Decontextualized Podcast with Natalia Rachel
How did we end up here? And why do peace, equality, belonging and well-being seem to elude us?
Join Natalia Rachel as she and her guests explore the shifting fabric of humanity, past, present and future.
Prepare to look beneath the surface, peer into the unconscious, connect with your compassionate heart and meet your shadows.
When we understand how we have decontextualized, together we can begin to co-create a kinder and more intelligent world.
Latest Episode
Episode: Seven
Title: Exploring Energy Mastery
"Design an environment around you that makes it impossible not to make the progress you want to make - the people we spend time with, the books we read, the podcasts we listen to, what we watch, the physical spaces we spend time in - all of these influences our journey in life. "
In this episode of Decontextualized Podcast, Natalia Rachel is joined by Simon Alexander Ong, bestselling author of 'Energized: Make the Most of Every Moment', international keynote speaker and award-winning life coach. His work has seen him invited onto Sky News and BBC to be interviewed, while he has been featured in the likes of Forbes and Harvard Business Review. He has spoken at some of the planet's most successful organisations such as Barclays, Salesforces, Adobe, EY and Microsoft. And his debut book Energize, published by Penguin in 2022 became an instant bestseller, receiving endorsements from the likes of New York Times bestselling authors Simon Sinek, Marie Forleo and Marshall Goldsmith. In 2023, Energize was also awarded Book of the Year within the Wellness & Wellbeing category at The Business Book Awards.
Episode: One
Title: The Vulnerability of Victory
“Trust that you are unique in this world, and honour your purpose by being yourself.”
In this episode of Decontextualized, Natalia Rachel is joined by Camilo Andrade, vice-president of brand marketing, Nike. Camilo shares how his family shapes who he has become, his personal journey of dealing with a health crisis just as he was on the cusp of fatherhood, and talks about the importance of building trust and belief in yourself to get through adversities.
Episode: Two
Title: The Path of the Trauma-informed Leader
“Working on self, healing self, honouring self is the key to everything.”
In this episode of Decontextualized, Natalia Rachel is joined by Shalini Verma, director of program management, Google. Shalini shares how she brings her learnings from her children and her family into her work, which requires her to work on her self in order to be a better leader. She refers to research in the field, and speaks about how we see the world is viewed through the lens of our traumas and experiences.
Episode: Three
Title: Communicating Beyond Bias
“In order to be fully unmuted, you have to know when to press mute, and only speaking when you have something meaningful and impactful to say.”
In this episode of Decontextualized, Natalia Rachel is joined by Heather Hansen, author of ‘Unmuted: How to show up, speak up, and inspire action.’ Heather shares ideas from her book and expands on the framework of ‘conscious, confident, and connected communication.’ She shares that in order to communicate well, in ways that promote peace and harmony, we have to listen and understand understand where our bias and preference move into discrimination.
Episode: Four
Title: Inside the Life of Influencers
“Remembering your intention when you are posting helps with your mental health, and keeps you from being too affected by what can happen on social media. ”
In this episode of Decontextualized, Natalia Rachel is joined by Hanli Hoefer, media personality, influencer and content creator, and Ming Bridges, founder and CEO of Rentadella, influencer and content creator. Hanli and Ming share how they started their influencer journeys, the challenges and difficulties they face, how they overcame those challenges and built themselves and each other up.
Episode: Five
Title: Insert Non-triggering Title Here
“It’s important to do work your way, as there is no one right way to inhabit a particular identity or value.”
In this episode of Decontextualized, Natalia Rachel is joined by Dr. Elisa Glick, founder of Elisa Click Consulting, and strategic partner of New Chapter Coaching. Elisa shares her personal journey of coming out of the closet, and how emotional tolls affect the body. She also shares her viewpoints as a DEI person, on how the system has a huge impact on how we can experience the world freely and safely. However, we also need to also address the concept of working on ourselves and our traumas, as we need both the internal work and the system work to truly heal.
Episode: Six
Title: TEDX: Trauma and Truth
“Trauma-work is how we heal. Each person who commits to their own trauma-work becomes more peaceful, empathetic and more compassionate.”
In this episode of Decontextualized, Natalia Rachel gives her keynote speech prepared for TEDX PurdueU. She addresses concepts on trauma, where we are today as a humanity, and what we need to do in order to heal and become more peaceful, empathetic and compassionate humans. Her big idea is that as humanity continues to move through cycles of distress, disease, mental health crisis, inequity, violence and oppression, we need to look at root cause in order to heal. When we do our own healing work, we become the humans that break the cycle and learn how to live and relate in ways that support others to heal too.