Figuring Sh!t Out
Figuring Sh!t Out is a self-discovery and personal-growth podcast hosted by Vanessa Fontana, recorded from her bedroom in New York City. It offers a space for listeners seeking purpose, healing, and direction while navigating life's grey areas and uncertainty. Episodes explore coming of age, breaking generational cycles, chasing elusive dreams, and embracing the ongoing process of becoming yourself. Rather than promising answers, the show encourages listeners to accept that they may never fully figure things out and to enjoy the unfolding journey. New episodes arrive every Sunday.
Episodes
137. the God i wasn't looking for
plot twist: jesus.—For meditations, workshops, conversations about God, & creative awakening tools join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice, and express what's inside of you in community. learn more & hear what members are saying: METAMORPHOSISinside you'll have access to:Journey's like the 1
136. im changing and i'm terrified of what it might cost me, wbu?
This episode is a confession, an homage to honesty, a bid of vulnerability on a deeply personal shift happening in my life that I've let through a couple of episodes but I haven't unearthed fully because -Well,I've been believing lies that have kept me scared and stuck.Yes, even (ESPECIALLY) Miss.FiguringSh!tOutYapsALotPodcastHost has fear and doubt that chokes her up.In this episode,
135. you DON'T actually have to show up perfectly to show up at all: A Revelation!
and how much of ourselves have we lost deciding that how we are, as we are, is not enough? how much of our very nature has been stripped away, chipped away, from the gnawing need to be complete? complete by what measure, by what degree? by whose decree? where did we learn that if it wasn’t done perfectly, then it shouldn’t be done at all? that 0% until we can miraculously have 100% is better than
134. SELF DISCIPLINE? for FREEDOM??? unfortunately yes.
The difference between your strongest desire and your deepest desire might just be what you're not seeing.----Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice, and express what's inside of you - in COMMUNITY.HEAR WHAT MEMBERS ARE SAYING ABOUT METAMORPHOSISInside you'll have access to:Journey's
133. One! Step! At! A! Mf! TIME!!! slow DOWN.
for anyone who feels like they're behind:a path is formed by walkinga path is formed by walkinga pathis formedbywalking.--Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice, and express what's inside of you - in COMMUNITY.HEAR WHAT MEMBERS ARE SAYING ABOUT METAMORPHOSISInside you'll have access to:J
132. Creating Without Validation? Horrifying. Necessary. Life-Changing.
"If no one sees your art, it is still revolution. You freed yourself, did you not?" - Jayla John In this episode, we talk about how creativity could heal you - if you just let it. And how to let it. And if you need a little more help, --Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice, and express wha
131. Being SEEN? Perceived???? OH! The Terror! (how to get tf over it)
let your tenderness speak, let it lead you into darkness, and let your darkness lead you into light.--Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice, and express what's inside of you - in COMMUNITY.HEAR WHAT MEMBERS ARE SAYING ABOUT METAMORPHOSISInside you'll have access to:Journey's like the 10
130. Waiting. Yearning. Chasing. You're MISSING The Point™
My darling, I have news for you. You are here to feel safe enough, trusting enough - to pause, land, and unravel your very existence at the feet of something loving.And if you are, (like too many of us are) living a frantic, disordered life, one that feels like you’re chasing a plot that never comes - If you are clogging your heart with unwarranted worries - If you are unknowingly caught in the ha
129. Your Self-Doubt Is None of Your Business
How to hear the call of your divine assignment & listening to your Sacred Marching Orders - beyond what the inner critic has to say.-Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice, and express what's inside of you - in COMMUNITY.HEAR WHAT MEMBERS ARE SAYING ABOUT METAMORPHOSISInside you'll have
128. This is What Happens When You Face Your Fears & Follow Your Dreams
This episode is your reminder that there is a future version of you who is thanking you deeply for doing it scared.This episode is proof that the first step is always the courage to admit.This episode is proof that you WILL figure it out, even if you have no f*cking clue how.How do I know?Three years ago, I started this show in my bedroom while working full time in Corporate America.Two years ago,
127. Give it UP: Receiving Freedom From Doubt, Worry, & Fear
"I believe that your highest path lives in the hands of a greater knowing. And the cure to all of your anxieties lies in that subtle desire to reach for these hands when you know you need them most. But what if I told you - that you actually need them all the time? And that they’ve been silently guiding your steps - here, in this moment, to receive these words, so that you can see that you are
126. Your Ideas are BLESSINGS: The Divine Unraveling Inside of the Creative Process
This episode is being posted live from a jungle in Costa Rica two days after hosting my first retreat. 15 women expressing their most true selves, accessing their inner child, creating art from the depths of their hearts - all because I had an idea for a podcast almost three years ago and decided to act on it.If that's not evidence that your ideas are blessings that must be honored, respected,
125. Everything You Want Is On the Other Side of Your Creativity
Creativity & self-expression is how you heal.This episode is about excavating your creativity - using your life and experiences as a devoted practice to the creative process and your art as an offering and symbol of your resilience.And on the other side - a powerful, potent, peaceful you emerges.-Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help
124. The Gift of Enduring
Who told us that we were not supposed to hurt - when to feel is our greatest gift? Who told us that we could have ease - without a little grit?This episode takes you on a journey discussing The Purification Process of the Dark Night of the Soul & the GIFT of enduring the transformation within it.(Spoiler: You Can Do Hard Things & in fact, you were made to.)After all, the darkest hour is ri
123. The Veil is Dropping: God is Real
Honest admittance: I'm a little scared to publish this episode.But what would Figuring Sh!t Out be if it wasn't a testament to overcoming fear, time and time again, by getting as deeply honest as possible and sharing truths from this raw and reflective place?This is Figuring Sh!t Out - in real time.This episode is an existential conversation about God, Existence, and using our critical thi
122. Stop Sleeping On Yourself + Wake UPPP To Your Potential!!
There's your potential - and then there's the power that you DECIDE to have to embody it.And it is a decision.One you must make every day.This episode is a short tough-love transmission reminding you of your limitlessness, your inevitability, the power of your deepest truth when it is aligned in the actions of your highest path, and serves as a first-step to what you know you're ready
121. Befriending Uncertainty inside of This Great Cosmic Unfolding we call LIFE
here are my fieldnotes from learning to fall in love with uncertainty again and again and again instead of resist and fear it:the point of life is not to figure sh!t out - and sometimes we have to get so lost in the figuring sh!t out that we have a great big wake up call that reminds us of thatwherever you go, there you arelife is continuing education. we are here to learn. to have fun. to enjoy.
120. Meeting the Inner Elder: The Gift of Aging
A conversation about girlhood and growing older, embracing the vessel and the life of the body, and embodying the wisdom of life through the preciousness of it's fragility.With my dearest friend, Phia.May this episode allow you to see life through the eyes of your inner elder.----Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through
119. You Were Meant to Love and You Were Made to Feel
to remain tender is a gift.this episode is an exploration of everything i've learned about love.put simply:"we have all known the bliss of sunshine hitting our skin on a cold day, and we have all belly laughed until our breaths disappeared, and we have all come home chewed up by the world and sunken deep into a familiar withering, and we are all either healing from something or learning ho
118. Actually, Life is Beautiful and You DO Have Time.
If the devil can't get to you, he will make you rush."We think our limits live in the dreams we don’t chase, in the tasks we put off, in the emotions that we avoid - but they’re most alive in all of the small ways we deny our right to enjoy life.In the ferocious hurry between movements, in the relentless devotion to our False God of Control that promises certainty we never actually find.We
117. And Suddenly, Your Dreams Start Chasing YOU
"I learned how to reach for my dreams with a shaky hand. And time and time again, I’ve seen that once they are in my palms - it makes no difference if I really believe they should be there or not. Because here they are. In my hands. I cannot drop them. I have claimed them. They are a gift and yet - they have always been mine."- an excerpt from my most recent essay "Dreams" (which I
116. Every Part of You Deserves to be Loved: Letting The Shadows Free
We won’t ever say it aloud - but most of us hold an ideal of perfection inside of our self-development routines.And after spending enough time nipping and tucking away pieces of ourselves that we don't like in an effort to curate the most acceptable, palatable, "perfect" version of us - what many of us will find is this:We are only as whole as we are able to accept the parts of us that
115. You Contain Multitudes
"We are mosaics. Pieces of light, love, history, stars. Glued together with magic and music and words." - Anna KritzenThere’s a quiet grief that lives inside a lot of people.Because we’ve learned how to contain ourselves.Creativity was once somewhere we all went to feel alive, and became something we use to prove who we are. We learn to identify with a medium, a label, an aesthetic, a vers
114. The Great, Grand Lock-In
This episode is not what you think it is. It is not a hustle-forward, all-gas-no-breaks charge to a new year. But it is also not a total rejection of the new year.It is a subtle and soft invitation into moving forward with reflection, ritual, and intention. Through redefining and examining our relationship with "locking in," or what we turn out focus towards, we can refine our communion wi
113. Let The Soft Animal of Your Body Love What it Loves
"Allow shame to find no home in your posture, in your dances, in your aura, in your lovemaking sounds, in your dreaming spaces, in your every single desire," - India Ame'yeThis episode is an exploration of releasing shame, guilt, and fear from our bodies and rekindling our inner magic.Through poetry, storytelling, and recommended practices of somatic wisdom and inner reflection, this e
112. You Are Allowed to Hibernate, Too: Learning how to Rest In a World That Never Stops
Growing wiser into the ancient knowledge of our spirit and the animalistic nature of our humanity demands the realization that many things our society looks at as luxuries are actually necessities. One of them: rest.As a society, we have a complicated relationship with rest. An anxious-avoidant one where we long for it, but don't want to get too comfortable in it. We crave it, yet we fear lean
111. A Pathway to Alignment
a reminder that it's as easy as a deep breathand seeing that it has always been okay.xIf you love FSO & this episode, leave a comment!! Tell me what resonated, share what you want to hear next <3Rate the podcast on your preferred streaming platform!!xWant more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice
110. Your Gift Was Never Meant to Look Like Theirs
This episode is about remembering that your purpose was never meant to look like anyone else’s - and releasing the comparison that’s been convincing you you’re behind.I believe that we all have a gift. I believe that we all have a purpose. I believe that it is buried within the places we don’t want to look. It is entangled in the masterpieces of destruction, it is the diamond in the roughest momen
109. One Year Later: Leaving Corporate to Build a Creative Business
Saying yes to yourself is an unraveling process of becoming closer and closer to the gift of uncertainty and confronting the fear that holds you hostage in order to receive it.In this episode, I share reflections of my journey in the last year saying the biggest, boldest yes I ever have: leaving my 9-5 last year to pursue building a business out of this podcast full time.This episode was recorded
108. The Good Idea Fairy, Synchronicity, & Following the Breadcrumbs
you can’t create a life you love while starving the part of you that was born to create it.chapter three of The Perfectionist Diaries is an ode to the Good Idea Fairy - this childlike, intuitive, enchanted part of you that I created to represent the little voice that drops breadcrumbs, whispers nudges, and hands you ideas that could change your entire life (if you'd just listen!!)this episode
107. Fire, Flow, & Imperfect Creation: Make it Exist, THEN Make it Good. (The Perfectionist Diaries, Chapter Two)
Creation requires both the fire and the flow.In Chapter Two of The Perfectionist Diaries, we explore the cosmic dance between masculine and feminine energy: the part of you that initiates, and the part of you that softens and refines.This episode is a gentle excavation of the shadows beneath perfectionism: the fear of being perceived, the fear of shining too brightly, the ways we reject our own wh
106. Do it Scared - The Perfectionist Diaries, Chapter One
Courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to act despite it. Waiting until you're fearless will keep you stuck in perfectionism forever. And fear cannot live in a moving body. So, Move. -The Perfectionist Diaries is a mini-series on Figuring Sh!t Out about breaking free from habitual perfectionism and learning to create through fear.This first chapter explores divine timing, creat
105. Don't Hope - DECIDE: Awakening your Inner Power with Choice
Decision is the bridge between your current reality and your highest potential. It is the pathway from survival to creation, from fear to embodiment, and from wishing to CHOOSING. Because maybe you're not stuck - maybe you're just.. undecided. And maybe, without realizing it, your lack of decision has already become one: the choice to stay disconnected, half-alive, half-in.This episode is
104. The Seriousness of Being UNSERIOUS: Why Joy is Imperative, Not Naive.
I don't know about you - but cynicism has never brought me more life. Judgement towards myself or others has never given me more purpose. Feeding resistance and resentment has never watered the seeds of my growth.Contrary to popular belief - joy is not naive. It is imperative. And this radical, yet simple decision to take the unserious seriously is what enables us to let go a little deeper int
103. The Safety to be SEEN: Finding Your People When You're Finding Yourself
This week, we explore the tender space between solitude and connection, moving deeper into the theme of unapologetic self-expression (especially for those of us who learned to hide in self-protection.)For those of us who have long identified as "introverts," I ask you a very important question: are you ACTUALLY an introvert? Or do you just have social anxiety and are you scared to be seen?
102. Unapologetic, Unconditional Beingness: Take up Space! Resist the Urge to Shrink! Be!! You!!
Many of us have come to know our true selves and what alignment feels like to *some* extend, but how do you ~stay~ aligned, even when life isn't? Even when your environment.. isn't?This episode is all about staying rooted in love, alignment, and authenticity - no matter what’s happening around you. We explore the continuum of contrast, the wound of rejection, and the habit of people-pleasi
101. A Guide to "Quantum Leaping", Collapsing Timelines, & Heart Coherence
On this episode, we’re breaking down the real mechanics of manifestation and demystifying the heavily marketed *woo-woo* behind it.(....Coming from a girl who loves and firmly embraces the woo-woo.)Spirituality and science are finally beginning to speak the same language, and on this episode, we’re translating both. This is a deep-dive into the inner physics of creation: how emotion shapes matter,
100. You are Inevitable
Season 4 opens with an invitation: to break subconscious contracts, to honor the duality of being and becoming, and to claim the inevitability of who you already are, embracing the fullness of your dreams with bravery and commitment.This episode walks you through the arc of survival, fear, and limitation - into freedom, expression, and truth. It maps the narrative arc of survival into self-express
99. A Reminder to Live While You're Alive
gentle reminders for when you're overthinking, overwhelmed, and over-doing it.the art of let oneself be (without guilt) is a love letter to the magic that appears when you let go and it is done with the intention of:taking the BEING very seriously and the DOING very unseriously. this is the last episode of season three and the last page of the road less traveled chapter. so much more to come.
98. If You're Trying, You're Trying Too Hard. Start Being.
every day is dress rehearsal for the life you want to live and the person you want to be.if you're trying, you're trying too hard.let this episode remind you of the truth of who you are - stop trying. start being.let go of the story & start LIVING your truth.and start now.xWATCH THE VIDEO EPISODE HEREFSO COSTA RICA RETREAT 2026: LIMITED 10% OFF EARLY-BIRD SPOTSFSO IGPersonal Instagram:
97. Your Hardest Moments Hold the Highest Truths
"What aspects of myself do I wish to experience now in the face of this calamity? What aspects of being do I choose to call forth? For all life exists as a tool of your own creation, and all of its events merely present themselves as opposites for you to decide to be who ou are. There are no victims. Only creators" - Neil Walsch, Conversations with GodThought-Daughtering my way through eve
96. Divine Redirection: Facing Tower Moments with Faith
life is happening FOR you, not to you. your access to freedom is right here and now - in the chance and opportunity to trust when your faith is shaken.on this week's episode, i give you background into how this mindset is keeping me steady and strong after finding out i may have to leave my home of three years on a week's notice (stay tuned to find out what happens next week! figuring sh!t
95. Who Are You When You're Not Scrolling?
This episode is an ode to reclaiming your creativity and individuality after being flooded and energetically dulled from phone addiction, a noisy world of aesthetics and trends, and overstimulation.In it, I give you a six-step ritual to reclaim spaciousness inside of your own head, to hear your own voice, and to unravel the subtle signal of yourself beneath all of the noise.In a world that demands
94. Art as a Prayer: A Conversation on Authenticity, Creative Expression, and God ft. Etai Atula
What if your expression: your voice, your vision, your rebellion was the most direct line to the divine? What if Art was your prayer?In this conversation with my dear friend Etai, we explore the thin veil between art and spirituality and the daily devotion of creativity and leading life with an open heart.We discuss in depth - The Artist's Way, fear, rejection, finding the right audience, livi
93. Life is More Than a To-Do List. Where is your Joy?
We become so busy "getting our lives together" that we forget that we've achieved some of our childhood dreams. Let this episode allow you to remember. You are right on time. This episode is an ode to LIVING and restoring your inner vision. FSO COSTA RICA RETREAT 2026: LIMITED 10% OFF EARLY-BIRD SPOTS Book 15 if you want to talk with me about the retreat or the RLT Program (a few spots
92. It's Okay to Not Know What's Next. Let it Emerge.
no one relates to art that has all the answers - your power comes from all of the things you do not know, but have the courage to try and understand./If you <3 FSO, rate it 5 stars on your preferred streaming platform, leave a comment, and share with a friend <3Road Less Travelers Program:BOOK TIME TO CHAT ABOUT THE NEXT ROUND OF THE ROAD LESS TRAVELERS PROGRAM STARTING IN JULY! Or DM ME 
91. Yoga Teacher Training in Bali: A Comprehensive 101 Guide to Navigating a Soul-Led Journey
6 months ago, I got off the hamster wheel, quit my corporate job, & traveled to Bali for Yoga Teacher Training.I went through the highs and lows of choosing a yoga teacher training, learned the hard lessons of first-time solo transatlantic travel, and lived to tell the tale.In this episode, I share about everything I gathered in my journey to Bali, how I chose a Yoga Teacher Training, what YTT
90. From NYC Hustle to Yoga in Bali: Two Months on the Other Side of the World
my reflections on the journey to the other side of the world seen through the eyes of my through journal entries.watch the video, told in visuals and story here: https://youtu.be/9R2bAm2ds_4for this week, here is my heart.NEXT WEEK, there is an episode all about the actual logistics of YTT and I give you my comprehensive guide to navigating choosing a yoga teacher training and going to Bali.xBe su
89. Staying Calm in Chaos & Grounded in a World of Flux
Walk with me through six truths to remember and come home to when life feels impossibly heavy.From the murky edges of uncertainty to the quiet wisdom of who we choose to surround ourselves with, this episode is a gentle guide for the tender, relentless act of becoming.In this episode, I speak to the ache of transitions and the courage of leaning into what’s alive: movement as medicine, community a
88. A Path is Formed by Walking: The Power of Patience & The Energetics of Trust
Patience is a virtue for a reason: it allows the space to be curious. And in curiosity --life is explored, paths are formed, and the beautiful glimmers that make life worth living are found.In this episode: trust, timing, resistance, and the real work of staying in it. We talk about letting go of the timeline, releasing the force of outcomes (unfurling the clenched hand of control, if you will) an
87. The Beauty of Letting It All Fall Apart: Why We Have To Break-Down and Crash-Out to Level Up
If it feels like it is all falling apart, maybe it is. But maybe - it has to so that a new way can emerge.In this short episode, I dive into a core pillar of Figuring Sh!t Out: Feeling like you don't have Sh!t figured out (followed by a subsequent, sometimes immediate, existential crisis and break-down that makes you feel a little chaotic.)I talk to you about the power of letting yourself feel
86. Healing from Cancer, Tuning into The Body's Natural Wisdom, & The Power of Reiki with Integrative Health Coach, Stacey Garcia
Today, I sit down with one of the most inspiring and grounded women I've had the chance to speak to - the type of woman every coming-of-age gal needs in their life: soul-connected, supportive, and resilient in mind, body, and spirit.Today, (in honor of Mother's Day), we welcome Stacey Garcia - Integrative Health Coach, podcast host, mom, and breast cancer survivor.Stacey shares her powerfu
85. Your Gut Is Always Right: Intuition, Discernment, & Sourcing Inner Truth
There is no greater force more powerful than the quiet, silent, nearly imperceptible whisper of your gut. This knowing, this sensation, this whisper - it urges you subtly and softly with the faint voice of: "yes." "no." "this way" "that way" "do this thing" "don't do that thing," and the more adept we are at listening to it -The easier our alignm
84. Your Body Wants to be Your Friend: Overcoming Insecurity, Self-Rejection, & Perfectionism in an Age of Image-Based Obsession
Our bodies - they live for us. And they allow us to live. They give us the ability to sift through this life experience with the breath of both joy and fear, the expression of both laughter and pain.In them, we celebrate. In them, we ache. And yet in them, we often do everything we can: To escape them. We meet ourselves in the mirror, avoid our eyes, and dart to the pieces of our beings that we ho
83. Unserious, Unbothered, and Unapologetically Alive: The Art of Whimsy, Joy, & Romanticizing Your Life
This episode is a love-letter to aliveness, and gives you sacred permission to be soft, silly, and slow.It asks: What if today, you let yourself believe it was all magic? What if joy wasn't something to earn — but something to practice? This is your invitation to reject the homogenization of happiness, to romance the ordinary by becoming alive to our senses, and to let bliss be your rebellion
82. How EMDR Heals: Rewiring the Past, Reclaiming the Present, & Transforming through Trauma (with EMDR Expert Dana Carretta-Stein)
Trauma is not what happens to us - it is what happens inside of us as a result of what happens to us.Which is why healing comes from the inside out -- through modalities that often get us out of the thinking mind and into the body.We've all heard it: The Body Keeps the Score. But what does that mean?In this episode, I sit down with Dana Carretta-Stein — a certified EMDR therapist and trauma-in
81. Authenticity, Art, & the Audacity to Be Seen: 5 Lessons on Creating, Healing, & Showing Up
In this episode, I talk about the dreaded yet silent fear many of us have: being seen and perceived. Reflecting on two years of sharing my heart & soul with the world, I outline the five most important things you need to know in beginning to listen to what your heart calls you to.We discuss the identify shifts that happen when you start showing up authentically and what I’ve learned about livi
80. Surrender the Clenched Hand of Control: The Portal to Divinity, Peace, & Your Inner Magic
Surrender is soft, sweet, – and so quiet, you’d almost miss it. And I think that is why we do. What is your relationship with the need to know? What is your dialogue with desire? What gnaws at the insides of your brain and creates compulsions of “must do’s” and “have to”? What lie led you to believe that those traits serve you more than they hurt you? Herein lies the entrypoint to your darkest sha
79. Tap into Your Potential: EFT 101 & The Science of Rewiring your Subconscious, Releasing Fear, + Changing your Beliefs ft. Tap with Brad
EFT tapping: an incredible, simple way to reprogram your subconscious and clear channels of fear. So incredible and so simple, you may just overlook it because.. how can tapping on your face really do that?Today, I’m sitting down with Brad Yates, better known as Tap with Brad, who teaches tapping to an audience of 300,000 subscribers. With over 50 million views across his videos, Brad's guidan
78. You Are Right On Time.
Time is an illusion, yet a powerful tool.It is the quickest way to magic or stagnancy, depending on how we use it.This episode explores how we use our time through the portal of words, thoughts, and actions to create the life we want or perpetuate the life we don't.It explores how we can embrace timing, reframe and shift our perspective of time, and unlock possibilities through our beliefs.May
77. Stop Intellectualizing & Overanalyzing and Start Living: Choosing Joy + Embracing Ease
Allow this episode to inspire a shift in your energy. Allow it to remind you that life is meant to be lived. That joy is a choice. That ease is only as simple as we make it. That thinking about your feelings or journaling about them is not the same as feeling them. That the tools for change in any moment are inside of the gift of your presence. This episode is for my fellow thought daughters, the
76. Quarter-Life Crisis or Quarter-Life Awakening? Your Choice.
Today, I turn 25. And on the quarter of a century anniversary of being brought into this world, I realize that to look at aging as a gift or a grievance defines the course and direction of most of our lives. It is a choice made every single day - in how we decide to live, breathe, and be. This episode is about growing up. And also, deciding that we don't have to let that mean anything more tha
75. Life is a Game, How Well Can You Play? Leveling Up with the Law of Assumption
True transformation happens when the discomfort of staying the same becomes more unbearable than the discomfort of change. And change? Transformation? Getting all you dream about? Having the courage TO dream at all? It's not all rainbows. It is certainly uncomfortable. But it is at once ---- Expansive. Heart-opening. Boundless. Miraculous. Remember: life is duality. You cannot have the expansi
74. You Accept the Love you Think You Deserve: Healing Attachment Wounds + Heartbreak, Choosing Self-Respect Over Validation, & Attracting a Healthy Relationship
You accept the love you believe you deserve. And if you know that you deserve more than you've gotten in romantic relationships but you haven't been able to receive it — this episode is for you. If you've been around the block getting your heart broken or fearing to let it be loved or found yourself in a thousand different ruts dating people who just don't feel right for you — this
73. Intentional Practices for an Aligned Life: How I Remain Organized, Consistent, & Connected
"I love you where you are and I love you where you're going,"This is a mantra I have been using in my life for the last few weeks - one I have shared with all of you on this show, and one that defines what this episode is truly about. A few episodes ago, you asked for a template to my personal tracking techniques - ones that have held me accountable and have allowed me to take this The
72. Create or be Consumed: A Wake-Up Call to Your Power
You are exactly where you need to be to create something only you can create. And the call is not coming from the phone you spend your life connected to – the call is coming from inside the house. It’s coming from inside of you. It's subtle - and you must be open to listen to it. But our entire society has been structured to keep you disconnected from it. We live in an age of over-consumption
71. Consistency is Self-Respect: You are the Only One Standing in Your Way
The only thing that guarantees our failure in any endeavor is if we give up. Yet, we flirt with our own uncertainty and imposter syndrome more than we embrace our dreams and goals, talking ourselves out of what we want and what it takes to get there instead of talking ourselves into action. We ask: "Is this worth it? Am I doing the right thing? Spending my time in the right places?" We sel
70. Inner Child Healing: Letting Your Inner Child Be Your Muse, Fostering Daily Connection, & Accessing your Higher Self (Shadow-Work Series)
Awaken curiosity where it is confined in your life, allow creation to occur through the expression of your soul, and enable the radical act of romanticization to transform you - because what a tragedy it would be, if you got everything you ever wanted in your life, but you forgot to have fun.JOIN THE INNER CHILD HEALING WORKSHOP ON 1/29!Inner Child Healing Workshop on the New Moon in Aquarius (1/2
69. Staying Awake + Keeping an Open Heart in a World of Numbness & Disassociation
“Greet the piece of you that is longing to unravel. Hold it. Move the furniture out of the way so that it can collapse onto the floor like a puddle. Let it simmer in the space between your breath and let yourself taste the salt from the tears you may have never gotten to cry. Fold into your bones. Allow the whispers of what’s left to come through you. Don’t rush to rebury that hatchet. Learn to fe
68. The (Gentle) Winter Arc: Daily Rituals for an Intentional Life, Romanticizing Slow Living, & Building Patience as we Grow
Slowly but surely: that is the motto for the beginnings of a new year. At a time where the world tells us that it’s the time to be brand new - while all we yearn for is stillness, how do we find reconciliation between setting intentions + and moving with the slow beat our body may crave during the winter-time? This episode is another breath away from all of the noise around needing to be someone e
67. Rituals > Resolutions: Creating the Space for Softness, Celebrating Life, & Resting with our Interior Winter
May you give yourself the gift of slowing down. May you allow yourself to start over whenever you need, whenever you please, and not when the world tells you that it's time. May you gift yourself the purity of rest and the peace of pause. May you allow this year to leave you and the new one to form with grace, ease, and patience. May you embrace that nothing may feel different, yet everything
66. Is it a Problem or a Pattern? Shifting Subconscious Programming, Becoming Aware of Triggers, & Breaking out of Cycles
For when you're tired of finding yourself in the SAME situations over & over again.For when you know you deserve more, but aren't getting it.For when you know you deserve more, but are standing in the WAY of you getting it.For the ones who are always self-sabotaging.For the ones who react and then hate that they react.For the ones who hold their tongue until they burst.For the ones who
65. Leap & The Net Will Appear: Developing Trust in Yourself + The Divine when Changing Your Life
This episode is for anyone considering changing their life-path: leaving a job, moving cities or countries, changing who they surround themselves with, starting a business, leaving a relationship - ending a chapter & beginning a new one.For anyone who finds themselves teetering at the edge of a cliff - knowing that they want to take a leap, knowing they feel called to close a door to open a ne
64. How Trauma + Pain are Stored in Our Body & How to Heal with Movement: A chat on Somatic Healing, Kriya Yoga, & Self-Realization with an Expert (Ft. Samten Kriya)
We hear it in the wellness space all the time: “Trauma is stored in the body,” but what does this actually mean? And what are the different modalities to heal it? In this episode, I sit down with an inspiring & intuitive-led expert on this topic to cover: How emotional pain gets stuck & stored in the body & why it’s so hard to unlearn bad habits + toxic patterns (AKA: why is it so much
63. Evolving through Unhealthy Family Dynamics, Dealing with Anger, & Releasing the Pride of Pain
As the holiday season rolls around, many of us who are on a journey of healing are visited by triggers, past pain, and heavy emotions. The first visitor in our internal world is usually Anger. It is best friends with Pride & usually sounds like: “Why is is this way? Why did that have to happen? Why couldn’t you have…” + It is often paired with actions towards others that are uninhibited from s
62. Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is a Choice: A Step-by-Step Guide for What to Do When Sh!t Hits The Fan
This week, I broke my arm. Yes, I recorded this podcast episode with broken arm. And edited it. And I am typing this now with one hand.You get the point.I felt it necessary to interrupt the regularly scheduled programming of the Road Less Traveled to talk about what to do when there are the inevitable bumps in the road. How do we respond? How do we not spiral? How do we.. reverse a spiral (if we m
61. Pursuing Passions and Finding Your True Self: A Modern Conversation on Ancient Wisdom ft. Etai Abramovich
We've all heard of Yoga, but what actually is it? And how can you translate ancient knowledge into a modern tool to help you live and lead your life whilst paying homage to its roots? How can it help you break free of what you "think" you should be?In this episode, we answer those questions.The first guest of The Road Less Traveled Series is a 22-year old, vibrant yogi from New York wi
60. figuring sh!t out - full time. how did i get here??
The breath in between facing the fear and taking the leap + all that comes with it is a well of life-lessons. This episode dives into the details of where I’ve been during my hiatus from Figuring Sh!t Out.This episode covers all that led up to me leaving my job, going to Bali for YTT, and deciding to pursue my podcast full time - stepping foot onto The Road Less Traveled.Weekly Sunday's are ba
Taking the Leap: A Creative Career, A Creative Life, & A Whole Lot of Uncertainty
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE!I've quit my full time job in Tech, traveled across the world to go to Yoga Teacher Training in Bali, and leaped off a cliff to pursue Figuring Sh!t Out full time as an answer to the calling of .. well...... Figuring Sh!t OutOn this season, I'll interview people who've done something similar, I'll share all of the beautiful lessons and tools I've learned, a
58. What No One Tells You About Being in Your Twenties
Some things I am learning:How to normalize the flux of knowing, then not knowing, and realizing that you never really knew anything at all.How to accept the wavering feelings of complete clear-hearted confidence followed by the indescribable uncertainty + fear of "am i doing anything right"The bliss and simplicity of the inevitable rediscovery of our childhood self as the pathway to all th
