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Live Out Loud with Dr.Z
by Dr. Zerri Gross
Let me help you overcome transitionary periods in your life.Shift your relationship with money, mind, body, self, and reclaim the rest of your greater life! ✨
Episodes
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Episode 171: Why October Is Always My Busiest Month… and How I Navigate It
In Episode 171, Dr. Z shares why October has consistently been one of her busiest months and how she navigates it without completely abandoning herself. She reflects on the mix of therapy clients, events, birthdays, parenting, relationship time, business growth, personal commitments, and recovery...
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Episode 170: Who’s Plotting Against Your Happiness?
In Episode 170, Dr. Z asks listeners to consider whether someone is really plotting against their happiness—or if they are accidentally plotting against themselves by holding on to old versions, past opinions, rumors, and fear of judgment. She explores how people can become so worried about who...
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Episode 169: What If Being a Good Person Is Costing You Your Life?
In Episode 169, Dr. Z asks a powerful question: what if being a “good person” is costing you your life? She challenges the idea that goodness means being endlessly available, agreeable, forgiving, useful, or self-sacrificing. Instead, she invites listeners to redefine goodness through alignment,...
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Episode 168: Gossip is Power
In Episode 168, Dr. Z reframes gossip as a form of power. She explains that when you speak about someone who is not in the room, you are holding the floor and shaping how others may see them. The question is whether you are using that power to build someone up or tear them down. This episode...
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Episode 167: Mature, Not Muted
In Episode 167, Dr. Z explores what it means to be mature, not muted when navigating relationships you cannot easily walk away from, such as co-parenting relationships, family dynamics, business partnerships, close friendships, or shared communities. She talks about the challenge of staying...
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Episode 166: The Permission Slip
In Episode 166, Dr. Z reflects on the recent Disconnect to Reconnect experience and the deeper meaning of giving yourself a “permission slip” to show up, receive, play, and stop performing for everyone else. She shares gratitude for the people who supported the event and the women who attended,...
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Episode 165: Individual, Couples, or Yoga? Choosing the Right Healing Tool
In Episode 165, Dr. Z breaks down the difference between individual therapy, couples therapy, and yoga, explaining when each one is helpful and why yoga may be one of the most underrated tools in healing and self-awareness. She explains that individual therapy helps you understand yourself…
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Episode 164: Here for the Games (Play, Productivity & Pleasure on Purpose)
In Episode 164, Dr. Z continues the conversation around play, productivity, and feminine flow by exploring how to gamify life so growth does not feel like constant pressure. She reflects on how growing up watching hard work modeled around her shaped her strong friend energy, her desire to mature...
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Episode 163: Play, Productivity & Feminine Flow
In Episode 163, Dr. Z explores the relationship between play, productivity, and feminine flow, inviting listeners to stop treating adulthood like it has to be serious all the time. She reflects on how growing up too fast, taking on responsibilities early, and living in constant productivity mode...
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Episode 162: Fire Your Inner Child: Hire Her Instead
In Episode 162, Dr. Z challenges the common idea of “healing your inner child” and offers a different perspective: maybe your inner child does not need to be fixed, healed, or put in charge of your life. Instead, she suggests firing the inner child from the CEO role and hiring her as a…
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Episode 161: My Relationship with Yoga
In Episode 161, Dr. Z reflects on her full-circle relationship with yoga from once believing it was not meant for people like her, to becoming a yoga teacher and integrating yoga into her life, therapy work, and healing practice. She shares how a friend’s invitation opened the door to exploring...
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Episode 160: Behind the Screen: What Clients and Therapists Both Hide
In Episode 160, Dr. Z takes listeners behind the screen of therapy to explore what both clients and therapists may be hiding, especially when ADHD, masking, cultural fit, trauma, and expectations are involved. She invites clients to ask deeper questions before choosing a therapist, including what...
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Episode 159: She Came Back to Her Body: Reconnecting the Mind, Body, and Self
In Episode 159, Dr. Z explores what happens when high-achieving women become so accustomed to planning, pushing, producing, and caring for others that they stop listening to their own bodies. She explains how overriding fatigue, emotions, intuition, pleasure, and the need for rest may lead to...
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Episode 158: Where Can a Man Be Safe? Men, Vulnerability, and the Cost of Always Being Strong
In Episode 158, Dr. Z opens an honest conversation about men’s mental health and the lack of spaces where men can safely express their emotions without being judged, emasculated, exposed, or having their vulnerability used against them later. She explores how boys are often taught from an early…
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Episode 157: Why Overing Feels Like Love But Functions Like Self-Erasure
In Episode 157 of The Greater Self Vibes Podcast, Dr. Z introduces the concept of "overing"—the unconscious pattern of overgiving, overperforming, overcommitting, and overcompensating in the name of love, care, and responsibility. She explores how many strong friends, caregivers, high achievers,...
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Episode 156: Presence as a Product: Why Who You Are Matters More Than What You Do
In Episode 156 of The Greater Self Vibes Podcast, Dr. Z explores the difference between presence and performance, sharing why authentic character ultimately matters more than credentials, titles, or accomplishments. Drawing from personal reflections, professional experiences, and observations…
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Episode 155: How Do You Know What You Need When You're Everyone Else's Everything?
In Episode 155 of The Greater Self Vibes Podcast, Dr. Z explores one of the biggest blind spots of high-capacity people and strong friends: losing touch with their own needs while constantly caring for everyone else. Through personal insight and practical reflection, she explains how many people...
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Episode 154: What I Expected vs. What Was Needed
In Episode 154 of The Greater Self Vibes Podcast, Dr. Z reflects on the powerful lessons that emerged from hosting her Disconnect to Reconnect workshop. What began as a carefully planned experience filled with activities, movement, and structured healing transformed into a realization that people...
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Episode 153: Romanticizing Rest, Reconnection & Reclaiming Your Joy
In Episode 153 of The Greater Self Vibes Podcast, Dr. Z explores what it truly means to romanticize rest, recovery, fun, and intentional living. Through real-time reflections, personal stories, and even unexpected technical difficulties during the livestream, she shares how burnout…
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Episode 152: When Love Still Exists But Alignment Changes
In Episode 152 of The Greater Self Vibes Podcast, Dr. Z explores the emotional dissonance that happens when love still exists, but alignment no longer does. She speaks honestly about the grief, attachment, chemistry, familiarity, and emotional conflict that arise when two people still care deeply...
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Episode 151: Sometimes the Answer Is Leaving the Environment
In Episode 151 of The Greater Self Vibes Podcast, Dr. Z continues her Freedom Tea Talk conversation about why clarity often comes not from forcing more answers, but from creating intentional distance from the environments, patterns, and expectations keeping you stuck. Reflecting on her…
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Episode 150: What Leaving Taught Me About Who I Really Am
In Episode 150 of The Greater Self Vibes Podcast, Dr. Z reflects on the powerful transformation that happens when strong friends finally take space away from their normal routines, responsibilities, and roles. Speaking from an event while returning from vacation, she explores how stepping away…
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Episode 149: The Cost of Being the Strong One
In Episode 149 of The Greater Self Vibes Podcast, Dr. Z returns from a much-needed break to unpack the real, often overlooked cost of being “the strong one.” What’s commonly labeled as a compliment is reframed as a survival role—one built from necessity, not choice. Through personal reflection,...
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Episode 148: The Strong Friend Reset: 5 Minutes to Take Your Life Back
In Episode 148 of The Greater Self Vibes Podcast, Dr. Z introduces the Strong Friend Reset—a simple but powerful 28-day challenge designed for the ones who are always “holding it all together” for everyone else. She breaks down how overgiving, overavailability, and being the reliable one can...
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Episode 147: Love, But Evolved: When Who You Are Changes, So Does Love
In Episode 147, Dr. Z continues the conversation from “Green & Grief” and explores how love evolves as you evolve. Moving beyond the idea of love as something fixed, she unpacks how our early experiences shape the way we give and receive love—and how healing allows us to redefine it. This episode...
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Episode 146: Green & Grief: The Color of Love, Jealousy, and the Healing Heart
Episode 146: Green & Grief In Episode 146, Dr. Z explores the deeper meaning behind the color green—beyond luck and money—into its connection with the heart, healing, and grief. Using St. Patrick’s Day as the backdrop, she reframes jealousy as grief in disguise. What we often label as envy may...
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Episode 145: I’m Not in Fight or Flight No More!
In Episode 145, Dr. Z shares a deeply personal reflection about the moment she realized her nervous system had finally shifted from hypervigilance to regulation. Waking up in the middle of the night during the Blood Moon, she noticed something unfamiliar—peace. Instead of scanning for problems,...
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Episode 144: Movement, Mindset & Feminine Capacity: Leading Without Force
In Episode 144, Dr. Z explores the relationship between physical movement, emotional capacity, and feminine leadership. Inspired by a spontaneous 5K experience with friends, she reflects on how leadership doesn’t always require pushing, controlling, or forcing outcomes. Instead, true feminine...
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Episode 143: When the Strong One Finally Runs Out
Summary In this raw and deeply personal Freedom Tea Talk, Dr. Z unpacks what happens when the “strong friend” — the dependable, high-capacity, over-functioning woman — finally hits her limit. This episode explores burnout, emotional masking, abandonment wounds, and the hidden cost of constantly...
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Episode 142: Land the Plane: Dreams, Downloads & Choosing Yourself
In Episode 142 of The Greater Self Vibes Podcast, Dr. Z continues the conversation on dreams and subconscious “downloads,” exploring how our bodies process what our minds avoid. She unpacks how clarity often comes through dreams when we ignore our intuition during waking life and what...
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Episode 141: Valentine’s Day, Femininity & Feeling Chosen: The Real Conversation
In this vulnerable Freedom Tea Talk, Dr. Z invites listeners into a candid conversation about Valentine's Day, emotional expectations, and how femininity shapes how we give and receive love. Whether you're single, dating, or in a relationship, this episode challenges the narratives that love must...
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Episode 140: Dreams & Downloads (Listening to What Your Subconscious Is Saying)
In Episode 140, Dr. Z explores the meaning behind dreams and “downloads” — the intuitive insights that surface when the conscious mind rests. She explains how unresolved emotions, stress, and daily experiences continue processing during sleep, often appearing symbolically in dreams. By creating...
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Episode 139: The Return
In this reintroduction episode, Dr. Z returns to the mic after a season of intentional quiet. She shares what’s been happening behind the scenes, why the pause was necessary, and what’s slowly and deliberately coming back online. From yoga and Freedom Tea Talks to workshops, email offerings, and...
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Episode 138: Embracing Feminine Power Without Apology
Embracing Feminine Power Without Apology In this heart-centered episode, Dr. Z peels back the layers of emotional suppression and cultural pressure that disconnect us from our power. She reminds listeners that softness isn’t weakness — it’s wisdom. Through reflection on emotional intelligence,...
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Episode 137: The Cost of Caring: Sustaining the Self in Service
"The Cost of Caring: Sustaining the Self in Service" In this raw and reflective episode, Dr. Z shares powerful insights sparked by watching a documentary that chronicled over 40 years of resilience, creativity, and survival in the entertainment industry. Drawing parallels with the helping...
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Episode 136: The Power of Isolation: Rest, Recovery & Reclamation
The Power of Isolation: Rest, Recovery & Reclamation In this episode, we explore the importance of isolation seasons, social batteries, and the process of rest, recovery, and reclamation of self. Many people struggle with understanding why they feel drained in social settings or why they need…
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Episode 135: The Separation Season: When Growth Requires Letting Go
The Separation Season: When Growth Requires Letting Go In this episode of Freedom Tea Talk, Dr. Z reflects on the process of growth and separation that comes with leveling up in life. She discusses how evolving personally and professionally often means outgrowing certain relationships,...
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Episode 134: Recharge and Reconnect!
In this episode, Dr. Z returns after a nearly two-month hiatus to share exciting updates, recent events, and upcoming plans. They reflect on the importance of taking breaks for self-care, explain the recent changes in their life, and discuss various events and workshops they have participated in...
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The Greater Self Vibes Episode 133: Mastermind Experiences and Epiphanies
Ever wondered how embracing new experiences and connecting with like-minded individuals can transform your life? Dive into my recent journey of rediscovering creativity, embracing vulnerability, and prioritizing self-care in the latest podcast episode. Plus, get exclusive insights on stepping out...
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The Greater Self Vibes Episode 132: Birthday Epiphanies
For my weekly Freedom Tea Talk live session, where we'll dive into the magic of birthday epiphanies! 🎉 We will talk about reasons to celebrate your birthday how you’d like to. This is a great time to reset your focus and attention. It's time to embrace the joy of being exactly who we are!...
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Episode 131: Aries Season - Embracing New Beginnings and Bold Moves
In this episode of Freedom Tea Talk, the host dives into the vibrant energy of Aries season, marking the start of the astrological new year. They discuss embracing new beginnings, setting 90-day goals, and balancing the active Aries energy with intentional rest. The episode encourages listeners…
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The Greater Self Vibes Episode 130: Yoga Asanas & Femininity
Exploring the intersection of yoga asanas and femininity.If you're ready to dive into a conversation about embracing your feminine energy through yoga practice, this is the perfect opportunity to join us. Dr. Z will share insights, tips, and personal experiences that will inspire you to connect...
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Episode 129: Yoga for Life
Yoga for Life: Beyond the Mat In this episode of Freedom Tea Talks, Dr. Z explores how yoga is more than just physical poses; it's a holistic lifestyle that incorporates breathwork, mindset shifts, and emotional well-being. She introduces the concept of yoga off the mat, emphasizing the…
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Episode 128: Qualifying Conversations across Relationships
Qualifying Conversations across Relationships: Building Intentional Connections This episode focuses on the importance of having qualifying conversations in all types of relationships—whether with yourself, romantic partners, family, or friends. Dr. Z emphasizes the value of intentional...
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Episode 127: Femininity and Roles
Femininity & Roles: Flowing with Ease in Life & Leadership In this episode of Freedom Tea Talk, Dr. Z explores the intersection of femininity and the various roles we embody daily. She discusses how embracing feminine energy can create more ease, flow, and balance in life—whether as a leader,...
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Episode 126: Yoga & Wellness
Yoga & Wellness Tea Talk: Seasonal Self-Care & Healing Through Movement In this special Yoga & Wellness Tea Talk episode, Dr. Z and special guest Latoya discuss the power of seasonal self-care, the importance of rest, and how yoga can be a transformative practice both on and off the mat. They...
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The Greater Self Vibes Episode 125: Manifest Your Soulmate
A Conversation with Love Coach Michelle Chung This podcast episode presents an engaging conversation with International Love Coach and Bestselling author, Michelle Chung. The episode covers her journey of personal growth and self-discovery, dating experiences, her philosophy to build strong and...
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The Greater Self Vibes Episode 124: Friend Types
Strong Friend, Peaceful Friend, Goddess Friend 🍵 Join me for a heart-to-heart Freedom Tea Talk! We'll be delving into the beautiful tapestry of friendships and exploring the dynamics of 'Friend Types - Strong Friend, Peaceful Friend, Goddess Friend.' Get ready for a reflective and empowering...
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The Greater Self Vibes Episode 123: After the summit! Observation and Invitation
We'll be sharing insights from the recent summit and extending a special invitation for what's next on our empowering journey. Grab your favorite tea, and let's chat candidly about our takeaways and the exciting opportunities ahead.
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The Greater Self Vibes Episode 122: No permission needed
In this episode of Freedom Tea Talks, Dr. Z dives into the empowering concept of giving yourself permission to be authentically you. She encourages listeners to break free from waiting for validation, explore their true priorities, and embrace their greatness unapologetically. She also introduces...
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Let me help you overcome transitionary periods in your life.Shift your relationship with money, mind, body, self, and reclaim the rest of your greater life! ✨
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Dr. Zerri Gross
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