There’s a moment in every woman’s life where “doing it all” stops working.

In this episode, I sit down with Charlotte Hagge, a resilience coach and mom of two, to talk about the truth behind stress, balance, and what it actually takes to feel steady inside the chaos.

Charlotte brings such clarity to the conversation — redefining stress as something we create inside ourselves, not just something that happens to us. Together, we talk about the difference between challenge and distress, why the myth of “balance” is burning so many women out, and how we can start to build a kind of resilience that’s rooted in self-trust and presence instead of performance.

This one is for every woman who’s ever whispered to herself, “I’m strong… but I’m tired.”
You’ll leave this conversation feeling understood, grounded, and a little more clear on what it means to come home to yourself again.

Why “balance” might be the biggest lie modern women are told

How to know when you’ve moved from healthy challenge into distress

The connection between nervous system regulation and leadership

What false identities (like the achiever, the pleaser, or the good girl) are costing us

The simple shift that helps you rebuild self-trust and internal steadiness

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Charlotte's private podcast, Unfrazzled: A New Way to Work and Mother

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“Challenge is what’s happening to us. Stress is what’s happening in us.” – Charlotte Hagge

“We don’t need balance. We need inner steadiness.” – Landy Peek

If this episode speaks to you, take a minute to follow, rate, or share the show. It helps more women find these conversations — the ones that go deeper than self-help and into real, embodied change.

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Thank you for being here. 💛
— Landy

In this special panel episode of The Landy Peek Podcast, Landy brings together experts from The Village—a global collaboration supporting women in midlife with practical, evidence-informed tools. Guests Christy Holt (The Happiness Hussy), Misha Palmer (Midlife Reset Coach), Chelsea Hayman of Empowered Glucose, and Katie Redding of Hormone Health Boss share their stories, signature offers, and the most common challenges they help women solve: people-pleasing, hormone shifts, burnout, insulin resistance, and feeling disconnected from self.

Why midlife is an invitation to pause, reset, and reclaim your identity

How to step off the “fixing yourself” hamster wheel and move into embodiment

Practical ways to reignite your spark and align mindset, lifestyle, and identity

Clear, supportive guidance for insulin resistance and diabetes—without shame

How community and the right guide shorten the path to sustainable change

Christy Holt — The Happiness Hussy
People Pleasers Reset Pack: nervous system reset, boundaries, and self-trust for women ready to stop abandoning themselves.

Misha Palmer — Midlife Reset Coach
Reset Your Spark Mini-Course: daily micro-lessons to clarify values, break patterns, and design a future you’re excited about.

Chelsea Hayman— Empowered Glucose
One-on-one coaching and a self-paced education course to confidently manage insulin resistance and diabetes, including practical “Eat with Confidence” resources.

Katie Redding— Hormone Health Boss
Midlife Boss Menopause Crash Course: evidence-based education and guidance for peri/postmenopause, with options for functional lab testing.

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If you’ve been the rock for everyone and everything, this conversation will feel like oxygen. Dr. Angela Downey—family physician and creator of The Codependent Doctor—shares her burnout story, how codependency shows up for high-capacity women, and the concrete ways we can stop bracing, start asking for help, and lead from clarity instead of overdrive.

We talk identity (“the strong one”), limits, the invisible mental load, perfectionism, boundaries without apology, and why “not everyone has to like the peach”—and that says nothing about the peach. You’ll leave with low-stakes boundary reps to practice this week, language you can use, and a lens that helps you spot burnout before the plane is going down.

 Connect with Dr. Angela

Podcast: The Codependent Doctor

Website: drangeladowney.com

Books: Amazon links for Enough As I Am and Enough As I Grow

Do you ever start a new habit full of energy—only to fall off track the moment life gets busy? 🤯
You tell yourself you just need more willpower… but what if the problem isn’t you at all?

In this episode, I’m joined by Ayurvedic Life Mastery Coach Lynn Hanger, and she’s here to flip the script on why change feels so hard. Ayurveda—the sister science of yoga—shows us that it’s not about discipline or perfection. It’s about patterns, timing, and alignment.

Together, we dive into:
✨ Why you don’t need more discipline—you need space
✨ How to recognize the patterns that keep you stuck (and shift them)
✨ The simple Ayurvedic principle that makes habit change finally stick
✨ How your menstrual cycle + the seasons impact your energy and health
✨ Why perfection sabotages you—and what balance really looks like

This conversation will leave you breathing deeper, feeling lighter, and ready to make small shifts that actually last.

Because the truth is: you’re not failing—you’re evolving. And Ayurveda gives you the tools to finally move forward with ease. 🌿

Links & Resources

🔗 Take Lynn’s free Burnout Type Quiz → [insert link]
🌿 Connect with Lynn: IG + FB @holisticliferemedy
✨ Connect with Landy: IG @landypeek 

🎧 Hit play now if you’re ready to stop the cycle of burnout, create momentum, and finally feel in balance.

Here’s the truth: most of us are living stories we didn’t choose. We inherited them from our families, our culture, or the roles we were pushed into—like being “the strong one” everyone leans on.

In this conversation with storyteller and author Carrie West, you’ll learn how to spot the stories running your life—and how to rewrite them so you can finally feel free.

We go deep on:
🔥 Why your life feels stuck on repeat—and how “micro moments of change” can shift everything
🔥 The hidden cost of always being “the strong one” (and how to step out of that identity)
🔥 How to stop living someone else’s script and become the author of your own
🔥 Why belonging doesn’t mean becoming a chameleon—and what real acceptance looks like
🔥 The generational and cultural stories that shape you, and how to break the cycle

This episode will open your eyes to the stories you’ve been carrying—and remind you that you hold the pen. You don’t have to keep performing the same role. You get to laugh, reframe, and choose a story that actually feels like yours.

Connect with Carrie West:
🌐 Website → carriekcwest.com 
📚 Book → Life Rewritten on Amazon 

If you’ve ever thought “I don’t know what I’m doing” or felt like walking away from your career meant you failed… this episode is going to change your life.

Today I’m joined by Annette Garsteck, a career reinvention coach who walked away from a “stable” corporate career—and found something better. Together, we’re breaking down the truth about failure, identity, and why slowing down can actually be your superpower.

Here’s what you’ll take away:

Why leaving a job isn’t failure—it’s growth.

The reframe that will stop the spiral of “I don’t know what I’m doing.”

How to build authentic community without the competition and “mean girl” drama.

Simple tools to slow down, reset, and show up with confidence.

The mindset shift that frees you from tying your worth to a job title.

Listen—if you’re tired of pushing, proving, and people-pleasing just to keep it all together, this episode will give you permission to pause, pivot, and finally live in alignment with who you are.

Because you’re not stuck. You’re evolving. And it’s time to take your next step.

🔗 Connect with Annette Garsteck

Website: annettegarsteck.com 

LinkedIn: Annette Garsteck 

What do you do when life makes absolutely no sense—when everything you’ve tried fails, the universe goes silent, and you feel completely alone?

In this raw and powerful conversation, I sit down with Amanda Graham—comedy writer, public speaker, and irreverent author—who spent 11 years in what she calls “The Wilderness.” A season of isolation, loss, and unanswered prayers that nearly broke her… until she learned how to find the dots that connect struggle to purpose.

This episode will light a fire under you if you’ve ever thought: “Why isn’t this working? Why me? What now?”

You’ll hear:

🌲 What the “Wilderness” really is—and why almost everyone faces it

🧩 How to recognize the “dots” that make sense of your hardest seasons

🙏 The surprising shift Amanda made when prayers seemed to go unanswered

💌 The small, simple practice that created life-changing connection (yes, it involves Post-its!)

🚪 How to ask for help the right way (and why most of us do it wrong)

🔥 Why rejection is actually your doorway to redirection

If you’ve been waiting for a sign that things can turn around—this conversation is it.

👉 Connect with Amanda at itsamandagraham.com  and on Instagram @minefieldness

In this episode of 🎙 The Landy Peek Podcast, I’m sharing a deeply personal and transformative conversation about the hidden cost of over-functioning for highly capable women.

I’ll show you why regulation isn’t about staying calm 😌—it’s about building capacity 🔋 so you can fully experience the highs and lows of life without collapsing, disconnecting, or performing a façade of composure.

Through vivid storytelling, I reveal the 4 archetypes I see most often in my work—and how each reflects a survival strategy that drains your energy over time:
🛠 The One Who Holds It All – The plate-spinning master… but hasn’t eaten yet.
🤫 The One Who Went Quiet – The peace-keeper, storm inside.
🤝 The One Who Makes It Okay – The fixer, the chaos smoother.
👻 The One Who Fades Away – Present for everyone… except herself.

🚫 The difference between calm and capacity—and why calm can be a trap
🧠 How hidden burnout disguises itself as “competence”
🙅‍♀️ The real reason saying “yes” when you mean “no” keeps you stuck
🛡 Why safety in your nervous system fuels leadership, creativity, and joy
🌿 How nature taught me to bring presence and expansion into daily life
🔥 How to shift from being a thermometer (reacting) to a thermostat (setting the tone)
🪞 Practical insight into reclaiming your energy, identity, and sovereignty

I share the exact moment I realized my worth wasn’t measured by how much I could hold together—and how letting go of the grip on everything opened the door to more freedom, ease, and magnetism.

Take my Magnetic Body Code Quiz to discover your nervous system archetype + your first steps to reclaim your capacity, joy, and sovereignty.

If you’ve ever been the strong one, the dependable one, the “holds it all together” one—this episode will feel like an exhale 😮‍💨 and an invitation to live fully again.

💔 Ever wiped your tears, whispered “I can’t do this anymore”—and then got up and did it anyway?

We’ve been sold the lie that “healed” means calm, that good mothers never lose their cool, and that being the strong one is a badge of honor. But here’s the truth:
✨ Calm isn’t the goal. Safety is.
💡 And sometimes safety means laughing loud, crying hard, and letting yourself actually feel.

In this episode, I share the moment by the river 🌊 that changed my life—and the way I see healing forever. You’ll learn:
⚡ Why regulation can turn into your new perfectionism (and how to stop it)
⚖️ The hidden cost of being “the one who holds it all”
🫀 How to feel safe in your emotions—without disconnecting or numbing
🔑 The single mindset shift that lets you put down the weight you’ve been carrying for years

If you are tired of holding it all together, tired of pretending calm when you’re crumbling inside 💭, and craving the freedom to be fully human without guilt—this conversation will meet you right where you are.

🎧 Listen now. Your shoulders will drop, your breath will deepen, and you’ll remember—you were never meant to carry it all.

You’ve read the books.
You’ve done the breathwork.
You’ve tried to fix the parts of you that still feel off.

But what if the reason you still feel stuck… isn’t yours to carry?

In this mind-expanding episode, Landy sits down with Amy Vasterling—future-focused public speaker, intuitive, and creator of The Model—to talk about the hidden dynamics that keep high-capacity women stuck in cycles of control, people-pleasing, and silent self-abandonment.

Amy has spent the last 22 years asking one powerful question:
Why don’t all people thrive?
Her answer dismantles everything we thought we knew about healing, self-expression, and emotional maturity—and offers a new pathway rooted in natural equality and personal knowing.

Together, Landy and Amy explore:

Why enabling is a form of control—and how it keeps women small

How fear blocks self-expression and what it takes to shift into embodied truth

What The Model reveals about narcissism, power, and the internalized hierarchy

Why “healing” can become performative—and what freedom actually looks like

How to trust your intuition (without outsourcing your power)

What it really means to step out of the fixed model and into a new way of being

If you’ve been doing all the right things and still don’t feel like yourself…
this conversation will change how you see your life—and yourself.

It’s not about doing more.
It’s about letting go of the old system and finally coming home to your truth.

Amy Cerny Vasterling is a future-focused public speaker, author, intuitive, and teacher who has spent over two decades conducting observational research on human behavior. Her work centers on dismantling unconscious systems of control—especially the hidden ways we uphold hierarchy, narcissism, and inequality within ourselves and our relationships.

Through her signature concept The Model, Amy guides individuals and communities to collapse control and reclaim their full expression—creating the conditions for what she calls natural equality, where everyone thrives. She’s known for her fierce clarity, big vision, and intuitive ability to help others see what they couldn’t name.

Her upcoming book Know: Where the Status Quo Ends and You Come to Life releases in September 2025.

Website: amyvasterling.com

Instagram: @amyvasterling

YouTube: Amy Cerny Vasterling

Facebook: Amy Intuitive Pathfinder

LinkedIn: Amy Vasterling

Take a screenshot, share it in your IG stories, and tag @landy_peek + @amyvasterling
Or send it to the friend who’s been quietly holding it all.
She deserves to come home to herself, too.