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The Growth Lounge
by Jessica Phillips
What if the life you built looks fine on the outside… but doesn’t feel aligned on the inside?The Growth Lounge is where women who are ready for more come to tell the truth. About their faith. Their marriage. Their health. Their identity. The quiet ache of knowing they’ve outgrown old patterns but aren’t sure how to move forward.Hosted by Jessica Phillips, 180 Legacy Coach and speaker, this podcast explores what it really takes to break generational cycles, reconnect with God, and create lasting change from the inside out. Through honest conversations and practical insight, you’ll learn how to stop managing symptoms and start healing at the root.If you’re done circling the same mountain and ready to rise rooted, clear, and confident in who you were created to be, you’re in the right place.
Episodes
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"From Chaos to Calling" With Phyllis Anderson
What happens when the role you've held for 20 years no longer feels like you? Phyllis Anderson spent more than two decades in emergency room medicine. Trauma certified. Charge nurse. Flight nurse. She was born a caregiver, the oldest of eight children, a mom at 18, and the ER felt like home…
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God and the Numbers. For the Woman Who Was Told She Couldn't Have Both.
You have loved God your whole life. And quietly, privately, maybe even a little guiltily, you have also been drawn to the numbers. To the patterns. To the things that made you feel seen in ways you could not quite explain. And you kept that part hidden. Not because you were backsliding. Not…
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Stop Using Your Faith to Stay Small
Is wanting more for yourself selfish... or is it sacred? In this episode, I unpack the hidden belief that keeps faith-driven women shrinking in the name of humility, and reveals what scripture actually says about desire, calling, and abundant life after the nest empties. If you've ever felt the...
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Victim vs. Playing the Victim: The Identity Shift That Changes Everything
In this episode, I get honest about a topic we don't talk about enough: how victim identity becomes a survival strategy, and how it quietly keeps us from the life we actually want. This is not about blame. This is about power, and how to take yours back. There is a version of you that has been...
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Who do you believe you are? ...And why it matters.
In this episode, I'm asking you a question I want you to sit with: Who you are? Because that story might be the most powerful thing running your results right now, more than any diet or plan ever could. I'm breaking down why your brain isn't actually trying to help you reach your goals, it's…
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The Real Reason You Emotionally Eat (And Why Willpower Was Never the Answer)
What if your emotional eating isn't a problem to fix, but a message to understand? In this episode, I get honest about something the wellness world never wants to admit: emotional eating works. That's why you haven't stopped. And that's exactly why shame, willpower, and "just be more disciplined"...
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The Craving Beneath the Craving: Why Weight Loss Is Not Just About Food
This is not another weight loss episode telling you to try harder, eat cleaner, or start over Monday. Because maybe the reason you keep reaching for the food is not because you are undisciplined. Maybe food has become the place you go when something inside of you feels overwhelmed, unseen,...
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The Lie You Built Your Life On
Who told you that you weren’t good enough? Who told you that you were bad, too much, not enough, too far gone, or incapable of becoming who God created you to be? In this episode of The Growth Lounge, I’m unpacking the quiet agreements many of us make with lies spoken over us, experiences that...
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Keeping the Peace Is Costing You More Than You Think
In this episode of The Growth Lounge, I’m digging into something I believe so many women are feeling but not always saying out loud: You are not actually afraid of change.You are afraid of what that change might disrupt. Maybe it looks like hesitation.Maybe it sounds like “I just need more...
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Self Help Didn’t Heal Me
In this episode, Jessica gets real about the difference between surface-level self-help and true root healing. She shares how affirmations, routines, journaling, boundaries, and mindset tools helped take the lid off… but they did not heal what was underneath. This conversation goes deeper into…
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Healing Begins Where Hiding Ends
In this episode of The Growth Lounge, I’m talking about what it really looks like to let God into the hidden parts of us. Not just the polished places. Not just the parts we let everyone else see. The real parts. The scared parts. The over-functioning parts. The parts that still believe hiding is...
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The Thing Behind the Thing: The Story Under the Struggle
Today’s episode is personal. This is not a conversation from the finish line. It is from the middle. In this episode, I’m sharing about the thing behind the thing. For a long time, I thought my weight was the issue. The hold-up. The reason I did not feel fully free, fully confident, or fully at...
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Do Not Quit in the Messy Middle
We need to talk about the part of the story most people leave out. Not the before. Not the after. The middle. The messy, stretching, humbling, holy in-between where you are trying, learning, healing, praying, wondering, and sometimes wanting to quit because it feels like everybody else got their...
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Choosing to Stay: Marriage, Growth, and Real-Life Communication
What do you do when marriage feels stretched, the day is stressful, and real life is happening in real time? In this episode of The Growth Lounge, Jessica and Chad bring you into a real, honest, lightly humorous conversation from the middle of one of those kinds of days. They talk about why they...
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Marriage Growth: Reconnecting When Life Gets Busy, Kids, Work, and the Slow Fade
Welcome back to The Growth Lounge and part three of our Love and Marriage series. In this episode, Chad and I talk about marriage growth and reconnecting when life gets busy. Many couples experience what we call the slow fade. Not because love disappears, but because raising kids, managing...
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When Marriage Feels Hard: Rebuilding Trust, Communication, and Staying Together
Marriage is not always beautiful. Sometimes it feels hard, heavy, and uncertain. In part two of our Love and Marriage series, Chad and I share the middle of our story. Fresh out of rehab and the Navy, unexpectedly stepping into parenthood, financially strained, and emotionally immature, we were...
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From Young Love to Legacy Love: Our Marriage Story
In this kickoff episode of our February Love and Marriage series, I sit down with my husband of 30 years, Chad. We share our real journey from young love to legacy love. We talk about how we met, what we thought marriage would be like, what actually shaped us, and how faith, commitment, and...
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Midlife Wellness Unfiltered: Hormones, Detox & Real Food With Lori Bradford
In the last episode in the Women in Wellness Series, Jessica has and in-depth and eye-opening conversation with Lori Bradford, a trusted midlife wellness expert, to cut through the noise around women’s health in midlife. They dive into hormone replacement therapy, why diet and exercise alone…
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Healing at the Root: Motherhood, Eating Disorder Recovery, Carnivore Living, and Holistic Wellness with Angie Ambrosetti
You are getting 2 drops this week due to some technical difficulties. We are wrapping up our Women in Wellness Series with these last 2 episodes. Be sure to tune in to all of them as each one is unique. In this episode of the Women in Wellness series, Jessica sits down with Angie Ambrosetti, a...
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Successful on the Outside, Disconnected on the Inside: The Journey Back to Self with Emily Roberts
What happens when life looks successful on the outside, but feels disconnected on the inside? In this episode, Emily Roberts shares her journey back to faith, health, marriage, and self after chasing success, money, and approval. In this episode of the Women in Wellness series, Jessica sits down...
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Hormone Health, Low Testosterone in Women, and Why Saying Yes Can Change Your Life | Women in Wellness
In this episode of Women in Wellness, I sit down with Amy Mick Welch to talk about hormone health, low testosterone in women, and what sustainable wellness actually looks like in real life. Amy shares her experience with burnout after years in corporate America and how stepping away from that...
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Healing at the Root: Sobriety, Explant, and Self-Worth with Harmony Brooke
In Episode 1/Part 2 of my conversation with Harmony, we move into one of the most tender and powerful parts of her healing journey. Harmony shares openly about her breast explant surgery and how removing her implants brought relief to many of the chronic health issues she had been living with for...
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Four Years Sober: What Really Changed, with Harmony Brooke
I couldn’t imagine a more meaningful way to launch the Women & Wellness Series for 2026 than by sitting down with Harmony. Harmony was my very first podcast guest when I launched The Growth Lounge last year, and bringing her back for this two-part conversation feels both full circle and deeply...
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The Year I Took My Power Back: Radical Honesty, Growth, and Learning to Trust Myself
This year stretched me, shaped me, and ultimately changed me. In this episode, I’m getting real about what it actually looked like to take my power back. Not through a new planner or another quick fix, but by getting radically honest, reflecting deeply, and rebuilding trust with myself and with...
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Rewiring Resistance: Walking Through Fear and Finding Freedom
When safety keeps you stuck, fear becomes the wall between you and your next level. In this episode, Jessica Phillips breaks down how your amygdala tricks you into believing comfort equals safety and how that false protection can hold you back from growth. She shares real stories from women at…
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Un-Funk Yourself: Practical & Holistic Ways to Move Through the Unbecoming Season
The Becoming Series: Coming Home to the Woman God Created You to Be There’s a sacred messiness in the middle, that space between who you were and who you’re becoming. It’s uncomfortable, uncertain, and if we’re honest… sometimes it just feels funky. This week inside The Growth Lounge, we’re…
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When “Enough Is Enough” : Coming Home to the Woman God Intended You to Be
There comes a moment in every woman’s life when she whispers the words, " I can't carry this any more." If you’ve been there, or maybe you’re sitting in that space right now, this episode is for you. This is where my own 180 began. The day I realized that trying harder wasn’t healing me…it was...
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Part 2 of: Wardrobe to Worth With Jessica Papineau
In Part 2 of my conversation with luxury stylist and transformational guide Jessica Papineau, we go beyond the wardrobe and dive into the practices, mindset shifts, and bold choices that lead to lasting transformation. Jessica shares how everything from cold plunging to meditation and…
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Wardrobe to Worth: A Transformational Journey with Jessica Papineau
In this powerful 2-part series, I sit down with the incredible Jessica Papineau, visionary founder of CSJ Styling, to uncover the story behind her mission of helping women rise into the most confident version of themselves. From her earliest days, fashion wasn’t just clothing,it was her lifeline....
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Growth doesn't happen in our safe zone: What Charlie Kirk got right.
Comfort feels safe, but it’s quietly dividing us. When we refuse to get uncomfortable, when we won’t sit down across from one another and have honest conversations, we lose the chance to really hear, understand, and grow together. Instead, we cling to the sound bites, highlight reels, and media...
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Who Am I Now? Rediscovering Yourself After the Nest Empties
There comes a moment when the noise quiets down. The house feels different, the roles you’ve held for years start to shift, and you find yourself looking in the mirror wondering… Who am I now? In today’s episode, I’m opening up about that tender season of life where the busyness fades and what’s...
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Building Unshakable Trust in Yourself with Sarah Fui
I had a pleasure of sitting down with Sarah Fui, Sarah is a licensed trauma therapist transitioned to life and business coach. She helps multi passionate entrepreneurs and creatives gain clarity, trust their intuition and overcome self-sabotaging patterns so that they can step into their calling....
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Couch Talk with Chad & Jessie: Celebrating 30 years married!
Happy 30th Wedding Anniversary to us! 🎉💍 Thirty years… wow. What a ride it’s been! In today’s special episode, Chad and I sat down to look back on three decades of love, growth, and everything in between. From those nervous first dates to walking down the aisle, from the silly little pet peeves...
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Redefining Divorce: How Gina Yaklich Nichols is Helping Women Rise with Dignity
Today on The Growth Lounge, I’m joined by the incredible Gina Nichols — certified life coach, dynamic speaker, and founder of Divorce: Redefined. After walking through the heartbreak of four divorces, raising a blended family (including four kids under five and an unexpected set of twins), and…
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Behind the scenes with Jordan Reynolds | Multiple 6 figure earner by age 30
Grab your favorite mocktail - I am sipping my protein shake - and settle in for this behind the scenes interview with one of my favorite humans, Jordan Reynolds. From selling erasers for .25 in the 5th grade to building 2 six figure businesses by the age of 30, we talk about it all! Jordan gets...
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T is for Take Your Seat – You Belong in the Room
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6 of The Growth Lounge! Today we’re wrapping up the L.I.G.H.T. Method — the framework that’s been guiding us through healing, clarity, and coming home to who we truly are. This final step? It’s the one so many of us resist. It’s bold. It’s vulnerable. And it’s...
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H is for Harness Growth – Why You’re Not Meant to Do This Alone
“Sometimes the only thing standing between where you are and where God is calling you… is the ceiling you didn’t realize you built.” ~ Voice Unbound Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5 of The Growth Lounge! We’re continuing our journey through the L.I.G.H.T. Method — a soul-led framework I created for...
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G is for Get Quiet – Stillness Is Where the Breakthrough Begins
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 4 of The Growth Lounge! We’re continuing our journey through the L.I.G.H.T. Method — a personal framework I created to help women peel back the layers, reconnect with themselves, and rise into who they were always meant to be. Today, we’re exploring the third step: G…
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I is for Immerse – The Sacred Messy Middle
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 3 of The Growth Lounge! We’re continuing with something deeply personal — a framework born out of my own healing, my own breakdowns, and my own breakthroughs. This week, we dive into the second step of The L.I.G.H.T. Method — a process I created to help women peel…
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L is for Lid Off – What Have You Been Carrying?
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 2 of The Growth Lounge! We’re continuing with something deeply personal — a framework born out of my own healing, my own breakdowns, and my own breakthroughs. In this episode, I’m introducing the first step of The L.I.G.H.T. Method — a process I created to help women...
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Crack Cocaine: Did she just say that?
Welcome to season two friends! Today I kick off the season with my story. A deeper dive into why I created the growth lounge and why my heart is so tender toward turning the soul light on for people. Have you ever walked through darkness, praying to find a way out? Me too friend and what I want…
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Fear is a Liar: And how to silence it
In this episode of The Growth Lounge, I get real about a recent experience that almost stopped me from attending an event that reignited my purpose—and how fear nearly won. We will dig in to the science behind fear, the way our brains are wired to keep us safe (not fulfilled), and how you can lay...
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From Rock Bottom to Radiant: Monica Connolly on Healing, Purpose & the THRIVE Blueprint
In today’s episode, I sit down with the radiant Monica Connolly—Certified Holistic Life & Mindset Coach, speaker, and host of the Unshakeable Belief podcast. Monica shares her incredible story of resilience, healing, and rebirth after hitting rock bottom while caring for her medically fragile...
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Your Circle is Your Mirror: Why Who You Spend Time With Shapes Everything
In this powerful episode of The Growth Lounge, Jessica Phillips unpacks the truth behind one of the most life-altering concepts in personal growth: your circle of influence. If you’ve ever felt stuck, stagnant, or like you’re outgrowing the people around you—this conversation is your sign.…
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Love, Grief, and Growth: A Journey of Transformation with Laura Tanner Ard
In this powerful episode of The Growth Lounge, I’m joined by Laura Tanner Ard, the incredible woman who helped me launch my podcast. We dive deep into her personal journey of love, loss, and resilience. Laura is a Christian Life Coach, podcast host, and speaker who helps women reclaim their...
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Small Steps to Reclaiming Your Time
In today’s episode, we’re diving into simple, practical ways to start putting yourself back on the to-do list. If you’ve spent years putting others first, it’s time to rewire that pattern—literally! I’ll share how small, consistent self-care habits create new neural pathways, how an 18-minute…
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Unlocking Belief and Becoming Uncontained with Laurie Matson
In this empowering episode, Jessica sits down with Laurie—speaker, healer, and certified POUND Unplugged instructor—whose mission is to help women break free from limiting beliefs and step fully into their power. Laurie shares how her personal growth journey led her to the realization that...
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Time Blocking: The Life Hack That Actually Works
Ever feel like your day is running you instead of the other way around? In this special episode, we’re diving into one of my favorite tools for reclaiming your peace, your focus, and your priorities—time blocking. Whether you're juggling business, family, healing, or all three, this simple…
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Legacy over limits: One women's mission to create massive impact, one life at a time.
In this powerful episode of The Growth Lounge, I sit down with Corree Roofener , who is so much more than her titles. She’s a financial advisor coach, foster mom, nonprofit founder, and a heart-led leader who is challenging the way we think about money, purpose, and impact. We talk about what it...
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Bridging the Gap: Advocacy, Fear, and Finding Your Next Chapter with Stacey Porritt
In this inspiring episode, I sit down with Stacey—a former special education teacher of 28 years who left the classroom to follow a calling she couldn’t ignore. After attending a personal growth conference she couldn’t technically afford, Stacey returned home with a bold decision: she was going…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What if the life you built looks fine on the outside… but doesn’t feel aligned on the inside?The Growth Lounge is where women who are ready for more come to tell the truth. About their faith. Their marriage. Their health. Their identity. The quiet ache of knowing they’ve outgrown old patterns but aren’t sure how to move forward.Hosted by Jessica Phillips, 180 Legacy Coach and speaker, this podcast explores what it really takes to break generational cycles, reconnect with God, and create lasting change from the inside out. Through honest conversations and practical insight, you’ll learn how to stop managing symptoms and start healing at the root.If you’re done circling the same mountain and ready to rise rooted, clear, and confident in who you were created to be, you’re in the right place.
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What if the life you built looks fine on the outside… but doesn’t feel aligned on the inside?The Growth Lounge is where women who are ready for more come to tell the truth. About their faith. Their marriage. Their health. Their identity. The quiet ache of knowing they’ve outgrown old patterns but...
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