What if the most powerful thing you could do as a leader today is become still?

Leonora sits with Sensei Zen Takai, known as the Zen Samurai, heir to a samurai lineage sixteen generations deep, who has trained leaders from Google, Oxford and the Young Presidents’ Organization. As a teenager he ran from his strict samurai upbringing into Tokyo’s punk rock scene. One book from his father brought him home.

Together they explore why so many women leaders still feel they must perform masculine energy to be taken seriously, what changes when you lead from your centre (the tanden, or as we call it at Now Be You, the womb) instead of your head, and the small samurai practices you can carry through a full day: the pinky finger, the cup of still water, the water moon.

And a story you may not expect. Long before the samurai, Sensei says, it was women shamans who guided society.

A few moments in this episode are live demonstrations, so watch, don’t just listen.

Stay yourself.

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What if the sentence “I don’t have enough time” is the one thing keeping you from yourself?

In this episode, Leonora sits with Natalie Lefevre, known to over a million people as Island Natalie. Entrepreneur, media founder and health educator, Natalie built her work out of a health crisis that began with six weeks in a hospital in the Seychelles and a body the tests couldn’t explain.

But this is not a conversation about protocols. It is about the woman underneath. Natalie shares who she was before (insecure, but always with a spark), how she tells intuition from fear when she has to decide, and the last words of her father, her best friend: “Promise me you’ll take care of yourself.”

Together they explore why choosing yourself is not selfish, why emotions need somewhere to go, and why the biggest hack of all might be to stop worrying.

Girl, you’ve got time.

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This conversation shares personal experiences and perspectives. It is not medical advice. Please speak with a qualified health professional before starting any detox or supplement routine.

Most women who lead have learned to run on control long after their body asked them to stop.

In this episode, Leonora sits down with Gary Malkin, a multiple Emmy Award winning composer who found his way to music before he had the words for what he was looking for, and has spent thirty years since teaching people how to come home to themselves through sound.

Gary and Leonora talk about the difference between leading from pressure and leading from presence, why so many successful women have quietly absorbed a model of leadership that was never built for them, and what happens in the body the moment music invites you to stop performing and simply feel. Gary plays live during the conversation, and it changes the room. If you have ever wondered whether slowing down is a luxury you cannot afford, this episode makes the gentle case that it might be the one thing you cannot afford to skip.

If this conversation resonates maybe you are ready for the next step in leadership?

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She was modeling in New York at 13. Living alone at 14. By her twenties, she had the house, the career, the applause and a mirror she couldn't look into without hating who looked back.

In this conversation, somatic psychotherapist Stephanie Canavasio traces the exact moment she hit rock bottom, the work with Gabor Maté that rebuilt her from the body up, and why she now believes suffering isn't something to escape — it's information.

Leonora and Stephanie go deep into compassionate inquiry, spiritual bypassing ("I have a PhD in it," Stephanie jokes), and the indigenous wisdom-keeper tradition of turning a community's most broken people into its most trusted guides.

This is a conversation about coming home to a body you spent years running from and why the old systems, the old coping mechanisms, the old identities, don't necessarily have to die for you to become someone new.

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What happens when you sell your $12 million business, leave your marriage, and are left standing with nothing but yourself?

For Tanya Kazeminy, it was the beginning of the real work.

In this conversation, Leonora and Tanya go deep into what it actually means to return to yourself — not the Instagram version, but the raw, uncomfortable, life-changing kind. We talk about why perfectionism is quietly destroying women, how to rebuild a relationship with your own inner voice, the power of self-pleasure as a practice, and why menopause is not the beginning of the end — it's the beginning of your most powerful chapter.

Tanya is an entrepreneur, author of GASP!, and founder of Wisdom Women. She teaches love, self-relationship, and the intersection of spirituality and sexuality.

This episode will stay with you.

Tune in, then close your eyes and ask yourself: Can I love myself exactly as I am right now?

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What if the version of you that is most exhausted, most full, most "in control" is actually the version furthest from yourself?

In this episode of Now Be You, Leonora sits with Mirjam Gaggl — medium, energy worker, and founder of the School of Silence — for a conversation that begins in grief and ends in one single breath that has the power to reset a whole life.

Mirjam shares the moment everything she built collapsed: a corporate career as a lawyer, a marriage to a soulmate, a "9 to 5" life — and then her husband's transition, eight years ago, which opened her to a different room. She talks about the alchemical process that no one signs up for but everyone goes through, about hearing a voice under an olive tree in Croatia that gave her the entire structure of the School of Silence, and about why silence is not a technique you need to learn but a vibration that is already here.

Together they explore: how to feel held when you feel lost, why the most successful women in leadership are often the most disconnected from themselves, what divine transmission actually feels like in the body, and — most powerfully — Mirjam guides Leonora (and you) through the Quantum Stillness Drop, a single-exhale practice that takes ten seconds and can be done while driving, in a meeting, brushing your teeth, or sitting on the toilet.

This is an episode for the woman who is exhausted by her own pace. For the one who has read the books and still hasn't felt it. For the one quietly grieving someone, or some version of herself she used to be.

Less is more. And with that — life becomes more, and more, and more.

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What does it really take to stay yourself in a body, and a life, that keeps asking more of you?

In this conversation, Leonora sits with Dr. Tamsin Lewis — a medical doctor with a BSc in Neuroscience & the Biology of Ageing and performance expert — to explore what science and lived experience can teach women leaders about resilience, hormones and the quiet signals our body sends long before we burn out.

Tam shares her own turning points: years as an Ironman triathlete, a traumatic brain injury, a health crisis at the start of the pandemic — and what they revealed about the limits of pushing harder. Together they explore why high-intensity training can keep us stuck in stress, how the adrenal glands buffer the hormonal shifts of midlife, and why scheduling yourself like a board meeting may be one of the most generous things you can do for your nervous system.

A slow, honest conversation about energy — physical, hormonal, energetic — and a reminder that sustainable health begins with understanding your why.

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In this episode of Now Be You, Leonora Be You sits with Deborah Sass — visionary CEO of Spacevrse, activist, art philanthropist, and one of the most fire-driven women you'll meet.

Deborah's path has no roadmap. She left Los Angeles for Bali after reading Eat Pray Love, fell in love, moved to Ibiza, and somewhere along the way found herself at the centre of the space industry — building a global community of over 60 million people, without a formal education and without permission.

This is a conversation about what it really costs to stay yourself while building something the world hasn't seen before. About the difference between passion and burnout. About giving back from a full cup, not a cup that is leaking. And about one of the most quietly radical reframes a woman can make — to stop being the supporting act in her own life.

If you are a woman carrying a vision, walking through a season of doubt, or wondering how to keep moving when the no's keep coming — this one is for you.

Press play. Stay yourself.

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