Return
You’re not broken. You’re just burnt out on trying to be someone you’re not.
Return is the podcast for conscious entrepreneurs, sensitive visionaries, and healers who’ve checked all the boxes—and are still wondering, “Why doesn’t this feel right?”
Hosted by Caitlan Siegenthaler, former therapist turned business energy strategist blending Human Design, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and soulful strategy.
Return isn’t about forcing yourself into someone else’s blueprint. It’s about coming home to your own.
This isn’t hustle hype or spiritual bypassing disguised as business advice. It’s honest, nuanced, often irreverent conversations for the biz owner who’s outgrown performative success and wants to build something that actually feels good.
✨ Tune in for solo episodes and guest convos that help you:
- Navigate seasons of change (without losing yourself)
- Reclaim your energy and decision-making power
- Build a business that honors your gifts and nervous system
- Explore who you really are—beneath the shoulds
Whether you’re in the midst of a pivot, healing from burnout, or finally ready to trust your intuition again,Return is your reminder that you’re not lost. You’re just on your way home.
Let’s begin.
Episodes
114 episodes
IFS, Intuition & Reclaiming the Therapist’s Intuitive Edge with Natalie Deering
Episode 111: IFS, Intuition & Reclaiming the Therapist’s Intuitive Edge with Natalie DeeringWhat happens when therapists stop treating intuition like something “woo” and start recognizing it as information?In t...
Why Highly Intuitive People Stop Trusting Themselves
Episode 110: Why Highly Intuitive People Stop Trusting Themselves: Returning to intuition after grief, trauma & self-doubtAfter an intentional pause, Caitlan returns to the mic with one of the most personal episo...
The Power Move Behind Doing “The Thing” (with Emily Romero) [Return x Self-Trust Podcast Crossover]
In this special crossover episode between the Return Podcast and Self Trust Podcast, Caitlan sits down with Emily Romero ...
The IFS Controversy & Why the Modality Isn’t the Problem
Episode: 108: The IFS Controversy: “The Therapy That Can Break You”… or Heal You?In this episode, Caitlan unpacks the recent wave of criticism surrounding Internal Family Systems (IFS) from viral think pieces to questions about its safet...
AI & Therapy: What Helps, What Hurts, and What No One Tells You
Episode 107: AI, Mental Health & Why “Support” Isn’t Always SupportIn this episode, Caitlan dives into one of the most relevant (and controversial) topics right now: AI and mental health.As both a licensed therapist and busine...
One Week to Fix Your Business (If You’re Done Circling the Same Decision)
Ep 106: If I had one week to fix your business... I would do this...In this solo episode of Return, Caitlan shares a quick personal update with the community and then dives into a question she’s been thinking about a lot ...
3 Years of Return: Life Lessons, Creative Rituals & A Behind-the-Scenes Look at My Business Evolution
Episode 105: 3 YEARS of RETURN! Book your Power Move Session HereIn this celebratory birthday episode, Caitlan marks three years of the Return podcas...
Return+: Why Your Human Design Energy Type is the Perfect Place to Start for Inner Work [Inner Infrastructure Series for Founders]
Ep 104: The Shadow Side of Your Human Design: Part 3 in the Inner Infrastructure for Founders SeriesTo listen to the full episode, become a Return+ subscriber & get the full episode
IFS Parts Work for Entrepreneurs: When Strategy Isn’t the Issue [Inner Infrastructure for Founders]
Part 2 in the Series of Inner Infrastructure for FoundersIs it a strategy problem or a mindset problem? This is the episode to help you find out...In this episode, Caitlan explores how our parts (fear parts, belonging par...
Why Isn’t All This Self-Work Translating Into My Business? [Inner Infrastructure for Founders Series]
Knowledge vs. Embodiment: Why Knowing Yourself Is Your Greatest Business Asset in the Inner Infrastructure for Founders — Part 1If you’ve consumed a lot of personal development, strategy, or self-awareness content — and s...
Money Parts, Self-Led Finances & “A 12-Year-Old Running the Business” with Rick Kahler
What happens when a financial guy meets Internal Family Systems… and ends up sobbing in an IFS demo at Esalen? 😅 In this episode, I’m joined by Rick Kahler—financial planner + financial therapist who helped me (yes, as his willing ...
100th Episode: This Was Never About Self-Improvement (plus the 1 year, top 10 episodes of the year & more)
EPISODE 100: "This was the year of realizing that being seen isn’t about doing more—it’s about feeling safe enough to stop abandoning yourself." -Caitlan✨ JOIN ...
Return to the 9 Year: A Review & Who We Became in 2025
Episode 99: Reflection, Reclamation & The Threshold of the Year of the SnakeIt’s the 99th episode of Return (!!!) and in perfect alignment, we’re closing out our nine year cycle just as we step into a new one. I...
Elemental Design, Mental Inflammation & the Rituals That Heal with Dr. Shivani Gupta
Episode 98: Elemental Design, Mental Inflammation & Returning to Your Rhythm – with Dr. Shivani GuptaIn this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Shivani Gupta—Ayurvedic practitioner, turmeric researcher, founder of Fusionary For...
Return+: Evolving Beyond the Therapist Identity
Return+ Evolving Beyond the Therapist IdentityEpisode 97: The Journey of Transformation and GrowthIn this Return+ episode, Caitlan Siegenthaler takes you inside the quiet, sacred, and often uncomfortable process of...
The Legacy of Being Seen with Mao Beckett
Episode 96: The Legacy of Being Seen (Part 5 of the On Being Seen series)Today I’m joined by my friend and amazing guest, Mao Beckett, LCSW—a liberation-centered somatic + spiritual therapist and founder of Reset & Re...
Return+: The Human Design of Being Seen: Energy, Visibility & Selling in Alignment
Episode 95: The Human Design of Being Seen: Visibility, Energy & the Art of Showing Up When It Feels Safer to Hide There’s a quiet truth I keep coming back to: visibility isn’t about being l...
When Healing is Energy: Inside the Practice of Reiki & IFS with Elizabeth Scott
Episode 94: Self-Energy, Skeptic Parts & Practical AlchemyToday Caitlan is joined by Elizabeth Scott an IFS Level 1–trained psychotherapist, Reiki Master Practitioner, astrologer, certified nature-informed therapist, and Safe ...
Return+: The Mirror of Taylor Swift: What Her Human Design Says About You
Episode 93: A Taylor Swift Human Design Chart Reading for Return+ Subscribers & How You Can Use Those Takeaways for Your Own Chart In this solo episode, host Caitlan Siegenthaler explores the intersection of identity, vis...
Notes on Being Seen: What Visibility Really Means
Episode 92: Visibility, Vulnerability & Why It MattersIn this kickoff to a new series on Being Seen, Caitlan Siegenthaler invites you into a real, layered conversation about what it actually means to be seen. ...
Five Minutes to Return to Yourself [A Mini Reset]
Hi, hi, hi. I am literally sitting in a Chicago hotel room with a mini mic, fresh off the IFS conference, coffee in hand, and a brain buzzing with about a million things I could share. But instead of doing a full recap (that’ll come later), I k...
Return+: BTS of a Human Design Reading with Dr. Richard Schwartz: The Invitations, Parts Work, and Nervous System Prep Behind It
Subscribe to Return+ on Substack for the full unfiltered episode and more: https://substack.com/@caitlansigenthalerEpisode 90: BTS of a Human Design Reading with D...
When Love Is Blind Meets Human Design: The Patrick Problem Episode 89: Labels, Excuses & the Dark Side of Spiritual Systems
Episode 89: Labels, Excuses & the Dark Side of Spiritual SystemsThis episode is a pop culture–meets–self-growth breakdown, this time inspired by Love is Blind UK Season 2. After watching Human Design coach Patrick become the show’s a...
What Has to Go? Discernment: A Virgo Season Virtue We All Need Right Now
Episode 89: " Discernment is the missing link between overconsumption and authentic creation." Virgo season always calls us back to the basics, and this week Caitlan is talking about one of the most underrated skills we can p...
Is Where You Are, Who You Are? And A Business Study Guide to Using Human Design Environments
Episode 88: Your Human Design Environment , It will Refresh You What if your business isn’t stalling because of your strategy but because you’re trying to plug into the wrong outlet? Your Human Design environment is your ch...