Bliss'n Up Podcast

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This week, I’m sharing a deeply personal reflection on grief, faith, synchronicity, and the courage it takes to release beliefs that no longer serve us. On the 11th anniversary of my father’s passing, I found myself answering a question he asked me before he died: would our connection continue? In this episode, I open up about the signs, synchronicities, and inner shifts that helped me move from skepticism to trust—and how “Join June” became an invitation to let go of what isn’t truly mine so I could fully embrace a more meaningful, magical way of living.

Key Takeaways:

[02:31] A Father’s Final Question: Eleven years after my father’s passing, I reflect on the profound question he asked before he died—and how this episode became my answer.

[08:02] Enjoy the Mystery: A conversation with a friend gave me permission to stop trying to prove every sign and simply allow mystery to exist without needing certainty.

[11:29] Naming the Experience: Discovering the concept of synchronicity gave language to the unexplainable moments in my life and opened the door to receiving them with intention.

[21:09] Join June: Sometimes we cannot join what is meant to elevate us until we release what no longer fits—old beliefs, inherited doubts, and fear of judgment.

[24:54] Release What’s Not Yours: This episode is an invitation to let go of the “shoulds,” the skepticism, and the stories that block your growth so you can embrace a life that feels more designed, meaningful, and magical.

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This week, I’m joined by Mario Murgado for a powerful conversation on discipline, leadership, purpose, and what it really means to build a life of impact. Mario shares his journey from arriving in the United States from Cuba as a young child to becoming one of the most respected leaders in the automotive industry. But more than success, this conversation is about the values that sustain a meaningful life: intentionality, personal responsibility, mentorship, service, and love. We talk about the role discipline has played in his rise, the apprenticeship years that shaped his leadership, and why true fulfillment comes from helping others grow.

Key Takeaways:

[08:00] Early Adversity and Identity: Mario reflects on immigrating from Cuba as a child, the emotional weight of that experience, and how early adversity shaped his resilience, maturity, and sense of purpose.

[20:30] Discipline as the Foundation: Success, according to Mario, begins with discipline: in how you work, plan, execute, and show up consistently. Talent matters, but discipline is what sustains growth.

[31:30] Apprenticeship Before Ownership: Before becoming an owner, Mario spent nearly two decades learning every seat in the business. This season of humility, observation, and mastery became the foundation for long-term success.

[38:00] Leadership Means Staying Close to Your People: Mario shares why he doesn’t disappear during the holidays and why real leadership means being present, supportive, and committed to the people who make the business possible.

[47:40] The Legacy of Unconditional Love: Beyond business, Mario opens up about fatherhood, marriage, and grandparenting, sharing why unconditional love may be the greatest gift we can give the people closest to us.

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This week, I’m reflecting on how we step into a new month with greater intention—especially when we’re craving growth, expansion, and a deeper sense of alignment. As I look back on what May revealed and ahead to what this new season is asking of me, I’m sharing the practice that keeps me from drifting and helps me move through life with more clarity, purpose, and momentum. In this episode, I explore how monthly themes shape the way we live, why growth often asks us to reach beyond ourselves, and the powerful questions to ask as you decide what this next chapter will require of you.

Key Takeaways:

[03:45] Why Monthly Themes Matter: Naming a theme each month helps prevent drifting and brings you back into alignment with what matters most.

[09:05] Theme Stacking: Monthly intentions become tools you can carry forward, building on each other over time like stacked habits that support long-term growth.

[16:58] Growth Requires Shared Effort: When you want to expand, multiply, and strengthen your impact, it often begins by asking where support, connection, and partnership belong in the process.

[19:37] A Powerful Midyear Reflection: June invites us to consider where we’re investing our energy and whether those relationships, habits, and environments are helping us grow or pulling us off course.

[21:50] Name What This Season Needs: Instead of drifting into another month on autopilot, choose a word or intention that captures the energy you want to embody.

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This week, I’m reflecting on a mantra that has guided me for years: you are in training for something bigger. But after walking with my sister through a major surgery in the very same hospital where my father spent so many of his final years, I finally understood what that phrase really means. In this episode, I share how grief, resilience, memory, and meaning came full circle for me—and how the hardest seasons of your life may not be preparing you for something worse, but for a higher version of yourself. If you’ve been through something heavy and you’re still trying to understand what it was all for, this episode is for you.

Key Takeaways:

[06:20] The Power of Language: A hospital sign that once told my father “quit now” became a powerful lesson in how deeply words shape our mindset, healing, and resilience.

[12:30] Bigger Doesn’t Mean Worse: I share the realization that being “in training for something bigger” doesn’t mean life only gets harder—it means life is shaping you into someone stronger, steadier, and more capable.

[15:40] From Apprentice to Legacy: After years of learning from my father’s strength, humor, and light, I realized I am no longer just the one learning the lesson—I am now called to carry it forward.

[18:25] Reframing Your Hard Seasons: Instead of asking “why is this happening to me?”, ask: what is this teaching me, what tools am I gaining, and who am I becoming through this?

[24:05] The Higher Version of Yourself: The “something bigger” you’re being trained for may not be another event or challenge at all—it may be your own evolution into a more grounded, resilient, and purposeful version of yourself.

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If you’ve ever felt like life handed you a version of your story you never would have chosen, this conversation is for you.

In this episode, I sit down with restaurateur, pitmaster, and entrepreneur Jeff Bud for a deeply moving conversation about resilience, reinvention, and what it means to live with purpose when life takes an unexpected turn. Jeff shares how surviving cancer, facing uncertainty, and navigating the chaos of COVID ultimately led him to build one of Miami’s most talked-about hospitality brands.

His story is a powerful reminder that even the hardest seasons of life may be preparing you for something extraordinary.

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Apocalypse BBQ: https://www.instagram.com/apocalypsebbq?igsh=d2dmdnA4MGpxcGRy

Lala's Burgers: https://www.instagram.com/lalasbrgrs?igsh=MWtsb2t1c3hxOGVlMA==

Key Takeaways:

[19:29] When Life Changes the Plan: Jeff shares how a leukemia diagnosis in his twenties forced him to confront mortality, surrender control, and begin seeing life through an entirely different lens.

[29:10] Purpose in the Pain: In the middle of his cancer battle, Jeff made a decision to live and lead publicly—using his journey to show others what’s possible when you refuse to give up.

[36:18] The Birth of Apocalypse BBQ: What began as backyard barbecue during recovery eventually became a business born out of necessity, creativity, and a deep desire to bring people together.

[48:05] Life Is Rigged in Your Favor: We explore the idea that even our hardest moments may be setting us up for something greater—if we’re willing to meet life with courage and intention.

[1:07:00] Living Purposefully: Jeff reflects on purpose not as something you find once, but as something you embody through the way you live, lead, and love each day.

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This week, I’m reflecting on the paradox of motherhood—how it can be the very thing that inspires us to reimagine our lives, and later become the role we hide inside when life is asking us to evolve again. In this Mother’s Day episode, I’m sharing my own story of how motherhood shaped my career, led me toward entrepreneurship, and eventually revealed where I had drifted out of alignment. This is an invitation to notice the season you’re actually in, honor what once served you, and ask whether the life you’re living still matches the woman you’re becoming.

Key Takeaways:

[02:19] Motherhood as Catalyst: From the beginning, motherhood shaped my choices—even before I became a mother. It influenced the career path I chose, the life I thought I wanted, and the way I defined success.

[06:09] The First Detour: After having my first child, I realized the career I had carefully chosen to support motherhood no longer fit the version of motherhood I deeply desired. That realization led me into entrepreneurship and a new way of working on my own terms.

[13:27] When the Dream Changes: After my father’s death, I felt called to step more fully into personal development work, but I stayed stuck trying to reconcile that calling with the identity and structure I had built around motherhood.

[21:56] The Comfort Zone Revealed: I came face to face with the truth that motherhood had become more than a sacred role—it had also become a comfort zone. What once supported me was now keeping me from fully stepping into my next season.

[28:31] Name the Season You’re In: Life is always changing, and every season asks something new of us. The key is to notice when a role, routine, or identity that once fit beautifully no longer reflects who you are becoming.

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May is a both/and month — beautiful and brutal, nostalgic and exciting, overwhelming and magical. In this episode, I share the lessons April taught me about asking hard questions, the mindset shift that's been quietly changing how I respond to life, and the one question I'm carrying into May that I think will change how you move through it too.

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In this episode:

[04:48] What Ask April actually revealed — and why the questions matter less than the meaning we attach to the answers

[06:26] Why we avoid the questions we most need to ask, and how to receive hard information without making it mean something about your worth

[14:46] The single question I'm carrying into May: "What am I making this mean?" — and why this one shift can release you from suffering you didn't know you were creating

[19:50] Why May holds endings and beginnings, joy and grief, celebration and uncertainty all at once — and how to stop treating that as a problem to solve

[20:20] Making space for magic, even when the season is complicated

[26:30] The Well is open — and the VIP bonus closes May 5

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A named season — the actual chapter you're in right now, not the one you think you should be in

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About This Episode

This week I'm unpacking what a month of Ask April Life Audits revealed — three simple phrases that came up in conversation after conversation, and what they signal about where you actually are in your life right now.

You'll hear why high-achieving women need outside-the-fishbowl perspective, how the Live With Intention framework (Notice, Name, Nurture) creates clarity before your circumstances change, and I'll guide you through one reflective prompt that will help you name the season you're in.

And if that prompt lands — if you pause and realize you can't quite name the season you're in — I want you in the room with me next week at Name The Season.

Key Takeaways

[06:17] Phrase 1 — "That's a really good question." Not a compliment. An awakening. Making space to be asked — and to ask yourself — better questions disrupts autopilot and begins real reflection.

[9:22] Drifting defined. Drifting happens when you stop paying attention and no one is asking you the questions that bring you back home to yourself. Attention is the antidote.

[9:59] Phrase 2 — "I hadn't thought about it that way." A perspective shift changes your story before your circumstances change. It also kickstarts problem-solving that feels stuck.

[11:42] Notice. Name. Nurture. The Live With Intention framework helps you locate where you are, name what's true, and gently support the next step — without overhauling your life.

[14:47] Phrase 3 — "Things are better than I thought." Naming the unnamed shrinks the problem. Success begets success. You're closer than you think.

Reflect

If you had to name the season you're in right now — what would you call it?

Don't outsource the answer. Don't scroll past it. Let the question sit with you until next week. And if you want to name it together, in the room, with a framework that makes the answer actually land — join me at Name The Season.

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This week, I sit down with my sister, Kathy, to talk about the difference between being alive and truly living, how “compensating” can hide declining health in plain sight, and why she didn’t start fighting for her life until she was faced with losing it. Kathy shares how prayer anchored her through five months in the hospital, why she refuses to be a victim, and how love without judgment helped her say yes to community, accountability, and a second chance. If you’ve been drifting—or loving someone who is—this episode is a compassionate invitation to dare, take aligned action, and choose life.

Key Takeaways:

•⁠ ⁠[10:18] The Turning Point: “Before, I could compensate.” Kathy explains why she didn’t fight earlier—and what changed when she couldn’t hide the consequences anymore.

•⁠ ⁠[13:55] Anchored by Prayer: In unrelenting pain, nothing eased her suffering like prayer and a simple song—reminding her she wasn’t alone.

•⁠ ⁠[19:03] Ownership, Not Blame: Kathy rejects “Why me?” and embraces responsibility without self-pity—owning her choices while refusing victimhood.

•⁠ ⁠[38:31] Love Without Fixing: How being fully seen and accepted (not managed) shifted our dynamic—and opened the door to real change.

•⁠ ⁠[45:00] Dare as a Way of Life: Choosing “DARE” as her word of the year—dream, aligned action, release, enjoy—Kathy commits to saying yes to life, community, and herself.

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This week, I’m exploring the quiet power of better questions—how the ones we repeat can keep us circling, and how a simple reframe moves us into choice, agency, and momentum. I’ll share three common mental loops that stall progress, the compassionate shifts that turn pain into purpose, and practical prompts to help you act with clarity and courage—one intentional step at a time.

Key Takeaways:

[03:10] From “Why me?” to responsibility - Trade victim energy for agency. Ask what’s within your control, what lesson is present, and how you can show up with love, integrity, and service.

[10:15] Rethinking purpose - Instead of hunting for a single grand answer, try “I’m here on purpose—what can I do purposefully today?” Let your body care, relationships, and emotions guide daily, embodied purpose.

[18:08] Spot your looping question - Notice the one that paralyzes you (for many, it’s “How?”). Redirect to “What do I know right now?” and take the smallest next step you can actually execute.

[21:30] Work backward from results - If you already knew how, what would success look like? Who are you, what exists, and what support is in place? Reverse-engineer outcomes and align today’s actions accordingly.

[23:20] Use beginner’s mind - Not knowing can be a gift. Curiosity and scrappiness open creative paths that “experts” overlook. Progress beats perfection—learn forward.

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Bliss’n Up Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/709903961458241/

1:1 Life Audit Call: https://app.carolinedeposada.com/widget/bookings/the-2026-life-audit-with-caro

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