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Be Freaking Awesome Podcast
Tired of surface-level conversations and sugar-coated advice? You’re in the right place.
Be Freaking Awesome is not your average personal growth podcast. Hosted by Angela and Sami, an insightful mother-daughter duo with a gift for keeping it real, this is the space where authenticity, emotional intelligence, and radical self-awareness come together.
We’re not here just to inspire you. We’re here to equip you with tools, stories, and soul-level truths that will help you grow in the real world, not some Pinterest-perfect version of it.
Each week, we open up the real stuff: the messy middles, the limiting beliefs, the grief we never processed, the boundaries we were never taught to hold, and the dreams we’re still afraid to say out loud. From navigating burnout and setting healthy boundaries to healing your relationship with money and learning how to sit with hard emotions, we go deep and we do it with compassion, humor, and zero judgment.
This show is especially for the big-feeling, high-achieving, people-pleasing, growth-obsessed folks who are ready to stop pretending they’ve got it all together and actually start living aligned. If you've ever said, “I know there’s more for me,” or “I’m tired of carrying all this alone,” this podcast was made for you.
We bring two generations of experience, two distinct but complementary perspectives, and one shared mission: to help you stop settling, start healing, and live a freaking awesome life.
You’ll hear from a mix of powerful guests including trauma-informed financial coaches, creatives who turned pain into purpose, and business leaders with heart. We also share solo and co-hosted episodes where we dive into our own struggles and triumphs from the therapy room to the boardroom to our own kitchen table.
We’re not into quick fixes or perfectionism. We’re into progress, emotional regulation, nervous system safety, redefining success, and showing up with more courage, joy, and clarity than you ever thought possible.
No matter where you are on your journey, whether you’re starting over, in transition, building something bold, or just feeling a little lost, we’re here to remind you that you are not broken, you are not too much, and you are capable of far more than you’ve been led to believe.
Take a breath. Hit play. And get ready to do the deep work of becoming who you were always meant to be.
This is your space to grow, heal, laugh, cry, question, and transform. Because life’s too short to settle for anything less than freaking awesome.
Episodes
224 episodes
EP222 The Invisible Edge Launch
Most people who write a book are terrified when it comes out. Angela was, too the first time. And the second time, she was more settled but still working through it. This time? Something is genuinely different. And that difference is kind of th...
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EP221 Letting Go is the Bravest Thing You Can Do
There's a season in life where everything you've been leaning on just... isn't there anymore. The neighbor moves. The sister takes a second job. The husband travels. The parents are across the ocean. And you're standing in the middle of what fe...
EP220 When You Finally Decide to Go to Therapy, Here's What to Know First
You've thought about it. Maybe more than once. Maybe every time things get heavy and you tell yourself "I should really talk to someone." But then life picks back up and you don't. This episode is for you.Sami and Angela dig into the par...
EP219 The Answer To All Your Problems is Simpler Than You Think
You have a problem. Maybe a big one. And you keep staring at it like if you think hard enough, the answer will finally show up. But here's what nobody tells you: most problems aren't actually complicated. They're just missing one of three thing...
EP218 When Your Brain Goes Negative Before You Even Have a Reason
You didn't do anything wrong. Your brain just got there first.That's the thing about automatic negative thoughts: they don't wait for evidence. They don't ask permission. Something happens, and before you've had a single conscious though...
EP217 The Thought Patterns That Keep You Stuck (And How to Catch Them)
You have somewhere between 6,000 and 60,000 thoughts a day. Nobody agrees on the number. But here's what most researchers do agree on: a significant chunk of them are negative, and a startling number are repeats from yesterday. Your brain is ru...
EP216 Thinking About Your Thinking
You know that moment when you say something and immediately think, “Wait, where did that even come from?” Most of us brush right past it. This episode is about what happens when you don't.Angela and Sami are diving into metacogn...
EP215 Why Making Friends as an Adult Feels So Hard (And What to Do About It)
You sent the text. You waited. Two days passed and nothing. And your brain went straight to the worst possible explanation.That spiral is not a character flaw. It is what happens when a deeper belief is running in the background: the be...
EP214 Why Your Vote Actually Matters (And What the League of Women Voters Is Doing About It)
If you've ever thought your vote doesn't really matter, that politics is too confusing, or that the whole system is just... too much, this episode is for you. A lot of us are carrying around this low-grade exhaustion with national politics righ...
EP213 You Can't Be Mad About an Expectation Nobody Agreed To
You have expectations of the people in your life. And they have expectations of you. The problem is that half the time, nobody actually said any of that out loud. And then someone ends up disappointed, resentful, or quietly fuming on the drive ...
Bonus Episode Living for 80-Year-Old You: The Europe Trip Recap (Extended)
Five countries. Six cities. Olympic tickets. A two-star Michelin restaurant. A near meltdown over very expensive seats. And more walking in the cold than Angela would normally tolerate.This is the full story.In this extended versi...
EP212 Living for 80-Year-Old You
What if the person you should be trying to impress isn’t the internet, your boss, or even the people around you, but 80-year-old you?Fresh off a whirlwind Europe trip that included five countries, Olympic events, freezing mountain tops, ...
EP211 What to Do When You Achieve Your Goals and Feel Disappointed
You worked hard, you stayed focused, you finally got there. So why doesn't it feel the way you thought it would?Nobody talks about this part. We spend so much time chasing our goals that we never stop to ask what happens when we actually...
EP210 Why Accepting People Isn't the Same as Approving of Them
You've been told your whole life that if you don't call someone out, you're letting them get away with it. But what if that's completely wrong and it's actually making things worse?Most of us are exhausted from trying to change the peopl...
EP209 Why Fear and Resistance Appear Right Before Growth
Every time we go after something meaningful, a new goal, a big conversation, a leadership role, or personal growth, fear and resistance seem to show up right on cue.In this episode, Sami Kinnison and Angela Belford explore why resistanc...
EP208 Stop Waiting for Permission to Belong
Ever walked into a networking event or professional gathering wondering if you're wearing the right thing, saying the right things, or even supposed to be there? You're not alone. In this episode, hosts Sami Kinnison and Angela Belford reveal a...
EP207 Why You Shouldn’t Fire Your Inner Critic (And What to Do Instead)
If you’ve ever tried to silence your inner critic by sheer willpower, only to end up overwhelmed, anxious, or spiraling into imposter syndrome, this episode is for you.This week, Angela and Sami unpack the truth about the inner critic. ...
EP206 Why You Feel Guilty No Matter What You Choose
Have you ever made a decision and still felt bad afterward? No matter what you choose, there is guilt, second-guessing, or that lingering feeling that you are letting someone (or yourself) down.In this episode of Be Freaking Awesome, Sa...
EP205 The Unexpected Side Effects of Emotional Healing
What if growth doesn’t make life easier… at least not right away?In this episode of Be Freaking Awesome, Sami Kinnison and Angela Belford get real about the unexpected side effects of emotional healing, like crying more, feeling stretch...
EP204 Doing Hard Things on Purpose with Dominique Blake
In this conversation, Olympic medalist and entrepreneur Dominique Blake joins Angela and Sami for an honest, high-energy look at what it means to stay committed to growth when life doesn’t go as planned.Dominique shares how setbacks in h...
EP203 Family Business and Holiday Drama: Tips That Work for Everyone
Let’s be honest. Working with your family can be equal parts beautiful and bananas. And when the holidays hit? Whew. That’s when the lines between pass the gravy and circle back on that project get real blurry.In this episode, Angela an...
EP202 Coaching vs. Consulting: Nervous Systems, Business Growth, and Why Your Brain Resists Change
In this episode of Be Freaking Awesome, Angela and Sami dive deep into the world of coaching, what it is, what it isn’t, and why it can be such a powerful catalyst for personal and professional growth.Together, they explore the ...
EP201 How to Actually Improve Communication at Work
If you’ve ever sat through a workplace training that sounded great in theory but didn’t change a thing, this episode is for you.Angela and Sami are pulling back the curtain on why team trainings often fall flat, what “improving ...
EP200 Milestones and Magic: Live Celebration
Welcome to Episode 200, our first ever live episode! We’re celebrating a huge milestone, giving major shout-outs, reflecting on what this podcast has meant so far, and sharing what’s next for the journey of Be Freaking Awesome....
EP199 Neurodivergence at Work: What Needs to Change with Summer Jelinek
In this powerful and personal episode, Angela and Sami sit down with speaker, leadership trainer, and PhD researcher Summer Jelinek to talk about what it really means to be neurodivergent in the workplace.From masking and burnout to emo...