Some People Prefer You Small

Some People Prefer You Small

Have you ever left a conversation feeling smaller than when you walked into it?   Smaller than your dreams. Smaller than your ambitions. Smaller than the person you know you're capable of becoming.   If you've ever had someone make you doubt your ideas, dreams, or your next move, you're just like me and I made this Stronger Sunday Story for you. This week I'm talking about something I've noticed since launching The Stronger Stuff Show. I've had an incredibly supportive response to it so far, but...   The more creative I become. The more visible I become. The more I stop behaving properly and start being myself... ... the stranger a few people's reactions become.   Because not everyone celebrates your growth.   Some people love the version of you that doubts yourself. The version that asks permission. The version that plays safe. The version that never makes them question what might be possible in their own life.   And honestly? That's been one of the most surprising parts of this whole journey.   In this episode I talk about: * launching something new when confidence feels fragile * the friends who build you up and the ones who quietly pull you down * self-doubt, visibility and putting yourself out there creatively * why one careless comment can derail a dream * protecting your energy when you're building something that matters to you * the voice in your own head that wants to keep you safe, small and invisible * and why becoming yourself is often far more confronting than staying stuck   I share the story of a friend who could make me feel terrible about myself in record time.   A recent guest call I almost talked myself out of taking.   The conversations, doubts and fears that have surfaced while launching this show.   And the lesson I keep coming back to: A toxic opinion can steal an afternoon. The wrong voice can steal years.   Because every new chapter starts out vulnerable. A business. A relationship. A creative project. A reinvention. And that's exactly when you need to protect it most.   Protect your confidence. Protect your creativity. Protect your Stronger Stuff.   Because the people who genuinely want to see you succeed exist too.   Those people are gold.   This is a story about ambition, friendship, creativity, self-expression and refusing to shrink yourself to make other people comfortable.   Because life is too short to spend it becoming less of yourself.   And maybe one of the most rebellious things you can do is refuse.   Refuse to dim yourself. Refuse to stay hidden. Refuse to choose smaller.   Raw, entertaining and emotionally honest conversations about the messy, chaotic, beautiful experience of being human and the Stronger Stuff that gets us through.   Hosted by musician, storyteller and creative force Minna.   #TheStrongerStuffShow #SelfExpression #CreativeConfidence #HumanBehaviour #PodcastRecommendations   Stay Connected: Please follow us and share to keep the show going strong! It really does help.   Join the community and flex your Stronger Stuff @mystrongerstuff   Follow The Stronger Stuff Show: Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/mystrongerstuff/⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/mystrongerstuff/] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587590469654⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587590469654] LinkedIn: ⁠⁠linkedin.com/in/minna-walker-75130a138⁠⁠ [https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.linkedin.com_in_minna-2Dwalker-2D75130a138&d=DwMGaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=Dn5UoD5x85WYaMo7HDMz42DBB37UV08HurYHUY8biVI&m=SsFCKRa22IzoxEzRwPZPQQLbSnYFDaZaqn-gvs5CYMytjitD1b9HVS4RWSIfTdYx&s=rl4r7KWlsKoMVDQUHhlRr01HpVx8RQSgbeH2HS6lI3c&e=]   Follow Minna | Artist Pixie Revolution: Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/pixierevolution/⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/pixierevolution/] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/minna.walker.10⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/minna.walker.10] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068923526719⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068923526719]   Music Credit: Music for The Stronger Stuff Show is written, performed and produced by Minna | Pixie Revolution. ASCAP. © 2026 Pixie Revolution. All rights reserved.    For Music and Licensing enquiries contact: ⁠info@pixierevolution.com⁠ [info@pixierevolution.com]   Get 10% off Abeeco with code THESTRONGERSTUFFSHOW here. ⁠⁠abeeco.com/THESTRONGERSTUFFSHOW ⁠⁠ One use by customer.   Disclaimer: The Stronger Stuff Show is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only.   © 2026 Minna Walker. All rights reserved.

Dead People, Crystals & The Voice That Changed Everything | Andrea Solanki

This week on The Stronger Stuff Show, I’m talking to my dear friend Andrea Solanki - Energy Healer, Reiki master, Intuitive Herbalist and one of the warmest, funniest and most emotionally intelligent women I know.   And honestly?   This conversation goes everywhere. From chronic fatigue syndrome and burnout… to intuition, panic attacks, dead relatives, nervous system overload, emotional healing, motherhood, energy vampires, crystals in bras and the strange invisible things we feel but can’t always explain. One minute we’re talking about communicating with loved ones who’ve passed… the next she’s explaining why her aromatherapy teacher told her to wear red knickers to stay grounded.   Andrea shares the story of developing ME, severe chronic fatigue syndrome, in her twenties.   Doctors told her she had the yuppy flu and to take anti-depressants. And as if that wasn't enough... that she’d likely spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.   Instead, she went searching.   Through Reiki, herbs, meditation, homeopathy, frequency healing, spirituality and learning to trust the quiet inner knowing she couldn’t ignore.   And then life hit her again. Hard.   While rushing into work in a London office building one Saturday morning, Andrea became trapped beneath seven giant panes of reinforced glass.   Alone. Bleeding. Unable to move.   And lying there, she heard a voice say: “What else needs to happen for you to wake up?”   Goosebumps.   But what makes this episode so entertaining isn’t just the spirituality or healing side of things. It’s Andrea.   We talk about: * intuition and inner knowing * burnout and emotional exhaustion * anxiety and overwhelm * fertility struggles and motherhood * energy healing and Reiki * emotional healing * nervous system regulation * grief and loss * spiritual awakening * people pleasing * trusting yourself ... and why so many of us ignore ourselves until life physically stops us   What I love most about Andrea is that she never feels preachy or performative. She’s funny. Grounded. Warm. Deeply human.   And underneath all the spirituality and unseen energy, this episode is really about something most of us are craving:   Learning to trust ourselves again.   Raw, entertaining and emotionally honest conversations about the messy, chaotic, beautiful experience of being human.   Hosted by musician, storyteller and creative force Minna.   #TheStrongerStuffShow #EnergyHealing #Intuition #SpiritualAwakening #Reiki #ChronicFatigue #EmotionalHealing #HumanBehaviour #Meditation #PodcastRecommendations #SocietyAndCulture   Stay Connected: If you loved this episode please follow us and share it to keep the show going strong!   Join the community and flex your Stronger Stuff @mystrongerstuff   Follow The Stronger Stuff Show: Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/mystrongerstuff/⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/mystrongerstuff/] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587590469654⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587590469654] LinkedIn: ⁠⁠linkedin.com/in/minna-walker-75130a138⁠⁠ [https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.linkedin.com_in_minna-2Dwalker-2D75130a138&d=DwMGaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=Dn5UoD5x85WYaMo7HDMz42DBB37UV08HurYHUY8biVI&m=SsFCKRa22IzoxEzRwPZPQQLbSnYFDaZaqn-gvs5CYMytjitD1b9HVS4RWSIfTdYx&s=rl4r7KWlsKoMVDQUHhlRr01HpVx8RQSgbeH2HS6lI3c&e=]   Follow Minna |Artist Pixie Revolution: Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/pixierevolution/⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/pixierevolution/] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/minna.walker.10⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/minna.walker.10] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068923526719⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068923526719]   Andrea Solanki: https://www.andreasolankienergyhealer.com [https://www.andreasolankienergyhealer.com] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreasolanki/?hl=en [https://www.instagram.com/andreasolanki/?hl=en] Music Credit: Music is written, performed and produced by Minna | Pixie Revolution. © 2026 Pixie Revolution. All rights reserved.  ASCAP Publishing: 935619498 ASCAP Writing: 935619515   Music and Licensing enquiries contact: ⁠info@pixierevolution.com⁠ [info@pixierevolution.com]   Get 10% off Abeeco with code THESTRONGERSTUFFSHOW here. ⁠⁠abeeco.com/THESTRONGERSTUFFSHOW ⁠⁠ One use by customer.   © 2026 Minna Walker. All rights reserved.    Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical or professional advice.

F**K the Rules - When Did I Start Behaving?

When I realized that I’d started “behaving” in my own show something had to change. I'd become... More polished. More disciplined. More productive. More… behaved.   And honestly? It nearly made me disappear.   This week’s Stronger Sunday Story is about the moment I realized I’d drifted away from myself trying to follow everyone else’s rules for success.   Wake up at 5am. Ice baths. Intermittent fasting. No sugar. Track your sleep. Morning routines. Be calmer. Be better.   Apparently everyone successful wakes up before dawn and does it all.   And honestly? I tried it all.   Including waking up at 5am because Instagram told me successful people do that.   By Thursday I was exhausted, emotionally unstable and terrible to be around.   Because somewhere inside all the rules, routines and advice about how to succeed, I stopped paying attention to what actually felt right for me.   Not just in life. Inside my music. My creativity. My relationships. And eventually… inside my own podcast.   Before recording my first interviews for The Stronger Stuff Show, I suddenly panicked and realized I was turning it into some polished self-improvement version of itself.   More serious. More perfect. More respectable.   Like I’d forgotten why I wanted to create it in the first place.   At 4am I emailed my first guests, Maite Gomez-Rejon and Dr Erica Reid, apologizing and asking to postpone because I realized I was drifting away from the real spirit of the show.   The funny, messy, chaotic, emotionally honest version.   The version about trainwrecks, adventure, humor, reinvention, big feelings and the weird beautiful chaos of being human.   Instead of judging me, both women completely understood.   Erica wrote back: “We need uniqueness, we need people like you with the humor and the sass and the realness.” And honestly?   That line stopped me.   Because underneath all the optimization, perfectionism and rules for “success” was a much bigger question:   Do I actually trust myself?   This episode is about: * perfectionism * creativity * reinvention * identity * trusting your instincts * self-expression * social media * people pleasing * podcasting * music * fear and the freedom that happens when you stop trying to become somebody else.   It’s also about something bigger: Maybe we’re meant to evolve. Pivot. Take risks. Start over. Follow instincts. And become MORE ourselves instead of less.   The last six weeks of launching this show have felt like one giant exercise in breaking almost every rule I built around myself.   And weirdly… I’ve never felt more like myself. And I’ve launched the show.   #TheStrongerStuffShow #WhenDidIStartBehaving #Creativity #SelfExpression #Reinvention #PodcastLife #WomenInMusic #HumanBehaviour #SocietyAndCulture #Authenticity   Stay Connected: Please follow us and share the show to keep the us going strong! It really does help.   Join the community and flex your Stronger Stuff @mystrongerstuff   Follow The Stronger Stuff Show: Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/mystrongerstuff/⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/mystrongerstuff/] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587590469654⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587590469654] LinkedIn: ⁠⁠linkedin.com/in/minna-walker-75130a138⁠⁠ [https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.linkedin.com_in_minna-2Dwalker-2D75130a138&d=DwMGaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=Dn5UoD5x85WYaMo7HDMz42DBB37UV08HurYHUY8biVI&m=SsFCKRa22IzoxEzRwPZPQQLbSnYFDaZaqn-gvs5CYMytjitD1b9HVS4RWSIfTdYx&s=rl4r7KWlsKoMVDQUHhlRr01HpVx8RQSgbeH2HS6lI3c&e=]   Follow Minna the Artist Pixie Revolution: Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/pixierevolution/⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/pixierevolution/] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/minna.walker.10⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/minna.walker.10] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068923526719⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068923526719]   Music Credit: Music for The Stronger Stuff Show is written, performed and produced by Minna | Pixie Revolution. ASCAP. © 2026 Pixie Revolution. All rights reserved.    For Music and Licensing enquiries contact: ⁠info@pixierevolution.com⁠ [info@pixierevolution.com]   Get 10% off Abeeco with code THESTRONGERSTUFFSHOW here. ⁠⁠abeeco.com/THESTRONGERSTUFFSHOW ⁠⁠ One use by customer. Disclaimer: The Stronger Stuff Show is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only.   © 2026 Minna Walker. All rights reserved.

Who’s Really In Bed With You? Sex, Porn, Inner Children & Why We Repeat the Same Relationship Patterns | Hunter Moore

Some conversations feel less like a podcast… and more like the kind of late-night truth-telling that happens at 1am when people stop pretending.   This is one of those conversations - one of the most intimate, fascinating and emotional conversations we’ve had on The Stronger Stuff Show so far. Hunter Moore is a professional confidante, relationship counsellor, and clinical hypnotherapist who has spent decades helping people untangle the hidden patterns quietly running their relationships, sex lives, fears, attraction and emotional worlds.   And honestly?   Within minutes we were talking about porn, marriage, emotional triggers, shame, intimacy, long-term love, inner children, and why so many people still repeat the same destructive relationship patterns over and over again.   At times we laugh. At times Hunter gets emotional. At times I think you may feel uncomfortably seen.   And honestly? That’s what makes this conversation so powerful.   Because underneath all the sex, psychology and relationship talk, this episode is really about something much bigger: Why we become who we become. Why we hide. Why we repeat patterns. And what happens when we finally start telling ourselves the truth.   Hunter has this rare ability to make people feel completely safe while talking about the things most people usually hide. There’s something incredibly refreshing about hearing women openly talk about sex, relationships and emotional honesty without shame wrapped around it.   And according to Hunter there are often far more people “in the room” during sex than we realize.   Not just you and your partner… but your heartbreaks. Your upbringing. Your shame. Your exes. Your conditioning. Your fears. Your old survival patterns.   And she talks about all of this with warmth, humor, intelligence and zero judgement.   It feels human. Messy. Funny. Emotionally honest. Unexpectedly freeing.   We talk about: * porn and modern relationships * sex and intimacy * emotional triggers and attraction * hypnosis and the subconscious mind * long-term partnership * childhood conditioning * why we sabotage closeness * emotional survival patterns * boundaries * and the complicated, beautiful chaos of being human   The kind of conversations that usually happen backstage, around kitchen tables or over wine with people you trust.   Raw, entertaining and emotionally honest conversations about the messy, chaotic, beautiful experience of being human.   Hosted by musician, storyteller and creative force Minna.   #TheStrongerStuffShow #Relationships #SexAndRelationships #Hypnosis #ModernRelationships #Intimacy #InnerChild #HumanBehavior #CouplesTherapy #SocietyAndCulture   Stay Connected: Loved this episode? Please follow us and share it to keep the show growing and going strong!   Join the community and flex your Stronger Stuff @mystrongerstuff   Follow The Stronger Stuff Show: Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/mystrongerstuff/⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/mystrongerstuff/] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587590469654⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587590469654] LinkedIn: ⁠⁠linkedin.com/in/minna-walker-75130a138⁠⁠ [https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.linkedin.com_in_minna-2Dwalker-2D75130a138&d=DwMGaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=Dn5UoD5x85WYaMo7HDMz42DBB37UV08HurYHUY8biVI&m=SsFCKRa22IzoxEzRwPZPQQLbSnYFDaZaqn-gvs5CYMytjitD1b9HVS4RWSIfTdYx&s=rl4r7KWlsKoMVDQUHhlRr01HpVx8RQSgbeH2HS6lI3c&e=]   Follow Minna the Artist Pixie Revolution: Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/pixierevolution/⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/pixierevolution/] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/minna.walker.10⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/minna.walker.10] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068923526719⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068923526719]   Hunter Moore: www.talkingtohunter.com [http://www.talkingtohunter.com]   Music Credit: Music is written, performed and produced by Minna | Pixie Revolution. © 2026 Pixie Revolution. All rights reserved.  ASCAP Publishing: 935619498 ASCAP Writing: 935619515   Music and Licensing enquiries contact: ⁠info@pixierevolution.com⁠ [info@pixierevolution.com]   Get 10% off Abeeco with code THESTRONGERSTUFFSHOW here. ⁠⁠abeeco.com/THESTRONGERSTUFFSHOW ⁠⁠ One use by customer.   © 2026 Minna Walker. All rights reserved.    Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical or professional advice.

The Terrifying Freedom of Being Seen - What Happens When You Stop Hiding

This episode is about creativity, reinvention, visibility and what happens when you stop shrinking yourself to fit other people’s expectations.   Are you sick and tired of waiting for everything, including you, to be “perfect” before you begin? This week on Stronger Sunday Stories, I’m talking honestly about what launching The Stronger Stuff Show has actually brought up for me emotionally, creatively and personally… and why episode 10 feels like a turning point.   Because somewhere along the way, while building this podcast, I realized I’d accidentally started tempering myself inside my own show.   Trying to be calmer. More polished. More “respectable.”   Like I was slowly turning myself into some sort of serious podcast woman I didn’t even recognize.   Meanwhile in real life?   I’m moving country, homeschooling two teenage boys, relaunching my music career at 53, looking for a new home in London… and trying to learn social media without accidentally sticking Spotify links across my own face in Instagram Stories.   And honestly?   The hardest part of launching this show hasn’t been the interviews, the editing, the posting or the tech.   It’s been being seen. Not hiding anymore. Not endlessly planning and waiting until I feel ready, look better, know more or have everything figured out.   Actually putting myself out there publicly in real time. Messily. Imperfectly. As myself.   And what’s surprised me most is this: The more I share… the freer I feel.   Not fearless. Just less interested in letting fear stop me.   Because I think a lot of women quietly spend years trying to become: appropriate, palatable, professional, less emotional, less loud, less themselves.   And I'm realizing that part of this journey for me has been seeing that being myself actually IS getting it right.   Because I believe our Stronger Stuff is about being fully alive as ourselves. The chaos. The humor. The heartbreak. The ambition. The stories. The music. The fear. The courage to keep going anyway.   So right now I’m technically homeless in London, relaunching my music career, building this show in real time, posting things that make me uncomfortable daily… and somehow feeling more alive than I have in years.   Maybe that’s what happens when you stop hiding... You stop waiting for permission. You stop waiting to become someone else before you begin.   And instead… you just start building your life out loud.   And somehow that becomes the freedom.   #TheStrongerStuffShow #StrongerSundayStories #CreativeReinvention #FearOfBeingSeen #WomenWhoCreate #Authenticity #MidlifeCreativity #WomenInMusic #CreativeWomen #StartBeforeYoureReady #Reinvention   Stay Connected: Please follow us and share the show to keep the us going strong! It really does help.   Join the community and flex your Stronger Stuff @mystrongerstuff   Follow The Stronger Stuff Show: Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/mystrongerstuff/⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/mystrongerstuff/] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587590469654⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587590469654] LinkedIn: ⁠⁠linkedin.com/in/minna-walker-75130a138⁠⁠ [https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.linkedin.com_in_minna-2Dwalker-2D75130a138&d=DwMGaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=Dn5UoD5x85WYaMo7HDMz42DBB37UV08HurYHUY8biVI&m=SsFCKRa22IzoxEzRwPZPQQLbSnYFDaZaqn-gvs5CYMytjitD1b9HVS4RWSIfTdYx&s=rl4r7KWlsKoMVDQUHhlRr01HpVx8RQSgbeH2HS6lI3c&e=]   Follow Minna the Artist Pixie Revolution: Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/pixierevolution/⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/pixierevolution/] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/minna.walker.10⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/minna.walker.10] Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068923526719⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068923526719]   Music Credit: Music for The Stronger Stuff Show is written, performed and produced by Minna | Pixie Revolution. ASCAP. © 2026 Pixie Revolution. All rights reserved.   For Music and Licensing enquiries contact: ⁠info@pixierevolution.com⁠ [info@pixierevolution.com]   Get 10% off Abeeco with code THESTRONGERSTUFFSHOW here. ⁠⁠abeeco.com/THESTRONGERSTUFFSHOW ⁠⁠ One use by customer.   Disclaimer: The Stronger Stuff Show is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only.   © 2026 Minna Walker. All rights reserved.