What happens when the life you've been told to want isn't the life you actually want?

In this episode, Cindy sits down with Erin Marguerite to talk about choosing an unconventional path long before it became trendy to do so.

Growing up as the oldest of four children, Erin learned early that her role was to help. She describes feeling "shrink-wrapped" by family expectations, often putting her own needs aside while caring for her younger siblings and becoming the dependable people-pleaser everyone counted on.

Like many of us, Erin followed the path that seemed laid out for her. She went to university with plans of becoming a teacher, but quickly realized that a traditional career and a 9-to-5 life didn't fit who she was. Sitting behind a desk and following a prescribed path felt disconnected from the freedom and creativity she craved.

Rather than continuing to live according to other people's expectations, Erin began creating a life that reflected her own values. Over the years, she has continually reinvented herself, giving herself permission to evolve, explore new possibilities, and choose herself again and again.

Now, as she steps into her next chapter, Erin is helping other women break free from the roles they've outgrown and build lives that feel authentic, expansive, and fully their own.

This conversation is about people-pleasing, identity, self-trust, belonging and the courage it takes to create a life that looks different from what others imagined for you.

Erin's podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/own-your-wild/id1518657803

Erin's website

https://www.erinmarguerite.com/

Amy Miller spent most of her life wondering why she felt different.

Growing up, humour wasn't just entertainment, it was survival. Amy learned early on to use comedy as a way to navigate life's challenges, mask her struggles, and find connection in a world where she never quite felt like she belonged. She talks openly about feeling out of step with others, speaking too fast, thinking too fast, and constantly questioning her place.

When the most important person in her life, her mother and lifelong map, died, Amy found herself navigating a world she no longer knew how to move through. After years of trying to reinvent herself and understand who she was, she continued searching for answers.

It wasn't until perimenopause amplified symptoms she had unknowingly lived with for decades that Amy was finally diagnosed with ADHD in her 40s. Suddenly, a lifetime of experiences began to make sense.

In this candid conversation, Amy shares how ADHD shaped her identity, and how understanding her neurodivergence changed the way she sees herself and her past. Today, she is passionate about helping others who have spent their lives feeling different, misunderstood, or like they never quite fit into the boxes the world created for them.

This is a conversation about identity, belonging, resilience, and what happens when the missing piece finally falls into place.

Kat was so focused on the pregnancy and delivery that she never stopped to think about what would come after. Postpartum depression wasn't on her radar.

Her story begins when her new baby arrived and the joy she had been promised didn't.

Instead, there was a darkness she didn't recognize. Thoughts that didn't feel like her own. A disconnection from her newborn that left her completely lost during what was supposed to be the most beautiful time in her life. Despite being a Coach, Yoga and mindfulness teacher, none of her tools were working.

One of the scariest parts, Kat says, is that many women don't even realize it's happening to them. Shame keeps so many mothers silent. They're afraid to say the thoughts out loud, afraid of what it means if they don't feel the connection everyone tells them they're supposed to feel.

She tells her story softly, but you can feel how fresh the scars still are. Honest, raw, and deeply grounded, Kat reflects on her experience and turns it outward, because more than anything, she wants other women to know they don't have to figure it out alone and that there are many paths to freedom.

Let's be very clear; postpartum depression is not the baby blues. It is a debilitating mental health condition, and too many women are suffering in silence because the people around them don't know what to look for or how to recognize the signs.

This episode is for new moms and the people who love them. Women need the people closest to them to recognize when something is wrong.

This is one woman's real and honest truth about one of society's biggest shames. Let's break the cycle.