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Through podcasts, radio interviews and features, I talk about the conversations we often avoid – what happens when we stop pretending we are fine, begin trusting what we already know and find courage to become more fully ourselves.

Featured Podcasts and Interviews

Harnessing Happiness · Episode #201

The Quiet Roar: Stop Pretending You're Fine

with Sarah J Naylor

Louise joins host Sarah J Naylor to talk about The Quiet Roar, sharing what it really means to stop pretending you're fine and start listening to what you already know. A conversation about authenticity, self-trust, and the quiet courage it takes to live truthfully.

BrandsTalk · Episode #171

The Quiet Roar: The Branding Power of Finally Being Yourself

with Brigitte Bojkowszky

Louise's journey, surviving a motorway accident, overcoming PTSD and cancer diagnoses, coaching reinvention at 50, and publishing The Quiet Roar at 61, explores how lived experience builds a truthful, memorable brand. “The strongest brands aren't built by becoming more impressive; they're built by becoming more truthful.”

VIG-Podcast

The Quiet Roar Within

Louise Budgen, author of The Quiet Roar, coach, and founder of TrueSoul®, explores how her own wake-up moments, including a life-altering car accident and a later cancer diagnosis, taught her that the body is always speaking even when the mind cannot hear it. A conversation about vulnerability, awakening, and learning to trust yourself again.

How Trusting Myself Saved My Life

CANCERactive: The Sunday Show

How Trusting Myself Saved My Life

with Chris Woollams

On the 5 July 2026 episode of The Sunday Show, Louise joins host Chris Woollams, another of his former breast cancer patients, to share how she diagnosed her own cancer twice after oncologists told her there was nothing to worry about, first in 2017 and again in her lymph nodes in 2019, despite CT scans and mammograms reporting all clear. Trusting her own judgement, she says, probably saved her life.

Stop Pretending You're Fine

The Menopause Coach · Episode #221

Stop Pretending You're Fine

with Adele Johnston

Louise joins host Adele Johnston to explore why women so often suppress how they really feel while holding everything together for everyone else. They talk about the power of intuition, navigating menopause, healing through life's challenges, and why learning to listen to your inner voice can help you reconnect with yourself and build a more fulfilling life.

When Your Quiet Roar Gets Louder: Finding Yourself Again

Motherhood in Stereo

When Your Quiet Roar Gets Louder: Finding Yourself Again

with Caroline Morgan

Louise joins host Caroline Morgan to explore the moments when we recognise something needs to change and learn to trust our inner voice again. They talk about losing yourself while prioritising everyone else's needs, overcoming the guilt tied to self-care, and why reinvention is possible at any life stage. As Louise puts it, sometimes the biggest changes in our lives begin with the quietest roar.