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Be Freaking Awesome Podcast

Be Freaking Awesome Podcast

著者： Angela Belford & Sami Kinnison
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Tired of surface-level conversations and sugar-coated advice? You’re in the right place.


Be Freaking Awesome is not your average personal growth podcast. Hosted by Angela and Sami, an insightful mother-daughter duo with a gift for keeping it real, this is the space where authenticity, emotional intelligence, and radical self-awareness come together.


We’re not here just to inspire you. We’re here to equip you with tools, stories, and soul-level truths that will help you grow in the real world, not some Pinterest-perfect version of it.


Each week, we open up the real stuff: the messy middles, the limiting beliefs, the grief we never processed, the boundaries we were never taught to hold, and the dreams we’re still afraid to say out loud. From navigating burnout and setting healthy boundaries to healing your relationship with money and learning how to sit with hard emotions, we go deep and we do it with compassion, humor, and zero judgment.


This show is especially for the big-feeling, high-achieving, people-pleasing, growth-obsessed folks who are ready to stop pretending they’ve got it all together and actually start living aligned. If you've ever said, “I know there’s more for me,” or “I’m tired of carrying all this alone,” this podcast was made for you.


We bring two generations of experience, two distinct but complementary perspectives, and one shared mission: to help you stop settling, start healing, and live a freaking awesome life.


You’ll hear from a mix of powerful guests including trauma-informed financial coaches, creatives who turned pain into purpose, and business leaders with heart. We also share solo and co-hosted episodes where we dive into our own struggles and triumphs from the therapy room to the boardroom to our own kitchen table.


We’re not into quick fixes or perfectionism. We’re into progress, emotional regulation, nervous system safety, redefining success, and showing up with more courage, joy, and clarity than you ever thought possible.


No matter where you are on your journey, whether you’re starting over, in transition, building something bold, or just feeling a little lost, we’re here to remind you that you are not broken, you are not too much, and you are capable of far more than you’ve been led to believe.


Take a breath. Hit play. And get ready to do the deep work of becoming who you were always meant to be.


This is your space to grow, heal, laugh, cry, question, and transform. Because life’s too short to settle for anything less than freaking awesome.

© 2026 Be Freaking Awesome Podcast 個人的成功 心理学 心理学・心の健康 社会科学 自己啓発 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • EP245 What Your Social Media Feed Says About How You Feel About Yourself

    EP245 What Your Social Media Feed Says About How You Feel About Yourself
    2026/10/27
    Send us Fan MailYou pick up your phone to check one thing. Twenty minutes later you're a little more tired, a little more behind, and somehow lonelier than when you started. Nobody told you the scroll would do that. Maybe it didn't. Maybe it just showed you something that was already there.This week Sami and Angela get very literal and talk about social media itself: how they actually use it, how much time they actually spend on it, and how to have a healthier relationship with it without deleting everything and moving to a cabin. Sami shares what happened during her family's week-long technology fast, when she kept opening an app she had blocked on purpose without even noticing. Angela explains why, after 18 years in marketing, she thinks of social media as work, and why she reminds herself that if something is free, you are the product. They also get into the highlight reel problem, how to stop comparing your behind-the-scenes to everyone else's best moments, and what your feed might be telling you about the beliefs you're already carrying. In this episode, we dig into:Permission to keep social media in your life without letting it run your lifeOne question that interrupts the mindless scroll: who is making money from me feeling this way?Relief from measuring your real life against everyone else's highlight reelA new way to see your feed as a mirror that shows which belief is loudest right nowA two-tap switch that gives you a feed of just your peopleSami tells the story of opening Instagram three times in a row during her tech fast before realizing the app was blocked and she was the one reaching for it. Angela shares that her most-used app is a Tetris-style block game (20 hours last week, and she calls it her sleep hygiene technique), and her "if you don't like the cake coming out of the oven, check the ingredients" rule for what she lets into her life. Sami talks about a friend whose Disney World photos looked perfect while the trip itself was one of the hardest of her life. Angela shares what she tells a client who wished she had a big friend group, what happened when she posted openly about a vacation argument, and the study that found limiting social media to 10 minutes a day for three weeks cut loneliness and depression in college students. Sami closes with a pet peeve about two little words ("I saw") that she would like everyone to retire.Here's what you get to walk away with: you don't have to quit to feel better, and you're not weak for losing time to the scroll. If a feed leaves you feeling less than, that's information, not a verdict. It may be pointing at an "I'm not enough" or an "I don't belong" that's worth looking at. And Angela previews next week's belief, "I don't trust myself," so stay tuned.If you've ever closed the app feeling worse than when you opened it, press play before your next scroll.Mentioned in this episode:The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt: https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/bookThe Next Right Thing by Emily P. Freeman: https://emilypfreeman.com/next-right-thing-book/Study on limiting social media and loneliness and depression, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology (2018): https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751Gary Ware's Friday Funnies (link needed, could not verify online)Related episodes:EP244 How to Tell What's Covertly Running Your LifeEP243 How a Bad Day in Seventh Grade Still Runs Your LifeEP71 (title needed; covers curated lives vs. reality and social media breaks)EP74 (title needed; covers news and social media as influences and the loneliness epidemic)You've done the work. The retreats, the books, the coaching. And the pattern is still there. The Invisible Edge Foundation 1:1 Coaching is where that changes. Six sessions, one-on-one, body-based belief work that gets underneath what nothing else has touched. bfreakingawesome.com/podcast-coachingSupport the showSign up at bfreakingawesome.com to get the latest news, insights, and episodes straight to your inbox.Follow Be Freaking Awesome on Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, and Instagram.Let us know what questions you want to be answered and discussed by emailing us at podcast@bfreakingawesome.com.
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  • EP244 How to Tell What's Covertly Running Your Life

    EP244 How to Tell What's Covertly Running Your Life
    2026/10/20

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    You had the idea. You felt the words forming. And then you watched the moment pass while you waited to see which way the room was leaning. Afterward you told yourself it was timing. It wasn't timing. Something much older was deciding for you.

    Last week Sami and Angela talked about why the word "beliefs" doesn't quite land, even though the patterns underneath it are running the show. This week they get practical. They walk through the seven belief themes that tend to show up at work, from people pleasing and imposter syndrome to perfectionism and never feeling like you can rest, using the self-assessment Sami built for a team training. Angela's dirt road image (grooves that turn into ruts when the weather gets bad) gives you a way to see why you keep sliding back into the same patterns. In this episode, we dig into:

    • Language for the quiet feeling behind people pleasing, imposter syndrome, and perfectionism
    • Clarity on the difference between feeling worthy and feeling valuable
    • Permission to carry one belief at work and a completely different one at home
    • A new way to see why you stay quiet in meetings (it is rarely just one reason)
    • A self-assessment you can download to see which patterns are loudest for you

    Sami walks through what each theme sounds like on an ordinary Tuesday: avoiding the conversation you know will create tension, downplaying praise with "it was really the team, guys," saying yes when you're already at capacity, delaying a decision until you feel certain, checking with everyone before a call that's yours to make, and spending more time perfecting work than sharing it. Angela explains why worthy and valuable are not the same thing (one is that you're breathing, the other is your contribution), why "I'm not capable" became "I don't have what it takes," and how "even if they reject me, I belong to me" changed the way she walks into a room. They also share the real networking opener, and it takes about ten seconds.

    Here's what you get to walk away with: you are not the only one with this running in the background, and these patterns may have served you well for a long time. Awareness is a good start. The behavior people see is only the outward expression, and the motivation underneath is internal, which means it's work you're invited to do but nobody can do for you. And nobody else gets to decide you're unlovable or that you don't belong.

    If you've ever left a meeting replaying what you didn't say, press play now. You might finally find out why.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    • The Invisible Edge: What Fuels Your Success Might Be What Limits It by Angela Belford: https://bfreakingawesome.com/the-invisible-edge-preorder/
    • The belief self-assessment (download it from the podcast page at bfreakingawesome.com) (direct link needed, could not verify online): https://bfreakingawesome.com

    Related episodes:

    • EP243 How a Bad Day in Seventh Grade Still Runs Your Life
    • EP208 Stop Waiting for Permission to Belong
    • EP239 What If Belonging Is a Decision and Not a Feeling



    You've done the work. The retreats, the books, the coaching. And the pattern is still there. The Invisible Edge Foundation 1:1 Coaching is where that changes. Six sessions, one-on-one, body-based belief work that gets underneath what nothing else has touched. bfreakingawesome.com/podcast-coaching

    Support the show

    Sign up at bfreakingawesome.com to get the latest news, insights, and episodes straight to your inbox.

    Follow Be Freaking Awesome on Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, and Instagram.

    Let us know what questions you want to be answered and discussed by emailing us at podcast@bfreakingawesome.com.
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  • EP243 How a Bad Day in Seventh Grade Still Runs Your Life

    EP243 How a Bad Day in Seventh Grade Still Runs Your Life
    2026/10/13

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    You don't think you have limiting beliefs. Most people don't. You're not walking around consciously telling yourself you're not enough, or that nobody can be trusted, or that you have to do everything alone. But ask what happens the second you make a mistake. What's the voice in your head? Is it kind? Or does it tear you apart? That's the tell.

    This week Sami and Angela get into why the term "limiting beliefs" doesn't actually land with most people, even though the patterns underneath it are running the show for almost everyone. They talk about the reticular activating system, why the opposite of perfectionism isn't mediocrity, how a single moment in childhood can send two people down completely different paths, and why you can't force healing before you actually have the capacity for it. In this episode, we dig into:

    • Permission to not recognize the term "limiting belief" and still have one quietly running the show
    • A different way to hear the voice in your head after you mess something up
    • Why the opposite of perfectionism isn't mediocrity, it's kindness at an appropriate standard
    • Clarity on why you can't just will yourself to heal before you're actually ready
    • Freedom from believing your current stress response is just "how life is"

    Angela walks through her favorite example of how these patterns actually form: two kids get laughed at in seventh grade, and one decides never to raise a hand again while the other becomes a stand-up comic, same event, completely different meaning attached to it. She also breaks down how a simple missed carton of milk can spiral into a full blown fight depending on what belief is quietly running underneath it. And Sami gets vulnerable about a genuinely hard week in therapy, the difference between how she handled conflict nine years ago versus now, and the metaphor that's carried her through it, a canoe on the river of life, where you can only clear the log directly in front of you.

    Here's the permission this episode hands you: you don't have to already believe you have limiting beliefs to have real freedom waiting for you. You just have to get curious about the voice in your head after a mistake. And if you're in a season where you're tired, short, or running on a low tank because you're finally doing the work, that's not falling behind. That's proof it's the right time.

    If you've ever caught yourself "shoulding" on yourself, telling yourself you should have handled something sooner, or that you shouldn't feel the way you feel, this episode is for you. Press play now. You don't have to fix every log in the river today. Just the one in front of you.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    • Be Freaking Awesome by Angela Belford — https://bfreakingawesome.com/product/be-freaking-awesome/
    • Traveling Light: Free Yourself from the Crap in Your Head by Angela Belford — https://www.amazon.com/Traveling-Light-Free-Yourself-Crap/dp/0999186221
    • The Invisible Edge: What Fuels Your Success Might Be What Limits It by Angela Belford — https://bfreakingawesome.com/the-invisible-edge-preorder/

    You've done the work. The retreats, the books, the coaching. And the pattern is still there. The Invisible Edge Foundation 1:1 Coaching is where that changes. Six sessions, one-on-one, body-based belief work that gets underneath what nothing else has touched. bfreakingawesome.com/podcast-coaching

    Support the show

    Sign up at bfreakingawesome.com to get the latest news, insights, and episodes straight to your inbox.

    Follow Be Freaking Awesome on Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, and Instagram.

    Let us know what questions you want to be answered and discussed by emailing us at podcast@bfreakingawesome.com.
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    31 分
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