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Women's Hour broadcasts live every Sunday at 7:00p.m. uk time. 

Join us every Sunday at 7pm uk time for Women’s Hour, the show that celebrates and amplifies the voices of women from all walks of life. Each week, we dive into a rich blend of topics, from personal stories and current affairs to health, culture, and the challenges women face in today's world. With expert guests, thought-provoking discussions, and inspiring interviews, Women’s Hour offers a platform for empowerment, education, and connection. Whether you're tuning in for insightful advice, a dose of inspiration, or just a moment to feel heard, Women’s Hour is here to celebrate you.


In this episode of Women's Hour, I am thrilled to welcome two incredible guests, Captain Jo Wood and Julie Colquhoun. We kick off the show with Captain Jo, who shares her thoughts on the weather, the impact of working long hours, and her intriguing perspective on the shape of the Earth. Our conversation takes a deep dive into conspiracy theories, touching on topics like chemtrails, the concept of a dome over the Earth, and the mysterious world of DARPA and MK Ultra.

In the second half, I am joined by the vibrant Julie., A vlogger, influencer, and entrepreneur. Julie shares her journey of finding her voice during the COVID-19 lockdowns, her spiritual awakening, and how she uses her platform to empower women. We discuss the challenges women face in balancing work, family, and personal time, and the importance of self-care and spirituality. Julie also opens up about her experiences with transcendental meditation and how it has transformed her life.

Throughout the episode, we explore the pressures of modern life, the expectations placed on women, and the need for empowerment and self-awareness. Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking discussion that encourages us to question the world around us and find our own paths to happiness and fulfillment.

[00:02:50] Unknown:

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen,   and welcome to Women's Hour. Today's date   is Sunday, 03/02/2025.   It's good to have your company.   We are streaming live out of radiosoapbox.com.   And if you want to join in with any live chat or leave any comments,   please go to my rumble channel, Shelley Tasker.   So for the first half, we are joined by the lovely captain Jo Wood. And for part two, we have the wonderful   Julie   I've been practicing her name all day. Colquhoun. I think that's how you you say it. Anyway, Captain Joe, are you there?  

[00:03:29] Unknown:

I am. It's pronounced   Julie   Cahone,   I think. Cahone.  

[00:03:37] Unknown:

Cajon. Right. Okay. I'll try and remember that. I've been practicing all day.  

[00:03:43] Unknown:

The cajon.  

[00:03:44] Unknown:

I will go into message her and say, can you, like, write it down how it said?   I thought, oh my god. That thing is really unfair. Cahoon, I think. Julie Cahoon. Julie Cahoon. Okay. Right. Well, Julie Cahoon is with anyway.   Good luck. Thank you.   How are you, captain Jo?  

[00:04:02] Unknown:

I'm I'm   well. I've had a busy week.   Yeah. Six days   a week working is not good for the soul,   really.   But apart from that, I'm very well.   Weather makes all the difference.  

[00:04:19] Unknown:

Oh, doesn't it just and I think we start every single show. I might show on a Wednesday talking about the weather.  

[00:04:26] Unknown:

Really?  

[00:04:27] Unknown:

It does. It's just it is a very British thing apparently. But when you're stuck in cloud and gray and rain weather all the time, my goodness, that appearance of the sun. I mean, we've been looking at holidays today, and I haven't got the money yet. But I am determined to work my little ass off, and we're going away for a week because I need the sun.  

[00:04:47] Unknown:

Yeah. It makes a huge amount of difference. But do you know what annoys me?   The well, it it annoys me because we shouldn't be like it. Like, you know, we get a bit of sun, and everybody's like, oh,   aren't we so lucky?   Oh, it's a beautiful day. Oh, you know, I'm so thankful. And I'm like, well, no.   No. No. No. No. When I'm flying the airwaves,   it's blue sky.   And all the and I'll say it. All the chemstral   chemstral stuff is beneath.   We shouldn't be lucky because,   you know, these very nasty people are   spraying us and doing horrible things   to block it out.  

So that kind of just irritates me when people go, oh, aren't we lucky? No.   No.  

[00:05:38] Unknown:

So here's a quick question I've never thought to ask you, captain Jo. I mean, as you fly planes,   what do you think then? Is the world flat, or is it round?   Deep question.  

[00:05:50] Unknown:

Yeah. I'm   I'm a   tweeny.   I don't think it's round, and I don't think it's flat. I think   it is more   that we are in a dome.   Yes. Like, you know, if you're if you sort of,   think of a a snow dome   and you sort of cut it in half.   Because NASA   have even said,   repeatedly throughout the centuries, they cannot   penetrate   through   the firmament.   So they can't you know, we   our outer space   is just above the stratosphere.   And then after that, they can't break through that ceiling.   So   is there even a universe?   Because the only universe that we know is the one above the stratosphere.   What's what's the other side of that? It's a bit like the,   ice wall   kind of conundrum, isn't it? What's the other side of the ice wall?  

Of course. Yes. I could tell you, but I'm not allowed to fly over it naturally.   So,   yeah,  

[00:07:01] Unknown:

I I think we're in a dome. I think we live in some sort of dome. I think we're in a dome as well, actually. I've watched yeah. I've lot I've look. Oh, I can't speak. I've watched quite a lot of flat earth documentaries,   and, I actually interviewed a guy. I can't remember his name now, but he was very convincing,   but I couldn't say one way or the other. But I get the bit about the dome and the firming and stuff like that. So I'm thinking though perhaps that mainly sways you, Jo, to be a bit of a flat earther   because I think the vermin and and the dome is all like flat earth stuff.  



[00:07:37] Unknown:

Yeah. I I'm I'm not adverse to it. I just can't fully throw my hat in the ring because I don't fully understand it. Like you, when people talk about it, I'm like, yeah. Yeah. That makes total sense. But because,   you know, maths is not my forte,   I struggle when they start throwing sort of calculations   at me, and I'm like,   hang on a minute. You've gotta talk really slowly now so I can kind of get it. Yeah.   But it does make sense when they talk about it.  

[00:08:11] Unknown:

Yeah. Definitely.   Definitely.   So  

[00:08:15] Unknown:

But kind of going along that,   dare I say it,   dare I say it,   conspiracy theory talk.   I know that you and I,   you know, from time to time,   we briefly talk about that woman that is   absolutely barking mad, and I understand   why she is with what she knows.   I can't remember her surname, but she's called Sabrina,   and she's on YouTube.   And she worked for the military. You know who I mean?   She's, like, absolutely  

[00:08:53] Unknown:

raving mad. She's sort of, very Oh, yes. I know. You've you sent me some of her stuff when he was going down these rabbit holes. Yes. I did. I did.  

[00:09:03] Unknown:

I went down one, oh, maybe Friday evening, I think.   And lo and behold,   she came up again, and she was sort of talking about well, she's always talked about this, but she sort of   has gone on to explain it in layman terms.   And, that was about the bidirectional   telemetry.   Have you heard her talk about that?  

[00:09:28] Unknown:

No.   Just the title of that spins me right out.  

[00:09:33] Unknown:

Yeah. Well, it spins me right out because I'm thinking to a degree   it's happened to me, and I'm sure it's probably happened to everybody on this planet by now,   I was only thinking during the week about, you know, the five g, the towers,   harp,   and all of that. And then that evening,   she pops up   on YouTube, and I'm like, oh, oh, okay. That's because I've been thinking about it. Now I guess people could argue,   well, that's because you're sort of, you know,   not manifesting,   but you're putting it out there to the universe, and you're you're drawing that to you.   Well,   does that kind of woo woo thing even exist,   or have we all   somehow   had   some sort   of   biohacking   brain thing, which is the   bidirectional   telemetry   implanted in us via the atmosphere, via the food, via the water.  

But   I know I know that that exists because   back five years ago do you remember my friend Debbie   that works for UK column? Mhmm.   And I used to drop the light newspapers   off to her, and I'd say to you, oh my god. I've got mentally prepared to go there because this woman literally literally   frightens the life out of me with information   she knows. And she was talking to me about this about five years ago,   and DARPA   do you know who DARPA is?   No.   Okay.   So DARPA is, I believe, a division of the CIA,   and they sort of do all the,   for one of the best words,   shunned upon experiments,   you know, on on the human body or things like that that really, if it was in the public domain,   the public would just   run for the hills.  

So   when I saw this Sabrina,   and she's talking about the bidirectional   telemetry,   I'm like, oh my god. Yes. Of course. Debbie told me about that. You know, it's all coming out of DARPA.   And then I was like, well,   maybe   maybe I didn't just put it out there for the universe to say, oh, look. You're thinking about that stuff again, so I'll just pop up on your feed.   Maybe I actually sort of use that   bidirectional   telemetry.   Because the more you look into it, the more fascinating it is. And it kind of goes back,   you know, decades and decades ago   to MK Ultra   and Kathy O'Brien.  

Do you know about Kathy O'Brien in MK Ultra?   No.   Oh, these are all rabbit holes you've gotta go down, Shelley. Oh, my god.   Yeah. Kathy Kathy O'Brien,   she was   a young woman. She was recruited into   the cult that is MK Ultra,   which I think   DARPA   I mean, I'm only presuming this, but I'm thinking that   DARPA would have sort of grown out   from   MK Ultra,   because MK Ultra is sort of all mind control.   And, obviously,   DARPA sort of do that, but they've tinged it with,   you know, technology   and science.   But   frightening stuff, MK Ultra,   that they can control the mind. And I'm convinced, actually, the more I think about it, that DARPA was growing out of MK Ultra because they're all about mind control.  

You know?   By   by directional telemetry   is   it it ties in with the whole vaccination   program   and the graphene   oxide   that's in it that then   facilitates   the nanobots   joining up together   that is then like an antenna   that connects with the five g.   And bidirectional   telemetry   can send   signals   to that recipient   through five g.   And if you imagine,   like,   a pacemaker,   it sends back information   to a hub in live time   so they know whether you've got an accelerated   heart rate or not, if if there's a problem with the box, and they can call   you straight in. Because, like, when a little alarm goes off, they give you an alarm.  

Like, you don't go off with an alarm because that would be kind of weird.   It's like an alarm clock.   So it's all along that kind of lines. And I'm just thinking,   you know, ultimately,   they want control of the people.   And if you look back   in how they're doing that,   they've done it with mobile phones. They make us dependent, so we get our information in the palm of our hand.   I also saw last night that   I think I sent it to myself,   another video that   your phone admits like an invisible   flashing light at you, and it's scanning your or the new phones. I should say the new phones.   And it's scanning your face at so many sort of milliseconds   per second,   and it's getting an image of your face   to feed into the system when there's, like,   surveillance cameras everywhere.  

It's Yeah. It's it it's it's   really,   really scary stuff.   So, yeah, the bidirectional   telemetry   mind   via the bidirectional   telemetry.   And you and I have spoken many a time before about, oh my god. What is it with these people? They're, like, just so apathetic   and, you know, we use the word cognitive dissidents.   It goes way beyond that. I think their minds are totally and utterly controlled by that system.  

[00:16:36] Unknown:

Yeah. It's well, it's definitely a theory. Definitely a theory.   I keep where's where's your brain at tonight? You're very deep, aren't you?   You're revved up.  

[00:16:47] Unknown:

Yeah. This is   It's it's crazy. Like so the the MK Ultra was formed in, like, I think it was '19 in the early nineteen fifties.   And  

[00:17:01] Unknown:

they,  

[00:17:04] Unknown:

had like, in Laurel Canyon in in California,   up in the hills sort of behind LA,   there's a road called Laurel Canyon.   And part of that was a military   airbase where the CIA used to work out of as well.   And MK Ultra   had, like, a really cool house.   But, of course, they couldn't advertise it as MK Ultra. So   in the early sixties,   it was shared with and I knew this sort of, like, several months ago. It was shared with, like,   the early sixties   music producers,   and that would feed into all the psychedelics   that the sixties people would take. Because if you've got MK Ultra   sharing your space, they're gonna slip you a pill or two, aren't they?  



[00:18:00] Unknown:

Of course. Take advantage of it. Yeah.  

[00:18:04] Unknown:

Yeah.   So, yeah, that that's pretty much where my head's at.  

[00:18:09] Unknown:

Crikey.   Wow. Right. Bye, Jo.  

[00:18:14] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah. A little bit of Sunday light reading for the listeners to catch up on.  

[00:18:19] Unknown:

Well, my little,   rabbit hole the last few days, I don't get as much time as I'd like, but I I went down the   doppelganger   rabbit hole. Wow. Have you heard   of a doppelganger?   I have. I have. So for the listeners' sake, those that don't know, a doppelganger   is somebody that looks   like you. And, apparently,   in the whole world,   there's seven people that will look like you.   So   seven   one. No. No. No. Throughout the whole world, there's probably seven people that look more or less like you.   And there's these websites and stuff you can upload pictures of yourself to. I mean, I'm tempted to, but then I don't want my face   everywhere.  

But then I suppose if somebody if somebody wants to find a photo, they're gonna find a photo quite easy, aren't they? But people upload photos of themselves, and then, like, they try and match people and stuff like that. And,   anyway, I was trying to find all these interviews on YouTube of people that have found their doppelgangers   and, you know, the similarities.   And my aim is to do a show, actually, get a couple of these guys on,   see how they compare and stuff like that. I don't know how I got onto this the other night, but I just went crazy.   Things will enter our heads, and it's like, oh, I wonder who my doppelganger is.  



[00:19:43] Unknown:

Yeah.   That would be interesting.   Several years ago, I saw some sort of   weird   documentary.   It wouldn't surprise you that I watched that stuff, would it? Not so.   And   much like what you've said, you know, this sort of production company put ads out for doppelgangers   or for people, and then they try to match them with their doppelganger.   And what was really scary,   those doppelgangers   shared,   like,   interests.   Mhmm. Shared, like, little   sort of   I don't know what the word would be. Like,   I mean, this this this kind of really annoys me, but I think it's   kind of endearing as well.  

My daughter's father,   I don't know about now.   But my daughter's father, when he brushed his teeth, he would stand   with his hand on his hip   and brush his teeth. Right?   Not that that's unusual. I'm sure that many people do,   but my daughter does exactly the same.   And these doppelgangers   would have, like, little things like that   that they would both do,   but they didn't know each other.   That's weird.  

[00:21:05] Unknown:

Yeah. It's fascinating.   And I think it's similar. They were going on to talk about twins and stuff, people that had been identical twins that had been separated at birth and then reconnect, the similarities,   and stuff like that. It is oh, it's just fascinating.   Yeah. It is. That's that's the only weird thing I've looked at really this week.   Well, that's unlike you. That's very unlike you. I've been finding myself. I've come back to life with spring.   Good.   And I'm oh my goodness. I am on day four. I've been fasting, Jo.  

[00:21:38] Unknown:

No.   I know. Days.  

[00:21:41] Unknown:

Well, not not four days totally. No food. What I'm doing is I'm opening my eating window, because that's what they call it, your window,   from, like, half past two onwards. And at half past two, I just have three cream crackers   and a slice of ham   and then my evening meal.   So I've cut out quite a lot of calories, and I'm hoping this might be the way to this new figure.   You know? And I've got the inspiration because I wanna go on holiday in a couple of months, so it's like, I'm on it day four.  

[00:22:12] Unknown:

That that is that is good.   I think they say,   you know, a good fast is anything between sixteen and twenty four hours,   But   they they also say it's still,   you know, effective,   fourteen hours, between twelve and fourteen hours.   But when you break a fast,   when you eat, you should always   eat protein   and only protein to break that fast with. So, you know, maybe some meat or maybe some eggs,   you know, something that's very high in protein,   not carbohydrates.   Just a little tip from the wise.  

[00:22:56] Unknown:

Top tip from Jo. I shall consider that. Well, I have been eating a ham. Yeah. But it's just those little bit of crackers to go with it. But Darren's been doing them out. Cut the crackers now and just deep protein the first thing after you've been fasting.   Right. Well, I mean,   strictly, I didn't suppose I was really honest, actually. Because last night, I did binge. I was sat in bed watching TV, and we've got a box full of chocolate from Christmas. Oh, dear.   And I opened up my tasers. Too.   Yeah. Well, see, Darren's trying to lose weight. I'm trying to lose weight, and Darren's done so well. He's   literally his lunch now he doesn't have breakfast. He has fruit   and just his main meal during the day in the evening. And he's been walking to work and back, and he's actually he hasn't weighed himself, but he said he needs to get a belt now for his trousers.  

Wow. And things becoming looser. So it's quite exciting. I mean, I would have weighed myself personally, but that's you know, he's doing it every day, and he's just doing it by clothes. So   slowly but steady.   Yes. I was you know, this time last week, I was contemplating   Slimming World, and I was speaking with Maleficus on Wednesday, and he said about fasting. And then the next day, it got to, like, 01:00, and I thought, do you know I haven't eaten anything yet? This is quite easy. So I thought just about to go another couple of hours.   Yeah. So because I'm in the right mindset at the moment. I think it's achievable. But, you know, we could hit next Sunday, and I was like, oh, yeah. It was, like, dry January. I did eight days.  



[00:24:25] Unknown:

No. Well, I mean, if you time it right,   it's really easy. You know? I always   you know? I mean, two reasons. One, because I'm at work and, two, because   I don't wanna,   you know,   add on any extra pounds that I'm   carrying, and I can't stop binge eating at all, let alone just every now and then. It's all the time. But, anyway,   I generally try and eat before   at least half past five, six o'clock at the latest.   You know? If I eat, then that's the time I will eat.   So   from if we say from, like,   06:00   in the evening   and then I get up at six in the morning, that's twelve hours.   I then don't eat until about   nine, half past nine in the morning.  

So it's really easy if you get your timings right because,   you know,   you're asleep for a good seven, eight of those hours.  

[00:25:30] Unknown:

Exactly. Exactly.   Anyway, we'll we'll ride it out, Jo. I aim to be in a size ten bikini   on that beach.  

[00:25:39] Unknown:

Wow. Get you. Now are you gonna be doing any little   sort of   sunbed sessions, or are you gonna be doing tangoed? You're gonna have a spray tan before you go or what? No. I don't I don't do any of that.  

[00:25:55] Unknown:

I've had a bit it was only,   recently that I've heard people saying that, actually, some beds aren't as bad for you as we first thought,   but I've always had it in my head that some bad some beds are gonna give me really bad wrinkles and stuff like that. And you know what I'm like with my worry about my skin and wrinkles.   I used I used to have a lot of sun beds when I was younger. No. I'll just go out there pasty and white. But   as you can guarantee the week that we go away, it will be glorious   home here. You can just guarantee it. But as soon as the sun starts coming out, it whenever I get half an hour, I'm out there soaking it up, and I usually catch quite a good tan quite early. So fingers crossed to get a You do. Yeah. You do. And you tan really well.  

[00:26:41] Unknown:

Just so yeah. Very exciting.  

[00:26:44] Unknown:

I just love it. I love being brown and lying in the sun, and you just feel healthier, don't you? Yeah. You know, I don't wear any makeup then.  

[00:26:54] Unknown:

Yeah. You you actually and, you know, I mean, you just hit the nail on the head. You feel healthier because you are. You know, you're getting the vitamin d.   You know, that sun is rejuvenating   ourselves.   Yeah. But Yeah. You know, the lightest of the world don't want that, do they? So they have to have all the cloud coverage.  

[00:27:14] Unknown:

Yeah. Well, they want us miserable, dumbed down, and finish a day's work, come home, and sit down, and watch the soaps for the evening, and not question anything.   Yeah. Just live a sad little life, really.   Work, work, work.   You know? I mean, look at you. Six days on a row. God knows how you do it.  

[00:27:32] Unknown:

Well, yeah. I mean,   I don't know how I do it. Twelve hour shifts is,  

[00:27:37] Unknown:

you know,   Especially when I well, no. Especially when I have to deal with, like,  

[00:27:45] Unknown:

delinquents.   But   on Friday I didn't work Friday night, but, obviously, Saturday morning into the evening, I did.   Saturday morning into the evening, I did. And the person I took over   from, they were sort of saying, oh, yeah. Well, so and so has been down, and they've smashed their TV because they threw it out window.   And then their friends come round, and they were all drinking,   came down to play pool,   and they thought it'd be fun to start smashing   snooker queues.   And I'm like,  

[00:28:17] Unknown:

great.   I've got weekends   of this.   Wow.  

[00:28:22] Unknown:

Yeah. It's it's,   you know, that that job, I have to have eyes in the back of my head. The other one,   dare I say it,   is relatively   relaxing.   I mean, you know, it's not relaxing because you have to go to work. But,  

[00:28:39] Unknown:

I know what you're saying. I mean, I started   my new job yesterday, and it was nice to have something to get up to and do, actually.   And I was looking at it like, you know, support work. I knew I'd be in the same house for, like, six hours, and I'm just background support. If anybody needs me, I'm there. And, you know, I spent most of the time chatting, but I did   have to give out med medication.   And,   I've done my training.   Yeah. I know. And   they were all in a safe. And, obviously, if it's just in a blister pack, you just pop the blister pack, make sure that the right amount are there, sign it off, blah blah.   And then for one person's medication, it was in,   about six different types of medication, all in boxes.  

You've gotta count it up before you give it to them, count it after you've taken them, and   sign it, blah blah blah.   Anyway, the safe weren't open to get this person's medication out.   So in a panic now, it's like, oh my god. This is my first day. This isn't supposed to be happening.   So we're, like, on the phone to the on call. Unfortunately,   there was another safe there with overflow meds.   But   after I'd given this client their medication,   I couldn't tally up the numbers.   And I must have been there for half an hour. I felt like I was doing a maths GCSE,   the stress.  

Yeah. And one of them kept saying, do you want a cigarette? And I was like, no. No. I don't I don't really smoke during the day or anything. And I was sat there, and in the end, I was, like, telling myself to calm down. Calm down. I was thinking I'm gonna be fired on my first shift. I totally messed this up. But in the end, everything did tally up, but I was thinking, this is my first shift. I am not paid enough to be responsible   for, like, having someone   yeah. Yeah. Because medication, it was, like, the same sort of medication, but within a different name, a different, like, milligram and stuff like that. Oh my god. I know.   But on a positive   note, it was like, well, if that's as bad as it can get, it can only get better, can't it? That's what I think.  



[00:30:39] Unknown:

Absolutely.   Yeah. Absolutely.   And that's the thing. It's just to keep yourself calm, isn't it?  

[00:30:45] Unknown:

It is. But, you know, when you just forget, it was literally like sitting in a math GCSE or something because my brain was going nuts, and it's like, this just isn't working. The numbers, I've I've probably given her too many of the wrong tablets, and I just had a panic on. And then they gave me a cigarette, and I gladly went outside and smoked it. And I was like, oh, that must be joyful.   Oh my days. That was the most stressful thing ever, I think, at work. Anyway, like I said, it can only get better.  

[00:31:12] Unknown:

What is it? Indeed.  

[00:31:14] Unknown:

It can only get better, and I'm in work again tomorrow. So I'm ready. I'm ready to put myself   out there for work, pick up any hours. I am money hungry because I want this holiday. And I think it's good when you've got that bit of drive   and you've got something to work for. You know?  

[00:31:32] Unknown:

It's always good to have a drive.  

[00:31:36] Unknown:

It is. Something to yeah. Otherwise I mean, don't get me wrong. I think most people, that's what they want, isn't it? They want to they want the extra money to go on holidays and things like that. And I class myself quite lucky because I think, you know, we manage and but now I I want the finer things. I I would like literally probably about three holidays a year, but I said that a couple of years ago, but maybe next year.   We can dream. We can dream. We can dream. And we must dream. We must dream big.   And on on that night no. Oh my crikey. What is wrong with me today?  

It we've come to the end of the first half, though. Oh. That was quick.   We've got Yeah. Yeah. As always. Always. As always. Flown by. Well, thank you. And I know you're off to a farmer's meeting now. So,   go and be bossy and sort those farmers out.  

[00:32:24] Unknown:

I will try. I'll try to keep myself in control of my bossiness, but, yes, have a good week.  

[00:32:30] Unknown:

I will, my lovely. I will speak to you very soon.  

[00:32:33] Unknown:

Okeydokey.  

[00:32:34] Unknown:

Bye. Take care, Jo. Bye bye.   Right. That was with the awesome,   awesome   Jo Wood.   Right. And now for our guest.   Lovely. I can see she's there waiting. Let me just get rid of   the placard because Jo won't do video. She's too much of a chicken.   Good evening, Julie.   Hello, my love. How are you? I'm very well. Thank you. Let me introduce you, and I'm really hoping that I say your name right. It's all good.   It's all good. I've practiced and practiced, and Jo has just said it's not that at all. So this is the wonderful Julie   Culquhoun?  



[00:33:14] Unknown:

Culhoon.  

[00:33:16] Unknown:

Culhoon. Jo was right. Okay. I'd like anyway. Culhoon. This is the wonderful Julie Culhoon. I followed Julie for a long time on social media.   You are, what would you call yourself? You're like a vlogger, an influencer,   an entrepreneur.   You are Yeah. Many, many things.  

[00:33:34] Unknown:

Many, many things.   But, ultimately,   somebody that likes to have their say.  

[00:33:40] Unknown:

Good. Good. And that we need women like this out there, don't we? Yeah. You're quite lively out there with it. I love it. Yeah.   Yes. Yes. I am. Yes. So how did you get into all of this, Julie?  

[00:33:55] Unknown:

I think finding my voice and speaking out is a very interesting   story.   I know we've not spoken before here at all,   but what was really interesting was,   in the first lockdowns of the COVID thing,   in the first year, 2020,   I am a Christian Christian girl. I I I hear God's voice quite clearly.   And during that time, you know, when you used to meet people and used to be, like, tracker trace and all that stuff, if you were allowed to meet for a coffee.   And, I met a girl from my church, and I said, I I I feel like God's telling me to do Facebook Lives.   And and I had, like, 500 friends on Facebook, and I was like, I'm not gonna do that. I'm a single girl. I'll never get a boyfriend. Like, that was my response to it.  

And she said, okay.   So we'll pray about that. And that was that. And it got louder and louder for anybody that has, like, spirituality or feels they're being given a message or and it got louder and louder to the degree that I was like, alright. God. In the new year, I will do this for you.   And, you have no idea where this conversation was going, did you? And, yeah.   And,   I was terrified.   And true to my word, I think it was, like, the January 5. I sat in my car bright red with my phone and my hand shaking, and I was like, well, I could do a live about. And I had no idea what I was meant to speak about. I just knew I had to learn to do them.   And and so I did three a week. I made that promise to God I would do three a week. And I always got messages after. I always got people afterwards messaging me saying, oh, I really enjoyed your live, and, you know, I got encouraged to carry on.  

And then fast forward   several months   after that, the world looked very different to me.   The world looked very different to me. And,   and I I   just kind of started to it it prepared me to have confidence to start actually   owning my truth   about   how I viewed the world and things going on in the world, and that was a very cathartic experience for me.  

[00:35:58] Unknown:

So it was all the awakening in 2020?   Yes. Well, yes. For lots lots of us outspoken women out there. It seemed to be I think whether it's protecting our babies, whether we felt that we needed to be heard, but there was lots of prominent movement, women that came about at that time, wasn't there?  

[00:36:17] Unknown:

Yeah. Absolutely. And it wasn't planned. It wasn't   intended that way, but I'd heard it when I wasn't awakened, so to speak. And,   it was a good because I was quite late to that party, really. And then   and then which you wouldn't believe now, but that's the truth. And then,   you know, I just I just it it prepared me to start   really, really speaking my truth and   and really starting to say, this is how I view things. And it's and it's important that we all find our voice, and we're all authentic, and we all just start,   you know, allowing ourselves that. So, yeah, it's been quite an interesting journey. And then sort of out of nowhere,   sort of some videos I made and stuff went really viral, and then that's when, you know, my life changed quite dramatically in that way because   you've got people from all over the world messaging you and seeing your video and asking you things and, you know, and I'm not even that viral. But you know what I mean? At the time, it was really quite a lot. Yeah. It was quite Yeah. Yeah. I can imagine.  



[00:37:17] Unknown:

And I I guess that's what probably when I started following you, actually.   Because I would say you've also you've got the qualities of, like, life coaching as well, haven't you? You Yeah. Very much high tune into you, and I think, oh, you're inspiration.   Pete, you sit there like that with your cup of coffee and,   talk no. No. That's fine. I'm usually here with wine actually in a mug hiding it, but today I've got the orange squash because I'm trying to slow down the drinking and start a little bit later on in the evening   to cut back.  

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's interesting hearing you say, like, how you   asked God for help and guidance. And I love that because I've got another friend that's a Christian and whenever I've asked things when I asked her to be on this podcast   probably about six or seven months ago,   she said, I'll tell you what, Shelley, I'll pray about it. Okay? And I'd never really   nobody's ever really said that to me before. And I thought, do you know what? That's what we should all kind of say when we're unsure on something, isn't it? Rather than I think about it, I'll pray about it. But I suppose it all depends what your belief system is.  

[00:38:19] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's been a an in that's been an interesting journey for me as well. I,  

[00:38:26] Unknown:

yeah, that's been a really Tell us more. Tell us more. We could we could could do hours on my on the on that, really. You can come back another time, and we can talk talk some more. Thing on spirituality,  

[00:38:37] Unknown:

but,   you know, I didn't grow up in, in a spiritual or religious in any faith,   family.   I've got two older sisters, and I grew up with a mom and dad. We were sent to Sunday school on a Sunday purely and truthfully so mom and dad could have a couple of hours free on a Sunday afternoon because back then, you could send your children off on a Sunday afternoon to Sunday school.   And we just happened to go to a nice church that really catered for children. You know, they did nice things for us. So as you got older, they did lots of clubs and lots of things, so we were always going because it was cool to go.   And gradually,   as we got older, my mom and dad started coming with us, and,   we sort of all became Christians. But when you're when you're a teenager, you don't really understand fully what that is or you're not really you just yeah. So, anyway, that was that. But then my mom died when I was 20,   and that shook my faith up quite a lot.  

And   I sort of drifted, and I drifted away and and sort of made some poor life choices and just different things as I was trying to grapple with grief.   And this was thirty three years ago, so there wasn't really the kind   of therapy, and there wasn't the things No. Then. Right? I had a week off work, and you were back to work, and that was that. Like, it was just you know? So I was grappling,   and,   it was really when life had decided to really knock me around a bit in a sense of, like, you know, you're at bottom.   And   and then,   I just kept hearing,   I just I kept hearing,   you're looking for love in all the wrong places. You're looking for love in I just it just was a repetitive voice in my head. And I'd started meditating,   and I started doing sort of self help books and listening to, you know, just   spiritual things because I was looking to feel better   and,   everything. You know, antidepressants, wine. You know, you name it. Anything to feel better.  

And   and then this this meditation I was coming out of meditation, and I was sort of coming out in prayer. And I could just hear this, you're looking for love in the wrong place. You're looking for love in the wrong place. You're looking for love in the wrong place. And, again, it was about another six months. Like, God was working on me Facebook Live for six months, and it was about six months I knew I was meant to go back into church.   And I was absolutely   resisting that with with everything in me. And then one day, that was it. I messaged my dad. My dad was still going to church, and I said, I think I need to come along to church today. And I actually don't go to church much now. I kinda dip in when it suits me.   But they say once you go back in   to your faith, then it's like it's like a it's very, very rock solid in you. And,   yeah. So, but I could talk about faith because I love quantum, and I I'm sort of not liked by the Christian community too much because I'm a little bit, you know, I'm a little bit woo woo. And I'm a bit this, and I I don't like to be defined as a Christian. I don't like to be defined as religious. I I am very spiritual,   but it, for   me, is, you know, is is is is who I am. It's the main thing, and and   and, I feel very steadfast in it. So, it's a big chunk of me now. It's a big part of who I am.  



[00:41:44] Unknown:

Yeah. Good. Good. No. I I like that. I totally get that, and I can resonate with so much of that because I think from a young age when I used to get quite low and I had my first daughter, I had postnatal depression. And the amount of self help books that I bought over the years and spiritual books and finding your way is just like, there's something. There's got to be something. And I've had some pretty amazing   experiences. And I mean, do you still meditate now regularly?  

[00:42:10] Unknown:

Yeah. I do.   This is when I get really disliked probably by Christian community is I do transcendental   meditation. So I do two slots of twenty minutes a day. So I do that first thing in the morning and then a a second slot. I haven't done my second slot today.   I've actually been to Cornwall today, and then I've just come back to Bristol. We could have caught up. Where did you go to Cornwall? I know. But we were only there today. So,   but it so I do that,   and and that was that's been life changing for anyone who does transcendental meditation. You probably know the basics of it. What is that explained to us that don't understand? I mean, transcendental meditation is where   you don't have to people say they can't meditate because they can't switch off and you can't have other thoughts and things. With transcendental meditation,   you do this course and this you're given this word, and when you remember to say the word, it puts you into whatever   state, whatever it is. But it you don't have to fight the thoughts.  

You don't have to have it all quiet.   You you don't nothing. You just literally can sit in your car, sit in a cafe. You could be anywhere,   and you just close your eyes and set a timer for twenty minutes. And then you just you just you just say this word.   And, sometimes your thoughts drift off, and sometimes they don't. You just bring come back to this word, and this word will take you to whatever's   meditative state. And you do two twenty minutes, and it kind of seems to create   When I first started doing it, I had really bad, perimenopausal symptoms.   And I was waking up in the night, and I was getting the hot sweats and all the things.  

And she said to me, this will fix it. You know? And I was like, well, I'll try anything. And, so   and,   literally, I would think I was waking up. I was waking up. I was having a really, really spiritual time at the time anyway. I was getting woken up by all sorts of things. That's why I needed a separate call for that because,   you know, I have a lot of spiritual encounters, let's say. But, so it was so gradually, my my literally,   it was almost half hour increments as I was doing this transcendental   meditation.   And gradually, I was just sleeping all through the night. The hot sweats went,   and you just have more energy.  

And I know if I'd slip off, sometimes I've let go for a couple of months and not done it, and you've just feel the difference. So I'm back on it.  

[00:44:22] Unknown:

Sorry. Can you say that slowly? That's trans  

[00:44:25] Unknown:

Transcendental.   Transcendental.   Right. Transcendental.  

[00:44:30] Unknown:

TM for short. Right. I've never heard of that before. Yeah.   Learn something new every day, which is what I like. Yeah. Mhmm. Wow. Mhmm. So, I mean, you are passionate   about   so many things. So what is today? What are you most passionate about today?   What's I think behind in your ears?  

[00:44:50] Unknown:

Yeah. I think one of the things that I've realized,   through my own personal journey   and speaking out that I'm really passionate about is genuinely   helping empower people to feel more powerful   and women in particular because,   you know, for anybody listening to this,   you know, that dark period that I talk about was,   I'd separated from my ex husband who,   the words of my therapist, was the worst kind of narcissist. I didn't know that 20 years old. I didn't know what that word was.   And I had two small boys, and he ended up going abroad and not being there.   I've obviously mentioned I didn't have a mum. My dad lived abroad. I just didn't really have anyone supporting. His family lived up in Scotland, but he'd gone abroad,   wasn't paying any maintenance.  

Money was just I was a mess.   And, as anybody is, trying to raise two children without any money and no support or help,   and I had about three months before I was gonna lose my house. I always get teary telling this story because   it's still I'm at such a different version to the person   I was then,   and I was really hitting bottom   terribly at this point as a mother, which is,   you know, there's a lot of shame involved with that because you're just not the best version of yourself, but you're trying so hard to be.   And life was just life thing. I mean, it was just   it was just every emotion of shame and guilt and disappointment,   and how am I, you know, letting my children down so much.  

And,   I   felt so powerless.   And I hadn't grown up thinking this was gonna be my life, and I think this happens to so many people, you know, when you're a young child and you felt you had relatively average, you know, upbringing or whatever.   And and, you know, then my mom died and no one's mom had died at that point. And then, you know, life sort of just spiraled, and then you end up in a, you know, a, a with somebody you should never have been with and all the things.   And and so I'd hit in this hit this bottom this bottom in my life, and I felt very, very powerless.   And through lots of   different   things, but mainly living with some hope and faith, it could change.  

Gradually,   I started to feel, you know, more empowered   and gradually got my life back on track, and that has been a huge process.   And I've realized now   how   difficult that was and doing all the inner work and having different you know, and having to fight make money and have to be an entrepreneur and have to   put yourself out there and have to grow and and do that all the while as you're bringing up two children all on your own twenty four seven,   with not really any support.   I can look back and be very proud of myself,   but   also just   understanding   there's so many people that feel powerless and women in particular.  

And   I feel very passionate right now about and it's funny because I think you messaged me off the back of one of my Facebook lives where it's really you know? And I I Energetic. You're flying in. Very energetic, and I really wanna help people   through all the different things that I did that empowered me. And if you do   find a way to to get yourself out of that and and, you know, and move through it,   I think women are incredible.   And,   it sort of saddens me that,   you know, I'm men, but I think the burden of a lot of looking after family, if it's not even children or children and family and jobs, and   I just feel that there's so much going on, and it can be really difficult to navigate   healing and   feeling powerful because we're so busy all the time.  



[00:48:51] Unknown:

Yeah. I crossed on one of your videos actually like that when you you asked the question,   can women have it all? And I don't think we can. Quite, recently in the new year, I think for a few weeks, every Sunday, I would say to Jo,   I just can't do all of this. I can't be a mum. I can't go to a can't go to work and run a home. And I've just had, like, two and a half months of not properly working. I've done the odd photo shoots, and I've just started work again, which has brought about some purpose.   But actually, two and a half months, I've been busier than ever   running a home and it makes me think, how on earth did I do it all before? I've just done it, but with a lot less stress. And it has been nice, but then it's getting the balance, isn't it? It's like you also need that little bit of a purpose to get out, and you need to see people and things like that.  

But,  

[00:49:43] Unknown:

I think it's really difficult to have.   I mean, my boys are older. They still live with me.   I've got a 26 year old and a 22 year old, and   they still feel very much they still live with me, so they're still very much my children, although they're they're grown men for all intents and purposes.   But, you know, I still run a home, and   I don't have a partner living with me, or   I'm still wearing both hats, the masculine, the feminine. And I think this is what I've been speaking about is trying to not trying.   Being more consciously aware of being in my feminine because I have to do so many many things in the masculine energy, earn the money,   you know, look after the home,   be the breadwinner,   sort the car, sort all the maintenance things with the house, sort all the things, and and then the nurturing, the mothering, the cooking, the sourcing of the food. You know, the boys do things, but I'm still   effectively that, you know, overseer of all of it here. Mother is yeah. Mothering. You never   yeah. Yeah. And then trying to   find   the time,   and that's the thing I forgot to do because it was just so busy raising them and trying to make the money and make ends meet and all the things,   to remember to do things that bring me joy   and remember to factor in   that self genuine self love and start to learn to   actually be selfish. And, actually, I don't like no no woman wants to use that word because we're selfless most of the time, but, actually, to prioritize ourselves   and   prioritize   our time   and   and do nice things for ourselves that bring us joy and whatever that looks like.  

And that's been a game changer for me.  

[00:51:25] Unknown:

It's crazy, isn't it? Because I always remember a friend saying to me, you need to pencil that time in your diary for you. You wanna go and have a horse riding lesson, book it in and go and do it. But we've always got all this guilt, haven't we, of, like, oh, we need to be doing this. We need to be doing that. And I think I'm still stuck a little bit there now. It's like, what what do I really love? What do I   feel so excited about? And spring is coming, and I think all these answers will start   coming out. But it is such a valid question about women. Can we have it all? And it comes up quite a lot because I'm not sure about the whole feminist movement because I do believe   that men have got a purpose, men have got jobs. And I know that there's gonna be those feminists out there that'd be like, I want to do the job of a man. I want to lay bricks, blah blah blah.  

But I don't want to be the sole breadwinner and stuff like that. I I want a man to help me,   and he's got his role as well.   But times are a lot different from when our parents   we're parents and we were young, aren't we? Because like you mentioned in one of your videos,   you probably had mom at home with you when dad was working.  

[00:52:31] Unknown:

You you know? Yeah. I think yeah. Dad worked. They could buy them. They got a mortgage. They didn't have a lot of money in my parents, but you look back, he took three payslips from his job when he was quite young into a mortgage broker and got a mortgage. And, you know, they had us, and mom had a little part, you know, part time hobby money kind of job. Tupperware parties. That's what my mom used to do. Like that. And she had a little part time job, and and that's kind of how they managed. And you look back and you're like, no one could do that. With the job that my dad did,   no one could get a house now. You know? Not on three payslips.  

No. Not on three payslips what he was earning and and and be able to raise a family. And you sort of think we didn't it was like, you would say, we didn't have much, but actually compared to how people are trying to live now, we had a lot when you compare it. So I think,   things have changed a lot, and it's and I think, you know, the second you had to put two   earnings, you know, the the female job role and then just to get the sort of house that my parents had, that was when it was always gonna cause problems because then once you have children, how the hell are you meant to survive? And then if someone loses their job, you know, you everyone's in all sorts of problems now,   and we live in very, very, very different times. My dad had a job for life with Rolls Royce,   and,   people now the the average life of a job is three years.  

So we now live in very, very precarious   financial times, and we most households are relying on two full time incomes coming in and trying to raise children. So, yeah, talk about my passions. My passions also are around how   it's changed and not for the better. So now also we've got distractions. How can it how can you possibly have a healthy relationship   with a partner   when you've both been at work,   you come home, and you have this tiny slot of time, and then you've got kids and house and food?   Where can you   possibly   foster   a really healthy relationship when there is zero time for you to do that with with somebody?  

Like, I think  

[00:54:38] Unknown:

Sorry. Yeah. Like, the the whole food problem, I think, like, a lot of the population eat a lot of processed food.   If if you're not queued up to be organized and planned that way, you can understand why they come home and they just shove a pizza in the oven. You know? I've been known to do that as well. I'm far from perfect.  

[00:54:56] Unknown:

But I've got time, and I don't like cooking from scratch every night because I'm just like, oh my gosh. This is just so time consuming. Like, I just need a chef. Like, I don't wanna do this. Like, literally, I get why they were able to lure us with crappy convenience food because   that thing of, like, what's for tea? What's for tea? What's What's for tea? What's for tea? Every single day, what we're gonna be eating? Like, asking myself that question at 10AM, what we can have for tea tonight? Did it? That's the bane of our life, isn't it, as being with of your life.  

[00:55:21] Unknown:

It is. Every day, I'm like, what are we gonna have for tea? And I've been making, like, massive bowls of stew to last, like, two days. And today, we've had that second knot, and I'm like, do you know what? I'm stewed out. I'm stewed out. Oh,  

[00:55:34] Unknown:

no. You just don't order anymore. You're back to cook, and then you're like, no. I want to eat it. I know. It's it is with season changing now, so it will it will get better. But I think the role of the woman has you know? And I know it's changed for men, but I think coming back to women, I think there has been so many expectations for us   and and this whole thing of, like, trying to have it all. And and I truthfully just, you know, I just feel you always cut yourself short.   And then now and, you know, let's add in here. Now we've got social media,   and then so now women have the and young girls   have it even harder because we've got this comparisonitis   that plagues us,   you know,   constantly   with, you know, the keeping up with the Joneses. We don't think we're doing that, but, ultimately,   you know, we've got this InstaWorld and and TikTok world.  

So we are relentlessly,   being bombarded with not feeling good enough, and I just feel   that   that's not a standard that women should have for themselves anymore. And I feel that there are ways in which we need to start taking our power back   and understanding,   you know, how best we can be in our feminine energy, how we can help men. When we're in our feminine energy, men can step into the their masculine energy more. And I know it's not always gender specific,   but just we can get some balance back.   Unfortunately, without the consciousness and awareness of that, then we're just gonna keep staying on the treadmill. So it it requires   for us to pull our power back to understand, have consciousness around it, and then we can start making the changes, and then everyone around us can change. But it's always always feels like it's left to the women.  



[00:57:17] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah. It it does, I'm afraid, because I suppose that's always been our role looking after the children's and doing the cooking and stuff. On my other half, he will cook, but I'm fussy and I'd rather cook myself.   But,   yeah. Yeah. I mean, my daughter's 27,   and   she's got it all,   but she sacrifices a lot to have it all. You know, little ones in nursery,   full time. I have a one day a week. And,   she she was saying to me the other day, like, you know, £800   a month nurse   pounds a month mortgage, and just all the other stuff. It's almost   but they need to work for that extra bit of money. Of course they do, and most people do. And because they want everything as well, don't they? I mean, it's all very well me saying, oh, well, don't get your hair done. Don't get this done. Blah blah blah. But I'm not 27 years old anymore. And perhaps if I was 27 years old, I was the same. I don't know. But I'm that little bit older and wiser. I think I like, losing my mum at 20, I had a very different view on this. On things that I would not tolerate  

[00:58:19] Unknown:

because of because of that happening to me. So I was really acutely aware that my children required me around, if that made sense. And so the sacrifices were the sacrifices were different.   And that was something that, you know, I agreed we agreed. My ex husband, bizarrely, had lost his own mother at 22.   So we you know, that was a real priority for us. And I think,   again, because we're busy, because we're bombarded with images, because like you say, it's it's   this we are force fed and programmed   what   what we should be doing and how we should be doing it. And I think,   you know, coming away from that and asking ourselves and learning to understand what is really important to me,   you know, maybe we would we would be different, but I think we are that's, again, a whole another conversation of how we're programmed. You know, I'm really passionate around this. You know? I think we are I've been down so many rabbit holes, and   so I think we need to   I think we have an opportunity   with the times that we live in to take a step back,   bring some consciousness and awareness, and start   asking ourselves, like, how do I wanna live? Like, what's important to me?  

And I think we're gonna start seeing this a lot, actually.   I think we are.   Well, wise words to end it. We've done half an hour, Julie, and that was amazing. That was lovely. You must come back again because I think we could just chat for hours about different subjects. Gosh. Way too much. It was way too many topics, but thank you for having me. I really appreciate that. Where can people find you? I know you're on Facebook, but do you have Facebook is the main place that I do. I I've just been starting to put some of my videos over to Instagram, but it's not much on there. So mainly Facebook is is where you'll find me just Julie Cahoon.  

[01:00:03] Unknown:

Julie   Cahoon. And I've spelt your name right in the title, and I'll put it like that. Thank you so much, my love. No. Thank you. Yeah. You take care, sweetie. Have a lovely weekend and the rest of it. Bye bye. Bye.   Bye.   Bye. Right, my lovelies. There we are.   Another week done and dusted. I will be back on Wednesday with the Shelley Tasker Show. Have an awesome week.