In the newest installment of our Healing Heroine series, Chandler sits down with Stephanie, a wife, mother, yoga teacher, and Reiki master. Stephanie reflects on her profound journey that began with infant loss and led her to a spiritual awakening. Alongside her is Acupuncturist and Hero Jacques Depardieu, an expert in East Asian Medicine and a core figure in Stephanie’s healing.

Stephanie opens up about her fertility struggles, the loss of her child, and her experience with years of debilitating depression. Her search for relief eventually led her to yoga, Reiki, and ultimately - acupuncture.

Together, Stephanie and Jacques explore how reconnecting spiritually, reframing beliefs, and how learning to trust intuition transformed her sense of self, motherhood, and daily life.

What You Will Learn

• [00:06:20] How years of loss, infertility treatments, and medical trauma built into unresolved grief and anxiety.
• [00:08:48] What it felt like when panic attacks began taking over daily life and becoming overwhelming.
• [00:10:31] How discovering yoga and meditation revealed the mind-body-spirit connection she had been missing.
• [00:11:47] Why her body rejected certain treatments and pushed her toward deeper answers.
• [00:20:37] What felt different the first time she met Jacques and why his approach stood apart from other acupuncturists.
• [00:24:51] How acupuncture helped her reconnect with her intuition and experience moments of peace in her own body.
• [00:39:09] The importance of energetically supporting her children by leading with love rather than fear.
• [00:49:00] How reframing her beliefs helps her navigate harder days and stay grounded in her spiritual growth.

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We often expect transformation to come from big breakthroughs, but as Hero and Psychotherapist Jen Baumgold explains, lasting change usually begins with the smallest shifts in day-to-day living.

In this episode, Jen and Chandler talk through the daily work of integration by paying attention to the body, pausing before reacting, experimenting with new behaviors, and gently challenging long-held patterns. Jen shares accessible tools for regulating the nervous system, practicing boundaries, and rebuilding trust with yourself one decision at a time.

What You Will Learn

• [00:07:31] Why awareness alone rarely creates change, and what gets in the way of turning insight into action
• [00:09:16] How letting go of a long-held belief (like stepping off the scale) can reconnect you to bodily knowing
• [00:14:48] The power of permission and small steps — why tiny experiments are often more sustainable than big overhauls
• [00:17:30] How to spot a pattern’s triggers and locate the sensation in your body so you can begin to work with it
• [00:21:13] Practical micro-habits for interrupting automatic reactions, like pausing before answering or waiting on emails
• [00:29:39] How EMDR supports integration by allowing you to access and reprocess material from a calmer, safer state
• [00:34:43] A simple nervous-system tool: using saliva or a small oral action to cue parasympathetic (“rest and digest”) activation
• [00:36:51] Why rebuilding self-trust — through boundaries, small decisions, and consistent practice — is core to lasting change

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With 2025 coming to a close, what better time for the first-ever collective tarot reading on the show?

Hero Cait DeMello, a confidence and empowerment coach, guides Chandler through the different energies rounding out the year and setting the tone for 2026.

Cait frames tarot as a tool for clarity and perspective, not fortune-telling, and explores themes like reclaiming inner strength, softening how you control your emotions, and honoring grief as a pathway to clarity and creativity. Grounded and direct, this reading invites you to choose your purpose from within and begin the new year with resonance, not resistance

What You Will Learn

• [00:13:03] Challenge structure: The spread focuses on challenge, latent energy, release, call-in, perspective shift, and advice to carry you into early 2026.
• [00:14:20] Reflection energy: Many reversals signal revision, second chances, and re-evaluating how you’ve been handling life.
• [00:15:15] Inner strength reframe: The reversed Strength card highlights resisting your own power and looking outside yourself for worth.
• [00:17:05] Survival mode patterns: The Five of Swords shows inner fighting—clinging to what defines worth and creating resistance instead of release.
• [00:19:13] Releasing control: The Father of Cups asks you to let go of rigid, structured control of emotions and allow true expression.
• [00:23:32] Calling in legacy: The reversed Ten of Pentacles invites ending the era of “not worthy” and making a meaningful mark you can feel.
• [00:28:40] Perspective shift to nurture: The Mother of Cups guides compassionate self-protection—honoring feelings without making them wrong.
• [00:30:52] Grief as guidance: The Five of Cups encourages moving through anger, sadness, and frustration to clear energy and reclaim creativity.

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In our first ever one-on-one Healing Heroines episode, Chandler sits down with Sarah Hardie Johnson, a transcendental meditation enthusiast, yoga instructor, and corporate professional turned spiritual healer for an intimate look at intuition, healing after loss, and the inner quiet we often avoid.

Sarah shares why slowing down is essential for intuitive clarity, the role meditation plays in calming the nervous system, how dreams—especially visitation dreams—can serve as portals of deeper knowing, and the importance of letting yourself feel as part of the healing process. Sarah also offers a simple yet effective breathing technique to regulate your body throughout the day.

What You Will Learn

• [00:07:55] How intuition connects to trust and why rationalizing it away pulls you out of alignment
• [00:09:57] The personal turning point that sparked Sarah’s spiritual curiosity and inner healing
• [00:13:24] Why meditation became one of the most impactful tools on Sarah’s journey
• [00:17:17] How transcendental meditation differs from guided or silent meditation
• [00:25:47] What dropping beneath thoughts feels like and how the “bottom of the ocean” metaphor applies
• [00:29:19] How Sarah recognized her visitation dream and what made it distinct from ordinary dreams
• [00:40:00] Why intuition struggles to land when your nervous system is dysregulated
• [00:45:14] How allowing yourself to feel emotions—especially grief and anxiety—supports true healing

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Welcome to KNOW-vember! Throughout the month, we continue to explore what it means to know yourself more deeply. In this solo episode, Chandler maps out why curiosity (not certainty) is the pathway to trusting your intuition, how the body signals truth before the mind catches up, and simple daily practices to strengthen your inner GPS.

Chandler blends personal stories, neuroscience context, and easy micro-practices (breathwork, curiosity walks, tarot pulls) to help listeners start using intuition for decisions. This episode is designed to help you notice and act on the quiet "yes" or "no" that already lives inside you.

What You Will Learn

• [00:06:22] Why listening to your inner compass helps you navigate life from your own truth rather than someone else’s roadmap.
• [00:06:46] The idea of “lighting a sparkler every day” — choosing small, repeatable joys instead of waiting for rare fireworks.
• [00:07:23] A working definition of purpose: where what you love and what you're good at meet the world’s needs.
• [00:09:41] Examples of body-based intuition: the gut or stomach knowing before the rational mind does.
• [00:10:25] The neuroscience framing: brains predict the world by scanning past patterns, which is why intuition often feels like remembering.
• [00:11:17] How brief practices that build heart coherence (a few minutes of breath or focused calm) sharpen clarity and steady emotions.
• [00:19:09] Practical November prompts: three deep breaths before decisions, curiosity walks, a daily “Today I realized…” jar, and pulling one tarot card per day.
• [00:22:24] The core takeaway: inner knowing is not about being right — it’s about being real and remembering who you are under the noise.

Resources Mentioned

• The HeartMath Institute
  

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Has your life been feeling off lately? As if the energy around feels a bit chaotic all of a sudden. Maybe communication with your family, friends, or colleagues might seem disjointed and misunderstood. Or perhaps your plans keep shifting. Well, astrologers everywhere can't stop talking about the upcoming Mercury retrograde from November 9 - 29. So, what better time to re-release our retrograde conversation with Hero and Astrologer Ophira Edut? Enjoy!

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While retrogrades often carry a reputation for chaos, they can actually offer profound opportunities for reflection and transformation. In this episode, astrologer Ophira Edut explains how to work with retrograde energy rather than resist it, using astrology as a tool for clarity, growth, and alignment.

As the long-time resident astrologer for ELLE and author of The Astrology Advantage, Ophira shares grounded insights on navigating energetic shifts with awareness, balance, and intention. Tune in to explore how the stars can support your evolution.

What You Will Learn

• [00:01] Intro and a bit about our guest, Ophira Edut
• [03:43] What is astrology, and why people seek Ophira’s guidance
• [06:09] What a retrograde is and why it has a reputation for disruption
• [10:53] How to reframe retrogrades as opportunities for growth
• [14:47] How Ophira works with retrograde energy in her own life
• [16:31] Retrogrades that focus on personal healing vs. external challenges
• [20:01] How astrology set the table for inner healing
• [23:48] Preparing for March retrograde: Venus and Mercury
• [29:09] Ways to work with retrograde energy rather than resisting it
• [30:37] Retrograde rituals that can help navigate through this period with ease
• [35:03] Wrap-up and end of the show

Resources Mentioned

• The Astrology Advantage by Ophira Edut and Tali Edut
• Between Death and Life by Dolores Cannons:

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After the sudden loss of her father, Sarah went searching for answers and found them in a remarkable reading with Hero and Psychic Medium Lea Morgan. In this Healing Heroines episode, Sarah and Lea trace how one surprising session opened the door to ongoing spiritual connection with her deceased father, meaningful confirmations, and an unexpected pivot toward providing spiritual services for others.

This conversation is for anyone experiencing a season of grief, curiosity, or a little bit of both. Discover how the unseen can show up in your life.

What You Will Learn

• [00:10:57] How a simple Google search led Sarah to Lea’s website, she booked a reading, and “everything changed.”
• [00:15:46] The pocket-watch moment — how a detail from a reading connected to Sarah’s family heirloom and shifted her sense of what was possible.
• [00:21:50] How repeated confirmations (Lea telling Sarah she’d have a daughter) became a steady thread of hope during an uncertain time.
• [00:23:02] What it looked like when Lea described Sarah’s future daughter — playful, musical, and already showing personality — and how that matched life later.
• [00:24:07] The idea that souls and ancestors can “hang out” with a child in utero and sometimes communicate before birth.
• [00:31:34] What Sarah experienced as a sudden “download” of information that clarified a new career direction toward spiritual coaching and death-doula work.
• [00:34:20] Sarah’s practical playbook for opening to guidance: gratitude walks, regular meditation, and asking for signs or clarity.
• [00:54:29] The comfort Sarah found in the belief that relationships continue after death — and how that shifted her experience of grief.

Resources Mentioned

• Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss (Book)
• Dying to Be Me by Anita Moorjani (Book)
• Hiring the Heavens by Jean Slatter (Book)
• Lessons from the Light by Kenneth Ring (Book)

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What if the way back to yourself wasn’t through the mind, but through your breath? Hero, Somatic Therapist, and Certified Rolfer Moylan Ryan explains how breath can ground you in the present and become a direct pathway to regulation. Moylan traces the roots of neurodynamic (holotropic) breathwork, explaining why it evokes deep, nonverbal reactions and how the practice supports nervous-system regulation and reconnection to the body.

He describes typical responses people have in his breathwork sessions, the importance of safety and containment, and how breathwork can produce an expanded state of consciousness that shifts your thinking and behavior.

What You Will Learn

• [00:06:55] How Neurodynamic breathwork evolved from holotropic work and the role of evocative music in guiding the breath.
• [00:08:56] Why facilitators ask people to trust the process and surrender so their inner guided intelligence can lead the journey.
• [00:11:24] That breathwork can allow sensations, tremoring, and vocal expression to surface safely during a session.
• [00:16:36] How consistent breath practice can move a person from somatic retraction into expansion and an “upflow” of energy.
• [00:18:00] Why breathwork often lets people complete what was never expressed — releasing embodied remnants of trauma.
• [00:19:59] The parasympathetic state breathwork can produce, and how it enables a calmer, more present nervous system afterward.
• [00:24:40] How the gap between stimulus and response (the space Viktor Frankl described) becomes accessible through regulated breath.
• [00:31:14] What kinds of people tend to benefit — those who feel fragmented, stuck, or ready to create new behaviors and outcomes.

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