The Art Of Living
The Art of Living is a podcast hosted by Tessa James, a creative, founder, mother, entertainer, and wife. Each episode features honest, deeply human conversations with healers, athletes, founders, poets, creatives, and powerful thinkers who have been tested by life and come back with something worth sharing. Topics range from wellbeing, mindset, ambition, motherhood, creativity, resilience, and purpose. The show aims to explore what it truly means to live well, offering a warm, curious, and thought-provoking space for anyone building a meaningful life.
Episodes
Welcome To The Art Of Living
Welcome to The Art of Living - conversations that go deeper than surface level.
Hosted by Tessa James creative, founder, mother, entertainer and wife this podcast explores what it truly means to live well.
Each episode is an honest and deeply human conversation with healers, athletes, founders, poets, creatives and powerful thinkers who have all been tested by life in some way and come back with s
Trevor Hendy: The Ironman Who Had To Let Go
In this episode of The Art Of Living, Tessa sits down with Trevor Hendy, elite athlete, coach, and mentor, a friend she first met over a decade ago while going through chemotherapy. What began as beach walks and quiet conversation planted seeds that, as they reflect on in this episode, only fully bloomed years later.
Trevor opens up about a remarkable life, from a nomadic childhood travelling arou
Nicole Slater: Learning To Put Yourself First
Nicole Slater is an artist, mum, wife of NRL legend Billy Slater, and the kind of woman who will sand back an entire kitchen bench on impulse just because she needed to create something. Tessa and Nicole have known each other for years, their lives woven together through football, family, and a shared sense that there is always more to a woman than what's visible from the outside.
In this episode
Rupert McCall: Sport, Storytelling & The Australian Spirit
There aren't many people who could walk into a room full of footy players, recite a poem, and leave every single one of them changed. Rupert McCall is one of them.
Rupert is one of Australia's most celebrated poets and storytellers known for his performances at State of Origin, Anzac Cove, and Ground Zero. But before any of that, he was a kid from Redcliffe dreaming of wearing the green and gold.
Bianca Wise: Food, Movement & Tips To ACTUALLY Feel Good
Bianca Wise is a naturopath, Pilates instructor and wellness retreat host who helps women cut through the noise of fad diets and quick fixes to get back to what actually works. In this episode, Bianca and Tessa talk movement and mental health, what it really means to nourish your body, and why consistency beats perfection every time.
Bianca gets honest about hitting burnout last year, working thro
The Quiet Work of Backing Yourself
What does backing yourself really mean? This week Tessa gets a little personal... just her, no guest, and something that's been sitting with her throughout this series.
She wanted to talk about what backing yourself actually looks like. Not the highlight reel version, not the moment something pays off, but the real, quiet, day to day reality of it. Because it doesn't always look the way we think i
Martine Ho: The Self-Funded Rise Of Sunnies Face
Martine Ho joins Tessa this week with a refreshingly honest conversation about creativity, self-belief, and building a life that actually feels like you. Martine is an entrepreneur, mum, and the creative force behind eyewear brand Sunnies, cult beauty label Sunnies Face, and modular drink bottle line Sunnies Flask. Martine traces her journey from early blogging days and a stint at American Apparel
Grace Pebble of Surya Studio: Astrology, Intuition & Unlocking The Power Of 2026
This week Tessa sits down with Grace Tebble, astrologer and founder of Surya Studio, for a fascinating conversation about birth charts, intuition, and what 2026 has in store for us all.
Grace shares her winding path from fashion design to holistic healing to astrology, opening up about the moment she stopped worrying what others thought and fully committed to the work she felt called to do. She br
Morgan Hill: The Beauty In Beginning Again At 33 & Living In Alignment
Morgan Hill is a brand strategist, former ballerina, and proof that surrendering to the mess can be the thing that saves you. She's also one of Tessa's closest friends. In the space of a single year, Morgan's engagement ended, she navigated the sudden and tragic loss of two people very close to her, froze her eggs alone, and built her business and her sense of self from the ground up. This convers
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