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If you can’t remember the last time you rested — really rested — this episode is for you. We live in a culture where doing is proof of worth.If you’re not producing, improving, or hustling, it feels like you’re falling behind. Rest has to be justified. We call it earned downtime. That’s the world Jess […]

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Career

How to Redesign Your Life Around the Lifestyle You Want

It started with a canceled contract — and a brand new couch. Rachel Kelly had just accepted her first full-time job after years of freelancing. She’d signed the offer, celebrated with champagne, and ordered a couch, ready to step into her new “grown-up” life. A week before the job began, she got the call: They’d […]

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Stress

The Courage to Start Before You’re Ready: Michelle “Mace” Curran on Fear, Failure, and Flying at 9Gs

Featuring: Michelle “Mace” Curran, former Thunderbird fighter pilot & author of The Flip Side The first time Michelle Curran blacked out in a fighter jet, she thought she might die. She was 25, just a few flights into her first deployment in Japan, trying to prove she belonged among the best pilots in the world. […]

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Finding Joy

When Success Isn’t Enough: Redefining Work, Worth and Joy

Let’s talk about what happens after you reach your goals. You build the business, write the books, hit the revenue numbers, and finally get the success you dreamed of. But then something unexpected happens — it stops feeling right. That’s where today’s guest, Meghan Telpner, found herself. She was the founder of the Academy of […]

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Mindset

Redefining Your Relationship With Money: How to Feel Free, Fulfilled, and “Enough”

Let’s talk about money — and not the way you think. We all have money stories. They shape our relationship with money, in good ways and bad. Maybe you grew up being told to save every penny. Maybe money felt scarce, or maybe it was something no one ever talked about. But what happens when […]

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Mindset

The Hidden Cost of Being the ‘Strong One’

If You’re Always the One Who’s “Fine”… This One’s for You You’re the dependable one. The one who remembers the birthdays, signs the school forms, runs the meeting, checks in on everyone else. Strong. Reliable. Capable. But also? Tired. Quietly overwhelmed. Maybe even a little resentful. And most of all — invisible. Because somewhere along […]

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Growth

You’re Not ‘Too Old’ to Start

How Midlife Can Be the Beginning, Not the End Rethinking What It Means to Grow Older Somewhere along the way, we were taught that getting older meant slowing down. Settling. Giving up on firsts, adventures, and new dreams. But what if that belief is holding us back from the most vibrant, powerful years of our […]

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Stress

Why We Really Procrastinate (And How to Finally Get Things Done)

I had one job. Just one. All I had to do was sign. It wasn’t complicated. It wasn’t time-consuming. And yet…I put it off. For months. It was my will—the thing that would make sure my family was taken care of if something ever happened to me. I knew how important it was. I knew […]

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Finding Joy

Reclaiming Time for Yourself (Without the Guilt)

When was the last time you did something just for yourself? Not because it’s productive, or because you had to, but because it brought you a little bit of joy. It’s easy to lose touch with that feeling. We get so caught up in life’s responsibilities that the idea of “me time” feels foreign—if not […]

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Mindset

Learning To Love Our Bodies

A Journey To Self-Love and Confidence I’ve stood, maybe like you, looking in the mirror, picking apart every flaw, every inch that society told me wasn’t good enough. But what if we saw in ourselves more than a waistline, more than our wrinkles, more than our scars?  What if we saw beauty in resilience, beauty […]

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I ran a thriving healthcare practice as a Naturopathic Doctor and Acupuncturist for over 20 years. I also earned my PhD and spent time in academic research and teaching positions. Now, I read scientific studies because I'm passionate about personal growth. I use the insights to help me, and our community, live our own XO life.

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