If your life hasn’t been a neat, white picket fence…

If you’ve learned how to function, succeed, even thrive—while something inside still feels tight, unfinished, or quietly aching—this podcast is for you.

Finding Treasures in the Trash is an invitation to turn toward what you’ve avoided: the anxiety, the unease, the stories you were taught to disown. Through intimate conversations with teachers, leaders, and everyday humans, we explore what happens when pain isn’t something to fix—but something to listen to.

This isn’t a lifelong healing marathon.

It’s about courage, honesty, and curiosity.

So grab your gloves.

Let’s go dumpster diving—because in the muck lives the gold.

Finding Treasures in the Trash has always lived between what we hide and what saves us, and this moment marks its most honest turning point yet. Cari Jacobs-Crovetto shares why the show is stepping out on its own and moving to the newly formed Magic Thread Media, a network devoted to weaving conscious voices into business, creativity, and spiritual life. As she reflects on the early episodes, Cari names the deeper work that has quietly emerged: inner truth work. She explores how anxiety, shadow, and disowned parts of ourselves become survival strategies, why truth often freezes in time, and how unexamined insight can slip into self-justification and managed presence.

This episode grounds the future of the Finding Treasures in the Trash podcast in coherence and congruence, where nothing essential is pushed away and nothing is performed. This evolution invites you into a deeper relationship with yourself, where the treasure is found only by staying with what once felt unbearable.

Key Takeaways:

1. Truth Can’t Be Reached Through Performance – Learn why looking good, being right, and staying safe block real self-truth.
2. Shadow Is Adapted Truth – See how shadow reflects parts of you that learned to survive, not parts that are broken.
3. Why Truth Freezes in Time – Understand how safety, shame, and belonging force parts of us underground.
4. When Insight Turns Performative – Learn how values and spirituality lose depth when disowned parts stay hidden.
5. Coherence and Congruence – Discover the difference between looking aligned and actually being whole.
6. Why Trust Frays in Relationships – See how self-betrayal quietly erodes trust long before words do.

About Cari:

Cari Jacobs-Crovetto is a coach, secular meditation teacher, and somatic healing practitioner who blends decades of senior corporate leadership with deep therapeutic training to support meaningful personal and professional growth. After a successful career spanning global brands, media networks, consulting, and multiple Bay Area startups, she now works full-time with business leaders and individuals navigating transition, anxiety, disconnection, and the desire for deeper fulfillment. Cari offers one-on-one and relationship coaching, group work, retreats, organizational alignment, conflict resolution, and strategic future-visioning, helping clients cultivate clarity, resilience, and more conscious ways of leading and living.

https://www.bravedirections.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carisf/

https://www.instagram.com/cari_jacobs_sf

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