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The Un-Perfected Pod
by Brooke Jean
Are you a high-achieving, busy AF, perfectionistic working mama on the brink of burnout? Feeling lost, unfulfilled and like no matter what you do, it'll never be enough?You are in the right place, mama. Welcome to the unperfected pod where you'll be inspired to embrace your messy, shed the shoulds, and find freedom through a life unperfected.Brooke Jean is a Therapist, Recovering Perfectionist and fellow struggling working Mom on a mission to normalize normal. Following her own mid-life, shall we say awakening, she was thrust into a goosebump-worthy healing journey and life transformation . Using a blend of real life, sometimes hilarious story telling combined with her mental health expertise, she'll teach you how to have BOTH a thriving family life and a purposeful career while gaining several hours back in your day for YOU and what lights you up!In solo episodes and interviews with other bad ass mamas and supporting professionals, you'll get a front row to our shit shows
Episodes
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Out of Your Head, Into Your Heart: Remembering Your Soul's Truth with Rose Mukherjee
You did everything right. The career. The kids. The calendar color-coded within an inch of its life. So why does it feel like you're living someone else's life, narrated by a brain that will not shut up? This week I'm sitting down with Rose Mukherjee, and I'm just going to say it: I believe she…
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What Is Somatic Work? Why Your Body Holds What Your Brain Can't Fix
You've been living from the chin up. Thinking, planning, analyzing, figuring it out. Your thinking brain is a tiny slice of your operating system, though. The rest lives in your body, your subconscious, and your energy field. If you've spent decades ignoring that part, it's holding a lot. In this...
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I Almost Didn't Get On That Plane
She was three days into a family crisis, dependent on a "wellness" supplement she didn't know was wrecking her health, and bedridden with what she thought was the flu — and she still had to get on a plane to San Diego for her mastermind retreat. What happened over the next seven days broke her…
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You're Not Crazy, the System Is: On Lindsay Clancy, Motherhood & Mental Health
Today Brooke's wearing pink. Not for a headline, for a reason. This episode is Brooke's unfiltered take on the Lindsay Clancy case and what it's unlocking in women everywhere: a collective gut-check that something is deeply broken in how our healthcare, mental health, and hormonal systems treat...
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Perimenopause Brain Fog, Anxiety & Rage: My Real Mental Health Update at 45
Perimenopause Brain Fog, Anxiety & Rage: My Real Mental Health Update at 45 She used to be the sharp one. Quick with words, organized, the friend who always had her shit together. Then perimenopause showed up and took the instruction manual for her own brain and lit it on fire. In this episode...
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Not Awakened: Why Owning Your Brokenness Is the Only Thing That Actually Works
What if the thing you've been trying to fix about yourself is actually the whole point? Brooke sits down with Brand Architect, Writer and fellow truth-teller Michelle Garside, the woman who helped birth the Unperfected brand, for a conversation that is equal parts gut-punch and liberation....
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She Turned Her Divorce Into Medicine: Dance, the Body, and the Art of Coming Alive with Brooke Yantzi
You know that feeling of being stuck in your head, running through the to-do list while your body is just... along for the ride? Like your life is happening at you instead of through you? That's what this episode is cracking open. Brooke Jean sits down with Brooke Yantzi, founder of Dance…
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You Were Never a Rule Breaker. You Were Just Ahead of Your Time
If you've spent your whole life not quite fitting the box, bumping up against the edges, wanting to bring more of yourself to your work but feeling like you weren't supposed to — this episode is going to land hard. In a good way. Brooke recorded this episode straight from a real conversation that...
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When the Universe Rips Off the Band-Aid: Divorce, the Dark Night of the Soul, and Finding Your Way Back
When the Universe Rips Off the Band-Aid: Divorce, the Dark Night of the Soul, and Finding Your Way Back What happens when everything falls apart at the same time? Your job. Your house. Your marriage. Your whole idea of who you were supposed to be. In this episode, I sit down with my friend Olivia...
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The Opposite of Depression Is Expression: Why Your Body Is Begging You to Stop Playing Small
You survived May. Barely. And now you're back with something real. In this solo episode, Brooke gets honest about the funk she's been navigating and the lightning-bolt moment that cracked her wide open. What came through wasn't just inspiration. It was a truth she's been sitting with for years…
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The 4-Step Method I Used to Attract Major Opportunities While I Was Still a Mess
What if you didn't have to have your life together to start attracting the things you actually want? This week, Brooke gets real. Like, rash-on-her-body, stye-taking-out-half-her-face, fingers-cracking-open, pulling-herself-out-of-a-depressive-rut real. And somehow, in the middle of all of that,...
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5 Ways Therapists Can Find Their Voice, Fill Their Practice, and Make More Money
The old school therapist archetype? It's stale. The stiff posture, the only-nodding, the "tell me how that makes you feel" energy? We are so far past that, and if you're listening to this, you already know it. Brooke Jean is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a 10-year private pay practice…
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What Justin Bieber's Coachella Comeback Actually Taught Me About Healing (And Why I Cried)
Okay, I know what you're thinking. "Brooke... a Justin Bieber episode?" Hear me out. Because when I sat with my coffee rewatching Coachella clips and felt something move through me at a bone level, I knew this was worth unpacking. And as a psychotherapist who studies human behavior for a living?...
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Stop Thinking About Your Feelings: How to Actually Process Emotions in the Body
You've been trying to think your way out of your feelings your whole life. And it's not working. Here's why. In this episode, Brooke gets back to basics with one of the most important concepts she teaches, and it's blowing her clients' minds: feelings aren't thoughts. They're physical sensations...
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4 Things Every Mom Needs to Hear Before Her Kid Graduates High School
You're crying out of nowhere. You're questioning every decision you ever made as a mom. You're running 472 errands to avoid sitting in the grief. And somehow, you're also the proudest you've ever been in your entire life. Welcome to graduation season, mama. This one's for you. In this episode,...
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I've Hit My Threshold: 5 Things I'm Done Pretending to Care About
You ever have a thought that you KNOW everyone around you is having, but nobody will just say it out loud? Yeah. This episode is that. Brooke is back on her bullshit in the best possible way, calling out five things that are perpetually dry humping her last nerve right now. From wellness culture...
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Bonus Episode: Your Fear of Being Seen Isn't a Flaw. It's a Part.
That big scary thing you know you need to do? The pitch. The post. The ask. The conversation you keep putting off? You're not lazy. You're not broken. You're not "just not ready." You're protected. In this bonus episode, Brooke Jean breaks down the fear of visibility through the lens of IFS...
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Who's Running Your Life Right Now? Parts Work, Nervous System Regulation, and the World on Fire with Meghan Olson, LCSW
You've adapted to the chaos. The panic has settled. And somehow, almost without noticing, you've snapped right back to impossible standards, a packed schedule, and that familiar grind that runs you into the ground. But here's the real question: is that resilience? Or is that your armor back on?…
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You're Triggered for a Reason: The Neuroscience Behind It and the Body-Based Work That Finally Frees You
You've done the work. You've talked about it. You've journaled. You've cried in your car. And yet something still gets activated. Your chest tightens when your boss uses that tone. You blow up at your kids over something small. You wake up at 3am for no reason. This isn't weakness. This is...
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The Inner Child Work That's Secretly Blocking Your Leadership
You're doing all the things — the business, the kids, the aging parents, the partner — and yet. There's this invisible wall you keep hitting every time you try to advocate for yourself, set a boundary, or push toward your bigger vision. It doesn't feel like a strategy problem. And it's not. In…
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3 Years, a Triggered World, and the 4-Step Process to Actually Be Okay Right Now
Three years. 148 episodes. And this one might be the most necessary yet. In this special anniversary episode, Brooke Jean gets real about what's actually happening inside our bodies and minds right now, because if you've been waking up at 2am, feeling rage you can't explain, or walking around…
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Fake Happy Is Making You Sick: Why Your Inflammation Might Be Suppressed Resentment
You know that tightness in your chest when you even think about doing something just for you? That voice whispering "selfish" every time you consider putting yourself first? That's not intuition. That's conditioning. In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on why so many high-achieving…
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Somatic Work Is Your Secret Weapon: Why 95% of Your Success Lives in Your Body, Not Your Brain
You're overthinking your way through life—planning, strategizing, comparing, trying to logic your way to success. But here's the truth bomb: your thinking brain is only 0.5-5% of your operating system. The other 95%? That's your subconscious. Your body. Your emotions. Your energy field. Your...
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Why New Year's Resolutions Keep You Stuck (And What Actually Works Instead)
Welcome back to 2026! 🎉 And welcome to 10 YEARS of Brooke Jean doing this wild, messy, beautiful work in the world. In this first episode of the year, I'm breaking down exactly why I stopped doing New Year's resolutions years ago and what I do instead that actually creates lasting change…
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Your Anger Isn't the Problem—Your Silence Is
What if the anger you've been ashamed of your entire life is actually the most powerful force you possess? In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on something we desperately need to talk about: a woman's sacred rage. Not the reckless, destructive kind—but the harnessed, metabolized,...
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December Survival Guide: 6 Ways to Keep Your Sanity This Holiday Season
Feeling the holiday squeeze already? That mounting pressure between Thanksgiving and Christmas where you're supposed to be making magic while simultaneously hitting year-end goals, hosting parties, buying presents, and somehow maintaining your sanity? Yeah. I see you. In this episode, I'm…
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5 Lessons from Women & Wealth That Changed How I Do Business
What happens when you stop chasing perfect strategy and start prioritizing your energy? Everything shifts. Fresh off celebrating my 45th birthday at Sam Skelly's Women & Wealth Conference in San Diego, I'm sharing the five transformative lessons that are already reshaping how I show up in…
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The Framework That Turned My Suffering Into My Superpower
I had it all on paper. The corporate leadership role. The house. The family. The 401k. All the boxes checked. And I was absolutely miserable. Not just "stressed" or "tired"—I'm talking about that bone-deep emptiness that makes you wonder if this is all there is. The kind of suffering you hide...
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Stop Trying to Control Everything: Meet the Arising as It Arises
What if instead of getting to the bottom of your suffering, you just learned to meet it as it shows up? That tight chest at 3am. The self-diagnosis spiral. The flat mood that makes you question everything about your business, your marriage, your capacity. Here's what I've learned after two…
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F*ck the Hustle: How to Cycle Sync your Business with Renae Fieck
Still hustling 24/7 and wondering why you're burnt out, exhausted, and barely keeping up? There's a reason for that—and it has everything to do with ignoring the most powerful business strategy hiding in plain sight: your menstrual cycle. In this episode, I sit down with Renae Fieck, author of...
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Stop Reacting, Start Leading: How to Connect to Your Truth When the World Feels Like It's on Fire
THE BOTTOM LINE (TL;DR) When the world feels divided, chaotic, and overwhelming, the first step isn't external action—it's going inward. Before we can lead, heal, or create meaningful change, we need to connect to the divinity within (aka: our truth, our heart, our alignment). This episode gives...
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From Burnout to Balance: How She Cut 70 Hours Without Losing Income
THE WAKE-UP CALL Leah Remillet was working 90-110 hours a week, barely sleeping, and "crushing it" by every external measure—until she collapsed at the zoo and woke up on a stretcher, locking eyes with her terrified four-year-old. That moment became her line in the sand: Fix this or walk away.…
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Anxiety, Division & The Pressure Cooker: How Empaths Can Rise Above the Chaos
The energy in the world is f*cking intense right now—and if you're an empath or highly sensitive person, you're feeling it in your body. The anxiety. The exhaustion. The pressure to choose a side when your heart knows the answer is way bigger than Democrat or Republican, religious or…
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Stepmom Confessions: Why I Wanted to Scream at Sunday Morning French Toast
Feeling like an outsider in your own home? You're not alone. In this raw stepmom confessions episode, licensed therapist and blended family coach Alex Harrison gets brutally honest about the stepparent struggle that nobody talks about. From Sunday morning French toast meltdowns to feeling…
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Don't Wait Till Your Mother Is Dead: A 61-Year-Old's Raw Truth About Self-Abandonment & Liberation
Cancer survivor and #1 Amazon bestselling author Vera Knight shares her raw truth about the quiet self-abandonment that's poisoning women's lives and relationships. After a spiritual awakening on her bathroom floor following radiation treatment, Vera completely transformed her life at 61—firing…
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Perfectionism Drives Lawyers Into Burnout
After 20 years as a divorce attorney, Wendy Meadows discovered that the same perfectionism driving her professional success was also destroying her from the inside out. In this revealing conversation, Wendy unpacks how the legal profession attracts and rewards perfectionist tendencies—and why...
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How to Function with Depression while Building a Beautiful Life
Where are my mental health warriors? This one's for you, beautiful humans who fight battles nobody sees while still showing up for everything and everyone that matters. As a licensed therapist who personally walks with depression and anxiety, I'm getting real about what mental health actually…
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The Grief Behind Graduation: What Moms Really Go Through
The grief behind graduation is real, and it's hitting moms harder than anyone admits. You've spent eighteen years pouring every ounce of your energy into raising a human, only to be left with silence, waves of pride, and a heartbreak you didn't see coming. The messy truth is that sending your kid...
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Freedom Begins With Feeling and Why Emotional Release Unlocks Your Next Level
Suppressing emotions isn't strength — it's sabotage. The real key to freedom, clarity, and power begins when you actually feel. In this raw conversation, Brooke Jean sits down with Michelle Rose, founder of Rosessence Branding House, to unpack how emotional release unlocks your next level in…
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Why 'Good Mom' is the Most Dangerous Label We Wear
The "good mom" label is a trap — one that ties our worth to our children's behavior and leaves both mother and child crushed under the weight of impossible expectations. In this powerful conversation, certified transformational life coach, hypnotherapy practitioner, and former early childhood...
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Who Told You That? Dismantling the Lies That Pulled You Away From Your Power, Joy, and Truth
What if the rules you've been living by — the ones about being a "good woman," "good mom," or "successful leader" — weren't actually yours? In this fiery episode, Brooke exposes the exact moment women start disconnecting from their truth… and why perfectionism, people-pleasing, and fear of…
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You Keep Chasing Enough, But It's A Moving Target
You've done all the things. The career, the house, the kids, the latte budget, the color-coded calendar. But deep down… you still feel behind, anxious, and like you're never quite measuring up. In this episode, I'm calling out the lie of "enough" — the internal pressure to be more, do more, and...
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The Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Wake-Up Call You've Been Avoiding
What if the anxiety, burnout, and constant overthinking aren't personal flaws, but divine signals that something in your life needs to shift? This episode is a raw, unfiltered invitation to finally stop spiraling and start listening to what your pressure is trying to tell you. Because it's not…
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Why Your Mind Won't Shut Up - And How To Find Peace Anyway
Your mind is not the enemy. It's a symptom. Of a dysregulated nervous system. Of high-functioning anxiety. Of perfectionism doing way too much for way too long. In this raw and revealing episode, Brooke breaks down what's really going on when your inner voice won't shut up — and how to regulate...
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Hard Times Birth Legends: Self -Leadership, or Self-Sabotage?
Feeling like life is coming at you hard and fast? Like you're one moment away from breaking? You're not broken — you're being initiated. This is your invitation to rise, to regulate, and to reclaim your power. Brooke walks you through how to stop sabotaging and start stepping into your legendary...
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Love is the Revolution: Reclaiming Your True Nature Beyond Religion, Fear, and Performance
This episode is for the woman who's waking up—and remembering that the truth isn't found in a structure, label, or rulebook… it's found in love. Aaron Horton joins Brooke to share her powerful story of walking away from religious dogma to embody love as her truest nature. From pastoring in...
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You're Not Lazy—You're Self-Sabotaging: How Your Brain Protects You from Your Own Dreams
That cycle of procrastinating right before a big move? The sudden spiral into self-doubt? The way you ghost your own momentum the second things start going well? That's not laziness. That's self-protection disguised as sabotage. Here's the truth nobody talks about: your brain is hardwired to keep...
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When Your Trauma Response Becomes Your Leadership Style (The Hidden Cost)
That urgent energy behind every decision? The need to control every detail? The tension in the room the second you speak? That's not leadership. That's your trauma response running the show—and it's costing you everything. In this episode, we unpack the hidden ways trauma shows up in leadership…
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Perfection is Poison (And it's Literally Making You Sick)
Let's talk about the thing so many ambitious women secretly struggle with but rarely say out loud: perfectionism is making you sick—mentally, emotionally, and even physically. In this powerful solo episode, I'm pulling the curtain back on why perfectionism isn't just exhausting...it's toxic.…
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Faith Kills Fear: Why Your Perfectionism is Actually Rebellion Against Divine Design
What if your perfectionism isn't about being your best — but about fearing you're not enough? In this raw and soul-deep conversation with Aneta Ardelian Kuzma, we unpack the possibility that perfectionism isn't just a mental loop — it's spiritual rebellion. Aneta shares the divine download that…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Are you a high-achieving, busy AF, perfectionistic working mama on the brink of burnout? Feeling lost, unfulfilled and like no matter what you do, it'll never be enough?You are in the right place, mama. Welcome to the unperfected pod where you'll be inspired to embrace your messy, shed the shoulds, and find freedom through a life unperfected.Brooke Jean is a Therapist, Recovering Perfectionist and fellow struggling working Mom on a mission to normalize normal. Following her own mid-life, shall we say awakening, she was thrust into a goosebump-worthy healing journey and life transformation . Using a blend of real life, sometimes hilarious story telling combined with her mental health expertise, she'll teach you how to have BOTH a thriving family life and a purposeful career while gaining several hours back in your day for YOU and what lights you up!In solo episodes and interviews with other bad ass mamas and supporting professionals, you'll get a front row to our shit shows
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Are you a high-achieving, busy AF, perfectionistic working mama on the brink of burnout? Feeling lost, unfulfilled and like no matter what you do, it'll never be enough?You are in the right place, mama. Welcome to the unperfected pod where you'll be inspired to embrace your messy, shed the shoulds,...
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