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Can your mindset determine the opportunities you attract?

In this powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, host Christina, author, life coach, speaker, and founder of TheRusMix.com, sits down with Executive Career Coach and Success Strategist Alison Hemmings to uncover how our beliefs, expectations, and internal dialogue influence every area of our lives—from our careers to our confidence, relationships, and purpose.
After spending more than a decade recruiting executives for Fortune 500 companies, Alison learned that success isn't only about talent or experience. It's about how you think, the questions you ask yourself, and the stories you believe about what's possible.

Together, Christina and Alison explore:

✔️ Why mindset often determines success before your résumé does
✔️ The hidden beliefs that keep high-achievers stuck
✔️ How changing your expectations changes your outcomes
✔️ Why the questions you ask yourself matter more than you think
✔️ Building confidence without pretending to have it all together
✔️ Breaking generational cycles around work, worthiness, and success
✔️ Healing from burnout while creating a meaningful life
✔️ Practical ways to think differently so you can live differently
Whether you're climbing the corporate ladder, building a business, feeling stuck in your career, or simply ready to stop repeating old patterns, this conversation will challenge you to think bigger, believe differently, and pursue the life you were created to live.
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We often spend years grieving the parent who wasn't there, chasing the love we deserved, hoping one day things will be different.

But what if our healing also requires us to honor the parent—or caregiver—who consistently showed up?

In this heartfelt solo episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, Christina Russell explores why so many of us can become consumed by the love, approval, or attention we didn't receive that we unintentionally overlook the person who faithfully carried the responsibility of being there.

This isn't only about absent parents.
Sometimes both parents are physically present, yet one parent carries most of the emotional support, guidance, encouragement, discipline, daily care, or sacrifices that keep a family together. Sometimes that person is a grandparent, stepparent, foster parent, sibling, aunt, uncle, or another caregiver who quietly stepped into the gap.

This episode is an invitation to recognize those people.

Not to dismiss the pain of what was missing—but to acknowledge the love that remained.

In this episode you'll discover:
Why we naturally long for validation from those who couldn't or wouldn't give it
How that longing can cause us to overlook the people who consistently loved us
Reflection questions to help you recognize the quiet sacrifices made on your behalf
Practical ways to express gratitude to the people who showed up
Why honoring consistent love is a powerful step toward healing and breaking unhealthy cycles

Healing doesn't mean pretending your wounds don't exist.

Healing also means learning to recognize, appreciate, and celebrate the people who chose to love you consistently—even when their sacrifices weren't always noticed.

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Many of us spend our adult lives reacting to wounds we never realized we were still carrying.

In this heartfelt episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, host Christy Russell sits down with Mariam Safla, Soul Alchemist and Shadow Work Coach, to discuss how acknowledging our inner child wounds can lead to emotional healing, healthier relationships, stronger self-worth, and lasting generational change.
Together, we explore: 💜 Healing the inner child 💜 Shadow work and emotional awareness 💜 Breaking unhealthy generational patterns 💜 Building self-worth and authenticity 💜 Healing ourselves before passing our pain to the next generation 💜 Living with greater purpose, empathy, and freedom
Healing doesn't erase our past—but it gives us the power to write a different future.
If you're ready to stop surviving and start healing, this conversation is for you.

🌟 Connect with Special Guest Mariam Safla all the way from South Africa!

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💰 What if the biggest obstacle to financial freedom isn't your income, your job, or the economy—but the beliefs you've carried your entire life?

In this powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, host Christy sits down with coach Kenny Ingersoll to uncover how generational conditioning, scarcity thinking, fear, and shame quietly shape our financial decisions and self-worth.

Together, they discuss:

✨ Why most financial struggles begin in the mind

✨ How childhood messages about money impact adulthood

✨ The connection between self-worth and financial success

✨ Breaking free from generational financial patterns

✨ Practical steps to build a healthier relationship with money

✨ Why it's never too late to change your financial future

Whether you're trying to pay off debt, build wealth, overcome financial anxiety, or simply create a healthier mindset around money, this conversation offers actionable insights and hope for lasting change.

🎙️ Listen now and take the first step toward breaking the financial cycles that no longer serve you.

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CONNECT WITH KENNY INGERSOLL

Website:
http://www.ingersollenterprises.com/

Mentorship & Free Resources:
http://www.ingersollenterprises.com/mentorship.html

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Breaking Curses with Excellence is a podcast dedicated to helping people break generational cycles, heal from limiting beliefs, overcome adversity, and create lives filled with purpose, self-worth, and growth.

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🎙️ WHO ARE YOU BENEATH SURVIVAL MODE?
A Conversation on Healing and Authenticity with Elisha May

What if the version of yourself you've been showing the world isn't who you truly are?

In this powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, host Christy sits down with Elisha May, Intuitive Energy Coach and Founder of Freedom of Self®, for a deeply honest conversation about trauma, grief, survival mode, people-pleasing, self-worth, and the journey back to your authentic self.

Elisha shares her personal experiences navigating PTSD, loss, emotional suppression, and the process of reclaiming her identity after years of surviving rather than truly living.

Together, Christy and Elisha discuss:

✨ Healing from trauma and PTSD

✨ Grief, loss, and rebuilding your identity

✨ Breaking free from people-pleasing

✨ Emotional safety and self-worth

✨ Trusting your intuition

✨ Living authentically and unapologetically

✨ Moving from survival mode to self-trust

✨ What Freedom of Self® really means

If you've ever felt disconnected from yourself, struggled to prioritize your own needs, or wondered who you are beneath the expectations of others, this episode is for you.

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🎙️ GUEST: ELISHA MAY

Intuitive Energy Coach

Founder, Freedom of Self®

Helping soul-led humans return to truth, freedom, and alignment.

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✨ CONNECT WITH ELISHA MAY

🌐 Website:
https://www.freedomofself.com

📧 Email:
[email protected]

📸 Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/iamelishamay

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🎙️ HOST: CHRISTY

Honorary Doctorate in Humanitarian Services

Trauma-Informed Life Coach

Mindset & Empowerment Coach

Speaker & Podcast Host

Author

Founder, Breaking Curses with Excellence

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Breaking Cycles. Building Self-Worth. Leading with Purpose.

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What happens when faith, healing, boundaries, and self-worth collide?
In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Maz Alexander—Mental Wellbeing & Transformational Coach, Social Worker, Author, Speaker, Mother, and Comedian—to discuss breaking free from burnout, people-pleasing, emotional exhaustion, limiting beliefs, and the cycles that keep us feeling stuck.
Maz shares insights from her book, Arise Kintsugi Queens: You Are Becoming All You Were Meant to Be, and explains how our broken places don't disqualify us—they can become the very places where healing, strength, and purpose emerge.
In this episode we discuss: ✨ Healthy boundaries ✨ Faith and recovery ✨ Self-care without guilt ✨ Burnout and emotional exhaustion ✨ Reclaiming your identity ✨ Overcoming limiting beliefs ✨ Self-worth and personal transformation ✨ Breaking generational cycles ✨ Healing from rejection ✨ Living authentically
If you've ever felt overworked, depleted, rejected, unworthy, or trapped by expectations and traditions, this conversation is for you.

🎧 Episode Title: Heal Out Loud: Breaking Free from Burnout, Boundaries, and the Need to Prove Your Worth
Connect with Maz Alexander:
📖 Book Reviews: https://gettingtotherootwithdrreva.blog/2024/04/01/resilience-through-brokenness-lessons-from-arise-kintsugi-queens/
https://www.melanatedminds.co.uk/maz-alexander-arise-kintsugi-queens
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In this empowering episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, Christi Russell Strong sits down with author, speaker, and positivity strategist Cindi Goodeaux for a meaningful conversation about healing negative self-talk, rebuilding self-worth, emotional resilience, and learning how to choose purposeful positivity without denying real emotions.

Together, they explore the difference between toxic positivity and healthy mindset transformation while sharing practical tools for overcoming self-sabotage, rejection, identity loss, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and limiting beliefs.

Cindi introduces her powerful “Catch It. Check It. Choose It.” method — a practical approach to reframing negative thoughts, building confidence, and creating healthier emotional patterns.

This episode is for anyone navigating:
• Low self-esteem
• Trauma recovery
• Emotional healing
• Anxiety & overwhelm
• People-pleasing
• Negative thought cycles
• Personal growth & mindset shifts
• Confidence rebuilding
• Healing from emotional pain
• Learning to love yourself again

🎙 Episode Title:
Catch It. Check It. Choose It: A Path to Purposeful Positivity

Guest: Cindi Goodeaux
Host: Christi Russell Strong

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What happens when trauma doesn’t just hurt you… but disconnects you from yourself?

In this deeply powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, Dr. Stephanie Byerly joins us for an honest, transformative conversation about emotional numbness, survival mode, high-functioning trauma, radical self-compassion, and what it truly means to become “UNNUMB.”

Dr. Stephanie Byerly is an anesthesiologist, trauma-informed professional coach, TEDx & keynote speaker, founder of The UNNUMB Method & The UNNUMB Coaching Collective, helping people reconnect to themselves through healing, awareness, purpose, and emotional safety.

In this episode, we discuss:

✨ How trauma quietly lives in the body and nervous system

✨ Why many high-achieving people secretly feel emotionally disconnected

✨ The hidden impact of survival mode, burnout, and perfectionism

✨ Reframing pain without minimizing your experience

✨ Radical self-compassion and reconnecting with your identity

✨ Learning how to live through a new lens of power, possibility, and purpose

This conversation is for the person who has spent years being “strong” while silently carrying emotional exhaustion, grief, pressure, or unresolved pain behind closed doors.

You are not weak for feeling numb. Many people learned numbness as protection. Healing begins when we safely reconnect with ourselves again.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, and everywhere podcasts are streamed.

Connect with Dr. Stephanie Byerly:

🌐 http://www.stephaniebyerly.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniebyerlymd

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In this deeply honest and transformational episode, Christy Russell-Strong sits down with Tiyon L Simpson to discuss breaking inherited limitations, overcoming mental health struggles, healing from internal battles, and building a life beyond survival mode.
Together, they unpack generational patterns, mindset shifts, identity, emotional healing, purpose, and what it really takes to rise above the environments and beliefs that try to define us.
This episode is for anyone who has ever felt stuck, overlooked, emotionally exhausted, or afraid they could never become more than what they came from.
You are capable of building a different future.

Connect with Tiyon L Simpson:
Facebook:
Facebook Profile
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@tiyonlsimpson
LinkedIn:
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YouTube:
TLS E Vision YouTube Channel
The Life of Someone Extraordinary Podcast:
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Stop playing small and start stepping into your purpose.

In this powerful episode of Breaking Curses with Excellence, Christina sits down with Dr. Natasha Norris to talk about self-worth, confidence, visibility, and personal growth—and what it really takes to be seen, heard, and respected in your life and career.

This conversation dives deep into:
Overcoming self-doubt and fear
Breaking generational cycles and limiting beliefs

Building confidence and emotional healing
Stepping into leadership and purpose-driven success

Letting go of people-pleasing and shrinking

If you’re on a self-growth journey, looking to improve your mindset, heal from past experiences, and level up your life—this episode is for you.

🎧 Tune in and take the next step toward becoming who you’re called to be.

Ways To Contact Dr. Norris

 MEDIA Collective https://www.natashanorris.com

SKINCARE

https://www.sbcmg.com

Email

[email protected]

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