<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:psc="http://podlove.org/simple-chapters" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Aligned & Unhinged]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><b>Aligned &amp; Unhinged</b></p><p></p><p>Two things are true at the same time: real estate will teach you more about yourself than most retreats ever will, and no spreadsheet has ever once told you what you actually want.</p><p></p><p>Aligned and Unhinged lives in the space between those two facts.</p><p>Rachel Vaida, Amber Bess, and Jamie Flanagan met the way a lot of people meet in this industry, through deals, numbers, and rooms full of people talking about cash flow. What nobody planned on was the friendship that came out of it. Since then they've built businesses, traveled together, done the deep spiritual work together, and had a lot of the kind of conversations that usually only happen after midnight when everyone's finally stopped performing.</p><p>This is that conversation, recorded.</p><p>Every episode moves between the two halves of a life most people keep carefully separated. The business half: investing, negotiating, risk, partnerships, building something that outlasts you, and the very specific stress of having real money on the line. The other half: intuition, alignment, timing, energy, and the quiet knowing that shows up about three weeks before the numbers confirm it.</p><p>Three women who take both halves seriously,and take themselves a lot less seriously than that.</p><p></p><p>There's no guru energy here. Nobody's on a mountaintop. You'll hear the wins, but you'll also hear the deals that went sideways, the decisions made on a feeling, the moments of doubt nobody posts about, and at least one story that gets interrupted by all three of them laughing.</p><p></p><p>If you've ever felt like you have to choose, be the practical one or be the woo one, run the numbers or trust the gut, be grounded or be a little unhinged, this show is the permission slip. You don't. You never did. The most interesting people are always both.</p><p></p><p>Come for the real estate. Stay because somebody finally said the thing out loud.</p><p></p><p>Aligned when we can be. Unhinged when it's funnier. Honest either way.</p>]]></description><link>https://riverside.com</link><generator>Riverside.fm (https://riverside.com)</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:19:24 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://api.riverside.com/hosting/qHtoCs2N.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><author><![CDATA[Rachel Vaida]]></author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:54:14 GMT</pubDate><copyright><![CDATA[2026 Rachel Vaida]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><ttl>60</ttl><category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category><category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category><itunes:author>Rachel Vaida</itunes:author><itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aligned &amp;amp; Unhinged&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two things are true at the same time: real estate will teach you more about yourself than most retreats ever will, and no spreadsheet has ever once told you what you actually want.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aligned and Unhinged lives in the space between those two facts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rachel Vaida, Amber Bess, and Jamie Flanagan met the way a lot of people meet in this industry, through deals, numbers, and rooms full of people talking about cash flow. What nobody planned on was the friendship that came out of it. Since then they&apos;ve built businesses, traveled together, done the deep spiritual work together, and had a lot of the kind of conversations that usually only happen after midnight when everyone&apos;s finally stopped performing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is that conversation, recorded.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every episode moves between the two halves of a life most people keep carefully separated. The business half: investing, negotiating, risk, partnerships, building something that outlasts you, and the very specific stress of having real money on the line. The other half: intuition, alignment, timing, energy, and the quiet knowing that shows up about three weeks before the numbers confirm it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Three women who take both halves seriously,and take themselves a lot less seriously than that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s no guru energy here. Nobody&apos;s on a mountaintop. You&apos;ll hear the wins, but you&apos;ll also hear the deals that went sideways, the decisions made on a feeling, the moments of doubt nobody posts about, and at least one story that gets interrupted by all three of them laughing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;ve ever felt like you have to choose, be the practical one or be the woo one, run the numbers or trust the gut, be grounded or be a little unhinged, this show is the permission slip. You don&apos;t. You never did. The most interesting people are always both.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Come for the real estate. Stay because somebody finally said the thing out loud.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aligned when we can be. Unhinged when it&apos;s funnier. Honest either way.&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Rachel Vaida</itunes:name><itunes:email>rachelavaida@gmail.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Entrepreneurship"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Health &amp; Fitness"/><itunes:image href="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/7540bb7f-641b-48ed-8b74-e47beea9bd9a/logos/375ccb97-4ffb-4a5f-a756-596522e4a3a6.jpeg"/><item><title><![CDATA[Stop the train!]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to Aligned &amp; Unhinged. Three of us, no script, and the conversations we actually have after the meeting ends.</p><p></p><p>Episode 2.</p><p></p><p>Subscribe so you don’t miss the next one.</p><p></p><p>Amber Bess — <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amberbess.com/" target="_blank">https://amberbess.com/</a></p><p>Jamie Flanagan — <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://jamieflanagan.exprealty.com/" target="_blank">https://jamieflanagan.exprealty.com/</a></p><p>Rachel Vaida — <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://linktr.ee/SpiritualContractor" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/SpiritualContractor</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">5ad65853-b6a6-4bf3-a3fb-74f99e02c071</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Vaida]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/d34f19324f4576e0d10afdca4b0f95cfff58149704b2743467e668cfee7e73c7/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI1YWQ2NTg1My1iNmE2LTRiZjMtYTNmYi03NGY5OWUwMmMwNzEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3NTQwYmI3Zi02NDFiLTQ4ZWQtOGI3NC1lNDdiZWVhOWJkOWEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2YTg0NzBlMTBjNDE0MTY3YWM5Yzk1NTgiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE4Y2ZiZDkzY2YxNjcyMWFlOTE5ZWFmL3JhY2hlbC12YWlkYXMtc3R1ZGlvLWNvbXBvc2VyLTIwMjYtOC0yNV9fNC0yMC05Lm1wMyJ9.mp3" length="76129741" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/7540bb7f-641b-48ed-8b74-e47beea9bd9a/episodes/5ad65853-b6a6-4bf3-a3fb-74f99e02c071/transcripts.txt" type="text/plain"/><itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Welcome to Aligned &amp;amp; Unhinged. Three of us, no script, and the conversations we actually have after the meeting ends.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Episode 2.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Subscribe so you don’t miss the next one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amber Bess — &lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://amberbess.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://amberbess.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jamie Flanagan — &lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://jamieflanagan.exprealty.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://jamieflanagan.exprealty.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rachel Vaida — &lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer nofollow&quot; href=&quot;https://linktr.ee/SpiritualContractor&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://linktr.ee/SpiritualContractor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>00:39:39</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/7540bb7f-641b-48ed-8b74-e47beea9bd9a/logos/375ccb97-4ffb-4a5f-a756-596522e4a3a6.jpeg"/><itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode><itunes:title>Stop the train!</itunes:title><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you hear me?]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to Aligned &amp; Unhinged. Three of us, no script, and the conversations we actually have after the meeting ends.</p><p></p><p>Episode 1.</p><p></p><p>Subscribe so you don’t miss the next one.</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">9246f772-de13-434e-92bd-b412169974c6</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Vaida]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/e3fe334710125eb66e46064d292ad7eb882323cde2608da8bcb417f66b16185b/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI5MjQ2Zjc3Mi1kZTEzLTQzNGUtOTJiZC1iNDEyMTY5OTc0YzYiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3NTQwYmI3Zi02NDFiLTQ4ZWQtOGI3NC1lNDdiZWVhOWJkOWEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2YTg0NzBlMTBjNDE0MTY3YWM5Yzk1NTgiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE5NWEwYjYyNmViYTRiNzRlMzYwYjI3L3JhY2hlbC12YWlkYXMtc3R1ZGlvLWNvbXBvc2VyLTIwMjYtOC0zMV9fMTctNDEtNDIubXAzIn0=.mp3" length="73354492" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/7540bb7f-641b-48ed-8b74-e47beea9bd9a/episodes/9246f772-de13-434e-92bd-b412169974c6/transcripts.txt" type="text/plain"/><itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;Welcome to Aligned &amp;amp; Unhinged. 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