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Almost 30
By Krista Williams & Lindsey Simcik | Wellness & Personal Growth HostsAlternative HealthHealth & FitnessEducationSelf-Improvement
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Almost 30 episodes
- 910. Your life isn’t random: How invisible strings shape relationships, purpose, and your growth
In this episode, Krista + Lindsey explore the idea of the invisible strings connecting our lives. They reflect on the relationships, places, and seemingly random moments that led them exactly where they are—and how much more meaningful life feels when you trust the connections you can’t always see.
They share their wildest invisible-string stories, from dating + marriage to SoulCycle, Almost 30, friendships, and even moments of loss. They explore why some people enter our lives for a lifetime while others arrive to teach us a lesson, shift our path, or help us become someone new.
Plus, they talk about creating more spaciousness in friendships, letting relationships ebb + flow without forcing them, and trusting the path when the dots don’t connect yet. This episode is a reminder that you may not understand where life is taking you—but you can trust that the pieces will make sense when you look back.
We also talk about:
- The invisible string theory + the idea that nothing is truly random
- How Krista + Lindsey’s own strings led them to each other
- Soulmates, karmic relationships, and soul connections
- Why some people are brought into our lives for lessons
- The strange connections between dating, friendship, and career
- How rejection can redirect you toward a more creative chapter
- Letting friendships have more space without assuming the connection is gone
- Trusting your intuition when the path ahead doesn’t make sense
- Why you can’t always connect the dots until you look backward
Resources:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itskrista/
- Website: https://itskrista.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindseysimcik/
- Substack: https://momplex.substack.com
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Learn More:
- Get your copy of Almost 30, A definitive guide to a life you love for the next decade and beyond. https://almost30.com/book
- Listen to Morning Microdose! A quick trip into higher consciousness - https://almost30.com/morning-microdose
- Watch on YouTube - https://youtube.com/Almost30Podcast
- Join our community - https://www.facebook.com/Almost30podcast/groups
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55 min - 909. Woo-woo practices that actually work + have radically changed my life
In this episode, Krista pulls back the curtain on the spiritual practices + rituals that have genuinely supported her over 10+ years in spirituality. From angels + guides to prayer, intuition, manifestation, and energetic cleansing, she shares the practices that help her feel more supported + connected.
She gets into the importance of discernment—why you can work with healers without giving your power away, protect your subconscious from what you consume, and learn to trust what feels true for you. Plus, Krista shares how she uses manifestation through identity, energy, and surrender.
Most of all, this is permission to stop following someone else’s spiritual rulebook and create a practice that actually feels like you. Whether you consider yourself deeply spiritual or just a little woo-woo, this episode is full of ideas to explore, experiment with, and make your own.
We also talk about:
- Connecting with angels + guides
- How to ask for signs, synchronicities, and support
- Spiritual discernment + keeping your own power
- Choosing healers, teachers, and practices for your current season
- Energetic hygiene + cleansing your space
- Aura cleansing + releasing what isn’t yours
- Making prayer a daily conversation with God
- Radical trust in your intuition
- Protecting your subconscious + being intentional about what you consume
- Manifestation through identity, energy, surrender + becoming
Resources:
- Instagram: @itskrista
- Website: https://itskrista.com/
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To advertise on this podcast please email: [email protected].
Learn More:
- Get your copy of Almost 30, A definitive guide to a life you love for the next decade and beyond. https://almost30.com/book
- Listen to Morning Microdose! A quick trip into higher consciousness - https://almost30.com/morning-microdose
- Watch on YouTube - https://youtube.com/Almost30Podcast
- Join our community - https://www.facebook.com/Almost30podcast/groups
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Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: almost30.com/disclaimer.
1 hr - 908. Postpartum update part 2: The gift of losing parts of yourself in motherhood
Lindsey is back with part two of her postpartum catch-up, getting honest about personal growth, relationships, and identity after becoming a mom of two. She shares what this season has taught her about asking for help, letting go of comparison, and giving herself permission to do motherhood her own way.
She opens up about marriage, couples therapy, communication, and the reality of doing the relationship work while raising two kids. She also talks about how her priorities have shifted, what she’s temporarily letting go of, and why she’s learning to trust the timing of her creativity + career.
Most of all, Lindsey reflects on the identity shift that comes with a major life transition—and why uncertainty doesn’t have to mean confusion. This is a reminder to give yourself grace, stay present, and trust that the next version of you is allowed to look different.
We also talk about:
- Building a childcare + support system that actually works for you
- Why you shouldn’t compare your motherhood to anyone else’s
- Marriage, couples therapy, and staying connected through big life changes
- Why communication gets harder when you’re overwhelmed
- The identity shift that comes with becoming a mom of two
- Letting go of perfection, productivity, and pressure
- Putting creativity + career on the back burner without abandoning them
- Trusting the ebb + flow of priorities, relationships, and self-care
- Entering a new decade with more uncertainty, curiosity, and trust
Resources:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindseysimcik/
- Substack: https://momplex.substack.com
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To advertise on this podcast please email: [email protected].
Learn More:
- Get your copy of Almost 30, A definitive guide to a life you love for the next decade and beyond. https://almost30.com/book
- Listen to Morning Microdose! A quick trip into higher consciousness - https://almost30.com/morning-microdose
- Watch on YouTube - https://youtube.com/Almost30Podcast
- Join our community - https://www.facebook.com/Almost30podcast/groups
Follow:
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Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: almost30.com/disclaimer.
47 min - 907. The pressure you put on yourself is the pressure your child will inherit with Dr. Shefali
Dr. Shefali, bestselling author + expert in conscious parenting, joins us for an honest conversation about raising emotionally resilient children in a world that is increasingly disconnected. She shares why parents must stop trying to perfect themselves—and start showing up fully as they are.
We talk about the hidden ways anxiety, achievement, social media, and performance-based parenting shape our kids, and why true connection starts with our own nervous system. Dr. Shefali explains how to raise children who trust themselves instead of chasing validation, success, or approval from the outside world.
She also gets real about the different ways boys + girls are being impacted by modern culture, from shame + disconnection to self-abandonment + the pressure to perform. This episode will challenge how you think about parenting + personal growth.
We also talk about:
- Why parents can’t “out-perfect” their unconscious
- How children borrow regulation + a sense of safety from us
- The difference between connection + simply being happy together
- Why performance-based parenting is no longer working
- Social media, comparison, beauty standards + the “perception prison”
- Raising boys with less shame around emotions, sexuality + masculinity
- Why girls are learning to be perceived before they learn to be
- Parentification, self-abandonment + emotional caretaking
- How to help children develop inner authority + self-trust
- Dr. Shefali’s new books, Raising Conscious Sons + Raising Conscious Daughters
Resources:
- Books: https://www.drshefali.com/raisingconscious-daughters-sons/
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Learn More:
- Get your copy of Almost 30, A definitive guide to a life you love for the next decade and beyond. https://almost30.com/book
- Listen to Morning Microdose! A quick trip into higher consciousness - https://almost30.com/morning-microdose
- Watch on YouTube - https://youtube.com/Almost30Podcast
- Join our community - https://www.facebook.com/Almost30podcast/groups
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1 hr 7 min - 906. Channeling Yeshua: The healing, surrender, and growth we’re being asked to embrace with Carissa Schumacher
Carissa Schumacher, renowned psychic medium + channel, joins us to talk about channeling Yeshua—and what happens when you stop abandoning your own essence. She shares her journey from suppressing her gifts to fully trusting her path.
We go deep on transformation, surrender, intuition, conscious maturity, and the power of letting old identities + behaviors die so something new can emerge. Carissa + Krista explore what it means to become more aligned in your mind, body, emotions, and spirit.
Carissa also shares her perspective on feminine power, religious trauma, divine sexuality, and loving boundaries. This conversation is an invitation to trust yourself, honor your essence, and step into a deeper personal transformation.
We also talk about:
- Carissa’s childhood experiences with spirit, nature, and the divine
- Why she spent years trying to suppress her intuitive abilities
- The moment she chose to let everything “die” + recommit to healing
- Her channeling of Yeshua + the creation of The Alchemy Transmissions
- The difference between the beautiful lie + the ugly truth
- Willingness, surrender, acceptance, and learning to stop fighting what is
- The “dark goddess” + feminine power, discernment, needs, and boundaries
- How alchemy brings the mind, body, emotional body, and spirit back into alignment
- Conscious maturity, responsibility, and moving beyond victimhood
- Divine sexuality, religious trauma, and finding your own relationship with the divine
Resources:
- The Alchemy Transmissions book: http://www.thespirittransmissions.com
- The Freedom Transmissions book: https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Transmissions-Pathway-Peace/dp/0063098563
Sponsors:
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To advertise on this podcast please email: [email protected].
Learn More:
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- Listen to Morning Microdose! A quick trip into higher consciousness - https://almost30.com/morning-microdose
- Watch on YouTube - https://youtube.com/Almost30Podcast
- Join our community - https://www.facebook.com/Almost30podcast/groups
Follow:
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Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: almost30.com/disclaimer.
1 hr 32 min - 905. Rewire your subconscious FAST + embody your new identity TODAY with Haley Hoffman Smith
Haley Hoffman Smith, manifestation teacher + EFT tapping practitioner, joins us to talk about mindset, personal growth, and the courage to pursue the dreams that won’t leave you alone. She shares how she stopped playing it safe + became the woman she knew she could be.
From music to money, identity, and faith, Haley breaks down the beliefs that can keep us stuck—and how EFT tapping, subconscious rewiring, and the law of assumption helped her change what she believed was possible.
She also gets real about surrendering control, trusting God’s timing, and letting go of the need to know exactly how your dreams will happen. If you’ve been afraid to hope for something again, this episode is a powerful reminder that your next chapter might require you to believe differently before you can live differently.
We also talk about:
- How Haley found her way back to music after years of suppressing that dream
- Why rejection can create subconscious beliefs that follow us for years
- How EFT tapping can help change your relationship to painful memories
- The power of “mind movies” for creating new emotional evidence
- Why manifestation is less about forcing an outcome + more about embodying a new identity
- Haley’s journey from motivational speaker to creator, musician, and spiritual teacher
- What it means to trust God when the opportunity you want doesn’t work out
- Why she believes it’s safe to hope again after disappointment
- The spiritual practices she returns to, including EFT tapping, prayer, and reading the Bible
- Letting yourself evolve instead of feeling like you need to have all the answers
Resources:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/haleyhoffmansmith/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@haleyhoffmansmith
- Website: https://haleyhoffmansmith.com/
- Order her book + journal: https://haleyhoffmansmith.com/book/
- Join Dreamaway: https://haleyhoffmansmith.com/dreamaway/
- Listen to her podcast Big Conversations: https://haleyhoffmansmith.com/podcast/
- Listen to her music: https://haleyhoffmansmithmusic.com/
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Learn More:
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- Listen to Morning Microdose! A quick trip into higher consciousness - https://almost30.com/morning-microdose
- Watch on YouTube - https://youtube.com/Almost30Podcast
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1 hr 18 min - 904. Postpartum update part 1: The reality of going from one child to two + finding myself again
Seven weeks postpartum, Lindsey is back with a deeply honest look at going from one child to two—and the emotional well-being, self-awareness, and personal growth that have come with becoming a mom all over again. She shares what no one prepared her for about this transition.
From physical recovery and breastfeeding to overwhelm, guilt, identity shifts, and learning to ask for help, Lindsey gets real about what this season has demanded of her. She also opens up about stepping away from Instagram to protect her intuition and make space for her own inner knowing.
Then there’s motherhood the second time around: watching Mav become a big brother, becoming a daughter-mom, and realizing how much her choices now shape the woman her daughter will grow into. It’s messy, beautiful, challenging, and a powerful lesson in letting go of perfection.
We also talk about:
- What Lindsey’s birth experience was like + the subtle signs she noticed beforehand
- How postpartum recovery compared to her first experience
- The support, nourishment, rest, and childcare that have helped her recover
- Why going from one child to two has felt unexpectedly emotional
- The guilt + self-judgment that can come with splitting your attention between children
- Rebuilding mindfulness, movement, and a sense of self in early motherhood
- Why Lindsey deleted Instagram + how it helped her trust her intuition as a mom
- Mav’s adjustment to becoming a big brother + making intentional one-on-one time with him
- What becoming a mother to a daughter is bringing up around self-worth, boundaries, body image, and how she moves through the world
- The identity shifts that can happen when your family, body, and priorities change all at once
Resources:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindseysimcik/
Substack: https://momplex.substack.com
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Learn More:
- Get your copy of Almost 30, A definitive guide to a life you love for the next decade and beyond. https://almost30.com/book
- Listen to Morning Microdose! A quick trip into higher consciousness - https://almost30.com/morning-microdose
- Watch on YouTube - https://youtube.com/Almost30Podcast
- Join our community - https://www.facebook.com/Almost30podcast/groups
Follow:
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54 min - 903. You’re coaching people for free already: Here’s how to actually become one + get paid
In this episode, Krista pulls back the curtain on her journey from self-improvement skeptic to life coach, sharing what coaching actually is, why she finally trusted herself enough to become one, and what she’s learned about helping women transform.
She gets radically honest about the shadow side of coaching, the difference between a coach, therapist, mentor, and consultant, and why doing your own personal growth work is essential before you try to guide someone else.
From finding your niche to setting boundaries, building self-worth, and knowing when you’re actually ready to coach, Krista answers the questions so many aspiring coaches are afraid to ask—including how to make coaching feel authentic instead of cringey.
We also talk about:
- How therapy helped Krista become more open to coaching
- The coach who changed Krista + Lindsey’s relationship with themselves + each other
- What finally made Krista feel ready to become a coach
- The difference between coaching, therapy, consulting, and mentorship
- Why your own healing work is part of becoming a great coach
- How Krista protects her energy, nervous system, and boundaries while coaching
- What countertransference looks like + why coaches need to watch for it
- How to know who you are actually meant to serve
- Why shy, sensitive, or introverted people can make incredible coaches
- Krista’s advice for getting trained, finding clients, building confidence, and charging what your work is worth
Resources:
- Instagram: @itskrista
- Website: https://itskrista.com/
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Learn More:
- Get your copy of Almost 30, A definitive guide to a life you love for the next decade and beyond. https://almost30.com/book
- Listen to Morning Microdose! A quick trip into higher consciousness - https://almost30.com/morning-microdose
- Watch on YouTube - https://youtube.com/Almost30Podcast
- Join our community - https://www.facebook.com/Almost30podcast/groups
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1 hr 10 min - 902. You can want MORE: Your desire is CALLING you with Regena Thomashauer
In this episode, Regena Thomashauer, bestselling author + founder of The School of Womanly Arts, joins us for a bold conversation about pleasure, the nervous system, self-worth, and feminine power. She shares why reconnecting with your body can change the way you move through your entire life.
Regena opens up about her own trauma, the moment she realized success couldn’t heal what was happening underneath, and how pleasure became an unexpected path back to herself. She also shares what it means to trust your desire, even when life hasn’t unfolded on the timeline you imagined.
This episode is a reminder that you are not here just to achieve, caretake, and hold everything together. We explore what becomes possible when you let yourself feel more, receive more, and reconnect with the part of you that knows you’re meant to be fully alive.
We also talk about:
- Why women are taught to disconnect from their bodies + pleasure
- How shame around the female body can disconnect us from confidence + intuition
- Why Regena believes pleasure can help regulate the nervous system
- The difference between sexuality + erotic aliveness
- What happened when Regena realized her identity had become completely wrapped up in helping other people
- Her “on our knees” moment + the decision to finally turn inward
- How grief, fear, and desire can coexist during periods of deep uncertainty
- Using movement to help emotions move through the body
- The stories of Lilith, Psyche, Demeter, and Persephone + what they can teach us about feminine power
- Why women don’t have to shrink themselves to be loved or accepted
Resources:
- Website: https://mamagenas.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mamagena
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mamagena
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1 hr 34 min - 901. Toxic relationships: How they hurt you + how to find healing
In this episode, author, activist, and speaker Dr. Najwa Zebian joins us for a deeply honest conversation about relationships, healing, self-worth, and boundaries—especially what happens when a relationship slowly disconnects you from yourself.
We explore why leaving a toxic relationship can feel so impossible, how manipulation can erode your ability to trust your own decisions, and why the first step toward healing may be much smaller than you think.
From rebuilding your identity to learning what healthy attachment actually looks like, this episode is about becoming your own source of clarity again. We get into communication, self-awareness, autonomy, reciprocity, and the difference between being deeply connected to someone + losing yourself inside them.
We also talk about:
- Why “just leave” can be the worst advice for someone in a toxic relationship
- How toxic dynamics can take away your ability to trust your own decisions
- Rebuilding your sense of self through small, everyday choices
- Why staying in a painful relationship does not make the pain your fault
- How to forgive yourself for staying longer than you wanted to
- The difference between taking responsibility for your healing + blaming yourself
- What healthy relationships actually require: transparency, communication, alignment, and reciprocity
- How to be securely attached to someone while still remaining fully yourself
- Why you do not need an apology, closure, or validation from the person who hurt you
- Najwa’s new book, The One Who Broke You Can’t Heal You
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Welcome to Almost 30, the self-improvement and wellness podcast helping you navigate life's biggest transitions with more clarity, confidence, and purpose. Join best friends Krista Williams and Lindsey Simcik for heart-centered, hilarious conversations and raw, impactful interviews with leading experts, authors, and thought leaders on personal growth, spirituality, mental well-being, relationships, health, and conscious living.
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