Speaker 1: I saw Victoria's Secret for the first time, and I
Speaker 1: remember thinking they never had seen anything like that in Australia.
Speaker 1: There was nothing remotely like that. And to think fast forward,
Speaker 1: how many years ahead there I would be up there.
Speaker 2: Mirandika is a globally renowned model, a wellness advocate, a
Speaker 2: mother of four, and the founder of Cora Organics. In
Speaker 2: this conversation, we speak about the experiences that shaped her,
Speaker 2: the spiritual practices that keep her grounded, and how she
Speaker 2: built a business with purpose.
Speaker 1: And I think as women let ourselves feel whatever we feel.
Speaker 1: For so many of us, even sometimes that anger might
Speaker 1: come up and we're like, no, I'm not an angry person,
Speaker 1: like I said, but I think it's important to actually
Speaker 1: embrace it and feel it and be like, I'm actually
Speaker 1: feeling angry right now and I need a moment and
Speaker 1: that's okay. Through that challenging time, there will be more
Speaker 1: growth and that it won't be this painful forever.
Speaker 2: Welcome to a Really Good Cry podcast. A Really Good
Speaker 2: Cry is here to help you understand your body, feel
Speaker 2: confident in your skin, manage your emotions, and take back
Speaker 2: control of your health. Because growth doesn't always start with answers.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it starts with a really good cry. Miranda, thank
Speaker 2: you so much for being here.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: I'm so grateful. You know, we were talking about this earlier,
Speaker 2: but I've known a Miranda for years and years through
Speaker 2: a mutual friend, and all I've heard is how kind, generous, loving,
Speaker 2: and how deep your heart is. And so I'm just
Speaker 2: excited to be able to sit down with you and
Speaker 2: explore one get to know you your life, but also
Speaker 2: talk about all the things that you're doing now too.
Speaker 2: So thank you again for being here, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: I wanted to start off by just asking you, well,
Speaker 2: let's stop in the beginning, because I feel like there's
Speaker 2: going to be a great way for me to understand
Speaker 2: everything about you. So I want to start off by
Speaker 2: with your childhood, like where did you grow up, how
Speaker 2: did you grow up? Do you remember yourself as a child,
Speaker 2: and what were you like?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I have oh such fun I was so excited.
Speaker 1: I have such fond memories of you know, being a
Speaker 1: child and growing up in Australia. I grew up in
Speaker 1: a little country town about ten thousand people, and it's
Speaker 1: actually the Koala, capital of Australia called Gannada. And the
Speaker 1: funny thing is they now have a sign when you
Speaker 1: enter the town with me holding a koala. So I
Speaker 1: think that's pretty cute.
Speaker 2: It's so cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was actually right outside of my grandparents' property.
Speaker 1: So my grandma was very proud. So I grew up
Speaker 1: there and I was you know, I grew up riding motorbikes.
Speaker 1: My grandparents had a farm. I learned how to drive
Speaker 1: a stick shift when I was literally maybe seven, like
Speaker 1: I could just see over the wheel, and I just
Speaker 1: loved the freedom that that kind of gave me. That
Speaker 1: I could go and have picnics with my cousins and
Speaker 1: have our you know, time out in the fields and
Speaker 1: just kind of it's amazing the sense of freedom that
Speaker 1: I got as a child that now being a parent myself,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, my parents let me do that,
Speaker 1: or my grandparents let me do that. We also had
Speaker 1: motorbikes and horses and yeah, I just as I said,
Speaker 1: I had a lot of time outdoors in nature and
Speaker 1: my favorite thing was like climbing a willow tree. And
Speaker 1: so you know, there was a willow tree in my grandparents'
Speaker 1: house and There was also a willow tree at my
Speaker 1: cousin's house, and the one of my cousin's house was
Speaker 1: a little bit taller, and one day I climbed up
Speaker 1: so far that my cousin like, I couldn't get down,
Speaker 1: so I climbed. I just loved climbing, climbing, climbing, and
Speaker 1: then I was like, oh, I'm stuck. So my dad
Speaker 1: had to come with the ladder and get me down.
Speaker 1: But that only happened one time. Then I decided I
Speaker 1: don't want to climb that high. It was very humble beginnings,
Speaker 1: and I feel like it really shaped and gave me
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in who I am as a person,
Speaker 1: because I know, no matter what, like if you have
Speaker 1: like a loving family, that's just the most important thing,
Speaker 1: and you know kind people around you.
Speaker 2: It's such a rare thing to have grown up with
Speaker 2: grandparents like now I think I talk to my friends
Speaker 2: who My grandma actually passed last year. She was ninety two,
Speaker 2: and she was she had an incredible life. But to
Speaker 2: have grown up with grandparents so close, it's a different
Speaker 2: type of perspective that you get in life from just
Speaker 2: having your parents.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so my parents had me when my mom was
Speaker 1: really young. They're still together and very much in love,
Speaker 1: and it just really shows you that it's so important
Speaker 1: in a relationship to just have that commitment to each other,
Speaker 1: and that your relationship grows through so many stages and
Speaker 1: then you can my parents can look back and say like, oh,
Speaker 1: my goodness, remember when we did this and my mom
Speaker 1: that's like my mom's only boyfriend she ever had was
Speaker 1: my dad. That's so sack. And they're so sweet together
Speaker 1: and they're so in love, and what do.
Speaker 2: You feel like, So, how many years have they been married?
Speaker 2: For now?
Speaker 1: So I'm forty three. So they got married when she
Speaker 1: was pregnant with me seventeen. So yeah, wow, neither of
Speaker 1: us like to do the math. No, But the reason
Speaker 1: I'm asking it's a long time. Yeah, it's a long time.
Speaker 1: And I would say that they're like more in love
Speaker 1: now than they've ever been.
Speaker 2: What do you feel like you've learnt from watching them?
Speaker 2: And have they given you any advice when you've gone
Speaker 2: into relationships that's really stuck with you.
Speaker 1: I feel like they really communicate a lot with each other,
Speaker 1: and for so long, maybe my mom wasn't as communicative
Speaker 1: and she just like expected my dad to do things,
Speaker 1: and as she got older, she became like a better communicator,
Speaker 1: and then he was like, oh sure, no worries, Like
Speaker 1: my dad is very chill, and my mom's so much
Speaker 1: more of like ambitious and more driven. And I think
Speaker 1: that's where I got my work ethic from. Like, they
Speaker 1: obviously both have a really good work ethic, and they
Speaker 1: actually had they both had their own businesses, and so
Speaker 1: I learned a lot watching them about that. But I
Speaker 1: also was raised by my grandma, who was a homemaker
Speaker 1: and taught me the importance of routine and consistency, and
Speaker 1: she had something called generosity of spirit that I just
Speaker 1: feel like it was just so she was so welcoming
Speaker 1: to everyone that came into her home, and the door
Speaker 1: was always open, and she never put a lock on
Speaker 1: the door ever, and people would just call in and
Speaker 1: have a cup of tea and some cakes. So she'd
Speaker 1: always be baking. She taught me how to cook, and
Speaker 1: so she also was the one who introduced me to NONI.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I know, I want to get onto that.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited to talk about NONI because I feel
Speaker 2: there were so many beautiful ingredients out there in the
Speaker 2: world that people have no idea about hubs and things
Speaker 2: that need to provide that we don't realize how much
Speaker 2: it can do for us. And I know that that's
Speaker 2: something you've been into, Cora, which you're going to definitely
Speaker 2: get onto. But you know, you've done so many things
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 1: Like I told you, I'm going to take my shoes off, I.
Speaker 2: Feel like you've done so much in your life. You've
Speaker 2: done modeling, You've had so much success in your life.
Speaker 2: You're an entrepreneur, and I'm sure that each phase brought
Speaker 2: you so much. But when when you've got to this
Speaker 2: point in your life, now, what is it that's driving
Speaker 2: you and what's exciting you in your life at the moment.
Speaker 1: Well, as you know, I'm a mother of four boys,
Speaker 1: so every day is exciting and a new adventure, and
Speaker 1: they're all in different stages. So I have a two
Speaker 1: year old who is just absolutely loving life. He is
Speaker 1: the angel of the family that everyone adores, and there
Speaker 1: was never any like jealousy of him coming along. They
Speaker 1: were always so supportive. His little brother, that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's next, was six years old, and he when I
Speaker 1: was pregnant, would kiss my tummy every day and talk
Speaker 1: to the baby. And the day that he he woke
Speaker 1: up and he said, Mommy, I had a dream that
Speaker 1: the baby was coming today. And I was like, no, no, honey,
Speaker 1: he's not due for another three weeks. And I went
Speaker 1: into labor that day and I had him that day.
Speaker 1: And that's how connected they are. And then I have
Speaker 1: an eight little eight year old and they're only fifteen
Speaker 1: months apart, the six and the eight year old. So
Speaker 1: the six almost seven, they were six seven and then
Speaker 1: used to always be like six seven, and then he
Speaker 1: had his birthday and anyway, so now they're six and eight,
Speaker 1: and the eight year old is so sweet and gentle,
Speaker 1: and the six year old is a little like they're
Speaker 1: all they're all loving and gentle and kind. But then
Speaker 1: they all have their own little individual personalities. Like the
Speaker 1: baby for sure, knows exactly what he wants, and he's
Speaker 1: very comfortable in his own skin, and he he's very cheeky,
Speaker 1: and he's obsessed with like cars and like diggers and
Speaker 1: all the very like boys thing boys stuff. His other brother, Miles,
Speaker 1: the one that I said would kiss him every night,
Speaker 1: he's like such like he can do any puzzle, Like
Speaker 1: he's like a little puzzle master. But he's also very
Speaker 1: like he'll be the one that will like tackle his
Speaker 1: big brother and like rough house with his fifteen year
Speaker 1: old brother. And I'm like, whoa, well, take it easy.
Speaker 1: And he's mischievous. We call him like mischievous Miles. And
Speaker 1: then there's as I said, HATI, who's more cerebral and
Speaker 1: very thoughtful, and he's like he like for the longest time,
Speaker 1: he would just like wake up and get his clothes
Speaker 1: on and get himself ready for school, and they'd be like, okay, Mom,
Speaker 1: come on, you're gonna be late to school. I'm like, buddy,
Speaker 1: we've got half an hour. He's like, can't be late.
Speaker 1: Can't be late. I'm like okay. Whereas his brother's like, Mom,
Speaker 1: it's fine. He's like, it's fine. We can have another
Speaker 1: cup of tea. Like he likes having tea parties. The
Speaker 1: six year old loves having tea parties, and so does
Speaker 1: the baby. We do have tea parties. Actually, I baked
Speaker 1: a cake today with the two year old. He was
Speaker 1: so excited. I should have bought some for you. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: next time. And my eight year old is amazing with lego,
Speaker 1: like he just did the fee for World Cup Lego
Speaker 1: when he's eight, and he just like, in two days
Speaker 1: this World Cup Lego, which is kind of intricate, really intense.
Speaker 1: And then and he loves math, like math is his
Speaker 1: favorite subject. And then my teenager who's fifteen, is a
Speaker 1: true artist. And we're actually working on a children's book together.
Speaker 1: But I told him no pressure, because I want him
Speaker 1: to feel it, you know, not feel the pressure of that.
Speaker 1: But I am excited about writing a book with him
Speaker 1: and him doing the illustrations. And he was very specific
Speaker 1: about what he wanted the book to be about. And yeah,
Speaker 1: how do you feel like you've changed from your first
Speaker 1: child to now your fourth child. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: you did a lot of different things with each child
Speaker 1: or did you maintain the same practices and the way
Speaker 1: that you treated your body during each pregnancy. Well, with
Speaker 1: my first pregnancy, I had a lot more time, obviously,
Speaker 1: so I was able to do I was doing yoga
Speaker 1: every day. I was like, you know, making one thing
Speaker 1: that's being consistent throughout all my pregnancy is my meditation practice.
Speaker 1: So that's like a non negotiable for me. In the morning,
Speaker 1: at least I can do that when the kids are asleep.
Speaker 1: Still I don't normally get time to do my second practice,
Speaker 1: but sometimes I do if I'm lucky. That's like a bonus.
Speaker 1: So with the other boys, I didn't have the luxury
Speaker 1: of doing like yoga every day to the extent that
Speaker 1: I did with Flynn. And then with Flynn, I remember
Speaker 1: my grandma saying like, routine is the most important thing
Speaker 1: that you can have with your children, and getting them
Speaker 1: in that routine, the sleep schedule and all of that,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, it's fine. I'm a willow tree.
Speaker 1: I'm much more flexible and I like to go with
Speaker 1: the flow, and I love the willow tree, so I
Speaker 1: do use that like I love that philosophy of being
Speaker 1: like a willow and not being rigid like an oak.
Speaker 1: But I have learned the value now that I have
Speaker 1: four in the safety that routine brings. And so I'm
Speaker 1: much more routined with my two year old than I
Speaker 1: was with my first child. Yeah. You learn so much
Speaker 1: as you go through each child. Yeah, and you, I guess.
Speaker 1: But actually with each pregnancy. With the first pregnancy, I
Speaker 1: was very relaxed because I was naive. Then the last pregnancy,
Speaker 1: I was more on my toes because the more you learn,
Speaker 1: the more you become a little more concerned. But then
Speaker 1: I'm the opposite, like with the children. So like with
Speaker 1: my first child, there was much more like oh okay,
Speaker 1: like we need to do this and this, And now
Speaker 1: with my fourth child, I'm more relaxed.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm like my sister was the same. She
Speaker 2: was so conscious of every little thing of just don't
Speaker 2: go there and don't go here. Her little girl now
Speaker 2: she's like a little wild one. She'll just climb up
Speaker 2: trees or run around. And yeah, my sister won't say anything,
Speaker 2: but it's true. You end up kind of easing into
Speaker 2: the it's like anything. I imagine. I haven't got to
Speaker 2: that stage in my life yet, but I can imagine
Speaker 2: you just with practice comes ease, and hey, you kind
Speaker 2: of have to let loose a little bit, let loose
Speaker 2: on the grips.
Speaker 1: Yes, especially with four boys running wide and then the
Speaker 1: little baby comes like after them and he tries to
Speaker 1: keep up with them, and I'm like, hey, take it easy,
Speaker 1: he's too he's too he can't keep up with you.
Speaker 2: Guys. You mentioned your meditation practice. Yeah, and I know
Speaker 2: that you've had this practice for quite a long time. Now,
Speaker 2: how many years have you been practicing meditation?
Speaker 1: So I first learned meditation when I was seventeen, and
Speaker 1: that was more of like Kundolini yoga meditation, and then
Speaker 1: I learned vada meditation about thirteen years ago. Obviously people
Speaker 1: see it more relate to it more as like TM,
Speaker 1: but originally it's dating meditation where you have a mantra
Speaker 1: and then you practice your mantra twenty minutes. And I've
Speaker 1: also I also have always enjoyed yoga nidra. Just a
Speaker 1: guided yoga nidra practice feels really good to me. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it doesn't know what yoga nitra is, would you explain
Speaker 1: it or the practice involves, Well, basically it's a guided
Speaker 1: practice where I lay down and listen to a guided
Speaker 1: kind of relaxation technique through the whole body and let go,
Speaker 1: and then you can go through each of the chakras
Speaker 1: depending on who's leading the But I have a really
Speaker 1: good thirty minute yoga nindra that is like a little
Speaker 1: reset button for me. So I just I really do
Speaker 1: like different types of meditations. I've also experienced some great
Speaker 1: benefits with Joe Dispenser's meditations, which a lot of my
Speaker 1: friends were saying you need to try. But I think
Speaker 1: what comes it comes back to is having that core
Speaker 1: practice of the Vedic meditation twenty minutes every morning. That
Speaker 1: really helps me feel like I'm watering my soul. And
Speaker 1: that to me is something that even my boys have
Speaker 1: a mantra. So except for the baby, my fifteen year
Speaker 1: old does. He had a group of friends that also
Speaker 1: have learned, you know, the meditation technique, and so I
Speaker 1: think it's really valuable to give them that so that
Speaker 1: then they have that in their pocket and they can
Speaker 1: rely on that. And also at night. Since my fifteen
Speaker 1: year old was young, I used to tell him this
Speaker 1: kind of guided meditation. I would say about like going
Speaker 1: to a waterfall and like you know, like having the
Speaker 1: water like cleanse away any worries and things like that.
Speaker 1: And so when I was at the Joe Despenser retreat,
Speaker 1: I met this woman, Meylan, and she is a singer
Speaker 1: and she sings with him, and so I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'd love to like kind of have you come and
Speaker 1: do some meditation with me? Would you be up for that?
Speaker 1: And she came over and when we were doing one
Speaker 1: of the meditations, she was like, you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like it's really important for you to channel a meditation now,
Speaker 1: And I was like, what do you mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know how to channel a meditation? And so I did,
Speaker 1: and we're actually probably going to release it. So I
Speaker 1: recorded one specifically like for myself, but then after I
Speaker 1: listened to it, I was like and she was like, wow,
Speaker 1: I got a lot from that. This would be amazing
Speaker 1: if we could share it with people, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I was so like it just it just came through obviously,
Speaker 1: like it was meant a message that was meant to
Speaker 1: come through me. And it's so beautiful because her voice
Speaker 1: is so angelic. Anyway, so I said to her the
Speaker 1: next day, do you mind if I record one for
Speaker 1: the children? And so I recorded a meditation for my
Speaker 1: children and every night they listened to it when they
Speaker 1: go to sleep, the six and seven year old and
Speaker 1: well six and eight year old, they share a room
Speaker 1: so that we put the meditation on they fall asleep,
Speaker 1: and it's like a guided meditation where they can cleanse
Speaker 1: away any worries and they feel guided and protected and
Speaker 1: safe and it is and it's really comforting for them
Speaker 1: to have that. And my two year old is like,
Speaker 1: put mummy's mummy's voice on now mummy's voice on. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's so wonderful to be sharing those you know, we
Speaker 1: share so much with our friends, our family about the
Speaker 1: tools and techniques that we've created when it comes to
Speaker 1: work or finances or you know, there's so much that
Speaker 1: you get taught from a young age. But to have
Speaker 1: tools like meditation, or to have tools like sharing a mantra,
Speaker 1: which at first someone may be like, okay, whatever, it's
Speaker 1: just some words, but those words carry so much energy
Speaker 1: and so much power that they can I think only
Speaker 1: when you do something are you able to really experience it.
Speaker 1: You can hear about it, people will talk about it,
Speaker 1: but when you actually sit for ten thirteen years, every
Speaker 1: single day consistently to lean into this practice, to deepen
Speaker 1: a practice, then can you really understand how the weight
Speaker 1: of it and how it can actually impact you. And
Speaker 1: so I guess for someone who's had that experience for
Speaker 1: thirteen years, how would you say meditation has changed your life?
Speaker 1: Or what did you notice in yourself changing as you
Speaker 1: were kind of deepening your practice. So it's meditation for me,
Speaker 1: and obviously prayer. So my grandmother introduced me to prayer
Speaker 1: when as long as I can remember, she would sit
Speaker 1: and talk with me and read to me and talk
Speaker 1: with me about God and read verses out the Bible
Speaker 1: and the power of prayer, And so for me doing
Speaker 1: the daily meditation and then the prayer of gratitude for
Speaker 1: my life and the prayer of also like forgiveness, because
Speaker 1: being human is, you know, making mistakes and understanding that
Speaker 1: every day kind of forgiving ourselves and forgiving others is
Speaker 1: such an important ritual to bring into our life because
Speaker 1: no one's perfect. And I say, like, I forgive myself,
Speaker 1: and I forgive everyone who has said something intentionally or
Speaker 1: unintentionally to upset me intentionally or unintentionally, and if I've
Speaker 1: done the same to them, Please help us forgive and
Speaker 1: release each other and be at peace with each other
Speaker 1: and be at peace with ourselves, because it's ultimately it's
Speaker 1: almost like just cleansing your spirit so it can have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to thrive and grow and evolve. Because if
Speaker 1: we haven't had that opportunity to cleanse ourself and sit
Speaker 1: deeply with ourself and listen to that guidance within, then
Speaker 1: we're sort of living on autopilot. Like how can we
Speaker 1: really grow to the extent that we're meant to if
Speaker 1: we don't have that in a guidance. So it's almost
Speaker 1: like tending to your soul and creating that time and
Speaker 1: that space in the world that's so fast paced right now.
Speaker 2: I used to think it's a self practice, like it's
Speaker 2: something that I'm doing for myself, and now I've realized
Speaker 2: it's actually part of not an obligation, but almost like
Speaker 2: a commitment that you're also making to the people around
Speaker 2: you in society, because you are choosing every single day,
Speaker 2: whatever meditation you do, whatever practice you have, it's a
Speaker 2: commitment to being a better person or creating a better
Speaker 2: ripple effect into the world. So how I interact with
Speaker 2: you every single day could depend on the practice that
Speaker 2: I've had with myself, And how beautiful that you are
Speaker 2: committing to being better. And if everybody chose to commit
Speaker 2: to be better, just incrementally every single day, then imagine
Speaker 2: how different art interaction can be. Imagine how different your
Speaker 2: interaction with a stranger on the street is, or someone
Speaker 2: comes with aggression and you're able to handle it calmly
Speaker 2: and be collected and help to pacify them because maybe
Speaker 2: they haven't done this.
Speaker 1: And have compassion for them because they don't know any
Speaker 1: other way exactly.
Speaker 2: I know you mentioned it helped you to kind of
Speaker 2: tune into you in a voice. Has there ever been
Speaker 2: a point where you've heard or like felt your intuition
Speaker 2: say something that felt really different to the way your
Speaker 2: life was going, Like did you have you ever had
Speaker 2: a moment of calling or a moment of connection where
Speaker 2: we're like, oh my god, this means I have to
Speaker 2: change my whole life, and I don't know whether I'm
Speaker 2: ready for this.
Speaker 1: I've kind of like really followed my intuition and it's
Speaker 1: kind of like felt right like in that Like even
Speaker 1: though so I've done many things like oh, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to write a book, and then I've written
Speaker 1: a book for young girls Treasure Yourself, Empower Yourself, and
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be working on the next book, but
Speaker 1: the time is something that I would love more fair time.
Speaker 2: I mean, you do have four children and you also
Speaker 2: have an incredible skinkilling. Yeah, You've got a lot going on.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and I love I designed jewelry too, So
Speaker 1: I designed this. This is it's called like you from
Speaker 1: my heart to yours. So it's with an Australian company,
Speaker 1: Michael and these little earrings, which is which is funny
Speaker 1: because I can actually.
Speaker 2: In them, like and I sleep in all my ear rings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're really comfortable. So I was like, you know
Speaker 1: this is I never take these.
Speaker 2: Off and really beautiful? Are they? Are they stones or
Speaker 2: are they.
Speaker 1: It's the lab grown diamonds.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, perfect, it's really beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What do you feel like you're making more trying to
Speaker 2: make more space for in your life? And you mentioned
Speaker 2: the book, but is there anything that you're trying to
Speaker 2: create more space for.
Speaker 1: I really try to give quality time to each of
Speaker 1: my children every day because I really see the importance
Speaker 1: of that for the whole family, like having that one
Speaker 1: on one time with them, being present, checking in with them,
Speaker 1: like how are you doing? And I always ask them
Speaker 1: how can I be a better mom? Is there anything
Speaker 1: I could do that you wish I would do that
Speaker 1: I'm not doing?
Speaker 2: That's so sweet?
Speaker 1: And I ask them because sometimes they're like, yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: like to have more tea parties or something. It's like
Speaker 1: sometimes it's like can you just stay with me until
Speaker 1: I fall asleep? Which I end up doing every night, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: my poor husband has to wait for me. It's just
Speaker 1: important to listen because I think children are our future,
Speaker 1: and I really want my children to just grow up
Speaker 1: feeling I'll like get tiary, but I want them to
Speaker 1: feel like loved and nurtured and like you know, accepted,
Speaker 1: and like I feel like I love them unconditionally. So
Speaker 1: I think about them and I tear up so my children,
Speaker 1: I guess in my whole world and my family.
Speaker 2: I love that you said you asked them, how can
Speaker 2: I be a better mother?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And I say the same thing to my husband too.
Speaker 1: I'm like, is there anything I could be doing to
Speaker 1: be a better partner to you? Because sometimes we think
Speaker 1: that we're giving our partner or our children what they need,
Speaker 1: but maybe we're just speaking through our love language. We're
Speaker 1: not speaking through theirs. Like my love language is physical touch,
Speaker 1: and two of my boys for sure a physical touch
Speaker 1: as well. But my husband is acts of service, So
Speaker 1: you know, I have to that like doesn't come naturally
Speaker 1: to me, So I like have to like check in
Speaker 1: with him, like everything you'd like me to do more of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was never in the practice of that, but
Speaker 2: my husband did that from when we I think when
Speaker 2: we first got married, and always used to be like, oh, wow,
Speaker 2: he's actually asking me, And sometimes I wouldn't even know
Speaker 2: how to respond because I wasn't even expecting him to
Speaker 2: ask me that question. To I had to become more
Speaker 2: aware of what I actually wanted or why you were
Speaker 2: I wasn't even wick that. Yeah, And so it's such
Speaker 2: a powerful question to ask, whether it's friends or family
Speaker 2: or partner or children, to just know, how can I
Speaker 2: show up for you better? And I think it's something
Speaker 2: that I'm trying to implement. So I love that you've reiterated.
Speaker 2: It's reminded me of that that need to deepen relationships.
Speaker 2: It's like, how can I just need to ask a question?
Speaker 2: How can I be better for you? Yeah? And it
Speaker 2: can make such a difference, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because we can think that we're like I can be
Speaker 1: sharing my husband with all this affection. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: not it's not landing as much as if I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, doing doing more acts of service, do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, obviously he loves the affection too,
Speaker 1: but he's the way that he feels loved different to
Speaker 1: the way I feel loved. So a lot of times
Speaker 1: in relationships, we give to the person the way that
Speaker 1: we want to be loved instead of what is it
Speaker 1: that really makes them feel loved. I was thinking about Obviously,
Speaker 1: we talked about your childhood and then I know that
Speaker 1: you went into modeling at quite a young age. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think about it now, and I'm like, my son
Speaker 1: is fifteen, and I started modeling at thirteen thirteen, and
Speaker 1: my mom was with me on all my photo shoots
Speaker 1: up until I was seventeen and traveled to Japan alone.
Speaker 2: I was like, I seventeen.
Speaker 1: Seventeen and at the time there were no mobile phones.
Speaker 1: I had to call from a calling card. And yeah, how.
Speaker 2: Did you start modeling? Was it something that you seeked
Speaker 2: out or was it something that found you.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine entered myself and herself into a
Speaker 1: modeling competition and it was called Dolly Magazine, and it was
Speaker 1: just like a young girl's magazine. And I actually won
Speaker 1: that magazine like to cover girl, oh wow competition, And
Speaker 1: it was really that that started the introduction to modeling.
Speaker 1: But I never let it interfere with school, so I
Speaker 1: made sure I graduated grade twelve, and then I went
Speaker 1: on to travel to Japan and then Paris and Milan
Speaker 1: and then New York and all these places.
Speaker 2: How was that industry for you? Was the what was
Speaker 2: the moment where you felt like, Wow, this is I've
Speaker 2: actually really made it and I can't believe this is
Speaker 2: my life? And then what was the moment where you
Speaker 2: thought maybe this isn't Was there ever a moment where
Speaker 2: you thought maybe this isn't what I want to do? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there were plenty of times when I was like
Speaker 1: I would call my dad. Remember calling my dad once
Speaker 1: when I was living in Paris, and I was like, Dad,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like I really don't know if this
Speaker 1: is what I meant to be doing because I want
Speaker 1: to make a difference. I always knew I wanted to
Speaker 1: make a difference to people's life. And I was like,
Speaker 1: how am I making a difference to people's life? Like
Speaker 1: by modeling? Like what am I actually doing? And He's like, Miranda,
Speaker 1: every day you're making a difference by being you. You're
Speaker 1: showing up to set, You're talking to these girls, You're
Speaker 1: teaching them about health and wellness. And my mum had
Speaker 1: a pillow from when I was young and would say,
Speaker 1: let your little light shine. And so he's like you're
Speaker 1: shining your light and doesn't matter what you're doing, you're
Speaker 1: shining your light. And I was like, Okay, I'll take
Speaker 1: this opportunity. I kept thinking, I'll save my money, take
Speaker 1: the opportunity make I would make Hey while the sun
Speaker 1: shines and create my own business afterwards. And that's what
Speaker 1: I've done, and modeling gave me the opportunity to do that,
Speaker 1: and it actually lasted a lot longer than I ever
Speaker 1: expected it to. And I never expected that I would
Speaker 1: ever be in the position that I was in as
Speaker 1: a victoria Secret Angel, and to be the first Victoria's
Speaker 1: Secret Angel Australian Victoria's Secret Angel. I remember I went
Speaker 1: on a student exchange program with a couple of my friends,
Speaker 1: Alison and Lauren, and we went on a student exchange
Speaker 1: program from our town to Virginia. And it was so
Speaker 1: funny because we were like fourteen, yeah, and we were
Speaker 1: living in Virginia for three months on this exchange program
Speaker 1: and my host parents took us to so many fun places,
Speaker 1: like we went to Dollywood and then I saw Victoria's
Speaker 1: Secret for the first time, and I remember thinking they
Speaker 1: never had seen anything like that in Australia. There was
Speaker 1: nothing remotely like that. So that was just like whoa,
Speaker 1: And to think fast forward, how many years ahead there
Speaker 1: I would be up there like it. That's just like
Speaker 1: mind blowing to think because I would have never put
Speaker 1: myself in that category. And so it was pretty surreal
Speaker 1: that whole experience with Victoria's Secret and walking the runway.
Speaker 1: But the funny thing about me is I'm kind of like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because I'm Australian. I'm like,
Speaker 1: don't take myself too seriously. So I'm like, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: just have fun with this and you know, enjoy it.
Speaker 1: So I'm running, I'm walking down the runway and I'm
Speaker 1: like hey, and like being cheeky and doing the week
Speaker 1: at the end that everyone's like, oh, that's your signature thing.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's just something that's part of my nature.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit like Miles mischievous, cheeky. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: do say cheeky all the time. And yeah, to be honest,
Speaker 1: my grandma was a bit cheeky too, so I probably
Speaker 1: got it from some family runs in the family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously modeling can be a very incredible but I'm
Speaker 2: sure difficult, oh too. What would you say, were some
Speaker 2: of the hardest moments during that that time of your life.
Speaker 1: There's so much rejection. There's so much like so many no's.
Speaker 1: So you walk around and you meet ample people and
Speaker 1: no matter which city you're in, and you go to
Speaker 1: multiple castings today and then you might get like one
Speaker 1: callback after you've been to like thirty castings and the
Speaker 1: rest are all knows. So there's a lot of like rejection.
Speaker 1: But I always knew that it was a little bit
Speaker 1: of like I'm going to just enjoy this opportunity and
Speaker 1: see what comes from it. And lucky I had that
Speaker 1: kind of strength from my upbringing that it was never
Speaker 1: about what was on the outside, it was more about
Speaker 1: what was on the inside. So I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: just going to see where this takes me and if
Speaker 1: this can like if I can continue to save money,
Speaker 1: i might as well, because this is a short term
Speaker 1: career and and then I just enjoy it while I
Speaker 1: can and save money and see the world and experience
Speaker 1: different cultures, like I remember first going to Japan and
Speaker 1: I just absolutely love the culture. And how like when
Speaker 1: you live somewhere your shoes are pointing in but then
Speaker 1: when you're just a visitor. They're pointing out, like there's
Speaker 1: these different normal traditions that I learned along the way, and.
Speaker 2: I don't know it.
Speaker 1: It's been a fun ride. It's also been one that
Speaker 1: taught me a lot of resilience. Like there I had
Speaker 1: to obviously miss a lot of my friends' weddings and
Speaker 1: special events, because when you have a contract, you can't
Speaker 1: just be like, oh, I'm out of here, like I've
Speaker 1: got to go to a friend's wedding. No, you have
Speaker 1: to be there and you show up. But I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't remember ever canceling like being sick and canceling
Speaker 1: a modeling job.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, is such a commitment that you have to make.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Would you say that you have always been a confident person.
Speaker 2: I would say I was kind of like a bit
Speaker 2: of both, Like I can be a little shy, which
Speaker 2: is weird, but then I also have this side of
Speaker 2: me that's like like whoo hi, so and then when
Speaker 2: you look at my astrology chat, it has that so
Speaker 2: it has like a cancer moon bit of Leo rising.
Speaker 2: So I love being home and a homebody and I
Speaker 2: can be like the little crab, but then the Leo
Speaker 2: comes out and I'm like, there's no business like show
Speaker 2: like in New York, just you know, having fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But and so would you say being in the modeling
Speaker 2: industry help to actually uncover and maintain your confidence or
Speaker 2: if there were moments where you felt insecure, how is
Speaker 2: how would you deal with that and how did you
Speaker 2: kind of make it through?
Speaker 1: I think modeling is the worst thing for your confidence
Speaker 1: because you're constantly compared to other people, and then you
Speaker 1: rejected for your appearance, right, And there was so much
Speaker 1: rejection and for so long I was also put into
Speaker 1: a category of the catalog model, like and then eventually
Speaker 1: you get a breakthrough. I had a breakthrough where I
Speaker 1: turned into fashion because Steven Mazell believed in me, and
Speaker 1: another photographer, Willie vander Pier, and then obviously Nicholas Gesquier,
Speaker 1: you know, who was at Balenciaga at the time. So
Speaker 1: those people believed in me and they switched me from
Speaker 1: like it was very it wasn't very common for a
Speaker 1: catalog model to go into fashion, you know, and so
Speaker 1: that was quite a big deal. So and then it
Speaker 1: was fun being in fashion because it's much more creative
Speaker 1: and it's much more about like you learn a lot
Speaker 1: about but both were good. I mean, I mean the
Speaker 1: catalog was was hard work as well, like the long hours.
Speaker 2: In the industry where obviously so much just focused on
Speaker 2: your external appearance and beauty on the outside. Has your
Speaker 2: idea of beauty changed over time and as you've gotten older,
Speaker 2: how has you know? How have you want obviously coming
Speaker 2: out of the industry, been able to disconnect necessarily from
Speaker 2: focusing so much on that, and has it affected you
Speaker 2: as you've gotten older.
Speaker 1: One funny thing happened to me when I was shooting.
Speaker 1: It was like a Razor commercial or something in South Africa,
Speaker 1: and the producer, the woman, she had so much confidence
Speaker 1: and she had so much self love and it just
Speaker 1: oozed out of her and she was way more attractive
Speaker 1: than the really on paper picture you know girls that
Speaker 1: I was working with for this commercial shoot, because she
Speaker 1: genuinely had an appreciation for her soul. And that was
Speaker 1: to me. I was like, wow, It's like it must
Speaker 1: have been eighteen nineteen at the time, and I was like,
Speaker 1: that's really what this is all about, because it's really
Speaker 1: not pretty when you are not in touch with your soul.
Speaker 1: And she was really in touch with her soul. And
Speaker 1: she was not what you would typically say on paper
Speaker 1: that someone would say, is you know.
Speaker 2: What you would expect?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then but her soul was so alluring, and
Speaker 1: I realized we're all energetic beings, and we're all so different.
Speaker 1: It's amazing to think that, you know, we each have
Speaker 1: eyes and ears and mouth and a nose, and we're
Speaker 1: all so uniquely different. Like imagine that, like and we
Speaker 1: all have something uniquely different inside of us that we
Speaker 1: need to bring to this world. And we're also interconnected
Speaker 1: with each other definitely. You think about when someone walks
Speaker 1: into a room. I always noticed this exactly what you
Speaker 1: said about the leader you worked with. Where someone walks
Speaker 1: into a room, and depending on how how they're carrying themselves,
Speaker 1: how they're walking, the words that come out of their mouth,
Speaker 1: the energy that they're carrying, it can completely transform someone's
Speaker 1: physical appearance. Oh, just by how they're interacting with you,
Speaker 1: just what you said, things that who's out of a person.
Speaker 1: So it's not what you can see most of the time,
Speaker 1: it's actually just how they make you feel, the energy
Speaker 1: that they're bringing towards you, what you're saying about the connectedness.
Speaker 1: It's like we are constantly exchanging and enuy each other. Yes,
Speaker 1: and so eventually someone can be so beautiful and then
Speaker 1: they open their mouth or you experience energy and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh interesting, Yeah, and the same the other way around.
Speaker 1: And so I think it's you know, I always I
Speaker 1: love this quote that says, the least interesting thing about
Speaker 1: you should be the way that you look. Yes, And
Speaker 1: I was like, I couldn't agree.
Speaker 2: It's so true. I mean, obviously, there are some incredibly
Speaker 2: beautiful people in the world, and that's so wonderful to
Speaker 2: appreciate that too, but at the same time, being able
Speaker 2: to constantly remember that no one's going to think about
Speaker 2: that when I'm on my deathbed then just thinking about that.
Speaker 1: No one's thinking about that. They're thinking about the moments
Speaker 1: that you share together. They're thinking about you know, how
Speaker 1: you felt like I, yeah, that goes into a whole thing.
Speaker 1: But I believe that we will eventually feel the way
Speaker 1: we've made other people feel.
Speaker 2: It's so true.
Speaker 1: So it's really important to be conscious of like the
Speaker 1: way we treat every single person that we ever come
Speaker 1: into contact with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I completely agree. And you obviously went from modeling
Speaker 2: to now becoming an entrepreneur Yeah, obviously still linked to
Speaker 2: beauty because you're in skincare, but a completely different angle.
Speaker 2: Could you share a little bit about core organics and
Speaker 2: tell me how you went into it and what brought
Speaker 2: you to creating these products.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I started Korra because when I was a teenager,
Speaker 1: my mum was diagnosed with tumors in a spleen.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So as a family, we had to look at everything
Speaker 1: that we were obviously ingesting and also what we were
Speaker 1: putting on our skin and what products we were using
Speaker 1: and you know, every what packaged goods we were had
Speaker 1: in our home, and so we went through a whole overhaul,
Speaker 1: and through that process, we realized that what you put
Speaker 1: on your skin syncs in and the skin is the
Speaker 1: largest organ So it was really important for us to
Speaker 1: be using products that were natural. But I also wanted
Speaker 1: products that were effective and results driven. So I was
Speaker 1: like talking to a friend of mine and I said,
Speaker 1: do you really do you think it's possible to create
Speaker 1: like certified organic? Because I know that an organic ingredient
Speaker 1: has up to sixty percent more antioxidants right than a
Speaker 1: non organic ingredient. Not only does it not get sprayed
Speaker 1: with the unnecessary pesticides, but it also has that abundance
Speaker 1: more antioxidants, which is why weird organic food. So I
Speaker 1: was like, how amazing would it be to create products
Speaker 1: that were truly certified organic? And this was back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. Oh wow, that's twenty years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder, I'm tired.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I'm like, you were thinking about it
Speaker 2: before it became before trendy.
Speaker 1: Before clean beauty was the thing. So now you know,
Speaker 1: there is a lot to be said, and I think
Speaker 1: it's great that the conversation is happening and that people
Speaker 1: are educating themselves and there's great places where people can search,
Speaker 1: like EWG. But from day one, I wanted to have
Speaker 1: a product that was certified organic. So we're certified organic
Speaker 1: through the World Certification Cosmos ECOST, which really is a
Speaker 1: very strict certification that you can have. So you don't
Speaker 1: have to take my word for it. You know that
Speaker 1: they're the one. They're the ones that have done the
Speaker 1: research and they ordered everything that we do, from our
Speaker 1: manufacturers to everything that's written on the packaging, to obviously
Speaker 1: our ingredients sourcing to Yeah, I mean it's a very
Speaker 1: hard process, which is why I think we're still one
Speaker 1: of the very few people like, well, it's fully organic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me about Cora. What does Kora mean?
Speaker 1: It's about like your mind, body and spirit. That was
Speaker 1: the intention, like your core self. But then we did
Speaker 1: Korra with a K because my last name was k
Speaker 1: and it just it just felt right, and it was
Speaker 1: one of those things when we were playing around with
Speaker 1: names and I was like, oh, core Cora, Cora with
Speaker 1: a C, I Cora with a K, and ill you
Speaker 1: remember as well, Oh, this feels right. Really resonated with me,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to make sure organics was on there
Speaker 1: just because it really does set it apart and it's
Speaker 1: what I was personally looking for. And from day one,
Speaker 1: the products have been filtered through rose quartz crystals. So
Speaker 1: every product is filtered through rose quartz crystals in the
Speaker 1: manufacturing process because I really believe in the energy and
Speaker 1: it's not for the efficacious benefits. It's just as an
Speaker 1: an addition for me to give my love, like put
Speaker 1: my love into the products. I mean, that's an extra
Speaker 1: step that I'm sure isn't necessary. Yeah, but it's what
Speaker 1: I wanted because I wanted it to nourish your mind.
Speaker 1: Your body and your skin when you're use in it.
Speaker 1: And so we use essential oils in our no fragrance
Speaker 1: obviously for their therapeutic benefits, but also their skin benefits.
Speaker 1: So this one, as I was saying, the chimric cleanser,
Speaker 1: we sell one every nine minute. People are obsessed with
Speaker 1: it because it has the peppermint essential oil in there,
Speaker 1: and it has Palo Santo in there, and then it
Speaker 1: obviously has the chimeric for the brightening effects. But when
Speaker 1: you use it in the morning, it's such a beautiful, invigorating,
Speaker 1: spar like experience. So you're cleansing your face with the
Speaker 1: Palo santo, you're cleansing your energy as well.
Speaker 2: Smells make such a difference. My favorite thing about skincare
Speaker 2: routine is the smells and the experience that you get
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the day and at the end
Speaker 2: of the night. Skincare is one of my favorite things
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: It's the best way to feel like you're giving yourself
Speaker 2: a little bit of luxury in your day. And this also,
Speaker 2: this one has also in there. This is a minti mist,
Speaker 2: so it has the So I do love peppermint, and
Speaker 2: I've heard you love peppermint and palo sander, so it
Speaker 2: clears your.
Speaker 1: Energy and oh so nice. Thanks, I need some much
Speaker 1: Sometimes I spray that all my kids when they get home.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, let's just do a little reset.
Speaker 2: Oh that smells amazing active algae, minty miss or I
Speaker 2: love peppermintman everywhere. Same on my stomach, yeah, in my
Speaker 2: head when I've got a headache, Oh, I do the same.
Speaker 1: And then on the back of the bottle there's a
Speaker 1: positive word. So on the back of the Nony glow face,
Speaker 1: well is bliss. So it's just like a little reminder
Speaker 1: because every word is every word that we think is
Speaker 1: so powerful. Every it's a vibration, and so I wanted
Speaker 1: to bless them with not only crystals, but also with
Speaker 1: the positive words. So, yeah, you mentioned nony Nony. Oh
Speaker 1: so actually niney is a key ingredient across the whole range.
Speaker 1: So every product contains ninny, which is a superfood superfruit.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure most people will not have heard of nony,
Speaker 2: So share a little bit about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm the only skincare range that has nonetfit.
Speaker 1: It has over one hundred vitamins and minerals.
Speaker 2: Wow, where does it originate from?
Speaker 1: Tahiti? But there it is grown in parts of Australia
Speaker 1: as well. And actually on my honeymoon with my husband,
Speaker 1: we had nony like fresh nony, and it doesn't it's
Speaker 1: not that delicous fruits. It's a fruit. Yeah, they call
Speaker 1: it the cheese fruit. It's been been used in Polynesia
Speaker 1: for so long just as like a wonderful way to
Speaker 1: kind of boost your immune system, and it has so
Speaker 1: many benefits, and it's something my grandmother introduced me to
Speaker 1: and I would have a little shot of noni and
Speaker 1: now I still have a little shot of nony and
Speaker 1: my kids go on and off it. The baby actually
Speaker 1: likes it right now, so that's good. He's like nony
Speaker 1: non In the morning, I have my nony and I
Speaker 1: have my coffee.
Speaker 2: And one are the benefits for your skin.
Speaker 1: So it's really great for your skin because it is
Speaker 1: basically very anti inflammatory, anti my microubial. And so I
Speaker 1: used to put nony directly on my skin like if
Speaker 1: I have had a pimple or if I had a
Speaker 1: son burn, and it would really help me with my skin.
Speaker 1: And so when I started Korra, I said, I want,
Speaker 1: no need to be the key ingredient. And when we
Speaker 1: first made the samples, it smelt terrible because of the nony,
Speaker 1: the way the nony smelt. But then obviously we found
Speaker 1: a way to freeze dry it and get the benefits
Speaker 1: without the smell. What is thenony?
Speaker 2: That's incredible? What what would you say is one of
Speaker 2: the things while you've been going through this process of
Speaker 2: creating Quorra that was the most surprising about the skincare
Speaker 2: industry that you feel people don't really know about.
Speaker 1: I think so many people just assume that products that
Speaker 1: are on this cell the shelf is safe, and that's
Speaker 1: what we assumed. And then when we read the fine
Speaker 1: print and I had this little book called the Chemical Maze,
Speaker 1: that's when we realized that there's so many unnecessary ingredients
Speaker 1: that are in these products that we're exposed to and
Speaker 1: using every day, And there is so much that we
Speaker 1: can't control, like the pollution outside, But there are so
Speaker 1: many things we can control. And that's why when we're regnant,
Speaker 1: we're told I'll be aware of what you put on
Speaker 1: your skin, But why shouldn't we be aware all the
Speaker 1: time of what we're putting on our skin? And choose
Speaker 1: products that can give you results that you need but
Speaker 1: are also healthy for you. And so our products we
Speaker 1: test as well for the you know, to make sure
Speaker 1: that there are results driven and so for instance, with
Speaker 1: our plant stem cell retinal alternative products, we tested die
Speaker 1: hard retinal fans and eighty five percent said they got
Speaker 1: better results using my plant stem cell retinal alternative, better
Speaker 1: and more powerful results than traditional retinal without the dryness,
Speaker 1: without the irritation. And they can use it morning and night,
Speaker 1: and it helps support the skin cellular turnover. It helps
Speaker 1: plump the skin. It helps with fine lines and wrinkles.
Speaker 1: It helps with the you should see the necks, the
Speaker 1: neck picture before and after on the fine lines and wrinkles.
Speaker 2: It's pretty wild. What's your morning skin care routine? And
Speaker 2: then you eating skin care routine.
Speaker 1: Take a while morning cleansed in the shower with the
Speaker 1: Chimeric foaming cleans that it's like a breath of fresh
Speaker 1: air is so invigorating. It's like it just like wakes
Speaker 1: you up, and it's like something that I would really miss,
Speaker 1: Like I just I really look forward to it. And
Speaker 1: then I'll use the Chimmerike scrub. If you haven't used
Speaker 1: that that is, Like, my husband uses that every day
Speaker 1: because he has drys skin. I use it every other
Speaker 1: day because it's like a microdermabrasion scrub that you can
Speaker 1: really dictate how aggressive you want to go with it
Speaker 1: or how gentle you want to go with it. And
Speaker 1: it's got these little rose hip seeds in there that
Speaker 1: gently sloth away the dead skin cells and has turmeric
Speaker 1: in there. So I believe in ingredients that are like
Speaker 1: superfoods that will put the nutrients back into your skin.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of why I love incorporating those ingredients
Speaker 1: like the chimrik in the noni and then the Kakadoo
Speaker 1: plum which is an ingredient that high in vitamin C
Speaker 1: from Australia and my mum used to give me the
Speaker 1: Kackadoo plum powder as a kid. Anyway, So after I
Speaker 1: cleanse my skin and do all that, I missed it
Speaker 1: and then I'll put a serum on. So I'll put
Speaker 1: on the vitamin C serum. Sometimes I'll you know, put
Speaker 1: on we have a turmeric nice cinamide as well, which
Speaker 1: is really amazing. So I'll do those two and then
Speaker 1: I'll do my trimric in the morning. Chimeric moisturizer, which
Speaker 1: is actually Katie Perry's favorite moisturizer, and then she keeps
Speaker 1: it with her everywhere, and the Nonyglow face oil, and
Speaker 1: then I'll do the Vitamin C I cream and then
Speaker 1: the eye oil. So that's the morning routine. And then
Speaker 1: at night we have an active algae calming cleansing bomb,
Speaker 1: which is so like it's so like it reminds me.
Speaker 1: It kind of ties into like this milky cleansing bomb
Speaker 1: that I feel like Cleopatra when I'm wiping washing off
Speaker 1: my makeup. It's like really beautiful. And then I'll double
Speaker 1: cleans using that cleanser again because I'm addicted. And then
Speaker 1: I will well, I have a body wash as well.
Speaker 1: Body wash, and then I get out of the shower
Speaker 1: and I'll do body lotion and body oil. My body
Speaker 1: oil is like a dream come true. It is the
Speaker 1: most luxurious body oil that I've ever come across. You
Speaker 1: would love it.
Speaker 2: I love body oil. I do.
Speaker 1: I have and I put it everywhere in between my
Speaker 1: toes and all my joints and so good everywhere.
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite reds. He's doing a body
Speaker 2: oil after I read it calls it up younger, and
Speaker 2: just this process of coming out of the shower, Yes,
Speaker 2: when your skin is ready to absorb all the nutrients.
Speaker 2: That's why it's so important what you've said about. You know,
Speaker 2: we think about pesticides and all these things when it
Speaker 2: comes to what we're feeding ourselves, but actually you put
Speaker 2: onto your skin is exactly the same. And so as
Speaker 2: I come out the shower, I usually do exactly that.
Speaker 2: I have this like women's energy oil that I use
Speaker 2: at the moment, and I just lather it on me.
Speaker 2: It's such a wonderful ritual. It's I love. It's so
Speaker 2: what you said about physical touch, even doing that for yourself,
Speaker 2: So it's such a lovely process of remind of on
Speaker 2: coming back into touch with your physical body after having
Speaker 2: such a long day or when you're feeling hectic and busy.
Speaker 2: I find going into a hot shower water is so cleansing.
Speaker 2: That's why the meditation that you said you do with
Speaker 2: your side, there is something about water falling on you
Speaker 2: that helps to release so much mass, energy, tension, same
Speaker 2: and then coming out and reminding yourself you are physically
Speaker 2: here by just putting a little bit of oil on
Speaker 2: your body yes, it can completely change your energy in
Speaker 2: your mood. If I've had a really heavy day, doing
Speaker 2: that process, just those two things can completely shift out feed.
Speaker 2: Oh it does. It sounds so small, but when you
Speaker 2: end up doing it, you're like, wow, God that I realized.
Speaker 1: This just makes such a difference. And I love it
Speaker 1: that they have a younger. You're in all the joints.
Speaker 1: And I do it to my baby too, and he
Speaker 1: loves it. A little baby massage. Oh, massage his legs.
Speaker 2: He's a little feet and he's like he's ten and
Speaker 2: he's still like, can I have a little massage. I'm like,
Speaker 2: of course, you can. Growing pain.
Speaker 1: My other boy are not as much, not as much
Speaker 1: into it, but they were when they were little. So
Speaker 1: I've used that oil on them from birth when they
Speaker 1: were little. And my two year old still loves it.
Speaker 1: And then he when we like because I often take
Speaker 1: a bath with him and then we get out and
Speaker 1: I'll like put the oil on him, and then he's
Speaker 1: like mummy and he'll like start putting on me, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, Mummy's down now.
Speaker 2: It's just a nice practice to do together.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is there anything right now that you are working on
Speaker 2: or are really excited about bringing out, whether it's with
Speaker 2: Cora or in other parts of your life.
Speaker 1: I have quite a few things, so I make teacups
Speaker 1: as well. So how I have the teacups and jewelry
Speaker 1: that I that I make, I'm just the you know,
Speaker 1: the designer for those and the teacups or the Australiana Collection.
Speaker 1: Actually bought you a teacup, which I'll show you.
Speaker 2: I love tea so much as you tell yes.
Speaker 1: With Cora, it's just I'm at this stage where I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get it out there more because for so
Speaker 1: many years during Cora's life, I've been pregnant, and so
Speaker 1: I'm trying to now make people aware that there's something
Speaker 1: out there that you can get incredible results from and
Speaker 1: look online at the before and after see the results
Speaker 1: and you don't have to compromise your health. And I
Speaker 1: think that people deserve that. Like it's been my passion project,
Speaker 1: Cora Organics, It's not it hasn't been like a business
Speaker 1: minded project. It's really been a labor of love that
Speaker 1: I want to give and share with people. I haven't
Speaker 1: taken a cent out of the company. I've just reinvested
Speaker 1: it so that I can create, you know, a better
Speaker 1: team and better products and more testing, more, you know,
Speaker 1: so that we can really show people that they can
Speaker 1: get the benefits they need in a way that's not
Speaker 1: detrimental to their health. So it's really about getting that
Speaker 1: out more for me right now, and then obviously working
Speaker 1: on the book with my son, and then you know,
Speaker 1: maybe getting these meditations out that I just recorded and
Speaker 1: maybe doing more of that, because I find that something
Speaker 1: that really lights me up is kind of meditating and
Speaker 1: sharing with especially with children.
Speaker 2: There's something so special about as soon as you find
Speaker 2: something that really helps you, whether it is your skin care,
Speaker 2: whether it is your meditation practice, there's a natural desire
Speaker 2: to want to share with other people, to create that
Speaker 2: for themselves. Like you want other people to feel the
Speaker 2: happiness that you get from something. You want someone to
Speaker 2: experience what you feel when you come out the shower
Speaker 2: and put a body or on such simple things. But
Speaker 2: the desire to share something that's made you happy with
Speaker 2: other people, and it's such such a beautiful thing to
Speaker 2: be able to do it, to be able to give
Speaker 2: in the platform to do it, to be able to
Speaker 2: have the resources to actually share it with other people.
Speaker 2: I think it's so special in whichever way is a
Speaker 2: tea cup, to have a delicious cup of tea exactly
Speaker 2: to enjoy that moment exactly. So it's so wonderful that
Speaker 2: you're choosing to take all the things that have made
Speaker 2: you happy in your life and actually share it with
Speaker 2: other people. I think it's a really wonderful quality and
Speaker 2: something that we have the desire to but sometimes don't
Speaker 2: know how to.
Speaker 1: And I was so fun that I was able to
Speaker 1: create a r like from my Heart to Yours with
Speaker 1: the little Heart collection, Like I was like, Oh, I
Speaker 1: really want to create these like hearts that like when
Speaker 1: people feel like it connects them to that part of themselves.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and you know, I think being connected with
Speaker 1: your heart is such a powerful a powerful place for everyone.
Speaker 1: And some people might be like, oh, there's too much
Speaker 1: pain there, but actually it's when you sit with that
Speaker 1: and you can there's so much growth in that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I want I'm through the challenging times definitely.
Speaker 1: And on that note, have you had any experiences in
Speaker 1: your life We've gone through difficult times. And for any
Speaker 1: women that are listening to this that are struggling in
Speaker 1: their life, is there any advice that you have for them.
Speaker 1: I feel like so many women look up to you
Speaker 1: and admire you, and so is are there any words
Speaker 1: of wisdom or something that's helped you get through a
Speaker 1: difficult moment in your life. There's so much power in
Speaker 1: the present that we don't necessarily fully appreciate, and so
Speaker 1: it's like being in the present with those that really
Speaker 1: that you feel that you resonate with and you know,
Speaker 1: and being connected with people and being connected with nature,
Speaker 1: being connected with yourself, coming back to like putting your
Speaker 1: feet in the grass, like watching the sunrise, and and
Speaker 1: being grateful for those moments and really just having that
Speaker 1: kind of that reverence for creation and all that is.
Speaker 1: And the fact that, like I don't know, having that
Speaker 1: attitude of gratitude is something that I feel is helpful
Speaker 1: even in the hard moments, because you know that through
Speaker 1: that challenging time there will be more growth and that
Speaker 1: it won't be this painful forever. And so like, yeah,
Speaker 1: having perspective and understanding like I'm going to feel whatever
Speaker 1: I'm feeling and not push it away or push it down,
Speaker 1: like let and I think as women as well, let
Speaker 1: ourselves feel whatever we feel. For so many of us.
Speaker 1: Even sometimes that anger might come up and we're like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not an angry person, like that's it. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: like no, I'm like happy. But I think it's important
Speaker 1: to actually embrace it and feel it and be like
Speaker 1: I'm actually feeling angry right now and I need a moment,
Speaker 1: and that's okay.
Speaker 2: I think if you don't, then it will just builds
Speaker 2: up and then suddenly it seeps into areas of your
Speaker 2: life that you don't even want it to. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: don't even realize.
Speaker 1: And it causes blockages in our energy centers. And we
Speaker 1: don't want that. We want to feel like here, I
Speaker 1: am putting my shoes back on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have these a little fill in the blanks. Okay,
Speaker 2: it can be one word, it can be a sentence,
Speaker 2: whatever comes to your mind. So it's lately I've been craving.
Speaker 1: The morning sunshine.
Speaker 2: We've had a lot of that lately. It's so nice.
Speaker 1: Yes, I really love it. Like I get excited about
Speaker 1: waking up see the sun and just being under it
Speaker 1: for like five minutes in the more exactly. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's really important. Lately, I've been reading, so I'm
Speaker 1: reading two books, The Field by Lynn mctarget and it
Speaker 1: talks about how we're all interconnected and I'm really loving that.
Speaker 1: And also I'm reading a book by Yogan under the
Speaker 1: Journey to Self Realization, and I just feel like on
Speaker 1: every page there's just like just a little seed of
Speaker 1: wisdom and something to just kind of sit with. And
Speaker 1: so I'm I like reading a couple of different books
Speaker 1: at a time. I'm the same, yeah, and I just
Speaker 1: feel like they're kind of a little interconnected, but they're
Speaker 1: different in their own way. She's more science based and
Speaker 1: he obviously is science too and spirituality. So I'm really
Speaker 1: enjoying both of its amazing. And then also David Hawkins.
Speaker 1: If you haven't read Power Verse Force, they're just any
Speaker 1: of David Hawkins. The Hawkins h A W K I
Speaker 1: N S.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, I'm going to add them to my list.
Speaker 1: I love like that not Hawkins Hawkins powervers Force or
Speaker 1: Transcending the Levels of Consciousness really great book.
Speaker 2: Okay, added to my list. Yeah, I'm currently I'm unlearning.
Speaker 1: Ooh, I'm unlearning. I'm trying to like like not have
Speaker 1: because I do everything on my phone, so and I
Speaker 1: work from home and I use my phone as my computer.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of unlearning like the like automatic pick up, yeah, scrolling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't really need to check my emails
Speaker 1: right now. I can just be in this moment. So
Speaker 1: I'm kind of wanting to unlearn having to do and
Speaker 1: just actually have a moment to just like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna just have a moment. If the baby's asleep, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have a moment and just put my feet outside
Speaker 1: in the grass and like look at the light shining
Speaker 1: through the trees and just like be in this moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that's something I'm really working on, is
Speaker 2: not covering up noise with noise. Yeah, and your mind
Speaker 2: is like noisy. I think the tendencies put the music louder,
Speaker 2: or distract yourself or do all those things that actually,
Speaker 2: when your minds screaming at you, that's when you're supposed
Speaker 2: to stop and listen rather than trying to cover up
Speaker 2: with everything. And so that's that that resonated with me
Speaker 2: for sure. Yeah, right now I need more quiet moments. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and time time to have quiet moments. FATA. My skin
Speaker 2: can't live without hmm.
Speaker 1: Obviously, the chimmering foaming cleanser but also the non Anglo body.
Speaker 2: A really good cry feels like, oh.
Speaker 1: Such a good release. It just feels like cleansing.
Speaker 2: Definitely, the most used app on my phone is obviously Snapchat.
Speaker 2: That's what I communicate with, you know, my friends and family,
Speaker 2: my husband Althoy were sending little snaps, but also the
Speaker 2: Aura ring app. I'm a little bit addicted to checking
Speaker 2: like that or my stairs. When I need advice, I call.
Speaker 1: I call my husband, I call my mom. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. When I feel low, I.
Speaker 1: Go out in nature, just put my feet in the grass,
Speaker 1: try and get all the sunshine.
Speaker 2: Amazing. Thank you so much, thank you. This has been
Speaker 2: so wonderful. It's just so nice hearing your story and
Speaker 2: so much and hearing about everything that you're doing with
Speaker 2: such an inspiration to so many people, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: they're going to get so much from hearing about your
Speaker 2: life but also all the things that you've learned along
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks for having me.