She Ignites
This is where power gets raw, healing gets hot, and rebellion becomes ritual. Hosted by Kari Lowe, She Ignites is your weekly dose of fire-starter truth, bold stories, and permission to break every rule that kept you small.
Light the damn match.
It’s time to burn, not behave.
She Ignites
You Don’t Need Perfect Conditions To Shine
What proves your light isn’t the sunny days - it’s the dark rooms where you’re tempted to shrink. We’re getting real about how to keep your glow alive when life feels heavy, cold, or uncertain, and why radiance that waits for permission isn’t radiance at all. Through a raw personal story of disappearing to stay safe, we pivot into a practical, grounded approach to self-worth: choose to glow as an act of resistance and a declaration that you will not be swallowed.
We map out four reliable sources of light you can generate on your own terms. Purpose light aligns you with why you’re here and what you stand for. Pleasure light brings small, sensory joy that recalibrates your nervous system. People light is your mirror tribe, the ones who reflect your brilliance when you can’t. Power light is boundary work in motion, from clean no’s to curating inputs that feed your spark. You’ll also get three defining questions to name your unique glow and a simple daily rhythm, morning claim, midday micro luxury, and nighttime evidence that keeps your energy steady.
To make this stick, we guide a short visualization to locate the warm spear of light at your center and turn it up with breath, memory, and intention. Then we roll into a seven-day glow challenge that helps you eliminate dimmers, call in support, practice creative play without an audience, and track the wins that prove your light is real. This is not about pretending the dark isn’t there. It’s about refusing to let it define you and becoming the lighthouse someone else might need tonight.
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Welcome to She Ignites, the podcast where we burn the rule book, ditch the shoulds, and light up the lives we were meant to lead. I'm your host, Carrie Lowe, candlemaker, confidence dealer, and your favorite fire starter. Around here, we speak boldly, dream wildly, and show up messy and magical. If you're done playing small and ready to own your own spark, you're in the right damn place. Now let's get lit. Welcome back, Firestarters. This is the place where women stop dimming to make other people comfortable and start lighting up, even when the room goes pitch black. So today we're talking about just that: glowing in the dark. The art of keeping your light alive in seasons where everything around you feels heavy, uncertain, or just cold. But here's the truth: anyone can glow when the sun is out. It's the dark that proves your fire. By the end of this episode, you'll have the mindset, the rituals, and the courage to hold your glow, no matter how dark it gets around you. So, as usual, story time. A while back, I went through a stretch where nothing was going my way. Personal life, messy, work, draining, energy, non-existent. And I started catching myself shrinking because it was easy. Pulling back from conversations, not speaking up. It felt safer to disappear. Then one night I went to an event. Everyone in the room looked well perfect. And there I was, feeling like a cracked light bulb. Halfway through, a woman I didn't know came up to me and said, You have such good energy. You really light up this space. And I thought, even now, even in this mess, that's when I decided I can't wait for perfect conditions to glow. My glow, it isn't situational. It's mine. So dark seasons strip away the extras. They make us ask, who am I when nothing external is affirming me? The dark reveals which parts of your light are powered by external validation, which parts are unshakable because they come from within. And here's the rebellious truth. You can choose to glow in the dark as an act of resistance, not because everything's fine, but because your light is a declaration that you will not be swallowed. So we have some glow sources that don't burn out. I want to share four of those with you. Number one is the purpose light, knowing why you're here and what you stand for. Now I can debate with the best of them as to why or why not it is important to find our purpose. I see both sides of it. But purpose, if you follow that idea, is knowing why you're here and what you stand for. Number two is the pleasure light, small joys that remind you you're alive. Number three is people light, those who see you clearly even when you cannot see yourself. Take a moment to figure out who those people are. Write them down. Number four is the power light, boundaries and actions that keep you rooted in self-respect. When you've got these, you're not relying on circumstances to light you up, you're generating your own energy. So let's talk about defining your glow. Step one, ask yourself these questions. What does my light look like when I'm fully myself? What dims me the fastest? And what brings me back when I'm fading? Write these down, name them. Your glow is not generic, it is as specific as a fingerprint. So step number two, we're going to talk about rituals. In the morning, light a candle, of course, a she ignites candle, and say, This light is mine and it will stay lit. Midday, do one thing that feels like micro luxury. Drink from your favorite glass, wear your favorite scent, move your body in a way that feels alive. Me, I love to dance. And I don't necessarily do it very well, but I do it anyway. And at night, list three ways you showed up today, even if they were tiny. Number three, protect the glow. In dark seasons, it is important to guard your energy like a fortress. So limiting our exposure to people who drain us, even on social media. Say no without a backup explanation. No is a full sentence. Curate your inputs, music, books, conversations that feed your light, not dim it. So here is a ritual that you can do right now, unless you're driving. If you are, come back to it later. I want you to close your eyes. Breathe in and out. Breathe in and out. Picture your glow as a spear in the center of your chest. Warm, steady, and bright. On a scale of one to ten, how bright is that light in this very moment? If it's low, imagine feeding it with laughter, with connection, with courage, with love, with friendship, and maybe even with an iced coffee. Watch it expand, spilling past your skin into the space around you. It grows bigger and bigger and fills your body with warmth. Think about how that makes you feel. When you open your eyes, remember how that feels and carry that brightness with you, even if no one else in the room is lit. So I want to share with you a seven-day glow in the dark challenge. Day one, identify three things that dim your light, limit or completely eliminate them. Day two, write down your definition of your glow and put it somewhere that you will see daily. Day three, add one micro luxury to your day. And I encourage you to share a photo of yourself with this with me. Day four, have a conversation with someone who always lifts you. Day five, say no to something that would drain you. Day seven, do something creative just for yourself. No audience, no pressure. Just love for you. On day seven, end the day by journaling how you kept your light alive this week. Glowing in the dark isn't about pretending the dark isn't real. It's about refusing to let it define you. So here's your challenge. This week, glow on purpose. Glow even when it's inconvenient, glow so unapologetically that you become a lighthouse for someone else stumbling in their own night. And I will see you in the dark, lit up and unbothered. Well, that's it for today, babe. But your fire is just getting started. If you're feeling lit up, go ahead and hit subscribe, leave a spicy little review, and tag me at SheIgnites Candle Co. so I can hype you up. Remember, the world doesn't need a quieter version of you. It needs the bold, blazing, fully expressed you. Until next time, keep glowing, keep going, and never, ever dim your damn light.