charlenegisele (2026)

20/12/2025

Somewhere between deadlines, responsibilities, and expectations - we stop listening.

As adults, we become efficient, productive, and dependable.

But in the process, we lose one of the most powerful creative tools we ever had: awareness.
The truth is, creativity doesn’t disappear, it gets drowned out by noise.

By busyness. By overthinking. By the constant chase to deliver more, faster.

I’ve realized that the more I fill my days with doing, the less space I leave for noticing, and that’s where creativity truly begins.

When was the last time you really noticed something?

The way light hits a wall. The sound of the wind. The stillness before a new idea appears.
Those small “happy accidents” are happening all the time, but we miss them.

As Duncan Bruce reminds us, the key to unlocking creativity isn’t doing more.

It’s listening more deeply - to ourselves, to others, to the world around us.
Listen to the full episode with Duncan Bruce.

17/12/2025

Do you really need a prenup?

… And how hard did you find the ‘prenup conversation’ to be with your spouse?

We often assume that prenups are mostly about distrust: something you bring up when you’re bracing for the worst.

James Sexton, leading NYC Divorce Attorney, sheds some light on the topic and reveals a more confronting (and honestly empowering) truth.

A prenup isn’t the opposite of love.

It’s clarity.

James Sexton explains something most couples don’t want to face: if you don’t write the rules, the government does.

And for the moneyed spouse (the person bringing significantly more assets or earning power), James can’t think of a single good legal reason not to have a prenup.

What struck me most was this framing:
The only “logical” reason to avoid a prenup is if you believe you’ll do better in divorce court than what your partner would agree to upfront.

Which begs a bigger question:
Are you building a partnership… or making a bet?

If I took one thing from this conversation, it’s this:
The healthiest couples don’t avoid hard conversations.

They have them early, while they still like each other.

16/12/2025

When it comes to AI in the legal world, the words that always come to mind for me are responsibility and accountability.

What does it actually mean to trust AI with something as serious as a legal document?

At first, Philip Young, the co-founder and CEO of Garfield AI, personally reviewed every single file before it went out - because ultimately, someone has to be accountable for what AI creates.

But over time, Garfield AI built something fascinating: a confidence-scoring system.

The AI can measure how sure it is about its own work.

If it’s above 98% confident, it sends the document automatically.
If it’s under, a human lawyer takes a look.

That idea stuck with me - not just because it’s clever, but because it shows how we can build systems that combine human judgment and AI precision.

It’s not about replacing lawyers.

It’s about making sure technology learns how to earn our trust.

13/12/2025

Do you actually know your fertile window?

Most of us grow up believing conception is a numbers game: try more, do more…always more and more, which is how you burn out trying!

But here’s the quiet truth almost no one teaches us early on: timing matters far more than frequency. And most women only learn this when they’re already trying to conceive - often years after they could have been building body literacy.

Understanding when your fertility happens can completely change how you approach conception - with more clarity, less pressure, and a lot less guesswork.

In my conversation with leading cycle and fertility expert Lisa Hendrickson-Jack (), she explained our ‘window’ in a very powerful way: it’s far less about doing more, and far more about timing.

Lisa explains that the true fertile window is only about six days in the entire cycle, the five days before ovulation, plus ovulation day. That’s it.

And yes, pregnancy can happen from just one well-timed encounter if it lands inside that window!

What I appreciate about this perspective is how much pressure it removes.

So many women and couples assume “trying” has to mean more tracking, more effort, more stress.

Building body literacy is the opposite: understand your rhythm and work with your cycle instead of guessing.

To start building that awareness, here are three things you can begin doing immediately:

1. Track one cycle at a time.
- Instead of trying to “do everything,” choose one reliable indicator and get to know it. Accuracy comes from observation, not overwhelm.

2. Shift the mindset from effort to timing.
- Conception doesn’t require more attempts; it requires better-informed ones. One well-timed encounter inside your fertile window can be enough.

When you understand your rhythm, the process feels less like a blindfolded chase and more like a conversation with your body.

10/12/2025

Could your “workload” be showing up as breakouts?

Before speaking with Chris Gibson, I assumed skincare was mostly about products: the right cleanser, the right activities, the right routine.

But in our conversation, I learned something more confronting, and honestly, more empowering.

Chris made one connection crystal clear:
Stress → cortisol → inflammation → immune response → skin flare-ups.

And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Because the “problem skin” so many high performers battle with isn’t always about what’s on your face…

It can be about what’s on your nervous system.

High cortisol can trigger inflammation that shows up as:
rashes and reactive skin, rosacea flare-ups, eczema, psoriasis, "why now?” breakouts right before something important (especially if you’re acne-prone)

It reframed how I think about skin entirely.

Not as something to fight harder with stronger products…
but as feedback, a signal that your system is under load.

If I took one thing from this episode, it’s this:

You can’t out-serum chronic stress.

09/12/2025

When AI meets law, who’s really in charge?

Who better to ask that question than the man who built the UK's first AI law firm?

I asked Philip Young, the co-founder and CEO of Garfield AI, how his team tackled one of the biggest challenges in AI: hallucinations, and his answer genuinely reshaped how I think about AI in legal work.

He explained that Garfield can unlock capabilities that go beyond what humans (even lawyers) can realistically imagine or execute at speed, not by replacing legal judgment, but by expanding what’s possible with a purpose-built hybrid system.

On one side, there’s a deterministic expert system grounded in legal knowledge, experience, and structured reasoning.

On the other hand, a probabilistic LLM that supports idea generation and drafting.

But here’s the key: the expert system leads. It keeps the LLM grounded and helps ensure every response stays accurate and defensible. In Philip’s words, this setup “massively mitigates the risk of hallucinations.”

It’s a compelling glimpse into how AI may evolve in professional services, not replacing lawyers, but operating within expert-led guardrails.

06/12/2025

How exactly can “mold” impact your health?

Mold can impact your health even when you can’t see it, because the real threat is often mycotoxins.

Before speaking with Dr. Jill Carnahan, I assumed “mold exposure” was obvious - you’d see it, smell it, or at least notice something damp.

But in our conversation, I learned something far more unsettling - and it completely changed how I think about “healthy spaces.”

Dr. Jill explained that mold itself is often too large to do much beyond triggering allergies.
The bigger issue is what mold can release: mycotoxins.

These particles can be 2.5 microns and smaller, about as small as a virus, which means they can be inhaled, pass through the lungs (alveoli), and enter the bloodstream within seconds… even when the mold is hidden behind a wall and you have no idea it’s there.|

That hit me hard because it reframes so many “mystery symptoms” people try to push through:
brain fog, fatigue, inflammation, recurring sinus issues, the stuff we normalize as stress or burnout.

It made me reflect on how many high-performers are optimizing everything except the one thing they’re exposed to 24/7: the air in their home.

If I took one thing from this conversation, it’s this:
you don’t need to see mold for it to be impacting your health.

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04/12/2025

Is Your Cycle Trying To Tell You Something?

Ladies, is conception currently on your mind?

If you’re thinking about trying for a baby in the next few months (or even in the next year), the biggest mistake we too often make is waiting until we’re “officially trying” to learn how fertility actually works.

Because no one really teaches us the basics, just “don’t get pregnant” …until suddenly it’s “okay now, go get pregnant.” 🙃

In this clip, I asked Lisa Hendrickson-Jack (fertility awareness educator + author of Real Food for Fertility) what she’d want a woman to know if she’s in her reproductive years and considering conception soon, like the true starter pack of fertility.

Her answer hit hard because it’s simple… and it’s exactly what most of us never got:
✅ Understand birth control’s impact
If you’re still on the pill or recently came off, don’t assume your body will “snap back” instantly. I loved this perspective because it brings reality (and compassion) to the timeline.
✅ Learn fertility awareness (real body literacy)
Knowing how to identify ovulation and your fertile window isn’t just for “natural family planning”, it’s information that can save you months (or years) of confusion and heartbreak. And honestly? I think it’s one of the most empowering skills a woman can learn.
✅ Start preconception nutrition now

This part really changed how I think about it: pregnancy is not the time to “catch up.” Your body is literally building a human, nothing requires more nutrients than that. Preparing early isn’t obsessive; it’s wise.

This episode is a full fertility wake-up call, from periods as a vital sign, to burnout and missing cycles, to why tracking apps often get ovulation wrong.

🎧 Full episode: The Pill, Pregnancy & Periods: What Your Doctor Never Told You with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack

29/11/2025

Your body never lies.

There’s one voice in your life that will always tell you the truth - not your mentor, your trainer, or your favorite health influencer, but your body.

It speaks through energy, sleep, digestion, skin, and mood.

And if you’ve ever ignored its signals in the name of “discipline” or “doing the right thing,” you’re not alone.

In this episode, I sat down with Chef James Barry, celebrity chef turned nutrition educator, to explore why true wellbeing begins with learning to listen inwardly.

We discuss why no single diet fits everyone, how your body gives real-time feedback on what’s working (and what’s not), and how food can become your most honest feedback loop.

Because when you stop outsourcing your health, and start tuning into your body’s intelligence, that’s when real transformation begins.

🎧 Don’t miss this one - it will change how you think about nourishment, awareness, and self-trust.

26/11/2025

What are you actually sacrificing to succeed?

How often do you pause and ask yourself that?
How often do you sit with the uncomfortable truth that every achievement has a cost?

…And how often do you follow it with:
“Is this a price I’m still willing to pay?”

These are the questions that determine whether you build a life that energises you,
or one that slowly drains your health, your relationships, and your joy without you ever noticing.

I’ve seen this pattern repeatedly in my work with high performers: brilliant professionals who work harder, do more, push further, without realising the trade they’re making along the way.

And for our 100th episode, I wanted to have this conversation with someone who’s witnessed my own evolution & journey up close: my husband, Simon Bond.

This milestone episode is special, not because it celebrates the number,
but because it serves as a reminder to every ambitious professional.

You don’t burn out because you don’t care.

You burn out because you don’t realize what they’re exchanging until the cost becomes too high.

19/11/2025

Could your ‘perfect’ environment be toxic?

Before speaking with Dr. Jill Carnahan, I, like many people, assumed that cancer came down to genetics, stress, or lifestyle choices.

But in our conversation, I learned something far more confronting - something that changed how I think about health entirely.

Dr. Jill grew up on what looked like the perfect childhood landscape: acres of open fields, clean air, a loving family, and all the signs of an idyllic life.

But that very environment - the one that seemed so wholesome, was filled with organophosphates, pesticides, atrazine, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

Hearing her talk about how those exposures interacted with her genetics, ultimately contributing to her breast cancer diagnosis at 25, made me realise how little we truly understand about the hidden factors influencing our wellbeing.

It made me reflect on the environments I’ve lived in, the air I’ve breathed, the water I’ve consumed, and how many of us may be unaware of what we’re actually being exposed to.

Her story reminded me that “natural” does not always mean safe, and that the places we trust the most can sometimes hold risks we never thought to consider.

If I took one thing from this conversation, it’s that understanding our environment is not optional.

It’s essential, especially if we want to protect our long-term health, energy, and resilience.

12/11/2025

Why do High-Performers Burnout?

What if the key to focus isn’t working harder, but working smarter with time?

For years, we’ve been told productivity is about discipline and hustle.

I sat down with Steven Puri, former film executive and startup founder, to explore the neuroscience behind flow, focus, and how to do your best work without burning out.

In our conversation, I learned why most high performers don’t have a time management problem - they have an energy management problem.

That’s where timeboxing comes in: the simple, science-backed technique that helps you complete tasks within a set timeframe instead of letting them endlessly expand.

When you declare your time, you control your energy.

That’s how you reclaim focus, prevent burnout, and achieve sustainable excellence.

Are you ready to master focus and flow?

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