Change is constant but you know this.

And whether you chose it or it chose you: a breakup, a job loss, a move, a diagnosis, an empty nest. At some point you find yourself having to begin again. And beginning again, no matter how many times you've done it, requires you to go back to your fundamentals.

That's what this episode is about.

I've been in Miami for six weeks, way longer than I planned, and I've been thinking about this a lot. With clients. With my brother Dave. With myself. Because every single one of us, at some point, has to figure out what we actually need when the ground shifts. Not the dream. Not the five-year plan. The basics.

Are your essential needs being met? Do you have community? Are you leaning on what you already know how to do? Because you've done hard things before. You have more than you think. And that matters more than you know right now.

3 Things You'll Take Away

1. Return to Your Fundamentals: In times of change—chosen or forced—check in with your basics: Are your essential needs (health, community, stability) being met? What resources and experiences from your past can you bring forward to support you now
2. Be Willing to Begin Again: Transitions are part of life’s cycle. Remember, even if you haven’t faced this exact challenge before, you’ve weathered hard things before. Rely on your resilience and skills from other parts of your journey.
3. Intentionally Build Connection and Habits: Reaching out to new people, joining communities, or starting fresh routines may feel uncomfortable—but these small steps pave the way to bigger transformation and new opportunities.

⏰ Timestamps

(00:00) How I work with clients — readings, mentoring, and business consulting

(05:00) What happens when life forces you to begin again

(13:00) Getting back to the basics — what that actually means

(20:00) Making friends in Miami — and why it felt awkward

(22:00) Using intuition to connect with new people

(27:00) Embracing change even when you didn't choose it

(35:00) The fundamentals — shelter, health, food, community, faith

(40:00) Challenging yourself and leaning into discomfort

(43:00) Showing up for the people you love during big transitions

(48:00) Default settings — and how to change them on purpose

(58:00) Building habits that actually hold

(01:03:00) Pushing through when it's hard

(01:04:00) You already have everything you need to begin

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🔗 Connect with Robyn Ivy

🌿 Instagram – @robynivy

🧠 Website – www.robynivy.com

🎧 The Robyn Ivy Podcast – Listen on Apple | Spotify

💌 Email – robyn@robynivy.com

MORE ABOUT ROBYN IVY:

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living.

A trusted coach, intuitive and fierce advocate for tree portals and a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer, honing her powerful skills as a witness.

Host of the Robyn Ivy Podcast, where she discusses how to be more present to our lives and create what’s next with today’s prominent thought leaders, spiritual mentors and creative guides.

Robyn mentors clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth and meaningful change in a fun and inspiring way. Her workshops, groups and programs offer you insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively and from your truest wisdom.

You will often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now-grown sons, Rook and Cole, is her best work yet.

I needed to get my hair done.

That's how this episode started.

I'm still in Miami. I keep pushing my return date back, and honestly if you saw the weather here you'd understand and my roots were getting out of control. So I found a salon, I made an appointment, and what happened there turned into a story I've been telling everyone since.

When I shared a little of it on social media my DMs blew up. Questions about how my intuition works. Whether people can develop it. What mediumship actually is. What the difference is between hearing your intuition and hearing your fear.

So I figured — let me bring this here and answer all of it.

This episode is part story, part education, part things I've never shared publicly before. If you've ever had a feeling you couldn't explain, this one's for you.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. How to use your intuition for actual decisions. Not just big life moments. Any decision. Robyn shows you exactly how.
2. The difference between intuition and mediumship — and why it matters. Everyone has intuition. Mediumship is something else. Robyn draws the line so you know what's safe to explore on your own — and what isn't.
3. What happens when you stop hiding your gifts. Robyn kept this private for most of her life. This episode is the story of what changed when she finally said yes to sharing — and why it might be time for you to do the same.

⏰ Timestamps

(00:00) Still in Miami — and why I keep staying

(03:00) The hair salon story

(06:00) How I actually use intuition to make decisions

(09:00) Growing up intuitive — and why I kept it hidden

(14:00) My mom's intuition. My dad's channeling. What I inherited from both.

(20:00) Freshman year at Emory, baby chimpanzees and my first metaphysical teacher

(25:00) Learning to tell the difference between intuition, fear, guides, and angels

(28:00) Grandmother Esperanza and the 99 kinds of mediumship

(31:00) The story of Meghan and walking someone to the light

(45:00) What happened at the hair salon the full story

(01:05:00) Why mediumship is not something to try at home

(01:11:00) The dog, the babies, and what came through in the salon chair

(01:19:00) The visa story and how accurate intuition gets

(01:28:00) Spirit communication and family messages

(01:40:00) Spiritual protection and why it matters

(01:47:00) A message from my dad

(01:53:00) How I work with clients readings, coaching, and business consulting

(01:57:00) New — 3-month 1:1 containers, now available for the first time

✨ Want to work with me?

Book an Intuitive Clarity Session at robynivy.com/clarity

For 1:1 mentoring — now available in 3-month containers for the first time — email me at robyn@robynivy.com

Join me for Ask Me and My Intuition Anything — live, monthly. Next one is May 8th. Reach out for the link.

🔗 Connect with Robyn Ivy

🌿 Instagram – @robynivy

🧠 Website – www.robynivy.com

🎧 The Robyn Ivy Podcast – Listen on Apple | Spotify

💌 Email – robyn@robynivy.com

MORE ABOUT ROBYN IVY:

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living.

A trusted coach, intuitive and fierce advocate for tree portals and a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer, honing her powerful skills as a witness.

Host of the Robyn Ivy Podcast, where she discusses how to be more present to our lives and create what’s next with today’s prominent thought leaders, spiritual mentors and creative guides.

Robyn mentors clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth and meaningful change in a fun and inspiring way. Her workshops, groups and programs offer you insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively and from your truest wisdom.

You will often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now grown sons Rook and Cole is her best work yet.

Different jobs. Same boss. Different relationships. Same fight. Different year. Same stuck.

That's not bad luck. That's a pattern.

I've been in Miami with my brother Dave for almost a month and we have been deep in this conversation. Where our patterns come from. Why are they so hard to shake. And what it actually takes to change them.

I get personal in this one. My dad. My mom. My sister. My own stuff I'm working on right now. Because that's what this show is.

If you've ever wondered why you keep ending up in the same place — this one's for you.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. How to see the pattern you're in. You can't change what you can't see. This episode shows you how to find it.
2. Why you keep choosing the same thing even when you know better. There's a real reason. And it's not weakness.
3. What actually breaks a pattern. Not willpower. Real tools you can use starting today.

⏰ Timestamps

(00:00) Why patterns — and why now

(01:00) Dave, Miami, and what we've been working through

(05:00) The train that never goes to Boston

(10:00) Why mindfulness is where everything starts

(11:00) My dad and what I didn't know I inherited

(21:00) When your pattern becomes your identity

(37:00) Codependency, love, and the price we pay to stay

(40:00) Why familiar feels safer than free

(44:00) What actually breaks a pattern

(54:00) The Oreo at 11pm — and what it's really about

(56:00) The doom scrolling pattern we all know is hurting us

(01:11:00) What are you paying to stay right where you are?

(01:13:00) How intuition disrupts patterns you can't see from inside them

🔗 Connect with Robyn Ivy

🌿 Instagram – @robynivy

🧠 Website – www.robynivy.com

🎧 The Robyn Ivy Podcast – Listen on Apple | Spotify

💌 Email – robyn@robynivy.com

MORE ABOUT ROBYN IVY:

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living.

A trusted coach, intuitive and fierce advocate for tree portals and a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer, honing her powerful skills as a witness.

Host of the Robyn Ivy Podcast, where she discusses how to be more present to our lives and create what’s next with today’s prominent thought leaders, spiritual mentors and creative guides.

Robyn mentors clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth and meaningful change in a fun and inspiring way. Her workshops, groups and programs offer you insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively and from your truest wisdom.

You will often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now grown sons Rook and Cole is her best work yet.

Some conversations stay with you.

This is one I've been thinking about since the day we recorded it.

Kit Yoon has been one of my people since we were teenagers at a tiny boarding school outside of Boston. Now she's a Chinese medicine practitioner, hypnotherapist, and life coach who has spent over 20 years helping people get out of their own way.

What we get into in this episode: why the beliefs you formed before age 12 are still quietly making your decisions. Why effort is often the thing that blocks healing — not the thing that creates it. And why the answer to most of what's keeping you stuck isn't more information. It's already inside you.

If you've ever known exactly what you should do — and still couldn't do it — this one is for you.

3 Things You'll Take Away

Your beliefs are running the show. The box you built before age 12 is still making decisions for you. Seeing it clearly is how you start to change it.

You can't effort your way to healing. Real change isn't about pushing harder. It's about learning to receive what's already in you.

You have everything you need right now. Not a platitude — a practice. This conversation shows you what it actually looks like.

⏰ Timestamps

(00:00) Introducing Kit — and how we met

(10:00) Kit's background: from boarding school to Chinese medicine

(20:00) The mind-body-intuition intersection

(24:00) How childhood beliefs become the box we live in

(30:00) Why women are exhausted — and why self-care isn't the answer

(31:00) The "hallelujah holy hell" moment — waking up to what you're thinking

(33:00) Your mind is a 2-year-old with a Sharpie

(35:00) "I have everything I need right now" — and what that unlocks

(43:00) What it means to manage your mind on purpose

(53:00) How to stop outsourcing your worth to the outside world

(58:00) Ancient wisdom meets modern tools

About Kit Yoon

Kit Yoon is an acupuncturist, certified life coach, clinical hypnotist, and intuitive eating counselor with over 20 years of experience helping people get out of their own way.

Originally from Thailand, Kit was sent to boarding school in America at age 12 — and has spent her life learning what it means to feel at home in herself, no matter where she is. That journey is at the heart of everything she does.

She holds a Master's degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Five Branches University and is currently completing her Doctorate. Her practice weaves together ancient wisdom and modern evidence-based tools to help midlife women feel healthy, confident, and at ease in their own skin.

She calls it your Second Spring. And she'll convince you it's possible.

🔗 Connect with Kit Yoon

🌿 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/kityoon

🧠 Website – https://kityoon.com

📖 Second Spring Chronicle – https://kityoon.substack.com

About Robyn Ivy

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living. A trusted coach, intuitive, and fierce advocate for a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer — honing her powerful skills as a witness.

She mentors clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth, and meaningful change. Her workshops, groups, and programs give you the insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively, and from your truest wisdom.

You'll often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees, or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now-grown sons Rook and Cole is her best work yet.

🔗 Connect with Robyn

🌿 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/robynivy

🧠 Website – https://www.robynivy.com

🎧 Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com

🎧 Spotify – https://open.spotify.com

💌 Email – robyn@robynivy.com

You were born with intuition.

The question isn't whether you have it. It's whether you've learned to hear it — and whether you trust it when you do.

This week I'm going deep on one of my favorite topics. What intuition actually is, how it shows up differently for different people, and how to start working with yours in a real and practical way.

I also talk about where people get it wrong — including some things I wish more women knew before they go opening themselves up to just... anything. There's a difference between trusting your inner knowing and doing things you're not trained for. We talk about both.

This is the kind of work we go deep on inside Your Next Chapter. But this episode is a good place to start.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. How you personally receive intuition. Do you hear it, see it, feel it, or just know it? Understanding your own channel changes everything.
2. Where intuition is safe and where to be careful. Your inner knowing is always safe to trust. Opening yourself up to everything else is a different conversation.
3. How to practice it. When you're most receptive, what conditions help, and why effort is the one thing that will shut it down.

⏰ Timestamps

(00:00) Intuition, self-trust, and why this matters right now

(02:00) Your Next Chapter — starting April 14th

(06:00) Growing up intuitive — Robyn's earliest memories

(08:00) Where faith and intuition intersect (and why it gets tricky)

(11:00) The divine dialogue — prayer, contemplation, and the unseen

(15:00) Intuition as a natural sense — not a scary thing

(23:00) Clairaudience, clairvoyance, and the many ways we receive

(27:00) How to find your channel — where and when you're most receptive

(30:00) Why some places shut your intuition down

(32:00) When to be careful — and what "just opening up" actually means

(39:00) The protective side of intuitive work

(43:00) Where we start inside Your Next Chapter — low stakes, high trust

(46:00) You can't effort your way to intuition

(54:00) Why this skill matters especially right now

(56:00) Ask Me and My Intuition Anything — monthly live event

🔗 Connect with Robyn Ivy

🌿 Instagram – @robynivy

🧠 Website – www.robynivy.com

🎧 Listen on Apple – https://podcasts.apple.com

🎧 Listen on Spotify – https://open.spotify.com

💌 Email – robyn@robynivy.com

Join Your Next Chapter at robynivy.com/next

MORE ABOUT ROBYN IVY:

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living.

A trusted coach, intuitive and fierce advocate for tree portals and a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer, honing her powerful skills as a witness.

Host of the Robyn Ivy Podcast, where she discusses how to be more present to our lives and create what’s next with today’s prominent thought leaders, spiritual mentors and creative guides.

Robyn mentors clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth and meaningful change in a fun and inspiring way. Her workshops, groups and programs offer you insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively and from your truest wisdom.

You will often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now grown sons Rook and Cole is her best work yet.

We all have a version of this story.

Something happens. We get caught. We get embarrassed. And instead of owning it — we make it worse.

This week I'm recording from Miami with a true story that illustrates exactly that. It's funny. It's human. And it's a perfect example of what our saboteurs look like in real life — and what it costs us when we let them run the show.

I also get honest about my own version of this. A moment from the last few months where I let my saboteurs take the wheel — and what the real work of repair actually looked like after.

This is the kind of thing we go deep on inside Your Next Chapter. But today you get the real-life version, live from Miami, with all the mess included.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. What your saboteurs actually look like in action. Not in theory, in a real story, with real consequences. You'll recognize yourself in this one.
2. What repair really requires. It's more than an apology. It's a practice. And it's something you can learn.
3. Why doing this work matters beyond you. When our saboteurs run unchecked, other people pay the price. This episode makes that very clear.

⏰ Timestamps

(00:00) What this episode is really about

(04:00) Your Next Chapter the Immersion starting April 14th

(05:00) The dessert story

(10:30) When someone gets caught and what they do next

(17:00) My own version of this and the repair that followed

(21:00) The testosterone cream, the women's group, and a lot of humility

(28:00) Why we make it worse instead of better

(32:00) Don't make a mess you don't have the tools to clean up

(36:00) The story you're telling yourself vs. what's actually true

(43:00) Saboteurs at midlife & why the patterns are already baked in

(46:00) What love does vs. what fear does

(50:00) How I actually cleaned it up

(53:00) Holy Week, the medicine wheel, and the season of emerging

(55:00) Living like someone is watching because they are

(01:01:00) When you've hit the ground & what do you do next

🔗 Connect with Robyn Ivy

🌿 Instagram – @robynivy

🧠 Website – www.robynivy.com

🎧 Listen on Apple – https://podcasts.apple.com

🎧 Listen on Spotify – https://open.spotify.com

💌 Email – robyn@robynivy.com

MORE ABOUT ROBYN IVY:

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living.

A trusted coach, intuitive and fierce advocate for tree portals and a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer, honing her powerful skills as a witness.

Host of the Robyn Ivy Podcast, where she discusses how to be more present to our lives and create what’s next with today’s prominent thought leaders, spiritual mentors and creative guides.

Robyn mentors clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth and meaningful change in a fun and inspiring way. Her workshops, groups and programs offer you insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively and from your truest wisdom.

You will often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now grown sons Rook and Cole is her best work yet.

This week, I’m joined by Venita Maciel, a licensed mental health counselor and coach, the first and only clinician certified in EMBERS Menopause-Informed CBT in the US.

A Learning and Integration Facilitator at the Menopause CBT Clinic, and founder of The Empowered Mind she is here to demystify menopause for us and educate us on the journey from perimenopause to post menopause and everywhere in between.

We talk about the physical symptoms, but also the mental, emotional, and relational shifts that come with this phase of life and how often women are left trying to figure it out on their own.

Hear what’s happening to you hormonally, why so many women feel unsupported in traditional medical settings, and what it looks like to approach this season with better information, stronger advocacy, and real support.

This is a conversation about understanding what’s changing, taking yourself seriously, and having better tools to move through it.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. A clearer understanding of what’s happening in your body and mind
2. So you can make sense of the changes you’re experiencing and respond to them more effectively.
3. How to advocate for yourself and find the right support
4. What to track, what to ask, and how to identify providers who are actually informed. Ps. She’s giving us handouts!
5. Practical ways to support yourself through this transition
6. From lifestyle shifts to mindset and community, you’ll walk away with options that make a real difference.

⏰ Timestamps

(00:00) Women’s Midlife Mental Health

(11:03) Menopause Misconceptions and Frustration

(18:28) Breaking Stigma, Building Connections

(22:35) Menopause Awareness and Healthcare Gaps

(29:40) Hormones, Insurance, and Menopause

(32:27) Women’s Hormonal Health Education

(41:02) Workplace Challenges for Women

(42:15) Postmenopause: Health and Identity Challenges

(51:52) Finding Menopause-Informed Care

(56:12) HRT, Therapy, and Lifestyle Insights

(59:39) Hormonal Macros Trifecta Insights

(01:06:10) Stress, Memory, and Menopause

(01:10:45) Embrace Wisdom, Know Yourself

(01:15:25) Community, Intuition, and Support

(01:23:41) Health Essentials to Test For

(01:27:07) Normalizing Women’s Experiences

🔗 Connect with Robyn Ivy

🌿 Instagram – @robynivy

🧠 Website – www.robynivy.com

🎧 The Robyn Ivy Podcast – Listen on Apple | Spotify

💌 Email – robyn@robynivy.com

MORE ABOUT VENITA MACIEL:

Venita Maciel is a licensed mental health counselor and coach, the first and only U.S.-based clinician certified in EMBERS® Menopause-Informed CBT, a Learning and Integration Facilitator at the Menopause CBT Clinic®, and the founder of The Empowered Mind with Venita. Her work is centered on helping women navigate life transitions with compassion, clarity, and empowerment-especially during the often-overlooked stages of perimenopause and menopause.

Drawing from both professional training and lived experience, Venita uses a holistic and integrative approach that blends evidence-based modalities including CBT, ACT, mindfulness, and person-centered therapy. She supports women dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, identity shifts, and the emotional impact of hormonal changes, helping them build resilience and reconnect with their strengths.

Venita is deeply committed to normalizing conversations around midlife mental health and providing women with practical tools and psychoeducation so they can feel informed, empowered, and supported—not alone—during this transformative phase.

🌿 Instagram – @empoweredmindwithvenita

🧠 Website – https://www.empoweredmindwithvenita.com/

There’s something about this time of year that just feels more like the start of the New Year than January.

In this episode, I talk about the shift when winter starts to let go and spring sneaks in before you notice it. Never all at once. Just little things. Crocuses coming up one day to the next. More light. A different kind of energy.

And how that same thing happens in us.

We talk about change and the inklings of what’s next that call to us louder in the Spring. Whispers and ideas that start as a thought, or a feeling, or just a sense that something is ready to move… even if you can’t quite say what yet.

I share what I’ve been noticing in my own life, with my clients, and why this season can feel like a wiser time of year to begin again… or to at least emerge.

If you’ve been feeling a pull toward something, at a crossroads or feeling excited for more to be revealed, you’ll love this episode.

3 Things You’ll Take Away:

1. Where something is already shifting for you
2. Not what you should change. What’s actually changing.
3. How to stop overcomplicating the next step
4. You don’t need a full plan. You need to tell the truth about what you want and what you don’t.
5. A different way to start again
6. Nothing too dramatic. Definitely no perfect moves. Just a small, courageous step in the direction you’re already leaning or are about to.

⏰ Timestamps

(00:00) Spring Awakening and Intentions

(04:30) Your Next Chapter Program

(09:57) Noticing the Seasonal Shift

(11:31) Embracing Life’s Transitional Moments

(15:47) Spring Renewal and Commitment

(21:16) What Do You No Longer Want?

(22:37) Redefining Mornings and Self

(25:54) Embracing Change with Intention

(31:01) Intentional Living in a New Season

(33:08) Spring and Self-Reflection Practices

(37:16) Shifting Seasons of Life

(40:54) Embracing Aliveness and Renewal

(44:06) Your Next Chapter Program

(47:32) See You From Miami

🔗 Connect with Robyn Ivy

🌿 Instagram – @robynivy

🧠 Website – www.robynivy.com

🎧 The Robyn Ivy Podcast – Listen on Apple | Spotify

💌 Email – robyn@robynivy.com

MORE ABOUT ROBYN IVY:

Robyn Ivy sees people for a living.

A trusted coach, intuitive and fierce advocate for tree portals and a creative life, she spent over 20 years as a commercial photographer, honing her powerful skills as a witness.

Host of the Robyn Ivy Podcast, where she discusses how to be more present to our lives and create what’s next with today’s prominent thought leaders, spiritual mentors and creative guides.

Robyn mentors clients 1:1 through transitions, deep growth and meaningful change in a fun and inspiring way. Her workshops, groups and programs offer you insights and practices to live more confidently, creatively and from your truest wisdom.

You will often find her traveling in a camper van, sitting with the trees or capturing the beauty of nature. Raising her now grown sons Rook and Cole is her best work yet.