Truth & Transcendence

Truth & Transcendence

Welcome to Truth & Transcendence — a podcast for seekers, leaders, creatives, and changemakers exploring the deeper layers of human experience.
Launched in mid-2021, the show was born out of a time of global uncertainty. A space to support conscious leadership in challenging times — a call to strength, wisdom, and integrity.

Since then, the podcast has evolved alongside the world around us. Now, we welcome a rich tapestry of guests: senior leaders, coaches, artists, spiritual guides, alternative practitioners, and everyday people living extraordinary lives.

Our focus is no longer just on navigating crisis — but on embracing the joy of creation, discovery, and soulful expansion.

Each week brings two episodes:
🔹 Nugget Mondays – brief, insightful solo reflections.
🔹 Guest Fridays – open-hearted, unscripted conversations that dive deep.

If you're walking your path with curiosity and courage — let’s explore what it really means to live a life of truth and transcendence.

Recent Episodes

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Finding Your Place in Life: Are You Living the Life You Actually Want?
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Oct. 4, 2026

Finding Your Place in Life: Are You Living the Life You Actually Want?

Catherine Llewellyn reflects on conversations she has recently been having with people from her past and what these conversations have shown her about the different ways people choose to live their lives. Some people have found a life that suits them and are enjoying retirement, travel and family. Others are continuing to create, collaborate, work, learn and develop. Some are somewhere in between. Catherine explores what it means to find your place, including recognising when the life you are
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Finding Common Ground: David Deighton on the Art of Talking to Strangers
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Oct. 1, 2026

Finding Common Ground: David Deighton on the Art of Talking to Strangers

Catherine Llewellyn welcomes David Deighton, creator of Triptych Dialogue, an art experiment exploring how we can bridge societal divides by changing the way we talk to one another. David's work brings people together in person, often around difficult subjects such as politics, using art, active listening and the senses to create deeper connection. David shares how his understanding of impermanence developed through years of meditation and study, including time spent at a monastery in India w
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What Happens When You Finally Accept Your Feelings?
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Sept. 27, 2026

What Happens When You Finally Accept Your Feelings?

Following on from the theme of letting go, Catherine Llewellyn explores what can happen when we stop trying to change our feelings and instead surrender to what we are actually experiencing. Catherine shares a personal experience from a relationship in which sexual chemistry had changed. Rather than continuing to try to restore the feelings they thought they should have, they asked a simple question about what each of them wanted right now. The resulting clarity and willingness to feel what w
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Is Stress Actually Good For You? The Truth About Intensity with Nico Verresen
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Sept. 24, 2026

Is Stress Actually Good For You? The Truth About Intensity with Nico Verresen

Catherine Llewellyn welcomes Nico Verresen, former Muay Thai champion, psychologist and founder of Burnout Boxing Experience. Nico explores his lifelong relationship with intensity and how a passion that took him to the top of combat sports eventually led him to a very different mission: helping people embrace intensity rather than automatically seeing stress as something harmful. After years of fighting, Nico's body finally forced him to stop when severe eye injuries ended his competitive ca
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Is Your Body Asking for More or Less? A Guide to Letting Go
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Sept. 20, 2026

Is Your Body Asking for More or Less? A Guide to Letting Go

Picking up from the previous episode's theme of letting go, Catherine Llewellyn explores what happens when we stop forcing ourselves and instead listen to what the body is actually asking for. Using her experience with yin yoga as a starting point, Catherine reflects on the Western tendency to push harder, do more and strive to get things “right”. She contrasts this with surrendering into a comfortable stretch, allowing the body to find its own version of a pose, and discovering that letting
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Life is the Teacher: How Steven Ferrara turned 20 Years of Grief into Wisdom
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Sept. 17, 2026

Life is the Teacher: How Steven Ferrara turned 20 Years of Grief into Wisdom

Catherine Llewellyn welcomes Stephen Ferrara, a lifelong spiritual student, teacher and coach who spent decades building a successful financial services business before selling it to focus fully on his spiritual path. Stephen introduces the idea of the “inside life”—the part of ourselves that can observe our thoughts, emotions and experiences rather than simply reacting to what happens around us. He explains how this inner awareness has helped him live from the inside out, including through t
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Reviews

Fantastic host!

"Catherine is a magical host, thoughtful, insightful, and so warm and engaging. A deep and wonderful podcast!"

ClemtheGreat | May 21, 2026

Thoughtful and stimulating discussion with Thich Dieu Thien

"My first podcast, and I’m so glad I found the time to listen to it. As well as hearing from someone with such a differing and thought provoking worldview, the theme of being awakened struck a chord …"

Harpal | May 10, 2026
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