Journey to Well

Closing Time: Season One Wrap Up & Set Up for SEASON TWOOO | solo pod

• Hannah • Season 1 • Episode 42

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It's time to wrap up season one! & WHAT A SEASON IT'S BEEN!! :) Reflecting on a year filled with meaningful conversations... from the profound insights shared by Jason Melvin on balancing feminine and masculine energy to the heartfelt conversation with Gabby about the many faces of grief, this episode wraps up season one with a tapestry of memorable moments. We journeyed through topics beyond the traditional confines of loss, exploring how grief manifests in living relationships and personal transitions & chatted lots about Human Design with experts like Becca Francis & Stephanie. Soma+IQ Breathwork breakthroughs with co-founder Andrew Fischer and co-founders of Exhale Boise, Mike & Mariah...

As we bring season one to a close, I invite you to join our vibrant podcast community. Share your favorite episodes and insights on social media or through direct messages, helping us expand our reach and deepen our collective journey into authenticity, vulnerability, and healing. Your feedback is invaluable as we chart the course for season two, promising a continuation of enlightening discussions that remain accessible and engaging. Let's grow together by sharing these stories and themes with friends, ensuring our content serves as a welcoming guide through the complexities of human experience! 

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xx Hannah

Speaker 1:

Hello, welcome back to the podcast Journey to Well. So today is going to be a quickie, but we have to talk about the end of season one of Journey to Well the podcast. We are officially starting season two. The next episode will be season two of Journey to Well the podcast, and I wanted to do a little wrap up and lay a little foundation, a little framework, for how the podcast will be continuing in season two. So, for those of you that have not listened much to the podcast yet, this is actually the perfect episode to listen to, because I'm going to kind of scan through a few of my most favorite conversations, the most listened to podcast episodes that we've had on season one, and then I'm going to share a little bit of what's to come in season two. So I am so excited to be doing this. Honestly, this is perfect timing because we are now officially in Pisces season, which, pisces, is the last sign of the Zodiac, so we have 12 signs of the Zodiac. If you're unfamiliar with astrology Although if you're listening to this podcast, I feel like you're probably pretty familiar at least have some interest in learning about astrology. So we have 12 signs in the zodiac wheel and Pisces is our final, it's our 12th sign before we restart with Aries, which is the first sign of the zodiac. So Pisces represents closure. It represents kind of coming to full fruition, coming to the end of a journey, what needs to, or what is ready to die, to then be creating space to create new life, to live. Death is a really beautiful journey in general because what we're doing is when we allow or we release, or we have one season come to a close, a new thing is born from that ending and that's really what Pisces represents. If you look at the visual representation of Pisces, we have one fish swimming to the right and then below it is another fish swimming to the left and it makes almost like a circle and it's kind of representing that continual death, rebirth cycle, which is honestly the phase, the cycle of life, everything. If we think about in terms of the four seasons, we have this death cycle in winter and like in the fall and winter, and then this rebirth phase in the spring and the summer. If you're kind of talking about it in terms of women's health and cycle alignment, we have our luteal phase and our actual menstrual phase, which is the death phase, phases, and then we have our follicular phase and our ovulation phase, which is our, which is our growth phase, our rebirth phase, our summer phase is the ovulation phase. So say phase one more time. So it's going to be. It's going to be a really great season too, but let's dive a little bit into season one. So I went back and looked. Our official launch of this podcast was January 17th, so a year and a month and a couple of days ago.

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And, um man, let's let's go through some of my favorite conversations. Honestly, one of my favorite conversations was episode two. It's also one of the most downloaded episodes of this podcast. It's Aligning Feminine and Masculine Energy, and I had a really great conversation. This was a year ago and I haven't listened to it since, so don't quote me on the actual conversation, but the idea of it is. We were talking about what is feminine energy, what's masculine energy? It was with my really good friend, jason Melvin, that I met, actually during my somatic breathwork training and honestly, I love having conversations with men about feminine and masculine energy and hearing their perspective and their life experience, because men have such a different perspective and I do have a decent amount of balance in my podcast portfolio with men and female guests, but this one was definitely probably one of the most fun and we go in depth and Jason really was able to share his life experience and his perspective as a man, as a dad, as a husband. Um, if you're into exploring the beginnings of feminine and masculine energy, highly recommend that one. Um, what else I? This is not one of the most listened to episodes, but this is probably my favorite episode of all time.

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I talked with my friend Gabby and we had this entire conversation exploring grief and grief. You've heard me talk about this. If you follow my podcast, you know that grief is one of my favorite conversations to talk about, one of my favorite topics, because I don't believe that it is talked about and explored enough. Actually, the day that I'm recording this, I posted a post on Instagram sharing this kind of poem-esque post about grief and what we think about grief, what we say about grief and what grief actually is, and this is really what we dove into with the conversation between Gabby and I. We also touched on a really important aspect of grief that also don't think that we talk enough about, which is exploring grief within living relationships. We oftentimes talk about grief in terms of a lost loved one or friend or family member, and we don't talk about grief in regards to a lost relationship, maybe a breakup. We don't talk about grief in regards to processing grief within our own life and our own psyche A breakup, a divorce, just not really expecting to be where you are right now in your life and thinking that you would be somewhere different. I think there's some grief when we go through big life changes, so getting into a relationship, buying a house, having a baby, there's a lot. There's a lot there and, to be honest, we're going to keep talking about grief. So if you liked that podcast episode, if you like this idea, stick around for season two, my friend. What else I would say?

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One of my other great podcast episodes, two of the most highly listened to and download episodes, is I have had multiple conversations about somatic breathwork, including having the co-founder of Somatic Breathwork on the podcast, andrew Fisher, and that was always really fun because if you've followed me, if you're in this community, you know that Somatic Breathwork is near and dear to my heart. I use Somatic Breathwork almost daily in my personal life, working with clients, so that was a really fun conversation. You also get a good background on somatic breathwork and the founding of it, so that one's one of my, one of my fun conversations and definitely an enjoyable conversation, I would say the most highly listened to and download. Actually, for sure confirming confirming this right now, because I'm looking at my analytics while we're recording this podcast the most downloaded episode is a intro to internal family systems with Tammy Sullenberger. She is one of the coolest people I have ever met. Absolutely love her. Love IFS If you have not explored this system.

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Therapists can be trained in IFS but also coaches can be trained in IFS. It's not strictly for just psychotherapists. You can be a coach, a mental health expert. You could just be an IFS therapist but not have your degree in therapy, if that makes sense. But Tammy really does a beautiful job breaking down the foundation of IFS and obviously this resonates really well with you all listening because it's the highest downloaded episode by far.

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I've had a couple really, really fun conversations and I think this is actually the only person I've ever had back on my podcast in season one, alyssa Stephenson. She's just an incredible human. She works very int just broadly about nervous system regulation, how to use nervous system regulation in relation to attachment theory and how we can regulate our nervous system within relationships and this is not just intimate relationships, this can also be friendships as well and using our nervous system regulation within friends as well, family members right, we can do it in so many different ways, so that was definitely one of the goodies. What else do we have? The goodies? Um, what else do we have? We have lots of human design conversation, and you know that that's probably my favorite thing to talk about. So I had a great conversation with Becca Francis. She is a business coach that uses human design. That was a really, really fun one. I love talking to other human design experts because we all approach human design in different ways, and so I've had also I've had Stephanie from Embrace your Design on the podcast, and we all approach human design just a little bit differently through our life lens, and it's nice to learn different ways to share things, different ways to talk about human design. So any human design expert, any human design episode that I have on here highly recommend, I would say by far my favorite solo podcast and we'll end with this my very favorite solo podcast episode was around my birthday.

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Let me see if I can find even what the title is. Yeah, it's called 30th Milestones, embracing Grief and Growth, and that one's definitely looking back at this entire year. I felt so authentic, so vulnerable. Honestly, turning 30 this year has been a fucking journey and I don't know that we really talk about the grief around big birthday milestones like this, and I can only talk about my 30th one, 20. I don't know that that was really a huge milestone for me, 21. Yeah, for sure, but that comes with a lot of more. I think excitement or at least my 21st birthday came with a lot more excitement and anticipation and freedom almost, whereas this 30th birthday really came with a lot of a lot of excitement, a lot of anticipation, but also a lot of grief and kind of reflecting on my growth journey in the last decade. And so if you're around this 30th milestone maybe you've already passed it, maybe you're coming up to it in a few years I would highly highly recommend checking that episode out. That one's a really vulnerable episode, I would say, of mine.

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So there's a little bit of a recap, a little a few jumping off points. If you haven't already listened to all of the episodes, make sure you go back and download and listen to those specific episodes that I mentioned. But let's talk about season two. So I'm really, really excited for this season season. I've actually we've gained a lot of traction on this podcast in the past few months, where I have a lot of of episodes already scheduled out for season two.

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So I I know the conversations that I'm having and let me tell you I we are going to be hearing from and learning from and growing with some really incredible masters in their field, masters of the arts, masters of somatic healing, master of energy, master of how we can heal our physical body, how we can really how can I use this term? A little bit, a little bit of biohacking, almost like biohacking-esque, although I am not a biohacker in any way, shape or form. But we are having some of those conversations of how we can optimize physically. I talk a lot about how we can optimize mentally. We can optimize mentally, spiritually, emotionally. I think. In my past lives I've talked, previous seasons of my life I've talked about how we can optimize using our nutrition, using stress relief tools, using sleep and movement, and we're getting back to the basics a little bit in the beginning of season two with some of these episodes and honestly, we need to. I take for granted how I live my life and I realize and I acknowledge that I don't always post maybe enough, although maybe this is just judgment on myself, but I definitely feel like there's a lot of things in my life, a lot of ways that I eat, a lot of ways that I handle my life, how I sleep, how I optimize my physical health or how I'm learning to continue to optimize my physical health, but I don't always share those behind the scenes. And we have some of those behind the scenes really coming to the forefront in season two, which I'm very excited about. We're having a lot of beautiful human design conversation, continuing that journey of learning our unique energy and how we can harness our uniqueness, our gifts, to then become the best version of ourselves, become the optimal version of ourselves, versus, I think, with kind of the boss girl is that girl boss? Sorry, a little dyslexic moment Girl boss era. I think we really fell away from that. Our authenticity, our uniqueness, tuning into our power as women, are our innate power. We're really fucking powerful as women and we have that ability to like reach down and pull up from our sacral center. Our energy, our power, our creativity really like force it almost to the point where we lead ourselves to burnout, and that's kind of how I see that girl boss era and obviously we're shifting now as just a paradigm, as a, as a united front, uh, from that girl boss era I guess you know the trendy term is like soft girl era, but we're not. We're not fucking soft. I don't. I don't even like that soft girl era verbiage, because we're not soft. We're actually learning how to live more in alignment, to align even deeper to our power, our creativity, our life force, energy. But it doesn't need to be forced and our power is going to look so different in each phase of our cycle, in each season of our lives. So these are conversations that we're going to be having. It's going to be a fucking blast. Strap in for the rollercoaster ride of ah Stravin, for the rollercoaster ride of season two.

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Thank you for, thank you, as always, for being here. I don't think that I say that enough, but I hope that you feel that we are just friends. I talk to you on this podcast like I talk to my friends. I talk to you as if I am talking to a group of my most intimate friends, my most intimate friendships, and I hope that you feel that through this podcast. If you love this journey, if you're here for this journey, I would love for you to share one of your favorite episodes on your social media. Tag me in it.

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I would love for you to share one of your favorite episodes on your social media.

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Tag me in it.

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I would love to hear which, what, which episodes of season one resonated the most with you.

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Um, if you're not a tagger and that's too much for you, totally understand, no pressure, reach out, send me a DM. I would just love to hear what, what topics really resonate with you and what you want to hear more about in season two. And if you feel comfortable, if you feel willing and able, please share one of your favorite episodes with a friend, because the goal of this podcast is to continue expanding, continue growing, continue our reach of this, these really beautiful juicy conversations of authenticity and vulnerability and power and human design and cycle, alignment and breath work and all of these healing tools that don't need to be kept a secret and don't need to be shied away from because we feel like they're too big or too confusing. One of the goals of this podcast is to be very intro friendly, to be very approachable. So share one of your favorite episodes with a friend. I am looking so forward to this journey with you in season two. I will see you in the next episode, my friend, be well.