What happens when the life you imagined for your child and for yourself, changes in a single moment?

In this episode of the Pink Nest Podcast, Nika sits down with Leah Scott, medical mom, community builder, and founder of Bravely Together, for a conversation that is tender, honest, and full of quiet strength.
Leah's story begins in childhood, with an upper limb difference that shaped her resilience long before she knew she would need it. She grew up with dreams, hopes, and a vision of motherhood that felt full of possibility. And then, when her daughter was diagnosed with a life-limiting condition, everything shifted. Not just practically, but in every corner of who she was and how she moved through the world.
What Leah built from that moment is remarkable. Rather than turning inward, she turned outward, creating Bravely Together, a community for medical moms who are navigating the exhausting, isolating, and rarely spoken-about reality of raising a child with complex medical needs. Because medical moms, as Leah puts it so plainly, often go unheard and unlistened to. And that silence costs them more than anyone sees.
This conversation also explores the tools that have helped Leah most, including EFT tapping, a simple but powerful holistic technique for reducing anxiety and overwhelm that she now shares with others. She talks about intuition as a mother's most vital guide, the importance of self-care without guilt, and why sharing your story is one of the most generous things you can do for someone who feels completely alone.
"You are not alone." This episode is proof of that.

IN THIS EPISODE
* Leah's childhood with an upper limb difference and the early dreams that shaped her
* The hopes and expectations she carried into motherhood
* The moment her daughter's diagnosis changed everything
* The emotional and practical realities of life as a medical mom
* Why medical moms so often go unheard and what needs to change
* The founding of Bravely Together and the community it has created
* What EFT tapping is, how it works, and why it helps with anxiety and overwhelm
* Leah's podcast and the power of sharing your story openly
* Why trusting your intuition as a mother can be a lifesaving guide
* Self-care for medical moms, not as a luxury, but as a necessity
* A message of hope for every medical mom who feels alone.

Links:
💛 Bravely Together Community: https://bravelytogether.com
🎥 EFT Tapping Explained by Leah: https://youtube.com/eft-tapping-leah
🎙 Leah's Podcast: https://podcastlink.com/leahs-story

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What if the key to sustainable success wasn't another productivity hack, but learning to work with your natural rhythms instead of against them?

In this episode of the Pink Nest Podcast, Nika sits down with Kirsty Anna Sinclair, astrologer and business guide, for a conversation that gently challenges everything we've been told about hustle, growth, and what it really means to thrive.
Kirsty's story begins in a classroom. As a teacher, she gave everything she had ,until burnout quietly took everything back.
That breaking point became a turning point, leading her toward astrology not as a mystical escape, but as a practical, grounding framework for understanding herself and rebuilding her work on her own terms. What she found changed not just her career, but her entire relationship with time, energy, and success.
At the heart of this conversation is a beautifully simple idea: that we are cyclical beings living in a cyclical world and that when we align our business activities, creative energy, and rest with natural rhythms like lunar phases, something shifts. Not just in productivity, but in wellbeing. Kirsty shares how understanding your own lunar sign can reveal unique sources of comfort and strength, and why the traditional business advice so many of us follow quietly ignores the most important variable: the human being at the centre of it all.

This episode is an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and build something that lasts, not by pushing harder, but by sailing a little more wisely under the stars.

IN THIS EPISODE
* Kirsty's journey from teacher burnout to discovering astrology as a life and business tool
* Why traditional business advice so often leads to burnout and imbalance
* How natural cycles and lunar phases influence energy, creativity, and productivity
* Practical ways to align your business activities with the lunar calendar
* What your personal lunar sign reveals about your unique strengths and needs
* Monitoring your relationship with natural rhythms to prevent burnout
* Building boundaries and self-care into entrepreneurship from the ground up
* Why sustainable success requires working with yourself, not against yourself
* Kirsty's message for anyone considering a leap into the unknown.

Links
- Sign Up to Kirsty's newsletter: https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1812772/sites/179204532598736209/y1sYa7
- For anyone wanting to find out more about Kirsty's burnout recovery experience, my articles about it are free to access: https://kirstyannasinclair.com/articles/
- Kirsty's podcast: https://kirstyannasinclair.com/sky-insider/.

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What does it mean to grow up surrounded by activism and then choose, as an adult, to carry that torch forward even when the personal cost is high?

In this episode of the Pink Nest Podcast, Nika sits down with Zolal Habibi, Iranian American human rights advocate, for a conversation that is courageous, deeply moving, and impossible to forget.
Zolal's story begins in childhood, shaped by parents whose activism planted the seeds of her own. The loss of her father and the injustice woven through that loss, didn't break her understanding of the world. It clarified it. She saw, with quiet certainty, what she was being called toward. And when the moment came to choose between a medical career and a life of human rights advocacy, she chose the fight for freedom in Iran without hesitation.

At the heart of her work is a fierce belief in the power of women. She speaks with profound respect for the Iranian women who have suffered under a misogynistic regime and even greater awe at their resilience. From empowering survivors to drawing inspiration from female leaders of the Iranian resistance, Zolal's advocacy is rooted in the conviction that women are not just part of the movement for change in Iran. They are its driving force.
This is also an honest conversation about the emotional weight of advocacy, the grief, the exhaustion, and the non-negotiable importance of self-care when your work involves bearing witness to suffering.
Zolal speaks about hope not as a passive feeling but as an active, disciplined choice. One she makes every single day.
"I have never given up on that dream." Neither should we.

IN THIS EPISODE
* How Zolal's childhood was shaped by her parents' activism and her father's legacy
* The profound impact of her father's death on her understanding of injustice
* Why she chose human rights advocacy over a medical career
* The challenges and deep rewards of working in human rights
* Empowering women who have suffered under Iran's misogynistic regime
* Where Zolal finds hope and why resilience is a daily practice
* The role of female leaders in the Iranian resistance movement
* Why self-care is not a luxury but a necessity in advocacy work
* A powerful message about the choices that define our paths in life
* Why women are the force for change in Iran and everywhere.

Links : Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/ashrafi4ever/.

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