I’m joined by author and advocate, Chelsey De Groot for Part 1 of a Guest Interview in the Landon Hail Press Author Community where we talk about the actual difference between impact and entertainment.

Chelsey opens up about experiencing domestic violence with her daughter’s father, unexpectedly losing her job, and choosing to finally publish her book, realizing that the hardest disruption in her life became a powerful invitation to move forward.

We talk about advocacy, policy change, and how the biggest shifts often happen from the smallest social media accounts because intention will always be more effective than popularity…in real life, that is.

Chelsey’s story is a reminder that moving the needle to create systemic change isn’t about followers and likes - it shows up in challenged policies, difficult conversations, and the courage your honesty gives someone else - in Chelsey’s case: Judges, Crowns, and Police Officers.

Highlights:

(03:52) Why advocacy often requires saying the uncomfortable truth

(05:24) Destruction becoming the green light to take the leap

(07:56) How rejection opened up channels for change

(16:15) The experiences that transformed personal pain into public advocacy

(19:50) How one person’s story can influence training, policy, and real impact

(24:21) The very bold (and very risky) social media decision that had messages flooding in

Additional links:

Visit Chelsey’s website for Support & Leadership Resources

Follow Chelsey on Instagram for her “Dear Officer” series and more!

Resources:

Join SJ’s 2027 Winter Writing Retreat: Earlybird pricing happening Now with 15% off using code WNTER15

1. Follow SJ on Instagram
2. Download the Free Identity Workbook
3. Grab my SLAY YOUR STORY⚔🔥 Storytelling Masterclass here.
4. Buy The Less Effect on Amazon
5. Follow Landon Hail Press on Instagram
6. Download the Free Writing Guide for Aspiring Authors
7. Book A Free Consultation with Landon Hail Press

This Podcast is proudly produced by Wavemakers Audio

Get ready for a sneak peek into my powerful session for my dear friend, Princeton Clark’s “Breakthrough Leadership Summit”, where I had the honor of speaking to his incredible community.

I get really honest about the BS we tell ourselves and how 99% of the time, “I don’t know” means: “I DO know…and I’m terrified.”

You’ll hear about the biggest catalyst in my life that led me to leaving corporate, being thrust into motherhood, finally writing the book I postponed for ten years, and building a publishing company from a truth I almost kept hidden.

We explore people-pleasing, vulnerability, self-trust, and why your biggest breakthrough might begin with one uncomfortable conversation.

Highlights:

(03:01) - Why nobody else can make you braver

(06:27) - “I don’t know” is actually fear in disguise

(10:04) - The real cost of keeping everyone comfortable

(17:05) - Making my son my reason, not my excuse

(28:04) - The beliefs, safety, and conditions behind your story

(42:28) - The wall in your mind may have an open door

Additional links:

Follow Princeton Clark on Instagram

*DM him ‘Breakthrough’ for the link to the full virtual summit! Tell him SJ sent you for a special code.

Resources:

Join SJ’s 2027 Winter Writing Retreat: Earlybird pricing happening Now with 15% off using code WNTER15

1. Follow SJ on Instagram
2. Download the Free Identity Workbook
3. Grab my SLAY YOUR STORY⚔🔥 Storytelling Masterclass here.
4. Buy The Less Effect on Amazon
5. Follow Landon Hail Press on Instagram
6. Download the Free Writing Guide for Aspiring Authors
7. Book A Free Consultation with Landon Hail Press

This Podcast is proudly produced by Wavemakers Audio

Taking it back to my book, “The Less Effect: Design Your Life For Happiness & Purpose”, diving into Chapter 2: The “M” Word. We unpack two of my favorite subjects: money and minimalism, and why choosing a life of less does not mean settling for less income, opportunity, or impact.

Minimalism is about removing what no longer fits so you can create more room for what genuinely matters. We touch on how my own inherited beliefs around money were shaped, challenged, and eventually transformed.

From manifestation rituals that got me nowhere to the practical power of clearing physical, emotional, and mental clutter - this episode is a reminder that abundance and simplicity can absolutely co-exist.

Highlights:

(01:39) - Why minimalism and wealth are not opposites

(03:31) - Getting curious: Questioning the money beliefs you inherited

(05:27) - Giving yourself permission to want more

(07:06) - How negative money beliefs quietly limit your potential

(08:18) - The manifestation lesson that changed everything

(10:13) - The hill I will die on: Creating space leads to your greatest abundance

Resources:

Join SJ’s 2027 Winter Writing Retreat: Earlybird pricing happening Now with 15% off using code WNTER15

1. Follow SJ on Instagram
2. Download the Free Identity Workbook
3. Grab my SLAY YOUR STORY⚔🔥 Storytelling Masterclass here.
4. Buy The Less Effect on Amazon
5. Follow Landon Hail Press on Instagram
6. Download the Free Writing Guide for Aspiring Authors
7. Book A Free Consultation with Landon Hail Press

This Podcast is proudly produced by Wavemakers Audio

In this episode, I sit down with Serena Arora, best selling author, Ayurvedic health practitioner, and yoga therapist to talk about breaking generational silence, releasing inherited guilt, and finding the courage to choose a life that actually felt like her own. Serena shares how being raised by immigrant parents in a mixed-race family shaped her understanding of safety, sacrifice, and success.

We explore what it looks like to honor your family without abandoning yourself, and managing newfound relationship dynamics. From leaving a secure career and marriage to writing Unbound, Serena’s story is a powerful reminder that healing is not about rejecting where we came from. It is about carrying the strength forward and leaving the weight behind.

Highlights:

(01:52) - The unexpected readers who saw themselves in Serena’s story

(03:02) - Realizing she was meant to break the pattern for the next generation

(06:05) - Becoming the safe person her niece never has to explain herself to

(12:31) - The painful tug-of-war between family loyalty and personal truth

(20:31) - How bound feet became a symbol for living a fully unbound life

(32:18) - The big belief little Serena needed to hear

Additional links:

Learn more about Serena and her services: https://www.serenaarora.com/

Read Serena’s book, Unbound: An Immigrant Daughter’s Journey of Reckoning, Unraveling Shame, and Reclaiming Her Worth

Get your free gift: The ABCs of Ayurveda

Attend Serena’s Costa Rica retreat: 10/1/26

Resources:

Join SJ’s 2027 Winter Writing Retreat: Earlybird pricing happening Now with 15% off using code WNTER15

1. Follow SJ on Instagram
2. Download the Free Identity Workbook
3. Grab my SLAY YOUR STORY⚔🔥 Storytelling Masterclass here.
4. Buy The Less Effect on Amazon
5. Follow Landon Hail Press on Instagram
6. Download the Free Writing Guide for Aspiring Authors
7. Book A Free Consultation with Landon Hail Press

This Podcast is proudly produced by Wavemakers Audio

What if the greatest act of self love isn’t bubble baths and massages, but finally refusing to abandon yourself? In this episode, I sit down with bestselling author, mother, and cycle breaker, Tammy Blake to talk about divorce, motherhood, trauma, emotional safety, faith, and the thousands of little choices that helped her break generational cycles.

We explore what it means to parent and reparent yourself at the same time, protect your child even when others disagree, and trust that healing can hold both grief and joy. Her work centers on healing, nervous system regulation, and faith-led transformation.

Tammy’s story is a powerful reminder that it is never too late to come home to yourself.

Highlights:

(01:30) - The decision that destroyed everything she knew, creating a new beginning

(06:20) - Breaking generational cycles through thousands of brave choices

(09:39) - How creating emotional safety for herself transformed Tammy’s relationship with her daughter

(13:31) - Why healing is not only about stopping the past, but creating something new

(20:44) - Making her daughter’s emotional safety the North Star of her family’s path

(31:17) - How faith restored Tammy’s truth and built strength for a new life ahead

Additional Links:

Buy Tammy’s book, A Daughter’s Inheritance: From Survival to Safety - A Mother’s Choice to Break the Cycle

Follow Tammy on Instagram @tammyshaven

Resources:

Join SJ’s 2027 Winter Writing Retreat: Earlybird pricing happening Now with 15% off using code WNTER15

1. Follow SJ on Instagram
2. Download the Free Identity Workbook
3. Grab my SLAY YOUR STORY⚔🔥 Storytelling Masterclass here.
4. Buy The Less Effect on Amazon
5. Follow Landon Hail Press on Instagram
6. Download the Free Writing Guide for Aspiring Authors
7. Book A Free Consultation with Landon Hail Press

This Podcast is proudly produced by Wavemakers Audio

Katie and Chris Bowick join me to share the story behind Coloring Outside the Lines, their dual-perspective memoir about addiction, recovery, marriage, and redemption.

We talk about what happens when one person is struggling with addiction while the other becomes consumed by fear, vigilance, and the need to hold everything together.

They open up about rebuilding trust, finding support outside traditional recovery models, and learning to honor two truths at once.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that healing is rarely neat or linear, and that sometimes the gray areas offer the honesty, freedom, and compassion we need most.

Highlights:

(00:42) - Writing the book on addiction and recovery they couldn’t find

(10:10) - Destigmatizing addiction through new jargon

(12:58) - Plant medicine for healing substance abuse

(11:30) - Chris on addiction, rehab, and wanting Katie to feel seen

(19:42) - Finding faith and healing beyond traditional recovery path

(27:46) - Katie’s ugly truth managing Chris’ addiction

(35:20) - The hidden trauma of loving someone through addiction

(43:50) - What it means to heal inside “the gray”

(48:36) - The beliefs they would want their younger selves to release

Additional Links;

Buy Coloring Outside The Lines: A Love Story in the Gray of Addiction, Recovery, and Redemption on Amazon

Visit LoveThroughTheGray.com for more info on Katie & Chris’ additional support, offers, and to contact them for speaking.

Catch the Landon Hail Press segment on Denver Channel 7 - Mile High Living

Resources:

Join SJ’s 2027 Winter Writing Retreat: Earlybird pricing happening Now with 15% off using code WNTER15

1. Follow SJ on Instagram
2. Download the Free Identity Workbook
3. Grab my SLAY YOUR STORY⚔🔥 Storytelling Masterclass here.
4. Buy The Less Effect on Amazon
5. Follow Landon Hail Press on Instagram
6. Download the Free Writing Guide for Aspiring Authors
7. Book A Free Consultation with Landon Hail Press

This Podcast is proudly produced by Wavemakers Audio

For centuries, women have been labeled as crazy, too emotional, too paranoid, too much - treating intuition, trauma, and assertiveness as problems to be diagnosed or corrected. We continue to pathologize women, yet fail to properly research them.

I explore how these patterns show up in the various stages of a woman’s life: adolescence, postpartum, menopause - times to be celebrated, but are instead shamed. We go into the very misguided medical research (or lack thereof), and the way women are often dismissed and gaslit when their knowing is spot on.

I also share my personal experience of finally being given a diagnosis after years of the medical system ignoring my condition and manipulating my gut instinct.

This conversation is about questioning systems, recognizing the lack of support women receive, and how unraveling what we’ve been taught about women creates a better world for all of us.

Highlights:

(03:20) - Why women’s emotions get labeled as instability

(07:33) - Deconstructing Postpartum Depression and what might actually be happening

(14:41) - What isolation and a lack of support really cost mothers

(18:18) - The contrast of what Menopause means in other cultures

(23:15) - My “mystery” condition solved after decades of medical gaslighting

(26:45) - The medical device invented in 1878 still used in its original form for women’s care today

Additional Links:

Read Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Manmade World by Elinor Cleghorn

Resources:

Join SJ’s 2027 Winter Writing Retreat: Earlybird pricing happening Now with 15% off using code WNTER15

1. Follow SJ on Instagram
2. Download the Free Identity Workbook
3. Grab my SLAY YOUR STORY⚔🔥 Storytelling Masterclass here.
4. Buy The Less Effect on Amazon
5. Follow Landon Hail Press on Instagram
6. Download the Free Writing Guide for Aspiring Authors
7. Book A Free Consultation with Landon Hail Press

This Podcast is proudly produced by Wavemakers Audio

Join me in a raw conversation on a panel I spoke on less than two months after tragically losing my younger brother. (This will explain my very strained voice after weeks of tears and anguish.)

While this may not be the rosy, go-getter conversation typically heard at personal development events, it’s real and honest about how we can keep showing up when life is breaking your heart. This loss has shifted my perspective on everything, stripping away the energy it takes to pretend I’m anywhere other than exactly where I am.

We talk about consistency, signs, business pivots, burning the template, and why your truth is always the thing that sets you free. This episode is a reminder that you do not have to be polished to be powerful. You just have to be willing to be exactly who you are.

Highlights:

(02:36) - Entering my no-f*cks season

(03:22) - Why consistency cannot exist without the lows

(04:37) - The raw client moment that might make you cringe

(05:56) - How signs and synchronicities started pointing the way

(07:09) - The feeling that tells me a leap is aligned

(09:29) - Why burning the template set me free

Resources:

Join SJ’s 2027 Winter Writing Retreat: Earlybird pricing happening Now with 15% off using code WNTER15

1. Follow SJ on Instagram
2. Download the Free Identity Workbook
3. Grab my SLAY YOUR STORY⚔🔥 Storytelling Masterclass here.
4. Buy The Less Effect on Amazon
5. Follow Landon Hail Press on Instagram
6. Download the Free Writing Guide for Aspiring Authors
7. Book A Free Consultation with Landon Hail Press

This Podcast is proudly produced by Wavemakers Audio

Today, we’re exposing one of the biggest myths about leadership and backing it with biology, research, and science. It comes down to a hormone that is responsible for keeping humanity alive (not to be dramatic) - and how women are the superior ones in this.

I’m breaking down how we as women are wired to constantly read social environments, assess trust, gauge safety, and lead from the “we” rather than the “I.”

This is not about women being better than men - it’s about challenging old conditioning, showing the evidence, and understanding that intuition is not hysteria, it primal intelligence for our survival.

Highlights:

(3:08) - Women and men need to stop trying to do each other‘s job

(5:05) - The biology behind human bonding and what it means about each gender

(7:20) - How oxytocin affects intuition and the functions in the brain

(11:25) - The history behind the first women’s mental disorder diagnosis: “Hysteria”

(17:09) - The instagram post that made everything in the entire Universe make sense

(22:00) - Why women are called “crazy”

(27:30) - “We Should All Be Millionaires”

Additional Links:

1. Follow @RhythmsOfHealth on Instagram
2. The oxytocin boosting benefit of female leaders - Samantha Woolven
3. Do Men and Women Lead Differently? - Chief Learning Officer
4. Are Women More Effective Leaders than Men? - Kenneth Nowack
5. Women and investing: Key findings and opportunities / Money Fit Women’s Study - Fidelity

Resources:

Join SJ’s 2027 Winter Writing Retreat: Earlybird pricing happening Now with 15% off using code WNTER15

1. Follow SJ on Instagram
2. Download the Free Identity Workbook
3. Grab my SLAY YOUR STORY⚔🔥 Storytelling Masterclass here.
4. Buy The Less Effect on Amazon
5. Follow Landon Hail Press on Instagram
6. Download the Free Writing Guide for Aspiring Authors
7. Book A Free Consultation with Landon Hail Press

This Podcast is proudly produced by Wavemakers Audio

In this episode, I’m able to share the news I left you hanging with last week - if you have no idea what I’m talking about, go back and listen first!

After months of being deep in uncertainty, fear, old wounds, and my motherhood in question being brought right back to the center, I’m talking about what it looked like to choose faith before I even had the proof.

This conversation is deep from my heart and completely off the cuff. It’s about surrender, support, shame, God, and the deeply inconvenient truth that we don’t really want expansion - we want the rewards that expansion can bring us.

Tune in to learn my story of how asking for help, letting people see me fall apart, and even breaking my bed became part of my healing.

Highlights:

(02:30) - Trusting in the unseen: Finding safety from within

(05:07) - Knowing what is mine to do, and what is God’s to do

(10:36) - Why nobody actually wants expansion even when they say they do

(16:05) - The life-changing power of stopping the need to prove yourself

(23:34) - Being the martyr: How we arrange our conditions to stay in victim-mode

(35:05) - Turning morning anxiety into a full-body act of faith and years of gratitude

Additional Links:

Mile Hi Church: Prayer & Care Center

Resources:

Join SJ’s 2027 Winter Writing Retreat: Earlybird pricing happening Now with 15% off using code WNTER15

1. Follow SJ on Instagram
2. Download the Free Identity Workbook
3. Grab my SLAY YOUR STORY⚔🔥 Storytelling Masterclass here.
4. Buy The Less Effect on Amazon
5. Follow Landon Hail Press on Instagram
6. Download the Free Writing Guide for Aspiring Authors
7. Book A Free Consultation with Landon Hail Press

This Podcast is proudly produced by Wavemakers Audio