How do you keep living after experiencing the unimaginable?

For the Season 1 finale of The Road Leads Back to Me, Coral Seco sits down with Shannah Rodriguez-Torres, co-founder of Live Like Bella, for an incredibly vulnerable conversation about motherhood, childhood cancer, grief, faith, healing, and finding purpose after the loss of her daughter, Bella.

Shannah introduces us to the Bella she knew: funny, feisty, compassionate, curious, and always thinking about other people. She shares the story behind Bella’s famous Band-Aid drive, which began because Bella wanted fun Band-Aids during her own cancer treatments and ultimately resulted in thousands of boxes being donated for other children receiving care.

Shannah also opens up about the parts of grief we don’t always talk about: anxiety, guilt around experiencing happiness again, friendships that disappear, supporting a sibling through loss, and what grieving families actually need from the people around them.

Her advice? Sometimes you don’t need the perfect words. You just need to show up.

Today, Bella’s legacy lives through Live Like Bella, supporting families during cancer treatment, helping families with memorial expenses, and funding pediatric cancer research.

It feels especially fitting to close this first season with a conversation about what The Road Leads Back to Me has always been about: navigating the things that change us, finding meaning in what we’ve lived through, and discovering a way forward without pretending the past didn’t happen.

Because healing doesn’t mean forgetting. Sometimes it means learning how to carry the love forward.

💙 Thank you for joining us for Season 1 of The Road Leads Back to Me. We’ll see you in Season 2!

What happens when you finally stop second-guessing yourself and start trusting what you already know?

This week on The Road Leads Back to Me, Coral sits down with actress, writer, producer, and director Sophie Karl (@sparklingsophie1111) for a vulnerable conversation about intuition, desire, creativity, trauma, self-belief, and finding the courage to follow your own path.

Sophie takes us behind the making of A Requiem for Desire, which began as a small short film before growing into a full-length feature. She shares how the experience taught her to trust her instincts, loosen her grip on control, surround herself with the right people, and recognize that sometimes believing in yourself means simply deciding to make it happen.

Coral and Sophie also dive into love and human connection, violence and psychological abuse against women, finding your voice after difficult experiences, and the power storytelling can have in helping someone realize: I'm not the only one who has felt this.

It's a conversation about listening to yourself, owning your story, and remembering that no matter where life takes you, you still have agency over where you go next.

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What happens when the path you planned for yourself looks nothing like the life you end up building?

This week on The Road Leads Back to Me, Coral sits down with longtime friend, military veteran, executive, and Miami artist 305RickArt for a conversation about reinvention, determination, mental health, and finding purpose on your own timeline.

305RickArt opens up about feeling lost in his early years, joining the Navy, coming home and starting over, and spending two years applying for opportunities before finally getting the chance that would change the trajectory of his career. He also shares how picking up a paintbrush during the pandemic unexpectedly led him back to something he loved as a child and eventually became another purpose entirely.

Coral and 305RickArt also get candid about therapy, masculinity, breaking generational patterns, learning from failed relationships, and why self-improvement has to include your mental health, too.

This episode is a reminder that there is no one timeline for finding your purpose. Sometimes starting over is exactly what leads you back to yourself.

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