S2E43 - Courage Before Certainty

Navy veteran Jeanette Holland spent 34 years holding everything together. Today she uses sound healing, the gong and neo-sonic frequencies to help people release trauma and grief without having to put it into words. Jeanette joined the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service at 17 and became one of the first single mothers in the service. Military discipline taught her to put grief away quietly and completely. Over the years she lost two husbands, her parents, her brother and her daughter. Her Complex PTSD went undiagnosed until she left the uniform at 58, and then everything she had been holding surfaced at once. At 60, a pituitary tumour became her turning point. Psychiatrists and group work led her to a shamanic retreat in India, and from there to the gong. Kaye and Jeanette talk openly about what happens when sound reaches the places words cannot. In this episode: Why sensitive souls often choose the most disciplined paths How trauma held in silence surfaces in the body once the structure falls away Gong healing, chanting and neo-sonic frequencies as a way to release trauma without words The responsibility of working with sound and energy, and why aftercare is not optional How repetition through mantra and gong meditation breaks down old neural pathways and creates new ones Supporting people through grief, loss and death Walking a shamanic healing path without claiming the title of shaman Why it is never too late to accept your gifts Jeanette turns the usual question about the inner voice of knowing around. She serves it, rather than it serving her. That shift is what allows her to hold space for others. What have you been holding in silence that is ready to be heard? Download Kaye's free guide, Defuse Your Fears, at kayedoran.com Connect with Jeanette Holland: Website: NEOSONICHEALINGFREQUENCIES.COM FB & insta: neosonichealingfrequencies

Everything carries energy. Every word spoken, every page written, every crystal, every gift, every person, place and teaching you let in. Energetic care turns you into a powerful tool, the vessel that you are. It gives you discernment, dials up your inner voice of knowing, and empowers you to guide yourself toward what expands you and what is being revealed. In this episode, Shamanic Leadership Coach Kaye Doran reveals the power, importance and necessity of knowing what your own energy feels like, so you can feel the truth within the words you hear and read, and know in an instant what belongs to you and what does not. Most people have never been taught to feel their own energy. So they absorb the thoughts, feelings and even physical sensations of others, and live them as their own. A message can sound positive and still leave you depleted. A teaching can use all the right language and still carry a frequency that feeds false stories and beliefs. The words are the surface. The energy behind them is the truth. The delivery is the wrapping. The truth is what is contained within. In this episode: Why knowing your own energy is essential, not optional How to become a clear vessel and a discerning one How everything you take in has the ability to impact you How to feel the truth within words, spoken or written Why labels like "empath" can keep you from true energy mastery Why embodying the essence matters more than learning the language Simple daily shamanic practices to clear and protect your energy field, including cutting the cords and heart intelligence breathing This is an invitation to become the authority on your own energy. To trust your body as a barometer for truth. To stop outsourcing your knowing. When you know what your energy feels like, you will always know when something is not yours. What have you been carrying that was never yours to hold? What are you allowing to infiltrate? Download the free e-book, Returning to Your Own Energy, via S2E39. Connect with Kaye on Instagram, LinkedIn and in her Facebook group. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do you do when you hold a vision no one else can see yet, and it takes twelve years to become real? In this episode, Kaye Doran sits down with John Spender, founder of the Journey of Riches anthology series and creator of the multi-award-winning documentary The Gift in Adversity. John carried a single idea from 2011 to 2024, through the loss of an early manuscript, years of self-doubt, and being turned away at the door, and never let go of the knowing that it was meant to be real. His story is a living map of what happens when you refuse to dismiss your own inner knowing. Unable to read until age nine, John went on to publish over 45 books with more than 450 authors across 50 countries, with royalties supporting a children's home in Bali. His documentary, featuring Michael Beckwith, Dr. John Demartini, Jack Canfield and 21 other global thought leaders, began as imagined conversations on a vision board and became the real thing, one aligned step at a time. Kaye and John explore the courage to act before there is any evidence, the compassion that adversity carves into us, and why the willingness to keep going is the proof. This is a conversation about vision, devotion, and the quiet authority of trusting what you know long before the world can see it. The power of change is in your hands. What do you do when you hold a vision no one else can see yet, and it takes twelve years to become real? In this episode, Kaye Doran sits down with John Spender, founder of the Journey of Riches anthology series and creator of the multi-award-winning documentary The Gift in Adversity. John carried a single idea from 2011 to 2024, through the loss of an early manuscript, years of self-doubt, and being turned away at the door, and never let go of the knowing that it was meant to be real. His story is a living map of what happens when you refuse to dismiss your own inner knowing. Unable to read until age nine, John went on to publish over 45 books with more than 450 authors across 50 countries, with royalties supporting a children's home in Bali. His documentary, featuring Michael Beckwith, Dr. John Demartini, Jack Canfield and 21 other global thought leaders, began as imagined conversations on a vision board and became the real thing, one aligned step at a time. Kaye and John explore the courage to act before there is any evidence, the compassion that adversity carves into us, and why the willingness to keep going is the proof. This is a conversation about vision, devotion, and the quiet authority of trusting what you know long before the world can see it. The power of change is in your hands. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Authenticity isn't a switch you flip. It's a descent through the layers and an expansion through consciousness — and many do not recognise either, because the mask isn't hiding them from the world. It's hiding them from their own potential. The real shift isn't authentic versus fake. Everything you express is authentic to where you're operating from in any given moment — it's a scale, like a piano. The mask isn't a lie; it's the lower octave, the note you play when the subconscious false stories are running underneath. And here's the part that changes everything: energy cannot be hidden. Whatever note you're playing, your energy carries the truth of it. The question is never whether you're being authentic. It's which octave you're choosing to live from. In this episode, Kaye Doran takes you through the actual layers — professional masking, the unconscious patterns beneath it, and the deepest layer where you stop resisting who you are. Sharing openly from recent experiences and real conversations, she draws on 35 years of working with energy and presence to map how conscious awareness moves you out of catastrophising and looping thought and back into coherence, often within minutes. She explores: Why being authentic in professional settings costs you nothing, and why the mask is the expensive choice How subconscious false stories quietly run your energy, your presence, and your decisions The moment she stopped fighting who she was, and what a Maori woman's vision confirmed about her path Daily practices for returning to your own energy and regulating the nervous system under pressure Why your absolute uniqueness is the entire point, not the thing to smooth over to fit in This is authenticity as energetic truth, not personality performance. Not "be yourself" as a slogan, but the actual mechanics of how masking drains you and how presence returns you. The truth is beyond the shadow of the belief system. Don't forget to download Kaye's free e-book, Returning to Your Own Energy — simple practices to regulate the nervous system, clear what is not yours, and expand your energy. Download here - https://l1nq.com/5q2cee0 Listen to Inner Voice of Knowing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all podcast platforms. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What if the breakdown in modern relationships isn't about love, but about who you become before you enter one? In this episode of Inner Voice of Knowing, Kaye is joined by Lezly Kaye and Laki Mafi to explore conscious relationship, the "Ground Zero" approach to building partnership on standards rather than need, and why both people must choose their own growth for a relationship to hold. A grounded conversation on relationships, personal growth, and conscious relating for anyone ready to relate from wholeness instead of lack. Lezly and Laki each came to this work through their own divorces and their own success, and recently married each other. They built their partnership not by trying to fix one another, but by each returning to a neutral ground within themselves. They open up the practice of holding space without rushing to solve, the difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it, and how men and women can move out of competition and into their own energetic ground. The truth is beyond the shadow of the belief system. Most of us carry unspoken agreements and unconscious expectations into partnership, then wonder why it fractures. This conversation is an invitation to meet your relationship differently: hold space for yourself first, and let your inner voice of knowing lead the healing. Connect with Lezly and Laki on instagram: Lezly - https://www.instagram.com/lezlykaye Laki - https://www.instagram.com/laki_mafi Inner Voice of Knowing with Kaye Doran. New episodes every fortnight. Listen now on all podcast platforms. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.