What if the reason your success still feels empty isn’t because you haven’t done enough, but because your nervous system never felt safe enough to receive it?
In this deeply embodied conversation, Danielle sits down with Roslyn Roselyn Perez Casiano, licensed therapist, TEDx speaker, Forbes & TIME-featured self-awareness and success expert, and host of the Insightful Success Podcast, to unpack why so many high achievers build extraordinary lives… yet still feel disconnected, burnt out, or emotionally numb.
Together, they explore the concept of felt identity; how early, pre-verbal experiences wire survival into the body, shaping success, relationships, ambition, control, and self-worth long after we “know better.” This episode goes beyond mindset work and dives into nervous system regulation, emotional safety, compassion, and identity rewiring as the missing keys to fulfillment.
You’ll learn how apathy, over-control, perfectionism, and endless striving are often signs of unresolved survival patterns — and how reconnecting with desire, emotion, and presence allows success to finally feel satisfying, not exhausting.
This is a must-listen for high achievers, conscious leaders, and especially women from culturally tight-knit or immigrant backgrounds who are ready to redefine success without betraying their roots, and without sacrificing their health, relationships, or joy.
Key Timestamps
00:04 – Meet Roslyn: therapist, TEDx speaker & self-awareness expert
02:00 – What “magic” really is: presence, energy, and emotional transmission
03:10 – What is felt identity (and why thinking your way to change doesn’t work)
05:30 – How childhood safety is stored in the body, not the mind
06:40 – You don’t need trauma to live in survival
08:45 – Where to begin if you feel disconnected from desire 10:50 – Why every goal is really about an emotion
13:15 – Apathy: the hidden symptom of emotional disconnection
15:40 – How emotions become illness when they’re not felt 17:45 – Control, perfectionism & lack of agency as survival patterns
20:10 – How to tell if your success is built on survival vs safety 24:20 – The role of compassion & re-parenting yourself 29:10 – Why compassion doesn’t make you “soft” — it rewires identity 31:15 – The cost of survival-driven success on the nervous system
33:40 – Latina culture, hustle, and inherited survival narratives 36:10 – Reframing success without betraying your culture or family
38:35 – Self-awareness as data, not judgment
41:00 – The one truth that makes change and safety possible 45:15 – A powerful nervous-system “recycling” technique to access love & peace
Connect with Roselyn:
Website: https://insightfulessence.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roselyn.p.casiano/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insightfulessence/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Insightful_Essence
Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4XTPc1J3NPxnSN5GVTZZGc?si=wupD2gsMT6Wb0m3B0NtWQg
https://insightfulessence.com/journal
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