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Surpassing Labels
by Felicia Sheline
✨ Welcome to Surpassing Labels! ✨ Surpassing Labels is more than just a podcast; it's a movement to break through the labels and limitations that society, and sometimes even ourselves, place on us. This podcast is a space to embrace the extraordinary within the ordinary and to uncover the powerful, untold stories that shape our lives. Hosted by Felicia Sheline, Surpassing Labels dives deep into the journeys of individuals who've faced life's toughest challenges and emerged with a clearer sense of purpose. From parents and caregivers to advocates and visionaries, each episode offers real conversations about resilience, transformation, and the courage it takes to live authentically. We're here to remind you that no matter what obstacles you face or labels you wear, you have the power to rewrite your story, unlock your potential, and live a life that reflects your true essence. Tune in for inspiration, connection, and the encouragement to surpass every label.
Episodes
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Ep 25: You Don’t Have to Become Her | The Future Self and the Person Who’s Already Here
Become the woman who already has what you want. Think like her. Decide like her. Be her. And the results will follow. Most of us have heard some version of this. But what happens when an approach that works for some people gets handed to everyone as the way change happens? And who is this future...
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Surpassing Labels: Episode 24 Listening From Somewhere | What We Bring to What We Hear
Have you ever walked away from a conversation wondering whether you heard what someone actually said or what you were already expecting to hear? Sometimes the smallest comment can land in completely different ways, depending on the day, the person, or what we’re carrying into the moment. And most...
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Episode 23: Information, Not Evidence
How much of what we think we know about ourselves have we ever actually questioned? In this episode, Felicia explores curiosity not simply as something we use to find answers, but as a way of meeting ourselves and our experiences. What changes when we approach what happens in our lives as...
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Episode 22: Old Information
How much of what you believe about yourself is based on who you are now and how much is old information? In this episode, Felicia explores what it means to be in an ongoing relationship with yourself when you’re continually changing. From the way we respond to money and uncertainty to the...
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Episode 21: Shaped, Not Contained
We know our experiences shape us. But when does what has shaped us start becoming the edge of who we think we are? Sometimes it happens through the obvious labels we carry. Other times, it's hidden inside the smallest things we say about ourselves: I'm not good at that. I've always been this way....
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Episode 20: When Did This Become Who I Am?
When does something we experience become something we use to define who we are? A role. A pattern. Something someone said about us. A version of ourselves that made sense once. In this episode of Surpassing Labels, Felicia explores the subtle distance between recognizing something about ourselves...
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Episode 19: What Do I Have Available Right Now?
How much should you be able to handle? We often treat our capacity like a measurement of who we are. If something was easy yesterday, why is it difficult today? If we handled something before, shouldn't we be able to handle it again? But life doesn't meet us under identical conditions. In this...
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Episode 18: How We Meet Life Shapes How We Experience It
Why can essentially the same experience feel completely different from one day to the next? In this episode of Surpassing Labels, I return to a season of hospital rooms, uncertainty, and waiting, and notice something I couldn't see clearly while I was living it: I wasn't arriving at each day...
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Episode 17: The Same Life. A Different Experience
Nothing around her had changed. The dishes still needed to be done. The emails were still waiting. The responsibilities hadn't disappeared. And yet... something felt different. In this episode, we explore the quiet truth that our experience of life isn't shaped only by what's happening around us,...
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Episode 16: Your Emotions Were Never a Problem
Somewhere along the way, many of us learned that being emotionally strong meant pushing our feelings aside. We smiled through the hurt. We stayed composed. We kept moving. And after enough time, that automatic push became so familiar we stopped noticing we were doing it at all. But what if your...
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Episode 15: The Rules You Never Chose
She's trying to do everything right. Showing up. Meeting expectations. Carrying responsibilities. Following the rules she's lived by for so long, she no longer remembers choosing them. Until one quiet question changes everything. Who decided these were your rules? In this episode, we explore the...
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Episode 14: Is This Really It?
She's doing everything right. The books are highlighted. The podcasts are queued up. The gratitude journal is sitting on the nightstand. She's trying. Trying to grow. Trying to heal. Trying to become the version of herself she knows is in there somewhere. And yet... Something still feels missing.…
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Episode 13: You Never Needed Permission to Pause
She's reheating her coffee for the third time. Answering messages while helping someone else. Thinking about tomorrow while trying to get through today. Carrying responsibilities, expectations, and an endless mental checklist that never seems to get any shorter. From the outside, she looks…
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Episode 12: What Feels Like Choosing May Not Be
Most of what runs your day isn't actually chosen. Not because you're unaware. Not because you're doing something wrong. But because survival is efficient. It learns what keeps the peace, what maintains connection, and what prevents things from falling apart — and over time, those patterns begin...
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Episode 11: Not Every Internal Signal Is a Problem to Solve
There's something that happens the moment you let yourself feel something honest. Before it can fully land — your mind is already moving. Already analyzing. Already looking for what to fix, what to change, what to do next. For people who are thoughtful, responsible, and accustomed to holding…
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Episode 10: Strength Can Breathe. Compression Just Holds.
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from constantly being the one who holds everything together. Not because you aren’t capable. Not because you don’t love the people around you. But because emotional containment was never meant to become a permanent state of being. This episode...
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Episode 9 — You Got Very Good at Efficient Self-Override
At some point, many people stop abandoning themselves dramatically and start doing it quietly… efficiently. In this episode, Felicia explores the subtle ways people learn to move past their own internal signals in order to keep functioning, caregiving, performing, and surviving. The exhaustion…
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Episode 8: The Parts of You That Went Quiet
There are parts of you that didn’t disappear. They just… got quieter. Not all at once. Not in a way you would have noticed. But over time— in small moments where something in you pulled back. In this episode, we explore what it means when parts of you stop coming forward… and why the moments when...
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Episode 7: The Role You Never Put Down
There are ways we show up in life that don’t feel like a choice anymore. Not because we decided them… but because they’ve been carried for so long, they feel like who we are. In this episode, we explore the subtle difference between choosing to hold something… and feeling like you have to. The...
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Episode 6: The Body That Never Fully Powers Down
There are ways the body can stay “on” that don’t look like stress. Not panic. Not overwhelm. Just… a quiet, constant readiness. In this episode, we explore what it can feel like when your body never fully powers down—when tension lingers, even at rest, and being slightly ahead of the moment…
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Episode 5: Safe Enough to Listen
Listening to yourself isn’t always as simple as it sounds. Not because you don’t want to. But because, for many people, it hasn’t always felt safe to stay with what’s there. In this episode, we explore the subtle ways people learn to move past themselves… how that becomes automatic… and why...
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Episode 4: The Wisdom Beneath the Noise
There’s a difference between what feels urgent… and what is actually true. For many people, urgency is familiar. It moves quickly. It sounds convincing. It creates the sense that something needs to be figured out… right now. But there’s another kind of knowing. Quieter. Steadier. Not trying to...
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Spiral Reflection 08: Why Clarity Doesn’t Stay
A soft reflection on clarity… and why it doesn’t hold in the way we sometimes expect it to. There can be moments where everything feels clear… and then, just as naturally, that clarity shifts. Not because something is wrong— but because things are still moving. This is a reflection on what…
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Spiral Reflection 07: When You Start Leaving Yourself to Find the Answer
A reflection on the moment you turn outward instead of staying with what’s already there. It can feel small… almost unnoticeable— reaching for what someone else would do, what someone else might say. And how easy it is, in those moments, to move away from your own sense of what’s true. Just a...
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Spiral Reflection 06: You Don’t Hear Intuition—You Feel It First
A closer look at where intuition actually begins. Not as a voice or a clear thought… but as something more subtle— a feeling, a shift, a response in the body. Often so quick… it’s missed. This is a reflection on what changes when you start noticing that first moment— before it turns into…
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Spiral Reflection 05: Why Your Mind Doesn’t Quiet the Way You Think It Should
A reflection on what “getting quiet” actually feels like… and how it doesn’t come from trying to stop your thoughts. Sometimes it shows up in more ordinary moments— when your body is moving… when your attention softens… when you’re not gripping your mind the same way. Not something you force.…
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Spiral Reflection 04: Intuition Isn’t Something You Ask For
A noticing around intuition… and how it doesn’t seem to begin with questions the way we’re often told. There’s something that can be felt before that— before the mind starts searching or trying to figure it out. Something already there… subtle, easy to move past. This is just a reflection on what...
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Spiral Reflection 03: The Moment Everything Shifts
The shift doesn’t happen all at once. It happens in small moments— when you notice something and don’t move past it. This is where something begins to change.
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Spiral Reflection 02: When Forcing Gets in the Way of Allowing
Forcing doesn’t always look like force. Sometimes it looks like discipline. Like effort. Like doing everything “right.” This reflection explores what might be underneath that.
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Spiral Reflection 01: Doing the Work vs. Actually Living It
You can do all the work… and still be moving away from yourself while doing it. This reflection explores the quiet difference between doing… and actually being with what’s real.
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Episode 3: Standing at the Edge of Something Different
There’s a moment that doesn’t always look like change… but feels like it. It’s quiet. Subtle. Easy to move past. Nothing has fully shifted yet… but something doesn’t feel the same anymore. In this episode, we explore that in-between space the place where what’s familiar no longer fully fits, but...
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Episode 2: You're Allowed to Think for Yourself
There’s a quiet moment that happens… when something you’ve always agreed with doesn’t fully land the same way anymore. Not enough to argue. Not enough to explain. Just enough to pause. In this episode, we explore what it feels like to begin thinking for yourself… not as an idea, but as something...
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Episode 1: The Undercurrents We Never Questioned
There are patterns many of us live inside without ever fully noticing. Ways of thinking, responding, and holding ourselves that feel normal—simply because they’ve been there for so long. In this episode, we begin to gently look beneath the surface at those undercurrents. Not to fix them. Not to...
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Entry Point: A Different Way of Being Here
In this opening reflection, we step outside the pressure to fix, improve, or become something else — and instead turn toward what has already been quietly present. There’s a way of being that doesn’t come from effort. A way of listening that doesn’t come from trying. This episode introduces the...
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SC4: Surpassing Circles Spotlight Series: In Loving Memory Featuring Breanna Sprenger: The Good Life Voices (Part 4)
Today's episode is unlike any other. It features the radiant Breanna Sprenger—a Good Life Ambassador, disability advocate, and beautiful soul who left a mark on everyone she met. Breanna lived with spina bifida, but that was never what defined her. What stood out was her warmth, her insight, her...
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SC3: Surpassing Circles Spotlight Series: Featuring Karyssa Kestranek (Part 3): The Good Life Voices
Today's guest is living proof that survival is just the beginning. Meet Karyssa Kestranek—a traumatic brain injury survivor, motivational speaker, and Good Life Ambassador with the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities. After a devastating motorcycle crash left her in a month-long...
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SC2: Surpassing Circles Spotlight Series- Featuring Shaye Taylor (Part 2)- The Good Life Voices
Today on Surpassing Circles, we're celebrating unstoppable spirit, unapologetic advocacy, and the beauty of living life on your own terms. Meet Shaye Taylor—Special Olympics Ohio athlete, LGBTQ+ advocate, cashier, sister, speaker, and all-around force of nature. Born and raised in Cleveland's…
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Season 2: Episode 4: Let Them Call It Selfish
If choosing rest, setting boundaries, or saying no makes you "selfish"—then maybe selfish isn't such a bad thing. In this powerful episode of Surpassing Labels, we're reclaiming the word that's been used for too long to keep women small, overextended, and soul-tired. Felicia invites you to flip…
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SC1: Surpassing Circles Spotlight Series – Featuring Grace Blatt (Part 1): The Good Life Voices
Welcome to Part 1 of The Good Life Voices! This is where we shine the light on voices that are shifting culture, breaking barriers, and redefining what's possible. I'm so excited to introduce you to Grace Blatt—an autistic self-advocate, educator, and all-around truth-teller who is living the…
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SC .5: Surpassing Circles Begins: A Tribute to the Stories That Still Need Telling
Welcome to the Surpassing Circles Spotlight Series—a sacred space within the Surpassing Labels Podcast devoted to honoring the voices, stories, and resources from the special needs and disability community. This isn't a pivot. It's a return. Because while this podcast has grown to include women's...
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Season 2 Episode 3: The Weight You Carry That No One Sees
They don't see the mental tabs you keep open. The reminders, the meal planning, the birthday cards, the calming down, the checking in. They don't see the emotional labor—because you make it look effortless. But just because it's invisible doesn't mean it isn't heavy. In this episode of Surpassing...
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Season 2 Episode 2: The Roles We're Praised For Are the Ones That Are Killing Us
You're the strong one. The reliable one. The one who holds it all together. And the world praises you for it. But here's the truth no one talks about: The very roles we're applauded for are often the ones eroding us from the inside out. In this bold and deeply honest episode of Surpassing Labels,...
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Season 2 Episode 1: A Return, A Rise, A Reintroduction
Welcome back to Surpassing Labels—the podcast for the woman who's done disappearing and is ready to come home to herself. In this reintroduction episode, I'm sharing the heart behind Season 2. Because while this space began with stories from the special needs and disability community, it's...
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Episode 43: Inclusion Revolution! Aaron DeVries Leads the Way as The Inclusive Dad
In this must-listen episode, I sit down with Aaron DeVries, the powerhouse behind The Inclusive Dad, to dive into his inspiring journey as a father, advocate, and game-changer in the world of special needs parenting. With heartfelt honesty and practical wisdom, Aaron shares how his experiences…
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Episode 41: Unstoppable Leadership: How Motherhood Aligned Passion Purpose and Impact
In this inspiring episode, we're joined by Dina Lobo, a mother, a powerhouse corporate consultant, motivational speaker, and visionary evaluator. Dina shares her incredible journey of embracing motherhood while leading with unwavering passion and purpose. 💡❤️ Discover how Dina turned the...
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Episode 40: Beyond Words: The Power of Overlooked Potential
In this powerful episode, we go Beyond Words with Jay Silverman, the acclaimed Director and Producer of the Movie Camera. This inspiring film tells the touching story of a young boy with mutism who finds his voice through the lens of an old camera. With the support of a wise mentor, this boy…
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Episode 39: Through Her Eyes: A Story of Resilience and Re-Invention
In this heartfelt episode of Surpassing Labels, we sit down with Dr. Wisniewski, a compassionate and resilient doctor of chiropractic who has faced a profound life change: the loss of her vision due to a rare eye disease. Dr. Wisniewski shares her journey through the unexpected, from the initial...
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Episode 38: Trusting Your Gut: How Intuition Guides Us
In this we dive into the often-overlooked power of intuition in navigating life's unique challenges. 💖🌟 You're constantly making decisions—some big, some small—but what happens when you start trusting your inner voice? Intuition, that quiet knowing within, can be a powerful guide through the...
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Episode 37: You Are Enough: Cultivating Self-Acceptance
In this episode, we dive into the transformative power of self-acceptance. So often, we get caught in the cycle of comparison, self-criticism, and striving for perfection, forgetting that true growth begins when we embrace who we are, flaws and all. We'll explore how self-acceptance isn't about...
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Episode 36: Speaking Up: A Mission to Promote Cerebral Palsy Awareness
In this episode, I sit down with Brandon Rodgers an inspiring young man living with cerebral palsy, who is on a mission to raise awareness and spark meaningful conversations. With a powerful voice and a passion for change, he shares his personal experiences, challenges, and victories. Together…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
✨ Welcome to Surpassing Labels! ✨ Surpassing Labels is more than just a podcast; it's a movement to break through the labels and limitations that society, and sometimes even ourselves, place on us. This podcast is a space to embrace the extraordinary within the ordinary and to uncover the powerful, untold stories that shape our lives. Hosted by Felicia Sheline, Surpassing Labels dives deep into the journeys of individuals who've faced life's toughest challenges and emerged with a clearer sense of purpose. From parents and caregivers to advocates and visionaries, each episode offers real conversations about resilience, transformation, and the courage it takes to live authentically. We're here to remind you that no matter what obstacles you face or labels you wear, you have the power to rewrite your story, unlock your potential, and live a life that reflects your true essence. Tune in for inspiration, connection, and the encouragement to surpass every label.
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