Hey Soul Sista is the podcast for women navigating midlife, spiritual growth, healing, and life's biggest transitions. Hosted by Mel Histon, founder of Got Your Back Sista , each week you'll hear inspiring conversations with bestselling authors, health experts, psychologists, spiritual teachers, advocates, and extraordinary women who share their wisdom, life experiences, and powerful stories of transformation. Whether you're searching for deeper meaning, healing after loss or trauma, greater…
What if the biggest lie we tell ourselves is: "I'll do it tomorrow"? In this episode of Hey Soul Sista , Geoff Rupp returns for a powerful conversation about why so many of us keep putting off the life we really want to live - and why the time to begin is now. Fresh from two months in India, where he led a spiritual retreat through sacred planetary temples, Geoff shares what those experiences…
What if the people we love are never truly beyond our reach? When speech pathologist Stephanie Banks watched her mother disappear into dementia, she believed her professional training would help them stay connected. But as their relationship unravelled, she found herself searching for answers in the most unexpected place. One extraordinary experience changed everything. In this deeply…
At some point, many women wake up and wonder... How did I end up living a life that no longer feels like mine? After years of putting everyone else first, chasing success, meeting expectations and trying to be "good enough", it's easy to lose touch with the one voice that matters most - your own. In this deeply thought-provoking conversation, bestselling author, women's leadership expert and PhD…
Belinda MacDougall has built one of Australia's most successful wellness businesses, helping millions of people transform their health through The Lady Shake and The Man Shake. But as you'll hear in this conversation, success wasn't the destination-it was just the beginning. In this inspiring episode, Belinda shares the mindset that helped her build an extraordinary life, why she's never been…
Have you ever wondered if the people we love ever really leave us? Maybe you've had a dream that felt incredibly real. A favourite song played at exactly the right moment. You caught the unmistakable scent of someone's perfume, or a bird appeared when you needed comfort most. Are these simply coincidences... or could they be signs? In this deeply moving conversation, psychic medium and psychiatric…
What happens when the woman everyone remembers as a beauty icon discovers that the greatest transformation isn't how she looks - but who she becomes? In this very special episode of Hey Soul Sista, I sit down with Alison Brahe-Daddo - one of Australia's most recognisable models and, for many women of my generation, a true teenage icon. But this conversation isn't just about the magazine covers or…
Have you ever promised yourself, "This time will be different"… only to find yourself slipping back into the same habits, behaviours or patterns? Whether it's emotional eating, people-pleasing, unhealthy relationships, procrastination or simply struggling to stick with the changes you want to make, so many of us end up asking the same question: Why do I keep doing this? In this episode of Hey Soul…
Australian entertainer, comedian, author and broadcaster Em Rusciano joins Mel Histon to talk about her new live show, "Addicted to Love." But what unfolds is a deeply personal conversation about identity, AuDHD, self-worth, relationships, midlife, and why so many women spend their lives seeking validation before learning to choose themselves. In this honest and thought-provoking episode, Mel and…
Brain fog, sudden chin hairs, mood swings, and feeling like you are losing your mind-if you are a woman over 40, it's not just stress. It's perimenopause. In this episode, women's health specialist Dr Shauna Watts breaks down the wildly fluctuating hormones that cause these unexpected changes. Host, Mel Histon, and Dr Shauna dive deep into the signs doctors frequently miss, how dropping estrogen…
What if the parts of yourself you've spent your whole life hiding are actually your greatest gifts? In this powerful episode of Hey Soul Sista, Mel Histon sits down with author, speaker and psychic medium Chezzi Denyer to explore the extraordinary story behind her new book, 'The Weird Little Girl Who Talked To Ghosts'. As a child, Chezzi experienced what she describes as communication with spirits…
After spending seven days in a coma with a rare and life-threatening form of bacterial meningitis, renowned neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander says he experienced a reality beyond this world-one that challenged everything he thought he knew about life, death and consciousness. Before his near-death experience, Dr Eben was a respected brain surgeon who believed consciousness was created entirely by the…