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Figuring Sh!t Out
by Vanessa Fontana
For those seeking purpose, healing, and direction for navigating life’s grey areas - Figuring Sh!t Out is a haven for those on their path of self-discovery & inner-awakening. The podcast is a guide to help you enjoy and surrender to the unfolding process of discovering yourself. On FSO, we create a pathway to embrace the process of navigating uncertainty in a world of flux. Hosted by Vanessa Fontana in her New York City bedroom, FSO was born in the throws of a deeply personal coming of age and self-discovery journey and serves as a lighthouse for others who are learning to flow through the ups and downs of life. Figuring Sh!t Out alongside a host who is doing just that, we come together and honor our own individual evolution while embracing the connection in our experience of becoming. Whether you’re in the midst of coming of age chaos, breaking generational cycles, or chasing elusive dreams, FSO is a way to make sense of the world by opening dialogue with a deeper part of ourselve
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138. maybe you can just... RECEIVE love & healing?? (instead of chasing it???)
"tear your heart out of your chest - and give it to God. there is no other healing. i swear, there is no other healing." (Yasmin Mogahed) - what if healing isn’t about becoming the most "aligned" version of yourself, but learning to receive a love greater than your own and surrender to the path...
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137. the God i wasn't looking for
plot twist: jesus. — For meditations, workshops, conversations about God, & creative awakening tools join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice, and express what's inside of you in community. learn more & hear…
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136. im changing and i'm terrified of what it might cost me, wbu?
This episode is a confession, an homage to honesty, a bid of vulnerability on a deeply personal shift happening in my life that I've let through a couple of episodes but I haven't unearthed fully because - Well, I've been believing lies that have kept me scared and stuck. Yes, even (ESPECIALLY)...
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135. you DON'T actually have to show up perfectly to show up at all: A Revelation!
and how much of ourselves have we lost deciding that how we are, as we are, is not enough? how much of our very nature has been stripped away, chipped away, from the gnawing need to be complete? complete by what measure, by what degree? by whose decree? where did we learn that if it wasn’t done...
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134. SELF DISCIPLINE? for FREEDOM??? unfortunately yes.
The difference between your strongest desire and your deepest desire might just be what you're not seeing. ---- Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice, and express what's inside of you - in...
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133. One! Step! At! A! Mf! TIME!!! slow DOWN.
for anyone who feels like they're behind: a path is formed by walking a path is formed by walking a path is formed by walking. -- Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice, and express what's inside…
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132. Creating Without Validation? Horrifying. Necessary. Life-Changing.
"If no one sees your art, it is still revolution. You freed yourself, did you not?" - Jayla John In this episode, we talk about how creativity could heal you - if you just let it. And how to let it. And if you need a little more help, -- Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system…
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131. Being SEEN? Perceived???? OH! The Terror! (how to get tf over it)
let your tenderness speak, let it lead you into darkness, and let your darkness lead you into light. -- Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice, and express what's inside of you - in COMMUNITY. HEAR...
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130. Waiting. Yearning. Chasing. You're MISSING The Point™
My darling, I have news for you. You are here to feel safe enough, trusting enough - to pause, land, and unravel your very existence at the feet of something loving. And if you are, (like too many of us are) living a frantic, disordered life, one that feels like you’re chasing a plot that never...
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129. Your Self-Doubt Is None of Your Business
How to hear the call of your divine assignment & listening to your Sacred Marching Orders - beyond what the inner critic has to say. - Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a creative nervous-system led sanctuary for women designed to help you move through fear, trust your voice, and express what's...
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128. This is What Happens When You Face Your Fears & Follow Your Dreams
This episode is your reminder that there is a future version of you who is thanking you deeply for doing it scared. This episode is proof that the first step is always the courage to admit. This episode is proof that you WILL figure it out, even if you have no f*cking clue how. How do I know?…
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127. Give it UP: Receiving Freedom From Doubt, Worry, & Fear
"I believe that your highest path lives in the hands of a greater knowing. And the cure to all of your anxieties lies in that subtle desire to reach for these hands when you know you need them most. But what if I told you - that you actually need them all the time? And that they’ve been silently...
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126. Your Ideas are BLESSINGS: The Divine Unraveling Inside of the Creative Process
This episode is being posted live from a jungle in Costa Rica two days after hosting my first retreat. 15 women expressing their most true selves, accessing their inner child, creating art from the depths of their hearts - all because I had an idea for a podcast almost three years ago and decided...
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125. Everything You Want Is On the Other Side of Your Creativity
Creativity & self-expression is how you heal. This episode is about excavating your creativity - using your life and experiences as a devoted practice to the creative process and your art as an offering and symbol of your resilience. And on the other side - a powerful, potent, peaceful you…
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124. The Gift of Enduring
Who told us that we were not supposed to hurt - when to feel is our greatest gift? Who told us that we could have ease - without a little grit? This episode takes you on a journey discussing The Purification Process of the Dark Night of the Soul & the GIFT of enduring the transformation within…
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123. The Veil is Dropping: God is Real
Honest admittance: I'm a little scared to publish this episode. But what would Figuring Sh!t Out be if it wasn't a testament to overcoming fear, time and time again, by getting as deeply honest as possible and sharing truths from this raw and reflective place? This is Figuring Sh!t Out - in real...
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122. Stop Sleeping On Yourself + Wake UPPP To Your Potential!!
There's your potential - and then there's the power that you DECIDE to have to embody it. And it is a decision. One you must make every day. This episode is a short tough-love transmission reminding you of your limitlessness, your inevitability, the power of your deepest truth when it is aligned…
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121. Befriending Uncertainty inside of This Great Cosmic Unfolding we call LIFE
here are my fieldnotes from learning to fall in love with uncertainty again and again and again instead of resist and fear it: the point of life is not to figure sh!t out - and sometimes we have to get so lost in the figuring sh!t out that we have a great big wake up call that reminds us of that...
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120. Meeting the Inner Elder: The Gift of Aging
A conversation about girlhood and growing older, embracing the vessel and the life of the body, and embodying the wisdom of life through the preciousness of it's fragility. With my dearest friend, Phia. May this episode allow you to see life through the eyes of your inner elder. ---- Want more?...
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119. You Were Meant to Love and You Were Made to Feel
to remain tender is a gift. this episode is an exploration of everything i've learned about love. put simply: "we have all known the bliss of sunshine hitting our skin on a cold day, and we have all belly laughed until our breaths disappeared, and we have all come home chewed up by the world and...
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118. Actually, Life is Beautiful and You DO Have Time.
If the devil can't get to you, he will make you rush. "We think our limits live in the dreams we don’t chase, in the tasks we put off, in the emotions that we avoid - but they’re most alive in all of the small ways we deny our right to enjoy life. In the ferocious hurry between movements, in the...
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117. And Suddenly, Your Dreams Start Chasing YOU
"I learned how to reach for my dreams with a shaky hand. And time and time again, I’ve seen that once they are in my palms - it makes no difference if I really believe they should be there or not. Because here they are. In my hands. I cannot drop them. I have claimed them. They are a gift and yet…
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116. Every Part of You Deserves to be Loved: Letting The Shadows Free
We won’t ever say it aloud - but most of us hold an ideal of perfection inside of our self-development routines. And after spending enough time nipping and tucking away pieces of ourselves that we don't like in an effort to curate the most acceptable, palatable, "perfect" version of us - what…
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115. You Contain Multitudes
"We are mosaics. Pieces of light, love, history, stars. Glued together with magic and music and words." - Anna Kritzen There’s a quiet grief that lives inside a lot of people. Because we’ve learned how to contain ourselves. Creativity was once somewhere we all went to feel alive, and became...
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114. The Great, Grand Lock-In
This episode is not what you think it is. It is not a hustle-forward, all-gas-no-breaks charge to a new year. But it is also not a total rejection of the new year. It is a subtle and soft invitation into moving forward with reflection, ritual, and intention. Through redefining and examining our...
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113. Let The Soft Animal of Your Body Love What it Loves
"Allow shame to find no home in your posture, in your dances, in your aura, in your lovemaking sounds, in your dreaming spaces, in your every single desire," - India Ame'ye This episode is an exploration of releasing shame, guilt, and fear from our bodies and rekindling our inner magic. Through...
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112. You Are Allowed to Hibernate, Too: Learning how to Rest In a World That Never Stops
Growing wiser into the ancient knowledge of our spirit and the animalistic nature of our humanity demands the realization that many things our society looks at as luxuries are actually necessities. One of them: rest. As a society, we have a complicated relationship with rest. An anxious-avoidant...
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111. A Pathway to Alignment
a reminder that it's as easy as a deep breath and seeing that it has always been okay. x If you love FSO & this episode, leave a comment!! Tell me what resonated, share what you want to hear next <3 Rate the podcast on your preferred streaming platform!! x Want more? Join METAMORPHOSIS - a…
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110. Your Gift Was Never Meant to Look Like Theirs
This episode is about remembering that your purpose was never meant to look like anyone else’s - and releasing the comparison that’s been convincing you you’re behind. I believe that we all have a gift. I believe that we all have a purpose. I believe that it is buried within the places we don’t...
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109. One Year Later: Leaving Corporate to Build a Creative Business
Saying yes to yourself is an unraveling process of becoming closer and closer to the gift of uncertainty and confronting the fear that holds you hostage in order to receive it. In this episode, I share reflections of my journey in the last year saying the biggest, boldest yes I ever have: leaving...
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108. The Good Idea Fairy, Synchronicity, & Following the Breadcrumbs
you can’t create a life you love while starving the part of you that was born to create it. chapter three of The Perfectionist Diaries is an ode to the Good Idea Fairy - this childlike, intuitive, enchanted part of you that I created to represent the little voice that drops breadcrumbs, whispers...
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107. Fire, Flow, & Imperfect Creation: Make it Exist, THEN Make it Good. (The Perfectionist Diaries, Chapter Two)
Creation requires both the fire and the flow. In Chapter Two of The Perfectionist Diaries, we explore the cosmic dance between masculine and feminine energy: the part of you that initiates, and the part of you that softens and refines. This episode is a gentle excavation of the shadows beneath...
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106. Do it Scared - The Perfectionist Diaries, Chapter One
Courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to act despite it. Waiting until you're fearless will keep you stuck in perfectionism forever. And fear cannot live in a moving body. So, Move. - The Perfectionist Diaries is a mini-series on Figuring Sh!t Out about breaking free from…
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105. Don't Hope - DECIDE: Awakening your Inner Power with Choice
Decision is the bridge between your current reality and your highest potential. It is the pathway from survival to creation, from fear to embodiment, and from wishing to CHOOSING. Because maybe you're not stuck - maybe you're just.. undecided. And maybe, without realizing it, your lack of…
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104. The Seriousness of Being UNSERIOUS: Why Joy is Imperative, Not Naive.
I don't know about you - but cynicism has never brought me more life. Judgement towards myself or others has never given me more purpose. Feeding resistance and resentment has never watered the seeds of my growth. Contrary to popular belief - joy is not naive. It is imperative. And this radical,...
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103. The Safety to be SEEN: Finding Your People When You're Finding Yourself
This week, we explore the tender space between solitude and connection, moving deeper into the theme of unapologetic self-expression (especially for those of us who learned to hide in self-protection.) For those of us who have long identified as "introverts," I ask you a very important question:...
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102. Unapologetic, Unconditional Beingness: Take up Space! Resist the Urge to Shrink! Be!! You!!
Many of us have come to know our true selves and what alignment feels like to *some* extend, but how do you ~stay~ aligned, even when life isn't? Even when your environment.. isn't? This episode is all about staying rooted in love, alignment, and authenticity - no matter what’s happening around...
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101. A Guide to "Quantum Leaping", Collapsing Timelines, & Heart Coherence
On this episode, we’re breaking down the real mechanics of manifestation and demystifying the heavily marketed *woo-woo* behind it. (....Coming from a girl who loves and firmly embraces the woo-woo.) Spirituality and science are finally beginning to speak the same language, and on this episode,...
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100. You are Inevitable
Season 4 opens with an invitation: to break subconscious contracts, to honor the duality of being and becoming, and to claim the inevitability of who you already are, embracing the fullness of your dreams with bravery and commitment. This episode walks you through the arc of survival, fear, and...
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99. A Reminder to Live While You're Alive
gentle reminders for when you're overthinking, overwhelmed, and over-doing it. the art of let oneself be (without guilt) is a love letter to the magic that appears when you let go and it is done with the intention of: taking the BEING very seriously and the DOING very unseriously. this is the…
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98. If You're Trying, You're Trying Too Hard. Start Being.
every day is dress rehearsal for the life you want to live and the person you want to be. if you're trying, you're trying too hard. let this episode remind you of the truth of who you are - stop trying. start being. let go of the story & start LIVING your truth. and start now. x WATCH THE VIDEO...
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97. Your Hardest Moments Hold the Highest Truths
"What aspects of myself do I wish to experience now in the face of this calamity? What aspects of being do I choose to call forth? For all life exists as a tool of your own creation, and all of its events merely present themselves as opposites for you to decide to be who ou are. There are no...
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96. Divine Redirection: Facing Tower Moments with Faith
life is happening FOR you, not to you. your access to freedom is right here and now - in the chance and opportunity to trust when your faith is shaken. on this week's episode, i give you background into how this mindset is keeping me steady and strong after finding out i may have to leave my home...
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95. Who Are You When You're Not Scrolling?
This episode is an ode to reclaiming your creativity and individuality after being flooded and energetically dulled from phone addiction, a noisy world of aesthetics and trends, and overstimulation. In it, I give you a six-step ritual to reclaim spaciousness inside of your own head, to hear your...
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94. Art as a Prayer: A Conversation on Authenticity, Creative Expression, and God ft. Etai Atula
What if your expression: your voice, your vision, your rebellion was the most direct line to the divine? What if Art was your prayer? In this conversation with my dear friend Etai, we explore the thin veil between art and spirituality and the daily devotion of creativity and leading life with an...
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93. Life is More Than a To-Do List. Where is your Joy?
We become so busy "getting our lives together" that we forget that we've achieved some of our childhood dreams. Let this episode allow you to remember. You are right on time. This episode is an ode to LIVING and restoring your inner vision. FSO COSTA RICA RETREAT 2026: LIMITED 10% OFF EARLY-BIRD...
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92. It's Okay to Not Know What's Next. Let it Emerge.
no one relates to art that has all the answers - your power comes from all of the things you do not know, but have the courage to try and understand. / If you <3 FSO, rate it 5 stars on your preferred streaming platform, leave a comment, and share with a friend <3 Road Less Travelers Program…
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91. Yoga Teacher Training in Bali: A Comprehensive 101 Guide to Navigating a Soul-Led Journey
6 months ago, I got off the hamster wheel, quit my corporate job, & traveled to Bali for Yoga Teacher Training. I went through the highs and lows of choosing a yoga teacher training, learned the hard lessons of first-time solo transatlantic travel, and lived to tell the tale. In this episode, I...
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90. From NYC Hustle to Yoga in Bali: Two Months on the Other Side of the World
my reflections on the journey to the other side of the world seen through the eyes of my through journal entries. watch the video, told in visuals and story here: https://youtu.be/9R2bAm2ds_4 for this week, here is my heart. NEXT WEEK, there is an episode all about the actual logistics of YTT and…
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89. Staying Calm in Chaos & Grounded in a World of Flux
Walk with me through six truths to remember and come home to when life feels impossibly heavy. From the murky edges of uncertainty to the quiet wisdom of who we choose to surround ourselves with, this episode is a gentle guide for the tender, relentless act of becoming. In this episode, I speak…
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For those seeking purpose, healing, and direction for navigating life’s grey areas - Figuring Sh!t Out is a haven for those on their path of self-discovery & inner-awakening. The podcast is a guide to help you enjoy and surrender to the unfolding process of discovering yourself. On FSO, we create a pathway to embrace the process of navigating uncertainty in a world of flux. Hosted by Vanessa Fontana in her New York City bedroom, FSO was born in the throws of a deeply personal coming of age and self-discovery journey and serves as a lighthouse for others who are learning to flow through the ups and downs of life. Figuring Sh!t Out alongside a host who is doing just that, we come together and honor our own individual evolution while embracing the connection in our experience of becoming. Whether you’re in the midst of coming of age chaos, breaking generational cycles, or chasing elusive dreams, FSO is a way to make sense of the world by opening dialogue with a deeper part of ourselve
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