What if freedom isn't something you find, but something you follow? Julia Sabatine left a full life of job offers and obligations after college and booked a one-way ticket to Ireland. That was just the beginning.

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↓ WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE ↓

00:00 Introduction: Teresa visits her sister overseas

02:53 Julia's first leap: Ireland right after college

05:06 "Synchronicity builds on synchronicity" — Julia's core philosophy

07:58 A cemetery, a phone call, and a sign to go to Hungary

09:14 What Europe taught Julia about work-life balance (20 paid holidays!)

12:09 The lawyer in the park who gave up everything — and inspired Julia to do the same

15:50 Discovering WWOOFing: worldwide opportunities on organic farms

16:40 South America, the Netherlands, Serbia, Istanbul: 10 years of visa hopping

22:10 How to afford a free life and the philosophy of trusting abundance

26:54 Learning to drown out the voices that don't understand your path

29:05 What meditation actually is (and why you should sit quietly for a year)

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Julia Sabatine is a musician, organic farmer, and herbalist who has lived in Ireland, Budapest, Argentina, the Netherlands, Serbia, Istanbul, and more. She speaks five languages, has spent a decade as a traveling volunteer on organic farms, and has built a life that most people wouldn't dare to imagine.

In this episode, she traces it all the way back: to the instinct that said rest after college, to a stranger in Florida who offered her a pub job in Galway, to a phone call at their grandfather's grave that told her to go to Budapest. This is Part 1 of Julia's story.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt the pull toward something that didn't make sense on paper and wondered if they were crazy for wanting it.

Self-doubt isn't a feeling to push through. It's an addiction to break.

In this season finale solo cast, Teresa records from her hotel in New York City while preparing for a summer trip to see her sister. She reflects on a year of illness, and gears up for a second surgery this fall. Out of all that comes a question she keeps returning to: what does it actually mean to bet on yourself?

This episode is for every woman who has started the thing, is building the thing, and still catches herself looking over her shoulder. Teresa shares what she's learned from coaching hundreds of entrepreneurs, taking on her first outside investor, buying a farm, and navigating chronic illness, and why leveraging yourself is one of the most powerful confidence-building moves you can make.

Topics covered:

— What it means to truly leverage yourself and why it's different from just "committing to success"

— Why confidence doesn't come from certainty; it comes from not giving up

— The honest truth about betting on your own ideas (including the resentment nobody talks about)

— What freedom actually means and why the answer is different for every woman

— The 90-day challenge: how to treat self-doubt like the addiction it is

— The voice memo practice Teresa uses to coach herself through doubt in real time

— A season wrap and preview of what's coming in Season 3

This is the last episode before the summer hiatus. Love Lizzy will be back with something really beautiful. Until then, you have everything you need.

Keywords: self-doubt, bet on yourself, women's empowerment, 90 day challenge, mindset, personal growth, freedom, entrepreneurship, confidence, women who lead, purpose driven life, Love Lizzy podcast.

What if your chronic illness isn't something to fight, but something to listen to?

In this episode, Teresa sits down with Dr. Erin, a naturopath turned mind-body medicine practitioner and founder of the Sacred Illness community, to explore a radically different approach to healing chronic illness.

Dr. Erin shares her own journey from people-pleasing naturopath to mind-body pioneer, and walks us through the exact framework she used to heal herself and hundreds of women.

Together, Teresa and Dr. Erin explore:

⬩ Why chronic illness is often rooted in suppressed emotions, early trauma, and the nervous system, i.e., not genetics or diet alone

⬩ The Sacred Illness Blueprint: a step-by-step hero's journey through shadow work, somatic healing, vision work, and nervous system reprogramming

⬩ Why conventional medicine treats symptoms but often misses the root cause, and how to use both approaches without abandoning either

⬩ What it means to stop fighting your body and start having a conversation with it

⬩ Somatic tools for managing flare-ups in real time (including the simple two-finger technique that stopped a flare in its tracks)

⬩ Why the goal isn't symptom-free living, but rather a new, empowered relationship with your body

⬩ Dr. Erin's mission to train a global network of Sacred Illness practitioners to change the healthcare paradigm from the inside out

This episode is for anyone living with chronic illness, autoimmune disease, chronic pain, or unexplained symptoms who feels failed by the conventional medical system and is ready to ask a different question.

Keywords: chronic illness healing, mind body medicine, somatic healing, nervous system regulation, autoimmune disease, trauma and illness, sacred illness, naturopath, women's health, holistic health, chronic pain, shadow work, nervous system reprogramming, people pleasing and chronic illness, healing journey

What happens when the strong one finally puts herself first?

This week I sit with a woman from our community who has been carrying everyone else since she was a little girl. She is exhausted from having her boundaries crossed by the men in her life, feeling unseen in her family, and never once being asked what she needs. And she finally asks the question so many of us are afraid to ask out loud.

Do I get to be the one who is taken care of?

We explore the drama triangle and the rescuer role, go down memory lane to share the roadmap for what love and support from the men in your life should actually look like, and offer multiple things you can do in the moment to hear your own boundaries more clearly, shift the attention back onto your own needs without the guilt, and move through the world relying completely on your intuition.

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Ashley Chang built Sundays, an executive assistant service for working parents and founders, after watching her own mother feel forced to choose between career and family. She joins us to talk about the real cost of doing it all yourself, the "mom tax," and why asking for help is actually the strategy. Ashley shares her 15-minute time and energy audit, how to delegate without guilt, and what it looks like to build a life where ambition and family don't have to compete.

You are not alone.

When I was 19 years old I found myself alone and scared in a hospital in a strange city. One human made one of the hardest days of my life a little bit easier with four words: you are not alone. That particular serendipitous encounter was the first Love, Lizzy light bulb that turned on in my mind. 

In this episode I am opening the door and inviting you into our little workshop. I am sharing the full origin story of this brand, the vision we are building toward, and why I believe that helping women does not just help women. It helps everyone.

Share space with me as I tell the founding story of Love, Lizzy and why it started with a hospital visit at 19 that led to a merch shop, which leads to the companion hotline vision, and the Love Lizzy sacred houses.

We explore (even though we think it is so obvious) why helping women is good for men, families, and entire communities, what it really looks like to build something meaningful from the bottom of the mountain, and a peek at what is coming next on the podcast.

It takes $50 a night to house a woman at a safe house in Florida. You can donate to the safe house in Love, Lizzy's neighborhood if you feel called to make a donation to help women and girls. 

https://www.micahsplace.org/

Visit the Love, Lizzy Shop! www.lovelizzy.co/shop

This week I sit down with Danielle Ireland, host of Cut Your Own Bangs, for a conversation that felt like the therapy I didn't even know I needed.

Danielle shares her personal experience with miscarriage and the unexpected moment of levity that found her in the hardest days of her life, and how that experience shaped the way she shows up for herself and her kids. We dig into real tools for anxiety regulation, the difference between nice and kind, how to set boundaries with yourself and your children, and how to pause before you say the thing you might regret.

This one is warm, honest, and full of the kind of wisdom that sticks with you. If you have experienced pregnancy loss, please know we hold this topic with so much care. Tune in when you feel ready.

You can find Danielle and her podcast here:

www.danielleireland.com

https://open.spotify.com/show/0VFZulonTvaa2HIPyJa4Tq

What images and narratives are we sold that have the power to shape our belief system?

In this solo cast, Love, Lizzy Founder Teresa Sabatine dives into the connection between perfectionism, anxiety, and propaganda. She asks the question we don't ask enough: who built the mental movies we are living inside, and do we actually want to keep watching them?

When the movie playing in your brain hijacks your nervous system, elicits an emotion, and then influences your behavior, the imagery you are using matters. A lot. In this episode we explore how propaganda from the news to television to the stories we were told about who we are supposed to be has been shaping our self-image, our value system, and our life experience, often without our awareness or consent.

If you have been wrestling with anger, wanting to make decisions from your own inner knowing, or desiring to be the one who chooses her own belief system, this one is for you.

The Power of the Matriarch Conference: www.lovelizzy.co

In this episode of the Love, Lizzy Podcast we meet up with Sarah Wall. She is an educator in Portland, Oregon, a mamma of two boys, and an all-around special human.

What I thought would be a discussion on our education system turned into a deep dive on vulnerability, how the smallest actions you take today can build the strongest communities, and ways we can bring the men with us into the ever-changing landscape that is leadership in our homes.

I think this might be one of our most value-packed episodes yet. If you have been feeling like you are alone carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders, or that you are stuck trying to parent your kids in a social media-driven reality, there is so much wisdom in the lessons Sarah shares about working with students and parenting her own children.

We paint a picture of what a flexible, resilient world, and education system can look like and ponder the necessity for values-centric, resource-sharing, compassionate communities. No matter what is happening around us, this conversation will leave you feeling like you have what you need to be an incredible human and show up for your people, even when you fumble and make mistakes.

There is no perfect parent, teacher, or human. So let's lay down the pressure to be perfect and embrace the attributes that actually connect us. If you have been looking for a respite from the chaos in the world, grab a tea or put on your walking shoes and let us take you to a beautiful place of possibility and hope.

Episode 3 of the Love, Lizzy podcast is live and in it I am pulling back the curtain on perfectionism and anxiety, where it actually stems from, and why nothing is wrong with you for feeling it. We are talking internal family systems theory, women's wellness, Disney Princess Magic, and a 40 day thought spell I am running on myself that I invite you to do with me.