Something Shifted
Ten Radio Interview Questions & Answers
1. What is Something Shifted about?
Answer:
Something Shifted is about those moments in life when something changes and we are forced to look at ourselves and our lives differently.
It explores the idea that sometimes the biggest transformation doesn’t happen in our external circumstances. It happens internally.
The book asks us to look at our beliefs, our patterns, our choices and the meaning we give to our experiences.
Ultimately, it is about recognising that when something shifts inside us, it can change the way we experience everything around us.
2. What inspired you to write this book?
Answer:
I think the book came from recognising that many people go through life trying to change everything around them without ever asking what needs to change within them.
We spend enormous amounts of energy trying to fix circumstances, relationships, careers and situations.
But there comes a point when we have to turn our attention inward.
I wanted to explore that moment — that realisation that perhaps the answer isn’t always to change the world around us, but to change the way we see and engage with the world.
3. What does the title “Something Shifted” actually mean?
Answer:
It describes that moment when you realise that you are no longer quite the same person you were before.
Sometimes the shift comes after a major life event.
Sometimes it happens quietly.
You wake up one morning and realise that something you once believed no longer feels true.
Something you once wanted no longer matters in the same way.
Something you once feared no longer controls you.
Nothing necessarily looks different on the outside, but something has changed on the inside.
That’s the shift I’m talking about.
4. Is this book about personal development?
Answer:
It certainly has elements of personal development, but I would describe it as something deeper than simply self-improvement.
Self-improvement can sometimes make us feel that we are a project that needs fixing.
This book is more about awareness.
It’s about becoming conscious of who we are, why we think the way we think, what we have been carrying and what might be possible if we begin seeing life differently.
It isn’t necessarily about becoming a different person.
It can be about becoming more fully who you already are.
5. Many people are going through difficult times. What does the book say about adversity?
Answer:
One of the important ideas in the book is that adversity doesn’t have to be meaningless.
That doesn’t mean we should pretend that painful experiences are good.
Pain is pain.
Loss is loss.
Disappointment is disappointment.
But sometimes an experience that we initially see as purely negative can become a catalyst for tremendous personal growth.
The question changes from “Why is this happening to me?” to “What can this experience teach me about myself?”
That question can completely change the way we meet adversity.
6. Are you saying that we create everything that happens to us?
Answer:
No, absolutely not.
I think that’s an important distinction.
We don’t control everything that happens in life.
We can’t control other people’s behaviour, unexpected events, loss, illness, economic circumstances or many of the things that happen around us.
But we do have some influence over how we interpret those experiences and how we respond to them.
The book isn’t about blaming people for their circumstances.
It’s about discovering where our agency still exists.
Sometimes our greatest power isn’t in controlling what happens.
It’s in choosing what we do with what happens.
7. What do you hope readers will take away from the book?
Answer:
I hope readers pause.
I hope they begin asking themselves better questions.
I hope someone reads the book and suddenly recognises a pattern they have been repeating for years.
Or realises that they have been living according to someone else’s expectations.
Or understands that an experience they considered a failure may have actually changed them in a profound way.
Most importantly, I hope readers realise that change is possible.
Not necessarily because the world around them changes, but because they can begin to see themselves and their lives differently.
8. Who is this book for?
Answer:
I think it is for anyone who has reached a point in their life where they are asking, “Is this all there is?”
It is for the person who feels stuck.
The person going through transition.
Someone who has experienced disappointment or loss.
Someone who has achieved many things but still feels that something is missing.
And also someone whose life is going well but who senses that there is another level of awareness, meaning or possibility waiting to be explored.
You don’t have to be in crisis to experience a shift.
Sometimes you simply become ready to see differently.
9. If you could give the listener one message from the book, what would it be?
Answer:
I would say:
Don’t be so afraid of the shift.
When life changes, our first instinct is often to resist it.
We want things to go back to how they were.
But sometimes life is taking us somewhere we couldn’t have imagined from where we were standing.
So instead of immediately asking, “How do I get back to normal?”, perhaps ask:
“What is trying to emerge here?”
“What is this moment inviting me to see?”
“Who might I become because of this?”
Sometimes the shift isn’t the end of something.
Sometimes it is the beginning.
10. Where can people get Something Shifted?
Answer:
The book is available to readers who want to explore these ideas for themselves.
They can find out more and download the book at:
And I would encourage people not simply to read the book as something to consume.
Read it as an invitation to reflect.
Take the questions into your own life.
Because the real value of a book like this isn’t what happens while you’re reading it.
It’s what happens after something shifts within you.
