At 23, I cut my mother off. No warning. One phone call outside a restaurant, and one day we were done.

I grew up watching her fight a war with alcohol and her own untreated trauma, and for a long time I thought staying was love because she was my mother. That was not it.

This episode is the story of courage and everything underneath it that led me there. It's not clean. It's not comfortable. But it's real.

Spoiler: we found our way back to each other. Seven years later, from two different better places, we did the work and built something neither of us had before.

I'm telling you this because someone listening is standing exactly where I stood, wondering if walking away makes them a bad daughter, a bad son, a bad person.

It doesn't. Choosing yourself never does.

This one's for the 23-year-old version of me, standing outside that restaurant, shaking, about to make the hardest call of her life. You didn't know it yet, but that call saved you. 🤍

Thank you for being here and for listening to the show. You have no idea how much it means.

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Hector brings us back to his life in Venezuela, before everything changed, before he had to leave it all behind to rebuild himself and his life in a foreign country, in a foreign language, with none of his village to help.

He shares his struggle with mental health and PTSD, how he decided to create his podcast, and the direction he's taking into fatherhood.

This is the first time Hector has shared his story in English.

Pull up a chair, this conversation is special!

Thank you for being here and for listening to the show.

MJ🤍

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Sophia grew up in a tiny town in upstate New York. No stoplight, no cell service. A loud, creative, "too much" little girl with huge dreams and that felt out of place.

We talk about what it actually does to you to grow up feeling like the black sheep, to carry a father wound for fifteen years, and to numb everything you didn't know how to feel. We talk about the morning she looked in the mirror at twenty-nine and decided she couldn't keep living that way.

Sophia shares her journey how she found the way to come home to herself.

Because the thing that broke you was never proof that something's wrong with you. You were never the problem. You were just a kid carrying something that was never yours to carry.

And sometimes the boldest thing you can do is go back, take her hand, and remind her she was always enough.

She inspires me to start, and I'm grateful for her sharing her story with me.

Thank you for being here and for listening to the show. 🤍

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Camille is a kid of the world, as we call ourselves. She grew up between London, Houston, and Montreal, finally settling in Montreal .

We talk about what it actually does to you to grow up on the move, to carry two names and two identities, and to walk away from the "safe" path everyone expected for you. We talk about the six-year-old who once looked in the mirror and promised she'd become the woman she was meant to be.

Camille has a passion to learn, and that's exactly the journey she shares with us.

Because belonging was never about the place. It was about becoming someone you're proud to come home to.

And sometimes the boldest thing you can do is keep the promise you made to her and become her.

We've had fifteen years of these conversations. This is the first one we recorded.

Thank you for being here and for listening to the show. 🤍

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We talk about what it actually looks like to grow up alongside your kids, to carry mom guilt like a second job, and to wake up one day and realize you’ve been showing up for everyone except yourself.

Stephanie doesn’t have it all figured out. And that’s exactly why this conversation matters.

Because this isn’t about having the answers. It’s about being honest enough to ask the questions.

And sometimes, the most powerful thing you can do is sit down, take a breath, and just do it.

Thank you for being here and for listening to the show. 🤍

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This one took courage to put out. Not because it’s perfect, but because it’s real. The idea that once lived rent-free in my head has finally become reality.

I created The Bold Blueprint for the person who has ever asked themselves if they were ever going to make it to the other side of whatever they were going through.

Spoiler: YOU WILL.

But I didn’t want you to just take my word for it. So I’m building a space, a room where you belong. And I’m bringing people to it. People with real stories, real journeys, and real proof that the other side exists.

Episode 1 is my introduction. My context. My why.

And honestly? It’s for the 14-year-old version of me who had no idea she was going to make it this far. She did. 🤍

Thank you for being here and for listening to the show. You have no idea how much it means.

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