Let me introduce this gorgeous soul. She has Soul. She’s wise. She’s wild. She built a 6-figure business from teaching Hula-hooping. The woman is royalty of reinvention, a magician of making things happen and clever. Oh so clever.

Back in the late 2000s, a hoop rolled into Deanne’s life that changed her life forever. In early 2011 something else rolled in, and swept away one life to make way for the life Deanne has built since then.

Back in the mid 2000s and early 2010s, there was wild fecundity in Tokyo. Loads of us creatives had blogs, long before Facebook or Instagram were in play and there was this community of creatives and writers that included Laura, my assistant, and Legends Podcast guests Tracey Northcott (OG Legend), Katherine North, Martine Cotton, and my now defunct Blog Sigsy in Tokyo…

We were following the breadcrumbs laid out by trailblazing Bloggers, coaches and creatives such as Gala Darling, Marie Forleo and Chris Guillebeau.

Coaching was hitting and coaching masterminds were springing up in the most creative parts of the city. I talk about how Deanne sent me something that changed my course and she had no idea how one act of generosity had given me courage…

Queer culture was rising, with performance, new and fabulous dance studios, dress up, performers and trailblazers emerging all over the city. It was quite a time…

Deanne was the queen of this revolution; an explosion of glitter, sequins, hoops, dance and fire.

Then disaster struck.

It was super hot and for her, it all started in Northern Australia back in the 80s.

Inspired by a creative influence in her childhood she followed her dream to be a teacher, and she also had a wilder side that got to be expressed on the dancefloors and gave life to what she describes as the parts of herself. And so we discussed boundaries and how expressing the genuine parts of ourselves is essential to mental health.

We cover so much ground here - it’s hard to know where to start, I was furiously scribing as I listened and got reminders, new concepts and just bathed in the luxurious joy of Deanne. She is a special human - there's something so irresistible about her. She’s love and shadow and all of that and a seeker. As such she has this rounded way of navigating the levels of reality; the science, the psychology and the magic. She tells stories like a pro and knows that there are many parts of her, and the rest of us that need tending to and to be considered.

In this Podcast you will learn:

How intensity and adversity can be turned into deep wisdom and experience
The lasting influence that authentic and safe childhood heroes can have
What the phrase ‘What you are seeking is seeking you’ means to Deanne
The essentials of mental health (and what masters she is now studying for), and how to integrate all the parts
The wisdom of the void and how not knowing what the F you’re going to do next can hold information that emerges from the space …

And this doesn’t even TOUCH the harvest of joy, wisdom you will get from this conversation. Deanne Love is a font of fun and information. She’s woo and worldly, she’s skeptical and scientific, educated and open, whole and humble.

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About Deanne

Deanne Love has launched a global revolution inside the hula hoop. The one time primary school teacher and creative founder of Hooplovers.tv shares high energy live and online classes, workshops and hoop teacher education. Strong in the art of streamlined instruction and intuitive facilitation, Deanne turns up the volume on the “feel-good-factor” as a pathway to embodiment, expression and flow for all. On a mission to support humans around the globe to drop down into their bodies as a way of finding safety, freedom and connection with themselves and each other.