Talk With TAS is a personal transformation and emotional wellness podcast featuring healing conversations about faith, resilience, self-discovery, leadership, emotional healing, and overcoming adversity through purpose and community.

In this episode, Dr. Teresa A. Smith, Dr. TAS, welcomes international thriller author Colette Harrell for a powerful conversation about faith, identity, resilience, and the emotional cost of trying to fit into spaces never designed for your uniqueness.

Through honest life conversations and spiritual growth reflections, Dr. TAS and Colette explore emotional wellness, self-worth, leadership, purpose, neurodiversity, community, personal transformation, and the importance of trusting God’s assignment over society’s expectations. This healing conversation unpacks how people often shrink themselves to gain acceptance, why flawed experiences can become preparation for purpose, and how resilience grows through imperfection rather than performance.

Colette also discusses her novel Chasing Different: Fitting In Has a Price, faith in difficult seasons, spiritual growth, identity, and why people who feel overlooked or disqualified may actually be positioned for something greater.

If you are navigating self-doubt, identity struggles, emotional exhaustion, leadership challenges, faith, healing, purpose discovery, or searching for encouragement during uncertain seasons, this episode offers grounded wisdom, transformational insight, and practical encouragement for the journey ahead.

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