What if inflammation—not genetics, not aging, not bad luck—was the common thread behind most chronic disease?

In this expansive and thought-provoking conversation, physicist, inventor, and engineer Samuel Shepherd shares his extraordinary personal journey after being diagnosed with a rare, terminal bone marrow cancer in 2003. Given no viable medical options, Sam turned to decades of scientific expertise to investigate inflammation, free radicals, and cellular breakdown—ultimately leading him to study astaxanthin, one of the most powerful antioxidants found in nature.

We explore the science of oxidative stress, PD-L1 immune signaling, cellular transport, and why conventional antioxidant delivery often fails. Sam explains how he developed a patented glycosidic form of astaxanthin designed to improve absorption and target inflammation more effectively—and how this work reshaped not only his health, but his entire understanding of disease, aging, and resilience.

This episode also dives into:

• Why inflammation may be the root driver of many chronic and neurodegenerative conditions

• The role of free radicals in cancer, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and metabolic disease

• How modern diets—especially fructose exposure—impact inflammation over time

• What HS-CRP can reveal about long-term health risk

• Why curiosity, self-trust, and asking better questions matter more than blind compliance

  
  

This is not medical advice. It is an invitation into inquiry, responsibility, and deeper self-education—especially for those who sense that healing requires more than symptom management.

If you’re someone who values science, autonomy, and understanding your body rather than outsourcing it, this conversation will expand how you think about health, inflammation, and what’s truly possible.

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Self-Respect Reset is a guided, body-based experience for women who struggle to set boundaries—not because they don’t know what they need, but because it hasn’t felt safe to honor it.

Inside, you’ll learn how to rebuild inner safety, strengthen self-trust, and create boundaries that actually protect your peace—without guilt, over-explaining, or self-abandonment.

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What happens when life changes your body, your identity, and your sense of safety overnight?

In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by John Kippen: Entrepreneur, professional magician, speaker, and resilience coach, who shares his extraordinary journey of self-acceptance after adversity.

After surviving brain tumor surgery that left him with permanent facial paralysis, John spent over a decade in hiding. What ultimately brought him back wasn’t “fixing” himself—but reclaiming joy, breath, creativity, and the courage to live his own dream.

In this episode, we explore:

• How self-acceptance becomes a nervous-system practice—not a mindset shift

• Why doing what you love is often the most healing thing you can do

• How breath anchors safety when life feels overwhelming

• What it means to stop waiting to be “whole” before living

• Why adversity can become an unexpected initiation into purpose

• • The power of daily presence, compassion, and creative expression

  John also shares incredible moments from performing magic for Alex Trebek to being featured in a documentary with Jamie Lee Curtis, and how those experiences reinforced a deeper truth:

  
  

  Being different isn’t something to overcome. It’s something to honor.

  This conversation is a reminder that healing doesn’t mean returning to who you were.
  Sometimes, it means finally becoming who you are.

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  Self-Respect Reset is a guided, body-based experience for women who struggle to set boundaries—not because they don’t know what they need, but because it hasn’t felt safe to honor it.

  Inside, you’ll learn how to rebuild inner safety, strengthen self-trust, and create boundaries that actually protect your peace—without guilt, over-explaining, or self-abandonment.

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If you’ve been trying to build confidence but still don’t trust yourself, you’re not broken and you’re not alone.

In this episode, we explore how to build self-trust without forcing confidence, especially if you’re a high-achieving woman who struggles with self-doubt, people-pleasing, or second-guessing your decisions. You’ll learn why traditional confidence advice often falls short, how self-trust actually gets rebuilt, and why safety—not certainty—is the real foundation for lasting change.

This conversation is for you if you:

• Feel confident on the outside but disconnected inside

• Struggle to trust your decisions, boundaries, or inner voice

• Feel exhausted from overthinking and self-doubt

• Want to stop abandoning yourself just to keep the peace

  
  

We’ll talk about self-trust as a nervous-system experience, not a mindset trick—and how small, grounded shifts can help you reconnect with yourself in a way that feels sustainable and real.

You don’t need to be confident to start trusting yourself.
You just need a safer way back to you.

If you’ve spent years keeping the peace at the expense of yourself—softening your needs, swallowing your truth, or saying yes when your body says no—this masterclass is for you.

The Cost of Keeping the Peace explores why people-pleasing and boundary struggles aren’t personal flaws, but learned survival patterns—and what it actually takes to create change without guilt or self-betrayal.

Inside the masterclass, you’ll learn:

• Why awareness alone isn’t enough to stop over-giving

• How inner safety creates lasting boundaries

• What it looks like to choose yourself without fear of fallout

If you’re ready to stop paying for peace with your energy, voice, and self-trust, you’re invited to join.

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Midlife isn’t a breakdown — it’s an initiation.

In this episode, I’m joined by Carla Wainwright, a Holistic Wellness Coach, Sexual Awakening Facilitator, and Midlife Alchemist, for a powerful conversation on reframing menopause, reclaiming feminine energy, and restoring vitality through nervous system healing and embodied self-trust.

Together, we explore how women in midlife can release outdated identities, grieve former versions of themselves, and reconnect with their body’s wisdom, not by forcing change, but by listening deeply. Carla bridges metabolic health, hormone balance, and sensual embodiment to help women shift from survival mode into radiance, pleasure, and power.

This episode is for the woman who feels the quiet ache of “something more,” who senses her body asking for a different pace, and who is ready to stop pathologizing midlife and start honoring it as a sacred rite of passage.

✨ In this episode, we explore:

• Why menopause is a nervous-system event, not just a hormonal one

• How grief and letting go create space for renewed vitality

• Reconnecting with feminine energy without shame or performance

• Listening to the body’s signals as a path to self-trust and healing

• How embodiment and pleasure restore safety, aliveness, and clarity

  
  

If you’re ready to reclaim your radiance and meet midlife with curiosity instead of fear, this conversation will speak straight to your body and soul.

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Self-Respect Reset is a guided, body-based experience for women who struggle to set boundaries—not because they don’t know what they need, but because it hasn’t felt safe to honor it.

Inside, you’ll learn how to rebuild inner safety, strengthen self-trust, and create boundaries that actually protect your peace—without guilt, over-explaining, or self-abandonment.

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What if healing isn’t just about treating the body—but about restoring safety, coherence, and energy at every level?

In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by Dr. Neja Zupan, a visionary holistic mentor, energy mastery expert, and international speaker who defied a 5% survival prognosis and rose from generational scarcity into full-spectrum vitality and soul-aligned leadership.

We explore unconventional cancer healing, the role of the nervous system in recovery, and how unresolved emotional patterns, belief systems, and boundaries can keep the body stuck in survival. Dr. Neja shares how healing requires more than mindset—it demands energetic coherence, forgiveness, emotional release, and safety within the nervous system.

In this episode, we dive into:

• Why the nervous system is the gateway to physical healing

• How emotional patterns and belief systems shape the body’s ability to recover

• The role of forgiveness and boundaries in restoring vitality

• What “frequency-first living” really means

• How multidimensional intelligence supports clarity, resilience, and magnetic leadership

• Why healing is not linear—and how to trust your body’s wisdom

  
  

This conversation is for high-achieving women who’ve “done all the right things” yet still feel disconnected from their bodies, their energy, or their sense of inner safety. If you’ve ever wondered why healing feels incomplete—or why your body won’t let you push through anymore—this episode will meet you exactly where you are.

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Self-Respect Reset is a guided, body-based experience for women who struggle to set boundaries—not because they don’t know what they need, but because it hasn’t felt safe to honor it.

Inside, you’ll learn how to rebuild inner safety, strengthen self-trust, and create boundaries that actually protect your peace—without guilt, over-explaining, or self-abandonment.

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What if the uncertainty you’re feeling isn’t a problem to fix—but a threshold you’re meant to cross?

In this episode, I’m joined by Michelle Boyde, a Registered Master Hypnotist and creator of The Alchemy Sequence™, to explore what it really means to be in the liminal space—that disorienting, electric in-between where your old identity no longer fits, but the next version of you hasn’t fully landed yet.

We talk about:

• 5 clear signs you’re in the liminal space

• Why leaving security often precedes deep alignment

• How the subconscious mind holds onto outdated identities

• The difference between fear and intuition

• Why this phase is actually a gateway to self-mastery, not a detour

• How to stop recreating old success patterns in “prettier packaging”

• What it looks like to build a life and work that are deeply yours

  
  

If you’ve done everything “right” but feel called toward something truer…
If the old metrics of success no longer motivate you…
If you sense you’re standing on the edge of something meaningful but can’t quite name it yet…

This conversation will help you understand where you are, why you’re here, and how to move forward with clarity, trust, and inner authority.

✨ This episode is for the woman who knows deep down that she’s becoming someone new.

Michelle Boyde is a Registered Master Hypnotist and Subconscious Wizard for visionaries who’ve left behind exceptional careers to build something on their own terms.After exiting her consulting career seven years ago, Michelle has hypnotised over 1,000 people and created The Alchemy Sequence™ — a precision process that doesn’t just quiet the noise, but dissolves the outdated identity beneath it. In its place, the truest version of you emerges — the one capable of becoming everything you already sense you’re here to be.

Michelle’s work is devoted to the Liminal Space — that disorienting, electric terrain between who you were and who you’re becoming. She works with women who are done trying to recreate corporate success in prettier packaging — they’re here to build what’s real, sustainable, and deeply theirs. Her work fuses deep subconscious transformation with catalytic perspective shifts — revealing a new vision of what’s possible, and clearing the way to build it.

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Self-Respect Reset is a guided, body-based experience for women who struggle to set boundaries—not because they don’t know what they need, but because it hasn’t felt safe to honor it.

Inside, you’ll learn how to rebuild inner safety, strengthen self-trust, and create boundaries that actually protect your peace—without guilt, over-explaining, or self-abandonment.

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So many high-achieving women carry silent wounds from emotionally immature or narcissistic mothers—wounds that shape their boundaries, their relationships, and even their sense of self. In this conversation, I’m joined by Catherine Stephens, author of The Toxic Mom Recovery Guide, who has helped countless women break free from painful dynamics and finally step into their own identity.

Together, we explore the signs of emotionally immature parenting, the impact of enmeshment, the pressure to “keep the peace,” and the deep desire so many women have to finally be understood. We talk about why overexplaining is a protective pattern, the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation, and how to navigate low- or no-contact decisions with clarity and self-respect.

This episode is a grounding space for anyone healing mother wounds, untangling guilt, or learning to honor their truth—even when others want them to just “sweep it under the rug.” If you’ve ever questioned your reality, struggled with boundaries, or felt the weight of generational patterns, this conversation is both validation and liberation.

You’re not alone—and your healing is not only possible, it’s powerful.

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✨ Sacred Boundaries: Scripts for Saying No with Love ✨

If you’ve ever felt the pressure to say “yes” when your whole body was begging you to say “no,” you’re not alone. So many high-achieving, heart-centered women struggle with guilt, fear of disappointing others, or worry that boundaries will push people away.

But the truth is: boundaries don’t break relationships—they strengthen them. 💛

That’s why I created Sacred Boundaries: Scripts for Saying No with Love. It’s a free guide filled with gentle, real-life scripts you can start using today to:

🌿 Protect your energy without guilt🌿 Say no in a way that feels kind and authentic🌿 Ask for what you need—without overexplaining🌿 Create space for deeper, more respectful connections

This isn’t about being harsh or distant. It’s about finally honoring your needs while still showing up with love.

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