The Widening Your Aperture Podcast
by Widen the aperture on YOUR life.
To guide, inspire, facilitate and support each unique individual on their journey to self-actualization by optimizing their personal and professional potential through 1:1 coaching, online education, community, and a connection with nature. kristenhenry928.substack.com
Episodes
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The Capstone: Identity Reclamation in Progress | Identity Series (Ep. 7)
Send us Fan Mail Intellectualizing your adaptations changes nothing in your cellular reality. You can diagnose your patterns and analyze your trauma with surgical precision, but until your autonomic nervous system registers safety, the body will continue executing the defensive algorithms that…
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Reclaiming the Narrative: How Intrinsic Agency Survives Bad Actors, Neuroplasticity + Unresolved Conflict | Identity Reclamation (Ep 6)
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever found yourself staring at the ceiling at 2:00 AM, replaying conversations from days ago, combing through old receipts and timestamps, or drafting the "perfect" multi-paragraph text just to prove basic reality to someone who refuses to see it? Pop psychology labels...
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Identity Reclamation Part V: How 1% Micro Choice-Points and Guiding Foundations Overcome Safety Behaviors
Send us Fan Mail Why do massive, wholesale personal overhauls collapse after just a few days? In this episode of The Widening Your Aperture podcast we explore the behavioral psychology of identity reclamation and nervous system expansion. Learn why relying on depleting willpower keeps you trapped...
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How to Step Into Your Power & Stop People-Pleasing | Identity Series (Ep. 4)
Send us Fan Mail How do you stop people-pleasing and reclaim your personal sovereignty? Learn how to step into your power in Part 4 of our Identity Series! In this episode of The Widening Your Aperture Podcast, we dive deep into Part 4 (Article IV) of our Identity Reclamation Series. We explore...
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Unhooking from Over-Functioning, Therapized Stonewalling + Real Repair | Identity Reclamation (Ep.3)
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary: In Part 3 of the Identity Reclamation Series, Kristen Henry breaks down the hidden mechanics of over-functioning—why high achievers default to solving everyone else's problems at the expense of their own peace, and how to execute Step 2 of the operational…
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The Identity Audit: How to Stop Over-Functioning & Break Bad Habits | Identity Reclamation (Ep 2)
Send us Fan Mail You cannot change a pattern you cannot clearly see. If you are burned out from playing the 'human shock absorber' in your relationships, this episode walks you through a low-shame Identity Audit to consciously interrupt the default behaviors draining your energy. Today, we are...
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Nervous System Regulation & Survival Adaptations | Identity Reclamation (Ep 1)
Send us Fan Mail Are you exhausted from managing everyone else's emotions and operating through a hyper-vigilant lens? When we exist in emotionally unsafe or high-control environments, our nervous system contracts to protect us. Today, we dismantle the shame around these protective survival...
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How to Get Closure When a Toxic Partner Won't Apologize (Part 4)
Send us Fan Mail What does it actually look like to step out of toxic relational loops and create your own closure? In this final episode of our case study series, we arrive at the threshold of radical finality—shifting from waiting for unearned accountability to taking sovereign ownership of…
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Passive-Aggressive Manipulation & Avoiding Accountability in Relationships (Part 3)
Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ What happens when direct conflict becomes too threatening to an unsafe partner’s ego? Communication moves entirely underground. We unpack the covert, passive-aggressive ways an avoidant or volatile partner maintains relational leverage, enforces compliance, and dodges...
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Why Toxic Partners Escalate When You Set Boundaries: DARVO & Deflection (Part 2)
Send us Fan Mail What actually happens when you ask a partner to move from theoretical safety into real-world accountability? When an unsafe partner’s self-constructed narrative meets the reality of firm boundaries, the mask doesn't just slip—it escalates. In Part 2 of this case study series, we...
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Gaslighting & Love Bombing: When Real Life Meets a Digital Fantasy (Part 1)
Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ When a relationship relies on high-speed text declarations and grand future promises behind a screen, what happens when real life actually shows up? Today, we break down a personal case study of covert manipulation, performative intimacy, and the psychological shift known as...
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You Are Enough Guided Meditation
Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview: "You Are Enough" Guided Meditation In this gentle guided meditation, I lead you through a grounding somatic and self-discovery exercise designed to explore how your nervous system responds to a powerful truth: Who you are is enough. Whether you are listening to...
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#43 Wide Open Aperture - Listener AMA's answered
Send us Fan Mail Hey guys welcome back to another episode of Wide Open Aperture. This episode is dedicated to answering all of the AMA questions that have come in. First, Brian and I want to thank everyone that took the time to send in a question, we loved answering them, so keep them coming!…
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#42 Elaine Rodriguez, Rachel Kuhlen, Susan Sotnick - 'Our Kabbalah Experience: A Journey to Spiritual Growth' (Spiritual Pillar)
Send us Fan Mail Today I am sharing with you a collaborative conversation with my friends Rachel Kuhlen, Susan Sotnick and Elaine Rodriguez as we share our experiences and learnings from studying and practicing Kabbalah. In season 1 I was fortunate to have Kabbalistic Astrologer Danielle Yardeni…
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#41 Liz Pavese - 'The Human Experience at Work' (Occupational Pillar)
Send us Fan Mail Liz is a Director of Behavioral Science at Coachhub, where she marries her expertise in organizational psychology, employee experience, and organizational development to close the gap between coaching research and practice. Liz has 15 years of experience working with world-class...
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#40 Wide Open Aperture - The Loneliness Epidemic, Meaningful Connections, Supercommunicators, Integrity/Justice/Fairness
Send us Fan Mail Hey guys welcome back to a special episode of Wide Open Aperture. We had originally planned to talk about the lonliness epidemic in episode 1, but if you have listened to the previous episodes of WOA you know that we tend to be a wee bit long winded. So Brian and I decided to do…
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#39 Scott Nelson - 'The Art of Balancing Life's Memories and Financial Goals' (Financial Pillar)
Send us Fan Mail My Story Hi, I’m Scott and I’m the founder of Thrive Wealth Strategies, a fee only financial planning practice dedicated to helping you reach your financial goals so you and your family can enjoy a happy, comfortable life. Here’s a little bit of my story, why I started this site,...
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#38 Wide Open Aperture: Consistency, Humor and Levity, Collections, Dog Cuisine, Turning 50, AI in Healthcare and More!
Send us Fan Mail Hey guys welcome back to another episode of Wide Open Aperture. This episode is dedicated to answering all of the AMA questions that have come in. First, Brian and I want to thank everyone that took the time to send in a question, we loved answering them, so keep them coming!…
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#37 Kathi Kulesza - 'Mastering Conflict Resolution' (Social Pillar)
Send us Fan Mail Kathi Kulesza uses her experience in the hospitality industry where she spent three decades in management, training, customer service, loyalty, marketing, and executive leadership, to inspire her clients and audiences to get out of their own way and lead with assertive…
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#36 Rachel Kuhlen 'Amplify Your Impact: Emotional Intelligence | Part 4/4: Empathy + Social Skills'
Send us Fan Mail Bio: Rachel has 17+ years of experience leading, developing, and coaching global teams in Fortune 500 companies. Her expertise is in learning and development, where she has designed, developed, and launched multiple billion-dollar brands and trained teams who have negotiated...
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#35 Rachel Kuhlen 'Amplify Your Impact: Emotional Intelligence | Part 3/4: Motivation)
Send us Fan Mail Bio: Rachel has 17+ years of experience leading, developing, and coaching global teams in Fortune 500 companies. Her expertise is in learning and development, where she has designed, developed, and launched multiple billion-dollar brands and trained teams who have negotiated...
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#34 Wide Open Aperture - 'Sobriety, New Years Resolutions, New Year New Me, AMA, Yung Pueblo's 'The Way Forward'
Send us Fan Mail 📩 Connect & Support Join the Substack Community: Widening Your Aperture Substack Explore Our Resource Roadmap: https://www.wideningyouraperture.com/resources Watch Video Episodes on YouTube: The Widening Your Aperture Podcast Email the Show: [email protected]…
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#33 Rachel Kuhlen 'Amplify Your Impact: Emotional Intelligence | Part 2/4: Self-Regulation'
Send us Fan Mail Bio: Rachel has 17+ years of experience leading, developing, and coaching global teams in Fortune 500 companies. Her expertise is in learning and development, where she has designed, developed, and launched multiple billion-dollar brands and trained teams who have negotiated...
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#32 SOLO - 'The 4 Big energy Blocks That are Holding You Back'
Send us Fan Mail Hi friends, welcome to this weeks solo episode! In today’s episode, I am going to share the four big energy blocks that commonly hold us back from exploring possibilities, taking action and achieving success. The four energy blocks are rooted in our past experiences. They are:...
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#31 Rachel Kuhlen - 'Amplify Your Impact: Emotional Intelligence | Part 1/4: Self-Awareness'
Send us Fan Mail Bio: Rachel has 17+ years of experience leading, developing, and coaching global teams in Fortune 500 companies. Her expertise is in learning and development, where she has designed, developed, and launched multiple billion-dollar brands and trained teams who have negotiated...
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#30 SOLO - 'A Complete Guide on Conducting a Personal Yearly Review'
Send us Fan Mail Hi friends, welcome to this week’s solo episode. Another year has come and gone. Hard to believe, right?! While it may seem arbitrary, the end of the calendar year presents us with an opportunity to reflect on the past year and plan for the year ahead. It can be easy to forego…
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#29 Anne Bonney - 'Ignite Your Shift: Building Resilience in the Fires of Change' (Intellectual Pillar)
Send us Fan Mail ANNE BONNEY LONG BIO (@200 WORDS) Anne Bonney, CSP® is a fun, energetic international motivational keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. She is also an authority on Change Management, author of 2 books on embracing the discomforts of change, podcast host of Dancing in the...
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#28 SOLO - 'How to Create Change in your Life Using Visioning and the AIM SMART Process'
Send us Fan Mail Hey friends, welcome to this week’s solo episode! In today’s episode I am going to share how to make lasting, sustainable changes in your life by creating a clear vision and then setting AIM SMART goals . In previous episodes, you defined your core values and identified the areas...
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#27 Jon Passaro - 'Forget About Passion: Micro-Engineer Your Job to Realign it With Your Values' (Occupational Pillar)
Send us Fan Mail Jon Passaro is an executive and team coach based in Paris, France. He developed his no-nonsense approach to coaching with a lawyer's sensibilities in mind, based on the decade he spent working as a lawyer in top-ranked international firms and on the in-house legal team at the...
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#26 Welcome to Wide Open Aperture
Send us Fan Mail Hey guys this is Kristen and I want to welcome you to the first episode of a new format I am adding to the Widening Your Aperture Podcast. It’s called Wide Open Aperture and I’ve enlisted my brother Brian to co-host. I anticipate this will be an ongoing monthly series where we…
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#25 Dr. Divya Joshi, MD, MMM - 'An Immersive, Expansive, Comprehensive, and Introspective Look at the Physical Pillar of Holistic Wellbeing' (Physical Pillar)
Send us Fan Mail Dr Divya Joshi, MD MMM is a pediatric oncologist/hematologist with 10 years of clinical experience in academic health systems and 12 years of healthcare leadership. Having graduated in 1994 from the Medical School at the University of Vienna in Austria, she proceeded with...
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#24 SOLO - 'What it Means to "Meet Yourself Where You Are" + How To Do it'
Send us Fan Mail Hey friends, welcome to this week’s solo episode! In today’s episode I am going to share what it means to meet yourself where you are and how to accomplish this. This weeks episode is a bit shorter because it will directly tie in to next weeks episode and I wanted to make each...
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#23 RD Weeks - 'The Journey Becomes More FUN When We Share The Experience With Others: A Conversation on the Power of Community' (Social Pillar)
Send us Fan Mail Bio RD Weeks believes in a fun-filled life fueled through authenticity. He is on a mission to inspire and support others to share their authenticity to the world. At his first networking event after College, RD didn’t have the courage to share his authenticity by speaking with...
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#22 SOLO - All About Core Values
Send us Fan Mail Hey friends, welcome to this week’s solo episode! Today I am going to be speaking about core values. I have found in with working with my clients that identifying and defining your core values is really the foundational first step in cultivating holistic well-being because they…
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#21 Sheryl Green - ''Bubble Baths Won't Save You: Boundaries as Self-Care' (Emotional Pillar)
Send us Fan Mail “Yes. Of course. I’d be happy to. It’s no problem at all.” Sheryl Green has taken “people-pleasing” to Olympic levels. For decades, she put everyone else’s needs above her own… until she hit a metaphorical brick wall. After committing to one-too-many responsibilities, Sheryl...
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#20 Season 2 Intro
Send us Fan Mail Hello friends and welcome back for season two of The Widening Your Aperture Podcast! There’s been a bit of a gap since the ending of season one and I wanted to use this intro episode to share the changes I have made to the format as well as share a little bit about what’s in…
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#19 Biju Kewalram 'I Want to Be Known as a Life-Long Learner'
Send us Fan Mail Biju Kewalram has 30+ years of C-level and management board experience. He has been CIO, COO, CEO, Chief Digital Officer and Chief Transformation Officer in organizations ranging from start-ups with 20 people to global multi-nationals in the logistics industry with almost 20,000...
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#18 Kristen Henry 'Jack of All Trades, Master of None'
Send us Fan Mail Kristen Henry is a Certified Professional Midlife Transitions and Holistic Wellbeing Coach and host of The Widening Your Aperture Podcast. After experiencing several major midlife transitions simultaneously, she made the decision to leave her 14-year career in healthcare to…
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#17 Lauryn Girgenti - 'Life Lessons From Kenny Rogers'
Send us Fan Mail Lauryn Girgenti did all the ‘right’ things, go to school, get good grades, get into university, get a degree (in her case she got two bachelor's and a master's), and land a corporate job. Registering as a Psychologist, she spent 10+ years building a corporate career as a Human...
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#16 Richelle Jessey - 'The Best Way to Learn: Fail Smart and Fail Fast'
Send us Fan Mail Richelle Jessey is a former HR/Training Development Manager turned Business and Mindset Coach for female coaches looking to scale their coaching business so they too can escape their 9-5 doing work they're passionate about! While in her previous 9-5 career, Richelle discovered…
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#15 Jana Day - 'The Only One Stopping Me...Is Me'
Send us Fan Mail Jana Day is Leadership Development and Career Coach and Consultant. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation, EQ-I, EQ360 and PQ Certified Coach. Jana's coaching practice developed from years of working with executive leadership…
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#14 Danielle Dvora Yardeni - 'Who is Going to Win...The Soul or The Ego'
Send us Fan Mail Danielle Dvora is a Kabbalistic Astro - Coach. Danielle served the IDF for 5 years, she became a squadron commander and managed over 1000 soldiers, commanders and officers. She has experience in managing large groups of people from all over the world. Danielle has worked with the...
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#13 Rachel Kuhlen - 'Manage Fear by Staying in the Present'
Send us Fan Mail Rachel has 17+ years of experience leading, developing, and coaching global teams in Fortune 500 companies. Her expertise is in learning and development, where she has designed, developed, and launched multiple billion-dollar brands and trained teams who have negotiated multiple...
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#12 Dana Rabara - 'Love on Your Little Inner Self'
Send us Fan Mail Dana Rabara is an empowerment coach for women. She encourages women to go after the life they want and to face their biggest fears/challenges head on. Her message: you don’t need to settle for where you are today and you are capable of creating the life you desire and aspire to....
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#11 Cecelia Burokas - 'Recognizing New Possibilities'
Send us Fan Mail Cecelia Burokas is a coach who is interested in how people use their work to live their visions for a more just world. Cecelia honed her professional coaching and consulting skills working in schools, corporations, government, and a global consulting firm. Burnt out at the age of...
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#10 Ashley Orlando - 'My Mission: Help 1 Million Women Find Their Voice'
Send us Fan Mail Ashley Orlando is more than a jazz vocalist, ukulele artist and charisma coach. She's a joyologist. A breath of fresh air. A charismatic leader and community builder who helps high-achieving women step into their voice (whether musical, spoken or creative), and move through...
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#9 Kath Grimmitt - 'Leaning Into the Unknown'
Send us Fan Mail Kath Grimmitt is an Intuitive Branding Magician for heart lead entrepreneurs. Through a more holistic approach to branding, Kath guides her clients through connection and visualisation to curate brands built on values, integrity and intuition. She believes in creating a brand...
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#8 Jon Passaro - 'Asking For Help is a Sign of Strength'
Send us Fan Mail Jon Passaro is an executive and team coach based in Paris, France. He developed his no-nonsense approach to coaching with a lawyer's sensibilities in mind, based on the decade he spent working as a lawyer in top-ranked international firms and on the in-house legal team at the...
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#7 Gemma Dadourian - 'Forgiveness is For YOU'
Send us Fan Mail 📩 Connect & Support Join the Substack Community: Widening Your Aperture Substack Explore Our Resource Roadmap: https://www.wideningyouraperture.com/resources Watch Video Episodes on YouTube: The Widening Your Aperture Podcast Email the Show: [email protected]…
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#6 Jeanne Rooney - 'Self-Care: It Really Has to Start With You'
Send us Fan Mail Jeanne is on a mission to show people what’s possible for themselves so they can create the lives they’re only dreaming about today. Working across several industries over 19 years, and as certified professional coach, she has seen too many people grow frustrated by not asking…
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