What's your story? Have you told it to anyone, and have you considered the impact it has on those who hear it?

Join Amanda and her guest, Jose Lugo, author, speaker, and founder of We Are All One Story as he shares his story of rising from the depths of childhood physical and emotional abuse, gang violence, jail, addiction and depression into recovery, redemption, and traveling the world to give voice to other brave storytellers: people who bare their souls with the intention of finding healing through connection.

Jose shares his deepest pain and his greatest healing in this riveting and inspiring episode and does so with incredible honesty, candidness, and vulnerability. Men, listen up...this one is for you!

Other topics they discuss include:

• The resiliency of the human spirit
• The commonalities Jose has found among every story he has heard
• Jose's book, Love, Faith, & Violence: A True Song and Story, a testament to the power of miracles
• How emotional pain can hurt more and do more damage than physical pain
• Jose's powerful spiritual awakening and reckoning after battling depression and addiction
• Normalizing the conversation about depression and other mental illness among men
• The power of shared story to lift people out of despair and into hope
• No matter how far down you go, your dreams are always waiting for you!

About Jose

Jose Lugo is the author of Love, Faith, & Violence: A True Song and Story, speaker, and founder of We Are All One Story, a heart-centered organization created to positively impact the world by focusing on human connection and well-being through the art of storytelling. Jose has dedicated his life to sharing his experiences and helping others own their life stories to live a better life.

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Has your family, society, or your own self put you in a box and created an identity that suddenly feels inauthentic? Are you awakening to a reality that your conditioning has defined who you are instead of you defining who you are?

Join Amanda and her guest Betsy Pepine, author of "Breaking Boxes: Dismantling the Metaphorical Boxes that Bind Us" for a deeper look into how people and the world around us have the power to shape us into who they think we should be with tactics like judgment and expectation. Break through your own box as you listen to this enlightening and empowering conversation between two women who have witnessed and broken down their own boxes on their journey toward true authenticity.

A few boxes and topics they explore include:

• The "Good Mom" box and how striving to appear like a good mom is actually doing a disservice to your child
• The "Good Daughter" box and the pressure parents place on their children to be what they want them to be instead of honoring and allowing them to be who they are
• The "Single Mom" box and the judgment that comes with being older and single
• Reasons why we stay in these boxes and how to break free from them
• Somatic therapies like EMDR, bioenergetics, and breathwork as a pathway to healing trauma
• Betsy's favorite word, "next," and how she uses that word to dismiss the notion of failure and keep moving forward when things don't go as planned

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About Betsy

Betsy Pepine is a serial entrepreneur in real estate. Her brokerage, Pepine Realty, has been named as an Inc. 5000 Fasting Growing Private Company in the USA multiple times and has earned spots on the Top 50 Florida Companies to Watch and Florida Trend Best Companies to Work For lists. The Wall Street Journal has consistently recognized Betsy’s real estate team as one of the top-producing real estate companies in the United States. Betsy also owns a title company, real estate school, and property management brokerage. She is endorsed by her mentor, real estate mogul, and Shark Tank shark Barbara Corcoran, as well as leading media personalities Dave Ramsey and Glenn Beck. Passionate about helping at-risk families with children, Betsy founded Pepine Gives, a non-profit foundation that helps families facing housing insecurity.

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Are you wondering if your partner may be a narcissist or has narcissistic tendencies? Have you tried to break away from a toxic relationship only to return again? Are you sick and tired of the merry-go-round that leaves you feeling guilty, shameful, and defeated? Then this episode is for you!

Join Amanda and her guest Bre Wolta, EFT and The Clearing Work™ Certified Practitioner and Relationship Clarity Coach as they discuss and explore the 4 stages common in all narcissistic relationships (not only romantic ones!): lovebombing, devaluing, discarding, and hoovering. Understand what it feels like to be in the whirlwind of each one and learn tools to free yourself from this vicious cycle.

Amanda and Bre also talk about:

• How and why women end up in these relationships: the root cause usually stemming from childhood
• Nervous system regulation through EFT Tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique): an energy tool to reset, recenter, and ground into the essence of who you are so you can feel safe in your body again
• Narcissistic relationships are a form of addiction
• How Bre works with women to help get them untangled from these toxic relationships

More about Bre

Bre is passionate about helping women heal from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so that they can find peace and move toward healthy, secure love. Her own toxic relationship healing journey, and her ability to hold safe space allows her to walk alongside clients as they find clarity, confidence and trust within themselves. It is her life's work, and deep honor, to help women wake up to their life and consciously move outside of their default patterning, so that they can reconnect to and nurture the most important relationship of all: the one they have with themselves.

Learn more about Bre's work here: https://www.brewolta.com/

Bre's freebie "3 Ways to Recognize Love Bombing So You Don't Fall Into it Again" can be accessed here: https://www.brewolta.com/lovebombing

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Jennifer Norman, founder of The Human Beauty Movement, joins Amanda for a bright and beautiful conversation about inner beauty, resilience after loss, and finding oneself through radical self-love, self-awareness, and self-acceptance. Jennifer tells her story of being an Asian child adopted into a white family and feeling like she never fit in growing up. She also speaks about the challenges of being divorced twice and raising a child with severe disabilities on her own. However, Jennifer chooses not to dwell on the depression she felt in those darks days but uses her pain as motivation to be the best version of herself every single day. She tells us how she does it in this captivating and uplifting episode.

A few topics Amanda and Jennifer delve into include:

• The difference between self-love and self-acceptance.
• The body positivity movement and how you are loved just for being you, yet there is always room for growth into a healthier version of yourself.
• How to achieve mental health and mental WELLTH!
• The balance of showing up as your authentic self while living in harmony with others.
• Why narcissistic and codependent people attract each other and how to break the cycle.

The Human Beauty Movement is a Certified B Corp that promotes diversity, inclusivity, and mind-body-soul well-being through its products, media content, and unique wellness programs. Jennifer is also the founder of Humanist Beauty, a clean skincare & conscious lifestyle brand. An award-winning author of SuperCaptainBraveMan children’s books, podcast host, philanthropist, and disability advocate.

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Her skincare line can be found here and children's books here.

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How do you deal with loss and grief in sobriety? Who and what do you turn to while navigating some of life's toughest challenges? And how do secondary mental illnesses play a part in a person's ability to stay sober for the long haul?

Join Amanda and her guest Corey Hennings, host of The Sober By Design Podcast, to hear Corey's personal experience with staying sober through the loss of his mother and brother, two profound deaths that occurred within three years. Learn the tools Corey used (and still uses) to not only stay sober, but to increase his overall mental health and emotional well-being in good times and bad. A good example of two people who practice different methods of recovery yet find common ground to meet on, this diplomatic conversation drives home the immense value and benefit of life in sobriety regardless of one's individual path.

Key points they touch on include:

• Removing alcohol is the first step to figuring out the emotional turmoil that is going on underneath the addiction.
• Addiction is a mental illness classified in the DSM-5 and when coupled with another mental illness such as bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety, staying sober can be exponentially challenging.
• How connecting with other alcoholics was the foundation of Corey's recovery program in the early days of his sobriety.
• The challenge of watching a loved one progress in their illness and feeling powerless to help them.
• The importance of music and how it can be like a time machine, transporting you back to indelible memories and moments in life. (Listen for Corey and Amanda's picks that remind them of their loved ones!)

Corey Hennings dedicates his show, The Sober by Design Podcast, to helping others live a full life in recovery. A certified recovery coach, Corey works in a local organization helping folks find resources to better their lives and find their own path in recovery.

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Returning to the roots of the show, Amanda (in her first solo episode) discusses the dire need for connection right now and provides great tools and tips for sidestepping the emotional booby traps many of us find ourselves in while dealing with our own heightened emotions as well as the heightened emotions of others surrounding the current political climate.

Some of the important points she addresses include:

• The danger of Common Enemy Effect: The psychological phenomenon when people bond over a shared opponent or issue even if they have nothing else in common, producing a false sense of connection.
• A new take on WE the people and how we will only find peace by working together.
• The necessity to take accountability for how we are each individually contributing to the problem with self-centered perceptions and divisive behaviors.
• How crucial it is for leaders and healers to not check out but to take a break when needed.
• The effects of being constantly triggered with visuals of violence that are commonplace now but were not in the past.
• Emotional immaturity and a lack of empathy are two root causes of the division.
• Addictive chemicals are released when we feel "right" and breaking this addiction will require immense amounts of commitment and discipline.
• The political division we are experiencing is a facade of the much larger issue of human survival, and how our energy holds the power to deliver us to harmony.
• How to apply the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to heal the division.
• Four great phrases to use when you do not want to engage in a contentious conversation.
• A beautiful mantra to immediately shift the focus from blaming someone to addressing what needs to be changed within you.

Please share this with someone you think may need it. (Which is all of us!)

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Have you been on a healing journey for a while and still feel like something is missing? Are you still struggling after years of working on yourself? Perhaps it's because you've been treating only one part of the problem instead of all the parts.

Join Amanda and Hope Pedraza, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Reiki Practitioner, Human Design guide, NLP Practitioner and Hypnotherapist for a fascinating conversation where they uncover the secret to experience whole healing: treating all parts of you—body, mind, and spirit—simultaneously with energy healing, rewiring neural pathways, and nutrition. They also spend a significant amount of time talking about hormones and your innate power to balance them.

Other key points to listen for include:

• What presents on the surface (overweight, depressed, tired) are symptoms of the root cause. You will never truly heal until you address the root cause.
• 5 things to limit in your diet to reduce inflammation.
• The concept of cycle-syncing—knowing which phase of your menstrual cycle you are in and living in accordance with your natural cadence to maximize productivity and creativity.
• Hormone imbalance happens when we are pushing ourselves to do things the body is not aligned with. This creates stress. Cortisol is released, adrenals become overworked, and hormones become unbalanced.
• Listening to your body and honoring what it needs at certain times of the month is the first step to balancing hormones.
• The minerals you need in your food and supplements to support a healthy body.
• Where to get protein if you are interested in a vegetarian or vegan diet.
• What Human Design is and how to utilize it to break subconscious patterns and optimize your life-force energy.
• The importance of rewiring and regulating the nervous system to allow for a new pattern in thinking.

Hope Pedraza is also the founder of inBalance, a Pilates based fitness franchise and the host of the Hopeful and Wholesome podcast. She helps female entrepreneurs and leaders heal chronic symptoms, optimizing their energy and wellness with functional labs, Human Design, subconscious reprogramming and energetics so they can thrive and create more impact in their business and in life.

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How do you keep an open heart after heartbreak, grief, trauma, and other painful experiences knowing that more pain is on the way? How do we love others fully and completely and lay bare the most vulnerable parts of ourselves knowing that loss is inevitable?

Ginny and Amanda divulge their own difficulty with this topic, especially Amanda, calling it the "bane of her existence!" The ladies talk openly and candidly about their own experiences with shutting down after traumatic loss and provide excellent tools for you to practice while moving through your own fear of future loss.

Other conversation includes:

• Connection is the cure for grief, addiction, and other difficult trials of life.
• Brene Brown's concept "foreboding joy," the definition of it and what happens when we do not allow ourselves to feel joy because we are in fear it will end.
• Fear of loss is rooted in childhood through emotional abandonment, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to never feel that again.
• Even though abandonment is something many of us are afraid of, we push people away due to an inability to be emotionally intimate with others (a protection method we used in childhood to keep us safe).
• It's selfish to keep ourselves in this fear, thereby, inhibiting true connection and love with those who love us.
• The solution is meeting, knowing, and loving ourselves unconditionally through connecting with source energy (God, Spirit, Universe) so we know deep in our heart we are never truly alone.
• Limiting our dreams and wishes by throwing up roadblocks and other self-sabotaging behaviors because we are afraid of rejection (aka loss).
• Breathwork to calm and reset the nervous system as a pathway to reducing stress accompanied by fear of loss.

Related links

Breathwork 1

Breathwork 2

Rats & Connection Study

RFK Recovering America: A Film About Healing Our Addiction Crisis

Johann Hari Ted Talk About Connection

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