People-pleasing, burnout, codependency, perfectionism, self-worth, healing, authentic leadership.

In this powerful and deeply relatable episode, Karrie sits down with Dr. Angela Downey, family physician, author, and founder of The Codependent Doctor, to explore what it truly means to heal from people-pleasing, perfectionism, and burnout.

Angela opens up about failing her first year of university, rebuilding her confidence, and eventually becoming a physician while unlearning the patterns that drove her to exhaustion. Together, Karrie and Angela discuss how to find peace and purpose on the other side of self-sacrifice, and why authenticity, not achievement, is the real marker of success.

• How to recognize and break free from people-pleasing and codependent patterns
• The connection between perfectionism, burnout, and self-abandonment
• The mindset shifts that help high-achieving women prioritize rest and self-trust
• Why “failing” can actually be your greatest redirection
• How to listen to your body, set boundaries, and create sustainable success
• Angela’s favorite tools for rewiring your thinking and practicing daily authenticity

Connect with Dr. Angela Downey

Explore her books, podcast, and community at thecodependentdoctor.com

Connect with Karrie

Learn more about The Journey of Becoming and explore executive and personal transformation at UpLevelYourLifeConsulting.com

If this episode resonates, share it with someone who’s ready to stop performing and start becoming, because healing your patterns is where your true power begins.

Affirmations, self-worth, alignment, burnout recovery, mindset, transformation, authenticity.

In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Karrie sits down with Lauren C.—coach, speaker, and founder of Align With Lauren—to explore what it truly means to rebuild your life from the inside out.

After years of “doing all the right things” but feeling disconnected and unfulfilled, Lauren shares how affirmations led her down an unexpected path, one that dismantled her old life, her marriage, and her sense of identity. What began as a quest for success became a journey toward radical honesty, self-trust, and soul alignment.

Together, Karrie and Lauren unpack the messy, miraculous process of becoming who you were always meant to be, when everything familiar falls away.

• How affirmations and mindset work can catalyze real transformation (even when it doesn’t look the way you expect)
• The truth about alignment: why what’s “falling apart” might actually be falling into place
• The emotional cost of self-abandonment and the courage it takes to stop betraying yourself
• Practical tools to rebuild your confidence and reprogram your subconscious
• What it looks like to trust your inner voice even when fear, judgment, and uncertainty show up
• How success and peace begin when you stop performing and start living in integrity

Connect with Lauren

Explore her programs and resources at Soul Savy

Connect with Karrie

Learn more about The Journey of Becoming and explore executive and personal transformation at UpLevelYourLifeConsulting.com

If this episode resonates, share it with someone who’s in the middle of their own becoming because sometimes, the breakdown is the breakthrough.

Authentic connection, sacred intimacy, feminine & masculine energy, conscious relationships, self-worth, embodiment.

In this heart-opening episode of The Journey of Becoming, Karrie sits down with Joanna Shakti—founder of Ecstatic Intimacy™—to explore what it really takes to create love that feels safe, passionate, and deeply real. Known as “The Soul Love Mentor,” Joanna shares her path from burnout and unfulfilling relationships to awakening her feminine essence and teaching others to live and love in full authenticity.

You’ll hear how our cultural conditioning around success, independence, and perfection can quietly disconnect us from our hearts—and how true intimacy begins with coming home to yourself. Joanna invites us to honor both the sacred feminine and the divine masculine, to release patterns of overgiving and self-protection, and to open to love that feels effortless, embodied, and true.

What you’ll learn:

• The difference between “performing love” and being love
• Feminine and masculine energy dynamics—and how polarity creates attraction and flow
• How to shift from people-pleasing or control into vulnerability and truth
• Why authentic self-expression is the gateway to both passion and peace
• The spiritual and somatic path of sacred intimacy: presence, embodiment, and surrender
• How to recognize when your heart is leading (vs. fear or habit)

Whether you’re single, partnered, or healing from past relationships, this conversation will inspire you to stop chasing love and start becoming it—within yourself first.

Connect with Joanna

Explore her work, retreats, and resources at EcstaticIntimacy.com

Connect with Karrie

Discover executive and personal transformation rooted in soul-aligned strategy: UpLevelYourLifeConsulting.com

If this episode resonates, share it with a friend or loved one who’s ready to experience love and leadership from a place of wholeness and authenticity.