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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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.

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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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What if the problem isn’t that you’re not working hard enough, doing enough, or trying the right strategy? What if there are deeper patterns quietly shaping your success, relationships, money, health, and the way you show up in your life?

In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara sits down with Daune Thompson, TEDx speaker, Success Alchemist, and Soul CEO Activator, for a deep conversation about the subconscious patterns that can keep high-achieving people stuck, even when everything looks successful on the outside. Daune shares how her own journey through overgiving, people-pleasing, self-abandonment, and the pressure to prove herself ultimately led her to understand that we often spend our energy fixing the problem instead of looking at the pattern underneath it.

This week’s episode invites you to look at where your own patterns may be showing up, especially around receiving, money, visibility, relationships, and success. Because sometimes the next level isn’t about doing more. It’s about seeing what has been running the show beneath the surface and learning to lead from a deeper place.

Some key takeaways:

• Why success on the outside doesn’t always mean you’re living in alignment on the inside.
• How people-pleasing, overgiving, and self-abandonment can become hidden drivers of success.
• Why money and other areas of your life can reveal deeper patterns around receiving, worthiness, and control.
• How learning to recognize the patterns beneath your circumstances can help you stop chasing results and start leading your life differently.

If you’ve ever wondered why you keep repeating the same patterns even after you’ve achieved the success you wanted, this conversation will give you a different way to look at what’s really happening underneath.

About Daune

Daune Thompson is a TEDx speaker, success alchemist, and Soul CEO Activator who helps high-achieving leaders flip the switch on limitations personally and professionally to unlock unshakable confidence, and lead with unapologetic truth.

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What if what’s blocking your next level isn’t your strategy—but the subconscious patterns running your business?

In this episode, I’m breaking down the subconscious energy blocks that can show up in business and keep you stuck, overgiving, hiding, or disconnected from your own power.

We’re looking at:

• ⁠Self-doubt → underpricing
• People-pleasing → weak positioning
• Overgiving → overdelivering
• Perfectionism → procrastination
• Rejection & abandonment → seeking approval
• Imposter syndrome → hiding your expertise
• Fear of being seen → invisibility
• Overthinking → disconnection from self-trust, intuition & your inner compass

These patterns can keep you from not only creating your next level, but actually being able to hold it.

I’m sharing what I’ve learned through my own experience and through working with clients—and why releasing these subconscious and energetic blocks became such a powerful part of transforming my reality, business, and capacity to receive.

Because success shouldn’t require self-abandonment.

You can build, expand, receive, and have a life you actually love.

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What if the grief you’re feeling isn’t a sign that you’re moving in the wrong direction, but a sign that you’re about to step into an entirely new chapter?

In this episode of Reclaimed, we explore one of the most overlooked stages of transformation: grieving the life you didn’t get to live.

Before a major identity shift, quantum leap, or new level of success, it’s natural to revisit the choices you’ve made and wonder what might have happened if you had chosen differently. You may find yourself thinking about past relationships, careers, places you’ve lived, opportunities you didn’t take, or versions of yourself you’ve had to leave behind.

But this grief doesn’t necessarily mean you made the wrong choice.

It may be part of making peace with the past so you can fully step into what comes next.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why grief can emerge as you prepare for a major identity shift, quantum leap, or new chapter
• How to process the life, choices, and possibilities you imagined but never got to experience
• The difference between avoiding difficult emotions and allowing yourself to truly feel and move through them
• How making peace with the past and bringing your energy fully into the present can help you move forward in alignment

If you’ve been questioning past choices or feeling grief as you prepare for what’s next, this episode is your reminder to feel it, make peace with it, and bring your energy fully into the present so you can move forward.

Remember, you are the shift.

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What if you didn't have to prove your worth to be respected?

What if you could walk into a room, say what you mean, and trust that your presence speaks for itself?

In this episode of Reclaimed, Sara explores quiet authority, the embodied energy that emerges when you stop abandoning yourself for love, approval, success, or external validation.

For people-pleasers, over-givers, and high achievers, reclaiming your authority isn't about becoming louder, harder, or less caring. It's about becoming more regulated, more grounded, and more secure in who you are.

Sara walks through the four shifts that help you embody quiet authority:

1. Regulated Power—You can be triggered without acting on the trigger. Instead of over-texting, over-explaining, reacting, or spiraling, you learn to pause, observe, and choose how and when you respond.
2. Stop Over-Explaining—You don't need to explain yourself until someone finally understands or approves of your decision. Quiet authority knows that you can communicate clearly without trying to earn permission.
3. Let the Silence Work—Once you've said what you need to say, you don't have to fill the space. Silence can become a powerful expression of self-trust, security, and presence.
4. Hold the Energy—True authority isn't just about what you say. It's about your ability to stay grounded and present while being seen. Sara shares how eye contact, breath, and staying rooted in your body can change the energy of a conversation.

This episode is an invitation to stop giving your power away in an attempt to keep the peace, be understood, or receive validation. Because when you stop abandoning yourself, people experience you differently because you experience yourself differently.

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Have you ever found yourself asking: "Why do I keep attracting people who don't value me?"

Whether it's in relationships, friendships, your career, or your business, it can feel exhausting to keep experiencing the same disappointment over and over again. In this episode, Sara shares the realization that completely changed her life.

For years, Sara believed she needed a different relationship, a better boss, or new opportunities. Then she realized the real issue wasn't outside of her. The same beliefs, boundaries, and patterns were showing up everywhere she went. Real change didn't come from changing her circumstances. It came from changing herself.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why the same relationship, workplace, and business patterns continue repeating.
• The difference between trying to fix your circumstances and reclaiming the woman behind them.
• How people-pleasing, over-giving, and self-abandonment quietly leak your power.
• Why confidence and boundaries aren't the root of the issue, but rather symptoms of something deeper.
• The shift from proving your worth to embodying your inner authority.
• How your triggers reveal exactly what your soul is asking you to heal.

Sara also shares her own journey through divorce, healing, and the moment she realized she wasn't attracting different people, only the same pattern in different bodies.

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