It's October, and the voice that grades your year is getting louder. In this episode, Catalina talks about the last three months of the year: why they can feel heavy, why comparison hits hardest in the fall, and why the end of the year is not a report card.

You'll get one honest story, one behavior science takeaway (action comes first, motivation follows), and one tiny step: pick one goal, shrink it until it feels silly, and do it for three days.

Tired tonight? Let showing up be enough.

"It's not a big deal." "Other people have it worse." "I should just be grateful." Sound familiar? This week I kept hearing people name a struggle and then take it back in the same breath. In this episode, we talk about why minimizing your problems feels like relief but keeps you stuck, why gratitude and struggle can exist at the same time, and one tiny step to give your feelings permission to exist: drop the "but."
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At the top of a volcano in Guatemala, my first instinct was to call my dad. He passed away in 2025.

I came back from an amazing trip, and a Rosalía concert that gave me chills, and I was exhausted. Mentally, physically, emotionally. In this episode I share the backstory: my dad's cancer, my own diagnosis while he was in remission, his cancer coming back, and losing him. For six, seven years, someone in my family was always sick.

As a behavior analyst, I talk about why grief doesn't follow stages but cues, and why the best moments can make the absence hit hardest.

Your tiny step: next time you reach for someone who isn't here, say it out loud.

You can be grateful, exhausted, and grieving all at once. I'm not figured out. I'm just still here. And so are you.