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You know that Yosemite Sam moment — face red, stomping around, hooting and hollering, wearing yourself completely out and never actually getting what you were aiming for? That's unprocessed anger. And if you've ever been tagged the angry one who goes zero to 100, or you're over here as the calm, non-confrontational one who swallows it until it explodes six weeks later — this episode is for you.Today we're getting into the real difference between anger and resentment, why bottling it up in the name of "no drama" is quietly wrecking your confidence and self-trust, and what it actually looks like to let anger do its job instead of letting it drive. Because confidence isn't a personality trait — it's evidence. And every time you go Yosemite Sam or give the silent treatment, you're teaching your nervous system you can't be trusted to handle your own feelings.We're talking the self-love two-step remix for catching anger the moment it shows up, the three moves you can make depending on what the situation calls for, and why even your valid points get lost when the delivery is foul. Anger was never bad or wrong — it's information. It's Day-Day in Friday After Next. It wants action, not a place to move in and live rent-free.IN THIS EPISODE:The real difference between anger and resentment (and why they get confused)Why unaddressed anger becomes dis-ease in the bodyThe self-trust cost of "hooting and hollering" vs. naming it clean and earlyThree moves to make when anger shows upThe self-love two-step remix for processing anger in real timeTIMESTAMPS:00:00 Anger Running You00:55 Anger Working For You02:44 Anger Versus Resentment04:07 Confidence And Self Trust08:48 What To Do With Anger11:12 Final EncouragementWATCH ON YOUTUBE — To learn the ONE thing to do with anger right now

Overthinking But You're the X Factor | Stop Overthinking and Trust YourselfDo you struggle with overthinking every decision, big or small? In this episode, we're breaking down why overthinking isn't really about finding the right answer — it's about control. If you find yourself spiraling before every decision, replaying conversations that haven't even happened, or asking everyone's opinion except your own, this episode is your permission to stop.We're exposing the real cycle behind chronic overthinking — what happens after the decision, why the relief never sticks, and why you keep landing back at square one. You'll learn the proof-gathering reframe that changes how you see every spiral coming, why your nervous system is still protecting a threat that's no longer there, and how to start trusting your own capacity instead of trying to control every outcome.Whether you're a high-achieving woman navigating decision fatigue, a busy mom stuck in survival mode, or someone who just can't seem to turn her brain off at night — this episode will help you understand what's really underneath your overthinking, and why you've been more capable than you've been giving yourself credit for.By the end of this episode, you'll walk away with:A new understanding of why you overthink (it's not what you think)A framework for recognizing your own spiral before it takes overA simple practice for building self-trust in real timeA reminder that you have survived 100% of your hardest days — and you'll survive this one tooIf you're ready to stop overthinking, release the grip, and start trusting yourself again, hit play.TIMESTAMPS:00:00 Overthinking's Big Lie01:40 Why You're Always On Guard02:41 The Overthinking Cycle04:23 Proof You Won't Be Wrong05:50 Control vs Self Trust07:00 Check Your Real Life Resume08:18 You Are the Proof10:12 Self Love Two Step11:20 You Are the X Factor13:01 Final EncouragementSELF LOVE 2-STEP REMIX:Step 1 — Notice the grip. The next time you catch yourself spiraling on a decision, pause and ask — am I trying to think of the right answer, or am I trying to control what happens next?Step 2 — Check your resume. Think of one hard thing you survived without a plan for it. Let that be your evidence.Step 3 — The YOU Step. Get still, get quiet, and ask yourself what your heart is telling you to do next.GET YOUR JOURNAL PROMPTSWant to go deeper on this episode? Grab the Main Character Energy Journal Prompts

You've been waiting for an apology that's never coming — and it was never going to come from anywhere but you. In this episode, Letitia gets real about the version of forgiveness nobody talks about enough: forgiving yourself. She shares the story of the hardest forgiveness she ever had to give herself — not for her divorce, but for the choices, the unconscious patterns, and the version of herself she thought she was supposed to be. If you've been holding yourself on trial for something you already learned from, this episode is your permission to finally close the case.WE'RE COVERING:Why forgiving other people comes so much easier than forgiving yourselfThe difference between punishment and accountability — and why they get confusedWhy forgiveness was never meant to be something you earnHow releasing yourself from the past is an act of self-love, not self-excuseTIMESTAMPS:00:00 The Apology Within01:11 Forgiveness Is Freedom02:11 Divorce and Self Grace04:09 Why We Self Punish05:30 Freedom Not Perfection07:05 Staying Free Tools09:51 A Word to Your Heart11:56 Set Yourself FreeSELF LOVE 2-STEP REMIX:Step 1 — Write the verdict you've been holding. Get specific about the exact thing you've never forgiven yourself for.Step 2 — Write the release. Write "I forgive myself for ___, because I was doing the best that I could with what I knew and had at the time" — and read it out loud until it feels true.Step 3 — The YOU Step. Get still, get quiet, and ask yourself what your heart is telling you to do next.GET YOUR JOURNAL PROMPTSWant to go deeper on this episode? Grab the Main Character Energy Journal Prompts

You know that moment right after you mess up, and before anyone else even opens their mouth, you're already dragging yourself harder than anyone else ever would? That voice isn't a personality trait, Friend. It's a trained reflex, and today we're finding out exactly who trained her.WE'RE COVERING:✦ The real reason your inner critic feels so undeniably "you," and why it's not actually your voice at all✦ What your body is physically doing every time you go hard on yourself, and why winning never seems to shut her up✦ Why affirmations and mirror work haven't worked for some of you, and what's actually missing underneath them✦ What it means when self-kindness makes things feel worse instead of better, and why that's not a red flag✦ How to start rebuilding trust with yourself one small, sustainable dose at a timeTIMESTAMPS:00:00 Meet Your Inner Critic01:56 Where She Learned It04:51 Cruelty as Protection06:51 Why Affirmations Feel Fake08:45 Let the Window Open Slowly11:23 Build a Bridge Script14:54 Train Her New Job17:15 Final Encouragement✨ THE SELF LOVE 2 STEP REMIXStep 1 — Find Her Hire Date Trace back to the moment you first remember being crueler to yourself than the situation called for, and what was happening around you right before it.Step 2 — Rebuild One Do one small, deliberate thing today that only someone with an already solid foundation would do, laying a single brick your critic can actually stand on.Step 3 — The YOU Step Get still, get quiet, and trust whatever your heart tells you to do next, because she already knows.GET YOUR SELF-LOVE SCRIPT

For years, every time another relationship ended, I asked the same question: what is wrong with me? Why does everyone else get the ring while I get another "it's not you, it's me" text? I figured the answer was out there somewhere, in the right man, the right timing, the right effort. Then I lost my mom, and in the middle of the hardest season of my life, the question changed on its own. Not what's wrong with me, but who am I without her? That's the season that taught me self-love isn't something you do while you wait for the relationship. It IS the relationship.IN THIS EPISODE:Why "what's wrong with me" is the wrong question if you're stuck in your single season and ready to give upThe fear I felt every time I had to tell a man I wanted marriage, and why it pushed good ones away before they had a real chanceHow grief turned my search for love into a search for myself, and why that changed everythingThe 3-part self-love audit: what you're feeding yourself, what you believe about love, and whether you actually see how amazing you areTIMESTAMPS:00:00 Single Season Struggle01:22 Dating Streets Reality02:47 Media Shapes Beliefs04:50 Loss And Self Discovery06:36 Called Up Not Out07:40 Three Part Self Audit13:11 Nothing Wrong With You15:56 Invitation To Wholeness16:54 Final EncouragementGET YOUR JOURNAL PROMPTSFriend, if you've been swirling in your single season way too long for your taste and you're high-key ready to give up, but you know after the next break you'll be right back on the dating scene hoping for different results, grab the Main Character Energy Journal Prompts

Have you ever had someone tell you "you are the strongest person I know," and smiled, said thank you, and let them walk away without ever telling them the truth? Friend, this episode is for the woman who looks completely fine on the outside while she's unraveling on the inside.I'm telling you about the season I built an entire life to prove people wrong, a corporate career, a great life as a single mom, success stacked on success, only to completely unravel when my mom made her transition to heaven and nobody around me even knew. I'm sharing what pulled me out of isolation, what grief actually taught me about loving myself, and the one question I need you to sit with if you're the one everybody calls strong.IN THIS EPISODE:➡️ Why building enough success can become proof you're trying to hand someone else, instead of proof for you➡️ What it really looks like when the "strong friend" is quietly falling apart, and why she chooses isolation nine times out of ten➡️ The invitation you keep turning down, and who's still waiting for you to accept it➡️ Why grief is a shedding process, and what it stripped away so the truest version of me could show up➡️ Redefining success: what you build out of survival versus what you build out of self-loveSELF LOVE 2-STEP REMIX:Stop performing fine for people who only want the version of you that doesn't need anything. No shade, no shame, no judgment for however long you mastered that performance. Get honest about who you're actually safe with.Accept the invitation you keep turning down. Let someone carry something for once. That's not weakness, that's how the world finally gets to love you back.The YOU Step: get still, get quiet, and ask your heart what it's telling you to do next. Not the whole plan, just the next move. Trust her. She already knows.GET YOUR JOURNAL PROMPTSWant to go deeper on this episode? Grab the Main Character Energy Journal Prompts

Have you ever sat in a room you worked so hard to get into and thought, something is wrong with me? Friend, that feeling almost never means what you think it means.I'm taking you back to my corporate leadership days, and the extra years I stayed in a role I had already outgrown because I mislabeled the feeling as something being wrong with me instead of what it actually was. I'm handing you the three questions that will tell you the truth faster than it took me to find it, so you can stop arguing with the version of you who's already outgrown a room, a relationship, or a role.IN THIS EPISODE:➡️ Why "I don't belong here" is almost never the diagnosis it feels like➡️ The real difference between misalignment, imposter syndrome, and outgrowing something, and why the fix is different for all three➡️ The one tell that separates guilt from genuine misalignment➡️ What it looks like to release the version of you that built your current life so the next version can build what's nextTHE SELF LOVE 2-STEP REMIX:Stop personalizing the discomfort. Not belonging is information, not a verdict on your worth. No shade, no shame, no judgment for the years you spent mislabeling it.Honor the season out loud, even the one you're leaving. Say what it built in you before you name what it's costing you now. Both are true at once.The YOU Step: get still, get quiet, and ask your heart what it's telling you to do next. Not the whole plan, just the next move. Trust her. She already knows.GET YOUR JOURNAL PROMPTSWant to go deeper on this episode? Grab the Main Character Energy Journal Prompts

According to history, my life wasn't supposed to amount to much. Divorced. Single mom raising two babies on my own. And then I lost my two anchors in this world. Any one of those things could have taken me completely out of the game — but what happened to me was never meant to be my whole story. And friend, neither was yours.Friend, I'm getting personal about the years I spent stewing in what happened — and the simple three-step process that helped me step out of it, reclaim my power, and build a life I am genuinely in love with. Because you are not what happened to you. You are the one who gets to decide what you will do with it and what you will build instead.If you have ever felt defined by your past, stuck in the why and the how-could-they, or like the hard things you've been through have quietly staked a claim over your future — this episode is for you.WE'RE TALKING:→ Why we get stuck in the story of what happened — and why it's keeping you from the future you actually want→ The difference between giving something its airtime and giving it all of your time→ Why the hero's journey resonates with all of us and what that means for your own story→ The three-step process to reclaim your power and your position: process and release, reclaim your power, and define your new story→ Why healing is not something you Amazon Prime your way through — and how to grant yourself grace in the process→ How falling in love with yourself opens the door for everything elseTIMESTAMPS:00:00 My Story Isn't Over01:35 You Decide What's Next04:21 Grief Changed Everything06:36 Stop Living the Before08:13 Who Will You Become10:14 Create Heaven on Earth11:03 The How Better Questions12:24 Self Love Two Step15:47 Grace Over Timelines16:45 Write Your New Story19:03 Final EncouragementTHE SELF LOVE 2-STEP REMIXKnowing is one thing — but we don't just talk about it around here, we ‘be' about it. Here's your remix for this episode:Step 1 — Process and release. Honor the story. Do the work. Get whatever support you need to walk through it. There is no shame in needing help — that is wisdom, not weakness. Just don't stay there. Open your hand and allow the release.Step 2 — Reclaim your power. You get to decide who you will be in spite of what happened — or because of it. Don't let a season assign you a permanent label. That power belongs to you.Step 3 — You get still. You get quiet. And you ask yourself: what is my heart telling me to do next? Whatever comes up is your next right aligned step. Not the whole plan — just the next move. Trust her, friend. She already knows.GET YOUR JOURNAL PROMPTSWant to go deeper on this episode? Journal prompts are waiting for you — designed to help you get clear on your desires, honor yourself now, and start stepping toward your next level with intention and without guilt.

Friend, have you ever looked up in the middle of your life and felt like a stranger was living it?Like the woman you used to be is somewhere you cannot quite reach, and you have been quietly searching for her ever since — retracing your steps, looking in all the usual places, wondering if you left her somewhere in the loss?That is exactly where this episode meets you. And I need you to know: what you have been calling lost is actually layers.When my mom made her transition to heaven, I thought I had lost myself right along with her. What I found on the other side of that grief changed everything about how I understand identity, becoming, and what it actually means to get to know yourself in a new season of life. And today I am sharing all of it with you.IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT:➡️ Why feeling like a stranger in your own life after a major transition is not loss — it is layers rising to the surface➡️ The difference between the core of who you are (which never left) and the new parts of you this season has been calling forward➡️ Why getting to know yourself is not a crisis — it is a practice most of us have never stopped long enough to doSELF LOVE 2-STEP REMIX — Step 1 — Name what stayed. Write down at least three things about you that have never changed no matter what season you have been in. Your values. What you will not compromise. What makes you laugh even on a hard day. Start with your favorite color if that is all you have — because you still know it, and that is proof you are still in there.Step 2 — Name one new layer. One thing this season has revealed that was not on the surface before. A new limit you are holding. A new way you love. A new thing you care about. You do not need the whole list. One is enough to start. Name her. Honor her. She showed up for you.Step 3 — The YOU Step: You get still. You get quiet. And you ask yourself — what is my heart telling me to do next? Whatever comes up, that is your next right aligned step. Not the whole plan. Just the next move. Trust her, Friend. She already knows.LOVE NOTE — The truth this episode is anchored in ~You are not who you used to be. And that is not a sign that something went wrong. That is a sign that you have been living. The seasons have been doing exactly what they were designed to do — building something in you that had to be built through the going, not around it. The woman you are becoming is not a lesser version of who you were. She is a fuller one. And it is time to reintroduce yourself.GET YOUR JOURNAL PROMPTSWant to go deeper on this episode? Journal prompts are waiting for you — designed to help you get clear on your desires, honor yourself now, and start stepping toward your next level with intention and without guilt.

I went from being a single mom who handled every single thing alone for years — to being a married woman with a man who genuinely wanted to show up for me. And I almost could not let him.Not because he was not everything. Because I had been bracing for the worst for so long I forgot that good things were even an option for me.If you have ever gotten good news and immediately started waiting for the catch, if someone has tried to show up for you and your first instinct was to question the ease, if you have been so strong for so long that receiving feels almost foreign to you — friend, this episode is for us.IN THIS EPISODEWe are going all the way into the identity of the woman who has learned to expect the worst — and how she becomes the woman who can actually hold space for the best. Bracing is not just a habit you picked up. It is an identity you built to protect yourself. And it worked — until it started keeping out everything you said you wanted.We talk about why women are natural receivers and how the "I handle everything alone" identity quietly shuts that capacity off. And what it actually takes to put the shield down safely, learn who is safe to receive from, and start letting the good things land.→ Why bracing for the worst is an identity, not just a thought pattern → How to stop filtering every signal through the worst-case scenario and start asking what it might be pointing you toward → Why strong women who have done everything alone struggle to receive — and why that capacity never actually left → The difference between being naive and being a woman who has done enough work to take the armor off → A three-step practice for learning to receive — starting small, building trust, and staying open long enough to find out if something is actually goodTIMESTAMPS:00:00 Why I Made This01:07 For the Strong Woman03:07 Single Mom Survival Mode04:08 When Help Feels Unsafe05:45 Bracing Becomes Identity08:33 Signals or Invitations10:39 Put Down the Armor11:30 Journal Prompts Offer12:16 Practice Receiving Steps15:04 Final EncouragementGET YOUR JOURNAL PROMPTSWant to go deeper on this episode? Journal prompts are waiting for you — designed to help you get clear on your desires, honor yourself now, and start stepping toward your next level with intention and without guilt.

If you have ever performed the easygoing, low-maintenance, go-with-the-flow version of yourself for someone who was not even close to being your person — this episode is going to hit home. Identity Shift Coach Letitia Hopkins gets radically honest about a decade of dating, the situationships, the convincing game, and the moment grief stripped away every mask she had ever worn. What happened next is the identity shift that changed everything. Because the right relationship does not require you to be perfect. It requires you to be real. This is the conversation on perfectionism in relationships, people pleasing, and what it actually takes to attract the love you have been praying for — and it starts with you going first.WE'RE GETTING INTO:✦ Why performing the perfect, easy, low-maintenance version of yourself in relationships is not love — it is fear, and what it has been quietly costing you✦ The mirror principle in relationships: how the identity shift from people pleasing to radical self-acceptance changes who and what you attract✦ The real story behind a decade of situationships, the catfishing (including a very memorable 4'11" moment), and how grief became the greatest identity shift of Letitia's life✦ Why you cannot attract everything while you are still entertaining nothing — and what it looks like to finally stop auditioning for a role that was already yours✦ How declaring your identity out loud — even before the evidence arrives — is what moves you from performing to receivingTHE SELF LOVE 2 STEP — She Stopped Performing PerfectStep 1 — The Honesty Step: Pick one relationship where you have been performing a version of yourself. Write down what you edit out when you are with this person. What do you not say? What do you not ask for? What do you pretend you are okay with? That list is showing you where the performance lives.Step 2 — The Declaration Step: Write the sentence the real, unperformed version of you would actually say. Start with: "I am a woman who does not shrink to fit. I am a woman who..." Read it out loud. That is your new standard. Any relationship that cannot hold it is information, not a failure.Step 3 — The YOU Step: You get still. You get quiet. And you ask yourself — what is my heart telling me to do next? Whatever comes up, that is your next right aligned step. Not the whole plan. Just the next move. Trust her, Friend. She already knows.GET YOUR JOURNAL PROMPTSWant to go deeper on this episode? Journal prompts are waiting for you — designed to help you get clear on your desires, honor yourself now, and start stepping toward your next level with intention and without guilt.

Have you been making excuses for people and situations that had absolutely no business getting that level of grace from you? Friend, what you keep accepting is a direct reflection of what you believe you deserve. And that is an identity conversation we are having today — with love, laughter, and zero shame.This is not a boundary pep talk. This is an identity shift. Because what you tolerate reveals what you think you deserve. And the life you want cannot coexist with what you have been accepting.WHAT WE COVER:➡️ How tolerating is not a passive act — every yes you did not mean is a quiet declaration about your self worth➡️ Why high achieving women stay stuck in people pleasing and over giving cycles and what the identity belief underneath it is really saying➡️ A loving honest inventory across your relationships, your work, and your boundaries with yourself➡️ How to use radical honesty and radical grace at the same time so awareness becomes a tool for identity shift and not a weapon against yourself➡️ Why the standard starts with you — and how to close the gap between who you are and the woman you are becomingTHIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF you are an ambitious woman who feels externally successful but internally disconnected, you have been showing up for everyone except yourself, and you are ready to stop tolerating your way out of your destiny.GET YOUR JOURNAL PROMPTSWant to go deeper on this episode? Journal prompts are waiting for you — designed to help you get clear on your desires, honor yourself now, and start stepping toward your next level with intention and without guilt.

You prayed for this life. You planned for it, sacrificed for it, stayed up late for it. And then you got it.And now there is a quiet ache underneath everything that keeps whispering — but is this it? Is there more?And instead of honoring that feeling, you have been making yourself feel guilty for having it.Friend. That stops today.One of the most misunderstood feelings a high-achieving woman can carry — the guilt of wanting more when you already have so much. Because gratitude and desire are not opposites. You can be deeply grateful for everything you have built AND feel the pull toward something more at the exact same time. One does not cancel the other.Wanting more is not greed. It is not ingratitude. It is not you being impossible to satisfy.It is your next level self knocking on the door. And this episode is about finally answering.WHAT WE GET INTO:The Guilt Nobody Talks About — The quiet voice that says "who am I to want more when so many people would trade places with me.Why Desire Is Evidence — Not A Problem. You were not designed to arrive and stop. What It Costs You To Keep Suppressing It The Seven Words that shift everything from guilt to expectancy. Your Self Love 2 Step RemixStep 1 — Name the desire without the apology attached. Write down what you have been quietly wanting more of — freedom, creativity, alignment, more of yourself showing up in your own life. No justification. No disclaimer. Step 2 — Swap the guilt for curiosity. The next time guilt shows up for wanting more, replace it with a question: what is this desire pointing me toward? Step 3 — The YOU Step. Get still. Get quiet. Ask yourself — what is my heart telling me to do next? Whatever comes up, that is your next right aligned step. GET YOUR JOURNAL PROMPTSWant to go deeper on this episode? Journal prompts are waiting for you — designed to help you get clear on your desires, honor yourself now, and start stepping toward your next level with intention and without guilt.

What if you are not at the mercy of your feelings? What if the sadness, the empty, the heavy, all of it, you actually get to decide how long you feel her, how deep you feel her, and when you turn the page on her?I'm taking you back to one of the hardest seasons of my life. And the morning that taught me a practice that completely shifted my relationship with hard feelings.We're unpacking the myth that feelings happen to us and we are passive. The truth that you are her partner, not her victim. The difference between negotiating with a feeling and suppressing her.If you have been tired of feeling like your feelings run your life, this one is for you, friend. The partnership is possible. You can build it. And you do not have to be perfect at it to grow into it.TIMESTAMPS00:00 You Decide Your Feelings01:53 First Birthday Without Mom04:39 The Noon Page Turn06:46 Partnership Not Mercy09:56 Body Signals And Timing15:21 Encouragement And Reframe18:18 Closing GratitudeThis is emotional intelligence work for high-achieving women in their 30s and 40s who are tired of either running from their hard feelings or drowning in them. It is identity work. It is self-love work. It is how Confident and Empowered actually gets built. From the inside out.WATCH ON YOUTUBE —

Friend — if you can see exactly where you want to go, you have done the work, built the foundation, and you are still standing at the edge wondering why you cannot make your next move — this episode is for you. Today we are talking about the Almost There Woman. The one who is closer than she thinks and further than she feels. And we are going to figure out together what is actually in her way — not to judge it, but to name it and move around it.WE'RE GETTING INTO:✦ Why the Almost There Woman is not stuck because she lacks capability — and what is really keeping her still✦ Why it is not always fear — and how to get honest about what your specific holdup actually is so you can find the right solution✦ Why motion creates clarity in a way that stillness never will — and how one honest next step is where everything starts to open upTIMESTAMPS00:00 The Almost There Woman01:20 Why You Feel Stuck02:31 Awareness Becomes A Trap03:45 Is It Fear Or Something Else05:52 The Exhausting Gap07:15 Stop Waiting To Feel Ready11:18 Permission To Move12:43 Final Pep TalkThe Almost There 2 Step:Step 1 — Name what is actually in the way. Not the responsible answer. The real one. Fear? Clarity? Timing? Resources? Discernment? Name it honestly.Step 2 — Find one honest next step. Not the whole plan. Just the next move. The one thing you can do this week that's forward facing and aligned with where you are trying to go.Step 3 — The YOU Step. Get still. Get quiet. And ask yourself — what is my heart telling me to do next? Whatever comes up — that is your next right aligned step.

Friend — have you ever stood in the middle of your own life — the career, the home, the friendships, the milestones — and thought, why does none of this feel like mine? Today we are naming the thing most women carry in silence because they are too afraid to say it out loud. Because saying it means admitting that the life you worked so hard to build might not actually be the life you wanted. And that is terrifying. And true. And the beginning of everything.WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO:✦ Why what you are feeling is not burnout — and why that distinction changes absolutely everything ✦ The identity gap that keeps you adding more to a life that still isn't hitting the way you expected ✦ How high achieving women quietly move from author to character in their own story — and how to get the pen back ✦ Why the disconnection you feel is not evidence that something went wrong — it's evidence that you grewTIMESTAMPS00:00 When Life Feels Off01:26 You Did Everything Right03:28 It's Not Burnout04:35 The Identity Gap05:55 From Author to Character08:31 My Corporate Reckoning10:48 Outgrowing the Blueprint13:03 Name It Two Step14:34 Create What's Next16:34 Final EncouragementThe Name It 2 Step:Step 1 — Name it without judgment. Sit with the feeling instead of fixing it. Notice where it shows up — in your career, your relationships, the quiet moments when nobody needs anything from you. Don't solve it yet. Just name it. "I feel disconnected here." "This doesn't feel like mine."Step 2 — Ask the one question. If I wasn't afraid of disappointing anyone, what would I want instead? Don't edit it before it comes out. Just let the answer arrive. You don't have to act on it today. Just be honest enough to hear it.Step 3 — The YOU Step. Get still. Get quiet. And ask yourself — what is my heart telling me to do next? Whatever comes up — that is your next right aligned step. Not the whole plan. Just the next move. Trust her friend. She already knows.▶️Continue the conversation on YouTube!

Friend — there is a version of you that existed before the career took over, before the relationship defined you, before the responsibilities stacked so high the real you got quieter and quieter. Today we are going to talk about her. Not with grief — with intention. Because she didn't disappear. She got quiet. And it is time to go back and get her.WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO:✦ Why you didn't lose yourself — you went into low power mode and she has been waiting for the charger ✦ The identity we build for survival — why the armor was necessary and why it was never meant to be forever ✦ Why going back to get her is not blowing your life up — it's a renovation, not a demolition TIMESTAMPS00:00 Finding the Real You01:20 Corporate Mask Confession03:03 Not Lost Just Quiet03:53 Low Power Mode Explained05:14 The Armor You Built07:34 Integration Not Demolition09:25 My Layoff Renovation12:51 Reconnecting in New Seasons15:21 Final Encouragement The Come Home 2 Step:Step 1 — Write a letter to her. The version of you that got quiet. Tell her you remember. Tell her you're coming back. Step 2 — Find one thing she loved that you stopped doing. Give her twenty minutes of being real this week. Step Step 3 — The YOU Step. Get still. Get quiet. Ask your heart what it's telling you to do next. Trust her. She already knows.

Friend — have you ever stood in the middle of your own life — the career, the home, the friendships, the milestones — and thought, why does none of this feel like mine? Today we are naming the thing most women carry in silence because they are too afraid to say it out loud. Because saying it means admitting that the life you worked so hard to build might not actually be the life you wanted. And that is terrifying. And true. And the beginning of everything.WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO:✦ Why what you are feeling is not burnout — and why that distinction changes absolutely everything ✦ The identity gap that keeps you adding more to a life that still isn't hitting the way you expected ✦ How high achieving women quietly move from author to character in their own story — and how to get the pen back ✦ Why the disconnection you feel is not evidence that something went wrong — it's evidence that you grewTIMESTAMPS00:00 When Life Feels Off01:26 You Did Everything Right03:28 It's Not Burnout04:35 The Identity Gap05:55 From Author to Character08:31 My Corporate Reckoning10:48 Outgrowing the Blueprint13:03 Name It Two Step14:34 Create What's Next16:34 Final EncouragementThe Name It 2 Step:Step 1 — Name it without judgment. Sit with the feeling instead of fixing it. Notice where it shows up — in your career, your relationships, the quiet moments when nobody needs anything from you. Don't solve it yet. Just name it. "I feel disconnected here." "This doesn't feel like mine."Step 2 — Ask the one question. If I wasn't afraid of disappointing anyone, what would I want instead? Don't edit it before it comes out. Just let the answer arrive. You don't have to act on it today. Just be honest enough to hear it.Step 3 — The YOU Step. Get still. Get quiet. And ask yourself — what is my heart telling me to do next? Whatever comes up — that is your next right aligned step. Not the whole plan. Just the next move. Trust her friend. She already knows.

Friend — people pleasing was never about being nice.It was about being afraid.In this episode I'm getting personal about my own people pleasing era — the decade of dating where I made myself small, easy and agreeable because I was terrified of rejection. And what I learned that finally changed everything.WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO➡️ Why people pleasing is not about being nice — it's an expression of fear➡️ The specific fear underneath YOUR people pleasing — and why you have to name it➡️ How performing for someone else quietly erodes your self worth over time➡️ The belief system running everything — conditional worth and what it costs you➡️ Why you were never really being rejected — you were being redirected➡️ How falling in love with myself changed everything I attracted➡️ The shift from waiting to be chosen to being the one who choosesTHE SELF LOVE 2 STEP REMIXStep 1 — Recognize Where is people pleasing showing up in your life right now? Just notice. No shame. No judgment.Step 2 — Choose Yourself Make a decision to see yourself, honor yourself and accept yourself exactly as you are.Step 3 — The YOU Step Get still. Get quiet. Ask yourself — what is my heart telling me to do next? Whatever comes up — that is your next right aligned step.WATCH ON YOUTUBE —

300 episodes.This one is different. This one is personal. This one is the reason everything else exists.In EP 300 I'm sharing the story I've never quite told like this before — why Encourage Over Everything™ exists, what encouragement actually saved me from, and why learning to clap for yourself is the most important thing you will ever do.WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTOThe real reason Encourage Over Everything™ exists — and the loss that started it allWhy encouraging yourself is not toxic positivity — and what it actually meansThe applause distinction — what to do when it's not at the volume you wantWhy your self talk is either building your life or quietly tearing it downWhy nobody lives at the finish line — and why loving your days IS the dreamThe woman who encourages herself before the results arrive — she is unshakeable when they doTIMESTAMPS00:00 Episode 300 Milestone01:23 Subscribe and Join02:36 Mom Loss Story04:12 Encouragement Defined05:00 Quiet Applause Seasons07:29 Self Talk Builds Life08:42 Process Is Dream10:57 Fruit Is Coming12:20 Free Session Invite13:00 Self Love Two Step14:55 300 Episode Reflection17:41 Permission to Cheerlead18:47 Thank You and Share19:59 Final Crown On QueenTHE SELF LOVE 2 STEPStep 1 — Accept Your Divine Timing Place your hand on your heart and receive this: I am exactly where I am supposed to be. The applause is coming. And until it arrives at the volume I want — I will be my own loudest cheerleader. My timing is divine. What's mine is already mine.Step 2 — Connect To The Best Of Who You Are Declare her out loud: I am the woman who encourages herself first. I am the woman who talks up to herself even on the hard days. I am the woman who loves her days — not just her milestones. I am the woman who will always Encourage Over Everything.Step 3 — The YOU Step Get still. Get quiet. Ask yourself: What is my heart telling me to do next? That is your next right aligned step. Not the whole plan. Just the next move. Trust her. She already knows.▶️Continue the conversation on YouTube!

I was staring at my vision board for what felt like the gazillionth time. Everything I wanted was right there staring back at me. And there was still this quiet ache of doubt sitting underneath all of it.Because I was gripping the HOW so tightly — I didn't realize it was the very thing keeping my breakthrough from landing.Friend — the HOW was never your job. And in this episode we are going to talk about what actually is.WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTOWhy your brain is literally wired to control everything — and why that's not your faultHow your preferences and nice-to-haves have quietly become a ceiling on your own breakthroughWhy control is not faith — it's fear dressed up in a business suitWhat Sway Calloway said that I cannot stop thinking aboutThe three things that are actually your job — and the science that backs every single oneWhy letting go of the HOW is not the same as giving up on the dreamHow to open your hands and make room for your breakthrough to actually landTIMESTAMPS00:00 Vision Board Doubt02:41 Why We Control04:34 Brain Science Of Uncertainty07:13 Real Life Control Costs13:37 Your Three Jobs14:02 Hold The Vision15:42 Touch The Dream Daily17:04 Believe Its In Motion21:28 Letting Go Is Not Giving Up23:38 Open Hands EncouragementTHE SELF LOVE 2 STEP REMIXStep 1 — The Open Hand Practice Every single time today that you feel the urge to control — physically open your hands and say out loud: This is mine to co-create, not to control. Do it as many times as you need to. That physical act of opening your hands is you allowing and being ready to receive.Step 2 — The One Thing Write down the one thing you are co-creating — not controlling — starting today. Just one. And next to it write one action that is YOUR part of the co-creation. Not God's part. Not anyone else's part. Just yours. Do that one thing today.Step 3 — The YOU Step Get still. Get quiet. Ask yourself: What is my heart telling me to do next? Whatever comes up — that is your next right aligned step. You never needed the whole plan. Just the next move. Trust her friend. She already knows.▶️ Watch the companion episode on YouTube → Stop Trying. There's A Better Way.

I say this with so much love — stop saying you're trying. That trying energy is repelling the very thing you want. Your dreams can't land in clenched fists. They land in open hands.In this episode I'm coming in straight up no chaser — showing you exactly why all that trying has been working against you and what the other way actually looks like.WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO➡️ Why trying energy is holding your dreams at arm's length without you even knowing➡️ What Heather B said that stopped me completely — decision over doubt changes everything➡️ What Sway Calloway said that I have not been able to shake — the process is part of the dream➡️ Why control is just fear in a business suit➡️ The Already Her Decision Filter — one question for every decision today➡️ The Already Her Audit — one honest look at your calendar tonightTIMESTAMPS00:00 You Are Doing It01:53 Why Trying Repels04:45 Hustle Culture Unlearn05:22 Own It For You08:17 Billionaire Mindset Story10:09 Process Is The Dream11:42 The Other Way Posture12:49 Control Is Fear16:02 Already Her Practices18:17 Journal Prompts Plug19:24 Self Love Two Step24:35 Final EncouragementTHIS WEEK'S SELF LOVE 2 STEP REMIXStep 1 — Accept Your Divine Timing Place your hand on your heart and say it out loud: My timing is divine. What's mine is already mine. I'm not late. I haven't missed it. And what is for me will never pass me by.Step 2 — Connect To The Best Of Who You Are Complete this statement out loud: I am the woman who... Don't overthink it. Say what's true. Speak her into the room.Step 3 — The YOU Step What is one decision you can make in the next 24 hours as her? Not someday her. Today her. Write it down. That's where the shift begins.▶️ Watch companion episode on YouTube → Stop Trying There's A Better Way

You have spent years being the strong one. The dependable one. The one who never needed anything. And the people in your life? They love her. They are counting on her. They have built their entire relationship with you around her. But here is what nobody talks about — sometimes the people who love you the most are loving a version of you that you have completely outgrown. And their love, as real as it is, can become the very thing keeping you from becoming who you are supposed to be. In this episode we are getting honest about the guilt, the dynamics, and why the permission you have been waiting for has always belonged to you.WE'RE GETTING INTO:✦ Why being "the strong one" becomes a brand — and how it trains the people around you to stop seeing your needs✦ The guilt that keeps you performing the old version of yourself long after she has finished her assignment✦ Why the permission to change has always been yours — and how to stop waiting for a committee vote to become who you already areTHE PERMISSION TO CHANGE 2 STEPStep 1 — Write Your Own Permission Slip Write yourself a permission slip — no one else's signature required. At the top write: "I give myself full permission to —" and fill in everything you have been waiting for someone else to authorize. Sign it. Date it. Act like it is legally binding. Because it is.Step 2 — Have the Honest Conversation With Yourself Ask yourself one question without softening it: Who in my life am I still performing for? You don't have to do anything with the answer today. You just have to be honest. You cannot change what you are not willing to see.Step 3 — The YOU Step Get still. Get quiet. Ask yourself — what is my heart telling me to do next? That is your next right aligned step. Not the whole plan. Just the next move. Trust her. She already knows.

You have been telling yourself it's fear. Fear of failing, fear of starting over, fear of choosing yourself and it not working out. But what if the thing that has been keeping you stuck was never fear at all? What if it is actually grief — grief for a version of yourself you loved, a version that felt safe and familiar, even when she was quietly costing you everything? In this episode we are getting honest about what is really happening underneath the hesitation, why letting her go is not a betrayal, and how to honor who you were without letting her hold you back from who you are becoming.WE'RE GETTING INTO:✦ Why what you have been calling fear is actually grief — and why that distinction changes everything✦ The real cost of staying loyal to a version of yourself that has already finished her assignment✦ How to honor who you were without letting her hold you back from who you are becomingTIMESTAMPS00:00 Fear or Grief00:58 Podcast Community Invite01:42 What Grief Really Is02:40 Grieving Old You04:35 She Finished Her Assignment06:06 What Staying Looks Like07:55 Graduation Not Abandonment08:30 Grief as a Signpost11:16 Honor It and Keep Going11:44 Journal Prompts Plug12:48 Let Her Go Two Step15:22 Pouring Into You16:59 New Seasons New You18:42 Final Encouragement OutroTHE LET HER GO 2 STEPStep 1 — Write Her a Letter Write a thank you letter to the version of yourself you have been holding onto. Honor what she carried. Tell her her assignment is complete. Set her free with love.Step 2 — Name the Grief So It Stops Naming You Pick one thing you have been calling fear and rename it as grief. Say out loud: "This is not fear. This is grief. And I am allowed to feel it. And I am also allowed to keep going."Step 3 — The YOU Step Get still. Get quiet. Ask yourself — what is my heart telling me to do next? That is your next right aligned step. Not the whole plan. Just the next move. Trust her. She already knows.▶️ Watch companion episode on YouTube → When You've Outgrown Her But Can't Find You Yet

Dreams are one of my absolute favorite things to talk about. Not the one you gave up on — the one you are still quietly carrying. The one that shows up when you get still. The one that has survived every hard season.Today we are addressing the thing that keeps so many women from going after theirs — the feeling that the dream is too far away. But Friend — the dream is not far. You just think it is. And have been holding it there.WE'RE GETTING INTO:✦ Why touching your dream daily is what keeps it alive — and what that actually looks like in real life✦ Why bold moves AND baby steps both count — and why you need both working together✦ Why you cannot build a life you love from a place you hate being in — and how to curate days that actually feel good✦ How your body has been your internal GPS system pointing you toward your destiny all alongTIMESTAMPS00:00 Dreams Aren't Far01:20 Subscribe and Join02:17 Fear Disguised Realism03:53 Daily Touch06:21 Quiet the Inner Critic09:12 Bold Moves Baby Steps12:23 Curate Days You Love15:41 Journal Prompts Plug16:47 Two Step Action Plan19:11 Dreams as Your GPS23:00 Final Pep Talk

We talk a lot about relationships — romantic ones, friendships, family. But the one relationship that determines the quality of every single other relationship in your life barely gets any airtime.The one you have with yourself.In this episode I am getting really specific about what being your own best friend actually looks like in daily life. Not the concept. Not the Instagram carousel version. The real practiced daily thing.WE'RE GETTING INTO:✦ How you talk to yourself when things go wrong — and why the specifics matter more than the concept ✦ Why going to your breath first is not a wellness trend — it is a regulation strategy that actually works ✦ The daily practice of showing up for yourself even when things are fine ✦ Why enjoying your own company is one of the most powerful things you can do for every relationship in your life ✦ Why you are no longer willing to be uncomfortable so someone else can be comfortable — and why that is self love not selfishnessTIMESTAMPS00:00 Why Self Relationship Matters01:31 Hard Moments Self Talk05:30 Regulate With Breath06:58 Feelings And Reframe09:52 Daily Self Support12:11 Boundaries Not People Pleasing13:18 Enjoy Your Own Company14:59 Show Up When Scared16:12 Ask Better Questions17:38 Self Love Two Step19:43 Heart Led Next Step20:14 Encouragement

That season you are trying to get out of? It is actually the one that is getting you ready.I know. I know. But hear me out — because when I got laid off from a 20 plus year corporate career I felt pure relief. And what I understand now that I did not understand then is that God had been preparing my exit long before I knew I needed one. Every leadership challenge. Every uncomfortable moment. Every time I figured out something I had never done before. It was all preparation. It was all building something I was going to need for exactly where I was going.And Friend — that is exactly what your season is doing right now. Even if you cannot see it yet. Especially if you cannot see it yet.WHAT WE GET INTO:✦ Why the season you are in is not an accident — it is an assignment ✦ The hair dryer analogy — why it looks like nothing is happening when everything is actually being set ✦ What every hard season is actually building in you that you cannot see yet ✦ Why the preparation is always proportional to the promise — and what that means for where you are right now ✦ Why relief is a compass not a character flaw*The Four C's Framework starts at 5:26.TIMESTAMPS00:00 Your Season Is Prep02:20 The Middle Matters02:55 Under The Dryer05:26 Four Cs Framework08:34 Proportional To Promise10:25 Relief Is A Compass11:53 Ask Better Questions13:14 Self Love Two Step16:10 Heart To Heart Encouragement19:00 Main Character SendoffTHE SEASON IS WORKING 2 STEPStep 1 — Name what this season is building. Go through the four C's and name at least one thing from each that is being built in you right now. What you can see you can celebrate. And what you celebrate you reinforce.Step 2 — Release the timeline. Whatever deadline you had in your head for when this season should be over — loosen your grip on it. The preparation is not on your timeline. It is on the timeline of what is coming.The Remix — The door that closed was not a punishment. It was positioning. Trust the season Friend. The preparation is always proportional to the promise. And the promise is bigger than you can even imagine.The YOU Step — Get still. Get quiet. Ask yourself — what is my heart telling me to do next? Whatever comes up — that is your next right aligned step. Not the whole plan. Just the next move. Trust her Friend. She already knows.

For a long time I thought independence was my superpower. And it was. Until it became a wall.If you have ever been the strong one — the one who figures it out, carries it all and never asks for help — this episode is going to crack something open in you. Because I am pulling back the curtain on the moment I realized I had been holding on so tightly to protect myself that there was no room for love or support to actually land.I am talking about the walls. Yes, the very ones my husband quite lovingly pointed out that I may or may not have fully acknowledged at the time.

In the final episode of the first wave of Was it just a dream?, the outside world folds inward, everything condensing toward a single point, triggering a shocking realization. Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

The internet got the soft girl era looking like being waited on hand and foot — floating through your days completely unbothered, not a single thing demanding your attention. And if that version of soft feels so far from the life you are actually living right now that it almost makes you laugh — Friend, that gap is exactly what we are closing today.Because soft does not mean the absence of ambition. It means ambition with intention behind it. You can have the peaceful mornings AND the purpose driven work. The boundaries AND the big dreams. The rest AND the results. The candles AND the calling. All of it at the same time. You do not have to choose. And you do not have to wait until your circumstances change to start. Your circumstances conform to your internal state — not the other way around.IN THIS EPISODE WE'RE GETTING INTO:✦ Why softness and ambition are not opposites — and what the soft AND ambitious life actually looks like in real life ✦ The single mom season, the moment everything shifted, and what building from a soft foundation actually produced ✦ Why you do not have to wait for a softer season to choose softness — and how to regulate your nervous system right now in the thick of it ✦ The science behind whispering your declarations and why a longer exhale activates your parasympathetic nervous system ✦ The Soft and Ambitious 2 Step — two practical moves you can take todayTHE SELF LOVE 2-STEP — SOFT AND AMBITIOUS 2 STEPStep 1 — Give yourself the permission declaration out loud. Whisper it first. I am soft and I am ambitious. Both are true. Both are allowed.Step 2 — Choose one soft moment today. Not tomorrow. Not when things slow down. Today.The Remix — A soft life is not something you arrive at someday. It is something you choose today. One small intentional moment at a time.The YOU Step — Get still. Get quiet. Ask yourself — what is my heart telling me to do next? Whatever comes up — that is your next right aligned step. Trust her Friend. She already knows.

What does freedom actually feel like on the other side of fear? Not managed. Not tolerated. Gone.After 63 videos and 38 consecutive days of showing up on YouTube, something shifted that I genuinely did not see coming. The fear of being seen that I had carried since I was a little girl — the one that followed me into corporate America, into every room I ever shrank in, and almost kept me from pressing record on Day 1 — it left. And what replaced it surprised me more than the fear ever did.WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO: ▶️Where the fear of being seen actually started — and why the hiding was never a flaw▶️What it really felt like to show up scared for 63 consecutive videos▶️Why breakthrough moments don't always come with a championship parade — and how to recognize the quiet ones▶️The Fear To Freedom 2 Step — what to do right now with whatever has been sitting in the driver's seat of your lifeFear can come along for the ride. It just doesn't get to choose the destination anymore. And after today — neither will yours.TIMESTAMPS00:00 Freedom Beyond Fear01:09 Subscribe Quick Invite01:45 63 Videos Breakthrough04:15 Origins of Hiding06:33 Choosing Purpose Daily09:04 Fear Finally Gone10:25 Quiet Breakthroughs12:00 Ask Better Questions12:56 Fear to Freedom Steps16:18 Go Back for Her18:10 Main Character SendoffTHE SELF LOVE 2-STEPTHE FEAR TO FREEDOM 2 STEP Step 1 — Identify what's been driving Step 2 — Walk through the beaded curtain once Remix — Fear in the backseat. Purpose in the driver's seat. The YOU Step — Get still. Get quiet. Ask your heart what's next. Trust her. She already knows.

Friend — what if the decade you spent searching for love was never actually about finding him at all?What if every 'situationship', every almost, every "let's see where this goes" was never a dead end — but a mirror showing you exactly what needed to shift within YOU before he could arrive?And what if the whole time you thought you were looking for love — love was actually looking for you — just waiting for you to get out of your own way?In EP 289 I am breaking it ALL the way down. The whole decade. All of it. Including the man who said he was 5'9 and got out of a LIFTED truck.

Our last dream received some thoughtful commentary from listeners. We decided to put together some of these as extra material. Read the full dream here. Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

What if the very thing you've been most proud of has actually been the thing keeping you from everything you really want?What if your independence — the superpower you built, the armor you wore, the identity you claimed — was never really strength at all?What if it was survival?I'm getting into one of the most important distinctions I have ever made in my own life. The difference between healthy independence and independence as a trauma response. And knowing that difference? It changed everything for me.WHAT WE GET INTO: ✦ The blueprint so many of us inherited without even realizing it ✦ Why independence feels like a superpower — until you finally put it down ✦ The moment I realized I had been in survival mode on repeat for years ✦ Why your nervous system was never meant to live in fight or flight permanently ✦ The difference between healthy independence and independence as a trauma response ✦ Why deep connection cannot find a landing place in survival mode ✦ How safety — real safety — is what finally allowed me to flow into my soft girl era ✦ The Self Love 2 Step Remix — including The YOU Step

What if the ending you've been grieving was actually the answer to a prayer you forgot you prayed?I'm taking three familiar moments from my own story — and looking at them through a completely fresh lens. Because the further down the road you get the more clearly you can see the divine intervention actually going on!WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO: ✦ Why relief about an ending is actually a spiritual signal not a character flaw ✦ Recognition before readiness — and why seeing your destination before you're ready is actually the plan ✦ Being seen before you see yourself — and what to do with that mirror ✦ The alley oop — how every ending is actually a setup Because Friend — no endings are ever wasted. Not one single one.

There's something I want to normalize right away — you don't have to share every detail of every wound to be real. Some things are sacred. Some things are not up for public consumption. And today's episode is my living proof of that.In EP 286 I'm sharing something deeply personal — not the details, but the truth of what it created in me. From a very early age I learned that disappearing was safer than being seen. And that one childhood lesson became the through line of my entire life — my career, my relationships, and yes, even this camera.Until now.WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO: ✦ Why your survival strategies deserve honor not shame ✦ How one childhood pattern can become the ceiling on your adult life ✦ The through line from childhood to career to relationships to camera ✦ What it means to finally pull your fear out of the darkness and into the light ✦ How to reclaim your power without reopening old wounds ✦ Normalizing sacred boundaries — not everything needs to be shared to be healed ✦ The Self Love 2 Step REMIX — including The YOU StepAnd Friend — I know who I am and who's I am. And from that place? There is nothing to disappear from anymore.

In the sixth episode of Was it just a dream?, we find ourselves in a church, looking the other way. Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

This episode is for the woman who is quietly grieving something she hasn't given herself permission to fully feel. Not just the loss of a person — but the loss of a version of her life she had already planned out in her head. The relationship that was supposed to work. The career that was supposed to feel more fulfilling by now. The version of herself she thought she would be at this age.It gets personal — I'm sharing my own testimony of loss in life, my career and what happened when I finally stopped grieving what closed and trusted what God was opening. This one is raw, real and full of hope for every woman standing in the gap between who she was and who she is becoming.

If you have been doing the work, showing up for yourself and still feeling like something is off — this episode is for you. That uncomfortable feeling you have been carrying? It is not a sign that you are behind. It is a sign that you are between versions of yourself. And in this episode we are talking about what that in-between season is actually doing IN you, why it feels so lonely, and why you are exactly where you are supposed to be right now.

A big birthday with a big inheritance comes with more attention and trouble. So would a birthday party even be worth the risk? November 1933, after Doris Duke turns 21 and receives the first portion of her inheritance, she must now face threats from kidnappers, ill-intentioned suitors, and lawsuits. Meanwhile another kidnapping situation turns deadly. Amidst the threats, Doris has a small birthday dinner party with some illustrious guests back at her mansion. Other people and subjects include: Nanaline Holt Inman Duke, James H.R. Cromwell aka “Jimmy,” Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, Prince Alexis Mdivani, Prince Serge Mdivani, Prince David Mdivani, Eva Stotesbury, Edward “E.T.” Stotesbury, Walker Inman, Prince Serge Obolensky, Elsa Maxwell, Maury Paul / Cholly Knickerbocker, Janet Snowden, Harold Vanderbilt aka “Mike,” Charles Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mrs. Curtis Dall aka Anna Roosevelt, “Atty” Atwater Kent Jr., Secretary of War, superintendent of Annapolis, West Point graduate, Newport sheriff, Cinina Rafaela (alternate spellings Cimina – Fafeala), J. Irving Shaffer, Brooke Hart, Thomas H. Thurmond, Jack Holmes, California Governor James Rolph, Grand Duke Dmitri, Mrs. Horatio Seymour Shonnard aka Mary Elizabeth Joyce, Mrs. Allan Ryan Jr., Harrison Williams and wife Mrs. Harrison Williams, Mrs. Allen Gouveneur Wellman, Lady Mendl, Mrs. Robert McAdoo, astrologer, reporter, photographers, injury lawsuit, twenty first 21st birthday inheritance, Army-Navy football game, broke suitors, FBI investigation, Lindbergh baby kidnapping, kidnapping, transatlantic air mail, American-European air mail service, League of Nations, mob rule, lynching, accordion, Great Danes, tiara, royal guests, Duke mansion, Duke Farms, Whitemarsh Hall, Santa Clara County Jail, Manhattan, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Cape Verde, Africa, different story format, anecdotes, expanding references, newspaper research, Pro Search archive, Newspapers.com, cultural references, , biographies, Richest Girl in the World by Stephanie Mansfield, Trust No One by Ted Schwartz, Daddy's Duchess by Valentine and Mahn, Too Rich by Pony Duke, The Silver Swan by Sally Bingham, prevalent fears of kidnapping, Great Depression newspapers vs modern social media, birthday quotes on wealth, Sherry Papini, Joseph Dunniger, Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, psychic mediums, Spiritualists – Spiritualism, debunking, Netflix Frankenstein 2025, Guillermo Del Toro, Del Toro's father's kidnapping, James Cameron, ransom, father – son reconciliation, creativity, Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, Nancy Guthrie, recent famous kidnapping, Niccola Peltz, Brooklyn Beckham… -- Extra Notes / Call to Action: Antique Jewelry Historian – Zuleika Gerrishhttps://www.instagram.com/antiquejewelleryhistorian/ Doris Duke and her tiarashttps://www.instagram.com/p/DT_YSorjd5X/?img_index=1https://www.naturaldiamonds.com/historic-diamonds/doris-duke-jewelry/ Marjorie Merriweather Posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/DUIMRV7jXTX/?img_index=1 YouTuber Meghan's Mole Doris Duke and Peltz Family Connection | Meghan's Mole January 31, 2026https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ffm5Aa1IGA Enty Lawyer – Crazy Days and Nights blog Doris Duke cryptic message relating to Peltz familyhttps://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2022/07/todays-blind-items-get-yours.html The Silver Swan: The Search for Doris Duke by Sally Binghamhttps://www.amazon.com/Silver-Swan-Search-Doris-Duke-ebook/dp/B078X21PDT Share, like, subscribe -- Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com. Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands Section 1 Music: Top Hat, White Tie and Tails by Carroll Gibbons & Boy Friends, Album Sophistication – Songs of the Thirties Section 2 Music: Moonlight Cocktail by Hutch, Album Tea Dance 1920s, 30s, 40s Vintage Tea Party Section 3 Music: It's An Old Southern Custom by Carroll Gibbons, Album The Age of Style – Hits from the 30s End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands --https://asthemoneyburns.com/ X / TW / IG – @asthemoneyburns X / Twitter – https://x.com/asthemoneyburns Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/asthemoneyburns/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/

This is it friend. The finale.Ten episodes ago you started a journey — and you showed up every single time. For yourself. That is everything.In EP 283 — the final episode of the Unavailable for Self Abandonment series — we are declaring who you are on the other side of this work. We are honoring how far you have come. And we are sending you off with the F.I.N.A.L.L.Y. Framework™ — seven declarations for the woman who chose herself and is never going back.Because the day you stop abandoning yourself? Everything changes. WHAT WE GET INTO✦ Honoring the full journey — from EP 274 to EP 283 ✦ What actually changes the day you stop abandoning yourself ✦ The F.I.N.A.L.L.Y. Framework™ — seven declarations for the woman on the other side ✦ The signature question to carry with you every single day from here forward ✦ A celebration of everything you've built over this seriesTIMESTAMPS00:00 Becoming Her Today01:14 Series Finale Welcome03:59 Celebrating Your Progress06:24 The Hidden Cost08:20 You Were Never Broken09:03 The FINALLY Framework12:59 Meet the Uncovered Woman15:04 Momentum Builder Offer15:47 Two-Step Self Love Practice17:38 Mirror Moment Healing18:33 Final Blessing and SendoffTHE SELF LOVE 2-STEPStep 1 — The Declaration Write Write all seven letters of F.I.N.A.L.L.Y. at the top of a fresh journal page and complete each one in your own words. Your declaration. Your handwriting. Your page.Step 2 — The Celebration Mirror Moment Stand in front of your mirror and say out loud: "I showed up for myself. I did the work. I am proud of who I am becoming. And I am completely, finally, unapologetically unavailable for self-abandonment." Then say "I love you" — and smile. You earned it.

You've heard about self-love. You've tried it. Maybe it stuck for a little while — and then life happened and you were right back to putting yourself last.This time is different.In EP 282 I'm sharing something personal — the season I lost my mom and had to figure out who I was all over again. Not because I didn't know myself. But because I didn't know myself in THIS season. Without HER.And what I found when I finally stopped outsourcing my decisions and started going within — changed everything.I stumbled into self-love through grief. Through journaling. Through gratitude. Through the quiet realization that I could trust myself — and that the woman I found when I got still enough to listen?Was someone worth falling completely in love with.This episode is your permission to find her too.

In the fifth episode of Was it just a dream?, we find ourselves at sea in the Middle Ages. A raven lands on deck and transforms. What is it asking of us?Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Reference to Albrecht Dürer's medieval engraving Knight, Death and the Devil.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

In this fourth episode of Was it just a dream?, we're discussing a dream we received as a response to previous dreams. It again involves cutting. Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

In this third episode of Was it just a dream?, we are faced with catastrophe, and learn something about the creative response to it.The name “Edward” comes from an Anglo-Saxon name which literally means “guardian or protector of wealth”.Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

In this second episode of Was it just a dream?, we're invited to follow the symbol of the fish.We're inviting the fish to remain a fish, to swim swiftly, hard to grasp a hold of, turn into a concept, as we ask what kind of consciousness it might ask the dreamer, and us as dreamers to develop.Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

(Music) “It came upon a midnight clear”… Hello Elves, hello Father Tom! Welcome Elves to Light of the East. Thank you, Father Tom, we're so happy to be here. We'll be hearing more from our Elves, in fact they have a special gift for us.

The first episode of our new podcast series, Was it just a Dream?, is titled “I Don't Want to Hurt You.” Listen to the dream, and you will understand why. If you'd like to read the full dream, you can find it on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

Have you had a dream that stayed with you — one that felt larger than your own life?This is an invitation to join Jungian analysts Cécile Buckenmeyer and Jakob Lusensky in the experiment of shaping a holding space for collective dreams. A new podcast series devoted to those big dreams that C.G. Jung described as “the common property of mankind” (CW 10 §33), the deep streams of the delta that is the unconscious.By gathering these dreams, we may glimpse what our culture is dreaming beneath the surface, the myths that are forming us, and the ones asking to be born.Co-create our new podcast series by submitting your dream before December 31st.Credits:---Artwork: Iraq (Babylonia). Euphrates River, fisherman throwing net, sunset scene Music: It was just a dream by Rafael KruxLiterature: The Third Reich of Dreams by Charlotte Beradt

“Union With Christ” - A lesson about how our union with Christ frees us from sin's dominion and empowers us to live a new life of obedience by the grace of God. Music: “It's Christ Who Lives in Me!” Lyrics by Toby Logsdon. Performed by “Crimson Covenant.” Copyright ©TobyLogsdon, 2025