What if something you’ve believed about yourself for 20 years isn’t the whole truth?

A few weeks ago, Chandler was sitting in her bathtub when a memory she had buried long ago came back. By the end of the night, she was on the bathroom floor, asking how she could have missed it after so much healing work.

For more than two years, Chandler has asked heroines to share their hardest moments on this show. She couldn’t keep asking without doing the same. So in this solo episode, she takes the guest seat and walks through her own heroine’s journey: the beliefs she inherited, the call she almost walked past, and the part she’s only now ready to share.

No script, no teaching, just Chandler.

What You Will Learn

• [00:09:30] A fifth-grade teacher’s accusation that made her stop trusting adults.
• [00:14:30] Signing as a plus-size model in NYC to disprove the thin-equals-beautiful narrative.
• [00:16:00] Training for a triathlon to prove the weight narratives wrong.
• [00:21:30] Trusting a nudge at JFK Airport to purchase one life-changing book.
• [00:24:30] Healing as remembering and shedding the survival self, not self-help.
• [00:32:30] A recent Heroine named "self-trust" as Chandler's real remaining issue.
• [00:42:00] Chandler embracing her younger self with compassion years later.
• [00:43:30] Surrendering what was too big to carry alone, and finding God in the quiet.
• [00:45:30] Releasing the need to prove anything and showing up regardless.

Resources Mentioned

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Host, Chandler Stroud
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Erin Thomas learned early that the greatest gift you can give someone is simply showing up.

What happens when a life spent in service to others leads you to walk away from a career you love?

Erin grew up in West Virginia in a home everyone was welcome in, with parents who lived their faith by showing up for people in their hardest moments. That example became the thread of her life. It followed her from Ralph Lauren, where she worked alongside Mr. Lauren, to PepsiCo, where she spent 17 years writing speeches for one of the most influential women in business and building social impact into the core of the company.

Then she knew it was time to go, and took a leap of faith with nothing lined up. Today, Erin is finding that the call to serve never left. It just looks different now and led her to say “absolutely” when a friend asked for help in the fight of her life.

In this conversation, Erin shares what her parents taught her about service, how she made 'doing good' core to doing business, and why she’s trusting the road even before she can see where it leads.

Click play to hear this special conversation about service, letting go, and the quiet power of small things.

What You Will Learn

• How Erin’s parents modeled a life of service, big and small
• What her family learned about faith and community in their hardest season
• How she made doing good part of how a global company does business
• “I had studied the painting for so long that I no longer recognized the subject”
• Why the smallest act of showing up still matters
• How helping her friend Emily fight for her daughter Greta’s life reminded her that we already have everything we need

Support Emily and Greta
https://www.thegretainitiative.com/

Host, Chandler Stroud
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Other Organizations Erin Supports:

Impact Fairfiled County: https://www.impactfairfieldcounty.org/
American Red Cross: redcross.org
Food Rescue US: https://foodrescue.us/

Incredible creator of Erin's patchwork vest: Jill Schrock is the Jolene
Mercantile creator @
https://www.facebook.com/p/Jolene-Mercantile-61578824105256/

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As we say goodbye to October/Emotional Wellness Month, we're re-releasing one of our favorite episodes with Hero and Somatic Healing Practitioner Nicole Kim. Whether you're in a season of constant hustle or gearing up for the holidays, Nicole reminds us all to slow down and rest.

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Are you craving calmness but struggling to slow down? Hero and Yoga Instructor Nicole Kim explores how stillness, movement, and rest work together to restore our bodies and nervous systems. With compassion and lived wisdom, Nicole shares the ways modern women are pushed into overdrive and taught to equate worth with output — and how we can begin to rewire that conditioning, one quiet moment at a time.

From yoga nidra and yin to Thai bodywork and beach naps, this episode offers tangible practices and gentle permission slips for women who feel stuck in “go mode.”

What You Will Learn

• [00:08:18] Why women often resist stillness and associate it with discomfort or unworthiness
• [00:09:30] How “glimmers” — short, intentional breaks — help busy women ground and reset
• [00:11:30] Why meditation can feel selfish — and how to reframe that belief
• [00:17:00] How yin yoga uses discomfort to create space and emotional release
• [00:18:00] What yoga nidra is — and why it’s powerful for trauma recovery and deep rest
• [00:22:13] How movement-based yoga builds a bridge to stillness for those who “can’t sit still”
• [00:24:37] Why sound healing is so effective for calming the mind and regulating the body
• [00:27:30] How Thai bodywork offers a moving meditation for people with anxious minds

Let's Connect!

Nicole Kim

Website

Chandler Stroud

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Grief has a way of convincing you that no one else could possibly understand. But the women on this show have been remarkably honest about what loss actually felt like, and what helped them through it.

What if hearing how someone else carried her grief made yours feel a little less lonely?

This compilation episode brings together seven heroines and two of our heroes, Reverend Lizzie McManus Dail and Psychic Medium Lea Morgan, who walk alongside people in grief every day. The women you'll hear from experienced different losses: a child, a spouse, a parent who died without warning, a future that never came. Together, they share what grief does to your body and mind, why there's no timeline for it, how to let people in, and what it looks like to carry it while still finding your way forward.

Whether you're grieving right now or trying to support someone who is, this one is for you.

What You Will Learn
- [00:02:54] Jodi on getting through the first weeks one decision at a time
- [00:06:36] Lea on why grief dulls your senses, and why you shouldn't rush it
- [00:09:21] Reshma on starting with a 20-minute walk
- [00:12:17] Candace on why grief needs a community
- [00:15:04] Sarah Baldwin on the four grief personas
- [00:18:02] Reverend Lizzie on how to show up for someone who is grieving
- [00:21:39] Sarah Hardie Johnson on making space for a good cry
- [00:24:35] Kristen on taking grief off the shelf
- [00:28:26] Miranda on the pause that followed losing her father

Connect with Featured Heroines:
Jodi Constantino
Reshma Kearney (Reshma’s Grief Support)
Candace Hewitt
Sarah Baldwin
Sarah Hardie Johnson
Kristen Rzasa
Miranda Partridge

Connect with Featured Heroes:
Lea Morgan
Rev. Lizzie McManus Dail

Host, Chandler Stroud
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What happens when the woman who teaches others to process their feelings finally has to stop and feel her own?

Miranda Partridge did everything right. Master’s degree, eight years as a school counselor, a life that looked exactly the way it was supposed to. Then, in January 2023, five months pregnant with her second daughter, she lost her father suddenly.

For the first time in her adult life, she chose stillness. And in that quiet, something shifted. A nudge to get on TikTok led to a tarot reading, a truth she’d never let herself say out loud, and eventually a complete reinvention.

Today, Miranda is an intuitive advisor and medium who helps women build the self-trust to bring their own vision to life.

What You Will Learn:

• Why a life that looks good on paper can still feel empty
• Why you don’t need a dramatic backstory to hear the call
• How to start turning on your own intuition

In this episode:

• [00:13:43] Moving to Washington — immediately feeling other
• [00:18:00] Always being told “you’re a good listener, be a counselor”
• [00:28:11] Miranda’s father — sudden loss at five months pregnant
• [00:30:22] Miranda’s first real season of silence and stillness
• [00:44:52] The tarot reading that unlocked everything
• [00:47:48] How intuitive nudges actually arrive — and why we dismiss them
• [00:39:11] Why meditation was Miranda’s biggest unlock
• [01:11:10] “Your desires are data. Let yourself look at them.”

Let's Connect!

Miranda Partridge
TikTok | Instagram | Website

Chandler Stroud
Website | LinkedIn | Instagram

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At the height of her success, Jane Pak sat down on New Year's Day and asked herself what she might be missing. A year later she found out, and it eventually cost her the company she'd built.

What happens when the role you've built your life around ends almost overnight?

Jane spent nearly 20 years as a President, CEO, and Chair of Pooph, building one of the fastest-growing odor eliminator brands in the country. When a series of crises ended in foreclosure, she faced a decision about what she was worth, with two hours to make it. A few months later she started sharing what she'd learned on Instagram, and tens of thousands of people started listening.

In this conversation, Jane shares the mental shift that helped her make the hardest call of her career, why she stopped trying to prove her value, and how she now helps others spot the quiet stories that keep them small.

It's a conversation about identity, starting over, and trusting what you already know.

What You Will Learn

• [00:08:04] Growing up in a family where failure felt like death
• [00:15:47] Moving to Honduras at 14, and the moment she stopped making herself small
• [00:32:37] The overlooked insight that built Pooph
• [00:35:59] Why Jane went looking for risk at the height of her success
• [00:44:28] "If I lose this business, I don't know who I am"
• [00:48:56] What if this was a TV show? How Jane chose herself in two hours
• [01:06:17] Why shame is an intelligent system, and awareness is the booby prize
• [01:08:36] Why Jane says to stop looking for your worth

Let's Connect!

Jane Pak
Website | Instagram

Chandler Stroud
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Jordan Craig has spent her career at some of the top tech companies, from Twitter to Google, and now LinkedIn. She led high-impact teams while quietly carrying more than any job title suggests. She lost her mother. She navigated postpartum struggles with a high-stakes job and two kids. And through almost all of it, she checked in with the same person every single day.

What does it actually look like to have someone in your corner, especially when the grind is too overwhelming?

Joined by Accountability Coach and Hero Bonnie, Jordan shares what seven-plus years of daily accountability has actually looked like, what it costs to keep showing up when everything around you is falling apart, and why the only way out is through.

What You Will Learn

• [00:08:35] Jordan growing up as a military brat — born in Germany
• [00:11:07] Arriving in the US behind academically — and self-correcting fast
• [00:23:07] Postpartum weight that wouldn't budge — trying everything
• [00:32:06] Why Jordan wouldn't have lasted without Bonnie
• [00:34:23] The moment Jordan realized Bonnie was serious
• [00:40:00] Jordan's mom's illness — losing her in October
• [00:49:25] "The best way to honor your mother is to take care of her daughter"
• [00:57:10] Jordan on why you don't have to wait until Monday

Let's Connect!

Jordan Craig

LinkedIn

Bonnie Heim

Website | Instagram

Chandler Stroud

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Not sure what to do with what you’re feeling? Book a free call with Chandler to talk through what’s coming up—and what your next step might be.

Ready to answer the call? Healing Heroines is an intimate sisterhood for women ready to actively create more meaningful lives—together.

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She had the career, the credentials, and a seat at Goldman Sachs she'd fought hard to earn. Then life asked her to reconsider everything.

What happens when some of the hardest experiences of your life begin pointing you toward what you're meant to do next?

Today, Sharon Walker Epps is CEO of the Rowan Center, supporting survivors of sexual violence and working to prevent it in the first place. But the path from Wall Street to this work was anything but linear.

In this conversation, Sharon shares why she walked away from a career she loved, the deeply personal experience that eventually made this work impossible to turn away from, and how she found her second act when she had no idea what she was looking for.

It's a conversation about resilience, motherhood, purpose, and trusting the pull toward something more, even before you know where it's leading.

What You Will Learn

• [00:07:30] Sharon's first-grade teacher — and the fire it lit
• [00:11:30] Why Sharon chose Wall Street — it wasn't prestige
• [00:15:30] How 9/11 made Sharon question everything she'd built
• [00:23:30] How trauma quietly shapes an entire life's trajectory
• [00:27:00] The average age of disclosure — and why it matters
• [00:30:00] When Sharon simply couldn't turn away anymore
• [00:35:30] Why every survivor's story is a gift at their own expense
• [00:44:00] Sharon's advice for women waiting for their second act

Resources Mentioned

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Let's Connect!

Sharon Epps

Rowan Center | LinkedIn

Chandler Stroud

Website | LinkedIn | Instagram

Feel like life might be inviting you into something more? Take the free quiz to discover where your call may be showing up.

Not sure what to do with what you’re feeling? Book a free call with Chandler to talk through what’s coming up—and what your next step might be.

Ready to answer the call? Healing Heroines is an intimate sisterhood for women ready to actively create more meaningful lives—together.

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