What does it mean to feel truly at home—in our spaces, our bodies, our relationships, and our lives?

In this episode of Lean Into Love, Gina sits down with Yvonne Hsiung, a licensed real estate agent and business development professional, to explore career transitions, family, faith, community, and the surprising ways our physical spaces can shape our internal worlds.

Yvonne shares her journey from 14 years in her family’s manufacturing business to building a new career in real estate, and how the threads of hospitality, service, feng shui, and her relationship with home have followed her throughout her life.

Together, they explore what it means to choose love over fear, create spaces that support the lives we want, feel at home in our bodies, cultivate meaningful community, and practice discernment in our relationships.

At the heart of the conversation is a simple but powerful question: Where can we choose connection today?

In this episode:

• Navigating career transitions and new seasons of life
• Family, communication, and choosing love through conflict
• Feng shui and the energy of our spaces
• Feeling at home in our bodies
• The healing power of movement and community
• Discernment, intuition, and self-trust
• Faith, hope, and finding meaning in life's difficult seasons
• Choosing connection in everyday moments

Connect with Yvonne: 📧 yvonne@delrayresidential.io

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This episode features Scott Barnhardt, an actor-writer and independent education consultant (college coach) who guides creative students through goal-setting, applications, and college decisions.

Scott shares his path from a theater-loving childhood and professional acting career to earning an MFA in playwriting at UCLA, discovering a passion for teaching, leading as director of the Musical Theater Conservatory at the Orange County School of the Arts, and launching his own consulting business. Scott reflects on performing in the original Broadway cast of The Book of Mormon, using that period to transition careers, and explains he is finishing a book, The Creative College Journey. He also speaks about caregiving, grief after losing his mother and best friend, choosing love over fear through acts of service, and how self-compassion and service define a life leaning into love.

00:00 Meet Scott

00:15 What Scott Does

01:21 From Theater to Consulting

04:19 Building a Values Business

06:48 Entrepreneur Advice

09:51 Artists and Money

12:38 College Costs and ROI

15:06 Early Theater Roots

17:33 Finding Safety in Art

20:07 Supportive Stage Parents

22:52 Original Book of Mormon

28:21 Eight Shows a Week

29:35 Broadway Mental Grind

31:03 Choosing Grad School Exit

32:19 Aging In Entertainment

34:58 Teaching Sparks New Path

37:05 Pandemic Theater Leadership

38:30 New Business And Book

39:53 Grief Choosing Love

45:32 Boundaries In Caregiving

48:05 Living With Grief

51:38 Afterlife And Synchronicity

53:46 Numbing Versus Rest

56:27 Leading With Love

57:51 Where To Find Scott

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scottbarnhardt

Website: https://www.creativecollegejourney.com/

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Today’s guest is Francisco Ortega, who reflects on migration, identity, vulnerability, and the lost art of deep conversation. He shares how self-doubt and imposter syndrome can fuel humility and growth, and opens up about the shame that once led him to fabricate parts of his story in order to belong.

Francisco recounts immigrating from Jalisco, Mexico, living in Tijuana apart from his parents, and arriving in the U.S. in 1978 — experiences that shaped his sense of dual identity. He also discusses his men’s group, his work around dialogue, and how writing an autobiographical-fictional book led to deeper conversations with his family and daughters.

Together, we explore performativity, certainty, yoga, religion, impermanence, and what it truly means to “lean into love” through vulnerability, curiosity, and connection.

00:00 Why Conversation Matters

01:23 Imposter Syndrome Talk

02:42 Doubt as Fuel

04:04 Men’s Group and Honest Mirrors

06:20 Immigrant Roots and Identity

10:41 Shame and Reinventing Yourself

14:36 Authenticity and the Self

16:16 Happiness Culture and Isolation

19:28 Seeing Family with New Questions

23:59 Parenting Power and Indoctrination

27:58 Seminary Years and Service

33:41 Religion, Control, and Kindness

39:57 Living Beyond Binary Labels

41:58 Beyond Gender Binaries

45:43 Certainty as Violence

47:45 Living in the Gray

50:11 Rage and Hard Questions

52:20 Yoga Leadership Impermanence

54:43 Performative Culture Anger Economy

01:03:25 Eternal Return Gender Roles

01:08:52 Leaning Into Love

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