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What if the life you’re living today is the garden you planted—on purpose or by default? We open with a hard truth wrapped in compassion: misery doesn’t just happen to us; it grows from choices we let run underground like rhizomes. From there, I share the most surprising teacher of my week: a patch of canna lilies that overran my strawberries and showed me exactly how “time-saving” shortcuts and unresearched decisions can choke out what I value most.

I walk you through my current pivot: stepping back into a steady day job not as surrender, but as strategy to fund my calling—teaching, writing, and helping people walk out of old programming. We unpack the friction around money and time, the triggers that show up on a long gig-driving day, and the moment I chose structure over spiral. You’ll hear the practical plan that emerged at our kitchen table: a brain-dump-to-priorities workflow I borrowed from my ultra-disciplined husband, and how our “figure-eight” marriage is making us both more whole—he relaxes control, I embrace systems. Together we trade chaos for clarity.

Expect grounded takeaways you can use today. You’ll learn how to research your habits before planting them, how to stabilize cash flow without abandoning your purpose, and how to set simple guardrails that protect deep work. We turn big ideas—personal responsibility, mindset shifts, time management, financial discipline—into a humane, step-by-step map. And we keep it real about setbacks, because sometimes the bravest move is a visible “step back” that actually places you two steps forward.

If this resonates, follow the show, share it with someone who’s weeding their own plot, and leave a review with the one habit you’re ready to pull up by the roots. Let’s grow the garden we actually want.

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