Happy Yuletide Dear Listeners. I'm back with a final Solo episode of the year to offer some guidance and support in SHEDDING & RELEASING what you are ready to leave behind and begin to CREATE YOUR VISION for the future you desire to live in. I offered these insights in a workshop I held for Women Waken listeners (another is coming for vision boarding in the New Year if you're interested). I break it down into a 3 step process to establish the shedding (What/Why/ & How) and then some specific exercises you can do to facilitate the process of releasing old thought systems, energy, and tension from the body. Finally I introduce the art of vision boarding and how to begin that manifesting & inspiration process.

I know this has been a tough year for many of us. My hope is that this episode offers some helpful insights and options on how to affirm that a higher experience is possible, especially for you! You deserve the greatest joy, love, peace, safety, and protection. Don't hold back, dream up the greatest expression of life you can imagine....it can be yours!!

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It's a tale we all know so well. Working hard and diligently building the life you think you're supposed to want—the career, a marriage, a carefully crafted plan. And then everything came crashing down. My guest this week, Becca Eve Young, knows all to well how this story goes. Because she lived it. Her marriage unraveled. She was laid off while alone in a foreign country as a global pandemic hit. Then, just when she thought it couldn't get worse, she gets the call that her father died. Stranded in rural Mexico, cracked open by grief, she experienced a supernatural encounter under the full moon that set her on a wild, often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking journey. From car crashes and chaotic hookups, to silent meditation retreats, psychedelic revelations, robberies, and mystical moments—this is what happens when life blows up and a woman dares to say yes to becoming someone new.

On this guest episode, Becca and I have a lively conversation exploring the concepts and details of her story. I had the privilege to read her book and adored its vibrant tone and how her Soul came through the words on the page. Becca shares about her journey in a raw, hilarious, and deeply human way. She tells us about her experience of how what began as a freefall became a wild quest to untangle grief, rewrite old stories, and rediscover her own worth. Together we share stories and anecdotes of life on the spiritual path and offer insights and guidance for anyone who’s ever felt lost in their own life and is searching for more.

BIO:
Becca Eve Young is a former corporate strategist turned soulful storyteller and devoted to the art of becoming. After a plot twist (or five), she walked away from the societal shoulds to reclaim her voice. Her work lives at the raw intersections of growth, healing, and reinvention—delivered with humor, heart, and a spiritual spark. Her debut book, "It's Gonna Get Messy" is an unfiltered true story of heartbreak, healing and reinvention with a profound supernatural twist. The heart of her story is rooted in ditching the societal script and becoming your most soulful, authentic self. When she’s not guiding others through identity shifts in starting their entrepreneurial career or coaching them in finding meaning in the messiness of life, you’ll find her barefoot on a surfboard, writing in cozy cafes, and chasing the kind of freedom you can feel in your bones.

Connect With Becca:

www.beccaeveyoung.com

@beccaeveyoung on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/beccaeveyoung/

* Re-released AGAIN from 2023's Solstice episode . Still holds true as a fabulous resource to celebrate in the Winter Solstice!*

Happy Winter Solstice everyone! I hope this long night finds you safe, cozy, healthy, and content as we move into another cycle around the sun together. While we're taking this time to slow down, gather with family, & hopefully have time away from work and obligation, I wanted to offer some thoughts on giving yourself a big internal hug as well.

On this identify & Heal solo episode, I'm sharing about the importance of taking time to find the parts of our emotional body that could use some nurturing, comfort, and attention during this time of rest. Acknowledging all that you have accomplished, overcome, & all the growth you've had this year. I also share how giving ourself that deep Divine Feminine nourishment is the key to releasing codependent fixations before we move into a New Year.

Feel free to reach out to me to see how we can work together and send your questions, feedback, and requests for future solo episodes here:

Whitney Walker, LMFT
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Many women feel invisible or silenced during hard seasons. Putting pressure on themselves to suck it up and push through. My guest this week, Heidi Schalk, believes that visibility is a healing and transformational act for women and she wants to help get them there. Heidi's story is incredibly powerful — from single motherhood and burnout to rebuilding your life and business. Heidi Schalk is the co-founder of HLH Growth Solutions, an author, speaker, and host of two top-ranking shows: The Be S.H.E. Podcast (Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Empowered.) and the Business Growth Spotlight Podcast. Heidi believes success is not reserved for a select few. It’s available to anyone willing to be seen, step into their voice, and claim the life they dream of. Her work is centered on empowering others to lead with authenticity, courage, and possibility.

On this guest episode, Heidi shares about when she first realize she was hiding and how she found the courage to be seen again. She also talks about the moment that sparked her own awakening & transformation the led her to create the Be S.H.E podcast to encourage Women to be seen, heard, and empowered. Heidi offers advice for Women who feel called to lead but are terrified to be visible and how women can step into leadership without falling into the patterns of competition, perfectionism, or self-sacrifice. And she tells how healing and inner work influenced her business success in building multiple businesses both B2C and B2B and now running a successful growth agency. Finally, together we discuss how burnout is not as a time problem, but an alignment problem and why so many women struggle with receiving love, money, support, & visibility and how to shift that.

Bio:
Heidi Schalk is the co-founder of HLH Growth Solutions, an author, speaker, and host of two top-ranking shows: The Be S.H.E. Podcast (Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Empowered.) and the Business Growth Spotlight Podcast. She is a contributing author in Heart Talks Volume 1 and has been featured on FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, and The Daily Herald. She was also named one of the Top 30 Inspiring Entrepreneurs to Look Out for in 2024 by The NYC Journal. For the past five years, Heidi has helped women break through their limits, achieve their goals, and build online businesses they truly love. Along the way, she learned firsthand that while entrepreneurship isn’t easy, it can be simple, aligned, and fun with the right support and strategy.

In 2025, she made a bold pivot building a six-figure-plus marketing and visibility agency in just seven months. Today, Heidi helps leaders, experts, and companies grow their brand authority, expand their audience, and generate demand through strategic visibility, content ecosystems, and “podcast-to-pipeline” systems. Most recently, Heidi has expanded HLH Growth Solutions with cutting-edge AI tools including the AI Receptionist and the Sales Analyzer, designed to help businesses reduce workload, increase conversions, and accelerate growth with smart automation. These solutions allow companies to create 24/7 customer experiences, analyze sales opportunities in real time, and scale with efficiency.A mom of two teenagers (16 and 14), Heidi credits her children as the catalyst for her entrepreneurial journey. As an animal lover, she often fosters and transports pets in need, helping them find their forever homes.

Links:
Spotlight to Scale Blueprint: Spotlight to Scale Blueprint

Instagram: @heidischalkcoaching Heidi Schalk (@heidischalkcoaching) • Instagram photos and videos
LInkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidischalkcoaching

Website: hlhgrowthsolutions.com
Website: Business Strategy Coach

Often in interviews with my fabulous guests, we get so passionately caught up on a certain topic that I barely make it through all my prepared prompts and questions. This was definitely the case with my guest this week, Kilkenny Tremblay, who is a true Divine Feminine modern mystic: a psychic medium, podcast host, and visionary teacher who seamlessly weaves ancient wisdom with contemporary spiritual practice. Since early childhood, she has trained under some of the world’s most renowned teachers of tantric, yoga, meditation, and mystical arts. Her unique lineage includes intensive training in psychic development, astrology, and meditative tantric philosophy, alongside her role as a Celtic priestess, offering a truly unparalleled perspective in her field.

On this guest episode, Kilkenny enlightens us on so many matters related to astrology, psychic abilities, and how we can practically integrate mysticism into our day-to-day modern lives. Kilkenny shares how she stepped into her gifts and onto this path of being a Modern Mystic, how different regions of the World hold different energies, and why our Sun, Moon, & Rising signs hold so much significance in our presenting selves. Together we explore how you can upgrade your dream life for deeper intuition and guidance, what “the Elementals” are and how they can help us achieve balance, manifestation, and spiritual growth.
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BIO:
Over the past 20 years, Kilkenny Tremblay,has been spiritually mentoring thousands of people, guiding them through transformative awakenings with her vast spiritual toolbox. She offers evidence-based psychic medium readings, which includes accessing people’s spirit team, chakra balancing, Tantric Yoga, Akashic records/pastlives, and nervous system regulation, delivering messages of healing and clarity. Her one-of-a-kind readings provide not just insight but tangible steps for integrating wisdom into daily life, empowering clients to cultivate deeper meaning, magic, and mindfulness on their own. Her one-of-a-kind readings provide insight and tangible steps for integrating wisdom into daily life, empowering clients to cultivate their own deeper meaning, magic, and mindfulness. As creator and host of The Modern Mystic Podcast, Kilkenny connects leading voices in spirituality, science, and personal growth to help others align with their highest selves.

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:

Website: modernmystic.love

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mystickilkenny/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kilkenny.tremblay

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modern-mystic/id1510946243

If you're lucky, the Divine spark of your Soul will one day ignite a passion within you. It will send you on the ride of your life towards your purpose. My guest this week, Silvia Resnik, is one of the lucky ones whose life mission became crystal clear on a trip to Africa and changed the entire focus and trajectory of her life. Silvia helps women break free from lives that look perfect but feel empty, guiding them back to authenticity, joy, and personal freedom. She combines deep coaching, intuitive insight, and ancient Maasai wisdom — teachings she discovered during her own journey of transformation in Tanzania.

On this guest episode, Silvia shares how her journey to Tanzania transformed her life and inspired her work as a coach and to establish the Empower Her project: supporting Maasai women and girls affected by FGM and advocating for their rights. She speaks about helping women to reconnect with their authentic selves and step into their power through Soul Warrior, organizing transformational trips to Tanzania and Zanzibar, immersing participants in Maasai culture and personal growth experiences. There she opens the door for Women to learn lessons from the Maasai on courage, community, and living fully as well as simple practices for self-love, empowerment, and authentic living.

Bio:
Silvia Resnik is a certified Life Purpose & Fulfillment Coach and the founder of Simple Life Journey, a company that offers transformative coaching and authentic travel experiences in Tanzania. With a background in early childhood education, a Master’s in Business Economics, and years of experience in HR and entrepreneurship. Through Simple Life Journey, Silvia organizes immersive trips to Maasai bomas, offering travelers the chance to experience connection, simplicity, and community in their purest form. She is also the co-founder of EmpowerHER, a grassroots initiative supporting Maasai women and girls through health education, entrepreneurship, and culturally sensitive efforts to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

Links:

• https://www.facebook.com/silvia.simple.life.journey
• https://www.instagram.com/coachsilviaresnik/
• https://www.tiktok.com/@coachsilviaresnik
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-resnik-7381609b/
• https://silviaresnik.com
• https://www.simple-life-journey.com

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There are Two Ways to Live Life; as a victim of circumstance or as the badass you really are. My guest this week, Erin Brennan, has lived by and embodied this mantra throughout her life. She reminds up that the choice is ours - you can react to life's curveballs or you can grab them and throw them back. Because when you embrace the unknown, you play by your rules. Erin is a Creative Consultant who blends the worlds of brand strategy, design thinking, linguistics, neuroscience, and a few other things to help her clients move mountains. She also believes in magic and tries to sprinkle it into the lives of others often.

On this week episode, Erin and I have way too much fun talking entrepreneurship, tapping into our authentic creativity, and why It takes guts to stand out. Even more so to stand still long enough to hear what your soul’s been trying to say. Erin shares how uncertainty can hold us back, but what if it's the key? Erin talks about her lifetime of navigating chronic health issues: getting sick at 16 and diagnosed with a genetic disorder that made her confront who she wanted to be and how she wanted to live her life early on. And a fellow traveler, she speaks of traveling around the world, packing up everything sge owned and spend 3 years living out of a suitcase traveling the world.

BIO:
Erin Brennan believes the best way through life's messiest moments is to embrace them. With a subtle shift in perspective, she invites you to find possibility in the unknown, if you're brave enough to show up and say yes. Her work challenges you to swap certainty for curiosity. Through her decision-making frameworks, Erin helps you shift unconscious belief patterns using a combination of psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, quantum physics (and magic) to find freedom from fear and uncertainty to reclaim your power.

It was her own journey, navigating serious health challenges, starting her own creative agency in 2010, and pursuing a life on her own terms, that she learned, on the other side of fear is freedom. Erin is currently working on her first documentary, asking: What if chasing your wildest dreams meant staring down your biggest fears? Erin is known for delivering tough love, unfiltered honest insights, and just enough magic to help people get out of their own way to live life on their own terms.

Erin Brennan
creative consultant
** NEW WEBSITE **

Documentary Link: https://www.averageerin.com/
type // erin@brennanbrand.com
dial // 415.496.9825
browse // www.erinbrennan.co

Giving so much thanks today to ALL of you fabulous, remarkable, wonderful listeners! Thank you for those who have been around since the beginning (4 years!) thank you for those who are new or recent, thank you to those who have downloaded the whole catalogue of over 400 episodes!, thank you SO much to those who have reached out personally to let me know how the show has inspired or helped you, I AM SO VERY GRATEFUL FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU! And honored to have you tuning into the show, you're amazing!

I hope you enjoy this episode of exploring the "2nd act" of a lifetime, embracing the gifts of T.O.P, learning to accept aging, being grateful for gaining wisdom, allowing for adversity, and OF COURSE a tarot card pull for your holiday.

SO MUCH LOVE,

Whitney

Circle of Life Tarot: https://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/circle-of-life/

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