What happens when you stop defining your worth by how much you achieve, how much you give, or who you are in a relationship?

In this episode of Reclaimed, Sara welcomes lifelong entrepreneur, writer, songwriter, and speaker Kristi J Chavez-Warner for an honest conversation about grief, spiritual awakening, self-worth, and rediscovering who you are beneath the roles and expectations you've carried.

Kristi shares how early experiences with loss, decades of entrepreneurship, and the end of her marriage led her to question old patterns of perfectionism, people-pleasing, and tying her value to productivity and financial success.

Together, Sara and Kristi explore what it means to move away from the hustle identity, reconnect with your purpose, and trust yourself enough to take the next step without needing to control the entire outcome. They also discuss the importance of finding supportive community, embracing time alone, and learning to create a fulfilling life without waiting for someone else to complete you.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• How grief and loss can lead to healing, growth, and self-discovery.
• Why your self-worth isn't defined by achievements, relationships, or external validation.
• How to release perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the need to control outcomes.
• The power of trusting yourself, embracing change, and creating a life on your own terms.

Kristi's story is a reminder that reclaiming yourself doesn't mean having everything figured out. Sometimes it begins with getting quiet, trusting your inner guidance, and choosing the next right step.

About Kristi

Kristi J Chavez-Warner is a lifelong entrepreneur, business broker, commercial real estate agent, salon owner, writer, singer-songwriter, and speaker. She opened her first business at 19 and has spent nearly three decades building and reinventing businesses while navigating her own personal growth and transformation. Today, she helps entrepreneurs buy and sell businesses while developing Welcome Home, a book, music, and movement centered on grief, healing, and reconnecting with who we truly are. Drawing on her experiences in entrepreneurship, human connection, and major life transitions, Kristi shares insights on navigating change, rediscovering purpose, and finding the courage to begin again.

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Website: www.kristijmusic.com and www.bizbuynetwork.com
Social media: @thekristij

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What happens when the ambition that drives your success starts to drain the joy out of your life? For many high-achieving individuals, burnout doesn't happen overnight. It builds through perfectionism, people-pleasing, the pressure to achieve, and the belief that rest can wait until everything else is done.

In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara sits down with Desislava Atanasova, a burnout psychotherapist who helps executives and high-performing individuals reconnect with themselves and their needs. Desislava shares her personal experience of burnout while managing a corporate office and building her private psychology practice, and how it changed the way she thinks about success, productivity, and balance.

Together, they explore the patterns that keep us stuck in the burnout cycle, why asking for help can feel like weakness, and how easily we begin to confuse our achievements with our identity.

This week’s episode invites you to look at your relationship with success and consider what might need to change. From learning to recognize what drains your energy to reconnecting with your needs, boundaries, and the things you enjoy, this conversation offers a different way forward. One where success isn't measured only by what you accomplish, but also by the joy, freedom, and fulfillment you experience along the way.

Some key takeaways from this episode:

• Recognize the patterns behind burnout. Perfectionism, people-pleasing, overachieving, and struggling to set boundaries can keep you pushing long after your body is asking for rest.
• Separate your identity from your achievements. Your job, productivity, and accomplishments are part of your life, but they don't define who you are.
• Reconnect with your needs and energy. Pay attention to what gives you energy, what drains you, and what brings you joy outside of work.
• Redefine what success means to you. Create space for more freedom, flexibility, and enjoyment instead of constantly chasing the next goal.

This episode is a reminder that burnout can be a signal that something needs to change. You don't have to wait until you're completely depleted to start listening to yourself and creating a different way of living and working.

About Desislava

Desislava is a burnout psychotherapist who helps executives and high-performing individuals reconnect with themselves, understand their needs, and find a healthier approach to success. Having experienced burnout herself as a high achiever and workaholic, she now develops burnout and stress-management programs to help others rediscover their potential, confidence, and joy in life.

Website: https://www.desislava.de/

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What happens when you stop performing for approval and start living from the truth of who you are?

In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara is joined by Dalia MarOm, a certified hypnosis and sound healing practitioner, retreat and corporate wellness facilitator, and creator of Sonic Hypnotics. With more than 12 years of experience in the healing arts, Dalia shares her journey from performing and corporate work into the healing work she now feels deeply aligned with.

Together, they talk about using the body and voice as pathways for healing, the power of sound and hypnosis, and what it means to reconnect with your own essence. Dalia also opens up about entrepreneurship as a spiritual journey, learning not to take rejection personally, and the challenge of balancing motherhood, business, purpose, and your own wellbeing.

This week’s episode invites you to look at where you may be performing, overgiving, or carrying expectations that were never yours to begin with. What would change if you gave yourself permission to come back to yourself and trust your own voice?

Some key takeaways:

• Why reconnecting with the body can help us move beyond simply talking about what we’re experiencing
• The journey from performing for approval to using your authentic voice
• Why alignment can feel like everything suddenly starts to make sense
• How boundaries, nervous system regulation, and self-care create more space for what truly matters
• Why rejection and other people’s opinions don’t have to determine your sense of worth

Dalia also shares how sound healing and hypnosis can work together to help people reconnect with themselves, work with subconscious patterns, and create space for new patterns to emerge.

About Dalia

Dalia MarOm is a certified hypnosis and sound healing practitioner, retreat and corporate wellness facilitator, with over 12 years of experience and 500+ hours of professional training. She has a lifelong background as a performing artist, singer-songwriter, and actor, beginning in childhood.

Her work brings together sound healing and hypnosis with somatic practices, therapeutic yoga principles, Reiki, breath, voice, and guided meditation to support nervous-system regulation, deep relaxation, and meaningful transformation. She also specializes in Past Life Journeys and Life Between Lives Journeys.

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