What happens when the life you planned suddenly becomes a life you never could have prepared for?

In this deeply personal conversation, Alicia sits down with Sham to talk about marriage, motherhood, caregiving, faith, and what it means to love someone through the unknown.

When her husband received an ALS diagnosis, life changed for their entire family. But this conversation isn't only about adiagnosis. It's about the woman, wife, and mother navigating it alongside him—the adjustments nobody prepares you for, raising three children while carrying uncertainty, protecting your marriage in the middle of change, and still finding room to be you.

Sham opens up about the reality of loving someone through a life-altering diagnosis, the support their family has received, the moments that have challenged her faith, and the intentional choices they make to keep living instead of allowing fear of tomorrow to steal today.

Because sometimes life doesn't go according to plan.

And sometimes love looks like choosing each other right in the middle of the unknown.

In This Episode:

• Marriage after an ALS diagnosis

• Motherhood and raising three children through major life changes

• The emotional reality of becoming a caregiver

• Staying connected as husband and wife when life changes

• Faith when you don't know what comes next

• Accepting help and leaning on your village

• Protecting your own identity while caring for the people you love

• Finding joy while still acknowledging the hard days

• What Sham wants people to understand about her husband and their family

• Choosing to live in the present instead of fearing the future

• The legacy they're building together

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What happens when you’ve become so used to carrying everything that you forget you’re allowed to put something down?

In this solo episode, Alicia gets honest about the invisible weight so many women—especially mothers—carry every day. The planning. The remembering. The responsibilities. The expectations. The worries about tomorrow. The pressure tokeep showing up for everybody while still trying to build something of your own.

From motherhood and marriage to books, business, the podcast, community work, and a mind full of ideas, Alicia shares the question she had to finally ask herself: “Who told you all of this had to happen right now?”

This episode is a reminder that strength isn’t measured by how much you can carry.

Sometimes faith looks like trusting God enough to put something down.

In This Episode:

• The invisible mental load of motherhood

• Why remembering everything can be more exhausting than doing everything

• Carrying tomorrow’s worries and yesterday’s disappointments

• The pressure of having multiple dreams, ideas, and responsibilities

• Why everything important doesn’t have to happen right now

• Learningthat just because you can carry itdoesn’t mean you’re supposed to

• Askingfor help, delegating, resting, and saying no

• Lettinggo of the need to be everything for everybody

• Why rest doesn’t have to be earned

• Choosing grace over performance

• Asking, “What’s actually mine to carry today?”

• Loving your family, doing the next right thing, and trusting God with the rest

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What happens when life keeps breaking your heart—but God keeps showing up anyway?

In this powerful conversation, Alicia sits down with author, nonprofit founder, student, and mother LeTina Williams to discuss her incredible journey through loss, addiction in her family, teen motherhood, divorce, pregnancy loss, mentalillness, grief, and ultimately faith.

Inspired by her book All Is Well, LeTina shares how God's presence remained constant through some of the most difficult chapters of her life.

This episode is a testimony of resilience, healing, and choosing hope when circumstances suggest otherwise.

In This Episode:

• Growing up between grandparents and parents

• Teen motherhood and early marriage

• Pregnancy loss and infertility

• Divorce and rebuilding

• Loving someone with mental illness

• Grief after suicide loss

• Faith through unimaginable seasons

• Mental health advocacy and The Marcus Foundation

• Why "All Is Well" became her message

Disclaimer:

Although it was mentioned that social media was the way I (LeTina) heard from the Lord, I (she) want to clarify and explain a little more in regard to that statement. God speaks to me (her) in various ways starting with the Bible, as well as while in prayer, he also speaks through sermons at my (her) home church, as well as music, however when he wants to confirm his word/message to me (her) sometimes social media reels and posts will be used. Social media should never be used as a primary source to hear from God.

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This episode is more than a conversation—it's a thank you. 💛

Recorded from Alicia's living room couch in Detroit, Alicia sits down with the woman who gave her life, shaped her voice, encouraged her dreams, and planted seeds that would eventually become books, businesses, and a podcast.

Andrea Thompson shares her journey from teen motherhood to single motherhood, nearly 30 years in education, community leadership, entrepreneurship, grief, and thelessons she's learned through every season of life.

Together, mother and daughter reflect on resilience, faith, sacrifice, reinvention, and what it truly means to build a legacy that lives beyond you.

In This Episode:

• Becoming a mother at 15 years old

• Raising three children through difficult seasons

• Life as a single mother

• Nearly 30 years in education

• Community leadership and service

• Entrepreneurship later in life

• Parenting through life's challenges

• Reinvention after the children are grown

• What legacy really means

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Some friendships survive distance, time, career changes, marriage, and motherhood.

This is one of those friendships.

Alicia sits down with longtime friend Lex Lexington to discuss motherhood, military life, marriage, health, content creation, and staying connected through life's changing seasons.

From meeting as coworkers nearly 15 years ago to navigating motherhood in different states, they reflect on friendship, growth, and the realities of balancing family, career, and personal wellness.

In This Episode:

• Long-term friendship

• Military family life

• Marriage since their teenage years

• Raising boys in different seasons

• Motherhood with a toddler and preteen

• Health and weight management

• Content creation

• Balancing service and family

• Growing through distance

• Building legacy through consistency

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We live in a world that celebrates being busy. The more we juggle, the more successful we're supposed to feel.

But what if doing it all is actually keeping us from doing what matters most?

In this honest solo episode, Alicia shares the moment she realized she wasn't called to master everything. From a life-changing corporate buyout decision to learning how to prioritize her peace, she opens up about the freedom that comes from letting go of unrealistic expectations and embracing the season you're actually in.

Because sometimes the most productive thing we can do... is put something down.

In This Episode:

• Why trying to do everything left me exhausted instead of fulfilled
• The planner moment that completely changed my perspective
• The five-day decision that shifted the course of my career
• Why prioritizing isn't quitting—it's wisdom
• How boundaries protect your peace, creativity, andrelationships
• Learning to ask, "What matters right now?"
• Why building a legacy sometimes means saying "notyet"

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Some women make success look easy.

This episode reminds us it isn't.

Alicia sits down with one of her closest friends of nearly 20 years, Michelle—a social worker, university leader, entrepreneur, and mom of three boys, two of whom areon the autism spectrum.

Together, they unpack motherhood, grief, leadership, friendship, special needs parenting, and what it means to keep climbing while carrying responsibilities most peoplenever see.

This conversation is honest, funny, healing, and deeply relatable for any woman balancing multiple roles while trying not to lose herself in the process.

In This Episode:

• Parenting children on the autism spectrum

• Leadership and higher education

• Losing both parents at a young age

• Grief and motherhood

• Women in leadership

• Friendship across distance and time

• Raising boys with intention

• Entrepreneurship and purpose

• Faith through difficult seasons

• Building legacy while carrying responsibility

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Sometimes the most meaningful thing you can say... isn't much at all.

After losing her son, Isaac, Alicia experienced firsthand the well-meaning comments that unintentionally hurt more than they helped.

In this deeply personal solo episode, she shares what grieving people actually need, why we often feelpressured to "fix" someone else's pain, and how simple presence can be the greatest gift we offer.

Whether you've experienced loss yourself or want to better support someone who has, this conversation is a gentle reminder that you don't have to have the perfectwords—you just have to be willing to stay.

In This Episode:

• Why grief makes so many people uncomfortable

• The comments that are often well-intended but deeply painful

• What grieving parents and families actually need most

• The power of remembering and saying a loved one's name

• Why showing up months later matters just as much as the first week

• How to replace pressure with presence when someone is hurting

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Some women survive hard things quietly — and still find a way to build beautiful lives afterward.

In this deeply moving episode, Alicia sits down with longtime friend Lunden for a conversation about healing after domestic violence, navigating fertility challenges, pregnancy loss, motherhood, real estate, and continuing to build even during uncertain seasons.

From writing her book Run Sis: Memoirs of a brokenwoman by L.M. Reid to becoming a wife, mother, property owner, and visionary builder, Lunden’s story is a powerful reminder that healing and growth can exist at the same time.

Topics covered:

• Surviving domestic violence and reclaiming identity

• Writing Run Sis and sharing painful truths publicly

• Healing into healthy love and marriage

• Fertility challenges and being told motherhood may not happen

• Pregnancy loss and navigating grief

• Becoming a mother after uncertainty

• Building stability through real estate ownership

• Fixer-upper life lessons and rebuilding from the inside out

• Faith, patience, and trusting divine timing

• Continuing to build while waiting for life to shift

😂 Plus: Alicia and Lunden revisit their Rock Connections friendship origin story and concert obsession during “Let’sGet Petty.”

💛 Favorite Reminder from This Episode:

“You’re still allowed to build while you wait.”

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Gentle parenting sounds beautiful… until you realize you’re learning emotional regulation right alongside your kids. 😅

In this funny, healing, and deeply relatable solo episode, Alicia talks about navigating triggers, overstimulation, motherhood stress, and emotional regulation in real time.

From Daniel Tiger songs and toddler tantrums to healing childhood wounds and learning healthier communication as adults, this episode is a reminder that emotional growth is lifelong work.

Because sometimes the “big emotions” aren’t really about the spilled milk—they're about everything underneath it.

Topics covered:

• Gentle parenting in real life

• Emotional regulation for both kids and adults

• Navigating overstimulation and triggers

• Healing generational emotional patterns

• Learning emotional literacy as adults

• Why silence can sometimes be a healthy boundary

• Parenting while actively healing yourself

• Apologizing to your children and modeling accountability

• Therapy, prayer, and self-awareness in motherhood

• Learning to pause instead of react

😂 Includes real-life Alicia moments featuring Daniel Tiger songs along with "Jesus Will Fix It" and surviving motherhood one deep breath at a time.

💛 Favorite Reminder from This Episode:

“We’re all still learning to smell the flowers and blow the bubble.”

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