In one of the most raw and inspiring episodes to date, we sit down with Connie, a travel entrepreneur and suicide survivor, who shares her powerful journey from corporate burnout and emotional rock bottom to a life of global freedom and thriving purpose.

Connie opens up about the moment everything changed—the turning point that took her from suicidal ideation in a high-pressure corporate environment to building a life by design rooted in travel, healing, and empowerment.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in a job that’s draining your soul, or questioned whether it’s possible to truly start over, this conversation is your sign. Connie doesn’t just preach freedom—she’s lived her way into it.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• The hidden mental health toll of hustle culture and toxic corporate environments
• How Connie rebuilt her life after surviving a suicide attempt
• The link between personal liberation and location independence
• What it takes to turn pain into purpose—and business
• How to start living in alignment with who you actually are
• Why the freedom lifestyle isn’t just about travel—it’s about healing

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Resources & Links

• 📸 Instagram: @cpconnie
• 🎵 TikTok: @cpconnie

About Connie

Connie is a travel entrepreneur, mental health advocate, and suicide survivor who turned her darkest chapter into a catalyst for radical reinvention. Once trapped in a high-stress corporate job that left her emotionally depleted and dangerously depressed, Connie made the courageous decision to walk away—and rebuild.

Today, she lives a location-independent lifestyle helping others unlock personal and professional freedom through travel, mindset, and healing. Her story is a reminder that no matter how far you’ve fallen, you can rise again—and build a life that truly lights you up.

On this week’s episode we have Tina Anderson, who is the CEO and co-founder of Just Thrive, a wellness brand that empowers you to control your health, live your best life, and feel amazing. Today we are going to hear about Tina’s journey that led her to launching Just Thrive and take a deep dive into understanding our gut health and digestion and the role of probiotics in our overall health and wellness. We unpack the difference between probiotics and prebiotics, uncover myths and misconceptions,  and understand how gut health impacts us both physically and mentally .

Tina Anderson’s journey into the world of health had a unique start and some unusual turns. She began her career as a trial lawyer who specialized in settling cases by bringing both sides together, a personal passion of hers. Once her second child arrived, Tina left that high-stress job behind so she could focus on her family. Luckily, she was still able to use her considerable legal skills to point her career in a new direction as the in-house counsel for a family pharmaceutical company. But what Tina saw there made her change direction again. Frustrated by the many abuses in the pharmaceutical industry, Tina turned toward the field of natural health, and found her life’s work. She channeled her energy into learning all she could about disease prevention and good health maintenance. That led her to discover the importance of gut health and how connected and crucial it is for overall health and wellness. To share her discovery with the world, Tina along with her husband created a unique supplement that contains the superior probiotic strains of renowned researcher Dr. Simon Cutting. By promoting gut health and probiotics, Tina shares her passion for wellness, helping others live their best physical and emotional lives.

Connect with Tina and Just Thrive!

• Instagram: @justthrivehealth
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On this week’s episode we have Eliana Goldstein, a career coach who helps women who are feeling unfulfilled in their current roles find a career that gives them purpose. Eliana shares her strategies and tips for how to pivot your career, return to work after a period of time off, and find clarity in your career path.

If you are unsure of where you want your career to take you, you want to switch career paths and jump into a new industry, return to work after a period of time off, or simply reflect on your current role, this episode is for you!

Eliana Goldstein is a Certified Professional Coach who works with ambitious individuals to create the necessary mindsets, learn the key strategies and set the goals needed to move to the next level in their careers whether that’s growing where they are or moving into an entirely different career path. We spend over 90,000 hours of our lives working so her goal is to teach people how to build careers where they don't completely dread Monday morning.

Eliana's Instagram: @eliana_goldstein
Eliana's Career Upgrade Course: www.elianagoldsteincoaching.com/course
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Allison Baggerly is a writer, podcaster, money coach, and founder of Inspired Budget. As a former teacher, Allison blends her talents for teaching with her passion for personal finances to help others learn how to start budgeting and build a life they love.

Allison and her husband paid off over $111,000 of debt on 2 teacher salaries while growing their family. During the process, she learned how to take back control of her money, stay consistent with paying off debt, and stop emotional spending once and for all.

Allison has been featured in notable media outlets such as Forbes, Business Insider, and Parents as a budget expert who gives women a step-by-step process to break free from the grueling paycheck to paycheck cycle. Women turn to Allison, and Inspired Budget, for advice and inspiration every single day.

On this week's episode we are talking about all things budgeting: misconceptions, challenges, and tips for getting started with and sticking to your budget.

Allison's Instagram: @inspiredbudget
Inspired Budget Website: https://inspiredbudget.com/

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On this week's episode, we are joined by founder of the Black Mom Diaries, Patricia Griggs. Listen in as we unpack Patricia's upbringing, her experiences in the education and healthcare systems, portrayals of Black people in the media, and navigating conversations with her children.

Patricia Griggs is a lover of God, a wife, a boy mom, and a girl mom. She received a bachelor's degree in social work from the University of Texas and has spent many years hopping from one thing to another in pursuit of her purpose. Throughout her journey, she maintained a passion for helping others. 

After being out of school for many years, Patricia went back to earn a master's degree in communications from Syracuse University. At the end of her graduate program, she came up with the idea for a podcast. Black Mom Diaries started as a class project and quickly became a passion project for her.

She became a first-time mom with several of her friends and felt connected on a surface level. Patricia realized she had lots of questions and thoughts about motherhood - as it relates to black moms - that she didn't feel comfortable sharing with those friends. Black Mom Diaries created a space to share those stories to connect with other black moms, and also encourage, and inspire them. 

Patricia recently opened an online store that sells swag for black moms and their kids. She is determined to help black moms find their passion and embrace it, in order to change their family legacy. She believes that this is only the beginning, as her goal is to annually impact at least 10,000 black moms nationwide by connecting, educating, encouraging, inspiring, and transforming them through Black Mom Diaries.

In her free time, she enjoys family game nights, reading to her kiddos, and watching movies with her husband. 

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Taneshia Johnson is an associate clinical social worker, self-care coach, and first-time author of the book entitled When Depression And Anxiety Have A Voice.  She specializes in emotional self-care as well as codependency.  Taneshia believes self-awareness can help everyone define who they are and what they need in life in order to have joy and peace. Taneshia has helped hundreds of men and women through one on one coaching sessions as well as her self-care workshops.
Codependency refers to a mental, emotional, physical, and/or spiritual reliance on a partner, friend, or family member. Codependency is not a clinical diagnosis or a formally categorized personality disorder on its own. Generally speaking, codependency incorporates aspects of attachment style patterns developed in early childhood, and it can also overlap with other personality disorders, including dependent personality disorder.
Codependency can come in all shapes and sizes and with varying levels of severity. Codependency refers to an imbalanced relationship pattern where one person assumes responsibility for meeting another person’s needs to the exclusion of acknowledging their own needs or feelings. 

Meet Susy Markoe Schieffelin. A sound healer, Kundalini yoga teacher, Karuna Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki master, sobriety coach, and the founder of The Sound Healer’s Academy. After years of suffering from anxiety, alcoholism, and addiction, she experienced an incredible transformation that released her from darkness and led her to a radiant, abundant, and joyful life. And now, she wants to share this path towards the light with you.

Before opening Michelle Tangeman Behavioral Health as a child and family therapist, she served as a Clinical Manager for STAR of CA where she oversaw a clinical team providing children’s behavioral treatment programs. Michelle has extensive experience in individualized behavior intervention, Functional Behavior Assessments, school-based services, family-focused intervention, early start services, and social skills training and has provided these services to families across Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Michelle has also completed the training as part of the Postpartum Support International’s Advanced Perinatal Mental Health Psychotherapy Training Program.

Over the last decade, Elizabeth Earnshaw (LMFT) has become one of today's most trusted relationship teachers. Elizabeth is a renowned Gottman therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Clinical Fellow of The American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy (MA), an influential Instagram therapist who has helped transform countless relationships. 

She is the Head Therapist at Actually, where she works to make relational wellness mainstream and accessible. She also owns A Better Life Therapy in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, supporting clinicians who are helping couples every day. Out on November 30, 2021, Elizabeth's debut book, I WANT THIS TO WORK is a trustworthy, inclusive guide to navigating the most challenging relationship issues we face. Couples will learn to work with three challenges they must tackle to repair and strengthen their relationships: conflict, healing, and connection. Culturally inclusive, LGBTQIA+ friendly, and written for both married and unmarried couples, this book brings an accessible guide to healing relationships and creating enduring intimacy. For more information, please visit www.elizabethearnshaw.com.

On part 3 of the Enneagram Series with Jenn Whitmer, we dive into the heart triad, 2-3-4s, and the head triad, 5-6-7s and discuss how they show up in relationships and approach conflict.

Jenn Whitmer helps teams and leaders solve conflict, cultivate communication, and create empowered teams. Keynote and TEDx speaker and consultant, she talks about hard topics with infectious joy. Through working with Jenn, people improve communication, work through conflict, and build self-awareness with the Enneagram. She asks big questions that lead to big dreams and big ideas and big living. Usually, that means laughing.

Specializing in interpersonal conflict resolution, leadership, and the Enneagram, Jenn helps others communicate through difficulty so they can build confidence, lead powerfully, and live with peace and wholeness.

Jenn's Enneagram Resources: jennwhitmer.com/enneagram
Jenn's Instagram: @jenn_whitmer
Jenn's Recommended Enneagram Test: RHETI Assessment
Other Enneagram Test Option: Truity Assessment

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