Some encounters during our tours stay with us longer than others. When Starre Tearney joined us in Istanbul with her family, it quickly became clear this was one of them. What began as a day of exploring the city unfolded into thoughtful conversations, shared perspectives, and a connection that naturally extended beyond the tour itself.
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Starre and Brett’s Day in Istanbul
Starre came to Istanbul with her husband Brett and their daughter in August 2025, staying near Galata Tower at the beautiful Ecole St. Pierre Hotel. They joined us for a full-day edition of The Other Tour, beginning early in the morning and continuing deep into the evening—a long, energetic and wonderfully varied day designed to move far beyond the standard tourist route.
Their experience included the kind of moments that define The Other Tour: changing neighbourhoods, local encounters, meals, conversations, ferry and boat journeys, small surprises, and time to see Istanbul as a living place rather than an open-air museum. It was a family day, but not a watered-down one; their daughter was included in the rhythm of the city just as much as the adults.
Afterward, Brett shared a generous collection of photographs from the day—little fragments of Istanbul as they experienced it together. Those images have become a lovely reminder of a visit built around warmth, humour, movement and connection.
For Starre, Brett and their daughter, Istanbul was not simply somewhere to visit. It became a place to feel: layered, imperfect, welcoming, overwhelming, ancient, modern and intensely human.
Meet Starre Tearney: Conscious Leadership
Starre Tearney is a transformational mentor guiding entrepreneurs and leaders toward clarity, self-trust, and grounded leadership. Her approach blends mindset refinement, energy work, and nervous system regulation to create sustainable personal and professional growth.
During her visit to Istanbul, Starre engaged fully with the city’s culture and history. She asked thoughtful questions, noticed small details, and absorbed stories, turning each moment into a meaningful learning experience for herself and her family.
Her presence is defined by curiosity and openness. Starre approaches every interaction and experience with empathy and attentiveness, making her work—and the way she travels—deeply human, insightful, and transformative.
Transforming Lives: Starre Tearney’s Journey
Starre Tearney has spent decades mastering the art of transformational mentoring and consciousness-based coaching. Her work blends nervous system regulation, energy work, and mindset refinement to help high-achieving leaders move beyond burnout and cultivate sustainable success.
Trained as a Certified Higher Guidance Healer through a rigorous four-year apprenticeship, she has studied intuitive development, energetic anatomy, and spiritual guidance under renowned mentors, including April Waldman. Her approach emphasizes practical transformation rooted in deep inner awareness.
Before focusing on healing and coaching, Starre spent 10 years as an interior designer, leading major residential renovations. This design-minded, systems-thinking background informs her structured yet deeply human approach, bridging creativity, strategy, and personal growth in every client interaction.
Starre Tearney’s Active Contributions
Starre Tearney actively shapes the way entrepreneurs and leaders grow, blending mindset, energy work, and conscious leadership. Through mentoring, podcasting, blogging, and upcoming digital courses, she shares practical tools and deep insights that help people lead with clarity, alignment, and impact.
Transformational Mentoring
Starre Tearney guides leaders through one-on-one and group mentoring, helping them move past burnout, stress, and over-efforting. Her sessions combine nervous system regulation, mindset refinement, and energy work, empowering clients to build self-trust, clarity, and grounded leadership. Each program is tailored to individual needs, fostering sustainable growth and deep personal transformation while balancing professional demands with inner well-being.
Podcasting & Content Creation
Through her podcast Consciously in Business, Starre blends practical business strategies with mindset and energy work, creating content that inspires heart- and soul-led entrepreneurs. She shares reflections on conscious leadership, personal growth, and navigating transitions. Her blog complements this, offering in-depth insights, tools, and real-life examples that guide readers toward intentional living, helping them align their business and personal values for a meaningful, balanced life.
Digital Courses & Online Programs
Starre is developing digital courses that expand her reach globally, making her transformational teachings accessible to a broader audience. These programs offer structured guidance in leadership, energy management, and holistic transformation.
Through interactive modules, practical exercises, and step-by-step frameworks, participants learn to cultivate self-awareness, manage stress, and integrate conscious practices into daily life, equipping them to navigate challenges with clarity, resilience, and intentionality.
Fethi was on Starre's Podcast
Fethi Karataş, founder of this travel agency and blog, joined Starre Tearney on Consciously in Business for Episode 002: “Beyond the Guidebook: Building a Heart-Centered Travel Business in a Changing World with The Other Tour Istanbul.”
The conversation explores what happens when travel is designed around people rather than sightseeing checklists. Fethi shares the thinking behind The Other Tour: showing visitors an Istanbul that goes beyond the obvious monuments and into the city’s everyday life—its ferries, neighbourhoods, food, families, humour, contradictions and unexpected encounters.
Rather than treating guests as customers moving from one landmark to the next, The Other Tour has always aimed to create a day with genuine human connection at its centre. That may mean sharing a home-cooked meal, exploring a local market, taking a boat across the Bosphorus, spending time in overlooked districts, or simply allowing room for an unplanned conversation to change the direction of the day.
The episode also looks at the realities of building a values-led travel business in an industry often shaped by mass tourism, rushed itineraries and generic “authentic experiences.” Fethi discusses why meaningful travel requires trust, flexibility, fair treatment of local partners, and the confidence to show a city honestly rather than presenting a polished version designed only for social media.
At its heart, this is a conversation about what people really take home from travel. The monuments matter—but the memories that endure are often the human ones: the people met, the stories heard, the meals shared, and the feeling of having briefly understood a place from the inside.
Listen to the full episode of Consciously in Business with Starre Tearney on Spotify.
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