AAAAAAND e’re kicking off the year with one of my favorite humans on the planet and everyone’s favorite internet baddie: Isabel Taylor, my former therapist turned bestie and co-creator of A State to Create. This episode starts as a conversation about planning and quickly becomes what it actually needs to be: a real, grounded unpacking of clarity, vision, and what happens to your brain when the world (and your life) feels like too much.

You’ll walk away with a clearer understanding of how the default mode network, reticular activating system, and stress chemistry shape your creative process, plus AS ALWYAS practical tools to restore safety, widen your window of tolerance, and take micro-movements toward your vision without collapse.

Most people try to “think” their way into clarity. More journaling. More questions. More lists. More planning. But clarity isn’t a mindset hack — it’s neurophysiological. When your nervous system is under pressure, your brain prioritizes survival over future-thinking, which means the part of you that’s meant to imagine, plan, and create goes offline. We talk about what’s happening in the brain when you feel frozen, overwhelmed, or stuck in the “should / would / could” loop — and why “seeing possibility” is a luxury only a safe nervous system can access.

Listen when you’re

🐅 trying to plan your year but your brain keeps short-circuiting into overwhelm

🐅 sick of bullshit “clarity” content that ignores your nervous system

🐅 feeling frozen, foggy, or stuck in the should/would/could loop

🐅 ready to create from safety, not urgency (aka: somatic success)

🐅 feeling super nerdy and wanna learn about all the different parts of the brain that trigger clarity

We dive into:

🐅 Clarity is a state, not a thought — why your best ideas can’t land when your system feels unsafe.

🐅 Survival mode vs. future mode — how stress hijacks your brain’s capacity for vision, imagination, and planning.

🐅 Default Mode Network (DMN) — the “future self + possibility” network, and what it looks like when it’s offline.

🐅 Reticular Activating System (RAS) — the bouncer of perception: how your brain filters reality based on what it believes is possible.

🐅 Norepinephrine + focus — the “clarity chemistry” behind tunnel vision, brain fog, and strategic thinking.

🐅 Window of tolerance = creative capacity — how much you can hold before you tip into urgency, collapse, or shutdown.

🐅 Grounding + orienting (Somatic Experiencing® tools) — simple practices that restore safety fast (and actually work).

🐅 Micro-movements (titration) in creative entrepreneurship — why tiny actions build real momentum, identity, and nervous system capacity.

Links & Resources

→ Connect with Isabel on Instagram: @isabelgerorginataylor

→ Join us for ASTC! 25% spots already GONE

→ Snag one of the last spots for the retreat

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In this episode, I sit down with our resident astrologer / resident witch Kessli Hall, for a 2026 Insight. MY BABES, next year is giving baddie Olympics.

We zoom out to the big collective shifts: outer planets moving from water + earth into fire + air (yin → yang), aka: the end of “dreaming about it” and the beginning of doing it. We talk embodied leadership, why being seen trying is about to be cool again, why collaboration becomes non-negotiable, and what all of this means for business, visibility, community, and your message.

What we cover

• The collective weather report for 2026: from dreaming → doing
• Pluto in Aquarius + the collapse of guru/pyramid models (hello horizontal leadership)
• Saturn + Neptune in Aries: action-based authority, not status
• Uranus in Gemini: the future of message, media, storytelling, and “made by human”
• Jupiter in Leo: visibility, creativity, joy, and leadership as life-force
• Mercury retrogrades in water signs (check-in seasons, not “bad luck”)
• Why collaboration is basically mandatory, and why it’s the fastest portal to expansion

Links / Ways to work with Kess

• Equinox Mastermind (intimate leadership + identity work)
• Architected (tools + resources + ongoing support)
• The Mirror (her astrology-to-business AI tool + transit prompts)

PART TWOOOOO BINSHES!!! Too juicy to do one. In this episode, I sit with Ximena again for Part II of our conversation on eros, power, and what it really means to be fully alive in your, YOUR body.

We go into the myth of Lilith and Eve, why women’s desire has been treated as dangerous for thousands of years, fantasy novels as portals for reclaiming sensual power, and how witches, grandmothers, and “too much” women were historically punished for knowing too much and feeling too deeply.

We also explore capitalism’s invisible pact with women’s bodies, the difference between reclaiming power with others vs. climbing into patriarchal power over others, and why pleasure is political, ecological, and revolutionary.

UGH!

We talk about:

🦢 Lilith, Eve, the apple, and why “seeing the unseen” has always been punished in women

🦢 Witches, grandmothers, and the way women who know the earth get exiled and called crazy

🦢 The capitalist pact between productive work and reproductive labor (and how women’s bodies got drafted into it)

🦢 Fantasy novels, fairy smut, and why women are flocking back to sensual worlds written by women

🦢 Pleasure as a measure of freedom, and how systems profit from us being numbed out and exhausted

🦢 Power vs. patriarchal power: hierarchy, pedestals, and why some “feminine power” spaces still feel masculine

🦢 The body as first land: sovereignty over our flesh, our boundaries, our pleasure, and our aliveness

🦢 Eros as life force, present-moment pleasure vs. performing an optimized self

This is a conversation about women, yes—but really it’s about every human who’s tired of being OPTIMIZED and controlled, and is ready to remember that feeling deeply is not a liability. It’s the revolution baby!!!!

Hope you LOVE Ximena as much as I do bc I'm joining her ROOTED IMPACT group and so should youuuu!