In this episode, Ameera explores expansion that feels like ease with transformational coach, author, and educator Tabatha DeBruyn. With nearly three decades in human transformation and certifications spanning transformational coaching, rapid transformational hypnotherapy, Reiki, energy healing, and 9D breathwork - Tabatha shares how breath, energy, and self-concept weave together to regulate the nervous system, align identity with action, and create results without the grind. She opens up about her own passage through functional depression and grief, how somatic and 9D breathwork restored peace and clarity, and simple practices any woman can use to feel lighter, grounded, and magnetic in life, career, and business.

Listen For

• What “aligned” actually feels like in the body: home, peace, truth, versus anxiety, forcing, and ego-driven striving
• Why breath first, then psychology, then action flips the results you get (and builds self-trust and presence)
• The physiological sigh (inhale 60% through the nose + a second sip of air → sigh out) to dump CO₂, shift out of fight/flight, and reset fast
• Nasal vs. mouth breathing: when to use each for calming, focus, sleep, or energizing before a big meeting
• Two core calming rhythms: longer exhale breathing and 4–2–7 (inhale 4, hold 2, exhale 7) for parasympathetic regulation and sleep support
• Micro-rituals for high achievers who “hold their breath” while working and how to notice and change state in seconds
• Kid-friendly regulation you can model at home: “stomp, stomp, blow out the candles,” bedtime breathing, and using the word breath in everyday moments
• Inside 9D breathwork: soundscapes, binaural beats, frequencies, NLP/affirmations + breath to re-pattern and access deeper healing

About Tabatha DeBruyn

Tabatha is a Transformational Breath Master and one of the few certified 9D Breathwork practitioners in Canada. She specializes in nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and stress recovery, helping adults, teens, and children move through anxiety, burnout, grief, trauma, and overwhelm using science-backed breathwork rooted in breath, sound, and somatic practices.

Based in Virgil, Ontario, she supports clients in person and online, partners with local organizations, and leads private, group, and corporate wellness sessions focused on reducing stress and improving mental well-being.

Recently featured on CP24 Breakfast and 610 AM Radio, Tabatha is known for her grounded, compassionate approach that blends modern science with embodied healing to help people feel safer, clearer, and more empowered.

Connect With Tabatha

• Website: https: www.tabatha.online
• Social: @tabatha_debruyn
• 3 Free tools: tabatha.myflodesk.com

Connect With Ameera

Website: www.ameeravirani.com
Instagram: @ameera.virani
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ameeravirani/

Complimentary Workshop: https://visione

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The Designed Life with Ameera Virani and all associated content is intended for general informational, educational, and inspirational purposes only. The insights shared on this podcast, as well as any linked resources or materials, are not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This podcast is not intended to replace the guidance of a licensed therapist, medical professional, financial advisor, or other qualified professionals. Always seek the advice of your personal support team.

AI can feel overwhelming, overhyped, or even a little threatening, especially if you’re a solopreneur or small business owner already wearing all the hats.

In this episode of The Designed Life, Ameera sits down with strategist, speaker, and human-first AI consultant Monique Bryan to reframe AI as a powerful partner in your business, not a replacement for your creativity.

Monique breaks down how to think strategically about AI, where it can actually create ease and efficiency, and what it looks like to treat AI like a marketing team in your pocket. You’ll hear how her journey from fashion and startups to personal branding and AI strategy has shaped the way she helps entrepreneurs future-proof their business while staying deeply authentic and human.

Together, they explore how to design a smarter, simpler business that’s aligned with your values, your voice, and the life you actually want to lead.

In this episode, we explore:

• Monique’s early story and how curiosity, creativity, and experimentation led her into branding and AI
• Why most businesses are “doing AI backwards”  and what to focus on instead of chasing tools
• The signs your business is ready for AI and where solopreneurs should start
• How to use AI as your marketing team and what a Marketing Avatar really is
• Scaling your reach with AI without losing authenticity, nuance, or your brand voice
• What “human-first AI” means in practice and how to keep your creativity at the center
• The real risks of ignoring AI  and why entrepreneurs actually have an advantage
• The skills that will matter most as AI evolves and how to future-proof your work
• Simple, low-lift ways to start experimenting with AI this week

Connect with Monique

• Website: moniquebryan.com
• Instagram: @moniquebryan_co

If this conversation helps you see AI with more curiosity than fear, share this episode with a friend, subscribe, and leave a review so we can reach more visionary women designing lives and businesses that feel beautifully, intelligently aligned.

Connect With Ameera

Website: www.ameeravirani.com
Instagram: @ameera.virani
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ameeravirani/

Complimentary Upcoming Workshop: https://visioneering.showit.site/

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In this richly layered conversation, Ameera explores the path to purpose with Carrigan Ham, founder of Inner Alchemy. Carrigan shares how life’s breakdowns become portals to embodiment through a four‑phase alchemical journey, breakdown, purification, illumination, and embodiment; and why devotion, not “burning it all down,” creates sustainable change. From shadow work to somatic tools like EFT/tapping and breathwork, Carrigan offers practical ways high‑achieving women can move from autopilot to alignment in the midst of real life (kids, careers, responsibilities) and feel results fast.

Listen For

• The four phases of modern alchemy and how the cycle repeats at macro and micro levels in our lives.
• Why self‑nourishment and compassion during breakdowns are required to move forward (even when it’s the last thing you want to do).
• Shadow work, explained: illuminating the unconscious (denied/repressed parts) to become more whole.
• Somatic transformation: pairing mindset with body‑based practices so change “lands” in the nervous system.
• EFT/tapping 101: how tapping meridian points while naming a fear/belief resets your state.
• Purpose as an ever‑becoming: encoded within you, refined by choices, challenges, and season.
• Why you don’t need to burn your life down to evolve; how to discern what still aligns with your soul.
• Everyday devotion: Olympic‑level training for the mind, body, and spirit done in practical, bite‑size rituals.
• Gentle on‑ramps for busy women: add nourishment (greens, hydration, walks) before removing habits.
• A whimsical daily ritual: singing to your water as an intention practice and nature connection.

About Carrigan Ham

Carrigan is an artist, teacher, and creator of Inner Alchemy, a holistic approach to purpose through the mind, body, and soul. After navigating early life trauma and discovering the healing intelligence of the body, she’s devoted her work to guiding others through alchemical cycles—so the inner work manifests as outer alignment.

Connect With Carrigan

• Instagram: @withinneralchemy
• Website: withinneralchemy.com

Connect With Ameera

Website: www.ameeravirani.com
Instagram: @ameera.virani
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ameeravirani/

Complimentary Upcoming Workshop: https://visioneering.showit.site/

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The Designed Life with Ameera Virani and all associated content is intended for general informational, educational, and inspirational purposes only. The insights shared on this podcast, as well as any linked resources or materials, are not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This podcast is not intended to replace the guidance of a licensed therapist, medical professional, financial advisor, or other qualified professionals. Always seek the advice of your personal support team.

In this intimate solo episode, Ameera shares the pivotal moments that led her from a “picture-perfect” life into a health crisis, and ultimately into a deeper, more aligned way of living and leading. From a misdiagnosis that accidentally saved her, to unravelling childhood grief and fear, to rebuilding nervous system safety and self-trust, Ameera walks through the exact inner work that helped her rewrite her life. She now uses that same Aligned Success & Freedom Framework with the women she mentors so they can design and experience lives and businesses by intention not by default.

What You’ll Hear

• The misdiagnosis that became a turning point
• How chronic burnout + unprocessed loss fed a cycle of fear around illness and death.
• Returning to roots in personal development and actually living the work.
• Practical mindset shifts: questioning catastrophic thoughts, choosing solution-focused beliefs.
• Building nervous system safety and self-trust; why symptoms can become “messages.”
• Grieving her brother’s passing and the role of aligned therapy and spiritual curiosity.
• Creating the Clarity → Alignment → Action framework and using it to navigate the path between job loss and entrepreneurship.
• Choosing alignment over certainty: paying down debt, going all-in on business, and mentoring women leaders.

Complimentary Workshop — Visioneering 

Design your next chapter with clarity and confidence in this 90‑minute guided experience. Get clear on what you truly want, align it with your values and beliefs, and map inspired action.
Register here: https://visioneering.showit.site/

Loved this episode? Share it with a friend who’s ready for a rewrite, and leave a review so more women can discover The Designed Life. For coaching and mentorship inquiries, visit www.ameeravirani.com or DM @ameera.virani.

Connect With Ameera

Website: www.ameeravirani.com
Instagram: @ameera.virani
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ameeravirani/

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In this deeply inspiring conversation, Ameera sits down with Jen Szpigiel, the visionary founder and CEO of Becoming Iconic to explore what it truly means to design & lead a life and business with clarity, courage & intention.

For nearly two decades, Jen has been redefining what success and leadership look like for women through her globally recognized brand that spans a boutique agency, iconic magazine, top-ranked podcast & mentorship programs that help women rise in business and life without sacrificing themselves in the process.

Ameera and Jen dive into the art of living and leading with grace,  discussing how intentionality, radical self-responsibility & gratitude shape the foundation of an extraordinary life.

Whether you’re building a business, leading a family, or simply ready to step into your next level with conviction, this episode will invigorate your spirit & expand your vision of what’s possible.

You’ll Hear:

• The meaning of an iconic life & how gratitude, intentionality & inner peace create true wealth and fulfillment

• The practice of “obsessive gratitude” & why it’s the energetic key to abundance

• The truth about leadership in the online space & how to lead yourself with integrity 

• Why radical personal responsibility is freedom and how to stop blaming or justifying & reclaim your power

• The courage to invest in yourself & the emotional story behind Jen’s $100K debt-to-$100K month transformation

• What it really means to build a legacy & lead from feminine excellence 

About Jen Szpigiel

Jen is the Founder of Becoming Iconic and the Founder and Editor in Chief of Iconic Magazine as well as a mom of four.

Jen has helped thousands of women worldwide build successful businesses, resulting in over $100 million in sales through her full service brand that incorporates mentorship and done-for-you creative services.

In 2022, after losing her social media, Jen launched Iconic Magazine alongside her top 100 podcast, the Iconic Podcast. This bold move transformed into a globally recognized media powerhouse. Often described as Forbes meets Vogue, the magazine has garnered over ten million impressions and reached 48+ countries. Now an established media company, Iconic Magazine provides a triple-threat PR opportunity for visionary women looking to be seen, heard and remembered.

Links:

ICONic Capsule: https://becomingiconic.myflodesk.com/iconiccapsule

Digital Copy of Magazine: https://becomingiconic.co/magazine

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/becomingiconic/

Website: https://becomingiconic.co/

Connect With Ameera

Website: www.ameeravirani.com
Instagram: @ameera.virani

Visioneering- a complimentary workshop where your vision, values, beliefs and goals align for greater success and impact. 

Disclaimer

The Designed Life with Ameera Virani and all associated content is intended for general informational, educational, and inspirational purposes only. The insights shared on this podcast, as well as any linked resources or materials, are not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This podcast is not intended to replace the guidance of a licensed therapist, medical professional, financial advisor, or other qualified professionals. Always seek the advice of your personal support team.

In this episode, Ameera takes you into one of the most foundational practices in conscious creation, visualization -and shows how seeing your desires in vivid detail can powerfully shape your reality.

Ameera shares the personal story behind how this very podcast once lived on her vision board, and how consistent visualization, combined with aligned action, helped turn that dream into one of the top entrepreneurship podcasts in the world, just one month after launch.

You’ll also discover:
-Why visualization works through the Reticular Activating System (RAS), the brain’s natural filter for opportunities and focus
-The difference between dreaming and embodying your vision
-The most powerful times of day to visualize for maximum impact
-How to create a sacred ritual around your visualization practice
-Practical steps: writing your vision script, recording it in your own voice, and activating it through your senses

Ameera also invites you to explore how this work comes to life inside The Designed Life Mentorship, her upcoming group program launching this December, where vision meets aligned action to create real transformation.

Episode Highlights

• The science of visualization and how your brain supports your dreams
• How focusing on what you want instead of what you don’t want changes everything
• Real-life examples from Ameera’s own journey and her clients’ breakthroughs
• Step-by-step guidance to begin your visualization practice tonight
• Journaling prompts and rituals to deepen your connection to your desires

Your Designed Life Invitation

Begin today! Choose one desire, something that feels inspired and sits on your heart, a positive dream or idea that won’t leave you and bring it to life through visualization, journaling, and aligned action.

If you’re curious about how to integrate these practices into your everyday living, connect with Ameera:

Website: www.ameeravirani.com
Instagram: @ameera.virani
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ameeravirani/

Join our online community and be among the first to hear about The Designed Life Group Mentorship Program (coming soon in December!) https://ameeravirani.myflodesk.com/thedesignedlifeweekly

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Disclaimer

The Designed Life with Ameera Virani and all associated content is intended for general informational, educational, and inspirational purposes only. The insights shared on this podcast, as well as any linked resources or materials, are not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This podcast is not intended to replace the guidance of a licensed therapist, medical professional, financial advisor, or other qualified professionals. Always seek the advice of your personal support team.

In this rich, soul-meets-science conversation, Ameera sits down with Robina Abramson-Walling, founder of Route of Healing. A registered holistic nurse, athlete, life coach, and energy practitioner, Robina guides women through the hormonal, emotional, and energetic shifts of perimenopause, burnout, and leadership. She shares her personal passage through depression and perimenopause, the practices that helped her heal, and a framework any woman can use to rebuild regulation, vitality, and self-trust, without sacrificing her ambition.

Listen For

• How to discern burnout vs. perimenopause vs. depression and where to start when it’s unclear
• The “micro-rituals” that calm the nervous system in two minutes or less
• Robina’s five levels of healing 
• Repatterning beliefs so your nervous system feels safe to hold more success, wealth, and joy
• A values-aligned approach to HRT, supplements, and ‘what’s trending’, how to get curious, not overwhelmed
• How regulated women lead at work and at home and why this is a legacy conversation

About Robina Abramson-Walling

Robina is the visionary behind Root of Healing, weaving together holistic nursing, athletic training, life coaching, and energy medicine. Her work helps high-achieving women regulate their nervous systems, move through perimenopause and burnout, and return to deep self-trust so they can lead with clarity at home and at work.

Connect With Robina

Website: routeofhealing.com
Instagram: RouteOfHealing

Connect With Ameera

Website: www.ameeravirani.com
Instagram: @ameera.virani
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ameeravirani/

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The Designed Life with Ameera Virani and all associated content is intended for general informational, educational, and inspirational purposes only. The insights shared on this podcast, as well as any linked resources or materials, are not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This podcast is not intended to replace the guidance of a licensed therapist, medical professional, financial advisor, or other qualified professionals. Always seek the advice of your personal support team.

In this episode of The Designed Life, Ameera sits down with Ashley MacIsaac Butler, founder of Saorsa Essentials, to explore how high-achieving women can stop fragmenting themselves and begin leading from wholeness at home, at work, and within. Ashley shares her journey from corporate advocacy and inclusion work to answering a deeper call: guiding women to remember who they were before the world told them who to be.

Together, we unpack what it really means to tune into intuition (your “inner BFF”), create simple rituals that regulate the nervous system, heal limiting beliefs and ancestral patterns, and integrate your gifts, without breaking down a life you’ve worked hard to build. This is a gentle, grounded conversation that’s spiritually uplifting and incredibly practical.

Highlights:

• What the “3D world” means, and why understanding it helps you lead with more peace and clarity
• How to hear your intuition vs. fear/ego
• The cost of code-switching and how to bring all parts of you into work, family, and leadership
• Simple, powerful rituals for regulation and renewal 
• Frequency: why doing what lights you up (art, music, movement) elevates results in every area of life
• Integrating feminine flow with masculine action for calm, decisive leadership
• Practical first steps if you feel “successful but unfulfilled” and want alignment 

Connect with Ashley MacIsaac Butler (Saorsa Essentials)

Website: https://www.saorsaessentials.ca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleymacisaacbutler

Connect With Ameera

Website: www.ameeravirani.com
Instagram: @ameera.virani
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameeravirani/

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The Designed Life with Ameera Virani and all associated content is intended for general informational, educational, and inspirational purposes only. The insights shared on this podcast, as well as any linked resources or materials, are not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This podcast is not intended to replace the guidance of a licensed therapist, medical professional, financial advisor, or other qualified professionals. Always seek the advice of your personal support team.

I love SMART goals and believe they have their place, but if you’ve ever set them and still felt stuck, misaligned, or wonder why you make a little progress and then slip into old habits, you’re not alone. In this episode of The Designed Life, we go beyond rigid frameworks to uncover what really makes goals achievable, inspiring, and sustainable: alignment with your values and beliefs.

I’ll walk you through:

• How to identify what you truly want and reverse engineer big goals into milestones that feel doable.
• Why your nervous system struggles with “big, far-off goals” and how to anchor into daily aligned action instead.
• The difference between a value and a belief, with examples to help you spot hidden misalignments.
• My personal story of paying off over six figures of debt, and the energy shift that happened when I reframed money as neutral energy instead of good/bad 
• How values-aligned goals don’t just get achieved, they pull you forward into the life, career, and business you were meant for.

By the end of this episode, you’ll have a new way to design your goals so they feel congruent, energizing, and achievable.

Resources & Next Steps:

• Join the waitlist for my free workshop in November 2025, Visioneering: Step beyond goals into the architecture of your designed life. → https://ameeravirani.myflodesk.com/visioneering
• Sign up for my weekly publication and receive a gift from me, The Goal Design Template → https://ameeravirani.myflodesk.com/goalsdownloadable

Connect With Ameera:

Website: www.ameeravirani.com
Instagram: @ameera.virani
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameeravirani/

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The Designed Life with Ameera Virani and all associated content is intended for general informational, educational, and inspirational purposes only. The insights shared on this podcast, as well as any linked resources or materials, are not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This podcast is not intended to replace the guidance of a licensed therapist, medical professional, financial advisor, or other qualified professionals. Always seek the advice of your personal support team.

In this episode of The Designed Life, Ameera sits down with Kelsey Hogan, founder of Claimed & Co., to explore what it truly means to design a life you love as a woman, mom, and CEO.

Kelsey shares her journey of gaining clarity on her vision, the pillars guiding her life in this season, and how her past experiences continue to shape her identity and mission. Together, we dive into the deeper layers of leadership, personal branding, time freedom, and what it looks like to claim abundance and legacy on your own terms.

Kelsey also shares an exciting sneak peek of her soon-to-launch Legacy Society, a powerful evolution of her InnerCircle coaching program, where women are supported to build beyond 'small,' making impact, creating legacies, and establishing generational wealth.

Topics We Cover:

• How Kelsey found clarity in her vision and values
• The pillars she’s prioritizing most right now
• The role of leadership as a CEO and a mom
• Redefining time freedom and creating spaciousness
• Owning your authority through personal branding
• How women can step into legacy and generational wealth

Connect with Kelsey Hogan:

Website: www.claimedandco.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/claimedandco

TikTok: @kels_at_claimed

Connect With Ameera:

Website: www.ameeravirani.com

Instagram: @ameera.virani

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameeravirani/

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The Designed Life with Ameera Virani and all associated content is intended for general informational, educational, and inspirational purposes only. The insights shared on this podcast, as well as any linked resources or materials, are not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This podcast is not intended to replace the guidance of a licensed therapist, medical professional, financial advisor, or other qualified professionals. Always seek the advice of your personal support team.