Episode 26

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22nd Oct 2025

Rest as a Radical Act

Episode Summary

The world celebrates speed. Hustle culture rewards noise. This episode flips the script and elevates rest as a radical, playful, and transformative act. Rest isn’t lazy—it’s creative, regenerative, and mischievously disruptive. We explore the energy, clarity, and breakthroughs that emerge when stillness takes center stage.

What You'll Hear:

  • The reason deliberate pauses amplify creativity and clarity
  • Stories of breakthroughs that happened during intentional rest
  • The playful disruption in choosing slow over fast
  • The way rest fuels the next bold move

Reflection Prompt:

Where in your schedule is stillness missing? What would happen if you honored rest as a creative tool rather than a reward?

Try This:

  • Block 30 minutes this week for undisturbed rest or reflection.
  • Notice what insights, ideas, or shifts appear when the world quiets down.
  • Treat that pause as sacred experimentation, not time wasted.

Mentioned in this episode:

Inspired by Alive by Design and Intuitive Business. Both are available on Amazon. The Kindle has the essentials. The Paperback has it all.

Connect with Jean:

Website: jeanhf.com

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Beyond Irresistible
Unconventional. Unfiltered. Unstoppable.
Welcome to Beyond Irresistible, where we break the mold and craft lives, businesses, and legacies rooted in aliveness. This isn’t about playing by the same old rules. It’s about trusting the rhythms that guide you, letting go of performance, and leading with presence.

Hosted by Jean Hamilton-Fford, this podcast is a journey into what it truly means to design a life and business that not only survives—but thrives. Through raw, real conversations about soulful marketing, intuitive business practices, and creating from a space of deep integrity, we explore the radical act of leading with clarity instead of chasing more.

Drawing on the principles behind The Irresistible book series and the other books in the Library, we dive into the essence of building an ecosystem—whether it’s nurturing a community, scaling with integrity, or honoring the cycles of your own growth. Here, we don’t just talk about success; we create it from a place that’s deeply aligned, human-first, and profoundly lovingly disruptive.

This is the place where growth is about resonance over reach, where your business doesn’t just scale—it evolves with you. It’s about creating a ripple, not just reaching more.

Let’s create something that feels alive, connected, and purpose-driven. Your legacy begins now. Beyond Irresistible is where it starts.

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Jean Hamilton-Fford

Jean Hamilton-Fford is an author, tv producer, mentor, creative, and fiercely grounded voice in the world of identity, leadership, and intuitive living. She’s the creator of the Irresistible Series, the By Design Trilogy, and the Intuitive Business Trilogy—a body of work that invites people to stop performing and start living from deep, aligned truth.

Through her podcast Beyond Irresistible, Jean offers unfiltered reflections, lovingly disruptive guidance, and a steady reminder that you don’t need to hustle, shrink, or prove to belong. You just need to return to who you’ve always been.

She’s not here to give you the script. She’s here to help you burn it and write your own.