What happens when an eye surgeon is asked to trust what she can't see?

A Jamaican American doctor navigating the space between Western medicine, ancestral healing, and the intuitive knowing she was taught to distrust.

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There's a room in my house I still don't fully walk into. This episode is about what happens when grief and rage stop being problems to manage and become the way through — and the night on a floor in Costa Rica where I finally came apart enough to let something in.

Exploring emergence, plant medicine, epigenetics, and why the nest was never the destination.

Ida grew up in Iran before the revolution changed everything — freedom, identity, a future in competitive swimming, gone overnight. She came to the U.S. and built a career in male-dominated rooms in a field that never holds still. What happens when a life shaped by upheaval meets a career that demands constant reinvention?

An Iranian American woman's journey from pre-revolution Iran to engineering and tech leadership in the U.S. — navigating displacement, identity, male-dominated rooms, and an industry that demands you keep learning or fall behind. A conversation about what upheaval teaches you, what freedom costs, and what it means to watch your homeland from a distance. Recorded before the U.S. entered a war with Iran.

A park in Brooklyn. A guidance counselor's office. A meeting room where something is off but you can't quite name it. This episode explores imposed scripts — what arrives without your consent, how it starts to sound like your own thinking, and what remains yours no matter how many times someone has tried to tell you otherwise.

A solo episode on imposed scripts — the narratives placed on you by systems, institutions, and people who decided who you were without asking. How these scripts arrive, how they disguise themselves, and how they settle in the body. An invitation to access what no imposition has been able to take.

Teri learned poker at 12 from her grandmother — patience, strategy, knowing when to fold. Decades later, those same skills shaped how she navigated corporate America and a political evolution she never saw coming. But beneath the poker face is a Japanese American woman reckoning with prison camps, cultural silence, and the question of when endurance becomes a script.

Japanese American identity, intergenerational memory, and what emerges when a woman taught to endure chooses to speak — in letters, at a protest, and in this conversation.

A Black Honda Accord, a teacher's salary, and the script that said ownership equals freedom. What happens when the milestones you were supposed to want start weighing more than they give? This episode explores inherited scripts — where they come from, why they're hard to see, and what becomes possible when you do.

The Season 2 premiere of Self-Centered Living. What happens when a woman sits with what she absorbed — from family, culture, and custom — before she had the language to question it.

Season 2 opens with a family gathering, a familiar feeling, and two questions I've been carrying my whole life. New season. New territory.

A solo episode on the expectations carried from family, culture, and community — handed down with love and received without question. What it takes to see them, and what it costs to keep carrying them.

Nine women across cultures and continents. What their stories revealed about centering yourself — not as an act of selfishness, but as the ground everything else grows from. A Season 1 closing that is also a beginning.

A solo episode weaving together the threads of Season 1 — the seven principles of Self-Centered Living, an expansive definition of who this work centers, and what emerged when each guest chose her own voice over the scripts she was handed. The difference between narrating from a wound and offering wisdom forged from it.

Evey was the student who got it right — head girl, Ivy League, the path everyone around her validated. But somewhere inside the pressure cooker, a question surfaced that none of those achievements could answer.

A young Hong Kong woman navigating cultural expectations, international student pressures, mental health, and the difference between the life you were shaped for and the one you're choosing. A conversation still in formation.

In Louisiana, there are trees that root in the middle of the swamp — no solid ground, just water. MawuLisa has been doing the same thing her whole life. From a Jehovah's Witness childhood to somatic healing, Orisha priesthood, and a commitment to resourcing liberation warriors — this is a woman who finds her ground wherever she stands.

A conversation spanning spiritual lineage, embodied healing, ancestral veneration, and the African and Indigenous roots of practices the Western wellness world rarely credits. What it means to trust your own knowing.