Hi Everyone Today I introduce you to my new friend, Ingrid. Ingrid and I got to know each other on a Transactional Analysis course that we are still doing. We are on a quest to better understand the dynamics between the Parent, Adult and Child and the games we all play. Quite an interesting modality to add to our people-helping skills. She holds a …

Hi Everyone Our guest today is Erik. Erik is another of my Insight Timer (free meditation app) friends, who have, in the short period that we have known each other, made a big impact on my life. Erik is not only a Buddhist, who practices Zen, but he applies a principle to his life, which is called Big Mind. It is a fascinating modality which he dem…

Hi Everyone Today, I bring David Joshua into the field for a chat. David and I have been in contact on the meditation app, Insight Timer, for a while, and have been trying to set up this chat for a few months. I am happy and grateful that he made the time to meet us in the field and for sharing his interesting and inspiring journey with us. I call …

I am thrilled to welcome Natalie on Meet me in the field. We have known each other for a few years, kind of at a distance. But, strangely, since she has been in the UK, we have become close. She has a hectic work and social schedule, so it took us a while to get the recording set up and done, but I am happy that we did. Natalie is a warm and loving…

It is a great pleasure to introduce you to my friend Nick. Nick is one of my favourite people in the whole world to listen to. He is a rabbit hole of information, facts, knowledge, quirks, trivia and authenticity, and I love him for it. I want to, and can say a lot more about him, but this is a long episode, so I shall allow our chat to do the talk…

I am happy to introduce you to Yule Banda. I met Yule in the same online men’s group in which I met Jurgens, The Rune Grandmaster ( https://www.freddie.org.za/mmitf/2021/08/19/the-rune-grand-master.html) of two episodes ago. I experienced Yule as someone with a vast amount of serenity and I wanted to find out how he got to that place and how he mai…

Getting to know today’s guest is surely one of the highlights of my 2021. I am terribly excited to introduce you to Peta Dukes. Peta is a Cranio Secral Therapist/Practitioner, whatever you choose to call her and a Recovery Coach. If you want or need trauma work done or want to know more about your inner child, Peta is your person. I really rate her…

I am so blessed to live a life in which I, somehow, end up getting to know some remarkable and fascinating people. I met Mike as a result of a South African rehabilitation centre seeing a gap in the market in terms of addiction treatment for people for whom engagement in chemsex have become unmanageable. David, the owner of Twin Rivers Rehab in Ple…

I am excited to introduce you to Jurgens today. I met Jurgens at the beginning of lock down 2020 in a men’s group which we both attended online. I have never met him in person, but I felt there was something about him which I found intriguing. I think, what it is that I found interesting, was that Jurgens works in IT, but is also a Reiki practition…

Our guest today is Tia. I honestly cannot think of what to say as per and introduction. For me, this conversation is all about feeling and not about putting those feelings into words. I thoroughly loved the warmth Tia brought into the field during our chat, despite the covid hardship she had to and is still enduring. It is horrific how Tia is stuck…

I love how chance meetings can lead to such meaningful meetings in this field of ours. Today is no exception. I met Lois in a PSASA (Professional Speakers Association of South Africa) chat, where the topic was around hosting a podcast. I asked her to be our guest and she immediately agreed. I am so happy to introduce Lois Wagner to you. Lois has a …

Every episode of Meet me in the field that I record and put out is close to my heart and incredibly important to me. Today’s episode truly takes a special place. I have known Mandy for about 25 years now. We have walked strange and interesting paths. From the heydays of flourishing financial markets, market crashes, marriages, divorces, my drug add…

It is such a pleasure to welcome Alice, from Surrey in England, to Meet me in the field. I have had the pleasure of watching Alice’s spiritual awakening and growth over the past few years and am terribly excited to share her story with you. This young lady went from a life of alcoholism, drug addiction and anorexia, to graduating from the Royal Col…

This is the 170thepisode of Meet me in the field and I am still amazed about the fantastic things that happen when I get a complete stranger behind the microphone and we start talking. Today, I speak to yet another Insight Timer friend, this time it is Dave from Dudley in the UK. What amazed me about this conversation is how much Dave and I have in…

I am excited to introduce you to Sam Marais, another Insight Timer friend. Sam was one of the first people I befriended on Insight Timer. It was his profile pic that caught my eye. Since then, we have regularly sent each other messages, thanking each other for meditating together. I obviously had no idea what to expect when we started the recording…

I am excited to introduce you to another Insight Timer friend. This time I speak with Lee Griffin. Lee is a coach who, as stated in her LinkedIn profile, helps “entrepreneurs explore the possibilities and invest their energy, time and resources for maximum return.” She focuses on work/life harmony and coaches how to work smarter and not harder. Her…

Meet me in the field is back after a few weeks’ absence. It is great to be back. From now on Meet me in the field will come out every second Thursday instead of every week. Life is just to hectic for me at the moment to get an episode out every week. I started studying toward a Recovery Coach qualification and need about 80 hours of practical to qu…

Imagine my surprise when I opened my laptop on 16 October 2020 to see an email from Lauren Bryant, the Content and Community Manager for Josh Trent, the founder and CEO of Wellness Force Media, from Texas. She informed me that they heard my podcast with Erica Alison about Holotropic breathwork. They were interested in my work and inquired about Jos…

A few months ago, I got this email out of the blue from a women who informed me that she is a Holistic Counsellor registered with the same professional body I am. In the email she asks if I will mind terribly if she sends me information about the workshop she was about to launch. I thought this was one of the most well-mannered things ever and imme…

Today we end our international podcast host series with Australian podcast host and business owner Michael Gregory. I am happy to introduce the host of the Addiction to Freedom podcast and the owner of True Quit. Michael is based outside Sydney in Australia and has a beautifully calm demeanour. His company was formed after Michael’s own struggle to…

Today we do a one-episode break-away from our international podcast host series to listen to local man, Paul Roux. Paul has a background in finance and marketing... and in addiction. Now, 9 years into his sober journey, he is combining his knowledge and experience of everything financial with with his strength and hope of recovery, to bring a messa…

Today we are hearing the fourth episode of our international podcast host series. We get to know Carine Camara from The Infinite Love podcast. Carine is originally from New York, but now settled in Lafayette in California in America. She has a vast list of healing qualifications behind her name and use various modalities to facilitate healing and s…

In the third installment of our international podcast host series, we meet Hannah Garland from the Your Uncommon Life podcast. Hannah lives about an hour from Seattle, Washington in the United States. She started thinking of doing a podcast about 2 years ago when she had a miscarriage, but only got around to it a few weeks ago. That just shows that…

This week we have our second episode in the series of having international podcasters as our guests on Meet me in the field. I am excited to introduce Brian Sexton from West Virginia in the dear old US of A to you. Brian is the host of The Intentional Encourager podcast. In each episode, he listens to inspirational stories told by incredible people…

This week we start with an exciting 4-week series of podcasts, where I speak with a few overseas podcast hosts. There will be some more episodes in this series over the next few weeks. Our first guest in this regard is KAren Swain from Sydney, Australia. KAren hosts a podcast called Accentuate the Positive, which can be found on most podcast platfo…

As I recite this Rumi poem, Meet me in the field, for at least the 158th time on this podcast, I am getting a whole new meaning from it. The reason is this week’s guest, Renee. Renee and I have known each other for about 11 years now and although I like the socks of this girl, we never had the opportunity to get close and become good friends. After…

I met Celeste while studying Counselling through Unisa. Those of you who know Unisa will know that it is a distant learning institute, which means we do not have much contact with fellow students and lecturers. As part of our course we had to attend one week of lectures every year. It is quite weird, because I felt like a grade one learner that fir…

It fills my heart with joy to bring Dana to you for this episode of Meet me in the field. Dana is one of those strange people whom I don’t really know, yet I have heard of her so often in so many places and from so many people, that I find it strange that I don’t actually know her. I think we met last year at the Recovery Festival for the first tim…

My guest this week is Juanita Caprari from Heartworks with Juanita. She calls herself an Intuitive Coach. She helps her clients release blockages that keep them from moving forward. She focusses on a deep conscious level, thereby enabling them to shift their power from previously held limiting patterns, expressing wounds, to living a life that is a…

As you will hear in this episode, I met Russ in the early part of the previous decade. Russ then, was very quiet, reserved and came across as extremely unsure of himself and shy. The Russ I talk to today, seems a completely different person. In this episode of Meet me in the field, Russ takes us on his journey from the southern suburbs of Cape Town…

I am always fascinated by social circles and the phenomena of who know whom and what their connections are based on. In Nico’s case, I have been in awe more than usual. On all social media platforms, I run into Nico. On each platform, he seems to be connected with a different group of people which I am somehow connected to as well. Yet, we have nev…

I am loving the opportunity to introduce you to Shumi Chimombe. A biodanza facilitator, who is hugely passionate about this form of movement. This is what their Facebook page says about biodanza: ``Developed in the 1960’s by Professor Rolando Toro (1924-2010), a Chilean psychologist, anthropologist and poet, biodanza is now practiced in over 20 cou…

I am terribly excited to introduce you to my friend, Bryan. He is long overdue for an appearance on Meet me in the field. I am happy and grateful that he could join us. Bryan and I met in 2010 and used to see each other often, until I left Cape Town. Thanks to Zoom we ran into each other again during lockdown and it felt like a beautiful reunion. H…

I have decided to bring a topic very close to my heart to Meet me in the field this week. Today we talk about Screen and Social Media Addiction. I believe this addiction is a sitting time bomb and not enough awareness is being raised about it. I have again hooked up with Merwe from Talking Orangutans. We recorded an episode on this addiction for Or…

Today you meet my new friend Cindy. We talk, not only about her own spiritual journey, but also about two things close to my heart, family constellation and food. I met Cindy at a family constellation day and was gobsmacked by her ability to absorb energy and her response in the constellation field. It was absolutely amazing to see. The family cons…

This week Meet me in the field again visits the Orangutans in the field podcast to hear what Merwe and Freddie have to say about friendship. What is real friendship? How do you define it? What are the behaviours of a good friend and how has this changed since our school days when everyone was your friend? How do friendship influence our mental heal…

I am very excited to bring this you week’s episode of Meet me in the field, our spiritual journey podcast. I speak to Ericka Alison. She is a qualified Psychiatric Social Worker, but has not worked in that field for many years, she now mostly works as a Holotropic Breathworker. I have done 2 of her sessions a few years ago and they were amazing. I …

As promised 2 weeks ago, today I chat with my new friend, Paul. He is Nicky’s partner, The Film Maker from the previous episode. Paul has a really interesting journey, with many twists and turns, which he shares with us with a good dose of humour and a vast dollop of intellect. I am sure you are going to find him as interesting and entertaining as …

I met Nicky recently when I did an online course that guides us towards our destiny. Nicky (and her husband, Paul, our next guest in 2 weeks' time), guided us through the practical work once a week. That was awesome! Nicky is extremely intuitive and beautifully grounded. I am very grateful to have her share her journey with us. She is also a brand-…

I have been wanting to have Carl on Meet me in the field since I started the podcast. I am very happy to have him as a guest and have to say that it is about bloody time! I met Carl about 10 years ago and wanted to ask him to be our guest, but I always felt he might be too busy and just never plucked up the courage to ask him. As it turns out, Carl…

This episode of Meet me in the field is also the second episode of my combined podcast with Merwe, the host of Talking Orangutans. We call our combined podcast Orangutans in the field and in this episode we talk about the journey of therapy. We discuss issues like how to know if you need therapy and how to choose a therapist once you have made the …

I was talking to my oldest sister, Leata, the other day and afterwards I suddenly realised that she went on her own spiritual journey a few decades ago. Leata met a Greek guy, Spiros, when she was studying to become a Pharmacist at Wits University and converted from Dutch Reformed to Greek Orthodox. This chat is to find out how this conversion of h…

Meeting Gert was one of those interesting events in my life, which I love and cherish. Well, actually... I have never met him. But, I love getting these messages that reads something along the line of “Hi. I am XYZ. I got your number from ABC. He/she said they think we should talk.” Then the call happens and the next thing you know, I have made a n…

A while ago I was chatting with my friend Merwe, the host of the awesome podcast, Talking Orangutans. He asked how I feel about being interviewed for Meet me in the field. Knowing Merwe, I knew it would be interesting and intense; always up for a challenge, I agreed. As always, Merwe did not disappoint. I love the way his mind works and always enjo…

Welcome to the fifth and last episode of our Meet me in the field journey into Covid-19 lockdown. Today we hear from our healing friends. Our first guest today is Mia The Nia Ninja from 16 May 2019, which was our 86th episode and one of our most listened to guests ever. Mia is a black belt Nia instructor and a most lovely person. I liked her from t…

In this episode we hear from some of my friends and previous guests, whom I think of as spiritual. They are Julie and Michael, in America, and Mandy and Merwe, on two opposite sides of the peninsula in the Western Cape province of Cape Town. I heard something interesting in this group of interviews and maybe it relates to the fluidity of the term, …

This week Meet me in the field presents the third episode in our journey into Covid-19 lockdown. In this episode, I speak to 3 previous guests who are all scientists. Pierre has his Masters in Chemistry; Wendy is a Curator and Doctor of Archaeology and Jaco in an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Stellenbosch University. I was especially i…

This week Meet me in the field continues our journey into Covid-19 lockdown. In this episode, we hear from 6 artists about how they are coping during the lockdown. They range in art forms from photography, through acting and tattooing, to visual/performance art and music. I am excited to present the journeys of Fiona, Wilhelm, Mark, Melissa, David …

For the next five weeks, Meet me in the field is running a special Covid-19 journey edition. With Jaco’s prodding, I have gone back to some of our previous guests and asked them about their journey through the Covid-19 period. I have divided the guests into 5 groups. They are the religious people, the artists, the scientists, the spiritual group an…

Sandra owns and manages Step Away Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre in Port Elizabeth. In this episode of Meet me in the field, Sandra takes us on a beautiful journey from a life filled with chaos and despair, to living committed to helping others with addiction problems. I thoroughly enjoyed her openness about her dark days and could identify…