79 - Survivor 50 Winner Aubry Bracco on Trusting Yourself, Resilience, and Becoming Who You’re Meant to Be

The Curious Girl Who Never Stopped Asking WhyIn this exciting and moving conversation, Joanne sits down with Aubry Bracco, Survivor 50 winner, marketing consultant and one of those rare people who makes you feel truly seen the moment she enters the room. Long before the world knew her as a four-time Survivor competitor, Aubry was a serious, curious little girl who always wanted to sit at the adult table. She played the harp for more than 10 years, dreamed of becoming a newspaper journalist and spent her career learning how to slip into other people's worlds and truly understand them. She helps executives show up authentically, telling stories that feel true to the person in the room and always looking for what’s real beneath the surface. This episode starts right there, with who she was before any of it, and what it finally took for her to turn the lens on herself.Seven Years, One More Chance and a Leap of FaithAubry shared about what most people never saw coming: a third Survivor season that broke something in her, seven years of doing the real inner work and an unexpected phone call in 2024. She said yes. In this part of the conversation, Joanne and Aubry dig into what it actually felt like to let go of the outcome while staying grounded in herself and why working with an intuitive healer helped her find her way back to trusting her own voice. The victories that matter most, it turns out, tend to happen in the quiet moments before anyone else is paying attention.It Was Never About Winning. It Was About Becoming.This episode is about so much more than Survivor. Aubry talks about how the game taught her to stay present in her body while reading the entire room around her, and how a cold email from CEO coach Mark Moses during COVID turned into one of the most meaningful professional relationships of her life. She shares his four daily questions, which she used every single morning on Survivor 50, and the simple but powerful mantra she carries now for anyone standing at the edge of giving up: keep the faith, keep going, because sometimes one small shift in energy is all it takes to change everything.Show note links:Follow Aubry Bracco on InstagramFollow Aubry Bracco on XConnect with Aubry Bracco on LinkedInRead PEOPLE: Survivor 50 Winner ProfileAubry Bracco's IMDb ProfileAubry Bracco's Survivor Contestant Profile (Survivor Wiki)Episode 45 — Making Big Happen with Mark MosesChapters01:41 Welcoming Aubry Bracco to Trust Your Innersense 02:08 How This Conversation Came to Be — and Finding Out She Won 04:47 Growing Up: Curiosity, the Harp, and Never Quitting 08:35 Emotional Intelligence and the Heart of a Journalist 10:05 From Publicist to Survivor: Understanding People Deeply 12:05 What Survivor Is Really Like Behind the Cameras 15:09 Telling Her Own Story for the First Time 16:20 A Panic Attack, a Breakthrough, and a Leap of Faith 19:00 Seven Years of Inner Work and One More Chance 21:15 Learning to Let Go and Trust Herself Again 22:59 After the Game: Messy Moments and Moving Forward 29:04 The Greatest Gift: Transformation and Unexpected Connections 30:43 How Mark Moses Changed Everything 32:17 Words of Wisdom: Keep the Faith and Keep Going Let’s chat! [email protected] Join the Innersense™ Communityhttps://innersensebeauty.com/pages/newsletter-sign-up Let’s Stay Connectedhttps://www.instagram.com/joannestarkman https://www.instagram.com/innersenseorganicbeauty/ https://www.instagram.com/innersensepro/ https://www.facebook.com/InnersenseOrganic/ https://www.youtube.com/c/InnersenseOrganicBeauty Clean hair care & body productsUse code JOANNE15 to save 15% on first purchases at https://innersensebeauty.com/Want to elevate your salon? (New Pro Clean Color Line)https://innersensebeauty.com/pages/salonshttps://innersensebeauty.com/pages/education