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Is Your Way In Your Way?

Cassandra Crawley Mayo

140 episodes

18 hours ago

Send us a text Some stories don’t just inspire—they recalibrate what you believe is possible. Today we sit down with Dr. Sue McCready, a pediatrician who turned her hardest season into a blueprint for thriving. After multiple miscarriages, a vivid dream pointed to clotting. Baby aspirin, acupuncture, and a deeper dive into methylation genetics helped her welcome a healthy child—and transformed the way she serves women through midlife and beyond. We unpack the practical and the profound. Sue ...

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Self-Improvement

Religion & Spirituality,

Entrepreneurship

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Send us a text Some stories don’t just inspire—they recalibrate what you believe is possible. Today we sit down with Dr. Sue McCready, a pediatrician who turned her hardest season into a blueprint for thriving. After multiple miscarriages, a vivid dream pointed to clotting. Baby aspirin, acupuncture, and a deeper dive into methylation genetics helped her welcome a healthy child—and transformed the way she serves women through midlife and beyond. We unpack the practical and the profound. Sue ...

Show more...

Self-Improvement

Religion & Spirituality,

Entrepreneurship

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Is Your Way In Your Way?

Gifts In Unlikely Moments

Send us a text Some stories don’t just inspire—they recalibrate what you believe is possible. Today we sit down with Dr. Sue McCready, a pediatrician who turned her hardest season into a blueprint for thriving. After multiple miscarriages, a vivid dream pointed to clotting. Baby aspirin, acupuncture, and a deeper dive into methylation genetics helped her welcome a healthy child—and transformed the way she serves women through midlife and beyond. We unpack the practical and the profound. Sue ...

18 hours ago

51 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

From Addiction To Surrender

Send us a text What if the very thing that keeps tripping you is the doorway to freedom? Cassandra sits down with author and spiritual director Jessica Morris for a soul-deep conversation about addiction, faith, and the surprising grace of surrender. Jessica grew up in an alcoholic family, carried the wound of being called “a mistake,” and learned to survive with food and alcohol. The turning points came through brave love: a sister who set a boundary, a counselor who named the blockage, and ...

1 week ago

49 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Joy As A Strategy

Send us a text What if your breakthrough doesn’t come from pushing harder, but from reclaiming joy as your operating system? We sit down with strategist and licensed therapist Nicole Van Valen, founder of Keen Insights and author of The Joyful Leader, to explore a practical path out of burnout and into purpose-driven performance. Nicole brings 25+ years across healthcare, behavioral health, and corporate leadership, blending mental health expertise with real-world tools leaders can use when t...

2 weeks ago

47 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Midlife, Rewritten

Send us a text Ever feel like you’re doing “all the right things” for your health and still spinning your wheels? We open up a different path with health strategist and Grace & Grit host Courtney Townley—one that trades perfection for practical skills and turns midlife into a launchpad rather than a slowdown. Instead of chasing one-off outcomes, we build the foundations that make change stick: honest awareness, smart organization, reliable follow-through, and the courage to realign withou...

2 weeks ago

49 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Divinely Written

Send us a text We explore how fierce grace turns breaking points into breakthroughs, and why reframing pain can unlock purpose, faith, and agency. Jesse Torres shares tools to identify current limits, trace their roots, and rescript meaning so action becomes sustainable. • defining the stuck feeling and why knowledge without healing fails • Jesse’s story of survival, loss, faith and a kindness that changed everything • arguing with reality vs accepting and choosing new meaning • three pillar...

1 month ago

47 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Breaking the Silence: Understanding Grief Beyond Death

Send us a text Grief specialist Ligia Houben shares powerful insights about common misconceptions surrounding grief, revealing how it extends beyond death to include divorce, job loss, health changes, and even lost security. This enlightening conversation explores the 11 principles of transformation that guide people from pain to healing with practical tools and compassionate understanding. • Thanatology is the study of death and dying in a society that often avoids these topics • Grief mani...

1 month ago

50 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

The Reason Why We Are Single

Send us a text Love alchemist Sanaiya Gurnamal reveals why high-achieving women struggle to find love and how healing inner "love blocks" can transform relationship patterns. • The common denominator in disappointing relationships is ourselves, not our partners • Five love blocks prevent healthy relationships: commitment phobias, people pleasers, runaway brides, caretakers, and memory chasers • Childhood experiences and past relationships shape our love blocks and relationship patterns • Sel...

1 month ago

48 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

How to Achieve What You Only Dream About

Send us a text Cassandra Crawley-Mayo welcomes resilience expert Charisse Walker, who shares her journey from childhood trauma to becoming an author, Emmy-nominated TV host, and real estate powerhouse while raising six children. • Understanding how childhood experiences shape adult behaviors and success patterns • Converting rejection and trauma into motivation for achievement and helping others • Taking strategic action instead of waiting for perfect timing to pursue dreams • Breaking free ...

1 month ago

38 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Beyond Religion: Finding Freedom in Faith with Desiree Taylor

Send us a text Desiree Taylor shares her powerful journey from progressive hearing loss to ministry leader, demonstrating how our perceived limitations can become our greatest strengths when we move beyond religion to relationship with God. • Desiree experienced progressive hearing loss starting around age 3-4, receiving her first hearing aid at age 9 • Growing up with hearing loss led to feelings of isolation, insecurity, depression and anger • After walking away from faith as a teenager, D...

2 months ago

34 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Unlocking Joy Through Creative Mess

Send us a text Susan Hensley reveals how art journaling and creative play can transform our approach to life's biggest challenges by shifting us from perfectionism to freedom, from fear to curiosity. We explore how even 10 minutes of deliberate mess-making can bypass our inner critic and unlock solutions our analytical brain can't find. • Perfectionism and left-brain dominance keep us stuck in patterns of self-criticism and fear • The brain science behind creativity shows how right-brain act...

2 months ago

44 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Joy as a Discipline

Send us a text Sandy Joy Weston shares her transformative approach to mindset shifting through movement, words, and laughter in just 1-3 minutes daily. Drawing from her challenging childhood in the projects and experience with her mother's mental health struggles, Sandy reveals how her belief in "five angels" and daily practices helped her overcome obstacles and create lasting joy. • Sandy grew up in the projects with a mother who spent time in mental institutions, but maintained an innate b...

2 months ago

51 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

The Power of Becoming: Transforming Your Identity and Self-Worth

Send us a text Brandy Douglas Corcoran shares her powerful journey from wearing a mask to survive daily life to helping women discover their authentic selves through transformational self-discovery. • Childhood experiences shape our identity and the stories we tell ourselves • Trauma can create limiting beliefs that become "the water we swim in" • Labels from others often become internalized as our identity • Awareness is the first step to changing limiting beliefs and behaviors • Emotional ...

2 months ago

44 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

From Childhood Visions to Death Doula: Helen Gretchen Jones' Journey of Spiritual Awareness and Transformation

Send us a text This episode explores the themes of dying, death, and spiritual awareness through a heartfelt conversation with death doula Helen Gretchen Jones. We delve into the importance of connection, grief, and the lessons learned from those nearing the end of life, encouraging listeners to embrace vulnerability and open discussions about mortality. • Discussion of the role and importance of a death doula • Insights on hospice care and its often misunderstood benefits • Personal stor...

2 months ago

56 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Men's Inner Battles

Send us a text Many women encounter emotional gaps in relationships, not because their partners don't care, but because societal norms have taught men to suppress vulnerability. This episode offers deeper insight into how both men and women can break generational cycles and improve connection. • Therapist Kristal DeSantis shares her journey from relationship novice to marriage expert • Understanding attachment styles and relational trauma is crucial for healthy partnerships • Men and women s...

3 months ago

48 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Persistence: The Silent Force of Transformation

Send us a text Michelle Nazat shares how persistence and consistency in Bible reading transformed her life, leading to 500+ podcast episodes and a published novel. She reveals that small, daily commitments to God's Word create the foundation for significant personal and spiritual transformation over time. • Bible study becomes transformative when we look for God's character rather than just seeking answers for ourselves • Michelle's podcast "More Than a Song" uses Christian music as an entry...

3 months ago

53 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Turning Pain into Purpose: A Survivor's Guide

Send us a text Johanna Crawford shares her journey from domestic violence survivor to founder of Web of Benefit, which provided grants to help over 10,000 survivors reclaim their lives and define their dreams. • Developing a "Dream Proposal" methodology that helps women identify career, housing, transportation, travel and self-care dreams • Moving from thinking small to dreaming big — envisioning the life you truly deserve • Understanding that self-forgiveness is the foundation for worthines...

3 months ago

47 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Breaking Masks: The Cost of High-Functioning Anxiety

Send us a text Dr. Ebony Stone shares her powerful journey from high-functioning anxiety in corporate America to finding freedom through intentional pauses. She reveals how success became a beautifully decorated mask for her internal struggles until her body forced her to stop. • Defining success by external achievements and tying identity to being "the smart girl" • The reality of looking composed on the outside while crumbling on the inside • How high-functioning anxiety often affect...

3 months ago

48 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Breaking Free: Dismantling Your Inner Barriers

Send us a text Ever found yourself stuck in patterns you can't seem to break? Maybe it's procrastination, toxic relationships, or simply not pursuing dreams you know you want. What if these patterns aren't character flaws but symptoms of limiting beliefs formed during childhood? In this transformative conversation with Blake Lefkoe, we explore how the invisible beliefs we formed as children continue to dictate our adult behaviors and emotions. Blake shares her remarkable journey from addicti...

3 months ago

52 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

Healing Your Inner Child

Send us a text Alicia Farricielli shares how healing your inner child wounds can unlock emotional freedom and help you move past feeling stuck in life. • Discussing what keeps people stuck and why childhood experiences play a crucial role in our adult behaviors • Understanding the impact of growing up in fear-based environments on self-worth and decision-making • Reaching rock bottom with burnout, depression and contemplating suicide before beginning the healing journey • Working with therap...

4 months ago

41 minutes

Is Your Way In Your Way?

The Art of Being Your Own Best Friend

Send us a text What if you could transform the harshest critic you'll ever face—the voice inside your own head? In this deeply insightful conversation, attorney-turned-coach Arlene Cohen Miller shares powerful strategies for shifting your inner dialogue from destructive criticism to supportive coaching. Research suggests we have between 7,000-20,000 thoughts daily, with an astonishing 80% being negative. This constant internal criticism keeps many of us stuck, unable to pursue dreams like wr...

4 months ago

41 minutes