This episode is for the person who feels like they are doing everything right and still questioning if they are falling behind. It is for the entrepreneur, the creator, the one building something real while comparing themselves to people online who claim that it happened in months time for them and wondering what they are missing. Aka the myth of overnight success.

If you have ever felt not smart enough, not ready enough, or not good enough because your timeline does not look like theirs, this is for you.

Four years into podcasting, this is the perspective no one shares. Success is not a finish line you reach and finally feel complete. The goalpost keeps moving, the goal post is an illiusion. Every level you unlock demands a new version of you, and if you are not prepared for that, it will leave you feeling like you are constantly starting over.

We talk about the reality that it takes years to become what people call an overnight success and why taking the stairs is the path that actually builds something sustainable.

You will hear why stepping outside your comfort zone is not a one time decision but a requirement at every stage of growth. You will also hear the truth about comparison and how compressed success stories online can quietly destroy your self worth if you let them.

This is also a personal story about what it really took to build Ill Keep You Wild from nothing, the doubt, the discipline, the moments of wanting to quit, and the decision to keep going anyway without validation, without guarantees, and despite the fear of being judged. I also share why it's important to acknowledge your success along the way.

If you are in the messy middle, if you are building with no proof yet, if you are questioning your pace but know you are meant for more, this episode will bring you back to reality and remind you that you are not behind. You are in it.

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You've done it ALLLL.. the mindset work, the meditations, the walks, the exercise, the affirmations and you've taken your healing journey seriously but something still feels heavy and uncertain.. this episode will be EYE opening.

In this solo episode, I share a real moment that forced me to see myself exactly where I am. A moment that shifted the way I see myself, my soul and my next level expansion.

It started with a walk.. that was supposed to be a run and before I got there I asked for a sign from god and what came up made me confront myself in a way I never have before.

This episode dives into the phase of growth and personal development where the excitement of our next level meets real vulnerability and real nervous system regulation.

I talk about:

1. Why life can feel heavy even after you've done the inner work
2. The hidden phase between expansion and stability
3. Manifestation
4. Asking for a sign for comfort/ clarity
5. Choosing yourself even when things feel uncertain
6. Seeing yourself fully
7. Feeling exposed

If you've invested into your growth, worked on shifting your mindset and done the personal development but you're still waiting for life to change, this episode will resonate on a deep level.

This conversation is about: manifestation, identity shifts, awareness, subconscious, mindset and the REAL depth and uncertainty of personal development that no one speaks of.

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For the woman who knows she’s meant for more this is your moment.

In today’s short episode, I’m sharing something I’ve never done before: I’m selecting one woman from this community to receive a fully funded six-month investment inside my coaching container, The Expansion Club.

It’s a community of women who are committed to their next level financially, mentally, and energetically.

Inside The Expansion Club, we do weekly group mindset coaching calls, individualized 1:1 coaching, and deep work around manifestation, identity expansion, and stepping fully into the version of you who creates the life she actually desires.

But let me be clear about something.

This opportunity is not for someone who is on the fence about coaching.

This is for the woman who is ready to move differently.

The woman who is willing to step outside her comfort zone.

The woman who takes action.

The woman who is deeply committed to becoming the version of herself who attracts bigger opportunities, bigger money, and bigger connections.

winner will be selected based on:

• depth of application

• willingness to take bold action

• drive and commitment

• alignment with the incredible women already inside this space

This is a fully funded $2,997 investment into your expansion.

Applications close March 7th, 2026 (PST) which means you have 48 hours left to submit yours.

If you’ve been waiting for a sign to step into a bigger room, this may be it.

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What does it actually take to build a creative life that doesn’t look like anyone else’s?

In this episode of I’ll Keep You Wild, I sit down with recording artist, dancer, model, and certified personal trainer Dallas Grey for a raw conversation about creative discipline, courage, identity death, and what it truly costs to live unconventionally.

This isn’t the aesthetic version of following your dreams.

This is the real version.

We talk about:

1. The moment he realized he wasn’t built for a “normal” life
2. What part of him had to die to become this version of himself
3. Whether talent is overrated (and what actually separates successful artists)
4. The brutal side of success people romanticize on social media
5. What creative discipline looks like on a random Tuesday
6. The boundaries required to protect your vision
7. The mindset behind releasing a documentary
8. Almost quitting (and what stopped him)
9. Toxic traits as a creative
10. Obsession vs. discipline
11. Dating when you’re building something bigger than yourself
12. The wild, unhinged moves he’s made to promote his art and bet on himself

With his documentary dropping this month, Dallas opens up about visibility, legacy, and what he hopes people feel when they watch his story unfold.

This episode is about the psychology of mastery.

The inner drive that refuses to play small.

And the discipline required to become undeniable.

If you’re building something unconventional, your brand, your art, your body, your business, this conversation will hit.

Listen if you’re ready for:

creative discipline

artist mindset

personal branding strategies

visibility confidence

documentary storytelling

dating as an ambitious creative

and the truth about building a name for yourself

This one is bold. Honest. A little unhinged.

Exactly how we like it.

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When It’s “Just Stress”:

Cortisol, Burnout, and Nervous System Regulation with Rachel Mark, Hope (host of I’ll Keep You Wild) sits down with integrative health practitioner Rachel Mark (20+ years in wellness) to talk about what “it’s just stress” actually means inside the body and why that phrase can feel minimizing.

Rachel explains how modern-day chronic stress triggers the same fight-or-flight physiology as a life-threatening chase, leading to symptoms like headaches, body pain, digestive changes, sugar cravings, insomnia (including 3:00 AM wake-ups), low libido, mood shifts, and brain fog. She shares an accessible nervous-system analogy (a boiling pot with a clamped lid) and simple ways to “let the steam out,” like eating breakfast to support blood sugar and cortisol balance, reducing overstimulating inputs, and using grounding and breath practices before stressful environments (like a busy grocery store).

They discuss how prolonged stress can change the natural cortisol curve (high in the morning, lowering at night) into a flipped pattern and eventually a flattened curve associated with burnout, impacting thyroid and reproductive hormones and overall energy, mood, and sleep.

Rachel also clarifies common misunderstandings about hormones emphasizing they are chemical messengers responding to underlying triggers (internal and external), not usually the root driver and notes that cortisol, melatonin, insulin, thyroid hormones, and appetite hormones are part of the broader hormone picture.

They critique trendy “quick fix” wellness claims (like hormone/cortisol detoxes and single-solution supplements) and highlight that lasting change comes from foundational health practices: nourishment, daily movement, nervous system resilience, good sleep, alignment, and connection/community.

00:00 Welcome + Meet Rachel Mark (Integrative Health & Root-Cause Healing)

01:03 “It’s Just Stress” — What Stress Really Does to Your Body

04:25 Letting the Steam Out: Simple Daily Stress-Release Habits

07:43 Body Whispers Before It Screams: Early Signs of Chronic Stress

12:11 Ambitious Women, Hormone Imbalance & Finding the Middle Ground

14:12 Nervous System Regulation: Feeling Safe in Everyday Situations

18:15 Cortisol Curve Explained: From Wired & Tired to Full Burnout

24:13 Hormones 101: The Biggest Misunderstanding + Hidden Stressors

28:01 Stress vs Hormones Rapid Fire (Sleep, Cravings, Libido, Brain Fog)

30:33 Birth Control & Brain Fog: What Might Be Happening

31:32 Wellness Trends That Harm: Detoxes, Quick Fixes & Supplement Hype

33:25 Why Women Are So Burnt Out (35–55): Kids, Careers, Caregiving

35:11 Final Takeaways: The Unsexy Foundations of Real Health

37:31 Where to Find Rachel + Closing, Reviews & Expansion Club

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This episode is a vulnerable, honest, real conversation about what happens when you finally stop running from yourself, even when nothing is technically "wrong".

I’m sharing a very raw moment from my own life a night where I noticed myself wanting to escape. Not because I wasn’t grateful. Not because my life was falling apart. But because things were actually good… and I still felt empty.

I want to talk about what no one else really mentions.

I am deeply grateful for my life. I can see how good I have it. And at the same time, my nervous system felt unsettled, restless, and disconnected. I found myself trying to use gratitude to move out of the moment and to override what I was feeling instead of staying with it.

I wanted to travel impulsively. ( I know myself well enough to know that Mexico and a margarita have been a coping mechanism)

I considered drinking wine I didn’t even like therefor I would have been settling and numbing.

I vegged out with TV that wasn’t doing anything for me.

All these subtle ways of saying: I shouldn’t feel this way let me move past it.

And for the first time, I caught the pattern while it was happening.

Instead of bypassing my emotions with gratitude, distraction, or positive thinking, I chose to stay. I turned off the TV. I didn’t drink. I didn’t run. But I cried ... a lot.. stopped and cried again. I felt. I let myself be with the emptiness without judging it or trying to fix it.

In this episode, we talk about:

1. Why you can feel grateful and empty at the same time
2. How gratitude can quietly become a form of emotional bypassing
3. Why the nervous system resists calm, stability, and “good enough”
4. How self-sabotage shows up as restlessness, impulse, or escape
5. What it actually means to meet yourself exactly where you are
6. How nervous system safety is required to hold more money, love, expansion and your next level

This episode is especially for the woman who:

1. Feels guilty for struggling when her life looks “good” on paper
2. Uses gratitude as a tool but still feels disconnected or empty
3. Is calling in more but doesn’t yet feel safe to hold it
4. Is ready to stop fixing, forcing, and bypassing her inner experience

What I realized that night is this:

When your system has been wired for chaos, peace can feel unfamiliar. And when things are going well, your body may try to recreate movement just to feel familiar again.

The shift didn’t come from gratitude alone.

It came from self-trust.

From letting myself feel without needing to change it. From staying instead of running. From allowing gratitude to coexist with discomfort not cancel it out.

And that’s how I know something is changing.

Because I didn’t run.

If you’ve ever wondered why you feel the urge to sabotage, escape, or create chaos when things are going well this episode will help you understand what’s happening on a nervous system level, and how to begin building the capacity to stay.

Because the moment you stop running…

is usually the moment everything starts to shift.

Thanks for being here :)

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If you’re in a season where everything feels heavier than it should and you’re quietly losing connection to your goals this episode is for you.

This is not a motivational talk or a reminder to think positive. This episode is about real hope. The grounded kind. The kind that still exists when you’re tired disconnected and unsure how to want again without hurting yourself.

In this episode we talk about why hope disappears during dark seasons and why that doesn’t mean you’ve failed. We explore why forcing belief backfires and creates more disconnection especially for ambitious self aware people who have already tried everything. You’ll hear a redefinition of hope that doesn’t require certainty positivity or pretending you’re okay.

This episode is for you if you feel emotionally disconnected from your dreams overwhelmed by expectation or afraid to want again after disappointment. It’s a reminder that numbness is not the end of desire it’s protection. And that real hope isn’t loud or dramatic it’s quiet steady and rooted in staying with yourself.

Inside this episode you’ll hear
Why losing hope is often self protection not giving up
What hope actually is when belief doesn’t feel accessible
Why wanting again can feel unsafe after disappointment
How to stay connected to yourself and your goals without forcing motivation
A grounded reframe that brings safety back to desire

If this episode meets you in a dark moment let it. You don’t need to feel ready or certain. You just need to stay.

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Expansion is not gentle. It is not passive. And it does not happen while you’re standing still.

In this solo episode of I'll Keep You Wild, we explore expansion as a tug of war between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming. Your past identity and your future self are pulling on opposite ends of the rope, and the middle is being slowly worn down. That dark, uncomfortable middle space is not failure. It’s friction. It’s the moment before the rope snaps.

I dive into why growth feels so heavy when you keep feeding both versions of yourself, and why true expansion requires a full-bodied commitment to the future you, even when it feels terrifying, uncertain, and unfamiliar. The unknown is scary because it asks you to release control, safety, and the identity that once kept you alive.

We talk about the grief that comes with saying goodbye to the version of you that got you here, and why honoring that version doesn’t mean taking them with you. Some identities are meant to be thanked, released, and set free. The cutting of the rope is not loss. It’s liberation.

If you’re in the in-between, the liminal space, the place where nothing feels settled and everything feels raw, this episode is for you. Expansion demands your attention, your energy, and your devotion. And whichever identity you feed is the one that wins.

This is an episode about transformation, nervous system expansion, identity shifts, and becoming the version of you that can hold more, be more, and experience what you desire.

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In this episode, I sit down with Lauren Pederson, Miss British Columbia Canada 2025, for an honest conversation about fear, pressure, and mental health advocacy.

Lauren shares the hurdles she faced this year, including navigating public expectations and a frightening experience where she was followed to her car  a moment that reinforced her mission to help make Canada safer for woman and girls.

As a youth advocate, mental health supporter, Child and Youth care student and founder of The Inspire Initiative, Lauren talks about using her platform to uplift young people, support women, and create meaningful community change. We also discuss healthy habits, managing self-doubt, staying authentic under pressure, and what it truly means to feel like yourself.

This episode is full of real girl- talk energy, reflection, and encouragement for anyone navigating confidence, self-worth, personal growth, and mental wellbeing.

Lauren also shares what she’s protecting and continuing to build as she looks ahead to 2026 and her future in counselling psychology and nonprofit work.

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If you’re into personal growth, nervous system healing, manifestation, or mindset work but still feel stuck, unmotivated, or frozen this episode is for you.

This is not a how-to podcast.
You don’t need more information. You already know what to do.

What you might not realize is that what you’ve been calling trusting the timing or integration could actually be your nervous system staying in freeze after disappointment, unmet expectations, or feeling like you failed.

In this personal episode, I share how I recognized that waiting for clarity, safety, or the “right time” wasn’t expanding me, it was protecting me. After things didn’t go as planned, my nervous system stopped feeling safe to desire, to move, or to try again. And instead of addressing that, I tried to do more of a checklist.

If you feel stuck despite having clarity…
If motivation disappeared after things didn’t work out…
If you’re self-aware but still not moving forward…
If you’re tired of doing “all the work” and wondering why nothing’s shifting…

This episode will land.

We talk about nervous system freeze, self-sabotage that doesn’t look like self-sabotage, why knowledge doesn’t equal action, and the truth about why desire shuts down after disappointment.

This is a reminder, not a lesson.
A call-out, not a strategy.

You’re not stuck because you’re incapable.
You’re stuck because your body learned it wasn’t safe to move.

And remembering who the fuck you are is the first step out.

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