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Send us Fan MailWhat if the way we have been defining success is quietly costing us our wellbeing? Not in dramatic ways, but in the relationships we rush past, the trade-offs we normalise, and the parts of ourselves we slowly stop showing up for.
In this episode, Joel Miller, co-founder of The Sky Floor, sits down with Yusuf to share a grounded take on what sustainable success actually looks like. From running a two-person agency with his twin brother for over fifteen years to choosing family time over the next dollar, Joel makes the case that people, not profits, are the only thing that lasts.
About the Guest:
Joel Miller is co-founder of The Sky Floor, a digital marketing agency he runs with his identical twin brother Alan since 2009. Based in the Chicago area, Joel has built his business around long-term client partnerships, family-first decision making, and a quiet rejection of grind culture. He is also a parent, a reader, and a thoughtful voice on what it means to define success on your own terms.
Key Takeaways:
If you never define what success means for you, you will keep reaching for more without ever knowing you have arrived. A working definition for the season you are in is one of the most underrated tools an entrepreneur has.
Work-life balance is a misleading frame. We spend more waking hours working than doing almost anything else, so the goal is integration that supports the whole life, not constant trade-offs between two opposing sides.
The "sacrifice everything for the win" stories we read in business media are cautionary tales, not blueprints. There is almost always a healthier version of the same success.
Generosity is a mindset, not a milestone. Some of the most generous people have very little to give, and the wait-and-see version of generosity rarely arrives.
Putting people first in business looks practical, not poetic. Saying no to extra revenue to protect family time, absorbing small extras for long-term clients, and not nickel-and-diming people all compound into trust and longevity.
A good clarifying question is, "What would I want said about me at the end?" Whatever your answer, start orienting your work and personal life around that today rather than waiting for a wake-up call.
Connect With the Guest:
Website: theskyfloor.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joelelliottmiller
Company blog (Medium): medium.com/the-sky-floor
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] Opening Reflection — When the Definition of Success Quietly Costs You
[01:54] Meet Joel Miller — Building a Business with His Twin Brother
[03:39] The Obsession With More, and Why Defining Success Matters
[07:00] Identity, Legacy, and the Tombstone Question
[10:01] From Goal-Oriented to People-Oriented — A Subtle But Total Shift
[11:38] What "People Over Profits" Actually Looks Like in Daily Practice
[15:53] The First Step Toward Redefining Success
[19:28] A Final Word — Start Now, Not Later
(Timestamps approximate, based on natural shifts in the conversation.)
 
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Send us Fan MailYou can hit every business milestone and still feel like something inside you is quietly breaking. This conversation is for the high-achiever who looks fine on the outside, the entrepreneur whose numbers are climbing while their inner world is unraveling, and the "strong friend" no one thinks to check on.
In this episode, Allie Bloyd opens up about the seasons when business was booming and her mental health was at its lowest, the loneliness of carrying everything alone, and how journaling, self-awareness, and unhooking her worth from her output finally let her rest without losing her ambition.
About the Guest:
Allie Bloyd is the founder of Allie Bloyd Media (rebranding to The Allie Way), a marketing strategist, mom of two, and author of the upcoming six-book memoir series Choose Me, based on twenty years of personal journals. Her work sits at the intersection of business growth, self-awareness, and honest storytelling.
Key Takeaways:
External success and inner wellbeing are two separate scoreboards. A great revenue year can sit right next to a personal mental health crisis, and the people around you may only see one of them.
"Check on your strong friends" is more than a hashtag. When you are the one who handles everything, people stop asking if you are okay, and that silence becomes its own weight.
Self-worth tied to achievement is not a personality trait, it is often a wound. Pattern-spotting through journaling and honest character analysis can reveal where that wiring started.
Communicating a need over and over and not being heard is its own mental health injury. Sometimes the most caring thing you can do for yourself is stop hoping the message will land and start changing the room.
Rest is a skill, not a reward. You can be wired for momentum, love your work, and still build daily and weekly practices that protect your nervous system.
You cannot outsource your mental health. Even the best support system cannot replace becoming the captain of your own inner life.
Connect With the Guest:
Website: https://alliebloyd.com/ 
Book series (pre-order): ChooseMeSeries.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alliebloyd
Instagram: instagram.com/alliebloydmedia
Facebook: facebook.com/alliebloydmedia
YouTube: youtube.com/c/alliebloyd
X / Twitter: x.com/alliebloyd
Podcast: Marketing Ink (marketinginkpodcast.com)
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] Opening Reflection — The Quiet Cost of Visible Success
[01:17] Meet Allie Bloyd — When Numbers Rise and the Inside Caves In
[02:00] 2020: The Year the Business Exploded and Depression Set In
[06:24] The Loneliness of Being the Strong One
[09:00] 2024: Carrying the Home, the Business, and No One Carrying Her
[13:15] Why High Achievers Tie Their Worth to Output
[20:24] The Choose Me Series — Journals, Patterns, and Self-Rescue
[26:25] Where to Find Allie and Closing Words
(Timestamps approximate, based on natural shifts in the conversation.)
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Send us Fan MailWhat happens when the life you built with years of discipline, sacrifice, and dedication starts to feel like it belongs to someone else? This episode is for anyone who has ever looked at their own achievements and quietly wondered, is this still me? Dr. Cristina LePort, a cardiologist who practiced medicine for over thirty years, joins host Sana for a candid conversation about reinvention, the courage it takes to begin again, and what it really means to evolve.
Through her story, from growing up in Italy hating to write, to emigrating to America, to spending years collecting rejection letters before becoming a traditionally published medical thriller author, Cristina offers something rare: an honest, unhurried account of what following your curiosity actually costs, and why it is almost always worth it.
About the Guest:
Dr. Cristina LePort was born in Bologna, Italy, attended medical school at the University of Bologna, and completed her Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship in the United States. She practiced medicine for over thirty years before retiring in 2023 to become a full-time author. She is the Amazon bestselling author of the medical thrillers Dissection and Change of Heart, and her upcoming novel Defrosted has earned a rare Kirkus Review star.
Key Takeaways:
The things you hate at one point in your life can become the very things that set you free. Cristina hated writing as a child because she had to write what others told her to. As an author, she writes whatever she imagines. That shift from assignment to autonomy changed everything.
Reinvention doesn't have to mean abandoning who you are. Cristina didn't leave medicine behind. She brought it with her into her fiction. Her medical knowledge is the foundation of every thriller she writes, including the high-stakes pacing, the diagnostic thinking, and the weight of life-and-death decisions.
Rejection at scale is part of the creative path. Getting published traditionally means entering a world where only about 2% of manuscripts find a home. Cristina received hundreds of rejections. Her response each time was to go home and write something new. The waiting period produced three to four novels.
You cannot survive the creative journey on talent alone. You need resilience. Writing coaches, editors, publicists, literary agents: Cristina invested in every layer of support available to her. Asking for help is not weakness in the creative world. It is strategy.
Evolution is not optional. It is survival. Staying in a version of your life that has exhausted its purpose is its own kind of stagnation. Cristina left a career she loved because she could feel it had given her what it had to give. Knowing when to move is as important as knowing how.
The purpose of a book is to complete a circle between the author and the reader. You begin with an idea, you build the world, and the reader arrives at your original meaning on their own terms. That connection, stranger to stranger through story, is what makes all the difficulty worthwhile.
Connect With Dr. Cristina LePort:
Mentioned in this episode:
Books (available on Amazon, search: Cristina LePort, C-R-I-S-T-I-N-A, L-E-P-O-R-T):
Dissection (Amazon #1 in Political Thriller and Suspense)
Change of Heart (Sequel to Dissection, published October 2024)
Defrosted (upcoming, earned a Kirkus Review star, available for pre-order)
Website: https://cristinaleport.com
Substack / Newsletter: Available via website
YouTube: "The Journey to Publication" series by Cristina LePort
Instagram: @cristinaleport (https://www.instagram.com/cristinaleport)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristina-rizza-leport-18922b167/
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] The Life That Looks Perfect on Paper — An opening that asks the hardest question: when did it stop feeling like yours?
[10:00] From Bologna to California — Cristina's first reinvention: leaving Italy, barely speaking English, and building a medical career from scratch
[14:00] When Routine Becomes a Signal — How 17 years of internal medicine led to a midlife pivot and a cardiology fellowship
[16:00] The Book That Opened a Door — How reading Ayn Rand's The Art of Fiction sparked an entirely new creative desire
[20:00] The Journey to Publication — Hundreds of rejections, three to four novels written in the waiting, and what resilience actually looks like
[27:00] The Parallels Between Medicine and Thrillers — Why being a doctor made Cristina a better novelist, and vice versa
[31:00] On Courage and Evolution — What it means to let go of a version of yourself that has served its purpose
 
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Send us Fan MailHave you ever felt like you knew something was off about the path your child was on, but everyone around you, doctors, teachers, experts, seemed so certain you were wrong? This episode sits with that tension. Robert C. DeLena joins host Sayan for an honest, deeply personal conversation about parenting a child who didn't fit the mold, and what it cost them before they found the courage to trust their own instincts.
Through the story of his son Ryan, who went from a child labeled, restrained, and misunderstood by the educational system to a professional outdoorsman and adventurer, Robert shares what raising a resilient child actually looks like from the inside. Not the Instagram version. The real one, full of wrong turns, hard lessons, and one accidental ski trip that changed everything.
About the Guest:
Robert C. DeLena is the co-author of Without Restraint: How Skiing Saved My Son's Life, a father-son memoir co-written with his son Ryan DeLena. A legal professional and recruiter based in Massachusetts, Robert has spent years sharing the lessons of their family's journey to help other parents navigate systems that don't always see the full picture of who their child is.
Key Takeaways:
You know your child better than any expert does. A diagnosis or a label can narrow how others see your child, but it doesn't have to narrow how you see them. Trust what you observe daily, what no appointment can capture.
Buffering your child from every fall doesn't build resilience. It delays it. Resilience grows through experience, not protection. Letting a child stumble, within reason, is part of the process, not a failure of parenting.
The system is designed around compliance, not curiosity. A child who doesn't sit still, color within the lines, or listen to every instruction may not have a disorder. They may simply be wired for leadership, exploration, or a kind of learning that classrooms don't reward.
Finding one thing that lights a child up can carry them through years of difficulty. Ryan's skiing wasn't just a hobby. It was the thread that kept him connected to himself when everything else felt like failure. Help your child find their version of that thread.
Resilience is something parents also have to practice. Robert's story isn't just about Ryan. It's about a father who had to get up after bad decisions, wrong turns, and borrowed certainties, and try again with more honesty and less fear.
Don't create pathways toward a career you want. Create pathways toward what makes them feel alive. There's a difference between happiness as a goal and freedom as a foundation. Aim for the second.
Connect With Robert C. DeLena:
Robert mentioned in this episode:
Book: Without Restraint: How Skiing Saved My Son's Life (co-authored with Ryan DeLena) Available on Amazon (print, Kindle, and audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Without-Restraint-Robert-DeLena/dp/1493066927
Official Book Website: https://without-restraint-book.com
Follow Ryan DeLena (Robert's son): Instagram: @Extreme_Ryan_DeLena YouTube: Ryan DeLena (outdoor adventure, ski mountaineering, rock climbing)
Robert C. DeLena: Instagram: @robert.delena (https://www.instagram.com/robert.delena) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertdelena/ X (Twitter): @delena_robert
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] The Question Parents Don't Ask Enough — What does it actually take to raise a resilient child?
[04:00] First Impressions — Robert joins Sayan and shares the heart of what this conversation is about: trusting yourself as a parent
[09:00] The Kid Who Wouldn't Color in the Lines — How Ryan's early years exposed a gap between who he was and what the system expected
[13:30] When Labels Become Limits — A PDD-NOS diagnosis, therapeutic schools, and how one decision snowballed into years of unintended harm
[19:30] The Ski Hill That Changed Everything — One unplanned winter day, a different child, and the moment Robert began to see Ryan clearly
[22:00] What Parents Can Actually Do — Practical, human lessons: trust your instincts, find the passion, keep getting up
[27:00] Letting Them Find Their Own Path — On expectations, happiness, and what it really means to parent without a script
 
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Send us Fan MailMost people think sales is about talking. Pitching. Closing. But here is what nobody tells you before you sit down at that desk for the first time: it is one of the loneliest, most psychologically demanding professions there is. The rejection is constant. The pressure is relentless. And almost no one is checking in on how you are doing on the inside.
Bryan Charleau spent 15 years learning that the hard way, across industries ranging from software to construction, before writing the book he wished he had on day one. In this conversation with host Sana, he gets honest about what it really feels like to start in sales, why numbness is not the answer, how to stop taking rejection personally, and what has to shift inside you before a sales job ever becomes a sales career. This one is for every person who has sat with a phone they were afraid to pick up, and every person who loves someone who has.
About the Guest:
Bryan Charleau is the founder of Pitching Sales Consulting, based in Toronto, Canada, and author of Pitching Sales: A Complete Guide to Becoming a Sales Professional. With over 15 years of experience across industries including software, sports hospitality, automotive, and construction, he now dedicates his work to mentoring new and young sales professionals through the emotional and psychological reality of the profession.
Key Takeaways:
Sales is as much an internal battle as an external one. The voices that build up after a string of rejections, the doubt, the comparison to colleagues succeeding around you, those are the real obstacles, not the phone calls.
Numbness is not the goal, acknowledgment is. You do not want to bury a no, you want to learn from it, and then genuinely let it go before the next call. That is the skill.
Rejection is almost never about you. The person on the other end of that call is carrying their own day. You just happened to ring at the wrong moment. Building that understanding is what separates people who last from people who leave.
A staring contest with your phone is one you will always lose. The only way to grow in sales is to start hearing no as early as possible, because no is the feedback loop that shapes everything.
The most dangerous prospect is not the one who says no, it is the one who says maybe forever. A polite, clear no respects everyone's time and energy far more than months of false hope.
The shift from sales job to sales career is entirely an internal one. When your livelihood, your family, and your future are what you are actually showing up for, the behind-the-scenes work starts to feel necessary rather than optional, and that is when real growth begins.
Connect With Bryan Charleau:
Website: https://www.pitchingsalesconsulting.com
Book (Pitching Sales on Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1738651606
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pitchingsales/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryancharleau/
Email: pitchingsales@gmail.com
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] The Cold Open — What nobody tells you before your first day in sales
[06:00] Bryan's Introduction — From Toronto to 15 years across industries
[08:30] Thrown Into the Fire — The gap between the promise of sales and the reality of day one [11:00] Learning to Hear No — Why rejection is feedback, not failure
[15:00] It Is Not About You — Building the internal muscle to reset between calls
[22:00] The Dangerous Maybe — Why the polite prospect who never buys costs you more than the rude one who says no fast
[29:00] Job vs. Career — The one mindset shift that unlocks everything else
[40:00] Outro and Resources — Where to find Bryan and the book
 
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Send us Fan MailWhat if the loneliness you feel right now is not a personal failure, but a collective wound we have never been honest enough to talk about? We are living in the most connected era in human history. More messages, more followers, more feeds. And yet loneliness, depression, and anxiety are climbing. This episode asks the question that makes most productivity conversations uncomfortable: what is actually going on inside the people who are supposedly leading the world?
Dr. Anthony Silard has spent decades coaching Fortune 500 executives, G20 cabinet ministers, and leaders of the world's largest nonprofits, and his finding is quiet and consistent: leadership breaks down at the level of relationships, and relationships break down at the level of emotion. In this conversation with host Sana, he brings together research on social convoys, the displacement effect of screen time, the loneliness crisis among men, and what it actually takes to build a life worth leading. A gentle, evidence-grounded conversation that leaves you with something to sit with long after it ends.
About the Guest:
Dr. Anthony Silard is a professor of leadership and organizational psychology and Director of the Center for Sustainable Leadership at Luiss Business School in Rome. He is the author of Love and Suffering: Break the Emotional Chains that Prevent You from Experiencing Love, a multi-award-winning book whose full proceeds go to nonprofit education programs in Africa and Latin America. He has coached leaders at Disney, IBM, GE, CARE, and Save the Children, lectured at Harvard, Stanford, and Georgetown, and is CEO of the Global Leadership Institute.
Key Takeaways:
Leadership is not about authority, it is about relationships. The most widely accepted definition of leadership is the capacity to mobilize people toward shared goals, and research shows that 85% of a leader's long-term success comes down to personal character and socio-emotional skills, not technical expertise.
There is a critical difference between being in contact and being connected. We are in contact with more people than ever before, and genuinely connected with fewer. The displacement effect of screen time means that every extra hour online comes at a real cost to in-person relationships.
Social convoys are not a luxury, they are a lifeline. The close relationships that travel with us through life determine not just our happiness, but our health and longevity. People with strong social convoys live longer, recover faster, and age with far greater resilience.
Caretaking chosen freely builds rather than depletes. Research shows that when caretaking feels like a choice rather than an obligation, it increases wellbeing rather than reducing it. The meaning changes everything.
Male loneliness is a quiet crisis with visible consequences. Men who outsource the work of relationships, and who leave no room for male friendship, are arriving at midlife and old age without the social infrastructure to survive loss, and the numbers on deaths of despair reflect it.
The answer to loneliness is not more connection, it is better connection. A thousand followers cannot replace one person who genuinely knows you.
Connect With Dr. Anthony Silard:
Website: https://theartoflivingfree.org
Free books (The Myth of Happiness + The Myth of Friendship): https://theartoflivingfree.org/#buyit/ 
Book (Love and Suffering): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0981785379
Psychology Today blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/anthony-silard-phd
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-silard-a305516/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anthony.silard/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnthonySilard/
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] The Question Nobody Is Asking — Cold open on loneliness as a collective wound [09:54] Leadership from the Inside Out — Why relationships are the make-or-break factor in any career
[13:00] The Company You Keep — The surprising etymology of company, confidence, and what they actually mean
[17:00] In Contact With So Many, Connected With So Few — The displacement effect and the loneliness epidemic in numbers
[24:00] Social Convoys — The research on the close relationships that shape how long and how well we live
[29:00] Men, Friendship, and the Cost of Outsourcing Relationships — Why male loneliness is reaching crisis levels
[37:00] Two Free Books and How to Reach Anthony — Resources and closing reflection from Sana
 
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Send us Fan MailThere are moments when we reach for something, not because we are hungry, but because we are feeling something we don't quite know how to sit with. Stress. Loneliness. Restlessness. And for many people, that something becomes food. This episode asks the question that most diets never bother to ask: what if food was never the problem to begin with?
Paige Alexander has lived inside food addiction since her earliest memory, with sugar as her constant companion from childhood through her mid-50s. Today she co-founded Real Food Recovery, co-authored the book of the same name, and guides people through a recovery process that has nothing to do with willpower and everything to do with emotional honesty. In this conversation with Avik, she breaks open what compulsive eating actually is, why the diet approach keeps failing, and how real healing begins with one small, doable shift at a time.
About the Guest:
Paige Alexander is a Registered Nurse, wellness coach, speaker, and co-founder of Real Food Recovery. She is the co-author of Real Food Recovery: If Food Isn't the Answer, What's the Question? and host of the Real Food Recovery Podcast. Drawing on her own decades-long journey with food addiction, she guides people through a 16-branch recovery system built around emotional awareness, nervous system regulation, and community.
Key Takeaways:
Food addiction is not a willpower problem. It activates the same brain pathways as any other addiction, and no amount of discipline or dieting will hold without addressing what is underneath the behavior.
We give food a bigger job than it was ever meant to do. When we use food for comfort, stress relief, or emotional regulation, we are asking it to solve something it was never designed to solve.
Awareness comes before change, always. The first step in recovery is not a food plan. It is a gentle, honest look at where food shows up in your life and what feeling it is trying to quiet.
Change happens slowly and deliberately. Paige never starts with food. She starts with sleep, hydration, movement, spiritual life, whatever is the most accessible entry point. One small shift at a time.
Connection is the opposite of addiction. You cannot do this alone, and you were never meant to. Community offers the compassion, coaching, and safety that makes the hard work feel doable.
Recovery rewires the brain over time. Neural pathways formed over decades of habit cannot be changed overnight. Every time you choose a different response to stress, you are beginning to rebuild those pathways.
Connect With Paige Alexander:
Website: https://www.realfoodrecovery4u.com
Book (Real Food Recovery): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1P5T2D7
Podcast: Real Food Recovery Podcast (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realfoodrecovery4u/
TikTok: @realfoodrecovery
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/foodfitnessbypaige/
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] What We Reach For — The cold open on hunger that isn't about food
[07:54] Paige's Story — Sugar as a lifelong companion, from childhood to mid-50s
[10:00] The Willpower Myth — Why discipline alone will never be enough
[13:00] Giving Food Too Big a Job — What happens when eating becomes emotional management
[17:00] How It Shows Up Daily — The Starbucks stop, the desk snack, the midnight cookies [20:00] Starting Without Overwhelm — Why recovery begins with sleep, movement, and curiosity, not a food list
[22:00] Community, Self-Trust, and the Long Haul — Why healing is a journey, not a sprint
 
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Send us Fan MailThere's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being the person you had to become just to get through something. This episode is for anyone who has survived the hard thing, and is quietly wondering why they still feel like they're surviving it.
Yusuf sits down with Dr. Kaci Myers, Army veteran, certified life and love coach, author, and founder of Speaking Freedom. Dr. Kaci challenges the idea that healing means fixing something broken. Instead, she walks through reframing trauma so the lesson outweighs the trigger, the accountability work nobody wants to do in relationships, why we keep dating the same person in different bodies, and why journaling is the single most powerful practice for breaking patterns. A direct, grounded conversation about self-leadership, self-respect, and learning to hear your own soul before you hear anyone else's voice.
About the Guest:
Dr. Kaci Myers is the CEO and founder of Speaking Freedom, a virtual life coaching center, and the developer of the Spiritual Human Behavior framework, an evolving area of psychology that integrates spirituality, human behavior, and heart healing for purpose-driven living. She is an Army veteran, certified Life, Love, and Relationship Coach, Licensed Massage Therapist, ordained minister, mediation specialist, and the author of It's My Time (2006), with additional books and courses in production. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, she is widely known as "the Cardiologist of the Emotionally Scarred" for her direct, compassionate approach to helping clients move past trauma and into self-led purpose.
Key Takeaways:
Survival mode never fully leaves. Triggers aren't always bad, but learning to recognize them is the first step out of constant defense.
Healing isn't about fixing what was broken. It's about reframing the experience so the lesson outweighs the trigger.
After loss, find the lessons. Going back through memories to pull out what someone taught you, in good times and bad, slowly transforms grief into gratitude.
After a breakup, do the accountability work. What did you ignore? What did you allow? What inside you made the treatment feel okay?
We don't keep dating different people. We keep dating the same person in different bodies, until we stop ignoring our own soul's "no."
Write it down. Journaling creates accountability that thinking alone can't. Patterns become visible only when you can read them back to yourself.
Connect With the Guest:
Website: https://speakingfreedom.org
Bookstore and class booking: https://allthingsselfcare.org
Instagram (@speakingfreedom): https://www.instagram.com/speakingfreedom
X / Twitter: search "Speaking Freedom"
Speaking Freedom TV: https://speakingfreedomtv.org
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] Cold Open: You Can Survive Something and Still Be Living Inside It
[02:30] Why Survival Mode Never Fully Leaves (approx.)
[05:00] Healing Is Reframing, Not Fixing (approx.)
[07:30] Grieving a Death: Finding the Lessons Hidden in the Memories (approx.)
[10:00] After a Breakup: The Accountability Work Most People Skip (approx.)
[14:00] The Pattern Nobody Wants to See: Dating the Same Person in Different Bodies (approx.) [17:30] Body Awareness as a Metaphor for Behavior Patterns (approx.)
[19:30] How to Stop Confusing Surface Attention with Real Connection (approx.)
[22:30] Why Journaling Beats Just Thinking About It (approx.)
[25:00] Final Reflection: Believe in Yourself, Then Build the Life You Want (approx.)
 
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Send us Fan MailThere's a particular kind of growth that doesn't arrive with fanfare. It arrives in the margins of a book at midnight, in a journal entry no one will ever read, in a single sentence that catches you off guard and stays. This episode is for anyone who has felt a little far from themselves and forgotten that words can bring you home.
Yusuf sits down with Susan "Susie" Gooch, novelist, retired English teacher, dyslexia advocate, and author of The Carrington Affairs and The Nonnegotiable. Susie shares the moment in eighth grade that taught her the power of the written word, how journaling lets students say things they didn't know they needed to say, why no one ever regrets time spent with their family, and the simple practice of asking yourself who you actually want to become. A warm, story-led conversation about reading as self-care and writing as self-discovery.
About the Guest:
Susan Gooch is a novelist, retired English teacher, and literacy advocate from Searcy, Arkansas. After more than two decades cultivating a love of reading and writing in her students, she now writes full-time. She is the author of The Carrington Affairs (Book 1) and The Nonnegotiable (Book 2) in The Carrington Series, with a third novel, The Dirty Birds Book Club, on the way. A voracious reader who finishes over two hundred books a year, she shares her favorites through her "Y'all Have Got To Read This" feature on Instagram. Susie is dyslexic, married to her high school sweetheart of nearly forty years, mother of three, and "Mimi" to four granddaughters.
Key Takeaways:
Good writing doesn't go out of date. When a story nails the human condition, it connects across centuries and continents because people are fundamentally the same.
Reading is communication. Telling a child "we're not reading people" gives them permission to opt out of becoming a fuller version of themselves.
Journaling lets you say what you didn't know you needed to say. Quiet writing has a way of unburdening you in places conversation can't reach.
You can choose the woman, the man, the person you want to be. The books you read and the ones you write are part of how you reinvent yourself daily.
Start small. You wouldn't walk into a gym and try a four-hour workout with four hundred pound weights. Begin with a joke book, a short article, a single page. Build the habit before you scale it.
The world is running. The peace is in being still long enough to actually be with the people, the pages, and the moments in front of you. No one has ever died wishing they spent less time with their family.
Connect With the Guest:
Website: https://www.susangooch.com
Instagram (@susangoochauthor): https://www.instagram.com/susangoochauthor
Book The Carrington Affairs (Amazon paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Carrington-Affairs-Novel-Little-Secrets/dp/B0CX3Q6ZB3
Book The Nonnegotiable (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Nonnegotiable-Carrington-Book-2/dp/1636987990
Y'all Have Got To Read This book recommendation series: search "@susangoochauthor" on Instagram
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] Cold Open: When Was the Last Time a Book Changed Something in You?
[02:30] The Eighth-Grade Moment That Showed Susie the Power of Words (approx.)
[05:30] Reading 20 Minutes a Day and Choosing Who You Become (approx.)
[08:30] Why "We're Not Reading People" Quietly Hurts a Child's Future (approx.)
[12:00] Starting Small: Joke Books, TikTok Lyrics, and Building the Habit (approx.)
[14:30] Why People Lose the Habit, and How to Find Their Way Back (approx.)
[18:30] The Hidden Cost of Always Running After the Next Thing (approx.)
[21:00] Why No One Ever Dies Wishing They Worked More (approx.)
[23:00] Final Reflection: Choose Your One Non-Negotiable (approx.)
 
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Send us Fan MailSome loves don't end with a single goodbye. They end slowly, breath by breath, in the long middle where you're still loving someone who is leaving. This episode is for anyone who has lived inside that kind of farewell, or who knows that one day they will.
Yusuf sits down with Rachel Kerr Schneider, author of The Widow Chose Red? My Journey with Jesus, John, and ALS. Rachel walks through her 24 years with her late husband John, the year of silent caregiving before she told their two young sons, the cost of being "the strong one" too long, and what it actually means to help someone finish well. They talk about why families avoid the conversation about death until they're forced into it, what children carry when no one knows how to name it, and the quiet sacredness of an ordinary day with someone you love. Honest, warm, and quietly luminous.
About the Guest:
Rachel Kerr Schneider is the author of the award-winning memoir The Widow Chose Red? My Journey with Jesus, John, and ALS, with a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Patty Aubery. After losing her first husband John to ALS in 2011, Rachel raised their two sons through grief, single parenting, and her older son's recovery from addiction, and eventually remarried, becoming a bonus mom to four girls who lost their own mother to breast cancer. She is the founder of Spirited Prosperity, a faith-based ministry that helps women navigate life's hardest seasons. Her career spans advertising, marketing, and direct sales, where she built a team of more than 400 women. She lives in north Texas with her husband, Kevin. Proceeds from her book benefit the LiveLikeLou Foundation for ALS research and family support.
Key Takeaways:
Caregiving can quietly rob you of joy if you let the urgency of the day-to-day eclipse the memory of the person. Make space, even briefly, to feel them as more than their illness.
"Being strong for them" cracks. The real strength is letting yourself be vulnerable enough to say what you actually feel, especially with the person you love.
The conversation about death needs to happen more than once, and ideally before the diagnosis arrives. Avoiding it doesn't protect anyone, it just leaves the family to make impossible decisions while emotionally distraught.
Children grieve in code. One may turn to drugs, another to sports, another to silence. They don't need perfect answers, they need presence, truth, and permission to feel.
Finishing well is rarely about doing something extraordinary. For Rachel's husband, it was: keep life as normal as possible, stay close to the people I love, die at home. Honoring those wishes, however simple, is the work.
Memory is its own form of presence. A song, a smell, a phrase can return you to someone in a moment. Grief and love share the same neural pathway. That's a gift, not a burden.
Connect With the Guest:
Website: https://www.spiritedprosperity.com
Book The Widow Chose Red? (Amazon paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Widow-Chose-Red-Journey-Jesus/dp/1966561105
Audiobook on Audible: https://www.amazon.com/Widow-Chose-Red-Journey-Jesus/dp/B0FP6JP1M2
LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram: search "Rachel Kerr Schneider"
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] Cold Open: How Do You Stay Alive Inside a Slow Goodbye?
[03:00] The Moments That Take Your Breath Away (approx.)
[06:30] How Caregiving Slowly Eclipsed the Joy (approx.)
[09:00] Why "Being Strong" Eventually Cracks (approx.)
[12:00] Why Families Avoid the Death Conversation Until They're Forced To (approx.)
[15:00] What Children Carry When No One Knows How to Name It (approx.)
[19:00] What Finishing Well Actually Looks Like in Real Life (approx.)
[22:30] The Sacredness of an Ordinary Day With Someone You Love (approx.)
[24:30] Memory as a Form of Presence (approx.)
 
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Send us Fan MailMost comeback stories skip the part that actually matters. The middle. The part where you don't recognize yourself anymore, where getting out of bed feels like a negotiation, where you isolate because you can't bear to be seen. This episode lives in that middle.
Sana sits down with Michael Bugary, former Boston Red Sox prospect, brain cancer survivor, motivational speaker, and author of The Disease of Me. Michael walks through losing his professional baseball career at 23, the opiate addiction that followed, the brain cancer diagnosis that stripped him down further, and the slow, difficult work of building self-worth from the inside out. They talk about identity foreclosure, why connection matters more than achievement, and the line that anchors the whole conversation: I am the disease, not the drugs. Honest, raw, and quietly hopeful.
About the Guest:
Michael Bugary is a former Division I and professional baseball player, brain cancer survivor, motivational speaker, mentor, and author of The Disease of Me: How Losing My Professional Baseball Career, Drug Addiction, and Brain Cancer Saved My Life. He played at UC Berkeley before being drafted by the Boston Red Sox organization. After a career-ending arm injury in his second professional season, he turned to opiates to cope with depression and the loss of identity. As his addiction progressed, he was diagnosed with a large malignant brain tumor and underwent multiple surgeries, intense chemotherapy, and radiation. Today he speaks and writes about what he calls the Triple Crown of Adversity — career loss, addiction, and cancer, and the path back to a life rooted in humility, recovery, and truth.
Key Takeaways:
When your identity is built on one thing and that thing is taken away, the loss isn't just the dream. It's the person you thought you were. Psychology calls it identity foreclosure. Michael lived it.
Addiction isn't always about substances. It can be the chase for validation, attention, or the version of yourself that the world used to applaud.
"I am the disease, not the drugs." The substance is a symptom. The deeper pattern is the constant need for more, validation, attention, the next high, the next achievement.
Isolation feels like protection but quietly becomes another form of suffering. Asking for help isn't financial. It's saying the real, honest thing out loud.
Acceptance is not approval. It's acknowledging that something happened, that you can't change it, and that you can do better from here.
Compare yourself only to who you were yesterday. The only person worth measuring against is your old self, not anyone else's version of success.
Connect With the Guest:
Website: https://www.michaelbugary.com/ 
Book The Disease of Me (Amazon paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Disease-Me-Professional-Baseball-Addiction/dp/B0GMYFNG4C 
Book The Disease of Me (Kindle): https://www.amazon.com/Disease-Me-Professional-Baseball-Addiction-ebook/dp/B0GMYBQZ3S
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-bugary-29802a323/ 
Instagram and Facebook
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] Cold Open: The Quiet, Messy Middle Nobody Talks About
[03:00] Losing Baseball at 23 and What Actually Broke (approx.)
[06:00] Identity Foreclosure: When the Thing You Built Yourself On Disappears (approx.) [09:00] OxyContin, Numbing, and the Lies We Tell to Survive (approx.)
[13:00] The Difference Between Surviving and Living (approx.)
[15:30] "I Am the Disease, Not the Drugs": Naming the Real Pattern (approx.)
[18:00] Why Brain Cancer Made Michael Isolate Even More (approx.)
[22:00] Authenticity, Vulnerability, and Why Pretending Is Exhausting (approx.)
[26:00] Suffering as a Choice: Pain vs. Suffering, Connection vs. Isolation (approx.)
[30:00] Acceptance Is Not Approval (approx.)
[33:00] Final Reflection: Compare Yourself Only to Who You Were Yesterday (approx.)
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Send us Fan MailYou can say no clearly, communicate your needs, and still find yourself in situations you never wanted to be in. This episode is for anyone who has done the boundary work and wondered why it keeps not landing.
Sayan sits down with Kelly Gagalis, Marriage and Family Therapist, dating rehabilitation specialist, and creator of Swipe Safely and the Hero Dating Method. Kelly makes a sharp distinction most people have never heard: most of what we call "boundaries" are actually requests dressed up as rules, held in place by shame and nagging. They unpack the difference between prey behavior and confident deterrent, why early action keeps you safer than late communication, and what it actually takes to build a boundary that holds. A clarifying, no-fluff conversation for anyone dating, partnering, or rebuilding trust in their own instincts.
About the Guest:
Kelly Gagalis is a Marriage and Family Therapist with 15+ years of coaching experience, a monthly ABC TV dating and relationship contributor for 17 years, and the creator of the Hero Dating Method, Swipe Safely, and the Developmental Boundary System. She helps women and gay men rebuild trust, protect their peace, and attract partners who truly value them, through private coaching and a free safety app for online dating.
Key Takeaways:
Most "boundaries" aren't boundaries, they're requests held together with shame, nagging, or inconsistency. A real boundary doesn't depend on the other person honoring it.
A real boundary has a built-in repercussion. If you're not willing to change the relationship when the line is crossed, you've made a request, not set a boundary.
Prey behavior is what gets us hurt. Predators succeed when their target sees the threat and doesn't respond early enough. Confident deterrent is responding the moment something crosses the line.
Many of us were taught, as children, that asking for help or saying no would be punished. As adults, that script still runs underneath our adult relationships.
The work is letting shame run through you and doing the protective action anyway. That's how you rewrite the developmental script.
Safety isn't about what you say in the moment. It's about what you notice in your environment, what you choose consciously, and how early you act.
Connect With the Guest:
Website: https://kelly.love
Swipe Safely (free dating safety app and course): https://swipesafely.com
Coaching site: https://www.kellymariehoffman.com
 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/loveandbloved
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] Cold Open: When Boundaries Don't Work
[02:30] What Most People Get Wrong About Boundaries (approx.)
[05:30] Where the Confusion Started: Parenting, Shame, and the Last 70 Years (approx.) [09:00] The Difference Between a Boundary, a Request, and a Bullying Tactic (approx.)
[12:00] Why Insecure Attachment Quietly Sabotages Boundary-Setting (approx.)
[15:30] Prey Behavior vs. Confident Deterrent: A Wildlife Lesson for Dating (approx.)
[19:00] The Childhood Script Most People Are Still Running (approx.)
[21:30] Letting the Shame Run Through You and Doing It Anyway (approx.)
[23:30] Final Reframe: Safety Is Awareness, Choice, and Early Action (approx.)
 
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Send us Fan MailWhat happens when the version of yourself the world handed you was the version you were taught to fear? This episode is for anyone who has ever quietly wondered if they were allowed to be loved as they are.
Sayan sits down with Dr. Joshua Caraballo, industrial-organizational psychologist and author of I'm Not Dead...Yet. Joshua walks through the conviction he made inside a prison cell, the years of believing God wanted to destroy him for being gay, surviving Hodgkin's lymphoma twice, and the slow, deliberate work of falling back in love with himself. They unpack the PERMA model from positive psychology, why questioning what you've been taught is a fruitful exercise even when you keep believing it, and what self-acceptance actually looks like in practice. Honest, unhurried, and quietly hopeful.
About the Guest:
Dr. Joshua J. Caraballo, PsyD, is an industrial-organizational psychologist, author, performer, and the founder of Dr. Josh Business Solutions. Based in Denver, Colorado, his career centers on inspirational storytelling and applied science for human betterment, particularly for historically marginalized communities. He is the author of the memoir I'm Not Dead...Yet: How I Turned My Misfortunes Into Strengths, which traces his journey through a strict Jehovah's Witness upbringing, mental health struggles, addiction, prison, surviving Hodgkin's lymphoma, and coming home to himself as a gay Puerto Rican man.
Key Takeaways:
Survival can become a habit. At some point you have to ask whether the life you've been getting through is the life you actually want.
Questioning what you were taught is not betrayal, it's a fruitful exercise. Sometimes it brings you back to the same belief. Sometimes it sets you free. Either way, the asking matters.
Values aren't preferences. A real value can never harm yourself, others, or the world. If a "value" requires harm to hold, it isn't one.
Identity is not always a choice. Some parts of who you are are as fixed as ethnicity. The work isn't changing them, it's recognizing them.
The PERMA model: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Achievement and vitality. All five together build a life worth flourishing in.
Real change is incremental, not sweeping. Self-love is built in small, repeated acts, not in a single breakthrough moment.
Connect With the Guest:
Website: https://www.drjosh.solutions/ 
Book I'm Not Dead...Yet (Barnes & Noble): https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/im-not-deadyet-dr-joshua-j-caraballo/1145420055
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-josh/ 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr_josh_solutions/ 
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] Cold Open: When Survival Becomes a Habit
[03:00] The Conviction Joshua Made Inside a Prison Cell (approx.)
[06:30] Growing Up Jehovah's Witness, Gay, and Believing God Wanted to Destroy Him (approx.)
[10:00] The Power of Questioning What You've Been Taught (approx.)
[14:00] How a Real Value Is Different From a Borrowed Belief (approx.)
[17:30] Identity, Sexuality, and the Things That Cannot Be Changed (approx.)
[20:30] PERMA: The Five Pillars of Human Flourishing (approx.)
[24:00] Why Self-Love Is Built in Small, Repeated Steps (approx.)
[26:30] Final Reflection: Living for More Than Yourself (approx.)
 
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Send us Fan MailMost women don't ignore pain because they don't care. They ignore it because they were trained to keep going. This episode is for the woman who has been pushing through fatigue, heavy periods, pelvic pain, or burnout long enough that it has become her normal.
Sayan sits down with Jovonnie Ford, anti-inflammatory lifestyle coach, wellness educator, and host of Empowered Plates, Empowered Lives. After being dismissed for years and almost colliding with an 18-wheeler when stage 4 endometriosis pain hit while she was driving, Jovonnie was diagnosed with stage 4 endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS, and fibroids. She rebuilt her relationship with her body and now teaches other women to do the same. The conversation walks through her M³ Healing Empowerment Formula, the SAFE mindset framework, and the reframe that opens everything: pain is information, not punishment.
About the Guest:
Jovonnie Ford is a Healthy Habits and Lifestyle Coach, anti-inflammatory wellness educator, and the Vibrant Visionary behind Forward Vibrations. She is the host of the Empowered Plates, Empowered Lives podcast and creator of the M³ Healing Empowerment Formula and the Empowered Vibration Method. After her own diagnosis with stage 4 endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS, and fibroids, she now helps women break out of survival-mode patterns and reclaim leadership over their health and their lives.
Key Takeaways:
Pain isn't punishment, it's information. Your body has been talking to you long before it had to scream.
"Normal" is often just what's been normalized. Heavy periods, chronic fatigue, waking up tired after eight hours of sleep — none of that is a baseline you're required to live with.
Survival mode has an identity. So does healing. The shift is whether you keep proving you're resilient or start being aware enough to actually heal.
The M³ Formula: Mindset, Mindful Eating, and Movement. Mindset comes first because it shapes what you believe is possible, what you tolerate, and what becomes habit.
The SAFE mindset model: Slow down the nervous system. Acknowledge pain as information. Frame new beliefs around healing. Establish emotional safety.
Lifestyle isn't just what you eat or how you move. It's how you think, what you believe, and how you respond to your own life.
Connect With the Guest:
Website: https://www.forwardvibrations.me/coach-jovonnie 
Spot Your Triggers Quiz: https://www.forwardvibrations.me/ (linked from site)
Podcast Empowered Plates, Empowered Lives:
https://forwardvibrations.com/pages/empowered-plates-empowered-lives-podcast
Book a Healing Breakthrough Session
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] Cold Open: When Pushing Through Stops Being Resilience
[02:30] What Jovonnie's Body Was Trying to Tell Her, Long Before the Crisis (approx.)
[05:30] The Night Before, the Drive, and the 18-Wheeler That Almost Hit (approx.)
[08:00] Why Women Normalize Pain, Fatigue, and Heavy Cycles (approx.)
[11:00] The M³ Formula: Mindset, Mindful Eating, Movement (approx.)
[13:30] The SAFE Mindset Framework, Step by Step (approx.)
[18:00] Whole Foods, Organic Eating, and Building a Real Relationship With Food (approx.) [20:30] When Symptoms Resurface: A Supportive Inner Dialogue vs. Survival Voice (approx.) [23:00] Final Word: From Self-Care, to Self-Love, to Self-Leadership (approx.)
 
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Send us Fan MailAfter all the books, all the therapy, all the modalities, why does that quiet feeling of something is still wrong with me keep coming back? This episode is for the seasoned healer, the long-time seeker, and anyone who is starting to feel that the project of self-improvement might itself be the trap.
Sana sits down with Lacey K. Kelly, licensed clinical social worker, yoga therapist, and creator of the Unbecoming framework. They explore why anxiety, burnout, and relationship patterns aren't deficiencies but adaptations that once kept us safe, why mainstream wellness can quietly reinforce the belief that we are broken, and what it actually means to organize life around wholeness instead of repair. A warm, grounding conversation about rest, recognition, and remembering you were never the problem.
About the Guest:
Lacey K. Kelly, LCSW, is a licensed clinical therapist, yoga therapist, writer, and creator of the Unbecoming framework. Her work centers on nervous system orientation, identity as adaptation, and the idea that wholeness was never missing in the first place. She is the author of The Process of Unbecoming: A Different Relationship to Being Human, hosts The Unbecoming You Podcast, and runs a community for people ready to set down the weight of constant self-improvement. She lives in Arizona.
Key Takeaways:
The premise of "I need to be fixed" is often the thing that keeps people stuck. Wellness culture quietly confirms what self-doubt already whispered.
Anxiety, burnout, and recurring relationship patterns are adaptations, not defects. Your nervous system organized itself to protect what was vulnerable. That's intelligence, not pathology.
The very patterns you don't like about yourself are evidence that something inside you was worth protecting in the first place.
Healing often comes in temporary relief, then the discomfort returns. That's not failure of the modality, it's a signal that effort-based fixing has limits.
Unbecoming isn't a method or a goal-oriented system. It's a recognition that you already have the inherent capacities you need, and life can reorganize around that knowing.
New motherhood, leadership, identity shifts, all are surefire ways to fall back into the becoming paradigm. Notice the contraction, breathe, return to your own wisdom.
Connect With the Guest:
Website / The Unbecoming Hub: https://www.theunbecominghub.com
Book The Process of Unbecoming (Amazon): https://us.amazon.com/Process-Unbecoming-Different-Relationship-Being/dp/B0GSK4HYM4
The Unbecoming You Podcast: https://www.theunbecominghub.com (linked from site)
Substack and weekly essays: https://www.theunbecominghub.com (linked from site)
Episode Chapters:
[00:00] Cold Open: What If You Don't Need Fixing?
[03:30] Why "Just Work on Yourself" Quietly Reinforces the Wound (approx.)
[07:30] When Healing Modalities Stop Working: What That Actually Means (approx.)
[11:00] Anxiety, Burnout, and Patterns as Adaptive Intelligence (approx.)
[15:00] Why Modern Life Hides the Fact That You Were Built to Adapt (approx.)
[18:00] The Patterns You Hate Are Evidence You Were Worth Protecting (approx.)
[21:30] What Unbecoming Actually Looks Like in Real Life (approx.)
[26:00] How New Motherhood Pulls You Back Into the Becoming Paradigm (approx.)
[28:30] Final Reflection: You Are Not a Project, You Are a Person (approx.)
 
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