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What happens when life pushes you into an experience you can’t explain and no one around you understands?
In this episode, Taylor shares her powerful story of spiritual awakening that began during a deeply vulnerable time in her life. After struggling with trauma, low self-confidence, and feeling misunderstood by traditional systems, she began a journey of healing that led her to mentorship, nervous system work, intuitive development, and a deeper understanding of ancestral patterns.
We explore how pain can become purpose, the importance of safe community, and why many women today are being called to reclaim their voice, their energy, and their connection to something greater.
This conversation is a reflection on courage, healing, and the quiet ways our lineage and lived experiences shape how we live and lead.
If you are navigating change, seeking meaning, or learning to trust yourself again, this episode is for you.
To connect with Taylor
Website: https://www.tayloralagna.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/thetaylored_spirit/
Feelings and needs inquiry - Gift: https://www.tayloralagna.com/gift
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She stopped pleasing everyone and found joy again
What happens when you stop living to meet expectations and start living to feel alive?
In this heartfelt conversation, Tina shares her journey from people-pleasing and cultural pressure to rediscovering joy, playfulness, and personal freedom. Raised in a Vietnamese immigrant family shaped by survival and sacrifice, she reflects on how generational patterns influenced her relationships, self-worth, and leadership style.
After a pivotal breakup just before the pandemic, Tina began a gradual process of self-reclamation. Through journaling, emotional awareness, and courageous daily choices, she shifted from feeling disconnected from her life to genuinely loving the person she is becoming.
Together, we explore the deeper leadership lessons hidden inside healing work how reclaiming joy can change how we lead, how we relate to others, and how we shape the legacy we carry forward.
This episode is a reminder that growth doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it looks like small acts of play, choosing yourself, and giving permission to live more freely.
Listen if you are navigating identity shifts, life transitions, or the quiet work of becoming.
To connect with Tina:
Websites: https://linktr.ee/tinaohoang
IG: https://www.instagram.com/playfully.unrestricted/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091289967922
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What happens when you realize the beliefs, patterns, and survival instincts that shaped your life were never truly yours to begin with?
In this episode, I’m joined by Luna, writer and author of Meet Me at the Ruins, for a powerful conversation about growing up in a high-control religious environment, the long road of unconditioning, and what it means to rebuild identity after trauma.
Luna shares how discovering the public history of the group she was raised in changed the way she understood her childhood, her family, and herself. We talk about consent, agency, boundaries, parenting after harm, and the layered work of deciding what parts of you are rooted in truth and what parts were formed through fear, control, or survival.
This conversation is honest, thoughtful, and deeply human. It explores what healing can look like when there are no simple answers, no neat endings, and no perfect way to parent, recover, or move forward. It is also a conversation about legacy: how we choose not to pass certain patterns on, how we repair in real time, and how we learn to live with more integrity in our bodies, relationships, and homes.
If you’ve ever had to question the systems that raised you, untangle inherited beliefs, or choose a different path for the next generation, this episode will stay with you.
In this episode, we explore:
growing up in a high-control religious environment
family estrangement and the cost of naming harm
parenting with consent and gentle boundaries
healing through research, writing, and reflection
body autonomy, identity, and inherited patterns
what it means to build a different legacy
To connect with Luna:
FB: https://www.facebook.com/lunawestish
IG: https://www.instagram.com/lunawestish/
TikTok: **Luna Westish (@lunawestish)**
Luna’s Book: https://bookshop.org/a/115025/9798986371665
Recommended book: The body is not an apology https://bookshop.org/a/115025/9781523090990
Suggested books on cults: https://bookshop.org/shop/lunawestish
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What happens when the life you built no longer feels aligned with who you are becoming?
In this episode of Raised by Women, I sit down with Steve, a former corporate project leader who spent decades managing large teams and high-stakes systems  until divorce, empty nesting, and organizational restructuring forced him to pause.
What followed wasn’t a breakdown. It was an awakening.
We explore how subconscious fears formed in childhood — scarcity, survival, anxiety quietly shape our adult decisions, from work habits to confidence to relationships. Steve shares how discovering Psych-K shifted his understanding of fear, belief patterns, and personal agency.
We talk about:
How inherited fear influences adult behavior
Why awareness alone isn’t enough for change
Work identity vs. authentic self
Imposter syndrome in leadership
The cost of workaholism
What “self-sovereignty” really means
This conversation isn’t about abandoning your career. It’s about leading yourself differently inside it or beyond it.
If you’ve ever felt the quiet nudge that something deeper is calling you, this episode will meet you there.
 To connect with Steve 
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https://www.self-sovereignty.com/offers
Check-out Steves EBook   
www.self-sovereignty.com
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Some stories don’t begin with a plan they begin with a moment that quietly changes everything.
In this episode, Mazna shares her journey from being born prematurely in Pakistan to building a life shaped by endurance, resilience, and personal transformation. After witnessing her mother survive a stroke and major brain surgery, Mazna experienced a deep shift in how she viewed her own health, energy, and future.
What started as a simple decision to begin running became a life changing pathway that eventually led her to complete marathons and trek some of the world’s most challenging mountain landscapes including K2 Basecamp, Machu Picchu, Rainbow Mountain, and Mount Kilimanjaro.
But this conversation goes far beyond physical accomplishment. Mazna reflects on emotional inheritance, cultural expectations, aging, and how resilience is often shaped by the women who came before us. She shares how witnessing her mother’s strength and sacrifice influenced her own ability to endure hardship, adapt to change, and continue showing up even during life’s unexpected disruptions.
Together, we explore how endurance experiences shape identity, why growth often happens organically, and the truth that many people carry invisible mountains while navigating everyday life.
This episode is a reflection on becoming and the ways our stories, our bodies, and our lineage shape who we grow into over time.
To connect with Muza
E-mail: [email protected]
FB: https://www.facebook.com/muzna.amin
IG: muzrocksandruns
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