The Favourite Self Podcast
The Favourite Self Podcast is a show about identity, entrepreneurship, and the courage it takes to grow into the version of you who feels most alive, most authentic, and most rooted in your purpose.
Hosted by founder, author, and brand strategist Carly Ottaway, this podcast explores how the way you see yourself shapes the way you show up, lead, and scale—and why identity is the foundation of your brand, your business, and the life you create.
Each week, Carly shares honest reflections and conversations with founders, creatives, and leaders expanding in real time—from scaling businesses and rewriting limiting beliefs, to balancing ambition and parenthood, to learning how to own your voice and lead without abandoning yourself.
If you’ve ever asked:
How do I show up authentically online?
Why do I keep attracting misaligned clients?
Why doesn’t my income match my output?
Is it possible to expand my business and still be a present, thriving parent?
You’re not alone. This is where we talk about intuition and strategy. Expansion and responsibility. Visibility and vulnerability. It’s where you learn to own your story, trust your intuition, and build a business that reflects who you truly are.
Come for the practical insight. Stay for the perspective shifts. And leave feeling closer to your favourite self—in business and in life.
Episodes
22 episodes
21. The Power of Radical Presence: Building a Life and Business That's True to You with Janette Downie
What if your sensitivity is not something you need to overcome, but one of your greatest strengths as a leader?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly sits down with creative entrepreneur Janette Downie to talk abou...
20. A Life and Business Update: Expanded Capacity, Big Manifestations, and Holding Both
What if the biggest transformation isn't changing your circumstances, but expanding your capacity to hold them?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly pulls back the curtain on a full season of family life, business...
19. Olympic Champion Jennifer Jones on Introverted Leadership, Reinvention, and Life After Curling
What happens when the chapter the world knows you for ends, and you are asked to meet yourself in a whole new way?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly sits down with Olympic champion Jennifer Jones for a conversation abou...
18. Visibility, Personal Branding, and Big Brand Energy with Katrina Owens
What does it really take to build a personal brand that creates opportunity?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly sits down with personal branding and PR expert Katrina Owens to talk about visibility, big brand en...
17. What My Resistance to Instagram Was Trying to Tell Me
What if your resistance to showing up online is not something to push through, but something to listen to?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly shares a real-time reflection on why Instagram has not been feeling e...
16. Personal Style, Confidence, and Dressing for Your Next Level with Suzanne Colmer
What if personal style is about so much more than clothes, and is actually one of the ways you step into the version of yourself you are becoming?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly sits down with Suzanne Colmer...
15. The Truth About Joy, Presence, and Sobriety with Jillian Schecher
What if joy is not something you arrive at, but something you return to again and again?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly sits down with Jillian Schecher, joy educator, founder of the Academy of Joyful Liv...
14. Authentic Storytelling and the Power of Being Seen
What if the story holding you back is also the one that is meant to set you free?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly dives into authentic storytelling, visibility, and why the stories we tell ourselves eventuall...
13. Renée Warren on Wanting More and How to Stop Apologizing for Success
What if the life and business you want are not built by waiting to feel fully ready, but by trusting yourself enough to go first?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly sits down with award winning entrepreneur, ang...
12. When Growth Doesn't Look The Way You Thought It Would
What if feeling behind is not actually a sign that you are off track, but a sign that you have not paused long enough to recognize how much you have already grown?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly shares a per...
11. Anna Lozano on the Messy Middle, Raising Your Frequency, and Building a Business in Alignment
What does it actually take to build a business and a life that feel as good as they look on paper?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly sits down with serial entrepreneur, brand builder, and founder Anna Lozano fo...
10. Why Visibility Feels Unsafe and How to Move Through It
What if the reason showing up online feels so hard has less to do with strategy and more to do with safety?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly unpacks what is really happening beneath the surface when entreprene...
9. Psychedelic Therapy, Microdosing, and the Many Paths to Healing with Morgan Weatherup
What if healing is less about fixing yourself and more about learning how to trust yourself again?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly sits down with registered social worker, clinical therapist, and founder of H...
8. Trusting Your Voice and Letting Go of Perfection
What happens when you finally start trusting your voice, only to lose it completely?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly reflects on the recent stretch of speaking, podcasting, storytelling, and visibility that h...
7. Rewriting Success in Business and Motherhood with Kristina Bartold
What does success look like when the version you once chased no longer fits the season you are in now?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly sits down with Kristina Bartold, co-founder and CEO of The Social Sni...
6. The Mirror Effect: What Your Life, Brand, and Leadership Are Reflecting Back to You
What if your business, your relationships, your clients, and even your kids are all reflecting something back to you?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly shares the powerful concept of the mirror effect and how y...
5. How to Expand Your Capacity for More Money, Visibility, and Growth
What if the real reason you have hit a ceiling in business has nothing to do with strategy and everything to do with what your nervous system feels safe holding?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly sits down with...
4. The Visibility Stretch: What Publishing My Book Taught Me About Being Seen
What if the discomfort you feel around visibility is actually a sign that you are growing?In this episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly shares the behind the scenes of launching the podcast, navigating a major visibility ...
3. How to Live and Lead as Your Most Authentic Self with Maria Tassi
How do you make the switch from the path others expect you to follow to the path of true alignment and authenticity?In today’s episode of The Favorite Self Podcast, Carly welcomes Maria Tassi, co-founder of High Vibe Women and T...
2. Why Your Business Can’t Outgrow Your Self-Belief
What if the thing holding your business back isn’t your strategy, but your self belief?In this episode, Carly shares why your business can only grow to the level you feel safe holding. Through personal stories of rebuilding after loss, m...
1. The Power of Breathwork with MJ Renshaw
What if learning to breathe could change the way you heal, lead, parent, and live?In the first guest episode of The Favourite Self Podcast, Carly sits down with breathwork facilitator, author, and founder of The Being Method, MJ Buckner,...