On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we are in conversation with Amelia Hruby, the founder of Softer Sounds and the host of the podcast, Off the Grid. Amelia is an expander for Megan for building a business off of social media, and in their conversation, they explore living your life based off your values and frameworks for value aligned action for life and business.
In this episode, we connect on:
1:15 | Meg shares her serendipitous story of how she became connected to Amelia + how it was a little universe wink
7:30 | Meg shares Taylor Elyse Morrison of Inner Workout description of Amelia
9:45 | Amelia shares a bit about herself
12:00 | Amelia on resisting overworking and prioritizing pleasure
18:45 | Amelia’s journey off of social media
21:15 | Using human design to guide your career choices
24:00 | Action brings clarity
28:30 | On going against the grain
31:15 | The process to identify your values
32:00 | Alignment Course with Maggie Batista
33:30 | Framework for living your life in accordance with your values
46:15 | Self trust + entrepreneurship
50:15 | Jennifer Armbrust + Proposals for a Feminine Economy
50:45 | Embodying Abundance Course
53:45 | Orienting her life around fun
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Where to Find Her: Softer Sounds
Amelia Hruby is a writer, educator and podcaster with a PhD in philosophy. She is the founder & executive producer of Softer Sounds, a feminist podcast studio that supports women & nonbinary small business owners. And she’s the host of Off the Grid, a podcast about leaving social media without losing all your clients.
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On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, Megan explores the fear of failure, the different ways it can motivate our behaviors, and helpful reframes if this is something you are struggling with.
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On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, Megan explores the topic of soft ambition.
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On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, Megan shares the approachable and intentional ways she has been making more space for fun, play and creativity in her life. If you want to orient your life towards more JOY, listen to this episode.
In this episode, we connect on:
2:00 | Megan shares her story from burnout to prioritizing enjoying the journey
6:00 | Megan shares her favorite ways to play and have fun
7:00 | Her recommendations for the best books to read to inspire play + creativity
7:45 | How the Industrial Revolution changed the way we view time
8:30 | Time + value equation
11: 30 | How distractions make us feel like we have a time deficient
15:15 | A reframe if you feel guilty for “not being productive”
18:30 | Price’s 3 ingredients of “True Fun”
20:15 | Fun audit
24:30 | Novelty = fun
26:00 | The evolutionary reason behind why we play
26:15 | Summer bucket list trend
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On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we are exploring the topic of how to infuse more play, creativity, and fun into our everyday lives with Emily Eisenhart - an Austin based multidisciplinary artist, designer and muralist.
In this episode, we connect on:
15:00 | On her definition of creativity + play
16:00 | “Make believe is just thinking”
19:15 | On shifting out of the self belief that “I am not creative”
21:30 | Exploring why play + creativity are important
27:15 | On finding flow
28:45 | Exploring creative rhythms and the concept of “fallow”
38:15 | Stretching time
51:30 | Color theory
58:45 | Key elements of play + creativity
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Where to Find Her: @emily.eisenhart and www.emilyeisenhart.com
Emily Eisenhart is a multidisciplinary artist and designer. She is constantly exploring, and her work is heavily inspired by the textures, patterns, colors, and stories around her. While painting is her forte, she has illustrated on all scales, from small portraits to expansive 7-story murals, and has designed everything from bespoke hotel wallpaper to custom bicycle wraps, boutique wine labels to vibrant residential commissions. She has collaborated with partners of all kinds, from brands like Warby Parker, YETI, Whole Foods, and Lululemon, to real estate developers, architects, interior designers, and individuals looking for contemporary artwork for their offices, studios, and private residences. Prior to opening her own studio, she cut her teeth at the world class design firm IDEO where she worked with clients such as Nike, Microsoft, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we are in conversation with Ava Johanna - the CEO and Founder of The Academy of Breath - a breathwork and meditation certification that has trained hundreds on these life changing practices.
As both Scorpios, we go deep in this episode. Ava shares her story of allowing her life to come undone in 2021- the dissolving of her marriage, the ending of longtime friendships, and starting over after moving to a new city. We chat about the power of self trust and radical self honesty, especially in moments of massive transition. We also chat about how to receive and money mindset shifts she now embodies after experiencing homelessness as a teenager. She's so powerful, and I can't wait for you to hear her story.
The next round of the Academy of Breath opens in late June. Check out details here!
In this episode, we connect on:
13:15 | The duality of the fear of being seen and a deep desire to be seen at the same time
14:00 | Sharing her story of allowing her life to come undone in 2021- dissolving her marriage, moving to a new city and, the changing of longtime friendships
18:00 | Finding herself in the moment of choosing a life that’s “good enough” or one that truly lights her up
22:00 | Practices that helped her step into the “unknown”
26:00 | Moments of massive transition can lead to us outsourcing our power or looking for validation on our decisions
29:15 | How to build self trust
32:15 | On mindful consumption
33:45 | The difference between fear and our intuition
40:15 | Questioning if we need moments of contraction in order to expand
41:00 | The power of being radically honest with ourselves
44:30 | How we can use activating breathwork practices to better manage stress in our lives
48:30 | Her internal and external shifts that she took to create financial success after experiencing homelessness and financial trauma
56:45 | Practices that open you up to receiving
01:01 | How to move from the comparison trap
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Where to Find Her: @avajohanna and The Academy of Breath
What’s Next: Ava’s *free* Iconic Coach training starts on 6/14. The Academy of Breath opens June 29th! Check out details here.
Ava Johanna is the founder of the international breathwork teacher training, The Academy of Breath™, 7-figure business coach, and host of the top wellness podcast: The Alchemized Life.
Ava’s Academy of Breath™ has certified hundreds of healers & visionaries from around the world in breathwork & meditation so they can create a soul aligned & profitable business with service at the forefront of their purpose. Ava has helped her students leverage meditation and breathwork as a tool for deeper self trust, intuition and creativity to help grow their careers. Today Ava is sought after for her expertise in teaching healers & visionaries how to take ancient practices into the modern world to enhance their spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical states.
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On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we are in conversation with Lucy Green of Homebody Club - a space for embodied and accessible well-being for all bodies. At age 7, she was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and in her early adult years, she was diagnosed with Lupus, Anxiety and Chronic Fatigue. She created Homebody Club® in 2018 as a comprehensive, accessible well-being resource for all bodies.
In our conversation, we both connect on our heath challenges and the transformative practices that have helped us support our mental, emotional and physical well-being.
In this episode, we connect on:
13:15 | The mission of Homebody Club
23:30 | How we find connection with our bodies
24:45 | Hypervilgance trauma response + our health
31:45 | Breathwork + cold plunges to activate stress response and regulate nervous system
42:00 | Our takes on manifesting "bad things"
57:00 | What "clean rest" means
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Where to Find Her: @homebodyclub and her website
Lucy Green is the founder of Homebody Club, a space for embodied and accessible well-being for all bodies, to guide you back home, to yourself.
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Megan shares her “slow life” fantasy and the mindset and behavioral shifts she’s making to embody the essence of it in her everyday.
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Taylor Elyse Morrison, founder of Inner Workout and author of a book by same name, and our host and founder, Megan Shekleton connect on her new book and explore:
The 5 dimensions of well-being and self-care practices for each
How you can experience burn-out building something you love + what to do if you are feeling burnt out
Why Taylor recommends self experiments vs. self goals
Building businesses that feel good to the lifestyles we are wanting to live
Our hot takes on the coaching industry and how a lot of the marketing in the space is icky/ unethical
In this episode, we connect on:
03:00 | Some recent universe signs
13:15 | Self care is listening within and responding in the most loving way possible
20:30 | The case for self experiments vs. self goals
25:15 | The five dimensions of well-being
30:15 | The importance of rest + time poverty
35:15 | On how the intention behind the action matters
46:45 | On experiencing burn out while buildings things that they love
55:15 | Basing her decisions today on her crone self
01:06 | Out hot takes on the coaching industry
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Taylor Elyse Morrison is an author, facilitator, and coach making well-being and personal development more accessible. Through her company Inner Workout and her book of the same name, Taylor supports people’s journey to know, care for, and become their full selves.
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Can we learn or grow without going through the hard stuff? Do we have to experience pain in order to grow, expand, or integrate new perspectives or wisdom? Do we need “bad” situations in order to become a better version of ourselves? Megan shares 3 tips to grow from a place of intentionality vs. only in response to painful experiences.
In this episode, we connect on:
01:45 | Can we learn and grow without the painful moments?
03:00 | Most of us are living life on autopilot
06:15 | The rock bottom moments can be our wake up call
09:00 | How to grow from a place of intentionality vs. reaction
14:00 | If we aren’t prioritizing time with ourselves, we are likely living on autopilot
15:15 | The importance of daily inner connection time
18:30 | How the Industrial Revolution shifted how we viewed time
20:30 | The art of detachment
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Feeling stuck, frustrated, and wanting to make a shift in your life but unclear on what that looks like? Waiting for clarity to drop in is a big in-between moment, but a necessary part of growing into our most expansive selves. In order to expand into our Wider Vision, we first must get clear on where we want to go, what we’d like to create more of in our life, and a plan to get us there.
In this episode, our host and life coach, Megan Shekleton, shares practical tips, mindset shifts, and actionable steps you can take to welcome clarity into your life.
In this episode, we connect on:
3:00 | Why not having clarity can feel so frustrating and a big obstacle – our brains are primed for certainty
4:00 | Tapping into the feminine energy of receiving to welcome clarity and the difference between the being and doing energy
7:45 | How you don’t need the full roadmap to take the first step
8:45 | First tip: think about what you don’t want and then shift to its opposite
13:00 | Why following your curiosities is an important step in the process
16:30 | Are you making space to spend time inquiring about the question?
19:00 | Finding meaning in the waiting
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On today’s show, we have Leah Pellegrini of The Core Stories - an astrologer, writer, writing coach, and organic farmer. Back in late Fall, our host and founder, Megan Shekleton, had an amazing natal chart reading with her and knew that she had to have her on the show.
So much ground was covered:
How astrology and farming helped her form a deeper connection to herself and her body
How to discover your big three in astrology and the importance of your rising sign and your Chiron placement
What to do if you are feeling stuck and how to move into another space
How nature can be a mirror for our internal and emotional experiences
In this episode, we connect on:
1:30 | Dr. Jennifer Freed + Psychological Astrology
10:45 | How her ancestors paved the way for her today
13:15 | The beginning of her career journey and healing from eating disorder
19:15 | How we are never as stuck as we think we are
21:45 | Follow what activities feel good + your curiosity
23:15 | Using nature as a metaphor for our internal worlds
24:30 | What to do if you are feeling stuck
29:15 | Discovering farming and astrology after starting her healing from disordered eating
37:30 | Favorite practices to deepen connection to the body as a vessel for pleasure and love
43:45 | What is psychological astrology
46:00 | Internal family systems + inner child work
47:45 | Astrology as a tool for self acceptance
1:00 | Chiron+ the power of this placement
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Where to Find Her: @thecorestories and her website
Leah Pellegrini (she/her) is a writer, writing coach, and astrologer who moonlights as an organic farmer. Her work centers on growth, grounding, and regenerative healing, both personal and collective, with a focus on storytelling as an essential culture-changing tool. Leah currently lives on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land, otherwise known as San Francisco, California, with her partner Lauren and their dog named Tomato.
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On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we are in conversation with Adriana Urbina - an award-winning Venezuelan Chef, the Founder of Tepuy Collective, + 3x Winner of the Food Network’s “Chopped.”
In addition to her 12 years of restaurant experience, including Michelan star restaurants, Adriana founded her company “Tepuy Collective “- a platform that connects minority owned food businesses with brands and corporations to create unique culinary events.
In our conversation, we get courageously vulnerable on her journey – and the internal and external transformations that have led her to where she is today. We talk about following those heart-led nudges and dreams, overcoming the fear of rejection and really putting yourself out there, her experience in approaching motherhood, our driving forces behind our motivations, and much more.
In this episode, we connect on:
06:45 | The importance of being open to receive
07:30 | Adriana’s background + upbringing
11:00 | How at 18 she moved across the world to train with a Michelin star chef
12:15 | How to move forward with our dreams even without full confidence or clarity
21:00 | Tools for moving beyond Imposter Syndrome + how she utilized them while competing on Chopped
23:00 | The power of putting yourself out there; she reached out to Eater multiple times before getting her feature, which led to Chopped
25:15 | How to deal with rejection and getting a “no”
38:30 | On motherhood + what insights she has learned so far
48:30 | How to get clarity on our needs
52:30 | On the power of saying no
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Where to Find Her: @adrianaurbinap and her website
Adriana Urbina is an award-winning Venezuelan chef, entrepreneur and wellness consultant based in New York with over 12 years of experience in the restaurant industry.
She also completed her studies in Holistic Nutrition and Gut Health at the "Institute of Integrative Nutrition" in New York City.
Driven by her mission of empowering others to pursue their craft, Adriana founded her company Tepuy Collective - a platform that connects minority owned food businesses with brands and corporations to create unique culinary events.
In addition to building Tepuy Collective internationally, Urbina has competed in multiple national cooking TV shows like Bobby flay’s “Triple Threat” and Food Network’s “Chopped”. She is a three-time winner of “Chopped Champions” and the only Latin-American female chef to have won the title so many times. Her work has been featured in publications like Forbes, Vice, and Refinery29. You can catch her on her last digital cooking show for Verizon Media called “Zero Waste Kitchen.”
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Episode 03 - My Story and My Why
In this episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we are sharing more details on Wider Visions, the impact we are creating, and our founder, Megan Shekleton’s personal soul growth story. She gets courageously vulnerable on all of her “in-between” moments - overcoming anxiety and panic attacks, Fibromyaglia, early entrepreneurship, losing her business due to COVID + how it led her to a more aligned, soul-led version of herself.
In this episode, we connect on:
01:15 | Wider Visions + our mission
02:45 | 77% of people feel like they're not living up to their fullest potential
03:30 | On our holistic, integrated approach to growth
03:45 | A little introduction to Megan Shekleton, our founder
08:15 | What it means to Embrace Your In-between
13:00 | Recovering Perfectionism + anxiety
17:45 | Fibromyalgia + how our body talks to us
22:15 | Leaning into her purpose
25:30 | Covid + trusting the redirect
27:30 | Redefining self worth
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Episode 02 - How to Take Aligned Action With More Ease
In this episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we will be sharing 3 tips to take massive action towards your visions and soul-led dreams. How can we move towards our visions with more ease, joy, and flow?
In this episode, we connect on:
07:00 | The neuroscience behind why we feel resistance when taking new aligned action
10:00 | How to move from a sense of overwhelm
12:00 | How to build momentum and self trust when expanding into a new identity
13:00 | Mental projections and our subconscious mind
16:30 | How our emotions can clue us into if our subconscious mind is expanded enough for our vision
18:30 | The importance of celebrating your small and big wins
21:00 | Your reticular activating system and your vision victories
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Episode 01 - 3 Tips to Create Your Wider Vision
In our first episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we will be exploring how to create your wider vision for 2023 in a way that feels motivating, nourishing, and expansive. Megan Shekleton, our host and Certified Transformational Life Coach, will be sharing 3 mindset shifts that you can apply today to ensure that you are designing your new year from a place of intentionality and self love.
In this episode, we connect on:
01:30 | Challenging the new year, new you rhetoric
03:00 | Approaching growth from the lens of self love
06:30 | Analyzing and creating are different processes
07:30 | How to suspend the how when casting your vision
08:30 | Why it’s important to not create your vision based off the past
09:30 | Danielle LaPorte + The Desire Map
10:00 | How to anchor into the identity of your vision
11:30 | Journal prompts for getting clear on the next-level future you
12:30 | Allowing your WHY to motivate you forward
14:30 | Reframing discipline as devotion
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Welcome to Embrace Your In-Between by Wider Visions - a podcast to provide you guidance for your inner growth and expansion into the wider vision of your life.
Hosted by Megan Shekleton - a Certified Transformational Life Coach and the Founder of Wider Visions, this podcast hopes to spark inner discovery, inner reflection, and inner expansion into who you want to be and the life you want to live. We want to remind you that you have all the answers within and with the right tools, resources, support, and guidance, expanding into the Wider Vision of your life is so possible for you.
Wider Visions is a platform to help you grow and expand into your most expansive life with coaching, courses, and community.
As a destination for modern self development, we aim to provide guidance for your growth, make coaching more accessible, and build community to make the journey more fulfilling.
On this podcast, we engage in real conversations and share actionable growth guidance to help you embrace your in-between - the space between where you are today and where you want to be- because after all, in the in-between is where all the growth happens.
