This is part two of my life story — and it's the chapter I've never shared this openly before.

In this episode I take you through leaving my mother's home to move in with my father, whose addiction shaped everything about the environment I grew up in. I share my introduction to drugs at thirteen, how I started selling to support my habit, my first real relationship and the heartbreak that sent me into a spiral, and how by sixteen I was selling hundreds of pills a week and making thousands of dollars — until the night I was robbed at gunpoint and nearly beaten to death, and what followed after that.

This one is heavy. But it's real. And if you've been with me since the beginning, this is where a lot of what I teach started to take shape — even though I couldn't see it yet.

If you're in a relationship with an avoidant man and you can't figure out why he keeps pulling away no matter what you do I want to share something with you that most people in this space won't tell you.

Your anxious attachment and his avoidant attachment are the same pattern. You're both avoiding intimacy. You're both afraid of the same thing. The only difference is how you're expressing it. He runs. You chase. But underneath both of those behaviors is the exact same wound.

And here's what that means practically — every time you pursue him, you're activating the very thing that makes him pull away. And every time he pulls away, he's activating the very thing that makes you chase harder. You're not opposites. You're mirrors.

Here, I'm breaking down exactly how this pattern works out in real life and what it means to love an avoidant man into staying.

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One of my best performing episodes — and honestly, one of the most important conversations I’ve had on this show.

We’ve all been there. You meet someone, you like them, and before you even know if you actually want them, you’re already attached, already dreaming, already trying to make them yours. And that energy — that grasping, that scarcity — is the very thing that destroys the opportunity before it has a chance to become something real.

In this episode I break down why we do this, what’s actually driving it, and how to stop. There’s also a Q&A section at the end where I answer listener questions on the topic.

If you’ve ever found yourself obsessing over someone in the early stages of dating — this one is for you.

You watched him leave. And then you watched him move on — faster than you expected, happier than you thought he'd be, with someone who seems to be everything you thought you were supposed to be to him. And the question that's been living in the back of your mind ever since is a simple one.

Why her and not me.

This episode is designed to answer that question. Because the relationship came into your life for a reason. When you really understand what that reason is, everything else that happened will make sense too.

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I met with Erin and Sarah Foster — the real-life sisters behind Netflix's Nobody Wants This — for a wide-ranging conversation on the most potent relationship challenges we all face and a powerful breakdown of my Relational Blueprint system.

Listen to the full episode. Click below to listen on Apple or Spotify or search for The World's First Podcast on any major platform and look for the episode "How Not To Be a Doormat"

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There's a pattern running your relationships right now and you didn't choose it. You learned it before you were old enough to evaluate whether what you were learning was true.

And here's what makes it so hard to change — it's not that you don't know it's there. Most women who carry these patterns have read the books, done the therapy, understand the concept. The problem is that the pattern doesn't live in your intellect. It lives in your nervous system. And knowing something is there doesn't automatically give you the ability to move.

Today I'm sharing the four childhood experiences that create the four Relational Blueprints — the origin stories behind why you do what you do with men, why certain patterns keep repeating no matter how hard you try, and what it actually takes to change them. By the end of this episode you'll know which one is yours. And knowing where the stake was placed is the first step toward finally being able to pull it out.

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For my most dedicated listeners — the ones who have been here since the beginning and want to know the full context behind this work — this is the complete story. From my birth to the birth of my daughter, to be released in monthly installments over the next few months.

I've shared pieces of it over the years. This is the first time I'm sharing all of it — including the parts I've never shared before.

Join me through the journey of my conditioning, my liberation, and ultimately my creation.

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My wife recently shared that every relationship she had before ours feels insignificant by comparison. That what she thought love was back then just wasn't really love at all. I understood exactly what she meant — because I feel the same way.

In today's episode I'm breaking down the four types of love, why most of them lead nowhere, and what the only starting point capable of becoming lasting love actually looks like. If you've ever wondered why the most intense connections seem to burn out the fastest, or why the quieter path to love might actually be the more real one, this episode is for you.