A profound psychedelic experience can change how someone sees their life, but what happens when they return to familiar relationships and routines?

Transformational coach Jessi Radobenko joins Paige and Jenna to explore psychedelic integration and the personal experiences that led her into this work. From navigating her husband's opioid addiction to recognizing the emotional struggles beneath her fitness clients' goals, Jessi shares how her understanding of healing evolved. Together, we explore preparation, fear, identity, and why the work after a journey matters so much to her.

IN THIS EPISODE:
☀️ Jessi's experience navigating her husband's opioid addiction, recovery, and learning to surrender control.
☀️ How her fitness coaching revealed deeper challenges involving self-worth, emotional eating, and identity.
☀️ Why ketamine therapy and psilocybin experiences sparked her curiosity about psychedelics.
☀️ The fears and questions Jessi faced before her first psychedelic journey with her husband.
☀️ What psychedelic integration coaching involves and how Jessi approaches the period after a journey.
☀️ How parts work, nervous system awareness, and everyday relationships connect with her coaching.

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What happens when the home you've worked so hard to own leaves you feeling more alone than ever?

Meghan Romain joins Paige and Jenna at Boho House Collective in Santa Barbara to share how she transformed her home into a gathering place for travelers, artists, musicians, and friends. From growing up in a woman-led family restaurant to raising three sons surrounded by people from around the world, Meghan explores how community living changed her understanding of success, motherhood, healing, and belonging.

IN THIS EPISODE:
☀️ How Meghan's childhood in a fourth-generation family restaurant shaped her understanding of community and belonging.
☀️ Why professional success and years of personal healing left her searching for deeper connection.
☀️ How she transformed her Santa Barbara property into Boho House Collective and embraced community living.
☀️ What raising three sons alongside international travelers has brought to her family's everyday life.
☀️ How music, gardening, and creative gatherings helped Meghan develop different circles of friendship.
☀️ The joys and challenges of sharing her home, including privacy, boundaries, motherhood, and perfectionism.

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Instagram: @‌BohoHouseSB

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After a horse-riding accident crushed three vertebrae and left Jennifer Love unable to walk, she faced questions that went far beyond physical recovery. What would make her feel whole? What did she want to carry forward? Jennifer joins Paige and Jenna to share how the accident changed her relationship with pain, money, identity, and legacy, including why she chose restorative justice instead of a lawsuit. She also shares the remarkable story of turning the titanium hardware from her spine into a butterfly.

IN THIS EPISODE:

☀️ Why Jennifer walked away from her CEO role at a successful company after realizing the company’s trajectory no longer felt aligned with the life she wanted to live

☀️ The horse-riding accident that crushed three vertebrae, her emergency spinal surgery, and the experience of learning to walk again

☀️ How meditation and staying present with physical pain became part of Jennifer’s personal recovery

☀️ Why Jennifer chose restorative justice instead of a lawsuit and what happened when she returned to sit down with the people from the ranch

☀️ The butterfly that appeared during rehabilitation and how Jennifer later turned the titanium rods and screws from her spine into a butterfly sculpture

☀️ How Jennifer’s experiences changed the way she thinks about money, wholeness, identity, conflict, and what it means to live your legacy

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Website: www.JenniferLove.com
Instagram: @thejenniferlove
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Four women, four paddleboards, 15 miles of the Colorado River, and one night sleeping beneath the walls of Horseshoe Bend. Paige and Jenna came home sore, tired, and already wanting another adventure. But what stayed with them most wasn’t the distance they paddled. It was how different life felt when there was nowhere else to be, very little to manage, and nothing filling the quiet.

IN THIS EPISODE:

☀️ How a goal to use Paige’s paddleboards more often eventually turned into four women camping beneath Horseshoe Bend

☀️ The surreal experience of seeing their campsite from the overlook one day, then looking back up at it from the Colorado River the next

☀️ Why having nowhere to be, no one needing anything from them, and almost nothing on the agenda became one of the best parts of the trip

☀️ What Paige and Jenna noticed when they took away the music, scrolling, schedules, and constant stimulation and let the canyon fill the quiet instead

☀️ The weather fears they carried into the trip, the preparation that helped them feel safer, and how previous outdoor adventures had slowly built their confidence

☀️ Why the sore shoulders, sleeping on the ground, and other discomforts weren’t really the point—and how the contrast made ordinary comforts at home feel completely different

MENTIONED / LINKS:

• Kayak the Colorado
• Paige and Alex's Backpacking Havasupai Vlog
• Luxefly Basecamp

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Kristina Rich danced constantly as a kid, but movement slowly faded from her life as adulthood became more serious. Years later, she intentionally returned to dance and discovered a way to express emotions she couldn't always put into words. Kristina joins Paige and Jenna for a conversation about dance as a healing practice, intuition, play, music, tarot, and learning to trust her own inner experience.

IN THIS EPISODE:
☀️ How returning to something she loved as a child changed Kristina's relationship with dance
☀️ Why movement became a way for Kristina to express emotions she couldn't always put into words
☀️ How silliness and play help people move past the fear of looking weird
☀️ The 22-month Archetypal Dance Adventure Kristina created around tarot's Major Arcana
☀️ How music can open access to different emotions and ways of moving
☀️ Why Kristina keeps thinking about intuition, outside influence, and recognizing which beliefs are truly her own

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Instagram @‌asha__kristina

Tarot in Space | Instagram @‌tarot.in.space

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Judy Smith spent nearly half her life with Jeremiah before losing him to suicide. Two and a half years later, she still loves him deeply. She is also dating again. Judy joins Paige and Jenna for an honest conversation about grief, memory, support, and making room for love after loss.

⚠️ This episode includes a discussion about suicide, suicide attempts, chronic pain, and the loss of a spouse. Please take care while reading or listening.

IN THIS EPISODE:

☀️ How Judy met Jeremiah at 19 and accidentally had their first date at Steak 'n Shake

☀️ The generosity and love Judy most wants people to remember about Jeremiah

☀️ Judy's experience losing her husband to suicide after years of attempts and chronic pain

☀️ What support actually felt meaningful during the earliest days of her grief

☀️ Turning 39 and becoming older than Jeremiah ever got to be

☀️ Dating again while continuing to love and talk about her late husband

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Bringing Simplicity | Instagram @‌thejudysmith

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We tried to record a completely different episode and couldn't do it. We were exhausted and creatively tapped out, yet our instinct was still to push through. That failed recording led us into a conversation about overfunctioning, what drives each of us to keep doing, and what we lose when a full life becomes too full.

IN THIS EPISODE:

☀️ Why we can become overwhelmed even when we're saying yes to things we genuinely want

☀️ The signs that tell each of us we've gone past our capacity

☀️ How productivity and being useful connect to our identities in different ways

☀️ What asking for help has looked like for each of us

☀️ Why we've managed to turn even rest and meditation into things to optimize

☀️ How we're thinking differently about balance during busy seasons

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Vanessa Royle didn’t stop drinking after a dramatic rock bottom. During COVID, panic attacks led her to experiment with cutting out alcohol, and she began noticing how much changed without it. Six years later, Vanessa shares how becoming sober curious reshaped her experience of anxiety, relationships, socializing, motherhood, and ultimately her trust in herself, while also inspiring the idea that became Tilden.

IN THIS EPISODE:

☀️ Why panic attacks during COVID led Vanessa to experiment with not drinking

☀️ Questioning alcohol without experiencing a dramatic rock bottom

☀️ Starting business school as someone who didn’t drink and finding new ways to socialize

☀️ Realizing that alcohol had sometimes helped Vanessa fill boredom and “speed up time”

☀️ How Vanessa’s search for a more thoughtful non-alcoholic option eventually became Tilden

☀️ What six years without alcohol has meant for Vanessa’s motherhood, confidence, and trust in herself

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Tilden | Vanessa’s LinkedIn

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