Emotionally Uncomfortable

"It's okay to push an edge once in a while, but it's also really okay to say, 'I need to stop doing this.'"

In this episode, Heather explores the difference between resistance, fear, and shame, and simply not having the capacity to do what you're asking of yourself. It can be humbling when your brain is ready to move forward, but your body and emotions haven't caught up yet, and this conversation gets into why we hit the wall when we start changing how we operate, how overextending ourselves breeds resentment, and why recovery is essential to building the capacity we want. Heather also unpacks the importance of taking smaller steps toward the things we're avoiding, without pushing ourselves into a state we can't sustain that results in resentment. If you've been struggling to move forward and can't tell whether you need to push through or give yourself room to recover, this episode is for you.

What to listen for:

☑️ The magic of the middle bridge when mastering resistance

☑️ Different ways women "hit the wall" when we start moving differently

☑️ How to distinguish between resistance and a lack of emotional capacity

"You don't have the mental and emotional capacity, and that's why you can't do it, not because you have an invisible mental load. This isn't a fear issue or a resistance issue."

☑️ Why limited capacity is similar to having less cash than you need

☑️ The reason we end up angry and resentful when we overextend ourselves

☑️ Emotional capacity is required to identify what you're feeling in the first place

"There are moments where I just need to push through and get something done, and that might be a little bit of effort. But there are legit moments where that is dangerous."

☑️ The humbling experience of your brain wanting to be further along than you are

☑️ Knowing your patterns and how you tend to overextend your capacity

☑️ Discerning what you do and do not have emotional capacity for

"Just because something looks good on paper doesn't mean when you put that puzzle piece in the bigger picture, it fits."

☑️ If you don't take enough time to recover, you can't build capacity

☑️ Do more of what you're avoiding in small steps that move you forward

☑️ You don't need to charge ahead; you just need to lean into the discomfort

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"You have to love yourself so much that you love yourself more than the need to be loved by other people."

In this episode, Heather and Sabrina Zohar explore what it takes to stop abandoning yourself in the pursuit of being loved, chosen, and understood by other people. They get into the difference between boundaries and walls, why a lack of self-trust can keep you repeating the same relationship patterns, and how the chaos you learned to associate with love as a child can determine who you're attracted to as an adult. Having great relationships means learning to love yourself, and learning to love yourself means being willing to let go of the story you've been telling about who you are and what you need to do to be worthy of others' love. If you're ready to build healthier relationships without self-abandonment, this episode is for you.

What to listen for:

☑️ Taking accountability for what we continue allowing through our lack of boundaries

☑️ Feeling seen and heard and why you need to take radical accountability

☑️ Why a lack of self-trust will never yield the results you're seeking

"Boundaries are a beautiful example of, 'this is what I need and here's how I'm going to show up. If that works for you, great. And if not, that's okay.' Walls are, 'I don't trust myself, so I have to put all of these things in front of me because I don't know how to take care of myself.'"

☑️ The difference between having boundaries and walls in relationships

☑️ Getting out of reactionary states so you can make conscious decisions

☑️ Expanding your capacity for dating when you haven't done so in a while

"The gap there is you trusting yourself enough to say, 'I can grieve and have compassion for myself if it doesn't work out, but I'm also ready to receive, and I know that I am worthy and deserving.'"

☑️ Learning to be attracted to healthy partnerships over unhealthy ones

☑️ Chaos often feels like love because a chaotic childhood is where we learn it

☑️ What did you used to accept that you're no longer willing to?

"You have to date yourself to really understand what you're going to want in a partner. Otherwise, you're constantly abandoning yourself, hoping you're chosen, but you're not actually connecting."

☑️ When to lean in and give someone time, and how to know it's not aligned

☑️ Expanding your capacity for disappointment and feeling okay within yourself

☑️ Questions you can ask to get to the root of your core wounds and beliefs

About Sabrina Zohar:

Sabrina Zohar is a dynamic entrepreneur and dating coach renowned for her transformative podcast, The Sabrina Zohar Show. With a clear, no-nonsense approach to relationship advice, Sabrina's podcast has resonated globally, ranking in the top 0.05% of all podcasts. Each episode features practical tips backed by board-certified and licensed psychologists, aimed at helping listeners improve their dating lives by fostering self-worth and personal growth.

Connect with Sabrina:

https://sabrinazohar.com/book

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"What you did up until this point in your life doesn't always mean that it's going to be the thing that gets you to the next point."

In this episode, Heather explores what happens when the strategies, habits, and ways of operating that got you to where you are today are no longer what will get you where you're going next. As your life, business, and capacity change, so do the ways you need to spend your time, energy, and attention. She gets into the four types of profit, what your resentment can reveal about what you're carrying that isn't yours, and what it looks like to raise your standards while lowering your tolerance for what drains you using real examples from her own life. The conversation also explores how changing your own response can shift the dynamics around you, why the things you need to do are often the ones you resist most, and how emotional neutrality is built through repetition. If you're entering a new chapter of your life and know that the way you've been operating can't come with you, this episode is for you.

What to listen for:

☑️ Where you're investing your time and energy dictates the results you get

☑️ The four types of profit and where they show up in our lives and businesses

☑️ Advanced energy strategies that will support the next decade of your life

"If I feel like someone is rude, disrespectful, or mean and they don't have the discernment to be able to hold their emotional discomfort and use their words to communicate, I just let them go."

☑️ Raising your standards and lowering your tolerance for what drains you

☑️ No longer managing the invisible load and responsibilities that aren't yours

☑️ Facing your resentment and allowing it to guide your next steps forward

"What I've been reminded of is the energy output of not taking on somebody else's invisible load is a lot at the beginning. It's a lot of energy to constantly take something off your plate that you know should not be there."

☑️ Changing someone else's behavior by changing your reaction to it

☑️ The things you need to be doing are the things you have resistance around

☑️ You can't have more of something if you're not willing to look at it first

"At the end of the day, it's about emotional neutrality. And the only way to get to emotional neutrality where you have no trigger reaction is repetition."

☑️ Trusting your physical body and listening to what it's communicating

☑️ Showing up for our goals with the capacity we have and not overextending

☑️ Pinpointing what it is that you're no longer willing to carry or tolerate

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"The work is work, and the rattling of your cage comes with side effects, and you have to know that in advance before entering."

In this episode, Heather and Coach Keren Eldad talk about what happens after the breakthrough: pushing against the edges of an old identity, recognizing the behaviors that accompany restlessness, and learning to move through resistance without taking it as a sign to stop. They explore what it means to reach "cruising altitude," where momentum starts carrying you forward, and you finally stop negotiating with the life you actually want. We also get into the difference between coaching and therapy, and why you don't have to wait for another shit storm to decide something needs to change. Ultimately, this conversation shows that the real work begins when insight becomes integration, and you practice thinking differently and repeatedly putting your money where your mouth is.

What to listen for:

☑️ Most people need to do more work because insight is not integration

☑️ The best thing about hitting rock bottom is it forces you to face what happened

☑️ Specific behaviors always accompany restlessness, aimlessness, and loneliness

"When you lose everything and end up at rock bottom, the best thing is there's nowhere to go. You have to start understanding: there's a level of thinking I've been engaged in that isn't serving me."

☑️ Don't wait for the shit storm to make change when you can start right now

☑️ The edge of identity and the importance of getting outside your comfort zone

☑️ You're going to have to put your money where your mouth is again and again

"You don't jump out of the plane, launch the business, and all your problems are solved forever. Now you have to learn how to live this way, how to truly practice this level of thinking."

☑️ Your mindset has to dominate everything, but that doesn't mean forcing things

☑️ What it looks like to reach "cruising altitude," which is all about momentum

☑️ Reaching a state where you're simply not negotiating with life anymore

"I really need to put my money where my mouth is means I accept nothing less than ease. I accept nothing less than my preferences. I will only work in my zone of genius."

☑️ Why changing identities causes pushback from the people around us

☑️ The difference between coaching and therapy, and when to consider each

☑️ Resistance comes up when we take action, but that doesn't mean stop

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About Keren Eldad:

Keren Eldad is an executive coach, speaker, and bestselling author of GILT FREE: Ditching Your Gilded Cage for Good. A former Fortune 500 executive, she has coached thousands of high achievers—from founders and Fortune 500 leaders to celebrities and professional athletes—to break free from burnout, perfectionism, and self-sabotage so they can build lives of extraordinary success and genuine fulfillment. Her podcast, Coached, ranks in the top 5% globally, her TEDx Talks have been viewed by half a million people worldwide, and her coaching work has been featured by The Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Goop, Fast Company, and Business Insider.

Connect with Keren:

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http://www.kereneldad.com

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http://www.instagram.com/coachkeren

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"The best way you can help teach your kids is by modeling your own life, especially when it comes to money and investing."

In this episode, Heather and Josh Smith get into the uncomfortable reality of what happens when you continue to outsource the financial part of your life, assuming someone else will handle it or believing you're simply "not a money person." They talk about the shame and scarcity that keep people from learning, why investing has been made far more complicated than it needs to be, and how small, consistent decisions can fundamentally change your financial future through the power of compound growth. They also explore what it means to become genuinely resourced, how financial literacy creates more choice and freedom, why knowing enough to ask better questions matters even when you work with a financial professional, and what we teach the next generation when we model these skills ourselves. Because becoming financially empowered requires being willing to learn some of the uncomfortable things you were never taught.

What to listen for:

☑️ Building an investing system and getting money working harder for you

☑️ How health problems motivated Josh to start financially investing in himself

☑️ Stop staying stuck in indecision and outsourcing your money management

"Maybe you won't have a yacht or a multimillion-dollar mansion, but at the very least, you can have a less stressful life. Which to me, that's more than worth any of the time you have to put into learning this stuff."

☑️ It's never too late to start securing a less financially stressful future for yourself

☑️ With investing, it's usually more worthwhile to take the "simple" approach

☑️ Financial planners have their role, but your understanding is crucial

"When you understand investing, it's easier to be more aggressive when it comes to investing and hitting your financial goals a lot sooner."

☑️ Adulting isn't always fun, but you still need to take radical responsibility

☑️ The compound effect of time investment and how far it can take you

☑️ You just have to move through the resistance and get started

About Josh Smith:

I didn't grow up talking about money. No one in my family explained compound interest, index funds, or why investing matters. When I finally tried to get help thinking a financial advisor could guide me, they basically told me to come back when I'm rich.

That was the moment I decided to figure it out myself. I spent 12+ years learning how business and money really work. I graduated with magna cum laude from W.P. Carey School of Business. Worked at JP Morgan Chase. And I've read over 100 personal finance and investing books.

I now share everything I've learned through The Market Hustle. I've helped over 3,000 students build financial systems through Money Mastery and grew The Market Hustle community to over 1 million across social media.

My Free Compound Interest Guide: https://www.themarkethustle.com/compound

Connect with Josh:

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http://www.themarkethustle.com

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http://www.youtube.com/@themarkethustle3090

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http://www.facebook.com/themarkethustle

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http://www.instagram.com/themarkethustle

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http://www.threads.com/@themarkethustle

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http://x.com/themarkethustle

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http://open.spotify.com/show/7n9NB9caG9ioYUZ47nx9cE?si=265dea8ffd9c48fa

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"It's a fallacy that when a woman takes center stage in her life, everyone else suffers. No, everyone else expands."

In this episode, Heather and Dr. Amanda Hanson dig into the moment when a woman begins to realize just how much of her life has been shaped by expectations, conditioning, caretaking, and the insidious belief that everyone else gets a say before she does. They explore what happens when you start deconstructing the ground you were planted in and questioning the influences behind the choices you've made, the relationships you've maintained, and the ways you've learned to perform being a "good" woman. This conversation moves through midlife, mortality, desire, authenticity, and the uncomfortable freedom of realizing you're allowed to want something different, even when the people around you don't understand it.

What to listen for:

☑️ Why women struggle to believe that they actually get a say in their own lives

☑️ The fear of dying and how it shows up unconsciously for most women

☑️ Deconditioning from the influences that are driving your beliefs

"Before I can help a woman build a new life for herself, I have to help her deconstruct the soil she was already planted in because otherwise we're actually just building a straw house on faulty ground."

☑️ Stop waiting for the "I'm ready" moment, and pay attention to your actions

☑️ Why our caretaking hormones tank in midlife, and how we lean into what's next

☑️ You can't really be known and loved if you're performing in your relationships

"Women want more connection to themselves and to the people in their lives. They realize that the window is closing, and they want to know what it feels like to be raptured by life."

☑️ Choosing the most raw, authentic, unfiltered version of yourself in every area

☑️ Women can't be honest with others because they're not honest with themselves

☑️ Standing steady in the face of people who are uncomfortable with your expression

"I'm not going to spend one millisecond wasting my life force energy and this precious gift I've been given trying to convince anybody to believe or think the way that I do."

☑️ Why pouring into yourself isn't taking anything away from anybody else

☑️ Living life on your terms serves as a huge inspiration for your children

☑️ Building a foundation for how to source a different way of being a woman

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About Dr. Amanda Hanson:

Dr. Amanda Hanson is a clinical psychologist. Married thirty years, mother of four. For three decades she's sat across from women in the one chapter no one prepares them for, the chapter where everything they were taught about being a woman stops working for them. She wrote Muse for the women she'd never meet in her office and built her business so they'd have somewhere to come home to. Her work is clinical psychology braided back together with the feminine wisdom this culture has spent centuries erasing. She doesn't bring it back as a trend, but as tools for living

Connect with Dr. Amanda:

https://www.amandahanson.com

http://www.instagram.com/midlife.muse

http://www.youtube.com/@midlifemuse

http://www.tiktok.com/@midlifemuse

http://www.facebook.com/midlife.muse

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"Grit will keep you going. But when you just keep showing up because you're living in a place of survival, sometimes you gotta fight like hell to feel alive."

In this episode, Heather explores the complicated relationship many ambitious women have with striving, success, and the never-ending pressure to keep moving toward what's next. Ambition is a powerful force, even a deeply human and spiritual desire, but when we live in the shadow of our strengths, the very qualities that help us achieve can begin to drain us. She talks about recognizing when your to-do list has become more nourished than your soul, how depletion can quietly shape your decisions, and why the body and our lives often start communicating through symptoms, frustration, and anger when something needs to change. This conversation also looks at what it takes to build the grit and resilience to keep showing up for yourself, invest in your growth, and direct your time and energy toward the life you actually want to create.

What to listen for:

☑️ Staying in your own lane and focusing your energy to get to the next-level vision

☑️ Living in the shadow of your strengths and why the dark side of ambition is burnout

☑️ Investing in personal and professional development so that you don't sink

"The dark side of ambition is burnout because when you're living in the shadow of your strengths, you are going to burn out to a crisp. You're going to be in this state of lack."

☑️ Ambition as spiritual desire and a sacred fundamental of our soul as humans

☑️ So many women aren't feeding their souls; they're feeding their to-do lists

☑️ Why the symptoms of the body and your life will often appear as anger

"When you normalize debt and not profit, you walk around making decisions from a place of depletion, making decisions that continue cycles that are not in alignment with where you want to go and what you actually want to grow."

☑️ Things Heather did to turn her body around when it started speaking to her

☑️ Becoming a life athlete with the grit to keep showing up, even when you don't want to

☑️ Feeling connected to others requires connecting with yourself first

"The more you invest time and energy in yourself—seeing yourself, understanding yourself, and valuing your precious time and energy—this is where we feel truly alive and connected to ourselves."

☑️ What are you prioritizing, and where is your time and energy going?

☑️ Resistance training will bring you back to life when you're struggling

☑️ You don't need another strategy, but you may need accountability

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"If you want to feel alive and energized and lead people, you've got to do things differently."

In this episode, Heather and Dra. Margarita Ramírez (aka Dr. Maggie) step into a deeply personal conversation about what it means to take ownership of your health, question the beliefs you've inherited about your body, and remain open to possibilities outside the systems and approaches you've always known. Heather shares her own journey navigating the long-term effects of cancer treatment, hormonal changes, fatigue, and the persistent feeling that something in her body was off, leading her to seek a different perspective while living in Mexico. From Heather's experience with placenta injections to the broader conversation around inflammation, metabolism, peptides, and preparing the body for healing, this episode opens the door to a larger question: how good are you willing to let yourself feel?

What to listen for:

☑️ Medical tourism and expanding your healing team beyond traditional medicine

☑️ No longer doing anything that isn't life-enhancing, or that leads to burnout

☑️ Results Heather experienced from getting placenta injections in Mexico

"Listen to your body because if you have any kind of symptoms that you normalize, it's not you. It's something inside of you that needs to change"

☑️ What regenerative medicine is, and how Dr. Maggie started practicing it

☑️ Finding a doctor that knows how to listen to what your body is saying

☑️ The importance of getting different perspectives on health issues

"The placenta is most important for getting nutrition to babies. If you realize that it's responsible for giving growing babies nutrition, imagine what kind of benefits you can get from that."

☑️ Having a proactive, long-game perspective, and looking from varying angles

☑️ The reason placenta healing works more quickly at a cellular level

☑️ Learning how to value your health on a holistic, deep level

About Dra. Margarita Ramírez:

Dr. Margarita Ramírez Amaro is a family medicine specialist with more than 17 years of experience dedicated to the holistic health of her patients. Throughout her career, she has focused on going beyond conventional treatments; instead, she addresses the root cause of disease through a comprehensive and highly personalized approach.

In addition, she holds a Diploma in Functional Medicine with a body–mind perspective. Over the past four years, she has developed extensive experience in functional medicine, working with the firm conviction that proper nutrition and targeted supplementation can significantly improve health and overall quality of life.

As a result, her approach seeks to treat the body from within. By doing so, she strengthens the body's natural self-regulation mechanisms and emphasizes long-term prevention rather than temporary symptom relief.

Connect with Dra. Margarita:

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http://www.wellbodyelite.com

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http://www.instagram.com/wellbodyelite

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http://www.youtube.com/@WellBodyELITE

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http://www.facebook.com/WellBodyElite

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https://www.tiktok.com/@wellbodyelite

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"When things look successful on the outside, but they don't feel successful on the inside, that's because you're only obsessed with one type of profit."

In this episode, Heather explores the four types of profit and why financial success is only one piece of a much bigger picture. In other words, what if the life you want isn't just about making more money, having more time, or checking more boxes, but about learning how to create a life that actually feels good to live? This conversation is an invitation to rethink what you're actually building and ask whether the way you're spending your time, energy, and attention is creating more of the life you want or quietly pulling you further away from it. Because true abundance isn't about squeezing more out of yourself. It's about learning to value your time, your body, your relationships, your purpose, and your financial wellbeing as crucial parts of the same life.

What to listen for:☑️ Why financial literacy is a core foundation, a basic human need, and a skill

☑️ Understanding the four types of profit and why you can't only focus on one

☑️ Taking radical responsibility for how you want to feel and not masking

"You're still not taking radical responsibility for how you want to feel. You're not honoring your boundaries, your vision, your capacity. You're hiding and playing small because you're avoiding being human."

☑️ If you're giving less to yourself, how can you ever be more for your child?

☑️ Being the woman and role model that your 20-year-old self would look up to

☑️ The reason most women back away when on the verge of transformation

"You have to think differently. You have to fight for a new life, a new identity. You have to give a fucking shit. A sliver of it. That's it, and do something that's slightly uncomfortable."

☑️ It's one thing to be scared and uncomfortable; it's another to lie to yourself

☑️ You're not 'doing everything for your kids' if you're being performative

☑️ When you're constantly reacting, your body starts deteriorating

"If you have zero emotional intelligence skills, you'll have zero time on your hands. You're going to feel so unfulfilled, and you are going to waste your one precious life."

☑️ Learning how to put yourself first on your calendar, and why it matters

☑️ Understanding what your body craves and how to not eject from your body

☑️ The key to using time in alignment with the life you want to live

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"Time management is not something you're born with or born without. It's a skill that anybody can learn if they're being taught in a reasonable way."

In this episode, Heather and Megan Sumrell explore what it means to stop fighting time and start building a life that actually has room for you to live. So many of us approach planning from a place of pressure, trying to squeeze more into every available pocket of time, sacrifice sleep to catch up, or follow rigid systems that were never designed around our actual lives. But creating a calm, organized life isn't about becoming more productive; it's about building enough structure to protect what matters while leaving space for the unexpected, the people we love, and the parts of ourselves that can't be scheduled. Learn how to let go of the shame of not doing it all, increase your capacity instead of constantly playing catch-up, and redefine productivity so that the white space in your calendar becomes part of the life you're creating.

What to listen for:

☑️ Getting into a relationship with time rather than always trying to "beat it"

☑️ The sooner we learn to build ourselves back into our lives, the better we'll feel

☑️ Why the way you're planning might be keeping you perpetually behind

"Learning how to create a plan that supports enough structure to ensure important things are getting done while also leaving space to absorb life and the reality of life, that's really the sweet spot."

☑️ Releasing the shame and pressure we put on ourselves to plan perfectly

☑️ Sacrificing your sleep is not the way to create more time, and what to do instead

☑️ Why you should never follow someone else's rigid morning routine

"A successful tool or system is one where the steps that you follow are the same for everybody, but the inputs are uniquely yours, and the outputs are uniquely yours."

☑️ Goal setting is a waste of time when you don't have control of your daily life

☑️ How to increase your capacity so that you don't begin each week already behind

☑️ Teaching our children time management skills so they can thrive

"The stuff that's important to me is represented on my calendar and protected to ensure I can get them done. But my identity is in all the white space on my calendar."

☑️ Breaking the belief that you have to be productive in your open pockets of time

☑️ Learning to think like someone who knows how to create a calm, organized life

☑️ Building a full life that isn't stressful or constantly overbooked

About Megan Sumrell:

Megan Sumrell is a former corporate executive turned entrepreneur. As a business owner, mom, and wife, she knows exactly how hard it is to juggle #allthethings while still maintaining your own sense of self and purpose.

As the CEO and Founder of The Pink Bee, she took her 20+ year career in systems and processes and applied it to all things time management, organization and productivity.

She is the creator of the TOP Program and TOP Planner, the #1 Time Management System for Women.

Connect with Megan:

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http://www.megansumrell.com

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http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6Oj1Bhuga-C6D2kRgseiA

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http://www.facebook.com/megansumrell

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"Before you try to tell your kid what to do, you've got to look at yourself. You've got to really reflect on the things that you're doing."

In this episode, Heather sits down with two remarkable young adults who have been part of her life in different ways: her 21-year-old son, Logan, and Brooklyn, a longtime family friend she's had the privilege of watching grow into adulthood. Woven together with her reflections, these conversations offer an honest look at what our maturing kids are craving from the adults around them and what happens when we choose to guide rather than control. They explore the lasting impact of feeling seen, the tension between protecting our children and preparing them for life, and the ways our own fears, expectations, and unresolved stories can shape the next generation without us realizing it. Whether you're raising young children, parenting adult kids, mentoring someone, or simply reflecting on your own upbringing, this episode is an invitation to listen with fresh ears. Sometimes the greatest lessons about leadership, connection, and emotional maturity come from the very people we've been trying to teach all along.

What to listen for:

☑️ When children live on their own and learn what "no one's coming to save you" means

☑️ Embracing uncertainty and what it looks like to have a safe support system in life

☑️ The privilege of suffering and how it helps us heal and grow more quickly

"Until I faced my shit and realized all the things that I need to overcome, all the overwhelming feelings and the fear and just all my shit, that was when I started my journey of getting through it and slowly chipping away at some big issues."

☑️ No matter where you go, you still have to face yourself and work through your shit

☑️ How the current systems are manipulating young adults into focusing on money

☑️ Experiencing contrast and navigating the projection of fear as a parent

"At the end of the day, there's not one parent that's great. Parents fuck up. We're all human beings. We're all learning. It's just a matter of how much you choose to learn."

☑️ How getting in touch with your emotions can change you and your entire life

☑️ Dropping our conditioning to open up more possibilities in our lives and careers

☑️ Understanding the only control we truly have in uncertain situations

"Just take the action. Like a game, if you take the action, it will happen, but you just have to have that consistency. You have to push yourself. You can't half-ass it."

☑️ Knowing when to show support and when to hold your children accountable

☑️ Being present for your kids without judging their lives or projecting onto them

☑️ The importance of aligning your environment with who you want to be

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"Living life from a different perspective heals the past and also paves the way for the future as well."

In this episode, Heather and Eddy Tony explore what it really means to heal, not by becoming someone new, but by integrating the parts of yourself you've spent years trying to outrun. This conversation challenges the idea that transformation comes from a single breakthrough or magic solution, inviting us to consider a gentler process of awareness, compassion, and daily practice. At its heart, this episode is an invitation to trust your own unfolding, soften into the process of becoming, and discover that healing comes from welcoming every part of yourself home, rather than erasing who you've been or clinging to outdated identities.

What to listen for:

☑️ How we can change our identity, personality, and how we feel emotionally

☑️ There's no magic bullet for healing, but there is a process to get lasting change

☑️ Why you need to see it, feel it, balance it, and integrate it to step out of old loops

"There is no magic bullet. Where psychedelics are really great at is seeing it, increasing awareness within yourself about old patterns, loops, and behaviors."

☑️ Why everything bubbles up to the surface when it's ready to be transformed

☑️ Navigating the grief of letting go of your former identity and stepping into freedom

☑️ How to commune with the parts you're releasing with deep compassion

"The grieving dissolves and happens on its own because that part also has a home within yourself, within themselves. As opposed to extracting that part, they can integrate and soften back into wholeness."

☑️ Healing doesn't have to be heavy; oftentimes, it's in the small daily decisions

☑️ Looking for the positives inside of challenges, and how that helps us heal

☑️ Coming into full coherence and acceptance, removing the inner war

"It doesn't have to feel so heavy. So leaning into what is happening and seeing the positives that are coming out of it as well. It's about bringing the person into full coherence of what is actually going on."

☑️ Where psilocybin or psychedelics come in and how they create more freedom

☑️ Taking the tips and wisdom of our natural world and applying it to ourselves

☑️ How the intention to release and let go can change your life

Be sure to also listen to episodes 1191, 1203, and 1236 for more!

About Eddy Tony:

Founder. Author. Guide to over a thousand individuals. The person people turn to when trying harder stops working. Eddy Tony helps his clients release the unconscious pressure patterns that keep life from feeling fulfilling. Known for his calm precision and depth, he guides people back into self-trust, emotional steadiness, and success that finally feels aligned and fully lived.

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"You cannot make an impact on anybody unless you are willing to change your internal ecosystem."

In this episode, Heather challenges some of the most deeply rooted assumptions about parenting, leadership, and what it really means to prepare our children for adulthood, especially our boys. She takes an honest look at the emotional dynamics between men and women, how dependence is often learned rather than our inherent nature, and why both sons and daughters benefit when we teach responsibility, communication, and resilience instead of rescuing. At its heart, this episode is an invitation to lead with intention, hold loving boundaries, and recognize that our role as parents doesn't end when our children become adults

What to listen for:

☑️ Why not everyone has the DNA to go for the next level in their life or work ☑️ Making things happen is actually pretty boring, which is why most people don't do it ☑️ The biggest lie we're told is that we're done parenting when our kids reach 18

"I've made the conscious decision that I'm not here to wipe my kids' ass for the rest of their life, but I am here to be their rock, their person, and their guide. When we choose to be a leader to our children, to be the integrator, to support them along this journey, things will change."

☑️ 'Independent men' don't exist, and what that means for us as women ☑️ Why men haven't been able to emotionally free themselves from women yet ☑️ All humans struggle; some are just better at communicating it than others

"I had to soften, and the number one thing that I realized is men struggle too. I didn't realize how much they struggle, and I didn't realize how dependent they are on nurturing."

☑️ Without evidence of what they're carrying, how do you know you carry more? ☑️ Raising men that understand emotional labor and domestic responsibility ☑️ Understanding resistance and learning how to hold hard boundaries

"I've taught them that they can use their voice to communicate what's going on, and that I'm going to actively listen. And not all their problems need to be fixed by me. One of the core wounds that I see women do is needing to fix their behavior."

☑️ Men learn to be dependent on women based on how they were raised ☑️ Teaching your male children the skills they need to become independent ☑️ Why letting your children have their own identity outside of us is so crucial ***

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"We should not be listening to things outside of us. Your body is telling you what you need."

In this episode, Heather and Corey Colwell explore what happens when life forces you to stop long enough to hear the messages your body has been trying to communicate all along. Through a remarkable story that begins with a coyote bite at two years old and winds through years of health challenges, motherhood, overachievement, and a profound near-death experience, this conversation invites you into the space where intuition, healing, and purpose converge. At its heart, this episode is about learning to listen, not to the endless noise outside of us, but to the wisdom already living within our bodies, our souls, and the quiet nudges that keep trying to guide us back toward alignment, vitality, and a life that feels deeply alive.

What to listen for:

☑️ How getting bitten by a coyote at two years old shaped her passion in later life ☑️ Busyness and constantly moving forward keep you from listening to my body ☑️ The near-death experience that helped Corey choose to be in this life

"When people say fighting for your life, you have to recruit everything to get alive again. And so I fought my way back from that moment."

☑️ The importance of listening to that intuitive primal knowing when it comes up ☑️ What it feels like when your soul fully aligns with your body and human experience ☑️ Why it wasn't enough to just be alive and in bed, and what helped turn things around

"I was alive, and everyone's like, 'Great, just stay in bed.' And what happened is I started to experience an intellectual and passion death because my entire why is to solve problems and innovate."

☑️ How to start answering the question of what your body actually needs to thrive ☑️ Why we try to control the outcomes in our children's lives rather than surrendering ☑️ We shouldn't be listening to things outside of us; we should be leaning in

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About Corey Colwell:

Corey Colwell doesn't study problems. She solves them.

She is the person you call when you're stuck — not because she'll tell you why you got there, but because she'll already see three ways out. A licensed psychotherapist (LMFT), published author, and innovation strategist, Corey has spent nearly three decades finding patterns across health, sustainability, media, education, and beyond — and building the bridges to turn those patterns into real, lasting change. Her ideas have reached millions through outlets like Good Morning America, NPR, and CNN, and her collaborators have included Whole Foods, HGTV, and the Non-GMO Project. As founding COO of SNiP Nutrigenomics (snipnutrition.com), she's now helping reshape the future of health through genetic intelligence and hyper-personalized nutrition.

Corey is a recent empty-nest mom and lives in Seattle with her soulmate husband and infinitely amusing rescue dogs.

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http://www.snipnutrition.com

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/coreycolwell/

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"Not everything your body is telling you is a symptom that needs to be fixed. Sometimes it's grief."

In this episode, Heather shares a deeply personal reflection on what happens when you outgrow the pain, patterns, and identities that once helped you survive but no longer support where you're going. She explores the uncomfortable process of letting go of old stories, relationships, expectations, and the versions of ourselves we've worked so hard to become. From business lessons and the cost of giving away your own authority to the grief that surfaces when your body finally feels safe enough to release what it has been holding, this episode is an honest exploration of healing, growth, and reinvention.

What to listen for:

☑️ The story of "I don't know how to market myself," and how Heather lost her voice ☑️ Why women sabotage themselves through overdoing and taking on too much ☑️ Outsourcing your confidence and intuition, and trusting when things feel off

"I've had a vision of making a bigger impact. It hasn't happened. The reason why it hasn't happened is that I went down a rabbit hole believing other people could solve my problem because I believed their words, not their behavior."

☑️ Investing in the people who are actually in the arena, truly doing their own work ☑️ Sticking with things long enough to allow them to start gaining momentum ☑️ If you don't want to do the hard work in business, then get a job

"Hiring marketing people for my team and then outsourcing my power and my confidence in them cost me so much fucking money, and it almost killed me."

☑️ Listening to your body when it starts communicating that something isn't right ☑️ The reason why the Universe puts things in front of your face until you're ready to listen ☑️ Why our grief is often about who we were when we were with the ones we lost

"When I looked at those panic attacks, I kept thinking, 'What is this?' I truly believe that my body was letting go because it felt safe in the middle of the night. That was when I was at rest, and it was letting go of these old stories."

☑️ Committing to no longer struggling and being done with people who don't show up ☑️ Time under tension triggers disease, which is why it's essential to process your feelings ☑️ When you deeply trust yourself, life challenges start to feel less scary

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"You're breaking generational patterns by having the capacity to be present with your kids because you're not snappy, angry, and frustrated."

In this episode, Heather and Kelly Hubbell challenge one of the most deeply ingrained beliefs many women carry: that doing it all is required to be a good mother. This conversation reframes asking for help as a leadership skill that allows you to reclaim your time, energy, and presence for what matters most, not as a luxury that's out of reach. They dive into the emotional resistance that comes with outsourcing, the hidden beliefs that keep us clinging to unnecessary responsibility, and the freedom that becomes available when we stop measuring our worth by how much we can carry alone. Whether you're building a business, raising a family, caring for aging parents, or simply feeling stretched too thin, this episode is an invitation to rethink how you support yourself, challenge cultural expectations for women, and create a life where you no longer have to choose between thriving and doing it all.

What to listen for: ☑️ The cultural lie for women that says burning out makes you a good mother ☑️ Why life gets more complex when you're growing a business alongside parenting ☑️ Getting support isn't one-size-fits-all, and it's necessary for every life stage

"I want to spend time with my kids in the few hours I get to see them during the work week and actually do fun stuff on the weekends. I don't want to be a slave to my home. I want to live my life." ☑️ Are you filling a void inside yourself, or are you investing in what's important to you? ☑️ Separating yourself from the things that need to get done, so you can outsource them ☑️ How buying back your time in small ways gives you your life and family back

"We have a disconnect between the way that we are running our business and scaling a business and growing, managing, and delegating in our career and doing it in our household." ☑️ Why we're more concerned with managing a house manager than the investment ☑️ Feeling triggered by "not doing it all" isn't a reason to keep managing everything ☑️ Consolidating the support you need and how that actually saves you money

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About Kelly Hubbell:

Kelly Hubbell is a mom of three, founder and CEO of Sage Haus — the only nationwide placement service dedicated exclusively to matching house managers with busy households. A former sales leader, Kelly started Sage Haus on maternity leave with her third baby after hiring her own house manager and realizing the mental load she'd been carrying wasn't a personal failing — it was a structural gap.

What began as helping one friend hire has grown into a bootstrapped company of 40+ employees that's served thousands of homes across the US and Canada.

Kelly speaks and writes about the invisible labor of running a household, redefining what "having it all" actually means, and building the kind of company she wished she'd worked for. Her mission is to empower families to be more present, in control, and help ambitious moms reclaim their power.

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"Both parties have to show up to the same conversation, and you have to do emotionally uncomfortable things in order to grow."

In this episode, Heather and her husband, Bryan, explore what it really takes to build a strong partnership when life, health, finances, and everyday stress begin testing the foundation beneath it. Through an honest conversation about communication, leadership, emotional responsibility, and the challenges that arise when two people are growing together, they unpack the patterns that create distance in relationships and the intentional choices that rebuild trust and connection. Whether you're navigating health challenges, raising children, managing money, or simply trying to become better partners to one another, this episode offers a refreshing perspective on what it means to stop waiting for your relationship to improve and start becoming the kind of person who helps create the relationship you both want to come home to.

What to listen for:☑️ Brian's breakdown to breakthrough moment that prompted him to prioritize his health ☑️ How health issues affect communication, connection, and the quality of relationships ☑️ Why not seeing the results you expect can leave you feeling broken inside

"As a man or a 'leader,' part of leading is sharing what you're going through and exposing others to how you deal with these things."☑️ Why being direct and not having covert contracts creates a calm household ☑️ How having a parent-in-law living in your home can affect your partnership ☑️ 'Nice Guy Syndrome' and how it becomes detrimental to everything

"It's almost like your person becomes your emotional center and everything that the guy does is calculated to obtain approval from that person, trying so hard to please the person and often becoming resentful when it's not reciprocated." ☑️ Why men can become avoidant when dealing with uncomfortable conversations ☑️ Taking ownership of your side of the street during difficult partnership moments ☑️ Why it's essential to have regular money conversations in your marriage

"It's only going to get harder the more we avoid it. Money is one of the biggest factors in a healthy, happy marriage because if you don't have your money shit together, it can really really mess up your dynamic." ☑️ The harmony created between the visionary and integrator partnership as a couple ☑️ Prioritizing actions that make your partner's life easier and less stressful ☑️ Finding really low-hanging fruit opportunities to create a connection

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"The only way to build executive functions is through relationships and experiences. Not worksheets, not lectures, not in the classroom."

In this episode, Heather and Mike McLeod dive into the growing conversation around ADHD, executive functioning, screen dependency, and the alarming reality of the youth mental health crisis unfolding right in front of us. This conversation challenges many of the narratives parents have been taught to accept about attention, behavior, motivation, and what children actually need to thrive. From the normalization of excessive screen use after COVID to the rise of social media pseudoscience and over-accommodation, this episode unpacks the deeper reasons so many kids are struggling with focus, emotional regulation, confidence, and failure to launch into adulthood.

What to listen for: ☑️ Why ADHD has become more prominent in conversations about our children ☑️ Boredom is like going to the gym for your brain, and it's crucial to childhood

"All of the things that are so crucial to developing a strong, healthy child and adolescent brain, we as the adults have kind of stolen from them. This is why we're in the middle of a horrible youth mental health crisis." ☑️ The reason this younger generation is falling behind and failing to advance like others ☑️ You build executive functions through relationships and experiences, not classwork

"Executive functioning skills are the greatest predictor of success, and it's one of the most misunderstood sets of skills. Time management and organization is the smallest possible fraction of executive functions." ☑️ The four pillars of executive functioning skills for independence, positivity, and success ☑️ ADHD isn't actually an attention disorder; it's an executive functioning disorder

"This generation of youth has gotten the most therapy, the most socio-emotional classes, and they're the most depressed because we're treating them with kid gloves and constantly lowering the bar." ☑️ What struggling with screen-time boundaries is telling you about your child's state ☑️ Doing less as a parent to help your child through their failure to launch

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About Mike McLeod:

In 2016, Michael created the Internal Skills Executive Function Strengthening Model, and GrowNOW ADHD was born.His mission: improve quality of life for youth and families facing ADHD and executive function challenges. Mike has presented this model to audiences nationwide and internationally, providing specialized support in ADHD, Executive Functioning, Social Executive Functioning, and Parent Coaching.

With more than 20 years of experience, a Master's degree from Lehman College, and collaborations with leading doctors, neuropsychologists, and nonprofits, Mike blends deep expertise with a practical, strength-based model that gets results.

Connect with Mike: Website: https://www.grownowadhd.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GrowNOWADHD Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/grownowadhd YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@grownowadhd

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"There comes a time and a place when you're over intellectualizing, and you are actually trying to dig for problems. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy."

In this episode, Heather explores the uncomfortable space between knowing something needs to change and actually being willing to change it. For high-performing women, that gap is often filled with overthinking, fixing, researching, controlling, and searching for the "right" answer instead of taking the actions that will move them forward. This conversation is an invitation to stop waiting for the perfect plan, the perfect feeling, or the perfect timing and start moving. Because growth, freedom, and alignment are rarely found inside your comfort zone (which is what therapy tends to become), they're uncovered once you're willing to face the discomfort of uncertainty, make the decisions you've been avoiding, and start trusting yourself enough to discover who you'll become on the other side.

What to listen for:☑️ Why high-performing women try to patch and control when things go wrong ☑️ To get to the other side of newness, you're going to have to try something new ☑️ Your brain is wired to keep you alive, but not necessarily to help you thrive

"This loneliness that you feel is because you are living a freedom-based life, and you're doing what's required to live financially in alignment with how you want to feel. And when you do that, it gets really uncomfortable because you begin to think differently." ☑️ Losing trust in yourself because you never had true self-trust to begin with ☑️ We create codependency through scarcity so that we don't have to feel ☑️ The reason why you can't see how much you're living from fear

"Reading another parenting book, sending your child to therapy, or going to therapy is your comfort zone. You have to be ready to get emotionally uncomfortable. You have to be ready to go through the storm." ☑️ Differing outcomes require being held accountable for taking different actions ☑️ What actions do you need to take consistently based on your current goals? ☑️ How to know whether you're making the right decision for your life

"If you don't move, something is going to explode in your life. But when energy is in motion and energy flows, it's healthy. It's vibrant and healing. So just get moving and take action." ☑️ How the unmade decisions inside of you are keeping you stagnant ☑️ Getting to that point where you can make a difficult decision with more ease ☑️ There's a time and a place for therapy, as well as for coaching

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We'll pinpoint your biggest time + energy leaks, identify the top areas to focus on for quick momentum, and map out exactly what to let go of so you can reclaim your energy, your time, and your joy.

Ready to make your time work for you without adding more to your plate?

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"The more you face these moments of resistance, the easier it gets because you know what to expect of yourself on the other side of it."

In this episode, Heather and Renée Warren dive into the uncomfortable reality that, whether you're building a business, growing a personal brand, redefining yourself beyond motherhood, or pursuing a more aligned life, there comes a point where you have to decide whether you're willing to keep moving forward when the excitement fades and resistance takes over. Renée dives into the patterns that cause so many women to lose momentum when seasons change, why waiting for life to get easier keeps you stuck, and the identity shifts that occur when you stop defining yourself solely by what you do for others. This conversation is an invitation to lean into the discomfort of becoming, to trust yourself through the messy middle, and to recognize that every time you move through resistance rather than retreat from it, you build capacity.

What to listen for:

☑️ Why you shouldn't throw your habits out the window just because it's summer

☑️ The biggest lesson is building the muscle and being okay when things are ugly

☑️ Navigating the relationship shedding that comes with rising above mediocrity

"Summer shows up, and we come up with all these excuses as to why we should take a break or slow down. When you're trying to grow a personal brand, when you're trying to do something differently, there's no place where you can slow the momentum."

☑️ What happens when you remove yourself from what makes you a 'good' mother

☑️ Getting through the resistance that bubbles up when you start using your voice

☑️ How to feel worthy of what you desire without self-sabotaging it

"When we start silencing those voices and actually dipping into the things that we want, where we want to go, businesses we want to start, who we want to surround ourselves with, it's like you open up the next abundance portal."

☑️ Why it's so important to surround yourself with people who believe in you

☑️ Putting yourself in the energy of where you want to be and doing things differently

☑️ The invisible pattern of all or nothing and "life will get easier when" changes nothing

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About Renée Warren:

Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, angel investor, author, and the host of the top-rated podcast Into The Wild, which empowers women to grow the fearlessness needed to step into their greatness. With an extraordinary gift for bringing out the best in others, she created The Pink Skirt Project—where ambitious women come together to redefine success and rise together. She's now on a mission to transform how women step into their power and make their mark on the world! Renée has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, and more.

Connect with Renee:

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Website: http://www.thepinkskirtproject.com

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Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/renee_warren

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Into The Wild: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/into-the-wild/id1508734916

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For those of you who are ready to stop feeling drained, overextended, and out of alignment… join me inside the Energetic Time Management Accelerator, a focused experience designed to help high-achieving women uncover what's draining them, clarify what truly matters, and create a simple plan that fits their life.

We'll pinpoint your biggest time + energy leaks, identify the top areas to focus on for quick momentum, and map out exactly what to let go of so you can reclaim your energy, your time, and your joy.

Ready to make your time work for you without adding more to your plate?

Join the Energetic Time Management Accelerator:

http://www.heatherchauvin.com/time

Explore the top episodes listeners come back to when they're stuck, burned out, or standing at the edge of a big shift: http://www.heatherchauvin.com/10

Follow Heather on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/heatherchauvin_