Trigger Warning: This episode discusses trauma, abuse, and human trafficking.

When trauma is silenced, the body carries the weight. In this deeply moving episode, Kathy explores how survivors of abuse and trafficking can reclaim their voices, heal, and turn pain into a paid message. From emotional eating and shame to speaking truth on global stages, this conversation reveals why your story is intellectual property—and why you deserve to be heard and paid for it.

We cover trauma recovery, emotional eating, human trafficking awareness, and how speaking your truth can transform both your life and the lives of others.

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Highlights:

• Guest unlearned: victim identity, shame, people-pleasing.

• Kathy tie-in: body judgment vs. body as protection.

• Notable stat: Survived severe abuse; at 428 lbs; rebuilt as global speaker/coach with $150K guarantee.

• Relatable signs: emotional eating, carrying invisible weight, delaying dreams until "perfect."

• Myths challenged: "Eat less, move more" solves trauma; abuse stories stay silent; stories can't pay bills.

• Action step: Journal — "What weight am I carrying that isn't mine?"

Quotes:

• "Your story is intellectual property—you paid for it with your life."

• "I had to evict the perpetrators from my mind."

• "My body wasn't lazy—it was protecting me."

• "What is your body trying to protect you from?"

What happens when your body, your business, and your life feel out of sync? In this episode, Megan Dirks shares how living with PCOS and weight struggles shaped her journey, and how finding alignment in health and business completely transformed her path.

As the founder of The Girl on the Left Project, Megan challenges women to step out of the shadows, reframe the stories they tell themselves, and redefine success on their own terms. From grief and personal healing to marketing and business growth, Megan exemplifies what it means to carry the hidden weight so many women face—and to alchemize it into strength, clarity, and visibility.

If you've ever struggled with your body while building a business, or wondered how to align your personal truth with professional success, this conversation will resonate deeply.

What if the weight you're carrying isn't just on the scale—but in the stories you tell yourself?

In this powerful episode, Megan Dirks shares how PCOS, weight struggles, and grief shaped her personal and professional journey—and how she found alignment that changed everything.

As the founder of The Girl on the Left Project, Megan is helping women step out of the shadows, reclaim their visibility, and redefine success on their own terms. Together, we dive into health, healing, business growth, and the personal alignment that ties them all together.

If you've ever felt out of sync with your body or business, this episode will resonate deeply.

• The hidden weight women carry through PCOS, grief, and body shame

• Why personal alignment is the foundation of business success

• How the Girl on the Left Project is helping women step into visibility

• Practical insights on reframing your story to reclaim power and confidence

• How personal healing fuels professional growth

• "The weight you carry isn't always on the scale—it's in the stories you tell yourself." – Megan Dirks

• "Alignment is when your body, your business, and your truth finally match." – Megan Dirks

• "The Girl on the Left is every woman who's been overlooked, underestimated, or hidden—and is ready to step forward." – Megan Dirks

• "Your personal healing and your business growth aren't separate—they're the same journey." – Kathy Baldwin

• Explore more with Kathy → https://kathybaldwin.me

• Books by Kathy:

  • Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling

  • How I Unlearned MY Crap

  • The Unlearned Life

Connect with Megan Dirks at BrandOSaurusMeg.com

Parenting from survival mode is not love, it's trauma reenactment. In this raw and hopeful episode, Emily Cleghorn, founder of Mamahood After Trauma and bestselling author, shares how she stopped parenting from reactivity, healed her nervous system, and began mothering from peace. We talk about how unprocessed trauma lives in the body, what overwhelm really looks like, and why self-awareness is a muscle you can strengthen every day. Together we unlearn the cultural silence around pain and reclaim compassion — for ourselves and the generations after us.

Grab Emily's free Unlocking Peace Guide at mamahoodaftertrauma.ca.

Explore Kathy's world and books at kathybaldwin.me.
Unlearn the Crap and Level UP: Your Soul Is Calling and How I Unlearned My Crap are available on Amazon and in bookstores.

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🔥 Title/Theme
Healing the Mother Wound: How to Stop Parenting from Survival Mode

🎙️ Key Highlights

• Guest's "Crap to Unlearn": Living from survival mode, confusing hypervigilance for love, parenting from fear instead of peace.

• Kathy's tie-in: How unprocessed trauma becomes physical illness and generational repetition — and why awareness is the first step to freedom.

• Notable facts: Emily is founder of Mamahood After Trauma, host of the Mamahood After Trauma Podcast, and bestselling author of Rising from the Ashes and Breaking Free.

• Relatable signs: Snapping at your kids, chronic overwhelm, gut issues, people-pleasing, pretending everything's fine while feeling empty inside.

• Myths challenged: "What happens at home stays at home," "We don't talk that way," "Kids are resilient no matter what happens," "Peace must be earned."

• Guest freebie/CTA: Free Unlocking Peace Guide — seven-page download with emotional regulation tools at mamahoodaftertrauma.ca.

• Audience action step: Notice your next big reaction, pause, ask "What was that about?" and let the truth rise instead of pushing it down.

💡 Memorable Quotes

• "Peace isn't a luxury. It's your birthright." — Kathy

• "Trauma is what happens inside you when you face pain alone." — Emily

• "Self-awareness is a muscle; reflection is how you strengthen it." — Emily

• "We perform to survive, but healing starts when we stop pretending everything's fine." — Kathy

• "When you challenge everything, you can change anything." — Kathy

What if fear in the water is the same fear that's holding you back in life?

In this episode of Unlearn the Crap & Level Up: Your Soul is Calling, Kathy Baldwin sits down with Cori Myka, swim coach and transformation guide, to explore how learning to swim as an adult reveals the deeper conditioning we all carry.

Cori shares why so many adults avoid the water, how fear of sinking mirrors the fear of being seen, and what happens when we finally trust ourselves enough to let go. From swimming lessons to self-worth, Cori shows how confidence in the pool ripples out into confidence in everyday life. ✨

Connect with Cori Mika: https://adultswimlesson.com/

📚 Explore Kathy's books Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling and How I Unlearned MY Crap — available on Amazon and in bookstores.

🌐 Learn more at kathybaldwin.me

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🔑 Key Points

Why adults often carry deep fear when learning to swim

How fear in the water mirrors fear in everyday life

The hidden conditioning that teaches us to play small and stay quiet

Why owning your gifts and "tooting your own horn" isn't arrogance — it's empowerment

How facing fear in one area (like the pool) ripples into confidence everywhere

💬 Memorable Quotes From Cori Mika:

"The same fear that keeps someone from getting in the water is the fear that keeps them playing small in life."

"Learning to swim isn't just about strokes — it's about trust. Trusting the water, and trusting yourself."

"Tooting your own horn isn't arrogance. It's standing firm on your foundation so you can actually contribute."

From Kathy Baldwin:

"What struck me most was how fear in the pool looks exactly like fear in life — the fear of sinking, the fear of losing control, the fear of being seen."

"When we minimize ourselves, we don't just hide our gifts — we rob the world of what we're here to give."

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Why do diets fail and stress always seem to win?

In this episode of Unlearn the Crap & Level Up: Your Soul is Calling, Kathy Baldwin sits down with Deepak Saini, longevity coach and health strategist, to unpack the myths that keep us stuck, inflamed, and aging faster than we should.

Together, we dive into the hidden cost of "eat less, move more," the link between suppressed emotions and disease, and how stress and inflammation quietly shape our health, hormones, and energy. Deepak shares practical steps for reversing aging naturally, healing the nervous system, and reclaiming vitality from the inside out.

✨ Connect with Deepak at deepaksainihealth.com

📚 Explore Kathy's books Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul is Calling and How I Unlearned MY Crap — available on Amazon and in bookstores.

🌐 Learn more at kathybaldwin.me

If this conversation resonates, don't forget to subscribe, share, and leave a comment — your soul is calling you to step into more.

🔑 Key Points

Why the "eat less, move more" formula keeps people sick, stressed, and inflamed The hidden connection between stress, suppressed emotions, and disease

How inflammation accelerates aging and impacts hormones, gut health, and energy Daily practices to reprogram the nervous system and support longevity

Why unlearning old health myths is the key to reclaiming vitality

💬 Memorable Quotes

Deepak Saini: "Stress doesn't just live in your mind — it shows up in your body as inflammation, gut issues, and accelerated aging."

"You can't diet your way out of a nervous system that's stuck in survival mode."

"Longevity isn't about living longer, it's about living better — without pain, without burnout, and without disease."

Kathy Baldwin:

"What hit me was realizing how much of what I've carried in my body wasn't even mine — it was programming I needed to unlearn."

"We've been taught to push harder and do more, but what if healing starts by slowing down and listening to what the body has been saying all along?"

We were told not to talk about money, sex, or politics but that rule kept us small.
This episode cracks open sexual shame, emotional safety, and the truth about real intimacy.

Former healthcare lawyer Xanet Pailet left a 26-year sexless marriage at 50 and rebuilt her life as a sex and intimacy educator. In this raw, liberating conversation, we unpack how breath, sound, and movement move sexual energy from the root to the heart, why emotional safety is the doorway to desire, and how your core desires, to be adored, taken, or cherished, often echo childhood wounds and even ancestral patterns.
If you're done performing and ready to feel, this is where empowerment starts.

👉 Connect with Xanet: howtoimprovemylovelife.com
Get her free 3-minute tools and videos to improve your love life.

📚 Explore Kathy's books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul Is Calling and How I Unlearned My Crap — available on Amazon and in bookstores.
Visit unlearnthecrap.com to read more or apply to be a guest.

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🌐 All things Kathy Baldwin: https://kathybaldwin.me

Xanet Pailet

• "Safety is the doorway to desire."

• "Your core desire comes from your core wound—know it, honor it, communicate it."

• "Sexless marriage is a symptom of injured emotional connection."

• "Breath, sound, and movement turn performance into presence."

• "When the second chakra is blocked, everything above it shuts down."

Kathy Baldwin

• "Your body keeps the promises your mouth refuses to speak."

• "Pleasure is a birthright, not a reward for perfection."

• "If you're done performing and ready to feel, this is where empowerment starts."

• "Challenge everything so you can achieve anything including an orgasmic life."

She thought pleasing everyone was love until it cost her health, identity, and voice.
Eleanor MacDonald unlearned self-abandonment and rebuilt from truth.

In this powerful episode, Kathy Baldwin sits down with Eleanor MacDonald, a transformational coach and trauma-informed healer who knows what it means to lose yourself while trying to keep everyone else happy. Together, they talk about breaking the pattern of self-sacrifice, the roots of emotional codependency, and the moment Eleanor chose self-worth over survival.

You'll hear how to recognize when caretaking becomes control, why self-trust is the foundation of healing, and how choosing yourself doesn't make you selfish—it makes you whole.

👉 Connect with Eleanor: https://eleanormacdonald.com

📚 Explore Kathy's books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP: Your Soul Is Calling and How I Unlearned MY Crap — available on Amazon and bookstores.
Visit unlearnthecrap.com to read more or apply to be a guest.

⚙️ Discover Finally: Build a podcast that grows without burnout at finallypodcastautomation.com — automate production, growth, and repurposing so your voice never gets lost.

🌐 All things Kathy Baldwin: https://kathybaldwin.me

Eleanor MacDonald

• "Self-abandonment wears a mask called loyalty."

• "I thought love meant losing myself—until my body said no."

• "Healing began the moment I told the truth, even when my voice shook."

• "Boundaries aren't walls; they're bridges to respect."

Kathy Baldwin

• "You can't pour truth from an empty self."

• "Every pattern you unlearn is a door to freedom."

• "Choosing yourself is not selfish—it's sacred."

What if the patterns, trauma, and programming holding you back in business…aren't even yours?

In this episode of Unlearn the Crap & Level UP, I sit down with Lori Ellen Miller (from All Me By Design) to excavate how ancestral conditioning, generational beliefs, and cultural stories sneak into your brain, body, and business decisions. Lori gets raw about realizing she'd been operating under invisible programming and what it took to start undoing it.

If you've ever launched, pivoted, or scaled only to hit recurring walls…this conversation is for you. We unpack:

Why healing feels never-ending (and how to move through it)

How "unowned" trauma shows up in revenue, boundaries, offers, and visibility

The permission to admit you're still unlearning

Real tools to shift your energy so your business can breathe

✨ Soul Led Summit, October 9–11, 2025 Join us live as I present Finally — my podcast automation system — and Lori teaches Soul Cartography. This summit is designed for soul-led business owners ready to collapse the grind and speed up their success.

👉 Save your seat now: https://soulledmasterminds.com/optin?am_id=kathy2741

🔗 Connect with Lori: https://allmebydesign.com/

✨ More from me: https://kathybaldwin.me

📚 My books: Unlearn the Crap & Level UP + How I Unlearned MY Crap

🔑 Key Takeaways

Unlearning inherited crap: How ancestral DNA, generational trauma, and cultural conditioning silently block your business growth.

Healing isn't one-and-done: Why peeling back one layer often reveals another, and how to stop shaming yourself for it.

The crap that isn't yours: How to identify patterns you've been carrying that don't belong to you — and how letting them go accelerates your business.

Fear + business: Why starting or scaling a business feels terrifying — and how tools like Soul Cartography and podcast automation collapse time and create clarity.

Soul-led success: Aligning with your truth in business leads to faster, more sustainable results than pushing through conditioning.

💬 Memorable Quotes From Kathy

"What if the crap you're carrying isn't even yours — and it's blocking your business growth?"

"Unlearning isn't a finish line. It's a lifelong level-up."

"Starting a business is scary, but when you lead with your soul, success comes faster than you think."

From Lori Ellen

"You think you've cleared it all, and then another layer shows up. That doesn't mean you failed — it means you're human."

"So much of what runs our lives isn't chosen by us. It's inherited, programmed, and unconscious — until we decide to unlearn it."

"Soul Cartography is about finding your true map, so you stop building a business on borrowed beliefs."