Featured expert, Tia Maher opens up about healing six stomach ulcers, chronic infections, and burnout - and the moment she realized her body wouldn't recover until she confronted the self-abandonment underneath it all.

She and Jessica dig into the real science of gut health, why people-pleasing and perfectionism sabotage healing, and how to stop chasing a "someday" version of yourself while still doing the work.

Tia Maher is the founder of Home of Wealth, a life coach and functional health mentor who has helped over 350 women transform their health, relationships, and mindset.

Find her on IG @itstiamaher

Freebies - Reach out to Tia on IG for access!

• Telegram group: "Wealthy and Worthy" - free, includes weekly voice riffs on functional health, nervous system work, and emotional processing
• Inside the Telegram group: a replay of her masterclass "F*ck Busy, Let's Get Lit on Life Again," covering her "chill pill" methodology!
  
  Key takeaways
  • Self-abandonment (not just diet or genetics) is often the root cause behind chronic gut issues, burnout, and skin/hormone problems
  • Healing requires addressing both the physical (gut infections, detox pathways) and the emotional/nervous system layer — neither works in isolation
  • Perfectionism and people-pleasing often show up as an inability to trust your own body and choices
  • Gut testing (GI map, mycotoxin/organic acid tests) can reveal hidden infections like H. pylori, SIBO, Candida, or parasites — surface fixes like probiotics won't resolve these
  • A real healing protocol moves through phases: rebuild → cleanse → repair, typically over 4-5 months
    
    ABOUT THE HOST: 
    

    Jessica Joy helps driven, soul-led women get the health and body they want from a place of alignment, not force, using her signature framework that prioritizes identity, metabolism, and effective strategy. Get good at this, and you don't just transform your body, you become the unstoppable leader of your health and your life.
    

    Find Jessica on IG @its.jessicajoy
    

    
    
    

Kelly K. Stalnaker is a professional dancer, choreographer, and feminine embodiment coach who traded a corporate path and two degrees for the whisper in her soul - and never looked back.

In this conversation, Kelly shares how dance is so much more than movement: it's a practice for releasing emotions, building real self-trust, and stepping boldly into life even when things feel wobbly. She also gets raw about her four-month injury journey after a series of cortisone injections led to a partial collapse of her hip bone - and how navigating that uncertainty has been her greatest lesson in identity, vulnerability, and community.

Top Takeaways

• Confidence isn't something you find - it's something you already have. The root of the word confidence literally means "with trust." Self-confidence is about trusting yourself, not mastering a skill.
• Dance teaches you to step like you mean it. Trusting the floor to hold you is a direct metaphor for trusting your foundation in life - even when things feel uncertain or wobbly.
• Movement is a portal to emotion. When you let yourself feel something fully and move through it, emotions become healing instead of something to avoid.
• Real vulnerability is where the edge is. If sharing something doesn't feel hard anymore, it's not vulnerable for you - and growth lives in what still feels scary to say out loud.
• Your identity can't live in anything that can be taken away. Injury, setbacks, and uncertainty will reveal who you are at the core - and that's actually the gift.

Connect with Kelly + Her Offers

• Instagram: @KKStal
• Website: kellyk.love
• Audacity Academy - Kelly's dance training program for women that builds performance skills and confidence on and off the floor. Sells out almost every month, but she makes room when she can.
• 1:1 Coaching - Kelly takes a limited number of private coaching clients. If you're interested, reach out via Instagram DM or her website to inquire about availability.
  
  ABOUT THE HOST: 

  Jessica Joy helps driven, heart-led women get the health and body they want from a place of alignment, not force, using her signature framework that prioritizes identity, metabolism, and effective strategy together. Get good at this, and you don't just transform your body, you become the unstoppable leader of your health and your life.
  

  🔗 Find Jessica on IG @its.jessicajoy - https://www.instagram.com/its.jessicajoy/
  

  ✨ How Jessica helps women transform - https://jessicajoydurfee.com/leadher-info

Description:
Most women are working hard on their health and still not seeing the results they want — and it's not because they're not trying hard enough. In this episode, Jessica shares her Aligned Body Mini Masterclass on the podcast, breaking down why effort alone isn't the answer and how operating from alignment instead of force is what actually creates lasting results. If you've been doing all the things and still feel like you're spinning your wheels, this one's for you.

ABOUT THE HOST:
Jessica Joy helps driven, heart-led women get the health and body they want from a place of alignment, not force, using her signature framework that prioritizes identity, metabolism, and effective strategy together. Get good at this, and you don't just transform your body, you become the unstoppable leader of your health and your life.

🔗 Find Jessica on IG @its.jessicajoy - https://www.instagram.com/its.jessicajoy/

✨ How Jessica helps women transform - https://jessicajoydurfee.com/leadher-info

Your identity drives everything, how you show up, the actions you take, and ultimately, how people experience your business.

In this episode, premium business mentor Aimée Drost joins me to break down why pain-point marketing is outdated, what actually makes high-level buyers say yes, and how identity work and breathwork can shift your business faster than strategy alone. If you've ever felt like your marketing or your mindset is the missing piece, this one's for you.

Top 6 points:

• Why your identity, not just your strategy, determines whether your business actually moves
• The real difference between pain-point marketing and desire-based marketing, and why one builds trust while the other can attract the wrong clients
• What "premium positioning" actually means, and why most coaches are underselling a transformation as a bundle of sessions
• How breathwork can shift identity and unlock breakthroughs faster than months of mindset work
• The short-term vs long-term sales strategy every service-based business needs
• Why "it's shitty when it's just about me," and how connecting your work to something bigger changes everything

Aimée's Gifts

🎁 Want to go deeper on the premium expansion model? Aimée breaks it all down in this episode: 

https://pleasureinselling.com/podcast-ep-20-premium-expansion-wealthy-leader-model/

🎁 5-Minute Breathwork Audio — experience the millionaire breathwork routine for yourself: 

https://pleasureinselling.com/millionairebreathworkroutine/

🎁 Follow Aimée on Instagram for more (her page is full of resources): 

https://www.instagram.com/aimeedrost/

ABOUT THE HOST: 

Jessica Joy helps driven, heart-led women get the health and body they want from a place of alignment, not force, using her signature framework that prioritizes identity, metabolism, and effective strategy together. Get good at this, and you don't just transform your body, you become the unstoppable leader of your health and your life.

🔗 Find Jessica on IG @its.jessicajoy - https://www.instagram.com/its.jessicajoy/

✨ How Jessica helps women transform - https://jessicajoydurfee.com/leadher-info

If you start Monday motivated, clear, and on track. By Thursday you're talking yourself out of workouts and your nutrition is starting to slide, this is for you.

In this episode I'm breaking down why this happens - and it's not what most people think. It's not a willpower issue - It's a capacity issue. And once you understand that, everything changes.

I'm sharing three deeper reasons your energy dips midweek and three practical solutions including one that costs zero extra time and works while you sleep.

TOP SIX BULLET POINTS:

• Why midweek energy crashes are a capacity issue - not a willpower or motivation issue
• How a strategy that's too rigid or too much is secretly draining you by Wednesday
• The power of holding the vision versus collapsing the container - and what that actually means day to day
• Why guided meditations while you sleep are a secret weapon for more restorative rest and better choices the next day
• What a midweek restoration practice looks like and why it's a non-negotiable for women navigating a full life
• The difference between shallow rest like scrolling and full body restoration - and how to actually get there
  
  
  If this resonated and you're ready to dial in a strategy that actually fits your life (one that gives you energy instead of draining it) …

  Come find me on Instagram @its.jessicajoy. 
  

  DM me the word READY and let's have a real conversation about what your body actually needs. I personally respond and I'd love to connect with you there.

What if your health journey gave you MORE energy instead of feeling like another thing to do?

In this episode, I’m riffing on a completely different way to approach fitness, fat loss, and health - one rooted in energy, self-respect, sustainability, and what I call “Health Yes” energy. ✨

I’m sharing:
How to approach health in a way that gives you more energy, confidence & freedom back and ...

• why most women burn out trying to get healthy
• the hidden energy drains sabotaging your results
• how to stop operating from guilt, overwhelm & all-or-nothing thinking
• why your workouts, food, and habits should SUPPORT your life - not consume it
  

This episode is part mindset shift, part nervous system conversation, part fitness philosophy… and honestly one of the most important conversations I’ve had around women’s health in a long time.

If you’re tired of trying to get healthy in ways that feel restrictive, exhausting, or impossible to maintain… this episode is going to light something up in you 🔥

🔥 Want to join the HEALTH YES™ Masterclass?

This is for the woman who wants:
✨ sustainable fat loss
✨ more energy
✨ a toned, strong body
✨ freedom around food
✨ high-ROI workouts
✨ a healthy lifestyle she actually WANTS to KEEP

Inside the masterclass, I’ll show you how to create the health & body you want in a way that feels energizing, empowering, and sustainable.

Comment or DM “HEALTH YES” on Instagram @itsjessicajoy for first access 👀🔥

If you’ve ever felt stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed, or like strategy alone isn’t working… this conversation will open your eyes to what may actually be holding you back.

From visibility wounds and people-pleasing to nervous system regulation and embodiment, this episode dives deep into the inner work that allows women to lead, grow, and create from alignment instead of survival mode.

CONNECT WITH RAISAH 

15-Min Energy Clearing Meditation 

https://thembsx.mykajabi.com/offers/Dbyrbraz/checkout?utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e225_tv0

Find Raisah on Instagram @mbsx_raisah

https://www.instagram.com/mbsx_raisah/

For her Mind, Body, Soul Experiences! (MBSX)

1. You are the strategy.
   Your business is an extension of your energy, identity, nervous system, and self-leadership.
2. The body stores unresolved experiences.
   Patterns like people-pleasing, self-abandonment, fear of visibility, and rejection often show up physically and professionally.
3. Strategy alone is not enough.
   Even the “perfect” strategy falls flat if your body and nervous system don’t feel safe executing it.
4. Somatic work helps clear internal resistance.
   Movement, breathwork, embodiment, and nervous system regulation help women move through fear, emotional heaviness, and mental chatter.
5. Retreats create transformational environments.
   Removing yourself from your normal environment creates space for clarity, healing, breakthroughs, and reconnecting to yourself.
6. The inner work affects everything.
   Your health, relationships, leadership, confidence, content, boundaries, business growth, and emotional wellbeing are all connected.
   
   About the host:

   
   Jessica Joy helps driven women optimize metabolism for a stronger, leaner body using the Metabolic Momentum Method.
   
   Find Jessica on IG @its.jessicajoy - https://www.instagram.com/its.jessicajoy/

   DM 'READY'✌️to settling 

   How Jessica helps women transform - https://jessicajoydurfee.com/leadher-info

The conversation explores the impact of the nervous system as a hidden bottleneck in achieving desired results in health, business, and relationships. It delves into the development of tools for regulating the nervous system, including breath regulation, shifting thoughts and emotions, processing emotions, and using movement to shift the nervous system. The chapters cover a comprehensive understanding of the nervous system, the development of nervous system tools, and practical techniques for regulating and shifting the state of the nervous system.

Takeaways

• Nervous system as a bottleneck
• Tools for regulating the nervous system

Chapters

• 00:00 Understanding the Nervous System
• 07:15 Shifting State and Regulation through Breath
• 13:09 Processing Emotions and Emotional Release
• 18:37 Movement to Shift Nervous System
  
  CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION WITH JESSICA ON INSTAGRAM
  
  I'd love to hear what resonated with you! Come say hi at
  @its.jessicajoy ✨

NEW FREE TRAINING: " Fit, Toned & In Your Power Is In Fashion. Tired & Paunchy Is Out

(AKA: Diets, GLPs Without Strategy & Under-Eating)"

ACCESS IT HERE: https://jessicajoydurfee.com/devilwearsprada-dreambody

If you’ve been stuck in the cycle of eating less, trying harder, and still not feeling toned or energized—this episode will shift your perspective. We break down the hidden damage of diet culture and the simple shifts that actually help you build a strong, vibrant, in-your-power body.

• Why “eat less, move more” is keeping you stuck
• The shift from restriction → nourishment
• Why most women need to eat more, not less
• The truth about getting toned (it’s not just fat loss)
• Why building muscle changes everything
• How to approach fat loss from a place of power - not lack
  
  If this resonated with you, come find me on Instagram @its.jessicajoy - I’d love to hear what landed for you ❤️
  

If you’ve done the mindset work but still feel stuck, this conversation will shift everything. In this powerful episode, we dive into how subconscious patterns and the nervous system (not your logic) are driving your behaviors, and how somatic healing can help you finally break free and create lasting change.

👑 FEATURED EXPERT:
Julie Cielo is a somatic trauma-informed coach with over 30 years of experience helping women rewire their nervous systems, release subconscious patterns, and embody their true selves.

✨ LINKS & GIFTS:
Go to JulieCielo.com for these links!
https://www.juliecielo.com/

Free “Mini Somatic Practice for Shame”

Podcast: Thriving Scapegoat Podcast


🔥 KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Why mindset alone isn’t enough for real transformation
• How trauma and survival patterns live in the nervous system
• The concept of “survival identities” in high-performing women
• Stress addiction, cortisol dependency, and hyper-independence
• Why women struggle with boundaries (and how to rewire them)
• Thinking your feelings vs. actually feeling them in the body
• Somatic practices like:
  • pendulation
  • titration
  • boundary rehearsal
• The role of shame in keeping women stuck
• How triggers are actually powerful teachers
• Why transformation only counts when it lasts
• Building capacity to feel (instead of avoiding emotions)
• Replacing the harsh inner critic with a compassionate inner voice
• Healing = action + embodiment, not just awareness
  
  About the host:
  
  Jessica Joy helps driven women optimize metabolism for a stronger, leaner body using the Metabolic Momentum Method.
  
  Find Jessica on IG @its.jessicajoy - https://www.instagram.com/its.jessicajoy/

  DM 'READY'✌️to settling 

  How Jessica helps women transform - https://jessicajoydurfee.com/leadher-info