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  • Why Does This Keep Happening to Me? What Past Lives Reveal About Your Patterns, Fears, and Pain

    What if the anxiety, the self-sabotage, or the chronic pain you’ve been carrying isn’t a flaw in your character but a message from your subconscious mind waiting to be heard? In this episode of The Expansion Room, I sit down with Craig Meriwether, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Medical Hypnosis Specialist, and author of the Past Life Guidebook, for a conversation that goes beneath the surface of traditional healing.

    In this episode, we explore:

    • Why unresolved emotional pain lives below conscious awareness

    • How hypnotherapy accesses the subconscious to create real, lasting change

    • The truth about past life regression and what it can heal

    • The connection between your nervous system, your history, and your body’s symptoms

    • Why spiritual hypnotherapy goes deeper than traditional approaches

    • Practical tools to begin working with your subconscious mind today

    This is healing at the root.

    Craig Meriwether is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Medical Hypnosis Specialist, helping people eliminate the negative emotions and limiting beliefs that may be keeping them from reaching their full potential. Find out more at https://ReleaseThePast.com

    Craig is also founder of Sacred Mystery, hypnotherapy for spiritual healing helping people transform with past life regression therapy, spirit world regression, and connection with their spirit guides and ancestors through private virtual sessions, group virtual sessions, workshops, and retreats.

    He also recently released the Past Lives Guidebook about the science and spirituality of past life regression therapy.

    Find out more about spiritual hypnotherapy at https://SacredMysteryHypnotherapy.com

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    57 min
  • Why Can’t I Stop Shopping? The Truth Behind Hoarding, Returning, and People-Pleasing Spending

    Why can't I stop shopping? If you shop to cope, to hold on, to undo a purchase, or to keep someone happy, this episode names the compulsive shopping pattern you may be living in and shows you how to get unstuck.

    Financial coach and financial therapist Carrie Rattle of Behavioral Cents joins transformational coach Shervon Laurice to break down three types of compulsive spending: the collector who hoards, the bulimic shopper who buys and returns, and the codependent shopper who spends to earn love. Carrie shares how she helps women build money confidence and money peace by changing money behaviors. Shervon shares how a transformational coach works with the nervous system and identity patterns underneath emotional spending.

    You'll learn why compulsive spending is a nervous system strategy and not a character flaw, how the buy, regret, return loop keeps repeating, a 60 second Sovereignty Shift you can use before your next purchase, and one simple action to interrupt the urge. Whether you struggle with shopping addiction, retail therapy, or people-pleasing spending, this conversation will help you shift your money mindset from shame to awareness.

    Pre-order Carrie's book To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Over shop and How to Stop https://behavioralcents.com.

    CHAPTERS:

    0:00 Hook: Retail Therapy or Relapse?

    1:21 Meet Carrie Rattle: Plan A, Plan B, and the 82 Cents Wake-Up Call

    4:21 Why Compulsive Shopping Is a Survival Strategy, Not About the Stuff

    8:49 Type 1: The Collector Shopper and the Joy of the Hunt

    15:18 What Collecting Says About Self-Worth and the Scarcity Wound

    18:55 Type 2: The Bulimic Shopper (Buy, Return, Repeat)

    20:51 Shopping to Lift Your Mood: Depression, Menopause, and the Dopamine High

    22:41 The “Responsible Shopper” Story and the Hidden Hours of Returning

    25:39 Catch the Urge: Breath, Awareness, and Your Body’s Early Warning System

    29:26 Type 3: The Codependent Shopper (Gifting for Love and Affection)

    35:47 Which Type Is Most Common, and Why Stores Are Limiting Returns

    38:29 Shopping From Anxiety: Real Client Stories

    40:25 How to Slow Down: Unsubscribe, Phone Out of the Bedroom, and Five Easy Alternatives

    43:57 Catch It at the Urge: Your Body’s Thunderstorm Warning

    45:15 Where to Find Carrie and Her Book

    47:58 Closing

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    #moneymindset

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    #financialtherapy

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    50 min
  • The Excavation of Self: Digging Beneath Decades of Invisibility to Find the Real You

    Getting unstuck rarely starts with new information, it starts with excavation. In this episode of The Expansion Room, Shervon Laurice sits down with Kristen Crabtree, author of Be the You That's More You Than You've Ever Been, to unpack 52 years of forgetting who she was, including 22 years inside a psychologically abusive marriage, and how she rebuilt her identity one buried layer at a time.

    Kristen is the creator of Paramour Paradox, a self-recovery framework built from lived experience rather than theory, and the originator of "the live dig," a practice that uses ordinary objects, arranged almost artistically, to help someone reconnect with their true self faster than words alone ever could. This conversation explores identity recovery, midlife reinvention, nervous system alignment, and why Kristen believes transformation does not have to wait for someday.

    Shervon also breaks down the ELEVATE micro-tool "Decision Is a Frequency," showing how Kristen's idea of collapsing timelines through alignment mirrors the exact mechanism behind sustainable, embodied change.

    If you have spent decades being the steady, dependable one and quietly wondered where you went, this episode is your invitation to finally look.

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    Get Kristen’s book “Be the You That's More You Than You've Ever Been” here: https://www.paramourparadox.com/pages/start-your-dig

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    CHAPTERS:

    00:00 Hook: Steady, Dependable, and Invisible

    00:40 Meet Kristen Crabtree

    01:56 Before She Knew Herself: The Story

    04:30 The Bathroom Floor Moment: The Bear and the Abyss

    06:51 Hitting Pause on the Story: Dr. Joe Dispenza

    09:11 The 1999 Book She Forgot She Wrote

    10:55 What Is the Live Dig?

    11:26 How a Last-Minute Book Signing Became 300+ Digs

    17:37 Your True Self or Your Web: What Surfaces

    20:01 Memory Is a Reconstruction: The Story That Wasn't True

    23:53 The Framework: Archaeologist, Excavation, Integration

    27:13 Time Is a Construct: Be Your Future Self Now

    29:26 Decision Is a Frequency

    30:37 The Paramour Paradox Ecosystem

    35:01 Ritual: Moments to Remind Yourself Who You Are

    36:27 Why It's Called Paramour Paradox

    37:38 One Thing to Do Today: The First Bite

    41:42 Where to Find Kristen + Closing

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    #GettingUnstuck #IdentityRecovery #TheExpansionRoom #MidlifeReinvention #SelfDiscovery

    45 min
  • AI Is Changing What Makes You Valuable at Work

    If AI can now do part of your job, does that mean you're becoming less valuable at work? Not necessarily. In this episode of The Expansion Room, we explore how AI at work is changing where your professional value comes from, and how to discover where it moved.

    Everywhere you turn, someone is telling you to learn another AI tool, take another course, or move faster. That advice isn't wrong, but it's incomplete. You can become very skilled at using AI and still feel stuck, unsure of what makes you valuable. In Part 2 of our AI in the Workplace series, I break down new research from PwC and Gallup on AI job anxiety and the future of work, including why so much of the change is happening inside existing jobs rather than through jobs disappearing.

    You'll learn three questions to ask about your role, why judgment, context, relationships, and accountability matter more than ever, and a simple two-column exercise to help you get unstuck and build a career strategy that goes deeper than chasing the next tool.

    If your identity has been wrapped up in being good at what you do, this conversation is for you. Your value may not have disappeared. It may have simply moved. It’s time you find out where it has moved to.

    CHAPTERS:

    00:00 Is AI making you less valuable at work?

    00:44 Why "learn another AI tool" is incomplete advice*

    02:25 What 50,000 workers revealed about AI at work

    03:34 Your job title stays, but the value inside it changes*

    04:09 Real-world example: when judgment matters most*

    05:34 Why frequent AI users worry more*

    07:25 Three questions to find where your value lives

    08:44 When AI touches your professional identity*

    09:25 Your value didn't disappear. It moved.

    09:59 The two-column exercise for this week*

    11:49 Coming next: do you actually need to retrain?

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    #futureofwork

    #aianxiety

    #careerstrategy

    #professionalgrowth

    #careerchange

    #gettingunstuck

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    #transformationalcoach

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    #identityshift

    #mindset

    14 min
  • Unburdened Leadership: Release the Weight You Were Never Meant to Carry

    Unburdened leadership starts with releasing weight that was never yours to carry. In this episode of The Expansion Room, we explore why so many women leaders are running on empty, and what it actually takes to lead from a regulated, grounded place.

    We talk about the emotional and spiritual burden women accumulate over years of leading and serving others, why nervous system regulation, not willpower or strategy, is the real foundation for sustainable leadership, and what becomes possible when a woman reconnects with her healed, authentic voice. This is a conversation about getting unstuck from the identity of the overextended leader and returning to leadership from a grounded place, not a depleted one.

    Get in touch with Tarinna Terrell:

    Email: [email protected]

    Website: tarinnaterrell.com

    IG: @tarinnaterrell

    CHAPTERS

    0:00 Introduction

    1:08 Meet Tarinna Terrell and The Soul Collective

    2:00 Tarinna's Origin Story in Service and Faith

    5:24 The Culture of Overworking in Women

    6:23 The Wounded Healer and Learning to Reconcile Rest

    9:47 The Body Speaks First, Getting Unstuck Begins

    10:35 The Question That Silenced a Room, 30 Years of Putting Herself Last

    12:05 Soul Tired, The High Achiever's Hidden Exhaustion

    13:48 Hustle Culture and the Pandemic Pause

    16:04 Feeling Lighter, Recognizing the Weight of Constant Motion

    23:52 Getting Regulated and Redefining Identity

    24:55 Unpacking the Soft Life and Where We Store Tension

    26:18 The Eye Twitch, When the Body Signals Dysregulation

    28:06 Environment, Relationships, and Physical Symptoms

    34:54 What Is the Unburdened Lab?

    37:53 Community Healing and the Butterfly Metaphor

    39:07 The Gut Brain Connection and Somatic Healing

    40:37 Making Room for Play and Joy

    41:44 Leading Without Losing Yourself

    45:02 Naming the Weight, Closing Reflections

    45:47 Where to Find Tarinna Terrell

    46:52 Outro

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    49 min
  • IF AI CAN DO MORE OF YOUR JOB, DO THIS NOW

    Your job title can survive while the value inside your job quietly moves somewhere else.

    If AI can already do part of your work, the real question is not "Is my career safe?" The real question is: which part of my value is getting cheaper, and which part is becoming more important?

    In this episode of The Expansion Room, I walk you through the AI Career Pre-Flight, a practical six-step framework to help you get unstuck from generalized fear and start gathering real evidence about your own work. Fear is a terrible career strategy. Information is where agency begins.

    You'll learn how to:

    ✔ Break your job into tasks AI can do, tasks AI can help with, and tasks that still need you

    ✔ Identify where your value is moving across four layers: execution, judgment, context, and accountability

    ✔ Run a replacement test on your own work and grade it like a professional

    ✔ Decide whether to retrain without chasing a "safe" job that keeps shifting

    ✔ Build a Plan A for adaptation and a Plan B for mobility

    ✔ Choose one 30-day move that turns anxiety into action

    You don't need certainty about 2030. You need better evidence about what to do next Monday.

    CHAPTERS

    0:00 The Question You Should Be Asking About AI

    1:10 Why AI Career Anxiety Is Rising

    2:55 Introducing the AI Career Pre-Flight

    3:15 Pre-Flight #1: What Is AI Actually Taking From Your Job?

    4:15 Example: The Communications Manager

    5:40 Pre-Flight #2: Where Is Your Value Moving?

    6:40 The Four Layers of Value

    8:30 Pre-Flight #3: Run a Replacement Test

    10:30 What Will You Do With the Time AI Gives Back?

    11:30 Pre-Flight #4: Don't Retrain Blindly

    13:45 Pre-Flight #5: Build Your Plan A and Plan B

    15:40 Pre-Flight #6: Your Next 30-Day Move

    17:30 Getting Unstuck From the Wrong Question

    18:50 Your Next Step

    WATCH NEXT

    If your deeper question is "What am I worth now?", watch: If AI Can Do Part of Your Job, What Are You Worth Next?

    FEELING STUCK IN YOUR OWN TRANSITION?

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    22 min
  • The Fight You Keep Having Isn't About What You Think

    Most couples aren't stuck because they lack communication skills. They're stuck because they're having the same conversation on repeat, just wearing a different outfit each time. Money one week, parenting the next, who forgot to handle something the week after that. Different topic, same fight.

    In this episode, we explore why certain conflicts never fully resolve, no matter how many times a couple tries to talk it out, and what's actually happening underneath them. We look at the gap between being able to navigate hard conversations professionally and going silent or shutting down in the conversation that matters most at home. And we talk about why the answer usually isn't a better argument or a smarter fix, it's learning to recognize the pattern itself.

    If you've ever felt capable everywhere except in your closest relationship, this conversation will help you see what's really going on underneath the repeat fight, and why naming the pattern is often the first real step toward getting unstuck, together.

    If you’re interested in contacting Amber about her work you can visit her website or email her: https://battlesinsights.com, [email protected]

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    #transformationalcoach

    #embodiedleadership

    #entrepreneurship

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    #identityshift

    #mindset

    #gettingunstuck

    #consciousrelationships

    #innerworkouterimpact

    #relationshippatterns

    #soulledliving

    48 min
  • Afraid AI Could Replace You? Start Here.

    Are you worried that artificial intelligence could replace your job or change your career faster than you can adapt? Don’t start with panic. Start with evidence and a plan.

    Licensed clinical professional counselor and Coach Shervon Laurice offers a practical framework for workers and experienced professionals concerned about AI job displacement, changing job responsibilities, automation and the pressure to continuously upskill.

    Rather than promising that “everything will be fine,” this video shows you how to examine what is actually changing in your work and begin building an adaptation strategy.

    In this video:

    • How to identify exactly what you’re afraid AI may change

    • Why headlines shouldn’t become your personal career forecast

    • How to break your job into tasks and assess potential AI exposure

    • How to distinguish automation from AI-assisted work

    • How to identify where your professional value may be moving

    • Why you don’t need to “learn AI” you need to learn the AI capabilities relevant to your work

    • How to run a small AI experiment using a task you already understand

    • How to avoid “adaptability panic” and unfocused upskilling

    • Why you should create both an adaptation plan and a mobility plan

    • A practical 30-day starting plan

    Pew Research Center found that 52% of U.S. workers surveyed were worried about future AI use in the workplace, and 32% believed AI would result in fewer job opportunities for them over the long term.

    More recent 2026 research from ETS, based on more than 15,000 U.S. adults across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., found that 78% of U.S. workers agreed that job security no longer exists without continuous adaptation, while 85% said upskilling or reskilling is necessary.

    Broad workforce statistics cannot predict what will happen to your individual job.

    Your strongest starting point is understanding:

    YOUR ACTUAL WORK.

    YOUR ACTUAL SKILLS.

    YOUR ACTUAL EXPOSURE.

    YOUR ACTUAL OPTIONS.

    AI may change your work, your role or even your career.

    Change is not the same thing as helplessness.

    Start with reality. Then make the next decision.

    RELATED VIDEO:

    If AI Can Do Part of Your Job, What Are You Worth?

    Subscribe for practical, evidence-informed conversations about AI job anxiety, career

    adaptation, AI skills, future of work, professional identity and navigating workplace change.

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    Chapters

    00:09 – Introduction: Panic Is Not a Career Strategy

    Naming your specific fear instead of holding a vague, helplessness-inducing one.

    02:39 – Step 2: Stop Using Headlines as Your Career Plan

    Pew's 32% stat, and moving from "AI is changing work" to "this is how AI is changing my work."

    04:45 – Step 3: Break Your Job Into Tasks

    Sorting your responsibilities into four categories, including the useful "I don't know yet."

    08:58 – Step 4: Identify Where Your Value Moves

    Domain expertise plus AI fluency plus human judgment, and the self-inventory questions to ask.

    10:45 – Step 5: Find the Two or Three AI Capabilities That Matter Most

    Why "learn AI" is too broad a goal, with examples by role (communications, finance, people management).

    12:57 – Step 6: Run One Small Experiment

    Testing AI on one task this week and evaluating time saved, accuracy, and what still needed your judgment.

    14:44 – Step 7: Don't Carry the Whole Transition Yourself

    Reasonable questions to bring to your employer about tools, training, and how AI use will be evaluated.

    17:05 – Steps 8 and 9: Watch for Adaptability Panic, Then Build Two Plans

    Recognizing busyness as anxiety in a costume, and building an adapt-in-place plan alongside a mobility plan.

    19:08 – Don't Confuse the Market Value of a Task With Your Worth as a Person

    Why the market can shift without devaluing who you are.

    21:12 – The 30-Day Starting Plan

    Week by week: list your top 10 tasks, test one AI use case, identify three capabilities, have one real conversation.

    23:26 – Closing: Wrapping the Series and Next Steps

    Series recap and the invitation to book an Alignment Call: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/alignmentcall-sl

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    #careerchange

    #futureofwork

    #aiatwork

    #careerdevelopment

    #theexpansionroom

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    #transformationalcoach

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    25 min
  • It's About Time: A Boxer's Lesson on Grief, Faith, and Getting Unstuck

    What does a Golden Gloves champion know about grief that most of us spend a lifetime avoiding?

    In this episode of The Expansion Room, we sit down with author Mark Connor, whose life moves from the boxing rings of Saint Paul, where he became the Upper Midwest Golden Gloves lightweight champion at seventeen, to the quiet devastation of losing both parents, and the Catholic faith that held the space in between. Mark's book, "It's About Time," weaves together family, cultural identity, and the search for meaning through story and poetry, and this conversation goes even deeper into the discipline, loss, and reckoning behind the pages.

    This episode is about the gap between knowing and doing. It's about the procrastination that masquerades as "not being ready," the grief that reorganizes your entire relationship to time, and what it actually takes to stop waiting for permission to live. We talk about how physical discipline built in the ring can become a template for spiritual endurance, how faith holds pain without erasing it, and why the things we survive don't have to define us forever.

    If you've been circling the same unfinished thing for months, or years, telling yourself you'll get to it "when the time is right," this episode is your nudge. Time doesn't wait for readiness. Neither should you.

    This is a conversation about getting unstuck: from grief, from fear, from the stories that keep us waiting instead of living.

    In this episode:

    - How boxing discipline became a doorway to spiritual growth

    - What losing both parents taught Mark about the illusion of time

    - The role Catholic faith played in processing grief without bypassing it

    - Why procrastination is often fear in disguise, not laziness

    - The Sovereignty Shift: Energy Before Action, and how commitment creates momentum before motivation ever shows up

    - One concrete step you can take today toward the thing you've been avoiding

    If this episode moves something in you, that quiet nudge that says "I know what I've been putting off," let it be enough. You don't need more proof. You need to begin.

    Get Mark’s Book: Boxers & Writers Magazine – Boxing writing that pulls no punches and Amazon.com: It's About Time (Millions of Copies Sold for Dad)

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    42 min
  • If AI Can Do Part of Your Job, What Are You Worth?

    If artificial intelligence can perform part of your job faster than you can, does that make you less

    Valuable?

    For many experienced professionals, AI is raising a question deeper than job security:

    If technology can perform some of the work that helped establish my expertise, where does my

    professional value go next?

    Licensed clinical professional counselor and Coach Shervon Laurice examines the relationship between AI,

    work and professional identity and why your value should not be confused with a single task

    you currently perform.

    In this video:

    • Why AI can challenge professional identity as well as job security

    • The difference between a job task and professional value

    • How automation can change the meaning people attach to expertise

    • Four layers of professional value: execution, judgment, context and human consequence

    • Why human judgment and AI capability can become complementary rather than automatically

    competitive

    • Why “What can AI never replace?” may be the wrong question

    • How to build a personal AI-era Value Inventory

    • How experienced professionals can identify where their value may be moving

    The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 estimated that 39% of workers’ existing skill sets will be transformed or become outdated between 2025 and 2030.

    At the same time, the report identifies analytical thinking as the most sought-after core skill among employers and highlights resilience, flexibility, agility and leadership alongside rapidly

    growing technological skills such as AI and big data.

    The implication isn’t that human professional value is disappearing.

    It is that the combination of skills employers value is changing.

    Artificial intelligence may reduce the value of certain tasks, significantly change some roles and

    create new demands for workers. No one can responsibly guarantee which professions or tasks

    will remain unchanged.

    A more useful question is:

    WHERE DOES MY VALUE MOVE AS AI BECOMES MORE CAPABLE?

    Your professional identity doesn’t have to depend entirely on performing the same tasks forever.

    Adaptation begins by understanding what is changing, what remains valuable, what may become more valuable and what you need to learn next.

    WATCH NEXT: Afraid AI Could Replace You? Start Here.

    Subscribe for evidence-informed conversations about AI and professional identity, human value

    at work, career adaptation, workplace change and the psychology of the AI transition.

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    Chapters

    00:07 – Introduction: If AI Can Do It in 30 Seconds, What Are You Worth

    The personal question underneath the technical one, and why the answer is better questions, not reassurance.

    02:18 – The Identity Trap: Confusing Tasks With Value

    A job contains tasks, but professional identity contains experience, reputation, judgment, status, and purpose. The 1,400 worker narrative study on displacement themes.

    04:41 – The Subtle Loss and Why Value Can Move

    Creating becomes reviewing, drafting becomes editing, analyzing becomes validating. Why AI performing a task doesn't mean it replaced your value. The World Economic Forum's 39 percent skill shift projection.

    07:09 – The Four Layers of Work: Execution

    Human judgment plus AI capability as the real combination, and the first layer, execution, the tasks becoming easier to automate.

    09:30 – The Four Layers of Work: Judgment and Context

    Microsoft's numbers on quality control and critical thinking. What experienced professionals know that isn't visible in the task itself.

    11:55 – The Four Layers of Work: Human Consequence and the New Question

    Who trusts, explains, and takes responsibility for a decision. Replacing "what can AI never do" with "where is my value moving to."

    14:19 – Build Your Value Inventory

    The four-column exercise: tasks AI already helps with, tasks AI may change next, the value you create beyond the task, and what you need to learn next.

    17:06 – The Bottom Line and What's Next

    Professional value is larger than a job description. Setup for the next video: a plan, not reassurance.

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    20 min

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