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EP 110. Today I'm joined by Kim Wheeler, a writer, a mother, and the host of Coucou podcast where she unpacks her experience building a life in the South of France as an American, and questions a lot of the assumptions we grow up with around ambition, beauty, work, and motherhood.

This conversation is full of honesty and authenticity as Kim shares what it was like for her leaving her life in San Francisco to build a new life with her family in the South of France. We chat through cultural differences between the US and France when it comes to work, socializing, motherhood, and friendships, and how she is nurturing her creative practices, reframing limiting mindsets, and defining what truly matters to her in life.

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EP 109. I’ve learned that home isn’t just defined the house you grew up in or the place where you’re from, home is deeper than that, more ambiguous than that, and something I’m still defining for myself. Today I wanted to talk through 8 things that I’ve been doing this year to build a stronger sense of home and peace within myself as I’ve navigated physical and emotional changes of home in my 20s.

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EP 108. let’s chat about the reality of living abroad alone in your 20s. in this episode I wanted to share some of the lessons I’ve learned, the experiences that have impacted me, and the honest highs and lows. living abroad alone has come with so much change, discomfort, transition, joy, confidence, and self discovery, and I’m full of so much gratitude for this chapter of my life in Paris. if you are thinking about taking a similar step or are going to be living alone soon, I hope this episode reminds you that you’re not alone!

some of the lessons I chat through today are around accepting relationships may change, working through your challenges wherever you are, embracing cultural differences, lowering the expectations and pressure to become someone you’re not, navigating feelings of loneliness, and building new tools to cope and confidence in yourself you never thought was possible.

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EP 107. (Episode 80 rerun!) I got asked the question, “do you have any tips to slow down your pace of life?”, and I’m answering it here with 6 tips and practices I’ve been using and learning in my life in the last year or so that have been crucial to being able to calm my nervous system, slow down my anxious thoughts, and get back in touch with myself. Stick around to the end for a bonus tip 7!

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Original episode posted June 13, 2025.

EP 106. Today I'm joined by the wonderful Katie Shapiro, a functional hormone and integrative nutrition and health specialist, for a conversation on all things hormones, health, wellness, balance, and the importance of tuning into our bodys and listening. This episode helped me feel incredibly seen and understood as a woman in this world today, and especially as a woman with PMOS, and I hope you all feel the same way too.

Topics covered:

• Katie's journey from studying marketing to healing and regulating her hormones through a holistic approach
• what hormones actually are and why they matter so much
• how social media noise has disconnected so many of us from trusting and tuning into our bodies
• our experiences with taking health to the extremes
• crowding out vs. restriction
• tips to building sustainable practices a healthier relationship with food and movement

A quick note: this episode was recorded before PCOS was renamed to PMOS in May 2026, so anytime you hear us reference PCOS, we're referring to what is now called PMOS.

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EP 105. today’s episode is a life update, a career update, and a chat through 6 ways i've been self-regulating and self-nurturing this summer. some of those ways are with slow mornings, guilt-free rest, food freedom, spending time with my creativity, continually learning new things, and being really honest with myself. sending love, xx

what we chat through in this episode:

• a career update: leaving my full time job to go freelance
• trips to london and valencia
• slow mornings and plenty of sleep
• guilt-free rest and giving yourself permission to do nothing
• nourishing your body and why there's no such thing as a "summer body"
• doing something creative just for fun
• the importance and joy of learning new things
• doing exactly what you want and trusting your intuition even when it doesn't make sense

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EP 104. Today I’m chatting with Vanessa Fontana, a writer, podcast host of Figuring Sh!t Out, founder of ‘Metamorphosis’, and facilitator devoted to helping people reconnect with themselves through creativity, curiosity, and honest conversation. This conversation will leave you with practices to show compassion to all parts of yourself, encouragement to take aligned steps and authentic risk, and evidence that stepping into your shadows allows your to come out brighter and stronger on the other side. She is a dear friend of mine and a big inspiration <3

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This chat with Vanessa covers:

1. her journey with inner child healing and EMDR therapy
2. quitting her 9-5 to pursue a creative, intentional life
3. facing fear and perfectionism, giving it space, then proving it wrong
4. Sylvia Plath’s fig tree and choosing your life path
5. living authentically and taking aligned step

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EP 103. The mantra ‘the grass is greener where you water it’ has been coming up in my life a lot lately, so let’s chat about it. I’ve been struggling to stay present in my current chapter of life in Paris and caught myself comparing my life to others and falling into the trap of ‘their grass is greener’. Today I want to talk through how this mantra has been helping me come back to the present moment, practice gratitude for this chapter of life, knowing it’s not forever, and 5 ways to help yourself stay present in the chapter of life you’re in.

1. get off social media
2. define your values
3. nothing lasts forever, so enjoy it
4. make a short term bucket list
5. identify grounding practices that work for you

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EP 102. New look, same podcast, welcome to By Design :) After a bit of a break, I’m so happy to be back to share this rebrand and get back to sharing what’s been on my heart lately. Life has been full of uncertainty and I’ve been feeling a lot of fear around showing up and knowing what next step to take. But guess what… there’s never a ‘right’ next step, no choice is the ‘wrong choice’, all we can do is feel that fear, face that fear, and take action anyway!

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EP 101. Let’s chat all things moving to Paris. Today I’m joined by my wonderful friend, Glory Chung, who moved Paris just over a year ago from New York. In this convo we chat through topics of what expat life if like, loneliness in moving to a new country, self-discovery in new chapters, and why we feel it’s so important to chase your own dreams. Hope you enjoy this convo as much as I did!

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