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What happens when unimaginable loss leads you to a deeper understanding of love, grief, and what it means to be human?

In this episode of FEAR UNZIPPED®, Sandi Serling sits down with internationally known author Jeffery Olsen to explore love, loss, grief, near-death experiences, and the moments that transform how we understand life.

At 33 years old, Jeffery’s life changed forever after a devastating car accident took the lives of his wife, Tamra, and young son Griffin. Severely injured and facing unimaginable grief, Jeffery experienced what he describes as a profound near-death experience that reshaped his understanding of love, connection, and the human experience.

Jeffery shares how that experience changed the way he views judgment, compassion, grief, and the importance of appreciating the ordinary moments that often become the most meaningful parts of life. Together, Jeffery and Sandi explore how grief is connected to love, how we continue bonds with those we have lost, and how healing can emerge even after the most painful experiences.

Our Guest

Jeffery Olsen is an international, number one, best-selling author who inspires audiences globally with his intriguing story of perseverance and inner strength. After a horrific automobile accident took the lives of his wife and youngest son, also inflicting multiple life-threatening injuries to Jeff (including the amputation of his left leg) he found the courage to survive over 18 surgeries and eventually heal both physically and emotionally.

At the time of his accident, Olsen had incredible Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences, bringing him insights not common in today’s world. Jeff has integrated these experiences into everyday practices, inspiring others to heal from the inside out, embracing the divine power that burns within them and all around them.

Jeff has appeared on FOX Nation, Gaia TV, Coast to Coast, I Heart Radio, and The Shift Network to name a few. Professionally, Jeff is a highly decorated Creative Director who leads teams in producing award-winning work. Jeff has a powerful connection to nature and loves being outdoors, connecting with the profound beauty and wisdom of Mother Earth and Father Sky.

Among Jeff’s many accomplishments, he is most fulfilled by simply being a father and trusted friend.

In this episode, you’ll learn

● How Jeffery’s near-death experience changed his understanding of love and connection

● Why grief is often a reflection of the depth of our love

● How to find meaning after experiencing unimaginable loss

● Why we should avoid comparing one person’s pain to another’s journey

● How ordinary moments can become the most meaningful parts of life

● The importance of recognizing signs, connection, and memories after loss

● How Jeffery and his son Spencer transformed grief into the book Where Are You?

Resources from this Episode

Jeffery C. Olsen

• Website: https://www.illuminatepeace.org
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jefferycolsen/?hl=en
• Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00CPTK01S?ccs_id=526d09ae-a04a-49cd-b890-374b59c2d8c7

Sandi Serling

• Website: http://www.fearunzipped.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fearunzipped
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearunzipped/
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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandi-serling-1804aab/

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Timestamps

00:00 Jeffery Olsen on the universal experience of love

03:49 Jeffery’s life before the accident

08:21 Falling in love with Tamra and building a family

10:32 The family road trip that changed everything

13:09 The final moments before the accident

15:34 The crash and Jeffery’s injuries

19:42 The near-death experience begins

20:08 Seeing Tamra again and choosing to return

24:36 Experiencing connection beyond judgment

27:46 Realizing the gift of the human body

30:17 Faith, spirituality, and Jeffery’s upbringing

34:22 Tamra’s dream before the accident

38:12 Facing grief, divorce, and life’s hardest moments

41:23 Finding joy in the little things

44:01 Signs, spirit, and connection after loss

50:58 Writing Where Are You? with his son Spencer

55:25 Grief as the depth of love

58:08 Choosing joy and peace

What happens when the person who spent years relying on logic, achievement, and doing everything “right” learns to trust a different kind of wisdom?

In this episode of FEAR UNZIPPED®, Sandi Serling sits down with Annie Aboulian, the creator behind The Tarot Professor, to explore intuition, anxiety, self-doubt, and the journey of reconnecting with your authentic self. Annie shares how leaving behind a successful legal career led her to discover tarot as a powerful tool for self-reflection, personal growth, and understanding her inner voice.

Annie opens up about growing up as an overachiever and people pleaser, following the path she thought she was supposed to take, and realizing that achieving everything she was told to want did not necessarily mean she was fulfilled. Together, Annie and Sandi discuss the fear of judgment, the pressure to meet expectations, and how much of the judgment we fear from others actually comes from within ourselves.

They explore how tarot can be used not as a way to predict the future, but as a visual language that helps people access their own intuition, emotions, and inner wisdom. Annie explains why intuition often feels quiet and calm, while fear tends to be loud, repetitive, and filled with doubt.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that trusting yourself does not mean eliminating fear. It means learning how to move forward even when fear is present.

Our Guest

Former attorney Annie Aboulian is a literature professor and the writer behind The Tarot Professor, a best-selling Substack column that approaches tarot as a powerful self-discovery and personal growth tool. Her mission is to help overthinking analytical types like herself reconnect with their inner wisdom and value their intuition as much as their intellect. In addition to writing, Annie leads tarot workshops online and in person. She also loves to explore the bookstores and art museums of Los Angeles, where she lives.

In this episode, you’ll learn

• How Annie went from lawyer to becoming The Tarot Professor
• Why achieving everything you were told to want can still leave you feeling lost
• How perfectionism and people-pleasing disconnect us from ourselves
• Why fear of judgment often comes from our own internal beliefs
• How tarot can help strengthen intuition and self-awareness
• Why tarot is not about predicting the future
• How to distinguish fear from intuition
• Why trusting yourself can help reduce anxiety and overthinking
• How to reconnect with your inner wisdom when making decisions

Resources from this Episode

Annie Aboulian

• Substack: http://thetarotprofessor.substack.com
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/thetarotprofessor
• Website: http://thetarotprofessor.com

Sandi Serling

• Website: http://www.fearunzipped.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fearunzipped
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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandi-serling-1804aab/

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Timestamps

• 00:00 — Introducing Annie Aboulian and The Tarot Professor
• 03:46 — Annie’s journey from overachiever to finding her authentic path
• 05:28 — Leaving law and discovering tarot as a self-discovery tool
• 07:53 — Balancing logic, intellect, and intuition
• 10:15 — The fear of judgment and being accepted by others
• 12:58 — How self-judgment holds us back from pursuing our passions
• 15:11 — Why tarot works as a tool for intuition and reflection
• 17:35 — Tarot as a visual language for understanding ourselves
• 20:55 — How tarot helped Sandi reconnect with her intuition
• 24:45 — Why tarot is not about predicting the future
• 26:44 — How tarot can help with clarity, emotions, and feeling stuck
• 28:54 — Annie’s “Inquire Within” tarot question deck
• 33:30 — A live tarot demonstration: shaking things up and trying something new
• 40:04 — How to tell the difference between fear and intuition
• 45:09 — Understanding anxiety, fear, and the nervous system
• 48:13 — How tarot journaling helps recognize intuition before fear takes over
• 50:21 — Annie’s journey toward trusting herself again
• 53:11 — Learning to do things scared and redefining failure
• 59:40 — Final reflections on authenticity and inner wisdom

What if anxiety is not something you need to eliminate, but something you can learn from?

In this episode of FEAR UNZIPPED®, Sandi Serling sits down with Dr. David H. Rosmarin, clinical psychologist, Harvard Medical School associate professor, researcher, and author of Thriving With Anxiety, to explore a different way of understanding fear and anxiety.

Dr. Rosmarin explains why anxiety is a natural human emotion, how we often mistake normal anxiety for something being wrong with us, and how learning to sit with discomfort can actually build resilience.

Together, they discuss the difference between fear, anxiety, and stress, why trying to control everything can increase anxiety, how our struggles can become a source of empathy, and why letting go can be one of the most powerful tools for finding peace.

This conversation explores a new relationship with anxiety: not as an enemy to defeat, but as an experience that can help us grow, connect, and better understand ourselves.

Our Guest

David H. Rosmarin, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Director of the McLean Hospital Spirituality and Mental Health Program, and Chief Clinical Officer of the LINKS Network. A clinical psychologist, researcher, and noted author, he is known for reframing anxiety as a catalyst for growth, resilience, and meaning rather than a disorder to eliminate. Dr. Rosmarin's clinical teams have worked with over 10,000 individuals, couples, and families worldwide. He has been featured on Good Morning America, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and TED.com.

In this episode, you’ll learn

• Why anxiety is not always the enemy, but a natural human emotion that can help us grow
• The difference between fear, anxiety, and stress, and how to understand what your body is telling you
• How embracing discomfort instead of avoiding it can build resilience and emotional strength
• Why letting go of control can reduce anxiety and create deeper connection with yourself and others
• How personal struggles with anxiety can become a source of empathy, purpose, and growth

Resources from this Episode

Dr. David H. Rosmarin

• Book Thriving with Anxiety - https://a.co/d/08qqH9b3
• Website - https://dhrosmarin.com/
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dhrosmarin/
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhrosmarin/
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/in/dhrosmarin/
• Free resource: https://foursteps.dhrosmarin.com/

Sandi Serling

• Website: http://www.fearunzipped.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fearunzipped
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearunzipped/
• Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565896484203
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandi-serling-1804aab/

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Timestamps

• 01:27 Why anxiety is not something to eliminate, but a human emotion we can learn from
• 03:21 Dr. David Rosmarin’s personal journey with anxiety and how it shaped his work
• 05:09 Building a clinic from uncertainty and learning not to judge yourself
• 10:32 Understanding the difference between fear, anxiety, and stress
• 12:53 How the body responds to fear and anxiety
• 17:11 Why we should not fight anxiety and how discomfort builds resilience
• 18:49 Turning anxiety into an activating force instead of something that holds us back
• 20:02 Letting go of control and accepting what we cannot change
• 21:22 How fear and anxiety influence the way we respond to the world around us
• 25:16 How neuroplasticity gives us the ability to change our thoughts and emotions
• 30:27 Exploring spirituality, mental health, and the unknown
• 35:19 How letting go of control can help reduce anxiety
• 37:21 Turning personal struggles into empathy and connection with others
• 44:12 How stories and experiences can create and reinforce fear
• 47:51 How anxiety can become a source of growth, courage, and purpose

What happens when you stop apologizing for your age and start reclaiming the parts of yourself you were once afraid to express?

In this episode of FEAR UNZIPPED®, Sandi Serling sits down with bestselling author, intuitive, artist, educator, and musician Colette Baron-Reid to explore ageism, beauty, creativity, and the freedom that can come with getting older. Colette shares how being told she was “too old” by the music industry affected her relationship with her creativity and why, after 22 years, she finally returned to making original music.

Together, she and Sandi discuss the stories women internalize about age, appearance, success, and taking up space. They explore inherited fear, the pressure to seek approval, body image, competition between women, and what it means to reclaim the parts of yourself you once believed were unsafe to show. Ultimately, they challenge the idea that aging means becoming less and instead explore what becomes possible when you finally allow yourself to be fully who you are.

Our Guest

Colette Baron-Reid is a bestselling author, internationally acclaimed Oracle expert, spiritual intuitive, artist, educator, business strategist, and thought leader in personal transformation.

She is the founder of The Oracle School Experience®, OraclePalooza®, and the DreamQuest Platinum Mastermind. Creator of 19 bestselling Oracle card decks with more than two million copies sold worldwide, and author of numerous bestselling books, Colette has spent more than three decades helping people develop a direct and personal dialogue with the Universe so they can create lives of greater purpose, meaning, and possibility.

A former EMI recording artist, Colette has returned to her first language, her first love, and her first oracle: music. After a 22-year hiatus, she released her third album, My Dark Church, a collection of original songs co-written and co-produced with the Brothers Koren that explores transformation, belonging, grace, and the sacred journey home to oneself.

Clean and sober since 1986, Colette blends practical spirituality, intuition, creativity, and a healthy fascination with quantum physics, consciousness, and the mysteries of the human experience. Her friends call her a "nerdy mystical pirate," and she's never heard a better description.

Whether teaching, writing, painting, mentoring entrepreneurs, or making music, Colette is devoted to helping people move beyond perceived limitations and into a dynamic, creative relationship with the conscious Universe.

Her motto: Everything is possible when you open your connection to the Universe.

In this episode, you’ll learn

• How ageism shaped Colette’s experience in the music industry and her relationship with creativity
• How inherited beliefs about safety can cause us to hide essential parts of ourselves
• Why seeking approval can keep us attached to old stories about worth, beauty, and success
• How aging can bring greater freedom, self-trust, and willingness to take up space
• Why reclaiming creativity and authenticity requires facing the fears we have carried for years

Resources from this Episode

Colette Baron-Reid

• Website: https://www.colettebaronreid.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colettebaron_reid/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colettebaronreid
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@colettebaronreid
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colettebaronreid/
• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/colettebaronreid/
• Bandcamp: https://colettebaronreid.bandcamp.com/album/my-dark-church-2026
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Hja6topGzaPmkpEvB751J
• Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/colette-baron-reid/30364592

Sandi Serling

• Website: http://www.fearunzipped.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fearunzipped
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearunzipped/
• Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565896484203
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandi-serling-1804aab/

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Timestamps

• 01:33 Sandi and Colette open up about age and ageism
• 02:44 Colette's experience entering the music industry at 40
• 07:28 How fear and ideas about safety can be passed between generations
• 09:42 Rewriting the stories fear has taught us
• 15:00 Internalized expectations, competition, and women supporting women
• 18:22 Why real transformation requires doing the inner work
• 29:43 Returning to music and finding a language for what words cannot express
• 35:09 Reclaiming the parts of yourself you've rejected
• 38:32 Wrinkles, beauty standards, and the anti-aging conversation
• 48:08 Owning your age with pride
• 49:47 Hearing “you're not too old” decades after being told the opposite
• 54:11 Living free from old stories
• 55:15 Why gray hair and wrinkles can represent the privilege of getting to live

What happens when traditional therapy makes room for intuition, energy, and the soul?

In this episode of FEAR UNZIPPED®, Sandi Serling sits down with clinical psychologist Dr. Amy Robbins to explore the intersection of psychology, spirituality, grief, and intuition. Amy shares how the sudden death of her aunt triggered years of anxiety, but also opened the door to profound experiences that changed how she understood life, death, and emotional healing.

Amy explains why spiritual practices should complement, not replace, psychological care. Together, she and Sandi discuss how to distinguish intuition from anxiety, the dangers of spiritual bypassing, the ethical use of intuitive information in therapy, and how grounding practices can help us remain stable when the world feels chaotic.

Our Guest

Dr. Amy Robbins is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice for almost 20 years and the Director of Mental Health at BIÂN (Be-on), a holistic wellness club in Chicago. Dr. Robbins has experience in both traditional and energy psychotherapy and spiritual intuition.

After the unexpected death of her aunt at a young age and a spiritually transformative experience with "the other side," Dr. Robbins began a long journey into spirituality that has paralleled her clinical psychology work. Dr. Robbins opened up to share her experiences through her podcast, Life, Death, and the Space Between, where she provides an ever-growing library of resources to explore the complex synergy between the psychological and spiritual – empowering you to know your true self and live a more fulfilling, connected life.

Now, she is excited to bring together her psychological and spiritual work in what is her new groundbreaking course: Spiritually Informed Therapy for mental health clinicians. Drawing on two decades of clinical experience, Dr. Robbins offers evidence-informed approaches that integrate spiritual dimensions into therapeutic practice while maintaining professional ethical standards. Her work provides clinicians with practical frameworks for addressing clients' spiritual concerns and existential questions within the therapeutic relationship.

• How grief and intuitive experiences transformed Amy’s relationship with anxiety
• How spiritually informed therapy expands traditional approaches to emotional healing
• How to distinguish quiet intuitive knowing from emotionally charged fear and anxiety
• Why spiritual beliefs should support, rather than replace, the process of feeling grief
• Practical ways to stabilize your energy during chaotic or uncertain times

Resources from this Episode

Dr. Amy Robbins

• Website: http://www.dramyrobbins.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dramyrobbins/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dramyrobbins/
• Host: Life, Death and the Space Between Podcast

Sandi Serling

• Website: http://www.fearunzipped.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fearunzipped
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearunzipped/
• Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565896484203
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandi-serling-1804aab/

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Timestamps:

• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:03 Meet Dr. Amy Robbins
• 03:17 The loss that changed Amy’s life
• 08:00 Receiving an unexpected visit from her aunt
• 14:01 The fear of blending psychology and spirituality
• 16:00 How an intuitive experience reduced Amy’s anxiety
• 18:00 Why therapists need a spiritually informed lens
• 24:54 Looking beyond symptoms and diagnoses
• 30:00 Is anxiety rooted in the fear of death?
• 32:22 Bringing energy and the soul into therapy
• 36:00 How to tell intuition from anxiety
• 37:34 How spiritually informed therapy changes lives
• 39:30 Finding comfort in signs and synchronicities
• 43:41 Grief, continuing bonds, and spiritual bypassing
• 47:21 Psychological healing and spiritual growth can coexist
• 49:20 Ethical boundaries when intuition enters therapy
• 53:38 How to protect your energy during chaotic times
• 57:00 Turning collective anxiety into inspired action
• 59:52 Shifting the energy of everyday interactions
• 1:02:27 Amy’s strategy for facing fear
• 1:03:27 What a successful life really looks like
• 1:05:15 From anxiety to freedom
• 1:05:40 Where to connect with Dr. Amy Robbins

In this episode, Indigenous healer Asha Frost sets the tone for a powerful conversation about sensitivity, illness, ancestry, and spiritual medicine. We learn how Asha’s childhood as a highly sensitive seer, her lupus diagnosis at seventeen, and her introduction to homeopathy led her to energy medicine and her role as an Indigenous Medicine Woman and bestselling author of You Are the Medicine and multiple oracle decks. She and Sandi explore generational and past life trauma, autoimmune illness, and the weight of carrying collective pain, while also naming the shame that can arise in wellness spaces.

Asha shares how she navigates chronic pain, boundaries, cultural appropriation of Indigenous ceremony, and the radical importance of rest, particularly for bodies living with intergenerational trauma. Throughout, we are reminded that our tears are sacred, that we belong to the land, and that we ourselves are the medicine. Listeners come away with heartfelt encouragement to honor their sensitivity, protect their energy, and practice self-compassion daily as they move through everyday life.

In this episode, you will hear:

• Asha’s origin story as a highly sensitive child, seer, and dreamer
• Lupus diagnosis at seventeen and how it led her to homeopathy and energy medicine
• Generational and past life trauma, autoimmune illness, and carrying collective pain
• Rest, “inner winter,” and redefining worth beyond productivity
• Cultural appropriation, honoring Indigenous ceremonies, and practicing true reverence
• Boundaries, self-compassion, and remembering that we ourselves are the medicine

Resources from this Episode

• Website: https://ashafrost.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.frost/?hl=en
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedicineWomanAshaFrost/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ashafrost
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UtnaXVmkCkENS77lWlj0Q#
• Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ashafrost
• www.fearunzipped.com

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Episode Credits

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Emerald City Productions. They helped me grow and produce the podcast you are listening to right now. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com. Let them know we sent you.

Music by Katy Samwell https://katysamwell.com/high-vibrational-music

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Guided by the idea that our deepest fears often began in other lifetimes, this episode invites us to rethink where our anxiety truly comes from. We speak with internationally acclaimed past-life psychic and spiritual teacher Ainslie MacLeod, whose work explores how past lives shape our personality, beliefs, talents, and lifelong fears.

We hear Ainslie’s journey from atheist and skeptic to psychic. He explains how soul experience across many lifetimes influences empathy, political and social worldviews, and even our comfort with visibility and public speaking.

Sandi and Ainslie also talk about what it means to feel guided, why some of us fear human life more than the spirit world, and how uncovering past-life trauma can release present-day anxiety. Listeners can expect practical shifts in perspective to understand their fear as part of a larger soul story and to feel less alone in their struggles.

In this episode, you will hear:

• Why core fears often originate in past-life trauma, not just childhood
• Old soul vs young soul perspectives on empathy, politics, and connection
• Common past-life roots of public speaking anxiety, rejection, and persecution
• Using community, creativity, and leadership to heal fear of rejection
• Balancing mind, body, and spirit to move through fear more quickly and confidently

Resources from this Episode

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ainsliemmacleod/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ainslie_macleod/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ainsliemacleodpsychicguide
• Website: https://ainsliemacleod.com
• www.fearunzipped.com

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A near-fatal health crisis becomes the catalyst for a total life reset for our guest, David Zimmerman, who also happens to be Sandi’s son. Listen to his journey from sensitive, anxious kid to high-performing tech product manager, and finally to founder of a purpose-driven olive oil brand, Zimms Organics.

We hear how David’s sudden internal bleeding, Crohn’s diagnosis, and repeated hospitalizations collided with a high-stress consulting career and a broken medical system. He shares the fear he hid, the identity loss that comes with chronic illness, and the moment he decided he could not stay on the same path.

David walks us through how research, lab work, and a daily ritual with high polyphenol olive oil helped reduce his inflammation and rebuild trust with his body. We explore the role of meditation, spirituality, and intuition in healing, plus what it really took to walk away from a prestigious job, create an organic olive oil brand, and eventually rebrand it to Zimms Organics by making his own story the heart of it.

After leaving his corporate job, David dove back into his creative side, writing music and spoken-word poetry while building Zimms Organics. That freed up mental space and lit something up. He released his first full-length album shortly after, a mix of spoken-word poetry and hip-hop called HORIZONS.

Listeners learn about self-advocacy, listening to their gut, and finding meaning in the unknown.

In this episode, you will hear:

• Childhood sensitivity, anxiety, and learning to build emotional resilience
• The role of self-advocacy, second opinions, and questioning “one size fits all” treatment
• Discovering high polyphenol olive oil, lab testing, and data-driven healing experiments
• Meditation, spirituality, and intuition as tools for managing fear and stress
• Leaving a prestigious consulting career to build Zimms Organics around his healing journey
• Redefining success through health, service, creative expression, and freedom of time

Resources from this Episode

• Website: https://zimmsorganics.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zimmsorganics/
• Music: https://www.dzimm.co
• Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dzimm333/
• Discount code for 20% off Zimms Organics: UNZIPPED20
• www.fearunzipped.com

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From the first breath to the echoes of Rikers Island, this conversation with Oneika Mays invites us to reconsider what safety, love, and freedom really mean.

We follow Oneika’s journey from feeling like the “odd one out” as a queer Black woman to becoming a mindfulness and yoga teacher whose work is rooted in Buddhist and yogic teachings. She shares how a profound personal loss and the collapse of her carefully constructed life pushed her toward yoga, where a single cue from a teacher cracked her open and set her on a path back to her curious, unafraid younger self.

We explore what it actually means to fall in love with ourselves. Oneika explains how breath creates a felt sense of fullness that does not depend on relationships, achievements, or external validation. She reframes self-love as the capacity to hold our shame, scars, and past choices alongside that fullness, instead of trying to erase them.

Oneika describes the relentless noise, chaos, and unsafety, and how she learned to be her own safe place so she could model that possibility for others. Listeners learn practical, grounded perspectives on awareness, nervous system regulation, and how to build inner safety when the outside world is anything but.

In this episode, you will hear:

• Learning to fall in love with ourselves through breath, fullness, and embodiment
• How awareness and inner safety can coexist with anxiety, fear, and discomfort
• Teaching mindfulness and yoga at Rikers Island inside constant noise and chaos
• Transformational stories of incarcerated women finding agency and calm
• Using loving kindness and metta to soften hatred, work with triggers, and reclaim power

Resources from this Episode

• Website: https://www.oneikamays.com/
• Social media:
• https://www.instagram.com/oneikamays/?hl=en
• https://www.facebook.com/omays/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/oneikamays/
• https://www.youtube.com/oneikamays
• Link to purchase book:
• https://www.amazon.com/Sit-Me-Journey-Mindfulness-Meditation/dp/0063435551
• https://bookshop.org/p/books/sit-with-me-a-no-bs-journey-to-mindfulness-and-meditation-oneika-mays/f62ea285a58240d7
• https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sit-with-Me-A-No-Bs-Journey-to-Mindfulness-and-Meditation-Paperback-9780063435551/16743158405
• https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sit-with-me-oneika-mays/1147525526
• www.fearunzipped.com

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What began as a childhood fascination with storytelling and spirituality eventually led Robyn Brecker from the fast-paced world of television and digital media into deeply transformational work helping others reconnect with themselves.

We explore Robyn’s journey from working behind the scenes with Oprah and other world-renowned thought leaders to building Seeking Center, a wellness and spiritual platform designed to help people navigate fear, uncertainty, grief, and personal growth. Along the way, she shares powerful stories about losing her father at a young age, the intuitive signs that continue to guide her, and the lessons she learned while helping launch Oprah.com during the earliest days of the internet.

The conversation dives into how fear impacts the nervous system, why so many people feel disconnected from their purpose, and how moments of crisis can often become the beginning of profound transformation.

We also talk about the importance of grounding rituals, asking for help, learning to trust your intuition, and staying open to life’s whispers even during difficult seasons. Listeners will come away with a deeper understanding of how purpose evolves, why grief can become a gateway to growth, and how small daily practices can help create a more aligned and fulfilling life.

In this episode, you will hear:

• Robyn losing her father at a young age and the impact of grief
• Building Seeking Center and creating community through spirituality
• Fear, nervous system overwhelm, and learning to slow down
• Intuitive signs, synchronicities, and staying connected to loved ones
• Trusting life transitions and finding purpose through difficult experiences
• Grounding practices, asking for help, and living more authentically

Resources from this Episode

• Visit theseekingcenter.com to explore the podcast, community, and more
• Join the Seeking Center Community. seekingcentercommunity.com
• https://seekingcenter.mn.co/plans/1819890?bundle_token=d874d5f5ac6ded0b45fb0bb8e2cf2d97&utm_source=manual
• Follow @theseekingcenter on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theseekingcenter/
• www.fearunzipped.com

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