Sandy and I talk tragic optimism, joy as resistance, developing a brave inner voice, doubt and dark places, and loads more of what it means to be human today. Here's a bit more about my guest:

Sandy Travis Bildahl is a certified business and emotional intelligence coach, motivational speaker, and creator of a life-changing system of personal transformation that awakens insight, vision, and the passion of bravery to design your unique, inspired life. She’s also a best-selling author.

Sandy’s 30-year background as an entrepreneur has been driven by her passion for creating personalized solutions and guidance that inspire meaningful, satisfying joy and success. Brave strategies, overcoming fear, and awakening your inner hero are always her focus. She also designs workshops based on archetypes, symbols, and ideas that evoke insightful thinking and imaginative problem-solving. Through visioning, exploring, and integrating inner and outer experience, new empowered options take shape, old patterns shift, and desired outcomes become real.

Stories have propelled Sandy’s career from the start. Her award-winning work with Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) at the CBS Radio Network included interviews with hundreds of experts and personalities such as Jamie Lee Curtis, Buckminster Fuller, James Michener, Olivia DeHavilland, Debbie Reynolds, Russell Baker, Joe Namath, and many more. She enjoys investigating, understanding, and uncovering what matters most in the adventure of life which she shares in her coaching, personal development projects, podcasts, magazines, television, and more. Sandy currently lives in Annapolis, Maryland where she is also an artist. She loves the wonder of adventure, being scared, and living brave.

Bravery Becomes You: On the Road to Fearless and Free is available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B094GJG3LD

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In this deeply honest, soulful, and wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Tiffany McBride joins Natalie for a heart-centered exchange about liberation, voice reclamation, creative medicine, and what accountability really means—beyond contracts, obligations, or productivity culture. From humming as nervous system regulation to singing as soul activation, Tiffany reminds us that healing is personal, collective, and sacred.

Together, they unpack:

• How community is the medicine—and accountability is a sacred relationship
• What it means to be seen, supported, and safe in our full humanity
• The power of music and voice as healing tools
• Why duality matters: joy and grief, personal truth and collective trauma
• How sharing your story can become an act of service, even when it's scary

Tiffany also shares her upcoming transformational author journey in Ireland—a call to those ready to say yes to their intuition and write from the soul.

This conversation is joy. It’s medicine. It’s a call to come home to yourself.

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You know it’s going to be a good conversation when you press record late and the guest won't let you introduce her. Kansas Carradine does just that—taking the reins (literally and figuratively) as we dive headfirst into a rich exploration of emotional awareness, inner coherence, nonlinear growth, and what it means to live in deep relationship with ourselves and the world around us.

We talk about reclaiming our voice, dismantling belief systems, and standing for love in the face of complexity. Kansas shares powerful insights from her adventurous life with horses, her HeartMath practice, and her own spiritual journey—offering a grounded, wise, and refreshingly curious lens on personal transformation. There’s even a beautiful guided heart-focused breathing practice you won’t want to miss. In a world that often feels upside down, this is the kind of conversation that brings us back to center.

Funny enough, I never do get around to introducing my guest, The Circus Cowgirl. Kansas is an Equine-Guided Educator, a licensed HeartMath Certified Trainer, and an all-around phenomenal human. After 15 years performing with Cavalia as a trick rider, roper, roman rider, and horse trainer, she now travels the world helping humans reconnect with their potential and the living, breathing world around them.

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Ever been told you're too much? Too emotional, too intense, too deep? What if they were wrong?

Sue Bruckner just blew my mind in this conversation. She helps highly sensitive women navigating divorce reclaim their voices, break toxic patterns, and finally give themselves permission to feel it all—including the anger they were never allowed to express.

While the major transition of divorce is Sue's specialty, we’re ripping the lid off what it really means to be highly sensitive no matter the setting—why it’s not a diagnosis, not a weakness, and definitely not something to "fix."

Sensitivity is power, but most of us were never given the tools to wield it. Quite the opposite.

We go deep into reclaiming emotional safety, undoing years of conditioning, and stepping fully into the life you actually want.

If you’ve ever felt like the world wasn’t built for you—it's not. But that doesn’t mean you have to keep playing small. And if you subscribe to, "When I know better, I do better," like I do, you'll really appreciate the perspective Sue brings to the table.

🔥 Listen now. Shrinking is no longer the answer.

IMPORTANT SHOW NOTES!

• The Highly Sensitive Person, Dr. Elaine Aron
• Tribe Rising, Sue's community of highly-sensitive women
• With Intention Coaching, Sue's website
• suebruckner@withintentioncoaching.com, Sue's email address
• A link to Instagram, where Sue expresses her own messages to engage highly-sensitive humans

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On this unapologetically raw and fiery International Women’s Day episode, I sit down (live!) with the unstoppable Sarai Speer, aka The Platinum Giraffe. We throw out the scripts and get straight into what this day really means—beyond the Instagram posts and corporate shoutouts. From the ways women are still being told to “stay in their lane” to the times we decided to burn the lane down entirely, this conversation is a full-bodied call to action, wrapped in humor, truth, and a little bit of swearing. Because, honestly, what’s empowerment without a little edge?

Key Insights & Takeaways:

• The Myth of Gratitude as a Muzzle: Why “be humble, be grateful” is often code for “stay small”—and how we’re done with that.
• Women Supporting Women… But Are We? We dig into the ways women sometimes gatekeep power instead of sharing it and why true empowerment means lifting as we climb.
• Taking Up Space—And Not Apologizing for It: Sarai and I talk about moments when we had to step into our own power, despite the noise telling us to shrink.
• International Women’s Day Rewritten: If we got to rebrand the day, what would we call it? (Spoiler: It’s not for the faint of heart.)
• The One-Minute Mic Drop: If you had one minute to rally every woman on this planet, what would you say? Sarai’s answer? Pure fire.
• Justice—Not Just for the Few: We closed with a discussion about justice—who gets it, who doesn’t, and what it actually means when we say we want a just world. Because justice isn’t just a word; it’s a responsibility.

Thought Prompts:

• When was the last time you took up space unapologetically? What would it look like to do that today? No, it's not a holiday. It's YOUR day!
• Have you ever been told to “be grateful” in a way that felt more like a leash than a celebration? How did you respond?
• In what ways can we better show up for other women—especially when no one’s watching?
• What’s your personal rallying cry? If you had one minute to empower women everywhere, what would you say?
• What does justice mean to you? How do you contribute to making it real?

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Helen Harrison believes that pain holds the seeds of purpose, and she has spent 17 years guiding people through life’s highs and lows. In this episode of Think Out Loud With Me, she shares her personal journey from grief to growth, the lessons she learned about adoption, loss, and suicide, and the transformative power of joy -- all carefully woven together in her recently-released memoir, Inner Wealth: From Pain to Purpose. Through her coaching work and now the expanding circle of readers who are tapping into her lived experience, she helps others turn their own struggles into fuel for resilience and healing.

This was such an easy, fulfilling conversation! Dive in and listen as Helen joins me from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, to wonder with me on many topics:

🌿 From Pain to Power – How life’s deepest wounds can shape our greatest strength and mental health resilience.

💫 The Alchemy of Healing – Transmuting grief, loss, and trauma into wisdom, purpose, and a return home to Self.

🏡 Adoption, Identity & Belonging – Finding yourself when the roots of where you come from are tangled in questions.

🕊 Suicide, Silence & Speaking Truth – Breaking the silence around loss, mental health, and the weight of unspoken stories.

🔥 The Sacred Art of Laughter – Why joy isn’t just lighthearted—it’s a lifeline, a healer, and a revolution.

🛤 Coaching as a Compass – Helen’s guiding philosophy for navigating the wild terrain of self-discovery and healing.

🌎 Spirituality as an Anchor – Holding onto something bigger, grounding yourself in meaning when life feels unsteady.

Helen’s story is proof that even our darkest moments can shape our greatest impact. Tune in now! 🎙

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What if the smallest shifts could lead to the biggest transformations?

In this LIVE episode of Think Out Loud With Me, I sit down with Colleen Avis, bestselling author of the Sacred Spaces series, the 3rd volume of which hit Amazon yesterday and is a #1 BESTSELLER IN MULTIPLE CATEGORIES. When she's not leading such an impactful charge, she's an intuitive guide and space curator, and she's joined me to talk about how intentional environments shape our emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being.

Says Colleen early in our exchange, "I always say, if you have a mess under your bed, you probably have a mess in your mind. If your car is cluttered, chances are there’s clutter in your thoughts too. Our spaces—internal and external—are deeply intertwined. The power of a subtle shift is that whether you make it in your environment, your mindset, or your body, it ripples through everything."

🌀 How subtle, mindful shifts create profound change
🌀 The connection between our inner and outer spaces
🌀 Soul-level work: Big P-Purpose or little p-purpose
🌀 Why decluttering isn’t just about your home—it’s about your energy
🌀 Simple ways to create Sacred Spaces in daily life

And I open up about my own healing journey—specifically, the deeply personal work of reclaiming my womb space—which I share in a separate expert collaboration, Shaman Heart: We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For (Chapter 26!), that is set for release on Amazon in early March.

This episode is a must-listen if you're ready to shift your space, shift your energy, and shift your life.

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💥 What if your pain wasn’t the end of the story—but the beginning of something bigger? 💥

In this episode, I sit down with Leah Johnson. After 25 years in politics, she has leapt into a dream of living in Mexico with her family and fully embracing her calling as an artist and healer, she joins me to talk about the real, raw, no-BS side of transformation.

✨ We dive into:

✅ The hard truth: Healing isn’t about going back—it’s about evolving.

✅ One simple, game-changing tool you can use RIGHT NOW to reset your nervous system.

✅ The biggest lie about healing (spoiler: you’re NOT supposed to do this alone).

✅ How to turn your pain into a portal for personal growth.

✅ The one question that will shift your entire healing journey.

🎧 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a wake-up call. It’s for the seekers, the skeptics, the ones ready to step into their next chapter. Come think out loud with us.

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💬 Your turn: If you'd like to get in touch with Leah Johnson and talk about her services, her book, her journeys, and all of the other ways in which you can experience her magic, visit https://www.findingfantasticjoy.com/ and follow her on social media!

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