EMOTIONAL ENGINEERING

"There is no gap between prayer and answer. The reason you prayed for something is because God is speaking through you." - Karin H

This week on Emotional Engineering, I'm joined by author, filmmaker, and storyteller Karin Hadadan, whose new book When Nothing Makes Sense: Finding God in the Gap Between Prayer and Answer has been sitting on my nightstand and landing so deeply. We talk about what it means to be untethered, why the waiting room isn't something to survive but something to actually live in, and how a decade of chronic illness became the doorway into her soul's remembrance.

We go deep on equanimity, divine timing, co-parenting through separation, and why fear isn't actually painful... the story we tell about fear is. If you're in a season where nothing is making sense yet, this one is for you.

Episode Highlights

• Karin's path from a decade of chronic illness and an endometriosis diagnosis into her spiritual awakening
• The France trip that turned into an unplanned meeting with her own soul
• Getting laid off as an answered prayer, and what it cost to let go of control
• The mirror practice that shifted her relationship with her body

Karin Hadadan is a 3x author, screenwriter, and speaker/teacher raising consciousness to live in soul alignment. Her latest book, When Nothing Makes Sense: Finding God in the Gap Between Prayer & Answer, was written as her own life came apart and reassembled itself.

She's currently working on her fourth book, a poetry collection on divine love, and building an app designed as a soul companion to help others bring their own creative dreams to life.

• Instagram: @icietnu
• Book: When Nothing Makes Sense, available on Amazon
• Substack: karinhadadan.substack.com

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"Let me show you what you're worthy of."A solo transmission on presence, small manifestations, and everything LA opened up...

Kristi shows up unpolished and present for this one, fresh off five days in LA at Cathy Heller's event, still riding the frequency of it all. She keeps arriving at the same truth... big shifts don't come from grand gestures, they come from the small internal moments where presence is chosen over the noise in her head, where a different conversation gets to be had with yourself.

That truth shows up everywhere this episode touches. In a coffee shop with a veteran whose words in French become a full circle message: you just have to try your best. In a blue smoothie that turns into a living lesson on ask, believe, receive. In Griffith Observatory, in a soul tour guide named Natasha, in an unexpected connection that reminds her what she has been writing in her journal all along. Every thread lands on the same remembering... you are always supported, and all you ever have to do is show up.

Transformative Takeaways

→ Why showing up imperfectly is one of the most powerful gifts you can give yourself→ The difference between what your eyes can see and what your insight can perceive→ A Tim Hortons encounter with a veteran, and the message that arrived in French: you just have to try your best→ The blue smoothie story, a micro moment of manifestation and what it means to ask, believe, and receive→ Highlights from LA, Griffith Observatory, a soul tour guide named Natasha, unexpected connection, and remembering you are always supported→ Why gratitude and prayer might be the real engine behind co-creation

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"The suffering is purely created through our resistance to what is present." — Laurie NouchkaA transmission on soul remembrance, divine timing, and the vision waiting beneath the reshaping.

Kristi sits with Laurie, an internal family systems practitioner based in London and currently building a home on the wind swept island of Fuerteventura. This is a conversation about remembering wholeness that was never lost, only buried. About the desire underneath the desire. About what becomes possible when a soul stops resisting its own unfolding and starts trusting the vision it already carries.

Highlights

The fear of aloneness carried since the teen years, driving decisions made without knowing why

Holding her own children through a family's unfolding without letting them feel abandoned

Kristi's moment of first holding her newborn son as a portal into finally loving herself

Divine timing as a knowing that precedes logic, with the steps revealing themselves after

A fascia session that released grade school and high school memories held in the jaw

Why the soul chooses a human life, and what it means to be used as a vessel

About Laurie

Laurie is a practitioner working with internal family systems, based in London and currently building a home in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. Her work centers on nervous system capacity, the mothering of one's own younger parts, and the peeling back of old adaptations to reach a nourished, connected foundation.

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If you have ever felt like your life is unraveling and rebuilding at the same time, this one will meet you exactly there.

In service. Devotion. Truth.

"I wrote both of us a permission slip to go live our own best lives. And when I did, everything changed." — Jennifer Liss

Jennifer Liss joins Kristi to talk about what it really means to feel safe from the inside out, the myth of external safety, and how choosing yourself first transforms everything including the people closest to you. Jennifer shares her personal story of separating from her husband, writing herself a permission slip to travel Europe for four months, and witnessing a transformation in him she calls the most miraculous thing she has ever seen.

TRANSFORMATIVE TAKEAWAYS

All safety is false safety. Real safety only lives within.

Choose yourself first. Then choose each other.

Choice only exists right now. The present moment is where your power lives.

Follow joy as your strategy. What feels alive in you is your guide.

Write the list. What do you actually desire in a partner?

You get to have it. With or without them. That knowing sets you both free.

QUOTES

"What feels fun in your system naturally, at any given moment, that is your strategy for life."

"I wrote both of us a permission slip to go live our own best lives. And when I did, everything changed."

"You get to have the relationship of your dreams. With or without him. Once you truly know that, you release control, and he is finally free to choose."

ABOUT JENNIFER LISS

Jennifer Liss is a breath worker, somatic and energy worker, and founder of The Expansion Room - a community for women aligning their energy to build a life and business that feels like them. She runs the Safe to Be Seen cohort and hosts the podcast Fuck Around and Get Paid.

Based in Portland, Oregon.

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⚠️ This episode contains discussion of suicide loss, grief, and divorce. Please listen with care.

"hold on to your pen. we are the author of our own story."— Rachelle JoAnn

This is one of the most honest conversations I have ever had on this podcast.

Rachelle is a coach, mother of three, and someone who knows what it means to choose bravery over comfort.

We talked about her father's death by suicide. My divorce finalizing the day before we recorded. The crushing season that follows every aligned decision. And the abundance that comes after.

If you are in a brave season — this one is for you.

→ Grief, loss and staying soft through the crushing season→ Choosing divorce out of bravery, not misery→ Shrinking in one area while lighting up in every other→ The 30-second hug in a parking lot→ Why abundance always follows alignment - just not without the breaking first

ABOUT RACHELLE

Rachelle Papineau is a coach devoted to helping women come home to themselves. Her own grief, divorce, and heartbreak are the foundation of everything she teaches.

Connect with Rachelle on InstagramWebsite www.rachellejoann.com

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"What if there's really no right way? What if we're meant to meet ourselves in spaces where everything is allowed to fall apart?"

In this vulnerable solo episode, Kristi shares her journey through 2025's biggest challenges - marriage crisis, financial struggles, and the reality of leaving security to follow her soul's calling. This is about the messy middle and why you don't have to stay frozen in fear.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• The messy middle is where transformation happens
• Breaking the silence creates pathways for healing
• You can reroute yourself before things break completely
• Your internal world creates your external reality
• Progress over perfection - the work is daily

"Everything happening right now is happening FOR you, and it's all gonna work out better than you can imagine."

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"We get to decide how we want our life to be and we get to make it that way." - Steffani

This conversation with Steffani filled my soul in ways I didn't even know I needed. Her journey from grief and loss to conscious creation, her commitment to doing hard things, and the way she's turned her biggest challenges into her greatest teachers - pure magic.

I'm so grateful she showed up so vulnerably and shared the wisdom she's gathered climbing her own mountains. This one's going to land exactly where it needs to.

KEY TAKEAWAYSThe Five Power Tools → Your thoughts, words, feelings, beliefs, and stories create new pathways in your life

Challenge = Change → Doing hard things daily builds invincible confidence

Soul Assignments → Every major experience is a soul contract you chose for growth

Let Go to Grow → Releasing control and finding joy in the journey is where magic lives

Mountains, Not Hills → This work is mountain after mountain, and that's what makes it beautiful

CONNECT WITH STEFFANIWebsite: coachwithsteff.com

Soul Assignments Book - Coming soon via traditional publisher

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"For once in your life, you deserve ease and you deserve for things to feel easeful."

Ruby Fremon is a trauma-informed coach, author of Potent Leadership, somatic experiencing practitioner, and creator of Equia (Equine Assisted Somatic Experiencing). After hitting rock bottom in 2024, Ruby took a complete sabbatical from her business to heal and rebuild her life at a pace that honors her nervous system. This is her first podcast appearance since stepping back.

Key TakeawaysMost women work against their nervous systems and hormonal cycles for the sake of doing, becoming, and achieving - but for what?

The feelings you chase matter more than the goals you set when building an aligned life

Slowing down creates depth that pushing through never could

Your nervous system may have learned to find safety in chaos - healing means learning that ease can be safe too

Letting go of protective identities makes you more sensitive, but also more alive

Connect with RubyInstagram: @rubyfremon Book: Potent Leadership Substack: Ruby's writing and updatesWebsite: https://rubyfremon.com/

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• Private somatic experiencing coaching (virtual)

• Equia (equine assisted somatic experiencing)

• Relational touch work

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"My job is to connect, to listen, and to anchor into love. That is what I am here to do."

What if the greatest abundance comes from finally trusting yourself?

Brit Nicole shares her raw journey of building a photography empire, losing everything twice, and discovering her true calling. This conversation explores the difference between knowledge and wisdom, healing your nervous system, and building from soul instead of survival.

For the woman tired of hustling and ready to lead from joy… this one's for you.

Spiritual entrepreneur and founder of The Unstoppable CEO. Brittany helps female entrepreneurs release trauma and hustle culture to build soul-aligned businesses through her community, summits, and retreats.

Key Takeaways

• The difference between seeking knowledge versus wisdom

• How to recognize when you're building from ego vs. soul

• Why nervous system healing is essential for sustainable success

• The practice of holding your wounded self with compassion

• How to create sacred pause without guilt

Connect with Brit

• Website: britnicole.com

• Instagram: @its.brit.nicole

• Community: The Unstoppable CEO

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“When you slow down enough to listen, your soul will always tell you the truth.” — Connie Fusella

In this heart-opening episode, Kristi sits down with Connie Fusella, intuitive healer and spiritual mentor, to talk about awakening, intuition, and what it really means to live from your soul. Connie shares her near-death experience that became a doorway to deeper remembrance and trust in divine guidance.

Together they explore: ✨ What it feels like to truly listen to your soul ✨ Healing from patterns of fear and people-pleasing ✨ Reclaiming your voice and truth after pain ✨ The beauty of coming home to yourself

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