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What if the trauma that tried to break you actuallyrevealed your strength?
In this powerful and unfiltered conversation, Unbroken author Adriene Caldwell shares her remarkable journey through childhood abuse, generational mental illness, foster care, and years of emotional and physical trauma. She opens up about surviving schizophrenic family dynamics, living in extremepoverty, and the moment a failed suicide attempt became the turning point toward healing.

Adriene’s story is not just about pain. It’s about resilience, purpose, and the choice to live. Her transparency around therapy, medication, and faith will leave you inspired and empowered to reclaim your own story, no matter how heavy your past may be.

👤 About Adriene Caldwell
Adriene is the author of Unbroken: Life Outside the Lines, a memoir dedicated to offering hope and healing to anyone who's ever felt lost, abandoned, or beyond repair.

🔹 Key Takeaways
🔹What tried to break you only revealed how strong you really are.
🔹PTSD and depression are not character flaws. They are medical conditions that can be treated.
🔹Forgiveness is healing, but it starts with setting boundaries that protect your peace.
🔹Taking medication is an act of courage and self-care.
🔹You have the power to shift your mindset and reclaim your story.

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This guided October meditation is designed to help youground into the present moment, release what no longer serves you, and recharge for the final quarter of the year.

Through calming breathwork, gentle body awareness, and vivid fall imagery, you’ll reconnect with your center and step forward with clarity and strength. Let this practice remind you that, just like the trees, you can let go with grace and finish the year one day at a time.

🔹 Key Takeaways

🔹 October is the season of release andrenewal

🔹 Grounding breath creates presence andcalm

🔹 Letting go clears space for growth

🔹 You still have time to finish the yearstrong

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What do you do when everything goes wrong?

Missed flights. Lost bags. No backup clothes. That was my reality for six days during our recent UK trip, but instead of frustration, I found peace.

In this solo episode, I share how daily habits like meditation, journaling, and intentional living helped me stay grounded while leading our RX program with almost nothing but a backpack and mindset.

This isn’t just a story about travel. It’s a deeper reminderthat the energy you carry affects every space you walk into. And sometimes, the baggage weighing you down isn’t even yours to carry.

If your energy’s been feeling off lately, this might be why.

🔹 Key Themes:

🔹 Habits that shape identity under pressure

🔹 Minimalism, mindset, and emotional clarity

🔹 Leading from overflow

🔹 Letting go of what no longer serves you

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What if your breakthrough isn’t about doing more butbecoming more?

In this soul-stretching Growth Accelerator episode, hostChristopher DeShawn Weedon and transformational coach Keesha Starr unpack the internal pivot that challenges your identity, mindset, and belief systems.

This conversation goes deeper than business strategy. It’sabout the courage to confront the roots beneath your routine, to finish the year strong, and to let go of the things keeping you from peace, purpose, and personal power.

Chris shares how the word “thrive” shaped his year not bybringing abundance, but by building discipline and self-control. Keesha offers powerful reflection tools and a mirror exercise that will help you realign with your seed, your purpose, and your next-level self.

👤 Guest: Keesha Starr

Leadership coach, speaker, and founder of K Starr Coachingand the Growth Accelerator series. Keesha helps leaders grow from the inside out by anchoring personal development in clarity, consistency, and character.

🔹 Key Takeaways

🔹 The true meaning of a personal pivot andwhy most avoid it

🔹 How discipline leads to self-control,freedom, and peace

🔹 Why you must finish the year strong tostart the next one right

🔹 What your reflection is telling you andhow to reshape it

🔹 The glass house metaphor and howvisibility tests our authenticity

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Saying no can feel uncomfortable, even isolating, butit is one of the most powerful tools you have to protect your energy and stay aligned with your purpose. Every time you say no to what doesn’t serve you, you’re actually saying yes to clarity, growth, and your future self. On the flip side, every careless yes becomes a silent no to the life you really want.

In this motivational episode of Mentally Shredded, we dive deep into the courage of saying no, the hidden strength in seasons of loneliness, and the discipline of staying faithful while you wait for alignment. If you’ve been consistent, if you’ve been showing up, if you’ve been doing the right things but feel overlooked or tempted to settle, this message is for you.

🔹 Key Takeaways

🔹 Every “no” is actually a “yes” to your purpose and future.

🔹 Loneliness in the waiting season is not punishment, it’s preparation.

🔹 Saying yes to the wrong things creates delay, distraction, and detours.

🔹 Your no is not rejection, it’s protection for your energy and alignment.

🔹 Faithfulness in the waiting positions you for breakthrough.

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September isn’t just a new month. It’s a new mindset. As the seasons shift, so can you. This guided meditation invites you to slow down, breathe deep, and come back to center. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, unmotivated, or just need a pause before the next push, this practice will help you ground your energy, let go of lingering stress, and plant powerful intentions for what’s ahead.

It’s time to release the pressure andreclaim your peace.

Led by Mentally Shredded founder and host, this monthly meditation is your emotional reset button. It’s designed to help you shift from burnout to balance in under 10 minutes.

🔹 Let go of summer chaos and emotional clutter

🔹 Reconnect with your breath, body, and inner calm

🔹 Visualize your intentions and root them deeply

🔹 Build emotional resilience through mindful presence

🔹 Walk into the month with clarity, purpose, and peace

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I wrote it with the intention to save one person. And I did. It was me.”

When Rossy Gil began journaling during the darkest chapter of her life, she wasn’t trying to survive. She was trying to say goodbye. Struggling with postpartum depression, isolation, and a lifetime of buried pain, she started writing what she thought might be her final words. But something unexpected happened. The more she wrote, the more she began to feel seen, heard, and alive. That journal became her book. That book became her healing.

In this powerful conversation, Rossy shares the truth behind her transformation. From the weight of motherhood and mental health stigma to the quiet strength of the people who never gave up on her, this episode is a testament to resilience, vulnerability, and the power of putting pen to paper.

👤 About Rossy Gil

Rossy Gil is a mental health advocate, mother, and the author of a memoir that began as a suicide note. Through unfiltered honesty, she is helping others feel less alone in their pain and reminding them that it is okay to not be okay.

🔹 Key Takeaways

🔹 Writing can become a way back to yourself

🔹 Postpartum depression often goes unseen but can be deeply consuming

🔹 Healing sometimes starts by telling the truth without editing it

🔹 Love and support do not always look like solutions—they look like presence

🔹 You are allowed to fall apart and still find your way forward

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🔗 Instagram: @rosieantonieta

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Welcome back to the Growth Accelerator series, our monthly deep dive created for coaches and leaders committed to growing with purpose.

Each month, we carve out intentional space to explore the real work behind leadership: rhythm, mindset, and navigating the emotional weight of showing up when it’s hard. In this episode, Keesha Starr returns to share powerful insight on how to stay in sync, fight complacency, and keep moving even when progress feels invisible.

👤 About the Guest

Keesha Starr is the founder of KSTARR Coaching and the STARR Network. As a transformational coach and leadership mentor, she empowers others to lead with clarity, consistency, and emotional resilience.

🔹 Key Takeaways

🔹 Growth has a rhythm

🔹 Rest isn’t drifting

🔹 Boring builds breakthroughs

🔹 Your way still matters

🔹 Pivot with purpose

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From the outside, she looked unstoppable. But on the inside, everything was falling apart.

In this deeply authentic episode, Dr. Sophia Dorton Caudle shares her raw journey through personal burnout, ambiguous grief, and spiritual reconnection. With 30 years of experience in trauma and addiction recovery and having coached clients around the globe, Dr. Sophia brings not just clinical expertise but deep personal wisdom from her most vulnerable moments.

👤 About Dr. Sophia Dorton Caudle

Dr. Sophia is a licensed clinical mental health counselor, certified sex therapist, and founder of Queen City Healthy Sex and Relationships and Bull City Psychotherapy. She is a leading expert in trauma healing, intimacy, sex addiction, and holistic mental wellness.

🔹 Key Takeaways

🔹 Burnout isn’t always visible. Dr. Sophia shares how she kept functioning on the outside while silently breaking down inside

🔹 Neurofeedback became a powerful tool that helped rewire her brain and rebuild her nervous system

🔹 Healing deepened through a renewed spiritual connection and a more intimate way of praying

🔹 Your purpose is often hidden in your pain. Dr. Sophia explains why lived experience makes her a more effective healer

🔹 Free tools like journaling, 12-step recovery, and real human connection can be life-changing

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This month’s guided meditation is an invitation to pause, breathe, and step into August with clarity and renewal. Too often, we rush through life, carrying old weight that no longer serves us. In this practice, you’ll be reminded that nature doesn’t rush, and neither should you.

With gentle affirmations and grounding breathwork, you’ll create space to release what’s heavy, welcome in fresh energy, and realign with your deeper purpose. August becomes more than just another month; it becomes a season of regeneration, abundance, and grace.

🔹 Learn how to let go of what no longer serves you

🔹 Embrace August as a time for healing and fresh beginnings

🔹 Open yourself to abundance in presence, purpose, and peace

🔹 Anchor into affirmations of growth, gratitude, and grace

🔹 Carry clarity and calm with you throughout the month

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