In the opening episode of Season 2, I share a story that arrived through the most unexpected of places — a handmade purse, a chance encounter, and a poem that will have a deeply profound impact on your life- should you choose to allow it...

The Purse: Skulls, Crows and the Call to Live Your Dash is a reflection on contrast and meaning — light and dark, beauty and fear, life and death — and how sometimes the things we resist most are the very things here to teach us.

What began as a simple moment at a local artisan market became a powerful reframe for how I see my own life, my past, and the choices I’m making now. Through skulls, crows, and a poem that feels like it could have been written from my own lived experience, this episode explores what it truly means to live intentionally.

At the heart of this episode is The Dash — that small line between the date we are born and the date we will someday leave this world. What we choose to put into that dash matters. The story it tells matters.

This episode is an invitation.
Not to become someone new — but to live more fully as who you already are.
To choose with intention.
To notice what you’re carrying.
And to ask yourself whether the life you’re building is dash-worthy.

Season 2 begins here.

Poem featured in this episode:
“The Dash” by Linda Ellis (1996)

Used for discussion and reflection purposes. All rights remain with the author.

Featured Artisan

Handmade purse featured in this episode by Sweet Seamz — a local artisan brand creating beautiful cork and cotton designs.

Until next time—keep rising, keep blooming, and keep soaking it all in.

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Season One Finale: The Bridge — Becoming the Vision

This final episode of Season One is an invitation to stand at the edge of who you’ve been… and take a step toward who you are becoming.

We explore the power of visualization, the images that shape our identity, and the inner bridge each of us must cross to meet our future self.
You’ll hear stories, science, guided reflection, and the behind-the-scenes evolution of this podcast — and of me.

This is the work of becoming:
One breath.
One image.
One step closer to the vision you hold within.

Thank you for walking this bridge with me.
Season Two awaits.

Until next time—keep rising, keep blooming, and keep soaking it all in.

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When we stop gripping who we were, we create space for who we’re becoming.
In this episode, I explore the spiritual symbolism of mirrors and broken glass, a powerful lesson on non-attachment from the Yamas & Niyamas, and three stories — from Ted Lasso, from my own life, and from a client — that remind us what happens when we finally learn to let go. Sometimes freedom is as simple as releasing the banana… and trusting the timing of the swing.

Until next time—keep rising, keep blooming, and keep soaking it all in.

If this episode spoke to you, please share it with someone who might need to hear it and it would be greatly appreciated if you would take a moment to write a review.
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