A Vibe Above

How much of your personal growth journey has been fueled by genuine expansion, and how much has been driven by the belief that something about you needs to be fixed?

In this episode of A Vibe Above, Dawn explores the stories many of us carry about ourselves, stories that often began years ago and quietly shaped our beliefs, decisions, and sense of self-worth. From childhood experiences and social expectations to the pressure to constantly improve, these narratives can influence far more than we realize.

This conversation looks at the difference between healthy growth and self-rejection, why so many people spend years fighting parts of themselves, and how understanding who you truly are can create more freedom than endless self-criticism ever could.

Dawn also shares insights from her work with Human Design and why one of the most powerful shifts people experience is realizing they may never have been the problem in the first place.

In This Episode

• How early experiences shape the stories we tell ourselves• The difference between growth and self-rejection• Why achievement doesn't always create fulfillment• What Human Design can reveal about self-understanding• The hidden cost of constantly trying to improve yourself• How awareness creates freedom and self-trust• A guided reflection to help you see yourself through a new lens

Resources

🌿 Join the Inner Sovereign Societyhttps://www.skool.com/the-inner-sovereign-society-2409/about

🌿 Learn more about Human Design Workshopshttps://www.avibeabove.com/the-calling

🌿 Connect with Dawn Ranierihttps://www.avibeabove.com

Have you been feeling like something is off lately, but you can’t fully explain why?

In this episode of A Vibe Above, Dawn Ranieri explores the subtle but powerful awareness that many people are experiencing right now. This isn’t about confusion or a lack of clarity, it’s about the quiet signals your body and inner awareness have already been picking up on.

Dawn breaks down how disconnection from self often shows up in small, easy-to-miss ways, and why constantly looking outside of yourself for answers can deepen that disconnect. This conversation brings awareness to how your body processes truth before your mind fully understands it, and why learning to stay present with that awareness can shift everything.

This episode also includes a grounding moment to help you reconnect with what you may already be feeling, even if you haven’t fully acknowledged it yet.

🌱 In This Episode:

• Why something can feel “off” even when everything looks fine• How subtle awareness shows up in everyday life• The connection between the body and inner knowing• Why people override what they feel• What begins to shift when you slow down and pay attention• Reconnecting with yourself in a more honest way

🔗 Go Deeper

If this episode resonated with you, this is the work we go deeper into inside my Inner Sovereign Society.

It’s a space for building real self-trust, understanding how you’re uniquely wired through Human Design, regulating your nervous system, and learning how to live and lead from a place that actually feels aligned for you. We also go deeper into wealth, abundance, and monthly Human Design workshops so you can truly understand and embody your design.

If you feel the pull, you’ll know.

https://www.skool.com/the-inner-sovereign-society-

2409/about

👤 About the Host

Dawn Ranieri is a Feel Good Practitioner who helps individuals reconnect with their inner power, align with their strengths, and create a more fulfilling and aligned life through coaching, energy work, Human Design, and frequency-based practices.

Welcome back to A Vibe Above. I’m your host, Dawn Ranieri, and I’m really glad you’re here today.

I want to have a bit more of a real, honest conversation today, because this is something that I see come up all the time. It’s something I’ve experienced myself more than once. There are moments in life where you’re faced with a decision, a situation, or even a feeling about something, and deep down, you already know what’s right for you. You may not have all the details, or even know how it’s going to unfold, but there’s something in you that feels clear in a way that’s hard to explain. It’s almost immediate, like a quiet sense of knowing that just lands.

What tends to happen, though, is that we don’t stay with that knowing for very long. Almost right away, the mind steps in and starts trying to make sense of it. You begin to question it, you look for reasons why it might not be right, you try to gather more information, and before you know it, that clear feeling you had starts to feel uncertain. It didn’t just go away, it just got covered up by overthinking, doubt, and the need to make everything feel logical and safe before you move forward.

Why We Don’t Trust It

Trusting yourself sounds simple when people say it out loud, but when you really sit with it, it can actually feel very uncomfortable, especially if you’ve spent years relying on external validation, needing certainty, or looking outside of yourself for direction before making decisions.

A lot of people were never really taught to trust themselves. They were taught to trust authority, logic, trust that proof, trust what other people thought was the “right” decision. So when that inner knowing comes up, especially if it doesn’t fully make sense yet, the mind immediately wants to challenge it.

There’s often this fear of being wrong, or making a decision that changes everything in a way that feels unfamiliar or uncomfortable. Sometimes trusting yourself means outgrowing a version of your life that once felt safe. It might mean disappointing people, changing direction, or stepping into something that other people around you may not fully understand.

And that can create a lot of hesitation.

Because even when something feels deeply right internally, there’s still a part of the mind that wants guarantees. It wants proof that things will work out before you move forward. It wants certainty before action. But life rarely works that way.

So instead of acting on what you feel, you pause. You wait. You analyze. You replay conversations in your head. You ask five different people what they think. You look for signs, confirmations, or something external that somehow validates what you already felt in the first place.

And while there’s nothing wrong with seeking guidance or support, there’s a difference between receiving insight and disconnecting from your own inner knowing completely.

Because after a while, something starts to happen. You begin to feel stuck, not because you don’t have clarity, but because you’re not moving with the clarity that’s already there.

That disconnect can create frustration, confusion, and even self-doubt. You may start telling yourself that you’re lost, that you don’t know what you want, or that you just need more time to figure things out. But many times, the deeper issue isn’t lack of clarity. It’s lack of trust in what you already know.

And the interesting thing is that knowing usually keeps coming back.

It shows up in quiet moments, in repeated thoughts, feelings, nudges, or situations that continue to pull your attention. It’s almost like a part of you keeps trying to guide you back toward something, but the louder the outside noise becomes, the easier it is to ignore it.

I think a lot of people are experiencing this right now. There’s this feeling of being pulled toward something different, but at the same time feeling uncertain about acting on it because they want everything to make sense first.

But clarity doesn’t always arrive as a fully mapped-out plan. Sometimes clarity arrives as a feeling before it arrives as logic.

And learning how to trust that is part of the journey.

A Different Way to Look at It

What if that knowing doesn’t need to become louder or more obvious for you to trust it? What if it’s already clear, and the shift isn’t about getting more information, but about learning how to listen to what’s already there?

Because when you think about it, that first feeling you have about something tends to be the most honest. It hasn’t been filtered yet, it hasn’t been analyzed, or influenced by outside opinions. It’s just there. And the more you start to recognize that, the more you can begin to see that clarity doesn’t always come through thinking. For a lot of people, it comes through a sense of knowing, a feeling, or a quiet internal response that doesn’t need to be explained to be valid.

The challenge is that many of us have been taught to trust what is logical before we trust what we feel. So when something doesn’t fully make sense yet, we tend to dismiss it, even when it continues to come up over and over again. But some of the biggest shifts in life begin as an internal feeling long before they become something visible externally.

And that’s where learning to trust yourself becomes so important. Not because you’ll always have every answer immediately, but because you begin to realize that your inner guidance is often trying to lead you toward something before your mind fully understands why.

How You’re Wired Matters

This is also where understanding how you naturally operate becomes really important, because not everyone processes clarity the same way. Some people are very logical and need to think things through step by step, while others experience clarity through instinct, feeling, or just an inner sense that something is right or not right. If you’ve been trying to force yourself into a way of making decisions that doesn’t match how you’re naturally wired, it can make trusting yourself feel even more difficult than it needs to be.

A lot of people end up doubting themselves simply because they think they’re supposed to process life the way someone else does. They compare how they make decisions, how quickly they move, or how certainty shows up for them, and when it looks different, they assume something is wrong. But awareness doesn’t show up the same way for everyone, and clarity can come through many different forms.

When you start to recognize how your own awareness works, it becomes easier to work with it instead of questioning it. You stop trying to turn everything into something that makes perfect sense on paper, and you start allowing yourself to move with what feels aligned internally, even if it doesn’t come with a full explanation right away.

And honestly, this is one of the reasons I love systems like Human Design so much, because they help people understand that there’s nothing wrong with the way they naturally operate. A lot of the time, people finally realize they don’t need to force themselves into someone else’s process in order to trust themselves or move forward in life.

Building Trust in a Real Way

This doesn’t mean you suddenly trust every feeling you have or make big decisions overnight. It’s more about starting to pay attention in a different way. You begin to notice what keeps coming up for you, what thoughts or feelings repeat, and what you’ve already felt clear about even if you haven’t acted on it yet. And instead of dismissing those things, you allow them to have a little more space.

A lot of people think trust arrives all at once, like one day you suddenly become fully confident in yourself and never question anything again. But real self-trust usually develops much more quietly than that. It’s built through small moments where you choose to listen to yourself instead of immediately overriding what you feel.

Trust builds over time, and it usually builds through small actions. It builds when you follow through on something that feels right, even if it’s a …

Feeling like something in your life is taking more effort than it should?

In this episode of A Vibe Above, Dawn Ranieri shares how forcing something often points to a deeper message rather than something going wrong. This conversation explores the difference between pushing forward and recognizing when something may be misaligned or simply not ready yet.

Through personal reflection and grounded insight, Dawn walks through how to recognize these patterns, trust your timing, and begin shifting into a more aligned way of moving forward.

She also shares a personal experience that highlights how even unexpected disruptions can be part of a larger redirection.

In This Episode:

• What it means when something feels forced• The difference between misalignment and timing• Why pushing harder isn’t always the answer• How to step back and gain clarity• Trusting your own pace and direction

🔗 Learn More

🌐 https://avibeabove.com

🌸 Designed to Work Workshop

👤 About the Host

Dawn Ranieri is a Feel Good Practitioner who helps individuals reconnect with their inner power, align with their strengths, and create a more fulfilling and aligned life through coaching, energy work, Human Design, and frequency-based practices.

Feeling off, unclear, or like something is shifting?

In this episode of A Vibe Above, Dawn Ranieri shares how these moments often signal a deeper internal shift rather than something going wrong. This conversation focuses on inner leadership, self-trust, and recognizing the strengths that are already within you.

In this Episode:

• Feeling off and what it really means
• Being redirected vs feeling stuck
• Inner leadership and self-trust
• Recognizing your natural strengths
• Allowing clarity to unfold

Dawn also introduces her upcoming Public Role Workshop happening this Thursday, where you’ll explore how you’re designed to show up, be seen, and express your strengths in a more aligned and natural way.Info for the April workshop:

🌐 https://www.avibeabove.com/your-true-identity

As we move into spring, there’s a natural shift toward movement, clarity, and stepping forward.

In this solo episode, Dawn shares how to reconnect with your inner leadership by recognizing the strengths that already exist within you. Instead of looking outside for direction, this is about trusting your voice, your natural abilities, and the way you are meant to show up.

In This Episode, We Explore:

• The energetic shift into spring and what it activates within you
• What inner leadership looks like in this new era
• How to recognize your natural strengths and abilities
• Why what feels “easy” for you is often your greatest gift
• How to begin expressing more of who you already are
• A simple grounding practice to reconnect with yourself

This episode also introduces her upcoming Public Role Workshop (April), where you’ll explore how you’re designed to be seen, connect, and express your strengths more fully.

For more info or to register: https://www.avibeabove.com/your-true-identity

In this episode of A Vibe Above, Dawn Ranieri sits down with Brent Michael Phillips, founder of Awakening Dynamics and author of Where Science Meets Spirit, to explore the intersection of science, consciousness, and energy healing.

Brent shares his journey from being an MIT-trained software engineer to becoming a full-time spiritual teacher and healer after experiencing chronic pain that led him to search beyond traditional medicine. Through years of studying energy healing and working with master practitioners, he began reverse-engineering the principles behind powerful healing methods and developed his own system designed to make spiritual transformation more systematic and accessible.

In this conversation we explore:

• Brent’s journey from science and technology into energy healing
• How miraculous healing experiences reshaped his understanding of reality
• The role of subconscious blocks in manifestation and healing
• Why bridging science and spirituality matters in today’s world
• How his Awakening Dynamics system helps people experience measurable change
• His new book project

This episode invites listeners to question the boundaries between science and spirit and explore what may be possible when consciousness, healing, and intention come together.

Brent also shares an opportunity for listeners to connect directly with him through a limited-time consultation offer following the release of this episode. The link to connect with him within 30 days of this podcast release is: https://awakeningdynamics.com/contact-us/

In this episode of A Vibe Above, Dawn Ranieri sits down with Ari Rastegar for a raw and honest conversation about holistic health, structured discipline, and what it truly means to put health before wealth.

Ari shares how years of stress, exhaustion, and pushing through the founder lifestyle eventually led him to re-evaluate everything. What followed was a deep commitment to physical, mental, and spiritual optimization through consistent, foundational habits.

This conversation moves beyond hype and into what actually works.

The conversation centered around:

• Why “getting healthy boring” is often the real path
• Meditation, coherence, and the science behind practices once labeled as “woo”
• The power of compound habits over time
• The role of nutrition, movement, and simple supplementation
• Treating the body like your most important long-term investment
• Advanced tools like hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and when they matter

Ari breaks down how small, daily disciplines compound just like investments, and why real transformation happens over years, not days.

This episode is for anyone who wants more energy, more clarity, and a sustainable approach to high performance.

Note: This episode contains occasional strong language.

Learn more about Ari and his work:
Book: The Gift of Failure
Purchase on Amazon

In this episode of A Vibe Above, Dawn Ranieri sits down with Rob LoCascio, founder of KID Company and former CEO of LivePerson, where he pioneered conversational AI and helped invent web chat as we know it today.

After building a company that scaled to over $550M in revenue, Rob made a powerful decision as a father. He stepped away from leading adult-focused technology to create something entirely different, an AI platform built specifically for children.

The KID device is designed to protect creativity, emotional grounding, and healthy relationships with technology. Rather than addictive scrolling or exposure to harmful content, KID was created to support families with safety-first design, parental visibility, and a new vision for how children engage with AI.

In this conversation, we explore:

• Rob’s journey to KID Company• Why current technology isn’t built for children• The emotional impact of digital overload on kids• How KID is reimagining AI for creativity and safety• What parents can expect with the device

This episode is a thoughtful look at parenting, innovation, and what it means to build technology that protects the next generation.

Learn more about KID Company here:
🌐 https://www.kidco.ai/

February carries a different energy than January.
The urgency softens. The noise quiets. And for many people, that can feel unsettling.

In this short solo episode of A Vibe Above, Dawn Ranieri explores why this time of year often feels slower, quieter, or slightly disorienting and why that doesn’t mean you’re off track.

This episode is an invitation to pause rather than push. To listen instead of forcing clarity. Dawn shares reflections on integration, nervous system awareness, and the difference between trying to “figure things out” and allowing understanding to unfold naturally.

You’ll hear gentle reminders that nothing is wrong if you’re feeling less motivated, less certain, or more inward right now. Sometimes this season isn’t about moving forward; it’s about coming back to yourself.

The episode closes with a grounding visualization designed to help you reconnect with your body, your energy, and where you are in this moment.

If you’ve been feeling a little off, behind, or unsure of your next step, this conversation offers reassurance, perspective, and space to breathe.