This week’s episode is a little life update — and a reflection on how often we avoid truly living because of fear.
For me, that fear has shown up in moving countries, in meeting new people, in the effort it takes to maintain old friendships and open to new ones. It’s the fear that relationships might end, or that intimacy requires more of me than I want to give.
But here’s the thing: avoidance might feel safe, but it keeps us half-asleep in our own lives.
Aliveness requires vulnerability. It asks us to risk endings in order to feel beginnings. It asks us to be present with the people and the moments right in front of us.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:01:37 Paris Trip & Music Festival
00:02:55 Eclipse Weekend in Mallorca
00:04:56 Spanish Lessons & Mentorship Update
00:05:58 Returning to Work & Upcoming UK Trip
00:07:05 Creating Offers & Business Reflections
00:07:05 Moving to Mallorca & Making New Friends
00:09:18 Friendship, Presence, and Vulnerability
00:12:04 Honest Communication in Relationships
00:13:59 Nurturing New vs. Existing Friendships
00:15:10 Reflections on Avoidance & Presence
00:16:16 On Being Single & Fear of Hurt
00:17:31 Self-Awareness & Embracing Life
00:20:00 Paris as a Mirror & Embracing Experiences
00:21:10 Introducing the “Alive” Program
00:22:19 Program Details & Closing
content note 💌In this episode I talk about panic attacks, burnout, and the season I felt completely disconnected from myself.If you’re currently moving through something similar, please take care while listening — and honor what your heart + body need right now.This one’s tender. And true.Listen when you’re ready.
In this raw and unfiltered episode, I take you back to 2007 — the year everything cracked open.
Burnout. Panic attacks. A rock-bottom moment that felt like the end… but turned out to be the beginning of everything.
I share the story I’ve kept mostly private — how a full-blown panic attack on the autobahn changed the trajectory of my life, sparked my spiritual awakening, and set me on the path I walk today.
If you’ve ever felt numb, lost, stuck in a job you hate, or terrified to dream again — this one’s for you.
Come listen. Come remember. Come home to yourself.
🎙 In this episode, I share:
The moment everything cracked open — a panic attack on the autobahn that felt like death, but was actually the beginning of a new life.
What it’s like to feel completely numb, directionless, and disconnected — and the slow unraveling that happens when you believe there’s no other option.
Why I chose to feel everything instead of numbing with medication — and how that decision led me to breathwork, somatics, and self-leadership.
The fear of starting over at 27 — going back to school with teenagers, rebuilding belief in myself, and finding purpose through the mess.
How burnout is rarely about overworking — and more about misalignment, suppression, and doing what you don’t love.
The lifelong gift of that breakdown — a deeper capacity to trust, to hold myself, and to live a life that’s fully mine.
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What happens when you’ve manifested the dream… but can’t let yourself live it?
In today’s raw and revealing episode, I share the story of my LA trip in 2021 — a moment where, despite having everything I asked for, I found myself in my hotel room canceling plans, lighting incense, and telling myself I needed to “process.”
But the truth?
I wasn’t integrating. I was hiding.
This episode is about the shadow side of self-help. The ways we use healing as a shield. The habits that become high-functioning avoidance. And the deeply human fear of letting it be good.
This is the story at the heart of The Heartcoming Mentorship — a 1:1 space where you finally let yourself live, feel, and enjoy the life and business you’re building.
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✨ 3 spots inside The Practice — my embodied leadership membership AKA the energetic, mindset, and somatic foundation for your (self) leadership
✨ 1 spot inside Alchemy Codes — my multidimensional business membership to help you build your soul-led ecosystem from the inside out
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Two guys. One wedding. And, spoiler — I went home alone. Happily.
Because this wasn’t about them. It was about me noticing how much I’ve changed.
The lessons that actually shape us aren’t in self-help books. They’re in nights like this — ordinary, human, a little flirty, and way more about who we are with ourselves than who we go home with.
✨ Listen in for a story about love, self-awareness, and why sometimes the best ending is walking out solo.
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Why write a memoir when you can just say it out loud?
In this very first episode of WHAT NINA SAID, I’m sharing why I decided to talk instead of write — and what you can expect from this Mary Poppins bag of stories. The good, the bad, the funny, the cringe — nothing’s off-limits.
Because the real lessons? They’re not in self-help books. They’re in the messy, magical, very human stories we’re already living.
So, here we go — welcome to my spoken memoir.
Come listen, laugh, cry, and maybe even see yourself in it.
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