My Inner Mind

Welcome to My Inner Mind.

If you’ve been here for a while, you may know this podcast as My Sister’s Closet. That isn’t going away. Instead, it’s becoming a piece of something bigger.

In this episode, Hallie officially introduces My Inner Mind and talks about why the podcast needed room to grow beyond relationships, dating, and the messy things we tend to tuck away.

My Inner Mind is about the thoughts we carry, the things we’re working through, the parts of ourselves we’re still figuring out, and the little moments that make us stop and think.

We’ll talk about loneliness, friendship, starting over, confidence, money, feeling stuck, changing your mind, learning how to be alone, letting people in, and all the completely ridiculous and very real things that happen in between.

Hallie also shares what she’s been building behind the scenes: the My Inner Mind app, community, Set It Down walks, events, and the bigger idea of creating a place where people can connect with each other instead of simply listening from the other side of a microphone.

And maybe the biggest question to take away from this episode is:

What have you outgrown that you haven’t admitted to yourself yet?

You’re allowed to change your mind about your life. You’re allowed to realize something isn’t working anymore. And you’re allowed to want something different.

Welcome to My Inner Mind. We’re just getting started.

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Welcome back to The Other Side of Sisterhood, a My Sister’s Closet series. We have spent this whole series talking about what sisterhood is not. Today we flip it. What does real sisterhood actually look like?

This is the episode I have been building toward. I bring in real Reddit comments from people describing what healthy friendship actually feels like, back it up with research on co-regulation, vulnerability, and what psychologists call capitalization, and get honest about what it means to finally have the kind of sisterhood that feels like home.

Because here is the thing. Sisterhood is not just the absence of the bad stuff we talked about in this series. It is something you actually have to practice. It is safety. It is honesty rooted in love. It is accountability that goes both ways. And it is genuinely celebrating the people around you when they win.

This one is the payoff episode. I hope it lands for you the way it landed for me making it.

In this episode I cover: • What it actually feels like to be safe in a friendship • The research behind co-regulation and why real sisterhood calms your nervous system • Why how someone responds to your good news matters more than you think • What repair looks like when both people show up for it • The kind of sister I am still learning to be

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After a whole series on what sisterhood is not, Hallie flips it. Four things real sisterhood is built on: safety, honesty, accountability, and celebration, backed by research on co-regulation and connection.

The final episode of the “What Sisterhood Is Not” series flips the question: what IS real sisterhood?

Boundaries without honesty become walls. Honesty without boundaries becomes cruelty. Hallie breaks down why real sisterhood needs both, with research on relational aggression and vulnerability.

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Episode 4 explores the balance between boundaries and honesty in friendship.

Not every fight looks like a fight. Hallie breaks down the silent treatment, scorekeeping, and loyalty tests, the sideways ways women fight in friendships instead of speaking up directly.

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Episode 2 of the “What Sisterhood Is Not” series looks at emotional intelligence when it’s used against you instead of for you.

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Discussion prompt: Has someone ever used your tone to avoid the actual issue? How did you handle it?

Failure isn’t something we usually celebrate—but maybe we should.

In this episode, I’m sharing one of the most humbling moments of my life: planning an event that almost no one attended. At the time, I thought it meant I wasn’t capable. Looking back, I realize it became one of the experiences that taught me the most.

We talk about giving ourselves grace, learning from mistakes, overcoming the fear of trying again, and why success isn’t built without failure first.

If you’ve ever felt embarrassed, discouraged, or like you weren’t enough because something didn’t work out, this conversation is for you.

💜 I’d love to hear from you:

What’s one failure that taught you something you’ll never forget? Leave a comment below or send me a DM.

If this episode encouraged you, don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share it with someone who needs the reminder that failure isn’t the end—it’s often the beginning.

Chapters

00:00 – A recent failure inspired this episode

01:20 – Why failure feels so personal

02:00 – The event that almost no one attended

05:40 – What I believed afterward

06:40 – Choosing to try again

08:00 – Are you playing it too safe?

09:45 – Divorce, expectations, and redefining failure

12:00 – Learning to give yourself grace

14:30 – The danger of assumptions

16:00 – Why this might be my winning season

17:00 – What failure is teaching me now

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This one is short and sweet. I stopped by the closet to share something that felt too good not to say out loud. Things are starting to connect, my health, my vision, my creative direction, and it feels like I can finally see the roadmap. I also got into something that genuinely blew my mind from 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think about how we assume everyone sees the world the way we do, and how that is just simply not true. Come sit with me for a few minutes. It felt like a good day and I wanted to share it with you.

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**Show Notes:**

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