The Evelyn Fuson Show

THIS WEEK'S MESSAGE: In today's Fireside Friday, I was struck at the onset of this call with a profound sadness, so if you're feeling sad today, this one is absolutely meant for you! Today's message is all around leaning into the idea that everything in our life is breaking us open to more love. That could look like grief, a job loss, a break-up... how allowing ourselves to be witnessed and known in our lives no matter what we're facing can always lead us to more expression and expansion if we'll let it. ABOUT: Welcome to a Fireside Friday Recording. Every Friday morning I tap in and pour out messages and words meant to fuel your fire, Fire Starter! These messages are to encourage, empower and activate you deeper in your calling and initiatives that you want to see through. grounding and encouragement every Friday morning.Want to add this to your calendar?⁠⁠ ⁠Sign-up here⁠⁠⁠ and I'll send you an invite!More of what to expect from these calls if you want to join live:• Our room opens at 8am, broadcast starts at 8:11am. It's okay if you can't make it live, I'll be posting an audio replay here to the podcast the following week and I trust that it will meet you right when it should.• This isn't a call you need to prepare for or that you'll even be interacting with others through… it's meant to nourish you.• Come as you are and as you can. Invite who you want.

THIS WEEK'S MESSAGE: Today's Fireside Friday dances with the idea that we are always keeping company internally AND externally. It's challenging us to take stock of the stories that we're allowing ourselves to tell AND the remarks, experiences and relationships that we're marking our lives with. Are we feeling expanded by being with ourselves? Are we feeling encouraged by those we spend time with? Leading at the level of our soul asks us to begin by facing inward and really examining how the company we're keeping is either fostering our flame or snuffing out our light! ABOUT: Welcome to a Fireside Friday Recording. Every Friday morning I tap in and pour out messages and words meant to fuel your fire, Fire Starter! These messages are to encourage, empower and activate you deeper in your calling and initiatives that you want to see through. grounding and encouragement every Friday morning.Want to add this to your calendar?⁠⁠ ⁠Sign-up here⁠⁠⁠ and I'll send you an invite!More of what to expect from these calls if you want to join live:• Our room opens at 8am, broadcast starts at 8:11am. It's okay if you can't make it live, I'll be posting an audio replay here to the podcast the following week and I trust that it will meet you right when it should.• This isn't a call you need to prepare for or that you'll even be interacting with others through… it's meant to nourish you.• Come as you are and as you can. Invite who you want.

THIS WEEK'S MESSAGE: Today's Fireside Friday was about remembering that often things that we've disowned or tried to change about ourselves has come from someone telling us that we needed to look/be/behave/believe differently. The truest way to love and lead the world in our most vibrant energy is to take back anything that someone has told us to abandon or change... to remember that we're not weeds, but instead vibrant flowers that exist in beauty just as we are! ABOUT: Welcome to a Fireside Friday Recording. Every Friday morning I tap in and pour out messages and words meant to fuel your fire, Fire Starter! These messages are to encourage, empower and activate you deeper in your calling and initiatives that you want to see through. grounding and encouragement every Friday morning.Want to add this to your calendar?⁠⁠ ⁠Sign-up here⁠⁠⁠ and I'll send you an invite!More of what to expect from these calls if you want to join live:• Our room opens at 8am, broadcast starts at 8:11am. It's okay if you can't make it live, I'll be posting an audio replay here to the podcast the following week and I trust that it will meet you right when it should.• This isn't a call you need to prepare for or that you'll even be interacting with others through… it's meant to nourish you.• Come as you are and as you can. Invite who you want.

THIS WEEK'S MESSAGE: Today's Fireside Friday is all around breathing into who we are before we learned how to be anyone else. How the safety and friendship we cultivate with our own soul is sacred work that leads us to show up in the nourished, held and profound ways that we are here to be/do. The longest relationship in this life is the one that we have with ourselves... let's make it a good one :) An intentional, allowed, fulfilled one. The Instagram video I referenced from Dr. Zach Bush can be found here.ABOUT: Welcome to a Fireside Friday Recording. Every Friday morning I tap in and pour out messages and words meant to fuel your fire, Fire Starter! These messages are to encourage, empower and activate you deeper in your calling and initiatives that you want to see through. grounding and encouragement every Friday morning.Want to add this to your calendar?⁠⁠ ⁠Sign-up here⁠⁠⁠ and I'll send you an invite!More of what to expect from these calls if you want to join live:• Our room opens at 8am, broadcast starts at 8:11am. It's okay if you can't make it live, I'll be posting an audio replay here to the podcast the following week and I trust that it will meet you right when it should.• This isn't a call you need to prepare for or that you'll even be interacting with others through… it's meant to nourish you.• Come as you are and as you can. Invite who you want.

THIS WEEK'S MESSAGE: Today's Fireside Friday was about the power we have to CHOOSE. We make decisions and agreements internally all day long about how the world works. We choose how to use our free will and imagination... what would it look like to remember our power in these moments? What are you choosing? ABOUT: Welcome to a Fireside Friday Recording. Every Friday morning I tap in and pour out messages and words meant to fuel your fire, Fire Starter! These messages are to encourage, empower and activate you deeper in your calling and initiatives that you want to see through. grounding and encouragement every Friday morning.Want to add this to your calendar?⁠⁠ ⁠Sign-up here⁠⁠⁠ and I'll send you an invite!More of what to expect from these calls if you want to join live:• Our room opens at 8am, broadcast starts at 8:11am. It's okay if you can't make it live, I'll be posting an audio replay here to the podcast the following week and I trust that it will meet you right when it should.• This isn't a call you need to prepare for or that you'll even be interacting with others through… it's meant to nourish you.• Come as you are and as you can. Invite who you want.Fire Circle Sign-Up: We'll be gathering around the virtual fireside on Thursday April 10 at 8pm ET. These are community calls where you get to meet and interact with other Fire Starters in our community, you can sign-up for that here.

THIS WEEK'S MESSAGE: Today's Fireside Friday was all around "uncertainty." Allowing her to teach us and to also be a pathway for us to connect and help those we love and lead navigate that place as well. ABOUT: Welcome to a Fireside Friday Recording. Every Friday morning I tap in and pour out messages and words meant to fuel your fire, Fire Starter! These messages are to encourage, empower and activate you deeper in your calling and initiatives that you want to see through. grounding and encouragement every Friday morning.Want to add this to your calendar?⁠⁠ ⁠Sign-up here⁠⁠⁠ and I'll send you an invite!More of what to expect from these calls if you want to join live:• Our room opens at 8am, broadcast starts at 8:11am. It's okay if you can't make it live, I'll be posting an audio replay here to the podcast the following week and I trust that it will meet you right when it should.• This isn't a call you need to prepare for or that you'll even be interacting with others through… it's meant to nourish you.• Come as you are and as you can. Invite who you want.Fire Circle Sign-Up: We'll be gathering around the virtual fireside on Thursday April 10 at 8pm ET. These are community calls where you get to meet and interact with other Fire Starters in our community, you can sign-up for that here.

THIS WEEK'S MESSAGE: Today you'll hear me explore what it means to become an authentic leader... you're going to have to do it awkward. Yep, it's awkward before it's elegant. I am seeking to learn how to embrace more of that process and lean INTO the awkward instead of wish it way or want it to be different. The "shoulds" around it being different are usually things we learned from the world around us... always wanting to present something finished/polished/perfected, but the real secret I'm seeking to embrace is that the awkward part is actually just LIFE. Can you embrace more of your awkward? Maybe we can do it together! Now I Become Myself May Sarton (1912–1995)Now I become myself.  It's takenTime, many years and places;I have been dissolved and shaken,Worn other people's faces,Run madly, as if Time were there,Terribly old, crying a warning,“Hurry, you will be dead before—“(What?  Before you reach the morning?Or the end of the poem is clear?Or love safe in the walled city?)Now to stand still, to be here,Feel my own weight and density!The black shadow on the paperIs my hand; the shadow of a wordAs thought shapes the shaperFalls heavy on the page, is heard.All fuses now, falls into placeFrom wish to action, word to silence,My work, my love, my time, my faceGathered into one intenseGesture of growing like a plant.As slowly as the ripening fruitFertile, detached, and always spent,Falls but does not exhaust the root,So all the poem is, can give,Grows in me to become the song,Made so and rooted so by love.Now there is time and Time is young.O, in this single hour I loveAll of myself and do not move.I, the pursued, who madly ran,Stand still, stand still, and stop the sun!ABOUT: Welcome to a Fireside Friday Recording. Every Friday morning I tap in and pour out messages and words meant to fuel your fire, Fire Starter! These messages are to encourage, empower and activate you deeper in your calling and initiatives that you want to see through. grounding and encouragement every Friday morning.Want to add this to your calendar?⁠⁠ Sign-up here⁠⁠ and I'll send you an invite!More of what to expect from these calls if you want to join live:• Our room opens at 8am, broadcast starts at 8:11am. It's okay if you can't make it live, I'll be posting an audio replay here to the podcast the following week and I trust that it will meet you right when it should.• This isn't a call you need to prepare for or that you'll even be interacting with others through… it's meant to nourish you.• Come as you are and as you can. Invite who you want.Fire Circle Sign-Up: We'll be gathering around the virtual fireside on Thursday April 10 at 8pm ET. These are community calls where you get to meet and interact with other Fire Starters in our community, you can sign-up for that here.

THIS WEEK'S MESSAGE: Today's Fireside Friday was about being TIRED. Part of this is from the time change, but another level of it, is simply poor stewardship of our own energy. If we want to love and lead at the level of our soul, that means that we have to create time and space to give her what she needs. AND the only way we know what she needs? Learning to listen to her instruction. Advocating that we actually have time and space TO listen... Choosing to take time, space and effort in tending ourselves IS loving others well. ABOUT: Welcome to a Fireside Friday Recording. Every Friday morning I tap in and pour out messages and words meant to fuel your fire, Fire Starter! These messages are to encourage, empower and activate you deeper in your calling and initiatives that you want to see through. grounding and encouragement every Friday morning.Want to add this to your calendar?⁠⁠ Sign-up here⁠⁠ and I'll send you an invite!More of what to expect from these calls if you want to join live:• Our room opens at 8am, broadcast starts at 8:11am. It's okay if you can't make it live, I'll be posting an audio replay here to the podcast the following week and I trust that it will meet you right when it should.• This isn't a call you need to prepare for or that you'll even be interacting with others through… it's meant to nourish you.• Come as you are and as you can. Invite who you want.Fire Circle Sign-Up: We'll be gathering around the virtual fireside on Saturday, March 22 at 10am ET and Thursday April 10 at 8pm ET. These are community calls where you get to meet and interact with other Fire Starters in our community, you can sign-up for that here.

Welcome to a Fireside Friday Recording. Every Friday morning I tap in and pour out messages and words meant to fuel your fire, Fire Starter! These messages are to encourage, empower and activate you deeper in your calling and initiatives that you want to see through. grounding and encouragement every Friday morning.Want to add this to your calendar?⁠⁠ Sign-up here⁠⁠ and I'll send you an invite!THIS WEEK'S MESSAGE: Today's Fireside Friday was all about FIRE; how is fire made, how we can look at the internal fires that compel us forward and assess what we need... what does YOUR fire need to take the hills that you long to take? More of what to expect from these calls if you want to join live:• Our room opens at 8am, broadcast starts at 8:11am. It's okay if you can't make it live, I'll be posting an audio replay here to the podcast the following week and I trust that it will meet you right when it should.• This isn't a call you need to prepare for or that you'll even be interacting with others through… it's meant to nourish you.• Come as you are and as you can. Invite who you want.Fire Circle Sign-Up: We'll be gathering around the virtual fireside on Saturday, March 22 at 10am ET and Thursday April 10 at 8pm ET. These are community calls where you get to meet and interact with other Fire Starters in our community, you can sign-up for that here.

On today's episode we're going deeper into "Essence: Leading from Within," an immersive experience calling you deeper into your innate leadership. I'm joined on the episode by my facilitator and dear friend, Katie Vogel. We wanted to give you another taste of what you can expect (we did another episode back in February), so we brought you into a conversation between the two of us around exactly what we're infusing this vibrant, life-giving day with!If you want to snag a ticket to the event, including an EPIC deal we're giving on the first 10 tickets sold, you can do that here.We also are hosting a couple Fireside Circles in the coming weeks (these are designed to connect with other heart-centered women). If you'd like to sign-up to attend those, you can do that here. We're so grateful you're here and we hope to see you at Essence.TLDR: Snag your tickets for a brand-new immersive experience designed especially for women to get you back in touch with your innate leadership... the very essence of who you are gets to be infused in every area of your life, especially in how and who you lead.

ABOUT: Welcome to a Fireside Friday Recording. Every Friday morning I tap in and pour out messages and words meant to fuel your fire, Fire Starter! These messages are to encourage, empower and activate you deeper in your calling and initiatives that you want to see through. grounding and encouragement every Friday morning. Want to add this to your calendar?⁠⁠ Sign-up here⁠⁠ and I'll send you an invite! THIS WEEK'S MESSAGE: Today's Fireside Friday had a surprise guest! My dear friend, Katie Vogel joined me as we spoke into what it looks like to identify yourself as a leader and how to navigate being in flow with the Universe as we do!More of what to expect from these calls if you want to join live: • Our room opens at 8am, broadcast starts at 8:11am. It's okay if you can't make it live, I'll be posting an audio replay here to the podcast the following week and I trust that it will meet you right when it should. • This isn't a call you need to prepare for or that you'll even be interacting with others through… it's meant to nourish you. • Come as you are and as you can. Invite who you want.

ABOUT: Welcome to a Fireside Friday Recording. Every Friday morning I tap in and pour out messages and words meant to fuel your fire, Fire Starter! These messages are to encourage, empower and activate you deeper in your calling and initiatives that you want to see through. grounding and encouragement every Friday morning. Want to add this to your calendar?⁠ Sign-up here⁠ and I'll send you an invite! THIS WEEK'S MESSAGE: This message is all around community. As Fire Starters it's so important to surround and infuse our energy with possibility and support. As Margaret Mead said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." More of what to expect from these calls if you want to join live: • Our room opens at 8am, broadcast starts at 8:11am. It's okay if you can't make it live, I'll be posting an audio replay here to the podcast the following week and I trust that it will meet you right when it should. • This isn't a call you need to prepare for or that you'll even be interacting with others through… it's meant to nourish you. • Come as you are and as you can. Invite who you want.

Fireside Fridays happen every Friday morning. They're broadcast messages meant to encourage, empower and support leaders, visionaries, hope instigators, change agents... fire starters!This week's message was all about drawing near to your own heart to receive what you need! When we will take the time to be in friendship with ourselves and focus our own healing and receive our own inner wisdom ... Allowing our own gaze to focus inward is what creates the harmony, grounding and peace that we're seeking to love and lead in the ways that we crave. If you'd like to join me at the next Fireside Friday,⁠ add it to your calendar here⁠ or ⁠jump straight into the Zoom room here⁠!

Fireside Fridays happen every Friday morning. They're broadcast messages meant to encourage, empower and support leaders, visionaries, hope instigators, change agents... fire starters!This week was all about Messy Love! When did we learn that we need to clean ourselves up to receive support/love/friendship? As leaders, if we want those we serve and love to be in authentic relationship with us, we also have to learn how to let ourselves be known right in our "mess." The world doesn't need our perfection... she just needs US. In the fullness of who we are... in messy love.If you'd like to join me at the next Fireside Friday,add it to your calendar here orjump straight into the Zoom room here!

On today's episode you're going to get to meet my dear friend and soul sister Katie Vogel. 2025 is a year of ACTIVATION for us and we'refinally linking arms to collaborate and bring heart-centered women together. We kicked off the new year with a small retreat to whet our appetite and flex our muscles. Now, we're ready to bring you a beautiful one-day experience we're calling:Essence: Leading From Within.Essence is an immersive experience calling you deeper into your innate leadership.We wanted to give you a taste of what you can expect, so we brought you into a conversation between the two of us around exactly what we're infusing this vibrant, life-giving day with!If you want to hear more details about the event (including an EPIC deal we're giving on the first 10 tickets sold), you'll want tosign-up for our waitlist here.We're so grateful you're here and we hope to see you atEssence.TLDR:Get on the waitlist now to get first dibs on tickets for a brand-new immersive experience designed especially for women to get you back in touch withyour innate leadership... the very essence of who you are gets to be infused in every area of your life, especially in how and who you lead.

With all that's going on in the world, I'm feeling led to regularly tap into and pour out words of grounding and encouragement every Friday morning. Today's episode is a recording of my very first Fireside Friday from January 31, 2025. These Fireside Friday messages are meant for fire starters; hope instigators, love bringers, seekers, curious visionaries… YOU. I will be sharing messages I feel our souls need. Want to join me next Friday? Here's how: Zoom Room: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87218095953 Add it directly to your calendar: https://calendar.app.google/DUvg8P5DmDK8E9bh8 More of what to expect: Our room opens at 8am, broadcast starts at 8:11am. It's okay if you can't make it live, I'll be posting an audio replay to my podcast the following week and I trust that it will meet you right when it should. This isn't a call you need to prepare for or that you'll even be interacting with others through… it's meant to nourish you. Come as you are and as you can. Invite who you want.

Today on the show, you'll listen in on a conversation with Shazia Imam. Shazia, is an Award-Winning Speaker, ICF Certified Coach and host of the Top 12 Podcast - Feminine & Fulfilled. After experiencing her own life fall apart after losing her son and then husband, Shazia realized it was a Divine push to begin living her REAL life. This blossomed into finding her soulmate, discovering her feminine power, and living her deep purpose...One which involves women unleashing their WHOLE selves to feel fulfilled, happy and whole. Join us as we explore what happens when you begin to give yourself the permission to trust yourself, lean into your design and become more of who you're meant to be... spoiler alert... you just get to be YOU. Grab Shazia's free Gift for you, here. CONNECT WITH SHAZIA - On her website. - On Instagram. - Listen to Her Podcast.

My mentor, Dr. Nicole Garritano, just dropped a podcast episode where she and I sat down together to talk about her programThe Intuition Formula. I asked her if I could share this episode with you here as I think it's a beautiful testament to the work I've been doing internally AND, I wanted to make sure that you had access to join her next round of the program. The Intuition Formula is a six-week program where Nicole uses her beautiful gifts to help you access your deepest inner knowing. My time with Nicole helped me continue to draw closer to my own knowing and heart. From our work together I've generated the biggest revenue in my business, created deeply transformative offerings of my own, and to top it all off, I'm more grounded and in tune with who I am and what I'm here to do than ever before. Her next round of the program is launching on October 31st! If you're interested in checking it out, you can read more about it here. CONNECT WITH NICOLE - Check out her Podcast: The Woo is True - Grab her meditations on Insight Timer - Join her free Telegram Community

On today's show, we're sitting down with Stefanie Brooks, the Founder of Commonwealth Candle. I met Stefanie at a local market in La Grange, KY and when she told me that she's opening a storefront on September 30th, I knew we had to have her on! We talk about how Stefanie got started, the not so heavenly scented truth about the candle industry, and the process she goes through in making her divine candles. The Grand Opening of her store will take place this Friday, September 30th, 2022 from 6-9pm. The first ten people will get to pour a candle for free! There will also be give-aways, deals, and light refreshments. Her Shop + Candle Bar will be located in the Mellwood Art Center (1860 Mellwood Ave), Studio 155. CONNECT WITH STEFANIE IG, Facebook, TikTok: @commonwealth.candle Her Website: www.commonwealthcandle.com

Hop in and ride in my brand new Hyundai Tucson! I'm talking about how our growth and expansion are not only invitations to others around us to do the same, but also the discomfort it can cause when it rubs up against with our familial and cultural narratives and what can be on the other side of ACTUALLY doing what you desire. Here's the David Neagel podcast episode I reference - you'll definitely want to check out his show + listen to the episode.

On today's show, you'll get to meet the impactful, Misty Gilbert. Early on in life, Misty made a very scary choice and took a huge risk to leave everyone and everything she knew in her hometown to escape a lifetime of repression, control, abuse, and limitation. She moved across the country, with limited funds, with no family and almost no community with an absolute commitment to live her life in freedom and choice. I invited Misty here to share more around her story and how she has used vulnerability and pain to transform her life and the lives of others. CONNECT WITH MISTY Misty currently resides in Fort Worth, Texas. She's a TEDx Presenter, Transformational Coach, Writer and Speaker with a passion to encourage, support and inspire you to create the life that you want by choosing to Intentionally Live. Check our her website here. Connect with her through socials @mistywgilbert

Today we're sitting down with Audrey Wurth, a wonderful woman and friend of mine from college and an incredible mama to three kiddos. Her oldest daughter, Evelyn, is an individual who has down syndrome, her middle daughter, Sophia a fully typically developing child, and her youngest son, Frank, has a disability that will be his own to talk about one day. She takes us behind the scenes of what it looked like to hear of the initial diagnosis of her eldest all the way through to the birth of her youngest. We talked about the nuances and being sensitive to speak about or refer to people in respectful ways, some of the challenges they've faced as a family, and also how to support someone who may be also parenting or walking this path. I am so grateful that she was willing to sit down with me to speak about their journey and to give us a peek into what this journey has looked like for her and for her family. At the end of our conversation, you'll actually get to meet Evelyn and hear her sign-off our time together!

On today's show, we're sitting down with Kayla Weber. She's a Kentucky native and phenomenal Artist! She's from Lexington, KY and her store front and studio are in Nicholasville, KY. Kayla takes us behind the scene on how she went from teaching art (which she loved) to making art full time. She talks about the journey of what it's looked like to build a business and that a large portion of her continued success has meant getting really serious about honoring her joy so that she's saying a resounding YES to what lights her up and a no to anything that's going to take her away from that expanded place. We actually recorded this episode at the end of May so she has completed both her commissioned horses; one resides at Keaneland, a racetrack in Lexington, KY and the other is currently on display at Thoroughbred Park, but will be moving to Brett Construction for it's final home. CONNECT WITH KAYLA on Instagram, her website, or if you're in or around Lexington or Nicholasville, KY stop in and check out her work!

Today on the show you're getting to meet Amanda Miller, a Life Coach who specializes in using Human Design to help you really take your life and business to a whole new level. Today you'll get to learn a little bit about what Human Design is, but most of all, to be reminded that you are responsible for your life and you get to choose how you want to respond to it! CONNECT WITH AMANDA on Instagram or on Facebook.

Today on the show, Kasey Guelda, founder of Key Beverages joins me to discuss his incredible passion project that has turned into a start-up he hopes to scale and grow. We talk about what water kefir is, how the pandemic really challenged him to go inward and how he's living out something he's truly passionate about! We talk about how the drinks he's created can no only help heal your gut, but improve your mood and the quality of your life. If you're interested in learning about water kefir, improving your gut health, or starting or growing your business, this episode is for YOU! CONNECT WITH KASEY on Facebook or Instagram.

On today's episode, you'll get to be a fly on the wall of a live coaching session I hosted with Shelby Lewis. You make recognize Shelby from episode 66 where we talked about the desire to be rich and famous! In this episode, we're talking about what it means to find harmony in our lives as we seek to create ALL the things that we're drawn to. We talked about how seeking balance can lead to burn out, but how finding harmony can lead to peace.

It's been a minute since I was here in this space, and I wanted to share where I've been and what I've been keeping close to my chest. I no longer call myself a "believer" anymore, I am a seeker. This has been a deeply personal journey, one I take so seriously that I have held back from sharing here because I still feel so "in process," however, I've felt more and more that it's time for me to start at least TRYING to share where I find myself. It's never where I thought I would be, but I'm grateful for the journey that I'm on. I reference a poem in the episode and I've included it below. Thanks again for being along for this journey with me! I'm grateful. Fear By Khalil Gibran “It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages. And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever. But there is no other way. The river can not go back. Nobody can go back. To go back is impossible in existence. The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that's where the river will know it's not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.”

Today on the show, you're going to meet Shelby Lewis. She's an Actor, Acting Coach, joyous being, my Sis (soul sis) ... and a beloved coaching client of mine. I told Shelby that I wanted to have her on the podcast at some point and she slid into my DM's a few months back and said, "I thought of a subject for our podcast episode! 'Why is it Hard to Admit We Want to Be Rich & Famous?!'" AND I SAID, "WHEN ARE WE RECORDING?!" Both she and I have a desire and pull to stand on stages and really and truly become rich and famous, so we wanted to go behind the scenes of why admitting that is scary. If you've ever felt a pull that felt uncomfortable, or you thought that maybe the world wouldn't or couldn't understand WHY you wanted that thing on your heart and soul . . . this episode is for you. A few times in the episode we reference "The Arena" and wanting to be IN the Arena which is referencing an incredible thought fromTheodore Roosevelt. He said, "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." May you bravely step into the arenas that you're meant for dear ones! Connect with Shelby on Instagram here.

Today on the show, we're diving into something called Human Design, which is what led me to connect with Nicole Garritano in the first place! Nicole works as an Intuitive Mentor and Facilitator to help her clients really get to know how they're intuitively gifted for the work that they're here to do. She focuses in on the truth that we are divinely made and created on purpose with a unique essence. She's found that utilizing Human Design helps her clients really step into the fullness of who they are and get back to their original design. I asked her to join me on the show to walk us through what Human Design is and how we can understand more of who we are using the Human Design lens. Where + How to Connect with Nicole Connect with Nicole on Instagram here. Check out her Facebook Community here. You'll find her website here. Soak in some of her teaching here. Send her an email: Nicole@nicolegarritano.com

Today on the show, you're going to get to hear from Emily Liou, a Career Happiness Coach, Job Search Strategist and founder of Cultivitae. For over a decade, Emily worked as a former recruiter + headhunter for Fortune 500 companies like Google, Amazon, Uber and Facebook (along with top law firms). In that time, she started to notice that she could really help people with the knowledge that she'd built. She'd read countless resumes, rejected applicants (over 99% of the applicants to every single job she was hiring for), and really learned exactly what works to help applicants step out of the 99% rejected, into the 1% hired. What I love most about Emily and her company, is that she's not just interested in giving people the strategy to land a job, she's looking to empower people to find and begin the job, the one that they love and lights them up! Fun fact, I also coach within her signature programs. If you're in the midst of job seeking , thinking about taking steps to see what's out there, or just curious about our take on where the career landscape is headed, this episode is for you! Check out her website: CultivateYourCareer.com

Today you get to meet Leilani Wells, a true soul sister if I ever met one! She's a Visibility Coach and in the episode we talk about her journey that led her to start her business. SPOILER ALERT: A huge instigator for her to start her business was to be able to have more autonomy and choices to live her life as a mother to her son. We discuss how vulnerability is a true catalyst for freedom and fulfillment and how Leilani can support you in your own business so that you can turn your own passion into profit. Her program starts TODAY (April 7, 2022) so be sure to check it out if you're interested. The doors close in just a couple weeks. SHOW LINKS Get to know + follow Leilani on ALL the platforms here. If you're interested in joining her program, click here. To join her Facebook Community, click here. To check out her client Diane's TikTok, that we discuss in the episode, click here.

Sara Bareilles has a song called "She Used to Be Mine." When I first heard it, I listened to it on repeat, and sobbed over and over again. Well, I pulled that song up on my drive home last Saturday and just let my soul lay bare as I have in so many different seasons since I found it. She sang: "She's imperfect but she tries She is good but she lies She is hard on herself She is broken and won't ask for help She is messy but she's kind She is lonely most of the time She is all of this mixed up And baked in a beautiful pie She is gone but she used to be mine." I had a really big breakthrough that for most of my life I've actually felt really lonely. Most of that has been because I've refused to bring others into the midst of my uncertainty... of my need. But something that I do know, is that I want the same safe space that I give others. I needed to face that little girl inside and give her what she's wanted her whole life: a friend. To honor her. To witness her just as she is... and be okay with that. Wherever you find yourself, sending you love. Walking with you, Evelyn

What do we do when we're angry at God? Is it okay to call him out? This week you're going to meet Kelsey Berry, a dear friend of mine from college. In 2020 she lost her Grammy and that's been one of the hardest things she's had to face. We talk about what it's been like to walk a path that she never wanted to walk, how her church community responded (or didn't), her own responsibility in navigating a season of grief and if it's even okay to be angry at God. To see the tattoo she talks about in the episode, you'll find it here. Connect with Kelsey Online: On Instagram: MrsKelseyBerry + Kelsey Berry Photography On her website: KelseyBerry.com

I'm still chewing the fat on losing a role within a company I support. I take you behind the scenes of why it's important for us to get underneath the stories that we create in our minds and souls. The truth of the matter is that you're constantly making up the story that is happening for/against/to you - you get to decide each and every day how you're going to take what life throws your way. Thanks for being here with me - grateful for you!

I recently got some hard news around one of the companies I work for... Spoiler Alert: They're letting me go - for now. I wanted to take you behind the scenes of what this process has been like for me as I work through the feelings and emotions that come up through all of this. If nothing else, maybe it's nice to hear that you're not the only one who has Scary Mondays sometimes :) Thanks for being here with me.

Today you're going to meet Karen Black, or as she's known in the community where I'm from, "Mrs. Karen." She just celebrated 20 years of being cancer free. She talks about losing her first husband and then learning how to walk through her diagnosis while raising her kiddos. She is such a light here in this community. Her kindness and compassion always precede her and a large part of her outlook has been because she sought the light when the darkness closed in. She's one special woman. Thank you for being a guest Karen - you're truly one of a kind!

Today on the show you're going to meet Chelsey Owen, the founder of Meraki Dance Company, based in Louisville, KY. We talk about dance, how learning new ways of being in the world and pushing past our old beliefs can lead us somewhere we never thought we would be. Chelsey's depth and passion for what she does is so evident, I'm so thrilled for you to meet her! Find Chelsey on Instagram: @MerakiDanceKY Connect with Chelsey on Facebook: Chelsey Owen Dance and Performance

It's been a minute! So good to be back with you :) Today I'm talking about why I've been a little MIA in these parts and the direction that the show is headed. I hope your year is off to an incredible start. Wishing you so much life and love! Thank you for being here with me. Walking with you, Evelyn

We're headed into 2022 and I wanted to talk about ways that you can really make your resolutions stick. I unpack how to decide what you want to focus on and ways to build strategies to get you there. I also briefly touched on where I am in my five month Self-Love Journey - there wasn't a lot to update there so it's acknowledged if you've been following along. Thank you again for being here in this community. Excited for the chapters ahead. Happy New Year! Walking with you, Evelyn

Welcome back! Today you're going to listen in on a conversation of two kids in their early 30's talk through the dogma of the religions that they grew up in. Joel Denning is a friend from high school. When we met he was a devout Mormon and I was a devout Southern Baptist Christian. We discuss Joel's upbringing and the trajectory that would lead him to leave the Mormon faith, some of my own arc in where I find myself in my own spiritual journey, the state of the world in politics and so much more!

This week on the show, you're going to meet Hunter Luttrell. Guys, this episode is hands down my favorite episode of the podcast thus far. Hunter is a friend of mine from childhood. We stayed in touch on social media, but we really talk about his story and trajectory of life in this episode. After high school, he would join the military where he would serve overseas, get blown up, join the police force, have three children, OH and works as the Head Wrestling Coach for two different high schools in South Eastern Kentucky. So, why is this my favorite episode? Because of Hunter's outlook on life. His belief in the honor of each and every story of the people that he serves in the community that he lives in and the belief that he has that people can be good, strong, and continually grow in their potential. I cried multiple times during our conversation as I so fully resonated with his heart and with his love for people. This is a must listen FOR SURE!

Okay, I didn't want to do this one, but I'm glad I did! For the last four months I've been working to heal the relationship between me and my body. That's looked like exercising daily, creating conscious awareness around what I'm putting into my body, and just reconnecting with her. I started disassociating with my body in the fourth grade, so this integration process has been really new and eye-opening to me. In this episode I heavily reference a specific podcast from the "Diet Starts Tomorrow" Podcast. If you want to give that a listen, you'll find it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-shop-for-your-body-type-ft-katie-sturino/id1374942074?i=1000542389204

It's Thanksgiving week here in the U.S. and Christmas is fast approaching. Sometimes the season isn't one that feels so merry and bright, especially when your life doesn't look the way that you thought it might. Maybe you lost someone you love, you're in a season of transition, or you're just not sure where you're headed in life . . . if you find yourself there, this episode is for you. If you know someone who is struggling or who my be facing a difficult time right now, please share this with them. Wishing you so much love on your journey, Evelyn

On today's episode, I'm joined by Kristen Westcott. Kristen is a business growth and systems strategist and founder of the Freedom Track Method. She's spent the last decade in the legal and education fields supporting leaders and students in the areas of goal setting, productivity and project management. After recognizing her true passion lies in serving entrepreneurs, Kristen honed her skills as a Director of Operations. She quickly noticed that what was holding many business owners back wasn't a lack of drive or ability, but a lack of foundational systems that could support the day-to-day operations of a scaling business. These days, she spends her time helping online coaches, copywriters and creatives scale without the frustration that massive growth often brings. We talk about how Kristen has developed her own systems and strategies for how to navigate her anxiety, practices she recommends to walk through that, how to support people in your own life who may be facing anxiety, and how choosing your own path is ultimately the key to fulfillment. My favorite quote from the episode (that I'm still chewing on): "Rest is productive." Does it challenge you the way that it challenges me? Snag Kristen's Flow Method Here Visit Kristen online: www.kristenwestcott.com // IG: @kristen.westcott

Today on the show you're going to meet Andrea. Andrea is the owner of Q+A Sweet Treats, a bakery in LaGrange, KY, where she also serves on City Council. I invited Andrea on the show because her story is one of resilience, hope, and connection. Right after she would open her bakery in 2011, she would go through a divorce, find out that she had cancer, endure several years of healing and recovery, and ultimately continue to learn how to navigate through an old friend: depression. She's a mama to two incredible sons. She is celebrating the 10 year birthday of her bakery this month, a place where she cultivates a hearth for delicious treats, connection, community and friendship. If you're going to be around LaGrange, KY on November 27th, 2021, join her for the bakery's birthday celebration! She'll be open from 8am-2pm and would love to have you stop by. You can also follow her on IG: @feistybaker0224

Today you're going to meet Shannon Depalma. Shannon is a financial coach and soon to be financial therapist for female entrepreneurs that want to maximize their cash flow and grow their net worth without making more money. We talk about the four common money stories that people cling to, the massive shame that permeates many of our relationships with wealth and money and SO much more. Shannon's Gift: Unfuck Your Money Mindset a free 44 page journal all about exploring your relationship to money, making more of it, and managing it well.

Each day in October I'm sharing a different love letter. Each letter was written with someone specific in mind, but my hope is that these would speak into your heart or be a message that you feel someone in your own life might find comfort, hope, or inspiration through. I've loved writing letters since I was a little girl and so, dear listener, a love letter for you and yours. With so much love, Evelyn (Come hang out with me on IG @EvelynFuson)

Each day in October I'm sharing a different love letter. Each letter was written with someone specific in mind, but my hope is that these would speak into your heart or be a message that you feel someone in your own life might find comfort, hope, or inspiration through. I've loved writing letters since I was a little girl and so, dear listener, a love letter for you and yours. With so much love, Evelyn (Come hang out with me on IG @EvelynFuson)

Each day in October I'm sharing a different love letter. Each letter was written with someone specific in mind, but my hope is that these would speak into your heart or be a message that you feel someone in your own life might find comfort, hope, or inspiration through. I've loved writing letters since I was a little girl and so, dear listener, a love letter for you and yours. With so much love, Evelyn (Come hang out with me on IG @EvelynFuson)

I realized over the last month that I've been calling this my "Weight Loss Journey," but that it's actually "My Self Love Journey." In the episode I explore what I've realized about how I want to love and accept myself and the internal work that has brought me to this place. Previous Check-In Episodes: - One Month Check In - Two Month Check In The opening message from @TheBirdsPapaya: Hard truths: I liked being thinner because clothes fit me perfectly. I liked being thinner because men paid me more attention. I liked being thinner because people liked that I was thinner, and congratulated me often for it. ⁣ Everything I liked about being thinner had really nothing to do with my actual body. ⁣ Because I can't say I ever ended up finding much like for my body after all. ⁣ Everything I liked about being thinner was more about being accepted by others than it was about accepting myself. ⁣ ⁣Which reminds me that when thoughts creep in about wanting to be thinner, and the drastic unhealthy measures I know could take to get there, to pause and reflect that really it comes down to a innate desire to be accepted. ⁣ ⁣So I'm sitting with that today. ⁣ And I have to thank you, for showing me that while the relationship with myself is the core, that I can and will be accepted by people who will see me for more than my body. ⁣ I will find clothes that serve me, a man that gives me the right attention, congratulations for my healing and my purpose beyond my body. ⁣ ⁣Embracing me, an ever-changing, gaining and losing, ebbing and flowing me... has brought about the most genuine of relationships I could ever have.

Each day in October I'm sharing a different love letter. Each letter was written with someone specific in mind, but my hope is that these would speak into your heart or be a message that you feel someone in your own life might find comfort, hope, or inspiration through. I've loved writing letters since I was a little girl and so, dear listener, a love letter for you and yours. With so much love, Evelyn (Come hang out with me on IG @EvelynFuson)