She Speaks with Shara
She Speaks with Shara is a sacred space where women's voices rise, unfiltered and unashamed. Hosted by Shara, this podcast dives into raw conversations, personal healing, and bold truths. From navigating heartbreak and trauma to reclaiming power, softness, and sisterhood, She Speaks with Shara is for every woman who's ever been silenced - and is now ready to speak. Whether you're here to listen, to feel, or to find your own voice, welcome home.
Episodes
35 episodes
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode # 19 - The Compass Came Before The Clock
We live in a world that measures success by timelines, deadlines, and how quickly we arrive. But healing, growth, and becoming who we're meant to be were never designed to follow a clock. Before we had clocks, we had compasses—tools that helped...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode #18 - When Burnout Comes Home
Burnout isn't just about being tired. It's about slowly becoming someone you don't recognize.In this episode of She Speaks with Shara, we're talking about my experience with burnout while working in the federal government and how I didn't r...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode #17 - "When Empathy Becomes Exhaustion"
In this mini-episode, we explore compassion fatigue and the hidden emotional toll that can come from being the person others lean on during difficult times. Supporting someone through trauma, grief, or hardship can be an act of deep love, but i...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode # 16 - What it Means to Stay: A Conversation with Mary
In this episode, I'm joined by my best friend, Mary, for a conversation about the often-overlooked role of the support person in the aftermath of trauma.While much of the focus naturally falls on the person experiencing the crisis, t...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode #15 - Learning To Live With The Scar
In this mini-episode, we explore one of the most persistent myths in the healing space: the idea that if we do enough work on ourselves, we'll eventually reach a point where we're no longer triggered by our past.But what if that's not the g...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode # 14 - Staying In The Room
In this episode, we’re talking about the conversations most people avoid...the uncomfortable ones. The moments where misunderstandings, hurt feelings, fear, or emotional tension make it easier to shut down, pull away, or pretend everything is f...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode #13 - The Weight of Being the Strong Woman
In this mini-episode, we unpack the hidden weight behind being called “the strong woman.” What happens when strength becomes an expectation instead of a compliment? When the woman everyone relies on quietly stops feeling safe enough to fall apa...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode # 12 - Healing Language & Hollow Connection
Modern dating has left a lot of people emotionally exhausted. Between dating apps, therapy language, hyper-independence, and endless self-analysis, connection can start to feel more like a performance than something genuine. In this...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2- Episode #11 - "Let People Misunderstand You"
Not everyone will see you clearly...and that’s not something you have to fix.In a world where everyone is filtering you through their own experiences, beliefs, and limitations, being fully understood by everyone was never realistic to begin...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode # 10 - Stop Trying So Hard: Listen to What Your Anxiety Is Showing You
This episode dives into the quiet (and sometimes loud!) patterns that feel like love, but slowly erode it.We’re talking about anxious attachment and people pleasing; the constant over-giving, overthinking, and over-adjusting in an attem...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2- Episode # 9 - "If You're an Ocean, Be an Ocean"
Don’t Be a Pond Just Because Some People Can’t Swim.In this mini-episode, we explore what it means to embrace depth in a world that often rewards surface-level living. Not everyone has the capacity to join you in your emotional, inte...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode #8 - Kellie's Story
Today’s conversation is one that I think so many of us have either lived through, are currently navigating, or will face at some point in our relationships.I’m joined by Kellie: a wife, a mother, and one half of the beautiful community she ...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode # 7- "You're Not The Only One Living This Life"
Sonder is the quiet realization that every person you pass is living a life as rich, complex, and emotionally layered as your own...full of dreams, struggles, routines, and unseen stories. It pulls you out of the center of your own narrative ju...
She Speaks with Shara - Season #2 - Episode # 6 - Kimberly's Story
On this episode, I am joined by Kim—a writer, a mother, and a woman reclaiming her voice in a world that once asked her to stay quiet.Through her healing journey, deeply rooted in her life in Mexico, Kim has been doing the profound work of ...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode #5 - "Life is Just A Series of Unfortunate Lessons"
This is the first episode I am releasing that is turning this podcast into a weekly release! That is a major step in the evolution for this, from recording one episode every other week to be released a few days after recording, to now recording...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode # 4- "Am I Positively Toxic?"
Don't get me wrong, being positive is, well, positive. It is inherently a good thing and having a positive outlook when facing life is certainly better than approaching it with a dark, bleak outlook. But what if too much positivity ...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode # 3 - Too Feminine ?
"Be a better human than you were the day before"Seems simple and maybe it should be just that. I have noticed a trend that is seeping into this healing culture and don't get me wrong, it is far better to have this happening than where we...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode # 2 - The Mask Will Always Slip
" I am what I am and that's all that I am." -Popeye-When said by a cartoon character, it is seemingly innocuous and cheeky, but when you have the realization that it could pertain to the darker side of a one's personality, it takes on a ...
She Speaks with Shara - Season 2 - Episode # 1 - Evolving
After a brief pause, much needed for clarity and cleansing, we are back with the start of our second season!! What an intense feeling, to think this has been happening long enough to start another whole season. Which is fitting, bec...
She Speaks with Shara - Episode #17 - 2025 Wrap Up
I did not have starting a podcast, becoming a coach for women and quitting my job on my 2025 bingo card. But here we are and it has been a ride!!February 18th, 2025 launched me into a completely different world, one where my healing real...
She Speaks with Shara - Episode #16- An Interview with Not A Girl Ashley
In a rare twist, this episode features the producer of the show, Ashley, who wants it known he knows it is a girls name and also was not named after Gone With The Wind. He has been a part of each episode so far, listening to the sto...
She Speaks with Shara - Episode #15 - Are You Uncomfortable or Unsafe
The last decade has shown a drastic increase in mental health advocacy, acceptance of therapy and an online culture supporting healing and addressing trauma in all its forms. These are all excellent things and society is better for it.
She Speaks with Shara - Episode #14 - Healing Made Me Meaner
"If I seem mean when I tell you no, just know that I am being very kind to myself."In this episode, I talk about a trend I have been floating on social media, the idea that setting boundaries, advocating for oneself, being kind to yourse...
She Speaks with Shara - Episode #13 - The Body Always Knows
"Learn to listen to you body, whatever that means to you."Did you know your body keeps score? I didn't, until mine started deciding to show me the effects of what that score was. All the hurt, the trauma, the abuse. Your brain can do wha...
She Speaks with Shara - Episode #12 - The Thing About Boundaries
"Having boundaries is the biggest act of self love I have ever done for myself"Who would have thought that would be the case. In a world that sells you tonics, creams, classes, pills and any other modality under the sun to take care of y...
