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In this episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, host Christina Russell-Strong speaks with Amy Tostenson, founder of Rise of the Phoenix Coach LLC, about childhood trauma, addiction, C-PTSD, generational abuse, recovery, and healing.

Amy shares how unresolved trauma contributed to addiction and destructive patterns throughout her life and why deeper emotional healing became an important part of her recovery journey. The conversation explores breaking generational cycles, nervous-system healing, self-love, inner peace, finding your voice after trauma, and learning to acknowledge what happened without allowing the past to continue controlling your future.

This honest conversation offers encouragement for survivors, cycle breakers, people navigating addiction recovery, and anyone working to rebuild their sense of self after painful experiences.

Topics include: childhood trauma, C-PTSD, addiction recovery, generational trauma, breaking abuse and addiction cycles, inner healing, self-worth, emotional healing, nervous-system healing, sobriety, self-love, recovery, and giving voice to your story.

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How do you rebuild your life after grief, overcome burnout, and develop emotional resilience without losing yourself?

In this powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, host Christina Russell-Strong welcomes Niky Hamilton, Australian women's resilience and leadership coach, speaker, and author of Selfish Leadership: How to Lead Without Losing Yourself.

After the devastating loss of her son, Baxter, Niky faced overwhelming grief, self-blame, and a profound loss of identity. Her journey toward healing transformed her understanding of resilience, self-worth, and personal growth.

Years later, a serious health scare forced another life-changing realization: being strong for everyone else should never come at the expense of your own well-being.

Together, Christina and Niky explore grief and emotional healing, overcoming burnout, setting healthy boundaries, breaking cycles of people-pleasing, and developing the confidence to choose yourself.

In this episode, you'll discover:

- Why true resilience isn't about bouncing back after loss
- How to navigate grief and rebuild your sense of identity
- The connection between burnout, people-pleasing, and self-worth
- How women can practice self-leadership without sacrificing their well-being
- Practical strategies for managing overwhelming emotions and unexpected setbacks
- Why boundaries, self-compassion, and accepting support are essential for personal growth

Whether you're navigating grief, experiencing burnout, facing a major life transition, or struggling to balance leadership and personal well-being, this conversation offers encouragement, perspective,

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Are you the person everyone depends on, yet secretly feel exhausted from carrying it all?

What happens when being the strong one starts costing you your peace, energy, and sense of self?

In this powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, host Christina Russell-Strong welcomes Kamia Hayes, Capacity Liberation Specialist, author, and MSW Candidate, for an honest conversation about overfunctioning, burnout, boundaries, and learning to reclaim your capacity.

Kamia is the founder of Capacity Liberation Group™ and author of It's Trash Day, a book encouraging women to release the responsibilities and expectations they were never meant to carry.

As a wife, mother of six, full-time claims professional, and graduate student in social work, Kamia understands firsthand the challenges of balancing responsibility, purpose, and personal well-being.

In this conversation, we explore:

- The hidden cost of always being the strong one.
- Why being capable doesn't mean you have to carry everything.
- Breaking cycles of overfunctioning and burnout.
- Creating healthy boundaries without guilt.
- Releasing responsibilities that no longer serve you.
- Learning to steward your energy, time, and capacity.

"Capacity isn't something you expand. It's something you steward." — Kamia Hayes

Sometimes breaking cycles means recognizing that you don't have to sacrifice yourself to show up for everyone else.

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Change can feel uncomfortable even when it’s a change we wanted. The fear, second-guessing, resistance, and uncertainty don’t necessarily mean we made the wrong decision—they can simply be part of being human.
In this episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, Christina Russell-Strong sits down with Janine Lequay, Change Strategist, Author, and Speaker, for a powerful conversation about learning to navigate life’s transitions with greater intention instead of simply reacting to whatever happens next.
Janine shares how her background in psychology, human resources, and organizational change management led her to develop a framework for helping individuals approach personal change differently. We talk about career transitions, layoffs, grief, relationships, identity, family changes, and why understanding how you naturally respond to change can make a major difference in how you move forward.

We also discuss:
• Why resistance to change is normal

• The difference between reacting to life and moving intentionally

• Why your career or title should not become your entire identity

• Understanding your personal “shift pattern” during change

• How different personalities approach decisions and transitions

• Why awareness can improve relationships and team dynamics

• The importance of community when life becomes difficult

• Giving yourself grace while still taking ownership of your next step
One of the biggest reminders from this conversation: you may not always control what changes, but you can become more intentional about how you navigate what comes next.

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In this episode of Breaking Curses With Excellence, Christina Russell-Strong sits down with Leah Marie Mazur, Certified Divorce Recovery Coach, speaker, and founder of Mindfully Ready, for an honest conversation about healing after divorce, rebuilding self-trust, regaining confidence, creating healthy boundaries, and becoming the woman you truly want to be.

As a three-time divorced mom, Leah brings both professional experience and lived experience to the conversation. She helps women move beyond simply surviving divorce and begin rebuilding their emotional stability, identity, confidence, and relationship with themselves.
We talk about what happens when divorce leaves you questioning who you are, why women sometimes abandon themselves in relationships, and what it takes to begin trusting yourself again after a major life transition.

In this episode, we discuss divorce recovery, self-trust after divorce, rebuilding confidence, emotional regulation, boundaries, identity after divorce, personal transformation, starting over, and learning how to choose yourself again.

Whether you're newly divorced, years into your healing journey, navigating separation, or simply rebuilding after a difficult season of life, this conversation is a reminder that your next chapter can be intentionally created.

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Certified Divorce Recovery Coach | Speaker | Founder of Mindfully Ready

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What if the life everyone thinks is beautiful actually feels like a cage?
In this powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, host Christina Russell-Strong sits down with Crystal Peña—entrepreneur, domestic violence survivor and advocate, child-protection advocate, mother of four, first-generation American, business consultant, behavioral-health business owner, model, and Ms. Sublette County 2026.

Crystal opens up about a life that looked successful and secure from the outside while, behind closed doors, she was beginning to recognize patterns of coercive control and abuse.
And that is where one of the most powerful ideas from this conversation comes from:

Sometimes the cage doesn’t look like a cage.

It can be the beautiful home.
The marriage.
The lifestyle.
The business.

The life everyone else assumes you should be grateful to have.
Crystal shares how her understanding of abuse changed when she realized that domestic violence does not always begin with physical violence. Emotional abuse, manipulation, financial control, coercive behavior, isolation, intimidation, and the gradual loss of personal freedom can be much harder to recognize—especially when the person experiencing it has normalized the behavior.

Christina and Crystal also have a deeply personal conversation about what happens after someone leaves. Leaving can be an incredibly important step toward safety, but it does not automatically mean every problem disappears. Crystal discusses rebuilding her life, navigating continued conflict, protecting her children, rediscovering her identity, and finding the strength to keep moving forward.

The conversation also explores breaking generational cycles.
Crystal explains why one of the first steps toward changing a harmful pattern is simply being able to name it. When we recognize coercive control, manipulation, unhealthy relationship patterns, trauma responses, or behaviors that have been passed from one generation to another, we finally have an opportunity to change them.
Faith is also woven throughout this conversation. Crystal shares a perspective on the story of Lot’s wife that changed the way she thought about moving forward: sometimes continuing to look backward is really about struggling to let go of the life, identity, comfort, or expectations we once had.

Christina and Crystal discuss what it means to trust that there can still be something meaningful ahead of you—even when what you are leaving behind once meant everything to you.
And parents, this conversation is especially important.

One of Crystal’s strongest messages is that we have to do more than simply ask our children:

“How was your day?”

Ask deeper questions.

What happened today?
Who were you with?
What did you talk about?
How did that make you feel?
Did anything make you uncomfortable?

What kinds of behaviors are you seeing from other children or adults?
We cannot control every environment our children enter, but we can create a home where they know they can talk about what they experience.

Those conversations can help children develop emotional awareness, empathy, boundaries, discernment, and resilience—and they may also give parents an opportunity to recognize something important before it becomes a much larger problem.
Christina and Crystal also discuss how to support someone who may be experiencing abuse without embarrassing, shaming, or pushing them away. Sometimes the person you love will not recognize what is happening immediately. Staying compassionate, maintaining connection, asking thoughtful questions, and remaining a safe person for them to call can matter more than we realize.

They also dive into accountability, boundaries, healing, restoration, and second chances—including Crystal’s advocacy surrounding DUI and child-protection laws in Wyoming and her belief that changing laws and expectations can eventually help change culture.

Crystal is also working on telling more of her own story through writing, including her upcoming book, which explores her experiences with domestic violence, survival, rebuilding, and what can happen after someone makes 

Listen. Heal. Break the Cycle.


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What happens when you’ve spent so much of your life taking care of everyone else, staying quiet, people-pleasing, and making yourself smaller that you no longer recognize the woman underneath it all?
In this powerful and deeply relatable episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, Christina Russell Strong sits down with Kim Brunson, life coach and founder of Breath of Sunshine, for an honest conversation about what it means to go from feeling invisible to finally allowing yourself to be seen.
Kim shares how growing up alongside a sister with significant medical needs shaped her tendency to stay quiet, minimize her own needs, and become the person who could handle everything. Years later, those survival patterns followed her into adulthood—until she began asking a life-changing question: Who am I underneath all of these roles?
Together, Christina and Kim talk about people-pleasing, self-worth, emotional triggers, boundaries, the inner child, nervous-system awareness, grief, forgiveness, burnout, and the ways our bodies can signal that something needs our attention.
They also explore what it looks like to reconnect with the playful, spontaneous, adventurous version of yourself that responsibilities, survival mode, and adulthood may have buried.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
Why people-pleasing can begin as protection but eventually keep us small
What feeling “invisible” can look like in adulthood
Learning to pause instead of reacting when something triggers you
Reconnecting with your inner child and the parts of yourself you left behind
Why rest and numbing are not always the same thing
Simple ways to move yourself out of emotional shutdown
Creating healthier boundaries without over-explaining your “no”
Why professional support can sometimes offer something loved ones cannot
Listening to your body before it reaches the point of complete exhaustion
Giving yourself permission to start again—right now
One of the most powerful reminders from Kim:
Every minute is a fresh start.
You do not have to wait until tomorrow, next year, after the promotion, after the kids grow up, or until life becomes easier to begin choosing yourself.

If you’ve ever felt unseen, unheard, overwhelmed, disconnected from yourself, or exhausted from being everything for everyone, this conversation is for you.
You are seen.
You are valuable.
And you deserve to take up space.

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What happens when one small step becomes a movement reaching people across the United States and beyond?
In this powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, Christina Russell-Strong sits down with Traci Kasper, founder of One Small Step Walks, to talk about the personal journey behind the growing walking community she created—and the obstacles she had to overcome along the way.
This conversation goes far beyond walking.
Traci shares how her experiences helped shape a mission centered around movement, connection, wellness, belonging, and community. What started with a step has grown into something much bigger, bringing people together in cities across the country and even internationally.
We talk about what it takes to turn an idea into a movement, keep going when the vision becomes bigger than you imagined, and build something that gives other people a place to connect.
In this episode, we explore:
Traci Kasper’s story and what led her to create One Small Step Walks
The challenges and personal experiences she had to overcome
How walking can support mental, emotional, and physical wellness
Why community and human connection matter
Growing a grassroots movement beyond one city
Turning personal experiences into purpose
Building momentum even when motivation changes
Creating spaces where people feel seen, supported, and included
Entrepreneurship, leadership, resilience, and personal growth
What it really takes to turn one small step into a global movement
Whether you're building a business, rebuilding your life, searching for community, working on your wellness, or simply wondering whether your small idea could become something bigger, this conversation is a reminder:
You don't have to see the entire path before taking the first step.
🎙️ Breaking Curses with Excellence is about real people, real conversations, breaking cycles, overcoming what tried to stop us, and creating a brighter tomorrow.
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In this powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, Christina Russell-Strong sits down with transformational speaker, emotional coach, healer, and cancer survivor Halisi Ali aka Wizdom for an honest conversation about emotional healing, generational trauma, vulnerability, parenting, cancer, and breaking cycles.
Halisi shares her personal journey and introduces her Emotional Alchemy Framework, a seven-stage process for transforming pain into awareness, healing, empowerment, and legacy. Together, they explore the pressure to always be strong, especially for Black women, the importance of emotional regulation and honest communication, and how healing can change what we pass down to the next generation.
This episode is for anyone working through trauma, rebuilding self-worth, breaking unhealthy family patterns, or learning how to turn pain into purpose.

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What happens when you achieve the career, the title, the paycheck, and the success you thought would make you happy—but still feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or unfulfilled inside?

In this powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, host Christina Russell-Strong sits down with Angela Jamieson, former petroleum engineer, CEO, best-selling author, keynote speaker, and creator of the Relaxed Productivity Framework, for an honest conversation about burnout, high achievement, self-worth, perfectionism, overthinking, grief, work-life balance, and redefining success.

Angela shares how losing her father forced her to reevaluate the life she was building and recognize how deeply her identity had become connected to achievement and external validation. Her journey led her from the corporate world to helping high-achieving professionals become successful without sacrificing their mental and emotional well-being.

One of Angela's most powerful reminders is simple:

“Be where your feet are.”

If your mind is constantly racing—thinking about work while you're with your family, worrying about tomorrow while trying to enjoy today, replaying conversations, comparing yourself to others, or wondering whether you're doing enough—this episode is for you.

Christina and Angela explore how to:

• Stop tying your self-worth to productivity and achievement
• Recognize the connection between perfectionism, burnout, and emotional exhaustion
• Manage racing thoughts and overthinking
• Become more present instead of constantly living in the past or future
• Create a “to-be list” alongside your to-do list
• Use emotions as information instead of suppressing them
• Break generational cycles of overworking, people-pleasing, and self-sacrifice
• Reframe rejection, criticism, and negative self-talk
• Navigate grief and loss while rediscovering purpose
• Develop healthier ambition and a more sustainable definition of success
• Create better work-life balance, self-compassion, emotional wellness, and personal growth

Angela also introduces the idea of Relaxed Productivity—a practical approach that combines logic, mindset, emotional awareness, and intentional living to help busy professionals accomplish what matters without allowing productivity to consume their lives.

Whether you're a high achiever experiencing burnout, a busy professional struggling with work-life balance, a perfectionist who never feels good enough, someone rebuilding self-worth, or simply a person whose brain never seems to turn off, this conversation offers practical tools you can begin using immediately.

Success isn't only about what you accomplish.

It's also about whether you're present enough to experience the life you're working so hard to create.

Be where your feet are.

🎙️ Guest: Angela Jamieson
Former Petroleum Engineer | Best-Selling Author | Keynote Speaker | Creator of the Relaxed Productivity Framework

Learn more about Angela and her work at AngelaJamieson.com.

📖 Angela is also the author of Using Number Two to Get to Number One: The Shockingly Insightful Self-Help Book.

🎧 Breaking Curses with Excellence with Christina Russell-Strong explores healing, mindset, self-worth, relationships, personal growth, breaking generational cycles, and the real stories that help us become healthier, happier, and more whole.

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