shift happens | personal growth, self-reflection, and stories that shift your perspective
life handed me stories i never expected… like discovering family secrets, surprise relatives, becoming a mom before i was ready, enough therapy to fill a book, and carrying grief that quietly shaped who i am. and if i learned one thing through it all, it’s this: change is inevitable, but growth is a choice. stories matter. yours. mine. the messy, hidden, uncomfortable parts people don’t say out loud? i care about those. empathy, reflection, and honest conversations are my thing. shift happens is your safe space for candid conversations and honest reflections that push you to own your story, face the hard truths, and keep moving forward (together). because at the end of the day, the question isn’t “why did it happen”... it’s “what are you gonna do about it?”
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we talk a lot about starting over. we don’t talk enough about stopping when it’s time. this episode is about listening to that quiet voice that says, “this chapter is complete” (and having the courage to respect it). sometimes the hardest shifts aren’t about starting something new... they’re about knowing when you’re done. that’s what this episo...
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on paper, she was winning; vice president before 30, praise, promotions, the whole thing. but underneath it all was the quiet realization that the life she was climbing toward wasn’t the one she actually wanted. in this episode, we talk about the “career ache,” choosing possibility over fear, and what it really means to define success for yourse...
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menopause is not just hot flashes and the end of the road. in this episode, i sit down with kelly hill to talk about what happens when menopause and entrepreneurship collide in ways no one prepares women for. what looked like burnout turned into brain fog, pain, and exhaustion that cost her a 23-year career and fo...
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this one feels like you’re listening in on two women at a kitchen table just telling the truth. sara walks in with this calm, almost “yeah, it happened, let’s talk about it” energy and somehow that makes her story hit even harder.
sara walks us through the floods that wiped out her home, her routines, and the life she thought she wanted and how t...
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we’re getting painfully honest about what it actually costs you when you avoid doing the work... emotionally, mentally, financially, physically, and generationally. i’m breaking down the patterns we stay stuck in, the relationships we sabotage, the peace we lose, and the versions of ourselves we never meet when we refuse to look inward. this isn...
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if you’re sitting in silence right now scared to speak up because you think it’ll cost you too much… this is your sign. your wounds don’t get the last word. your scars do. and it’s time you let them. judy shares the moment she stopped performing, stopped shrinking, and finally told the truth she’d been carrying for decades... in her book, in her...
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this week, the shift is in rest. take it as your sign to stop pushing for a sec.🤍
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kat did the checklist: therapy, meds, emdr, dbt, even a partial hospitalization program. the more she tried to “heal,” the more she lost herself. a complex ptsd diagnosis reframed the past… but the real pivot came when a night of absolute skepticism cracked her wide open. atheist to “i know god, because god is unconditional love.” synchronicitie...
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self-awareness, accountability, emotional maturity... let’s be real, most of us talk about growth more than we live it. in this episode, i pull no punches about what your “growth era” really requires: honesty, discipline, and the willingness to outgrow who benefits from your chaos. because knowing better isn’t the same as doing better. and if yo...
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this halloween, it’s not ghosts you’re running from... it’s you. the habits that haunt you, the masks you wear, the comfort you confuse for peace. maybe you’re not stuck. maybe you’ve just been haunting yourself. the real horror story isn’t in the dark. it’s in the mirror. 👻
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during lockdown, heatherleigh strom found herself face to face with a moment that cracked her whole reality open and pulled her straight into a spiritual awakening she never saw coming. in this convo, we talk about healing that doesn’t take years, trusting what you can’t explain, and the dogs that showed up as her literal spirit guides. it’s wil...
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some stories never get the chance to be told and that’s what this episode is about.
in 2019, i lost someone who was like family to domestic violence. i was in my senior year of college, and it changed the way i saw everything... silence, safety, grief, and storytelling. this one’s not about headlines or hashtags. it’s about what happens when some...
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in this episode i sit down with mickie murphy - the sole survivor of a devastating crash that left her hospitalized for five months and cost her part of her leg. but mickie didn’t let tragedy define her. instead, she leaned into faith, community, and mindset to not only heal but to rise stronger than ever.
we talk about how she returned to work w...
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resilience isn’t just a mindset... it’s science. in this conversation, jessica breaks down what neuroplasticity really means in real life: rewiring your brain after trauma, shifting your habits, and bouncing forward (not back). we talk about the mind-body connection, mental health, and what it looks like to model resilience for your kids in a wo...
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this one’s not polished. not planned. just truth. i hit record with zero notes and all heart because before shift happens became what it is now, there was failure, frustration, and a whole lot of “wtf am i even doing?”
in this episode, i’m taking you back to where it all started... the year i failed at podcasting, ...
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what happens when the life you’ve built is just a mask for the pain you’re hiding? in this raw, no-bs conversation, i sit down with yvette—author of booze, blow & pancakes—to talk about living three different lives at once: fitness instructor by day, sales rep by night, and a secret life of stripping, addiction, ...
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