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Willing & Winning — 227 episodes

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My Summer of Reflection: Grief, Growth & Figuring Out My Next Chapter

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Healing Isn’t Linear (And That’s the Point)

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You’re Not Behind, You’re Distracted: Escaping Comparison & Finding Your Own Timeline

4

The Validation Trap: Breaking Free From External Validation & Self-Doubt

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Rebuilding, Finding Joy & The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

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Life Currently

7

The Performance of Identity

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Attachment Isn’t Love

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The Identity Audit: Who You Became vs. Who You Actually Are

10

The Loneliness Era: Why We Feel More Disconnected Than Ever

11

The Soft Life Myth (Peace, Privilege & the Performance of Escaping Life)

12

The Energy Economy (Protecting Your Peace Like Currency)

13

BONUS EP: 5 Minutes of Feral: Why It’s Okay to Have Unhinged Moments (A Reminder to Be Human)

14

Healing Without Becoming a Brand (Why Some Growth Should Stay Private)

15

Your Life Is Not Late: Why Timelines Are Fake & Reinvention Is Normal (Stop Feeling Behind)

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Life Updates: Career Growth, Hard Truths & Laughing Through the Fall

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The Courage to Be Misunderstood: Letting Go of People-Pleasing & Choosing Authenticity

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Your Next Chapter Requires a Different You (Identity Shift, Personal Growth & Self-Discipline)

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The Life Audit: When Your Old Life No Longer Fits (How to Realign, Pivot & Evolve)

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Returning to Yourself: How to Find Your Voice Again After Burnout & Life Transitions

21

Trusting the Unknown (Why Letting Go of Control Builds Inner Peace )

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Why Delayed Gratification Beats Instant Satisfaction

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2026 Ins & Outs: Life Updates, Holiday Reflections & Setting Intentions for the New Year

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HOLIDAY BONUS: Feeling Festive and Bright !

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EOY Life Updates and Motivation

26

Stop Waiting Until Day 1: Start Working Towards Your New Year Goals

27

Boundaries & Holiday Season Survival Guide

28

Birthday Recap & My Biggest Lesson This Year

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Life Lately: Breaking Habits, Building Balance, and Choosing Growth

30

Honoring Our Ancestors: Finding Ways to Love the Lost Daily

31

Owning Our Fears: What Scares Me and How I Deal With Fear

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Embracing Mysticism & Exploring the Spiritual Realms

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Dealing with the Monsters Inside Us: Navigating Mental Health

34

The Scary Truths of Entrepreneurship

35

Stop Chasing How Life Should Be: Learning to Master Acceptance and Embrace Reality

36

Taking Control of Change: Using Feng Shui to Reclaim Your Energy and Flow

37

Life Lately

38

You Don't Need to Major in Business to Build a Successful One: How to Build a Business from the Ground Up in the Modern Day

39

From the Closet to the Boardroom: How Coming Out & Embracing Your Authentic Self Can Emower Your Career Journey

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Queer People & Wellness: How to Maintain Mental Health Amidst Juggling Mulitple Roles

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Pride 365: Why Queerness Deserves to Be Celebrated Every Day, Not Just in June

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Queer and Confident: How to Build Self-Worth in a Culture That’s Always Telling Us We’re Not Enough

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Fast v Slow Fashion: The Shift We Need to be Talking About

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The Power of Saying No: Setting Boundaries in Business and Life

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Love Yourself First: Building the Relationship That Shapes All Others

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Wiser, Queerer, and Still Winning: Aging in a Culture That Worships Youth

47

My Gay Life in 2025

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I’m Building a Business to Help Save the Planet

49

Updates on My Vaping Addiction

50

How to Stop Feeling Stagnant

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My Experiences with Dating and My Current Relationship Status

52

The Awareness of Growing Up

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Living Life by Your Design

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Wasting v. Investing ,, Time & Money… It’s a Mindset

55

I Miss My Family

56

Owning My Mistakes

57

Dealing with My Vices

58

Focusing on Making Changes vs. The Actual Changes

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Life Updates & 2025 So Far…

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Lessons Learned in 2024

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Career Talk: Growing in Corporate America & Building Your Own Business

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BONUS EPISODE !! Holiday Reminders !

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Knowing When to Hit the Pause Button

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The Hardest Parts of Breaking Up

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Talking Politics also GO VOTE!!!!

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BONUS!! Things I’m Learning Since My Breakup

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STOP Resisting!!!

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Protecting Our Energy

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This is How I Take Care of Myself

70

Cold-Brew Conversations

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Life Without Parental Guidance...

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The Real Real of My Life

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Addressing the Elephant in the Room

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Back to NYC ( A Recap ) , Arts on the Ave & Experiencing the Newness of Life

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Keeping Calm Under Stressful Situations

76

Happy Pride, Life Updates & Solo Dates !

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BONUS EPISODE!!! Ancient Aliens LIVE RECAP !!!

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How I Maintain Discipline

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Take The Damn Leap!!!

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I Gave Up My 1st Business Venture

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Let Your Values Grow

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My Toolkit for Wellness and Wellbeing

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Abundance Mindset Pt. 4 - Finale: Current Feelings and Thoughts On Money

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Abundance Mindset Pt. 3 - Understanding Bootstrapping

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Life Updates: I Moved !!

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A Year WILL Change You, Be Patient

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Don't Let Little Things Ruin You

88

The Benefits of Reading + My 2024 Reading List

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Revisiting Conversations: Modern Dating w/ Maddie McNamee

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My Ins & Outs for 2024

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Welcome 2024: Life + Career Updates!!!

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Another Year Older ,,, Post Birthday Thoughts...

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What Motivates You ?

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SPOOKY BONUS '23!! Tales of Halloween's Past & The Fall of The House of Usher !

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Allowing Ourselves to Earn : Abundance Mindset pt. 2 - PODCAST MINI SERIES!!!

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Let's Catch Up!

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Stop Being So Rigid, Start Giving Into Living

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Reflect On Your Failures If You Want To Grow

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Developing An Abundance Mindset pt. 1 - PODCAST MINI SERIES!!!

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How To Find Where Your Career In Fashion Fits In The Industry

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How I Define And Create Time For Stillness & How You Can Too !

102

Thoughts on Family ...

103

Let's STOP Feeling Bad For Ourselves For Wanting A Da*n Minute Alone

104

In My Country Boy Era & Other Life Updates...

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Seek Out More Gratitude in the Galaxy

106

Stop DND Shaming Your Friends

107

Living With the Constants of Life

108

Take a Walk and Chill !

109

The Life You Want Belongs to YOU!!! So Go After It!!

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Stop Resisting ( Life ) and Start Accepting ( Life )

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In My Care LESS Era... HBU???

112

Life Updates : Career Moves and Dating

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Dating in 2023 and Relationship Advice w/ Maddie McNamee

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Balancing Life and Social Media ( When it's Your Career )

115

The Secret to Building Better Habits Is...

116

Do You Feel ( Mis ) Aligned ?

117

Learning to Lean Into Our Dreams

118

Do You Really WANT to Change ?

119

Welcome to 2K23! Life Updates !

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Holiday Bonus '22

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Cannabis Explorations pt. 3

122

Holigay Life Updates

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Birthday Reflections: Accepting Aging

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Cheating and Relationships: How to Grow Past Cheating When You've Cheated and Heal from the Hurt of Being Cheated On

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Get Out + GO VOTE !!!

126

Your Health Comes First!!! Advocate for Yourself !

127

SPOOKY BONUS: Scary Stories and Halloween Movie Recs !!!

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Knowing When it's Time to Pause

129

Cannabis for Wellness pt. 2

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Lessons in Growth: What September Taught Me...

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Welcome to Spooky Season !

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Reminder: You Are Where You Are Meant to Be

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Redefining My Relationship with Food and Falling in Love with Cooking

134

Will's Fall '22 Reading Rec List !!!

135

Getting Over Covid... How Are You ?

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I Have Covid

137

Workin' 9 - 5 and 5 - 9 : The Secret to Building Your Dream Life

138

I'm a City Gay Who Loves to Camp and YOU Need to Celebrate ALL Your Wins !!!

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How I Maintain Wellbeing and The Things That Help Me Do So pt. 1

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Cannabis Explorations pt. 1

141

The Pandemic Effected My Mental Health

142

Reminders for Your Growth ...

143

Dealing with Death...

144

Life Updates and Pride '22 Recap

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Tech Issues Will Not Stop Me From Recording This Podcast & Learning to Accept What Cant’t Be Changed

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It's Not Oversaturated ... It's Just Not You

147

What Are Your Goals ?

148

Take Pride in Your Authentic Self!

149

A Moment of Self Reflection...

150

I'm Reevaluating My Relationship with Social Media

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What Really Makes You Happy?

152

Welcome to May! How Bad Do You Really Want It ?!

153

Surviving April Showers Bring Results

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It is okay to not be okay, we're human

155

Life RN and Celebrating Small Wins !!!

156

Dress for the LIFE YOU Want !!!

157

Invest in You ALWAYS !!!

158

R U Moving Your Needle ?

159

5 Tips to Start Building Your Empire !!!

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The One About the Skin Care Diet...

161

Welcome to March !!!

162

Life Updates: Learning to Let Go of the Need to be in Control

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Learning to Love Love and the Do's and Don'ts' of Dating

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Happy Valentine's Day Pals!

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BONUS - Diversity in Biz Matters with Nadia Tenorio

166

Hi, It's Time to Get Uncomfortable!

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Self Love is Attractive

168

Stop Growing Alone - Find Your Tribe!!!

169

Embrace Your Culture, Don't Hide From It

170

The One About the Red Light Story...

171

It's All You in 2022 !!

172

Hats Off to 2021 and Hello to 2022 !!!

173

BONUS!!! Self Love Comes First w Maddie McNamee

174

A Happy Holigay Message !!

175

Forgift Yourself: Why You Need to Forgive Yourself !

176

You Can Start Loving Your AMs

177

Starting the End with Accountability!!!

178

The Best Birthday Gift is Self Reflection !!!

179

Stop Waiting and Just GO FOR IT!!!

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CTRL, ALT, Delete Your Distractions!!!!

181

Life Didn't Come With A Rule Book - So Start Writing Your Own!!!!

182

Spooky BONUS!!! Happy Halloween!!!

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Put Yourself into Positive Perception

184

It's All in Your Mind Babes!!! How to Positively Build a Better Mindset !!!

185

Becoming Friends with Our Demons...and Now We're Doing the Monster Mash!

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BONUS - Celebrate No Hate: Happy National Coming Out Day!!!

187

Making Our Own Magic

188

Another Day in the Life Episode

189

What Lessons Have You Learned?

190

Virtually Trippin: NYFW '21 and MONATions Recap

191

September Self Care Recs

192

Hey - My Name's Will ...

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Unpacking Your Why

194

Getting Comfortable in Your Own Convictions

195

Naked and Not Afraid: Will's Camping Recap

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Not Will Back in New York...

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The One Where Will Lost Self Control...

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The Problem with White Queerdom

199

BONUS: Day…er,, Week in Will’s Life

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Your Freedom is in YOUR Choice!!! So Choose it!

201

Start Celebrating Your Wins!!!

202

Latina Entrepreneurship w Maddie McNamee - 1st GUEST!!!

203

PRIDE 3-6-5!!!

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BONUS!!! NYC RECAP pt. 2

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Lessons to Learn: Detachment and Letting Go

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NYC Recap pt. 1

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The Cosmos Are Queer and So Am I

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The One About Change...

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Falling in Love with Ourselves While Finding our Tribes

210

The One About Gratitude...

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Maintaining Motivation and Momentum for Fitness

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LITERALLY the Most Important Love!!!

213

LIVE EPISODE - CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE / OPTIMIZE YOUR YEAR !!!

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Creating Creative Career Paths & Not Giving a Damn What Anyone Says

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LIVE SESSIONS- Becoming the CEO of Your Life

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Life Happens When Sacrifice Happens

217

Coming Out (Again) Over the Digital Ether

218

Reflect, Rest and Prepare to Reset

219

Black History Month 3-6-5!!!

220

Attitude is Gratitude

221

F*ck Off Anxiety

222

We Are Willing to Create Our Own Success

223

A Year is Worth How Many Words?

224

Happy New Year-- 2020 is Finally Over!

225

Holiday Mindfulness

226

Holiday Vices

227

Intro to Winning