Content note: This episode includes conversation around pet loss, grief, death, radical honesty, and personal history.

Dr. V is a lot of things: a partner, daughter, doctor, acupuncturist, educator, facilitator, co-founder of SITwithit, co-founder of House of Renegades, and partner in ROAR Funnels.

In this episode, we talk about Dr. V’s personal mission, what it means to have the Soul of a Healer and the Heart of a Renegade, and how truth has become the heartbeat of her work, relationships, facilitation, practitioner training, and work.

This conversation moves through the small choices that shape a life, the moments where you have to choose your values over being liked, and the kind of honesty that asks you to stop distorting yourself just to make other people comfortable.

We talk about acupuncture, intuition, public visibility, radical honesty, love, grief, Riley, marriage, spiritual work, and what it means to follow the call even when the next step does not come with a clean little five-year plan.

Because sometimes having the Heart of a Renegade is not about making the loudest move.

Sometimes it is taking the exit off the highway because your body knows you cannot keep betraying yourself.

Sometimes it is telling a client the truth because you love them enough not to lie.

Sometimes it is standing in a masterclass after one of the deepest griefs of your life and realizing that what anyone thinks of you does not matter nearly as much as the mission you are here to deliver.

And sometimes it is simply going where you are called next.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How Dr. V has always been drawn to the unconventional path, from acupuncture to archery, taekwondo, and the things that did not always make sense to other people
• What it means to trust the channel and choose the path that feels true, even when it is not popular or easy to explain
• The difference between avoiding conflict and choosing not to betray yourself
• How micro-decisions can start to lay the path toward living in truth
• How Dr. V learned to bring truth into the treatment room, even when it felt uncomfortable or confronting
• The story of Riley, their Italian mastiff, and how her passing became a turning point in Dr. V’s leadership, visibility, and trust in herself
• How Riley taught Dr. V about energy, intuition, meridians, and feeling what the body is holding
• How Ocean and Dr. V first met on Plenty of Fish, with Reiki articles, big-dog hesitation, sunglasses, and radical honesty
• How all of Dr. V’s work, whether in acupuncture, SIT, relationships, or weddings, comes back to helping people uncover and tell the truth

This episode is for you if you have ever felt like the life everyone else expected from you was not the life your soul was actually asking for.

It is for you if you are learning how to tell the truth, not just the polished truth, but the raw one. The one underneath “I’m fine.” The one that asks you to stop performing, stop pleasing, and stop betraying yourself.

It is for you if you have ever confused being loving with being silent.

It is for you if you are learning the difference between avoiding conflict and choosing alignment.

It is for you if you have loved an animal so deeply that their leaving changed you.

And it is for you if you are in a season where the old goals have been checked off, the next thing is not totally clear yet, and all you can really say is, “I’m going to go where I’m called.”

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