Rise Up: The Inner Work with Vicky Ross
Rise Up: The Inner Work with Vicky Ross is a podcast for anyone who knows there is more to them than the patterns they keep repeating.
In each episode, Vicky brings together three decades of experience in human behaviour, neuroscience, emotional mastery, identity, and the deeper spiritual and energetic layers that shape our lives. This is a space to slow down, hear yourself differently, and understand why you think, feel, and behave the way you do — and how to shift it.
Through stories, insights, and real-life anonymous sessions, you’ll explore the beliefs, paradigms, conditioning, and internal narratives that quietly direct your life. You’ll learn how awareness, understanding, and unlearning create space for something new — a life that aligns with who you truly are.
This is not about motivation.
It’s about remembering your power, your truth, and the part of you that knows what you want is available to you.
When you understand your inner world, you can reshape your outer one.
Rise up into the life you want to live — the one lived entirely on your terms.
Episodes
21 episodes
When You Know Something's Off But Can't Explain It
You know that feeling. Something's off. You can't name it. You've thought about it, talked about it — and it's still... there.This episode is for the intelligent, self-aware person who has done the work, and yet ...
What a Wonky Carrot Taught Me About Starting Over in Life- Rise Up Story with Will Thomas
What happens when the life you carefully built — the relationship, the identity, the sense of security — is ripped away all at once?My guest today is Will Thomas: coach, hypnotherapist, academic, author, and one of the most quietly extra...
Told She Had 6 Weeks to Live — Here's What She Did Next — A Rise Up Story with Charlotte Phelps
“You’re fine” can be one of the most dangerous phrases a person hears when their body is clearly struggling. I’m joined by Charlotte Phelps, founder of The Alchemy of Being, to unpack her rise-up stor...
Well Done, You Just Argued With Yesterday
You can do everything “right” and still feel like nothing shifts. That’s usually the moment to question the hidden assumption behind how you’re responding to life. I’m Vicky Ross, and today I’m sharing a perspective that can stop the frustratio...
Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions Under Pressure
Pressure can make even the smartest person sound unclear, act defensive, or rush a decision they would never make on a calm day. I’m Vicky Ross, and I’m digging into the real reason: when stress rises, your nervous system shifts into protection...
How Pain Forced This Man to Finally Live — A Rise Up Story with Charles Taymor
A life of comfort can hide a brutal truth: if you never have to stretch, you never learn what you are made of. I’m Vicky Ross, and I’m joined by my long-time friend Charles Taymor for a raw Rise Up story that starts with extreme privilege, runs...
The Hidden Message Behind Your Sadness (Most People Miss This)
Why do we feel sad… and what is sadness actually trying to tell us?In this episode of Rise Up, Vicky Ross explores the deeper mechanics behind sadness — one of the most misunderstood human emotions.Sadness often ap...
The Surprising Reason Therapy Alone Won't Heal You — Rise up Story with Ben Barnett
In this episode of Rise Up and Live, Vicky is joined by holistic therapist Ben Barnett for a thoughtful and deeply human conversation about healing, personal transformation, and the wisdom of the body.Ben has spent more t...
If You Could Choose a Life to Live... Would You Choose the One You've Got?
If You Could Choose a Life to Live… Would You Choose the One You’ve Got?Most people spend years trying to improve themselves.They analyse their thinking. They try to regulate their emotions. They push them...
What To Do When You Genuinely Don’t Know What To Do With Your Life
Many people wake up in their 40s and quietly think:This isn’t the life I imagined.Not because life is terrible. But because something feels… misaligned.You’ve done what was expected. You’ve built ...
The Real Reason You've Stopped Trusting Yourself
What if the thought isn’t the starting line? We dig into the deeper engine of change: the importance you assign to ideas, how meaning becomes identity, and why clarity and self-trust transform behaviour more reliably than forcing habits or chan...
Why You Keep Doing What You Don’t Want to Do
Ever feel like your habits have a mind of their own? We dig into why repeated patterns persist even when you’re determined to change, and why willpower is the wrong place to start. Instead of flogging yourself for weak discipline or shaky motiv...
Congratulations, You Escaped Your Cage And Built The One Next Door
What if the hardest parts of your past didn’t define you, but the meaning you gave them did? We dig into the quiet mechanics of interpretation—how the mind assigns stories to keep us safe, why those stories become identity, and how to step out ...
Communication Isn’t Just Words: Why You’re Not Being Heard (And What To Do About It)
Why do conversations go wrong — even when you’re sure you’ve explained yourself clearly?Most communication breakdowns aren’t caused by poor wording. They’re caused by stress, perception, and nervous system reactions.In th...
When Holding It Together Finally Breaks You
So many people move through life appearing capable, calm, and in control — while underneath, something is quietly wearing them down.In this episode of Rise Up, I explore what happens when survival becomes a way of life. When “be...
Concern: When Worry Disguises Itself as Care
What if the love we feel turns into a quiet form of control? We take a clear-eyed look at concern—when it’s a vital act of care and when it slips into psychological worry that spikes stress, breeds resentment, and unintentionally blocks the gro...
Venting Actually Makes Things Worse (Here is Why!)
Venting feels like relief in the moment — but what if it’s actually training your brain to stay stuck?In this episode, I unpack what’s really happening in the brain when we repeatedly vent about the same situation. The brain is a pattern...
Is Your Complaining Making You Sick?
Complaining feels normal. Harmless. Sometimes even justified.But what if it’s quietly exhausting your nervous system, reinforcing stress, and keeping old patterns alive?In this episode of Rise Up, I expl...
The Lie Personal Development Doesn’t Tell You
In this episode of Rise Up, I explore one of the most common — and most misunderstood — questions in personal development: How long do I have to do the work?I look at why so many people approach personal development...
Why You're Always Stressed Even When Nothing Is Wrong"
Rise Up is a podcast about personal growth — with a sense of humour.Because life gets messy. We overthink. We over-give. We under-rest. We eat well… then we don’t. We move… then we stop. And before we know it, stress stops being s...
You’re Not Broken — You’re Conditioned
In this episode of Rise Up, I explore what it really means to feel misaligned — even when life looks fine on the outside.Over more than 30 years of working with intelligent, capable, often successful people, I’ve noticed a commo...