Village Connections are conversations highlighting and connecting women in their light and genius. They say it takes a village to raise a child, and we too can embrace a village to raise ourSELVES and each other.

In this episode, Tara Lee had the pleasure of connecting with Michelle Gardiner. Michelle created The Aspire Series in early 2019 after many years worth of facilitation, social work and coaching experience.

It is a channel for what she wanted to see created in the world. The things that excite her most are sharing about and creating social impact and change. The kind of ideas that shifts people beyond their own experiences and has them realise how impactful we can be in our communities and the world.

She firmly believes that we are here not only for ourselves, but to be both a beacon and soft landing place for others, and to leave the world better just by us being here.

The best bit about this is that there are things that we can do in each and...

There is a story that we tell over and over, and there are a million and one ways to tell it. We choose the story we tell about who we are, the lives that we have lived and where we will next direct ourselves.

We also redefine it over and over again.

I’m not so big on the term ‘empowerment’, only because I feel that it suggests that we need something outside of us to say who we already are to tell the story that we wish to tell.

The story we tell, as we speak it, begins to shift. It can’t not. As we speak it, space is created for us to really consider the words exiting our mouths and in an instant, there is space for the story to evolve.

There is room for it to transform the space outside us as our wisdom touches the hearts of those around us.

Our stories are our life. They make us wise. 

Abracadabra is the definition of our words are spells that create magic as we speak them. The narrative that we create offers...