This is about the journey. The arena I choose. The season I’m walking through. A quiet chapter from "Suicide to World Champion" — my story, manifest, mandate and movement. Releasing November 2026. I’m realising more and more that this was never about competition. Not really. Jiu-Jitsu was about therapy, playtime and training. Entrepreneurship became about finding a way through for family, journey, responsibilities, impact, income ajd influence. Jiu-Jitsu and entrepreneurship have just been the arenas. The places where truth shows up quickly and without apology. The places that don’t let me hide from myself. The mat tells me immediately when I’ve lost my base. Business does the same, just slower and sometimes crueller. Both ask me to stay present when I want to escape. Both show me where I rush, where I grip too tight, where I abandon myself trying to make something work. In this season, I’m not chasing outcomes. I’m paying attention.To my nervous system.To my patterns. To the moments where old survival instincts whisper that I need to prove something to be worthy of being here. I’ve lived whole lifetimes in survival.I know what it’s like to build from nothing, to fight my way out of darkness, to win titles and still feel hollow inside. I also know what it’s like to almost not make it at all. This chapter isn’t about medals or milestones. It’s about becoming the woman who can hold the Dream without breaking herself in the process. Jiu-Jitsu keeps asking me to breathe when I want to panic. Business keeps asking me to trust when nothing is guaranteed. Life keeps asking me to soften without losing my strength. I’m learning that power doesn’t come from forcing. It comes from staying grounded. From choosing integrity over urgency. From building a base that can carry the weight of what I’m calling in. I don’t want to win at the cost of myself anymore. I want to arrive whole. This feels like one of those quiet chapters people skip over when they read the finished story.

Sharing what is happening in the Warrior Heart world. If I hosted a virtual experience would you be interested. I want to invite you into something close to my heart. On Wednesday 11th February, I’m holding a Warrior Heart Rising workshop at Djirra Mildura. This is a space I’ve created for women to return to themselves. Not to fix. Not to prove. Not to push harder. But to pause. To breathe. To reconnect. So many of us have been strong for a long time. We’ve carried families, communities, workplaces, expectations. We’ve led from exhaustion. We’ve survived things we never should have had to survive. This gathering is about coming back to your own strength in a grounded way. It’s about reconnecting with your body, your voice, your story, and your sovereignty. We’ll move. We’ll yarn. We’ll reflect. We’ll sit in culture and in truth. It’s a trauma-informed, strength-based space where you don’t have to perform. You just get to be. I’m holding this with care, with cultural grounding, and with deep respect for every woman who walks through the door. 🗓 Wednesday 11th February ⏰ 11:00am – 2:00pm 📍 Djirra Mildura, 139–141 Langtree Avenue If you feel the pull to return to yourself, I would love to see you there. Send me a message if you want more details, or tag a woman who might need this space. You don’t have to rise alone. #Djirra #survivaltosovereignty #warriorheart

✨ A check-in for your 2026 journey ✨ Are you still with yourself…or have you slipped back into autopilot and started calling it “too much”? This is your moment to pause. To come back to your body, your breath, and your inner knowing. To notice where you may have drifted — without judgement. 2026 isn’t asking you to push harder. It's asking you to stay present, regulated, and connected to who you are becoming. The Warrior Heart Virtual Call is a guided, Dreaming-led space to do exactly that.A place to slow down, reflect honestly, reconnect with purpose and identity, and be held in community. If you’ve felt stretched, disconnected, or quietly off-track — you’re not failing. You're just being called back to yourself. 🌀 We gather soon🤍 Open to the Warrior Heart community Let’s come back to centre. Let’s get back on track — together. With you, Shantelle Barkindji Warrior | Warrior Heart

Warrior Hearts ❤️‍🔥 Let me ask you something gently, but directly… What if purpose isn’t something you find —but something you become? So many of us have been taught to chase it.Chase the role.Chase the title.Chase the impact.Chase the next level. And in that chasing… we forget ourselves. The truth I keep returning to is this: Purpose is embodied. Leadership is lived. Legacy is created in the way you show up today. Not someday. When we return to Indigenous matriarchal wisdom, we remember something powerful: Being well is not selfish. Self-care is not indulgent. Self-worth is not ego. Being well is leadership. Being regulated is power. Being whole is service. You cannot pour from depletion and call it legacy. Warrior Heart Activation is not about becoming someone else. It’s about activating the woman, the leader, the ancestor-in-training you already are. It’s about choosing: • Love over fear • Alignment over urgency • Self-respect over self-abandonment • Embodiment over performance Purpose doesn’t have to be a role. It can be a way of being. So I’m curious… Where have you been chasing purpose instead of becoming it? And what would shift if you chose to lead from fullness instead of exhaustion? Drop one word below that represents the leader you are becoming. Let’s activate it together. ❤️‍🔥