This episode is one of those conversations that makes you stop and say,
"Holy fck… why doesn't everyone know this?" 🤯

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I'm sitting down with Dr. Don Wood — founder of The Inspired Performance Institute, global leader in trauma resolution, subconscious reprogramming, and human performance, and someone who has spent decades studying how trauma actually lives in the body and nervous system.

Dr. Wood has worked with everyone from elite performers to everyday humans who feel stuck, anxious, burned out, or trapped in patterns they can't seem to think their way out of. And what he shares in this episode (gently and powerfully) dismantles A LOT of what we've been taught about healing.

🎙️We talk about how trauma is stored in the subconscious nervous system, not the conscious mind, and why healing doesn't have to take years of struggle to be real or lasting. Dr. Wood explains how the body is always trying to return to safety and regulation, and what happens when we finally give it the right conditions to do so.

In this conversation, we explore: ⬇️

– Why trauma isn't the event, but the unresolved stress response
– How the subconscious runs our patterns, behaviors, and reactions
– The nervous system's role in anxiety, burnout, performance, and identity
– Why many healing approaches unintentionally keep people stuck
– What true trauma resolution feels like in the body
– Why healing doesn't need to hurt to work
– And the most important reminder: your system is not broken — it's adaptive

⚡This episode is grounding, eye-opening, and incredibly validating. If you've ever felt like you've "done all the work" but still don't feel free… this conversation may shift something deep inside you.

Take your time with this one. Let it land.

Learn more about Dr. Don Wood HERE
Instagram: @drdonwood
Website: HERE

And if this episode sparks something for you — questions, reflections, or a full-body holy fck moment — come tell me. DM me on IG @christinebanno. I love hearing what lands for you and continuing the conversation there. xx, CB

Friends… this episode cracked me wide open in the best way.

After taking a full year off the podcast (yes… a whole year), I knew that when I came back, it had to be with someone who could meet me in the raw, the real, and the holy-f***-what-is-my-life moments we all move through. Enter: Samuel Gegen.

If you don't already follow Samuel (@samuelgegen on IG… go do that) 😏, he's one of those people who carries a kind of grounded power that only comes from being completely stripped down by life — and choosing to rise anyway. His story is WILD. One minute he's leading the sales department inside a major corporate role, feeling like he's "made it," and the next… he's being walked out the door with zero warning. Identity gone. Career gone. Safety net? ✨Nonexistent ✨

And instead of letting it break him, he let it build him.

In our conversation, we talked about:

what actually happens in those moments where everything falls apart — the shock, the shame, the ego death, the "who the hell am I now?" spirals — and how those moments become the exact portal into the work you're meant to be doing in the world.

Samuel opens up about rebuilding from scratch, stepping into coaching, trusting his calling (even when it made no logical sense), and learning to hold his own power without external validation. And we riff on all the uncomfortable, beautiful, necessary things that come with choosing the path of entrepreneurship: identity work, confidence, mentorship, sales, calling, clarity, and the truth about what it really takes to build something that feels aligned with your soul.

⚡This one is honest. It's tender. It's surprisingly funny.
And it's a reminder that your biggest breakdowns often become the start of your biggest breakthroughs.

If this episode hits you — and I think it will — come tell me on Instagram @christinebanno. I love hearing what lands for you.

To explore more of Samuel's work (and truly… you should):
Instagram: @samuelgegen
Website: samuelgegen.com

📣 If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a 5-star rating and/or a review! It means the world to me and helps more people find the stories that might shift them. xx — CB

Friends.. Do I have a banger episode for you today 👇🏼.

I interviewed my AMAZING client and Somatic Coach, Anna Gouin, who specializes in helping women heal trauma, their sexuality and get in right relationship with their bodies. Boy, is she ever a welath of knowledge and her story into her recent dark decent is FIRE.

She was initiated into her own deep healing journey and came out with so much magic and power it is soooo juicy to listen to her story.

We cover:

• The Nervous System - what it is, the layers, and how it impacts every part of your life.
• Why so many women are numbed out in sex and their bodies.
• How Anna's shadow got her into all sorts of relationships and situations that were not aligned.
• Healing and how it leads to purpose.

AND SOOOOO MUCH MORE.

📣 If you enjoyed this episode please Subscribe, leave a 5 star rating and/or a review! It means the world to me to have your support and it helps other people find it who may benefit! xx - CB

If you desire to learn more about Anna and the amazing work she does in this world, you can find out more below:

Website : https://www.annagouin.com

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/annagouin/

Her AMAZING NEW COURSE: https://www.annagouin.com/bodyliteracy

🙋‍♀️ If you enjoyed this episode please share it!! I love to repost your comments on IG too so please tag @christinebanno HERE and tell me what you're biggest takeaway was!

FRIENDS.. I'M BACK.... SEASON 2 BABYYYYYYYYYYY!

AND... I'M HAVING SURGERY TOMORROW EEK!! 🙈👯‍♀️

I am so excited to be back with you and I have soooo many amazing interviews and mini riff's to share with you.

In this episode 👉 I give you a rundown of my past 7 months, what I've been up to, how my business has massively shifted, divorce, Tulum, closing trauma loops and so much more.

I also talk about my newest venture "Club Unhinged" that I co-founded with my epic gf Kelsey Grant (check her out HERE) We started another podcast together (check it out on Apple HERE and Spotify HERE) this is an absolute zinger and these conversations will not only be of massive value to you (we literally spit magic every-time) but also make you laugh your ass off.

As I mentioned, our CLUB is currently closed, but we will be opening our doors this Fall. Message me or Kels on IG to be put on the waitlist or you can email me christine@christinebanno.com for me to manually add you. We will have fun giveaways, journal prompts, AND behind the scenes looks as we build this movement (and empire).

We can't wait to share more and help you build your "hot, rich & thriving life".

As always, if you can please share, like, rate and review the podcast it means the world to me. If you know anyone who may benefit from this episode, please share it with them and spread the love.

I missed you guys! I'm always here to chat if you like!

CB XXXX

Hi friends. Dropping this short and sweet episode live on Christmas Eve. This is the first year of my marriage separation and my kids are with their Dad. It's been a weird and wonderful time and I am sharing a short riff on how and why I am actually ok, the importance of feeling your feelings and why I'm leaving 2023 in the past and deciding what I want to bring forward into the New Year. Time for some last minute wrapping, doordash and some journaling and reflection.

Sending so much love to you this holiday season, and to anyone transitioning your life, in a divorce, break up, separation etc it can be a wild, triggering, yet transformative time to be with yourself and cultivate a deep and loving relationship.

If you found this helpful, please share, DM me on IG HERE, or email me at christine@christinebanno.com and let me know any takeaways or how you are navigating any changes. Also, if you are into live coaching on the podcast give me a holler xx

Lots of love,

Christine

In this episode, I sit down with Jessica Turner, a new, fiery entrepreneur, ex corporate strategist (and former Shark Club Bar Server with me 🤪) who shares her experience of attending my recent Whistler retreat (yes the one I just held a few weeks ago) and the deep healing moment we had together in a group session that rocked 25 years of trauma out of her body her and unlocked her magnetism.

⚡️YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS EPISODE.⚡️

We also cover:

• How we met 10+ years ago working at a bar together and how not only did we not jive, but I was cold and standoff ish to her.. oh how the univese brings things full circle 🤣.
• How she can finally pause and enjoy where she's at VS always "going/being in fight /flight) knowing she's enough and that she'll always be ok!
• Jess's healing and mindset mastery journey and how she made the scary leap to entrpreneurship post corporate career.
• How the Universe finally took the reigns and layed her off her job to get her on 'the path" to her highest calling.
• Her journey of solo travelling for a year with her french bulldog Bently, and how that trip broke her open and challenged her beyond belief to meet the parts of herself she'd been ignoring/rejecting.
• How her breakthrough at the retreat has impacted her life and business! *She is literally a new woman!*

PLUS SO MUCH MORE!!

If you enjoyed this episode please Subscribe, leave a 5 star rating and review! It means the world to me to have your support, and it helps other people find it who may benefit! xx - CB

If you desire to learn more about Jessica and the amazing work she does in this world, you can find out more below:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-turner

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/jessica.a.turner/

If you enjoyed this episode please share it!! I love to repost your comments on IG too so please tag @christinebanno HERE and tell me what you're biggest takeaway was!

Hi friends.. this morning I was standing on the dock on a pristine lake in Whistler and I asked my soul what she would have me know.. I heard this.. "get back to basics, and celebrate everything". I walked back towards my car and heard "turn around.. go back to the dock and share this with people", so here I am.. sharing with you, my amazing community. I hope something in there resonates for you, as it did for me 💛.

Also...

If you desire to join us for my Whistler Wellness Retreat next weekend (Nov 24th-26th) email me now at christine@christinebanno.com

Connect w/ me and learn more.. 2 spots left xx

-CB Xx

**P.S. If you know anyone who might benefit from this episode or podcast, please share, like, subscribe and or leave a review.. it truly helps me spread the word xx

In this episode, I sit down with Brooke Jean, a therapist, recovering perfectionist & busy working Mom on a mission to normalize normal and love life, unPERFECTED.

Brooke is a MF Firecracker (and recent SOUL SISTER of mine) who shares her deep, raw story of life in 2012 when she was 33 and had a unexpected spiritual awakening after being so close (physically, mentally and emotionally) to the trauma of the Aurora Theatre Shooting in Colorado, where she lost a work team member. That started the beginning of so many pivots toward her healing, purpose and magic!

THIS WOMAN IS MF MAGIC 🤌🏼

⚡️YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS EPISODE.⚡️

We also cover:

• How she left her successful career in corporate America to follow her dreams and how she navigated that scary AF change.
• The story we collectively are fed, that success is linear (even if we are burnout and unhappy) and how we can find freedom on the other side of perfection.
• How we both learnt to sit with uncomfortable emotions, our inner child and angry "teen" AND the ability to re-parent ourselves is the real MF flex in life and creates a happy healthy human.
• How to navigate the VOID - that F'd up space that comes when you ditch the past, but not yet anchored in your future "you".
• How our soul is always calling us back home if we are willing to dissolve our limiting bullshit and listen to our intuition.
• How her journey had to weave the way it did - how to trust the process when you feel like life is F*cked and your world is imploding.

PLUS SO MUCH MORE!!

📣 If you enjoyed this episode please Subscribe, leave a 5 star rating and/or a review! It means the world to me to have your support and it helps other people find it who may benefit! xx - CB

If you desire to learn more about Brooke and the amazing work she does in this world, you can find out more below:

Website : www.liveunperfected.com

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/brookejeanunperfected/

🙋‍♀️ If you enjoyed this episode please share it!! I love to repost your comments on IG too so please tag @christinebanno HERE and tell me what you're biggest takeaway was!