Dr. Kari Lindegren is a physical therapist, educator, and swimmer who has spent her career working with youth athletes — specifically adolescent girls navigating pelvic health concerns. In this episode, she and Julie trace the through-line from Kari's childhood as the quiet, high-achieving "perfect student" who came fully alive only at the pool, through a series of cross-country moves, a job that was quietly breaking her, and the moment she walked into a children's hospital interview and said out loud: I just need to be here.

What unfolds is a conversation about safety, belonging, and the cost of ignoring what your body already knows. Kari and Julie go deep on what pediatric medicine gets right about the whole human — and what adult medicine keeps missing — and how that shapes not just how Kari treats patients, but how she's learning to parent, let go of control, and step into the next chapter of her career: leaving one-on-one clinical work behind to educate other clinicians and multiply her impact.

05:24 — The kid at the pool: growing up as the perfect student
13:02 — Moving across the country when you hate change
26:51 — The job that was quietly breaking her
36:05 — What pediatrics gets right that adult medicine doesn't
50:44 — Motherhood, control, and learning to let go
57:36 — Stepping into education and what comes next

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Charmaine Horn spent eight years as a psychiatric inpatient nurse before she did something a lot of us have done — Googled her way out of a spiral and accidentally found her life's work. What followed was a series of full-commitment pivots: personal trainer, certified life coach, weight loss coach, Qigong teacher, somatic coach, nervous system educator. Each one felt right until it didn't. Each one left her with something she didn't know she'd need later.

In this conversation, Charmaine and Julie trace the through-line of a story that will feel uncomfortably familiar to a lot of women in healthcare and high-achieving careers — the dread that builds slowly, the body screaming what the brain won't say, the belief that one more career change will finally fix the feeling. And the moment you realize the medicine you keep trying to give everyone else is actually the medicine you need most.

This one is funny, honest, and moves fast. Don't miss it.

07:12 — From psychiatric nurse to "not this": the dread nobody talks about

19:30 — The Google search that changed everything

25:38 — Leaving nursing during a pandemic (and what the universe had to say about it)

33:50 — When the pivot you were so sure about stops fitting

37:22 — Finding Qigong: from knee injury to the thing that changed everything

43:44 — Coming full circle: why none of it was wasted

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You're in the middle of something — a career pivot, a business transition, a relationship shift — and someone asks a perfectly innocent question like "How's life?" or "How's work going?" Your throat clenches. You either say too much or nothing at all, and walk away feeling like you lied either way.

This solo episode introduces one of Julie's most-used client frameworks: Truth Lasagna. Rooted in her grandmother's wisdom — you can't tell everything you know — Truth Lasagna is a practical, body-based way to navigate the messy middle without oversharing, shutting down, or betraying yourself in the process. The framework is simple: your truth has layers, like lasagna. Your deepest, rawest, most unprocessed truth belongs to very few people. The middle layer is real and honest, but considered. The outer layer is brief, diplomatic, and true — it's just not everything. Choosing the right layer for the right person isn't hiding. It's discernment.

Julie unpacks why high-achieving, empathetic women are especially prone to the all-or-nothing truth trap, how the fawn response quietly masquerades as dishonesty, and why ethically nondisclosing or withholding isn't the same as hiding parts of yourself or lying. You'll also learn about Truth Buckets — how to pre-sort who gets which layer of your truth, so you can stay connected to people without flooding the room or going silent.

If you've ever avoided a networking event, a coffee date, or a family dinner because you didn't have a clean answer to a loaded question — or you've ever overexplained until you regretted it — or you've walked away from a conversation quietly wondering if you could have shared something better — this episode is for you.

06:09 — Truth Lasagna: The Framework Your Grandmother Already Knew

08:41 — The Wobbly Middle: Why Identity and Belonging Make This So Hard

10:55 — The Fawn Response and What It's Actually Trying to Do

18:23 — Oversharing Isn't Honesty — It's a Stress Response in Disguise

30:15 — The Three Layers: Who Actually Gets Your Deepest Truth

36:51 — Truth Buckets: Pre-Sorting People So You're Not Frozen in the Moment

42:38 — How to Practice This When It Feels Messy and Imperfect

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