Embrace Your In-Between By Wider Visions

Feeling stuck, frustrated, and wanting to make a shift in your life but unclear on what that looks like? Waiting for clarity to drop in is a big in-between moment, but a necessary part of growing into our most expansive selves. In order to expand into our Wider Vision, we first must get clear on where we want to go, what we’d like to create more of in our life, and a plan to get us there. 

In this episode, our host and life coach, Megan Shekleton, shares practical tips, mindset shifts, and actionable steps you can take to welcome clarity into your life. 

In this episode, we connect on: 

3:00 | Why not having clarity can feel so frustrating and a big obstacle – our brains are primed for certainty 

4:00 | Tapping into the feminine energy of receiving to welcome clarity and the difference between the being and doing energy 

7:45 | How you don’t need the full roadmap to take the first step

8:45 | First tip: think about what you don’t want and then shift to its opposite 

13:00 | Why following your curiosities is an important step in the process

16:30 | Are you making space to spend time inquiring about the question? 

19:00 | Finding meaning in the waiting 

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On today’s show, we have Leah Pellegrini of The Core Stories - an astrologer, writer, writing coach, and organic farmer. Back in late Fall, our host and founder, Megan Shekleton, had an amazing natal chart reading with her and knew that she had to have her on the show.

So much ground was covered: 

In this episode, we connect on:

1:30 | Dr. Jennifer Freed + Psychological Astrology 

10:45 | How her ancestors paved the way for her today 

13:15 | The beginning of her career journey and healing from eating disorder 

19:15 | How we are never as stuck as we think we are 

21:45 | Follow what activities feel good + your curiosity 

23:15 | Using nature as a metaphor for our internal worlds 

24:30 | What to do if you are feeling stuck

29:15 | Discovering farming and astrology after starting her healing from disordered eating 

37:30 | Favorite practices to deepen connection to the body as a vessel for pleasure and love 

43:45 | What is psychological astrology 

46:00 | Internal family systems + inner child work 

47:45 | Astrology as a tool for self acceptance 

1:00 | Chiron+ the power of this placement

More on Our Guest - Leah Pellegrini:

Where to Find Her: @thecorestories and her website 

Leah Pellegrini (she/her) is a writer, writing coach, and astrologer who moonlights as an organic farmer. Her work centers on growth, grounding, and regenerative healing, both personal and collective, with a focus on storytelling as an essential culture-changing tool. Leah currently lives on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land, otherwise known as San Francisco, California, with her partner Lauren and their dog named Tomato.

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On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we are in conversation with Adriana Urbina - an award-winning Venezuelan Chef, the Founder of Tepuy Collective, + 3x Winner of the Food Network’s “Chopped.”

In addition to her 12 years of restaurant experience, including Michelan star restaurants,  Adriana founded her company “Tepuy Collective “- a platform that connects minority owned food businesses with brands and corporations to create unique culinary events.

In our conversation, we get courageously vulnerable on her journey – and the internal and external transformations that have led her to where she is today. We talk about following those heart-led nudges and dreams, overcoming the fear of rejection and really putting yourself out there, her experience in approaching motherhood, our driving forces behind our motivations, and much more.

In this episode, we connect on:

06:45 | The importance of being open to receive

07:30 | Adriana’s background + upbringing

11:00 | How at 18 she moved across the world to train with a Michelin star chef

12:15 | How to move forward with our dreams even without full confidence or clarity

21:00 | Tools for moving beyond Imposter Syndrome + how she utilized them while competing on Chopped

23:00 | The power of putting yourself out there; she reached out to Eater multiple times before getting her feature, which led to Chopped

25:15 | How to deal with rejection and getting a “no”

38:30 | On motherhood + what insights she has learned so far

48:30 | How to get clarity on our needs

52:30 | On the power of saying no

More on Our Guest - Adriana Urbina:

Where to Find Her: @adrianaurbinap and her website 

Adriana Urbina is an award-winning Venezuelan chef, entrepreneur and wellness consultant based in New York with over 12 years of experience in the restaurant industry.

She also completed her studies in Holistic Nutrition and Gut Health at the "Institute of Integrative Nutrition" in New York City.

Driven by her mission of empowering others to pursue their craft, Adriana founded her company Tepuy Collective - a platform that connects minority owned food businesses with brands and corporations to create unique culinary events.

In addition to building Tepuy Collective internationally, Urbina has competed in multiple national cooking TV shows like Bobby flay’s “Triple Threat” and Food Network’s “Chopped”. She is a three-time winner of “Chopped Champions” and the only Latin-American female chef to have won the title so many times. Her work has been featured in publications like Forbes, Vice, and Refinery29. You can catch her on her last digital cooking show for Verizon Media called “Zero Waste Kitchen.”

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Episode 03 - My Story and My Why

In this episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we are sharing more details on Wider Visions, the impact we are creating, and our founder, Megan Shekleton’s personal soul growth story. She gets courageously vulnerable on all of her “in-between” moments - overcoming anxiety and panic attacks, Fibromyaglia, early entrepreneurship, losing her business due to COVID + how it led her to a more aligned, soul-led version of herself.

In this episode, we connect on:

01:15 | Wider Visions + our mission

02:45 | 77% of people feel like they're not living up to their fullest potential

03:30 | On our holistic, integrated approach to growth

03:45 | A little introduction to Megan Shekleton, our founder

08:15 | What it means to Embrace Your In-between

13:00 | Recovering Perfectionism + anxiety

17:45 | Fibromyalgia + how our body talks to us

22:15 | Leaning into her purpose

25:30 | Covid + trusting the redirect

27:30 | Redefining self worth

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Episode 02 - How to Take Aligned Action With More Ease

In this episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we will be sharing 3 tips to take massive action towards your visions and soul-led dreams. How can we move towards our visions with more ease, joy, and flow?

In this episode, we connect on:

07:00 | The neuroscience behind why we feel resistance when taking new aligned action

10:00 | How to move from a sense of overwhelm

12:00 | How to build momentum and self trust when expanding into a new identity

13:00 | Mental projections and our subconscious mind

16:30 | How our emotions can clue us into if our subconscious mind is expanded enough for our vision

18:30 | The importance of celebrating your small and big wins

21:00 | Your reticular activating system and your vision victories

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Episode 01 - 3 Tips to Create Your Wider Vision

In our first episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we will be exploring how to create your wider vision for 2023 in a way that feels motivating, nourishing, and expansive. Megan Shekleton, our host and Certified Transformational Life Coach, will be sharing 3 mindset shifts that you can apply today to ensure that you are designing your new year from a place of intentionality and self love.

In this episode, we connect on:

01:30 | Challenging the new year, new you rhetoric

03:00 | Approaching growth from the lens of self love

06:30 | Analyzing and creating are different processes

07:30 | How to suspend the how when casting your vision

08:30 | Why it’s important to not create your vision based off the past

09:30 | Danielle LaPorte + The Desire Map

10:00 | How to anchor into the identity of your vision

11:30 | Journal prompts for getting clear on the next-level future you

12:30 | Allowing your WHY to motivate you forward

14:30 | Reframing discipline as devotion

Let’s Connect

Download our Inner Reflection Kit – a *free* downloadable guidebook with self discovery prompts and tools to integrate the topic of the episode further.

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Welcome to Embrace Your In-Between by Wider Visions - a podcast to provide you guidance for your inner growth and expansion into the wider vision of your life.

Hosted by Megan Shekleton - a Certified Transformational Life Coach and the Founder of Wider Visions, this podcast hopes to spark inner discovery, inner reflection, and inner expansion into who you want to be and the life you want to live. We want to remind you that you have all the answers within and with the right tools, resources, support, and guidance, expanding into the Wider Vision of your life is so possible for you.

Wider Visions is a platform to help you grow and expand into your most expansive life with coaching, courses, and community.

As a destination for modern self development, we aim to provide guidance for your growth, make coaching more accessible, and build community to make the journey more fulfilling.

On this podcast, we engage in real conversations and share actionable growth guidance to help you embrace your in-between - the space between where you are today and where you want to be- because after all, in the in-between is where all the growth happens.