Jillian Kenney has taken on a number of roles: a Division I cross country runner, an Ocean Rescue lifeguard, a firefighter paramedic for a decade, a national champion rower, a fitness instructor, mother and wife. Underneath every one of those roles is lies a dedication to show up fully.

In this episode, Jillian and I get into what it actually means to teach and not perform, why she can't stand instructors who film themselves mid-class, and what it took to build a life where ambition and family both get to matter. Jillian shares the fear she's faced head-on, from flipping a boat in eight-foot surf before a national championship to stepping into a role that stretched her far past her comfort zone, and why she believes most of the fear we carry is really just ego in disguise.

We also talk about the real difference between working out and training, why yoga isn't a lesser practice just because it isn't about pushing the hardest or fastest, and why the deposits you make into your body today are the ones you'll be withdrawing from decades from now.

This episode is about strength in every sense of the word and the quiet, stubborn resilience that comes from knowing exactly who you're doing it all for.

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Michelle Galoob is an intuitive guide, but she didn’t come to that title easily. For most of her life, she thought her intuitive gifts were simply her very own thoughts. It took a rock bottom moment, a string of synchronicities and a brave leap to make her realize she was meant to fully step into her role as an intuitive guide.

In this episode, Michelle and I talk about what intuition actually is: not a mystical gift reserved for a chosen few but a language everyone already speaks. We get into how she finally learned to trust the downloads she was receiving instead of second-guessing them into silence, why surrender isn’t the same as giving up, and why so many of us stay stuck at the train station waiting for the “right” train instead of just getting on one. Michelle shares what it means to write a personal mission statement instead of chasing a personal brand, how she’s teaching her own kids to trust their inner voices before looking outward, and why every hard, disorienting season of her life turned out to be preparation instead of punishment.

This conversation is not about predicting the future. It’s about learning to hear what you already know, and having the courage to move on those knowings imperfectly and often before you feel ready.

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At any given time, our bodies and our gut instincts are communicating to us through sensations and subtle signals. Most of us, however, have never been taught how to listen. This episode is about what it takes to learn that skill, to get quiet enough with ourselves to willingly participate in that self-conversation. Acupuncture is a modality that reinforces the quiet stillness and that skill-building.

Nicole Lotterman is an acupuncture physician and Chinese medicine practitioner. She is also MY acupuncturist. Her path started with years of being dismissed by Western medicine, being offered suppression instead of understanding, until something in her insisted there was another way. What she found wasn’t just a new treatment. It was an entirely different relationship with her own body, one built on paying attention instead of waiting for a crisis to force the issue.

In this episode, we get into what acupuncture and Chinese medicine actually offer women beyond pain relief: a framework for reading the body’s patterns before they become emergencies, a practice that forces you to sit still enough to hear what you’ve been avoiding, and a philosophy built on getting the basics right first. Nicole talks about why she believes proactive care and noticing what your body is telling you before it’s screaming are some of the most powerful things a woman can do for her own health.

This episode isn’t only about acupuncture. It’s about trust, the kind you build with yourself, one quiet moment at a time, until you finally know how to hear what has been resonating within all along.

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