What if healing isn’t about becoming someone new… but remembering the parts of yourself you lost along the way?

In this heartfelt and deeply human episode of Becoming is Messy, Meghann sits down with Kim Lengling—author, podcast host of Let Fear Bounce, veteran advocate, and creative spirit whose perspective on life is equal parts grounded, playful, and wise.

Together, they explore what it means to move through grief, trauma, fear, and disconnection while slowly finding your way back to joy, awe, peace, and authenticity.

Kim shares stories from her journey through military trauma, emotional heaviness, faith, healing, and rediscovering the beauty in the little things—from music and nature to handwritten notes, dogs, shadows, and meaningful phrases that help anchor us back to ourselves.

In this conversation, they discuss:

· The emotional “gray” so many people are carrying right now

· Learning to notice the signs when you’re losing yourself

· Friendship, faith, and the people who help hold us up

· Why boundaries are essential for protecting your peace

· Letting fear “bounce” instead of absorbing negativity

· The healing power of nature, music, awe, and small rituals

· How authenticity can make life feel lighter again

· Why you don’t have to make sense to everyone else to be fully yourself

This episode is warm, honest, funny, thoughtful, and filled with gentle reminders that even in difficult seasons, there are still small moments of beauty waiting to bring us back to life.

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Connect with Kim Lengling: https://www.kimlenglingauthor.com/

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What happens when the version of yourself the world sees… isn’t the full story?

In this deeply honest episode of Becoming is Messy, Meghann sits down with Serena Mastin, entrepreneur, speaker, author of Exposed: You Can’t Heal When You Hide, and founder of Pulse Marketing and Heart of Creative.

From the outside, Serena had built a successful life and thriving business. But underneath the achievement was a lifetime of survival, silence, perfectionism, and carrying pain she rarely allowed others to see.

Together, Meghann and Serena explore what it means to stop hiding, release shame, and begin healing in a way that feels whole and honest.

* In this conversation, they discuss:

* The emotional toll of living a “split life”

* Why we protect others while abandoning ourselves

* How unresolved pain can show up physically in the body

* The role self-worth plays in the relationships we tolerate

* Grief, healing, and rebuilding after unimaginable loss

* Learning to stop pretending and start living authentically

* Finding joy again after heartbreak

This episode is raw, compassionate, and deeply human. A reminder that healing doesn’t happen by becoming perfect.

It happens when we finally allow ourselves to be fully seen.

🔗 Links & Resources

✨ Join the messy conversation on Substack: www.theunperfectlife.substack.com

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✨ Explore coaching, workshops & more: www.theunperfectlife.com

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🌿 Connect with Serena Mastin:

https://serenamastin.com/

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What if the answers you’ve been searching for… are already within you?

In this episode of Becoming is Messy, Meghann sits down with Debra Martin—energy healer, intuitive practitioner, and teacher—to explore what it really means to trust your inner voice.

Together, they unpack the connection between emotional, physical, and energetic well-being, and how learning to listen inward can shift the way we navigate uncertainty, fear, and healing.

Debra shares her own deeply personal journey through loss, illness, near-death experiences, and transformation—and how each chapter strengthened her ability to trust, surrender, and align with something greater.

In this conversation, they explore:

• How to recognize when you’re out of alignment
• The difference between anxiety and inner knowing
• Why fear disconnects us from our truth—and how to move through it
• Simple, grounded ways to reconnect with yourself
• The power of surrender, trust, and letting love lead

This episode is both deeply intuitive and incredibly practical—an invitation to slow down, listen, and begin rebuilding trust with yourself.

Because your inner voice isn’t something you have to find.

It’s something you begin to hear when you finally pause.

🔗 Links & Resources

✨ Join the Messy community on Instagram: @BecomingIsMessy

✨ Follow Meghann for more real, raw, and messy wisdom: @MeghannDawson

✨ Explore coaching, workshops & more: www.meghanndawson.com (sign up for Meghann's Messy Middle email)

✨ Shop the Messy Collection: www.meghanndawson.com/shop

🌿 Connect with Debra Martin:

• https://debramartinhealer.com/
  • Debra hosts a free monthly Zoom gathering called "Army for Love"
    • A safe space for people to share what they’re going through
    • Includes a collective healing session at the end

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What if your relationship with money isn’t actually yours?

In this episode of Becoming is Messy, Meghann sits down with Mark Willis—a Certified Financial Planner™, three-time #1 bestselling author, and owner of Lake Growth Financial Services—to explore the powerful connection between money, freedom, and the stories we’ve inherited over time.

After graduating with six figures of student loan debt and witnessing the financial fallout of the 2008 crisis, Mark began questioning the conventional advice so many of us were taught to follow. That curiosity led him to a different approach—one centered on control, clarity, and long-term financial freedom.

Together, they unpack:

• How our earliest experiences shape the way we think about money
• The question that can shift everything: “Who taught you that?”
• Why many financial beliefs go unexamined for a lifetime
• The relationship between money, time, and personal freedom
• The difference between saving money and designing it to work for you
• How to begin thinking differently about your financial future

This conversation is an invitation to step back and examine the narratives you’ve been living by.

Because when you understand the story… you can decide whether to keep it.

🔗 Links & Resources

✨ Join the Messy community on Instagram: @BecomingIsMessy

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🌿 Connect with Mark Willis:

• https://lakegrowth.com/

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You’ve done the work.

The therapy. The journaling. The healing. The breakthroughs.

So why doesn’t your life fully reflect it yet?

In this episode of Becoming is Messy, Meghann sits down with Nicole Frolick—an advanced mystic, transformational healer, and intuitive coach known for her work in collapsing time around transformation and helping clients move from insight into real, embodied results.

Through her frameworks like the Healing Exit Strategy and the Velocity Point Method, Nicole blends deep intuitive work with grounded strategy to help people shift not just how they think—but how they live.

Together, they explore the moment so many people quietly find themselves in—the space between awareness and embodiment.

The space where you’re no longer who you used to be… but you’re not fully living your next level yet.

In this conversation, they unpack what it actually takes for inner work to land in real life:

• Why awareness alone isn’t enough
• The shift from doing the work to becoming the person
• How identity—not effort—creates lasting change
• Why expansion often feels like everything is falling apart
• The difference between calling something in and being able to hold it

This episode is an invitation to trust the in-between.

Because that space?

It’s not stuck. It’s where everything is recalibrating.

And when it finally lands…nothing feels the same.

🔗 Links & Resources

✨ Join the Messy community on Instagram: @BecomingIsMessy

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✨ Explore coaching, workshops & more: www.meghanndawson.com (sign up for Meghann's Messy Middle email)

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🌿 Connect with Nicole Frolick:

• https://nicolefrolick.com/

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What if one simple question could completely change the way you handle conflict?

In this episode of Becoming is Messy, Meghann sits down with Elena Sophia Ruiz—human behavior expert, negotiator, and founder of multiple successful HR and leadership organizations—to explore how curiosity can transform the way we communicate, lead, and relate.

At the center of this conversation is a deceptively simple question:

“What makes you say that?”

Instead of reacting, defending, or escalating, this question creates space—for understanding, clarity, and connection.

Together, Meghann and Elena unpack:

• Why most conflict isn’t about the moment—it’s about the pattern beneath it
• How curiosity interrupts emotional reactivity
• The danger of labels and the power of focusing on facts
• How early conditioning shapes the way we communicate as adults
• What it really means to respond instead of react

This episode is an invitation to pause, get curious, and start seeing your interactions—and yourself—through a completely different lens.

Because when you shift from reaction to curiosity, everything changes.

🔗 Links & Resources

✨ Join the Messy community on Instagram: @BecomingIsMessy

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🌿 Connect with Elena Sophia Ruiz:

• https://www.intimateconversationswithmen.com/

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What if the transformation you’ve been searching for doesn’t require more effort, more fixing, or more explaining—but more listening?

In this episode of Becoming is Messy, Meghann sits down with master hypnotherapist and teacher Steve Roehm for a grounded, eye-opening conversation about intuition, subconscious change, and the quiet power of presence. Together, they explore how many of our limits are shaped by unconscious beliefs formed long ago—and how real change can happen quickly when we learn to work with the mind instead of against it.

Steve challenges common misconceptions about hypnosis, therapy, and personal growth, revealing how language, perception, and moment-to-moment awareness shape our reality. This conversation invites listeners to step out of rigid scripts, reconnect with their inner voice, and rediscover the freedom that comes from trusting themselves again.

This episode is a powerful reminder that becoming isn’t about force—it’s about alignment, curiosity, and letting your inner wisdom lead.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How to embrace the messiness of personal growth and transformation instead of resisting it.
• Ways to access wisdom and clarity beneath the daily noise and distractions of life.
• The importance of presence and intuition as guiding forces during moments of change.
• Why lasting transformation doesn’t require dramatic theatrics, but honest, unscripted curiosity and openness.
• How listening to your inner voice can lead you toward the shifts and growth you’re truly seeking.
• The role of hypnotherapy as a gentle tool for navigating internal chaos and fostering self-trust.
• Encouragement to view life’s winding journey as a source of strength, wisdom, and ongoing self-discovery.

🔗 Links & Resources

✨ Join the Messy community on Instagram: @BecomingIsMessy

✨ Follow Meghann for more real, raw, and messy wisdom: @MeghannDawson

✨ Explore coaching, workshops & more: www.meghanndawson.com (sign up for Meghann's Messy Middle email)

✨ Shop the Messy Collection: www.meghanndawson.com/shop

🌿 Connect with Steve Roehm:

• https://nashvillehypnosis.com/

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Many of us live with sugar cravings, anxiety, chronic pain, poor sleep, or low mood — and quietly assume this is just who we are.

In this episode of Becoming is Messy, Meghann sits down with Dr. Regina Gysel, a physician and global expert in brain biochemistry, to unpack a radically compassionate reframe: what if cravings, anxiety, and even pain aren’t character flaws or personality traits — but biochemical signals asking for support?

Together, they explore how neurotransmitter imbalances shape sugar cravings, emotional regulation, anxiety, sleep, and pain perception. Dr. Regina explains how targeted amino acid therapy can help restore balance in the brain, reduce cravings without willpower, and calm the nervous system in ways many people have never experienced before.

This conversation is especially powerful for anyone who has ever wondered: Is this my personality, my trauma response, or my brain chemistry?

If you’re ready to lean into your unique healing needs, this episode will open a door you may not have known existed.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Sugar cravings are often driven by low serotonin and dopamine, not a lack of discipline or willpower.
• Anxiety, poor sleep, irritability, and cravings frequently travel together because they share common biochemical roots.
• Pain perception is deeply influenced by neurotransmitters like serotonin, GABA, and endorphins — restoring balance can reduce both physical and emotional pain.
• Many people confuse biochemical depletion with personality traits (“I’m just anxious” or “I’ve always been like this”).
• Amino acid therapy offers a personalized, symptom-based approach to supporting brain chemistry.
• Chronic stress, trauma, and long-term pain can significantly deplete neurotransmitters over time.
• Protein intake matters more than most people realize, especially for women.
• Healing doesn’t have to rely on force, restriction, or shame — support often works better than willpower.

🔗 Links & Resources

✨ Join the Messy community on Instagram: @BecomingIsMessy

✨ Follow Meghann for more real, raw, and messy wisdom: @MeghannDawson

✨ Explore coaching, workshops & more: www.meghanndawson.com (sign up for Meghann's Messy Middle email)

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🌿 Connect with Dr. Regina Gysel:

• https://www.stopsugarcravings.ch/

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What if calm isn’t something you earn after fixing everything — but something you access by shifting how you relate to yourself and the universe?

In this episode of Becoming is Messy™, Meghann sits down with Christy Whitman, two-time New York Times bestselling author and transformational leader, for a grounded and expansive conversation about energy, alignment, and trusting the unseen support around us.

Anchored in the Imperfect LEVEL UP™ letter E2 — Embrace the Magic of the Universe, this episode explores how chaos, trauma, and survival patterns shape our nervous system — and how subtle shifts in awareness, language, and self-compassion can guide us back to calm and flow.

Christy shares powerful stories from her own life, including loss, intuition, healing, and resilience, while offering practical tools to release fear, move out of people-pleasing, and partner with the universe instead of fighting it. Together, Meghann and Christy unpack why so many of us are afraid to feel good, how neutrality can feel uncomfortable before it feels peaceful, and how noticing “the winks” can become a gateway back to alignment.

This episode is an invitation to soften, breathe, and remember: even in the messiest seasons, you are supported — often in ways you can’t see yet.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why calm doesn’t come from control — it comes from alignment
• How chaos and survival patterns live in the nervous system
• The surprising reason many people are afraid to feel happy or peaceful
• Why neutrality can feel boring before it feels safe
• The energetic cost of people-pleasing and over-rescuing
• How watching your words instantly shifts your energy and frequency

🔗 Links & Resources

✨ Join the Messy community on Instagram: @BecomingIsMessy

✨ Follow Meghann for more real, raw, and messy wisdom: @MeghannDawson

✨ Explore coaching, workshops & more: www.meghanndawson.com (sign up for Meghann's Messy Middle email)

✨ Shop the Messy Collection: www.meghanndawson.com/shop

🌿 Connect with Christy Whitman:

• http://www.watchyourwords.com/

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There comes a moment in every becoming when logic alone stops being enough.

You’ve done the work you can see. You’ve named what you can name. And suddenly, life begins nudging you toward something bigger.

In this episode of Becoming Is Messy, Meghann welcomes Valeria Maritza — Quantum Energy Healer, intuitive artist, bestselling author, and host of Healing Through You — for a deeply human conversation about intuition, healing, trust, and the quiet magic of the universe.

Anchored in E² of the Imperfect LEVEL UP framework: Embrace the Magic of the Universe, this conversation explores what it looks like to notice the signs, follow the whispers, and trust your inner knowing even when it doesn’t make logical sense yet.

Valeria shares her messy, transformative journey through loss, spiritual awakening, creativity, and the courageous leap from a long teaching career into soul-aligned work. Together, Meghann and Valeria unpack how universal guidance shows up differently for each of us — through art, books, music, synchronicities, energy, and lived experience.

This episode is for anyone who’s felt the nudge… and is learning how to listen.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• What it truly means to embrace the magic of the universe without bypassing real life
• How intuition often starts as a whisper before it becomes clarity
• Why signs and synchronicities look different for everyone — and why that matters
• The connection between alignment, energy, and feeling lighter in your body
• Why following your soul’s path often brings energy instead of exhaustion
• How to trust yourself before the results show up
• Simple ways to notice universal guidance without overanalyzing it
• Why creativity, curiosity, and healing are powerful doorways to intuition

🔗 Links & Resources

✨ Join the Messy community on Instagram: @BecomingIsMessy

✨ Follow Meghann for more real, raw, and messy wisdom: @MeghannDawson

✨ Explore coaching, workshops & more: www.meghanndawson.com (sign up for Meghann's Messy Middle email)

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🌿 Connect with Valeria Maritza:

• https://www.healingthroughyou.com/

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