In this heartfelt conversation, Debbie Thompson sits down with Ramona Kossowan to explore the quiet moments that often become life's biggest turning points.

For many midlife women, an identity change doesn't begin with a crisis. It begins with a quiet feeling that something no longer fits.

Ramona shares how years of striving, saying yes, and fearing she might miss out eventually led her to recognise a deeper truth: the life she was creating no longer felt aligned with who she really was. Instead of forcing outcomes, she began listening to her intuition, letting go of what felt wrong, and discovering an unexpected sense of relief.

This episode is for women navigating identity, finding yourself, life transitions, people pleasing, relationship patterns, and that quiet feeling that you've spent so long looking after everyone else that you've forgotten what you truly want.

In this episode we explore:

• Identity and identity change
• Finding yourself again after years of putting others first
• People pleasing and relationship patterns
• Emotional healing through self-awareness
• Self-worth beyond external validation
• Authenticity and living in alignment
• Personal growth through self-trust
• Letting go of fear and embracing purpose
• Choosing peace over constant striving
• Recognising the patterns that keep us disconnected from ourselves

Sometimes transformation doesn't begin by becoming someone new.

Sometimes it begins by giving yourself permission to stop abandoning who you've always been.

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RamonaKCoaching

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ramonakcoaching

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In this deeply honest conversation, Audra Phelps shares how years of living within clearly defined roles slowly left her disconnected from herself. As a wife, mother and committed member of the Mormon church, she did everything she believed was expected of her—until anxiety, curiosity and unexpected life changes began asking questions she could no longer ignore.

Rather than one dramatic turning point, Audra describes a series of quiet awakenings: returning to university, discovering supportive friendships beyond her church community, moving overseas, and finding enough space to examine beliefs she had never questioned before.

This episode is for women navigating a midlife identity shift, life transitions, people-pleasing, emotional disconnection, or the quiet feeling that the life they've built no longer reflects who they truly are. It's a conversation about finding yourself again, learning to trust your inner voice, and creating a life that feels aligned with who you are today.

In this episode you'll hear about:

• Living through roles that slowly eclipse your sense of self.

• The connection between anxiety and unexamined expectations.

• Why creating physical and emotional space can change your perspective.

• Learning to trust your own inner voice.

• Rebuilding identity with curiosity rather than certainty.

Every turning point begins with one honest question.

Topics Covered

• Midlife identity shift
• Finding yourself again
• Women trusting their intuition
• Identity beyond roles
• Emotional disconnection
• Anxiety and self-awareness
• Life transitions for women
• Personal transformation story
• Midlife awakening
• Self-discovery after 40
• Building a life aligned with your values
• Faith transition and identity

Every turning point begins with one honest question.

Perhaps this conversation will help you ask your own.

👤 Connect with Audra Phelps

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mamaaudra

Website: https://mamaaudra.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/audra-phelps-b422786a/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571178607920

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Mama-Audra

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In this deeply moving episode of The Stone in My Shoe, Debbie Thompson is joined by embodiment mentor and Ayurveda health consultant Lina Lambertini to explore the profound connection between our bodies, our stories, and the truths we haven't yet recognised.

After years of living with unexplained illness, emotional pain, and searching for answers, Lina discovered that the "stone in the shoe" she had been carrying wasn't simply physical—it was an unspoken truth her body had been holding all along.

Together, Debbie and Lina explore what it means to stop fighting our bodies and begin listening with curiosity, compassion, and courage. Their conversation is a gentle reminder that healing isn't about becoming someone different, it's about returning to who we've always been beneath the expectations, coping strategies, and stories we've carried.

In this episode you'll hear:

• Why the body often speaks before the mind understands.

• How unspoken truths can influence our health, relationships, habits, and nervous system.

• The powerful question that changed Lina's life:"Do I want to keep living like this?"

• Why true healing begins with understanding yourself, not fixing yourself.

• How knowing who you truly are can become the beginning of peace.

Whether you're navigating a midlife transition, questioning the life you've built, or simply sensing that something inside you is asking for attention, this conversation offers hope, wisdom, and a compassionate invitation to listen more deeply.

Connect with Lina Lambertini

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In this heartfelt conversation, Debbie Thompson sits down with facilitator and Capacity Reset founder Faith Paki to explore the quiet identity shift that unfolded beneath years of professional success, leadership and achievement.

From the outside, Faith's life looked successful. She was leading teams, travelling the world and helping others grow. But underneath it all was a growing sense that she had become defined by what she did rather than who she was.

Everything changed when one simple question left her speechless:

"What do you do?"

It was the beginning of a journey back to herself.

Together, Debbie and Faith explore how self-belief isn't built through extraordinary moments, but through the small promises we keep to ourselves every day. They reflect on identity, purpose, intuition, letting go of perfectionism, and learning to trust the quiet voice that had been there all along.

If you've ever felt disconnected from yourself, found yourself questioning your purpose, or sensed that life is asking something different of you, this conversation will feel deeply familiar.

In this episode you'll hear about:

• Building a successful life while quietly losing yourself.
• Why identity often becomes attached to our roles.
• The small daily choices that shape self-belief.
• Learning to trust yourself again.
• Letting go of perfectionism and control.
• The courage to ask, "Who am I beneath everything I do?"
• Why awareness is often the first step back to yourself.

This conversation is a gentle reminder that you don't need to become someone new.

You may simply need to remember who you've always been.

👤 Connect with Faith Paki

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/faithpaki/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/faithpaki.reset

Website:https://byfaithpaki.com/

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In this deeply honest conversation, Debbie Thompson speaks with entrepreneur, investor and founder Nyasha Ngwena about the hidden patterns that shaped her life long after she had achieved the career she'd always wanted.

From growing up believing she needed approval to pursue her dreams, to recognising that people-pleasing had quietly become part of her identity, Nyasha shares the powerful turning point that changed everything. Rather than blaming her circumstances, she began asking different questions—questions that led her back to herself.

Together, Debbie and Nyasha explore what it means to stop performing for acceptance, reconnect with your intuition, and build a life that's aligned not just with your ambitions, but with who you truly are.

If you've ever felt emotionally disconnected despite outward success, found yourself constantly seeking validation, or wondered why achieving your goals hasn't brought the peace you expected, this conversation will resonate deeply.

In this episode you'll hear about:

• Living your dream while still seeking approval
• The hidden cost of people-pleasing
• Why self-sacrifice can become a lifelong pattern
• Learning to trust your intuition instead of external validation
• Identity, belonging and self-worth
• Rebuilding your relationship with yourself
• Creating success without abandoning who you are

This episode is for women navigating identity shifts, emotional burnout, life transitions and the quiet feeling that there has to be another way to live.

Sometimes the biggest turning point isn't changing your life.

It's changing the story you've been telling yourself.

👤 Connect with Nyasha

Personal Website: https://nyasha.koshabrands.com

Instagram:https://instagram.com/beingnyasha

Substack:https://substack.com/@cultivateyourknowing

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In this deeply honest conversation, Debbie Thompson sits down with Amanda Gorman, artist, ADHD advocate, TEDx speaker, founder of Distractd, and mother of two, to explore the emotional reality of living for decades without understanding why life felt harder than it seemed for everyone else.

Amanda shares her experience of juggling work, parenting, caregiving, grief, and the relentless pressure to keep everything together while quietly blaming herself for struggles she couldn't explain.

What begins as a conversation about ADHD becomes something much deeper.

It's a conversation about identity.

About the stories we create about ourselves.

About carrying invisible burdens.

And about the freedom that comes when understanding replaces self-judgment.

Together, Debbie and Amanda explore:

• The emotional impact of receiving an ADHD diagnosis later in life
• The hidden cost of masking and high-functioning coping strategies
• Grief, burnout, and what happens when life becomes too heavy to carry alone
• Why many women grow up believing they're "too much" or "not enough"
• The difference between a character flaw and a neurological difference
• Learning self-compassion after years of self-criticism
• Why understanding yourself changes everything
• The powerful question: "What do I need?"

This episode is for women who have spent years doing everything for everyone else while quietly questioning themselves.

For women navigating life transitions, identity shifts, emotional exhaustion, people-pleasing, or the feeling that something doesn't quite fit anymore.

Most of all, it's for the woman who has carried a story about herself for a very long time and is beginning to wonder if that story is actually true.

Sometimes healing doesn't begin with fixing yourself.

Sometimes it begins with seeing yourself differently.

In this heartfelt conversation, Debbie Thompson speaks with Adriana Carballo—storyteller, community builder, founder, mother, and creator of Spark Keepers—about the dream that changed the direction of her life.

What begins as a story about her grandmother's wish to see the Norwegian fjords becomes a powerful reflection on time, intuition, adventure, and the assumptions we make about the future.

When Adriana lost her grandmother before that dream could happen, she was forced to confront a question many women quietly carry:

What am I postponing because I believe there will always be more time?

Together, Debbie and Adriana explore the emotional patterns that keep us waiting, the hidden belief that we have to do everything alone, and the courage required to stop delaying what feels most alive.

This conversation is for women navigating change, questioning what matters most, or feeling the pull toward something they can no longer ignore.

In this episode you'll hear about:

• The story that became Adriana's "stone in her shoe"

• Why the things that matter most often get pushed into the future

• The hidden cost of waiting for the perfect time

• Learning to receive support instead of doing everything alone

• Following a dream before certainty arrives

• Creating space for joy, adventure, and possibility

• What it means to become enchanted with your own life again

Sometimes the stone isn't there to stop us.

Sometimes it's there to wake us up.

As you listen, notice what stays with you.

Perhaps there is something in your life that has been waiting patiently for your attention.

👤 GUEST LINKS

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hola.adrianacarballo

Website: https://adrianacarballo.lovable.app/

Spark Keepers: https://spark-keepers.com/

Substack: https://adrianacarballo.substack.com

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In this deeply honest conversation, Karen Blair shares the moment she realised that the life she had built around caring, achieving, helping and doing had come at a cost she never expected.

For years, she believed her value came from being useful. She stayed busy, kept moving, supported others, and rarely stopped long enough to ask what she needed. What looked like commitment and capability on the outside was masking a growing disconnection from herself.

The turning point came when she began to see the patterns she had been living inside for years. Patterns of people pleasing. Over-functioning. Constant doing. Avoiding stillness. Searching outside herself for something she could only find within.

When someone asked Karen what her greatest loss had been, her answer was simple.

"Losing myself."

But this conversation is not only about loss.

It is about the slow and courageous process of finding yourself again.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

• People pleasing and the hidden cost of constantly helping others
• Burnout, over-functioning and tying self-worth to being useful
• Losing connection with yourself while meeting everyone else's needs
• Learning to slow down and listen to your inner voice
• The discomfort of sitting with yourself instead of escaping yourself
• Self-abandonment, identity shifts and personal transformation

What it means to finally come home to yourself

This episode is for women navigating life transitions, emotional disconnection, burnout, people pleasing, identity shifts, or the feeling that somewhere along the way they lost touch with who they really are.

Karen's story is a reminder that the greatest transformation is often not becoming someone new.

It's remembering who you were before you became everything for everyone else.

👤 GUEST LINKS

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenconsciouslycoaching/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-blair-a7260b207/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karen.blair.274039

🌿 REWIRED & RADIANT

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61579968982281

It's a question.

A comment.

A reflection from someone who loves us.

In this deeply honest conversation, Victoria Solomon shares the turning point that forced her to see her life through a different lens. What began as a seemingly ordinary interaction with her teenage daughter became the moment she could no longer ignore the reality she had been living with for years.

Together, Debbie and Victoria explore how relationship patterns become normalised, how self-worth can slowly erode without us realising it, and why awareness often arrives long before change.

This is a conversation about the painful gap between what we know deep down and what we continue to tolerate.

It's about survival, self-abandonment, identity, and the courage it takes to finally acknowledge the truth.

For women navigating life transitions, questioning long-held patterns, or feeling disconnected from themselves, this episode offers a powerful reminder that recognition is often where transformation begins.

In this episode we explore:

• The moment Victoria realised her daughter was watching more than she thought

• How unhealthy relationship dynamics become normalised over time

• The hidden cost of constantly trying to be enough

• Why awareness can feel both devastating and liberating

• The impact our choices have on the people who love us most

• The beliefs that keep women stuck in relationships and situations that no longer serve them

• Moving from survival toward self-worth and self-trust

• The freedom that comes from seeing clearly

Sometimes the greatest turning points begin with a simple question:

What am I teaching by what I'm willing to tolerate?

🎧 PODCAST LINKS

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stoneinmyshoepodcastSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ZplV0leGMT3TAfrbrvWz0?si=37jd6LVYTKKH0zI0yOqzYgApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-stone-in-my-shoe/id1869259267

👤 GUEST LINKS

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victoria.j.salomon

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theixchelsystem/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ixcheltherapies/

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Website: http://www.ixchelsystem.com

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61579968982281

"When did I stop feeling like me?"

In this deeply honest conversation, Debbie Thompson speaks with Valerie Ritchie — known as The Crone Goddess — about identity, silence, relationships and what happens when we spend years becoming who life asks us to be.

Valerie shares the moments that slowly shaped her life: a childhood experience that taught her to become quieter, years of adapting to roles and expectations, and the unexpected feeling that surfaced when her marriage ended.

Not heartbreak.

Relief.

Together they explore what it means to lose yourself gradually, the stories we carry for decades, and how midlife can become a return rather than an ending.

This episode is for women who have spent years being:

• the reliable one
• the responsible one
• the strong one
• the woman who keeps everything together

and are quietly wondering:

"What's mine now?"

Inside this conversation you'll hear:

• how early experiences can quietly shape identity
• the emotional cost of adapting yourself over time
• people pleasing and self-abandonment patterns
• recognising yourself inside life transitions
• the difference between coping and truly living
• what it means to return to yourself

Maybe this isn't about becoming someone new.

Maybe it's about remembering who was there all along.

👤 GUEST BIO

Valerie Ritchie is a Midlife Empowerment Coach, speaker, and founder of The Crone Goddess. After more than 30 years in education, Valerie now supports women through midlife transitions, helping them reconnect with their identity, purpose, and inner power. 

👤 GUEST LINKS

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/valerie.cronegoddess

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/valerie.cronegoddess/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeriej-cronegoddess

Website: https://www.transformationinaction.co.uk

🌿 REWIRED & RADIANT LINKS

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewiredandradiant

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rewiredandradiant 

In this emotionally honest conversation, Riham El Hawary shares the quiet identity collapse that came after years of responsibility, performance, achievement, and caregiving.

From being conditioned from childhood to become “the strong one,” to building success through survival and eventually experiencing emotional and physical burnout, this episode explores the deeper emotional cost of living through performance instead of truth.

But beneath the responsibility, the success, and the coping mechanisms was a more confronting question:

Who am I when nobody needs me anymore?

This conversation explores the emotional reality many women experience during major life transitions — especially when identity has been built around being needed, useful, responsible, and emotionally available for everyone else.

Together, Debbie and Riham explore:

• emotional burnout from high functioning
• identity shifts in midlife
• intuition and self-abandonment
• loneliness after caregiving
• success versus fulfilment
• learning to reconnect with yourself honestly
• what happens when performance stops working
• the emotional discomfort of sitting with yourself without distraction

This episode is for women navigating:

• emotional disconnection
• people pleasing
• burnout from coping
• life transitions
• internal conflict between external success and internal truth
• midlife awakening and self-discovery

Sometimes the hardest part of transformation isn’t changing your life.

It’s finally asking yourself what you actually want underneath the role you’ve spent years performing.

👤 GUEST LINKS:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rihamelhawary.official

Website: https://www.personainternational.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhawary

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/rihamelhawary

🌿 REWIRED & RADIANT:
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What began as a relationship that felt exciting and intense slowly became controlling, emotionally abusive, and eventually violent. In this deeply honest conversation, Andrea shares theexperience that changed the course of her life — including being kidnapped by her boyfriend after trying to end the relationship.

But this episode goes far beyond the story itself.

It explores the quiet ways women disconnect from their instincts, override their intuition, minimise red flags, and slowlylose themselves while trying to keep love, peace, or approval.

Andrea speaks openly about self-worth, emotional conditioning, toxic relationship dynamics, intuition, healing, andthe long journey back to trusting herself again.

This conversation is for women who:

•          keep overriding what they feel
•          struggle to trust their intuition
•             people please to keep relationships safe
•             feel disconnected from themselves
•             have ignored red flags hoping things wouldchange
•             are navigating identity shifts and emotionalexhaustion

In this episode, we explore:

·      emotional abuse and coercive control

·      trusting your gut instinct

·      why women ignore red flags

·      toxic relationship patterns

·      self-worth and subconscious beliefs

·      family conditioning and relationship dynamics

·      healing after trauma

·      learning to trust yourself again

·      emotional survival and resilience

·      breaking generational patterns

Some experiences change how you see relationships forever. Others change how you see yourself.

And sometimes healing begins the moment you finally stop abandoning what you already know inside.

👤 GUEST LINKS:
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Facebook: Andrea Gonzales Facebook

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There wasn’t a big moment. Nothing fell apart.

From the outside, my life worked. I was achieving, building, doing everything that looked “right.”

But underneath it… there was a quiet feeling I couldn’t really explain.Something just didn’t feel like me anymore.

It wasn’t strong enough to force change.But it also wasn’t something I could fully ignore.

And for a while, I did what so many of us do.I stayed busy. I kept going. I carried on doing what I thought I was meant to do.

But that feeling didn’t go away.

That was my stone.

Not a crisis.Not a breakdown.Just something sitting there… asking to be noticed.

And eventually I realised — this isn’t something to push past.This is something to actually look at.

This conversation with Rory explores that moment — and how it led me to create The Stone in My Shoe.

Because I know how many women are living lives that look fine on the outside…while quietly knowing something doesn’t feel true anymore.

How easy it is to override that feeling.To stay busy.To not ask the deeper question.

This episode is about that space.The moment where something feels off… and you decide whether to ignore it or explore it.

This is for you if:

• your life looks good… but feels flat• you’ve been doing what’s expected of you for years• you feel a quiet sense that something isn’t fully aligned• you’re starting to question what you actually want

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• what my “stone” really was

• how these moments show up quietly, not dramatically

• why women trusting their intuition often starts with something small

• the moment I realised I couldn’t keep overriding what I felt

And maybe most importantly…

This isn’t about changing everything.

It’s about being honest…with what you already know.

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In this conversation with Disha Solanki, that expectation is gently unravelled. She shares what it really looked like to pursue ambition while raising a family — not as a polished story, but through the moments that stayed with her.

Missing something that mattered. Carrying guilt for longer than she expected.
Realising the pressure she was holding wasn’t sustainable.

The turning point wasn’t one big decision.

It was the slow recognition that the standard she was trying to meet — being everything to everyone — didn’t actually exist.

And that continuing to push through it was costing her more than she realised.

This conversation opens up the reality behind ambition, motherhood, and identity — and what happens when you begin to question how much you’re holding.

This episode is for you if:
• You feel the pressure to do everything well — and still feel like it’s not enough
• You’re trying to balance ambition with being present at home
• You’ve started to question the expectations you’ve been carrying

In this episode, you’ll learn:
• Why the idea of “doing it all” is often unrealistic
• How internal pressure builds without being noticed
• What happens when you push beyond your capacity for too long
• Why there is no perfect time — and what that really means

If something in this conversation feels familiar, it’s might be because it reflects a pressure many women carry quietly.

And sometimes, simply recognising that is where things begin to shift.

👤 GUEST LINKS:
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dishasolanki/

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Not joy. Not gratitude. Not even frustration. Just… nothing.

This episode explores what happens when you suppress emotions for so long that youlose access to all of them,  not just the difficult ones, but the ones that make life feel meaningful too.

Because you don’t get to choose which emotions you turn down.

The same patterns that help you avoid discomfort eventually disconnect you from joy, appreciation, and connection.  

And it doesn’t happen all at once. It builds quietly, through adapting, people-pleasingand trying to hold everything together.

Until one day, you realise you are  numb , you feel nothing.

This episode is for women who:
• feel emotionally numb or flat
• have learned to suppress difficult feelings
• have spent years holding everything together
• are starting to question why they can’t feel joy or gratitude

In this conversation, you’ll understand:
• why suppressing emotions leads to numbness
• why you can’t turn down one emotion without losing others
• the hidden cost of coping patterns that “work”
• how emotional disconnection builds over time
• why this moment can be the beginning of something deeper

Guest Links

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Website: https://www.growrecoverdiscover.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanna-atherton-441239389/

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Dr Alla Demutska shares her experience of growing up in an environment shaped by instability, fear, and uncertainty -where control, achievement, and constant effort became a way to feel safe. From the outside, it led to success, resilience, and capability. But underneath, there was something else driving it.

Over time, that pattern of pushing, solving, and holding everything together began to take its toll. Not in a dramatic or obvious way, but through a growing sense that something wasn’t quite right — even when life looked fine.

The turning point didn’t come from a single moment. It came from reaching a place where pushing harder no longer worked. Where the instinct to override, fix, and control couldn’t carry things forward anymore.

What followed wasn’t about changing everything overnight. It was about something more subtle, and often harder — learning to stop overriding what she felt. Letting go of the need to force outcomes. Allowing life to unfold in a different way.

This conversation is for you if:

• You’re used to holding everything together
• You find it hard to slow down or stop pushing
• Your life looks “fine” but doesn’t feel fully aligned
• You’ve started questioning the way you make decisions
• You’re beginning to notice what you’ve been overriding

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• How early experiences shape patterns ofcontrol and over-functioning
• Why pushing and achieving can become a way to avoid deeper feelings
• What it looks like when those strategies stop working
• The difference between forcing life and allowing it
• How to begin listening to what you’ve been overriding

There’s a quiet honesty in recognising thatsomething isn’t wrong — but something isn’t fully true either. And sometimes,the shift doesn’t come from doing more, but from noticing what you’ve beendoing all along.

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 In this episode, Lisa Walker shares what it looked like to build a life that appeared successful on the outside, while quietly ignoring what didn’t feel right underneath. Working in marketing and holding everything together, she foundherself repeating patterns in relationships that reflected something deeper she hadn’t yet faced.

The turning point came when everything stopped. She found herself leaving her life behind and going on the run with her children, forced to confront what she had been avoiding for years.

What followed wasn’t immediate clarity, but a recognition that she had been living in a way that required her to constantly prove her worth, minimise herself, and override her own intuition.

This conversation explores how early beliefs about love, worth, and safety shape the choices we make in adulthood. It’s about the quiet patterns that go unnoticed until they can no longer be ignored — and what happens when awareness begins toshift everything.

If you are a woman who:

·     questions your instincts in relationships

·     feels like you have to prove your worth to be loved

·     finds yourself staying in situations that don’t feel right

·      is navigating a midlife identity shift

·      feels something is off but can’t fully name it

·      is starting to recognise patterns in your life

You’ll learn:

·      how early conditioning shapes relationship patterns

·      why we ignore what we know doesn’t feel right

·     the connection between achievement and emotional avoidance

·     what a real turning point can look like

·     how awareness begins the process of change

Sometimes the moment that changes everything isn’t something new — it’s finally seeing what has been there all along.

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In this episode, Debbie speaks with Alena Uzhnyeva, a successful entrepreneur who built an international business and achieved what many would define as success—financial freedom, travel, and recognition.

But beneath the surface, something wasn’t aligned.

After years of pushing forward in a high-performing corporate world, Alena reached a point where success no longer felt fulfilling. Despite everything she had achieved, she felt empty, disconnected, and exhausted.

A powerful retreat experience became the moment everything shifted—forcing her to confront deeper emotional patterns and the true reason behind her drive for success.

This conversation explores what happens when we build a life based on expectations, conditioning, or something we’re trying to prove—rather than what is truly ours.

It’s about the quiet realisation that something is missing… and the courage to listen to it.

This is for you if you are a woman who:• feels like your life looks good, but doesn’t feel right• is questioning your direction or purpose• is navigating a midlife identity shift• feels disconnected from yourself despite external success• senses there is something more, but can’t yet name it• finds yourself constantly doing, but rarely just being

What you will learn: Why success doesn’t always equal fulfilment• How unconscious patterns can shape your life choices• The moment that signals it’s time to change direction• What it means to reconnect with yourself• The role of intuition in making life decisions• How to move from proving… to living

This episode is a reminder that nothing has to be “wrong” for something to no longer feel right. And often, the most important shift begins not with action—but with honesty.

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From an early awareness that she experienced the world differently, to navigating the tension between science and spirituality, Giancarla explores what it means to truly embrace all parts of yourself — even the ones that don’t fit neatly into what’s expected.

A significant turning point came through a long-term relationship that, in hindsight, revealed patterns she couldn’t fully see while she was inside it. Like many women, she found that clarity only came after stepping away — when she could finally recognise the dynamics that had been present all along.

This conversation gently explores how awareness unfolds over time, how we learn to trust ourselves again, and what it means to begin honouring who we are — even when it requires change.

It’s not about dramatic transformation.
It’s about the quiet, internal shift that changes everything.

• Why it’s often hard to see patterns when you’re inside them
• The role of intuition and internal awareness
• Navigating identity shifts in midlife
• The experience of rediscovering yourself after a relationship
• What it means to truly honour yourself
• How different parts of ourselves can coexist (logic and intuition)

This is a thoughtful and expansive conversation for any woman who feels a quiet sense that something is changing — even if she can’t yet fully name it.

In this episode, we explore:

But Inwardly there was Shame. Disconnection. An eating disorder. Burnout so severe her body refused to get out of bed.

In this deeply honest episode of The Stone in My Shoe, I sit down with Marali — certified Tantra teacher, breath worker, and leadership mentor — to explore what happens when high achievement masks deep inner tension.

From growing up as a twin in Lithuania, to carrying guilt after her parents’ divorce, to developing bulimia in her teens and chasing success in London, Marali shares the invisible drivers behind her ambition — and the moment her body finally said no.

This conversation is not about sex.

It’s about integration.About weaving together the masculine drive to achieve and the feminine capacity to feel.About understanding that burnout is not weakness — it’s intelligence.

If you are a woman who:

• Achieves easily but feels disconnected from her body• Has built success but feels something is missing• Struggles with shame, perfectionism, or “not good enough”• Is tired of living neck-up and wants to feel fully alive• Is curious about Tantra but unsure what it really means

This episode will resonate deeply.

In this conversation, you will learn:

• How childhood guilt and “good girl” conditioning fuel overachievement• Why eating disorders and coping mechanisms can be survival strategies• What burnout is really communicating• How suppressing parts of yourself strengthens them• What Tantra actually means (and why it’s not just about sex)• How to reconnect mind and body after years of disconnection• Why true intimacy begins within

Marali explains Tantra as “weaving together” - the integration of masculine and feminine energies within us. Not rejecting ambition. Not rejecting softness. But allowing both to coexist.

Because success without embodiment is exhausting.And healing begins the moment we stop fighting ourselves.

If this episode speaks to you, subscribe and share it with a woman who needs to hear that burnout is not failure  it’s a doorway.

This conversation is honest, grounded, and deeply liberating.

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In this episode of The Stone in My Shoe, I sit down with Terry Tateossian , founder of THOR and host of How Good Can It Get, to explore the hidden patterns behind self-sabotage, emotional eating, and high-functioning burnout in midlife.

  From defecting Eastern Europe as a child to building a successful life in America, Terry learned resilience early. She became disciplined, determined, capable.

But there was a cost. Despite outward success, she found herself disconnected from her body, emotionally overwhelmed, and eventually gaining over 80 pounds. What she uncovered wasn’t laziness or lack of willpower. It was survival wiring. Unprocessed grief.
Inner “voices” formed in childhood that were still running the show.  

If you are a woman who:
• Can achieve for others but struggle to stay consistent for yourself• Feels embarrassed that you “should know better” by now• Reaches for coping mechanisms when grief or stress hits • Suspects there is something deeper beneath your habits • Is tired of quick fixes and wants lasting change

This conversation will resonate.

You will learn:
• Why high-achieving women often self-sabotage when it comes to their own health• How trauma responses can look like ambition and drive• The real link between grief and emotional coping• Why suppressing inner patterns makes them stronger• What true long-term transformation actually requires• How midlife can become a reclamation rather than a decline

This is not a weight loss story. It is a story about awareness, nervous system healing, identity, and becoming the conscious leader of your inner world.

If this conversation speaks to you, subscribe and share it with a woman who needs to hear it.

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Jane Slack-Smith’s career has moved across many worlds: from explosives engineering, to mortgage broking and property education, to mentoring tens of thousands of people and developing practical tools to help others make better decisions. Along the way, she was recognised with major ndustry awards, including Mortgage Broker of the Year.

But this conversation isn’t about chasing achievement.

Jane shares how some of her most important turning points didn’t come from struggle or dissatisfaction, but from curiosity,  moments when she noticed there was anotherlayer to explore. She reflects on leaving certainty to start something new, driven not by fear or pressure, but by a pull she couldn’t ignore.

A key moment in the episode comes when Jane describes mentoring a client who had every practical box ticked, yet simply said, “It doesn’t feel right.” That moment sparked a deeper enquiry into intuition,  not as something mystical, but as a learnable, practical skill that can be built through small decisions over time.

Jane also shares how she began to practise intuition deliberately, through everyday choices, intentional walks, and creative expression, and how trusting this inner knowing has influenced both her personal life and the way she supportsothers today.

This is a grounded, thoughtful conversation about learning to trust yourself, honouring integrity, and allowing life to evolve — one small decision at a time.

This episode is for you if

You enjoy learning and personal growth, even when life is already working.

You’re curious about intuition, but want it explained in a practical, grounded way

You value integrity and thoughtful decision-making

You’re interested in how confidence and self-trust are built, not forced.

How to contact Jane

https://yoursuccessclub.com.au/

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My guest is Doro Fisher, a senior communications strategist, international coach, and community builder who has spent more than two decades working with global organisations including the United Nations and the European Union. Fluent in four languages and living in Spain, Doro has built a career that, from the outside, looked stable, successful, and purposeful.

But beneath that surface, two powerful “stone in the shoe” moments began to emerge.

The first came during early motherhood, when the rigid structure of a 9–5 role no longer aligned with thelife she wanted for herself or her children. The second arrived years later, amid global uncertainty and geopolitical shifts, when long-standing projects were paused and Doro found herself questioning not just what she was doing,  but why.

What followed was not a dramatic leap, but a deeply intentional recalibration. Through listening to her intuition, preparing carefully, and trusting that the universe would meet her halfway, Doro created space to step into her own voice -  launching purpose-led projects, building communities of inspiring women around the world, and redefining success on her own terms.

This episode is rich with wisdom about navigating uncertainty, balancing intuition with practical planning, andallowing midlife to become a time of expansion rather than contraction.

If you’ve ever felt the quiet nudge that something needs to change,  or wondered how to honour your inner knowing without burning everything down,  this conversation will meet you exactly where you are.

By the end, you’ll feel reassured that you don’t need to have every step mapped out,  you just need the courage to take the next aligned one.

Erika Navarro is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist,  from Colombia and used to work in Los Angeles. She’s also a mother, wife, and the founder of Healing Souls by Erika, where she offers courses and support that blend nervous system healing, emotional wellness, and somatic practices for both women and men.

For years, Erika lived in survival mode - high-functioning on the outside but disconnected within. It wasn’t until anxiety, burnout and exhaustion brought her to a breaking point that she began to listen to the whisper in her body… and chose a different way.

In this honest and grounded conversation, Erika shares how she let go of over-performing, embraced softness and rest, and redefined what true strength means. We talk about healing cultural patterns, honouring your nervous system, and the freedom that comes when you stop trying to hold it all together alone.

If you’ve ever felt like you should be coping just fine, but deep down, something doesn’t feel right, this episode will speak directly to your heart.

By the end, you’ll feel seen, soothed, and reminded that you don’t have to wait for a crisis to choose something better.

Dr. Jayn is a neuro-physiological psychologist whose work spans continents, cultures, and decades. With a doctorate and two master’s degrees in psychology, she brings extraordinary depth to the field of nervous system healing and trauma recovery.

In this conversation, she shares the two pivotal “stone in the shoe” moments that transformed the course of her life. First, leaving behind a global career in mergers and acquisitions to follow a deeper calling into psychology, and then, decades later, facing a profound personal and financial loss that led her to start over at 52.

What followed was a journey of radical inner recalibration - through science, spirituality, and soul work - and the creation of Villa 19, a residential sanctum in Malaysia designed for nervous system regulation and full-body healing.

This episode is filled with lived wisdom, from trauma-informed insight to lessons in listening to your inner voice, especially when the outside world expects something else.

Whether you’re in transition, starting over, or simply feeling the quiet nudge of something more, Dr. Jayn’s story is a powerful reminder that healing, clarity, and purpose are always possible.

Enjoy.

By the end, you’ll feel inspired to meet your own turning points with more self-compassion, courage, and curiosity