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.
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Return to the 9 Year: A Review & Who We Became in 2025
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Episode 99: Reflection, Reclamation & The Threshold of the Year of the Snake
It’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. In this reflective, ritual-like conversation, Caitlan unpacks the numerology of a nine year — the year of completion, shedding, composting, and clearing — and reflects on what she’s learned, who she became, and what she’s consciously leaving behind.
Inside, she shares her own roses + thorns in business and motherhood, how IFS + Human Design supported her through a year of deep transition, and invitations for you to reflect on your own nine-year cycle with journal prompts, parts work, and Human Design exploration.
If you’re craving closure, clarity, or a gentle remembrance of who you became this year, let this episode guide you back to yourself.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- What a 9 year means in numerology + why 2025 felt so intense
- Reflection prompts to meet the version of you this year shaped
- How Caitlan used Human Design (4/6 profile) to build authentic connection
- The part she reclaimed through IFS — anger
- What she’s leaving behind, what she’s taking into the 1 year
- Roses + thorns from both business + motherhood
- Why Episode 99 marks a threshold into visibility, magnetism, and creative fire 🔥
Timestamps:
02:00 — 05:30 | What a nine year is & why 2025 carried shedding energy
06:00 — 09:45 | Reflection + journaling prompts for the nine year
10:00 — 13:00 | Caitlan’s IFS revelation — working with anger & unburdening
13:10 — 15:00 | Human Design experiments + being a 4/6 connector
15:10 — 17:40 | What she’s leaving behind + tarot messages
17:45 — 19:45 | What she’s bringing into 2026 — Queen of Wands energy
19:50 — 25:30 | Roses + thorns: business, motherhood, expansion
25:30 — 28:00 | Gratitude, becoming, completion + Episode 100 preview
Links & Resources:
- Try Return+ free for 7 days to access the full Return to Self Syllabus
- Join Undefined (starts January 20, 2026) — Projectors, Manifestors & Reflectors
- Book a Shifted Session (HD Reading + Integration)
- Last Year's Year in Review Podcast Episode
Thank you for 99 weeks of returning together — for listening, sharing, and witnessing this work as part of your own self-expression. Next week’s episode marks 100, the final of the year, a moment of pause, and a doorway into what comes next.
Come reflect, release, and rise with me.
See you there. ✨
Produced by Caitlan Siegenthaler
Cover Art by Kiara Opara
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That is a beautiful energetic exchange for Caitlan creating the show.