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.
(Frequent strong language)
Episodes
63 episodes
Raise The Bar And Watch Them Reach- Guest Episode Jana Jones
You can’t build self-trust by waiting for a perfect season of life. You build it while the kids need you, the to-do list never ends, and you’re still figuring out who you are becoming.We sit down with Jana, a former tech and marketing p...
Put On The Rhinestones And Go Anyway
Dolly Parton has passed, and we didn’t expect to feel it like this. But sometimes grief doesn’t measure itself by proximity, it measures itself by meaning. When someone’s voice, humor, and generosity helped shape who we believed we could be, lo...
Reclaiming Your Voice Guest Episode Ashley Noelle
Some seasons don’t break you loudly. They unravel you in a thousand tiny moments until you wake up and realize you’ve been keeping everyone comfortable while losing your own voice. That’s the place we start from today, and we don’t stay there. ...
When A Hormone Test Rewrites Your Story
A lab result can mess with your head more than a hot flash ever could. I thought I was firmly in perimenopause, talking about it, living it, and naming myself by it, until a hormone test told me I’d already “graduated” to postmenopause. No cere...
What Changes When Women Take Up Space Guest Karen Leigh
You can be the responsible one, the capable one, the woman who keeps everyone else afloat and still feel a quiet ache that says, “I’m not in my own life.” That’s the tension we sit with alongside Karen Lee, a coach who has lived the messy middl...
The Perimenopause Symptom Scavenger Hunt And What It’s Really Teaching You
Perimenopause can make you feel like you woke up in a new body with no instructions and somehow everyone expects you to act “normal” anyway. One minute you’re fine, the next your knees hurt, you can’t remember why you walked into the kitchen, y...
The Three-Day Rule - Amanda C Farrow Guest Episode
Some stories don’t inspire because they’re shiny, they inspire because they’re true. I’m sitting down with Amanda C. Farrow, a UK self-published author and mental health advocate who brings humor, heart, and zero pretense to the messier parts o...
BONUS Episode!!! What You're Afraid to Start - Could change your life!
Happy One Year Anniversary to the She Ignites Podcast!I'd love for you to celebrate with me! Send me an email to kari@sheignitescandleco.com with a message, candlelit confession of your own, a story you'd like to share, or an...
Congratulations, You’re “Selfish” Now
We talk about the guilt that hits when we stop living for everyone else and start living from truth. We unpack why boundaries can feel brutal at first, and how choosing ourselves can be the kindest thing we ever do.• guilt as a normal respo...
How To Get Real Answers When Doctors Dismiss Women’s Symptoms - Guest Danielle Kepics
“Your labs are normal” shouldn’t be the end of the story, especially when you’re exhausted, foggy, moody, dealing with gut issues, losing hair, or watching your libido disappear. We sit down with Danielle Kepics, a board-certified physician ass...
The Only Fire You Forgot Was Yours
You can love the life you built and still feel strangely far away from yourself. That quiet numbness, the “I should be happier than this” guilt, the sense that you’re doing everything for everyone while your own spark fades, it’s more common th...
How To Trust Your Soul When Fear Gets Loud - Guest Amy Wilkinson
Something shifts when your old life starts feeling too tight and you can’t unsee it. Kari Lowe sits down with manifestation teacher and soul mentor Amy Wilkinson to name that shift as identity death: the uncomfortable, necessary shedding of rol...
You Can Be Responsible And Still Choose Yourself - Guest Episode Gail O'Halloran
Your life can look “successful” and still feel like you’re disappearing inside it. Kari Lowe sits down with Gail O’Halloran, a wayfinder life coach who helps women move from self-doubt to self-trust, to name the thing so many of us feel but rar...
Good Girl Detox
Good girl rules don’t just live in childhood memories, they show up in your calendar, your inbox, your relationships, and the way you say “sorry” when you did nothing wrong. We’re naming the pattern out loud: the pressure to be polite, easy, an...
What If Self-Care Is Your Strategy? Guest Episode Faith Rivera
Burnout can look like ambition on the outside and anxiety on the inside. When you’re the reliable one, the capable one, the “yes” person, it’s easy to wake up one day and realize you’ve been living by expectations that aren’t even yours. Carrie...
Fear Is Fuel
Fear gets a bad rap, but we’re calling it out for what it really is: information and energy. When my hands shake before I hit “post,” when my chest tightens before a bold ask, or when my voice trembles before a hard conversation, that doesn’t m...
You Are Not Lost, You Are Outgrowing Survival- Guest
If you have ever been called “so strong” while quietly falling apart, this conversation is for you. I’m sitting down with De Shell Parker, a healing-centered speaker, author, and coach who helps high-achieving women stop overfunctioning and rec...
Spotting Emotional Freeloaders
We call out emotional freeloaders and the sneaky ways they turn us into an unpaid therapist, permanent hypewoman, and emotional sponge. I share how to spot the pattern, why it targets empathetic women, and exactly how to protect our fire withou...
One Bold Pivot Can Change Your Life - Guest Candace Dudley
I talk with Candace Dudley about walking away from a 13-year teaching career, doing the inner work to stop asking for permission, and building a business that lets her show up as her best self at home. We also get tactical about podcast guestin...
The Power Of Disappointing People
Someone is going to be disappointed when you stop performing. That doesn’t mean you did something wrong. It might mean you finally did something true. We’re talking about the hidden power in letting people feel let down without rushing to fix i...
Dear Expectations, It’s Not Me, It’s You
Someone somewhere decided who you were “supposed” to be and you might have been playing that part for years. The responsible one. The reliable one. The woman who keeps it together so everyone else can relax. We’re done with that script. We’re t...
Following someone else's script with Unbound Branding
The fastest way to burn out isn’t working too hard. It’s building a business that doesn’t feel like you anymore. I’m Kari Lowe, and I’m joined by McKenna Dodge and Charissa Higgins, the founders of Unbound Branding Agency, for a re...
You Can Be Grateful And Overwhelmed At Once
Life will humble you in minutes. One moment I’ve got a plan, a schedule, and content mapped out, and the next I’m living through a full-on identity shift with a new job plus the emotional whirl of welcoming twin babies into the family. This Lif...
Midlife Friendship Reset
We tell the truth about how midlife friendships fade without drama and why that quiet loss can feel brutally isolating. We walk through a practical path to grieve what is gone, drop the shame, and build a new circle that actually matches who we...
Your Voice Gets Powerful When You Use It - Guest Episode Urmi Hossain
Your voice isn’t missing. It’s been waiting for permission, practice, and a little proof. I sit down with Urmi, a Montreal-based finance professional, mentor, author, and the host of Stories Beyond Borders, to talk about what it really takes fo...