Heart Felt with Julie Margerison
🎙️ Episode 49: Serendipity, Sea Cucumbers, and a Life Fully Lived
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I had the most beautiful honour of sitting across from Graeme in our very first in-person, same-room episode — and I have to say, I wasn't entirely prepared for how much this conversation would move me. 🌿
Graeme is someone I came to know in one of the most tender and sacred seasons of his life — the final weeks of his beloved wife Barb's time on this earth. I was blessed to walk alongside Barb in those last weeks, and in doing so, I came to know the quiet, steady, deeply feeling man sitting beside her. I told Graeme then — when the time is right, I'd love to hear your story. And here we are. 🤍
What unfolded between us was one of those conversations I'll carry in my heart for a long time. Graeme described himself as a drifter, and yet as I listened, what I actually heard was a man who was always exactly where he needed to be — studying sponges in Greece, sitting in the dust of Arnhem Land uncovering Australia's oldest non-Indigenous structure, riding on the back of a 3.5 metre crocodile (yes, really 🐊), and travelling the world between treatments with the woman he loved for nearly 56 years. He calls it serendipity. I call it a life led by something deeper than a plan.
Graeme speaks of Barb with a tenderness that brought tears to my eyes — the last Christmas in France, the ambulance trip to see Jesus Christ Superstar when she wasn't well enough to go but went anyway, the pact they made to keep travelling no matter what. He is now honouring her voice too, editing her unfinished manuscripts and carrying her stories forward with such love. 📖✨
Grief, adventure, belonging, loss, curiosity, and the quiet courage it takes to keep going — this episode holds all of it, gently and honestly. I'm so grateful Graeme said yes. 💙
Your story is never too small, too ordinary, or too late — it is always, always enough. 🌸
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