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What does it actually look like to keep moving forward through grief without skipping the parts that need to be felt?

In this episode, Heather Zimmerman sits down with Darcie Burtch, host of The School of Hard Knocks podcast, NLP practitioner, and clinical hypnosis practitioner, for a conversation about trauma, grief, faith, and the signs she believes her father has sent since he passed.

Darcie shares:

Her father's survival of a workplace shooting and the traumatic brain injury that followed, and how years of caregiving delayed her own grieving process

Becoming a certified NLP and hypnosis practitioner after her father's passing gave her the time and the calling to finally do it

Her “reboot time” practice: giving herself permission to fully feel a hard moment, then choosing to keep moving instead of letting it take over the day

What actually helps a grieving friend, and what turns you into an exhausted sounding board instead

Recurring signs she believes are her father reaching out: the number three and 333 appearing everywhere, a green orb with a heart inside it, a blue jay at her door the day she collected his ashes, and a movie that rewound itself to his favorite song

Her two collaborative bestselling books, Empower Her and Empower Her: The Powerhouse Edition

Her Trauma Toolbox Workshop, available in person and over Zoom

Darcie Burtch is the host of The School of Hard Knocks podcast, NLP Practitioner, Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner, and transformational coach dedicated to helping people get unstuck from trauma and grounded in their healing. 

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Website: darcieburtch.com

Podcast: The School of Hard Knocks

Books: Empower Her, Empower Her: The Powerhouse Edition 

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What if years of talk therapy never actually moved anything, because nobody was addressing the energy underneath the words?

In this episode, Heather Zimmerman sits down with Amanda Lyn Dietrich, energy healer and intuitive conduit, for a raw, unfiltered conversation about what actually shifts people out of stuck patterns.

Amanda shares:

Growing up a high-level empath with no mentors and no language for what she was experiencing, and how that shaped her early counseling career

An abusive childhood, and how nature became her refuge and her regulation tool

Starting her counseling career at eighteen, and choosing to work with the clients other practitioners had already written off

Finding Reiki in her mid-twenties, and calling it her “gateway drug” into really understanding her gifts

Living with undiagnosed CPTSD for years, including a therapy session at twenty-one where she told a counselor twice her age to put the textbook down

Why traditional talk therapy can keep people cycling in the same patterns for a decade without real movement

What it actually looks like to shift energy, clear cords, and release soul contracts while a client is still talking, without making them relive the original trauma

Her upcoming membership launching this quarter, and the 1:1 and longer-term programs she offers now

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Website: befiercelivefree.com (launching soon)

Social Media: Be Fierce Live Free (all platforms)

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What if the narcissist who hurt you needed something from you just as much as you were pulled toward them, and understanding why changes everything about how you heal?

In this episode, Heather Zimmerman sits down with Ketty Lollia, founder of Methode 4 Life and creator of the M.I.R.R.O.R framework, for a conversation that moves from suicidal depression to a fully embodied understanding of life as a conscious game.

Ketty shares:

Her years as a professional dancer and choreographer in Paris, and the youth association she ran for a decade before everything changed

Losing herself after becoming a mother, and the depression that hit hard after COVID, including a period where she didn't want to keep living

The single question she asked God that opened the door to her actual healing journey

Three years on the road, from Spain to Egypt to her family's home island in Guadeloupe, healing ancestral trauma tied to slavery

Why she stopped blaming the narcissists in her life and started asking what she was offering them that kept the pattern going

The five stages she teaches people moving through healing: victim, wholeness, oneness, non-duality, and what she calls the lila state

Why so many people get stuck in a spiritual ego loop the moment they learn the language of consciousness, and how mirror-based therapy cuts through it

Her school, Methode 4 Life, and the Train Your Superpower training built specifically for empaths

From depression and suicidal attempts to an embodied understanding that life is a conscious simulation, Ketty Lollia's way out wasn't theoretical. She lived it, tested it, walked her healing journey alone through it and built Methode 4 Life and the M.I.R.R.O.R framework from that which survived the testing. As a former dancer specializing in the connection of the BODY (science of movement), MIND (NLP therapy, spiritual life coaching) and SOUL (inner child work, manifestation principles), she now guides people across the world to meet themselves and their inner child, so they stop being lived by their story and start playing the Simulation Game of Life in full awareness.

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YouTube: youtube.com/@gameoflifemethode

Facebook: Method for Life / Ketty Lollia

Facebook Group: Movement of Multidimensional Awareness and Consciousness

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What does healing actually require before it can take root, and why does so much of our work stall out at the symptom level instead of getting anywhere near the cause?

In this episode, Heather Zimmerman sits down with Courtney Buckley — Reiki Master Teacher, intuitive guide, channel, and founder of Soul Frequencies — for a wide-ranging conversation about the nervous system, grief, and what it actually means to restore safety in the body.

Courtney shares:

What “energetic inflammation” is, and why chasing symptoms instead of root causes keeps people cycling through the same patterns

The sudden loss of the love of her life in 2019, and the six months of darkness that followed

How she found her way to Reiki through a string of synchronicities, including five separate people asking if she'd ever looked into it

The “energetic chiropractor” analogy for why Reiki integration takes multiple sessions to hold

A neuroscience-backed trick for interrupting a spiral: replacing “I” with your own name

Her new offerings, including the Nervous System Reset Toolkit, an Integration Guide bundling her masterclasses, and the Soul Pilot Journal

Her forthcoming book, The Art of Remembering, and the neurodivergent-affirming Facebook community she built called Spicy Souls

The Neurodivergent and Perimenopause series she and Heather are co-hosting together (available on Divine Ascension Co's YouTube channel)

Courtney Buckley is the founder of Soul Frequencies Healing, a Reiki Master Teacher, intuitive guide, and author of The Art of Remembering. She helps people restore safety within themselves so they can reconnect with their authentic selves, trust their inner wisdom, and remember what was never lost. Through energy healing, nervous system support, and intuitive guidance, Courtney facilitates new beginnings and empowers others to create lasting transformation from the inside out.

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Website: soulfrequencieshealing.com

Facebook Group: Spicy Souls, Energy Healing for the NeuroDivergent

Book: The Art of Remembering available now!

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What does it look like to wake up spiritually when you still have the house, the bills, the kids, and a career that's been your identity for two decades?

In this episode, Heather Zimmerman sits down with Brandon Croud — metaphysics PhD, spiritual life coach, host of The Awakened Croud podcast, and children's book author — for one of those conversations where two people who speak the same language forget there's a microphone in the room.

Brandon shares:

• 20+ years in corporate America (mortgage industry, VP of underwriting and credit risk) — the layoff that cracked everything open, and how holding his son for the first time started the real awakening
• His bachelor's, master's, and PhD in metaphysics through the University of Sedona — what the curriculum actually covered and what landed hardest
• The guilt around receiving and charging for energy work — the preconditioned belief that spiritual service should be free, and how the metaphysical education helped him work through it
• Why he coaches the people nobody in the spiritual entrepreneurship space is targeting: the blue collar workers, the dads, the corporate guys still in the nine to five who need a bridge, not an escape
• The language of awakening — why he swapped "prayer" for "intention" and "God" for "source," and what that shift actually unlocks for people coming out of religious conditioning
• The second coming of Christ as unity consciousness — what it actually means to embody Christ consciousness, and why claiming to be "in 5D" while promoting separation is a contradiction in terms
• Moldavite, crystals, Sedona vortexes, and the full moon card pull that started a transformation
• His children's book Alden and the Light That Blinks Back — a story about his four-year-old son, intuition, and the age of disclosure told gently enough that the ET character could just be an imaginary friend
• His podcast The Awakened Croud and why he built it to show the real story of awakening — not just the butterflies, but the dark nights too

Find Brandon Croud:

Brandon is a spiritual guide, intuitive reader, who’s passionate about helping people awaken to their own inner truth. Through grounded coaching, energy work, and intuitive practices, he supports clients in breaking patterns, reclaiming their energy, and aligning with who they truly are.

http://Theawakenedcroud.Com 

• Podcast: The Awakened Croud
• Facebook: The Awakened Croud
• Book: Alden and the Light That Blinks Back (available on Amazon)

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What does it actually take to come back to yourself after years of coercive control — and do you have to relive the trauma to do it?

In this episode, Heather Zimmerman sits down with Christine Dillard — director at Microsoft, single mother of two, and author of The Truth She Showed Me — for an honest, warm, and genuinely important conversation about surviving coercive control inside a marriage, what healing looks like when you stop performing it, and why your body knew things your mind took years to catch up to.

Christine shares:

• 17 years inside a marriage with coercive control — and why she didn't fully recognize it for what it was until she was on the other side
• Why she wrote the book without naming anyone — not even with fake names — so any reader could step inside the story
• How coercive control works: the slow accumulation of micro-behaviors, the image protecting, the covering for the abuser, and why it's so rarely talked about
• The insurance policy list — writing down every behavior that made you feel small, over the last 18 months, and handing it to an accountability partner so you can't second-guess yourself
• How the body tells the truth long before the mind catches up: cortisol spikes, insomnia, weight gain, chest tightness, high blood pressure — all of it was there
• Why healing is nonlinear — the PTSD doesn't just stop, and giving yourself grace to heal at your own pace isn't weakness
• The powerful thing her therapist said that finally gave her permission to release the guilt and shame she had been carrying
• Why you don't have to relive every moment of trauma in order to move through it — and what Reiki energy work gave her when she wasn't ready to put words to it yet
• A simple question for anyone who's questioning whether they're in a controlling relationship: Do you remember what you liked before this? Do you know what brings you joy?
• Her donation model: for every 20 books sold, one goes to a domestic violence organization — and in October (domestic abuse awareness month), it becomes 10 to one
• What she's building next: trauma coaching certification so she can offer more professional support alongside her lived experience

Find Christine Dillard:

I’m Christine Dillard, author of The Truth She Showed Me, a memoir about surviving coercive control, gaslighting, and abuse inside a marriage, and what it actually takes to come back to yourself on the other side. I’m also a Director at a Fortune 500, a single mom of two, and a woman who has done the deep work and refuses to be quiet about it. 

• Book: The Truth She Showed Me — available on Amazon (Kindle and paperback)
• TikTok: @thetruthsheshowedme

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You already know what you want. You've done the work, followed the process, gone out of your comfort zone. So why do you keep stopping just short of the target?

In this episode, Heather Zimmerman sits down with Dr. Lillian Imarenakhue — founder of Sublime Mind of Achiever and creator of the Rewire and Rise program — for a conversation about what's actually happening beneath the surface when women stay stuck, self-sabotage, or shrink right at the moment of expansion.

Dr. Lillian shares:

• Why most women don't stay stuck because of strategy — they stay stuck because their internal capacity isn't calibrated to hold the level they're reaching for
• The difference between your mind knowing you're safe and your nervous system actually feeling safe — and why that gap is where everything collapses
• How to recognize a dysregulated nervous system even when life looks fine on the outside: the moment before procrastination, the tightness before you set a price, the hesitation right before the breakthrough
• Why shrinking your prices has nothing to do with your clients' ability to pay — and everything to do with your nervous system's capacity to receive
• The Rewire and Rise 8-day ascension path: awareness, recalibration, new identity, stabilization — and why the integration step is what makes any of it last
• Why affirmations and motivational content only work long-term when the foundation underneath them is solid
• The 12-month support structure after the 8 days — and why the Sovereign Return at the end is designed to make going back to who you were impossible
• How pattern awareness is the first step to rewiring — you cannot change what you haven't named
• The free Rewire and Rise guide as an entry point into the program

Find Dr. Lillian Imarenakhue:

• Website: sublimindofachiever.com (free guide available for download)
• Facebook: Sublime Mind of Achiever page / personal profile Imaranakhue Lilian Ehige
• Instagram: Sublime Mind of Achiever

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What does it look like to do the inner work for twenty years — and still find new triggers every week worth paying attention to?

In this episode, Heather Zimmerman sits down with Amber Soleil — intuitive life coach, psychic reader, somatic guide, energy healer, licensed massage therapist, channeler, and founder of the Unlock Your Psychic Abilities Facebook group — for one of those conversations where two people recognize each other and go deep immediately.

Amber shares:

• Twenty years of intuitive development, shadow work, and channeling — and why she considers herself a "jack of all trades" in this space
• The relationship between authenticity and unconditional love — whether you need one to access the other, and why the healing journey is never linear
• Shadow work as ongoing practice, not destination — and why she was surprised when someone her age said they were done growing (her nine-year-old's response: "You never stop growing")
• The ego and how to work with it rather than against it — with wisdom and a little humor
• Channeling for the collective consciousness and what those messages consistently say
• How her belief system has been built entirely on direct experience — from "us and ghosts" to angels, twin flames, galactic energies, and beyond
• The reading that finally made angel energy real for her — and what she saw wrapped around a woman in her final days
• The nature of time: singular point, all-at-once, jumping timelines, and how our consciousness chooses which reality to inhabit
• Rainbow and indigo children, the next generation, and why every generation seems to arrive more connected than the last
• Automatic writing as a starting point — and Heather's tip for people with ADHD brains who want to try it
• Her Facebook group Unlock Your Psychic Abilities (nearly 8,000 members), her courses (Intuitive Foundations, Unlock Your Intuition, Empowered Empath, and Intuitive Parenting), and what she's building next

Amber is an Intuitive Life Coach & Educator, Psychic Reader, Somatic Guide, Energy Healer, LMT & HHP. She's been doing this work for 20 years and her work is centered in awareness, accountability, presence & empowerment. She regularly channels for the collective consciousness. 

Find Amber Soleil:

• Website: intuitivetap.com
• Facebook: facebook.com/helloambersoleil
• Instagram: @intuitivetap
• Facebook Group: Unlock Your Psychic Abilities

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What does it take to choose gratitude when you're lying in an ICU on a ventilator, wondering why you survived at all?

In this episode, Heather Zimmerman sits down with Dr. Andrea Niestas — PhD clinical psychologist, former behavioral health hospital director, life coach, and near-death survivor — for one of the most honest conversations about what it actually means to move from surviving to thriving.

Dr. Andrea shares:

• Nearly 20 years directing a behavioral health hospital's intake department — what it meant to be the person helping people in their worst moments, and the emotional weight that came with it
• The illness that nearly killed her in 2024: months of misdiagnosis, walking with a cane, collapsing in a hotel lobby four and a half hours from home, emergency surgery, and a two-week coma
• Almost dying three times — and waking up on a ventilator not knowing if she'd survive
• The week she spent asking "why did I survive for this?" — and the moment she decided to stop
• How she used mindset shifts and gratitude to physically recover faster — and the neuroscience behind why that works
• The Rod Stewart song she kept hearing in her coma that she couldn't identify for almost a year — and what happened when she finally did
• The pivot from crisis intervention to prevention: from helping people after they've broken down to helping them build the skills so they never get there
• Her suicide prevention training work and why it's stayed central to her mission
• What twenty years of watching people at their worst teaches you about what actually makes a life feel meaningful
• Her workshops, one-on-one coaching, and the book she's planning to write
• Her closing piece of advice — the one practice she does consciously every single day

Dr. Andrea Niestas has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and over 25 years of experience in behavioral health. She also spent 15 years in leadership roles, where she mentored others, provided training, and developed various programs. Dr. Niestas is a wellness coach and speaker who supports individuals seeking more meaning, connection, and fulfillment in their lives — those ready to move beyond simply existing and toward fully living. She works both one-on-one and at the community level, offering workshops that encourage shared growth and collective transformation. 

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• Website: lifecoachingbyandrea.com
• Social: @LifeCoachingByAndrea on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube

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What if intuition isn't a rare gift — it's a skill everyone has, and most people were just programmed to stop using it?

In this episode, Heather Zimmerman sits down with Ashley Phillips — intuitive, subconscious reprogramming specialist, and teacher of the neuroscience of intuition — for a conversation about how energy reading actually works, what's blocking most people's gifts, and what it looks like to finally build a life that fits at the soul level.

Ashley shares:

• Why she doesn't consider herself naturally gifted — and why that's exactly what makes her such a clear teacher
• The neuroscience of intuition in plain language: everything is made of light, light carries information, and intuition is simply translating that light into the language we speak
• How the energetic body works — why it extends outside the physical body, why that explains so much about how we read rooms and people, and how to consciously work with it
• Why 90% of communication is already happening energetically — and what most people are missing because they don't know it
• The subconscious programming that blocks intuitive access — and what stripping it away actually looks like
• Her own awakening: twelve years in retail management reading energy without knowing it, the "American dream" moment that broke everything open, and the seven months that rebuilt her life from the inside out
• Aura management and energetic protection for empaths and sensitives — including the simple practice of consciously pulling in your aura
• Her free weekly webinars, one-on-one sessions, and nine-week intuition program for people who want to actively develop and use their gifts in every area of life
• Her closing piece of advice for anyone who is feeling stuck right now

Ashley helps women tap into their intuition on a scientific level so they can move past their subconscious blocks and live a life they desire!! 

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• Website: itsashleyphillips.com

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