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Emotionally Uncomfortable

by Hosted by Heather Chauvin | Insights inspired by Mel Robbins, Bréne Brown,

All external pressure is off ladies! It's time to listen to the inner pull. Mastering the art of knowing when to slow down and breathe vs. when to take action. It's time we value our desires. See your value. Own it. Communicate it. It's time to become wildly #emotionallyuncomfortableThis podcast will crack you open and force you to grow. Interviews and storytelling about business, emotional intelligence, creativity, love, being different, parenting, and more...

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Episodes

  1. 1286: [LIFE UPDATE] I Tracked 4 Types of Profit for 90 Days. Here's What Happened

    "What you did up until this point in your life doesn't always mean that it's going to be the thing that gets you to the next point." In this episode, Heather explores what happens when the strategies, habits, and ways of operating that got you to where you are today are no longer what will get…

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  2. 1285: What It Takes to Become Someone New With Coach Keren Eldad

    "The work is work, and the rattling of your cage comes with side effects, and you have to know that in advance before entering." In this episode, Heather and Coach Keren Eldad talk about what happens after the breakthrough: pushing against the edges of an old identity, recognizing the behaviors...

  3. 1284: How to Stop Outsourcing Your Financial Future With Josh Smith

    "The best way you can help teach your kids is by modeling your own life, especially when it comes to money and investing." In this episode, Heather and Josh Smith get into the uncomfortable reality of what happens when you continue to outsource the financial part of your life, assuming someone…

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  4. 1283: What Happens When You Stop Asking for Permission to Live With Dr. Amanda Hanson

    "It's a fallacy that when a woman takes center stage in her life, everyone else suffers. No, everyone else expands." In this episode, Heather and Dr. Amanda Hanson dig into the moment when a woman begins to realize just how much of her life has been shaped by expectations, conditioning…

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  5. 1282: Grit, Muscle, and Connection

    "Grit will keep you going. But when you just keep showing up because you're living in a place of survival, sometimes you gotta fight like hell to feel alive." In this episode, Heather explores the complicated relationship many ambitious women have with striving, success, and the never-ending...

  6. 1281: How Good Are You Willing to Feel? With Dr. Maggie

    "If you want to feel alive and energized and lead people, you've got to do things differently." In this episode, Heather and Dra. Margarita Ramírez (aka Dr. Maggie) step into a deeply personal conversation about what it means to take ownership of your health, question the beliefs you've inherited...

  7. 1280: There Are Four Types Of Profit. I Bet You're Only Chasing One.

    "When things look successful on the outside, but they don't feel successful on the inside, that's because you're only obsessed with one type of profit." In this episode, Heather explores the four types of profit and why financial success is only one piece of a much bigger picture. In other words,...

  8. 1279: How to Build a Calendar That Supports Your Life With Megan Sumrell

    "Time management is not something you're born with or born without. It's a skill that anybody can learn if they're being taught in a reasonable way." In this episode, Heather and Megan Sumrell explore what it means to stop fighting time and start building a life that actually has room for you to...

  9. 1278: What Every Adult Needs to Hear From the Next Generation

    "Before you try to tell your kid what to do, you've got to look at yourself. You've got to really reflect on the things that you're doing." In this episode, Heather sits down with two remarkable young adults who have been part of her life in different ways: her 21-year-old son, Logan, and…

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  10. 1277: Inside a Psilocybin Retreat: What to Expect & How It Changes You | with Eddy Tony

    "Living life from a different perspective heals the past and also paves the way for the future as well." In this episode, Heather and Eddy Tony explore what it really means to heal, not by becoming someone new, but by integrating the parts of yourself you've spent years trying to outrun. This...

  11. 1276: What My Three Boys [13, 16, 21] Forced Me to Stop Doing Recently

    "You cannot make an impact on anybody unless you are willing to change your internal ecosystem." In this episode, Heather challenges some of the most deeply rooted assumptions about parenting, leadership, and what it really means to prepare our children for adulthood, especially our boys. She…

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  12. 1275: What Happens When Your Soul Aligns With Your Life With Corey Colwell

    "We should not be listening to things outside of us. Your body is telling you what you need." In this episode, Heather and Corey Colwell explore what happens when life forces you to stop long enough to hear the messages your body has been trying to communicate all along. Through a remarkable…

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  13. 1274: [Life Update] I Outgrew My Pain (& It Hurt Like a B!+CH to Let It Go)

    "Not everything your body is telling you is a symptom that needs to be fixed. Sometimes it's grief." In this episode, Heather shares a deeply personal reflection on what happens when you outgrow the pain, patterns, and identities that once helped you survive but no longer support where you're...

  14. 1273: Hyper-Independence Is Keeping Women Stuck With Kelly Hubbell

    "You're breaking generational patterns by having the capacity to be present with your kids because you're not snappy, angry, and frustrated." In this episode, Heather and Kelly Hubbell challenge one of the most deeply ingrained beliefs many women carry: that doing it all is required to be a good...

  15. 1272: Is It Your Partner or Your Inability to Be Radically Honest?

    "Both parties have to show up to the same conversation, and you have to do emotionally uncomfortable things in order to grow." In this episode, Heather and her husband, Bryan, explore what it really takes to build a strong partnership when life, health, finances, and everyday stress begin testing...

  16. 1271: Why Executive Functioning Matters More Than Grades With Mike McLeod

    "The only way to build executive functions is through relationships and experiences. Not worksheets, not lectures, not in the classroom." In this episode, Heather and Mike McLeod dive into the growing conversation around ADHD, executive functioning, screen dependency, and the alarming reality of...

  17. 1270: When Therapy Turns Into Avoidance

    "There comes a time and a place when you're over intellectualizing, and you are actually trying to dig for problems. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy." In this episode, Heather explores the uncomfortable space between knowing something needs to change and actually being willing to change it. For...

  18. 1269: The Resistance Between You and the Life You Desire With Renée Warren

    "The more you face these moments of resistance, the easier it gets because you know what to expect of yourself on the other side of it." In this episode, Heather and Renée Warren dive into the uncomfortable reality that, whether you're building a business, growing a personal brand, redefining...

  19. 1268: A Fed Soul Raises Motivated, Independent Adults

    "If you're not willing to fail, you won't have the emotional capacity to watch your children fail." In this episode, Heather digs into the very uncomfortable reality that many women are overmothering, overnurturing, and overcompensating in ways that steal their children's ability to become...

  20. 1267: The Hidden Habits Disrupting Your Sleep and Hormones With Ciara Foy

    "When you put the time and effort into your sleep, it really does pay a massive ROI in your life." In this episode, Heather and Ciara Foy unpack the physical, hormonal, and emotional shifts that leave so many middle-aged women anxious, burned out, unable to sleep, and disconnected from themselves...

  21. 1266: Your Teen Is Not Being Difficult; They're Being Honest

    "If a child is being difficult, they're showing you their honest parts. They're showing you the parts of themselves that are struggling." In this episode, Heather explores the friction that comes from holding responsibility for yourself and others while learning to stop controlling what was never...

  22. 1265: The Body Keeps Score and Sets Boundaries With Laura Wieck

    "Embodiment is the wisdom that comes through from the state you're in." In this episode, Heather and Laura Wieck explore what it really means to live embodied, not as another perfectionist performance, but as a practice of honesty, presence, and listening to the wisdom already alive inside you....

  23. 1264: The Day My Calendar Stopped Working: Raising a Neurodivergent Kid When You're Used to Winning

    "No productivity hack, no energetic management tips or tricks are going to be able to solve an identity collapse." In this episode, Heather dives into the thing high-performing women are actually afraid to say out loud: the very traits that made them successful, performance, optimization…

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  24. 1263: [Case Study] The Discipline of Becoming Someone You Trust With Tara Morse

    "The work is never done. You just become a different version of yourself." In this Case Study episode, Heather and Tara Morse dig into how she built her practice by following a path that didn't always make sense to others and navigating skepticism while staying anchored in what she knew was right...

  25. 1262: Feeling Good Is Your Birthright (So Why Aren't You Living Like It?)

    "When you start to feed your soul, that's like the invisible medicine that you didn't even know you needed." The version of your life where things feel cleaner, clearer, and more aligned isn't on the other side of doing more, fixing yourself, or finally getting everything "right." It's on the…

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  26. 1261: What Happens When Women Don't Feed Their Ambition With Alexis Dean

    "When I find myself going back to that reactivity mode or older way of thinking, I have to step back and ask, 'What do I really want?'" In this episode, Heather and Alexis Dean explore what it really means to take ownership of your ambition, your emotional world, and the desires you keep pushing...

  27. 1260: The Skill Set No One Taught You That Will Determine Your Future Success

    "The world needs soft skills. We're now living in a time where it is no longer a privilege to learn these skills; it's a requirement." In this episode, Heather unpacks why the people who will actually thrive aren't the ones with the most technical "hard" skills, but the ones who know how to…

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  28. 1259: [Case Study] Stepping Out of Chaos as a Comfort Zone With Melissa Apa

    "You see this dissonance between the current you and the past you or other people, and the only gap across the bridge is action and implementation." There's a moment when you realize the life you're living and the life you actually want are no longer aligned, and no amount of thinking, planning…

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  29. 1258: Becoming the Buffalo: Moving Through Resistance Instead of Avoiding It

    "If a buffalo is willing to go into something that it knows is going to suck, the emotionally uncomfortable storm, it knows the storm will pass faster." In this episode, Heather gets honest about what it actually takes to move forward when you're standing at the edge of change, and every part of...

  30. 1257: What Happens When You Stop Performing "Good" With Laurie Wintonick

    "I don't have to fall into the drama and the nonsense and everything else, and I can take all the amazing things I'm learning and come into a new season." For many women, being "good" means holding everything together for everyone else. But at some point, the question begins to surface: When did...

  31. 1256: How a Deeply Spiritual, Intuitive Woman Built a Multiple 7-Figure Company (Without Selling Her Soul)

    "If you can own that you are the issue, then you can own that you have ownership over your calendar. You're just getting in your own way, and you're letting your brain win." In this episode, Heather digs into the reality that burnout doesn't happen overnight. It builds over the years through the...

  32. 1255: Buying Back Your Time to Create More Space for Intentional Joy With Christine Landis

    "Having the freedom to decide this is what I choose to do now or another time, that to me is that time-rich feeling." In this episode, Heather and Christine Landis gently (and sometimes unapologetically) challenge the way we think about productivity, responsibility, and the stories we tell...

  33. 1254: How to Return Home to Yourself Through Energy Management and Deeper Trust

    "If you just trusted people a little bit more, you would have more time, you would have more energy, and you could return home to yourself." We live in a culture that rewards fixing, striving, and holding everything together, yet the truth is that many women are exhausted not from doing too…

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  34. 1253: Marketing Your Business Without Abandoning Yourself or Wasting Money With Jess Shirra

    "Marketing is required in any business, and the marketing landscape is constantly changing. You have to evolve with it." In this episode, Heather and Jess Shirra break down what it actually looks like to evolve with the marketing landscape without burning yourself out or throwing money at...

  35. 1252: Emotional Endurance and The Art of Not Quitting or Abandoning Yourself

    "If you choose to quit and run away, you're 100% guaranteed to not get the result that you came for." In this episode, Heather shares an honest conversation about emotional endurance, how it's not the "hustle-hard, push-through" version we've been sold, and why it's important to stay with…

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  36. 1251: Respect Over Control and Rethinking Emotional Growth for Men With Chris Cullen

    "A lot of good things happen when we grab control of that space between our first in our second thought. There's a lot of gifts that come from just taking agency back over your own thoughts before you act." What happens when we stop trying to manage emotions and start taking responsibility for…

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  37. 1250: The Decisions You Avoid Are Costing You and Shaping Your Identity

    "Who you are when you have to make an emotionally uncomfortable decision says everything about how quickly you will get results." In this episode, Heather shares a grounded, no-bypass conversation about decision-making when your nervous system is activated, clarity feels unavailable, and quitting...

  38. 1249: The One Thing That Changes Everything (If You Let It) With Jay Papasan

    "Almost everybody will overestimate how much they can grow in one year. At the same time, they underestimate how much they can grow in five." In this episode, Heather talks with Jay Papasan about why doing more isn't the answer, how relentless productivity can actually work against you, and what...

  39. 1248: Designing a Life That Travels: The Real Logistics Behind Our Family's 3-Month Relocation

    "What happens when you talk about the things that you want to do is people start to make connections for you. And this is exactly what happened and what has enhanced this year's experience." In this episode, Heather explores what happens when we stop waiting for the perfect moment and start...

  40. 1247: The Hidden Cost of Clutter on Your Focus, Energy, and Peace With Katy Wells

    "At the end of the day, our brains are wired to crave peace and order, and our outer environments can mirror our inner environment, or vice versa." In this episode, Heather sits down with Katy Wells to explore overconsumption and overcommitment, as well as the many forms of clutter that quietly...

  41. 1246: The More Responsibility You Have, the Lighter You Should Feel

    "I put myself in situations where I didn't have a back door and couldn't run away from myself. The natural consequence was that I felt lighter, and I'm finishing the year more proud of myself than I've ever been, with more confidence." In this episode, Heather guides you through her unique…

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  42. 1245: The Truth About College and Teaching Teens Success Skills With Hannah Maruyama

    "Success is your child getting what they want out of life, including who they want to be and how they want to be." College is rarely the right next step for our kids, yet parents are so bought into this outdated view of education and success. In this episode, Heather sits down with Degree Free...

  43. 1244: 6 Books You're Going to Want to Buy, Read, and Take Seriously in 2026

    "I'm a fan of quality versus quantity and reading one book all year, but mastering everything that you have learned in that book." In this episode, Heather shares her top six books for growing as a parent, business owner, and person in 2026. But these aren't just any old books to add to your…

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  44. 1243: How to Navigate Money, Marriage, and Shared Ambition With Douglas and Heather Boneparth

    "Money is one of those things that people just consider as an afterthought. The older you get and the more responsibilities you have, you start to realize money is a tool, and it's required for health and happiness." In this episode, Heather sits down with Douglas and Heather Boneparth to dig…

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  45. 1242: 3 Ways We Make Life Shorter Than It Needs to Be (And How to Change It)

    "I understand that if I'm too comfortable, it's time to grow. Because if I'm not growing, I'm dying. And if I'm dying, I'm going to live a miserable life." In this episode, Heather reflects on three big lessons she's learned over the last 12 years since her cancer diagnosis, exploring the...

  46. 1241: The Unexpected Ways Resistance and Shame Help Us Grow With Tracy Matthews

    "When resistance is coming up, it's just trying to show you something, and it's an area in your life that can be healed, that can stretch you, that can put you in a position and in an opportunity for you to step into what's next for you." In this episode, Heather sits down with Tracy Matthews to...

  47. 1240: Why I'm Leaving for 3 Months and Facing the Resistance That Comes With It

    "What if there's nothing to fix? What if your resistance is the invitation to the growth you're seeking." In this deeply personal solo episode, Heather returns to her podcasting roots, speaking straight from the heart in a unfiltered reflection on emotional resistance, parenting teenagers, and...

  48. 1239: Investing for Women in Their 40s Who Feel Behind with Tess Waresmith

    "You can't talk about living your best life without talking about money and you can't talk about money without facing what you're afraid to feel." In this episode, Heather sits down with Tess Waresmith for a powerful and emotionally honest conversation about death, money, and the stories we carry...

  49. 1238: From Breadwinner Burnout to Feeling Calm and Spacious

    "You are the keystone and when you learn to reverse engineer how you want to feel, both at home and in your work, this is where the magic happens." This solo episode is a live workshop where Heather takes you behind the scenes of her signature Time and Energy Audit process. If you've been living…

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  50. 1237: Teaching Kids/Young Adults About Money with Kimberly Tara

    "A well-resourced woman will change the world. But first, she has to stop outsourcing her financial power." This episode goes deep into the emotional discomfort that comes with money: how we manage it, avoid it, fear it, and finally take ownership of it. Heather is joined by financial educator...

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All external pressure is off ladies! It's time to listen to the inner pull. Mastering the art of knowing when to slow down and breathe vs. when to take action. It's time we value our desires. See your value. Own it. Communicate it. It's time to become wildly #emotionallyuncomfortableThis podcast will crack you open and force you to grow. Interviews and storytelling about business, emotional intelligence, creativity, love, being different, parenting, and more...

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Hosted by Heather Chauvin | Insights inspired by Mel Robbins, Bréne Brown,

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